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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-25
CAMPUS COMMENT

Delegates from Bluffton college
attended state training conference
for Y. NJ. c. A. officers last Friday
and Saturday at Bowling Green
State university. Among those at
tending the sessions were Gaylon
Thomas, Richard Weaver, Bertran
Smucker, Kenneth Tapke and Karl
Schultz.
Bluffton colleges A Capella choir
returned to the campus this week,
after concluding a 17-day tour thru
four mid-western states. On their
trip the club sang in Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-25
New Safety Markings For Ohio
Highways Planned This Summer

will be four inches in width. Wher-
ever they are used in conjunction
with the yellow stripe at no-passing
zones there will be three-inch
space between the lines.
Painting of the new center stripes
was started on the state highway
system on April Is, and by May |
it is estimated that $4,000 miles of
roads will have been marked.
Hereafter when the driver of an
automobile finds himself in an area
with a yellow stripe paralleling the
white or black center line, the driver
should make no attempt to pass
other cars, it was pointed out this
week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-25


Representative of the Peace
Action club returned from an east
ern tour in which a three-act peace
drama was presented, early last
week. Let My People Go" was the
title of the dramatic offering pre-
sented in Eastern Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania churches.
Buttons vesper choir will sing al
the 18th district conference OF
Rotary International clubs in Lima
this Thursday. Prof. Russell A
Lantz, conductor, will direct the
group in its performance.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-25
Bacteria Tests

Tests show that certain types OF
bacteria or tiny organisms present
in anthracite gangway waters and
sewage have the ability of readily
consuming hydrogen and carbon
monoxide from gaseous mixtures.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-04-25

group in its performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Clarke Opposes Change
In Fairfax Government
BY a Staff Correspondent Of The Star.

BY q Staff Correspondent OF The Star
FAIRFAX, Va, Oct. 19.--Andrew
w. Clarke, member of the Fairfax
County Board Of Supervisors from
the Mount Vernon magisterial dis
trict, said today he is opposed to
proposed change in the form of
county government which will be
acted upon in a referendum by the
voters on November S.
Mr.. Clarke was appointed by Gov
Price last month as member Of
the County Government Commits
sion to make a study of county gov
ernment forms and to report to the
1912 session of the Virginia General
Assembly.
Mr. Clarke claimed the executive
plan is not as economical or as eff
cient as the present setup. He be-
lieves a further study should be
given to the subject prior to any
change.
The recent growth Of the county
has led Mr.. Clarke to the opinion
that an administrative officer should
be placed in charge Of county af-
fairs in the absence CT the Board
of Supervisors which meets twice
each month.
Commemorative Attorney Paul
E. Brown of Fairfax will speak at
public meeting Monday evening
in the Groveton School in opposi-
ton to the plan Mr.. Clarke will ad-
dress q meeting Tuesday at Wood
lawn. He said other meetings will
be arranged between now and No
vember 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20

ito bring America together in uni
fed program for further progress"
He promised also to establish a
system of continual research to i'm
prove the methods of marketing
and to uncover new uses for agri-
cultural products.
I'm this connection" he con-
tinued, Il cannot stress too often
that the solution to the farm prob
lem does not lie in sudden de-
cisions and trick schemes designed
to catch votes. The solution to
the farm problem must be evolved
step by step, wisely, and deliber-
ately, making use Of all the expert
ence Of the past"
He reminded this agricultural sec
ton that there is no man in whom
the farmers of America have greater
confidence than his running mate,
Senator McNary of Oregon, and
added that, with Senator McNarys
advice, he would select a forward
looking farm leader as our Secre-
tary Of Agriculture"
Leads Up to Attack.
The Republican nominee gave as
surance also that he would consult
with the Governors of the farm
States to check his party's program
with the particular needs of each
section.
Leading up to an attack on the
New Deal, Mr.. Willkie told his Min
neapolis audience that IF busi-
ness or a farm were managed the
way our Government has been man.
aged during the last seven and a
half years, it would be-as our Fed
eral Government is today-danger-
ously along the road to bankruptcy"
Mr.. Willkie then gave several illus
trations of what he regards as bad
management by the present admin
istration.
First, in regard to agriculture, he
charged that, while Midwest farm
ers are asked to curtail their ccre-
age of corn to reduce the corn sur
plus, Southern farmers are plant
ing corn after being instructed to
reduce the acreage of cotton.
That is bad management" he
said. Instead of crop control it
produces a crop merry go-round."
Other "Signs" Cited.
Another certain sign OF bad man.
agement, he continued, is IAN I'M
necessary increase in personnel. The
New Deal has added to the Gov
eminent pay roll on a scale I'M
precedented in history. 1t now has
more than a million employees on
that pay roll-which is more than
Woodrow Wilson needed to fight
the World War"
A third sign of bad management,
he said, is undue Capitalization of
authority"
The New Deal" he asserted, has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Flynn Sees Despair
Changing Into Panic
In Wi||kie Camp
Democratic Chuirmun
Defends Statement
On Hatch Act

