The Washington times., 1921-07-19
RED CROSS BURIED
47,000 GARMENTS
NEEDED BY YANKS
Pajama Suits Rolled Up In
(. French Storage While Hos
pitfalls Want Lacking.

hCio Al al tos h480Dt IL lSSU.
Chief among the points covered
In these hitherto unpublished and
secret minutes are the following:
1-Sales Board reports showed
activity In collecting bids for
vast quantities Of whiskey.
C-Pajamas held at the Gievres
= warehouses during the time
when there was groat need for
Them were made ready-47, 900
pairs-for shipment . year after
the most pressing need Of them
existed.
9-At this late date the board
y talked Of combining future
sales" to reputable people"
Drug Deal Enjoined.
Attending at the meeting Of Aug
ust II. 1920. Or Meeting No. A."
were Colonel Emerson. chairman OF
and Moss, departmental heads, and
Captain Yott, OF the Rod Cross legal
department. according to the certi-
fled copy OF the minutes. The meet
Ing was held in Colonel Emersons
Paris office.
Squabbles had resulted IN many of
the cases where brokers were scramb-
ling for goods that the Red Cross was
handing out 50 freely and at great
losses. For reasons best known to
the principals concerned, a party re-
ferred to as MIR. Burke" had filed an
Injunction against the delivery by the
Red Cross Of further goods to G. Jarre,
q wholesale drug broker, who had con-
tracted for millions of francs in drugs
from the Red Cross. On this score
the minutes read:
Major Harrison reported he had
heard nothing further from Mr..
Jarre IN regard to stoppage of de
livery on his orders. but that letters
still continued to come from him re-
garding numerous and various
claims
Bids On whislxey.
Major Harrison advised ignoring
these communications and this pol
Icy the committee approved. The
stoppaSe of deliveries occurred be-
cause OF the fling OF an Injunction
by Mr.. Burke prohibiting the Red
Cross from making further deliver
certain claims which Burke Lid
against him.
Major Harrison stated that he
expects to receive bids on several
commodities soon, among them the
whtskey now In stock, but that tho
slowing down Of business due 10 tho
vacation season h still very notice
able and that 10 h Accordingly diff
cult to secure bids. He stated that
1t would be necessary to prepare
samples OF the commodities for
prospective customers and was su-
thorized to draw what samples he
needed from the army supplies"
The pajama incident, regarding
ored for a year before bat was not to
be had in any great quantities, brought
about this paragraph in the minutes:
Major Moss reported that $1,000
pairs of pajamas at the Gievres
warehouses have been Numbered and
are now really Cor shipping. II this
shipment can - made IL will release
one of the TOUR warehouses at
Gievres.
Angied For Publicity.
He also reported that the COM
missions In Constnntinople, Poland
and Russia show large quantities of
paJamas In their stores, 80 the pos
sibility of shipping them to these
commissions was dismissed. How
ever. he was instructed to investi-
gate the need for patamas in the
units at Vienna and Budapest with
view to shipping them to these
places
Stfll speaking Of patamas, the MIN
utes serve to support the claims that
the Red Cross angied adroitly for pub
licity rather than to accomplish relief
as the paramount duty OF the organi-
zaton- The excerpt follows:
Colonel Emerson stated be
would take up with Miss Boiesen
the question Of the possibility of
using a part Of this supply for
donation to the French Charitar
BILE Societies, both for the actual
good they will be to the societies
and In order that there may not
he a too sudden ceasing of all
work in France
1t Is felt that the publicity
naturally resulting from the gifts
to the societies mentioned would
bring the donations to the atten-
ton OF Government officials and
would result in their recognizing
what our attitude b toward
Two Big Alcohol Sales.
Regarding the "sales to reputa-
BILE people," the minutes continued:
Captain Yott suggested to the
Sales Board the possibility of us
ing Board of Arbitration for
the adjustment of claims.
The feasibility of the plan was
admitted but II was the opin-
Ion Of the board that future sales
would be made TO reputable peo-
pie and there would be no neces-
sity Of being drawn into con-
troversies such rs those arising |
from sales made to manning q
broker) and some other custom
ers In the past"
Records appended to the minutes |
show, among other large transao- |
tons, that the sales Hoard had au-
thorized sale OF alcohol amounting |
TO 75,20455 francs In one Instance |
and 7s,553.41 francs worth OF |
ethyl alcohol In another Casa
ian