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Show Refugee Children, Innocent War Victims, Appeal to America's Heart for Survival F' y "J"EATH-DEALING airplanes ride J the skies. The carnage of their creation sweeps many lands. Armored tanks and motorized artillery artil-lery roll across whole countries destroying, de-stroying, as in a blight, all standing in their way. Cattle, crops, homes, people innocent and defenselesB children stand in fear, then in despair, de-spair, only to fall into destruction. Some will live. They must be aided to endure, to struggle on, to survive." sur-vive." This was the message directed to America's generous heart by Chairman Chair-man Norman H. Davis of the American Red Cross, in asking prompt contributions to a $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 war relief fund to be spent by the Red Cross for help to military and civilian wounded, and the homeless people of the warring nations. na-tions. "We must send relief as needed and not too late to be of use," Mr. Davis said. "We must send clothing, bedding, shoes, medications, surgical surgi-cal dressings and food." Before the most recent devastation devasta-tion of neutral countries by aerial blitzkriegs waa begun, the Americas- Bd Crws had teM 32,0 garments, knitted sweaters and hospital clotheB for the women and children victims in England, Finland, Fin-land, France, Germany-occupied Po- I mJ- Bombed from their homes, these young victims of ruthless war, hv received Red Cross help. 1. Little Belgian evacuee; 2. A Polish refugee lad, thankful for his Red Cross shoes; 3. English children, evacuated from their homes, proud of their Red Cross dresset. land and for Polish refugees in other countries. To the Red Cross societies of the nations engaged in battle, the Red Cross sent 933,000 surgical dressings. These garments and surgical dressings were made in 1,500 Red Cross Chapters throughout Aneriett. in eddition, the American Red Cross purchased medicines, shoes, blankets, knitted underwear and almost a thousand other Items at a cost of $1,500,000 for shipment to the Red Crow o-cieties o-cieties of belligerent nations. But with destruction, suffering, and thousands of wounded added each day to the frightful toll of war as new nations became Involved, the American Red Cross appealed to the nation for at least a ten million mil-lion dollar relief fund. Contributions Contribu-tions can be made to the local Red Cross Chapter in any community in America, Mr. Davli said. |