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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Ex-Fugitive Keeps
$3.50

David Mitchell, 20, a former in
mate of the Lima State hospital
was $6,190 richer Wednesday despite
Cincinnati judges declaration that
Mitchell's story was unworthy of
belief.
Ownership of large old-style paper
currency worth that amount has
been debated in the Hamilton county
courts since 1910, with three persons
other than Mitchell claiming a right
to the money. Judge Louis ]. Sch
neider threw up his hands Tuesday
and said "the source of the money
remains a mystery to this court, "
and awarded it to Mitchell.
Mitchell escaped from the Lima
institution May IA, 1910, and was
captured by Cincinnati police 10 days
later, his pockets bulging with cur
rency. He told officers there was a
fellow inmate at the Lima hospital
named Phil, told him of concealing
the money in a metal box in Cincin-
natl, and drew a map showing the
location. Mitchell said he memorized
the map, fled from the hospital and
found the money in well at a
home there.
When officers pointed out that the
home he indicated had been inun-
dated in the 1887 food, and that the
money was not water-damaged, he
claimed he was mistaken, and point
ed out another home, and then a
third. In all, three persons claimed
ownership of the money.
Meanwhile Mitchell was returned
to the Lima institution, and was re-
leased in December, 1910, listed as
cured.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Bentley Leaves No
Will

Carl H. Neville, business partner
of the late Harry 0. Bentley, pioneer
Lima corporation attorney was
named administrator of his estate
by Probate Judge Raymond P. Smith
Saturday.
Bentley died without leaving will
and his estate was tentatively esti-
mated for administrative purposes
at 100000. The court ordered a
number of securities posted with the
National Bank of Lima in lieu of
the customary bond equal to double
the amount of the estate, and ac-
cepted $4,000 additional surety
bond.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
PUTNAM COUNTY
Putnam Fair Opens

Tuesday of this week marked the
opening of the annual Putnam Coun-
ty fair and despite war conditions the
officials of the fair are looking for
ward to large displays, many entries
for the race events and a large at
tendance on each of the five days
and three nights.
Rides for the fair made their ap-
pearance on the grounds over the
week end. Stock exhibits are ex-
pected to reach their usual record
and the only vacancies on the dis
play grounds and in the buildings
will be caused by machinery and
equipment upon which restrictions
have been placed on account of the
war.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

custody in the 100 block of w. High
street on a non-support warrant is-
sued in Lima municipal court. Mon
day evening, while seated in the AL
len county jail office, Carper escaped
through the kitchen door and down
the alley
But Carper wasn't too smart. The
youth probably forgot he had men
toned to Sheriff Daley his intentions
of joining a branch of the armed
forces.
Tuesday morning when Carper ar
rived at the recruiting office in the
basement of the Lima post office, the
sheriff was there to greet him-but
not too cordially.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Red Cross Ships $50
Sweaters

Mrs. Clara Stewart, executive sec
retary of the Hardin county chapter
of the American Red Cross, an
nounced Wednesday that the local
chapter has made shipment of 120
Army sweaters, so Navy sweaters,
80 army helmets and 33 pair of sea-
boot stockings, to be used by the
American armed forces. The gar
ments are to be sent to the Red
Cross depot for transfer to field di-
rectors at embarkation points for
distribution.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Knife Wielder Held
At KentOn

George Blue, of Kenton, is report
ed recovering in Antonio hospital
from knife wounds received in an al
tercation Saturday night with Oscar
McLain, who is being held in the
city jail.
Charges of cutting with intent to
wound and kill were filed by Blue
against McClain, whose hearing has
not yet been held.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Two Army Deserters
Caught

Admitting that they deserted the
Army at Camp Chaffee, Ark, two
youths are being held for Army au-
thorities in the Putnam county jail
by Sheriff Arnold Potts.
Jack Filcox and Frederick Kraus,
both 10, are the youths. They were
arrested on the William Leopold
farm southwest of Kalida by Sheriff
Potts and Marshal Joseph Slusser
of Columbus Grove who learned of
the circumstances surrounding the
pair.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Parking Dispute Ends
In Court

Four cases, of varied content were
on the docket Wednesday morning
in Lima municipal court, where
Judge Nj. B. Jenkins presides.
William Bady, AZ, colored, of Lima
was charged with disorderly con-
duct by profane language, and was
assessed the court costs when he
pleaded guilty. Bady, the court was
informed was involved in an argu,
ment with another motorist over q
park space, his protestations reach
ing an extreme pitch even after po-
lice arrived.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Army Deserters Re-
turned To Canada

John Bethel and James R. Wildes,
two Canadian soldiers absent with
out leave, We're arrested by the state
patrol in Findlay 10 minutes after
they had taken a car from North
Main street, Sept II. They will be
turned over to the immigration au-
thorities for return to their military
outfits across the border. This was
the recommendation of the Hancock
county grand jury meeting in a one
day session Monday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
"Worm Day" At Find.
lay College

