Evening star., 1947-10-15
Clergy 70 Meet
Monday IONA
Chest Support
Ministers, Priests
And Robbis to Hear
Service Suggestions

VIC 9o,Sou,UuU community Chest
Federation campaign, the Committee
on Religious Life in the Nations
Capital has invited more than 6OC
OF their number TO luncheon meet
ing Monday.
Ministers, priests and rabbis are
asked to convene at 1890 pm. in
Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K
streets NV, under sponsorship OF
the committee.
The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, pastor
OF st. Johns Episcopal Church
Lafayette Square, who is chairman
OF the committee, will preside
Clergymen attending will be offered
suggestions as to how they may
develop special services appropriate
to Red Feather Sunday, November 2.
Solicitation Opens November 6.
General solicitation in the drive
opens November 6. The funds are
needed to support welfare, health
and recreation services through 1876
Chest-supported agencies in WASH
1ngton, Alexandria, and Arlington
Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties.
About 100 members of the Spe-
clal Gifts Unit today were to open
the first actual solicitation of the
drive.
The unit, which has no an
nounced financial goal, contacts
specially selected givers who usually
donate above average amounts" to
the campaign each year. The unit
reports its funds through other
units, according to where the COL
lection is obtained.
Edward Foley Speaks.
The unit officially got underway
at a buffet supper last night at the
Hotel 2400 Campaign Chairman
Edward H. Foley, jr., Assistant Sec
retasy of the Treasury, told the
volunteer workers the drive must
exceed its goal.
Other speakers at the meeting in
cluded Paul E. Shorb, Washington
attorney; E. Cortlandt Parker, unit
chairman, and Edward J. Keyes,
executive director of the fedora
ton.
Gen. Eddy Will Talk.
Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, chief
OF information for the Army De-
partment and chairman for the
Army's participation in the cam
paign, will address his division chair
men. on Tuesday, it was announced
today.
Gen. Eddy will set the goal for
officers and civil service employees
in the Pentagon and other installa-
tions in the area and urged that
every effort be made to reach the
Army's quota. Solicitation of funds
will begin Wednesday.
II am sure that every service en-
ploye in the Department of the
Army stationed in Washington, as
well as military personnel, will want
to do his or her fair share in the
campaign for funds for this WORTH
while humanitarian organization,
Gen. EDDY said
Names Vice Chairman.
Gen. Eddy announced appoint
ment of two vice chairmen Col.
Kilbbourne Johnston, executive to
the Chief of Army Information, and
James c. Cook, deputy administra-
tive assistant, Office of the Secretary
of the Army.
Division chairmen appointed by
Gen. Eddy are: Office of the Army
Chief of Staff, Miss Mary C. Bell;
Ordnance, John C. Hanley; Army
Ground Forces, 1t. Col. E. E. Gra-
ham; Chemical Corps, Guy B. Tip
pens; Judge Advocate Generals De-
partment, Maj. Marion E. Smoak;
Provost Marshall General, 1t. Col.
E. H. Farr; Military District of
Washington, 1t. Col. William F.
Nee; Special Services Division, Maj.
Ted r. Douthitt; Transportation
Corps, Murray E. Morse; Adjutant
Generals Department, Col. Sidney
F. Mashbir.
Also Corps of Chaplains, A. j.
Olson; Quartermaster, 1t. Col. Her.
bert A. Hall; Panama Canal, Walter
G. Williams; Signal Corps, James
E. Purcell; Office of the Secretary of
the Army, Howard Heath; Finance
Department, 1t. Col. D. j. Almy;
Corps of Engineers, George H.
Myers, jr., and Surgeon Generals
Office, Mrs. Lee Ella Harp.
Heads at Installations.
Within the military district of
Washington, the following persons
will head the campaign in their
respective installations: Army War
College, First 1t. Walter r. Blanton;
Army Medical Center, Guy w. Ben
nett; north post of Fort Myer, Va,
First 1t. Michael ]. Sabrinsky, and
south post, Capt. Norman E. Good
win. Fort Belvoir, Va, will partici-
pate in the campaign as part of
Fairfax County.
Meanwhile, it was announced at
federation headquarters that Ed
ward L. Ryerson, president of Com
munlty Chests & Councils, Inc,
national organizations of all Chests
and Councils OF Social Agencies, will
be guest speaker at the campaign
rally Monday night.
All Red Feather Agency Board
members, staff members and leaders
in the campaign have been asked
to meet at 8 pm. at the Statler
Hotel for the first such gathering
ever held.
Mr.. Ryerson, who is president of
Inland Steel Corp, Chicago, has
been prominent in welfare work in
Chicago for Is years. He has been
chairman of the Illinois Public Aid
Commission since 1941 and, for four
years, served as president of the
Chicago Community Fund.
Miss Hoey to Speak.
Special guest speakers for the
rally will include Miss Jane Hoey,
director of the Bureau of Public
Assistance of the Social Security
Administration; Mrs. Adolph Station,
president of the Girl Scout Council
of Washington and Montgomery
County, and William r. Castle, presi-
dent of the Hospital Council of the
National Capital Area.
Daniel w. Bell, president of the
Chest Federation, and Edward j.
Keyes, the federation's executive
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