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points ut which the main attacks
were to be made, and the points at
which mere feints were to be made;
the other would be to make the
"bridgehead" assaults in roughly
equal strength. and to follow up with
stronger forces wherever success was
most readily achieved.
This cannot be carried, however,
to the point which one might sup
pose in comparing the numbers Of
trained and equipped troops avail
able to the two combatants; for the
Germans have to deal with bottle
neck in the matter Of floating equip
ment and they must hold back
proportion of this lest their initial
losses in this respect make the sub
sequent supply and reinforcement of
their invading units impossible.
Communications Weakest Point.
Indeed, this matter of supply and
reinforcement Is one which may
serve to constrain the Germans to
no small degree in their choice Of
places to make their main effort.
Small forces seeking to effect a
lodgment in isolated bases may be
supplied and reinforced by air, as
was done in Norway; but large
armies, capable of defeating the
British Army in a desperate strug-
gle for the control of Great Britain,
would demand steady stream of
supplies and reinforcements by wa
ter, and this line of communications
would receive the fierce and con-
tinuous attentions of the British
Navy, as well as of such squadrons
of the air force as could be spared
for the task.
The longer this line. therefore,
the less attractive it is from the
German point of view, for naval
strength is their greatest propor-
tionate weakness. The shorter the
line, the more easily may it be pro-
tected by their air fopce. by mines
and submarines, and the greater
the proportion Of 1t which will be
within the compass Of their long
range artillery. From the point Of
view of tactical radius of action,
every part of the island Of Great
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Dry Party Puts Bobson
On Ballot in Alabama
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Sept. a.
The Prohibition party, running
Roger w. Babson for President and
Edgar v. Norman for Vice Presi-
dent, qualified with Secretary of
State John Brandon today for a
place on the November election
ballot.
The party filed list of II presi-
dental electors, who will be voted
upon November S. Names of presi-
Dental and vice presidential nomi-
nees do not appear on Alabama
ballots.
The Democratic and Socialist
parties filed previously with Mr..
Brandon
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far issued by the clerk Of the Cir
cult Court here is q criterion, Mont
gomery County squirrels apparently
are in for a real blitzkrieg during
the season which opens Monday to
continue through October Is.
During the three hours the ONCE
was open for business today, four
clerks issued approximately 500 IL
censes, increasing the total num-
Der for the year to about 1900. Sew
eral hundred more permits are ex-
pected to be issued after the season
opens.
The daily bag limit for squirrels
Is six.
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Legion Committeeman
Cancels Peace RoIIy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Sept. IA
At the request Of Raymond J. Kelly,
national commander OF the Ameri-
can Legion, o. X. Armstrong today
Cancelled a peace conference" he
had called in Washington for Sep
tember 20-21 as a preliminary to
the national Legion convention in
Boston the following week.
Armstrong, who called the meet
ing as a member of the Legion's
Evening star., 1940-09-15
Compoien (of 1876 Hot

BOWLING GREEN, KY, R.-l
The Roosevelt Willkie presidential
campaign was forgotten as more
than $50 men rs or over gathered
for the annual Warren County Old
Mems Reunion. They were Interest,"
ed more In the heated Hayes -Tilden
race Of 1876.
Evening star., 1940-09-15

National Foreign Relations Comnit.
tee, said he would resign from TIA,
committee after the Legion coS.n.
ton and again call similar cone.
ence "in capacity of private citizes
Evening star., 1940-09-15
1900 Hunting Licenses
Issued in MONTGOMERY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. Sept. 14.-If
the number of hunting licenses SO
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

