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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
College Scores Twice Late In Game
But Loses To Assumption, 26-12

A sputtering Bluffton college attack
finally fired into a two-touchdown as
sault in the closing quarter of a grid
iron game with Assumption college
last Saturday afternoon on Harmon
field, but an early lead built up by the
Canadians enabled them to carry
home the victory, 26 to II.
During the first three periods the
Beavers showed intermittent flashes
of promise, but their attack always
petered out before the ball could be
driven across the goal.
Assumption, in the meantime, took
advantage of the breaks and played
smart football to count a touchdown
in each of the three first quarters.
The Canadians third tally was made
in the fourth stanza.
1t was in the fourth stanza that the
Burckymen finally came to life, and
settled down to play football "for
keeps"
An intercepted pass gave Bluffton
the ball on the Assumption al, from
where Swank and Radulovich alter
mated in Juggling the leather to the
six. Swank then crashed over tackle
to score.
Late in the same period, Hugh
Jones, a frst-year man at Button
picked an Assumption aerial out of
the ozone and ran unhampefed 10
yards for a touchdown. efHs
Assumptions frst-quarter touch
down came on a 50-yard run by
Jaques, the full back. In the second
quarter,swiths15 seconds remaining in
the period, Leonard heaved a long
pass to Reaume, who caught it on the
six and went on across the payoff
stripe. Long passes led to the third
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

MASS PRODUCTION. With teIe-
uision sets noiU on sale at regular
retail prices, manufacturers haze
begun assembly line production of
receiving units. This picture shoVs
standard instruments In the process
of being assembled.
the living room, are showing live
ly interest in television, although the
majority of them are still beyond
the reach of current programs.
Twenty Tubes to Set.
Television has put into American
homes the most complicated instru-
ment yet devised for popular use
a radio set plus. 1t has about 20
tubes. One of them is the giant
cathode-ray vacuum tube 27 inches
long that creates the television pic
ture on the top of its fiattened bulb
by means of tiny "pencil" of
streaming electrons. It has sound
controls for volume and high and
low pitch adjustments. 1t has sight
controls for focus, speed, size, and
centering adjustments of the pic
ture.
Television has also put into circu-
lation new neutrality-suspicious., to
correspond to broadcast; video fire.
quencies, as differentiated from the
sound wave frequencies of radio;
''ike," instead of mike" for the
Iconoscope, which corresponds to
radios microphone.
Ultra-Short Waves Used.
From the giant antenna on the
Empire State building a quarter of
a mile above the earth, the radio
waves that carry the sound part of
the program are launched into the
air exactly as in ordinary short
wave radio transmitting. The ultra
short waves that carry the visual
part are of such high frequencies
that instead of kilocycles Thousand
cycles) they are listed in mega
cycles (million cycles). Sound, even
that of symphony orchestra, usual
~ ID u t1ClloAAAAklCA III q SlOup VI Ire
quencies not more than 5000 cycles
wide. But a good television image
requires frequencies jumping from
80 to 100000 cycles within Sec
ond's time. In addition, two series
of waves-synchronizing impulses
must be broadcast to keep receiver
and transmitter in perfect step. A
lag of less than one-millionth of a
second in the receiving set would
make imperfect television pictures.
From the outset it is apparent that
television is at least three times as
complicated as radio.
An added difficulty is the fact that
the very high frequency television
waves do not bounce between the
earth and rejecting layer in the
sky as do the longer waves used
in sound broadcasting. Such repeat
ed reflection permits radio waves to
reach far over the horizon-in fact,
to follow the curvature of the earth
completely around the globe. Tele-
vision waves shoot straight off
through the rejecting layer into
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

Swapping out of their losing streak
with a fve-touchdown attack, Bluff
ton High gridders overwhelmed a
Shawnee eleven that was rated as
an equal by score of 81 to 0 Tues
day afternoon on the Harmon field
gridiron.
For the first time this season the
Pirates started out in impressive
fashion, capitalizing on a recovered
Shawnee tumble early in the first
quarter to march to a touchdown,
and from that point the Dillermen
turned in their most impressive per-
formance Of the year.
Fisher plunged across for the OPEN
ing tally and at the close of the
quarter the Bluffton crew led to 0.
They threw their attack into high
in the second quarter to tally three
more touchdowns. Halfback Santschi
ran 40 yards for one; Cooney took
a pass from Fisher and went 20
yards for the second and Fisher
plunged over from the two yard line
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

