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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-24
Christmas Programs

Rockport Presbyterian-Wed., 500.
Bluffton Presbyterian-Thurs., 500.
Methodist-Thursday, 7:30.
Missionary-Thursday, 7:30.
Ebenezer Mennonite-Thurs., 7:30.
st. Johns Reformed-Thurs., 7:30.
Emmanuel Reformed-Friday, 1880
First Mennonite-Friday, 7:30.
Defenseless Mennonite-Friday, 7:30.
The Lutheran and the Church of
Christ held their Christmas programs
last Sunday.
of Christmas mail and merchants re-
porting that the largest industrial
pay rolls in Bluffton's history were
amply reflected in the greatest vol
ume of business since the late twen-
ties.
Merchants here have had a problem
this year to keep their shelves amply
stocked. Many items were completely
unavailable while others were avail
able only in limited quantities. Gus
tomers generally have made larger
purchases than in former years, it
was reported.
Wartime Xmas
A reminder that this is the second
wartime Christmas is seen in the uni
forms throughout the holiday crowds.
Notwithstanding the somber shad-
ow of war, Bluffton will make merry
this Christmas, resolutely putting
aside for the time the grave problem
facing the nation.
Majority of the holiday programs
will be presented in Bluffton churches
on Christmas eve and Christmas
night. Besides these Yuletide carols
are being sung by groups from
schools and churches thruout the town
and countryside.
For the past week the postoffice
has been the busiest place in Bluff
ton, with the pace reaching its max
imum the first of the week.
There was no municipal basket dis
tribution this year, reflection OF the
increased prosperity of the Blufftor
district. 1t is reported, however, that
private organizations may distribute
a limited number of baskets.
School Vacation
Bluffton High and Grade schoo
students will start their Christmas
holiday recess on Thursday afternoon
after school. They will return te
their classes on Monday morning
January A.
Bmffton college will have Longer
vacation closing this Wednesday al
ternoon with classes convening OF
Tuesday, January 5.
No mail will be delivered on Christ
mas day but letters mailed at tn
postoffice vii lbe dispatched by skel
eton crew kept for that purpose
Packages will be delivered unit
noon.
Mailing of packages to soldiers ma
been completed. Numerous resident
reported. however, that there wa
still some last minute shopping to DC
In anticipation of this the stores ar
remaining open at night until Christ
mas.
Students from out of town college
have been streaming into town an
can be seen on the streets re-new1n
acquaintances and exchanging expel
fences.
With restrictions on tires and gas
oline it is likely that there will 3
little travelling this year with emph;
sis to be made on family gathering
within the community.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-24
Real Estate Deals

Clarence Jones has purchased the
Bruce Harper farm two miles north
east of Bluffton on the Dixie high
way and expects to occupy the place
this spring. Jones now lives on the
Kid Kempf farm in Union township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-24
Advances In Rank

Kenneth Gable, with the United
States Coast Guard at Bay City,
Michigan, has been advanced in rank
to Second Class seaman. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Gable of
North Jackson street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-24

1911, no snow; 1912, no snow; 1913,
trace of snow; 1914, seven inches;
1915, three inches; 1916, II inches;
1917, seven inches; 1918, trace OF
snow; 1919, one inch; 1920, no snow;
1921, no snow; 1922, trace of snow
1923, no snow; 1924, five inches.
1925, one inch; 1926, three inches
1927, no snow; 1928, one inch; 1929
FIVE inches; 1880, no snow; 1881, M
snow; 1882, no snow; 1893, three inch
es; 1885, eight inches; 1886, no snow
1887, no snow; 1888, no snow; 1899
trace of snow; 1910, no snow; 1941
no snow.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-24
SLIGHT PROSPECT
is Seen HERE FOR
WHITE CHRISTMAS
Rain and Warmer Weather Fol-
low Zero Wave and Heavy
Snowfall
Seventeen White, Ia Green
Christmases Here in Last
Thirty-One Years

