Evening star., 1944-02-29
Red Cross Schedules
Two Rallies Today;
Drive Opens Tomorrow
SpeciuI Gifts Unit
To Report and FoIeer
Will Address Employees

Will Address Employees
Two rallies were scheduled today
on the eve OF the opening Of the
District Red Cross War Fund cam
paign to raise $2,665, 900. ..-
Further progress in the "big
drive waged by Chairman
Wilmer ]. Waller's Special Gifts
Unit was expected to be reported
at . box luncheon meeting at the
United States Chamber Of Com
nerce.
At 4 pm, in Continental Memorial
Hall, 1000 employees Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross national headquar-
ters were to be addressed by John
Clifford Folger, chairman of the
District Red Cross Chapter. Their
subscriptions to the 500, 900 900 ma
tional Red Cross goal are to be
credited to the District area CAM
paign.
AS another feature Of the meet
ing, the Silver Star was to be pre-
sented by the War Department to
James p. Shaw, Red Cross field
director, for gallantry in action. Mr..
Shaw, who rescued American SOL
diers from the sea after their land
ing craft received a direct hit in
the Sicilian invasion, will be the first
Red Cross worker to re-
ceive the decoration. The award was
to be made by Maj. Gen. John T.
Lewis, commander of the military
district Of Washington.
Rally Set for Tomorrow.
The first general rally Of key
workers in the District, Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties ir
Maryland, and Arlington and Fair.
fax Counties In Virginia, is to b,
held at noon tomorrow in Inter.
departmental Auditorium. Plea.
for Red Cross support will be mad.
by Secretary of the Navy Knox
1t. Gen. Brehon Somerven, CHIEF
of Army Service Forces, and 1t
Gen. Alexander A. Vandegfift, ma.
rine commandant. General Cam.
paign Chairman Lloyd B. Wilson
will preside.
Commenting on the national drive
opening tomorrow in more than
10000 communities, Chairman Nor.
man Davis Of the American Rec
Cross said today:
Ninety per cent of the 5000 ,0OO,.
600 will be spent on the ever.
expanding Red Cross service tt
American soldiers and sailors II
distant theaters of war, and thei,
families In the United States. Ap.
proximately $50, 900 900 will remain
In Red Gross chapters throughout
the country for direct aid, to serv.
icemen, their. dependents in dis.
tress and home-front emergencie.
and services such as disasters.
I'VE will be expected to assum.
an increasing burden necessitatet
by the return Of wounded and dis.
abled servicemen to civilian life
We have agreed to provide tenn.
porary financial aid to servicemer
discharged with disabilities, wher
that aid is needed, during the
period pending settlement of claims
for Government benefits.
Mere Blood Needed.
I'm the coming year we must in.
crease the supply of blood TO,
plaSma so necessary in saving the
lives OF wounded men. We also
must meet the demands of the
military for surgical dressings and
expand our war nurse recruitment
program. AS the war continues
greater and greater numbers OF
prisoner-of-war food parcels must
be packed and shipped by the Red
Cross for those Americans who are
taken prisoner by the enemy.
These are but a few Of the urgent
demands on the American Red
Cross. Its responsibilities are the
responsibilities Of all the people,"
A contribution of 5000 to the
Red Cross from the National B'nai
Birth war service fund was an
nounced yesterday by Henry Monsky
president OF B'nai Birth. The gift
he said, Is exclusive of what the
more than 1000 lodges and women's
auxiliaries throughout the country
will contribute through local Red
Cross chapters.
During the 1912 and 1943 cam.
paigns, he said, B,nai Birth ma.
tionally and locally contributed
So, 900 to the Red Cross, in addition
to providing 50 pieces of mobile
equipment such as canteens, blood
donor wagons, station wagons anc
'amhulances.
District area motion picture mer
yesterday were told that movi,
houses must raise $4,000, 900 from
audiences during the March drive
Addressing the meeting were
James T.. Nicholson, national vice
president Of the Red Cross; Joseph
Bernhard, national chairman Of the
Motion Picture Division of the Red
Cross; Mr.. Shaw, Sam Dembow anc
A. w. Smith, jr., Of the War Activi.
ties Committee Of the Motion Pic.
ture Industry. A. Julian Brylawsk
presided. Also attending were Johr
j. Payette and Carter T. Barron
local co-chairmen.
Senators Mark Birthdays
Both Of Nebraska's Republican
Senators, Hugh Butler and Kenneth