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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09

The houses are made of stone
without mortar and have no win
dows. Usually they are of two
stories so that animals can be kept
in the first story to provide warmth
for the second story.
The country is very mountainous
and beautiful in scenery and pro-
vided the greatest travel thrill in
the experience of the speaker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
III. T. Unruh, Pastor

Thursday:
tbs p. m. Choir rehearsal.
S:15 p. m. A short prayer service
come and share these few moments
of prayer with others.
SUNDAY:
900 a. m. Church school.
1000 a. m. Morning services. Rev.
r. A. Hartzler and quartet from
C. P. S. C. at Bluffton, Ind, will be
here for the morning services,
Bring your special offering as was
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announced Sunday.

announced Sunday.
600 p. m. A combined service of
college church and our services at
which Rev. Hartzler will again
speak.
7:30 We shall join the union SER
vices at the H. S. where THE Lost
Church" will be presented by Bluff
ton talent.
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
Gerald Bright, Pastor

Button:
9:15 a. m. Bible school, Chas.
Emans, Supt.
1915 a. m. Lords Supper.
6:30 p. m. Christian Endeavor.
1t was a fine attendance last Sun
day. May we work toward 100 for
Rally Day, October 10.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
MISSIONARY CHURCH
A. +. Albro, Pastor

SUNDAY:
9:30 Sunday school, Harry Welty,
Supt.
1870 Morning worship.
700 p. m. Children's meeting.
7:30 p. m. Evangelistic service.
Services every night this week at
7:30 o'clock except Saturday. Rev.
Clauser speaking.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
DEFENSELEss MENNONITE

E. G.. Steiner, Pastor
$50 Sunday school, Levi Mellinger
Supt.
1890 Preaching service.
There will be no evening services
this week.
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EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED
CHURCHES

Emil Burrichter, Pastor
Emanuel:
Sunday school at $50 a. m.
Public worship at 10:45 a. m.
Consistory meeting Monday at
500 p. m.
Synod meets at Elmore, o., on
October 14th.
st. John:
Public worship at 9:15 a. m.
Sunday school at 10:30 a. m.
The G.. NJ. G. meets on Monday
evening.
Choir practice Thursday at 7:30
p. m.
Synod meets at Elmore, o., on
October f4th.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
EBENEZER MENNONITE
Arnold c. Schultz, Pastor

<tAnof0 Ns A1>ttaAs1t
Thursday:
200 p. m. Missionary society
meeting.
$50 p. m. Teachers meeting and
prayer service. Choir rehearsal.
SUNDAY:
SUNDAY:
$3.50 a. m. Sunday school.
10:30 a. m. Morning worship. Rev.
Herold Burkholder will bring the
message, his subject being, THE
Believers Crown.
7:30 p. m. c. E. programs.
$3.50 p. m. Evening service. Rev.
E. F. Slotterback will preach the
sermon.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the services of the church.
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Charles NJ. Armentrout, Pastor

RockpOrt:
9:30 a. m. Morning worship.
1890 a. m. Sunday school.
Bluffton:
$50 a. m. Sunday school.
1850 a. m. Morning worship.
600 p. m. TUXIS.
"The Golden Chapters of John"
will be the general topic of the
sermons for the next few weeks.
The subject of the sermon for this
Sunday is "The Genesis of the
Gospel, John Ills.
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NOTICE OF THE TRANSFER OF PUBLIC
MONIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO
THE ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND.
BLUFFTON MARKETS

Wednesday Morning
Hogs-16O to 200, 5000; 200 to
240, $10.40; 240 to 260, 5000;
roughs, $500; stags, $7.75.
Calves, $3.50; lambs, $10.50.
Grain (bu. prices)-Wheat, $1.02;
corn, zoe; oats, 45c; soys, $1.47.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

Sunday services at 10:30 a. M,
"Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real 2"
Testimonial meeting at 7:30 We'd
nesday evening.
The reading room at the church
is open every Wednesday from 200
to 400 p. m. The public is invited
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09

Beethoven
Beethoven dressed so shabbily he
was once arrested as a tramp.
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NetO Legion Officers
Installed MOnddy