Warmer weather followed by rain
Tuesday sabotaged Bluffton's pros
poets for a white Christmas after
this district was swept by sub-zero
wave and heavy snowfall, Sunday.
Hopes for a white Christmas-the
first in seven years-went glimmer-
ing when rising temperatures Mon
day afternoon were followed by a
drizzling rain Tuesday morning
which coated sidewalks with a film
of ice and made highway traffic haz-
ardous.
Last year Bluffton had unseason-
ably warm weather during the entire
month of December with the result
that the town had its tenth green
Christmas in the last Is years.
With the holiday drawing closer
children and adults alike were com.
menting on the general anticipation
of White Christmas which adds SC
| much to the Yuletide setting.
II White; IA Green Xmases
In the last 81 years Bluffton has
had II white and IA green Christmas
es, the records reveal. But in the
last Is years period, beginning will
1928, there has been snow for onl.
four holidays and on two of those oc
casions it was quite scant.
The heaviest snow in the 21 yea
period occurred in 1916 when heav.
blizzard blanketed the ground with l:
inches of snow. In 1895 the Blufftol
district was covered with eight inches
of snow.
Last year Bluffton experienced ;
warm Christmas with sunshine am
balmy weather disappointing tn
youngsters who planned to go skatin,
with their new ice skates. The al
time warm record was in 1882 whel
the thermometer recorded a mark o
So.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Teacher Quits;
Joins Red Gross
Margaret Ann Ayers
Gets Important Post

Margaret Ann Ayers, chair
man of the speech department at
Mount Clemens High school for
the past three years, today re-
signed her position to become as
sistant director of Junior Red
Gross activities in the midwest.
Miss Ayers said her principal
duties will involve addressing
high school students throughout
the midwest after she COM
pletes q two months training
course to start Aug. 1 in st.
Louis.
Regarded as an outstanding
teacher she was particularly
well known for her course in
personality which has been
copied by other schools in the
state.
She frequently addressed SER
vice clubs and women's organi-
cations and often supplied pull
pits in Detroit churches.
Prior to teaching at the. high
school, Miss Ayers was on the
staff at Macomb school following
her graduation from University
of Michigan. Her home is in De-
trOit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Teacher Dies
in Richmond
Illness Fotol
to Morion Howkins

Funeral services for Miss Mar
ian Elizabeth Hawkins, known
to hundreds of Armada and Mar
inc City pupils whom she had
taught during her IL year teach
ing career, will be held Tuesday
afternoon from the family resi-
dence, at 2 o'clock.
Miss Hawkins, native of
Richmond, was the daughter of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Massley
Hawkins, of Richmond, and lived
at 4873 Ridge street in that viii
lage.
Ill for a protracted period Miss
Hawkins had not been able to
teach during the past year or
more. She was 38 years old at
the time of her death Sunday
forming.
The deceased teacher is sur
vived by one sister, Edith Haw-
kins, with 'yhom she made her
home, by three brothers, Cliff
ford CT Armada, Harold of De-
troit and Howard, also of the
Richmond Ridge street address.
The Rev. William Pryor of the
Richmond Methodist church will
conduct final services with bur-
ial at Richmond cemetery.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Gas Tax Nets $53,012
For Road Commission

Checks totaling $53,O12.53, in
Guiding second quarter weight
tax returns and first half gaso-
line tax payments, will be for
warded later this week to the
Macomb County Road Commits
sion by Auditor General Vernon
j. Brown, Brown said in Lam
sing today.
The gas tax apportionment
for the county totals $27,663.37:
the weight tax, $25,349.16. The
weight tax is less than half
paid the county for the same pc
riod last year and reflects the
stoppage of automobile produc-
ton. The gas tax is a fixed
amount. '
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Mrs. J. Wilson
Is Dead al II
Funeral Services
Set for Thursday

RICHMOND - Mrs. James
Wilson, ~, died Sunday at the
home of a sister. Mrs. Minnie
Stow, in Detroit where she was
a visitor.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at 2 p. m. from the
Bauer Funeral Home here with
Rev. William Pryor. of Rich
mond Methodist church, offic-
ating. Burial will be in Rich
mond cemetery.
Surviving are daughter.
Mrs. Andrew Jewell, at home;
two sons, Russell, at home, and
Donald, in the u. S. Army Air
Corps; four sisters and four bro
theirs, including Charles Gloss.
of Memphis.
Her husband died . year ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Aleutians
Continued from Page One

fog and now we are boring
along ten feet off the water
bound toward our base many
hundred of miles away some
where in the Aleutians.
Thus another bombing raid
OF. Kiska comes to as successful
a conclusion as any raid can
hope for in this worlds worst
flying weather.
Backin the fortress lean body
the gunners are slowing their
guns and making slurring re-
marks about the Jap and his
fighter plane. The major, squad
ron leader and captain of this
plane, has given the wheel to the
second pilot with a word of
caution to keep her on the pin"
and out of those grey seas rip
ping past below. Hitting the wa
ter at this speed would be like
flying into stone wall.
The bombardier has covered
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
.Jungle-Wi
Yanks, Japs
MakeCOntact

GENERAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, A II straiia,
July 81 - R - Jungle-wise
Allied patrols clashed with the
japanese during the weekend
on the Papuan Peninsula of
New Guinea in the first land ac-
ton of that new invasion thea
ter as Allied planes continued
to blast enemy bases there and
on other occupied islands north
of Australia.
The Japanese struck back
with a three-plane raid upon
Darwin last night, their second
raid in as many nights. They
bombed Townsville, Australia S
capital of the north" on the
northeast coast, Saturday night
in their deepest penetration
yet of this country. None of the
enemy attacks caused any SER
ious damage, a communique
coid
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Mrs. A. weis
Dies Suddenly
Funeral Set
for Tuesdoy

Mrs. Annie Eliza Weis, "a, a
Mount Clemens resident for So
years, died suddenly at $40 pm.
Saturday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Sydney Tinker,
l16 Floral avenue.
Mrs. Weis was born Sept. /,
1857 in Dunwich, Ont, the
daughter of the late James and
Debarra Montieth. She married
Louis Taylor July 16, 1885 and
he died Nov. 4, 1895.
Her second husband, Sebastian
Weis died Jan. Is, 1893 and she
has since made her home with
her daughter.
Mrs. Weis was a faithful men,
Der of First Methodist church
and of WSCS Group No. / of the
church, an organization sh e
as leader. She like was leader
of In His Name iircle of Kings
Daughters for the same length
of time.
Besides Mrs. Tinker, seven
grandchildren survive. They are:
Mrs. Henry Clancy and Myrtle
and Ethel Taylor, all of Manhas-
sat, L. l., and Frederick, Robert,
Frances and Priscilla Tinker, all
of Mount Clemens.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 2 pm. from the Tink-
Ter home with DR.. Dunning Idle,
pastor of First Methodist church,
officiating. Burial will be in
Clinton Grove Cemetery under
the direction of Duncan B. Hub
hard
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
PrOxy-Baby
Case Comes
Up Today

A petition asking that Alice
Juanita Horvath, 10, of Cleve-
land, share the custody of the
child she bore by proxy with her
sisters husband. Carmel Hoge,
of Warren township, the father
was to be heard at 2 p. m. to-
day by Circuit Judge James E.
Spier.
The baby, smiling blue-eyed
Patricia Hoge, three years old,
will live with Mrs. Horvath for
the six months period starting
Aug. l if the court approves.
During the second six months
Hoge would have the baby, ac-
cording to the agreement reach
ed by counsel.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Bakery Till
Looted of $12

City police today sought n
negro as the man who fled with
SIP in cash taken from the cash
register in the Simkovitz Bake
ry, So South Gratiot, after Joe
Simkovitz, the proprietor, tus-
sled with him in vain.
The man, who ent ere d
through side window, took
the cash and was leaving when
Simkovitz tried to stop him.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
r AF
Continued from Page One


light alerts were sounded in the
capital.
The German bombers, for the
most part operating singly, ma
chine gunned streets and houses
and dropped bombs on western
England, the south, the midlands,
the east coast, and towns and viii
lagos of East Anglia.
Casualties (their number not
disclosed) mounted with late re-
ports of persons trapped in the
wreckage of their homes or dug
out by sweating res :ue crews.
ATTACKED S TIMES
Hamburg had been attacked
five times previously this year
the last occasion being the night
of May 3.
Last nights raid carried to a
climax a weekend of intense aer-
ial activity, which was marked
by the first appearance of United
States Army fighter pilots in &C
ton over the European CONT
nent.
A special communique issued
by Mai. Gen Carl Spaatz, COM
mander of u S Army Air Forces
in the European theater, disclos-
ed that seven American flyers
accompanied Raj fighter squad
rons in series of daylight
sweeps over northern France
yesterday, during which nine of
Germany's Wanted new Focke-
.Wulfe 100 fighters were shot out
of the skies.
The Allies lost three planes,
including one of those piloted by
the Americans.
CRACK POLISH PILOTS
Five of the German planes
were reported shot down by a
crack Polish squadron which has
been flying for some time with
the Raj. The Americans were
not credited officially with
shooting down any of the Nazis.
Sraatz's communique was the
second on U. S. Air Force oper-
atoms in Europe. The first dis
closed that U. S. Army bomber
pilots had made their debut in
action in this theater by parti-
cipating in raids on German-oc-
cupied territory July 4.
While the Allied fighters were
busy over occupied territory,
single British bombers made
daylight attacks on industries in
the Ruhr yesterday and report
ed that great fires which Raj
raiders had started in Duisburg
the night before still were rag
ing.
More than so two-ton bombs,
each capable of wiping out a
whole block, were unloaded on
Duisburg in the Saturday night
attack-the third in five nights
directed against that important
shipping and rail center at the
junction of the Rhine and Ruhr
rivers. Many smaller bombs and
incendiaries also were loosed
over the city.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
F BI
CONTINUED from Page ~

