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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-11-26

Defense council and teachers met at
the high school Sunday afternoon to
receive their instructions for regis
tering the users of supplemental
gasoline.
The registration procedure is quite
complicated and quite a few from
here were present at the county
meeting in Lima Saturday night for
instructions. The registration is un-
der the direction of A. J. B. Longs
dorf, superintendent of schools, and
Clair Fett and Mayor w. A. Howe
of the Bluffton Civilian Defense
council.
RATION Books LATER
Unlike the registration for the
Basic A and d ration books, the
supplemental ration books are not
being issued at the time of applica-
ton. The registrar supervises the
filing out of the various application
forms which are then sent for "tail-
oring" to the county rationing board
located in the county in which the
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-11-26
Registration For Supplemental Gasoline
Continues At High School This Week
Applications Made We'd, A to 9
p. M; Fri. and Sat-, 9 a. m.
To 5 p. m.
Ration Books Not Issued at
Time of Application as in
Case of "A" Books

Registration for the rationing of
all supplemental gasoline needed be-
yond that provided in the A and ID
ration books for both highway and
non-highway uses is under way at
the Bluffton High school cafeteria
continuing on Wednesday from to
9 p. m. and on Friday and Satur-
day from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
The registration started on Mon
day and a large group of volunteer
workers from the Bluffton Civilian
Reports to date show the
following applications were COM
pleted for supplemental gasoline:
164 for b and c books depend
ing on the mileage to be allowed
by the ration board.
S5 for non-highway uses,
principally on farms.
10 for transport mileage
which includes trucks and school
buses.
These figures were released by
A. ]. b. Longsdorf, in charge of
the local program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
TWO DIPLOMATS
 HAVING TROUBLE
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cided to resist British seizure of the vessels. He ordered his ships not to leave Alexandria with British ships.
 That order was interpreted here to mean that the French will scuttle the vessels in the harbor or attempt to dash to French bases. Their abil- ity to flee was believed limited by the small amount of fuel oil allotted them by the British.
 Laval already has rejected pro- posals by President Roosevelt that the Alexandria fleet-the battleship Lorraine, three eight-inch cruisers, one six inch cruiser, three destroy CTS and submarine-be moved to American or neutral western hemi- sphere ports for the duration of the war. MT. Roosevelt also supported the British by saying they would be justified" in taking over the ships.
 Yesterday Laval reportedly said that the United States would be re- sponsible for the consequences of any British action, and this was in- terpreted here as an attempt to counteract pro-American feeling among the French people.
 Washington, July 17.-(UP)-The United States, in addition to can- ceiling consular representation with Finland, has restricted further the movements of Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope and his staff, 1t was learned today.
 Procope and his staff were ad- vised they must obtain permission from the state department to do any travelling in the United States. It was indicated that such permis- sion would be difficult for them to obtain.
 That action emphasized the for nal announcement last night by the state department that all Amer ican consular activities in Finland would be suspended and the order to Finland to close its IA consulates in this country by Aug. 1.
 After months of cautious han ding of relations with Finland, be- cause of the traditional friendly feeling here for that small Baltic oDoOC WAAAOAA WOO lLAC Ollly AldUAOL1 OO pay its World War debt installments on time and in full, the United States took it's strongest step thus far in expressing disapproval of Finland's subservience to Axis pres sure.
 Some restrictions were imposed upon Procope and his staff last Christmas when the Films, under German influence, curtailed the movements of American diplomats in Finland. The new restrictions will be more severe, however and leave no doubt that the United States will deal firmly with Finland from now on.
 The United States yesterday sent Finland a note saying that fin de- nying American consular officers presently in Finland their treaty sentation of American interests in Finland, the Finnish government had undermined the basis upon rights in connection with the repre- which American consular represen- tation was maintained in Finland"
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FIGHTING FltRCE
 FOR SEVEN DAYS
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about his bravery.
 

