Evening star., 1942-11-29
Mrs. Roosevelt Listed
As Speaker at Final
War Fund Luncheon
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Workers Will Complete
Subscription Reports
At Dec. 8 Meeting

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
address Community War Fund
campaign volunteer workers at their
closing luncheon meeting, sched-
uled for Tuesday, December 8, at
the Willard Hotel, campaign head
quarters announced yesterday.
Workers, meanwhile, are labor
Ing overtime to put the War Fund
over the top before the final meet
ing. Pledges now number 322 949
for s3,723,o98. This is 1891 per cent
of the goal Of s4,14l,000.
Pledges brought in during the
last four days by volunteers
amounted to $35,813, it was an
r1ounced.
In a plea for additional gifts and
increases in gifts already made to
meet all wartime home front de-
mands, Edwin c. Graham. chair
man of the War Fund board of
directors, urged that people in the
able to give" brackets throw away
their "old measuring sticks for gen
erosity."
Troops Don't Limit Sacrifices.
"Our boys fighting on the war
fronts Of the world are not saying to
themselves This is all I can afford.
will give just this amount and no
more" he declared. Surely, we
who are accepting from them the
greatest OF all sacrifices will not
hesitate to give our dollars to the
point Of sacrifice in support of home
front and war front needs which
the emergency has brought to US"
Off1cials again pointed out that
anything less than the goal will
mean a reduction in vital services to
soldiers, refugees and other recip-
tents OF relief through the foreign
relief agencies and to prisoners of
war as well as to those who are
helped by the Community Chest
agencies.
Through the Government unit,
new pledges since last Tuesday noon
have brought the response from
Federal employees to a total Of 231,-
190 gifts for 1928 1853. or e3.14 per
cent OF the s2,065,o00 War Fund
Quota.
315 Offices Exceed Quotas.
-ASotal of 315 of the ITO Govern
inent bureaus. Offices and depart
nents included as separate divisions
ID the Government unit have ex-
ceeded their quotas, according to
Assistant Secretary Of the Interior
Oscar L. Chapman, chairman of the
Government unit.
From business firms and their
employees giving through the Group
Solicitation Unit the returns
through yesterday noon were total
pledges of 63,665 for s1,043,595. or
Sl21 per cent of the unit quota of
1925 900.
A continued response from busi-
ness organizations sufficient to make
up the quota still lacking is hoped
for through renewed appeals spon-
sored by campaign leaders, as we'll
as by special committees and teams
organized by the Washington Board
Of Trade, the Junior Board of Com
merce, the American Legion and
the War Fund board of directors.
The theater division of the Group
Unit late yesterday reported that
executives and employees of all mo-
ton picture theaters Aim exchanges
and legitimate theaters have
pledged a total of s14615.2o, ex-
ceeding their quota. Co-chairmen
who led the drive to successful
conclusion in the theater division
are John J. Payette of Warner
Bros, Carter T. Barron of Loew's
Inc, and Sidney Lust.
Metropolitan Unit Leads.
Still leading in unit quota per-
eentage, the Metropolitan Unit re-
ports total of 28,094 pledges for
s756,14l, according to Leo D. Butler
chairman. The Metropolitan Unit
has reached $3.50 per cent of its
s79l 900 quota and expects to record
100 per cent at the closing meeting
Honor posters have been given
to the following divisions of the
Government unit which have ex-
ceeded their quotas:
Research Division, Civil Service
Commission, 1l25 per cent: Patent
Of1ce, Commerce Department. 1O0.1:
Export-1mport Bank of Washing
ton, SO; Office of General Coun-
sci, Federal Security Agency, 10O94:
Freedmens Hospital, Federal Sc
curity Agency. 10577; Venereal Dis
eases, Once of the Surgeon Cen
eral, Federal Security Agency. 100:
Once Of the Fiscal Manager, Public
Buildings Administration. 100.71:
Once Of the Commissioner, Public
Roads Administration, over 100 per
cent; Claims Division, General Ac-
counting Office. 1o3.Ol: Platemaking
Day, Government Printing Office,
1o630.
Office Of the Attorney General.
1922 Once of the Administrator,
National Housing Agency, 1O2.14:
Auditing Division. Reconstruction
Finance Corp. 10777: Third Di-
vision Railway Mail Service, 101. 50:
ONCE of the Secretary, Department
Of the Treasury, 1924: Office Chief
OF Ordnance. War Department.
1883: Washington Quartermaster
Depot. War Department. 10507;
Army Exchange Service, War De-
partment, 105l0: Accounting Di-
vision, Veterans Administration
over 1907; Office of Director of
Finance, Control and Adjusted
Compensation Accounts Division
Veterans Administration over 1907
once Of Censorship. l0275; ONCE
OF the Director, Office of Censor
ship, 107l4; Nursing Division,
Health Department. 102S7; Pre-
ventable Diseases Division, Health
Department. 1925: Division Of
Laboratories. Health Department,
l10.26; Women's Bureau. Metropoli-
tan Police Department. l02 38; Fifth
Precinct, Metropolitan Police De-
partment, 10ll8; Ninth Precinct,
Metropolitan Police Department,
10603: Public Library, 1855: Ex-
ecutive Ofiices. 1912; Assessors
Once 100 as. Office of the Coroner