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20 OF INCOME IS OUR QUOTA IN WAR BONDS "A Good Newspaper In A Good Town" VOLUME 57 BREMEN, MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942. NUMBER VI Buy Vor Bonds yIt J7 Every Pay Day fj Let's Double sf Our Quota (CP nr Sub Training School AM tHie Side Merrymakers To Eiujoy nflaHoweeim Frolic HHere Coimty-wifle Scrap EMve Under Way All Citizens, In Town And Country, Are Being Solicited For Junk To Help Beat Axis Enemies 18-18) Class To'Be (Called IFr Service President Roosevelt Is Confident Enemy Grows More Nervous As Allied Power Grows Stronger HJ Bombers Down 48 FJazi Planes Only Four Americans Lost In Daylight Raid Over Occupied France; Bomb Japs On Kiska The following costumes will receive prizes: Adults, Negro Character, Red Cross Nurse, Bride and Groom, John Bull, Uncle Sam, Autumn Costume, Miss Columbia, WAAC or WAVE, Rube, Comic Strip Character, Ghost. Children, Clown, Hobo, Walt Disney Character, Cowboy, Negro, Indian, Chinaman, Uncle Sam, Miss Columbia, Witch, There will be a first, second and third prize offered for each costume and a grand prize for both children and adults. Full particulars will be printed in next week's Enquirer. The program, as usual, will start with a parade of the merrymakers through the streets, followed by tha judging of the costumes and the awarding of prizes.

The band will play for the parade and there will be numerous prizes of merchandise for the crowd. Curbstone Comment and Random Reflections That Come To The Editor As The Big Parade Goes By The scrap drive still goes on. Uncle Sam needs it all. The campaign to get all the junk into the blast furnaces and turn it into steel to beat the Japs and the Nazis is really getting results now, with a whole nation of people throwing every available pound of scrap metal into the collection. If some preacher wants to preach a sermon on the subject, he might take his text from Joel III: 9, 10.

You may be surprised when you look it up. Some people think the metal is moving too slowly. Don't be alarmed just because you have seen hundreds of wrecked ja-loppies in some junkyard. Don't say they can't be needing more junk, when they don't use up what they've got. That just shows you don't understand the need.

Ferrous metals reaching the junkyards are not all the same stuff. There is a wide variety, ranging from plain iron to the best steel. It is the junk dealer's job to sort the metals, fending each to the place where it is needed most. When you see a junkyard, you may think ycu are looking at the same wrecks that were there a month or Marshall county's great drive for scrap metal is really on in earnest this week. It started Monday morning, when almost a hundred trucks and more than two hundred men swung into action in various parts of the county to gather up every pound of junk they can find.

Many of the farm people, however, were taking advantage of the chance to get some extra money for their scrap iron by hauling to the dealer. Such scrap delivered to the junk yards, is worth $12.50 a ton this week. If it is sold at the farm, to the truckers who come there to get it, the price is $10 a ton. Trucks for the drive were donated by owners in every township. They will be used until the drive is completed until every home and every place of business in the county has been asked to sell whatever scrap can be found about the place.

In Bremen and German township, the call for junk is not a new one. The local salvage committee has already scoured the town. The Boy Scouts have canvassed the town Continued On Page 8, Col. 4. Red Cross Detachment To Meet Monday Night The Red Cross Detachment will meet Monday night in the American Legion hall at 7:30.

The activity for this week will include the making of surgical dressings, the local Red Cross leaders announce. Halloween will be the usual big fun night in Bremen, in spite of the insanity of Hitler and Hirohito. In act, those gentlemen may come in for some clever ribbing by the masque-raders who will parade the streets in the Halloween Frolic of Friday night, October 30. The night of the celebration is advanced one night ahead of the regular time to avoid a Saturday date. A Kiwanis committee headed by Lloyd R.

