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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
Collects Mans

Prof. Burton M. Varney, history
professor at the University of Cali
fornia, is collecting and cataloging
maps from every possible source.
The collection to date numbers
more than 10000 maps.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
Transcontinenfal Airlipas

There are three transcontinental
arlines in the United States. They
are the American Airlines, United
Airlines and Transcontinental and
Western Airlines.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23
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Pity the poor civilians who happen
to live near one of Uncle Sans big
army training camps. Robert West,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff West who
is furloughing at home this week
tells of the plight of a small city
of some 5000 population located
only few miles from Camp For
rest, Tennessee, where there are
$4,000 men in training.
During week ends when the boys
swarm in from camp one hardly
sees a civilian and it's all but i'm
possible to get into moving pic
ture show, restaurant, drug store or
soda fountain, so great is the num-
Der of soldiers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

And while we are on the subject,
comes a card from Bob's elder
brother, James West, erstwhile city
clerk, who has been transferred
from Camp Callan in California to
Fort Bliss, Texas. The change was
made at the expense of sleeping
comfort, says Jim. At Ft. Bliss, his
outfit, the 423rd Coast Artillery is
sleeping five men to a tent, while
in California they occupied new bar
racks. The Bluffton News looks
mighty good when it arrives at the
Fort every Saturday morning, Jim
writes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

We don't know whether Bluffton
will eventually get its sewer sys-
tenn, but we do know that few who
are not directly in touch with the
situation have any idea of the
amount of work that has been put
on collecting engineering data and
blueprints for the proposed system.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

A persimmon placed in the News
window by Robert A. Potts attracted
lots of attention over the week end.
1t was really surprising the number
of people who had never seen or
tasted a persimmon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Sam Stepleton, one of Bluffton's
top flight anglers provided fish for
a family dinner when his daughter
and son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Mervin
Springer and family of Peoria, H.,
visited here. A large bass and
channel catfish freshly caught from
the National quarry were evidence
enough of Sans prowess with rod
and reel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

You should see the attractive
rings and decorative objects that the
boys in the industrial arts depart
ment at the high school are making
from plastic materials.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Mr.. and Mrs. James Elvin, recent
ly returned from a wedding trip
were given an old-fashioned belling
at their home on Poplar street by
friends and neighbors, Monday
night. After the customary noise
making din the crowd was invited
in for an informal reception and
congratulations and best wishes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

And while we're on the subject of
plans and blueprints you might be
interested to know that it takes a
carload of blueprint paper-30,00
pounds-for construction of a mod
ern battleship.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Talk about ambitious young men;
two boys with the first name of
Eddie, one Rice and other Sehu-
macher, are holding down full
time night job at the Triplett Co.
and committing daily for their
classes at Bowling Green State uni
versity. How would you like to
have a schedule like this: Work at
Triplett's from 600 p. m. to 2:30 a.
m. Study several hours for classes
a. Bowling Green. Attend classes at
the university from 1000 a. m. to
500 p. m. and then a dash back
to Bluffton in time for work at the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

While on the subject of Beavers,
we heard today that members of the
Bluffton college football team have
agreed not to shave until they chalk
UP a victory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

In letter to his dad Gerald
Scoles writes of attending the
Columbus, Ga. fair. He says that
the Bluffton Mid Winter fair has it
all over the southern city's display,
altho Columbus has a population of
some $4,000. Gerald is in military
training at Ft. Benning, Ca, only
90 miles from Columbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

This is required before the matter
may be submitted to the federal
government for aid. c. S. Finkbein-
er, Toledo engineer who met with
the council Monday night had q
large brief case jammed with papers
all relating to the Bluffton sewer
project. He said he had only re-
Gently gone thru the file and dis
carded everything not absolutely
necessary, in order to keep it within
reasonable limitations.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Gene Patterson is the proud pos
SCISSOR of a new Boy Scout uniform
which his father bought for him
Saturday. Gene now has the rank
of tenderfoot in Bluffton Scout troop
No. Sc.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Poetry honors have come to the
mother of a Bluffton woman, it was
learned the first of the week. Three
of six poems submitted by Mrs.
Ewing Porter of Columbus Grove
were included in the America
Forever" edition annually published
by Avon House, New York city pub
fishers. Mrs. Porter is the mother
of Mrs. Ralph Reichenbach of
Bluffton. Of 10000 poems submitted
for the edition 842 were chosen.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Mebbe Irwin Woods got his direc-
tions confused when painting at the
front of Pines restaurant Monday
Anyway his paint bucket fell from
considerable height and the side
walk and the display ads at the Star
theatre were literally splattered. AS
Woods was attempting to clean up
the mess he was heard to mutter
yeah, and | spose this will get in
Mainly Personal" Well, here it is
Irwin.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

