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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-09-25
DATELINE

Executive Board office Now we
fail to recall any instance when
this bogus theory has been put
to test BY determined prN-
convention campaign and we are
willing 10 wagcr that II one-half
Of tho energy expended IN the
interest ~ deserving MORO
candidate, and such campaisn
hrackcted with a worthwhile pro-
cram. as Is being spent hy Ne
groos in tho interest ~ present
Roari Nomhers who prefer 70
appcase their ego With an aldo
ae-camp status. fho results Of
their effort would he mos graf
living
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Survives Five Ship
Sinkings

John w. Rutledge, yeoman 1-c, U.
S. Navy, surprised his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse Rutledge, of Ada
when he arrived home on leave for
the first time in three years.
He was stationed at Pearl Harbor
on the U. S. S. California when it
was sunk, Dec. Z, 1941. Injured
when Japanese bombs overturned a
piece of heavy equipment and crushed
his ankle, he spent the next five
months in the hospital.
Since that time he has participat-
ed in four major naval battles in the
Pacific, and has survived the sinking
of four different ships on which be
was stationed. Besides the service
badges of battles in the Pacific and
Asiatic theaters, he wears the navy
badge for good conduct, AMI the Pur-
pie Heart for injury IN action.
After spending several days in
Ada, Rutledge reported to Dallas
Texas, for flight training.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Tots Are Lost, Arouse
Home At $3.50 A. M.

An astounded South Lima resi-
dent answered a call at his front
door at $3.50 a. m. and came face to
face with two small boys who were
unable to give an account of their
presence or properly identify them
selves.
The resident explained he had
heard a car door slam scarcely a
minute before the boys came to his
door.
With these details provided Lima
police on the night shift pondered
the possibilities of lost, Kidnapped or
abandoned children. There had been
no reports of missing children, so the
other two possibilities were consid-
cred.
A frantic mother called in the
morning, clearing the mystery and
relieving her own feelings to find
the children safe in the hands of
police.
Officers said the children had been
left with another family, but had
awakened during the night and left
the house, apparently intent on try
ing to go home. They were not
missed until the mother called for
them in the morning. The children
are three and five years of age.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
War Jobs Held By
Five Lawyers

The law is an important thing
but to six men at the Westinghouse
Lima plant, war production is equal
ly important in furthering the best
interests of our country.
The six men, lawyers by profes-
sion, are doing a little more than
their share by putting in an S-hour
day at a defense plant in addition
to their professional work.
The lawyers are working at var
ious jobs. Two of them are located
IN Time Study work, one is a tester,
another an Inspector and one of
them operates a barring mill machine
and still another is in the produc-
tion department.
George Bowers, William Guyton,
j. H. McHugh, Daniel McKeever.
Joseph Labadie and Lyman Clark
are the double duty lawyers" La
badie and Guyton reside in Lima.
Bowers is from Spencerville, McKeev-
er from Wapakoneta, Clark from AL
ger and McHugh from Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Mother And Baby
Have Narrow Escape

A mother and her three-week old
baby at Findlay escaped without a
scratch when a two-wheel trailer be-
ing towed by a truck broke loose,
ran over a curb, and crashed into a
dwelling, shattering large window.
Mrs. Edward Buck was seated
near the window holding the baby
in her lap when the trailer smashed
into the building, damaging the sid
ing as well as breaking the upper
and lower sash, Police Captain
Wayne Ethel said following an in
vestigation.
Russell Sheldon, 81, Dunkirk, who
was driving the truck with his faith
er, Bert Sheldon, riding with him,
said a tire on the trailer blew out,
causing it to weave and break loose.
The elder Sheldon Immediately ar
ranged for the installation of glass
in the window and for the payment
of other damage to the house.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Child Escapes Pheas-
ant Raid