strument for the regulation of con-
troll. Instead of being sharp, the
knife has blade 1/65th of an inch
in thickness, which goes thru muscles
and tissue as would a razor. Ad-
vantages are evident as the cleo
trically heated knife cauterizes as it
cuts. This is particularly import
ant in the treatment of infection.
X-Ray machines widely used now
for the treatment of many diseases
have precision instruments that con-
troll the volume of current going 70
patients. Other delicate measure
ments are made that show the depth
to which X-Rays are penetrating the
body.
More unusual, however, is the in
strument manufactured for use with
diathermy or "fever" machines. In
the treatment of patients with these
machines the body temperature is
raised to as much as ia degrees,
thereby increasing metabolism and
killing disease germs.
Pyrometers made for electrical fur
naces indicate the melting point of
porcelain, silver, gold and other
metals.
AVIATION INSTRUMENTS
Electrical instruments are of
prime Importance in the field of
aviation. One of the latest develop
ments is special voltmeter used in
bombers which will indicate whether
plane is to the right or left Of a
target.
Other instruments serve f,r chart
ing the takeoff, showing fuel con-
sumption, engine temperature, etc,
including those necessary in blind
flying. Several Triplett instruments
are Incorporated on the panels of the
Yankee Clippers in transatlantic
flights between this country and Por-
tugal.
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seph Kaufman, director of education,
National Radio Institute, Washington,
D. c.; and James r. McCue, Chicago
advertising executive.
Members of the Triplett organiza-
ton who will appear on the program
include r. L. TripIett, N. A. Triplett,
Jack Remde, A. E. Lichtenwalter, F.
Z. Wenger and A. r. Baker.
Public Meeting Friday
Conference sessions will be held at
the Triplett farm west of town. In
formal entertainment also has been
arranged, including the public meet
ing and dance on Friday night to
which residents of the town and sur
rounding area are invited. Free tick
cts for admission can be obtained by
telephoning the Triplett office.
Sales representatives and their
families will be entertained in Bluff
ton homes as guests of the Triplett
company during the course of the
conference.
Among representatives expected
here for the sales meeting are: B.
w. Heuvelman and ]. T. Keeney,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

The boiler in a steam locomotive
includes several pieces of heavy
curved iron held together by several
hundred rivets. Vibration, corrosion
and rust eventually have their effect
on rivets and leakage develops. A
special galvanic type voltmeter will
definitely check the solidity of rivets
and the need for replacement can be
determined.
In modern burglar alarm systems
a network of instrument relays, volt
meters and milliammeters is so ar
ranged that the exact location of the
trouble will be shown in one glance
at the switchboard.
Among other instruments are those
which show the exact amount of
time required to wave hair, depend
ing on color; devices to measure the
amount of smoke coming out of
smokestacks, and complete testing
outfit that will discover any fault
in your automobile, ranging from
carbonization and poor compression
to faulty ignition and weak springs.
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BlufftOn-made Instru-
ments Have Uses In
Widely Diverse Fields

Continued from page u
factures test equipment for television
and frequency modulated radio re-
ceivers, altho use is quite limited at
the present.
Grading fruit by electrical instru-
ments is far more exact than by
any other means. Sensitive instru-
ments are used to measure the ac-
tual "battery power" of fruit.
1t has been found that grapefruit
and lemons generate as much as 20
microamperes of current when prods
connected to the instrument are in-
jected into the fruit. Thus the diff
ferent degrees in quality of fruit
and vegetables can be determined
easily.
CIGAR SORTING
Sorting of cigars is effected by
using a photo-electric cell and a
quick action relay, made essentially
as an ammeter. In larger factories
machines equipped with these am
meters will sort 120 shades of cigars
in less than two minutes, with the
chance of error thru human Judg-
ment entirely eliminated.
Colorimeters Incorporating reflect
or lights in conjunction with photo
electric cells are used in matching
colors. Readings shown on a very
sensitive microammeter are referred
to a chart and the exact degree of
color, even to the percentage of
shade, can be determined.
In the field of medicine the use of
electrical measuring instruments is
becoming increasingly more imortant.
IN MEDICAL FIELD
The high-frequency radio surgery
knife uses a thermo-couple type in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

A state highway patrolman mar
rowly escaped being run down by a
skidding automobile at the intersec-
tion of Routes 25 and 90, one-half
mile south of Mt. Cory, early Friday
morning.
The officer was Patrolman A. L.
Schmig who was directing the detour
of traffic from Route 20 over Route
SO, as the result of a truck-train
crash at the Dixie Highway crossing
of the Nickel Plate railroad, two
miles north of Bluffton.
Patrolman Schmig was directing
the traffic in a steady downpour of
rain when a car driven by Lloyd w.
Richmond, 25, of Detroit, approached
from the north.
1t is said that when Richmond ap-
piled the brakes to the car, he lost
control of it, and the machine skid
ded directly toward the officer.
Schmig escaped by running to the
side of the road, and the car skidded
on into a barrier which had been
erected by the highway department.
In its route it ran over and badly
damaged the state highway patrol
mans motorcycle, which he had park
ed at the intersection. The auto fin
ally came to stop against d tree.
Richmond was arrested for driving
while intoxicated and in the investi-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

