The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-03
Juneau, Wrangell and Sit- ka Will Begin Campaign
 to Raise Relief Funds

dlI COiiiiiltJCCo III oiiSoC SitiSo VIII get under way within two weeks following the decision of the Ketchi- kan, Alaska, committee, now bring ing it's local drive to completion, to extend the campaign throughout the territory.
 Mrs, o. J. Stearns, co-chairman of the Ketchikan committee, wrote to MT. Blaine that the enthusiastic re- sponse to it's appeal had promped the decision to carry the campaign to Juneau, Sitka and Wrangell. Coy. Ernest H. Gruening, who was in strumental in launching the Ket- chikan campaign when he proclaim ed China Week during May 1925, has been requested to lend his fur ther endorsement to the spreading Alaska-wide campaign. ~
 General Cooperation
 "The local newspapers and radio have cooperated to the utmost in bringing the plight of the Chinese pcople into prominance,' Mrs. Stearns announcement read, with the result that people throughout Alaska are aware of the magnitude and the broad purposes of United China Relief, and have expressed a desire to demonstrate their active sympathy for China's cause. As the furthermost Western outpost of coll- tinental United States, we are es- pecia1ly aware that our security is intimately linked with events abroad Our duty as. good citizens is to sup port the Chinese. people in their brave fight for freedom" !,
 In his reply to Mrs. Stearns, MT. Blaine said that the Alaska cam paign would have the full support Of the national committee, which in- cludes such noted figures as Wen dell Willkie, Pearl Buck. Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt, Jr., and others.
 Anniversary Date
 Your plans to extend the cam paign are particularly timely because 'cn July '. the Chinese people will begin their fifth year of resistance to the invader asserted MT. Blaine. "Ncw more than ever China needs our practical sympathy and clothing for her 50OO0,00O refugees, medicine for her 5,00O,00O sick and wounded, support for her orphaned children, help for her uprooted col leges and schools and for her new vest pocket" industry. Your gener- GUS decision to increase help to Chi ma by carrying the campaign on an Alaska-wide basis will stimulate our committees everywhere to greater efforts.''
 From a handful of committees organized at the start of the fund raising appeal last month, the Unit ed China Relief campaign has grown into nationwide movement sup ported by committees in 239 local communities, MT. Blaine said. Con- tributions to the national goal are nearing the two million mark. he said, and the volume of gifts coming into national headquarters are in- creasing daily.
 Aids Chinese Morale
 Since the start of the campaign United China Relief, through its eight participating agercies, has sent aid to China on an ever-in- creasing scale with noticeable re- suits in stiffening the Chinese mor- ale, MT. Blaine said. Material re- gently dispatched to China included the shipment of an American Brit ish-Canadian ambulance unit for service on the Burma Road, a ship ment of 100000 sulfaguinadine tab lets to co.lbat dysentery among the Chinese armies, and funds to re- habilitate stranded refugees in gain ful employment in the cooperative movement.
 The eight agencies which have united in the $5.0OO.0OO national ap- peal include: The American Bureau For Medical Aid to China, China Emergency Relief Committee, China Aid Council, American Committee for Chinese War Orphans, Church Committee for China Relief, Ameri- can Committee for Chinese Indus trial Cooperatives, Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, and the American Friends Service Com mittee.
 Members of the national commit tee of United China relief are: James G. Blaine, national chairman; Eu-