Ned Powell, 17-month-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dotson Powell, of
Findlay, was playing innocently in
his play pen, happy in the knowl-
edge that his mother and new baby
sister would be home soon from the
hospital, when suddenly his world
literally shattered around him.
A pheasant flew through the din
ing room window, directly above his
play pen, scattering glass all over
him but miraculously leaving him
unscathed.
The pheasant, as frightened as
little Ned, flew frantically around
the room and into the living room
where ten-year-old Lane Powell was
sitting by the radio. 1t perched for
a time on the davenport, then made
for what it thought was the nearest
exit--a window. The window glass
was not broken but small vase on
the sill was shattered.
Mrs. Ted Moore, sister of Mrs
Powell, who was upstairs, heard the
confusion and came rushing down.
A neighbor Mrs Wally Peterson
telephoned another neighbor William
Wright, who came to the rescue and
captured the bird. He couldn't kill
it thought was a hen-so he took
if to the meat market of his father
in-law, SO that he could show the
evidence when he told his strange
tale.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Allen County Rural
Schools Get SAL ,403

Fourth quarterly state school foun-
dation funds were distributed to the
Allen county rural school districts
by County Supt. Willard nj. Floyd.
The payments totaled SAL, ,409.24
for the 10 districts in Allen county
This quarterly distribution boosted
the total for 1943 to S173,841.16.
The amounts received by the var.
ious districts for the last quarter OF
1943 follow:
Auglaize, $3,932.43; Bath, s2,.
792.41; Beaverdam, S2,533.S7; Cairo
s1,1s0.22; Elida, s5,645.sO; Lafay-
ette-Jackson, $5,842.32; Perry, So,
421.97; Shawnee, $6,252.3S; Spencer
vile, S6,692.74, and Sugar Greek
S3,1O9.10.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Scout Meet Scheduled

The Hancock county district COM
mittee for Boy Scouts set Thursday,
Dec. Is, as the tentative date for the
annual district meeting, according to
H. H. Chadbourne, chairman of the
group that met recently. The meet
ing will be held at the Elks.
Officers will be elected for the
coming year. Members of the NOM
mating committee are Frank Car
penter, Richard Rhea and Henry l..
Shafer. Those who will attend the
meeting will include members of the
district committee and chairman Of
each troop committee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Hancock Turns In 1O7
Tons Of Scrap

The intensive Hancock county sal
wage campaign is coming to a close
with the results exceeding the ex-
pectations of the workers. A total
of lot tons of scrap have been turned
in with work in the Arlington and
Mt. Blanchard area still to come.
Of this total, 30 tons were OF
paper and rags, ten tons of tin cans,
10 to II tons of rubber, and the re-
mainder of heavy metal.
The work is in charge of the vo-ag
high school boys of the county and
the salvage is all donated by the
farmers with the proceeds from the
sale going to school purposes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Realtors Favor LennOx
Plant Expansion

For the best interests of Lima's
industrial future, city council should
grant the Lennox Furnace Co. per-
mission to construct new building
north of its present plant on North
Baxter street, in the opinion of the
members of the Lima Real Estate
Board.
A petition has been filed with the
Lima city council by the Lennox
firm requesting the revision of the
city zoning ordinance to permit the
construction of an industrial build
ing on the property owned by the
land holding company of the Lennox
firm opposite the present factory
building of the company.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
PUTNAM COUNTY
Car Crashes School
Bus; Two Hurt

Two persons were injured slightly
in a collision of an automobile and
parked school bus in route 65, north
of Cairo.
Ernest Boedicker, five and Miss
Jean Reeder, II, passengers in the
automobile of Mrs. Luella A. Purdy,
all of Columbus Grove received emer-
gency treatment at Cairo physicians
office.
The bus driver was Earl B. Struble
of Columbus Grove, r. r. and he
had parked in the highway awaiting to
transfer some of the students to an
other bus when Mrs. Purdy's car ap-
preached, hitting the left rear end of
the bus, state highway patrolmen re-
ported. Passengers in the bus es-
capped injury.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Air Corps Lieutenant
Killed In Action

