The Washington herald., 1919-04-26
AIR JOY RIDES
LATEST PRIZES
IN BOND DRIVE
Leaders in Sales and Largest
Purchasers to Soar
Over City.
CHURCH TAKES $1,000
Woman Wins Honor Of
Firing Monster Gun
Of Army.

vctors In the Liberty Bond selling
contest will receive their first air
plane tickets today.
Applicants for the air rides must
present proof OF their claims to be
the salesman and purchaser of the
largest amounts of bonds yesterday
at the local Liberty Loan headquar-
tiers before 10 o'clock this morning.
No applications received later will be
considered by the judges.
Proof of the sales will consist of
either the bond pledges signed by the
purchaser or Il certificate from one
OF the loan chairmen that the pledge
card has been received by him The
purchaser Of the largest amount of
bonds must present a receipt from
te bank selling him the bond.
Award Certificates.
Certificates entitIinG the holder
to ride in one of the army planes
at Boiling Field will be awarded by
the airplane subcommittee. COM
posed of representatives of the four
newspapers of Washington and Eu-
gene Thompson. secretary of the
Central Victory Loan committee.
The certificates will be issued i'm
mediately following the decision of
the subcommittee.
Col. Hartz. commander at Eolling
Field, has requested that the GER
tificatees be presented to him by
noon the day before the flight is
cesired. Flights will be made each
day the weather permits.
Exact figures of the Districts
loan total up to date had not been
compiled at the local Headquarters
last night. but it was believed that
they would reach over Si.Ooo.O 900.
Church subscribes.
1t was announced that the First and
Third Church of Christ Scientist had
subscribed 5000 and s., 600 respective
ly from the church funds and that a
mass meeting Of the various Christian
Scientist churches will be held in the
interest OF teh loan sometime next
week.
a Victory note for s1.OoO has been
subscribed by the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church by vote of the board
OF officers. The note will be added to
the church's building fund.
Buy Victory bond and you can
fire the big gum"
This was the offer upt up to he
crowd which assembled last evening
to watch the drills of the Coast Ar
tiIlery men who touring the country
with wo Pinch railroad guns in he
interest of the loan at Fourteenth and
d streets southwest Capt. w. F.. Star
buck was the officer conducting the
drill.
Here's a lady who wants to fire
the gun." announced Captain Star
buck as a pledge card was passed up
to him. Il guess we'n have to call her
a gunnerette."
Woman Fires Gun.
When the gun crew had gone
through the leading drill the gunner
ette'' was handed the lanyard, and
at the word fire she leaned her weight
onto it it. There was a ''bang''-not
as loud as there would have been had
the big gun been loaded with the 7OO-
pound projectile which it hurls-but
an appreciable bang, and the crowd
applauded.
The drill with the big guns, one of
which is a 12-inch mortar, will take
place this evening also for the last
time from to D. m
Notwithstanding the wintry blasts
last night hundreds of Washing
tonians made the trip to the siding
at Fourteenth and D streets south
west, Just east of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, to see the
drills
The artillery men are members Of
n company which was decorated for
Gallantry under fire during the fight
ing near Chateau Thierry last year.
A number of the men received indi-
vidual decorations for bravery also.
The Germans are watching to see
what you are going to do with this
Victory Liberty Loan" DR.. Thomas
W. Green. head of the speakers
bureau for the National Liberty Loan
Organization. told a mass meeting Of
officers and employees of the urgeon
Generals Ofice at Ninth and E
streets yesterday afternoon.
Showing how large the expendi-
lures had peen, he told the audience
that for ordnance alone, the United,
States had expended between s12OO0 :
oo0. 900 and $1,000. .0o0000
Hospital Band.
At the conclusion of his address ,
bond sale was conducted by apt. VIII
liam Wolf Smith. and subscriptions to
the loan ranging from SO to 5000
were obtained from the crowd of
more than a 1000 persons who at
tended the rally. notwithstanding the
chill wind that swept the open stretch
of the hall where it was held.
The Walter Reed Hospital Band
was on hand and played patriotic
airs.
Italian Farm Hands Strike,
Rome. April 25.-Twenty thousand
farm hands are on strike in North