Installation of new officers was eff
fected at meeting Of Bluffton post,
American Legion, Monday night in
the Legion hall. Armin Hauenstein
a past commander, served as INSTALL
ing officer.
New heads Of the local post in
clude: Millen E. Geiger, commander;
Ralph Stearns, vice-commander; O.
E. Burkholder, adiutant; Clair Fett,
finance officer; and Ralph Henry
chaplain.
Clair Fett was named chairman OF
membership committee, for which
a special meeting has been called at
7 p. m. this Thursday in the hall
NOTICE OF THE TRANSFER OF PUBLIC
MONIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO
THE ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND.
Notice is hereby given that on the 7th day
of October. 194l, the Township Trustees of
Richland TOWNSHIP Allen County, Ohio, filed
their petition in the Common Pleas Court of
said county. praying for authority to trans
fer Two Thousand Dollars (s2,000.00) which
are now in the Geueral Fund of said Town
ship to the Road and Bridge Fund of said
Township. The reason for the desired change
being fully set out In said petition.
Said petition will be for hearing in said
Court on the 18th day of October, 1941, at
10000 o'clock A. NJ
ALLEN GRISMORE,
w E. MARSHALL,
u. c. McCAFFERTY.
N. w. Basinger,
ClerL PicbIoad Toyynsb;r Tr,,o4aas
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lis This Sundayin The
I'D bi1rf1esH ! u r[j[]le s D

to all services and to visit the read
ing room.
This society is a branch of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
LUTHERAN CHURCH
w. A. Harmony, Pastor
Preaching 900 a. m.
Sunday school 1000 a. m.
Evening star., 1941-09-29

American pilots ferryins planes to
Britain receive about hve times the
~ e r. 4. =. hyerS.
Evening star., 1941-09-29

An American company recently
bought 1000 900 pounds Of tobacco
in China.
Evening star., 1941-09-29

eign Affairs Committee member,
predicted, however, there was a
strong chance that even the armlng
of merchant ships might be defeat
ed in the House.
Il don't think they will get it
through" he said, because that
step is too near a declaration Of
war. I think the Democratic leaders
will find a situation like that of the
draft extension"
He referred to the 203-202 vote by
which the House joined the Senate
in approving an 18-months' extern
sion of military duty for selectees.
But Representative Luther A.
johnson of Texas. senior majority
committee member. who helped
write the original Neutrality Act,
expressed belief that the House
would accept its complete repeal eX-
cept for a section which provides
for the licensing of shipments of
arms and munitions to foreign coun-
tries
The neutrality bill" Mr.. Johnson
said, was designed to preserve
peace In the world, but instead has
encouraged dictators who thought
they could run over us.
In view of that, I think that ii
ought to be repealed. Foreign pol
icy, like domestic policy. must be
changed as conditions arise have
always favored the arming of mer-
chant ships"
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Bishop Freeman Marks
18th Year in His Post

