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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-03-19
WANT-ADS
:

/ will continue to haul Ohio coal
Call me on Jenera phone and reverse
charge. Elmer Burkholder. tt
Wanted-500 chick raisers to try
Steiner's Utra-Life chick starter,
Eventually! Why not now? Master
Feed Mill, phone 317-W.
For rent-Office rooms or storage
above Todd Grocery and Gas company
See Chas. Hankish.
For sale-Business block on So
Main St., also lot on Spring St
Edith l.. Mann, phone 187-W. tt
For sale-Building lots at corner of
Lawn and Kib.er streets; or will rent
for pasture or garden. Sylvia Bied-
erman. II
For sale-Alfalfa seed. Roy Hau-
enstein, 31a miles north of town
Bluffton phone 539R
For sale-Refrigerator; also elec-
trio counter scale, safe and other
store equipment. P. F. Steiner, 25t
College Ave-, Bluffton, Ohio. as
For saIe-Lawn mower grinding
machine. Elmer Klay.
For sale-Renown range. Inquire
165 Geiger st
For sale-3 piece. parlor suite and
kitchen set including table and -four
chairs. Lester Niswander, 223 N
Lawn Ave. Call before 2 m.
For sale-Several properties and
120 acres good producing land, excel.
lent buildings and electricity. H. w
Althaus.
For sale-1934 Plymouth a door Sc.
dan, good condition and good tires
actual mileage $4,000 Memo Augs-
burger, Button phone.
| For sale--Peat moss litter. Baby
chicks every Monday and Thursday
Get our prices before you buy
Steiner's hatchery, phone 182-W.
| For sale-15 shocks of good corn
on Sam Balmer farm mile west OF
the Gratz school, See Frank Lugibill
4 miles south of Bluffton or phone
576-R.
For sale-Seasoned line and END
posts. Lines at 16c and ends at 60c
For a really good buy see these
posts. Frank Lugibihl, 4 miles south
of Bluffton OH Bentley road.
For sale-Early harvested soy
beans; high termination test; also
Grimm alfalfa. E. r. Moser, 21a
miles north of Bluffton. Blufftor
phone.
For sale-Male Collie dog 10 mo
old. Henry AIthaus, 6 miles west OF
town.
For sale-Eating potatoes, Katah-
dins Nos. | and 2. Wilbert Schu-
macher, 8 miles west and | mile
north of Bluffton. Pandora phone.
For saIe-Russet potatoes. Car
Lugibihl.
For sale-Ten slightly used win.
dow sash in excellent condition; size
2sx2o. Orden Smucker. Phone
414-W. .s.
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ArmOrsville

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and family spent Tuesday in Bowling
Green.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty call
ed Sunday afternoon at the Homer
Shelly home.
Bud Rice of Crestline called at the
Chas. Montgomery home, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Dye of near
Alvada, Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Moore OF
Detroit were Sunday visitors at the
w. |. Moore home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carey Niswander call
ed Thursday evening at the H. O.
Hilty home.
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Garbage Collection

Garbage collection will be made
twice weekly, Monday and Thursday
beginning this week during the COM
ing spring and summer season. Con-
tainers should be placed where they
are easily accessible.
w. A. Howe, Mayor
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Travel Class

Feminine Contribution to Better
Living will be the theme of the TRAY
ell class meeting to be held at the
home of Mrs. w E .Diller this We'd
nesday night at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. A.
L Baumgartner will be the assistant
hostess.
The following program will be pre-
ented: Marie Curie, Mrs. Evan Ba-
singer; Julia Lathrop, Mrs. Thomas
Donaghue; Women in Congress, Mrs,
Elida Hirschler.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-03-19

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
Estate of Samuel w. Burkholder, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that John A. Burk-
holder whose Post Office address is r. ID. No.
2, Wooster. Ohio. has been duly appointed
and qualified as administrator of the Estate
of Samuel w. Burkholder. late of Allen
County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 9Th day of Mrch. 1912.
RAYMOND p. SMITH
Judge of the Probate Court
AZ Allen County Ohio
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How to Live Long

