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Evening star., 1940-03-19

Cornell University in 1900. Soon
after graduation he entered the
service of the Bell Telephone Sys-
tenn. In 1901 he was made wire
chief at Binghamton, N. Y.
Serving in various positions with
the c. & P. Telephone Co.. in Bal
tlmore, Mr.. Graft was furloughed
Tor military service in 1917.
Entered Army as Captain.
He was commissioned captain in
the Signal Reserve Corps of the
Army turing the World War, and
saw duty at Camp Vail, N. j.; Camp
Sherman, Ohio. and here. Mr..
Gaff assisted in organizing Company
D of the 403d Battalion, comprising
telephone workers of the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia.
He left the service at the close
OF the war with a rank of major.
For 10 years he was chief engineer
OF the c. & P Telephone Co. of
Virginia, with Offices in Richmond.
He received his appointment of vice
president last year.
Member of Board of Trade.
Mr.. Graft held membership in the
Washington Board of Trade, the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, the Westmore-
land Club of Richmond and Phi
Sigma Kappa fraternity.
Surviving are five sisters, Mrs.
Martin F. Hoyberger, Mrs. John S.
Thiemeyer, Mrs. Max Walten and
the Misses Antonio and Marie Graft,
all of Washington. He also leaves
sister-in-law, Mrs. Carl F. Graft,
also of this city.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at pm. in Fort Myer. Va,
Chapel. Burial will be with military
honors in Arlington National Gem
etery.
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Oracle Fields Married
To Producer Banks
By the Associated Press.


BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, March
19.-Married at a quiet civil cere-
mony, Oracle Fields, British film and
stage comedienne, and Monty
Banks, her producer director,
planned today to leave Friday for
New York and sail April 7 for a
European honeymoon.
Following brief visit with her
husband to the Isle of Capri, Miss
Fields is booked for a Paris opera
house war benefit performance April
18. She and Mr.. Banks expect to
continue motion picture work later
In London.
The wedding took place last night
at the home of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stansfeld.
Mr.. Banks said they would be re-
married this spring in the village
church at Telcombe. England, where
two of the actress sisters were wed.
At the ceremony here they used
their true names. Grace Stansfield
and Mario Bianchi, and each gave
the age of AZ.
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Commission Issues
Price-Fixinq Ban

The Federal Trade Commission
announced today that the American
Veneer Package Association, Inc, OF
Washington and four regional as
sociations of the fruit and vegetable
industry had been ordered to cease
and desist' from fixing uniform
prices and discounts, curtailing pro-
duction and engaging in other prac-
tices deemed to be in restraint
Of competition"
Members of the regional associa-
tions, said the commission, manufac-
ture and sell approximately IS per
cent of all veneer containers used
for shipping fruits and vegetables.
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Sweden Reassured
On Russian Aims
In Scandinavia
Soviet Has No Further
Territorial Ambitions,
Stockholm Is Told
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, March 19.-Con-
cerned over the terms of the Rus
slan-Finnish. peace which provide
Tor Russian railway link with the
Swedish border, Sweden has been
gwen Moscow's assurances that the
U. s. S. R. has no further territorial
ambitions in Scandinavia.
Ofncial Swedish sources. disclos-
ing the assurances last night, failed
TO specify, however, whether thev
Evening star., 1940-03-19

engines Of war is the manual dex-
terity Of our industrial mechanic, j"
he told State Legion meeting.
For the production of our war
equipment and our munitions in our
civilian factories we must look to
deft hands,"
Mr.. johnson said that he deplored
war, but asked: "Whc in the world
OF today would be so bold as to say
We may never fight again?"
Evening star., 1940-03-19

street NV. His
death was at
tributed to heart
disease.
Prominent in
civic and service
circles, Mr.. Graft
was a native of
Washington, the
son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G h arl e S
Graft.
Mr.. Graft re-
ceived his early
education in To-
e a ! pull b / i c
schools a n d
graduated from
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Senator Bone, Up
After 4 Months, Calls
Bed Worst Torture
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Bone, Democrat, of
Warrington, returning to WASH
ington after a four-months' re-
covery from a broken hip, told
reporters:
'They missed something when
they were devising the torture
chambers of the Middle Ages.
If they had a fellow they really
wanted to punish, they should
have told him:
"'Now you just take it easy.
You can stay right here in bed
for a few months. Well have
music for you, and bring in
some dancing girls. but you've
got to stay in bed"
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Johnson Says U. s. Needs
Skilled Arms Mechanics
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, March 19.-As-
sistant Secretary Of War johnson
declared last night there is q need
in the United States for skilled
mechanics in arms" to meet the re-
quirements of modern warfare.
Behind our planes, our tanks, our
trucks and all our modern, delicate
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Dr.. William 6. Spi|Ier,
NeuroIogist, Dies at 76

