OCR Text |
Show ROCKEFELLERS GIVE JflOJilOClA , Two Funds Share Equally in Aid of Starving NEW YORK. March 11 A peond large gift from th Hocklllrr family to foreign relief funds has bn announced. an-nounced. This was a combined contribution con-tribution of I -Oft. 000 to the China famine fam-ine fund $2f0, OftO from John I. Kock-f"llr Kock-f"llr Jr. and $260 0OQ from tha Laura Splman ockrfller memorial fund. During tba drlva of the Kuropean relief council for $33,000,000 for una , In relief work among S. 600.000 children tn central and aoutheaatern Kurope, Mr. Kockefeller announced tbat ha would glva $1,009,000 In a alngle contribution con-tribution to that fund. When the announcement an-nouncement of tha gift to tho Hoover fund waa made at the dinner of tha Toung Men's IHIble claaa In the Hotel McAlpin a month ago It waa pointed out by members of tha Kurope an relief re-lief council that this waa tha lara-eat contribution of an Individual to - that fund and perhapa tha larseat gift to iov relief fund by an Individual. Thla laat gift brings Mr. Horkefeller'a personal contributions to for in relief recently to more than $1,260,000. because be-cause ha and members of hla family made several smaller gifts during tha campaign of the Kuropean relief council. coun-cil. Hoth he and Mra. ltockefeller took an active part In tha campaign. Tha Laura Kpelman Rockefeller fund waa organised soon after tha death of Mra. John f. Rockefeller as a memorial, memo-rial, and endowment has been provided provid-ed from time to time by John U. Rockefeller and his son, John 1. Rockefeller Jr., who Is ona of the directors di-rectors of the fund. Thomas W. Umont, chairman of the Q American oommlttee for the China R famine fund, announced that tha $500.- OftO would be forwarded at once to tha American committee In Pekln for 1m . mediate purchase of euppllea to be distributed dis-tributed to tha famine area. "These gifts brought the total reported re-ported by the American committee and nine Protestant denominations to $2.-710,751,- aald tha statement of the famine fund committee. "This sum Is exclusive of Individual contributions sent direct to China by tha donors, and does not Include $5.00.000 contributed early in tha famine by the American Red Cross, T'nder tha auspices of the American committee, the relief cam- M palgn has now spread to every state H In tha Union taking Its place as the.H foremost philanthropic effort before p the American people. "The amount thus far received hy the American committee in reported mm $1.61.7M. Added to thla. the Protestant Prot-estant churches hava contributed as follows: "Methodist Episcopal. $?!.000; Church of tha Brethren. $116,000; ConrregaUonallst, $22,000; Protestant Kp!acfpl. $40,000; Methodist Kpisco- fal, Poulh, $100. 000; fcouthern Baptist, $0,000. |