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Dr. Walsh Organizing
Local Committee on
Finnish Relief
Act? on Request of
Hoover to Supplement
Red Cross Work
At the request of former President
Herbert Hoover, who is mobilizing
the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., on
a Nation-wide basis. Dr. Edmund
A. Walsh, vice president of George
town University, has begun organ
izing a local volunteer committee
to take charge of the Washington
campaign for the rehabilitation of
war-stricken civilians in Finland.
As a former member of the Amer
ican Relief Mission to Russia dur
ing the great famine of 1922, Dr.
Walsh was invited to New York
recently to consult with Mr. Hoover,
who is bringing into the new organ
ization former colleagues who dis
pensed American relief in Belgium
and Russia during and after the
World War. Dr. Walsh returned
here yesterday, after accepting
service to head the Washington
activities in the campaign.
Bishop Freeman to serve.
He announced that the Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash
ington, has consented to serve on
the local committee. Robert V.
Fleming, president of Riggs National
Bank and former president of the
American Bankers' Association, is
serving as treasurer. Other mem
bers of the committee will be an
nounced soon. Dr. Walsh said, and
in the meantime arrangements are
being made to secure the offer of
an office headquarters in a down
town building.
"By the volunteer service of all
who are to serve on the committee,”
Dr. W'alsh explained, “one dollar of
every dollar that is contributed will
go forward to the embattled civilian
population of Finland.” Dr. Walsh
stressed that Finnish Relief Fund
is intended solely to supplement the
humanitarian work and relief being
done in that country through the
American Red Crosss.
SIOO.OOO Already Cabled.
In announcing the beginning of
organization here. Dr. Walsh made
the following statement: “The old
members of the first great relief
movement in support of Belgium
and of the civilian population of
famine-stricken Russia are respond
ing these days with their tradi
tional generosity to meet a new
emergency. Already $100,000 has
been cabled to the Prime Minister
of Finland and additional sums will
go forward probably in increasing
volume as this movement becomes
Nation-wide.
It is indeed gratifying to see
the old faces again and realize
that among them are Democrats,
Republicans and residents of the
District of Columbia.
“This is an historic moment for
the destiny of Europe and the
urgent need and cruel suffering of
innocent civilians in Finland are
bringing together men of all
6hades of political and other be
liefs. As the American Red Cross
is primarily organized to furnish
quick emergency relief in the form
of medicine, bandages, hospital
supplies and a limited category of
general relief, the Finnish Relief
Fund, so quickly mobilized by the
ex-President, will undertake to
supply the other basic needs of
civilians suffering from the inva
sion and forced to depart from
the war zone.
Critical Moment of History.
"As in Belgium during the first
World War, these supplies will
serve a work of subsistence and re
habilitation which the Red Cross
by its very nature cannot under
take. Thus it is hoped that one
will supplement the other in one
of the most critical moments of
European and possibly of world
history.”
The Georgetown priest went to
Russia in 1922 soon after he had
founded the Foreign Service School
at Georgetown. He was appointed
as a Catholic representative on the
American Relief Mission which fed
several million Russian civilians for
a long period. While serving there
he was made director of the Papal
Relief Mission. From 1926 to 1931
Dr. Walsh also directed the Catho
lic Near East Relief Association.
Robert A. Erwin Heads
American Press Society
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 21.—Robert A.
Erwin. Washington Evening Star
reporter, has been elected president
for 1940 of the American Press So
ciety, Roy S. Eastman, chairman of
the Committee on Elections and
Nominations, announced last night.
Vice presidents chosen in the mail
balloting were Paul Scott Mowrer
of the Chicago Daily News, Guy V.
Miller of ths Pittsburgh Press, Doro
thy Thompson of the New York
Herald Tribune, Cary B. Wilmer, jr.,
Atlanta Constitution, and Henry P,
Burmester. Long Beach, Calif.,
Press-Telegram.
Oliver Holden and O. D. Donald
son of the New York Times were
re-elected executive director and
treasurer, respectively. Thomas D.
Yutzy, as secretary, holds an ap
pointive office.
Italian Mothers Receive
Medals and Cash Awards
By the Associated Press.
ROME, Dec. 21.—Premier Mus
solini today distributed 1,460,000 lire
(about $73,000) and awarded medals
to 188 wives of industrial workers
for having borne the greatest num
ber of babies in the past 10 years,
Insurance policies for 1,000 lire
(about $50) each were presented
to the last-bom children.
The occasion was the seventh an
nual “day of the mother and child."
Each of the mothers, who were
received by II Duce in his Venezia
Palace office, had seven or more
Children in the 10 years.
