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Show I WOMEN ENLIST WITH WAR-TIME SPIRIT IN RED CROSS DRIVE ON DISTRESS B'l .WU.UW..U, inn .Jiwa-l!. .iiHiW" H Mj " " " JT . ' . c: ? - I i--u?:Tyc--:iz ' - r - t - ' f 5 i "t, - ptrtj' " - L. - . r L.jjJLV,y l,,rr,,.-nrf-.ti1l r , x - , J Lltlla Sarah Jo Thrush tries on a dress made frcm Red Cross cotton In a , v " i chapter production room, where Miss Jeanette Racoosm is one of . Mveral t I Wed volunteers sewing garments for the needy, n the bms benmd her F . r. thousands of men's shirts and children's garments to be up and , . , s liven r.way. At right, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary of the Red I Cross, t - . J under whose leadership several hundred thousand women are making cloth- V - . ' , ln0 for the unemployed. V . , HOW shall 600,000 'bales of Farm of workers into the job, and by October "Yv..-- I1Bo,rd cotton be converted into 1 had dist ributed more than 30 00 000 4 . Oothlng for the unemployed and yards of cotton cloth to mo.e thaa y, was an urgent JesUon con- half of the chapters or count.es of the . Anting the American Red Cross nation. Thousands o f -o '0'n C -eg3 voted the raw cotton teered to ma eth.otb intog arnients ; r that purpose to the Red Cross ror underwear, men's poopl6, Red Cross officials say. mitsjmmer. shirts, boys' suits all came flying from m the administration of the wheat Congress also Had laid 85,000,000 shirts D the Red Crpss wi,, exp(;nd shels o! Farm Board wheat upon the the cloth, tlle Rea an estimated $450,000. Funds from the R34 Cross doorstep, beginning Foil '"S ouge treMury wl bg ugC(, a, r'Cl1', d 6T t V Z overars umpers, lioys' knickers, uu- Every Red Cross membership in the SE". - - - nksngnYht mihl TirUon rayne b, tr;ttrfrflrw;Vnott sro?-. -en -0 justed until the late spring of belj.dK.vo r,oi ;-t- , Cotton presented a compW problem, Cross, these usefnl aids to the n- the World Wr. arnicas appealed ,o- "Wt the Red Cross swung a large staff employed would not have oeen haualed the suppoit of e.u) c.-i-.x |