about his bravery.
 Bravest of All Lads
 "He was the bravest lad ever met" he said. "A shell had exploded close and he was blinded in both eyes. His left arm was fractured and he was semi-conscious, but in that little Red Cross tent he was still fighting the enemy, repeating over and over, Let's get at them; and at the same time trying to find his rifle"
 Besides the wounded there are a lot of prisoners streaming back through our lines and the wire cages we keep them in temporarily are full. Marshal Erwin Rommel is flnd- ing the positions reversed to what they were recently, for now it is the Afrika Korps that doesn't know from where the next blow will fall.
 Italians Give Picture
 A group of Italians I passed on the coast road gave me an enemy picture of the British attack. They lid the German commander had moved them into position Wednes- day night.
 we all had served from 24 to 30 break, so we got nothing but com plaints," one said. "Then at 4:3O Thursday morning the British put down such a barrage that all we can do is get to cover as best we could and dig into the sand.
 "Just before dawn tanks crushed over the sand through our lines and we thought they were German. But not for long. Infantry followed them with blazing fire from tommy and machine guns. They also were throwing hand grenades at our shelters. We were unable to fight Many of us were already dead or wounded. So when the Australians were 30 paces away we came out and surrendered.
 The Italians were dejected, un. shaven and unkempt. The German prisoners, however, maintained their customary bold, mute front as they trooped to the rear, safe from 8 battle that is flaming along the entire line from the Mediterranean to the Qattara depression.
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Legal Notices NOTICE

DISTRICT OF WATERTOWN, ss. COURT OF PROBATE, July 18th, 1942.
 ESTATE OF G1AcoMo zAc- CAR!A, late of Watertown, in said district, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Watertown, hath limited and allowed six months from tho date hereof for the creditors of sait estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred a recov. cry.
 All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 CELIA ZACCARIA, 7-17-3t Administratrix.
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(ContInued from Page l.) land out of the Mediterranean. Ten days after he arrived, Mcleod, was shot down. With fragments in his left arm and leg, he parachuted 300 feet and broke his neck. Two months later he was flying again.
 McLeOd's Escape Miraculous
 McLeod's escape from death has become a legend in the RAF. It hap pened on April 2, when RAF forces in Malta had not been reinforced and there were only 8 half dozen or so planes to meet the scores of bombers and fighters the Italians and Germans were sending over every day.
 Tt happened that four of us went up to meet 24 Messerschmitt 109's escorting bombers in daylight at- tack" Mcleod said.
 T thought I was all right until I saw stuff flying around me like horizontal hailstorm. Then knew I was :n for it. said to myself, so this is how it feels to die'".
 Peck stopped him.
 "Let me tell the story as I heard 1t over Macs radio-telephone," he said. "1hey were pouring stuff into his spitfire until I thought 1t was falling apart. Glycol was pouring from it until I thought 1t would flutter away from sheer dryness. Meanwhile, Mac was talking to me like this:
 -"'Hello, Jimmy. You guys go on after the bombers. I've got all the little guys after me Hey, Jim- my, here come two more of the . :. They're attacking in pairs. Hells bells, I'm getting out of here"
 Mcleod said his pitfire was shot up so badly that the right ailreron was sticking up vertically and his elevators were disabled.
 21,OOO Feet Up
 '"The only thing to do was to hold the ship in 8 200-mile-per- hour glide" he related. T was 21,000 feet up when the attack started. I saw the machine gradually torn apart as Jerry after Jerry attacked. 1 hCPI AOOA1AS OfCA lily AA6AU oAAOOA- der. I'd see two of them coming at me. Then I'd skid some and they would miss. Then I'd skid again. I felt something burn my left arm and leg, and saw blood, but 1t didn't hurt.
 Then I skidded again. That was all I could do. The radio was shot out from in front of me and I couldn't talk to any one so I de- cided to getout of there"
 RAF observers said Mcleod bailed out between 800 and 800 feet. When the parachute opened, the straps struck his chin and snapped his body so hard that his thyroid cart ilage was fractured. He alighted off the coast, where a res le ship picked him up.
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 ARE NOT FOUND
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(COnClnueQ rom Page 1) miles south of Rhinebeck, and his wife reported having seen para chutists dropping, the third such scare in the United States since the war started.
 Swendson was painting build ing yesterday afternoon, he said, and looked up at swarm of bees. Then, he related, he also saw some white spots. Rubbing his eyes to make certain that specks of paint weren't in them, he looked again. They still were there, he said, and, plainly visible against the clear sky, looked like parachutists slowly drift ing down. He called his wife, but all the spots except one, he said, had disappeared behind the trees.
 It was about 4:45 p. m., Swendson said. He rushed to Rhinebeck, still in his working clothes, and reported to Donald Haskins, grocer and chief air raid warden. Haskins immediate ly called state police. headquarters and federal bureau of investiga- tion agent was there.
 At 1925 last nsght, the army an- nounced in New York City:
 "The public relations officer, east ern defense command and first army, in reply to inquiries made by the press in regard to New York State Police reports of parachute landings in the vicinity of Rhine beck, N. r., states as follows:
 "1. The police report has been re- ceived at this headquarters.
 "2. A military investigation is now underway at the scene of the alleged landings.
 8. There has been no conf1rma- ton of this report and no further information is available at this time"
 Rhinbeck is on the east bank of the Hudson river, across from Kingston, 90 miles north of New York City. It is surrounded by lux rious country estates, and is near MT. Roosevelt's country home.
 Shortly after the official an- nouncement, an army spokesman said, "so far as the army knows there has been no opportunity for parachutists to land"
 There were no reports of military planes, from which men might have parachuted, having crashed in this vicinity. The Mitchell Field public relations officer said no army plane based in It's area was missing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
Stalin Going to Front

