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Show Flood Areas Receive Red Cross Aid Red Cross disaster relief workers work-ers are on the scene extending relief to families made homeless by recent floods ' in Kansas and Texas, A. L. Schafer, manager of the Pacific Area, announced on receipt of advices from the St. Louis Branch Office. Kansas and Texas chapters immediately im-mediately started raising relief funds which were augmented substantial sub-stantial contributions from national nation-al headquarters at Washington, D. C. Floods swept 75,000 acres In the valleys of the Neosho and Cottonwood Cotton-wood Rivers in Kansas. . Seven hundred families in the flooded area were affected. A great majority major-ity of them lost crops and livestock, live-stock, including cows, chickens, pies and work horses. The appeal to Kansas chapters for help in the flooded districts followed by two days an appeal for relief of families affected by a tornado at Washington, Kansas. Unprecedented floods along the Guadalupe, Neuces and Frio Rivers Riv-ers in South Central Texas caused extensive destruction of crops, home." and other buildings. Five hundred families were victims :i the high water. Losses of crops and livestock in tho Texas section are placed at '$500,000. i |
