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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
IckeS Hits
Tools of
Hitler

CHICAGO. April 14-Declaring
America Is IN peril. Secretary Of
the Interior Harold L Ickes de-
hyered slaShing attack on those
he called TitlerS unconscious
tools IN an address before a
meeting sponsored by the Jewish
National Workers Alliance
Ickes said Americans. some of
them men Of distinguished position
and Of good Will, sometimes inno-
Gently and sometimes deliberately.
have adopted the Nazi viewpoint
lie added.
An outstanding example j.
Col. Charles \. Lindbergh."
Ickes also named Cen Robert
2. Wood. head Of the America
First Committee. among those he
declared are serving Hitler's pur-
poses. and added
"The Bundists. the I'm KluN-
ers and the Communists have
take up the ideas and thu publ
cations OF the America First
Committee. and have distributed
them among their own follow
.eFs. We find the Lindberghs
and their pro-Nali ideas are
frequently praised nv the most
notorious reactiOnary NaZis.
Fascists and anti-Semites IN the
country
The secretary charged that the
Maj fellow travellers are organ-
ized and well-subsidized In this
country. and that their immedi-
etc and most pressing aim is the
same as rhat 0f HTtier@tO defeat
Britain. YuFoslavis and Greece by
hindeTlng American aid.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
Hull Denoun(eS
DiCtdtors, Asks
Latin Unity
BY LEE RASHALL
Irtl NsWs service star Correspondent

WASHINGTON. April "A Sec
rotary Of State Cordell Hull de-
nouncing the dictators Tor their
brutal disregard of international
morality. today urgently called
upon the p American republics TO
''rededicate heir'energic> 90 the
defense of their common frontiers
and the preservation OF their en-
dangered freedom.
II a formal message 20 tins
COUNTRIES sister nations. Hull pro
claimed as still the keystone OF
inter-Ameriean relations the
"sanctity Of the pledged word by
which they have bound themselves
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hazards Of daily widening Euro
pean aggression.
The republics Of the new Worid
TO-DAY observe Pan American Day.
I..-.A4.a.- ea1lial from Washington
on the north TO the tip Of Pata-
gonia on the south has scheduled
a hemisphere celebration. OF the
anniversary.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-14
NEW SIGNIFICANCE

In this 1871 Pan American Day
Hull declared he found new sig
nificance. He proposed that 1t be
made the occasion for all the
countries Of this hemisphere 10 re-
affirm their 'unSwcf-'r-tif44 fs 5--tieVe-
ton 10 the system OF ordered
freedom on which their nelghbor-
illness is founded a
Hull's appeal for constantly
stronger solidarity came al a
moment when this government :
relations with the Rome-Berlin
Axis were more strained than al
anv iuncture since the World war.
His words achieved timely i'm
portance. also. by being inter
iected in the midst of a challenge
bv Nazi Germany 10 this govern
rnenf's extension of its Monroe
Doctrine 10 embrace the Danish
colony of Greenland, a German
coveted pawn on the chessooard
of the Battle of the Atlantic.
NEW APPRECIATION
Noting the anniversary off the
founding of the Pan American
Union. Hull said in his statement:
These celebrations bring each
wear a renewed consciousness and
appreciation of the high concept
of international relations devel-
oped in the Americas under the
aegis of this great international
organization.
sIn these DAYS of brutal dis
regard of international morality
In some sections of the world,
Pan American Day acquires
new Significance and affords the
people of the Americas an OPP
portunity TO reaffirm their UNI
swerving devotion to those ideals
Of mutual respect and sanctity
OF the pledged word which con-
.stitute- the keystone of inter
American relations.
"On this memorable anniverr
sary, may the people OF the
United States Join with their
brothers In the other American
republics In rededicating their
thoughts and energies 10 the de-
tense and preservation of those
high principles of freedom. jus
tice and order under law, upon
which the independent nations
of the New World were founded"
NO WORD ON CHANGES
IN his message. Hull did not al
iude TO the marked changes which
other officials noted have tran
spired in the activation Of the Pan
American principle since the same
anniversary one year ago.
In the intervening u months,
administration and L a I in diplo-
officials remembered. Pan
America" had turned from a
theory to a practice. with impor-
tsnt economic advances and po-
litical overture made by this
government 10 its southward-lying
neighbors Big loans were con-
cluded. development of vast, I'M
topped South American resources
charted. and military and cultural
missions exchanged.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Funeral For Elias
AmStutz Thursday