those of German aliens and the
others were homes of Italian
aliens. Evidence uncovered was
turned over to District Attorney
j. c. Lehr.
Articles seized included 1871
cameras, 106 radio receivers, 70
guns, 1885 rounds of ammuni-
ton, four swords and a large
assortment of knives and cleav-
ers.
A similar series of lightning
raids was made in Florida. Three
Germans and two Italians, Of
nearly 200 whose homes were
searched in the Miami area, were
held for further questioning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Casualty
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
year old son, Charles Edward,
who lives at Selfridge Homes on
Joy boulevard. Also surviving
are one sister, Mrs. Emma Smith
and three brothers, Charles,
John and Jesse, all of Wheeling.
The terse War Department
communication said merely that
Sergt. Weisner's death occurred
July 16. Details of the action
which cost his life were not in
cluded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Australia
Continued from Page One

against the Japanese Judgments
in the Aleutian Islands and the
long-standing possibility of
japanese move from Burma
against India or from Manchu-
kuo against Russia, the Austria
liam theater now is reassuming
a more critical aspect.
WARM FORWARD
Jungle warriors of the Allies,
evidently patrols from the Port
Moresby outpost on New GUM
cas- south Cast, wormed their
way across most of the formid-
able Papuan peninsula and over
the weekend skirmished with
japanese at Awala, about Is
miles inland from Buna.
A small japanese invasion
force had been landed under air
attack near Buna last Wednes-
day. General MacArthur's head
quarters also reported a minor
clash between Allied outpost
forces and Japanese recently at
Mubo, near Salamaua, $50 miles
northwest of Buna, where so of
the enemy died in a patrol at
tack on the Allied-held village.
This clash followed upon an
Allied commando sWoop early
this month on Salamaua in
which a like number of the foe
were killed.
The Allied air force continued
to pound Japanese troops which
got ashore in the Buna area, at
Coma Mission, and also raided
kieta, on Bougainville island, in
the Solomons, and Buka and So
hama islands, in the Buka passage
to the north.
RAID DARWIN
Japanese airmen, over the
weekend, raided Darwin, Aus
tralia, on Saturday and Sunday
nights, and made their most
southerly penetration thus far
with Saturday night raid on
Townsville, on Australia's north
east coast. None of the enemy as
saults caused any serious dam
age, it was said officially.
Meanwhile the Australian gov
eminent voiced belief that enc
my agents, possibly landed from
submarines in the manner of an
ill-starred German sabotage eff
fort against the United States,
were operating in Australia,
tipping the Japanese on secret
movements.
The disobedience plan of In
dia's foremost nationalist leader
and exponent of immediate in
dependence from Britain, Gand-
hi, inspired declaration yester-
day by Sir Stafford Cripps, Bril-
fish Lord Privy Seal and Oft
times spokesman for Prime Min
lister Churchill, that the United
Nations could not permit inter-
ference with the war effort.
I'VE cannot allow the actions
OF a visionary, however distin-
guisned in the fight for freedom
in the past. to thwart the United
Nations drive for victory in the
east" Grips said in a broadcast
especially directed to the United
States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Baiher-in-ihe-hude
Faces Investigation