How are you feeling? Is your
waistline smaller than your chest?
Do you sleep eight hours or more
daily? Do you love lot, laugh a
lot and KEEP young in heart? If
you want to live long you better do
these things. So claims Richard
Harrison in his "Fifty-one Steps to
Long Life and Happiness" Others
of the 81 steps are: If past 40 stay
in bed all day once month. Sleep
in the raw. Don't 60 to funerals.
Cultivate poise. Don't let anything
make you angry. Don't live in the
past. Wear youthful looking clothes.
Take one fast day a month.
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BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

wednesday Morning
Hogs-160 to $50, $1270; 1S0 to
220, 1920; 220 to 260, $12.80;
roughs, S11.75; stags, $3.50.
Calves, STATS; lambs, $11.50.
Grain (bu. prices Wheat, $1.20;
corn, 74c; oats, 58c; soys, S1.s0
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Waterless

Some gazelles Of the Far East and
South American llamas are SO con-
stituted that they seldom need wa
ter and seldom feel the pangs Of
thirst.
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SOCIETIES
and CLUBS


IHSdgtWtHt AHHUUHCtu
Engagement of Miss Marjorie Ruth
Alspach, employe of the Triplett Elec-
trical Instrument Co., daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. G f. Alspach of Mt. Cory
and Richard Green, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Milford Green of Mt. Cory, was
announced this week. Mr.. Green is
employed by the Buckeye Traction
Ditcher Co. of Findlay.
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Alice Freeman Club

The Alice Freeman club met at the
home of Mrs. Forrest Steinman, We'd
nesday afternoon. The following pro-
gram was presented: South Amer
clan Cruise, Mrs. r. L. Triplett; mu-
sic, Misses Betty and Jean Ann Stein
man.
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Poinsettia Club

The Poinsettia club will hold its
meeting at the home of Mrs. J. o.
Blome this Wednesday night at 1880
O'Clock. The following program will
be presented: Group singing led by
Mrs. Grace Cox; He Thumbed His
Way Thru College, Mrs. Swan Stone
hill; Americas Where to Eat Expert,
Mrs. Ward Marshall; Special Feature,
Mrs. Andrew Hermann.
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STATE nE OHIO

Joseph T. Ferguson-Auditor of State
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of
Public Offices
FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE BOARD
OF EDUCATION
For Fiscal Year Ending December 3lst. 1871
Biuftun Exempted Village School District.
County of Allen.
Bluifton. Ohio
January IS 1912
| certify the following report to be correct.
LELAND DILLER
Clerk OF the Board of Education.
Tax Valuation ................. 81, ,233. ISL 90
Tax Levy-Local School
tOperating) 7.ao Bonds. $40. .......1i.io
School Enrolment ....................... 546
Salaries and Wages
Annual Payrolis, teachers, janitors.
bus drivers. & employees ....... s46, ,295. AZ
SCHEDULE /
Summary of Cash Balances. Receipts
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Legion Auxiliary

Legion Auxiliary
The American Legion Auxiliary
members are invited to attend the
Legion conference in the hall, Sun
day afternoon.
Evening star., 1942-10-11

tsee soMERvELI, Page B-3o
Evening star., 1942-10-11

He naturally took to the Engineers then
and now the intellectual "snobs" of the
Army. Most West Pointers usually have
to wait several years before they see ex-
citing action. Somervell was lucky He
was in Paris on a two-months' gradua-
ton leave when the first World War
broke out, and he Immediately reported
to the American Embassy for immediate
duty. He became the cashier for the
Ebert H. Gary fund for American refu-
gees and handled over million dollars
in gold within a short time.
Since that time, he has handled or
been responsible for astronomical sums.
AS New York WPA administrator he
supervised a monthly pay roll of $10,-
100000 and today his responsibility
mounts steadily into the billions.
Assigned to Washington.
After the Paris experience be was
assigned to duty in Washington with
the Office of the Chief of Engineers and
later at Fort Belvoir. When trouble
broke out on the Mexican border in 1916,
he was sent to Texas for map-making
tours and then joined Pershing's puni-
tive expedition.
When the United States entered the
First World War Gen. Somervell was
with the first Engineer regiment sent
abroad and from August, 1917, until Oc-
tober, 1918. he was in charge of various
engineering projects in France. He
wanted. however, to get into the actual
combat. Borrowing his generals car, he
went to the front lines, where he offered
his services to an infantry regiment. ALI
this was highly irregular, but his services
were accepted and he won the Distin-
guished Service Cross with the following
citation:
Voluntarily serving on the staff Of the
89th Division, he conducted the first
engineering reconnaissance of the dam
aged bridges at Pouilly, where with two
scouts he advanced more than 500 meters
beyond the American outposts, crossing
Evening star., 1942-10-11
By WiIlian l.. W0rden,
Wide World.

