Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1940, Page 5

Red Cross Cables $100,000 for Aid of War Refugees Gifts to Drive for $10,000,000 Rise To $2,700,000 The American Red Cross yester- day cabled $100,000 to the British Red Cross to aild in caring for the Dutch and Belgian refugees who are reaching England’s shores after fiee- ing from their own battle-torn countries. Contributions to the Red Cross war relief fund now total $2,700,000. Among the donations received was $100 from the M. G. V. Schwaebischer Saengerbund, Ir- vington, N. J., a group of singers founded by persons from Swabia, in Germany. Seven-year-old Virginia ‘Williams of Murray, Ky., sent Presi- dent Roosevelt her picture and a dime for the Red Cross. ‘The District Chapter, with a goal of $150,000, had received $37,383.25 by noon yesterday. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nor- man H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, and Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, Red Cross Euro- pean representative, will open a one-hour coast-to-coast radio pro- gram at 1 o'clock this afternoon heralding the Red Cross drive for & $10,000,000 war relief fund. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Davis will speak from the White House and Mr. Taylor from Paris during the variety program, to be broadcast over the combined facilities of the National Broadcasting Co. blue net- work, Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem and Mutual Broadcasting Sys- tem from 1 to 2 o'clock. The broad- casting companies have donated the time to the Red Cross. Distinguished Cast. A distinguished cast of 20 stage, .screen and radio stars will join forces to supply the entertainment for the program, also contributing their time to the Red Cross drive now being staged throughout the country. Broadcasting from New York will be Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope, Walter JHuston, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Jimmy Durante, Gertrude Lawrence, Lynn Murray and his choir, Frank Black’s Orchestra, Ted Husing, Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Barry Wood. Joining the program from Holly wood will be Judy Garland, Jack Benny, David Broeckman'’s Orches- | tra, Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc- Carthy, Fibber McGee and Molly and Don Wilson. Meanwhile, the Red Cross head- quarters received a plea from citi-| zens of Greenland to aid them in getting word of the safety of their relatives in Denmark. Maurice R. Reddy, Red Cross disaster relief ex- ecutive, who was sent to Greenland | on a Coast Guard cutter to survey | ble relief needs of the people, | wirelessed from God- “Greenlanders want no relief now but implore Red Cross to get infor- mation concerning loved ones in Denmark. All communications with homeland cut off. One official's| mother near death when last news | from Denmark received and nther! families have worries equally se-| ‘rious.” Inquiries to Be Made. The Red Cross will make in- Qquiries through the International| Red Cross in Geneva, officials said. The Dutch and the Belgian refu- | gees for whom the $100,000 was| cabled arived in England in many instances in small open boats after harrowing trips across the Engl?sh Channel, Chairman Davis was in- formed by cable. The District chapter's receipts vesterday alone amounted to $2.- 28907. Five Government agencies, unidentified by the chapter, turned in $467.55. Booths under the chair- manship of Mrs. Albert N. Baggs In stores and banks collected $767.12. Additional booths will be estab- lished today in the downtown the- aters. Boy Scouts co-operated in the drive yesterday by delivering Red Cross war relief posters for win- dow display in the stores through- .out the city participating in the drive. Gould to Go to New York. Sidney R. Gould, for many years an outstanding volunteer instruc- tor in the District Red Cross Chap- ter's first-aid department, is leav- ing today for New York to direct clerical personnel in the new ware- shouse the Red Cross is establishing near Jersey City. Among large contributions re- ceived yesterday by the national office were $18,000 from the Com- monwealth Edison Co., $12,000 from the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co., $10,000 from the Inland Steel Co., $10,000 from the Illinois Bell Telephone Co., all through the Chicago Red Cross Chapter. The Detroit Chapter reported $5,000 from the Briggs Manufacturing Co., $5,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, $5000 from the National Bank of Detroit and $5,000 from the Detroit Edison Co. The Sun Oil Co. contributed $10,- 000 and an anonymous gift of $20,- 000 was announced by the Phila- delphia Red Cross Chapter. A contribution of $6,000 was made to the Boston Chapter by John Shephard III, president of the Yan- kee New England radio network, in the name of the network. » The Montgomery (Ala.) Chapter mailed a check for its quota of $10,~ 000 by airplane at 11 p.m. yesterrh_y, after a whirlwind campaign in which the progress of donations was markéd by moving a Red Cross am- bulance, borrowed from Maxwell Field. The check was “issued” on a strip of muslin six feet long and two feet wide. Saengerbund Contributes. The Irvington (N. J.) Chapter reported the contribution of $100 in the name of the M. G. V. Schwae- bischer Saengerbund. Joseph Kraft of Irvington, long a member of the Saengerbund, had promised to leave —_— Any Make Wateh O\ . ATl work done by factory trained experis—regardiess of condition, o6 con_repair it THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, NEW YORK.