A Robertson street man found
basking sans clothes on the
banks of the Clinton late Sat-
urday morning was to appear
at the police station this after
noon for questioning.
The man, an employe of a
local hotel, told city police that
he came to the United States
four years ago from Berlin and
that he has taken out first cit
izenship papers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27

that delicately deadly tool of his
craft, the bombsight, and how
he's loafing in his little chair
splitting his attention between a
chocolate bar and canteen of
water.
The radio operator Is asking
about the weather ahead-as If
he didn't know. Beside me in the
glass nose section the blond
young navigator has put aside
his machinegun and is busy with
his charts, plotting us home
along as blind and deadly
course as any plane has flown.
BOX SCORE
am Numbered up beside him
between the drift indicator and
the two-by-four chart table,
scribbling this sub-sectional box
score and having time now to
speculate on the odd ways of a
war that brought both us and the
Japs here to dispute a black and
useless rock that nobody but the
seals wants.
This one attack of many at
tacks began to take from an hour
and forty-five minutes ago when
the major shoveled on the coal
and heaved the big bomber up
out of what had until then
passed for visibility We roared
into the soup in steady grind
ing climb and for seven endless
minutes we bored through
thick gray nothing with no top
and no bottom. Then we broke
through into another world of
unearthly beauty.
Below on either side and be-
hind lay the billowy top of the
fog, SO binding white in the sun
that 1T burned your eyes. Poking
through the soup under the left
wing-in justification of the
navigator's mysterious juju-lay
one black flank of the peak the
charts call semisopochnoi. Long
ago the bombers gave it up as an
impossibility and simply call
it that island"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
HiQh Twelve Members
View Pearl HarboI Film

Motion pictures of the Jap at
tack on Pearl Harbor and the
sinking Of the Normandie were
shown High Twelve Club men,
bers this noon by Joseph Ernst,
Richmond automobile dealer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27

General MacArthur's head
quarters said the land skirmish-
ing on the Papuan peninsula,
described as light, occurred at
Awala, about 25 miles inland
from Buna, point on the coast
near where the Japanese landed
last Wednesday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27
Crashes
Continued from Page u

CONTINUED from rage ID
when Mitchell Lonchard, 20, De-
troit, lost control of his car Sun
day at $40 am. on Gratiot near
Hall. She was treated for cuts
about the face at st. Joseph's.
Tracy Stevens was hurt at
3:23 am. Sunday when her car
and an other driven by William
Arpan, 40, Algonac, crashed on
Jefferson at Joy Boulevard. Miss
Stevens was treated at Base hos
pital, Selfridge Field.
The Assano and Vivovi girls
likewise were treated at Base
Hospital after the car in which
they were riding with Rinzo As
sano, 20, of Detroit, became in
volved in a crash Sunday at $50
am. at the same inters ,ction.
Hunter lost control of his car
on Gratiot near Joy at $50 pm.
Saturday. He was treated at st.
Joseph's hospital and released.
AS late as 1900, there were
10000 cannon in use for firing
at clouds to prevent hail from
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27

Parrots have three eyelids, the
third being transparent and
stretching across the eye from
side to side.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-27

against the Japanese Judgments
in the Aleutian Islands and the
long-standing possibility of
Japanese move from Burma
against India or from Manchu-
kuo against Russia, the Austria
liam theater now is reassuming
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-06
FoI!ies Lose WAAC
As Army Steps In

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec s.
Manager Pete de Cen2ie OF
the Casino Follies burlesque thea
ter needs a new strip tease star
today to rcullce the best enter
taincr in the SnC9."
He lost his best box office at
traction when officials at the Fort
DeS MOineS WAAC training center
took Miss Kathryn Gregory, %.
Fort Worth, Texas, basic auxiliary
absent without leave, back to the
fCrt.
For five nights, Miss Gregory
billed as Amber d GeorG, the exotic
glamour girl from Hollywood" en-
tertained casino patrons in a re-
pertoire of dances, including a
Samoan love dance which re-
vealed as much Of her as city or
dinances permit.
De Cen2ie said he hired the pret-
ty, brown haired girl without
knowing she was a WAAC. She
had a GOOD figure, was five feet,
three inches tall, and weighed ia
pounds
Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-06
u. s. Production
Tops Whole Axis

NEW YORK, Dec. 5-tUP) -
American industry has reached a
volume of combat ornaments pro-
duction as great as that of all the
Axis powers put together but it
was spurred on todaH by President
Roosevelt to greater and greater
achievements.
Nh Roosevelt'S message was read
1t the closing dinner OF the wal
congress of American industry,
sponsored by the National ASsoci-
alton of Manufacturers last night,
lust before Donald M. Nelson.
chairman OF the war production
toard. informed the mduStrialiStS
that the United States alone is on
a production parity with the AXIS