Show RED CROSS WARNED OF COMING F NATIONAL DItA DRAINAGE INAGE CONGRESS WITHOUT FUNDS ON EVE OF EXPECTED predict predicts flood hav oe at such as that of lait last year which coat cost the american people ale nearly a thousand live lives r washington financial starvation haa ban halted efforts of the national drain age congress to guard against a recurrence curr ence of the floods which aich damaged the middle western and southern states last year edmund T perkins ns president of the on sunday notified ernest P F niceness nic kness national director of the red cloea close society of his inability to cont continue lade operations because ot of lack of funds and warned the red croes cross to t 0 be prepared to copp cope again in a few low weeks seeks with flood havoc euch such as an that of hat last year which cost the amer lean ican people nearly a thousand lives and property to the value of MX mr perkins asserted that the abnormal winter with light snowfall fives gives ground to expect the red cross will again be briset set to the alleviation of disasters which the american republic has not yet decided to avert the misery of at mexico and foreign coun tries he said has overshadowed the threatening calamity in the united states congress has failed to act and such subjects as reclamation ern arid and lands had bad been to eclipse the vr dressing essing denand for cor flood prevention injures |