South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-20
WILL MAKE FINAL
DRIVE SAT URDAY
Ten Thousand Members to
Red Cross Chapter Are
Expected by Tonight.

chapter proceeded with continued
su; cess Friday with indications that
the record of Thursday would be
barely held. Membership sales con-
tinued heavy throughout the city
and the workers were enthusiastic
in their reports from the various
booths and other institutions in the
! city. At noon reports came from
the Studebaker factory tiIat prac-
| tically 70 per cent of the employees
there had signed up with the Red
Cross and that more were expected.
With almost 5000 new members
secured Thursday it was expected
that the number in South Bend
would reach 10000 by night. Then
the greatest effort Of the three-day
campaign will be put forth Saturday
when a score or more additional
booths and many more workers will
solicit for new members.
More buttons have been secured
from the Chicago headquarters al
though the supply at noon was
practically exhausted at the local
Red Cross headquarters. Calls were
| coming in continually from the
various factories and stores and in
! dicatiOns were that the supply would
! fall below the demand before night.
Reports from the Studebaker
plant, where an intensive campaign
/ has been put on. was exceedingly
encouraging The factory has been
! divided into divisions and each
/ division has a slogan of 100 per
cent for this department" The per-
centage of members, taking the
number of employees as the whole,
was shown at noon to be as follows:
Master mechanics, Sc; storage and
receiving. So; shipping, rs; auto
bodies, So painting, 81; vehicle, 40;
foundry. Sc; factory office, 100.
| These figures do not include several
departments which had not reported
at noon Friday but the total mem
I berships figures S,514.
Similar campaigns are being
waged in other factories. At the
Oliver Pillow works the campaign
will be made intensive Saturday
morning while the Singer plant is
also turning in many mem berships.
Other smaller institutions are also
contributing their share to the
movement
The following women will be in
charge of the booths Saturday:
City hall-Morning, Grace Lush
| baugh. Margery Fritzel; afternoon.
Kathleen Moran, Blanche McCreary.
] Max Adler CO.-Afternoon, Mrs.
/ + f. Maurer.
I.asaHe theater-Afternoon, MAJ
garet Hill; evening, Helen Martin
/ dale.
Walkover shoe store-Afternoon,
Mrs. j. c. Metzler; evening, Maud
Fisher.
Vernon Clothing Co.-Afternoon,
Mrs. Oscar lehman; evening, Mrs.
+. p. Eastman.
Adler Bros.-Afternoon, Mrs. +.
NJ. Hamilton; evening, Pearl Can
field, Eula Cannon.
Coffee Ranch-Afternoon, Mrs. T.
j. Mcnamara; evening, Ina Burton.
Garland shop-AfternOon, Mrs. \.
c. Hill; evening, Mayme Kerner.
Sailors-Afternoon Mrs. NJ. c.
Langenbaum; evening. Josephine
Kreuper
Mayr jewelry store-Afternoon
Mrs. +. p. Hardy; evening, Blanche
McCreary.
Clauer jewelry store - Afternoon,
Mrs. +. NJ. Baker; evening, Ernest
inc Myers.
Landon Drug CO. - Afternoon.
Gertrude Greenblat; evening, Mar
TIM Cutter
Union Shoe Co.-Afternoon. Mrs.
j. McGrath.
Bakers shoe store-Afternoon
Mrs. f. II. McCarten.
Beitner's shoe store-Afternoon,
Gertrude Baumgartner.
Heuer's-Afternoon, Mrs. c. G.
Krauser: evening, Mrs. Maude T.
Stonecipher.
Grand Leader - Morning. Mrs.
Julia Lane. Blanche Grunwald;
Afternoon, Mrs AFFORD, Mrs. Henry
Kale.
Frances Shop-Afternoon, Mrs.
Lathrop: evening, Dorothy Award.
Y. w. G. A.-11:3O a. m. TO $50
p. m.-Grace Wilcox; TO p. m
Grace Wilcox.
Court House-Morning, Mrs F. c.
-NOAtNf 1ANNAAANOAAf NJ - L. " NJ
Gam.
Farmers Trust CO. lobby-Ger-
trude Baumgartner.
Ferndell rocery-Morning. Mrs.
+. p. Moore. Mrs. G. Martin; after
noon. Olive Bailey. Fredora Barber.
American Trust Conforming,
Mrs. F. ]. Powers
Independent Five and Ten
Blanche McCreary. Lillian Mccain;
afternoon. Agnes Rupert Rose Weis-
berger.
Muessers grocery-Morning Mrs.
Joseph II. Brink, Mrs. &. A. Lent;
afternoon. Matte Bowman, Pearl
Garfield
J. NJ. :. lobby-Estella Pence.
Sax store-Edith Beyrer. Ethel
Buck; afternoon. Mrs Thomas Will
liams. Mrs. James Tracy.
Herr and Herr-Afternoon, Mrs.
c. g. Herr.
Citizens National bank-Morning
Dorothy MCCance.
Street Car station - Morning.
Blanche Grunwald. Jennie Tolchin-
ski; afternoon, Mrs. \. 3. Lahey.
Miriam Yaffee.