Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
100000 Expected to Be
Reached by Tomorrow
in Welfare Drive.
WORKERS TO BE ACTIVE
IN SOLICITATION TODAY
Visitors Subscribe to Fund, Lead
ers Announce-Mrs. Roller
Leads in Collections.

With audited returns combined with
unofficial figures showing a total of
$841 $3.50 late yesterday, workers in
the Washington Community Chest
campaign are confident that the chest
fund will reach $1,OOo,000 by tomorrow,
chest officials said last night.
Campaign leaders in the general So
liciting drive will hold report lunch
con in the Mayfiower Hotel tomorrow
afternoon at 1890 o'clock, while the
special gifts committee will meet at the
same time in the Willard Hotel for re-
ports from its team captains.
AS the chest campaign is for char
liable purposes the workers will be ac-
tive today in soliciting funds. Rev.
Charles A. Hart of Catholic University
one of the speakers at the report
luncheon of divisional leaders in the
Mayflower Hotel yesterday, declared
charity should not stop on Sunday"
s604,011 Special Gifts.
Yesterdays audited figures showed
funds raised by the various groups as
follows:
Special gifts committee, $6O4,o11;
Metropolitan unit, including the various
divisions in the general soliciting cam
paign, $132,416. Group soliciting unit,
$15,701.85; committee on colored CO.
ordination, $3,31150. Those figures
totalled $755 ,440.35. In the earlier fig
ures made public yesterday, there was
included over $4,000, received from the
Government workers by mail and au-
dited, but which was not reported until
yesterday at noon, when 1t was included
with the $12,656.08 officially credited
to the chest governmental unit. The
group solicitation unit yesterday report
ed $l0,751.35 which, with the Govern
ment unit and the reports Of team
captains made at the Mayflower,
brought the days receipts up to STA
620.48, which, added to the previous
total brings the fund up to $82S, ,060.83
A gift of $4,000 from Senator James
Couzens, which will be reported oficial-
ly tomorrow and which has already
$840, ,06083. DR.. Kelly Miller last night
sent in a report on the National Bene-
At Life Insurance Co., the largest busi-
ness organization among the colored
people of the city, which contributed
$l,596.87, all of its employees having
given. This makes the total sum to date
equal the $841 ,675.70
Mrs. Harry Roller, captain Of team
D-l8 of the Mid-City division In the
general soliciting campaign yesterday
won first honors, both for obtaining the
greatest number Of contributions and
the largest amount reported by any
team captain, 164 persons having given
$4,377.
Reports by Divisions.
Reports by the various divisions
showing numbers of pledges obtained
from contributors by the volunteer
Chest workers together with the sums
raised through each division, were re-
ported by Chest officials yesterday as
follows:
Mid-City division, 2,1S6 pledges, $52,-
844.65; West End, 906 pledges, $17, ,998.30:
Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights,
1884 pledges, $15,795; Dupont Circle,
566 pledges, $14,125.75; Lanier, Kalo-
rama, 279 pledges, $13,194.35; Rock
Greek Park, 5l8 pledges, $13,062.26;
Georgetown, 483 pledges, $1O,9s5.75;
Iowa Circle, $40 pledges, $9,950.95;
Cathedral Heights, 215 pledges, $4,-
605.26; Chevy Chase, 1877 pledges, $4,579;
Stanton Square, 403 pledges, $3,529.15;
Trinidad, $40 pledges, $3,33896; Park
view, Petworth, 267 pledges. $2,740. rs;
Piney Branch, 65 pledges, $2,370; Six
teenth Street Heights, Manor Park, 158
pledges, $2,361.35; Southeastern, 205
pledges, $2,22753; Chilhm, Brightwood,
124 pledges, $2,22425; Conduit, Foxhall,
157 pledges, $2,09290; North Capitol,
221 pledges, $2,o13.O5; Central, 1872
pledges. $1,981.13; Rhode Island, ITS
pledges, $l,766; Brookland, 1877 pledges,
S1,568; Southwestern, 1873 pledges,
$1.553: Far Northeastern, 40 pledges,
$139.50.
Frank j. Hogan, speaking at yester-
days report meeting in the Mayfiower,
urged the workers in the campaign to
point out to persons they solicit for
funds how the various member organi-
cations of the chest furnish "solace to
the widow, bread for the starving,
homes for orphans, medical attention
for the Ill and character development
for the youth Of the land" He also
told how money contributed to the
Young Mems Christian Association, the
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