Show I FAMILIES AIDED BY RED GROSS CROSS CRO S Distress in All Areas Met Ly By y Giving Food Clothing J Jand and Other Help More than families throughout the nation were given relict relief of ot various radons ty types type el y the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Iran Red Cross n n the past winter to aid them in their distress caused by unemployment disaster Ster or other misfortune A major relief reller task due to unemployment unemployment and other unusual conditions conditions condi condi- In bituminous mining counties coun ties tics In ID twenty states was met by bytho bytho tho Red Cross chapters alone or participating with other agencies In these counties the Red Cross Cron aided families through alv In IDI groceries school lunches clothIng cloth cloth- Ing flour Sour and aDd other necessities to combat privation Flour milled trout government wheat turned over to the Red lied Cross by Congress was given ghen to 15 0 persons In the period from March 8 S to June JULO 30 the close of or the fiscal year Flour will continue to be given through the winter o of 38 1932 and R Red 4 Cross chapters also will wUl give cotton clothing made from Crom government cotton turned over to tho Red Cross for distribution The Tho Red Cross faces the busiest winter since the days of ot the World War Chairman John Barton Payne said It Is organized In tn virtually every one of or the counties In ID Inthe inthe the United States and will wUl cooperate co cooperate co- co operate with ell all agencies to meet distress wherever found The flour tour ha hn has proved of ot great nt benefit and the I cotton clothing will be ha given wide I distribution While carry carrying In on nation wide nation I these unemployment and other relief re ra- fat lief measures the Red Cross also was engaged In Its regular peacetime peacetime peace peace- time activities In public he health nursing service to service ex-service men amen and their families tam III 96 teaching homo home hygiene life saving and first aid ald I The Junior Red Cross composed if of r I almost school children I also rallied to the support of ot the society society's relief efforts and aDd the I children aided others of their age I in practical ways formed sewing and nd food tood canning classes and were of ot great a assistance in chapter chapler relief re vs lief lIer work While the wheat wheal and cotton were given by the U. U S 8 B. Government no DO noI i money was provided to pay for tor the necessary work entailed The Red ned RedCross I I Cross will meet this expense ot of l almost from Its treasury I Citizens can aid by Joining as members mem bers hers of ot the local Red Cross chapter during the roll roU call from Armistice I n. n Day to Thanksgiving VID n. n Day I |