An-18 game basketball schedule
which will take Bluffton college Gag
ers into Michigan and Indiana for in
ter-state contests has been announced
by Coach A. c. Burcky, athlete di-
rector at the school.
Bluffton opens at home on Decem-
Der 2, with a strong Bowling Green
university team as the opponent. This
gives the Beaver mentor three weeks
to whip his squad into shape for the
seasons first test.
Bluffton's last game will be played
at Angola, Indiana, versus Tri-State
on Feb. %.
The complete schedule is as follows:
Dec. 2-Bowling Green, here.
Dec. Sat Kent State.
Dec. 9-At Kenyon.
Dec. 14-TriState, here.
Dec. 15-At Albion (Mich.).
Dec. 19-At Toledo.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Bluffton High Smother Shawnee
32-0 To Snap Long Losing Streak

for the third. Burkholder, right end,
booted two extra points.
After a scoreless third round Bluff
ton rang the bell in the fourth
period when Watkins tipped pass
to Burkholder good for 20 yards to
the three yard marker from which
Santschi went over.
Shawnee's principal gains were
made thru the air.
The victory let Bluffton close what
otherwise had been a mediocre sea
son in impressive fashion. After
winning their opening assignment
against Pandora, Bluffton was de-
feated in seven consecutive games,
finally breaking the losing streak to
beat Shawnee in their final start.
Seven seniors played for the last
time in the contest. They include
Fritchie, Kohl, Gratz, Marshall,
Greding, P. Martin and Burkholder.
Coach Diller will have his backfield
intact next season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

With football forgotten for an
other year so far as Bluffton is con-
cerned, local sports followers are
looking forward to the opening of
the basketball season. asf
Cage practice already is under
way, and Bluffton High school and
Bluffton college teams have games
scheduled early in December, less
than three weeks away.
Bluffton also will have an inde-
pendent team again this year, fol-
lowing the success of last years
venture, and the aggregation will
play a full schedule thruout the win
ter.
Bluffton college practice got under
way in earnest early this week, altho
candidates who were not on the foot
ball squad have been working out in
the gymnasium for the three pre-
ceding weeks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Venezualian Oil Burn
.pa4'i ing Lake Home
Continued from page j.

had touched off the confagration
which transformed the lake into a
blazing inferno.
Locher, graduate of the Case
School Of Applied Science, Cleveland,
has been employed by the Lago in
terests as an electrical engineer in
the company's Venezuela field for
the past five years. With him in
Maracaibo, besides his mother are
his wife and infant son.
He was born in Roumania where
his father the late Eph Locher a
native of Bluffton, was employed by
Standard Oil interests. Shortly after
the outbreak of the World war the
family returned to this country.
Since locating in Maracaibo five
years ago, Locher has twice returned
to visit here. His wife, the former
Gretchen Hoffman, is Roumanian
born, her parents being Americans
connected with the Roumanian oil
industry.
Maracaibo lake, scene of the trag-
edy, is near the seacoast of Vene-
zuela and connected with the ocean
by a narrow channel. A number of
years ago the Lago interests were
granted concession by the Vene-
zuelan government to operate in the
district covered by the lake. The
Shell company has the concession to
drill on the land surrounding the
lake with the shore as the dividing
line. Both companies pay royalty to
the government.
The lake is 40 miles wide and 120
miles long. Thousands of oil der
ricks built on concrete piles stand in
the lake. Some wells are out dis
tance of four miles from shore.
Many of the newer wells are under
water more than 70 feet deep and
concrete piles 120 feet in length are
required for the platform of the der
rick. Large scows with specially
built pile driving equipment sink the
huge piles into the lake bed. Aver
age depth of the wells is $4,000 feet.
Locher is one of about $50 Amer
leans employed as supervisors and
| technicians by the Lago company
which also employs some 1000
| natives.
! All mechanical processes with ex-
ception of actual drilling operations
are electrified. The product of the
field, 100000 barrels of crude oil
daily, is loaded by 800 horse power
pumps onto ten tank steamers and
taken some 200 miles to the tiny
coral island of Aruba, a Dutch pos
session where the company has To-
Gated the worlds largest oil refinery
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

AID IN CRIME VAR. Here is q
test telecast being made to deter
mine the value Of teleuision in Grim
inal identification by reproducing
fngerprints. officials claim that in
cases Uhere speed is important,
fngerprints could be broadcast to
operatives atcay from police head.
quarters. eliminating the delay
caused by mailing the prints to q
central bureau.
registers as light or shadow IS de-
termined by what the television
camera has revealed of the object
being televised.) The AL scanning
lines for each picture are completed
too quickly for the human eye to
detect the electron pencil in action,
and the resultant illusion is COM
parable to the illusion obtained from
the movies, which project "a still
pictures per second to create the i'm
preston of movement. The televi-
sion image is created by rapid
succession t 80 complete pictures
per second
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
II. s. Television
Hits New High
In Development
Broadcasts Now on Regular
Schedule From
New York.
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washinrfon d C-WNU Service.