Word has reached friends at Find
lay of the death of Second Lieuten-
ant Lawrence Spisak, of the Marine
Air Corps, who was killed in an
airplane crash recently at DeLand,
Florida. Lieut.. Spisak was sophie
more in Findlay college when he en-
listed in the air corps. He took his
civilian pilot and cross-country train
ing at Findlay.
He received his commission as Sec
ond lieutenant in the Marine Air
Corps Reserve Sept 2S, his 10th
birthday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
F. B. |. Meeting Set
For Dec. 3

1t. Elmer S. Bozell, a convalescent
patient at Fletcher General hospital,
Cambridge, Ohio, will be the guest
speaker at the open session of the
fourth quarter FBI Law Enforce
ment Conference Friday afternoon
in the Barr hotel, Lima, Ohio.
1t. Bozell served as Intelligence
Officer in the Army Air Corps from
Dec. 8, 1912 until Aug %, 1943,
when he became i'll. As member
of the anti-submarine command, with
headquarters in New York City, he
also participated in squadron trips
to several theatres of operations.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02

phoned his parents telling them that
he had arrived in New York.
He was injured Aug. [, in the bat
tie of Sicily, receiving shrapnel
wounds in the right arm, both legs
and the right foot. Before he en-
tered the service Pvt. Simpson was
employed as manager Of the meat
c ra1tmenr OF Ken ca cham :; r.
he now j.. hospitaliird in New
York.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Presidential Award Is
Given Findlay Sailor

Allen Emerson Humtley, Torpedo
mans Mate 1/c, recently received the
presidential unit citation awarded
the U. S. S Atlanta for outstanding
services in November, 1912, off
Guadalcanal. He is the son of Mrs.
Mildred F. Wisebaker, of Findlay.
Huntley was promoted for his ex-
ceptional conduct during this engage
ment in which the Atlanta was lost
Later he was transferred to a de-
stroyer which participated in six en-
gagements.
He has been promoted to torpedo
mans mate 1/c, and is now in tor
pedoman's school in Newport, r. /
Huntley enlisted in May, 1941.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Pre-InductiOn Training
Offered DrafteeS

Pre-induction training will be of
fered Allen county men about to be
called for military duty under the
direction of the William Paul Gallag-
her post, American Legion, Lima.
Men experienced in military prae-
tices and training will act as in
structors for these classes. There
will be instructors for all branches
of service so that it will make no
difference where the selectee or en-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02

well Morrison, the purple heart med
al and citation which he received for
wounds sustained in action in the
battle of Munda on New Georgia
island July 81.
Sgt. Morrison left Findlay with
Company C in 1910. He has fully
recovered and has rejoined his unit
and is now on an island in the
Southwest Pacific.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
McCOmb School Buys
Jeep

The students and teachers of the
McComb school have bought war
bonds and stamps and purchased
their first jeep for this school year.
The student council has been back
ing the purchase of two jeeps and
put on a campaign with a slogan
First Jeep by Thanksgiving.
The campaign was well worth
while as the purchases on a single
day ran as much as SS55.30 in bond
and stamp sales.
The student council named their
first ieep "The McComb Panther.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Salvation Army Set Up
Yule Kettles

Another reminder that Christmas
is not far in the offing came in an
nouncement that the Salvation Army
yuletide kettles will make their first
appearance of the season at Lima.
AS members of the organization
take up their posts at prominent
downtown corners, attention of busy
shoppers will be attracted by jing-
ling bells in the hands of Salvation
Army lassies and their assistants.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Lima Gambling To Be
PrObed

An "all-out" effort by police to
eradicate gambling in Lima was or
dered by Police Chief Kermit L.
Westbay.
Chief Westbay said complaints
have been received about gambling
at several places and he has in
structed the departments detective
division to conduct an investigation,
Sales of tickets, 'hot-shots", and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
ALLEN COUNTY
Three Die As Fire
Destroys Home

