DISTRIBUTION
OF SUPPLIES
IN EUROPE
Because many inaccurate reports
of large sales of American Red Cross
merchandise have appeared in the
past few weeks, Red Cross head
quarters in Paris has issued a state
ment explaining that the only ma
terials which have been sold are cer
tain perishables, second-hand equip
ment, surplus stocks and articles
which can no longer be used for di
rect relief work, either in France or
in Eastern Europe.
The total sales of surplus and sec
ond-hand material by the American
Red Cross in Europe will aggregate
not more than 30,000,000 francs, says
the Red Cross, while the value of the
relief material distributed in Europe
during July and August alone will
amount to more than 100,000,000
francs.
The American Red Cross is now
conducting operations in seventeen
European countries. The relief ma
terial distributed in France, mainly
in the devasted districts, since the
armistice, is valued at over 125,000,
onn francs, while in the same period
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other European countries have re
ceived more than 200,000,000 francs’
worth of similar supplies, including
not only medical and surgical mate
rial but also clothing, food, barracks,
etc. j
Such sales as have been authorized
in France have been conducted
through the American Red Cross
liquidation board. The official state
ment says regarding this material:
“Unexpectedly heavy expenses of
work in Polajnd and the Balkan states,
and the beginnings of new relief ac
tivities in Western and Southern
Russia, made it advisable to turn
these stocks into cash to assist the
relief programs, as well as to sare
certain of the accumulated stocks
from total loss.
“Of all the relief material in the
American Red Cross warehouses on
May 1, one-third was set aside for
distribution in the devasted districts
of France. The distribution of this
material is still continuing and will
continue for months to come, while
the shipments of relief material to
the commissions in Eastern Europe
are on a constantly increasing scale
and will continue thus for many
months.
“In the meantime the shipment of
further relief material from the Unit
ed States continues in a large way,
and we have recently received notice
from America of the early shipment
of supplies valued at nearly 40,000,000
francs.”
HEAVY TAX IMPOSED
UPON LOVERS OF DANCING
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 3 (by
Associated Press).—Those who dance
in this federal district hereafter will
pay not only the piper but John P.
Carter, collector of internal revenue,
as well.
According to Mr. Carter, dance
halls which heretofore have paid a
flat 10 per cent amusement tax on the
gross business done will hereafter
pay a tax of 10 per cent on each ticket
purchased.
Many dance halls have been selling
“commutation” tickets in books, and
one tax was collected on the gross
amount received for the books. As
an example, one hall sold a book of
thirteen tickets for twenty-five cents.
On this a tax of three cents was paid.
Hereafter similar books will cost
thirty-eight cents each.
WILL BUILD TUNNEL
OF FOURTEEN MILES
THROUGH GRANITE
.SEATTLE, Oct. 3 (by Associated
Press).—Construction of a fourteen
mile tunnel through solid granite—
the largest of its kind in the world—
is to be part of the'’engineering feats
connected, with the MethowOkano
gan irrigation project in Washington.
This project, when completed will
furnish irrigation for approximately
45,000 acres of land. The cost of the
development voted by the districts
embraced in the project, and to be
aided by the state, is estimated at
$8,000,000. Four years will be re
quired to build the tunnel, it is said.
The Methow-Okanogan project is
but part of an ambitious program of
reclamation work undertaken by
Washington, and made possible by
the recently passed state reclamation
act.
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