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Show Red Cross To Give Sweaters Red Cross chapters in the Pacific Pa-cific Area now have available 201,430 cotton sweaters for distribution distri-bution to distressed boys, girls, men and women, according to word sent out by A. L. Schafer, Area Manager. The distribution of sweaters is the third step in the national Red Cross program of providing clothing cloth-ing to needy and destitute and completes the consumption of 500.-000 500.-000 bales of Farm Board cotton voted by Congress last July. Throughout the Eastern, Midwestern Mid-western and Pacific Areas approximately approx-imately 2,760,000 sweaters will be subject to requisition by the chapters. chap-ters. Delivery of sweaters will begin be-gin immediately. Red Cross records show the government cotton was used to purchase 50,882,988 yards of cloth of varieties suitable for making dresses for girls and women, shirts and underwear for boys and men, clothing for infants, underwear for all; and to acquire 1,597,060 dozens of knit underwear and hosiery hos-iery for men, women and children, and overalls, jumpers, trousers and knickers for men and boys. The sweaters will come from factories that had not received any of the Red Cross cotton orders or-ders and will keep a number of sweater factories, which were almost al-most to close down, open for six weeks or longer. Pacific Coast factories also have shared in orders for Red Cross garments, Mr. Schafer says. Legislation is now pending in Congress to turn over to the Red Cross the remainder of 329,000 bales of cotton held by the Farm Board in order to continue the clothing relief work. John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Cross, testifying before the House Agriculture Committee, stated that the 500,000 bales of cotton already consumed was meeting approximately 20 percent of the requirements for clothing among the more than 3.000.000 families reported in need of garments. gar-ments. The bill by Chairman Marvin Jones, of the House Agriculture Committee, contains a clause permitting per-mitting exchange of the cotton for bedding, a distribution not permitted in previous legislation. This bill has passed the House and has been sent to the Senate. |