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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Two Charged In
Robbery

An aftermath of the shooting early
Sunday at Kalida in which Richard
Smith, 81, Kalida, was wounded SER
iously, came last week when soldier
filed robbery affidavits against Mr..
and Mrs. Wilbur S. Ehrnsberger of
Route 6, Lima
Marshall Felke fired five shots
at car occupied by three Toledo
residents. One of the shots struck
Smith who was standing a block
distant. He is recovering in a Lima
hospital.
The Ehrnsbergers pleaded not
guilty before Justice Oscar J. Schier-
loch Of Ottawa and were sent to jail
in default of $4,000 bond each pend
ing grand jury action.
The soldier, Pvt. Carl Fl. Parisola,
Lake Linden, Mich, told Sheriff
Potts that he had paid Ehrnsberger
81 to drive him from Lima to ka-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
ArmOrsviIIe

Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Hilty and dau-
ghter, Mrs. Fern Powell of Colfax,
Washington; Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Hilty
and Mrs. Ina Jean Ewing were Mon
day dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
O. Hilty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Purl Hartman called
at the O. P. Hartman home, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery,
daughter Sue, son Chas. Wilson and
Miss Marjorie Ream were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Ber-
ger and family of near Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. p. Hartman called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Nile Murray and
family, Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Moore and
family spent the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. w. |. Moore and Raymond
Tuttle. Sunday dinner guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hall and family
of Carey, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Dye
of near Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. P. Hartman called
at the Henry Grismore home, Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Hilty and dau-
ghter Rosann, Miss June Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Young and son, Mr..
and Mrs. Olen Fridley of Dunkirk
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Ewing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. |. Moore called at
the c E. Klingler home, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nash and daughters
Miss Alice Klingler, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Sherick and family were Sun
day dinner guests at the Ivan Irwin
home. Afternoon callers were Mr..
and Mrs. C. E. Klingler.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
PUTNAM COUNTY
New Attendance Rec
ord At Fair

Saturday brought to a close the
87th annual Putnam county fair with
Thursdays crowd reaching about
27,000 with the gate receipts setting
new record for the 87-year-old
fair. The receipts from the gates
and grandstand climbed to $1,000.
Rain fell Friday morning and a
10-minute shower further dampened
activities in the afternoon but did
not necessitate the postponement of
any fair activities. Clearing skies
later in the afternoon gave bright
finish to the fair.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Union Organizers Held
On Gun Charge

The convictions of Charles Adams
and Walter A Duda, Detroit union
organizers, on charges of carrying
concealed weapons, were upheld last
week by the State Supreme Court.
The two men, with Sidney Hurst,
also of Detroit, were given three
year penitentiary terms in Findlay
following their arrest by the state
highway patrol in October, 1941.
Hurst's conviction later was reversed
by the court of appeals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Banging Shells Warn
OF Fire

Aroused by the noise of explod-
ing shotgun shells. Ted Hatcher
aroused himself from a sound sleep
at z a. m. Wednesday and hurriedly
called the Kenton fire department to
his home.
Damage from the fire that started
in trash and paper in the basement
near the furnace was estimated by
Fire Chief Ralph Jones at SIS.
The '6re alarm" that aroused
Hatcher was simply shotgun shells
in his hunting coat, hung in the
basement above the trash pile, ex-
ploding from the heat
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Second Sister In
WAAC

Miss Margaret R. Killen, of Co.
lumbus, has been sworn in for serv-
ice in the Women's Army Auxiliary
corps. Miss Killen is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Killen of Co
lumbus Grove, and the sister of Miss
Veda Killen, of Columbus Grove
who was sworn into service Sept. II
and who is reserve waiting call to
active service.
Miss Killen is a graduate of Co.
lumbus Grove high school and at
tended Ohio State university. She
was formerly employed in Lima,
and has been recently employed in
the office of Curtiss-Wright corpor-
alton, Columbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Poultry Flock Increase
Asked

