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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

day totaled s4,79O.O2 and for the
week S132,16O65, Dershem said.
Real estate taxes collected at Del
phos on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday totaled $15,352.13 and person
al and classified taxes collected there
amounted to S2,000.71.
Personal tax collections for the
week We're s2,371.08, bringing the
total to S5,193.96; and the weeks
classified tax total was S2,026.39
with the amount collected to date
$5,916.02.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Putnam Man Gets
State Appointment

Sarl r. Fenton, of Putnam county,
has been named chief of the dealers
and salesman's licensing division of
the state department of motor We
hicles.
He was one of eight chosen by Cy
Wallace, registrar, and win be sta
toned in Columbus. His salary will
be $2,400 annually.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Price Lower In Gas
War

Revival in Lima last Friday of a
gasoline price war promised to be a
"break" for motorists as some sta
tions reported that regular gas is
selling for 15a cents and others
said prices had been dropped to Is
cents.
The reduction came as surprise
to many as dealers had been report
ted negotiating for an end to the
price war,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Tax Collection To
Close Soon

Collection of frst-half real estate
taxes in Putnam county was well
beyond the $150,000 mark, according
to a report of County Treasurer
Grover c. Nichols. The collection
period total was $156,436.11.
County Treasurer Nichols an
nounces that the tax books for the
collection of real estate tax will re-
main open for two weeks yet. They
will close on March 20.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Skin Testing To Start

Tuberculin skin testing in rural
schools of Putnam county will open
this week under supervision of DR..
l.. M. Piatt, county health commits
sioner.
The work was in augurated last
year but every district of the coun-
ty was not covered, due to INSULT
cient funds. 1t is financed with
money derived from sale of Christ
mas health seals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Delph0s Gets New
Canning Factory

Hundreds of farmers and their
wives from the Delphos district as
sembled at the old Macks plant last
Tuesday night in a get-together
gathering with Swonger Brothers OF
Celina who have purchased the old
building and will operate it as a
canning factory.
The Swongers outlined their plans
for the coming season and names of
producers were taken, preparatory
to entering into of contracts for fur
nishing the plant with beets, toma-
toes, peas and other produce.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Income Tax Deadline
Near

Office of the internal revenue col
lector in the Lima post office will be
open between the hours of $3.50 a. m.
and 4:30 p. m. from now through
March 15 for the convnience of per-
sons required to file income tax re-
ports.
This announcement was made Sat
urday by Gilbert c. Hooks, local
deputy collector, as he made an ap-
peal to the general public to take
advantage of the opportunity of re-
ceiving speedy assistance.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
New Wheat Seed To
Be Tried

A new variety of winter wheat
which as been developed at the Ohio
Experiment Station is to be planted
by a number of Putnam county
wheat growers.
In trials made by the station this
new variety, Thorne wheat, outyield-
ed Trumbull and Fulhio by four
bushels to the acre.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Ministers Retreat At
0. n. II.

The second annual interdenomina-
tional retreat for ministers will be
held on the campus at Ohio North
ern university Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, April IL, IL and 13
President Robert Williams announced
last week.
Rev. Lester r. Minion of River
Forest, ILL.,, chairman in charge OF
the retreat, indicated that several
widely known religious speakers
would participate.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Finds 1897 Dime

A dime dated 1887 was found last
week by Ray Stewart, while he was
working in the excavation being
made for the new addition to the
Gilboa school. None of the work
men seemed to know when the coin
was lost, but Stewart has hope of
finding other and larges ones.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
New County Auditor
Next Week

Names of eight Republican APP
pointees to jobs in the Allen county
auditors office will be announced
sometime this week., Auditor Elect
Floyd G. Griffin, of Spencerville,
said Saturday.
Griffin, first Republican auditor
elected in this county in 64 years,
will take office March 13, replacing
c. A. Rusler, who has served for
three terms.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Passion Play Comes
To Lima

The Luenen Passion Play, with
Josef Meier appearing in the role
OF "The Christus", will be present
ed on Memorial halls stage in Lima
four days beginning Friday, March
II.
Appearance of the Luenen play
ers, numbering "a, is being spon-
sored by the Auxiliary of the Will
liam Paul Gallagher post of the
american Legion.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
ALLEN COUNTY
Tampers With City
Water Line

