World War II in Culver April - June 1943  

Apr. 7

Local ReCap Tir Co. Given Master Treader Rating By Institute - ... Culver Hi-Speed Recapping Tire Co...

Raises $7,300 For War Appeals In Township Quota of $6,000 Exceeded Leaders Announce At Rally Held Mondy Night ...Surprising to many was the fact that $6,200 was paid in cash and only $1,100 was pledged for payment... The rally got under way with a parade through town led by the high school band and fire department. A float depicting the Spirit of 1776 float was the nadiwork of Steffen Rector. who furnished th material, labor and idea; Fay O. Neidlinger provided the tractor and wagon, and John Buswell, Cecil Miller, and Mr. Rector were the three main figures, while Sailor Kerr, Soldier Schrimsher and Marine Norman provided the modern background....

Brig Gen William S. Paul... has been nominated to the rank of major general

Civilian Wave-Spar Recruiter Appoined - the U. S. NAvy Recruiting Station at Rensselaer announces that Calrence (Red) Calhoun will act as a civilian recrutier to help in the procurement of Wave and Spar applicats...

Speed Violators Cited to Rationing Board - Hoosiers who "High Ball: may expect to find themselver behind their reationing board "eight ball" Indiana State Police said today... A total of 440 motorists were arrested between the first of the year and March 15... and in the same perion 1,112 warnign tickest were issued...

Red Cross and U.S.O Have Separate Jobs

...The U.S.O has recreational centers outside of the cams and in cities and cummunties where the government has desiganted theri services

The U.S.O. has 72 camp showa that are on tour of camps in the United States, England,
Africa and Australia...

The Red Cross works winside the camps both in this country and abroad. It promotes recreational activities, sets up lobraries, information bureaus, first aid stations and assits the governement in hospitals for the armed forces...

Apr. 14

Second War Laod Bond Drive On; $740, 000 Set As County Quota - ...as their share of the country's thirteen bullion doaller second war loan... township quotas... Culver and Union township, $162,000...

Apr. 21

Carl M. Adams has been appointed a member of the Marshall COunty OPA Price Rugulation Board

Earl L. Adams, reported missing in action since the first week in February has been officialy determined as having lost his life as a result of enemy action in rhw North Atlantic on February 3, 1943...From news reports of that date it is presumed that Earl was on a boat that was sunk by an enemy submarine, resulting in the loss of life of most of the on board...

Four Jeeps Purchased During Jeep Campaign

Will wonders never cease! The students of C.H.S. have purchased enough stamps and bonds in the past seven weeks to pay for four jeeps with a little left over. The total sales from March 1 to April 15 were $3,846.50.

Last March when the nationwide campaign for jeeps opened the students of our own school wee asked to set their goal at two jeeps...

For the single week of April 12 to April 16, the last week of the campaign the total sales were $11791.85....

Apr. 28

War Appeal Drive Total To Date $7,221.11... $6,728.82 has been collected far, leaving only $429.29 in pledges. The organization has paid $2,500 to met the Red Cross quota and $29.11 to cover the carious expenses of the campaign for funds...a balance of $4,199.71 in the treasury.

Change of Class III to Give More men for Draft Needs

...any registrant may be retained or placed in Class III-A if he and his child or dhildren maintain a bona fide family relationship in their home and if such status was acquired prior to December 8, 1941, except for those registrants who are qualified for agricultural cossification in Class III-C and those who are now engaged in activities or occupations designated as non-defferaable and who must be classified asl available for military service, regadless of family relationships, unless they transfe within the prescribed time to jobs which contribute to the war effort.

Registrants who are qualified for III-A defements under the ameded regulations will be frozen in the classification until the national selective service director orders a reclassification or a change in the registrants status... registrants now reclassified our of CLass III-A will not all necessaruly be place in class I-A immediately because many of them are engaged in occupations which contibute to the war effort and deferment may be given on their occupational necessity until satisfactory replacements can be found.

III-B classication has bee eliminated the was formerly for men with dependents and who are actually working in national defense plants producing equipment and materials required by the armed forces... these registrants will be considered for recassification on the basis ooh bona fide family relationsohips and of occupational necessity and pobably a large number of them will be placed in the III-A, II-B or II-A deffered groups before they are finally considered for induction.

The change in regulations has also created a new class III-D in which may be placed any registrant not otherwide deferred if it is evident that his induction into the armed forces would result in extreme hardship in their home...

All reference to the "immence of election" rule has now been eliminated from the selective service regulations...Thei rule prohibited local boards from deferring any man who married or otherwise willingly accquired dependency at a time when he was presumed to have had reasonable warning the he might be inducted. The new deadline of December 8, 1941, estabilished eligibility for class III-A has made unnecessary the "immence of election" rule...

...insofar as possible, men inducted into the armed forces or conscientious objectors assigned to work camps will be called from classes I-A, I-A-O or IV-E in the following order
1 Single men with no dependents
2 Married meen with collatoral dependents
3 Married men with wives only
4 men with children


It was announced that these changes in the regulations became effective Apry 12...

War Department Inspection At Academy, May 3, 4

May 5

...The Purple Heart has been awarded psothumously to Earl Adams, who lost his life in the North Atlalntic on Feb. 3 ast the result of enemy action

County Passes Million Dollars in War BOnds -...The May quota has been set at $92,490

May 12

Bond Sale Total Far Over Quota

SInce the report in last week's issue of the results of the Second War loan bond drive in Marshall county the total sales has increased to $1m045,488.81, while the quota was $740,000.

Culver and Union township led the county with $407,223.00...

Army Piolt Buried in Local Cemetery Today

Flight Officer Carlos W. Moss...was buried in Culver Masonic cemetery this afternoon with military honore furnished by a detail from the Academy

Moss, who was killed in a bomber crash ocver Del Rio, Texas....

May 26

An ad for v-mail stationary

Jun 16

To Go Overseas With Red Cross - Miss Sally O'Callaghan... expects to leave June 20 for Washington D. C. for a three-week training perion as a staff assistant in and Overseas club of the American Red Cross

Jun 23

Dick Newman Named Chairman of War Meat Committet IN Cmunty

To Check the Use of Gas on vactions

All vacation spots in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, and Kentucky will be under surveillance during the next few months by the Office of Price Administration inspectors to check for illegal use of gasoline...

Abuses which the OPA will week most of all to catch up with are those of supplemental books, where mortoroists use B or C rations, granted occupational basis, for pleasure jaunts far afield from their homes

...Motorists are reminded that present rationing regulations provide 90 miles of "free mileage” a month in the basic A book, even though a B or C book may be held by the driver

Farm Worker Wanted

Do You have a couple of extra hours twice a week? Then see E. W. Carter and register for work on famrns in this vicinity.

Due to the manpower shortahe faremers are unable to handle the incresded production that they are being called on to meet to save the froma serious food shortage next year.

The only solution is volunteer help from those who can spare a few hours each week. Of course, these volunteers will be paid for their services in addition to preforming a patriotic service...

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