Evening star., 1940-06-13
Red Cross Plans
Rally Sunday
For War Relief
$221,452 Raised,
Or 73 Per Cent
Of District Quote

VI HIStISSN OOlO
A goal to go" mass meeting will
be staged by the District chapter Of
the Red Cross Sunday at 8 pm. in
the Departmental Auditorium to
bring before the people of Washing
ton the urgent necessity Of reaching
the chapters war relief fund goal
Of $500, 900.
Secretary of State and Mrs.
Cordell Hull will be ranking guests
Of honor at the mass meeting, which
will be addressed by group of local
officials and radio notables, among
them Clifton Fadiman, literary
critic of New Yorker magazine
and interlocutor on Information
Please"
Norman H. Davis, chairman of the
American Red Cross, will speak and
the United States Navy Band Or
chestra will provide the music. Brig.
Gen. r. r. Keefer. U. S. A., re-
tired, chairman of the District
Chapter of the Red Cross, will pre-
side. Earl A. Nash is chairman of
the Mass Meeting Committee.
Yesterdays receipts of 315,94235
brought the District total to 1921, :
452 292, or more than 70 per cent
Of the quota. Chapter officials
pointed out that no effort has been
made to launch a door-to-door soli-
citation because the volunteers are
busy making surgical dressings and
garments.
G. p. O. Contributes SS,641.
The largest single days contribu-
ton from any Government depart
ment was recorded yesterday when
Mrs. Maybelle Fickel presented the
District chapter with s8,641.10, the
gift Of 5.845 employees in the Gov
eminent Printing Once. Mrs. Fickel
said 81 per cent Of the department S
employees had contributed and that
about 200 were away on annual or
sick leave and would increase this
percentage.
The Chamber Music Guild turned
in a check for $256 as a result of a
concert held earlier this week in the
Raleigh Hotel. Countess Laszlo
Szechenyi, who had previously con-
tributed $1,000 to the drive, sent in
check for another $1,000. Another
second gift came from Mrs. Marion
w. Fadely, who sent in a check yes
terday for $500.
Other gifts came in from City
Post ONCE, :$4s6 80; Civil Aeronau-
tic Authority. $3.50: District of Co.
lumbia Health Department, s66;
Executive Offices. s75; Treasury De-
partm4&, 1892; United States Dis
trictx Court, $34; Federal Reserve
System, 5000; War Department,
$356.89; United States Tariff Com
mission, $52; Alcohol Beverage
Board. $40; Federal Works Agency,
$97863.
A check for $l06.05 was received
as result of a Community Inn
bridge party. Peoples Drug Store
employees sent in s915.89; r. P. An
drews Co., 500; Noland Co., s123.50;
National Capital Press. s1O5.25.
A total of $200.41 was received
from the boths in the stores and
banks.
Lemonade Sold by Children.
Two youngsters yesterday made
seven lemons stretch into 81 for the
Red Cross. The children, Jules
Cahan, II, of 1929 Georgia avenue
NV, and Kathleen Torney, IL, of
1928 Georgia avenue NV, made
lemonade and sold it from a stand
in front of Kathleen's house at 2
and cents cup. They will take
the 81 to Truesdell School to add to
their schools fund for The Red
Cross.
Harold De Veau appealed to men,
bers of the Washington Lions Club
at their weekly luncheon in the
Mayfower Hotel yesterday to aid
the Red Cross. A request was also
made that wives and daughters of
club members volunteer for service
to the District chapter of the Red
Cross.
The Nation wide war relief fund
has passed the halfway mark, to-
falling $10,17l ,322 of its $4,000 900
goal.
Chairman Davis, commenting on
President Roosevelt's request to
Congress for a $50,O0O.000 war re-
lief appropriation, said it would ma
terially increase Red Cross aid,
especially foodstuffs, to the war suf-
ferers, but would not tighten the bur-
den which the Red Cross has al
ready assumed in furnishing cloth
ing, medicines and ambulances to
the war wounded and needy.
ut is obvious" he added, that the
task before us, especially If we at
tempt to feed millions of refugees. is
beyond the scope of private charity
and governmental aid is necessary
If we are adequately to meet the
needs"