Strangest spectacle of the "worm
day" celebration at Fnidlay college
Wednesday was provided by Miss
Ruth Ann Dutton, freshman from
Mendon, who carried her "pet" in
side an apple, simultaneously inn
prisoning and displaying the crea-
ture by means of transparent Scotch
tape. Humorous comments were in
scribed on the surface of the apple
as well.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Findlay College Gets
Large Bequest

For the second time in recent
weeks, Findlay college was the re-
cipient of a bequest in excess of
$4,000, it was announced Wednesday
following the settlement of the estate
of Mrs. Fannie Laverty, of Harris
burg, Pa, who after providing for
local benevolences, left the remainder
of her property to the college
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
HOlstein Sets Record

A registered Holstein COW, Colan-
tha Ollie Burke Inka, in the herd
owned by Melvin r. Zimmerly of
Bluffton, has just completed a record
of 525 pounds of butterfat and H.
$50 pounds of milk, according to an
nouncement made by The Holstein-
Friesian association of America.
"Colantha" was MIXED two times
day during her record-making
milking period which began when
she was two years two months of
age.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Girls Rally To Help
Farmers

Six Ottawa girls are doing their
part toward helping Putnam county
farmers harvest their 1912 crops in
the face of labor shortage.
The sextet first went to the HON.
er Rogers farm east of Ottawa a
few evenings ago and assisted him
in picking up potatoes which had
been dug. Then they shifted their
energies to the Ray Pierman farm
southeast of Ottawa where they have
begun picking up corn.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
ALLEN COUNTY
VandalS Smash Home
Windows

One of the most vicious outbreaks
of vandalism in Lima in many years
occurred Thursday night as eight
Lima residents had home and auto
mobile windows smashed by brick
throwers.
Police Chief Goodwin said he
would withhold official comment un-
til the rock throwers were caught,
which he intimated would be soon.
1t was believed that the vandal acts
were performed by somebody with a
mental "quirk" rather than by juve-
niles committing Halloween pranks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Tiffin Man Dies In
Crash

Alcide Albert Dandurand, 46, of
Tiffin, was killed almost instantly at
about $3.50 a. m. last Thursday at
the intersection of state route SO
and the Harrod road, in Alger. His
machine collide6 with another which
was operated by Miles Bramstetter
of Alger route /.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
% Cited AS War
Speeders

The names of % Findlay and Han
cock county. automobile owners have
been turned over to the local ration
ing board by the state highway pa
troll as having violated the war-re-
duced 40-mile-per-hour speed limit.
The board said that the 28 per-
sons will not be eligible for new
tires, tubes or even recaps if they
make applications for such.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Jealous Exhibitor
Causes Trouble

Things always happen at county
fair. Take, for instance, the diff
culties that arose when a youth ar
rived at the Hardin county fair
grounds Wednesday with his prize
rooster and hens, only to find every
poultry pen filled with stock of ar
rivals.
Fair officials said the boy calmly
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Wrecked Cars Driver
Sought

County officials this week were in
vestigating the ownership of car
which was struck by a fast east
bound freight at the Erie crossing
on the brickmill road crossing just
over the river bridge.
No one was in the car and the
owner could not be found. Indica-
tions were that possibly the machine
might have been stolen and aban-
doned on the track. The plates were
Ohio licenses but not from around
this part of the state.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
First SOybeans On
Market

The first load of the 1912 crop of
soybeans was delivered to the J. C.
Hochstettler and Sons elevator in
Findlay Friday afternoon.
Two hundred bushels came from
the farm of Ed Dulgar on the New
Haven road. They are of the Early
Richland variety and tested 10 per
cent moisture. The beans graded
No. for which the government
price is SLIGO per bushel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Sheriff SpOils Fugi-
tive'S Enlistment

And now the young man, notwith-
standing good intentions to join Un-
Gle Sans fighting forces, is reposing
safely and soundly in a cell in Al
len county jail.
On Monday afternoon of last week
Sheriff w. V. Daley took Benton
Carper, %, of the C. M. c. A. into
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08

chased the poultry from another
youths pen and replaced them with
his own. Tempers fared and the
fair directors found themselves hav-
ing to exercise all the tact at their
command to prevent a breach be-
tween the boys, their parents, and
the agriculture society. At last the
problem was solved to the satisfac-
tion of everyone.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Old Age Workers Is
Sought

An examination for subdivision
manager of the Putnam county office
of the division of aid for the aged
will be held in the courthouse on
October 21.
The Ohio Civil Service Commission
which will be in charge of the ex-
animation has announced the date
A vacancy now exists in the man
agership of the office because of the
recent resignation of T. C. Hipkins
of Leipsic. He has entered the Red
Cross field service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Ada Has Practice
BlackOut

