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[[newspaper clipping]] THE NEW YORK SUN, THU Thirteen Planes Aid Relief Drive Mrs. Samuel Adams Clark Broadcasts Appeal for Salvation Army Fund. A fleet of thirteen planes flew over lower New York in formation today and proceeded northward to circle about Central Park in an aerial campaign to obtain an additional $500,000 for unemployment relief. From one of the airplanes Mrs. Samuel Adams Clark, chairman of the Emergency Aid Committee, broadcast an appeal for additional funds. She was in a large Fokker accompanied by her son, Samuel Adams Clark, Jr. The broadcasting was made from a height of 2,000 feet. The fleet of planes circled about Woolworth Tower shortly after noon and then proceeded to the park. In her appeal, broadcast through powerful amplifiers, Mrs. Clark said: "I have always said that I would do anything for the Salvation Army and this was the test. I am taking my first airplane trip in the interest of the campaign for $500,000 which the Women's Emergency Aid Committee is carrying on for the Salvation Army. These wonderful girl flyers have formed a team to help us. Come to their party at the Biltmore on Friday evening of this week and make all the generous gifts you can to the fund so we may go over the top by Friday also." Accompanying Mrs. Clark and her son in the plane were Bernard Knapp, operator, and Bert McGrath, announcer. The plane, with the amplifying device weighing 1,500 pounds, was lent for the campaign by Charles L. Lawrence, president of the Voice of the Sky, Inc. Engineers of the Belle Telephone Laboratories and the Plane-Speaker Corporation are responsible for the development of the device. The latest police census shows 56,094 heads of families unemployed in the five boroughs, it was announced today by Commissioner Mulrooney. Other figures relating to the unemployment situation issued today by the Commissioner reveal that 2,041 checks totaling $30,636 have been distributed to jobless persons by the police; 30,963 men and women have received clothing; 419,344 persons have been aided by the police in some way, and 2,574 men and 196 women have been provided with employment. Police aircraft and private ships and also army and navy planes from nearby airports participated in the demonstration. The women pilots in today's demonstration were Marjorie Doig, Mrs. Betty Huyler Gilles, Mrs. Opal Kunz, who will be accompanied by [[underlined]] Manila Davis; [[/underlined]] Mrs. H. Porter Bain, the "grandmother pilot," and Mrs. Ruth Camp Elder. Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougall, one of the committee's team captains, announced today that she would donate 50 per cent. of all checks over $2 in her six restaurants for the next few days. Each team has assumed a quota of $3,000. A skeleton force of the Emergency Employment Committee remained active today to "mop up" as Chairman Seward Prosser expressed it at the meeting yesterday. Complete quota reports, it was said at the time, may raise the total of funds to considerably mote than $8,269,000. The Prosser committee today enjoyed a well-earned rest after its efforts in raising more than eight million dollars in one month. Men and women were still getting work and there was no slackening of the Emergency Work Bureau's activities. Mr. Prosser particularly praised the efforts of Walter S. Gifford and Cornelius N. Bliss. Calling upon them to rise he said it was they who foresaw the present conditions as long ago as last summer and started the movement for relief. Others thanked by the chairman specifically were Guy Emerson, secretary of the committee; John Price Jones, who acted as advisor; Edward Streeter, executive manager; Oliver Roosevelt, who controlled the finances; Horton Ijams, in charge of special gift work; Peter S. Duryee, head of the commerce and industry division; Mrs. August Belmont, Harry K. Schauffler, publicity director; George Lindsay, organizer of a special group of solicitors; former Gov. Smith, William H. Matthews, director of the work bureau, and Thomas P. Chchran, treasurer. ^[[NY WORLD. 1931]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] DECEMBER 18, WOMEN FLYERS BOMBARD CITY IN RELIEF DRIVE Scatter Appeals for $500,000 Fund They Are Raising for Jobless Supper-Dance to Be Held Tomorrow in Aid of Those Out of Work With an escort of army, navy and police planes, four well-known women flyers carried out a friendly air raid on the city at noon today, and bombarded the downtown and midtown sectors with appeals for contributions to the $500,000 which the Women's Emergency Aid Committee is raising toward the Salvation Army's $2,500,000 unemployment relief fund. ASKS ALL TO HELP In her appeal from the air, Mrs. Clark urged New Yorkers to contribute generously to the fund being raised by the women's committee so that it would pass the goal tomorrow night when the campaign is scheduled to close. "I have always said I would do anything for the Salvation Army," Mrs. Clark declared. "This is the test. For I have never been in an airplane before and am now making my first air journey in the interest of the campaign for $500,000 which our committee is raising. "These wonderful girl flyers have formed a team to help us. Come to their party at the Biltmore tomorrow evening, and help us go over the top." Miss Doig flew the Pitcairn Sport Mailwing in which she competed in the recent coast-to-coast air derby, while Mrs. Gillies was in her clipped wing sport Waco, Mrs. Kunz in her Betsy Ross II, and Mrs. Bain, who is known as the "grandmother pilot," in her Moth plane. Among the escorting planes were several police department machines, with Capt. Arthur N. Chamberlin in command; three planes from the Naval Reserve station at Valley Stream, piloted by Capt. Ben Reiswebber and Ensigns George O. Gjoerloff and John H. Etty, and planes from the New York and the New Jersey Guard flying stations. Among the other women flyers on the committee are Ruth Nichols, Lura B. Harney, Viola Gentry, Mrs. Margery Brown, [[underlined]] Manila Davis, [[/underlined]] Mrs. Francis Harrell Marsailus, Agnes Mills, Wilma L. Walsh, Jean Davidson, and Mrs. Ruth Elder. Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougall, captain of one of the teams, has promised to donate to the campaign 50 per cent of all checks over $2 in her six restaurants for the next few days. $178,101 IN BROOKLYN A new total of $178,101 toward the $500,000 fund being raised by the Brooklyn Unemployment Emergency Committee was announced by Surrogate George A. Wingate, the chairman. Among the new contributions, aggregating $8,835, received in the last twenty-four hours were $1,000 from the employees of the Standard Johnson Company; $1,251 from the employees of the McKesson-Gibson-Snow Company; $500 from the employees of the William H. Nicholls Company, and $250 from the Manifold Supplies Company. Borough President George U. Harvey of Queens announced today that no civil service employees will be laid off on account of slackening of work this winter, although sixty-three temporary non-civil service workers will be laid off following Dec. 31 because the advent of the cold weather will make the suspension of certain types of public improvement work necessary. A skeleton force of workers remained today to do the "mopping up" work of the Emergency Employment Committee, which except for some private solicitations and the collection of time pledges has ended its work with more than the fund sought, $8,000,000. Seward Prosser headed the organization, which in one month not only raised the $6,000,000 it originally sought, but $2,000,000 later added, and $269,000 besides. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] WOMEN FLIERS HELP JOB DRIVE [[/newspaper clipping]] [PAGE 66]
