Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-06
10000 present
IN VICTORY ROLL
CALL OF REDCROSS
General Campaign Begins
Today With Giving of Flow
ers to New Members.

ers to New Members.
! The house toulouse and office to-
Office canvass on behalf of the
| Thanksgiving victory roll call of the
District of Columbia Red Cross. part
of a nationwide membership cam
paign. was completed last night and,
1t is estimated, yielded 10000 new or
renewed members out of the 100. 900
which is the quota set the National
Capital
This announcement comes from Ed
ward J. Eynon, financial manager of
tne enrolment department.. Begin
ning this morning the campaign
! workers, under charge of Thomas Bell
sweeney. campaign manager. embark
eo on the general soliciting which is
necessary as a cleanup" measure to
supplement the very satisfactory
| original canvass. Every man and
woman who is not wearing the Red
Cross badge of honor. the 1920 mem
oelshlp button, and every dwelling
ana store not displaying the little
service flag with the Red Cross will
De approached. All owners of hut
TONS ana of flags are. therefore, urged
by Chairman Sweeney to display these
IN order to save not only the possess
ltsitor. ~ ~
twenty eight banks, leading depart
ment and drug stores. Childs', Rausch-
| ers and Wallis restaurants, the Ar
Gaae, western and Center markets.
United States Railroad Administrat ion
offices. the Liberty Hut and Y. M ca
on u street, the Woodward, Southern
colorado and Munsey office buildings
ana All OF the hotels and theaters
wi VIII s. nave Red Cross uniformed work
pers from now on till the drive ends.
november II. Two Walter Reed bows
will be detailed to each booth.
Flowers for Today's MEMBER,
Thousands Of blooms and buds will,
pc distributed today by the floral com
mittee OF the Say 1t With Flowers"
the other enrolment places throueh.
OUT the city, and every one who ioins
VIII receive flower. J. Harper Hefh.
erington is in charge of distribution
oa,e .nese MOVERS to the various cam
Through the courtesy OF the man.
agement of Moore's Garden Theater
special matinee will be given next
Monday afternoon. at 5 o'clock. of
Richard Harding Davis "Soldiers nj
Fortune" The boxes and the f,rst
| two rows Of the balcony will be re-
served and the entire proceeds will
De devoted to the roll call fund.
among the teams turning in en-
Aiys Downing. with 700 members:
Miss Dorothy B. Brown, 224: Miss X.
iDougan. 419. and Mrs. E. Hiliman. 451
| Canvassfng of q noteworthy charac-
ter was shown by the eight workers
of Earl D. Krewsons band, who Sc
cured 613 members in the business
district. and the team of John Dolph.
which obtained 200. W. NJ .Piser of the
Union Trust building and John M.
Cherry Of the Woodward building,
each working alone. brought in 1877
ana 126 memberships, respectively
All OF these reports are for the first
| two days of the drive only
100 Per Cent Membership.
| Every member of the Department of
| Military Relief, Potomac Division. in
the field has Joined, adding 1877 to
| the total enrollments for the division.
among those reported as having
given $50 or more in the drive, SO
far, are:
sI,25o-Mrs. W. ]. Bosrdman. I
| $1,e00-Larz Anderson, Mrs. B H
ss .sn Msl,an Alice J: Clapp; Evening
Freeman and Woodward & Lothrop.
$600-t1rs. J. Lew Hartman.
$500-Mrs. Kate Willard Boyd.
N0O-Robert Batcheller, Commercial
National Bank and Washington Loan
and Trust Company.
| $300-b1iss Florence Granfin and
| Miss Alice E. Grandin.
$250-Mr. and Mrs. Charles ]. Bell.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. E. F. Droop
tional Electrical supply COMPANY
Dutch Market
s2oo-Cslvary Baptist Church Sunday
school. Mrs. H. H. Father. S. s.
kresge Company. Oracle K. Richards.
I $125-Dr. J. c. Boyd. John Dolph.
Dulin Martin Co.. Inc; Thomas T.
Calf, M Goldenberg, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
H: B. Lyon. Mrs. r. H. McKim. i
| $lo0--Byron 8. Adams, Mrs. Richard
& Baines. Wfiifam J. Eynon. Mrs. H.
! w. Fitch, franklin & Co, julius Gar
hnkei & Co.. Martha Hale Harris, c.
Heurich. Frank ]. Hogan. Holmes &
Co, Hub Furniture Company. Gen.
John A. Johnston. Rudolph Kaufman,
Victor Kaufman, Elizabeth o. Lea,
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company, Theodore w. Noyes, DR..
James Sharp. Eliot Wadsworth. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles v. Wheeler.
| $75-Florence Woods.
s65-John Dalzell.
! $60-C. H. Franzoni.
| $50-William H. Baldwin, Harry
Blake, w. L. Caps, Cosmos Theater
| Margaret M SullcIi, INTERSTATE AItluSe-
ment Company. imperial Japanese
embassy, Mrs. George w. Logan, Julia
c. Lindsey, c. B. Mirick, Gustave OPP
penheimer, Mrs. j. C. Perry, Henriet-
ia F. Rown, Thompson's Dairy, Rev.
and Mrs. Charles Wood.
Insults Are Continued.
| Persons of Teutonic name and ap-
pearance living in washington con-
tinue to insult and abuse girls and
women working for the Red Cross
! roll call, according to reports being
received at drive headquarters.
| Names and addresses of all persons
| offering insult or using abusive
| language toward workers are being
| kept at headquarters and it is the
purpose of the organization at the
| proper time to turn these names over
Reports from o. w. Whitley, a Red
! Cross team captain. stated that at
| houses within a stones throw of the