Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
u. :. 0. Unit Is Told
OF Critical SHORTAGE
In D. t. Facilities
Names of Leaders in
Government Section Of
Drive Announced

Concentration of military and
naval personnel and defense workers
in the Washington area has created
"a very serious situation" in regard
to welfare and recreation, Charles
P. Taft, assistant Federal co-ordi-
nator of health, welfare and related
defense activities, told group of
more than so leaders in the Govern
ment unit of the local United Service
Organizations campaign yesterday
during a meeting in the auditorium
of the Veterans Administration
Building.
The result is that on weekend
nights, and even other times, we
find soldiers and other service men
forced to sleep on floors of available
quarters in town, and other very I'M
desirable and deplorable conditions
here" he said.
Sidney F. Taliaferro, general
chairman of the U. S. o. effort here,
told the volunteer workers quota
of $4,000 had been assigned the
unit.
Unit officers under Undersecretary
Of War Patterson, the unit chair
man, were announced as follows:
Vice chairmen, Undersecretary Of
the Navy Forrestal and Mr. Taft;
executive officer, Col Thomas M.
Spaulding, Adjutant Generals De-
partment of the Army; secretary,
Capt John w. Reed, also of the
Adjutant Generals Department,
and publicity officer, Capt. Royal M.
Alderman.
Departmental Chairmen.
The following departmental chair
men also were announced:
w. C. Bowen, Railroad Retire
ment Board; DR.. R. S. Bassler,
Smithsonian Institution; C. How
land Shaw, Department of State;
Frank A. Birgfeld, Treasury; j.
Edgar Murdoch, Board of Tax APP
peals; John j. Keegan, United
States Employees Compensation
Commission; R. L. Mcdonald, Mari
time Commission; Col. Clark Lynn,
Soldiers Home: Edgar B. Brossard,
Tariff Commission; Harold w.
Breining, Veterans Administrations;
Mai. General r. c. Richardson, and
James C. Cook (vice chairman) =,
War Department; John w. Quick,
Washington City Post Office; Ell
more Whitehurst, Administrative
Office of United States Courts; Will
lard L. Hart, Court of Claims.
Col. Charles E. Stewart, District
Court; James E. Mangum, Ameri-
| can Battle Monuments Commission:
j. A. L. Sayer, American National
Red Cross; Robert A. Voorus, Lii
brary of Congress; Archie c. Ed
wards, Civil Service Commission:
William H. McReynolds, Office of
the Secretary to the President;
Henry w. Riley, Federal Deposit In
surance Corp; George F. Buskie,
Federal Loan Agency; James A.
Drain, Federal Security Agency;
Robert E. Freer, Federal Trade
Commission; Alan tombstone, Fed
eral Works Agency; Reed F. Mar
tin, General Accounting Office;
Maybelle G. Fickel, Government
Printing Office.
w. P. Bartel, Interstate Com
merce Commission; Charles v. Nc
Laughlin, Department of Labor;
Paul F. Steiner, Maritime Labor
Board; John F. Victory, National
Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics; Isaac Mcbride, National
Archives; M. D. Lewis, National
Mediation Board; Rear Admiral
c. j. Rowcliff, Navy Department;
William Griffin, n-American
Union; Ramsey S. Black, Post Of
flee Department; Joseph G. Can
ges, Court of Customs and Patent
Appeals: Norman G. Brown, Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission; Francis P. Brassor,
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion; Oscar l.. Chapman, Inter-
ior Department; william F. Mas
sing, Federal Communications
Commission; Edward w. Libby,
Commerce Department, and John
C. Conliff. jr, United States At
torney's ONCE.