The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-01-28
Red Cross To Shoot Al S2OO,OWM
Goal In Campaign To Begin March !

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ratEK IL thF h
~ thN Amrsean Red Cfus N
discussed Iris WNk Al fu
ggnas eani4 he'd H.ftak
guf X 3ixnnpI ace0rdana h. NJ
whan maraEef q fhs seN
EASTERN args
Nntkonsl Ea rs shs f@4t
RED CM Mm Fund aA h3en 81
81 500 cen The campaign
aiu npen Mssrh 4 sri esuttnas
through Mnreh -
Eavr representatives srnn 9ack
SCR uaInis headed ~ Mim JESSE
noya exrcative secretary ssg tbs
Cusnss Chapter. atssnaed ne
netane held ia HatticSbugE
Monday
Prank McefuFk - Atlanta r.
Kfnnai dlrersus ~ REQ Cross fnf
Mississippi conducted the de
euAsioru wifh fhe enairnien 81
inc nasf chapters pfeiaine A.
tending the meetings sege mem
hers e the We FUND Committees
u ae surrounding chapters
Othefx On the programs fn
elnde1 james E Kerxhnw
sial field representative fof IA
Southwestern rea Mrs Laufa
Raau 4 Fecentlv returned Res
Cross overseas ei9h director e
3 Patch general field represen
tniiNe BALDWIN Miss Mrk Doc
eas Butler. general field repfe
sentative. jackson Miss and
Hamilton Aines. field supervisor
Camp Shelhy. Miss
Mckitafk Joined the Red Cre8s
in ksHy. 1890 rs special fepre
sentative Of Jnssslar ana FmeiEn
Operations It National Head
quarters ~ Red Cross washhHg
ton Prior n serepiinK his pres
ens pest h. Wa assistant region
a. director ~ Georges and Fla
ida He was AZ oEa time ed
tor. International Congress If
Military Medicine and Pharmacy
Washington.
Scope 20 be Stressed
kerShaw joined the fund rails
ina staff Of Red Cross after Il
Igcare experience IN tins ileid
throughout the South During The
! FIRST ITO years Of the uSO ksf
shaw was Ia charge ot che State
Of FLORIDA The following yeaf
be foined Red Cross
Mr. Bacon has Just returned
from oversees where she was 4
Red Cross club director IN ihs
Ninth Air Force Field club she
mas spent = wears m France.
having left Paris When h vas
declared an open city
HigniightiuE the conferences
were talks on Your Red Cross
To-Day. and Your Red CruS
IN Action. IN winch were poinf.
ed the magnitude ana scope of
the Red Cross domestic and for
eign program now n operation
The major portion Of the 1865
budget, is % b. ailecated "a the
services to the armed forces
military and welfare sersiee.
nome service and hospital camp
and council service
u has been estimated that dur
ing tive past Il months more than
800 GO service men and women
were aided By tine organization.
| financially and otherwise. N
camps stations on the hattleians.
and on the horne front
Within enemy territory. Red
Cross IS reaching thousands af
American prisoners Of war wlth
medical supplies and food and
comfort articles. and also through
rs international organization. >
cures information about prison
ers fof thelf fafaiiies back home
On TIE home front Red Cross
volunteers last wear packed ever
Is million pounds q medical
aiN recreation supplies FOE dn
trNsutian In various type PACK
aQns fer these eTvieemen h e.
emy prison camps
s.0o0.n0e Give Blocd
Meanwhile. last yeaf 5000 90
Americans contributed blood
through The Red Cross for pIss-
ms a. - used for uIf wounded
la so chapters nursing e9gnnN
tees continued their assignment
rs tHle government Of recruiting
nurses far the Army and NsN
noW pass the $1,000 mark =
placing graduate nurses fcf us
sEary Haiv. Red Cross has r
rsutted and trained ospr ii0aa
volunfeer nurses aides. 1000 II.
winch are nnv s1gxlng IN rsili-
tsry hospitals
II fak3 between two and 'hrne
mihsn volunteers PLAYING en-
4mnnHfaHt par IN the Ret Cfo
wsr program Devoted i0ug ba1rs
g wsIng and knitting hospial
aagMents and comfort article -
fse 80 branches Of ~ service
SnrEEa dressing units taliuN
inE an outstanding xeaf, have
he-n .sknd 3. Eha f.xHmmanl 3.