If you see Fred Gettles limping
down street it is, not due to fallen
arches but rather it is due to dog
hairs. 1t seems that Gettles while
in his stocking feet at home has a
tendency to pick up dog hairs in
his stockings which work into the
flesh causing considerable pain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

The annual Halloween season
headache has started for Marshall
Lee Coon with youngsters already
staging pranks thick and fast. Lee
says harmless pranks are O.K.-but
if it gets to destruction of property
there will be a breakdown, swift and
certain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

Triplett plant. P. S. A little sleep
is squeezed in in the early morning
hours.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-23

They take their politics seriously
in Richland township-yes sir. AL
though politics in town has been
this far about as dead as a door
nail, the political bee has been right
busy out in the rural hustings. Some
of those candidates for trustee are
putting on a really we'll organized
campaign. Looks like they will
show The town candidates thing or
two about practical politics.
Jacob Amstutz of Hillville takes
exception to an article which ap-
peared in last weeks edition telling
of a snake milking a COW. Jacob
says that it can't be done-all fire.
quent tales to the contrary notwith-
standing. We're sidestepping that
one-since we never milked a COW
and don't know much about snakes
Maybe some of our readers can
supply data on the subject.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
CRIDIRON BATTLE
'SESQUI' FEATURE

Hamilton's gridiron battle, October
IL, with DeVilbiss High of Toledo,
has been designated the official sports
event of the Hamilton Butler County
Sesqui- Centennial Celebration, being
held in Hamilton during the week of
October Ali.
The game will be played on the
Hamilton High School athletic field at
2:15 o'clock on Aviation Day." final
day of the celebration. The contest
is expected to be one of the highlights
of the local teams schedule, as Ham
ilton is thirsting for revenge for
drubbing received last year at the
hands of the Toledo gridders. Coach
Ray Tilton said Monday his team "is
being pointed toward that game with
the idea of getting back some of the
victory-taste we lost last year to the
same outfit"
AS part of its job of playing host to
thousands of visitors during the cele-
bration, Hamilton will have athletic
officers and the football squad of De-
Vilbiss as special guests at celebration
events Saturday night, after the game,
in the Butler County Fairgrounds.
There the visiting group will see
"Muskets on Miami" a historical
pageant-spectacle with cast of over
1900 persons and employing in it's
scenes horses, automobiles, and trains,
moving through scenes Of the drama
to portray various bits of history con-
nected with Butler County during the
last $50 years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) - The
American Federation of Labor con-
siders itself "inseparably associated"
with British workers "in a common
cause" and will support aid to Britain
until victory is won," President Will
liam Green declared in a cablegram
to the British Trades Union Congress,
as it met recently in convention in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Green also made public the cabled
reply from the British Trades Union
Congress, signed by Sir Walter Cit
rine, secretary of that organization,
pledging support "of every effort to
promote practical cooperation with
you for the achievement of victory"
and expressing gratitude for what
american workers have already done"
to tighten the burden of sacrifices
which British workers are making.
Text of Green's Cable
President Green's cablegram to Sir
Walter Citrine said:
81 extend to those in attendance at
your British Trades Union Congress
the fraternal greetings of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. We con-
slider ourselves as inseparably asso-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
PLAN FOR SALE OF
CHRISTMAS SEALS

The executive committee of the But
Ter County tuberculosis and Health
Association met at the Y. w. C. A. in
Hamilton, Wednesday, September TO-,
to plan for the 1941 Christmas Seal
sale. Committees of the association,
to be appointed in early October, will
begin their annual drive for funds to
combat tuberculosis on Monday, No
vember "a, when the National Tuber-
culosis Association opens its national
drive. Committees will function under
the direction of the association in
Hamilton, Oxford, Middletown, and the
rural area of the county.
Announcement was made at the
meeting by Truman Davis, member of
the associations committee studying
the need for tax levy for tuberculosis
care, that representatives of the as
sociation will meet with the county
commissioners and Paul A. Baden,
county prosecuting attorney, to discuss
the levy later this week.
DR.. HI. A. Moore, Oxford, president
of the association, presided at the
meeting. A report of the tuberculosis
Clinic, sponsored by the association
jointly with the county commissioners
and Mercy Hospital, was given by Miss
Virginia Ann Smith, showing that 73
people were found to have tuberculosis
at the clinic during the first eight
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
Pennsylvania Registers
Big Gain In Employment

