Evening star., 1944-06-17
War Loan
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by Reinald Werrenratn. formel
Metropolitan Opera star: the Army
Air Forces 100-piece band under the
direction of Capt, George Howard
and the National Press Club Chorus
which will introduce a new infantry
song
The song, Men of the Infantry,
was composed by two Press Club
members, Phelps Adams, manager
of the New York Sun bureau here
who wrote the words, and Howard
Acton, chairman of the clubs En-
tertainment Committee, who ar
ranged the music.
Tyrone Power. screen star, now
a lieutenant in the Marine Corps,
is expected to be master of cere-
monies for the program at which
Samuel O'Neal, National Press Club
president, will report on employer
and employe press group pledges
in the current war loan drive.
Speakers for the evening include
1t. Gen. Barney Giles. acting COM
mander of the Army Air Forces;
Brig. Gen. Philip Fleming, Federal
Works Agency administrator, and
Col. Marvin McNichle, AAF pilot
veteran of the African and Italian
campaigns and the Dieppe raid.
Col. McNichle will be interviewed
by Preston Grover Associated
Press war correspondent, who re-
Gently returned from the India and
Chinese war fronts.
Roll of Honor Opened.
At national housing night last
night at the captured air combat
equipment show, the Roll of Honor,
on which is inscribed the names
of armed forces personnel to whom
Fifth War Loan Bonds have been
dedicated, was officially opened
with color guard ceremony and
a prayer by an AAF chaplain.
Fannie Hurst, novelist, headed
the stage program, which included
talks by First 1t. Jack Dees
bomber pilot and veteran of Sc
missions over North Africa and
Sicily: Fowler Harper, solicitor for
the Interior Department, and John
B. Blandford, jr., National Housing
administrator.
The Treasury Department an
nounced today that total bond sales
through payroll deductions fol
Army military and civilian person.
mel as of June l stand at S4,233 900
while the total sale of bonds t.
Army personnel since the War Bono
program began is S806,423 ,659.
! Special Fifth War Loan Bonds
bearing line drawing of the Georg'
! Washington manor house, which
went on sale in Mount Vernon, Va
on Flag Day, are in great demand
the Post Office reported yesterday
Total sales on the special bonds t.
date are $4,000. The supply wa
exhausted yesterday, and rusl
order for more was sent to Wash
ington.
Other Bond Rallies.
\ Sergt. Bernard Redmont. Marin
Corps combat correspondent, ant
Assistant Secretaries of State Deal
Acheson and G. HoWland Shaw vii
speak at two bond rallies today a
the State Department.
/ Corpl Thomas Franks, Marin
Corps, recently returned from tn
South Pacific where he won tn
Purple Heart, and Elliott Grim
shaw, member of the District Wa
Finance Committees Speakers Bu
reau, yesterday spoke at a bone
rally for some $50 employees of tn
Western Electric Co., where 50 pc
cent of the $4,000 bond quota ha
been pledged to date.
Other rallies held yesterday in
cluded Thomas Somerville Co., Firs
and H streets NV, where employe
heard Arthur j. Hansel; the Mari
time Commission-War Shipping Ad
ministration, Tivoli Theater, -Four
teenth and Park road NV, wher
the film Lifeline" was shown, ant
a general rally at Banneker JUNO
High School attended by more thai
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