The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-21
RED CROSS MAN
 TO .vlSIT HERE IN SHORT TIME
Al L. Shafer, Manager of Pacific Coast Area, Will
 Arrive on 5. s. Alaska

IL AA V VII >e VI .A~SSAA0 A, L. Schafer, Manager of the American National Red Cross in the Pacific area with headquarters in San Francisco, will arrive here next week on the steamer Alaska for a few days visit, according to an an nouncement made today by B. M. Behrends, Chairman of the Ju- neau Chapter of the Red Cross. He left, Seattle on the steamer North western and will visit Ketchikan and Wrangell enroute here.
 MT. Schafer will spend all of the remainder of this month and prob ably all of July in the Territory. He plans to go as far north as Fairbanks before returning to his headquarters. " DO
 Confer With Governor '
 While here he will confer with Gov. John w. Troy and MT. Beh- rends, and in the other communi- ties with local leaders to urge the strengthening of committees to handle every phase of the National Red Cross program. This includes Home Service, welfare work among disabled war veterans and their de- pendents, and also welfare work with men in the Army and Navy.
 A number of Alaskan chapters al- ready have Disaster Preparedness committees equipped to handle any emergency. MT. Schafer is empha- sizing the advisability of having these committees recruited to their fulf strength. le'''''a4 plfeespe e AS a former national director of Disaster Relief he has directed re- lief And rehabilitation work in . number of major disasters, inc1ud- ing the Florida hurricane, Missis- sippi flood and the Southern Cali fornia earthquake last yeara
 U Preparedness Stressed eai Y
 Tn view of the repeated earth shocks that have been felt in sev- eral of the Pacific States and AL aska within the past 12 months, MT. Schafer says it behooves every community to be prepared. The re- sources of the National Red Cross are immediately available to any disaster swept district that calls for assistance.
 The Red Cross executive also is stressing the need for Public Health nursing, courses in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick, instruction in First Aid and Life Saving and for the Junior Red Cross, all units of the National Red Cross. He is enlisting the support of every resi- dent of the Territory to enroll in the Red Cross at the next Roll Call In this connection he lauds the people of Alaska for having enrolled in previous years 3,25O members out of population of 59- 278 or 55 per cent.
 ! MT. Schafer points out that Red Cross chapters in Alaska played a very important part in relieving distress occasioned by unemploy- ment. During the nation wide dis trfbution Of flour and cotton the chapters at Cordova, Juneau, Ket- | chikan, Nome, Seward Fairbanks Valdez and wrangen received B. 705 barrels of flour; 17,932 yards of cotton cloth; 16,228 ready-made garments; l,5OO sweaters; 576 blan- kets and comforters. Those com modities approximated $2O,0OO in value. 1 esa'sS a Mf During his present tour MT. Schafer will visit Ketchikan, wran- gell, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, An chorage, Fairbanks and Seward.
 Headed Disaster Relief
 Before he became manager of the Red Cross Branch office in San Francisco covering Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon Utah and Washington, MT. Schafer was National Director of Disaster Relief, He gained high recognition for Red Cross services in the Flor ida hurricane zone in 1926, espec- ially in family rehabilitation.
 In the Mississippi flood of 1927 he held the post of reconstructon officer for the States of Missis- sippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, GsiAlng more, and valuable exper-