Stockholm, July 17-CUP)-The Swedish Telegraph Bureau report ed today in an Ankara dispatch that Premier Josef Stalin had left for the Russian front. The dispatch was unconfrmed and no authority for it was given.
 It was believed at Ankara, it was said, that Stalin had gone to Stalingrad to join the chief of the Russian general staff and that he was expected to make important changes in army commands.
 According to the dispatch, the Russians were reported to have concentrated a large army at Stalingrad, consisting mainly of a recently formed central Asiatic army, and intended to wage a de- cisive battle in the StaDngrad area.
 All artillery and tanks that could Dc spared from other fronts have been sent to Stalingradwith the greatest possible speed, the dis patch reported. ard the Russian army has been ordered to defend Stallngrad to the last to prevent the Germans from crossing the Dor-Volga canal. The canal ex- tends between the easternmost bulge of the Don and the Volga at Stalingrad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
NOTICE

STATE of CONNECTICUT, DIS- TRICT of WATERBURY, ss. PRO- BATE COURT, July 14th, 1942 ESTATE of KATE BRENNAN. late of the town of Waterbury. in said district, deceased.
 trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested, within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons in- debted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 MARY c. BRENNAN, 1SS South Elm St., Administratrix. Waterbury, Conn. 7-15-St
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
JUCOSLAVS FIGHT
 WITH ITALIANS
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posts and establishing heavy guards of sentries.
 Private advises said the guerrilla movement was developing on large scale, particularly in the Lublin district.
 Polish guerrillas were said to have killed Franz Wald, the local Ges- tapo chief of the district in a pitched battle on the outskirts of Lublin. Guerrillas stopped his auto mobile with a barricade, and shot him and the Gestapo agents with him.
 Jugoslav governmental n -exile headquarters in London have un- successfully fast communications with General Mikhailovitch, per- haps even direct wireless.
 The British Broadcasting Com pany quoted radio Vichy as saying IS Frenchmen had been tried by 8 German military court for sabotage at Nancy, near the German bor- der.
 BEG also said that 1,400 Com munists" have been moved from concentration camp at Compefgne to an unrevealed destination in the east. The move, BEG reported. was in reprisal for the escape of 19 of their fellow prisoners.
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Red Forces Helped
 By American Planes
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make good on It's twice repeated claim of having captured the city 70 days ago. Stiff fighting also oc- cured in the Briansk area, 220 miles southwest of Moscow, where Russians made Q series of success fi1l attacks, recapturing Q number uf towns and finding 1880 German GoTpees.
 The great cost of the German ad- Vances in the south and the urgent haste of the Nad high command to echieve their geographic goals was Illustrated by official Soviet reports 1het 0OO,O00 Axis troops had been killed, wounded or captured, in- cIuding 35O,O00 dead since May IS, This communique said that the enemy also had lost 2,900 tanks and 5000 airplanes. Russian casualties were put at 399 1000 in addition to 90 tanks and 1854 planes.
 There were reports, of doubtful authenticity, that Josef V. Stalin had gone to the Stahngrad front Co take personal charge of the de- fense of the lower Don River and, ie necessary of the Volga barrier, but these reports lacked any Allied confirmation.
