Evening star., 1943-09-11
War Bonds

War Bonds
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approximately 100000 in bonds
are being purchased"
Ticket sales for the ST ,90O, 900 bond
premiere of For Whom the Bell
Tolls" slated for LoeW's Capitol
Theater on September Is, yesterday
amounted to $843,0 900, the house
having been scaled from $4,000
bonds down to $25 issues, accord
ing to John j. Payette and Carter
T. Barren, co-chairmen of the local
motion picture industrys War Ac-
tivities Committee.
Union Purchases Heavy.
Washington Local No. "a, Inter-
national Hod Carriers, Building and
Common Laborers Union of Ameri-
ca, announced it has bought $4,000
in bonds. The international union,
President Joseph v. Moreschi said,
announced the purchase by that
union of $1,250,000 in bonds in the
national campaign.
Gustave M. Bugniazet, secretary
of the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers Union, reported
his group purchased 100000 in Sc
curities, making their total bond in
vestment to date $1,100,000.
Mr.. Reilly reported the District
led the continental United States in
per capita Series E bond purchases
during July, with $11.75 per person.
Oregon was second with $875. Dur
ing the period May, 1941, to July
81, 1943, the Dustrict established
per capita figure of $155.15 to lead
the Nation, Connecticut being Sec
ond with $14981 and the national
average being $96.55.
Store Invests $4,000.
National Furniture Co., Seventh
and H streets NV, announced
through Manager A. Thomas Geraci
that it had purchased $500 900 worth
of bonds from a branch of Riggs
National Bank, an issuing agency.
Mr.. Geraci said the firm regarded
it as a splendid investment.
A visitor to the bond booth in the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
was sold a $4,000 bond by Mrs.
Florence H. Penland. His name was
not revealed.
Meanwhile banks, building and
loan associations, department and
retail stores, post Offices and other
issuing agencies reported a brisk
demand for bonds indicating that
purchases here were being main
tanned at an encouraging level
A late check of tickets for the
$3,549 900 bond broadcast of the
Quiz Kids, scheduled September 10
at Constitution Hall, indicated that
many holders of exchange tickets
have not traded them for the seat
ing tickets that must be obtained
to gain admission to the show. The
ticket supply at the War bond
booths of the 10 sponsoring stores,
ana at the 18 downtown banks, is
being exhausted rapidly, it was con-
firmed by an official check.
Rally Slated Tonight.
Scheduled for today is an OCD
bond rally, at pm. in the Paul
Junior High School, Eighth and
Peabody streets NV.
Purchase of $1,000 in bonds by the
Washington Real Estate Board, in
creasing its portfolio to $4,000, was
announced by Secretary Charles J.
Rush.
Approximately $50 employees OF
the Raleigh Haberdasher, 1910 F
street NV. are engaged in a "Ber-
lin Invasion" contest and already
have sold close to $4,000 in War
bonds inside and outside the store,
officials announced today. Employees
are asking friends outside the store
to make that extra bond purchase
Twelve participating teams have
taken the names of branches of the
armed forces. There will be prizes
in War stamps to the individual
team selling the highest amount of
bonds.
Employees of the General Electric
Co. held rally at $50 pm. yester-
day at the Shoreham Building at
which Coxswain George Haboush
African campaign veteran, and
Charles Drayton, Treasury speak
er, addressed the group. j. E.
Schwartz, chairman of the firms
War bond drive, announced that
the employees had been divided into
eight groups that will compete for
bond award.
The Chesapeake g. Potomac Tele-
phone Co. used its network broad
casts at and $50 am, when C.
A. Robinson, vice president and
general manager, and Maj. Ebert
S. Maloney of the Marine Corps,
urged employees to back up the
sacrifices that our fighting forces
are making.
Secretary Stimson, referring with
pride to the exhibit of Army weap-
ons, said, in part:
They are the necessary tools
of the soldiers craft. In order that
our soldiers may go on fighting,
! these tools and munitions must
flow to them in an unending stream
until the war is won. Here you
can see for yourselves the nature
Of the costly but indispensable in
vestment for which the purchase
of War bonds is so urgently need
ed"
Radio Program Set.
Appearing with Secretary Nor
/ genthau in a Nation wide CBS
broadcast at 7:30 pm tomorrow at
Monticello, near Charlottesville
Va, will be 1t. Landon l.. Davis
| jr., of Charlottesville, diving officer
who obeyed Comdr. Howard w. Gill
more's heroic but suicidal take her
down" order after the submarine