Despite wars and rumors of wars,
I am just as confident of the essen
tial goodness of human nature as
I ever was" the Right Rev. James
E. Freeman. Bishop of Washington,
declared this morning. He sent his
greeting to his flock from room
in Emergency Hospital, where he
is recuperating from an appen-
dectomy performed 10 days ago.
The occasion was the 18th ami
verSary of his conservation as third
head of the local diocese, September
%, 1928
Bishop Freeman discussed the tur-
MOL of the modern world, but said
the hope for better times sustains
his heart. Il feel as young as I
did 18 years ago and I am as GER
tain of the work have to do. My
devotion to my country is greater
if anything, than it was. So, too
my love for the human family has
grown"
Building operations at Washing
ton Cathedral, Bishop Freeman
said. have been concentrated re-
Gently on the ornamentation and
interior establishment of the
church. The great choir, he indi-
Gated, will be finished in every de-
tail within six months.
Bishop Freeman said that he
shortly would be ready to announce
the name of the new dean of Wash
ington, successor to the Very Rev
Noble c. Powell, coadjutor bishop.
elect of Maryland.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Aiming Ships Seen
As Only Change Likely
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
Congress appeared convinced to-
day that President Roosevelt in
tended to request the power to arm
merchant shipping, but there was
disagreement as to whether he wouad
seek a further modification of the
Neutrality Act so that American
vessels might operate to belligerent
ports or in waters now prohibited
as combat areas
Some legislative sources predicted
that the Presidents forthcoming
message would limit itself to a re-
quest for authority to put guns on
merchantmen, because any proposal
for more extensive revision would
arouse formidable opposition.
Other prominent legislators said
thev believed that the message
would ask both arming of ships and
the elimination of restrictions which
ban belligerent ports and combat
areas"
There were several administration
lieutenants on Capitol Hill who
claimed they could count on enough
votes in both House and Senate for
any revision of the Neutrality Act
that Mr.. Roosevelt might recon-
mend. Those in this group argued
that there was no reason to tempo
rize with a piecemeal amendment
| of the law.
Several legislative leaders were re-
ported ready to recommend that re-
vision proposals be limited to the
arming of merchant ships.
They said that there would be q
fight over that single issue and that
to seek ether notifications would
make the Democratic leaders task
all the more formidable.
! Representative Mundt, Aepue'
kean. Of South Dakota. HoaGs 1eg-
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Maritime Board Leases
Two Vessels 10 Fire
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Maritime Commission an
rounced yesterday it had char
tered two vessels to Fire for serv-
Ice between United States and
Canadian ports and the Irish Free
State. They are the West Hema-
ttte and the West Neris, each about
$500 deadweight tons
The commission said Irish crews
arrived several days ago and had
taken over the vessels, now at New
Orleans. They will sail today for
New York to take on cargo for the
first transatlantic voyage.
Both the West Hematite and the
West Neris were part of the World
War laid-up feet which was taken
over in 1887 by the Maritime Com
mission. but have been reconditioned
and overhauled.
Since the outbreaW of the war
Fire has been trying to build up
an Irish merchant fleet: In peace
time her imports arrived principal
1y in British, Norwegian and Amer
lean bottoms. Now the British and
Norwegian vessels have been diverted
to British war service and Amer
lean f1agships are forbidden by the
Neutrality Act to enter the COM
bat zones around Ireland.
AS a result. Irish imports have
been sharply restricted and some
commodities hSe been rationed
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Neutrality
Continued From First Page.

would not be used against British
interests.
Announced Chartering yesterday
of two Maritime Commission vessels
to the Fire government supported
this belief and led to revival of the
possibility that Irish ports and
waters might be opened for ship
ment of materials to Britain. Such
development, in turn, might af-
feet the administration decision on
changes to be sought Immediately
in the Neutrality Act perhaps
eliminating the need for removing
the belligerent waters restriction on
American-flag vessels.
In addition to conferring by tele-
phone both yesterday and today
with Secretary Hull and other
Washington advisers, the President
also took time today to attend to
some of the details incident to set
ting the estates of his mother. Mrs
Sara Delano Roosevelt, and his
brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt,
both Of whom died recently.
Although he is planning to keep
the family home open here through
out the year, the Chief Executive
today bade temporary farewell to
TWO of the youngest members of
his family. Haven Roosevelt and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sd. The
first, infant son of Mr. and Mrs
John Roosevelt, left with a nurse
and a dachshund puppy for Coro-
nado Beach. Calf, where the fam
lily is located while John serves as
an ensign at San Diego. Franklin,
Sd, was being taken to the Long
Island home of his parents.
The President planned to return
here next week end.
Joins i'm Peace PRAYER.
Yesterday morning. the Chief
Executive attended services at ST
James Episcopal Church, joining in
a special prayer that this Nation
maintain its faith in God and dedi-
cate itself to restoration and pres
ervation of world peace.
That America must play an i'm
portant part in this achievement
was emphasized in the sermon of
St. James rector, the Rev. Frank
R. Wilson, after an acknowledgment
that portion of the responsibility
for the worlds wars must likewise
be accepted by this Nation.
Accompanying the President to
the services yesterday were Crown
Princess Martha of Norway and her
three children, Prince Harald, Prin-
cess Ragnhild and Princess Astrid
Mrs. Roosevelt, wearied after a
week of almost constant vigil al
the bedside of her brother, G. Hall
Roosevelt, who died in Washing
ton Thursday and was buried in
nearby Tivoli, N. Y, Saturday, re-
turned to Washington late yester-
daV
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Changsha Sill Held,
Japan Loses 10000,
Chinese Declare
Nipponese Stopped Miles
From City Limits and
Bottle Still Raging
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Sept. 29-The
japanese have lost at least 10000
men out of the 10000 with which
they launched their drive for
Changsha, and the Human Province
capital still is in Chinese hands,
an army spokesman declared this
afternoon.
CThe Japanese Army announced
at Shanghai Saturday that
Changsha had been captured
after hand-to-hand fighting and
has reported since that the
attacking forces have pushed
through the city and about %
miles further south)
The battle for Changsha is rag
ing in full fury, with the Japanese
being held about miles from its
limits, the Chinese spokesman re-
ported.
The spokesman said he had this
message by telephone from Chang
sha at 9 am. today:
There is peace and order in the
city. Fighting continues on the out
skirts without significant changes"
Seized japanese documents, he
declared, showed the invaders OBJ
jective was more TO deal heavy blows
against the Chinese than to capture
any particular city.
We welcome this because it gives
us the opportunity of turning the
tables" he added.
Since last week, the spokesman
declared, all japanese reserves have
been thrown into the battle in an
effort to trap large bodies of Chinese
troops, but the Chinese have evaded
encircelement and it is possible the
Japanese may find themselves out
| flanked.
Chinese commanders are under
orders to spare no sacrifice and
to defend Changsha to the death,
another spokesman said.
I'VE hope history will repeat
itself, he said, recalling a previous
assault on Changsha in 1899, when
the japanese were driven back 100
miles north to Yochow in their
most disastrous defeat of the war
Although Changsha is an impor-
tant rice storage center, the spokeS-
man said the outcome of the battle
would not affect China's food policy
| since the city is outside the pro-
| gram.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Ii. Comdr. John ". Rice
Dies in Bermuda

