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Show AID FOR VETERANS IS RED GROSS PLEDGE Service and Ex-Service Men Are Helped in All Problems. Service to World War veterans In hospital, for able-bodied veterans, and for dependent families of both called for expenditures of $738,000 by the American Red Cross during the year Just ended. In addition. Red Cross Chapters spent $1,903,000 in veteran rellsf, and also for men still in service Although eleven years have passed since the Armistice, there remain 25,500 disabled, and sick veterans of the World War in hospitals, and the peak of the number who will require . hospitalization Is not expected by Veterans Bureau authorities to b9 reached until 1947. For these men. the Red Cross must continue Its service serv-ice of providing recreation and comforts, com-forts, according to James L. Fleser. 'vice chairman of the Red Cross. "Under Its Charter from Congress, the Red Cross Is required to maintain service for veterans of wars and for the men Btlll In the service." Mr. Fieser said- The funds for this work come from the annual roll call membership mem-bership fees. In addition to the sum spent in maintaining contact with the veterans, the Red Cross expended $308,000 in its service to the men still In the regular Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The society and a majority o( its 3.500 chapters handle claims foi these men for Insurance, compensation and other benefits they are entitled to under the law, and also where necessary neces-sary arranges to provide for depen dents of the men. "Red Cross workers are maintained In forty-eight Veterans Bureau Hos pltals, as well as In all regular Army and Navy hospitals, whose duty it U to supervise recreational facilities for the patients, and to provide small com forts. In the Army and Navy Hos pitals, the workers also do social serr Ice for the patients. These tasks also are performed at all Army Posts and Navy Ports by Red Cross workers, and in addition Red Cross representative? to handle claims are established at the majority of Veterans Bureau regional offices." Mr. Fieser urged that all citizen? enroll in the Roll Call, from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day. Noverabei 11 to 23, In order to aid in supporting this work. |