if captured. Some other bodies are not
japanese.
But the foot soldiers are battling in
their own Way-engineers, infantry, artil-
lery. Most Alaska combat posts started
from scratch less than year ago-and
the men have been scratching ever since
to get gun positions built, roads con-
structed, airfields cut from the tundra.
Swamps where caribou were thick
year ago have no caribou within miles
today-they simply moved away because
they were unable to stand the constant
clatter of bulldozers and the clashing of
truck gears. |
Ready for Anything.
OF course, every combat post is on con-
slant alert. Dutch Harbor was not too
much surprised by the June raid of Jap
anese planes; and none of the combat
posts would be surprised at all if another
raid came tonight. Every gun, every
observation post is on 24-hour basis
Not even the professional strategists are
sure what the japanese will do next, but
the air force, the artillery and the infan-
try are taking precautions against every
thing but raid from Mars
In these posts, officers and men are
too busy to be jittery. The sound of
plane arouses no more interest than
blast from the horn of a passing jeep.
And the soldiers are more worried about
whether caribou horns can be carved
into satisfactory pistol handles than they
are about when the japanese may attack
AS for Dutch Harbor, that town just
wishes the Japs would try to come
again. Not once, but half dozen times
IN single day there, men said to me,
Il wish they'd try to come again. BY
Evening star., 1942-10-11
Somerve Brought Wide Experience Service of Supply job
General Pushes Demods Eli Annys Needs

in February, 1941, Gen. Somervell, then
in charge of the War Department con-
struction program, Endorsed the investi-
cation although his own agency was
under fire by Senator Truman. AT the
time, Gen. Somervell said that he IA
vored this or any other official investiga-
tion, explaining that such congressional
checks would help to keep contractors
from trying to rob the Government
The Truman committee has been criti-
cal of some of Gen. Somervells activi-
ties, but he recognizes its worth.
THE Truman committee" Gen. Som
ervell says, lis a regularly constituted
and responsible governmental agency. It
has its own Investigators holds public
are misleading or incomplete, we are
given an opportunity to present our
side of the case"
Gen. Somervell said that he welcomed
newspaper criticism as long as it was
constructive. He agreed that such criti-
cism had helped clean up the rubber
mess and created public sentiment for
Nationwide gasoline rationing. BY
constructive criticism" he said he
meant through examination of all phases
of the problem with suggestions for
alternatives.
But what arouses me-" he continued,
"are the curbstone experts and bar-room
strategists, who are utterly misinformed
and irresponsible yet have an answer
for everything. There is only one worse
group. It is composed of alleged experts
who make statements that can be quoted
by Axis propagandists or used to create
disunity here. am referring to few
admirals and generals and Senators who
criticize the various armed services or
our allies. This is very dangerous. But
the worst of the lot are the alleged ex-
perts who know exactly how to win the
war with their own pet idea"
The 28 years intervening between
Somervell's graduation from West Point
In 1914 and his appointment as COM
Evening star., 1942-10-11

AN ADVANCED ARMY POST IN
ALASKA.-The war in Alaska is not
being fought on the tourist routes.
1t is being fought in country where a
tree is rarity and caribou trail looks
as friendly as paved highway.
The combat posts OF the United States
Army are not beautiful. They do not
conform to the square with parade
ground middle pattern OF peace
time forts.
These Alaskan posts are places OF dirt
walls around tents and barracks, OF v or
S shaped slit trenches outside almost
every door, of fox holes that are menaces
to life and limb on dark nights. And if
the stranger has a hard time finding
the post eadquarters-well, japanese
might not find the powerhouse, either.
Dress Uniforms Forgotten.
The commanders left their dress
blouses somewhere else, and the blue uni
form of full dress is something out OF an
old memory book The hills are the same
as they always were, unless you look
closely. II you do look closely, you find
out why all the japanese planes did not
return from the Dutch Harbor raid in
June.
OF course, the air war at the moment
is the important war here. Foot soldiers
have yet to see action, but the planes
that roar over the top of tents and huts
are not on training missions. And the
emptiness of subArctic beaches is broken
washed in. Some are japanese officers
wearing the ceremonial belly-band which
is supposed by tradition to make them
invincible land is, incidentally, nice
place to conceal an extra knife or pistol
Evening star., 1942-10-11

