Evening star., 1924-11-22
RED CROSS FUND
REACHES $4,000
Total Is Expected to Pass
$4,000 by First of Week,
When Reports Come In.

With the receipt today of 1851 from
the Department of Agriculture en-
ployes. the total in the Red Cross
roll call of the District chapter,
jumped to about $4,000, II was an
nounced.
The roll call committee today was
moving back to the chapter house
16 Jackson place, where all team
workers were urged to make their
reports today.
As many of the churches where
roll calls have been made are yet to
be heard from and as few of the
schools have reported, the roll call
officials confidently expect the total
by the first of the week to reach
$50. 900.
The intensive part of the campaign
ended today but all of next week
viii be spent in collecting outstand-
ing pledges and promises and check
ing up on places here and there that
have not yet been visited by cam
paign workers.
Air Ambulance Described.
The remarkable development of the
air ambulance was graphically dem
onstrated before distinguished au-
dience at national headquarters of the
American Red Cross yesterday by a
special French mission to the United
States.
officials of the Army and Navy avi-
alton and medical services and mem
bers of the diplomatic corps formed
a large part of the audience which
heard DR.. J. CZac, chief surgeon Of
the French army. and Prof. 4. Picque,
assistant chief Of the French health
service, describe the distinct advan-
tages of aerial transportation of the
sick and wounded.
The officers We're presented by Gen.
George a. l.. Dumont of the French
embassy Their lecture, illustrated
by motion pictures taken at the front
in northern Africa. showed that air
plane transportation of the wounded
not only was speedier. but eliminated
the exCruciattng agony caused by the
swayinE and humping Of ground am
balances and camions.
Trips that formerly took many
days to convey the badly wounded
and sick to surgical centers now re-
quire only a few hours and the pa
tients inevitably arrive in better con-
dition, said DR.. Uzac. he cited in
stances where wounded were sped by
aerial ambulances to Aleppo and
ReyIuth from as far the banks of
the Euphrates. When the city of
Aintob was completely surrounded by
enemy tribesmen French air ambu-
lanceS. commanded by Col. Dernain.
flew INTO the city ana evacuated %
wounded.
Motion pictures showed the actual
transportation of wounded by the
French Breguet limousine airplanes,
which carry two wounded in addition
to a doctor or nurse. Electrically
heated bed covers keep the patients
warm, and the accompanying surgeon
or nurse has at his disposal
small flying dispensary.' consisting
of oxygen inhalation tanks, ampules
for hypodermic injections. hot drinks.
dressings and instruments. A tour
niquet can be applied or bleeding
vessels clamped off while in the air
DIR. Uzac stated that the French medi-
cal service and flying corps were CO.
operating in the development of larger
air ambu,ances to carry as many as IL
wounded. The humanitarian side Of this
development was obvious. declared DR..
Uzac, since Il resulted in saving the
lives OF many of the dangerously
wounded.
The extension of this new means of
transporting sick and wounded through
the collaboration of the American Red
Cross and the Red Cross societies Of
SO other nations is foreseen as result
of the French experiment. Neutraliza-
ton of air ambulances, insuring their
free movement without being fred upon,
will be sought by international agree
ment, DR.. UZac declared.