Cash Is Needed Most
In Dutch Flood Area;
Clothing Leaves Here
Cash, rather than blankets and
j clothing, is now needed for
flood-stricken Holland.
This was the word today from
official sources, as Washington
area donors arranged to send
6 tons of clothing and blankets
to the victims.
Two Shipments Arranged.
Five tons left the Netherlands
Embassy last night for New
i York, to be placed aboard a
Dutch steamer scheduled to
leave for Holland at noon to
morrow. Another shipment of
about a ton, raised in a separate
drive by Mrs. W. C. Rountree
of 536 Southampton street, Sil
ver Spring, Md., and her friends,
was to be picked up today by
a truck loaned by Walter Reed
Army Medical Center, prepara
tory to shipment to Holland.
The Netherlands-America
Foundation, 1140 Fifteenth street
N.W., is now the accredited col
lecting agency in the Washing
ton area to receive contributions.
Clarence A. Aspinwall is chair
man of the Washington chapter.
Mrs. Rountree centered her
activities among the 840 fam
ilies in the big Northwest Park
Apartment development at New
Hampshire avenue and Piney
Branch road. The response was
so great that she had to move
furniture out of her living room
to provide additional storage
space for the gifts.
Meanwhile, at 10:30 o'clock
last night, Dr. Stanley Horn-
beck, former American Am
bassador to The Netherlands,
kicked off a 24-hour radio mara
thon on Radio Station WOL to
get money contributions.
Truck Donated.
Arrangements for a tractor-
traile^/truck to carry the Ave
topr of supplies to New York
jyére made by Mrs. J. M. W.
fkoning Hamilton, former direc- I
1 tor of United Nations War Re
lief for The Netherlands. The
vehicle is being donated by
the Powell Transportation Co.,
Inc.
AFL Truck Drivers Union,
Local 639, is paying Elmer
Carter, of 445 Fourth street N.E.,
to drive the tractor-trailer. Mr.
Carter is waiving his layover pay
in New York to make the trip.
Another Powell employe, Joseph
M. Kirchhofer, of New York, is
donating his services to unload
the truck.
