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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
3,0O0-FOOt Oil Well
Being Drilled

A rarity in Lima oil field we'll
drilling is being accomplished by one
of the districts prominent producers,
Bradley Stoner, on his property
seven miles northeast of Lima.
The producer is sinking a 5000
foot pit, depth more than double
that of average oil-producing wells
hereabouts.
The procedure is new in the Lima
fields where shafts rarely have been
sunk to depth exceeding 1,5O0 feet.
Average oil producing wells in this
locality are about 1,450 feet in depth.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
HARDIN COUNTY
Plane Crashes In
Onion Marsh

Frank Lawrence of Atlanta, Ca,
pilot of an airplane used for dusting
the potato crop in the Scioto marsh
near McGuffey, escaped injury last
Thursday when his plane crashed
on State Route 1876 about a quarter
mile north of McGuffey. The plane
was badly damaged but will be re-
paired by Lawrence who is a me-
chanic as well as pilot.
Lawrence apparently misjudged
the distance in landing and collided
with concrete culvert at the edge
of the road and was thrown into a
utility pole along the highway.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Lima Is OhiO's 18th
City,

Preliminary census figures for all
of Ohio's major cities, released in
Columbus, showed that Lima has
climbed from 18th to 18th in the
state in relative size.
BY an increase of 2,477 to a
population of 44,764, Lima passed
and Lorain, both of
which showed population decreases.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Fugitive Caught In
Stolen Car

A 16-year-old colored boy who said
he escaped Wednesday morning from
the boys industrial home at Lam
caster was apprehended by Police
man NJ. r. Pressnell of Findlay,
shortly before l o'clock last Friday.
The youth was sitting behind the
wheel of an automobile parked on a
Findlay street in front of the county
Jail smoking cigarette. The car, a
Chevrolet sedan, was stolen in Wash
ington Court House Thursday morn
ing, he admitted to the officer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Three Held For Shoot.
ing Dog

Three Mt. Victory young men were
bound over to the Hardin county
grand jury here by Justice of the
Peace Roy Haudenschild on charges
of malicious destruction of property.
They were charged with shooting a
dog.
The dogs owner, nellie Foreman of
Mt. Victory, filed the charges in
which the animal was valued at S25.
Those bound over are Grafton Black.
Charles File and Ed Schertzer. Each
furnished bond of $500.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Horse Show Attracts
Interest

The program has been announced
for the horse show to be held as O
feature of the annual Hancock
county fair, Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings, Sept. A and 5. Because
of the wide variety of classes and
events listed, it is expected there will
be great many entries both from
Hancock county and other counties
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Kettles Are Stolen

A crime wave struck Hancock
county Tuesday night of last week,
Sheriff Lyle Harvitt reported and the
only loot taken was three 20-gallon
iron kettles, the kind used by farm
ers during the butchering season.
The sheriff said he had information
that junk dealers called at the farms
and asked to buy old metal. They
were refused in each case, but the
kettles disappeared.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
ALLEN COUNTY
PWA Spends Half Mil
lion In County.

The Public Works Administration
has spent s517,893 on projects in
Allen county since its inception, it
was reported Wednesday.
Throughout Ohio the PWA has
built 1,211 structures at a cost of
$270, sos, ,035, of which $4S,024, ,495
was expended in Cleveland and Guy
ahoga county. Of the total projects,
1858 we're partially financed by city,
county, township and school taxing
areas ghile 153 were federal under
takings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Realty Tax Receipts
$461,267

Receipts of last-half 1889 real es-
tate taxes Saturday amounted to $4,-
978.57, bringing the total for the
week to $70,06673 and for the col
lection thus far $461 ,267, it was an
nounced by Allen County Treasurer
Byron H. Dershem.
Deadline for payment without pen
atty is Sept. 10.
Sales tax collections Saturday to-
tailed $910.46, for the week $4,428.73
and since the first of the year $780,
199.31, Dershem reported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
German Refugee
Reaches Findlay

DR.. and Mrs. Howard L. Selo of
Findlay last week were overjoyed to
greet their daughter, Ruth, who they
left in a boarding school in London
two years ago while they were fee.
ing from Nazi persecution in Ger
many and came to America to re-
establish DR.. Selo in medical prac-
tice.
The girl arrived in Montreal, Can
ada, and came to Findlay by train
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
First Current AAA
Checks Ready

First parity payment checks for
the current season have arrived at
the Hancock county AAA office and
are ready for distribution as rapidly
as the farmers call for them.
One hundred and forty-four checks
for corn parity payments, totalling
$4,973.07, were included in the first
batch as we'll as 137 wheat parity
checks totalling $3,897.33.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
C. o. p. Strife Ends

Factional strife within ranks of
the Allen County Republican party
apparently was at an end last week
following the selection of coalition
36-member executive committee which
met Friday to select its officers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
ANNOUNCEMENT