Chicago; T. C. De Grand Pre-, Buenos
Aires, Argentine; James Backer, Sc
attic, Wash; Jack Hursch, Denver,
Colo; Col. d. l. Cooke, Washington,
d. c.; D. F. Tobias, New York City;
H. C. Sanderson, Pittsburgh, Pa.
E. N. Hyde, Philadelphia, Pa;
James Millar, Atlanta, Ca; Royal
Smith, Dallas, Texas; H. B. Segar,
Buffalo, N. Y; Jack Heimann, Min
neapolis, Minn.; Howard Saul, Los
Angeles, Calf; William F. Kelley,
Toronto, Ont, Canada; E. K. Seyd,
Hartford, Conn.
C. H. Dolfuss, Jr., Cleveland, o.;
H. A. Roes, Kansas City, Mo-; ]. A.
McCaffery, Detroit, Mich; L. Well
man and Jules Beneke, St. Louis, Mo.
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CAMPUS COMMENT

Four seniors, including one Bllff-
ton student, were elected members
of Pi Delta, honorary scholastic
fraternity. last week. Those named
included Helene Stonehill, of Lima;
Elnore Burtchin, of Lima; Margaret
Hobson, of Damascus, o., and Karl
Schultz, of Bluffton.
Work has been completed on the
1910 Ista, published by the junior
class, and the yearbook was being
distributed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Marjorie Bloomquist, of West Va,
was editor, and Duane Tway, of
Plain City, was business manager.
Seniors members of the two or
ganizations were honored at meet
ings of the campus Y. M. and Y. w.
C. A. organizations last week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

First of a series of senior recitals
was presented Wednesday night of
last week in the college chapel, with
Margery Lecrone, of Bucyrus, and
Esther Hilty, of Columbus Grove,
appearing on the program.
=
Members of the Commerciers club
made tour of several Lima indus
trial plants last Friday. The group
visited the Ohio Steel Foundry, the
Westinghouse and Superior Body
plants. Membership of the club is
made up of economics and business
students.
Pre-registration for next fall was
completed on the campus last week.
Advance registration facilitates ar
rangement of the scholastic schedule
for next fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

One of the surest ways of pre-
venting chicks from growing old is
to permit them to range with adult
birds. Parasites and diseases ac-
quired from contaminated ground
prevent many of the growing birds
from reaching the state of old-age
complications.
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Meter Works To Hold
Three Day Sales
Gathering
CONTINUED from page y

ment and test equipment problems
for sales angle. Appearing on the
programs are executives of the local
organizations and outside technical
speakers who are nationally known.
Among the visiting speakers are
DIR. Harrison E. Howe, of Washing
ton, ID. c., editor of Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry, who will be
heard at the public meeting Friday
night, the complete program of which
appears on Page 2. Others who will
address the sales conference repre-
sentatives at closed sessions are Jo-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06
Skidding Auto Barely Misses
State Highway Patrolman

cation which followed it was learned
that his drivers license had been re-
voked some time ago for leaving the
scene of an accident in Detroit.
He was fined $50 and sentenced to
two days in Jail in hearing before
a Findlay justice of the peace. He
also must pay for repairs to the high
way patrolman's motorcycle.
Richmond's companion, Carl Pixler,
27, also of Detroit, owner of the car
was fined $40 and costs for permitting
Richmond to drive his car without a
license.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06
Mission Provides
Meals For Manu-

During the month of May the Lima
City Mission provided 1927 free meals
and overnight lodging for 72S per-
sons. The report was made by Adam
ID. Welty, superintendent of the mis-
sion, who went from the Bluffton area
to found it 35 years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-06-06