Hancock county poultrymen are
being asked to increase their fall
and winter chicken production to
help produce an extra 20O,OO0,O00
chickens to meet a threatened meat
shortage.
According to County Agricultural
Agent Forest G. Hall reports from
the U. S. department of agriculture
indicate that there will be shortage
of three billion pounds of meat in
1913.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Indicted On Narcotic
Counts

Two of the men arrested in Lima
and another who was taken in Ken
ton last spring have been indicted
by a federal grand jury at Toledo
on charges of illegal possession of
marijuana.
They were George V. Zane, James
w. Vance and Earl Berman, all of
Kenton. Zane is named on IA counts
in three indictments and Vance on
six counts in two indictments.
In addition, the federal grand jury
indicted DR.. Elmer F. Bursn, so
year-old physician residing near For
est for illegal issuance of narcotics
prescriptions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Ada May Buy
WaterWOrks

Ada council last week placed in
the hands of a committee of five
men, headed by DR.. w. E. Binkley,
in investigation into the desirability
of purchasing the Ada waterworks
system from the Ohio Power Co.
for $4,000.
The question was brought to a
head this week when Attorney Fost-
er E. King, formerly an opponent
to municipal purchase of the water
works, submitted petitions bearing
nearly $50 signatures asking council
to buy the waterworks at the new
low figure of $4,000.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
HARDIN COUNTY
Wrecking Jail Costly
Business

Glenn Greer, of Newark, learned
that it doesn't pay to destroy prop
erty in the McGuffey jail. Mayor
William Paugh of McGuffey found
Geer guilty of malicious destruction
of property and fined him S25 and
costs and sentenced him to 80 days
in the Hardin county jail.
Geer had been arrested originally
for disorderly conduct.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Ignores IL Police
Tickets

A SIS bond was forfeited by Ray
V. Miller of Lima Friday morning
in Municipal court where he was to
have appeared to tell why IL traffic
violation tickets had been ignored.
Judge M. B. jenkins said officers
finally kept a continuous vigil over
Miller's car waiting for him to show
up and explain why he had disre-
garded a summons. He had been
charged with failure to pay a traf-
fc ticket.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Deputy Carder Turns
COWhand

Deputy Sheriff John Carder now
can qualify for his "boots and spurs
as a real ''cowhand"
Receiving a call from Paul Fetter
Route 2, Lima, east on Route lit
Deputy Carder and Fetter appre.
hended stray bovine which was
strolling along the highway Wednes-
day night and placed the critter ir
Fetter's barn, pending arrival of q
nearby farmer who owned her.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Bowman New Court
Reporter

A journal entry has been filed by
Judge Neal Lora naming Harold j.
Bowman as official court reporter
after succeeding Walter Scott, who
resigned October l, after 90 years
and six months service. Bowman
was assistant to Scott for a num-
ber of years.
The court authorized placing of
Bowman on the payroll of Allen
county for $4,000 yearly, the amount
allowed by law, and the privilege to
charge II cents per 100 words for
making of transcripts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
ALLEN COUNTY
Police Nab StealerS
OF Scrap

Police jailed four Lima men last
week without charges, accusing them
of collecting scrap metal and rubber
which had been piled along curbs
during a citywide salvage drive.
Officers said the quartet repre-
scented themselves as agents of a
welfare organization and gathered
about 500 pounds of scrap metal on
a trailer. They chose only the more
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
CIO Union Loses
Election

The CIO United Auto Workers
lost by four votes a bargaining
agency election held Tuesday at the
Steiner Brothers division of the Len
OK Furnace Co. in Lima, the Ma
tional Labor Relations board report
ed at Cleveland Thursday.
Employees voted 92 to 88 to align
themselves with the Steiner Employees
association, an independent union.
Six ballots were blank.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
HANCOCK COUNTY
Tax Delinquency
Decreased

The general property tax collection
just completed in Hancock county
brought $377,910.34 into the county
treasury and resulted in reducing
the amount of accumulated delin-
quency by s20,110.63. These figures
are shown in the September tax set
tlement completed this week in the
office of County Auditor Frank H.
Huffman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

