Evening star., 1945-06-22
D. {. Bond Sales
ToIndiviiduaIs
Reach 90.7%
National Campaign
Put Over Top by
Corporations

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With only eight more days to 90
before the conclusion of the Sew
enth War Loan drive, the District
still is 81 per cent short of meeting
its quota of $4S 5000, 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, 900 900
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,-
000, 100000 goal, although the ma
tional total stands at s15,982, 900 900.
Sale of the E bonds here were re-
ported at S33, 100000 and the total
sale to individuals, including the E
bonds, as S63, 500, ,00O-or GOT per
cent of the individual goal of $70,-
100000
Corporations came in for a round
of praise when it was announced
that total purchases by firms here
totals s98,000,000 or 2279 per cent
of the s43,0oo,OOO quota.
Will Show Captured Sub.
Meanwhile, to stimulate E bond
sales, War Loan officials announced
captured German submarine, the
U-505, will arrive here early tomor-
row for exhibition to bond pur-
chasers.
Wilmer ]. 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, 4804 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 talk by Capt. Daniel ".
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. CAL
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 sucf
feat in United States naval history
: is recovering from an airplane crasl
at ne NxSal Medical Center at Be
thesda, Nd.
He is Ensign Fred Middaugh 10
Los Angeles, an electrician on tn
escort carrier Guadalcanal, flagship
of the task group which capture,
=, the sub. Ensign Middaugh cam
through that skirmish without /,
scratch, including the ticklish busi
ness of checking and rechargin,
batteries on the BOBBY -trap-infestet
sub.
1 A few months ago, over Virginia
his luck ran out when a transpor,
plane crashed. One of four sur.
vivors, he suffered numerous frac-
lures and only yesterday the casts
were removed from his legs.
Plotted Seizure.
Capt. Gallery revealed today that
the submarine capture was not q
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
4 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 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 H.
year-old son, Mylo, jr., to see the
submarine tomorrow.
I2n Mnyrh.n+ fa.~o.