Latest plans for Dairy Day in
Columbus, June u, call for ban
auet ct the Neil House instead Of at
the Deshler-Wallick Hotel as first
announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11

Tense is still in charge Of dilettante
New Deal agencies and the bust
nessmen who have come here have
no real authority There isn't even
a chairman of the Defense Com
mission OF a co-ordinator in chief
of the defense program except
President Roosevelt, who is also
running for third term and could
not possibly give the time and at
tention to the details of the defense
program that they deserve. He has
been absent from Washington more
days than he has been here and has
spent time on inspection trips
that might have better been spent
in removing the obstacles to the
building Of new plants and factories.
But the political side comes first
here and after seven years of politi-
cal priority it is probably too much
to expect that it can be sidetracked
in favor Of real defense unless there
is change in administra ton.
America hasn't enough powder
available today to carry on one week
Of the kind of bombing now going
on over either Germany or Britain
and has less first line combat planes
than one-third of the equivalent of
Germany's losses since the blitz-
krieg began.
Reproduction Rights Rcserved)
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British American Front

The Presidents explanation policy
the the Far East the
conflict
provoked to do so by grave japanese aggression In these times of
nation against another obvious possibility
But
belief
a
by ilmnesS
The President has sneaking
largely founded the theory that with Japan would please
him leading theory
In the first place there nothing to show the President wants war with
evidence that he positively
while nprepared
the
worthless parc
thought
diminishing Britain
European
In order to dappomt the German hope instrument OF Far
well known
the
which before the Rome Berlin
Toxic pact Canadian embargo copper
suddenly a able
denied
wheat other foodus China feed the japanese
Japanese little copper
hardly harmed removal the subsidies both
regarded But such simultaneous fol-
indicate
solid British American front the Far East has been formed
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Arthur P. Homer Dies;
Consulting Engineer

BY the Associated Press.
WEST TOWNSEND, Mass, Oct.
1l-Artfur Patch Homer, ga, con-
sulting engineer and special envoy
of the United States Navy Depart
ment when President Roosevelt
was Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
died yesterday.
A shipbuilder and motor boat
designer, Mr. Homer was sent to
England in 1917 by the Navy to
negotiate for aircraft. Later he
assisted in the production of a
patrol fleet at home and was a
member of the special Board Of
Patrol Vessels of the Navy.
After the war he entered the
brokerage business in Boston. More
recently he was president of the
Power Transmission Co. of Boston
until his retirement few years ago.
He was a native of Galveston. Tex.
He leaves his wife and a daughter.
Funeral services will be held Sat-
urday with burial in Riverside
Cemetery.
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Navy Needs Auxiliary Ships

true that the Navy today the strongest IN the world Inc
would
But there still lacking For instance the
auxiliary ships to supply the men-oi
working overtime but all the units
needed for the Atlantic ready and will
be in commission The Army only
in the makin and military force
o
objections correct navy can ever be oo per cent
members the Presidents cabinet others
allow
Hereooe-with the exception
taken the initiative And this coun-
defeated
is taking of the situation.
At this time pointed British Navy intact and fully
Of United
ships that fleet old But
OF
the
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what are termed educational orders

what are termed educational orders
to industry.
On powder and explosives" says
Mr.. Knudsen, the status is about
like this-we have located two
powder plants. two high explosive
plants, five loading plants. two am
monia plants-a total of 11-and we
have five more projected. 7 need
not tell you that the powder ques-
ton was awfully late in getting
started and it is of the greatest i'm
portance that this time we keep the
plants after we get them going.
After the last war. as far as I have
been able to learn, nearly all the
plants were dismantled and no
thought was given to future require
ments, which might we'll have been
fatal While I am on this subject
I need not stress to you all that
regardless of how world affairs
shape themselves the coming year,
let us. for Heavens sake, finish this
lob while we are about it and not
get caught again WIN no pOWueT,
no airplanes and no tanks
Lessons Unheeded.
But in the last seven years. since
Herr Hitler has been in power, and
especially since Bernard M. Baruch,
former chairman of the War Indus
tries Board. conferred with Presi-
So,,t poocave1+ in October 1929 onI
pleaded with him to get America
defenses going and certain impor-
tant war materials assembled, there
has been sheer neglect in Washing
ton.
The worst of it is that there is no
sign that the lessons taught by
these delays have been needed. De-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-11
Civic Unit Commends
Star S Music Campaign