Dietrich is at work on plans and arrangements for the big event-Solicitations have been made among the business and professional men of the town and the money and merchandise necessary for the affair are being secured. The donations include many fine prizes, which are to be offered for the best costumes shown that night. Dr. Davis Reads Poems of Riley For Kiwanians Dr. George Davis, Director of the Teacher Placement Bureau of Purdue University, gave members of the Bremen and Plymouth Kiwanis clubs an evening of delightful entertainment Tuesday when he read a number of the poems of James Whitcomb Riley to make up the after-dinner program of the weekly meeting of the Bremen club at the New Walter Hotel.

After coming to Indiana several years ago, Dr. Davis became interested in Riley's work. As his interest grew, he began to memorize the poems of the Hoosier bard. He made it his hobby to learn and to recite for his friends the philosophical verse in the Hoosier dialect. His program Tuesday night, which included many selections not so well known as some of Riley's poems, was greatly enjoyed Continued On rage 4, Col.

2. Seiler many questions about his training, his planes, and the best courses for preparing for this branch of the service. The class in elementary aeronautics has been added to the curriculum here at the suggestion of the state department of education. The students began with a refresher course in algebra and geometry and will go on into the study cf the more advanced mathematics required for pre-flight training. Along with the work in mathematics, the group is required to read numerous books on aeronautics and a weekly newspaper devoted to aviation.

three months ago. But the chances October 10 a Japanese destroyer was are, it's a new lot of cars entirely, sunk and a heavy cruiser and da-You can't tell by looking at a junk stroyer were damaged by American pile how much of it has been removed airmen during continued enemy at-and sent on its way. tempts to land reinforcements on Don't get lazy just because you Guadalcanal. The enemy under cover REGISTRATION FOR GAS RATION TO BE MADE NOVEMBER 9 The first step, in gas rationing in Indiana will be the registration for nationwide rationing on Monday, November 9. Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced this week that owners of passenger cars will be limited to five tires and that all must register November 9 for the gasoline rationing, except those in eastern states already under the system.

Motorists in the present ration area will be required, however, to file a tire inspection certificate with their local rationing boards by November 22. The registration, which will begin November 9 in schoolhouses throughout the nation, will be for the basic coupon books, which provide for sufficient gasoline to drive an average 2,280 miles a year four gallons a week. Officials said, however, that application for supplemental rations can be made at the same time if the motorists so desire. Henderson said motorists would see how completely gasoline rationing has been integrated with tire conservation when they make out their forms. The forms willl consist of a mileage application blank and a tire inspection report sheet.

Car owners will be required to list the serial number of all tires which they own and if more than five are listed for any car the motorists will be denied gasoline books until they have sold the excess tires to the government. AT GREAT LAKES. Robert J. Hahn, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Melvin Hahn of Route 2, and Paul W. Bauer, son of Mrs. Arthur Bauer, 117 Dewey street, have reported for recruit training at the U. S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes.

(By Office of Government Reports.) United States Army Headquarters in Britain reported that 115 American Bombers, in their first large-scale daylight sweep over Occupied France, shot down 48 Nazi planes, probably destroyed 38 more and seriously damaged at least 19. Never before had so many German planes been shot down in a single operation over Western Europe as were brought down by the massed fire of the American Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24's. Only four American ships were lost and the crew of one was saved. The bombers made a destructive attack on the Lille industrial area. General MacArthur's Headquarters in Australia announced October 12 that Lockheed medium bombers scored two direct hits on a large Japanese seaplane tender in the Solomon area between the Bismarck and Sol-j cmon Islands.

The Navy reported of darkness made everai small iana jngs in the Solomons, out united States forces shot down 21 Japanese planes, torpedoed a cruiser, and bombed and strafed enemy troops and equipment on Guadalcanal. General MacArthur's Headquarters also announced that the biggest force of Flying Fortresses ever sent against a target in the Australian zone made an unusually destructive raid on the largest Japanese base in this area, Rabaul. Australian troops continued to drive the enemy back into the Owen Stanley Mountains and removed the threat to the Allied base of Port Moresby. Continued On Page 8, CoL 4. Gun Club To Hold Trap Shoot At Birchwood The Gun Club of the Bremen Conservation Club will hold another trap shoot at Birchwood Park, Lake of the Woods, Sunday, October 18.

