Evening star. [volume], June 09, 1940, Page A-14, Image 14

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Red Cross Workers
Continuing Drive
Over Week End
National Fund Reaches
$8,724,379 as District
Total Passes $183,000
Contributions to the Red
Cross war relief fund will be
received and acknowledged in
the news columns if sent to the
cashier's office o! The Star.
• The District Red Cross, its drive
for a $300,000 #war relief fund past
the $183,000 mark, urged volunteer
wonkers yesterday to forego usual
week-end activities to continue so
licitation. The message came in a
telegram from Bruce Baird, general
chairman of the campaign, who
has been attending the District
Bankers’ Convention at Hot Springs,
Va.
The nationwide collection drive,
Chairman Norman H. Davis an
nounced, reached $8,724,379 yester
day. The agency began buying $1,
000,000 worth of foodstuffs, ambu
lances, medical supplies and other
relief necessities for war refugees
in Prance. The goods will be loaded
on a second “mercy ship,” the first
ship, the McKeesport, will be loaded
Monday in New York. The second
ship will be loaded within 10 days
after the McKeesport sails. The
United States Maritime Commis
sion will help the Red Cross obtain
the second ship.
• Contributions in Churches.
That the Washington fund-col
lecting campaign will continue to
day is assured by the activities of
several groups. Many churches are
paying special attention to the drive
at one or both services and several
have arranged for Red Cross repre
sentatives to be present and accept
contributions. Other workers are
planning to see people that they
have been unable to reach during
th# week.
At the Earle theater this week,
the Roxyettes are staging a Red
Cross act as part of the stage show.
The girls, attired in the Roxyette
conception of a Red Cross uniform,
recite an original verse prepared
by Earl A. Nash, chairman of the
Chapter Public Relations Commit
tee, and following it with a rhyth
mic dance to the music of "God
Bless America."
Receipts at Chapter House yes
terday amounted to *14,744.06,
Which, added to previous receipts
of $168,935.68, brings the total to
date to $183,679.74. The booths in
the banks and stores accounted
for $1,155.95 of this amount.
Other Special Gifts.
Other special gifts listed were:
Washington Post employes, $97;
American Automobile Association,
$200; Lucius Wilmerding. $100; Cov
enant-First Presbyterian Church,
$400.45; Luther Place Memorial
Church, $47; Gen. Sherman Miles,
$100; Miss Helen Byrne Lippman, [
$250; Mrs. Hattie Strong, $500; Rob- ;
ert O’Brien, $100; Peoples' Life
Insurance Co., $100; Federal Serv- !
Ice Finance Corp., $827.75; City]
Bank, $182; United States Chamber |
of Commerce, $368.10; American
Council of Education, $100.50; Re
publican National Committee, $51.70;
Southern Wholesalers, $50.
Contributions from Government
departments were as follows:
Post Office Department, $1,517.38;
National Archives. $371.80; White
House Office, $31.75; Walter Reed
Hospital, $148.25; Agricultural De
partment, $4.43; Federal Housing,
$98.95; D. C. Water Survey, $27.25;
D. C. Health Department, $93.45;
Federal Trade Commission, $202.50;
Department of Commejce, *1,466.50;
Treasury Department, $2,992.20; War
Department. $1,051.35; Justice De
partment, $1,175: Federal Reserve
System, $205.95; Pan-American
Union, $200; Electric Farm Home
Authority. *130.75.
Nursing Adviser Named.
The American Red Cross obtained
the services of Miss F. Elizabeth
Crowell, formerly director of the
Nursing Service of the Rockefeller
Foundation in Europe, to be nurs
ing adviser to the American Red
Cross delegation in France. Miss
Crowell now is en route to Paris
from Rome, where she has been
living. Miss Crowell, who has led
In nursing education in Europe
since the World War, has worked
with all nursing staffs in France,
and will be invaluable to the Amer
• lean Red Cross, it was said, in its
work of aiding in the nursing of
eick and wounded refugee popula
tions.
More than 25,000 surgical dress
ings and 22,000 refugee garments
shipped on the S. S. Washington
have been received in Bordeaux, the
Red Cross was informed. The sur
gical dressings were delivered to
the French Red Cross and the gar
ments already have been distributed
to men, women and children refu
gees near Bordeaux.
The Red Cross has allocated an
additional $100,000 for the purchase
of drugs, medical supplies, surgical
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Nets $4.10 for Red Cross
The singing Rouse twins, Elaine (left) and Eileen, 10.
. —Star Staff Photo.
Pour dollars and 10 cents Is a lot
of money in any kid’s language, but
the entertainment was worth it.
The tow-headed Rouse twins sang,
Susie Helm was the fat lady, Billy
Helm recited under water, and the
audience was permitted to pitch pen
nies at a dish floating in a tub.
The dish was pretty small and all
the pennies that missed or bounced
into, the water were the property of
the Red Cross, along with the gate
receipts, collected at 2 cents a head,
and the side show tent admissions.
The promoters of the neighbor
hood circus-carnival worked the en
tertainers long hours in rehearsal for
Friday night's show in the back yard
of the Helm children at 27 Wine
avenue, Hvattsville, Md. The show
was staged to a capacity crowd of
50 or more.
The young Helms—Billy, 11; Susie,
8, and Bud, 9, were aided by the
twins, Eileen and Elaine Rouse, 10,
and most of the children in the
neighborhood. Their enthusiasm
for the Red Cross cause was height
ened by stories of the suffering of
war refugee children abroad.
After the gate receipts were to
taled the children piled into a big,
flat-bottomed truck and were driven
to Washington by Mr. Helm to turn
over their money to the Red Cross
fund through The Star.