Washington, d. C.-WNU Service.
Television broadcasts in
the United States are now on
regular schedule and manu-
facturers have begun the
wholesale production of re-
ceiving sets as the American
public begins to realize the
value of this new form OF
education and entertainment.
The inaugural telecast in this coun-
try was produced on April 80, 1889,
when President Roosevelt opened
the New York Worlds fair.
Since then teIevision has launched
into the air an eye-and-ear-witness
impression of the king and queen
of England visiting the fair, OF
canary circus, of a baseball game,
a boxing bout, ballet, swimming
contest, a marionette show, a six
day bicycle race, the docking OF the
new liner Mauretania, track meet,
and a fashion parade.
Experts point out that important
differences between radio and its
sister science of long-distance see-
fng place difficulties in the way of
a nationwide te1evision network TO
parallel radio ,hookups. Yet the
American people, who promptly in
vite each. new scientific marvel into
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Basketball Practice Starts; BlufftOn
Will Have Three Teams This Winter

Close of the Beavers football sea-
son. last Saturday made it Impossible
for other basketball aspirants to
turn out this week, and Coach A. c.
Burcky is hard at work with his
comparatively green squad.
Opening of regular Bldffton High
practice was delayed slightly by
postponing last Saturdays grid tilt
with Shawnee to Tuesday of this
week, but Coach Dwight Diller ex-
poets to have the ball rolling well
by the end of the week.
AS in the case of the college, high
school basketball candidates not on
the football squad have been prac-
ticing for several weeks.
Workouts also have been started
by the Independent team, which
plans an intensive inter-city schedule
this winter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

BEAUTY MAKEUP. The young
lady clad in ,car paint is not pre-
pairing for part in a horror thrill
er but is merely ''making-uP TOR
a regular teleuision broadcast. Spe-
ciai skill in the use of rouge and
paint is required to giue good pic-
ture reproduction in tetecasts.
outer space and are lost. They usu-
ally cannot be captured by televi-
sion sets much beyond the horizon.
Draw straight line, representing
the path of television waves, from
any point on the earth's surface, and
you will recognize that they soon
part company with the curvlng
earth. To be sure of viewing in"
on television program, therefore.
a receiving set should be close
enough to the transmitter to be
within the television horizon. From
the lofty antenna on the Empire
State building, sets within radius
jof 55 miles regularly receive the
program, as well as some sets from
l25 to $50 miles away. 20
* Resembles Ordinary Radio.
Outwardly the television receiving
set most generally in use resembles
a large radio console with an extra
row of buttons and propped-up
lid. The television image-a vision
indeed-appears beneath the lid,
where the televised scene in perfect
miniature comes to life on a glass
plate 8 by 10 inches.
Presiding genius of the television
receiving set is the 27-inch funnel
shaped vacuum tube, standing up
right like lily. As loud speaker
translates silent radio waves into
sound, this tube translates invisible
waves into a visible picture. Its
narrow stem contains an electron
gun primed with cathode-ray am
munition. Its broad top is capped
with a glass plate curved to shield
the vacuum within from the atmos-
pheric pressure above. The under
surface of the glass is coated with
chemical mixture, zinc sulfide,
which is capable of f1uorescing
(emitting light) when struck by cleo
irons. An electrical impulse from
the transmitter modulates the beam,
or ray, fired from the electron gun;
when the electrons hit the fiuores-
cent surface the glass shows tiny
point of light which is bright or dull
according to the intensity of the
modulted beam of electrons.
Two Miles Second.
The electron stream is shot in
machine-gun sequence across the
face of the plate from left to right
at speed of two miles second !;
then it zips back to the left at double
quick time and repeats the bonn
bardment. With about 500 "shots"
in a row, it makes AL trips from
left to right to fill in the picture
completely from top to bottom. This
action is controlled by electro-mag-
netic force. whether each tiny
"shot" of the electron bombardment
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

touchdown in the third quarter.
Reaume intercepted Bluffton pass
in the fourth and ran to eight-yard
line before he was downed. Leonard
ran the end for the touchdown from
that point.
1t was the first time in a five game
series that Assumption has emerged
victorious.
Altho both teams made five first
downs in Saturdays contest, Assump-
tion's headup, &scrappy playing gave
them an edge that led-to victory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Bottles Travel

