Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 17

" RED CROSS PUSHE ANNUAL ROLL CALL 40.000 Members by Thanks- | giving Day Is Goal Set l by Workers. ] With 40,000 members hy Thankezi ing day as their goal. roll call workers of the District Chapter of the Ameri s hezan intensive opera- tions taday to go over the top. Kve effort is to be made to exceed the record of last vear, when it stood forth in adult enroilment, in proportion to population, among all the cities of the country, and second in Junior Red Cross ‘enrollment, with 49.3 per cent of school pupils enrolied. Volunteers serving in various Red Cross hooths in banks, theaters, stores and other places, report renewed in terest in Red Cross work bec: e of its record in flood relicf. In response to a special appeal for Mississippi flood | sufferers, the District Chapter raised $149.411.44 and 51 boxes of new and used clothing were shipped to the flood district. In order to facilitate persons who have the Red Cross mem bership blanks, sent with their gas, | electric and telephone bills, are re- quested to fill them out and send them 1 with their enrollment dollars to | the chapter and roll call headquarters, | 321 Sixteenth street northwest, as soon | as_possible. | The regular work of the District chapter has heen on without Interruption, notwithstanding pre ations for the roll call. The report fnr October shows that 68 workers in the product partment of the chapter made 478 rments and con- tributed 1.277 hours of volunteer se vice. Thirteen workers on st Ings spent 90 hours in task, 30} Braille workers devoted 135 hours to | the preparation of reading matter for the hlind, members of the Motor Corps, under the direction of M H. Jewett, gave 221 hours of of themseives and their ing their own gasoline; 40 G At Walter Reed Hospital spent 480 hours in the wards, while 75 workers of the hostess and recreation com- mittee. under leadership of Mrs. W, S. Spencer, contributed 696 hours in other service hospitals, Administrative officers of the Dis- | trict Chapter gave 330 hours of volunteer service, and 11 staff assist- ants worked for 41 hours. Including | other units, 3 volunteers rked 5 last month in| ectivities of the local chapter. k) e . Flowersfor | the Debutante | CORSAGES of exqui- site beauty, deftly ar- ranged with choicest Roses, Orchids and other favored blooms. b Our artists achieve notably effective floral arrangements for receptions, teas, dinners, weddings and other social affairs See Our Display of “Mums” GEORGE C. SHAFFER Our Only Store 14th and Eye Phones: Main 106-2416 enrollment, I dress. i R 7 ) i T e T, PO TR g | resurrected by All the Credit You 50 VARIETIES OF BIRDS FOU ABOUT WHITE HOUSE GRO Record, Roosevelt's Resurrected Here, Shows Former President Was Keen Stu- dent of Feathered More than 50 varieties of birds fre- quent the White House groun This wealth of feathered life was ob- served by the most enthuslastic bird lover who ever lived in the White House, and who looked at every bird which flew his office window or which he observed in_the tree limbs with the trained eye of a naturalist. | As Theodore Roosevelt observed the different species he took notes. The list he prepared in the early vears of the present century has just been Mrs. G. C. Maynard, prominent in the work of the Wash- ington Audubon Society, and furnishes an_interesting side light on Roose- velt's character and interests. Roosevelt’s List. « The list, which he made out during | his administration, of birds actually | seen on the White House grounds is as follows: Sparrow hawk, what owl, yellow woodpecker. ~flicker, chimney swi humming bird, crow, fish crow, or- | chart oriole, Baltimore oriole, purple grackle, purple finch, thistle bird, whitethroat, tree sparrow, chippie, snow bird, song_sparrow, fox spa row, cardinal, indigo bird, barn swal- low, cedar bird, red-eved vireo, war. bling vireo, black and white warbler, blue vellow-backed warbler, Cape May warbier, Summer vellowbird, black- throated blue warbier, black-throated creen warbler, myrtle warbler, mag- nolia_warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, bay-breasted warbler, black-poll war: Blachburnian warbler, yellow- | blue-winged warbler, Canadian | redstart. catbird. Carolina | | | screech