Pleading guilty in Lima municipal
court last Tuesday morning to a
charge of interfering with water
line, John S. Newland was fired SIS
and costs and sentenced to 15 days
in Jail by Judge M. B. Jenkins.
The affidavit against Newland
was filed by Lawrence Long, city
treasurer and secretary of the water
department. 1t stated that during
recent months Newland has not been
paying his water bill and after city
workmen shut off the water he
turned it on.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
$50, 900 In Beet Benefits

Putnam county farmers are sign
80 s GA applications for AAA pay
tfients under the sugar beet benefit
program, Chairman Arnold Schroed-
er, of the county committee, said
Payments represented by the 624
applications will exceed 100000.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Speed Law Ruled
Antiquated

Ottawa's antiquated ordinance fix
ing speed limit of eight miles an
hour for railroad trains in the vii
lage, was declared unreasonable by
Judge A. A. Slaybaugh in dismiss
ing part of the petition of Thomas
Oard, "a, Columbus Grove, who sued
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad Co.
for $4,000 for damages suffered in
an automobile-train accident.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
New Trial Denied In
Stallion Case

George w. Weadock, Piqua horse
dealer, recently convicted for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
was denied a new trial last week by
Judge A. A. Slaybaugh.
Weadock was convicted on charges
filed by Cyrilus Kahle of near Ka-
Ida, who claimed he purchased a
stallion from the defendant for 5000
and later found the animal to be
not as represented. A common pleas
jury estimated the stallion to be
worth S465.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Engineer Carries Fight
To Voters

County Engineer Russell Harvey
of Hardin County last week carried
to his constituents his opposition to
legislative bills which would divert
funds from roadways to general or
relief funds of counties.
Letters were in the mail last week
citing eight reasons for his opposi-
ton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Post Office Receipts
Gain

Receipts at the Findlay post office
during February showed gain for
the 9th consecutive month, Post
master w. T. Ault said at the close
of business for the month.
Last months receipts amounted to
s11. .257 so for a gain of s191.17 over
the s11,126.15 mark of February,
1898.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
WPA Rolls Decrease

Decrease of II employees in Allen
county's WPA rolls during the past
week was reported Saturday by Will
liam B. Schmuhl, district director
from Toledo, as he placed the figure
at 1869.
The report disclosed 15 workers
had left the federal agency's rolls
for private industry, and one was
returning from this classification
Approximately two-thirds of the
1869 WPA workers reside in Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
PUTNAM COUNTY
Livestock Thieves Are
Busy Again

Livestock thieves reappeared in
Putnam county last week.
II. Hersh, a farmer who resides in
Monroe township north of Continent
al, reported to Sheriff Arnold Potts
theft of large hog. Potts said
blood tracks indicated the animal had
been struck in the head and dragged
through a woods to a road, then
carried away.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Finds Rare Mole
Cricket

Merlin Shriner, of Lima, Satur-
day night was exhibiting a mole
cricket, an insect which is quite rare
in this section of the country, which
he found earlier in the day in a
ditch near Columbus Grove.
The cricket, having large fossoriai
front legs adapted for excavating,
feeds largely on roots of plants. 1t
is brownish in color and measured
about an inch and half in length.
Mole crickets usually are found
in warmer climates.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Charges Husband Kept
Her Prisoner

Because her husband kept her
virtually a prisoner in their home,
and refused to permit her to visit
even relatives, Leila Mauro filed suit
Thursday for divorce from Joseph
N. Mauro, also known, plaintiffs pc
tition states, as Mauri Nazareno.
The woman declares in her petit
tion that her husband repeatedly
made threats against her life, and
frequently used obscene and abusive
language in the present of their two
children.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Catholics Get Lease
For Gym

The Ottawa Board of Education
has granted 99-year lease to SITS.
Peter and Paul Catholic school for
the use of the new school auditor
ium-gymnasium, now under construc-
ton, for educational and recrea-
tional purposes. The annual rental
will be 81 a year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Man Falls Into Buzz
Saw

