Evening star., 1941-11-28
Chest Spurts
For 100000
By Tuesday
Leaders Confident
Remoining 200o
Will Be Brought In

hutdQN llldIl AOdA IiiS Va
the way toward their 81 100000 goal
Community Chest teams returned tt
the field today under an extended
campaign period to raise nearly
100000 between now and 1890 pm
Tuesday, the date set for the next
report meeting.
Yesterdays session, held at the
Willard Hotel, was scheduled to
have been the last, but additional
subscriptions, although they came IN
avalanche proportions as compared
with those of majority Of the pre-
vious compilation periods, brought
the total to only 8008 per cent OF
the minimum needed to carry on
the activities of the Chest.
Results for the day were the
largest of this or any previous drive,
1t was announced. amounting to
1850, ,774.48, or 1904 per cent Of the
goal. Chest officials said the total
fund to date - 81 COL 630.73 - had
been subscribed by more than l8O,-
900 individual givers and that this
also was a record for former cam
paigns at this stage of the canvass.
Leaders Confident.
With many teams already past
their goals. some of them as much
as 200 and 300 per cent, chairmen
will devote their efforts during the
intervening period between now and
Tuesday to units still tagging in
their reports. Leaders feel confident,
they said, that the goal will be
reached and blamed the sloWness Of
the current drive to misjudgment in
the length of time it would take TO
canvass the large number of pro-
spective givers.
In order to aid the last-minute
efforts, General Manager A. D. Will
lard, jr., of WJSV, announced that
the station would concentrate its
broadcastS today on the Community
Chest campaign.
Every station break announce
ment and every local program will
be used to publicize the Importance
Of the Community Chest as a civic
enterprise" Mr.. Willard said. Every
resident of Washington must be
made to realize that a successful
campaign is as important to him
as an individual as it is to those who
receive directly the benefits of Chest
funds
Staff artists of the station. includ-
ing Elinor Lee. Bob Pace, Nancy
Dixon. Prof. Rhinelander Briggs
Arch Mcdonald and Arthur God
frey. will devote the greater portion
of their scheduled programs to the
Community Chest. In addition, sew
eral special programs have been pre-
pared. Mr.. Willard reported.
Capt. F. w. Hoover, general man.
sger of the Welfare and Recrea-
tional Association of Public Build
ings and Grounds, said today that
the Board of Trustees had voted
$500 to the Chest. Employees OF the
association have made personal
pledges totaling 1896, or slOO more
than their quota, he added,
Government Percentage Scars.
The major increase in yesterdays
total came from the Federal Gov
ernment Unit, which boosted its re-
suits from 1919 to 77.30 per cent OF
its s838.O00 quota. Added were 3O.43o
pledges. representing sl46,594.60. CIV
ing a grand sum of SCAT ,6l7.4O, d.
visible into 114,153 gifts.
Ahead of it in individual per-
centage of increase, but behind IN
money represented, was the Group
Solicitation Unit, from which came
a report Of 12.428 new gifts and
S134,163O8. to raise its average by
1879 per cent. This groups results
so far amount to 40,553 pledges and
S547 7.074.6O, or 8o.69 per cent OF us
$3.50 quota.
The Metropolitan Unit, now with
"a Sc per cent of $4lO, 900 quota,
was third. Its increase yesterday
was s71529. in 11,203 pledges, and
raised it's total by 1744 per cent, to
$347,951.
A 1146 per cent increase was re-
norted by the District Government
Unit. 1t now has 9,031 givers on It's
list, subscribing to total OF 500
es717, or 1877 per cent of a s74'ooo
quota. Yesterdays additions IN
cluded 1853 givers and s9.487 80.
At the opening of yesterday
session. it was announced that the
Westmoreland team of the Mont
eomerv County division had eX-
ceeded It's goal bv 300 per cent. It's
captain, Mrs. Albert Walker, was
present to report.
Richard H. Wilmer, chairman OF
the Advance Gifts Unit, reported
that his group was within 94.45 per
cent of its goal and that it expected
to exceed its quota before the eno
of the extended campaign.
Quota Divisions.
The following Government dlVl-
sions. it was announced, have re-
ported 100 per cent or more of their
quota:
Personnel Management, A. A. A,
Agriculture Department, Miss Alice
w. Hill, chairman; Animal Indus
trv. Agriculture Department, DR.. A.
w. Miller; Commodity Exchange
Administration, Agriculture De-
partment, J. M. Mehl; Emergency,
Crop and Feed Loan, Farm Credit
Administration, S. P. Lindsay, Jr.;;
Production Credit, Farm Credit Ad-
ministration, l.. D. Wylie; Revolving
Fund. Farm Credit Administration,
r. C. Bassen: Investigation, Farm
Credit Administration, Mary E.
Momohan; Office of Director, Latin
American Agriculture, Agriculture
Department. Miss Bernice Ceconl.
Commercial and Finance, Co
ordinator of Inter American Affairs,
o. E. NJ, Dudley T. Easily; Bank
Operations, Federal Reserve System
Mortimer B. Daniels; Chief Clerk S
Office. United States Public Health
Service, Daniel Masterson; Bureau
of Accounts and Audits, Social Sc
curity Board, D. o. Throgmorton;
Regional Office w, Social Security
Board. Kenneth Hill; U. S. Marine
Corps. 1t. Col. Merritt B. Curtis;
Inspection Division, U. S. Coast
Guard, Capt. N. B. Hall; Fourth AS
sistant Postmaster General. F. j
Buckley; State Department, q