Robert Bates, 80, Lima war worker
and his children, Robert Jr. 3, and
Patricia Lee, 5, died early Sunday
as flames destroyed their small home
two miles west of Lima.
Coroner Harry Lewis said the
three were suffocated in first-foor
bedroom of the cottage Mr.. Bates
purchased a week ago.
Mrs. Bates, %, suffering from
shock and cuts on her hands and a
foot received when she shattered a
window and attempted to save her
husband and children, was reported
in fair condition in Memorial hos
pital
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Plan Second Lamb
Pool

The Hancock Flock and Fleece
association conducted lamb pool in
the Producers Cooperative Com
mission association stockyards.
Forty-two "blues" averaged 81
pounds and sold for $14.50; "a
"reds" averaged 81 pounds and sold
for S13.26; SO "yellows" averaged
SO pounds and sold for S11.50. Swift
and company purchased all market
grade lambs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Lima To Get 80 More
House Trailer Units

Installation of 90 more govern
ment t-owned trailers in South Lima
will be started at once, according to
Charleton F. Sharpe, regional di-
rector of the Federal Public Housing
Authority They will be situated
near other goyernment-operated trail
er camps which house several hun
dred war workers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Community Hospital
Planned For KentOn

Kenton's McKitrick hospital will
become a community hospital, with a
mortgage-burning ceremony and all
the trimmings, if plans of hospital
authorities materialize.
Funds necessary to pay of the
mortgage were raised recently a a
tlhee-day bazaar, and plans are be-
ing formed to burn the mortgage at
~ carly meeting of the Chan.ter of
Commerce.
More than 5000 was raised at the
bazaar, it was reported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Ada Football Star Now
Naval Ensign

Carl J. Jamison, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Jamison of Ada, received
the commission of ensign last week
at the completion of his officers
training course ar the Coast Guard
academy at New London, Conn. He
is now stationed as an engtn =. 80
officer at St. Augustine. Florida,
after spending short furIough at
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02

elected president of the Northwest
ern Ohio Association of County En-
gineers which met at Findlay. Other
officers named were: Vice president,
L. C. Rousch, Fremont; secretary
treasurer, @. II. Jones, Bowling
Green. Carl Ingle, Napoleon, is re
firing president.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Calf Club Sets Record

The Arlington Calf club is the
largest this year, in its existence of
five years. There are sixty-four
calves being fed by nineteen girls
and boys in the club. The drawings
for the calves averaged 457 pounds
each at cost of S14.50 per hundred
weight.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Dies Of Hunting
Injuries

Funeral services for Durward
Burns, 10, who suffered head injuries
in a hunting accident near kenton,
were held at Mansfield.
Burns died in White Cross hospital,
Columbus, Wednesday night after un-
dergoing a delicate brain operation
for the removal of 16 pellets and in
jured tissues.
The young man was an L. S. navy
aviation cadet stationed at Dennison
university.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
news NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

listee expects to be placed after his
induction.
This program is designed to better
fit the men about to enter military
service to serve their country. Fund
amentals of drilling and military dis
cipline are the principal items stress
ed in the course.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Fire Loss Set At
100000

Damage was estimated at more
than $4,000 resulting from fire
that destroyed the modern seed corn
drying plant of ]. B. Spahr in Hard
in county near Ada. Enough hybrid
seed corn to plant 10000 acres was
destroyed as flames, believed started
in a blower-fan motor, swept the
building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Check PaSSer Is
Sentenced

Donald Philpo, %, Pineville, KY,
who was released from the Toledo
Workhouse to face trial at Lima,
was sentenced to Mansfield Reforma-
tory after he pleaded guilty of de-
frauding an inn-keeper, and of issu-
ing fraudulent checks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Trailer Damaged In
Oil Stove Explosion

A fuel oil stove exploded in the
trailer residence of William Thorn
berry, parked near the state high
way garage, near Lima, resulting in
damage estimated at $50, Fire Chief
Harry Taflinger reported.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Seeks Sixth Term

