Evening star., 1940-06-15
Gifts 10 Red Cross
From District Near
S250,000 Mark
Plons Are Pushed for
Goal to Co RoIIy
Tomorrow Night

Contributions to the District Red
Cross war relief fund moved toward
the $250,000 mark today as plans
went forward for a goal to CO.
rally, to be held tomorrow in the
Departmental Auditorium at 8 pm.
Gifts to date, including the
sS,050.57 sent in yesterday, total
s242 ,398.57. The Districts quota is
$500, 900.
Clifton Fadiman, interlocutor of
Information Please" will fly to
Washington tomorrow night for the
rally at which Secretary of State
and Mrs. Cordell Hull will be rank
ing guests.
The National Savings & Trust Co.,
OF which Bruce Baird, chairman of
the District Red Cross campaign, is
president, yesterday became the first
bank in the United States to make
a gift to the Red Cross under the
new amendment to the National
Banking Act, signed during the week.
The bank as corporation gave $500
to the campaign. Heretofore. ma
tional banks and other members of
the Federal Reserve system were
forbidden by law to make such con-
tributions.
Unusual Gift Reported.
An unusual gift was reported bv
the State Department. The radio
bulletin of the department recently
announced the appointment of As
slstant Secretary Of State Henry F..
Grady as chairman of the Govern
ment unit in the campaign. Yester-
day the department received draft
Tor sl26 from Ambassador Nelson T.
Johnson in Chungking, the pro-
visional capital of China. The draft
represented the gift of his staff.
The Treasury Department yester-
oay sent in a check for S1,O75.65,
calling attention to the fact that the
gut brings that departments con-
trloutlons to date to S18,O54.78, of
which s4,866 came from the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing and S.
2o2 from the Bureau of Internal
Revenue.
Among the gifts received at the
chapter headquarters yesterday
were the following:
Mrs. J. Ellerton Lodge, 5000; Mrs
Marshall Langhorn, 5000; Miss Alice
i. Shong, sl00; Miss Marguerite C
Hunt, $500; anonymous, $1,000; Col
and Mrs. A. c. Davidson, $500:
Tlmes-Herald employees, slO4; Cor
rim Strong, $1,000; Washington Gas
Light Co., $500: Washington Gas
Light Co. employees, 81 900; Washing
ton Post employees, S93; Chesapeake
q Potomac Telephone Co. employees
s15450.
From the Government unit the
following gifts, in addition to that
OF the Treasury Department, were
received:
District of Columbia Electric De-
partment, $3.50, Smithsonian In
stitution, s71; Walter Reed Hos
pital, s5775; Federal Works Agency
S51615.
Shipment Is Ready.
Six large packing cases of layettes
sweaters, dresses. boys suits and
hospital garments. totaling 1923
items. were ready to be shipped by
the District Red Gross today. The
chapter also has six cases of surgi-
Cal dressings, totaling 28,250 items,
ready for shipment.
Meanwhile, the American Red
Cross announced its first mercy
ship" the S. S. McKeesport, would
sail from New York today with a
million dollar cargo of food, cloth
ing, medicines and hospital trucks
The boat will unload at Bordeaux,
where the Red Cross has established
warehouse and facilities for dis
trlbution both to refugees and
wounded combatants.
Two American surgeons, DR.. Edgar
Kahn of the University of Michigan
and DR.. John NJ. Converse of New
York. are scheduled to leave for
France tomorrow aboard the trans
Atlantic Clipper plane. They will
report to the American Hospital at
Angouleme.