 It was indicated in dispatches from Moscow, however, that con- siderable Allied war material was now being thrown into the battles against the Germans in the south, where American-buil airacobya fighters and Boeing and Boston fighter bomber units were in action.
 On the Egyptian front west of Fl Alamein, heavy battles in which armored units were dominant were reported on the northern and cen- tral sectors-a sandy stretch of pos- Sibly IS miles from the Tel Fl Elsa railroad station southward to Ru- queisat Ridge, 10-mile long eleva- tion held by the British.
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their advanced positlonS. Then. when the tanks drove on, the Aus traiians moved back in.
 The British had been jabbing hard at the forces Of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for a week on both sectors and today a bigger battle-possibly Rommels main at- tempt to move again toward Alex andria = was in progress without definite results.
 Axis Tanks Destroyed
 The British communique said that many Axis tanks had been destroy ed in the fighting and front line reports said that the Allies had given Rommel his worst knocking" around. but there was no indica- ton as to British losses.
 The Axis forces were attempting to seize Ruweisat Ridge in the cen- ter, where South African troops led the defense. and to edge up the Hill of Jesus on the north, where the Australians were doing much of the fighting. In the extreme south, the Germans were forced back slightly in ormored fighting.
 The Royal Air Force again made a strong raid on the German sub. marine works at Luebeck and Flens- burg, both on the Baltic some 400 miles east of Britain. Big four motored British bombers, which can carry as much as nine tons of explosives each, roared over their targets in good weather and re- ported that their bombs had struck home.
 In the Far East, Allied bombers again attacked the Japanese on the Yangtze river at Hankow, 450 miles northeast of Chungktng with "'very satisfactory" results, the U. s. army headquarters said. The communi- que also said that great damage had been done previously in Allied raids on Hankow and Nanchang.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17

British tanks today repulsed re- newed Axis attacks in heavy fight ing on the central sector of the des- ert front southwest of Fl Alamein and poured an artillery barrage into enemy positions on the northern coastal flank.
 Dispatches filed at thte front sad New zealanders had successfully headed off enemy attempts to dis lodge them from the western end of the Ruweisat Ridge, about 10 miles southwest Of Fl Alamein.
 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel reportedly threw great masses of taK.s and armored cars into the momentou& battle, but the British Imperials matched him tank for tank.
 The outcome of this battle, on which so much may hinge, was not yet k-own. The scene is the area where New Zealand and Indian troops drove the Axis forces back A hours earlier.
 The Axis began the drive to re- gain the ground yesterday evening, and the fighting was resumed in full fury before dawn today. RommePs plan, apparently, was to drive e wide wedge into the British lines at this point. CT
 On the northern sector British ar- tillery was said to have laid down terrific artillery barrage that smashed German and Italian posi- tions around Tel Fl Elsa, (Hill of Jesus) and Station 24. One front line report said the Australians had succeeded in regaining their old po- SitionS on the hills.
 Fighting there was said to be on a smaller scale than in the central sector with the tide running to and fro. One report said that when ever the Germans could spare few tanks from the central sector they would drive the Australians from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
Chinese Attack Again

