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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

WHEREAS, much has been ac-
complished in securing the interest
of our boys and girls in a keener
appreciation of our natural re-
sources and the part they play in
our life and well-being, and
WHEREAS, it is important that
all our citizens, in every line of
endeavor, follow such conservation
practices as will aid in winning an
early victory and to wisely use our
resources that they may serve us
in the reconstruction period which
will follow,
"NOW, THEREFORE, I, John
w. Bricker, Governor of Ohio, do
hereby appoint and designate the
week of April IL to 16 as Conser-
walton Week in the schools of Ohio
and Friday, April 16 as Arbor and
Bird Day and ask a general observ-
ance by all the citizens of the
state of the entire month of April
as Conservation Month";"
This marks the fifth consecutive
year that Governor Bricker has
given special recognition to the
conservation of natural resources
by asking that special attention be
given to the subject for an entire
month.
Conservation Commissioner Don
Waters, following up the sugges-
tions made by the Governor, has
asked all sportsmen's groups, farm
organizations, civic groups, lunch
con clubs, women's organizations,
etc. to plan one or more special
meetings during April.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

at that University.
Clayton, a fisherman at heart,
plans to make use of all available
spare time in indulging in his fav-
orite pastime and recently was en-
rolled as a member of a private
fishing club at Lansing. The club
with a membership never allowed to
exceed 200 has a waiting list of
applicants wishing to join the as
sociation. The club boasts 2 well
stocked private fishing lakes con-
nected to each other by canal. The
lakes were formerly clay pits and
run from 15 to rs feet in depth
Boating is permitted and swimming,
at beach. The quarry is heavily
stocked with fish and is spring fed.
Outmoded farming practice-This
is the burning off" season but there
is every indication that each Spring
finds fewer farmers resorting to this
damaging practice, once believed to
be "just the thing to do.
Burning off of lands not only fails
to achieve benefits but each success
sive fire adds to the cumulative
damage. Young trees are killed, the
soil is robbed of its moisture holding
capacity and some of its fertility
and it is made easily susceptible to
erosion.
Of course the practice often is
dangerous from a fire hazard stand
point, when not properly controlled.
Vast acreages, including valuable
timber lands and even buildings,
have often been fired as a result of
| fires which get out of control. In
this wartime when building mater
ials are scarce any fire is help to
/ the Axis.
Conservation Commissioner Don
| Waters stated today that he hoped
that the per centage of farmers who
still follow the practice of burning
off" their fields, prior to preparing
for spring seeding, will be reducted
Naturally, we are interested in
preserving wildlife and the cover SC
badly needed by wildlife but "burn-
ing off" is bad conservation prac-
tice from any angle, Mr.. Waters
stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
ArmOrsville

Mr.. and Mrs. O. P. Hartman were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil Hartman and family and
called on Jay Hartman in the Me-
mortal hospital, Lima, in the after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Motter of
Dayton called at the Charles Mont
gomery home Sunday.
The l.. A. S. and w. Nj. S. of the
Liberty Chapel meets this Thursday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

g
be given to the conservation of our
resources, it is fitting that we, here
in Ohio and America, give special
recognition to the need of preserva-
ton and restoration of those God
given resources which are renew
able, and
WHEREAS, for the past four
years the entire month of April has
been set aside as Conservation
Month in Ohio, thus kindling anew
the interest of our citizens in all
phases of conservation, and
WHEREAS, the teaching of
conservation in the schools of Ohio
has been commended in joint pro-
gram Of the State Department of
Education and the Ohio Division
Of Conservation, and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

By all indications the archery
show and fish fry to be held next
Tuesday night in the Legion Hall
will be a great success The
committee on food arrangements
under the management of Herb Rup-
right as chairman, Dallas Berry, and
Ralph Reichenbach have made plans
to feed 300 persons on the occasion.
Fresh lake pickerel sandwiches will
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

Most terminal warehouses contain
government wheat which can be in
cluded in the 100,O00,000 bushels re-
leased March &c, for livestock feed.
Orders can be placed through grain
dealers, distributors, Commodity
Credit Corporation regional offices,
or county AAA committees.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
APRIL IS CONSERVATION MONTH IN OHIO