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, March 19.-Dr.
William G.. Spiller, professor emer-
titus of neurology at the University
of Pennsylvania Medical School.
died last night after an illness of
five years. He was 76. A native of
Baltimore. DR.. Spiller graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania
In 1892.
Evening star., 1940-03-19
Maj. J. 7. Graft,
Telephone Company
Official, Dies at 81
Heart Disease Fatal
To Vice President of
Chesapeake & Potomac

Maj. j. Theodore Graft, 62, a vice
president of the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co., died suddenly
yesterday at his home, 1853 Macomb
Evening star., 1940-03-19

Not even canned meat may be
served on Hungarys two meatless
days week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Third Robbery At II.
.s+ S. In Three Months

&# ss F&FF ~ - AkEs.
> Bluffton high school was the scene
of the third robbery in three months
when the building was entered Sun
day night and the office looted in
what was apparently search for
money.
A checkup Monday revealed that
cash was obtained amounting to be-
tween seven and eight dollars used
in operation of the school cafeteria.
More serious, however, was damage
to the building, which some esti-
mates placed as high as $50. Prin-
cipal damage was done to doors
leading to the office. One door was
forced by boring a large hole thru
the panel with tools obtained from
the schools manual training work
shop.
Supt. A. J. B. Longsdorf was in
Lima, Monday morning conferring
with the sheriff's office and deputies
were sent here to work on the case.
Deputies from the sheriff's office
were assigned to each of the other
two robberies here but no arrests
were made.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07

How seventy-seven year old
Bluffton woman has overcome the
handicap of blindness to do her own
housework, assist with cooking and
sew for others also afflicted with
blindness, was disclosed Sunday in
connection with the observance of
the fifty-sixth wedding anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. O. A. Ludwig of
South Jackson street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig are pioneer
residents of this community and on
their wedding anniversary they were
honored at the st. Johns Reformed
church, Sunday morning. Following
the Sunday school service they were
presented with a bouquet of carna-
tions and a basket of fruit by w. A.
Amstutz in behalf of the congrega-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig have lived
at their present location on South
Jackson street for the past thirty.
six years and Mrs. Ludwig, althc
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Pre-Easter Services
At Methodist Church

A weeks series of Pre-Eastsr
evangelistic services will be held at
the Methodist church beginning next
Sunday and concluding on Palm SUM-
day, it is announced by the pastor,
Rev. ]. A. Weed.
Services will be held every evening
at 7:30 o'clock excepting Saturday
Special music will be part OF each
meeting.
The following guest preachers will
speak:
Monday-Rev. G. r. Archer, Co
lunabns Grove. -'ssaaal
Tuesday-Dr. /. w. Bauman, Bluff
ton college
Wednesday and Thursday-Rev. A.
B. Albertson, Lima.
Friday-Dr. ". H. Altman, Bluff
ton.
The pastor will preach on Palm
Sunday morning and evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Airplanes Bomb Chinese Village
Home OF Former BlufftOn Woman
Letter from Mrs. Floyd Panna-
becker to Her Mother, Mrs.
]. HI. Tschantz
Twenty-three Civilians Killed
AS Swooping Planes Bring
Rain of Death

Experiences of a former Blufftor
woman, now missionary in China
when bombing planes, presumably
Japanese, rained nearly 40 high ex.
plosive bombs on their village kill.
ing % people is described in let.
ter from Mrs. Floyd Pannabecker to
her mother, Mrs. ]. H. Tschantz OF
Kibler street. Mrs. Pannabecker
the former Miss Sylvia Tschantz is
located at Kai Chow, China, some
$50 miles south of Peiping.
Describing the raid Mrs. Panna-
becker writes:
AS | stepped out of the house to
go to Sunday school, on Sunday
morning, January 7, l heard the
drone of airplanes and looking up
into the sky noticed six of them.
could tell they were bombers by the
loud droning sound they made. Soon
three of them went east and three
went west.
| stopped to get Miss Eta Davis,
one of our missionaries, to go along
to Sunday school and slowly meand-
cred on, listening and watching.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
H. S. IN SECOND
TOURNEY GAME
High School Cagers Play Fos-
toria st. Wendelin Thurs
day Night at Carey
Dillermen Advance to Quarter.
Finals by Defeating
Chatfield, 54-46

