Evening star., 1944-06-12
War Bonds
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pm.
Secretary of Commerce Jones will
be the principal speaker on tomor-
row nights program which also will
feature music by the Navy School
Of Music Band.
On Wednesday night, Bob Hawk
will bring his Thanks to the
Yanks" Bond show with Lynn
Gardner, vocalist on his radio show,
and Col. Stoopnagle, radio comic,
as added attractions. The Army
Air Forces color guard will appear
also and the finale will be a Salute
to the Services" featuring the Army
Air Forces band from Boiling Field
Speakers will include Ugo Carusi,
executive assistant to the Attorney
General, and James L. Fly, chair
man of the Federal Communica-
tions Commission.
Controller General Lindsay War
rem will be the guest speaker Thurs
day night when Flying Varieties"
again will headline the show. The
same show will be presented Friday
with Fannie Hurst, author, and
John B. Blandford, director of the
National Housing Agency, the
speakers.
Press Club Night.
Saturday will be National Press
Club night at the show with Reinald
Werrenrath, opera star, and the
AAF Band from Boiling Field as
the principal attractions.
Subsequent performances Will
feature Allan Jones. June Knight,
Joan Roberts Of Oklahoma, !"
Tommy fuckers band and Victor
Borge.
Two barrage ballons will fly 500
feet over the exhibit from 10 am.
to 10 pm. daily during which visi-
tors may view the display which in
cludeS two Japanese Zeros and q
Messerschmidt 100 Fighter plane.
The show is sponsored by the AAF,
the Interdepartmental War Bond
Saving Committee, the District War
Finance Committee, the National
Parks Service, and the Welfare and
Recreation Association.
Meanwhile, the District campaign
was underway with War Bond flags
flying from public transportation
vehicles and local business firms.
Members of the local War Finance
Committees speakers bureau are
scheduled to speak at most of the
local theaters tonight, while bond
rallies are scheduled throughout the
day for Government employees.
Red Cross Rally Today.
American Red Cross STAN men,
bers will meet for q rally at 4:30
pm. today in the garden in back Of
national headquarters. where they
will hear Chairman Norman H.
Davis. Some 81 employees who have
served with the organization for as
years will receive service bars.
Station WWDC will stage q s.
minute program each night at 6:10,
7:10 and $40, and approximately
1000 boys and girls known as vic
tory volunteers" will call at District
homes to remind residents to
listen in
In Alexandria the campaign for
81, ,450,000 has been dedicated to
Maj. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, head Of
the United States Strategic Air
Forces, who is resident OF the
city. His wife was a speaker at the
opening rally held last Thursday.
William G.. Illch, chairman of the
campaign, has suggested as slogan,
Buy big one for some one in the
service" and plans have been made
at campaign headquarters to make
public the names Of owners and
co-owners of bonds purchased in re-
sponse to the slogan.
Mrs. Charles Clark, mother Of 1t.
Gen. Mark Clark, commander of the
5th Army In Italy, purchased the
first War Bond at the bond booth
in the Hecht Co. department store
window, which opened today.
The store has set aside two OF its
display windows at Seventh and F.
streets NV. for the campaign. One,
with the glass removed, is the bond
booth, while the other cantains a
teletype machine bringing in the
latest invasion news, which is
chalked up on a blackboard. There
is a large map Of Europe in the
background with lights flashing on
and off at the invasion points.