Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
RED CROSS SENDS
RELIEF TO SPAIN
Additional $4,000 Will Be
Spent to Aid Rebels and
LoyaIists.

The Red Cross today announced
10 the 1000 delegates here for the
society's annual convention that an
additional $4,000 has just been sent
to Spain to relieve suffering Of fight
ers and civilians of both loyaltieS,
governmental and insurgent. Another
$4,000 has been spent already in
Spain by the American Red Gross,
and $26,0Ci1 was allotted to the State
Department by the organization for
evacuation and repatriation Of Ameri-
can citizens in the civil war country
This money and the funds from
other countries which are members
of the International Red Cross have
been divided almost equally between
the two sides, Ernest ]. Swift, vice
chairman Of the American Red Cross
In charge of insular and foreign
convention in Continental Memorial
Hall this morning-goods worth no.
600 Swiss francs going to the govern
ment and 10000 francs to the insur-
gents.
Supplies purchased with the donated
money and sent to Spain by the Red
Cross include, for the most part, phar-
maceutical anG surgical supplies. dress
1ngs, biologicals, surgical instruments,
foodstuffs for children and hospitals,
X-ray equipment, hospital beds and
equipment, ambulances and stretcherS,
Swift said.
Swift added that the Red Cross
workers are concerned not alone with
distributing these supplies, but as well
with many other duties, among the
most interesting of which is the con-
duct of an intricate and far-reaching
family news exchange BY it over 174,-
600 family inquiries have been re-
ceived from persons separated from
their immediate relatives and $4,000
answers have been dispatched.
Ohio Official Lauds Work.
Turning from the wartime to the
peace-time accomplishments of the
Red Cross, Harold H. Burton, mayor
Of Cleveland, Ohio, metropolis of the
State which suffered costly injury
when the Ohio River flooded its south
ern shore last January, appeared be-
fore the convention after Swift to
compliment it on the societys activity
at the time of and after the floods
THE Red Cross" Mayor Burton
said, lis the unarmed army of America
and Of the world 1t is an unarmed
army trained for practical service to
humanity. Its cause is the cause of
humanity. 1t reaches over all bar
riers of politics, diplomacy, race, class,
language, creed and industry"
Convention Closes.
The four-day convention closed
with luncheon at the Willard Hotel,
at which spokesman for the press, the
motion picture and the radio expressed
the pleasure Of the enterprises they
represent at furthering the cause of
the Red Cross.
Frank B. Noyes, president of the
Associated Press and of The Evening
Star Newspaper Co., spoke for the
newspapers; Lenox Lohr, president of
the National Broadcasting Co., for
the radio. and Will H. Hays, president
of the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of America, for the mo-
ton picture.
TT is matter of history that it
was an editorial appeal printed in
the London Times in 1854 that in
spired Florence Nightingale to her
mission of relief for the sick and
wounded of the Crimean War" Mr.
Noyes said in showing that the press
has supported the Red Cross from the
start.
He recalled that Clara Barton