TREASURY DEPARTMENT
WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE

 

 

 

Ifay 14, 1945,

OFFICE OF STATE CHAIRMAN

7th WAR LOAN -- UNIVERSITY DRIVE
Dear Fellew Faculty Members and Employees:

I have just returned from the 7th War Loan downtown retail division Bond
Rally at the Jayhawker Theatre. From 9 to 10 o'clock this morning Mr. Irving Hill,
the county chairman of our war loan drives, stressed especially the fact that there
is plenty of money in the Lawrence banks to insure the success of our $1,085, 000
"BE" pond sales. He said, "The money is there. You workers go out and get 4%,"

W. G. Beougher and Leo Eller, co-chairmen, gave a straight-from-the-shoulder
message, and Mrs. Henry Werner explained the action of the residential section
drive. Stanley Schwahn, Lawrence Commonwealth Theatres manager, donated the use
of the theatre for the meeting and put on a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby~Frank Sinatra~
Fibber McGee picture that added to the impressiveness and the necessity of holping
our boys evor in the Pacific, :

Capt. Lindley Hines, of WREN, the squadron leader of the B-24s in the South
Pacific, spoke profoundly on what our boys have been meeting over there and how
much they depend on the home front for inspiration, information and affection, as
well as for food, for gasoline, for ammunition and guns, and for ships to fight
the Japanese with. Capt. Hines continued, "There are only two things that the
boys want more then anything else in the world, - first, to get this war over, and .
secondly, to get home.” after three years of meritorious service, Capt. Hines has
been returned to us. |

The retail division downtown is functioning as an invasion army, They have
block captains and badges of rank will be awarded for bond sales, A $50.00 bond
sale rates the rank of Private. First Class, and a $7,500 sale rates a General's
stars, while a $750 bond sale rates the Captain's bars. How much easier it is for
an invasion army like that to function, laudable as it is, than for an invasion
army at Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Leyte, and the other thousands of Japanese hells.

You will read in the daily paper that the Lawrerice theatres, in cooperation
with Lawrence business firms, have made it possible for E bond purchasers to parti-
cipate in a Free Bond Award on Monday night, 9 p.m., May 28, at the Jayhawker
Theatre. Obtain your speciel bond ticket from the bank when buying your E bond.

Won't you at your earliest convenience take this enclosed form and fill it
out at your bank and become the proud possessor of another E bond that will insure
V-J Day in the shortest possible time? We combine good business acumen when we
loan our money to Unele Sam.

Very sincerely yours,

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FCA:AH Chairman, UniveySity Drive, 7th War Loan.

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