The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-10

z: activity. He reported that during 1918, the division bureau of supplies shipped through the port warehouse of Seattle on vessels bound for France, Italy and Siberia, more than 27, 1000, ,O00 articles of chapter produc- tion, weighing over 100000 pounds, velued at over $4,00O,O00, packed in more than 26,000 standard packing cases and occupying more than a quarter of a. million cubic feet of cargo space. These shipments, MT. Stimson reported, did not include the large quantities sent by rail to the Atlantic seaboard, but did include some goods from other divisions. This vast quantity of supplies was carried ovrseas without one cent charge for freight, through the courtesy of the United States Shipping Board.
 # # * A Bundle of Shirts .a A French woman repatrie from Ar. ras recently arrived at the headquar ters of Amiens warehouse district of the American Red Cross carrying on her shoulders a large bundle. Her burden was deposited in the ware house office with the information that | it belonged to the American Red | Cross.
 The bundle was opened by Captain Floyd Van Keuren, Red Cross district manager, and was found to contain numerous shifts which the woman said she had received from the Red Cross year before to put button holes in. Questioning developed that she had carefully guarded the bundle of shirts during the evacuation of the Somme district, and that in order to do this it was necessary for her to leave some of her own effects in her home, which was destroyed.
 | When Captain Van Keuren sug' gested rewarding the woman, she in sisted she wanted nothing; that the shirts had been put in her care, and that she had returned them at the first opportunity Asked if she had been paid for making the buttonholes, she replied in the negative, and when pressed to name a sum, for she was entitled to pay under the refugee em- p!oyment plan, she suggested five | francs. This amount, about one dol lar in the United States, represented not over one per cent of the value of l the shirts.
 With her child the woman said she expected to return to Arras, where her second child had lately died, and where only crumbled ruins marked the site of her former home. The Red Cross will look to her welfare.
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 A Newshoy of the Trenches "The Red Cross Boy with the Whistle" is the name given John Caf1isch, steeplejack of Buffalo, N Y., by American soldiers in the St. Mihiel sector. r l A daredevil in more ways than one, Carf1isch made regular trips to the front trenches for the American Red Cross to distribute newspapers con taining the latest American news. His work became so popular that it was necessary for the Red Cross to furnish him a camionette. To expedite his delivers, Cafisch procured squawk ing whistle which emitted sound very much like the horns used for starting Paris subway trains. When ever this peculiar whistle sounded about the front lines, doughboys ap peared in crowds to get the news. l Caflisch delivered as many as 1S,OOC l newspapers daily. One morning neal Vieville a shell exploded beside his camionette and put it out of use for several days. The boy kept on his rounds afoot. He will be long remem' bered by thousands of grateful Amer ican officers and enlisted men.
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 1 Red Cross Welcome Homes" are all the vogue these days. Quite the most popular things socially in con nection with the return of the boys from their trip lover there" and
 "here."
 Although six months have passed since the last American soldiers fell in battle, the bureau of communica tion of the American Red Cross sees no early prospects of closing its doora When the service of keeping the home front in touch with the troops overseas was started in May. 1917, nc one. least of all the original six work CTS, ever imagined that January, 1919 would find a staff of 335 in Washing | ~ l. YI--. <~.n& kN