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Show F Flames Add to Perils of flood-Swept Gty ? -T " " - " - J .1 TWIN SCOURGE OF FIBE AND FLOOD RAVAGES CINCINNATI I Wlrephoto ahowi firemen pouring water oa oil company flames U. S. Prepares to Bear Cost of Disaster Relief WASHINGTON, Jan. Jo WV Ths federal government prepared today to bear the eost of flood relief. re-lief. Nine federal agencies threw their resources Into ths fight to aave lis and property la ths inundated in-undated tone. The Red Cross decided W.OOO,-000 W.OOO,-000 would be needed for Its relief work and asked Its chapters to raise 14,000,000 la addition to (1,000,000 already allotted. President Roosevelt oalled beads of relief agencies to an afternoon conference and congressmen from flood states planned to talk ever relief legislation with Harry I. Hopkins, W P A administrator. With the army, navy, coast guard, works progress administration adminis-tration and civilian conservation corps already oa the Job, the resettlement re-settlement and veterans administrations adminis-trations and the Inland Waterway Water-way corporation Joined In the relief re-lief work. Resettlement ordered Its funds and equipment in the flood area diverted to relief purposes. Ths veteran administration sent hospital hos-pital supplies and directed field offloaa to care for needy veterans. The Inland Waterways corporation corpora-tion turned ever five fast tow hoeta to the Red Cross. Administration spokesmen said the request for flood funds would not be made in the deficiency-relief deficiency-relief bill, reported to the house today. The house appropriations committee asserted, however, that the entire 1790,000,000 provided in the measure for general relief eould be used for flood purposes. |