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The Curtiss WRIGHT-ER
From the Home of the Helldivers 
Vol.3, No.8
COLUMBUS, OHIO 
October 22, 1943

PLANT'S WAR CHEST GOAL $150,000
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AT HOME AND Abroad benefits of the 1943 Franklin Country War Chest Drive will be felt, with Curtiss-Columbus' goal of $150,000 playing a large part.T\ The plant's concentrated one-day drive drive will be Wednesday, Oct. 27, when payroll deduction pledge cards will be signed by workers on all three shifts...On the Tuesday preceding the drive, a castor at the plant will be Miss Lee Ya-ching (LEFT ABOVE), China's leading woman pilot. Two scenes illustrating the use of War Chest Funds are shown at RIGHT above and below. The top picture (Acme Photo) shows abandoned children being fed by one of the foreign relief agencies before evacuation from an enemy-taken city was completed. Below is the USO lounge at the Columbus Union Depot, where several thou-sand service men are given food, reading and writing material each day. 


Drive Set For Next Week
Men and women of Curtiss-Columbus will have a part in Franklin Country's War Chest Drive to collect funds to lessen the suffering of war humanity when they contribute in the one-day drive next Wednesday, Oct. 27, sponsored by the Labor-Management War Prod c t t i o n Drive Committee, the plant's share in the $1,487,000 goal for the country has been set at $150,-000.
Payroll deduction cards will be distributed by captains and lieu-tenants in each department, se-lected by the special War Chest Drive Committee headed by Carl Morrow, Machine Shop, and Rita Bresnahan, general superintend-ent's staff

Cards will give the signers, from all three shirts the choice of pledging 50 cents, 75 cents or $1.00 per week for a 23-week pe-riod, following the methed used last year in the War Chest Drive. No cash contributions are to be accepted 

Contributors may specify on their pledge cards the agency or agencies they wish to get the benefit of their contributions

No other drives for contribu-tion are to conducted in the plant prior to the annual Red Cross War Fund Drive next March. 

This year's goal is slightly high-er than that set last year, because the money is to go to all the 17 agencies of the National War Fund, the Allied nation's' relief agencies and the local agencies. The largest single beneficiary of this year's County War Chest fund will be the USO, which has been allocated $342,000 for use nationally and locally. Other agencies in the War Fund are War Prisoners Aid, United Service, United Sea-mans Service, United China Re-life, Russian Was Relief, etc. 

The balance of the county's goal will be distributed to local groups such as the Day Nurseries. Boy Scouts. Big Brothers, Central Community House, Infantile Paralysis Fund, Charity League Milk Fund, Convent of the Good S h e p h e r d, hospitals, Salvation Army, YMCA and YWCA, Day Nurses, etc. 

The National CIO War Relief Committee has urged all CIO members to give no less than eight house pay to the War Chest Drive. The plant's goal has been set at $13 from every working person.

China's First Lady of the Air to Visit Plant Tuesday
Petite, attractive Lee Ya-ching, first woman flier in China and untiring campaigner in behalf of her nation and United China Relief, will tour the plant Tuesday noon after speaking at the kick-off meeting of the Franklin County War Chest Drive at Memorial Hall at 7:45 p.m. Monday.
A pageant at Broad and Highsts will follow the kick-off meeting.
Miss Lee has flown 50,000 miles to all major cities in the United States and Canada speaking in behalf of her besieged people and discussing the place of aviation in China's present war. She studied flying in Switzerland, and was the first woman of any nationality to receive a pilot's license in Geneva. She also trained in aeronautics in California, and while there earned membership in the Caterpillar Club.
Relief work in Shanghai was uppermost in Miss Lee's mind soon after Japan started its aggression against her country in 1937. She organized an emergency hospital for the wounded in that city, escaping to continue her work in Canton. She is now on a good-will tour of this country on behalf of United China Relief, one of the agencies to which money in the Franklin County War Chest will go. 
Annual Masque Party Thursday
 Plans have been completed for the annual Hallowe'en masquerade party sponsored by Curtiss-Wright Post 249, American Legion, slated for Thursday, Oct. 28, from 9 p.m. to midnight, in Memorial Hall. 
 Highlights of the party will be round and square dancing with several prizes to participants, a battle of music between "Chuck" Selby's orchestra and Joe Martin's "Saddlebusters" hill-billy band, and vocal numbers by well known Columbus songstresses. Prizes will also be awarded for costumes. 
 Invitations have been extended to service men stationed at Fort Hayes, Lockbourne, and Port Columbus.
Cafeteria Repairs
 Building 3 cafeteria will be closed Sunday for emergency repairs to both the kitchen and dining room. Hours of closing will be from 5:30 a.m. Sunday until 7 a.m. Monday. No breakfast will be served in that cafeteria on Sunday morning, but the regular schedule will be resumed Monday morning. 
Guards Alternate
 Many new faces will be noted among the sergeants of the Plant Protection Force for a few weeks but this doesn't mean new personnel. It is due to the system of interchanging sergeants from one shift to another so that uniform operation can be established on all shifts. 
Men Abroad Get Cigarets Sent by Plant Workers
 Cigarets purchased with funds contributed by Curtiss-Wright workers are finding their way across the seas to men in foreign service. Word has been received from two former workers, one now in England and the other in North Africa.
 Sgt. Jack Bauermeister, formerly of the Pattern Department where his father, Harry, now is employed, wrote from England, where he is stationed with army engineers, that he received five packs with Curtiss-Columbus designation on them.
 Sgt. Bauermeister who has been in the service more than a year, also has a brother, James, employed in Tool Design.
 The other letter came from Pvt. Avery Jones, now in North Africa.
"Dear Sirs:
  "Just a line to let you know I got your cigarets the other day. I would have written sooner but time was very scarce. Thanks a million for the cigarets.
  "It is certainly nice to know that people back home haven't forgotten the boys in service. Again I say, thanks a lot."
  Curtiss-Columbus' donations totaling $2500 made possible the mailing of a million cigarets to men in foreign service. 
Buckmaster Returns Here
 Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, who spoke at Curtiss-Columbus' War Production Drive Rally one year ago, returns to his home city next week as principal speaker at the Navy Day dinner Wednesday in the grand ballroom of the Neil House, sponsored by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
 Admiral Buckmaster, former commander of the USS Yorktown and hero of victories in the Coral Sea and at Midway, wears the Distinguished Service Medal. He will tell of the war in the Pacific at the dinner which will honor him. He will also possibly make a return visit to the plant.
 Capt. J. W. C. Brand, inspector of Naval aircraft at Curtiss-Columbus and other local Navy men will attend the Navy Day dinner. 
By Our Deeds... An Editorial
 No accomplishment of Curtiss-Columbus has been so effective in proving the patriotism and community interest of the plant's workers as the excellent results here of the 1942 War Chest Drive, 1943 Red Cross Drive and the War Bond campaigns of the last 13 months.
 This year, the plant's per-employe quota for the War Chest actually is not quite as high as last year's. That makes our responsibility all the greater.
 Curtiss-Columbus never has failed the community, the nation nor the men at the fighting front when called upon to carry its share of the load. We must not fail them now.