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Chest Federation's Speakers Bu-
reau have addressed about ITS
meetings in recent weeks on the
services provided by Red Feather
agencies of six Community Chests
In the Washington area, it was re-
ported yesterday.
Campaign leaders said more than
200 engagements are booked for the
near future and requests are
pouring in" daily.
Under the direction of the Rev.
Dr.. Charles w. Sheerin, chairman
of the bureau, the speakers are ap-
pearing at meetings of citizens as
sociations, clubs, professional fra
ternitieS, Parent Teacher Associa-
tons, American Legion posts and
Sunday School classes.
300 Volunteers Speak.
More than 300 men and women,
especially trained to serve as speak
ers for the federation, are helping
in the campaign to oversubscribe
the goal of $3,90O,000, DR.. Sheerin
reports.
Supplementing the campaign
talks is the showing of the CAM
paign film, THE Red Feather" with
Melvyn Douglas and Peggy Cum
Minis. describing the services sup
ported by the drive.
Following is a partial list OF en-
gagements to be filled during the
coming week by volunteer Chest
Federation speakers:
Today.
2 pm. Navy Bureau of Aero
nautics, Room S, Navy Building,
Nineteenth street and Constitution
avenue NV.
2 pm. and 3 pm, two groups of
employees of the Army Institute of
Pathology, Seventh street at Inde-
pendence avenue SW.
8 pm, Bank Women's Club Of
Washington, MaXine's Restaurant,
1871 Connecticut avenue NV.
8 pm, Grace Lutheran Church,
1900 Sixteenth street NV.
8pm, Jewish Community Center,
1929 Sixteenth street NV.
8p.m., Georgetown Citizens Asso-
citation. at st. Johns Parish Hall,
Potomac street at o street NV.
$50 pm, Mid-City Citizens Asso-
ciation, Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets NV.
BIS pm, joint meeting of Wom-
ems Clubs of Barney Neighborhood
House at the house, 470 N street Sc.
8 pm, District of Columbia So
ciety of Natives, at Mayfower Hotel.
$50 pm, Parent Teacher Associa-
ton of Syphax School, at the school,
Half street, between N and o streets
SW.
9p.m., Daughters of America, Odd
Fellows Hall, Seventh street, between
D and E. streets NV.
Tomorrow.
9 am, employees of G. M. P.
Murphy Co., 1928 Fourteenth street
NV. ~
1890 pm, Association Of Retail
Credit Men of Washington, Chicken
Hut, Eleventh street. between Penn
sylvania avenue and E street NV.
l:3O pm, Associates of National
Home for Jewish Children, Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
@ streets NV.
$50 pm, Hampshire Heights Cit
liens Association, Barnard School,
420 Decatur street NV.
$50 pm, Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciation of Lovejoy School, at the
school at Twelfth and D streets NE.
$50 pm, the District Osteopath
Association, at KennesaW Apart
ments, Sixteenth and Irving streets
NV.
$50 pm, Jewish Community
Council, at Jewish Community Cen
ter, 1929 Sixteenth street NV.
9 pm, Washington Metropolitan
Council of Negro Women, 1918 Ver-
mont avenue NV.
$50 pm, Jewish Consumptive Re-
lief Society, at Hamilton Hotel.
Wednesday.
1:l0 pm, Yale Club of Washing
ton. Willard Hotel.
2:15 pm, B'nai Birth Auxiliary
Jewish Community Center, 1928
Sixteenth street NV.
Thursday.
2:1O pm, Department of Agricul-
ture campaigners, in the cafeteria
Room 6512, Fourteenth and In
dependence avenue S.W.
8 pm. Parent Teacher Associa-
ton, Phyllis Wormley School, at the
school, Twenty-seventh and N
streets NV.
8 pm, Parent Teacher Associa-
ton Of Payne School, at the school
Fifteenth and c streets Sc.
SIS pm, Northeast Business
mems Association, American Secur-
ity e. Trust Co., Eighth and H
streets NE.
$50 pm, Parent Teacher Asso-
citation Of Sumner -Magruder School
!, the school, at Seventeenth and M
streets NV
!. 9 pm. Arts Club of Washington
2017 I street NV.
= 9p.m.. Ladies Auxiliary of District
of Columbia Hebrew Beneficial Asso-
citation, 4810 Georgia avenue NV.
Friday.
10:45 am. students and faculty OF