1886, by Lavon L. Stickney against
George E. Stickney, was dismissed
Wednesday, at cost of the plaintiff
The suit filed six years ago
charged gross neglect but the court
held that since plaintiff had not TAX
en- action in what it termed reas-
enable time, Judge Neal Lora order
ed the case dismissed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
This Call Really
Urgent

Locksmith Steve Smith had a novel
experience the other day. He's had
lots of experiences picking locks all
over the community. But last Mon
day he was called to pick a lock
when it was pouring rain and the
need was urgent.
A woman rushed frantically into
his office in Findlay asking him to
come quickly over to her parked car
and unlock it-she had lost the keys
Whats the hurry?" replied Lock
smith Smith, Tets wait until the
rain ceases a bit"
II can't wait" replied the woman,
"my baby's in the car"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

town, was forced to abandon his car
in the path of a fast eastbound
freight train after the car dropped
off the roadbed and stalled.
The automobile was wrecked and
pilot of the lead engine on the dou-
ble-header train was pushed back
under the locomotive so that the en-
CINE could move only backwards.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Comedian Doesn't
Stutter Now

Thomas Hardman used to laugh
at Roscoe Ates when the suffering
comedian appeared on the motion
picture screen.
But he doesn't laugh at him any
more. Ates is now the commanding
officer at Ellington Field, Texas,
where the Findlay young man is
training to be bombadier.
And, Harman says, the comedian
doesn't stutter when he issues orders.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Old Keys Help Scrap
Drive

When Don Binkley, Allen county
courthouse elevator operator, went
scrap hunting, he really searched in
out-of-the-way places. Altho his Wis
ion is greatly impaired, Binkley was
able to find in the court house about
100 keys weighing more than seven
pounds. eff / could find this much
/ think most people could do much
BETTER" Binkley said as he waved
his string of keys, most of which
are brass, badly needed in the war
effort.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

Ida, but that he awakened seven
hours later along highway near
Kalida, minus $3.50 and railroad
ticket to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Later, as he was telling Marshal
Felke of the robbery, he identified
a passing car as the one in which he
had ridden. Felke shot at it when
the driver failed to stop.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Bags 19-P oint Deer

DR.. j. T. Holtzmuller, of Forest,
Hardin county's health commissioner
brought home 19-point deer, one of
the largest ever shot in the area,
and huge bull moose to prove his
claims that hunting near Kenora,
Ontario, is excellent. He said each
member of the hunting party of sew
en- took home a deer and a moose.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Schools To Send Boxes
Abroad

From Superintendent Kinley's Of
flee at the high school, 800 Red
Cross gift boxes were sent to the
various schools in Findlay and Han
cock county. These boxes, which are
filled each year by the students of
America, are sent by way of greet
ing to the children of the Allied ma
tions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Attorneys Memorial
ize Bentley

A resolution commemorating the
extensive legal life of Harry O.
Bentley, noted Lima corporation at
torney who died Sept. "a, has been
placed upon the official courts min
utes following adoption by the Allen
county Bar association.
The resolution tells of Bentley's
birth near Bluffton and of his rise
to a position of prominence.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Farmer Hurt When
Team Bolts

Ira Businger, Delaware township
farmer, suffered fractured ankle
Friday when he attempted to stop a
team of horses that had bolted.
Mr.. Businger was husking corn
while his wife was driving the
horses hitched to wagon. A Young
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Freight Hits Stalled
Auto

Earl Robinette, Forest railroad
section laborer, lost his 1929 model
car but escaped injury in a grade
crossing crash at Forest.
The man, who was driving over a
private crossing in the east end of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Aged Cat Dies In
Mt. Victory

Members of the E. d. Hunt family
in Mt. Victory were saddened last
week by the death of Junior, their
pet cat who would have been Is
years old next Sept. %. When at
his best he weighed 1712 pounds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Scrap Quota Exceeded
In Lima

The amazing total of IL tons of
scrap metal and rubber had been
collected up to Friday morning in
Lima's current salvage campaign.
The figure already far exceeds the
50-ton goal established for the week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Picks Two Baskets
Strawberries

