Evening star., 1944-11-22
War Loan Drive Gets
Flying Start With
S6,10O,0OO Sales
1874 Per Cent of Quote
In individual Purchases
Is Reached in District

The Sixth War Loan drive for
$94, ,000,000 in the District got off
to a flying start today. with a
total of $6,100.0O0 in bonds sold
to individuals through yesterday,
the War Finance Committee an
nounces.
= OF this figure, $4,000, 900 is in
series e" bonds. Figures for bonds
sold to corporations will not be
available for about a week.
The 5000, GOO represents 49,. pei
cent of the $46 ,00o, 900 quota il
bonds to be sold to individual Is
while the $4,000, 900 is 1873 per cent
of the $30,000,000 quota for "E'
bonds. This gives the District drive
about the same percentage in sales
as that in the entire Nation.
National Figure Given.
The Treasury announced last
night that sales throughout the
Nation totaled 1891 900 900 in Series
e" bonds, or about 1873 per cent
of the national quota of So, 500 00O,-
900 in ''E" bonds. The overall ma
tionai quota is $4,000 000, 900.
Even before any District sales
were announced, total of $3.50, 900
was sure. One corporation sale, by
the International Harvester Co. had
scored S2,050,000 for the drive, while
So 100000 was raised in the ticket
sale for the Parade of Stars" show
which officially opened the District
drive Monday night.
Special appeals are expected from
President Roosevelt, military off,
cials, and the several thousands of
volunteer statesmen tomorrow. On
Thanksgiving, 1914, the families of
American soldiers will be asked to
remember as they celebrate COM
fortably in warm homes, the boys
who will eat K-rations in cold
trenches. To insure happier
Thanksgiving in 1945, and to send
the equipment needed overseas,
every person on the home front is
asked to buy at least one extra 500
UCllu uu1lllS lllG CdlIl DdlSI.
Urges Greater Purchases.
Wilmer J. Waller, District chair
man of the drive, issued a Thanks
giving Day statement today, urging
greater Bond purchases.
Let us give thanks to the Divine
Providence with our prayers, and
thanks to our fighting forces with
our hearts-and our pocketbooks
he said. Lets make our thanks
to them stick-with War Bonds
Let's buy our extra Bond to
observe this Thanksgiving week
Let's make record in sales-a tow
ering pile of thanks" that our fight
ing forces can see and thereby be
heartened Our extra Bond is the
best kind of War Bond for fighters
It's the thanks they will know WE
mean.
F. The THYME Bottling Co. has do
mated $1,000 Bond to the Palace
Theater War Bond jackpot
Throughout the drive any one car
buy a vote for himself or some one
else for $25 Bond. A $50 Bono
will buy two votes, a $100 Bond
four votes. Slips bearing the names
of those voted for will be placed ir
a large 5-gallon glass jug at the
theater. At the end of the drive
the person receiving the most votes
will win the Bond.
Employees of the SO Western Union
offices here purchased $4,000 in
bonds in the first two days of the
drive, it is announced. They are
seeking to raise $4,000, the cost OF
a pursuit plane. B. c. Michael
heads the drive.
Tomorrow the National Broad
casting Co. will schedule a 19-hour
salute to the Nations War Bond
statesmen, featuring Hollywood and
Broadway stars.
Four Rallies Listed Today.
Four Bond rallies were scheduled
for today. About 1000 employees o1
woodward & Lothrop Co. met in the
store at 8:45 m. to hear the Walter
Reed Hospital Service Band. Sew
eral servicemen and John Reilly ol
the District War Finance Executive
Committee spoke.
The Capital Transit Co. plant a
Maine avenue and p street S.W. viii
: (See WAR BONDS, Page A-5.)