Evening star., 1945-06-22
D. T.. Bond Sales
To|ndividuaIs
Reach 9O.7%
%
National Campaign
Put Over Top by
Corporations

With only eight more days to &c
before the conclusion Of the Sew
enth War Loan drive, the District
still is 81 per cent short of meeting
its quota Of $48, ,000, 900 in purchases
of series E Bonds, the Treasury
Department announced today.
Although total bond sales in the
national campaign have tech.
nically" passed the $4,000, 900 ,0Ot
quota, Secretary Of the Treasury
Morgenthau said last night this
victory is due mostly to heavy in
vestments by corporations. Ma.
tionally the series E Bonds are
still $1,000, 100000 short OF the $4,-
900 100000 goal, although the ma.
tional total stands at $685., 900 900
Sale of the E bonds here were re.
ported at $33,1OO,0OO and the totaI
sale to individuals, including the T
bonds. as 500 ,500,O00-or 9O.7 pei
cent of the individual goal of $70,-
900, 900.
Corporations came in for rounC
of praise when it was announced
that total purchases by firms here
totals $98,000,o00 or 227.9 per cent
of the S43,00O,00O quota.
Will Show Captured Sub.
Meanwhile, to stimulate E bono
sales, War Loan officials announced
captured German submarine, the
U-505, will arrive here early tomor-
row for exhibition to bond pur-
chasers.
Wilmer J. Waller, drive chairman
will open the exhibition in a brief
ceremony at noon tomorrow at the
Coast Guard dock, $50 Maine ave-
nue. S.W. The U-boat will be ac-
companied by the destroyer escort
Otter.
Aboard the Otter will be Comdr
Jack Bowling, 1904 Nebraska avenue
NV, who is in charge of the feet
division of which the Otter is part
The ceremony, which will be
broadcast by Station WWDC, will
feature a talk by Capt. Daniel v.
Gallery, Vienna, Va, skipper of the
task fleet which captured the sub
marine. Capt. Gallery boarded the
sub after it had been forced to the
surface and opened a suspected
BOBBY trap on the water-tight door
to the after torpedo room to enable
the salvage parties to stop flooding
in that part of the sub. Capt. GAL
lery now Is assistant director of
aviation planning in the Office of
Chief of Naval Operations.
Tickets to Bond Buyers.
Tickets to inspect all parts Of the
submarine can be obtained by pur-
chase of an E Bond at any theater
booth. Only bond buyers will be
allowed on board.
Meanwhile one OF the men re-
sponsible for the capture of the sub
marine in June, 1944-the only such
feat in United States naval history
is recovering from an airplane crash
at the Naval Medical Center at Be-
thesda, Md.
He is Ensign Fred Middaugh of
Los Angeles, an electrician on the
escort carrier Guadalcanal, flagship
of the task group which captured
the sub. Ensign Middaugh came
through that skirmish without a
scratch, including the ticklish busi-
ness of checking and recharging
batteries on the BOBBY -trap-infested
sub.
A few months ago, over Virginia,
his luck ran out when a transport
plane crashed. One of four sur
vivors, he suffered numerous frac-
lures and onlys yesterday the casts
were removed from his legs.
Plotted Seizure.
Capt. Gallery revealed today that
the submarine capture was not a
hit-and- miss accident. For a month
prior to sighting the 740-ton stand
ard commerce raider, the Guadal-
canal task force group had plotted
the seizure of the sub. The INTEL
ligence Department wanted one
badly to gain technical information
that would stop Atlantic marauders
and shorten the war. This informa-
ton the Guadalcanal force ably
provided.
The U-505, which had bagged co.
900 tons of Allied shipping in the
Atlantic, was the first enemy man
of-war of any description captured
by the United States Navy since
1915.
On sighting the submarine, one of
the five destroyers in the group, the
Chatelain, blew it to the surface
with a depth bomb. Facing ma
chine-gun fire, the German crew of
SO took to the water after attempt
ing to sink the craft by opening
scuttling bells.
Precarious Task.
A party from the destroyer Pills
bury, commanded by 1t. Albert L.
David, followed by one from the
Guadalcanal, boarded the sub and
succeeded in closing the valves.
Theirs was the precarious task of
removing BOBBY traps and the
bombs left by the Nazis.
For his heroic part in the action
1t. David is in line for the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor and the
entire task group soon will be
awarded the Presidential Unit Cita-
ton.
Another who took part in the en-
gagement was 1t. q. g. Mylo c.
Keck of % Fairhaven drive, Fair
haven, Va, now in the Navy Depart
ment's Bureau of Personnel.
1t. Keck expects to take his IL
year-old son, Mylo, jr., to see the
submarine tomorrow.
Sd. T., Merchant Seamen