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Red Cross Needs Cans to Preserve Food for Needy Mother Red Cross has set her children to canning fruits and vegetables now. All she needs are the cans. Within the next week the girls of the Junior Red Cross chapters in nearly every Davidson county school will start program of preserving fruits and vegetables, the products to be used this winter by the Red Cross in aiding individual needy families or for preparing the free school lunches this winter at the schools, Miss Emma Tyler, field representative of the Red Cross for Tennessee. said Thursday Arranges Program. Miss Tyler is working out the program various schools with Mrs. Mae S. Barrett, director of the Junior Red Cross work here. Mrs. Barrett will organize the work through the various school junior chapters with the aid of the home economics classes. Last year the same method was used in the schools throughout the winter in preparing hot lunches for children whose homes and farms had suffered in the drouth. Miss Tyler and G. S. Myer of Washington, special field representative from the national headquarters, are in Nashville at this time to aid Miss Mary C. Johnson of the Davidson county chapter of the Red Cross in organizing the annual roll call which starts on Armistice day This will be the first roll call in the county since the war, the chapter in the city drawing most of its funds from the Community Chest of which it is member. 1,000,000 Cans The canning program in the Junior Red Cross chapters which will last only during the next four or five weeks, is part of a nationwide program in 30,000 public and private schools to conserve surplus food supplies for distribution to the unemployed this winter. It is estimated that more than million cans can be prepared by the school children alone. Cans are to be labeled with Junior Red Cross tag and marked "not to be sold. They will be left with the schools for their winter free school lunches or be brought to the Red Cross office in the Chamber of Commerce office for distribution to unemployed who apply there. Where are the cans these county school children will use, people may ask? That is where members of the Red Cross and others may help. Miss Tyler says. Anyone with empty fruit jars is asked to bring them to the Red Cross office or turn them over to the Junior Red Cross chapter in their neighborhood school. BANK SUSPENDED SOMERVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 24(Spl)-The Somerville Bank and Trust company did not open today. A notice posted by the airectors said it had closed "for readjustment.' H. P. Stainback president. said the action was taken because of "frozen" credits and decline in deposits but with the cooperation of the depositors the bank could reopen within two weeks He said deposits amounted to 000