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Demo-
cratic National Chairman Edward J.
Flynn said tonight that President
Roosevelts decision to make series
of political speeches had "deepened
the Willkie despair into panic"
Il learn from the newspapers, p"
he said in statement. that the
Democrats are perturbed about the
result Of the election and that for
that reason President Roosevelt is
going to make a series of political
speeches. 1t is the other way
around. The decision to have
the presidential broadcasts is of long
standing, as was apparent from his
tMr. Roosevelt's) original statement
of his prospective course
Defends Statement.
Next" Mr.. Flynn added, Il note
that I have been guilty of nefar-
ious act by sending out word to
Government employees OF their rights
under the Hatch Act-the privilege
voluntarily of contributing to the
Democratic campaign fund. That
simple statement is embraced in a
communication widely published
from the Department of Justice and
the Civil Service Commission in
which it is stated that 1T Is lawful
for any official or employee to make
a voluntary contribution to any po-
litical party that he may prefer. ~
Although the Hatch Act made I'M
lawful the political solicitation in any
Federal building, Mr.. Flynn said
there have been received by Gov
eminent employees in their own Of
fees letters from persons just now
high in Republican circles-letters
fatty asking for contributions to
the Willkie war-chest."
Cites G. o. P. Spending.
Just how mucn attention the
G.. o. P. National Committee is pay
ing to the restrictions of the Hatch
ACl, TIC Sdlu, was lCNCdlCo WliSh
Treasurer Goodspeed of that Or
ganization was called to account for
Geducting what he had paid out for
previous debts from his Hatch Act
allowance. The Republican treas
urer exclaimed, if that provision
were enforced: The campaign will
probably stop.
Yet so far from stopping the ex-
penditures on the Republican side
have multiplied and they are buying
everything from sound trucks to
store rentals, from billboards to but
tons in unprecedented volume, and,
if my information is correct, they
plan to spend as much more between
now and November with only
the fictitious pretense that the CEN
trail organization doesn't know what
its subsidiary clubs, leagues, etc, are
doing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Indiana
Continued From First Page.)

