The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
THIRD AME ERICAN RELIEF CARGO ID SET SAIL MONDAY
100000 To 100000 Killed And More Than That Num-
 Der Injured In Quake

WASHINGTON. Sept. s.-More than two-thirds of the s5,ooo,ooo asked of the American nation for the stricken Japanese people has been raised. With donations still pouring in. the American Red Cross executive com mittee announced today the total fig ures had reached $3,547,900 and ef- forts would be made to swell the contributions to the maximum With in the current week and to further speed the purchase and shipment of supplies.
 The third relief cargo to be sent from the United States Is expected to get under way tomorrow and five additional ships are loading at vari- ous ports.
 John Barton Payne, national chair man of the Red Cross and Secretary of Commerce Hoover. who has de- voted most of his time to the earth quake relief fund activities since the first news of the calamity, issued joint statement today, surveying the situation to date and appealing ur- gently for increased effort on the part of all local Red Cross chapters.
 The statement makes a strong dis tinction between the economic loss, which Secretary Hoover has said he believes were exaggerated in first re- ports, and the appalling human suf- ferlng that each new report en- hances. It follows:
 Idea Of Suffering.
 Tt Is now possible. from the re- ports of the different government de- partments and the Red Cross, to form a more comprehensive idea of the extent of the Japanese disaster. The area affected supports a popula- ton of approximately 10.000,000 per sons. Between two or three hundred thousand are estimated to having been killed. from three to five hun dred thousand injured.
 "The problem, therefore. of Amer iean charity is to provide with the utmost expediency of supplies of food, medicines and clothing and to ship material for temporary shelter to provide solution for the destitu tion which follows from such a great disaster and dislocation.
 "The human problem is widely diff. ferent from the great economy prob lem of property losses and derange- ment of business. In the case of the great San Francisco disaster. the financial stability and the credit of the United States were in no way im- paired, but 1t was only through the charity of the American people and the rest of the world that the inhabi- tant of San Franciso were maintained until they could re-establish the nor nal processes of life.
 Tn order to expedite recovery from this disaster. it is, therefore, neces- sary on one side to recognize the eco- homie strength of Japan, the solidity of her credit. for American merchants and business men to extend to Japan the usual and normal facilities of trade-on the other hand, 1t is inn perative for American charity to re- spond with that generosity which Is befitting to our people in their for tunate situation to a great friendly nation that has met so appalling a human problem in the loss of life and suffering and destitution.
 ''Fhe need before us is an emer- gency need For our aid to be of the most effective we must have Amer ican resources placed at the disposal during the current week. {. t. .. Some Exceed Qnotas.
 Some portions of the United States have found 1t possible to ex- ceed the quotas assigned them. It is the earnest hope of the executives of the Red Cross that these will con- tinue their efforts unabated and that all districts will exceed generously to the minimum quota that was set"
 Following the receipt of a check for S1 1000 from the veterans of for eign wars national organization, the national headquarters of the Red Cross was notified today by Lemuel Bowles, national adjutant of the American Legion, that his organiza- tion proposed to ask its members for contributions to the relief fund. The veterans will confine their drive to their membership.
 The total contributions received by noon today were reported as follows:
 Washington division, s2.032,000.
 New England division. S242,10o.
 Southern division, $61 900.
 Central division, S612,000.
 Southwestern division, $250, 900.
 Pacific division, $200.30o.
 Insular and foreign, s150,500.
 Totals, s3,547,9o0.
 Need of relief funds for immediate use in Japan was emphasized by Samuel Gompers, president of tho American Federation of Labor, In an appeal for quick contributions to the Red Cross relief fund.
 T urge my fellow citizens and particularly my fellow wage earners to contribute generously and imme- diately in this urgent humanitarian cause" MT. Gompers said.
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