Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-03
CHEST GROUP UNIT
SEEKING S25O,O|I)
Employees of Business and
Industrial Houses Are Ex-
pected to Swell Fund.
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The special gifts committee revised re.
port shows 10 contributions amounting
to $20,340, an increase of nearly 81. OO(
reported unoficially Saturday. It's tota
OF 1,067 pledges accounts for $796, 1852
or 9l.3 per cent Of its quota, which i;
S972, 42774
The Group Solicitation Unit in it,
revised report disclosed 472 pledges fol-
q total OF $5,S3l.55, making a total OF
1,096 pledges for $I1, IS to date, OF
4.3 per cent OF its quota of $3.50, 900.
Region Five of the Metropolitan Unit
which embraces the colored population
OF the city, showed in its revised report
All pledges for a total of S2247.54
making total of 939 pledges to date
for $S,204.93, or 23.2 per cent of its
quota of $35, 337.19.
The revised report of the Metropolitan
Unit shows total of 3,206 pledges for
S49.52268, making its total to date
1891 pledges for S152,633. 40. or 23.1 per
cent Of its quota of S660,5e7.30.
1854 Pledges to Date.
This recapitulation of figures from the
auditing department reveals total OF
1854 pledges to date for $960.618.75.
This is 538 per cent of the total budget.
with only three and half days remain
ing TO complete the job.
Owing to bad weather and the delay
of waiting on the February l pay day.
Saturdays revised report of $75,694. %
was regarded as a pretty fair showing.
Hundreds of Government employees
also have been waiting for pay day be-
fore contributing to the Chest fund.
The work of the Metropolitan Unit
consequently picked up considerably
At today's report meeting in the May
flower Hotel DR.. Abram Simon of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation was
to be the Chest speaker. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt former Assistant Attorney
General, will voice an appeal for the
campaign this evening at SIS over
station WRC.
The 4,5Oo volunteer workers put in
full days work yesterday. 1t was
largely a house-to-house canvass, and
early reports indicated it was success
ful to large degree.
20 Per Cent Ahead of 1929.
While the daily objective of 100000
appeared formidable, the outlook for
the success of the campaign is far
from discouraging. Despite the handi-
caps under which the city-wide CAM
paign was launched last week, Mr.. Poole
explained, the Chest is more than 20
per cent ahead of the contributions re-
ported on the third day of the cam
paign last year, when only S762. l5l.42
had been reported as the total.
This increase is due chiefly to the
fact, however, that the special gifts
committee Of which Newbold NoyeS is
chairman, got away to an earlier start
this year.
Merritt o. Chance, chairman of. the
Metropolitan Unit. has more volunteers
under his command this year, and the
organization of the unit has the adj
vantage of trained veterans from last
years campaign. The larger crgani-
cation was required because Of the addi-
tional 100000 to raise.
The Group Solicitation Unit also Is
better organized for the gger job it
is tackling this year. The group is
soliciting at firms which employ Is or
more persons. There are more than
three times as many on its list this
year than previously.
JelIeff Is Confident.
Mr. Jelleff is confident that the unit
viii make up its quota by Thursday
Owing to the difficulty in soliciting
each individual in a store or business
that has many hundreds of employees,
the reports of the unit necessarily
have been coming in slowly. No re-
port is made from a firm, it was eX-
planned, until the canvass in that par
ticular place has been completed.
Gifts of 500 or more reported yester-
day were as follows: One thousand dol
lars, the Rev. w. Coleman Nevis, s. j.,
and Mrs. Henry W. Fitch; $500, Gen.
John j. Pershing; $500, Mrs. Kate E.
Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Robertson
KurtZ and the Misses Francoe, Hannah
and Juliae Atkinson; $3.50. Mr.. and Mrs.
William E. Pearson. Margaret r. Fox;
S235, Philip c. Coffin; 1920, Miss Geor-
gia Robertson; 5000, Mr. and Mrs. Ro-
land K. Smith. E. J. Febrey & Co.,
Schuyler Merritt, G. B. Craighill, DR..
and Mrs. Louis Mackall, William S.
Conant, Mr.. and Mrs. Huston Thompson,
Hanse Hamilton, Mrs Archibald Hop
kins. Wilfred B. Putnam; $3.50, Mrs.
Thomas H. G. Reed, Triangle Motor Co.,
Mrs. Charles L. Bliss; S135, Mrs. G.
Somerville; $125, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore P. Noyes, Mrs. Amy N. Talbot,
Mrs. Elizabeth Lodge, Mrs. Harry B.
Mirick; $120, Mrs. F. W. Bolgiano Mrs.
Caro- Sarmiento Brown; $40, Miss Leila
Mechlin; 500, Edmond w. Down ORD,
Mrs. S. B. Howry, American Radiator
Co. Mrs. L. A. Schaaff, Mrs. Thomas L.
Casey, John T. Schaaff, D. j. Shorb,
Francis A. Blundon Co, DR.. Thomas E.
Ogram. Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Eiseman,
Dermot A. Nee, Judson T. Gull Or),
Mrs. Mary Mayo Shale, G. c. League,
w. @. Galliher, Charles Conradis, Judge
and Mrs. l. r. Hit, Wilson B. Nairn,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Swartzell. Mrs. Will
liam H. Rotrer, Mr. and Mrs. William