owl, saw- led cuckoo, dow wa "It Won't Be Long Now!" UST six weeks to go—a long time for the kid- dies—but not any too long for busy folks who have lots of gifts to select, and wish to choose them, not hurried- ly, but . . . wisely. This month is an excellent time to inspect our collec- tion of new and unusual Christmas Gifts. BECKERS 1314 F Street Established 1876 1214 F St. ; { bird lif. Life at Mansion. white-breasted nut- wren, creeper. chickadee, golden- hatch, tufted tit |crowned Kinglet, ruby-crowned” KIng- | marsh \wren and gnatc: bluebird and robin. “Doubtless this list is incomplete,” Roosevelt wrote. “I have seen others which I have forgotten.” His list is interspersed with inter- esting comments. Of the sparrow hawk he wrote: “A pair spent the iast two Winters in and about the White House grounds, feeding on the spar- rows—largely, thank heaven, English sparrows.” On his rides about Washington Roosevelt was equally observant of He found, he’ records, let, wood thrush W. B. Mo F Street at Eleventh RTAW. WASHINGTON, night heron which spent the Winter of 1907 on swampy country one-half mile west of Washington Mcngm\ont. k1 The whitethroat, he said, “sings all Winter.” Birds seen by Roosevelt about Wash irgton but not on the White H(_)IW“‘ grounds he records as follows: Night heron, mourning dove, quail, grouse, sharp-shinned shouldered hawk, kingfis woodpecker, whip-poor-will, ~ night-| hawk. kingbird, great crested fly- cateher, phoebe, wood peewee, horned | lark, bobolink, red-winged Kkbird, meadowl: ~k, bush | sparrow, towhee, tanager, purpie mar tin, tree swallow, bank allow, logger | head shrike, prairie wurbler, n\'?n-hlrd,‘ | water thrush, Kentucky warbler, pipit. | mockinghird, thrasher, house wren, tcher il an Accidentally Wounded by Son. VIRGINIA, Tll.. November 14 (#).— { After lying wounded for several hours | in a hunting blind near hese yester-| day Louis Crow, 62, of Chicago, was | taken a hospital at Jacksonville, suffering from a shattered iight leg, injured when the shotgun of his son, | Roland, was accidentally dis- | ses & Soms NOVEMBER 14, 1927. s 17 20,000,000 motor cars are in opera- tion at the same time. “Even though this point is reached,” AUTO SATURATION POINT DECLARED UNALARMING |he said. “it inerely is a situation in which steady usage replaces expan- i |sion. The sewing machine and the Victim. Milan V. Agyres, Chicago Econo- | y00t" and shoe industry have passed | mist, Says Steady Usage Re- |the saturation point. set still are| CHICAGO, November 1i (P.—An places Expansion. N. ®. YONDAY, leader of the self-styled 42" shot through the back. Police believe Calero may have been shot by a policeman, an officer having fired several shots a short time befors at two men he saw stripping an auto mobile in the alley . CHICAGO ITALIAN KILLED. Believed to Be Another Gang War thelving.” | unidentified Ttalian youth, shot A 3 ” Mr. Giyres expects domesticecon. |through the back, who was found|English “Coxey’s Army” Moves On. sumption thi;', yeaxl‘":n fa}:l (I;‘olow any | jving in the street and who died soon| SWINDON, England, November 14 vear since 1922, althougl ot eXuurt v olice beli - | #).—The new “Coxey’'s army,” after production has “nowhere near reached | A{terwar.. led to the police beliet to-| Y. — o shoabiad gt the point of saturation.” that another gang war victim|warming their hands at a bonfire He predicted a boom in motor car | ve Dbeen added to Chicago’s|formed by pile of copies of the Lon- buying generally with the release of | |don Daily Mail, which is vigorously the new Ford product, pointing out |anti-Red. took to the road for Hunger- Companiés was told today by Milan V. |that “n_-lore tt«an ’Eef:sfi“"t’ Eg;:héfl;" ford. 15 miles from here, this morning. Ayres. R ;i 7 |are waiting to vl re de- Chicago economist, but he does | (i "1t make to buy. Many of not regard it as a cause for alarm.|these. he said, will buy other make The “saturation point.” by the cars. thus improving the entire auto- Avres definition. is the time when | mofive trade. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 14.—The sat- uration point has been reached by the American automotive industry, the National Association of Finance day may h: long list. 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