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Show Cotton To Be Distributed By The Red Cross Red Cross chapters in the Pacific Pa-cific States have requisitioned enough cotton cloth to meet the needs of 218,992 families in distress, dis-tress, the materials totalling 3,-441,003 3,-441,003 yards according to a com pilation as of September 22, announced an-nounced by A. L. Schafer, manager mana-ger of the Pacific Branch Office, San Francisco. Cotton materials are being received re-ceived rapidly in sewing rooms of Coast chapters and thousands of volunteer workers have begun the task of converting the supplies into in-to clothing for men, women anc children. The mobilizatioin of volunteers to clothe the needy and continui the distribution of Red Cross flour to feed the hungry, comes at a time when other volunteers are forming to conduct the annual Red Cross Roll Call, or membership member-ship campaign, from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving, November 11-24. James L. Fieser, vice chairman in charge of domestic operations, personally in charge of the Central Cen-tral Cotton Distribution office at Washington, D. C. reports more than 100,000 women have volunteered volun-teered throughout the United States to operate the Red Cross sewing rooms. Chapter requisitions nationally thus far exceed 20,647,363 yards of cloth, providing materials for more than 1,679,512 families. Mr. Fieser says: "As in the flour distribution, l chapters have been warned that the cloth or clothing must not be ' exchanged for work. It must be given absolutely free and solely upon the basis of need. No other consideration must enter into its distribution." ,: From the Pacific Area, 171 re-. re-. quisitions for cotton cloth have ! thus far been made. Eleven Arizona chapters repori 16,153 families in need of clothing t 68 California chapters, 112.75-5 needy families; 24 Idaho chapters .' 6,078 families; 4 Nevada chapters 550 families; 19 Oregon chapters 1 16,410 families; 16 Utah chapters 14,794 families; 24 Washingtoi chapters, 52,253 families in neei of clothing. |