Ada's first practice blackout of the
war was held Monday at 8 p. M,
when all lights were out for 10 min
utes. The warning signal for this
practice air raid blackout was the
blowing of the fire siren. The "all
clear" siren was heard 10 minutes
later.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
HARDIN COUNTY
Friends Die In DOla
Shack

A beet worker of Dola was found
dead Wednesday night in the same
shack where his partner died five
days earlier. =
Gustave Dheere, around 60, who
was believed to have died sometime
Tuesday night was not found until
Wednesday evening when a friend
stopped in the shack.
Last Saturday, his friend and part
ner in beet work, Agreil Dent, died
of pneumonia.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08

the twin enrolment of this section
was put forth this week by officials
of Pandora schools.
There are five sets of twins en-
rolled in the local system with two
of the sets being from the same
family. Likewise, two sets of the
twins are identical pairs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Claims Record Sweet
Potatoes

J. H. Myers, of Lima, thinks he
established something of record for
raising sweet potatoes in some gard
en- lots on st. John avenue just south
of East Fourth street He dug two
potatoes, one weighing four pounds
and half and the other three and
a half pounds.
The earth had not been turned
for two years and proved exception
ally rich. The potatoes were solid
and perfectly formed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Drives 10 Miles With
Fatal Burns

Lewis Schaub, 80, of near Uni
opolis, died late Tuesday afternoon
in Lima Memorial hospital from
burns received at midnight Sunday
when an oil stove in his farm home
exploded.
Schaub drove more than 10 miles
to the home of a brother-in-law,
Melvin Morris, near ST. Johns after
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Held For Sixth Traffic
OffenSe

A woman motorist and a cab driv-
er who had been arrested for five
previous major traffic offenses and
been in two accidents, headed the
list of traffic law violators Saturday
at Lima police headquarters.
Mable Kearns, 20, 578 S. Metcalf
street was arrested early Saturday
morning in 100 S. Metcalf street
and charged with driving while un-
der the influence of alcohol.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
HANCOCK COUNTY
Workers Hand Is
Torn Off

When he attempted to remove some
dirt from a pulley on a stone dis
tributor on the Nickel Plate Railroad
near McComb last week the left
hand of Paul LaComb, 81, Old
Forge, Pa, was caught in the belt
and torn off at the wrist.
LaComb was taken to the McComb
hospital where a part of his arm
also was amputated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Two Get Masonic
Honor

American democracy and free
masonry are interviewer closely, said
Burleigh Cartmell of Springfield, at
a dinner meeting in Findlay last
week honoring O. d. Donnell and
DR.. E. V. Burns who were made
33rd degree Masons last week in
Boston.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
125 Claimants Found
For S244,206

One hundred twenty-five persons
have established kinship to the late
Miss Florence Barr, former Findlay
school teacher, who died last year
leaving an estate of $244,206 but
with no direct heirs or will, probate
court records reveal.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Unique Address Puz-
Zles Post Office

At loss to know what to do with
a letter addressed to the German
Eradicator Co., Findlay, Ohio, the
postman delivered it to local draft
board.
Clerks Goldie Which and Maxine
Kollmeier opened it only to find this:
II understand you have guaran-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Corn Averages 15
Feet High

Iowa isn't the only locality where
the tall corn scars to unreasonable
heights. Elmer Dangler, south of
Vanlue, has 81 acres of corn which
will average at least 10 feet tall.
The variety is Iowa 939.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08

Up to September 13, Ohio farmers
had taken 10,717 government loans
totaling $4,128,987.9S on about 26,-
100000 bushels of 1912 wheat.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Findlay Man In FBI
Movie

Marvin Keirns, a Findlay young
man now a senior in pre-medics at
Harvard university, has a role in the
new March of Time film "The FBI
Front.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08

teed preparation for removing knots
on hook joints on mules and horses.
Please send me your prices"
The letter bore an 0rrick, Mo-,
postmark.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08

his wife, Ella, had pumped water on
his burning clothing in an attempt
to put out the fire. The farm home
was burned to the ground.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08
Five Sets Of Twins
In School