Their medals are of a new alu
minum alloy which Italy is using for
coins. They bear a figure of a
mother and children on the face,
while the reverse shows an oak
tree and the letter “M“ for Mus
■olini.
They are hung from green ribbons
With a tassel for each child.
Two mothers from each of Italy’s
94 provinces were chosen for the
honors.
German Flyers Drop
Umbrella as Gift
For Chamberlain
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—German
flyers, sallying across French
lines, dropped an umbrella as a
gift to Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain who visited Brit
ish troops in France last week.
DNB, the official German
news agency, said the following
note was attached to the um
brella:
‘ The German Air Force re
grets that Mr. Chamberlain was
forced to go around in such
bad weather without an um
brella, and dedicates to him
this useful instrument of pro
tection.”
Seven Ships Released
ROTTERDAM. Dec. 21 (>P).—
Shippers were advised yesterday
from Hamburg that German block
ade control authorities had re
leased seven lumber ships which
had been held there for nearly a
month while en route to Scandi
navian ports via Rotterdam.
Woll Says to Help
Finland Today Is to
Aid U. S. Tomorrow
Hoover Appeals for
Relief Fund at
New York Meeting
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Matthew
Woll, vice president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, believes
Soviet Russia's attack on Finland
“reaches a new high in interna
tional affairs for sheer mendacity,
for cynical contempt of the good
opinion of mankind.”
“To help Finland today is to help
America tomorrow,” he asserted in
an address at a "Let’s help Fin
land" mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden last night.
The meeting was led by former
President Herbert Hoover, national
chairman of the Finnish Relief
Fund, who declared “every decent
person In the world Is praying to
God that these brave people shall
yet be saved.”
Appealing to Americans to “open
hearts and hands" to Finland with
contributions to the fund, Mr.
Hoover said, “At the moment there
is no actual shortage of food in
Finland. But the thousands of des
titute need funds to buy it. They
need shelter. They need bedding.
The sea blockade and the destruc
tion of their commerce will bring
famine later on.”
Among others who spoke were
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York; Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
of Montana and Hjalmar Procope,
Finnish Minister to the United
States.
Senator Wagner said, “No smoke
screen can blacken out, or even
blur, the right and wrong of the
unconscionable attack launched
against peaceful Finland.”
Senator Wheeler said he and Sen
ator Wagner would do all in their
power in Congress to help facilitate
American help for Finland.
Mr. Procope, who received a pro
longed ovation, pointed out "words
are weak things to express the
gratitude and attachment that we
Finns have toward this country and
the faith we have in the United
States.
“No other nation could so un
selfishly, in a peaceful way, stretch
out the hand of assistance to us.
I thanlc this great Nation and Its
great leader.”
The Evening Star will accept con
tributions to the Finnish Relief
Fund.
Olds New Chairman
Of Power Commission
Leland Olds of New York, who was
appointed to the Federal Power
Commission in June, has been
named chairman, and will hold
office until June, 1944, when his
term as commissioner expires, it was
announced today.
Mr. Olds succeeds Clyde L. Seavey,
who had been chairman since 1937
when Chairman Frank L. McNinch
moved over to the Federal Com
munications Commission.
Commissioner Claude L. Draper
continues as vice chairman.
Mr. Olds formerly was executive
secretary of the New York Power
Authority.
R. F. Campbell Named
To Y. M. C. A. Position
Robert F. Campbell, 28, an of
ficial American Red Cross life-sav
ing instructor, has been appointed
senior aquatic instructor at the
Central Young
Men’s Christian
Association, suc
ceeding Paul R.
Wilson, who left
to take up avia
tion, it was an
nounced yester
day by Ralph W.
Poster, director
of physical edu
cation at the
“Y.”
Mr. Campbell,
who served for
three years in
the Army as a
lieutenant, is a Mr. c»mpb*n.
native of St. Louis and a graduate
of Washington University in that
city. In addition to his other duties
he is coach of the Y. M. C. A.
fencing team. He has had wide
experience in Red Cross life-saving
work.
Mr. Wilson, whom he succeeds, re
cently completed elimination flight
training at the Anacostia Naval Air
Station as a naval aviation cadet
and is slated to report soon to the
Naval Aviation School at Pensacola,
Fla., for advanced training. Upon
completion of the training Tie will
receive a commission as an ensign
in the United States Naval Reserve.
He is 22 years old and is well known
here as a swimmer. Mr. Wilson has
coached the swimming teams of 4
both Western and Woodrow Wilson ,)
High Schools. In 1936 he was Dis
trict backstroke champion.
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