Philadelphia, Pa. = Employment in
Pennsylvania reached an all-time high
during August, having increased 80
per cent during the past year, it was
reported by the Federal Reserve Bank
for Philadelphia.
During the same period, the bank
said, payrolls had expanded 70 per
cent, while hourly earnings of factory
workers averaged 81 cents, the high
est in history and an increase of IL
per cent since July, 1940.'
Meanwhile unemployment fell to the
lowest point since the crash of 1929
being slightly less than 100000, COM
pared with 1,250,O0O in 1888. Half OF
those listed as jobless were declared
to be unemployable.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
President of American Federation of Labor Cables In
spring Message to British Labor BOdy-Reply Signed
by Sir Walter Citrine, Secretary of Organization

ciated with you in common cause
and purpose to establish and maintain
democracy, fr ee d 0 m and liberty
throughout the world. We are stand
ing with our government in extension
of support to Britain and her allies
and it is our purpose to continue that
support until victory is won."
British Deeply Grateful"
Citrine's reply to Green follows:
Congress received your fraternal
message with sincere satisfaction,
finding in it the assurance of the soli-
darity of the English-speaking peoples
in the struggle to preserve the insti-
tutions of freedom and democracy
which are our common inheritance
and for the maintenance of which we
are prepared to make every sacrifice.
Congress pledges support of every
effort to promote practical co-opera-
tion with you and for the achievement
of victory. We welcome your promise
of utmost help and are deeply grateful
for what the American workers have
already done to Tighten the burden of
sacrifice which the British workers are
making in the common cause"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
BUTLER COUNTY T-B
ASSN IN new DRIVE
AFTER RECENT TEST

A new impetus has been given to the
campaign against tuberculosis by
members of the Butler County Medical
Society, it was reported this week by
DR.. H. A. Moore, Oxford, president of
the Butler County tuberculosis and
Health Association, meeting with the
program committee of the association.
Several people have been found to
have tuberculosis, DR.. Moore stated,
as result of physicians making use
of the tuberculin "patch test" distri-
button by the association.
Distribution of the patches" by the
tuberculosis association was begun in
July, and, since that time, 1,1OO have
been placed in the hands of county
physicians. A supply is kept on hand
at the headquarters of the association,
and any physician may renew his sup
ply on a moments notice.
Physicians are now equipped to
make the test at any time in their Of
fees, and many people with positive
reactions have been referred to the
tuberculosis Clinic, according to
Charles G. Greig, executive secretary
of the association.
"The tuberculosis association plans
to continue this SERVICE" Mr.. Greig
said, "as it has already shown fine
results and has made possible the
finding Of many new and heretofore
undetected cases of tuberculosis"
In addition to this service, the tuber-
culosis association sponsors the weekly
tuberculosis Clinic, held at Mercy Hos
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
Federal Inspection Of
Coal Mines To Start
Soon After October |
Advisory Committee Coal Mine Inspection Announces
Plan and PrOcedure-InspectOrs to be Named Immedi-
atey, and Intensive Training Program to Follow.

Washington, d. G. (ILNS).-
eral coal mine inspections and investi-
cations will be inaugurated soon after
October l, it was announced here fol-
lowing a meeting of the Advisory
Committee on Coal Mine Inspection to
formulate policies and procedures for
activities under the new Federal Coal
Mine Inspection Act.
Selection of an initial staff of in
spectors will be made Immediately,
and within a few weeks the force will
begin an intensive training program
at the central experiment station of
the bureau, at Pittsburgh, Pa, after
which the inspectors will be sent to
various headquarters in the field.
The plan calls for the hiring of a
staff of lot inspectors, electrical
engineers, explosives engineers, and
a number of administrative personnel
during the remainder of the current
fiscal year.
Procedure Outlined
The advisory committee decided
that Immediately following an inspec-
tion Of mine, the Inspector should
post at the mouth Of the mine pre-
liminary report consisting of gen
eral summary of conditions and prac-
tices which he feels need immediate
attention. The inspector then will
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
AFL Wins Election
At Seven Shipyards

Cleveland, Employees at the
seven Great Lakes yards of the Amer
lean Shipbuilding Company rolled up
big majority for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor as their collective
bargaining agent in an election held
by the National Labor Relations Board
There were 1884 votes cast for the
A. F. of L. and only 799 for the C. I. o.
unit. The A. F. of l.. has IL affiliates
in the various yards, two of which are
at Buffalo, N. Y, and one each at
Cleveland, Lorain, Toledo, South Chi
cago, and Superior, Wis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
State Employment Units
Find Work For 100000

Washington, d. C. - The Federal
Security Agency announced that 499,-
900 defense and non-defense jobs were
filled by the State Employment Agen-
cies during July. This was contrary
to the usual June-July decline-six
per cent more than during the pre-
vious month and 62 per cent above
July of last year. Placements during
the first seven months of 1941 totaled
approximately 100000, compared
with 100000 during the same period
of 1910.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
$3,OOO,OOO Pay Boost Is
Won By Glass Workers

