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HELP for the UNEMPOLYED!

The Salvation Army

APPEAL FOR

$500,000

Dec. 2nd to 19th

WOMEN'S EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE

HEADQUATERS-BILTMORE HOTEL
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E NEW YORK TIMES,

, 1930. ^[[DEC. 16]]

WOMEN FLIERS AID RELIEF FUND DRIVE

Sell Tickets for Plane Rides to
Help Raise $500,000 for
the Salvation Army.

TO REWARD LUCKY BUYEERS

Will Carry Holders of Wining
Numbers Over New York After Assisting in Canvass.

Ruth Nichols, Mrs. Opal Kunz, Mrs. Ruth Elder Camp and other prominent women airplane pilots joined with the Women's Emergency Air Committee for Unemployment under the leadership of Mrs. Samuel Adams Clark yesterday and will fly over the city, escorted by the air division of the Police Department, dropping announcements of a benefit supper dance to be held at Biltmore on Friday night.
 The women fliers met in the after noon in the Curtiss-Wright Building on Fifty-seventh Street and outlined their plans with Mrs. Clark for providing additional funds towards the $500,000 fund of the Salvation Army, of which $251,746 has been subscribed. Led by Miss Nichols, who recently established a new one-stop transcontinental record for flying time, the women pilots agreed to carry passengers on flights over the city and volunteered their services in selling tickets for the benefit.
 The air rides over the city will be given as prizes to holders of winning numbers from each 100 tickets sold in books of ten each at $3 a book. Those who buy books which do not contain winning numbers will get free rides from the Curtiss Company at Valley Stream.
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The subscription to the supper dance will be sold separately and the women fliers started a vigorous campaign immediately after the meeting. Armed with bundles of tickets, Mrs. Ruth Elder Camp canvassed the building and collected $6 from Charles S. (Casey) Jones, vice president of Curtiss Wright, as her first sale. Other batches of tickets went out in the purses of Miss Viola Gentry, Mrs. Betty Huyler Gillies, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, Marjorie Doig, Miss Nichols, [[underlined]]Manila Davis[[/underlined]] and Mrs. H. Foster Bain, the grandmother-pilot.
 In outlining the purposes of the benefit and presenting her appeal to the public, Mrs. Clark said:
 "Our campaign is for the unemployment relief just as much as any of the other campaigns. The receipts will be used by the Salvation Army in tiding people through crises while they await jobs. All of the money will be used within the metropolitan area. Thousands are in dire need."
 Meanwhile at headquarters in the Biltmore the other members of the Women's Emergency Aid Committee discussed other possibilities of bringing the fund total to the $500,000 mark. Lieut. Col. Edward Underwood declared that if the Salvation Army had $1,000,000 for immediate use, it would not meet present demands for relief.
 Members of the executive committee who pledged their support toward bringing the campaign to a successful conclusion included Mrs. Reginald Fincke, Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer, Mrs. Barrett Andrews, Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus, Mrs. David K. Bruce, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Lafarge, Mrs. Eugene S. Reynal, Mrs. Paul Pryibil, Mrs. Hunter Sylvester Marston and Mrs. Edward F. Hutton.
 Mrs. Vincent Astor appealed last night for contributions to the $500,000 fund being raised by the Women's Division of the Emergency Employment Committee. and also for support of the Emergency Committee's drive to raise $8,000,000 by tomorrow to provide jobs for the unemployed in an address broadcast over the WEAF network of the National Broadcasting Company.
 Declaring that distress was increasing rather than decreasing, Mrs. Astor said the Police Department's estimate of 30,000 unemployed heads of families in October "has been revised upward to 50,000 today."
 "Never before in the history of this city," she said, "have unemployment conditions and the need for relief been as urgent as they are today. The worse Winter months are before us. Unless those persons who are in more fortunate economic positions will help the unfortunate, thousands of men, women, and children will face untold distress."
 She said $435,000 had been subscribed by the women of New York City toward the women's division's goal of $500,000. She urged that contributions be sent to Thomas Cochran, treasurer, 40 Wall Street.
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