/ Commentator of The Stars
music appreciation campaign and
/ the traffic analysis published last
! Sunday was voted at a meeting of
| the Washingtonians last night.
/ Opposition was voiced to the House
bill providing for retirement salar-
les for judges of Police Court,
Municipal Court and Juvenile Court
OF the District. Such a bill. it was
stated, is more reason for national
representation as we'll as local suf-
frage for the District. Enactment
of the bill, it was added, would re-
move number of positions from the
District that are now the cream" of
/ District Offices.
"A rank injustice and discrimina-
ton against the District" was ex-
/ pressed by the group regarding the
/ action of Congress m making an
exception of the District in connec-
/ ton with the Home Owners Loan
Act of 1888 involving taxes on real
estate.
/ At annual elections the following
| officers were named:
Miss Eta L. Taggart, president:
Mrs. William J. Hessick, first vice
president; Miss Ann Lyddane. Sec
ond vice president; Herbert Adams,
third vice president; Mrs Edwin
Reid. recording secretary; Miss Mary
Yates, corresponding secretary, and
Mrs. Viola Sellows. treasurer. John
B. Dickman. jr. and Mrs. j. E Atkin-
son were elected parliamentarians,
and Miss Taggart and Miss Olive
King named delegates to the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations.
The meeting Washed in the home
Of Mrs. Hessick, 1925 Thirty eighth
street NV.
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to 5, but money, they said, is actu-
ally being placed at the latter fig
ure, lin thousands" Willkie money
is not lacking and his betting po-
sition has apparently improved in
three of the States in which he has
Just "crusaded." 1t has been placed
at to on New York, to on
New Jersey, and at even money on
PENNSYLVANIA. The Dunn survey,
Just made public by the Republican
National Committee and forecasting
Wilkes election by an electoral
college vote of 334, or majority OF
So, is expected to improve the odds in
the G. o. P. acknowledgements favor
as the contest tapers to its uncertain
finish. What party managers con-
tinue anxiously to wonder about is
where the big independent vote is
going.
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eXpedltlOn o T
not is anybody's
guess. hose
wise guys known
as Wall Street
betting commits
sioners evidently
think Republic
can chances are
on the upgrade.
At any rate. they
reported h j S
week that odds
on the re-elec-
ton of President
Roosevelt have
shortened from
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This Changing World
Zero Hour Approaching for U. S. to Adopt
Positive Attitude Toward Far East Problems
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

few weeks
the United will compelled adopt positive attitude regard
to
definite attitude toward the struggle in Europe.
President Roosevels advisers divided The wait
that equally sincere and is listening
carefully to their arguments.
Secretary first lieutenant Undeceary Wele in
will their completely
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washington are being widely quoted possibly correctly warning that
war with Japan will be long
On the other hand
j. Donovan visited Hawaii they the
Pacific
sensl that the United States ought be able
rather
experts only real decide But between
the
Rhneand
World
" North American Newspaper Alliance Inc)
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Washington Observations
Success of Wilkes Homestretch Bid in East
Anybodys Guess; Betting Odds Improve

La Guardia and Tom Corcoran.
Senator Norris probably had some
thing to do with bringing Pinchot
into line for Roosevelt. The Ne
braskan and the Pennsylvania are
old-time Progressive co-warriors.
n y X X
Churchill and Roosevelt.
In lhis periodical war report to
Parliament this week Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill echoed
President Roosevelt's Charlottesville
reference to Italy's perfldy in going
to war with France. The dynamic
half American" statesman, on
whom all British hopes are now
pinned, said: "Mussolini has some
experiences ahead of him which he
had not foreseen when he though
it safe and profitable to stab the
stricken, PROSTATE French Republic
in the back" New York State Su-
preme Court Justice Proskauer,
former Al Smith lieutenant, now a
Democrat for Willkie," said over
the radio Wednesday night: Let
us recognize that Divine Provi-
dence has given us in Wendell Will
kie Winston Churchill for
America"