Octozone treatment for arthritis,
rheumatism, sinus trouble, female dis
orders internal hemorrhoids and
many other conditions.
DIR. C. A. BLACK,
Osteopathic Physician,
514 Steiner Bldg. Lima, o.
Phones-Office, Main 6144.
Res, Main 2066
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Mt. Blanchard Home
coming August Ii

With preparations rapidly going
forward for Mt. Blanchard's annual
Homecoming to be held Tuesday,
August 13, General Chairman Chas.
B. Fail, former county commissioner,
has announced chairmen of various
subcommittee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Governor To Speak
At Findlay

Governor John w. Bricker will be
the speaker at Hancock county Re-
publican picnic to be held at River
side park, Thursday evening, Aug
ust Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Business Remains
Good In Lima

An indication that business re-
mains good in Lima is report that
bank debts so far this year total
S3,724,O 900, as compared to $3,247, 900
for the same period last year. Build
ing activity also continues brisk,
totaling $216,246 since Jan. l.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Pioneers Meet At
Elida Thursday

Forty-sixth annual pioneer meet
ing, given under the auspices of the
Elida Pioneer Society, will be held
Thursday of this week in the w. W..
Critics Grove, one mile northeast of
Elida, it was announced Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Drops Dead While
Doing Farm Chores

While doing his evening farm
chores, Elmer ]. Pepple, II, dropped
dead in the barn on his farm in
Jackson township Wednesday night.
Death was attributed to heart at
tack. He was found a short time
later by his wife.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

the train but again failed.
The locomotive crashed into the
stalled automobile, carrying it about
100 yards from the crossing and
leaving it wreck, according to Pa
trolman Elgin Ralston.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08

recently several of this rare species
were found in this Auglaize river not
far from Spencerville. The are can
nibalistic looking little minnows that
never grow beyond five inches in
length.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Killed In DOOdlebug
Crash

A former Lima resident, Cleon H.
Wills, 45, of Cuyahoga Falls, Thurs
day was listed among the 43 victims
whose lives were snuffed out Wednes-
day night in the disastrous Cuyahoga
Falls train wreck.
Wills, architect on the Old Ma
tional Bank building construction
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Rare Pirate Perch
Found

Ever see a pirate perch? =. ac-
cording to the Conservation Depart
ment of the state of Ohio, none had
been seen in Ohio since 1893, until
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

project, now known as Cook Tower,
resided in Lima for about a year
when the structure was being built.
He married May Maynard, of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
STATE OF OHIO.
Allen County. SIS.
Estate of Henry S. Searfoss, Deceased.
Elmer NJ. Searfoss. Harrod Ohio and Clyde
r. Searfoss. $40 No. West St.. Lima. Ohio.
have been appointed and qualified execu-
tors of the estate of Henry S. Searfoss. late
of Allen County. Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 10th day of July 1910.
RAYMOND p. SMITH,
Is Probate Judge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-08-08
Sentenced For Stealing
Fire Escape

Donald Beltz, %, Kenton, last
week started serving a 30-day term
Continued on page y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

visiting days for them" says Bette,
firmly and here's Olivia de Havil-
land, anent the rumors tying her in
Hollywood matrimony with Jimmy
Stewart-"it's all. so ridiculous, this
talk about Jimmy proposing to me"
This is leap year, Olivia-why not
propose to him? or to Howard
Hughes? The latter is the real num-
Der one throb in the lady's life. And
it is my belief that she will marry
another man when she is quite sure
that Mr.. Hughes is not for her.
Joel McCrea has broken his con-
tract with Edward Small to play
the title role in Small's production
Kit Carson" And all because Mr.
Small removed Mrs. McCrea Frances
Dee) from the cast of MY Son, My
Son" because she did not measure
up to Small's conception of Maeve
Nice to have husband who goes
to bat for you like that.
Sight of the week. The new and
young Mrs. William Powell, seated
on a step-ladder on the set of Forty
Little Mothers" Gin which she plays
bit role), casually-and contin-
uously-rubbing her forehead with
the finger on which CLEANS ar
enormous solitaire diamond, which
must have cost Bill all of 5000
and more.
Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