Atlantic City, N. Increases in
wages totaling almost $3,000,00O for
$4,000 workers in the glass industry
were secured in conferences lasting
five weeks between union leaders and
manufacturers here, Harry HI. Cook,
of Toledo, Ohio, international presi-
dent of the American Flint Glass
workers Union of North America,
A. F. of l.. affiliate, announced.
Fifty manufacturers and glass COM
pany officials attended the sessions,
which were presided over by Calvin
Roe, president of the National Asso-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
Roosevelt Acts Against
Racial Determinations

Hyde Park, N. Y.-President Roose-
welt moved to eliminate employment
discrimination against negroes and
other minority racial groups. He di-
rected all government departments to
take immediate steps" to assure
chat in the federal service the doors
of employment are open to all loyal
and qualified workers regardless of
creed, race or national ORIGIN"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19

make detailed report to the engi-
neer in charge of the district in which
he is located. Copies of this report
after review by main headquarters in
Washington, D. c., will be furnished
to the operator, representatives of the
labor unions and the state department
of mines, and others who may request
the information.
New Division Set Up
Activities under the Coal Mine In
spection Act will be carried on by a
new mine inspection division to be
placed in the Health and Safety
Branch of the Bureau of Mines. Under
the terms of the inspection act, in
spectors and other authorized repre-
sentatives of the bureau are empow-
cred to enter mines and to make in
spections and Investigations annually
or at any other time, for the purpose
of obtaining information relating to
health and safety conditions in coal
mines.
In addition to mine inspections, the
bureau will collect, compile, analyze,
and publish statistical data relating
to coal mine accidents. The bureau
will also make Investigations into oc-
cupational diseases and such other in
vestigations which will help to pro-
mote health and safety in coal mines.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19

pital, and carries on round cam
paign of public information about tu-
berculosis. This program is financed
by the annual sale of tuberculosis
Christmas Seals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19
AFL to Back Fight Against Hitlerism
''Until Victory is Won," Green Tells
British Trades Union Congress

citation of Manufacturers of Pressed
and Blown Glassware. Mr.. Roe said
that industry has not had a general
strike since the turn of the century.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-09-19

months of this year. This figure is an
increase of ten cases over the number
found during the entire year of 1910.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-07

Taku River was so low few weeks ago.
 An Associated Press dispatch which carried the COW tale to the Outside world was read by Perry Davis, | resident of Spur, who ap- parently is tired of remembering the Alamo and would like to see Alaska. Enclosing a clipping of the article, lc wrote to Miss Joyce:
 T see from our morning paper you are having time with your COW eating fish. Down here in Texas we put wire muzzle on them tc keep the from eating. Try this; if you don't have one, let me know and I will send you one. It works.
 .. I am sorry never did Se. to come up there and see the won derful country. Now want to come more than ever, as a man here can't catch a fish, let alone a COW.
 If I can be of any help to you with your problem, please let me know"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-07
By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. - The Russo German war now enters a stage that may demonstrate the staying power of the two powerful mechanical armies-and reveal Hit ler's plans for the winter
 Nazi armies on the eastern front have been marking time for more than month, either getting ready for new push or trying to patch up their communications system-or both.
 Observers in Washington already have checked off Leningrad and Odessa. They take the view that these two positions have been hope less for Russia for several weeks. Neither side is sending new forces to those islands of resistance.
 Real stakes just now probably are the Ukraine and the Caucasus, now that Hitler seemingly has been stall ed in this major assault on Moscow
 The vigor of the German drive at the remaining slice of the Ukraine as well as it's direction-will dem- onstrate Hitler's strength and his weakness
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-07
Christmas Eve RadiosolnIde
 Found al Taku

Radiosondes, these little trans- mitting stations which daily go aloft with the Weather Bureaus observation balloons, are being found quite often these days by local people, it was announced to- day here.
 Latest radiosonde to be brought in and redeemed for dollar hy the Weather Bureau was one found this weekend by Cliff Tisdale. The instrument was released last Christ mas Eve, records attached to it showed, and Tisdale found it dangling from the limb of tree along Moose Creek, near the mouth of the Taku River. Records in the mechanism showed it had reached 50,000 feet the night of Decem- Der "A, 1940, where the tempera- ture was 54 degrees below zero No comment was made regarding a possible sight of Santa Claus.
 Fastest return of a radiosonde recently was last Monday, when one of the transmitters released only four days before was discoy- cred at Eagle River basin by A. J. Forrest.