on Agriculture, of which William
Settle of Indiana is national chair
man, is working hard among the
Indiana agriculturalistS. This is the
same organization which the Sen
ate Campaign Investigating Com
mittee is now giving the once over
on charges that it is endeavorlng
to use the A. A. A. set-up for politl-
cal purposes in all the farm States
The Democrats say. too. they have
the young people with them. They
point to the fact that youthful
Franklin D. Roosevelt came into the
State recently and spoke at Bloom
ington to a crowd estimated as high
as 10000
Made Much of F, D., Jr.
The story goes that the State
chairman invited a lot of socially
prominent debutantes to serve as
ushers. and that when they arrived
an hour before the meeting was
scheduled. the hall was so crowded
the young women couldn't get in.
The Democrats made as much OF
young Roosevelt as they could. and
he registered for the draft in the
State.
And then there is the colored vote
The Democrats have come to count
on that vote in recent years. in
fact, ever since the Ku Klux Khan
once gained powers iii the State
and took over a good bit of the Re
publican organization. The Khan
leader of those days is serving a
long prison term now, and the Or
SANITATION, while still eXtant, is not
heard Of much. In 1880, the colored
population was 1,982-but it has
grown now probably to 100000 or
more. President Roosevelt will get
the bulk of the colored vote again,
but there are some backsliders, the
colored people themselves say, and
in Republican quarters claims are
made that 40 per cent of the colored
vote will go to Mr.. Willkie.
OF all the foreign-b blood blocs in
Indiana by far the largest is the
German-American, which in the
1880 census showed 156,368 native
born of German parentage and
28,152 of foreign birth. Mr.. Will
kie himself belongs to the Hoosier
German-American group, and there
is every indication these voters are
not going to turn him down. A
great many of them are in In
dianapolis, in Fort Wayne, and 9TH
ers are in Southern Indiana, which
has been Democratic generally
through the years. Democratic lead
ers shake their heads over this sit
uation.
The Democrats are relying espe-
cially on the industrial centers to
give them the votes needed to put
Mr.. Roosevelt across. What they
hope and pray will happen is that
the President, in his revised cam
paign plans, will find way to come
himself to Indiana and deliver a
speech. They look to Lake County,
with its Gary; to Indianapolis
(Which may be weak reed to lean
upon, to Anderson County, where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Work Begun on New
S750,000 Addition
To Hecht Co.
Building Is First Unit
In Expansion Program
Costing 81, 100000

Ground was broken last week for
a s750,000 addition to the Hecht Co.,
which will be the first unit In a
building and expansion program to
cost more than $4,000 900. according
to an announcement yesterday by
Charles B. Dulcan, ST., vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
company.
The first unit will be a five-story
building and basement on E street,
directly at the rear of the present
structure and will add $4,000 square
feet of floor space to the department
store. The building. which will be
completed in about six months, will
be air conditioned throughout with
a new system for cooling and de-
humidifying the air.
The most modern lighting ard
elevator systems will be installed.
Foundations and steel construction
have been designed to carry addi-
tional floors at later date to bring
the new unit to the seven story
level of the main building.
Floor levels will be the same in
both buildings and all units will be
connected on the same levels when
the entire program is completed.
The new structure will be con-
nected temporarily with the main
store by overhead bridges at the
second and third floors and by
large subway passage between the
Easements. Mr.. Dulcan said all ad-
ditional units will be arranged so
that the entire group may be con-
nected eventually under one large
roof.
When the store is completed. 1t
was said, it will be one of the most
complete and modern structures in
the country.
Parking facilities are being con-
sidered in developing the expansion
plan. Meanwhile, work is progress
ing on expanding floor space on
three floors in the main building.
James l.. Parsons. jr., is the build
ing contractor for the new unit and
the engineering is in charge of
Abbott, Merkt g. Co., Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Willkiie
Continued From First Page)

is growing determination upon
the part of the men and women OF
America, regardless of party affllia-
tions, that there shall be an end to
the unsound conduct Of the affairs
OF their national Government"
In describing the fertile fields OF
Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas,
Mr.. Willkie took occasion to praise
the ancestors of the people who
settled this region. He said:
Here, to these vast productive
lands, your fathers and mothers
brought from the Old World the
best traditions of thrift and industry
and burning passion for freedom.
Here they came TO escape from the
expressions OF another day and to
build a new nation and new way
of life for themselves and their
children.
1T is this spirit that has de-
veloped this great region. 1t is this
spirit that has built all of America.
1t is this spirit that We seek to
preserve today
Renews Conference Pledge.
Mr.. Willkie renewed in Minneap-
oils the pledge he made in his
major farm speech at Omaha, to
convene a conference of agriculture
labor, industry and the consumer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
| WHIkie Leads
| In 9 of IS Polls
Taken by Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Results of
newspaper presidential polls over
the country as of yesterday:
Roosevelt. Willkie.
California:
Los Angeles Examiner
(city) - 1858 $3.50
Illinois:
Chicago Tribune
(state- wide) ------20,552 81, 1921
Indiana:
Chicago Tribune Go
Indiana citieO ---- 3,4Sl 3,752
Iowa:
Chicago Tribune %
Iowa cities 1925 1864
Kansas:
Chanute Tribune I'D
Kansas district -- $50 664
New York:
New York Daily News
city - - $500 1851
New York Dailv News
Upstate and Long
Island - 2.049 3,276
Ohio:
Columbus Dispatch
(State-wide) -27 1893 30,923
Cleveland Plain Dealer
(Cuyahoga County, 56.2% 1897
Youngstown Vindicator
-four county area - 1879 2.166
Pennsylvania:
Pittsburgh Post
Gazette (city)--- 49% 5l%
Utah:
Salt Lake Telegram
(city and environs) 395 $50
Wisconsin:
Chicago Tribune 13
Wisconsin cities - 2,702 1865
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20