three branches of the Meuse River and
successfully encountering the enemy"
Gen. Somervell has also the Distin-
guished Service Medal for his engineer
ing work in France, his citation stating
that che displayed unusuak vision, in
itiative, sound judgment and high pro-
fessional skill, contributing in a con-
spicuous way to the successful operations
of the American forces in France" His
work during the present emergency al
ready has won him the Oak Leaf Cluster
for his D. S. M. The latest award was
for clearing up the Quartermaster Corps
building situation, the immediate cause
of the Truman investigation.
Made Rhine Survey.
After the armistice Gen. Somerveu
went to Coblenz with the Army of Oc-
cupation. of which he was assistant chief
OF staff of the supply division. Here he
met Walter D. Hines, director of Amer
ican railroads, who was impressed bv
the young officers ability and poise. Five
years later Mr.. Hines persuaded the
Army to give Somervell a six-month
leave SO he could join in a League of
Nations survey of the transportation
facilities of the Rhine and Danube
Rivers.
On his return to this country from
Coblenz, Gen. Somervell again was at
.tached to the Chief Engineers Office in
Washington and began his advanced
professional courses. He was graduated
from the Engineers School and later was
an honor graduate of the Command and
General Staff School at Fort Leaven-
worth. He also was graduated by the
Army War College in Washington.
Still comparatively young man, he
was successfully in charge of the WASH
ington River and Harbor district, presi-
dent OF the Mississippi River Commits
sion at Vickshurg and Washington and
assistant district engineer at Memphis
In 1888 foreign service, again called
Evening star., 1942-10-11
BY Raymond p. Brandt.

When 1t. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell
chief of the Services of Supply, told
st. Louis audience recently that Amer
leans must temporarily put aside their
peacetime differences and unite as never
before, he spoke with an intimate knowl-
edge of what the war will cost this
country in effort, materials and personal
sacrifices.
On this 50-year-old native of Arkansas,
who participates in all important staff
decisions, falls the heavy responsibility
of keeping millions of American soldiers,
wherever they may be, adequately
housed, fed, equipped and supplied. In
addition, he has much to say about the
production and distribution of lease lend
and other aid to our Allies. When the
second front and other offensives are
started his will be the blame if the gen.
erals in the field lack the tools to finish
the job Whatever the tactical moves
they must be backed up with adequate
supplies
1t is Gen. Somervell's job to see that
Army requirements are fulfilled This
has made him controversial figure and
occasioned countless news stories, gossip
column insinuations and diplomatic
whisperings that he is continually fight
ing with Donald Nelson, War Production
Board chairman, trying to take over the
WPB, chairman. trying to take over the
by insistence that American Army needs
take precedence over lease-lend aid.
Gen. Somervell has maintained dis
Greet silence under a barrage of personal
criticism. Adverse publicity leaves him
unmoved and he does not take time away
from his 12-to-16-hour working day to
answer it.
He does not object to legitimate and
constructive criticism from congress
sional committees and newspapers.
When Senator Truman of Missouri was
seeking adoption of his resolution Tor
investigation of national defense back
Evening star., 1942-10-11
Stain Statement Deemed Sign
Russia Is Not Sure of Allies
Implication Britain Is Not Fulfilling Obligations
May Be Intended for Use Later to Free
BY FeHx Morley.