Funeral services for Elias AM
stutz, "a, will be held at the Eben-
ezer Mennonite church west of town,
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr.. Amstutz, a retired farmer, died
at his residence on Mound street,
Tuesday afternoon after three weeks
of illness from heart trouble.
He was born in Allen county in
1867, the son of John and Elizabeth
(Badertscher) Amstutz.
He is survived by his wife, Dina
Augsburger Amstutz, eight children
and five brothers and sisters.
The children are Harry, Bluffton !;
Benjamin and Robert of Pandora !;
John of Norwalk; George, Beaver
dam; Mrs. Henry Balmer, Bluffton; !;
Rhoda and Eunice, both at home.
Brothers and sisters surviving are !:
Mrs. Samuel Bixel, Bluffton; Mrs.
Margaret Reardon, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida; Moses and Otto, Bluffton
and Joshua, Pandora.
Rev. A. c. Schultz, pastor of the
Ehenezer Mennonite church, will of
fciate at the services. Burial will
be in the church cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
MISSIONARY HOME
FROM CHINA TELLS
OF JAP IRON RULE.
S. Floyd Pannabecker United
With Family After Half
Year Separation
Very Difficult to Travel i'm
China Now; Military Per-
mits Required

Suspicion of all foreigners since
the executive order of President
Roosevelt in freezing japanese assets
in the United States, the Japanese
military in occupied China is sparing
no effort in checking on activity of
Americans in the region, according
to S. Floyd Pannabecker, former
Bluffton man, who sailed from China
the middle of September on the liner
President Cleveland.
Pannabecker, missionary at Kai
Chow, China, arrived here Friday to
join his family who left China six
months ago and now reside on South
Lawn avenue. Mrs. Pannabecker is
the daughter of Mrs. ]. H. Tschantz
of Kibler street.
Ordered Home
Panabecker together with his broth
err, DR.. Lloyd Pannabecker, of Glib
son City, H., and August Ewart of
Freeman, S. d., were ordered home
by the Mennonite board of foreign
missions when conditions in the Far
East became so disturbed as to threat
en- safety of missionaries in the war
zone.
New and more severe restrictions
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Farm Home Rdzed
In $4,000 Blaze

Five fire departments failed in
their attempt to save a brick dwell
ing on the Thomas Carr farm, four
miles north of Bluffton in Union
township, in a blaze that caused
$4,000 damage last Thursday morn
ing at $3.50 o'clock.
Firemen were unable to save the
house because of lack of available
water, and it was impossible to con-
troll the blaze with chemicals. De-
partments from Bluffton, Pandora,
Jenera, Mt. Cory and Rawson assist
ed in battling the fire.
At the height of the blaze, Mrs.
Harold Carr, who has been bedfast
several months, and who lives in a
nearby house on the Carr farm, was
moved in an ambulance to the Bluff
ton Community hospital.
Her home is only about so feet
from the one leveled by fire. Attic
suffering from shock, she is said to
be recovering at the hospital.
Chief Guy Corson, of the Bluffton
department, said the fire evidently
started in frame summer kitchen
and by the time firemen arrived il
had spread to the interior of the
brick home.
The family of Clarence Reiter, oc
cupants of the house, said there hac
been no fire in the stove of the
kitchen for several days, and coulc
not give any clues as to the prob
able cause of the blaze. Altho tn,
building was destroyed, much of th'
contents were saved.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Austrian Student Here Marvels
At Many Autos And Good Roads
Real Estate Deals

Clayton Bixel has purchased from
Edgar Chamberlain a building lot on
Cherry street. The lot is located be-
tween the Mumma garage and the
residence recently purchased by
Chamberlain from Mrs. Jean Murray.
Elmer Burkholder has purchased
the Agin farm of 60 acres in Van
Buren, township on the Lincoln high
way. He will occupy the place in
the near future, moving from his
present location on West Elm street.
The Wilson Stonehill farm of "a
acres in Van Buren township, Han
cock county, has been purchased by
Dow Pursley of Beaverdam. Pursley
will occupy the place October 20.
Harold Roush now on the farm will
move to New Stark. The deal was
made by H. w. Althaus of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Play To Be GiUen At
III. S. Sunday Night

