Show RED CROSS FLOOD rI RELIEF ll IN SOUTH COSTS Greatest Greate t Disaster of History but butOne butOne lt One of Operations in Year of C Calamity T Tornadoes rn does headed he the list of or disasters discs tern which struck the United States Status In fn the past year the report of ot R Ri d l Cross leHe operations for for the tho year ending June 20 0 o showing showier 29 9 grant storms storm Floods were r second on th the tha list 24 being recorded for or the same sam samo L period This record doss 1025 not include the tha Iha St Str L Louis Lauds uis tornado which occurred in inthe the current fiscal year eal as did a num number Dum- Dum her ber o of other sto storms ms and disasters since in which the Red Cross pro pro d ed relief I Included In the list of or disasters disasters' disasters covered by the record of or the the past past years year's relief operations of the Red Rell RedCross Cross are earthquakes explosion mine disasters a n cloudburst a hailstorm hall hail storm fires floods hurricanes a railroad rail zaU- railroad road wreck a scarlet fever epidemic typhoid epidemic tornadoes and and anda a typhoon The latter occurred In In the Philippines but is Included in the tha operations at home In all the tile RedCross Red Cross e extended ten ed its services In in 77 na jor jar disasters in the United United States and andIn andIn andin In 20 abroad including a hurricane over Havana Cuba and the Isle of Pines one In the Bahamas and ers through various varIous' West Indian regions re re- gions glens fire In In P Porto Rico another In In Haiti earthquakes In Armenia Armenla Japan and Alb na floods floods' in Jugo Slavia and Mexico The organization on oni c conducted refugee relief relict operations in Syria Sylia Bulgaria an and China the latter largely due clue to to factional w wars rs fought over o various parts of or China China- th the past year The tv two o outstanding disasters at at home were the Florida hurricane hurr and antl the he l Mississippi sippi Valley Hood Rehabilitation tation operations of the tho latter disaster are still in in progress progress' under unde th the Ked lied Cro Cross s A n national appeal for tor was la reads made in ra both disasters Is a resulting I In contributions for or relief amounting to more than The 1 Mississippi flood is if the the- out outstanding outstanding out out- standing disaster In the the whole history y- y of the Red Cross disaster relief service ice Li In this f Oi 2 3 cit catastrophe he the or organization or raised through subscriptions subscriptions by hy th the iba people of r the country ands and foreign nations approximately 17 for relief use Aided Aide by this I fund it fed clothed sheltered or otherwise otherwise oth er assisted more mora than buman human bu- bu m. m man beings fed and cared for approximately ap ap approximately proximately ely OO head head of livestock and nd e established refugee camps The flood fleo inundated approximately square miles and affected counties counties' In eight states Some homeless persons were sheltered in Red Cross camps When the emergency emergency emer emer- gency gency was bras a at Its height freight the Red fled Cross was was serving more than a million mUlIo meals a a day M MSo l lr r rast rS S So vast ast v as the work Imposed on the Red Cross and allied agencies conducting rehabilitation re that this phase of the of the flood relief relie task is ex expected ex- ex petted to extend well into the coming year ear Up to September 1 15 1441 10 families s In the flood zone ha had b been en given m rehabilitation assistance bY by the Red Cross and acres o of flooded crop la land in seven States had been replanted with Red Cross aid ald There had boon baen n expended ed or committed commit commit- ted for expenditure In connection with this relief relict and rehabilitation wont voik a total of The appeal l for a nation wide membership mem- mem p increased to adult members its it as t was wa's pointed out ont is based bleed on ou the realization that demands on Red Cross s service such as occasioned by disaster relief relies ar are aie increasing each year ear For that reason especial Importance Importance Im is lent to the Elev Eleventh nth Annual Annual Annual An An- AnI I nual Roll Ron Call of ot the organization to tobe tobe tobe be heid Id from frem Armistice Day November November Novem Novem- ber ber 11 11 to Lo Thanksgiving 24 24 during which this membership will wiH be built up I |