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Show Twelve-Year-Old Boy Out To Break Record; Sold $373,300 in Three Previous Campaigns , ! X i v , , -1 w " . '4 . A - X ' &A( V ' I f , v V r ' , y ' ' " , r l ,A " ""1 Twelve-year-old Carl J. Buehler, Jr., is out to break his previous record of bond sales. With (he six high school girls shown in the picture he is making the round of New Jersey theatres, community rallies and schools during the Sixth War Loan. NEWARK, N. J. With War Bond sales totaling $373,300 to his credit in three previous drives, 12-year-old Carl J. Buehler, Jr., of Verona, N. J., Is out to break his previous records during the Sixth War Loan. Accompanied by six attractive high school girls, whom he terms his "Bevy of Bond Boosters," Carl has started a round of schools, dubs, industries and community bond rallies, which will keep him busy throughout the drive. The boy, who is believed lo be America's champion school War Bond salesman, is a student at Our Lady of the Lake School in Verona. He started selling War Bonds during the Third War Loan and totalled $5,450 in sales. During the Fourth War Loan he sold $89,450 worth and during the Fifth $278,400. His achievements have brought him a fiersonal letter of commendation rom President Roosevelt, a jeep ride and a plane ride In the famed flying fortress, "Hell's Angels," which downed 18 German fighter planes in 48 missions over occupied Europe. Said to be a spellbinder, Carl "sells" his audiences thoroughly at every appearance. His achievement is the more remarkable re-markable because all sales have been made to individuals and the largest single sale was for $10,000. Nearly all of the bonds he has sold have been in Series E. Equally at home in a factory or a radio station Carl is known as "The Kid Behind the Man Behind the Gun" and "America's Premier Young War Bond Salesman." The six high school girls who are accompanying him on the present tour of New Jersey circulate through the audiences and make actual sales after Carl finishes one of his appealing appeal-ing sales talks. |