Fools honk ut intersections; good
drivers slow down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Observation-Disclosures Daughters"
the Broadway hit in which Ethel
Waters turns to drama: $3.50 pm.
Palace "Of Mice and Men,"
screen version of the John Stein
beck novel and play: 11:55 am,
2:20, 4:45, ITO and 9:35 pm.
Earle-"A Child Is Born" drama
in the maternity ward: II am,
1:45, Abs, 7:20 and 1910 pm. Stage
shows: 1885, 1925, 6:10 and 9 pm.
Capitol-"Disputed Passage" film
adaptation of the Lloyd Douglas
book: 10:45 am, 1880, 400, 7:05 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1920, $40,
6 and $50 pm.
Another Thin Man"
more fun with Mr.. and Mrs. Nick
Charles: 1910, 2:35, S, 7:20 and
9:45 pm.
Metropolitan-"Brother Rat and
q Baby" just as the title says: 11:10
am, lis, 1928, $50, 7:35 and
GAS pm.
Keith's-"Green HELL" romance
in the jungle: 11:15 am, /, 2:45
4:30, 6:15. sos and $50 pm.
Little-'Naughty Marietta" with
Nelson Eddy and jeanette Mac
Donald: II am, ITO, 800. $50
TAO and $50 pm. "Ski Chase:
. 12:45, 2:55, sos, tbs and OPS pm
Trans-Lux-News and shorts;
continuous froms10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

cost me s3OO0," she tells me.
gather Alice would like to recoup
some of this via the movies.
The Clark Gable Carole Lombard
vacation is held up while Clark
hangs around, waiting for retakes
of Strange Cargo" >. Orson Welles
wants Miss Lombard to play op-
posite him in "Smiler With a Knife,
but Carole says "no"-she wants to
rest awhile Joan Crawford is
studying the stage stills" of Ger
trude Lawrence in Susan and God"
Also the movie made of the play
during its run in New York. My
advice to Joan is forget that Miss
Lawrence ever played the Susan
role. They are such utterly different
types that Joan will make a mis-
take If she tries to emulate the stage
rendition of the part. Yes, Joan is
definitely going to play it in the
movies, with Fredric March op-
posite. I shall reserve my judgment
until the preview.
A funny situation has come up
over the two Edison pictures. Mick
ey Rooney, as the adolescent Edison,
has given the part mannerisms
and characteristics of his own.
Now that Spencer Tracy is taking
up where Mickey left off, the studio
wants him to continue with the
Rooney touches. Spencer is saying
"no"-in very strong language, and
calls up the producer of the epic
at least once a day to complain
IT thought we had agreed on all
that!" Better leave Spencer alone,
boys The new Mrs. William
Powell gosh, what figure the girl
has has lost interest in her movie
career. IT want Bill to take me to
Honolulu and Europe" she tells
me. She will have to wait until she
finishes her chore in Forty Little
Mothers" and Bill completes his
forthcoming picture with Myrna
10y.
Lionel Barrymore will commute
from the hospital to the set of the
new DR.. Kildare picture. They are
doing every scene possible without
him to give Barrymore time te
recover from his recent serious sick
ness. What a trouper this man is!
. Alfred Hitchcock Is the busiest
man in town. He is doing retakes
with George Raft and Joan Ben
nett for House Across the Bay
He is doing retakes with Laurence
Olivier and Joan Fontaine for RE.
becca." And is also scripting ane
preparing Personal History" Il:
this keeps on" says Hitchcock, 6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

Of decades on the stage, is q bril-
liant Mary Todd Lincoln. She
paints her not as a remorseless, nag
ging wife. but as woman with a
sense Of Lincoln's great destiny
which drove her to shrewish lengths
to make him see the folly of his
feeling Of futility. It may not be
an historically accurate picture of
Mrs. Lincoln. but it is a highly
dramatic one.
Miss Howard Is q pretty and
effective Ann Rutledge, her contri-
button suggesting more definitely
than in the stage play the effect
of his love for her upon Lincoln's
subsequent development. Among
the lesser characters, the robust,
hearty Jack Armstrong of Da Silva;
the unfaggingly loyal Joshua Speed
played by Watson, the old political
realist, Crimmin, impersonated by
Imhoff, and the bitter, eloquent,
alcoholic Billy Herndon of young
Baxter are outstanding in an i'm
pressive gallery Of subordinate por-
traits.
On the whole, Hollywood also is
entitled now to feel it has created
a fitting memorial to Lincoln.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

one of those simple, childlike minds
housed in a body of fearsome
strength. This first leads her into
trouble, then trouble just will not
stay away from her door. Simple
though she is, and uneducated,
Hagar's instincts are right. The one
emotion from which all her feelings
stem is love, thus her tragic down.
fall is all the more tragic.
For the love is all for her daugh-
ter LISA. to whom Hagar joyously
dedicates her life, shaving as a
plantation field hand that she might
save the money to send LISA to
New York and success. And when
success does come it is this love
which makes murderess of Hagar
when the cheap gambler who has
betrayed LISA compounds his vii
lainy by attempting blackmail.
1t is moving portrait of a mind
and heart and soul beset by tor
ments OF fate which are too great
for the mind, and finally the heart,
to bear. Hagar, simple Southern
Negress who cannot read or write,
who sees no wrong in shaking a
man near to death when he refuses
to pay for his laundry, is for all OF
that the personification of mother
hood; her life full of its tragedies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

