Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
Red Cross War Fund
Quota for D. T.. Set
AT S1,557,OOO
Annual Meeting Held;
Volunteer Workers Gave
2,500, 900 Hours in 1912

District Red Cross workers gave
more than 100000 volunteer hours
during 1912, worth nearly 81 900, 900
when figured at the unskilled labor
rate of 40 cents an hour, it was re-
ported yesterday at the annual
meeting of the District chapter,
American Red Cross.
Actually the pay in private indus
try for services such as driving
ambulsnces, tipping, transcribing
Braille, sewing, knitting and making
surgical dressings would be more
than $1,000, 900, Chairman j. Clifford
Folger said.
It was announced that the Dis
tries quota of the $125 900 600 Amer
lean Red Gross war fund campaign in
March will be $1.557,000. Brig. Gen.
F. r. Keefer, chairman emeritus of
the District chapter, said this
largest volunteer sum ever asked
from the American people" is needed
to insure the continuance and ex-
pansion of our work"
1868 Blood Donations.
High lights of reports submitted
yesterday were:
The chapter spent approximately
1858 $50 donated by 1911 ,225 members
during 1912, 1900 men leaving for
Army-Navy service were given Red
Cross information, more than 1000
foreign and war inquiries were taken
care of, 1868 blood donations were
received, nearly 100000 surgical
dressings were made, including l.
056, 146 for the armed services:
58,272 garments were knitted, BOT
staff assistants added to the staff
assistants corps, 284,004 meals
served by the canteen corps, IS day
rooms and seven hospital sun rooms
provided. $4,000 first-aid certificates
issued and 1890 books, 40 pianos, 80
musical instruments and records
galore distributed among camps and
hospitals.
In home nursing more than $500
persons qualified for certificates.
During the year, $50 enrolled as Red
Cross nurses and l4l left for service
with the Army and Navy.
Despite this record exceeding any
ever achieved by the District chap
ter, speakers emphasized that ex-
pansion would be the 1943 KEYNOTE.
Committee chairmen making re-
ports were Miss Mabel Boardman,
Mrs. Brown Harbold, Mrs. James r.
Nicholson, Mrs. j. H. Fishback, Mrs.
l.. F. Schmeckebier, Mrs. c. B. Mick
elwait, Mrs. Frank STRAIT, Mrs. Hugh
w. Rowan. Mrs. John E. Eweu and
Mrs. David Finley.
Food Sent to Prisoners.
Acting as a medium for relatives
and friends, the chapter arranged
for more than 4, TOO food packages
to be sent TO American and Allied
prisoners of war.
The high light of the meeting was
an "off-the-record" address by Vice
Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, in
which he recounted the value of
plasma and sulfa drugs to men under
his command when he was serving
as commander of American naval
forces in the South Pacific.
An executive board of 100 mem
bers was elected as follows:
Brig. Gen. James r. Alfonte, Bruce
Baird, DR.. Frank w. Ballou, Mrs.
Daniel w. Bell, William B. Bennett,
Miss Lillian Margaret Bischoff,
Robert Woods Bliss, Miss Boardman,
John F. Brougher, Mrs. Charles B.
B. Bulb, Richard A. Burton, Lee D.
Butler, Morris Cafritz, William r.
Castle
Also Miss Alice J. Clapp, Mrs Will
liam Clayton, Mrs. John B. Cleland,
jr.: Philip o. Coffin, John B. Col
poys. Rear Admiral Charles Conard,
Oscar Coolican, Walter Davidson,
Mrs. Charles S. Dewey. Victor B.
Deyber, Charles H. Doing, Ernest G.
Draper.
Also C. B. Dulcan, Mrs. Ewell.
John H. Fahey, Mrs. Finlay, Miss
Janet Fish, Mrs. Fishback, Patrick
Fitzgibbons, J. Spalding Flannery,
John Clifford Folger, David st. P.
Galliard, George A. Garrett, Mrs.
Peter G. Gerry, Mrs. C. C. Glover,
Jr.:: Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Sd.
Also Ambassador Joseph c. Grew,
Mrs. Harbold, Earl D. Harrell. John
Hasley, Arthur HELEN, Mrs. Charles
Henderson, Mrs Robert C. Hibban.
Joseph H. Hines. Mrs. James L.
Houghteling, Miss Elizabeth Hough-
ton, Mrs. Reginald S. Huidekoper.
Col. Philip w. Huntington, Nelson
Dean jay, Mrs. Jesse Jones, Samuel
H. Kaufman, Preston D. Kava-
nagh, Richmond B. Keech.
Also Gen. Keefer, Mack l.. Lang
ford, Mrs. Albert F Lingle, DR..
George E. Mccain, Mrs. George C.
Marshall, E. D. Merrill. Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mrs. Mickelwait, Mrs. Milton
z. Miles, Neville Miller, William
Montgomery. Edgar Morris, Philip
Murray, Earl A. Nash, Alfred G.
Neal, Mrs. Nicholson. John O'Rourke,
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, DR.. Fred
erick E. Reissig, Donald Richberg,
Charles A. Robinson, Mrs. Nelson
Rockefeller. Mrs. Rowan, H. L. Rust,
1t. Col. John Saul. DIR. Roy Lyman
Sexton, c. Melvin Sharpe, G. How
land Shaw. Paul E.. Shorb Frederick
p. H. Siddons, Marcy L. Sperry
Also Mrs Harlan Fiske Stone, Mrs.
Corrin Strong. John l.. Sullivan,
Sidney Taliaferro, Wayne Chatfield
Taylor, Charles Tompkins. Mrs.
Sherman Trowbridge Mrs. William
A. Walters. Hugh Wilson, Lloyd B.
Wilson, Mrs. Robert w Wilson, Miss
Grace w. Wright, Mrs Philip Young