Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur The stars and strikes go makes Good on his boast Washington june 19 ans a sales in the seventh War loan drive jumped to 9,000,903,000 dollars today As War Bond investments of opt orations entered the picture for the first time. Securities officially were offered to corporations monday and the Treasury announced that sales were 3,000,049,000 dollars�?43.5 percent of the corporation quota. The figure does not take in orders placed monday ted r. Gamble National War finance director said but represents Advance sales from businesses Large and Small that wanted to take advantage of the very first Day of interest on their securities. Bond sales to individuals have reached 5�00,654,000 dollars which is 63.6 percent of the quota for individual purchases. Total sales As of today Are 63.6 percent of the 14,000,000,000 dollars Over All quota in the drive which started May 14 and ends june 30.freed nation get tractors Navy a Little Tokyo this prisoner gave up or seat Ottumwa Iowa june 19 ans a thanks to a patriotic prisoner there was an extra Railroad seat for Sale Between san Diego calif., and Ottumwa it was disclosed today. Heeding an office of defense transportation idea for. Civilians not to take unnecessary trips in wartime sheriff Mike Mier asked Richard bomber Bailey escaped prisoner to return from san Diego alone. Bailey acceded to the request and returned to finish it one year term in county jail. Creede has been stripped of More than a turd 01 its citizens half of its businesses. Some 500 persons have stayed behind. Here is Creedes Dusty silent main Street empty but for an occasional car and pedestrian and the ghosts of better times before the world went to War. Down in Smyrna ga., Farmer h. M. Russell looked out of his bedroom just As a Pear shaped rubber balloon covered with Brilliant red and White silk hit the Earth. A a Jap balloon he called to warn his neighbors. Fri police and army people hurried to the spot. At a crucial moment the balloon exploded. Everybody jumped but when the excitement died Down a Federal agent found a tag Quot this is a uj3. Weather observation balloon will finder please. Etc in Park City Utah mrs. Bernard Fegan was sure something had happened to her son David currently in the Philippines when i a funds heart arrived in the mail. Inquiry rave also that the award was far her husband wounded in the argon no in France 17 years fowl killing in wee hours brought cops investigating a disturbance in a Buffalo poultry Market in the wee hours police found proprietor Salvatore Palermo killing noisily protesting chickens. Palermo explained that the fowls were a special order and that if he filled it in the daytime a Chicken starved Public would have crowded around his door causing a disturbance. The cops were sympathetic but made him Promise not to do it again. Incidental information Charlotte n.c., boasts that it has the first Street to be named after the president. West Side Avenue has changed its name to Truman Road Carmen Miranda brazilian movie Singer says she May marry or. Roberto Martin whom she has known for More than six years when Back with Anginal mate converted indians and said Bonds Washington june 19 ans a Man woman and child one War the Treasury departments War Bond. Finance tells some of the incidents a War Bond canvasser in the it has enjoyed privately for More Indian territory of new Mexico had than three years incidents reveal no trouble Selling Bonds but ran tog ingenuity to Selling War Bonds. One nifty bit of promotion was planned by the War Bond chairman it Jas Kjof Buchanan county Iowa. He found that an old ordinance Prohl by y mar cited chasing fire trucks. Then he am and his friends built a great Bonfire y u or a on the outskirts of town. When the j Wom whole populate came running out in the Wake tire apparatus he had a Justice of the a it each set up court on the spot and Fine every 1 into difficulty persuading tha Federal Reserve Bank to Register them in such names As l0y of the Pale Waters Quot and Quot a chief big he solved the problem by carry ing along a preacher who Coop Vertex the indians. Then the War Bond Man gave them Good Anglo Saxon names that would fit on the Bonds. Among the strange requests the Treasury got was one from a gambling fraternity which wanted the War production Board to Okay the use of vital materials for a race track to return for 506,0qb dollars invested to War Bonds it. Harold w. Goad 27-Yearid flier who was listed As presumed dead in the Pacific last fall is reunited with his wife Helen 23, in Portsmouth Ohio. Following the report that to was dead she married Ensign part a. Mac Dowel i but that marriage will to annulled