Mrs. James Spar, south of Ken
ton, reports that as temperatures
soar again to spring levels, she has
picked two baskets of large straw
berries from her ever-bearing vines.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Findlay Physician
HOnOred

DR.. B. F. Mowry, Findlay physi-
clan, now major in the Army
Medical Corps, last week was re-
elected president of the Northwest
ern Ohio Medical Association for the
duration of the war.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Senator Taft To Speak
In Findlay

United States Senator Robert A..
Taft will come to Findlay, Monday,
October 10, to speak at noon at the
Elks' Home, it was announced re-
Gently.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

team, for some unknown reason, they
became excited and started to run.
Mr.. Businger attempted to run them
into a corn shock, but they SHE'D
away and the wagon ran over his
ankle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

valuable metals, such as brass, said
Police Chief James c. Goodwin, who
described them as ''Hitler helpers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15
Six ear-Old Divorce
Suit Dismissed

A divorce suit started in Allen
county common pleas court July IT,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

Potatoes from blighted fields
should be thoroughly dry when
placed in storage.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
JUGOSLAV FIGHTERS
CAPTURE TOWN

LONDON, Nov. 14-(UP) - Radio
Moscow said today that Jugoslav
guerillas had captured the town of
Buchat, driven Axis forces from
dozens of smaller occupied locali-
lies. and captured $50 soldiers and
90 officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
Sterilization of
Psychopaths Urged

SACRAMENTO. Nov. Ia. (UP)-
Expansion of California's Steriliza-
ton program to include psychopa-
thic delinquents, mentally defective
delinquents and sexual pSychopathS
today had approval of the heads
of 16 state institutions meeting in
Sacramento to discuss emergency
measures to meet wartime condi-
tionS.
DR.. F. o. Butler, acting state di-
rector of institutions, said the prob
lem would be submitted to a COM
mittee of institutional superintend-
ents to draft a measure for sub
mission to the next legislature.
In addition, the uperintendents
decided to maintain the malaria
fever treatment for pareSis, or brain
syphilis. in state hospitals and
to seek to induce more sufferers
from the disease to apply volun-
tarily for treatment.
Butler said a new sterilization
law was needed because under the
present statute only persons whom
the courts hold to be feeble-minded
OF suffering from certain types of
insanity may be Sterilized.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
More Goods Shut
Off from Axis

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-(UPD-
The Anglo American operations in
French North Africa were seen by
the office of war information to-
Cay as damaging the Axis economic
front as we'll as its military lines.
OWL said restoration of the North
African area to United Nations con-
troll would:
l. Stop shipments of metals, fer
tilizers, food and other supplies
from North Africa that are imports
ant to Nazi war production and to
maintenance of the home front.
2. Cut off one of the principal
Axis supply lines for food and arms
to Rommels Afrika KorpS.
3. Increase effectiveness of Un-
tied Nation blockade measures, and
greatly complicate the Axis gen.
eral transportation situation by re-
stricting use of the Mediterranean.
a. Drastically reduce the length
of United Nations supply lines to
the Middle East and to Russia, if
the campaign results in making the
Mediterranean safe for Allied ship
ping
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
Pilots in India
Increase Score

A us. AIR BASE IN NORTH
ERN INDIA, Nov. 8-Delayed)-
GU UPD-American fighter pilots and
British and American ground de-
fenSe crews. who made a better
showing during japanese attacks on
air bases in Assam than they origi-
nally believed, today were conf
dent that reinforcements and i'm
proved defenses will enable them
to combat even the heaviest raids
in the future.
The first official tally of jap
anese losses in three raids late last
month showed only five enemy
planes definitely destroyed. But
since then almost daily reports
have come in from British tea
planters and natives in the hills,
of wrecked japanese pkanes found
in the Jungles.
American fighter pilots now are
credited with six confirmed vic
tories and four probables, while
anti-aircraft crews claim at least
five more shot down and several
badly damaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
Motorists Told
They'ILLikeCut