Thrown overheard near Fiji by
Capt. E. r. Johanson, of the Ameri-
can liner Monterey, a bottle trav-
eled l.70O miles until picked UP by a
woman near Moreton island. off the
coast of Australia. A report from
Brisbane said the message asked
IN eight languages that the finder
report its recovery to the nearest
United States consul, as the infor-
nation would be useful in compiling
data on ocean currents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

The Sea of Galilee of Biblical
tame IS below sea level, yet its out
let flows into sea! The Sea of
Galilee, a body of fresh water Is
miles long and seven miles wide, is
700 feet below the level of the sea.
Its outlet, the River Jordan, car
ries the overflow to the Dead sea,
a body of salt water. which is 1900
feet below sea level. That's as far
below sea level as the water can go
there is no outletl
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
High School Wins
TWO; Loses SeUen

Bluffton High gridders were vic
torious in opening and closing games
of the 1889 seson, but in the inter-
vening span the Pirates lost sue
cessive contests to seven teams from
larger schools.
Victories racked up by the locals
were at the expense of Pandora and
Shawnee. Reversals were meted out
by Lima Central, Ada, Van Vert,
Celina, st. Marys, Wapakoneta and
Bellefontaine.
Bluffton hammered Shawnee, 32 to
0, in the closing tilt Tuesday to run
their season total to 67 points. OPP
ponents counted 153 points in the
nine games.
Seven of this years regulars
are seniors, which gives Coach
Dwight Diller a starting neucleus
next season. Those who played their
last game for the Pirates in the
contest against Shawnee were Kohl,
Fritchie, Burkholder, Gratz, Marsh
all, Greding and P. Martin.
Buttons season record follows:
Bluffton 6; Pandora 0
Bluffton O; Lima Central Il
Bluffton 9; Ada 13
Biuffton IS; Van Vert 90
Bluffton O; Celina 33
Bluffton z; st. Marys 81
Bluffton O; Wapakoneta 6
Bluffton o; Bellefontaine 33
Bluffton 50; Shawnee 0
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Paddlefish Found in Mississippi

Paddlefish Found in Mississippi
A paddlefish is a large scaleless,
fresh-water fish of the Mississippi
valley, characterized by a prolon-
cation of the bony carapace of the
head into long, f1attened, paddle
shaped snout, with which the fish
turns over the mud and gravel of
stream beds in its search for food.
Specimens sometimes exceed six
feet in length and weigh over $50
pounds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
College Ends Season
With TtCO Victories

In an eight-game schedule which
pitted them, without exception,
against teams from larger schools,
Bluffton college gridders won two
games and lost six.
Opponents piled up a total of 215
points against the Beavers during
the season, with Bluffton counting
40.
Kenyon and Defiance were beaten
by Button; defeats being admins
tered by Bowling Green, Findlay,
Wittenberg, Grand Rapids, Manches-
ter and Assumption.
Manchester, with Hank Lieberum,
the nations leading scorer as the
spearhead, meted out the most one
sided drubbing of the season by a
score of SO to z.
Only three seniors will be lost
thru graduation this year. They in
clude Dick Backensto, halfback; Stan
Fretz, tackle, and Dale Suter, a SUBJ
stitute lineman.
The seasons record follows:
Bluffton 8; Kenyon 0
Blufton O.; Bowling Green 35
Bluffton O.; Findlay 80
Bluffton O; Wittenberg 80
Bluffton O; Grand Rapids 7
Bluffton 18; Defiance 7
Bluffton z; Manchester 90
Bluffton IL; Assumption 26
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16
Blufftcn College Cagers Will Play
1S-Game Schedule Opening On Dec.