Roy Jolliff, Al, Arlington, was in
the Findlay hospital Friday evening
with serious cuts on his arm and
the side of his body.
He was injured when he acci-
dentally fell into a buzz saw while
saving wood.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Cooperative Has Good
Year

Organized little over year ago,
the Hancock Consumers Co-operat-
i've, Inc, had sales amounting to
81 GOT and paid a FIVE per cent pat
ronage dividend of $50 its first
year, reports given at the annual
meeting last Monday night in the
Farm Bureau building showed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
S37,93O For Schools In
County System

A total of s37,93O.O4, representing
the Allen county share in the first
quarterly settlement of the 1889
school foundation program, was be-
ing distributed to boards of educa-
zion Thursday by Supt. Herschel
Litherland.
Among checks mailed were:
Beaverdam, $2,57289; Cairo, 81,
1912; Lafayette-Jackson, $3,761.97.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
so Miles REA Lines
Completed

Work on the Hancock Wood REA
lines is moving rapidly with approx
imately $50 miles of line staked and
25 miles of poles set. House wiring
also is going forward and 225 meter
bases are now out.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Lima Concern In Pat
ent Suit

Concluding two-day hearing,
Federal Judge Frank Kloeb last
week took under advisement the pat
ent suit brought by the Lachner Co.,
Cincinnati, against the Neon Pro-
ducts, Inc, Lima. The suit involves
a patent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Escaped Inmate Again
Ruled Insane

William Blatz, one of five men who
escaped from the Lima hospital for
criminally insane on January |, last
week in Chicago was found insane
and committed to the hospital for
the criminal insane at Menard, I'll.
Blatz was charged with robbery
after tavern shooting. He was the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Water Tests Are Being
Made

Hardin county Health Coni;..,is-
sioner DR.. j. F. Holtzmuller and
Lois Eddy, county health nurse, are
taking samples of the water supply
used by WPA employees to be sent
into the state department. of health
for tests. Approximately 20 such
tests are being made at various
places over the county, they said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
S63,739 Collected In
Sales Tax

Sales tax collections Saturday
amounted to $1,3O405, bringing the
total for the week to $7,545.17 and
for the year thus far, $63, ,729.17, ac-
cording to Allen county Treasurer
Byron III. Dershem.
Real estate tax collections Satur-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Death Takes Civil
War Veteran

Jacob Bender, 81, one of Hardin
county's few surviving Civil War vet
Grams, died at the home of his son,
James Bender, in Dunkirk, Wednes-
day afternoon at four o'clock. He
had been i'll for the last three
months from infrmities.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Musical Thief Seals
Six Guitars

Ronald Dearth, of Lima, COM
planned to police that six guitars
and cases and two brief cases, valued
at $156, were stolen from his store,
Wednesday of last week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
$3.50, 900 Available For
Farmers

Complete compliance with the AAA
soil conservation program in Put
nam county during 1889 will net
farmers more than s75O,0O0, accord
ing to an estimate made last week,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Trustees Against Cen
traliZed Relief

The Hancock County Association
of Township Clerks and Trustees
went on record last Wednesday
night at it's meeting in the court
house as opposed to the county well
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09
Too Much Illness, Play
Postponed Second Time

Campus Quarantine" has begun
to take on the features of jinx SC
far as the cast composed of Girl Re-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09

fourth of the five escaped men to be
recaptured. Frank Haines, leader of
the gang, is still at large.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09

$50 for the years work, an average
of S255 per boy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-09

natural colorings, birds, fishes, trees,
flowers and other expression of wild
life.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
American Woman
Struck in Face by
Japanese Sentry
Soldier Rejects Cards of
Identification, Then
Comes Blow

