Evening star., 1945-11-27
Big German U-Boat
To Be Shown 10 Bond
Buyers Next Week

The Nazi submarine U-977 will
be on exhibition here to Wash
ington Victory Bond buyers
Monday through Saturday of
next week, the District War
Finance Committee announced
today.
The sub will be tied up at the
Coast Guard dock, $50 Maine ave-
nue. S.W.. and will be manned by
picked crew of American submarine
specialists, totaling SO officers and
men. They will stand by to explain
the functions of the intricate ma
chinery and combat devices built
into the underseas raider. The
showing will reveal the details of
the largest and longest-range un-
derseas craft the Germans had. In
spection hours will be announced
later, the committee said.
The 600-ton U-boat was the Sec
ond one to surrender to Argentine
authorities last July after the war
ended in Europe. The sub surfaced
and cruised to an Argentine subma-
rlne base where the crew of 81 was
put under guard and taken ashore.
Shortly afterwards, persistent ru-
mors flooded the press and radio of
the world that the sub had landed
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun and
other high Nazi officials somewhere
along the bleak Patagonian coast.
No substantiating evidence was
found.
Turned Over BY Argentina.
The U-977 was turned over to this
country by Argentina and the crew
was interned here.
Miss Elizabeth Murrin OF 40l Com
monwealth avenue, Alexandria, Va,
an employe of the American Auto
mobile Association, has been award
ed l946 model Chevrolet for win
ming a Victory Bond slogan contest.
Meanwhile, District sales in the
Victory Loan, which ends Decem-
ber 8, were in serious slump.
The committee reported an in
crease yesterday of only $400 900 in
sales of E Bonds for the 24-hour
period. bringing the total to $l1 ,s00,-
900 or Al per cent of the $27,-
100000 quota.
Individual sales. including E
Bonds, now total SGT 500 900, or 65 5
per cent of the $4,000, 900 quota,
while the larger r and G Bonds
reached 104 per cent of the SIS
600, 900 quota
Nation Reaches Is Per Cent.
The Nations Capital is running
behind the country as a whole. In
dividual sales throughout the Nation
have passed the rs per cent mark,
with s3,044 ,000, 900 reported collected
toward goal of $4,000, 900 900.
North Dakota already has reached
l16 per cent of its E bond quota,
while the Associated Press lists 10
States leading the District in E bond
sales.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. presi-
dent of Eastern Air Lines, urged the
buying OF Victory bonds today to
finance the rehabilitation of vet
Grams, mastering out pay, veteran
education and benefits under the
GI Bill Of Rights.
Bond Rallies Slated.
More than 200 employees are ex-
pected to attend a bond rally at 8
PIN. today under the auspices of
the Government Services Union at
Patterson School, Vermont avenue
and v street NV. The City of
Hope auxiliary will hold 2 pm.
meeting and rally at the WASH
ington Hebrew Temple, Eighth and
I streets NV. Robert w. Coyne,
national field director of the War
Finance Division, will urge greater
support of the Victory Loan at a
luncheon of the Washington Ad-
vertising Club at II pm. today in
the Hotel Statler.
Tomorrow. Beth Sholom Congre-
cation and Talmud Torah will hold
a bond rally at pm. at Eighth
and Shepherd streets NV.
More than 1000 students and
their parents were expected to join
in a V-Bond rally at Mcfarland
Junior High School, Webster street
and Iowa avenue NV, at 1880
am. today under the auspices of
the schools Little Congress" stu
dent council.
Warner Bros. Earle Theater has
gone over the top, surprising its
quota of $295 900 in the loan drive.