The Navy Department today an
nounced the death Saturday Of 1t.
Comdr. John Washington Rice, U. S.
N. r., at the King Edward VIII
Memorial Hospital, in Hamilton,
Bermuda, after an illness of nearly
two weeks. He was transferred from
his ship TO the hospital for treat
ment September l8.
1t Comdr. Rice was native of
Starkville. Miss, and was commits
stoned an ensign of the United States
Navy in 1921 after graduation from
the Naval Academy, at Annapolis.
After advancing TO lieutenant, he
resigned his commission in 1890 but
later was commissioned lieutenant
in the Naval Reserve. He was COM
missioned lieutenant commander in
the Reserve on August 5. 1888, and
returned to active duty July %, 1910
Comdr. Rice is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mildred Cromwell Rice,
and two children. Edwin Cromwell
Rice and Patricia Rice.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
200 Empire Airmen
BaIk al Sailing on
Dirty Transport
1000 Stalk Off Ship, but
Most Return to Vessel;
Reculcitronts Disciplined
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
OTTAWA, Sept. ga thousand
Canadian-trained empire ai-men
stalked off a transatlantic trans
port recently because of conditions
they found aboard, and the Air
Ministry here, acknowledging they
had room for complaint, promised
today there need be no fear of any
repetition of the unfortunate Incl
dent"
Canadians, New Zealanders and
Australians were involved in the at
fair which came to light last night
when Air Minister G. @. Power an
noanced that all but "a couple hun
dred" of the airmen reboarded the
ship and now have arrived overseas.
Those left behind, he said, caught
smother ship short time later
after being nominally disciplined
with 4 reduction in pay.
The first airmen who went aboard
didn't like what they saw" Mr..
Power said. They found the ship
dirty, they objected to the sleeping
arrangements, they doubted that the
food would be good.
Couple Hundred Left.
"a number of them walked ashore
again and spread the word among
those who had not yet gone aboard.
Some listened, and some didn't. In
the end not 1000, but couple OF
hundred airmen were left on the
dock when the ship sailed at the
scheduled hour with more than two
thirds of the contingent aboard.
I'VE recognized that they had
grounds for complaint about the
accommodations, but we cannot
sympathize with their means OF eX-
pressing it. They were ordered
aboard, and they disobeyed that Or
der, and so, after a court OF inquiry,
they were disciplined.
But it can be said that the con-
duct of the disobedient men, apart
from their courteous but firm re-
fusal to sail under the conditions
provided, was exemplary, and this
was taken into account when dlscl-.
pline was imposed"
Mr.. Power admitted the ship was
"dirty and untidy," that it was a
case where corrective measures were
urgently demanded and that this
view was being put very strongly
before London authorities.
Famous Passenger Liner.
"This ship was a famous pas
senger liner in her peacetime days"
Mr.. Power went on. Shed taken
quite beating during her service
at Crete and elsewhere in the Medl-
terranean, and the long voyage
through the Suez Canal, around
Africa and across the Atlantic with
a fraction of her normal compile
ment hadn't improved her any.
But, taking into consideration
the shortage of shipping, apparently
she was all the Admiralty had read
tly available at the moment. To
make matters worse, bad weather on
our east coast kept the ship from
entering dock, where she could be
cleaned in the usual way
He concluded with assurances
there would he no recurrence Of the
incident
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Daughters Smoking
Blamed for Suicide
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. pa S.
year-old widower. who had reared
three daughters killed himself last
night, Detective Daniel OMahoney
said, because he saw the girls smok-
ing cigarettes.
The father. Ella Taddi, was found
dead of bullet wound in the heart
in his home A pistol lay nearby.
Mr.. OMahoney said the daugh-
tiers, Rose, "a; Adeline, %, and Do
lores, 20, whom Mr. Taddi had
reared through their teens, related
their father had been distressed
when he saw them smoking yester-
day in a store.
He never suspected We smoke" !"
one of the girls said.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
$500 Registronts Here
Face Tests in October

