Evening star., 1945-11-07
Eight Groups 10 Meet
Tomorrow TO Spur
Victory Loan Drive

Eight District organizations were
scheduled to meet today and tomor-
row in support of the Victory loan
as Washington's drive to sell $42,-
! o00, 900 in individual bonds entered
its second week.
AS the District War Finance Com
snittee announced bond in the
amount of $500, 900 have been sold
to individuals thus far-126 per
cent of the D. c. quota-the follow
ing groups set meetings for today
as follows to rally members to the
V-bond campaign:
The Sears Roebuck e. Co. Airing
ton store at 8:45 am, to see film
"Diary of a Sergeant; the Silver
Spring Womens Club at Jesup Blair
Community House on Georgia ave-
hue at II am; the Rotary Club at
the Willard Hotel at 1915 pm,
| with Miss America of 1945," Bess
Myerson, a guest; the Soroptimist
Club at a luncheon in the Willard
Hotel cabinet room at l pm, with
1t Dorothy Still, the hero Navy
nurse speaking; the Dairy Commit
tee at pm. at 804 Seventeenth
street NV, to discuss union and
owners cooperation nthe drive,
and the Restaurant and Hotel En-
ployes Alliance at 3 pm. to hear
an outline on union responsibility in
the campaign.
1t. Still Plans Two Talks.
Tomorrow 1t. Still will address
I the Twentieth Century Club at
1890 pm. and the Potomac Electric
Power Co. employees at 3 and 4 pm.
Meanwhile, the District Commit
tee announced a 36-foot high heroic
model statue depicting the Two Jima
fiag-raising is being erected today at
Nineteenth street and Constitution
avenue NV. in support of the loan
drive
Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift,
commandant of the Marine Corps,
will unveil the statue at ceremonies
beginning at 8 pm. Saturday, the
10th anniversary of the founding
of the Marines.
Others scheduled to participate
In the ceremonies are Maj. Gen.
Graves B. Erskine, commanding Of
ficer of the Sd Marine Division on
Two: Pharmacists Mate &c John
H. Bradley, one of the three sur
viving flag raisers; the sculptor of
the statue, Felix w. de Weldon.
and Wilmer J. Waller chairman OF
the District Committee.
Weighs Six Tons.
3 The base of the statue is shaped
like the outline of Two Island, the
low end of the fagpole rests on the
spot representing the geographic
location of Mount Suribachi, where
the Associated Press photographer,
Joe Rosenthal, made his historic
picture.
The statue itself weighs tons,
1t was produced, by Mr.. De Wei
don, who 1was recently discharged
from the Navy, not long after the
picture first came back to the
United States.
Julius Garfnckel & Co. an
nounced today they are awarding
a dozen pairs of nylorY stockings to
Victory Bond buyers every day the
store is open this month. The
stores bond quota is 1897, 500. The
awards will be decided each morn
ing at o'clock on a lottery basis.
A Sears Roebuck rally was held
at the Wise eonsin avefAie and Abe
marie street NV. store yesterday
morning.
Jeffers Backs Drive.
w. M. Jeffers, president of the
Union Pacific Railroad and former
rubber administrator, in state
fnent, supporting the Victory Loan
said the campaign has the enthus-
iastic support of all railroad work.
ers. Railroad workers recognize
that these Government bonds are
an insU&ance for their own protec-
ton" Mr.. Jeffers declared. They
know that bond bought today
and saved-is an assurance of their
own financial security in the future
and stop-gap on imitation as well
War Finance Director Ted r.
Gamble said that today, which is
National Drugstore Day in the
loan drive, more than 100000 en-
ployes in 10000 drugstores through
out the country are pledged to sell
one S25 bond each.