Evening star., 1944-11-18
Capital Is Prepared
Ito Launch War Bond
Campaign Monday

campaign M0n0dv
With q keynote address by Pres
ident Roosevelt scheduled for to-
morrow night, and most of the pre-
campaign rallies over, plans for the
Sixth War Loan drive, which be-
gins Monday, shifted into high gear
today. The District quota In, the
drive Is $94, 900 900.
Several Government groups al
ready have held bond sales, and
topped their quotas. Solicitors are
making final arrangements before
they start out Monday to top their
quotas early In the drive, which
lasts through December 16. Ralph
@. Engelsman, chief Of the payroll
savings division of the Treasury War
Finance Committee, called on en-
ployes who are buying bonds
through payroll deductions to buy
at least one extra 500 bond during
the drive.
The President will speak tomorrow
night at 10 o'clock, with his address
broadcast by. all radio networks.
1,500 See Infantry Show.
More than 1,500 persons turned
out yesterday to see the 3o-man
team OF American infantrymen fight
a winning battle against a simulated
Japanese sniper squad on the WASH
ington Monument Grounds, and an
even larger crowd is expected today.
The infantrymen, all seasoned
soldiers from the Fort Benning (Ga.)
Infantry school, are showing WASH
ingtonians first hand what the bows
overseas do every day, as the climax
OF their Here Is Your Infantry"
show. being put on as feature of
the drive.
After "a demonstration of drill,
and Of the uses of 10 basic Army
weapons. the combat unit stages an
assault on a Japanese pillbox, using
the weapons and methods American
boys In the Philippines, In Germany
and in Italy use. They inch across
the field toward the pillbox, wiping
out two Jap sniper nests first, and
then charge the stronghold. firing
their bazookas, fame throwers,
machine guns and rifles.
Weapons On Exhibit.
Besides the hah-hour attack on
the pillbox at 1890 and $3.50 pm.
the show features a 12-hour exhibit
Of the weapons the infantrymen use
|-baZooka, fiame-thrower, 81 and
90 nm. mortars. heavy and light
machine guns (both the water and
air cooled, tommy guns, MI rifles,
sniper guns, Browning .automatics
and carbines. The exhibit in a tent
on the grounds is open from 10 am.
to 10 pm, and soldiers are on duty
during those hours to explain the
weapons, demonstrate their uses
and answer questions about them.
Grandstand seats are provided for
the public. and the show is free.
The afternoon pillbox fight to-
morrow will begin at 2:30 pm, In
stead of 1890. On Monday, 1t again
will be at 1890.
Three Government groups already
have exceeded their quotas in the
drive. In a one-hour sale yesterday
the War Contract Settlement Office
subscribed its quota of $1,551 almost
seven times over, piling up bond
sale of $4,000, Chairman M. M.
Wilkie announced. The central Of
flee of the Federal Public Housing
Authority has raised $105 ,669, or
101 per cent of its quota. Chairman
George A. Baird announced. And II
was announced yesterday. that ezn-
ployes of the Treasury War Finance
Division had doubled their quota,
with a total sale Of $81.652. 4......sa
= More Rallies Scheduled. = ---- y
More precampaign rallies are
scheduled for today and five were
held yesterday. Today's meetings
include rallies at the six Hahn
Co. shoe stores, with all personnel
of the stores attending. Yesterdays
meetings included rallies held by
the Reciprocity Club, the Uptown
Lions Club, the Sixty Millimeter
Club, the druggists division Of the
War Finance Committee and the
Joseph H. Milans Masonic Lodge
No. 38.
The insurance division of the War
Finance Committee will stage a rally
at the Commerce Department audi
torium at pm. Monday. Chair
man Hiram Hart announces. War
Bond workers representing all
branches of the insurance business
will be present to see the theatrical
show, headed by Walter O'Keefe,
master of ceremonies, and featuring
actors and actresses Janet Blair,
Johnnie Johnston, Ella May Morse
and Richard Dyer-Bennett, and a
piano recital by Sergt. Eugene List.
Ralph Engelman, national director
of the payroll savings division, will
speak on the Sixth War Loan drive,
and 1t. Col. Westray Battle Boice,
WAC staff officer during the African
campaign, and Corpl. Alfred Mar
tine, veteran of the battle for Tu-
nisia, will tell Of the combat life
overseas.
Employees OF the Pansfna Canal
and the Panama Railroad Co. yes
terday were awarded Unite1 States
flags which formerly flew over the
Capitol and the Supreme Court
Building as prizes in a flve-month
bond campaign by the Interdepart-
mental War Savings Bond Commit
tee.
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