Evening star., 1945-08-12
War Fund Drive
For S4,970,O00
Opens Sept. u
Quote Is Increased
$120, 900 to Include
Alexundriu's Share

paign to raise $4,97O,000 for the
support of local welfare and war
relief agencies and the National
War Fund in 1916 will begin Sep
tember 20 and continue to October
%, it was announced yesterday.
An increase of $4,000 over the
campaign goal last year is due
largely to participation for the first
time by the Alexandria Community
Chest, which has been assigned a
quota of $4,000. The remaining
$4,000 increase will take care of
heavier expenses of number of the
participating agencies.
A total of 10000 volunteer workers
is being enlisted for the drive, which
will be divided into 10 campaign
units under the general chairman
ship of Lee D. Butler. September
Is is the deadline for enlisting VOL
unteers. Unit instruction meetings
are scheduled for the two weeks
before the drive opens.
Unit Quotas Listed.
Individual unit quotas which al
ready have been established, with
the unit chairmen. are as follows:
Business, Clarence G. Sheffield,
81 ,536 900; Government, Mai. Gen
U. S. Grant III, 1855, 900; Resi-
dental, Mrs. r. Wallace McClena-
han. $641 900; Alexandria, C. ]. Hite,
$50 900; Arlington County, Stephen
M. Smith. $4,000; Fairfax County
Col. Waldron E. Leonard, $4,000;
Montgomery County, Walter P. FL
licott, $4,000, and Prince Georges
County, Perry Wilkinson, $45,000.
A quota for the United Nations
Unit, headed by Robert ]. Boyd. has
not yet been assigned, while all So
licitations by the Advance Gifts
Unit, headed by Ralph A. Van Ors-
del, will be credited to the quotas of
the other units.
The Business, Residential and
United Nations Units will operate
from Community War Fund head
quarters, 1101 M street NV.
Government Quarters Set Up.
The Government Unit already has
headquarters in Room G-143 of the
Federal Works Agency Building,
Eighteenth and E streets NV, and
the Advance Gifts Unit will set up
headquarters in the Fairfax room
Of the Willard Hotel September 10.
Alexandria opened headquarters
at 1l2 South Washington street two
weeks ago; Arlington will have
headquarters at the Arlington Com
munity Chest Building, 3159 wilson
boulevard, and Fairfax will operate
from 156 Hillwood avenue, Falls
Church.
The Montgomery County Unit
will open offices in Rockville, Be-
thesda and Silver Spring by Sep
tember /. and Prince Georges Coun-
ty plans to open an Office by the
first of next month.
More than 100 organizations to
receive support from the drive in
clude the Washington Community
Chest and its so agencies and serv-
ices, which include Prince Georges
County; the Alexandria Community
Chest with its IL agencies; Airing
tons Community Chest and it's II
agencies; the Montgomery County
Community Chest and its 13 agen-
cies; the Fairfax County Commun-
ity Chest and its 81 services: 5
local welfare agencies not connect
ed with ommunity Chest; 80 local
war services, such as Bundles for
America, service centers, canteens
and the War Hospitality Commit
tee, and the 10 agencies of the Ma
tional War Fund.
The National War Fund organiza-
tions include the USO, the USO-
Camp Shows, United Seamen's Serv-
ice, Refugee Relief Trustees, War
Prisoners Aid of the International
YMCA, American Field Service,
United States Committee for the
Care of European Children, Belgian
War Relief Society, United China
Relief, American Relief for Czecho-
slovakia, American Relief for Hol-
land, American Relief for Italy.
Unitd Lithuanian Relief Fund,
Friends of Luxembourg, American
Relief for Norway, Polish War Re-
lief, United Yugoslav Relief Fund,
American Relief for France and
Greek War Relief Association.