Show RED CROSS WARNED OF COMING FLOODS NATIONAL DRAINAGE DRAINA GE CONGRESS C s WITHOUT FUNDS ON EVE OF EXPECTED president perkins predicts Predict i flood havoc such as that of last year which cost the american people nearly a thousand lives wash washington in agton financial starvation has halted efforts of the national drainage congress to guard against a recurrence of the floods which damaged the middle western and southern v states last year edmund T perkins ns president of the congress on sunday notified ernest F bickness Dic kness national director of the red cross society of his inability to continue operations opera eions because of lack of funds and warned earned the red cross to 0 be prepared to cope again in a few few weeks with flood havoc such ns as that of last year which cost the amerlean american people nearly a thousand lives live 8 and property to the value of 6 00 mr air perkins asserted that the abnormal winter with light snowfall gives ground to expect the rod red cross will again be set to the alleviation of disasters which the american Ameri carr republic has not yet decided to avert the misery of mexico and foreign countries he said has baa overshadowed the threatening calamity in the united states congress has failed to act and such subjects as reclamation of western arid lands had been allowed to eclipse the pressing demand tor for flood prevention measure meas i |