Evening star., 1924-11-14
RED CROSS RAISES
t}4,6OO; ASKS $4,000
Budget Is $45,4OO Short.
Attention Called to Work
of Motor Corps.

Forty-five thousand four hundred
dollars remain to be raised by the
District of Columbia Chapter. Amer
lean Red Cross to reacn the minimum
budget of $4,000 necessary to con-
tinue its work in Washington for the
coming year. Membership fees and
contributions tabulated last night and
announced today totaled $4,000
Among the donations received today
was that from Mrs. Edward Eberle.
wife of Admiral Eberle for s3O3 90.
She is in charge of the Navy Depart
ment Red Cross Auxiliary and this
amount represents the beginning OF
the organizations efforts IN it's own
field.
Motor Corps Aids.
The roll call headquarters today
called public attention to the assist:
ance being rendered the campaign uy
the Red Cross Motor Corps. It has
carried the Red Cross appeal to all
the clergy OF the city. asking CO.
operation; has delivered roll call sup
Piles TO the various stations: each
MEMBER has certain streets which she
personally canvasses and places Red
ross placards in the show windows
Inc corps also has charge of booth
IN one of Washington's hotels. Mrs
FIorence R. Hefiebower is commander
of the CORPS
throughout the year the corps
operates in conjunction with the
nome service department in its work
among disabled service men 1t also
carrles surgical dressings to hos
pltals, transports entertainers to
alter Reed and st. Elizabeth Hos
pitais, conveys disabled men to down
town theaterS and delivers jams and
1eilies made by the Junior Red Cross
to the hospitals.
Members of Organization.
FolloWing are members of the
corps: Mrs. H NJ. Miller. Mrs. Victor
roster, Miss Edna Jones, Miss Betty
Potter, Mrs. {. H. Jewett, Miss Edna
Sheehy, Mrs. Margaret Cowan. Mrs.
r. l.. i. Hitler, Mrs II. NJ Henderson,
Mrs. j. NJ. Haynes. Mrs c. V. Wheel
er, Mrs. L. NJ. Fuller. Mrs C. D.
carter, Mrs. Anne o. Boswell. Mrs
j. NJ Quirk. Mrs. George Kicker.
Miss Anne Ready, Mrs Virginia Nc
Roberts, Mrs. Katherine Scott, Mrs.
l.. IL. Hendrick, Mrs. Nellie F. d.
Stoddard, Mrs. W. G.. Waldo, Mrs
Maude Howell Smith, Mrs. George
Weaver, Mrs. Mary II. Upham, Mrs
y. X Alley and Mrs. w. j. Morphy. jr
Tomorrow Government Day.
Tomorrow will be Government day
and the roll call committee has pre-
pa GU 10 eHToll d large percentage OF
Government workers. These en-
ployes always have been a mainstay
of the District chapter. it is declared
and they furnish not only a large
quota of the annual memberships re-
cetved, but many women from Gov
ernment departments are enrolled as
volunteer workers in the various
corps of the chapter, notably In the
clerical corps and the production de-
partment. Booths and stations have
been located In many of the Govern
ment departments, and in some in
stances the wives of the cabinet Off
GERS and other departmental officials
Will direct the enrolment.
Maj. Gen. George Barnett, L. S. NJ
C., retired, chairman of the District
chapter. yesterday addressed the
luncheon of the Military Order Of the
World War at the Hotel La Fayette,
and the order enrolled 100 per cent
Tonight Cody Marsh, executive sec
retary of the roll call and national
adjutant of the Siberian Veterans.
will speak over station WCAP on
THE Red Cross in Siberia"
Among the special contributions re-
ceived yesterday We're: Twenty-Five
dollars from Chief Justice Taft of the
United States Supreme Court; Mrs.
William J. Boardman. $500; Miss
Mabel Boardman. 5000; Victor Kauff-
mann, 800; Rudolph Jose, 325, and
Julius Garfinkle. 800.