General Motors and General Elec-
trio have plants; to Muncie, South
Bend, Evansville and Terre Haute
to turn the trick. The farmers,
they hope, will look to Dirt Farmer
Claude Wickard, one of them who
now is Secretary of Agriculture.
The more or less celebrated ~
Per Cent Club" which f1ourished
when Paul V. McNutt was Gov
ernor and the years afterward, is
operating, though not on the scale it
once did. Employees of the High
way Commission and the Public
Welfare Department are being sha-
ken down for contributions, it is
charged, but what is being done is
being done quietly. The Democrats
complain bitterly that the Repub-
licans have plenty of money to spend
and are spending it in the most
lavish kind of publicity, through
radio and newspapers and bill
boards. All three of Indianapolis
daily newspapers are supporting Mr..
Willkie this year.
Grooming McNutt for "A.
The political future of Mr. Nc
Mutt, now Federal Security Admin
istrator, is the concern of lot of
leading Democrats They look upon
Mr.. McNutt as the outstanding
Democrat in the country, after
President Roosevelt Already they
are grooming him for 1914, whether
President Roosevelt be reelected or
defeated
Mr.. McNutt himself is playing an
active part in the present campaign
He will spend the final week of the
drive in Indiana, speaking con-
stantly for Roosevelt. 1t is with Mr.
McNutt in mind that some of the
Democratic leaders are now shaping
their course. They don't understand
even yet why the President turned
down Mr.. McNutt for a running
mate and took Henry A. Wallace. In
their opinion, Mr.. McNutt would
have strengthened the ticket far
more. and would have made Indiana
safe for Roosevelt.
Indiana Likes Politics.
No State is more politically mind
ed than Indiana No State turns
out as large a number of voters, in
proportion to population. This year
the Hoosiers are in this battle right
up to the ears. You don't hfs" o.
any APATHY" 1t used to be said that
in Indiana the population was made
up Of authors and politicians, and
that the authors were politicians.
too. Two of Indiana's most cele-
brated authors. Booth Harrington
and George AIDE. have taken sides
this year with Mr.. Willkie, just as
Irwin Cobb, Kentuckian, has de-
clared his opposition to third term
for any President.
In Indianapolis $4,000 new regis
tered voters have appeared on the
poll lists and most of them in So
called north side districts which
have been favorable to the G. o.
P. On the other hand, polls taken
Of men working in plants making
war materials have gone heavily
against Willkie.
Whispering campaigns of various
kinds have been started against Mr.
Willkie, two of which were that
when his father died he was buried
not at the expense of Mr.. Willkie
and his brothers but at the expense
of a fraternal organization, and
that Mr.. WILKES mother died in
sane. Both were promptly investi-
gated here and both proved entirely
erroneous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20

concentrated authority in every
branch Of the Government. 1t has
not trusted the people. 1t has tried
to run everything from Washington
under the mistaken notion that it
alone-the New Deals indispens-
able"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Oyster Roust Planned

The Property Owners Association
of Woodland Beach. Md, will hold
its annual oyster roast next SUM-
day from to pm. at the beach
clubhouse.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-06
Pork Chops
CENTER CUTS
lb. 19c
Pork Loin Roast
RIB END
ID. 12hc
SUGAR CURED SKINNED
SMOKED
HA NJ S
large shank hall
b.. Ice

