Show RED REO CROSS AT WORK ORK IN STORM TURN TORN COUNTRY Organization Takes Complete Complete Com Corn Charge of Relief in Devastated Sections of ot Middle West WEST VEST FRA FRANKFORT Ill III March 25 25 5 B By A A. A P. P The P.-The The work of the American Red Cross in rehabilitation tion In the entire tornado disaster area in five states will begin at once according to Henry M. M Baker national director of disaster relief here It will Include replacing and andr r refurnishing homes homes clothing and all necessities of victims but will not attempt to replace deficits In In Investment Investment Investment In- In vestment losses which he c called business rehabilitation Director Baker will be in personal charge of the entire five states' states dis dis- dis- dis Each county will constitute a separate district with an executive executive tive the officer F F F. E. E staff assistant fh fn h charge of Franklin county work has established temporary temporary tem tern headquarters here The need of the victim and not his loss will g guide ide attempts to re reestablish reestablish re re- establish him on as nearly nealy a pre- pre disaster basis as funds will permit said Bak Baker BakerA rA A care careful ul urvey survey will wIlt willbe willbe be made by trained workers to toss toss- as ascertain as- as c certain the needs of storm sufferers and the Red Cross then will attempt to make up tip the tile deficit so far faras as as funds are available I COMPLETE SY SYSTEM TEM x Every penny contributed to the Red Cross fund for tornado relief Baker said will be used In the storm area A community organization organization In each county will work with I the Red Gross Cross In adjusting claims i the local comm committee having haIng power to approve e reject increase or deCrease decrease de- de I de-I Crease rease claims recommended by the Red Cross When the work is completed completed com corn comI I the a accounts counts will ivill be turned I over to to the war department for I final audit and approval Vocational trust f fund nd assistance in m cases where a mother or children were left without support support support sup sup- port are for in the re rehabilitation rehabilitation rehabilitation re- re habilitation plan pIau The emergency period probably will continue continuo for ten days Bal Baker er said He declared that In all the Red Cross disaster work he had never witnessed such com complete compete ete de devastation de- de and suffering nor a disaster disaster disaster dis dis- dis- dis aster that embraced such a wide range of territory A warning that relief work had relapsed In some communities and that a second crisis existed was sounded by Dr W. W T. T MacVey In an address before the Carbondale III Ill Rotary club The first crisis passed he said persons outside the devastated devastated devas devas- area failed to realize the tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre work necessary I devas-I TREMENDOUS TASK Although relief work is well or organized organized organized or- or In Murphysboro he said conditions are serious elsewhere Inthe in inthe inthe the district Dr MacVey said that the Carbondale relief organization was living from hand to mouth with the problem of feeding homel homeless ss for weeks and providing shelter for hundreds of mouths An inquiry started into charges of profiteering by a Murphysboro restaurant was ended when at a meeting of the chamber of ot commerce commerce com corn merce grocers and restaurants agreed not to Increase prices The total deaths in the five states 1 of the storm area today stood at with the addition of thirteen to the Mur Murphysboro total and one oneat oneat oneat at McLeansboro l Thirteen Murphysboro Murphys Murphys- boro bolo taken to Cairo and b buried there were not Included in inthe n the former check By states the deaths were Illinois Indiana Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- 33 Kentucky 18 Missouri 14 Total Injured 2939 Total To To- I tat tai casualties |