TIENTSIN, China, Aug.
Is. (UP) - The American
consulate revealed today that
a japanese army sentry had
struck a 59-year-old Ameri-
can woman in the face after reject
ing the Identification cards given
her by the American and Japanese
consulates.
Mrs. Frances Mary Richard, OF
San Francisco. sought to enter the
blockaded foreign concession area
with basket of vegetables
Five japanese sentries at the bar
rier permitted her to pass when she
showed them an Identification card
issued by the American consulate.
A sixth sentry refused to recog-
nize the United States official card.
Mrs. Richard then showed him
personal card from the Japanese
consulate. This enraged the sentry.
He ordered Mrs. Richard to a search
shack and demanded that she emp
ty her vegetable basket.
Mrs. Richard complied. But she
turned her back because Chinese
men were taking off their trousers
for search.
Thereupon the sentry swung Mrs.
Richard around to face him and
struck her in the face.
When she was permitted to pass
the barrier, Mrs. Richard telephon-
ed the American and Japanese
consulates, remaining on the side
of the barrier toward the French
concession until the arrival of an
American consular attache and
japanese vice consul Nishida. Then
Mrs. Richard identified the sentry
who had struck her.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
Pet Duck Added
ToList ofLoot
Taken by Thieves

Ell Centro's petty theft wave
which has claimed victims In all
sections of the city during the past
10 days, reached a climax Monday
when thieves stole a pet duck from
the home Of Sam Dannenberg al
zoos Commercial.
The thieves, driving a sedan
stopped their car in the alley at the
rear of the Dannenberg home, cap
tured the duck and made Their
getaway, police reported
Other thefts Monday included
n bicycle belonging to Dick Miller
stolen at the U. A. theatre; money
stolen from the home of r. S. Ba-
loe, 1O2 Orange, and tire and
wheel stolen from an auto belonging
to Ray McAulty.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
Dairy Farmers Union Goes on Strike
For Higher Prices, Cut Off Milk
Supply for New York City

UTICA. N. Y. Aug. Is UP)-
The dairy farmers union today en-
forced a strike against milk ship
ments to New York City, the ma
tion's largest city.
The union demanded higher
prices for milk and blamed the
milk trust for keeping the prices
down. The strike was supported
by the Congress of Industrial Or
CARNATIONS.
The general organization COM
mittee announced that milk would
be supplied to New York City hos
pitals and to the city's children.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
BY United Press

Merchants were generally happy
today over President Roosevelt's an
nouncement that he was advancing
Thanksgiving Day a week, because
that will enlarge the Christmas
shopping period, but there was con-
sternation among college football
managers and calendar makers.
AT Campobello, N. S., where he
arrived yesterday on a vacation
cruise, Mr.. Roosevelt said he had
had many requests to move the
holiday ahead. because it came
too near Christmas, and that he
would proclaim it for Nov. 90 this
this year, instead of Nov. 30.
1t is tradition among business
men that advertising and display
of Christmas goods is withheld UNI
til after Thanksgiving, and since
that holiday would have fallen
this year on the latest possible
date, there would have been only
20 Christmas shopping days.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
SeIf-HeIp for Job|ess Advocated by
Olson as Answer 10 Grapes of Wrath

LOS ANGELES, Aug. Is CUP)-
In answer to John Steinbeck's des-
cription of the California migratory
workers conditions in the novel
Grapes of Wrath, Gov. Culbert
Olson today put forth his admins
tration's self-help plan for the job
less
"California's new state adminis-
tration proposes to abolish the dole
and to put the poverty-stricken to
work producing their food, clothing
and shelter, Olson wrote in a
national magazine. I'VE propose
to let them process and consume
surplus commodities, to let them
earn their own way; but we need
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15

help from the Federal government" ="
The governors statement released
by his office was part of an article
entitled "California's Answer to
The Grapes of Wrath" He en-
swered assertions that 100000 mi
grant laborers travel the states
highways harvesting seasonal crops,
earning less that $3.50 a year per
family and spending much of this
on their old automobiles. Govern
or Olson asserted that California
has had its migratory labor prob
lens for so yers, and that these
problems are by no means confined
to California.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
EorIess Man Free
AS Probe Pushed
In Train Crash
rMany Transients
Quizzed Without
Developments