Climaxing the days program of
the 25th anniversary celebration of
the Bluffton Methodist church will
be the presentation of "The Lost
Church" by the Thespian dramatic
society of Bluffton college in union
services to be held at the Bluffton
High school auditorium Sunday night
at 7:30 o'clock.
The play is being sponsored by
the Bluffton Ministerial association.
The cast:
A Man of the World, Mark Hou-
shouer; His Wife, Mary Alice Geig-
er; Their son, Robert Wagner; Their
little daughter, Lee Boyer; Sunday
School Teacher, Lucia Greiser; A
neighbor, Darwin Luginbuhl; Spirit
Of the Church, Betty Keeney; Spirit
of Ignorance, Eloise Whitmore;
Spirit of Social Injustice, Viola Am
stutz; Spirit of Sin, Holly Mosiman;
Spirit of Spiritual Darkness, Dorotha
Beckenbach; A poor woman, Mar
garet Olivet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Woman Unconscious Here Nearly
Two Weeks Is Moved To Chicago

Mr.. and Mrs. Houser whose home
is in Kenilworth, ILL.,, were driving
to their estate in Virginia when the
accident occurred.
Following the accident the injured
woman was removed to the Bluffton
hospital in an unconscious state from
which she failed to recover.
A Chicago brain specialist who
came here Friday night to examine
the woman advised her removal to a
hospital in that city. Accompanying
the ambulance to Chicago, Tuesday
was DR.. M. D. Soash, Bluffton physi-
clan, who with Mrs. Soash were en-
route to Minneapolis where they will
attend a medical convention this
week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
PARAGUAY LACKING
in IMPROVEMENTS
LIONS CLUB TOLD
Ernst Harder, 10, Bluffton Col
lege Freshman, Says Con-
ditions Backward
Capital City of ASCENSION Has
No Drainage System;
Few Autos

Paraguay as a land lacking in
paved roads, drainage systems and
having only so miles of railroad, was
described by Ernst Harder, 10, Bluff
ton college freshman of Frenheim,
Paraguay, who addressed the Lions
club at the Walnut Grill, Tuesday
night.
Harder, who has been in this
country for two years, is member
of one of the Mennonite settlements
in the Chaco in Paraguay consisting
of 19 villages and the surrounding
farm lands. He is securing his
education in this country in the
Mennonite institutions after which
he plans to go back to Paraguay to
teach in one of the Mennonite
villages.
He took his high school training
at Freeman Junior college in Free
man, South Dakota, and will remain
at Bluffton college for two years
after which he will transfer to
Bethel college in Newton, Kansas,
to complete his education.
Born i'm Russia
Harder was born and raised in a
German colony in Russia but was
forced to flee with his parents to
Germany where they lived until
1885 when his father was called to
a teaching position in the South
American Mennonite colony.
The country of Paraguay is very
backward and even the largest city
of ASCENSION has no drainage sys-
tenn of any kind. The streets are
very narrow and not well suited to
automobile traffic. There are only
SO miles of railroad track for use as
a public utility. There is some ad-
ditional track in the country belong
ing to and used exclusively by pri-
vate interests such as sugar re-
fineries and lumber companies.
American Capital
Even the country's leading port at
ASCENSION is owned by outside
capital in this case an American
firm. The company has a 80 year
lease on the port and has the
privilege of collecting all duties. Ter
years still remain in lease.
The Paraguayan army is very
poorly equipped and goes through
the various drills barefooted. Dur
ing the ParaguayBolivia war the
army of Paraguay was armed large
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Hundreds OF Mexicans Working In
Beet And Tomato Fields In Area
Here Only During Sugar Beet
Season from May Through
November Harvest
Very Few Speak English; Ar
rangements i'm Fields Ham
died by Interpreter

Transplanting the culture and Gus
toms of the region from which they
annually migrate near the Rio
Grande river in southern Texas, the
beet and tomato growing region
northwest of Bluffton is becoming
an employment center of increasing
Importance for several hundred
Mexicans.
For the most part the Mexicans
have been brought to the area by
beet sugar interests with factories
at Ottawa and Findlay. The work
ers remain here only during the beet
season which is from May through
November. First beets of the sea-
son in the Bluffton area will be
harvested this week, according to
growers reports.
Few SPEAK ENGLISH
Very few of the Mexicans speak
the English language but every
group of workers has an. interpreter
with whom arrangements can bt
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Harriet Criblez To
Speak At PTA Meet