stage from his novel, Is noble
evening in the theater, the theater
In this case being the National,
where the play has come after its
considerable success on Broadway.
"Mamba's Daughters" is, in fact,
something of a memorable eve
ming in the theater, having as it
does Miss Ethel Waters to illumine
the central role with that depth
Of feeling she heretofore has ex-
pressed only in song. Much
has been made of this fact that
Miss Waters has turned from sing
ing to q straight dramatic role, in
which she has only one song and
that incidental, but the change is
not SO great.
That melancholy that is almost
Slavic in humor, which underlies
the Negroes laughter, has been al
ways the fire Of Miss Waters songs.
And so it is here the fire of the
character Miss Waters creates with
such skill in the Hayward play.
She sings on In "Mamba's Daugh-
ters";; the song just isn't set to
music.
"Mamba's Daughters" is the story
of Hagar, a sort of Carolina counter
part Of the Lennie of "Of Mice and
Men," at least insofar as Hagar is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

may lose pound" :. Seeing Doug
las Fairbanks smothered in poisoned
arrows in the Green He'll" epic
reminds me Of his remark on the
set-"I'm a porcupine in this pic
Iure!"
What fine Abraham Lincoln is
Raymond Massey in R-K-O's ABE
Lincoln in Illinois" I know COM
parsons are odious, but in my opin-
ion this version of the Great Eman-
cipator is 100 per cent better than
Zanuck's young Mr.. Lincoln" with
Henry Fonda. >. Mrs. Robert Mont
gomery tried to get passport to
follow her husband to England-but
was refused. And now it looks as
though she will be separated from
her husband for as long as the wal
lasts. Howard Hughes wants tc
borrow Olivia de Havilland from
Warner Bros. for the first of his
forthcoming pictures another avia-
ton story.
Walter Brennan bought a large
carpet for his bedroom at a loca
auction. When it arrived it was
found too big for the room. But
Walter is not easily turned from his
purpose. He enlarged the bedroom
at cost of $500!
Bette Davis says, regarding hel
new house in the valley-"I'm going
to live alone, and I'm going to like
It," What about your family?'
she is asked Gin recent weeks Miss
Davis has been surrounded with
relatives. There will be special
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Is . complete sacrifice that her
daughter will not suffer.
II 4 4 4


'Mamba's Daughters" Is not, how
ever, q dreary play. It Is poignant
and inexorably tragic, but It Is
exciting rather than dreary. As .
matter Of fact 1t starts of on. an
almost completely comic note-the
courtroom scene where Hagar Is
being "exiled" from Charleston for
almost killing the man who wanted
his shirts washed free. Then it
turns gradually to the more somber
aspects Of Hagar's nfe-her i'm
prisonment for violating the "exile, +"
when she was only saving q man
life, and the dull terror of black
mail.
The Heywards have built all Of
Hagar's troubles to their utmost
poignance with consummate skill
and Guthrie McClintic has made
them live on the stage. And a
number of people in supporting
roles make the other people in the
play live up to Miss Waters Hagar,
or at least up close to that mag
nificent portrait.
Georgia Burke is especially fine
as Manila (Hagar's mother), espe-
cially fine in this case meaning just
exactly right; Fredi Washington, we
are sure, couldn't be surpassed as
Hagar's daughter; Willie Bryant
sketches an oily picture of the gam
bier, and Robert Thomson Is easy
and natural as the chap who sort
of takes Hagar under his protective
wing. In fact every one fits into his
niche to make this an excellent
portrait, intimately Of one person,
on a large scale Of people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23

Marx-"If I'm
giving a party,
I don't say, Has
Groucho Marx
arrived? T l.
him I'd like him
to e n t e r t a i n
uS'!" Miss
M a r b lie, Incl
dentally, is still
awaiting the re-
suit of h e r
screen test at
Metro. Her flu
ture plans are a
little vague.
xfO e. -
Last summer
40
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23
Ethel Waters Fights Fate
In Manuals Daughters
Star Turns From Song to Drama
To illuminate Central Role
In Hayward Play
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

No one least no one writing for the stage these days can tel
pathetic understanding Hayward
translate small sector Of those lives into of uni
verSal
Daughters Hayward and wife adapted for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23
Now Hollywood Creates
Memorial to Lincoln
And Highly Worthy One 1t Is
AS Shown at World Premiere
Performance at Keith's
BY JAY CARMODY.

Amid the bizarre spendo reserved for world premiere showngs
Khs distinguished audience
Washington its special of glamour the
public baptism
but Newspaper welfare fund The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-23
Ayres' English Film Bid
Has Its Money Joker
Miss Lombard Prefers More Rest
To Co.Starring With Welles
Joan Studies Gertrude
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Lew Ayres received cabled offer England the Clipper
and salary of $4,000 weeabout double getting
the cable continued can't take the of Eng
land, will
war;" Groucho the Hills Tennis
to me-