Chungking, China, July 17-CUP) Allied bombing planes, escorted by fighters, attacked the water front at Hankow, the big Japanese base on the Yangtze river, 450 miles east northeast of Chungking yesterday with "very satisfactory" results, a communiQue of United States Army headquarters said to- day.
 The communique, issued at Lieut.. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's head quarters, also gave details of bomb- ings July 2, at Hankow, and July 3, at Nanchang.
 On July 2, docks in the Japanese concession at Hankow were at- tackled and 2,640 pounds of bombs were dumped on docks and ware houses.
 The next day the Allies raided the Japanese airdrome at Nanchang catching the enemy by surprise. Two hangars were damaged and three planes trying to take off and several parked on the field were ueSCrOyeu, the cOmmunlque said.
 One Japanese interceptor plane was shot down and one Allied fight CT was lost, but the pilot was saved. The bomber raid at Man. chang was led by Maj. William E. Bayse and Squadron Leader John Howard directed the fighter escort squadron.
 The strategic river town of San Kiang Kou, 31 miles south of Nanchang on the Kan river, has been recaptured by the Chinese, tre Central News Agency said. The at- tack occurred when Chinese forces swept down on the town from the Yuhua mountains and drove out the invaders after a brief fight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
PROSECUTION OF
 FOUR SPIES ENDS
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 Two men and a woman were held in $50,0O0 bail each today for fur ther hearing July 31 after they were arraigned in federal court on charges of aiding one of the eight Nazi saboteurs who came to this country last month on Nazi sub marines.
 Helmut Leiner of Astoria, N. Y.: Anthony Cramer, New York, and Hedwig Engemann, New York, were arraigned before Federal Judge Bas- com s. Deaver.
 They were charged specifically with having received, relieved, aid- ed and comforted" John Kerling. one of four Naz saboteurs who was landed from U-boat on Florida Beach on June IT. Kerling is now on trial with seven other saboteurs at Washington.
 Subsequently, Hermann Chris tian Fat6N 36. of Astoria, N. Y.. was arraigned in Brooklyn before U. s. Commissioner Jacob A. Visel on charges of aiding and assisting two of the four saboteurs who were landed at Amagansett, N. Y. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
NOTICE

Advertising hearing on the application of Guido CucOlG to establish a retail gasoline station at IS Jeffery Alley, Waterbury, Connecticut.
 Hearing to be held Thurs. day, July 3Oth, 1942 at 11:3( A. M. in the office of the Mayor, City Hall, Grand Street, Waterbury, Conn. 7-16-3t,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
More Decorations

Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters in Australia, July 17-(UP)-More army air corps and navy men were decorated for bravery and heroism today, some of them for their part in rescuing nurses and army and navy officers, including Gen. Doug las MacAEthur, from Corregidor.
 Rear Admiral Arthur Carpenter awarded silver stars to the crews of flying boats that took medicine and other supplies into Coregido and brought out members of the gar- riSorl.
 Those decorated included: Crew member Marie Ferrara, Wakefield, Mass.
 General MacArthur'S Headquar-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
SUBMARINE YARDS
 OF GERMANY HIT
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last Saturday Lancasters hammered at Flensburg and at Danzfg, at the southeast corner of the Baltic.
 News that there was cloud cover over part of western Europe sent RAF planes out yesterday for day. light raids on the most heavily de- tended area of Germany, in the Ruhr war industry center, and Hol- land.
 In addition fighter planes at tackled railroad yards and other tar- gets along the French coast.
 A German broadcast, admitting last evenings raids on the F1ens- burg area, said that small damage was done by explosive and incendi- ary bombs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
MAURY PAUL
 DIES IN N Y.
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the son of William Henry Paul and Eleanor Virginia Riddle. After graduating from the Episcopal Academy there in 1910, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and began newspaper work on the Phil adelphia Times in 1914, leaving that year to become Society Editor of the New York Press.
 He worked subsequently for the New York Post, the Evening Mail. the New York American and eventu- ally the New York Journal-Amer- 1can. His daily society column was syndicated. He wrote numerous magazine articles.
 In addition to his New York home he maintained an estate, Tall Trees, at Wilton, Conn, and winter home in Miami, Fla.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17
SCOTLAND HAS TRANSPORTA-
 ~TION TROUBLES

The Scottish Road Passenger transport Assoication has appealed to the public to cut down its travel to minimum. The Association ap- proved plan for auxiliary drivers and stated that further curtailment of public passenger transport serv- ices might create serious difficulties in the war effort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-17

A fine sportsman takes a death sentence with a smile, and carries on until the last ball is pitched, in Samuel Goldwyn's production, "The Pride of the LankeeS," starring Gary Cooper as the late Lou Gehrig, famous first basean and stellar bat. ter of the New York Americans.