case for diplomatic niceties. The Com
munist technique, moreover, has never
laid great stress on international eti-
quette.
Whether or not Stain is being forced
to consider a separate peace, the imme-
diate future of Russia is dreadful beyond
our power to imagine. Under the cir
cumstances the Premier seems fully JUS
titled in telling his people, and the world
that some of the blame for suffering
which lies ahead should be attributed to
Washington and London.
There is a third reason for Stalin's
anxiety to underline on the record the
failure of the United Nations to give
adequate aid to Russia. If the Soviet
Union survives the present ordeal and
thereby becomes major factor in event.
ual victory, its leaders will have their
own ideas as to the eventual peace. And
they may not want those ideas to be cir
cumscribed.
Russia's blueprint of postwar Europe
is likely, by American standards, to be
startling. Hitler's last speech showed no
disposition to be merciful to the swamp
humans" as he termed the Russians.
There is no reason to suppose that Stain
will be less restrained if his dictatorship
obtains the upper hand. The German
objective is to make Russia powerless for
all time. The Russian objective, if the
tide turns will be to guarantee the same
result in the case of Germany
In other words, if dictated peace is
in order, Russia may not see the point of
any fragile obligations concerning char
ters Or freedoms for Central and Western
Europe. And this seems to be implied
by Stains current reminder that. if Hit
Ter is beaten, it will be due to Russian
effort and not to that Anglo American
aid which Moscow has weighed and
found wanting.
The coming winter will probably show
just why Stain decided at this moment
to 60 on record as being strongly dis
satisfied with the assistance somewhat
glibly promised during the visit of For
eign Commissar Molotoff to Washington
in June. At present it can only be noted
that the biting statement of the Russian
L iSAlASi Souio NC llldOC CQudlly ScINlCG-
able whether Russia makes separate
peace, fights on in agony to no conclu-
sion or scores a punitive victory over
Germany. In any case the statement of
October could be of ultimate utility.
For the moment, the Stain statement
may seem water over the dam. But it is
worthy of the most serious reflection 1t
emphasizes the lack of diplomatic as
well as military unity which is found in
the camp of the United Nations. Russia
is not yet regarded as being partner in
wholly good standing And Stain has
unmistakaby served notice that he ap-
preciates the situation fand in conse-
Russia's private advantage.
Evening star., 1942-10-11

mander of the Service Supply in March
of this year were filled with exceptional
opportunities to prepare for exactly the
work he is now in. Some of these op-
portunities Gen. Somervell made for
himself: others he enhanced with con-
siderable tact and imagination. His
family moved from his native Little
Rock, to Washington, when he was Is
years old. He knows the National Cap
ital and the ways of politics, diplomacy
and bureaucracy.
Mental discipline came easily to him
as youth. His father was a physician
and his mother. before her marriage, had
been school teacher. In Washington
the elder Somervells established the Bel
court Seminary for young women.
Somervell was popular at West Point
and his high rank in class enabled him
to select his own branch Of the service.
Evening star., 1942-10-11

God, just wish they'd try!"
Physical damage of the raid four
months ago just doesn't show for the
most part. There is one building-an
Indian Service hospital-wth its end
Dashed in. Nothing else in that area
was hit.
Civilians Are Evacuated.
What war actually has done to Dutch
Harbor and its people is harder to an
alyze quickly. On most maps, Dutch
Harbor does not appear as settled
town but Unalaska does. In the last
four months, that situation virtually has
been reversed.
The naval and military establishments
which comprise Dutch Harbor have
grown while the adjacent village, in
corporated only few years ago, is rap
idly becoming a ghost town. Where
there were over 400 civilians when the
war began, there now are only about so,
all whites. The natives were evacuated
to Southeast Alaska, all white children
and all but five women followed, going
to various places in Alaska and in the
United States.
The few men left have difficulty know
ing what to do with themselves. Mer-
chants look helplessly at shelves which
hold only necessities. Attorney and
Commissioner Jack Martin finds few
court cases and little law business The
old double-spired Russian church still
opens its door to a few Pensioners but
no priest remains, only lay minister
The Unalaska Steak House still sports
its brave sign but it seldom has steak
to offer.
But nobody is afraid.
Evening star., 1942-10-11
Premier Of Belgium
Returns to London

Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot has re-
turned to London from his voyage to the
United States and to the Belgian Congo.
He Travelled by plane without incident.
Both in the United States and in the
Belgian Congo Mr.. Pierlot had number
of talks concerning vital questions for
Belgium and the Belgian Congo and
the prime minister has returned to
England greatly encouraged.
Everywhere the welcome was enthusi-,
astic anG the Prime Minister was con-
vinced of the deep feeling of patriotism
in the Belgian Congo.
The population of the colony realizes
all that is at stake in this war and is
determined to contribute to the utmost
until victory is achieved. thanks to an
efficacious inter-Allied cooperation.
Evening star., 1942-10-11
Jews in Belgium
Conscripted for Labor

All Jews of foreign nationality living
in occupied Belgium have been con-
scripted to carry out productive work
Tor German economy.
OF the $4,000 inhabitants registered as
Jews, $4,000 are of foreign nationality.
In communique published in Brussels
it is said that certain Jews tried to elude
the obligation by escaping to neighboring
territories.
For this reason the same measure has
been applied In Holland and France.