Greenbelt cooperator., 1942-12-04
Ticket Sales Booming for Defense Fund
Speakers on Japan and R
Round Out Excitiiqg PPtosram\
For Tomorrow's VictofysRany

TS~!Tr
might practi-
cal1y every one in Greenbelt
will be at the Victory Rally
in the Elementary School
Auditorium to observe the
anniversary of this country's
Pearl Harbor disaster and to
raise funds for local civilian
defense. Ticket sales at 81
each were reported to be
nearing the thousand mark
yesterday.
Program Completed
With a band concert, carefully
seelcted speakers, contest awards,
and a dance, the evenings pro-
gram of entertainment was COM
plete early this week, so that full
attention could be given to ticket
sales.
The Greenbelt Band will give
a 45-minute concert under the
baton of Emerson Meyer at 1880.
Then there will be an invocation
by Reverend Wilmer P. Johnston,
and the audience will observe a
30-second silence period in mem
ory of Americas brave men who
lost their lives in the Pearl Har-
Dor attack of last December T..
At $3.50 Town Manager Roy S.
Braden, as master of ceremonies,
will introduce the guest speakers
Richard Massock, former Associa-,
ted Press bureau chief in Italy,
and Frank Williams, former COM
mercial attache in Japan, will dis
cuss the western and eastern ends
of the Axis, respectively.
Other speakers who will give
brief comments are Colonel Henry
S. Barrett, State director of civ
ilian defense in Maryland, and
Comdr. Arthur Rysticken of the
Greenbelt Civilian Defense Corps.
The American Legion Green
belt post has awards to give out
to winners of an essay contest,
What America Means to Me-"
and then Father Leo j. Fealy will
close the meeting with a benedic-
ton,
Dancing at 1O:3O
For dancing from 1890 to
am. the 12-piece FBI orchestra
will play. The orchestra also ex-
poets to present two young ladies
for speciality numbers. Dancing
will be interrupted at II o'clock
for announcing the winner of the
Miss Victory contest sponsored by
the Greenbelt Athletic Club.
The goal of tomorrow nights
Victory Rally is a thousand dol
lars to supplement a fund of that
amount which was raised last
spring for civilian defense ex-
penditures in Greenbelt. AS in
the case of the first sum a COM
plete and detailed accounting of
all receipts and disbursements of
the rally will be published in the
Cooperator within a few weeks,
and periodical accounting of how
the fund is spent will follow.
In urging every resident to
buy a ticket whether or not it
would be possible to attend, Mr..
Rysticken said, "Your cooperation
in buying Rally tickets will go a
long way in not only providing
the necessary funds to obtain es-
sential equipment for our defense
workers, but also in giving these
volunteers the feeling that their
work is appreciated by the people
of Greenbelt."
Although elaborate prepara-
tions had been made for complete
coverage of the town with tickets
by afraid wardens, it was ac-
knowledged that some houses
might have been missed. Tickets
may be purchased at either the
east or south entrances to the Ele-
mentary School tomorrow night.
A number of Prince Georges
County civilian defense officials
will be guest sof honor. Among
them will be Robert Sherwood,
county director; f. F. Zalesak,
the county's chief afraid war
den, and Thomas Rosewag, dep
uty chief afraid warden for the
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