Jan. 11-At Findlay.
Jan. 23-At Ohio Northern.
Jan. 29-Findlay, here.
Jan. 31-Defiance, here.
Feb. 3-At Ashland.
Feb. 9-At Wilberforce.
Feb. 10-Kenyon, here.
Feb. 17-At Cedarville.
Feb. 24-Alumni, here.
Feb. 26-At Defiance.
Feb. 28-At Tri-State (Ind.).
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

xx11OGHfNE + ESu btOKy
William Haskins and Frank Coon,
of Caldwell, Idaho. caught a 400
pound sturgeon in Snake river after
six-hour battle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-11-16

Bluffton ......... 0 0 O 12-12
---Touchdowns: Assumption, Jacques,
Reaume, Onorato, Leonard
Blutfton, Swank and Jones.
Substitutions, Assumption, ends,
Flynn, S1ovisky, Peartree; tackles,
Collaghan, Starker; guards, Sasso,
Freeman, Balm; center, Moran; backs,
O'Neal, Tighe, Suscinski, Staskewicz,
Reaume, Onorato.
Bluffton, end, Lengrel; tackles Sut-
er, Welker, Shook; guards, Deeds, Nc
Laughlin; center, Rice; backs, Hunts
berger, Vonglesang, Grow, Soash, Lu-
binsky.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-21
K0TzIAN WINS
JURY VERDICT
Frank kotzian Awarded ST, 1872
for Damages Received In
Automobile Mishap.

After celebrating five hours, a dis
trict court jury in Virginia, Monday,
returned a verdict awarding Frank
Kotzian of this city S1,372 damages in
his $4,000 suit against Dr. Paul E.
Swanson, Virginia.
Kotzian sustained injuries in an &C.
cident on August 4, involving cars driven
by John Otrin of this city and DR..
Swanson. The mishap occurred on the
highway few miles west of this city
Testimony in the suit was completed
Friday afternoon after several days Of
trial. The hour being too late to be-
gin final argument, attorneys asked to
present final arguments on Monday.
The only witnesses for Dr. Swanson
were the doctor himself and his wife
who was riding with him when his car
collided with another, driven by Otrin,
in which Kotzian was passenger.
Testifying as plaintiffs witnesses on
Thursday were DR.. H. N Sutherland,
who treated Kotzian's injuries; DR.. P.
D. McCarty, who described Otrin's in
juries, and DR.. George Milavetz, who
described breakage Of Kotzian's teeth in
the crash.
Kotzian, his son, Louis, and his wife,
Mary, testified as to his working ability
before and after the accident
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-21
WV TO HOLD
SANTA PARTY
Set for Saturday Evening In
Community Center; Post,
Auxiliary Invited.

Post and auxiliary members of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars and their
children will hold Christmas party
Saturday evening at o'clock in the
Community Center auditorium
A program will be presented and
Santa Claus will put in an appearance.
Dancing and games will be conducted
The auxiliary is in charge Of the affair.
A one-act play, The Little Match
Girl" viii be enacted, with Miss Mona
Koivunen, Miss Betty Jane Dyhr, Mrs.
Charles Anderson, Andrew Spolarich.
Jr., Miss Bernice Korpi, Miss Dorothy
Koivunen and Mrs Iona Skantze TAX
ing the parts.
Mrs. Dan Jarvi, auxiliary president,
will welcome those attending and John
j. Meier, junior vice commander of the
post, viii respond. The high school
orchestra, under the direction of Frank
v. DiNino. viii play number Of
selections.
Bicycle club members viii be adj
mitted on their membership cards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-21
LIST WINNERS
IN CHRISTMAS
DECORATIONS
Business District is Judged;
Residential Area Will be
Inspected Wednesday.

The City Meat and Grocery, operated
by John Buccowich, was awarded first
prize in the Christmas lighting con-
test for the business section, sponsored
by the Ely Commercial club.
In all 80 business places were judged
as being possible winners in the con-
test, although practically every mer-
chant in the city had some form Of
decorations in his windows. Five prizes
were awarded and five places given
honorable mention.
Next Wednesday night the residential
section of the city will be inspected
InaSmuch as there has been very little
snow to date, but few persons have
gotten into the spirit of the season and
decorated their premises It is hoped,
however, that by the end Of the week
the many fine displays put up last year
viii be repeated.
The $40 first prize for the business
section went to the City Meat g.
Grocery. William Mills, clothier, won
the second prize of IS, and Zupancich
Store, third place and So.
The Fenske Hardware and Furniture
company was given fourth and the
Laing Hardware company, fifth Both
won $3.50.
Honorable mention went to the Piggy
Wiggly store, Ely Finnish Stock COM
pany, Ely Hardware and Furniture
company, McMahan Lumber company
and the EIy Cash Market