The contest will start at 9:30 a. m. and con- tinue thrmip-hrmf- thp ri.iv. TUrrVinn- i dise prizes are to be offered and the event will probably attract the usual good crowd of trap shooting enthusiasts. County Treasurer Says 'f ax Receipts Al'C Ready Mrs.

Bertha Grant, treasurer of Marshall county, announces today in a notice in The Enquirer that Monday, November 2, will be the last day for paying taxes. After that day they will be delinquent. Receipts for taxes on property Bremen and German township are i now at the Bremen State Rank she says, where they may be paid without the necessity of a trip to M. A5r SHuidlemiits Hear Army Air Corps Pilot Filled with water, this tower represents a deep body of water from which future underseas crews of the British navy are trained to escape by use of the Momsen lung and other escape devices. The tower is at New London, England.

54 Marshall Men Are Selected For Army Service Fifty-four Marshall county young men were included in the list of selectees who went to Indianapolis Saturday for examination for induction into military service. All returned home Saturday night and 38 of them will report in ten days for service. The other 16 were rejected after the physical examination. Those listed in the party which left Plymouth Saturday morning were Harry Otto Heltzel, Wendell William Fetters, Keith Warner Winterowd, Maynard Homer Miller, Allen Ernest Hershman, Wayne A. Manges, John Calvin Metzger, John A.

Graverson (enlisted in navy), Bremen; Samuel J. Garl, Roland B. Moon, Howard John Maurer, Fritz Karl Schultz, Frederick Oscar Bollman, Forest E. Bucher, George Frederick Price, Floyd M. Cullison, James A.

Bottorff Jack Wagner, Charles A. Krause, Gordon Floyd Nelson, Fred Edward Everly, William Franklin Laramore, Ernest I. Knepp, Harold Jr Linde-man, Ennis Warner, Darrell K. Bowman, Ronald Lee Sullivan, Richard W. Kreighbaum, Franklin Everett Sherer, Jordan Cox, Plymouth; Raymond Dwight Harness, Knight Leo Wennerstrom, Culver; John Henson Powers, James Austin Wallace, Donald Railsback, Argos; Ross Milton Molebash, George Frederick Laird, Wayne Albert Wilson, Bourbon; Harrison Joseph Keller, Edgar Grand-ville Wilcox, Tyner; Herman Frederick Thomas, Loren William Kuskye, LaPaz; Harold Daniel Johnson, Wil- bur Harold Powers, Tippecanoe; Roy B.

Freed, Teegarden; Albert M. Mahler, LaPorte; Don Jay Snyder, Rochester; Glen H. Mattix (enlisted in navy), Columbia City; Lloyd R. Isaacs, Goshen; Richard W. Gimbel, Shorewood, Earl Hattery, Columbus; Wayne Leroy Risk, Veeders-burg; Kenneth J.

VanDyke, transferred from California. Those who failed to pass the examination were Roland Moon, Harry Heltzel, Ross Molebash. Forest Bucher, Donald Railsback, Floyd Cullison, Herman Thomas, Howard Maurer, Harold Lindeman, John Metzger, Earl Hattery. Richard Kreighbaum, Ernest Knepp, Gordon Nelson, William Laramore and Allen Hershman. Be a regular on the home front! Make regular payroll purchases of United States Savings Bends and Stamps.

premiums paid by employers and employees of the country for old age and survivors' insurance will be automatically doubled on January 1, 1943, increasing the present tax rate of one percent to two percent, making a total of four percent. The total rate is also scheduled to jump to five percent in 1946 and to six percent in 1949. Indiana bankers believe that the additional revenue which would be collected under the doubled tax rate is unnecessary and undesirable at the present time when every dollar should be directed to the war effort and the preservation of national security. Statistics show that revenue collected under the social security program is more than eight tunes the benefit payments. PL PtiCi In his radio address to the people of the nation Monday night, President Roosevelt, declaring that the power of the allied nations is growing constantly greater, while the enemy is more and more nervous1 and worried about the outcome, urged the drafting of youths eighteen and nineteen years old.

