Evening star., 1947-11-05
Chest Campaign
In Alexandria
Opened byFo|ey
Treasury Official
Urges Workers to
Fill $58, 900 Quote

more than 100 Alexandria workers
at Community Chest drive Kickoff
breakfast" at the George Mason
Hotel at am. today.
Mr.. Foley told the civic leaders,
group chairmen and volunteer
workers that Alexandria would re-
ceive $121,919 for its IA Chest agen-
cies against its campaign quota OF
only $4,000. He urged them to let
these figures speak for themselves
in squirting the workers on.
Addresses by Albert A. Smoot
president Of the Alexandria Chest
and Marvin L. Wilson, local cam
paign chairman, also were heard.
Armistead A. Bootle, counselor Of
the Alexandria Chest, was master
of ceremonies.
The overall campaign goal, sought
for the 1948 operation of 125 Chest
supported agencies in Alexandria
Washington, and Arlington, Fairfax
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties is $3,900,000.
AV1uUIIOWs
The general campaign organiza-
tion will meet at 1890 pm. tomorrow
at the Mayf1oWer Hotel for its "kick-
off" Dutch treat luncheon. Repre-
Sentatives of nine soliciting groups
and presidents of the 125 agencies
will attend.
The Rev. Dr.. Peter Marshall,
chaplain of the Senate and pastor of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, will speak.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will
address a rally on the south steps of
the Treasury Building at pm. Fri
day.
Among the groups scheduled to
attend campaign meetings today is
the ordinance division of the Naval
Gun Factory, who will hear a talk
by Frank Birgfeld, recently retired
chief clerk of the Treasury. There
will be two meetings, one at l 80 and
the other about 3 pm
The Fairfax County Chest is
sponsoring a half hour musical
show to be broadcast over Radio
Station WEAM at $3.50 pm. Sunday
from Theater No. at Fort Belvoir.
All volunteer campaigners in the
county and their friends and fam
lilies are invited to attend the rally
broadcast, entitled, ''The Band Red
Feather"
Ad Club Aides Hon0red.
Members of the Advertising Club
of Washington who have devoted
their time to publicity and other
work of the campaign were honored
yesterday at a club luncheon at the
Statler Hotel squirting the drive.
Maurice Chevalier, guest speaker,
expressed hope for the success of
the drive and joined unexpectedly in
the entertainment program after
Abrasha Robofsky, soloist with the
Air Forces Band, included an i'm
personation of the French stage
star singing Louise" In his
program.
Mr.. Chevalier, urged on by his
audience, then sang Louise" "the
way I thought was singing it" and
next initiated Mr.. Robofsky's imper-
Sonation.
The members heard talk by Peter
Van Allen, 16, of the Boys Club Of
Washington, who won the Regiona
Optimists Club Junior Oratorica
Contest. He described the oppor-
tunities for friendship, musical &C.
tivities and indoor sports provided
him by the club, a Chest-supportee
agency.
Asserting he had been in Wash.
ington a year before finding ou
about the club, he declared that "nt
boy living in Washington" Shoulo
be denied the chance to take par
in its activities through failure tt
hear about it.
Mr.. Foley addressed the grouI
briefly, praising the work of tht
club in the campaign and expressing
confidence in the success of th'
drive.
Those honored at the luncheon in
cluded the following:
Publicity Committee: Matt Meyer
chairman; Les Aries, Bert Warner
Robert H. Davidson, Ed w. Donahue
Harold D. Fangboner, w. N. Free
man, Arthur Gray, E. c. Giddings
Tom Griffin, Miss Beatrice Hodgson
Louis Janof, William Janof, Henr.
j. kaufman, Frank La Falce, Har
wood Martin, H. H. McMurray ant
Marshall Trippe.
Others commended were Mrs. Jea1
Ambrose, ]. S. Bartlett, Stanley w
Bell, R. G.. Coldenstroth, Basil Fow
ler. Howard Grothe, Granville GUIDE
Frank Gatewood (president of th'
club, Ed HotZ, J. Conrad Jacobs
Frank r. Jelleff, S. H. Kaufman
Milton Kronheim, Mark Lansburgh
William j. Maben, Kirk Miller, Mis-
Helen K. Mobberley, R. C. O'Donnell
Herman M. Paris, Col. Julius ]
Peyser, John A. Reilly, James Rotto
Carleton D. Smith, Ben Strouse ant
Robert Wilson.
Fifty-seven Montgomery County
Community Chest campaign lead
ers received final instructions abou
the drive last night at a meeting
in the Rockville High School.
Speakers included Edward J
Keyes, executive director of thu
Community Chest Federation
Brooke Johns, chairman of thu
Montgomery County Commission
and Mrs. P. Landon Banf1eld o
Bethesda, county chairman.