Pork Roast, picnic cut Id. 10c
Pork Steak, round bone cut ID. 16c
Fresh Spare Ribs Ib. l2c
Shoulder Roast of Lamb ID. 13c
Leg of Milk Fed Veal Id. l8c
Veal Chops, shoulder cut h. 19c
Pot Roast Of Beef lower cut Id. l412c
Fresh Ground Hamburger ID. 13c
Smoked Picnics, hockless Ib. 13c
Pork Gatherings, Shoots, Ears, I
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Lithuanian President
Is Reported Fleeing
Russians 10 Reich
Soviet Army Occupying
Cities After Kuunos
Accepts Uitimotum
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 16 Sunday Re
ports spread among Lithuanian
correspondents here early today
that Lithuanian President Antanas
Smetona, fleeing before invading
Russian troops, had crossed the
border into Germany.
He was said to have been &C
companied by several high officials
OF the Lithuanian government,
which was forced out by Russian
pressure
Official German quarters were
unable to verify the reports of
Smetona's flight early today. The
presumption in informed quarters,
however, was that he would be given
the privilege of asylum should he
appear in German territory.
The German view is that the
developments in Lithuania are a
Russian Lithuanian matter in
which the Reich has no direct in
terest," said an authorized spokes-
man.
There was no apparent uneasi-
ness here over the circumstance that
Russian troops had moved closer
to the eastern border.
The Russian Army had moved into
(See LITHUANIA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Hemisphere Defense,
Hating Drift 10 War
Urged by Lindbergh
Flyer Calls for Needed
Boses Regardless Of
Who Owns Territory
(TeTt OF Lindbergh's Address
on Page A-1S.)
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as
serted last night that the defense OF
the United States should be con-
structed with the "co-operation of
all American countries" but that
I'VE must insist upon military bases
being placed wherever they are
needed for our own safety, regard
less of who owns the territory in
volved"
He embraced this idea of Western
Hemisphere defense in radio ad
dress in which he also asserted that
I'VE must stop this trend" toward
involvement in the European war
and cease these gestures with an
empty gun
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee will
answer Col. Lindbergh at GAS
o'clock tonight over Nation wide
network of the National Broadcast
ing Co. His address, entitled Col
Lindbergh's Misconception of Our
Foreign Policy" will be heard locally
over Station WRC.
Gan Lead Only to Failure"
The address by Col. Lindbergh
was the second of the same nature
within a month. On the last oc-
casion. he condemned "meddling
with affairs abroad" and denounced
"hysterical chatter of calamity and
invasion"-a speech which brought
| criticism from various members o1
Congress and praise from some
others.
Last night he reiterated this view
point in these words:
This dabbling we have been do
ing in European affairs can lead
only to failure in the future as ii
has in the past. We demand
that foreign nations refrain from
interfering in our hemisphere, vet
we constantly interfere in theirs
80 We have been doing to England
and France what they did to Abys-
slnia, to Czecho-Slovakia, to Poland
to Finland and to Norway-we have
encouraged them to hope for help
we cannot send.
He contended that it was use
less to talk of sending American
troops to Europe now, for we would
need months of preparation before
we could train and equip even a
small army"
strongest Military Nation"
If Germany wins. he argued, Eu-
rope would be dominated by "the
strongest military nation the world
has ever known" and if we entered
(See LINDBERGH, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1940-06-16
Flood Efforts Fail
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BASEL. Switzerland, June IS
French efforts to flood the Germans
out of the foothold they had secured
ON the French side of the Rhine
% miles north of Basel. were re-
ported tonight to have failed.
The French dynamited a great
dam a few miles from Basel, appar-
emily hoping the flood waters would
frustrate the German attack across
the river, but the Nazis retained
their position.
Details were lacking here on the
means used by the Germans to span
the river, but even the French
confirmed a German report that
the Nazi troops had accomplished
what military experts heretofore
called a suicidal action
The place they chose for the
crossing was between the German
village of Breisach and the French
village of uf-Breisach on oppo-
site shores of the Rhine at one
OF its narrowest points.
Tonight French and German ar
tillery fired sporadically at forts
north of Basel while the sound of
incessant firing came from the
Breisach region, where tremen-
dous battle was raging. The French
rushed reserves into the action in
their attempt to blast the Germans
(See FRENCH, Page A-3)