GIFTS TO WAR FUNDS
AMERICAN CITIZENS (2.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 13. The Treasury disclosed to-day that since December 7 it had received 5589 donations, aggregating £119,500 from Americans for the war effort. Besides money there were gifts of rings, watches and even gold-filled teeth. Several persons had contributed their life savings.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19420415.2.80
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20740, 15 April 1942, Page 5
Word Count
51GIFTS TO WAR FUNDS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20740, 15 April 1942, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in