Seeking to gain another lap in the
lnog, difficult road that leads to Sec
tional Class B honors, Bluffton Highs
scrappy cage outfit will meet their
second tourney foe in tilt with Fos-
toria St. Wendelin, Thursday night in
the Carey High gymnasium. The
game is scheduled for o'clock.
Bluffton advanced thru the first
round successfully last Friday in
smothering Chatfeld's formidable five
81 to Dc, in free-scoring contest.
Fostoria St. Wendeiin. the Pirates
next obstacle in the path that might
lead to tournament championship,
gained the quarter-fnals by dispos-
ing of Lexington, Saturday night.
Should the Dillermen be successful
in their start against the Fostoria
crew, they will be called upon to play
again the following night at $3.50 p.
m.
The other semi-fnalist from the
lower bracket will be the winner of
the Carey -Bettsville game. Both of
these teams are top-notchers, Carey
having spilled Salem, dending champs
21 to 20, and Bettsville won over Raw
son, az to 10.
Buttons performance against the
Chatfield team, in which the locals
ran up the high tournament score with
their 54-point sortee, marked the Dill
ermen as a possible dark horse in the
Class B meet, but each test from now
on out will be increasingly difficult.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
PLAN MOSQUITO
CAMPAIGN HERE
Mosquito Day" with All Resi-
dents Cooperating May
Open Spring Drive
Annual Cleanup Day May Come
Earlier This Year to Aid i'm
War On Pests

Assurance that Bluffton will have a
scientifically planned mosquito control
program this summer was voiced
Tuesday night by Mayor Wilbur A.
Howe.
Patterned after the Ottawa Hills
cleanup that effected a 80 per cent
elimination of mosquitoes, Buttons
drive will be sponsored by the muni-
cipal council, the American Legion
and the Lions club.
An early step on the control pro-
gram was indicated Monday night at
a meeting of the council when prelim-
mary plans were discussed in line with
suggestions made week ago when
Louis H. Lewandowski, Lucas county
sanitary engineer, speaking at meet
ing here, described the Ottawa Hills
cleanup which he directed.
Open Campaign Early
Buttons war on the swarm of mo-
squitoes that plague the town every
summer will be open the latter part
of this month and it has been sug-
ested that opening of the drive be des-
ignated as Mosquito Day" with all
residents of the town cooperating.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
In New Locations

w. w. Huber who moved to Ada
a year ago has moved back to his
farm south of Bluffton on the Bent
ley road this spring. During the
past year the place has been occu-
pied by Walter Fleming.
Paul Amstutz who occupied the
Amos Thut farm has moved to the
farm of the Henry Diller heirs near
Columbus Grove. Oliver Amstutz of
Dunkirk has moved on the Thut
farm.
Rev. A. F. Albro is moving from
the Todd property on Cherry street
to the Lloyd Basinger property on
Jefferson street.
James Bowman will move this
week from the Harrison Anderson
farm in Orange township to loca,
ton near Ohio City. A Parker fam.
lily from near Ohio City will move
on the. Anderson farm.
Jacob Schnegg has moved from ths
Nonnamaker farm in Orange town
ship to the Binkley property on Eas
College avenue which he recently
purchased.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Pre-Easter Service
At Pandora Church

DIR. Edmund G. Kaufman, presi-
dent of Bethel college, North New
ton, Kansas, will conduct the annual
pre-Easter services at the Grace
Mennonite church, Pandora, it is an
nounced by the pastor, Rev. Paul
Whitmer.
The services will open Sunday
morning and continue for week,
closing the following Sunday night.
The Sunday morning services will be
at 1O:3O o'clock. Evening meetings
will be at 7:45.
The following subjects have been
announced:
Sunday morning, "God"; Sunday
night, Creation; Monday, "Man";
Tuesday, Christ; Wednesday,
Prayer; Thursday, "The Bible;
Friday, "The Church; Saturday,
"The Kingdom; Sunday morning,
"The Christian; Sunday evening
"The Future.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Bluffton Woman, Blind, Sews,
Cooks And Does Own HOusewOrk