Speaking on her travel experiences
in Europe, Miss Harriet Criblez, Ian
guage instructor at Bluffton High
school, will address the first session
of the Parent Teacher association to
be held at the high school auditor
ium next Tuesday night at 1880
o'clock.
Group singing will be in charge
of Miss Elizabeth Higley, high school
vocal music instructor and Rev.
Charles Armentrout, pastor of the
Presbyterian church, will lead in de-
votions.
Officers of the organization are:
President, Mrs. Edwin Amstutz; j;
vice-president, Gerhard Buhler;
treasurer, Robert Ewing; secretary,
Mrs. Adella s. Oyer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Orange TUp. Infant
SmOtherS To Death

Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon for Ronald Gerald
Kollars, 28-day-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerald Kollars, Orange town
hsip, who was found suffocated to
death early Friday morning in the
Kollars residence near Bluffton.
The child was in the parents bed
and evidently had been smothered
by the bed clothing, Dr.. Harold O..
Crosby, Hancock county coroner, re-
ported.
The mother is the former Miss
Inez Jordan, daughter of Calvin
Jordan of Orange township.
Funeral services were held in the
Kollars' home with Rev. H. Dale
Mitchell, of the Lima Church of the
Nazarene, officiating. Burial was in
Salem cemetery near Westminster.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09

Mrs. Vera Houser, 48, wife of
Chicago mail order house executive,
who has been Unconscious in Bluff
ton hospital following an automobile
accident nearly two weeks ago was
removed in an ambulance to Chi
cago hospital, Tuesday.
The accident occurred on the Lin
coin highway, September 27 when a
rear tire blew out and threw the
woman from the car to the pave
ment fracturing her skull.
Her husband, Theodore Houser,
who was driving at the time was un-
injured. Houser is vice president of
Sears Roebuck & Company of Chi
cago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Ruth Crawford
Weds Elmer Fett, Jr.

In a quiet ceremony at the home
of the officiating pastor, Mary Ruth
Crawford, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Crawford, last Sunday morning
was wed to Elmer Fett, Jr, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Fett, by Rev.
L. c. Davis, Of Van Vert, former
pastor of the bride.
+, Parents of the bride and groom
are well known Orange township
residents.
Attending the couple at the we'd
ding ceremony were Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Schick, friends of the con-
tracing parties, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis Crawford, sister-in-law and
brother of the bride.
For the wedding, the bride wore
a street length dress of brown
trimmed in biege, with corsage of
red roses and bronze pom poms.
Her only adornment was a gold
necklace, a gift of the groom
Following the wedding, recep-
ton was held for immediate families
at the home of the brides parents.
For the reception the home was dec
Grated with blue delphiniums and
white asters.
After the reception, the couple
left for trip thru the Smoky
Mountains. They will be at home
after their return at 5144 Montgom-
cry avenue, Norwood, Ohio. The
groom is an Inspector for the army
in the Wright Aeronautical Corp. at
Cincinnati.
Both the bride and groom are
graduates of Bluffton High school
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
HOMECOMING WILL
BE CELEBRATED AT
METHODIST CHURCH
Ail-day Services Sunday to
Commemorate 25th Anni-
versary of Dedication
Former Pastors and Church
Dignitaries to Participate
In Program

