The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-11
Fourth War Loan
Sales More Than
Double lst Week
Sales to individuals Jump From
$7,7OO,OOO to $17,O00,0OO

While Maryland is eagerly await
ing an overall total of War Bond
purchases up-to-date in the State,
buying is brisk in both Baltimore and
throughout the counties. Howard w.
Jackson, State Chairman of the War
Finance Committee reported that
through January &c, Maryland indi-
viduals had purchased $17,000,000
worth of War Bonds. There will be
no full release of totals from the Fed
eral Reserve until after February l.
However, the $17,000,000 indicates
that Maryland has more than doubled
in individual sales since the last figure
on January II.
The "Buy A Plane Campaign" be-
ing carried on by the schools indicate
strong competition. The Cambridge
Upper Elementary School is putting
on a speedy campaign to buy Fair
child Cornell Training plane for
$4,000. Their drive will run from
January "a, to February Is, the clos
ing day of the Fourth War Loan.
Kensington Elm School, Kensington,
Maryland, is also purchasing a train
ing plane.
Denton, Maryland, reports a phe-
nomenal turnout for the exhibition
of the Messerschmitt plane. There
are 1900 inhabitants in Denton, but
5000 people, including 900 school
children were present to see the Nazi
fighter. In just few minutes time
$8,O3750 worth of War Bonds were
sold. The Cambridge Shipbuilding
Company at Cambridge, Maryland,
achieved its quota in two days and is
still going strong.
Film Star Makes Appeal
Miss Anne Baxter, film star who
spent a week in Baltimore and vi
entity to boost the sale of War Bonds,
spoke at War Bond luncheon held
at Carvel Hall in Annapolis last
Friday. She also visited the An
napolis Yacht Yard and the German
town School. Last Monday she joined
three exworld champions of the ring
in a Court House Plaza Bond Rally,
in Baltimore. The three champs were
Lieut.. Commander Jack Dempsey;
Lieut. Lenny Leonard and Capt.
James J. Braddock.
Miss Baxter in her appeal to the
workers in Maryland said, II would
like to impress you with some finan-
cial reasons why we, the citizens of
this country, must buy Bonds and
extra Bonds to support the Fourth
War Loan Campaign. But can't. I
can't think of war bonds in cold, mat
ter-of-fact terms. / don't think that
any American has to be sold on the
value of War Bonds, because they are
a good investment as hedge against
imitation and safe place to put your
money. These are merely the advan-
tages of buying Bonds. They are not
the reasons you should buy them.
Think for a minute of Guadalcanal,
of Sicily, of Tarawa. Think of the
thousands of American men who are
dying so that you and can live and
love and think about the future. These
men and women have no future. They
are dead" Miss Baxter concluded her
appeal by stating, Thousands of our
men will be spared pain and will re-
turn that much sooner to those of us
who love them, and peace will come
few days sooner to wipe from the
face of the earth, the blood and mis-
cry and terror of war. And this, we
the people of the United States, the
citizens of Baltimore, can do by con-
tributing regularly to the purchase of
war bonds. Is this too much to ask? |
The answer is in your heart"
Savings & Loan Associations
Pledge $5,OOO,OOO
Last Thursday night the Maryland
Council of Insured Savings and Loan
Associations pledged over $5,O0O,OOO
at Banquet held at the Belvedere
Hotel in Baltimore. Miss Baxter ac-
copied the pledges as they were made
from the floor.
Mrs. Sydney M. Cone, Chairman of
the Women's Division of the Maryland
War Finance Committee reports that
the Hospital Equipment Campaign be-
ing carried on by the Women of Mary
land is doing exceptionally we'll. Mrs.
Cone said, IL am convinced that the
counties are working as hard as they
have done in the past on previous
campaigns. know they are standing
by their men. The Baltimore office
would be interested to receive reports
of their work as it progresses"