Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-09-22 | Page 8 | Pershing Gives Liberally to the French Red Cross

Pershing Gives Liberally to the ' French Red Cross WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. General Pershing's last days in France eon -(mined an Incident which is disclosed! in a report jusL reaching national I headquarters of the American Hed Cross from Paris. It was a y.'dl of 9 4,625 40 francs, over $1(1.000 lrom' ! (General Pershing and tin- officers of his staff, to the Red Cross to be ele-I ele-I voted to some deserving work among the mothers and rhildren of France who suffered in the war. A letter I accompanying the donation stipulated I that the money be placed in the Statis and Stripes war orphan fund, which, assisted by the Red Cross, has "adopted" "adopt-ed" thousands of French children whose fathers were killed in battle. Pershing had awarded the distinguished distin-guished service cross to Private Wallace Wal-lace Cornwallis, Wash. no