Evening star., 1928-12-29
CHEST DRIVE GETS
500 SPEAKERS AID
Units Formation Announced
at. Meeting in City Club.
1870 Signed Up.

A speakers unit" to be composed Of
500 persons, will aid in the Washington
Community Chest campaign for funds
January % to February 6. The an
nouncement was made at a meeting Of
business, civic, educational and social
leaders in the City Club yesterday.
Mrs. Albert H. Putney, secretary Of
the speakers unit, declared that 100
persons had agreed to serve, and more
than SO others signed up at yesterdays
meeting.
List Made Public.
The list to date is as follows:
Eugene Adams, Jesse Adkins, Mrs
Frances Boyce, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry K.
Bush-B Brown, Miss Louise o. Beall, Dr.
Frank w. Ballou, j. Thad Baker, Bruce
Baird, David Babp, Joseph Burkhart,
Mrs. Montgomery Blair, John Baer,
Mrs. Edgar Brown, Maj. Carey H.
Brown, Charles j. Bell, John j. Boobar,
Miss Gertrude Bowling, Edward Bra
shears, Mrs. E. J. Brennan, Harry
A. Brooks, Mrs. Thomas E. Brown,
Rev. Homer Councillor, Wade H Cooper,
William Knowles Cooper, Walter G..
Clephane, Edward F. Colladay,
D. j. Callahan, Mrs. Whitman Cross,
John K. Cartwright. Mrs. Grace Ross
Chamberlin, Robert j. Cottrell, Mrs.
Merritt o. Chance, Morris Cafritz, DR..
w. L. Darby Charles w. Darr, Fred
eric A. Delano, Commissioner Proctor
L. Dougherty, John Dolph, B. Danzan-
sky, Thomas Joseph Frailey, Judge
William H. De Lacy, Gratz E. Dunkum,
Mrs Alvin Dodd, W.. w. Everett,
Joshua Evans, jr; Bishop James E.
Freeman, william N. Freeman, Roe
Fulkerson, Greed w. Fulton, Robert v.
Fleming, Karl Fenning, Mrs. Karl Fen
ming, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, E. G..
Graham, Lieut.. Col u. S. Grant, Sd;
Alton G. Grinnell, Gwynn Gardi-
ner, Isaac Cans, Henry L. Gil
ligan, Bynum Hinton, Mrs. A. G.
Hillyer, Edwin S. Hege, Dorsey w.
Hyde, Arthur HELEN, William F.
Ham, John H. Hanna, Wallace Hatch,
P. ]. Harman, Robert N. Harper, DR..
ilton, Col West Hamilton, Saida L.
Hartman, Harry Hull, Mrs. Harry Hull,
Frank r. Jelleff, Campbell Johnson,
Henry Lincoln johnson, j. E. Jones,
DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson, Rudolph
Jose, DR.. William Kerby, Joseph D.
Kaufman, Wayne Kendrick, Harry M.
Keyser, Harry King, j. Leo Kolb, Mrs.
Jerome Lightfoot, Rufus S. Lusk, Ver-
non B. Lowrey, Mark N Lansburgh, AL
fred H. Lawson Mrs. Martha McAdoo,
Edgar Morris, Barry Mohun, Arthur G.
Moses, Edward ]. Murphy, George Hew-
lit Myers, Arthur j. May, Harold Marsh,
LETTER Magnusson, DR.. Cloyd H. Mar
vim, DR.. w. P. Morrill,, Mrs. w. S. Mel
son, Roy L. Newhauser, Theodore Noyes,
Newbold Noyes, Matt E. O'Brien,
Father John j. O'Grady, Rev. j. G.
Mrs. Lester Pollock, Mrs. David Potter,
Walter Pratt, Maj. Julius Peyser, John
Petty, Frank L. Peckham, George w.
Phillips, John Poole, Charles Pimper,
DR.. Ulysses S. Pierce, Mrs. j. Garfield
Riley, Mrs. George Kicker, George
Kicker, Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson,
Daniel Roper, r. B. Swope, Rev. Joseph
r. Sizoo, Thomas Bell Sweeney, Dean
Lucy Slowe, Mrs. Leonard SchlosS, Mai
Julia Stimson, Louis Spiegler, Mrs
Lyman Swormstedt, Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan, Miss Helen Story, E. c..
Snyder, Henry Sohon, Odell S. Smith,
Delos Smith, Rabbi Simon, DR.. Will
liam j. Showalter, Rev. w. w. Shearer,
James Sharp, c. Melvin Sharpe, w. r.
Schmucker, F. v. Thomson, Mrs. Sid
ney Taliaferro, Stephen Takes, Com
missioner Sidney Taliaferro, Corcoran
Thorn, Norman E. Towson, Mrs. Rob-
ert H. Terrill, w. S. Ufford, Mrs. w. S.
Uford, Rev. c. G. Williams, Oscar T.
Wright, Mrs. Fred E. Wright, Alexander
Wolf, Eugene Woodson, Harlan Wood,
George Wilson, Ivan E. Weld, w. w.
Wheeler, John Walsh and j. Finley
Wilson.
Some to Give Full Time.
Mrs. Putney emphasized that some
of the persons listed will be able to give
full time to the unit, but that a num-
ber will only have time to deliver one
or two addresses.
Frederic A. Delano, president Of the
chest, presided at the meeting, and de-
livered brief address, in which he
told of the progress of the chest to
date.
Bishop James E. Freeman praised the
work of the chest in combining Jew,
Protestant and Catholic in one union.
Other speakers were D. j. Kaufman,
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, DR.. Morde-
cal Johnson, John Walsh and Elwood
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