—MUSSOLINI'S PHYSICIAN IN U. S.—Dr. Giuseppe Bastianelli and his wife as they arrived aboard the Italian liner Conte de Savola. Dr. Bastianelli, Benito Mussolini’s personal physician, said he was in the United States on a short personal business trip. He reported Mussolini’s health as “100 per cent.” Mrs. Bastianelll was born in Philadelphia. It is her first trip back in 18 years. the sum of $100 to the society on his death. When the Red Cross appealed for funds to aid war vic- time, he asked the society to permit him to withdraw the bequest and giye the sum to the Red Cross war relief fund. The Saengerbund en- thusiastically agreed, Mr. Kraft said, and he then gave the sum in the society’s name. The Sunday school of the Grace Episcopal Church in Medford, Mass., voted to cancel its annual picnic and give the money instead to the chapter’s war relief fund, the Red Cross was informed. The Williams girl in her letter to President Roosevelt wrote: “Here is a dime I have been sav- ing. I would like to help the little children across the sea whose dad- dies have been killed in that awful war. I wish every little girl in our country would send a dime, then we would have a lot of dimes to send them.” Contributions Gifts Received for War Relief Fund The following contributions to the Red Cross War Relief Fund have been received by The Star. Con- tributions forwarded to The Star cashier will continue to be acknowl- edged in the news columns, A Norwegian mother.__ $1.00 Catherine D. Schaffner. 1.00 C. H. Hathaway 5.00| Charles L. Pilzer 10.08 Soroptimist Club of Wash- Susan C. Clagett_ Mrs. Lillian 8. Luchs_ Caroline Vanderheide. Henry C. Spengler Post No. 12 Anonymous . . L S 10.00 | Lucy Darnell 10.00 | Pye - 5.00 $115.00 Previously acknowledged.. $282.00 - $397.00 | PeuceTlully Scheduled At Brentwood Village A peace rally will be held this afternoon, beginning at 2:30 o'clock. in Brentwood Village, apartment community at Twelfth street and Rhode Island avenue N.E, under auspices of a peace organization formed recently in the development. Paul Olsen, secretary to Represen- tative John M. Coffee, Democrat, of Washington, will be among speakers discussing anti-war activity and effective “lobbying for peace.” Children of the group’s members are to be present in costume. They are to parade through the commu- nity this morning, calling attention to the meeting With placards, and are to take the signs to the rally. The bulk of confectionary in the | ;Jnlxted States is sold on a penny asis. % Grand total Come in for a free Audiometer test of your hearing Sonotone Washington Co. 901 Washington Bidg. 15th St. and New York Ave. N.W. Phone District 0921, —A. P. Photo. Tax Ruling (Continued From First Page.) sons actually living here or deriv- ing incomes here, a long list of cases similar to the Henning case is expected to go to the Board of Tax Appeals or to the courts within the next two years. Corporation Coun- sel Elwood H. Seal, following re- fusal by the Supreme Court to re- view the Sweeney case, announctd he would seek to take to the appel- late or the high court some case directly involving the income-tax law. Whether this will be the Hen- ning decision has not been deter- mined. Nearly 4,000 persons who have paid the District income tax have filed with their payments claims for refunds of their taxes on the ground that they are not domiciled in the District or that they are otherwise not subject to the tax. District officials said that more than $50,000 in refund claims were in- volved in the protested payments. While the number of refund claims so far filed is a relatively small percentage of the total of income tax returns submitted, it was ex- plained that taxpayers must be granted two years in which to file | refund claims. In the Henning case, Mr. Morgan held that the petitioner was entitled to a refund of $13.79, which he had paid under protest as the District assessment against him under the District income levy. Mr. Morgan made the point that Mr. Henning had taken civil service examination while residing at Worcester, Mass., that he did not know he was to be assigned to Washington and would accept & transfer to another loca- tion when opportunity for advance- ment arose. 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Scores of cities and towns are al- ready vying for the atms and air- plane plants, air training centers and military posts contemplated in the administration’s vast prepared- ness program, Officials said yesterday that the pleas of civic and commerical repre- sentatives—bolstereq in many in- stances by members of Congress— were bearing heavily on Secretary of War Woodring and Assistant Sec- retary Johnson at a time when these and other top defense officers were hard-pressed for time to cope with urgent military questions. . The applications have been wel- comed, nevertheless, and are being analyzed and classified for future reference. Ultimate decisions on locations are expected to be made by the Treasury or the prospective new council on national defense. In the World War, such defenses were in the hands of the War Industries Board. Two Handle Delegations. Delegations and individuals seek- ing munitions plants have been re- ferred to Maj. Leo J. 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