blind for several years does much
sewing for inmates of institutions
for the sightless. With assistance
of her husband, aged 81, she does
her own housework and cooking,
Both are enjoying fairly good health.
Mrs. Ludwig, the former Litisho
Alice Hyne, is a native of Piqua
county while her husband was born
near Delphos. After their marriage
the couple lived in Delphos for two
years and then moved to Orange
township where they resided on a
farm for nineteen years after which
they came to Bluffton where they
have since resided.
Mr.. Ludwig has one sister living
Mrs. Mary Jane King of Fremont
Mrs. Ludwig has brother, George
Hyne, of Sterling, Colorado, anc
three sisters, Mrs. w. B. Kramer
Mt. Cory; Mrs. Hattie Barkimer
Clinton, Mich, and Mrs. Maggi,
Wiley. San Diego, Calf.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
WPA may OK
SEWER ISSUE
Council Approves Plan to Pre-
sent Application for Fed
eral Aid
Project Defeated at Polls Here
Last Fall is Still on
WPA Books

A sewer system for Bluffton, pro-
posed as a WPA project last fall
and defeated at the polls in the
November election, may be approved
at Washington this spring and fed
eral funds made available for the
governments part of the construc-
tion.
Word to this effect was presented
to the town council at its meeting
Monday night by Carleton S. Fink
beiner, senior member of the firm
of Champe, Finkbeiner & Associates,
Toledo engineers, which was in
charge of drafting plans for the
proposed sewer system here last
fall.
Finkbeiner who appeared before
the council stated that the project is
still being carried on the books of
WPA as possibility and that with
several minor changes, it would fol-
low routine procedure and be SUBJ
mitted for approval by federal au-
thorities.
Federal Grant Conditional
With WPA approval in Washing
ton, government funds would be
available for construction of the
sewer system on condition that
funds for the municipalities share
of the cost also were available.
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Speaker Home From
Europe Coming Here

George Blomgren, who has re-
Gently returned from Europe will
speak at the Ebenezer Mennonite
church next Monday night at 7:45
o'clock, it is announced by the pastor,
Rev. P. A. Kliewer.
Subject for the lecture will be
Europe at this Hour in the Light
of Bible Prophecy, which will be
preceded by sound motion pictures of
the fall of Warsaw, capture of Dan
zig and other features.
Mr.. Blomgren, an evangelist, lec-
turer and foreign news correspond
end was also preacher at The Little
Country Church of Hollywood, Calf
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
56 SENIORS TO
BE GRADUATED
Bluffton High Commencement
Is Set for Thursday Night,
May %
Junior-Senior Banquet May 10
Will Open Pre-Commence-
ment Season

Fifty-six Bluffton High seniors
are expected to receive diplomas at
commencement services for the
class, Thursday evening, May 23.
DIR. j. Raymond Schultz, of
indianapolis, formerly of Manchester
college, North Manchester, Ind, will
be the class speaker. A native of
Pandora, DR.. Schultz is well known
here. Since leaving Manchester
college he has been associated with
an insurance firm.
Opening event of the annual series
of pre-commencement events will be
the junior-senior class banquet,
scheduled for May 10.
Seniors will be guests of the
junior class at the event. Following
the dinner a class dance will be
held in the gymnasium.
Baccalaureate services will be
held Sunday, May 10, the speaker
to be announced later.
On Monday and Tuesday follow
ing baccalaureate, presentations of
the senior class play will be made.
This year the class will stage Mol
iere's Imaginary Invalid.
Senior class night is to be held
Wednesday, May %, followed by
commencement on May %. Date of
the alumni banquet has been set as
Friday, May "a.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
With The Sick

Frank Scott, retired Bluffton man
ufacturer, is i'll at his home on East
Kibler street.
Irwin Long, Bluffton restaurateur
has recovered from a recent illness
Mrs. J. A. Warren of Orange
township is confined to her home or
account of sprained ankle, the re
suit of a fall.
Mrs. Dwight Diller has been re
moved to her home here much i'm
proved following a major operation
at st. Rita's hospital, Lima.
VIM. Carr, north of Bluffton, il
a patient in the hospital here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
H. S. MUSIC
CONTEST HERE
Northwest Ohio High School
Choral, Groups i'm Bluff
ton March Is
More than 1000 Singers to
Enter Contest; Bluffton
High to be Entry