Celebrating the 25th anniversary
of the dedication of the Bluffton
Methodist church, all-day homecom-
ing services will be held at the
church Sunday.
Present at the sessions will be
former pastors and dignitaries of
the Methodist church. DR.. r. O.
Mcclure, superintendent of Lima'dis-
trict Methodist churches, will ad-
dress the session Sunday morning at
10 o'clock, it is announced by Rev.
j. A. Weed, pastor.
Former Pastors
Also participating in the morning
meeting will be two former pastors
of the church, Rev. E. S. Keller,
Columbus, who served the congrega-
tion from 1902 to 1905 and Rev. j.
II. Butler, Lakeside, who was pastor
here from 1910 to 1913. Other min
listers who formerly were in charge
of the local church are expected for
the afternoon sessions.
A cafeteria lunch will be served
at noon in the church basement with
service and coffee to be provided by
the church. Families of the church
will bring baskets, it was announced
by the luncheon committee of which
Mrs. Forrest Harmon is chairman.
Homecoming Program
A special homecoming program
will be given in the auditorium in
the afternoon starting at 1:30
o'clock. At this meeting reminis-
cences and former activities of the
church will b presented. Former
pastors and members and visiting
ministers will participate in this
session.
The days program will be climax
ed With q union Service at the Bluff
ton high school auditorium in the
evening at 7:30 o'clock. The
Thespian dramatic society of Bluff
ton college will present "The Lost
Church, a religious drama under
the direction of Prof. P. w.
Stauffer of the college. The offer
ing from this service will go to the
community council of religious edu-
cation. The public is invited.
Dedicated 1916
The present church building was
dedicated on October s, 1916. 1t
will be the 9th anniversary for the
former church built at the present
site and approximately the 95th an
niversary for the original Methodist
church, which still stands on Thur
man street.
General committee in charge of
arrangements is: Forrest Steinman,
chairman; Mrs. L. F. Baumgartner,
n. F. Steiner, E. L. Diller, A. j. B.
Longsdorf and Rev. Weed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
EInaa Schiferly And
James EIUin Are We'd

A quiet ceremony at the home of
the bride united in marriage Miss
Elma M. Schifferly and James Elvin,
Wednesday morning.
The Rev. w. H. Lahr of Ada,
friend and former pastor Of the
brides family officiated at the we'd
ding. Only members of the imme-
diate family were present.
After a wedding breakfast the
couple left for motor trip through
Wisconsin and Michigan. On their
return they will reside at 108 Pop
lar street
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
TlUO From District
Drafted This Week

Two Bluffton area young men are
among the IT from Allen County
Draft Board No. notified to report
for induction into army service
Thursday of this week.
Those notified to leave for Toledo
Thursday are Olan Wayne Herr,
Route 2, Button; and Herbert Mo-
ser, Route 2, Columbus Grove.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Hunting Pictures To
Be ShOUn TUesday

Motion pictures on hunting will be
shown at a meeting of the Bluffton
Community Sportsmen's club in the
club house at p. m. next Tuesday.
Plans for fall activities of the
organization also will be outlined at
the session.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
new PAY SCALE IN
EFFECT AT LIGHT
and WATER PLANT.
Council Authorizes Raises Pro-
posed by Board of Public
Affairs
Council Talks Proposal for Cut
In Present Electric Cur
rent Rates

Proposal of raise in pay for en-
ployees at Bluffton's municipal cleo
trio light and water plant, proposed
by the Board of Public Affairs was
approved by the town council on the
third reading of the ordinance.
Approval of the council makes the
pay scale effective at the plant, with
the present rates retroactive to Sep
tember /.
The new pay scale, which met op-
position in the council when present
ed for its first reading was passed by
unanimous vote of four of the six
conneil semers present at the meet
ing.
Vote in Council
Voting for the measure were Coun-
cilmen Triplett, Patterson, Bader-
fischer and Basinger. Hauenstein and
Bixel were absent.
Passing of the ordinance making
effective the raise in pay of all water
work employees brought up again the
matter of a cut in electric current
rates here.
The council reaffirmed its position
that the present rate structure should
be revised with general lowering Of
rates. The present rate scale, es-
pecially to large consumers is in
equitable, it was declared. Savings
in operations at the plant since in
stallation of the turbine should make
such step possible, it was said.
New Schedule
The new schedule of pay now in eff
feet in the various departments fol-
lows:
Plant superintendent, John Swisher,
SITS, formerly $165.
Assistant superintendent, Hiram
Wenger, $170, formerly $165.
First, second and third engineers,
Wade Finton, Noah Zuercher and
Frederick Ludwig, each $140; former
ly $125.
Superintendent outside mainten-
ance, Forrest Mumma, $135; formerly
S125.
Clerk of Board, Edgar Hauenstein,
SIS; formerly $50.
The schedule provides for an ad-
vance in hourly rates paid linemen
from 55 cents to 6212 cents. Other
labor will 571ac instead of so cents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-09
Foundation Is Started
For A. c. & Y. FIdshers

Concrete box foundation forms for
the installation of new flashers at
the grade crossing of the A. G. & Y.
railroad and the Dixie highway was
poured the first of the week. install
lation of the flashers will likely be
completed in the near future, it was
stated.