Claim to some kind of record for
Evening star., 1942-06-01
Question of European Invasion
Finds Australians Divided
Liberal Press Thinks Britoin Is Long Overdue
ToToke Risk; Opposition Denounces Ideu

action to open discussion of a sec
ond front. Almost every act of ag-
gression by Germany has been made
with the excuse of acting to pre-
vent" Britain, Russia or the United
States doing something else This
is part of Germany,s mass pathology
Of persecution, which Hitler brought
into full power of abnormality.
Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Hol-
land, Yugoslavia and Greece were
all examples of "acting to prevent"
dastardly Allied plans.
In Vienna, while your corre-
spondent was held by the Gestapo
almost exactly year ago, the first
lines he read announcing the war
were, Russia planned to attack
Germany next August" An op-
| posite headline read: "Fuehrer is
always right" Both the Balkan
and the Russian campaigns were
efforts by Germany to open fronts
on her own terms before her enemies
| did.
Perhaps the significance Of Mar
shall Erwin Rommels drive in
Northern Africa is that Germany
no longer wishes to act instantly
on Hitler's pathological suggestions
| that an attack by the Allies is i'm
minent. Perhaps this time, Ger
many will try to content herself
with increasing the Allies liabilities
on the African front rather than
making the first move herself in
the low countries.
The old persecution complex no
longer can rear up on its hind legs
and shrek its grievances in the
language of an outraged bully.
Worries for Hitler.
There was considerable evidence
early in the spring that Germany
was stealthily sending parachute
forces to secret airdromeS in France
and the low countries. But now. on
the whole, 1t seems most likely that
Hitler will observe the Vaccinations
of his "Anglo-Saxon. democratic,
plutocratic, Judeo-Masonic" an
/ tangonists, without acting in self
| defense" Hitler has second front
worries, too, and hopes to be able to
impress the japanese sufficiently
with the progress in Libya and
Western Russia to persuade Japan
/ to forget about Australia and open
a second front during the summer
against Russia.
But Japan, knowing that the
/ United States is slowly getting
stronger in the Western Pacific, does
not quite dare open an Axis second
/ front in the Pacific, knowing that
the summer months are the most
dangerous for an American thrust
across the Northern Pacific from
Alaska.
Who can open?"
The same question Is heard In
this enormous poker game as in
! lesser games. Nobody exactly wants
to say, Il can open" And for Rus
sia. it is absolutely vital that all the
/ openings should be done on the
western side of the EuraSian table,
rather than the Oriental side.
Nobody wants to open. But
somebody is going to have to.
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J. B. Jones Heads Engineers

BLACKSBURG, June tP,.-Prof.
J. B. Jones, head of the mechanical
engineering department at Virginia
Tech, has been elected chairman of
the Virginia section of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Prof. F. S. Roop, jr., secretary, an
nounced yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-06-01

George Weuer's dispatch be-
lou, filed shortly before Satur-
days gigantic air blitz of Cologne
and other German centers by the
Royal Air Force, surveys AuStra-
liam opinion on the issue of a Sec
Ond front and Allied inUaSion OF
the European cOntinent)
Evening star., 1942-06-01
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Evening star., 1942-07-08

of the United Nations have been
substantially increased since the
fall of Tobruk, there are reasons
to believe that the Luftwaffe has
been similarly augmented.
Concern for Iraq Oil.
The total United Nations forces
land, sea and air-are neces-
sarily inferior to those the Axis
has at it's disposal, not only in
Egypt, but also in the northern
Mediterranean basin.
The Nazis' objective in this
summer campaign is twofold: In
Russia to pulverize the Soviet
armies, not necessarily occupy
more territory; in the Near East
to reach the oil fields of Iraq
and if things 60 we'll to occupy
the Caucasian oil fields.
For this purpose Hitler is like
ly to develop two pincers move
ments. First he may advance
on Iraq by way of Egypt and the
Suez Canal on one side and Sy-
ria on the other. II this opera
ton is successful he will be in
position for the second envelop-
ing movement against the Cau-
casus with an attack across the
Korch Strait and from Iran
through Eastern Turkey.
While very few observers be-
lieve Hitler will succeed in pull
verizing the Russians. there is
grave concern that his effort to
seize the oil of the Caucasus and
Iraq may produce results.
Evening star., 1942-07-08
This Changing World
Decisive Bottle Doubtful on Eastern Front
Despite Spectacular Successes Of Nozis

Iran. they are hardly sufficient
to withstand a determined at
tack by Hitler's forces, which
have been preparing themselves
for such a campaign ever since
the fall of Greece and Crete.
"Other Developments" Near.
Although Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel has been temporarily
checked, he continues to be a
tremendous danger to United Ma
tions forces defending Alexan-
dria and the Suez Canal. He
has adopted an offensive-defen-
sive strategy while his troops,
which have pushed forward 800
miles in 10 days, are resting and
awaiting reinforcements,
Marshal Rommels losses, how
ever, have been relatively small
and he will undoubtedly resume
the offensive as soon as there Is
the slightest indication that the
British are no longer receiving
reinforcements or are compelled
by other developments to with
draw some of their units from
the present front. These other
developments" may occur any day
now.
The presence of Nazi para
chutists on the islands bordering
the mainland of Asia Minor has
been confirmed for several weeks.
The existence of a large feet OF
invasion barges in the Aegean
Sea also has been confirmed. And
while it is true that the air forces