State Representative l.. H. Myers,
Lima, a former minister announced
his candidacy for a sixth term. OBJ
servers said he would be eligible for
the speakership if reelected and if
Republicans are in the majority.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Two Hunters Hurt
AS Cars Collide

Two men were taken to Lima Mem
orial hospital in Lima following a two
car collision three miles west of Col
umbus Grove at the intersection of the
Continued on page 7
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Telegraph Offices
Merge

Lima's Postal Telegraph Co. office
closed recently and the employees re-
ported for duty at the Western I'm
ion Telegraph Co. as step in a ma
tionwide merger of the two organiza-
tions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Celebrate Golden We'd
ding Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. d. w. Hatcher of
Kenton were honored with family
dinner in the home of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mckinley Wenner Of Ridge
way, on the occasion of their 50th
wedding anniversary.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Struck By Auto

Gary Hattery, 4-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Hattery of Ada,
is being treated at home for a frac-
tured ankle received when he was
struck by a car in the business sec
tion at Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Receives Degree

Robert s. Higgins, son of Mrs.
Dorcas Sours Higgins, of Findlay,
received the degree of doctor of med
icine at St. Louis University. He
will be an inferno at St. Mary's Hos
pital, st. Louis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02

similar gambling devices, is prohib-
tied by city ordinance, Chief West
bay reminded members of the force,
in ordering the investigation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02

Fome. Mrs. .Iam,s1n will join him in
Florida after sis't at Ala and
with her parents, BIZ. and Ms. Ned
Boston of Hana:b;.i Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
HARDIN COUNTY
Leg Is Broken

Elizabeth Main, small daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Main, of Ada,
received a broken leg in a fall from
a stepladder.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Twins Born

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Weber of
Ada Route 4, are parents of twin
girls born at McKitrick hospital,
kenton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Awarded Purple Heart

Mrs. Hazel Morrison of Findlay
has received from her son Sgt. Nor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Wounded Man Now
In States

Pvt. Edwin Simpson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Simpson of Forest,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-09-14

kavo, seveda dobre wolfe in so
zaceli kvartati "a uzigalice in
krajcarje; ako hi ne bilo grme-
MIA ma severn, bi bilo kakor ma
manevrih.
Okoli poldneva pa je zazvo-
nil telefon, oficirji so tekli ma
posvetovanje in cuksfirarji sc
zaceli kricati: ALARM! Alarm! ~
V petih minutah je stal bata'
lion v vrstah, z nahrbtniki ma
hrbtih, puskami v rokah.
Potem Sc je zacel mars do
noci v naglem tempu; najprej
SO bile poslane straze in neizo.
gibne "zveze'; prekoracili SO
nekaj vasi, kjer so bill sledovi
re davnih bojev, in nato so 20.
pet taborili v gozdu.
Dalje prihodnjic)
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-09-14

kaksna bitja 1--WE ondi.'
Rad bi vedel, ali so tam tudi
TAXI bebci, da hi Sc vojskovali,' y
je zazeval Marek.
"Mnogo reel je med nebom in
zemljo," je dejal svejk, xxi so
nerazresena zagonetka. Kakor
n. pr. usi. Ali mi morete pove-
dati, gospod Jurajda, cemu so
IA svetu?" Kuhar pa je molcal,
narednik je smrcal in Marek je
zacel govoriti v polspanju: "Ce-
prav so granate dezevale, &C.
prav so bucali topovi on
je Sci vedno naprej "a palmo
image :" Zgodovinarja pol
ka je preganjala Sc v snu nalo-
ga, izmisljati 81 nesmisli v pro-
slavo avstrijske armade
Zjutraj Sc Sc zmerom nj We
delo, kaj bo; stotnik Sagner nj
incl Sc povelja "a svoj bata.
lion. Vojaki so bill, ko so dobili