RENO. New, Aug. Is. (UP)
The desert reaches of New
ada were searched today for
a man or men who might
have deliberately wrecked
the Southern Pacific's brown and
yellow streamline train, City of
San Francisco, and killed % persons
late Saturday night.
Transients by the score were
picked up and questioned at every
hamlet throughout the state. In
every case those so far questioned
had proved to authorities they were
innocent OF the crime of sabotage
charged by railroad officials.
TIE bodies of three additional
victims-bringing the death toll in
the $2,400,000 train to 23-were
taken to Elko early today. They
were identified as Mrs. Henry Pep
per Vaux, Rosemont, Pa, her daugh-
ter, Susan, and Henry Spreck, 35.
white cook on the dining car.
Meanwhile a man with defaced
ears who had been sought as a
suspect was questioned and releas-
ed in nearby Sparks, railroad divi-
sion point. G-Men who questioned
him said he had proved he was at
Pyramid Lake, 300 miles from the
scene at the hour the fast train
plunged through a broken rail at
the Humboldt river bridge, just
west of Carlin.
A. D. Mcdonald, president of the
Southern Pacific, told the United
Press that his special agents had
some evidence pointing toward a
particular person as saboteur. He
bluntly refused to amplify the state
ment. He said secrecy was essential.
The interstate commerce commits
sion was expected to begin lengthy
inquiry this weekend. There also
was a possibility that the Nevada
public service commission likewise
would inquire into the wreck, but
Chairman Charles Sexton made
plain that the second investigation
would depend entirely upon the
evidence presented at the first.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
Echo Of Labor Disputes
Enters Bridges Hearing

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.
Is. (UP)-An echo of the
fight between Harry Bridges
ClO west coast representa-
tive, and Dave Beck, AFL
leader on the coast, for power in
the Pacific northwest was heard
today in Bridges deportation hear
ing.
Attorneys defending Bridges in
his fight against deportation to
Australia as an undesirable alien,
intimated that Portland police had
been given financial aid by AFL
officers in their investigation Of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15
Plane to Help
Fight Brush Fire
Near Warmers
Will Direct Fire Fighters
AS Flames Spreading
Over 5000 Acres

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug.
Is. (UP)-The federal gov
ernment's newest fire-fight-
ing weapon-the airplane-
was pressed into service to-
day in desperate effort to con-
troll the 3.0O0-acre brush and timber
fire which has ragged out of control
in the Warner Springs district, 70
miles north of San Diego, since
1920 a. m. Sunday.
The private plane. chartered by
the Cleveland National Forest Re-
serve, will be piloted by Kenneth
Brooks, with William Mann, OBJ
server Both are from Pomona.
The plane will circle over the
Continued on Page 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15

ANCiC"Cu oCCiNiCy ny Vic 1-MclI
caused reports that their investiga-
ton into the asserted kidnapping of
H. Yamatoda, so-called Japanese
gambling czar, from in front of
the Ell Centre police station last
December. would reach head
Wednesday or Thursday.
Agent K. Moss, however, was
silent on the trend of the investi-
cation.
1--WE can't say anything" he said
That's department rule. Sorry :"
Patrolman Charles Schlanze, mean
while, had been interviewed by the
three FBI agents in their hotel
ROOM Other city officers, it was
believed, were slated for questioning
before the G-Men again leave Ell
Centro.
Police Quizzed
Every member of the FL Centric
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15

sented as a receipt for $3.50 signed
by u. Estabrook" and signed by
William Brown" Brown is a police
sergeant who aided Keegan.
The police captain said he never
had heard of the receipt or its
purpose and was unable definitely
to identify the signature.
Keegan declined to estimate the
cost of several trips to California
made by his men in the case. No
record was kept, he said.
"Al Rosser was connected with
the teamsters during the two years
you were working on the Bridges
case Gladstein said. Did you or
any other man receive any money
from Rosser to assist in the inves-
Continued on Page 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-15

Bridges activities.
The names of AL RoSser, Beck s
first lieutenant in the Transfers
union at Portland, and AL Esta-
brook, representative of an AFL
warehousemen's union which was
battling Bridges CIO International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems union, were brought into the
record.
Capt. John Keegan of the Port
land police, whom the defense was
questioning. denied they had pro-
vided any money for the Bridges
investigation. Keegan maintained
it was financed solely from civic
funds.
Richard Gladstein. representing
Bridges. introduced what was pre-