ST. LOUIS, Nov. "a tUP)-
Motorists in the part of the nation
not now under gasoline rationing
were assured today by Price Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson, that
they would like getting around on
four gallons a week once they got
used to it.
In an address last night before
a conference of sales executives,
Henderson emphasized that gener-
ally speaking the overall program
of rationing goods was working out
better than had been expected and
that i'm most instances the civilian
population liked the idea OF heing
deprived of certain products,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
Civilian Goods to
Be Standardized

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA. (UP)-
Economic Sterilization Director
James F. Byrnes announced today
that he has requested the war pro-
duction board to undertake "a Wig
orous program" to standardize goods
produced for civilian consumption.
Forecasting drastic simplification
and Standardization of distribution
as well as production of civilian con-
sumption goods, Byrnes said he had
requested WPB Chairman Donald
M. Nelson:
Not merely to eliminate frills and
wasteful practices, but wherever nee
eSsary and advantageous, to concen-
trate on the production of relative
ly few types of goods of standard
lied quality, design and price
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
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Axis Looks Upon
North African Loss
As Severe Blow
BY DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 13-(De-
layed) -(UP)-The Axis considers
the Allied offensive in North Africa
"a great misfortune" for its Euro
pean defenses and is projecting
major plan to counteract the ad-
vantage it gained for the United
States and Great Britain, military
sources believed today.
An Italian diplomat admitted that
the American landing in the French
possessions changed the entire
strategy of the present phase of
the war and it was reported that
even Franz van Papen, veteran Ger
man ambassador who is close to
Adolf Hitler had described the op-
GRAFTON as "a great misfortune" for
Axis plans.
NAZI PLANS REDRAWN
Germany appeared to be planning
redistribution of its European de-
fenses. Whether such plans might
include an attempt to occupy the
Siberian peninsula and Turkey was
under intense discussion here, par
tlcularly in conferences between
the Turkish foreign office and the
Spanish and Portuguese ambassa-
dors.
Uondon press reports said today
that Turkey had shifted a big army
to the Trebizond area, bordering
the Black sea and that many troops
had been sent north to meet pos
sible Nazi threats" from the Ger
mans, who were reoccupying the
Greek coast in force. The London
dispatches said Turkey and other
Middle Eastern states were draw
ing closer to the United Nations.D
Even before the United States
launched its invasion troops against
North Africa, Germany had in
tended to complete its domination
of the Mediterranean and had been
reported strengthening defensive
installations along the Dalmatian,
Greek and Thracian coasts and had
built air installations in Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
Knowles Ryerson
Asks for Leave

DAVIS, Calf, Nov. IA. tUP)-
Knowles K. Ryerson, assistant dean
of the University of California
college of agriculture here since
1887, announced today he has ask
ed the board of regents for leave
of absence to enter service of the
US. Department of Agriculture Tor
the duration of the war.
Ryerson, who returned from
Washington, DC, yesterday, said
he had been offered an assignment
outside continental United States. ;"
He formerly was connected with
the farm advisors office at Los
Angeles and several years ago made
a lond survey in Palestine for Vice
President Henry Wallace, at that
time Secretary Of Agriculture.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-15
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Is and 8Club
Has Christmas
Dinner Party

Member Of the l6 and club had
their ing for l6 Monday nlPht
as rst of Mr.. and Mrs. James
his gathering being in the
se Of a Christmas party.
Dining first at 752 Olive, the
roup then adioGfned to the Mes
home for the bridge game and
exchange of small Christmas
1lctidc decorations made a col
setting for the party tree
a.. other seasonal flowers and
gre ry being most effective.
This club awards defense stamps
for prizes. and those for high scores
went to Mrs. Hazel Gallagher ana
James NeSbitt for second hign
score. to Mrs. j. D. Townsend and
George Kirk, and floating prize, tc
Mrs. Gallagher.
Those present were: Mr.. and MIS-
F.. F.. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. j. w
GLASGOW Mr.. and Mrs. George X
Kirk. Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Townsend
Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Gallagher, Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Kendall, Mrs. Jalhts
J. Noel. Miss Edith .Dyd, Mr.. al'
Mrs NcSbitt.