Representatives from more than &c
district high schools will compete il
the Northwest Ohio Choral festiva
to be held in Bluffton Friday of next
week.
Bluffton High school will be one OF
the competing groups, and will enter
all three branches of eisteddfod COM
petition.
Boys glee clubs, girls glee clubs and
mixed choruses will sing in the local
meet, and winners will be eligible to
compete in the state contest to be held
at Columbus in April.
Competition here will be in five
classes and entry will be determined
according to the size of the student
body of schools. Class divisions are
A, B, BIB, C and &C.
Prof. Russell A. Lantz is in charge
of arrangements and will direct the
all-day session. Sponsor of the event
is the Bluffton college department Oh
music, of which Prof. Lantz is direct.
or.
Morning, afternoon and evening
sessions will be held in the large Bluff
ton High gymnasium, and it is esti'
mated that more than 100 students
will be in Bluffton to represent each
of the competing schools.
Adjudicators will be Miss Faye
Rees, supervisor of music, Wooster
public schools; Milton Rehg, director
of music, Muskingum college, ane
Dale Gilliland, professor of music OF
Ohio State university.
w. Oscar Jones, of Defiance, vii
be chairman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Former Blufton Man Who Fled Red Russia
Feels Miracle Will Halt Finnish Inuasion
DIR. Peter Epp Sees Horrors if
Present Attack of Soviets
Succeeds
Relatives Imprisoned by Boil
sheviks Died of Starvation
He Declares

Coments on the Russian invasion of
Findland by DR.. Peter Epp, former
Bluffton college professor now an in
structor in German at Ohio State uni
versity, received front-page promin-
ence on the front page of recent is
sue of The Columbus Sunday Dis
patch.
In the interview, DR.. Epp declared
he felt "some miracle will keep the
Firms from being defeated by the Rus
slams, despite Russia's superiority in
man-power."
DR.. Epp's assertions were based on
his experiences in living thru Russian
ruthlessness, characterized by him as
100 times more horrible than the
present war;"
When revolution swept thru Russia
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Open House Sunday
For Golden Weddiylg

Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Burkholder,
of East College avenue, lifelong res
idents of this community will observe
their Golden Wedding anniversary
Sunday. Relatives and friends of
the couple are invited to call on
Sunday afternoon when the couple
will receive congratulations at open
house at the home of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Paul Diller of South Main
street.
Preceding the open house, a FAM
lily dinner will be held at the home
Iof another daughter, HsTs. Calvin
Steiner of Poplar street.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Burkholder are
natives of the Swiss Settlement west
of Bluffton, he being the son of the
late Samuel Burkholder three miles
north of Beaverdam. His wife, the
former Anna Bixel was the daughter
of the late Peter Bixel, two and one
half miles west of Bluffton. Both
are aged rs years.
The couple was married March 13,
1890, and resided on a farm five
and one-half miles west of Bluff
ton until eight years ago when they
moved to their present location on
East College avenue.
Their six children are: Mrs. Harry
Gratz, Lima; Alvin Burkholder,
Findlay; William and Harley Burk-
holder, Mrs. Steiner and Mrs. Diller
all of Bluffton.
Mr.. Burkholder has one sister,
Mrs. Sarah Diller of Bluffton and
five brothers, Menno and Elias of
Bluffton; Samuel of Toledo; John of
Kidron and Reuben of Washington
state.
Mrs Burkholder's brothers are:
John Bixel, Lima; Peter of Pandora;
Elias of Lima; Samuel and Chris
of Bluffton. Sisters are: Mrs. C. ID.
Amstutz and Mrs. D. ]. Basinger
of Bluffton and Mrs. Eli Diller of
Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07
Dollar Day Wins Over Tradition
AS COeds Postpone Leap Year Dates

Seeing bargains advertised in the
Dollar Day issue of The Bluffton
News, thrifty Bluffton college goods
postponed their quadrennial Leap
Year Date Night from Thursday,
Feb. 20, to Friday, March l, in or
der to take advantage of Dollar Day
specials offered by downtown refresh
ment parlors.
1t was victory for the pocket
book over tradition, as the college
lassies gave up February 20 dates
which custom decreed they should
make, and instead postponed their
Leap Year observance to the fol-
lowing day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-03-07

Despite unfavorable weather, Bluff
tons first Dollar Day was a success
as merchants generally reported sat
isfactory to fiourishing business.
Many people drove here from q
distance to take advantage of Dollar
Day bargains, with quite a few
shoppers coming from towns in the
surrounding area.
Altho Dollar Day was a new ven.
ture here, Bluffton shop keepers
handled the two-day program in big
city style and with full cooperation
on the part of the Business Men'l
association excellent results were a
chieved.