Evening star., 1945-08-12
S4,970,000 Campaign
For War Fund 10 Open
On September Il


paign to raise s4,s7ooOO for the
support of local welfare and war
relief agencies and the National
War Fund in 1916 will begin Sep
tember % 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 a 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, $50, 900; Government, Maj. Gen
U. S. Grant III, $2,365 900; Resi-
dental, Mrs. r. Wallace McClena.
han, $641 900; Alexandria, c. J. Hite
$4,000; Arlington County, Stepher
M. Smith, $4,000; Fairfax County
Col. Waldron E. Leonard, $4,000;
Montgomery County, Walter P. Ell
licott, $4,000, and Prince Georges
County, Perry Wilkinson, S45,00O.
A quota for the United Nations
Unit, headed by Robert j. Boyd, ha:
not yet been assigned, while all So
hcitations 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 ano
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, ano
the Advance Gifts Unit will set UP
headquarters in the Fairfax room
of the Willard Hotel September 10
Alexandria opened headquarters
at 112 South Washington street two
weeks ago; Arlington will have
headquarters at the Arlington Com
munity Chest Building, 3159 Visor
boulevard, and Fairfax will operats
from 156 Hillwood avenue, Fall
Church.
The Montgomery County Unit
will open Offices in Rockville, Be-
thesda and Silver Spring by Sep
tember l, and Prince Georges Coun-
ty plans to open an Office by the
first of next month.
More than 160 organizations tt
receive support from the drive in.
clude the Washington Community
Chest and its so agencies and serv.
ices, which include Prince George.
County; the Alexandria Community
Chest with its IL agencies; Airing.
toms 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;
local welfare agencies not connect.
ed with ommunity Chest; 33 loca
war services, such as Bundles TO
America, service centers, canteen
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, Wa
Prisoners Aid of the Internationa
YMCA, American Field Service
United States Committee for tn
Care of European Children, Belgian
War Relief Society, United Chin,
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 an,
Greek War Relief Association.