By bringing the younger men into the service, he said, we will add spirit and hardihood which will shorten the war with annihilating new offensive strength. Immediate action followed the president's address, as Congress drafted new bills for conscription of the younger men. Hearings on the proposed measures started in both House and Senate yesterday. It was believed the legislation would be enacted at once before the Novem ber 3 election. On the basis of the President's statement that the drafting of the younger men would speed up the victory.

Congressional leaders determined to put the legislation through both houses without delay. Neither the house nor the senate cares to assume any responsibility for delay in any part of the war effort, political leaders said. The new bill may become a law this week. In his address Monday night the President also called for a rationing of all man power. Workers must bo kept from changing jobs at will, he said.

Pirating of one employer's labor by another must be forbidden. Th objective must be "the right numbers of people in the right places at ttiQ right time." He held out a possibility that legislation of a drastic nature may be necessary to keep the farmer supplied with hands to harvest the na- Continued On Page 8, CoL 3. Col. George V. Keyser To New Duties At Shelby Major General John B.

Anderson has announced the receipt of orders from the War Department assigning Colonel George V. Keyser, Chief of Staff of the 102nd Infantry Division, Camp Maxey, to new duties at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. As yet no successor ha3 been designated to take over Colonel Keyser's duties. Colonel Keyser expects to leave for his new-station within a few days. Mrs.

Keyser announces that she will remain in Paris for the present and that plans for the wedding of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, on October 17 remain unchanged. Colonel Keyser is expected to attend the ceremony, traveling by plane from Camp Shelby. "These Bonds," said a milkman in Rye, "Will win us control of the sky, And I'm happy to know That a tenth of my dough Will help blast the Axis Bky-high!" Skim ten percent off your ery week for War Saringa Bonda or Stamps. ty Uon leare It to the other follow. Thla is everybody' U.

S. Treasury Department, Lieutenant James Seiler, pilot in the United States Army Air Corps, spoke to the class in aeronautics at Bremen high school Friday afternoon. Lieutenant Seiler is an alumnus of the Bremen school who later finished his education at Wabash College. Hs completed his pilot's training in the Air Corps and ha3 been in active service during the past three months, having arrived here last week from Washington, D. on a two weeks furlough.

The embryo aviators and aeronautical engineers in the class, taught by Mrs. Alice Fox, asked Lieutenant 'You Don't Know Nothin' Yet' think there's plenty of junk lying in the scrap piles. The nation needs every pound it can get. Don't pay too much attention to pessimistic predictions. Some of the greatest pessimists of all time have been badly mistaken, i A few years ago, when we were in the midst of a terrific depression, we dug up writings of years ago which sounded as though they were written fr the present situation men de- plored conditions and said the nation would never survive.

But we came out of it, just, the same. So when you hear people moaning today, just re-member there's a lot of bounce in this country-, in spite of our rubber shortage. Great men in past ages have thought the world was going to the bow-wows, and they have been wrong. Civilization has had its ups and downs, but we have maintained a general upward trend since the T-vl, Krvnlr rf "T.Ives" i micin-ii, has inspired millions. said in his later years: "I look upon a dying world.

The best is behind us." He was as near right as the modern pulpit-banger who is forever bringing Lis "message" to a "lost" mankind in a "dying" world. The world goes on, in f-pite of what either of them says, More than a hundred years ago, a member of Congress introduced a bill to abolish the government patent office. He everything that could possibly be invented by man had been invented, so why keep up the cfQre? The great William Pitt said in 1S0G: "I lock behind me with regret, for the best is over. I look ahead Continued On Page 4, Col. 2.

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ll. ISaiikers Urge Congress IT Freeze IPay Molls Bankers of Indiana are advocating that Congress pass an amendment freezing payroll payments under the Social Security Act at the present rates instead of permitting the tax rate to be doubled on January 1, 1943, as the existing federal laws provide. Arch C. Voris, president, Indiana Bankers Association, and president, Citizens National Bank, Bedford, has written letters to Indiana's senators and representatives in Congress in behalf of association members and other employers and employees in Indiana and throughout the nation. He is urging members of the association to write letters to the Indiana delegation in congress, requesting the passage of such an amendment.

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