Evening star., 1940-06-12

The District Red Cross war re-
lief fund campaign yesterday passed
the 100000 mark on the way to a
goal of 100000. while the national
campaign reported reaching the
halfway point of its S2O,000,0OO
goal.
Bruce Baird, general campaign
chairman of the District appeal, ex-
pressed qualification at the results
to date, but warned his workers that
the last 100000 is the hardest"
A total Of $12,645 SO was reported
for the day, bringing the total to
date to S205,5l057 in the local cam
paign.
The Walsh Mansion" the Co.
room home at 1920 Massachusetts
avenue, has been turned over to the
Red Cross for the duration of the
war, Mrs. Mabel T. Boardman, who
accepted the offer of the use of the
home from its owner, Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean, announced today.
Vacant for Two Years.
In some of the rooms, women
workers will make bandages and
surgical dressings Other rooms will
be turned over to the Finnish Relief
organization.
| The Walsh home, vacant for two
years, was for a brief period head
quarters of the Resettlement Ad.
ministration.
Tickets for the American Red
Cross Tournament, to be held july
4 at the Indian Spring Country Club,
went on sale today. Final plans
for the event, which will bring
Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Craig
Wood, Sammy Snead and other
sports celebrities to Washington,
will be completed at a meeting in
the Ambassador Hotel tonight.
Mrs. w. w. Chiswell, who went to
France with the Red Cross Motor
Corps in the last World War, re-
lated her experiences in handling
refugees and in general wartime
Red Cross work, at the first concert
OF the Chamber Music Guild, held
yesterday in the Raleigh Hotel as
a benefit for the war relief fund.
The growing number of units do
Ing home work on surgical dress
lngs and garments for the District
Red Cross was to be augmented to-
day by a group of young people
meeting at the home of Mrs. Reed
Roberts, 125 Grafton street, Chevy
Chase, Md.
| Prisoner Donates 81.
Among the unusual gifts sent to
headquarters here yesterday was
dollar from a prisoner at Lorton
Reformatory, who wrote:
Il can be counted as one of the
unfortunate. yet have the general
use of my limbs and I am assured
OF a place to eat and sleep. So hav-
ing IN mind those who have been
made homeless and destitute bv the
horrors of the European conflict, I
herein inclose 81. The sum, realize,
is small. yet am in hopes that it
Will be worth more than its face
value to some poor soul"
Other Contributions.
Other gifts included:
Anonymous, $1,000: Eevening Star
Newspaper Co., $500: the Rockport
Fund. Inc, s100: District of Colum-
bla Bar Association, S10O; Graduate
Nurses Association. 500; Mrs. Flor
ence S. Keep. $1,000 cher second
contribution, bringing her gift to
$4,000; R. R. Hall, 5000; Capital
Transit Co. employees, S380.31:
Southern Railway employees, slO4 .25;
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., s19O25;
Association of American Railways,
S1OO; Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. employees, 1891: Garden
T Shoppe, s1O472; Pomona, Earle
and Ceres, sl71'70: Allies Inn, 500;
S. and w. Cafeteria, $4,000; Shol's
Cafes. s125; Cigar Makers Interna.
tional. sl00; Miss Marion S. Baker,
S1OO; Simon, Konigsberger & Young.
Sl00; United Cigar Stores, $40.
Receipts from booths in the stores
and banks amounted to s1.3O6.51.
while receipts for the National Chi
dren's Fund were s42.24.
Government contributions for the
day included:
National Youth Administration.
s142.50; Public Roads, $3.50: De-
partment of Agriculture, s737.21:
Federal Security Agency, s428 30:
Board of Public Welfare, s66 rs:
District of Columbia Water Division.
$3.50: Tennessee Valley Authority,
S1,O50; United States Soldiers Home,
s522 As; Army Medical School, 1880:
United States Public Health Service,
$1.163.25; Treasury Department,
$263.50; Securities and Exchange
Commission, $127; Collector of
Taxes. $30.25: United States Senate.
$43770; District of Columbia Penal
Institutions, $22885.