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Show " RED CROSS RELIEF AIDS DISTRESSED IN 12D DISASTERS Help Given in Fires, Floods, Earthquake Earth-quake and Epidemics Part of Year's Task The American Red Cross has reached Into the homes of six million families In the past year with unemployment and disaster relief, Chairman John Bar to Payne announced. "As the year closed the organization continued in readiness to serve In the forthcoming winter atf the point of greatest need and to adjust Its service to meet the calls of the emergency of unemployment and disaster," ChairmaD Payne stated. In a year of greatest economic distress dis-tress in the nation's history, In which the Red Cross ably discharged a relief task in distributing flour and clothing to distressed families in all but six of the nation's 3,098 counties, the organization organi-zation also was called into action in 120 disasters, of which 96 were within the borders of the United States. Earthquake, floods, hurricanes, fires and other cataclysms visited death and destruction upon the lives and homes of thousands of people. Red Cross statistics sta-tistics showed that in the 120 disasters almost a thousand lives were lost, 148,-340 148,-340 homes were destroyed or damaged. 13,275 persons were injured, and Red Cross relief was given to 452,879 indi- Tiduals. In giving aid in these disasters, In its unemployment relief and in handling t, the distribution of government wheat and cotton, the Red Cross expended from its national treasury the sum of ?1,070.2S4. During one period of twelve weeks, 46 disasters occurred in 23 states. Red ': Cross disaster workers were hard ; pressed in meeting all of these needs occurring at once, but everywhere mis- S: ery was promptly relieved. Support of the Red Cross work Is through Its annual roll call, conducted - by chapters in the period from Armis-tice Armis-tice Day to Thanksgiving Day, Novem- " ber 11 to November 30. Every citizen -: who joins the Red Cross as a member F aids in carrying relief to disaster vlc- - tlms and in other Red Cross services, "" such as preservation of life, child welfare wel-fare through the Junior Red Cross, and a direct service for the public health. |