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Concert Is Expected To Heighten Interest In Symphony Drive The drive to raise $130,000 for operation of the National Symphony Orchestra during the coming con cert season was being pressed with new vigor today, after disappointing results for the first five days were reported yesterday at a luncheon meeting of volunteer campaign workers. Yesterday's progress report, the first made since the campaign was launched last Wednesday, listed contributions totaling $41,175, or 31.7 per cent of the goal. This repre sented an increase of only $8,985 over the amount available at the opening of the campaign as the re sult of advance pledges. A. E. Finkenstaedt, campaign chairman, read some encouraging signs, however, in the disappointing report. The contributions this year reported 1,148 pledges, while only 744 contributors were listed at the corresponding period last year and 368 at the same stage in 1942. Broader Interest Indicated. This larger number of pledges in dicates a broader interest in the National Symphony and greater ac tivity by workers in covering the potential contributors assigned to them, Mr. Finkenstaedt said. • Particularly disappointing in the campaign so far has been the re sponse from Government employes. At yesterday's luncheon, the com mittee in charge of Government contributions reported the collection of only $927, or 3.7 per cent of the $25,000 quota assigned the Govern ment group. Federal Concert Tomorrow. Leaders of the drive were hope ful. however, that totals in this division would be swelled as a result of the special "Federal employes' command performance" to be given by the National Symphony at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Constitution Hall. This concert, the first the orchestra has ever presented exclusively for Federal workers, will feature selec tions suggested by Federal employe groups and Is priced to fit the bud get of the lower-paid civil service workers. All Boxes Sold. Rank-and-file Government em ployes so far have not shown the, expected interest in the concert,' INFORMATION CENTER MOVES—Keys to the building at 1321 Pennsylvania avenue N.W. are presented by Commissioner John Russell Young (right) to Edgar Morris, chairman of the Wash ington Board of Trade Greater National Capital Committee which will operate the District Information Center on the premises. Joseph McGarraghy (left), vice president of the War Hospitality Committee, also housed in the building, look on. —Star Staff Photo. J. E. Mutch, manager of the or chestra, said today. Tickets still are available at all three prices— 55 cents, 85 cents and $1.10. They may be purchased at the symphony box office in Kitt’s Music Store, 1330 G street N.W., and at Bren tano’s Book Store in the Pentagon concourse. All boxes for the concert have been sold, however, with Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, five cabinet members and three assistant cabinet secre taries among the boxholders. Committees showing the way in the fund-raising effort include the Metropolitan, which has raised $25, 979, or 49.1 per cent of its quota; the Navy - Marine - Coast Guard group. $2,190, or 48.7 per cent of its quota, and the Army Committee, .with $1,769, or 44.2 per cent. The Business Committee, which had only $545 in advance pledges when the campaign opened, has since raised $2,730 to reach 21.8 per cent of its $15,000 quota. Meade Sutherland Dies; Western Union Official By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Feb. 15.—Meade R. Sutherland, Southern Division com mercial manager of Western Union, died yesterday. He had been an official with the Western Union Co. since 1915. Surxivors Include his widow, father, A. J. Sutherland of Suther land, Va.; bj-other, A. J. Sutherland, jr„ Petersburg, Va., and two sisters, Mrs. Hugh Leonftd and Mrs. John Clements of Sutherland, Va. Keys Are Presented To New Quarters of Information Center Hie District Information Center was formally reinstalled at 1321 Pennsylvania avenue N.W. today. It will be operated by the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. Commissioner J. Russell Young gave keys to the center to Edgar Morris, chairman of the committee, in ceremonies attended by repre sentatives of the Board of Trade and the War Hospitality Committee. The building houses the District of Columbia Information center for service personnel and the public and staff members of the War Hospi tality Committee who give free tickets to servicemen and women. There Is also an information clerk from the Capital Transit Co., who supplier bus and streetcar route in formation. The information service of the Greater National Capital Committee Is under the direction of Mrs. Clara Wright Smith, The service’once functioned at the United State Information Center at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue under WPA sponsorship. Later the OWI took it over and then the Board of Trade Committee. Among Greater National Capital Committee members at the cere monies were C. J. Mack, J. D. Kauf man, Francis G. Addison, jr.; Wil mer J. Waller, H. L. Rust, jr.; Thomas J. Groom and Lanier P. McLachlen. Joseph C. McGarraghy represented the War Hospitality Committee. Visit America’s First & Only Exclusive Hotel Training Learn hew TOl) can 0 _ ■ _ * | enjoy the thrill ef \ C|| It A I e e I e r f ■ I. luxurious W W II W U I hotel life. Ton can aaalifr anicklr throath Lewia Training. Day and Evening Clossat Home Study Court* Earn while tea learn! Prepare fer a WELL-PAID POSITION and Peat-War Career In thli eaaential bnsineaa. Call, write er phene lor FREE BOOK. 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Feb. 15.—Donald M Nelson, chairman of the War Pro duction Board, has aslced the paper industry to “let us have some of your best men” to help the Govern ment agency work out the problems of continuing the military effort. Mr.- Nelson, speaking yesterday before the annual convention of the American Paper and Pulp Associa tion, stressed the need of ranking business men in key posts and thus, indirectly, gave recognition to the recent inclination among executives to get back to their peacetime jobs. The WPB chief acknowledged that the work “isn’t pleasant," termed Washington a “maelstrom" but commented: "When will this be over? I don’t know. No one else knows. We have this one policy. WPB is going to prepare to do Just as good a job as we know how just as long as the military needs us.” Of paper, Mrr Nelson said there “is hardly a commodity that com pares with it in its essentiality.’’ "Certainly we must have paper to print the news,’’ he Mid. “With out news a democracy cannot func tion.” Harold Boeschenstein, head of tlfc WPB Forest Products Bureau, in another address outlined the war uses for which paper has been needed and declared: “The only manner in which re quirements can be met is to take paper from something less essen tial,” since demand was climbing and inventories shrinking. Mr.. Nelson said increased produc tion of wood for paper and pulp making was the ideal and that “as fast as we can get up production we certainly want to reinstate those products which were considered less essential.” U. S. Receives Bulk Of Canadian Whisky By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Feb. 15. —A total of 616,161 gallons of whisky and 9,474 gallons of gin was exported from Canada during November and De cember, 1943, and January of this year, Trade Minister J?A. MacKin non reported yesterday in Commons. In reply to a question, Mr. Mac Kinnon gave figures showing that the bulk of the whisky exports— 537,332 gallons—went to the United States, which also received 3,452 gallons of gin. Roosevelt Signs Bill To Recruit Farm Labor by tbe Associated Press. President Roosevelt yesterday signed the bill appropriating $30, 000,000 to the War Food Adminis tration for an enlarged Federal State program of farm labor re cruiting this year. Under its terms, an estimated 130,000 alien workers will be brought into the United States for agricul tural work. In addition, the bill authorizes the War Manpower Com mission to import foreign lumber camp workers to All manpower gaps in that Industry, and appropriates $1,359,200 for this purpose. 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