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Show Five Groups Unite To Aid Civilian j China Sufferers New , York American leaders in every walk of life have combined forces in the United Council for Civilian Relief in China to aid millions" of sufferers from the Ja- i panese invasion of North and Cen- j tral China, it was announced here i by Colonel Theodore R30sevelt, Jr. j national chairman of the newly j formed Council. V The United Council is the result re-sult of a coalition of five organizations organi-zations representing 4,000,000 mem-bets mem-bets of organized labor, nationally known industrialists, financiers, educators, civic and religious leaders lead-ers and socially prominent women throughout the country, Colonel Roosevelt said. Organizations represented in the Council are: Labors Committee for Civilian Relief in China, the Women's Wo-men's Division of Labors Commit- ; tee, China Emergency Civilian Re- ; lief, Inc., the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China and the New York Womens Committee for Civilian Relief in China. Plans are now being formulated for a national activity to raise funds for the Chinese civilian sufferers suf-ferers and this program will be announced shortly he added. Colf onel Roosevelt said also that unts of the natonal organization now are being formed in hundreds of cities and town throughout the country to represent their communities com-munities in the council program. Among members of the Council are: former Prest. Herbert Hoover, William Green, Dr. Albert Einstein, Ein-stein, Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Bp. Ralph S. Cushman, Mrs. Chaun-cey Chaun-cey Alcott, Miss Mary E. Wool-ley, Wool-ley, Dr. Julius Klein Prof. Irving Fisher, Paul D. Cravath, G. M. s Bellance, Henry R. Luce, Charles 1 P. Taft, Cyrus Adler, Edwin R. A. Seligman, Stanley B. Resor, Jo- ; seph P. Way and Metthew WolL j "The cause of more than 50,- j 000,000 innocent and unarmed Chinese civilians who are in a state of destitution as a result of (Continued on Page Five) Five Groups Unite to Aid China Sufferers (Continued From ' Page One) the Japanese Invasion of then-country then-country is one that arouses the sympathy of all Americans" Colonel Co-lonel Roosevelt said. '"An . appalling appall-ing number of these ' Chinese civilian ci-vilian victims are women and children. child-ren. I am confident that in the national endeavor to raise funds for their relief, plans for which are now being made, we will have! the hearty support of all those Americans who are Toused to action ac-tion by such cruelty and injustice as are now being visited upon the-civilian the-civilian population of China." |