A schedule for the physical ex-
animation of $500 District selective
service registrants during October
was drawn up today by Lit. Col. A. c.
Gray, State medical director.
Under the program, approx
mately 500 men will be examined
on each of the following dates:
October 7, IA, II, q and %. Six
Washington hospitals will be used
in the examinat tions, with regis
trants from specified local boards
reporting to designated hospitals.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Detachment of Airmen
Arrives in Britain

A BRITISH PORT, Sept % Up
Detachments of Canadian, Austria
liam and New Zealand airmen and
ancilliary units for the Sd Canadian
Division have arrived in Britain.
A small group of Norwegian army
officers also was in the party.
Evening star., 1941-09-29
u. S. Radio Technicions
Sail for Britain

AN EAST COAST CANADIAN
PORT, Sept. % LP).-Some 20 Amer
lean civilian radio technicians sailed
recently from this port with another
contingent of Canadian troops bound
for duty in Great Britain.
Paul Hand of Brooklyn, N. Y, and
B. Shapiro of Chicago said the
Americans would be attached to the
stats working Britain's radiolocator
the new anti-bomber device All
were working in the radio industry
before they enlisted for three years
Evening star., 1941-09-29

Mrs. Roosevelt's assistant-without-
a-title. Mrs. Roosevelts title is IAN
assistant director of the Office of
Civilian Defense"
Evening star., 1941-09-29
Cost Plus Opposed

Australia has campaign against
the cost plus" system of payment
to concerns working on government
contracts.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24
BIG MONEY GOES
TO FARMERS ON
wheat LOANS
Over Five and a Quarter
Million Dollars Secured by
Six Million Bushels of Wheat
Loaned Wheat Growers UP
To August 80.

"A total of $5,301 ,234.33, secured by
nearly six million bushels of wheat,
had been loaned to Montana whaet
growers by August 80 under the 1941
commodity loan operations of the Tri-
PLEA program" Chairman R., j. Nc
Kenna of the State Triple-A commit
tee announced today.
According to the first summary of
1941 loans, covering July and August,
5,166 warehouse loans ON 5,835,890
bushels of wheat and 80 farm storage
loans on 114,166 bushels had been
made at an average loan rate to farm
ers of .S76 cents a bushel," McKenna
said For wheat already placed in
storage under loan in Montana pro-
ducers have received about $1,552,964
more this year than they would last
year. This is because the average
loan rate is now approximately rs
cents bushel higher than was the
1910 rate, due to the fact that loans
this year, are based on So cent of
parity rather than on about SIS percent
of parity, as last year"
I'm 1910 approximately 40 percent
of the states wheat crop was placed
under loan at total value of ST.
O41, 901. &c." McKenna stated. PRO
ducers are fortunate this year that
with their second biggest wheat crop
in history on hand estimated at a.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-24

Only six counties, Flathead,
Deer Lodge, Ravalli, Sanders,
Silver Bow and Teton show an
increase in the number of
farms during the period. Flat
head shows an increase of PIP
farms; Deer Lodge, 2; Ravalli,
"a; Sanders, z; Silver Bow, 10,
and Teton, nine. Losses in the
remaining so counties are suf-
ficiently heavy to bring the net
total loss in the state up to
8,741 farms.
The greatest loss in farms accord
ing to the statistics, occurred in what
is generally termed 'family-sized
farms" with acreage from 100 to 1000
acres. The number of these plants
in Montana decreased 1929 during the
period; those from 1000 acres to TO-
900 acres decreased by only 228 while
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