Evening star., 1943-11-02
Leaders Issue Appeal
For Million Needed
For War Fund Goal
Wi|Iett Says Capital
Must Heed List Of
Oversubscribed Drives
BULLETIN.

Community War Fund con-
tributionS climbed to within
S1,000,000 of the S4,800,OO0 goal
this afternoons when pledges
of $3,802 ,890-H per cent of
quota-were reported at the
United States Chamber of
Commerce.
Community War Fund solici-
tors faced the hardest period of
their campaign for $4,800,0OO to-
day as Coleman Jennings, cam
paign chairman, announced that
25.4 per cent of the total is still
uncollected.
This last IS per cent will show the
stuff that is in us and in the COM
munity we are serving" he said. If
the spirit is there-and l know that
it is-we will reach our goal"
The total so far is s3,681, ,76e. So
74.6 per cent of the quota. Best per-
centage among hte eight divisions
working is Advance Gifts. with 81 6
centage among the eight divisions
to begin soliciting, Fairfax County
reported only 10 per cent of its
S3l 500 quota today.
Leaders of the 1000 solicitors
working on the campaign were
scheduled to meet again this after
noon at the United States Chambe,
OF Commerce to note new gains on
the huge 200-foot chart hung across
the south wall of the Hall of Flags
Olsen and johnson. stars of the
show, Sons O. Fun" at the National
Theater, planned to appear briefly
The Metropolitan Police Band was
scheduled to play.
Willett Makes Appeal.
Washington, Capital CITY of the
world, must head the list of over
subscribed campaigns, Herbert l.
Wlllett, Jr, executive director of the
drive, commented on the tagging re-
turns here. Cleveland. a CITY COM
parable to Washington in size. he
SAID, has already oversubScribed its
larger quota of S5 100000. Donations
are still pouring in there, Mr.. Willett
added.
Many other cities also have made
their quotas, he said, and drives were
also oversubscribed in Canada.
Amounts collected by the various
Washington drive divisions are as
follows: Advance Gifts, S45O,515-
81 per cent of quota, Business and
Finance, Sl,059.51423-78 per cent.
Government, s1,877,527.21-78 pei
cent; Metropolitan, .9O9-46 6
per cent; Arlington. S6,653-137 per
cent; Fairfax, s3,230-1O per cent;
Montgomery County, s34042-39 De,
cent, and Prince Georges, $1O,576-
80 per cent.
Mr.. Willett said a number OF
workers here have personal reasons
for their anxiety to see the drive
succeed. He cited as an example
Mrs. r. Wallace McClenahan. a vice
chairman of the Metropolitan Di.
vision, whose husband, a colonel ir
the Army Air Forces, has been over
seas for 18 months.
Story Of Soldier in Pacific.
Besides her interest in the welfare
OF her husband and his men, Mrs
McClenahan told fund officials, she
has been deeply moved by the story
OF soldier who wanted Washington
to make its last years fund quota
"Kentuck, as his friends called him
had lived here most of his life and
was bitterly disappointed when he
read between battles in the South
PACIFIC that last years drive here
had failed.
when I told his friends that
'Kentuck' would read of a successful
campaign this year." Mrs. McClena-
han concluded, they told me he was
dead-killed in action two months
ago. I always feel am soliciting fol
him as well as for my husband and
his men"