The children included John Rich
ards, 8; Patsy Maisel, 6; Gene
Schmidt, 11; Dorothy Genella, 11;
Mary Clark, 11; Marian Robinson,
12; Margaret Hampshire, 10; Anna
May Lorentz, 12: Gordon Wilson, 10;
Peggy Richards, 12, and Bobby
Richards, 13.
States to aid in replacing losses of i
the British Red Cross in the battle \
of Flanders.
These goods will be sent to Eng
land on the first available ship, Red
Cross officials stated.
Allocations for the work of relief
among the refugees in France have
been made as follows by the Ameri- j
can Red Cross delegation in Paris:
10.000. 000 francs to the French Red 1
Cross. 2.500.000 francs to the Bel- j
gian Red Cross, 1.800,000 francs to
the French Committee for Social'
Service, 1,000,000 to Anne Morgan's 1
Friends of France organization, j
3.000. 000 francs to the International
Commission for Aid to Refugee Chil
dren; 500,000 to the Luxembourg Red
Cross and 1,000,000 to the Nether
lands Red Cross refugee worlg*
Relief Fund Swelled.
The war relief fund was swelled
by s contribution of $21,250 from
the Queen Wilhelmina fund to be
used in France for the relief of refu
gees from the Netherlands. The
check was forwarded by H. R. Jolles, j
vice chairman of the fund, of which
Hendrik van Loon is chairman.
A contribution of $1,000 from the
Universalist Church, voted by the
Board of Trustees of the Univer
salist General Convention, was for
warded from Boston by Louis
Annin Ames, president. Mr. Ames
wrote that all Universalist churches
had been asked to respond to the
Red Cross war relief fund appeal
of their local Red Cross chapters.
Mrs. Alexander Scott of Phila
delphia gave $1,200 for an ambu
lance, in memory of her husband.
The National Children's Fund of
the American Junior Red Cross
was augmented this week by many
contributions from children who
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displayed ingenuity in raising
money. Youngsters in Alliance,
Ohio, put on a “war relief circus,”
complete with “wild’’ animals and
pink lemonade. The proceeds were
$7.75.
In South Bend, Ind., children saved
their candy and movie money to
contribute for less fortunate chil
dren in Europe.
Patricia Hurley, aged 9< of 509
Loma Vista drive, Beverly Hills,
Calif., in her own handwriting, said:
"Inclosed is $10 and some hair
ribbons. I can make some more
this summer if you would like me
to do it.”
Harold H. Hurley, her father,
sent a check for $200 with Patricia’s
contribution. The hair ribbons were
wrapped in cellophane and deco
rated with many-colored stars.
They will be sent with refugee gar
ments to some child in Prance.
Children of St. Andrew’s Parish
School, Charleston, S. C., who had
been selling garden seed to finance
a party, decided to give the pro
ceeds, $19.65, to the Red Cross after
reading of the plight of the Belgian
refugee children.
Cuba is repairing the aqueduct at
Guantanamo City.
Wagner Act Changes'
Believed Dead as
Adjournment Nears
Thomas to Call Senate
Committee, but Sees No
Time Left for Action
Chairman Thomas of the Senate
Labor Committee said yesterday it
would be “virtually impossible” for
the Senate to act on House-ap
proved amendments to the Wagner
Labor Relations Act if Congress
adjourns June 22, as leaders have
planned.
The Utah Senator said he would
call the committee into session
this week to consider the amend
ments which would abolish the pres
ent three-member National Labor
Relations Board and create a new
three-man agency. The legislation
also would separate the adminlstra
tive and prosecution activities of
the agency.
Although Senator Thomas ex
pressed the opinion that hearings
would be unnecessary, Senator La
Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin,
another committee member, said it
might be advisable to take testi
mony briefly on points involved in
the amendments which had not
been covered by the extensive hear
ings conducted by the Senate com
mittee on other proposals to change
the act.
Three Democratic members of the
Labor Committee agreed with Sen
ator Thomas that there was slight
chance for Senate action on the
amendments at this session.
"It will be impossible to net be
fore we adjourn,” said Senator Mur
ray, Democrat, of Montana.
Senator Hill, Democrat, of Ala
bama said the House amendments
"have not been considered by the
Senate committee, and action is
very doubtful if we are to adjourn
in two weeks.”
Senator Ellender, Democrat, of
Louisiana, said defense and tax mat
ters "will prevent action on labor
legislation.”
Acting largely on the recommen
dations of the Smitn Committee in
vestlgating the board, the House
voted Friday to abolish the present
board, although President Roosevelt
would be permitted to rename the
members to a new board. It adopted
an amendment creating an admin
istrator charged with carrying on
the investigative and prosecution ac
tivities attendant to enforcement of
the Labor Act, while reserving for
the board itself the judicial func
tions it has exercised in the past.
Other amendments would:
Bar the reinstatement of employes
who took part in strike violence
or “sit-downs.”
Abolish the Statistical Board,
headed by David Saposs.
Permit employers tc petition for
the certification of bargaining rep
resentatives.
Make board rulings subject to re
view by the United States Courts
of Appeals.
Permit employers to refuse to
negotiate with aliens.
Citizens to Heor Wender
Harry S. Wender, civic leader, will
speak at a meeting of the Barry
Farm Citizens’ Association at St.
John's Methodist Church, colored,
2801 Stanton road S.E., at 8:15 p.m.
Tuesday.
Dickinson Alumni
Elect Trustees
By thp Associated Press.
CARLISLE, Pa., June 8.—Lewi?
M. Bacon, jr., of Baltimore was re
elected alumni trustee of Dickinson
College for a four-year term, it was
announced today at the annual
meeting of the General Alumni As
sociation.
Members elected to the alumni
council for terms expiring in 1943
included Dr. Earl S. Johnston of
Washington and Mrs. Ann Bennett
Bennethun, Wilmington, Del.
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