Evening star., 1944-03-22
Red Cross Drive
.AtCruciaI Point,
Workers. Told
Lost Lop Is Hardest,
Choirmen Are Warned
At Hallway Mark

The District Red Cross campaign
has passed the halfway mark, but
the last half is the hardest half"
Samuel H. Kaufman, chairman
of the general business division, yes
terday told campaign workers.
He warned committee chairmen
that they must exert every effort
If the drive is to exceed the $3,000,-
600 goal set by Campaign Chairman
Lloyd B. Wilson.
Yesterdays reports from the Gov
ernment and general business di-
visions of an additional s140,883
boosted the collection to date TO
81 ,374,758, or 51.59 per cent of the
50, ,665 900 quota. representing 49,
1893 donors. There will be no further
committee reports until tomorrow,
when the residential, city and Mary
land and Virginia area divisions
meet.
Business Unit Reports.
Reporting for the general busi-
ness division, Mr.. Kaufman said
his unit had collected an additional
$32, ,756 to bring the total to $470,-
155, or 72.06 per cent of the quota.
Ernest G. Draper. chairman of
the Government division, reported
$108,127 from 24,636 contributors,
bringing the subscription to $780,
1853, or 46.11 per cent of the goal.
This division, in addition to the
regularly scheduled meetings for
Friday and for Monday and Fri
day Of next week, will hold a spe-
|cial meeting Wednesday at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Defeating their contribution to
the memory Of former employe,
Sergt. Alexis Rohan, gunner on
Flying Fortress who was killed In
faction during a flight over Naples
in May, the Administrative Once of
Courts reported $51s43, or l26 per
cent of its quota,
Other Branches Report.
Other branches of the Govern
ment division reporting 100 per cent
subscriptions or more at yesterdays
meeting were American Battle Mon
|uments, 500 per cent; Board of Di-
rectors of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp, 281 per cent; Dis
trict Division Weights and Meas
ures, 222 per cent, and Office Of
the Commander in Chief of the
Fleet, 1873 per cent.
ONCE of the Secretary of Com
merce, 181 per cent; Soldiers Home,
143 per cent; District Fire Truck
No. 2, 102 per cent; Department
Stores, 103 per cent; National Art
Gallery, l01 per cent; Territorial
Division Of the Interior Depart
ment, 100 per cent, and the Dis
trict Surveyors Once, 100 per cent.
At the same time Leon Fraser,
Red Cross national campaign chair
imam, announced that the $200, 900, :
600 national goal had passed the
halfway mark. He said that on the
basis of incomplete returns from
$3.50 of the 3,755 Red Cross chap
ters sos, 745 ,538 has been pledged,
with 474 chapters reaching or ex-
ceeding their quotas.
One individual contribution re-
ported yesterday came from Mrs.
Edward j. Mccormack, 2545 Water
side drive NE. whose son, 1t. Miles
Mccormack, celebrated his birthday
yesterday in German prison camp.
The donation was accompanied by
a letter in which Mrs. Mccormack
wrote, 1--WE kneel in humility and
gratitude for the Red Cross"
Letter From War Captive.
A letter from another Washing
tonian who is a German prisoner of
war, Pvt. William H. Schultze, to his
sister, Mrs. Marion o. Jacobs, 3906
Oliver street, Hyattsville, Md, was
also read.
II have a lot to be thankful for"
wrote Pvt. Schultze, "as I have just
received gift from the Red Cross.
Every week We get food package.
but this week in addition to that
we received complete American
uniform, an American Army blanket
and a complete toilet article set.
These things are what the boys have
needed for long time and there
sure are lot of smiling faces
around camp today"
Undersecretary of Navy Forrestal
and 1t. Comdr. John D. Bulkeley,
Bataan hero and torpedo boat COM
mander, were guest speakers. Comdr.
Bulkeley praised the work of the
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