Governor John W. Bricker, by
proclamation, has set aside the en-.
tire month of April as Conserva-
tion Month in Ohio and established
the week of April II to 16 as Con-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
ITO BE CONTINUED

Black marketing of meat results
in waste of hides and fats. Shoes
and fats are both rationed. Black
markets can be stopped only by
public disapproval.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

seryatlon Week
in the schools,
Friday, April 16,
will be observed
as Arbor and
Bird Day.
The Cove err
nors proclama-
tlon is as fol-
lows:
WHEREAS
in this war pc
riod when every
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
State Of Ohio,
Allen County. IS.
Estate Of Mary M. Kern Deceased
Bessie Edna Root of Bluffton Ohio. ha.
been appointed and qualified as administratri,
of the estate of Mary NJ. Kern, late of Ailer
County. Ohio. deceased.
Dated this 23rd day OF March. 1913.
RAYMOND p SMITH.
so Probate Judge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

Mayor Cloyce H. Duttweiler of
Findlay who will give demonstra-
tion-lecture on archery at the meet
ing of the Bluffton Community
Sportsmen's club to be held at the
Legion hall Tuesday night at s
o'clock. Following the archery dem
onstration will be a fsh-fry. The
public is invited, it was stated by
Eugene Benroth, president of the or
ganization.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

Eugene Benroth, Jesse Manages,
Harold Montgomery, Paul Sauder,
Herbert Rupright, Dan Tripplehorn,
Myron Motter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

and / never went to court about anything
together-and we are still happily married,
though-or maybe because separated. What
the end of the war will bring, nobody knows,
but l can say with the greatest sincerity that
l hope 10 resume married life with Jake"
Again for the benefit OF those who came
in late, a word or two might be inserted here
about the abrupt termination Of IGNORES
honeymoon, which so far has been her only
experience of living with a husband. Possibly
because she thought the reporters nickels
might he running out she omitted this from
the interview. .AN ny
From Monks Corner, they returned to New
York where the brides mother greeted them
i'm words which deserve 10 be ranked among
hstorys classic examples OF ovcropumism.
It's good TO know" said Mrs Lennon,
chat Lenore going TO settle down now
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

bail, which he promptly skipped and that
was the last the New York courts, or Lenore,
saw Of him
Anyhow said his wife, continuing with
the interview, after this marital interlude,
/ embarked on a theatrical and night club
career My debut was at the Beachcomber
Night Club on Broadway, where my act con-
sisted of singing a song entitled, I Was
Simply Deb Who Was Caught in a Webb
Lately, I've been playing USO shows at
Army camps comedy numbers for the boys,
who well deserve a laugh after their hard
days work And ! might add they're the
greatest audience a performer ever had
The past two years have taught me many
things how to differentiate good people from
bad and that everything is not a laugh. But
I still love good music, good food (I've got the
biggest appetite in Gotham) and life in gen
eral, And speaking of good music, can't
think Of anything silier thWn Mrs. Barnets
mentioning me in a separation suit for being
seen around too often with Charlie
Besides she's already had one legal sepa-
ration from him-out in California Mr.. Bar
net is a great musician and shall continue
10 enjoy his music unless boogie-woogie with
a musician is grounds for divorce"
Which seems TO be the way Mr. Barnet
feels about it. too, for first of all he denied
his wifes charges and then according 20
latest adyiccs let her shuttle off 70 Reno
where she is no doubt going 10 get one OF
those quick or Mickey Finn, divorces-with-
out "A Lennon in t.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

(Chare) has continued his practices Of Gre
ating romantic attachments with other women
and has become the subject OF newspaper
publicity and comment, His name has been
linked with many women. some of whom
themselves have been publicly prominent
ITO illustrate quote from gossip column
Of several months ago. Now that the Charlie
Barnets have been melted, his arm decoration
is Lenore what's her last name again.
And again. in another column, Lenore
Lennon and Charlie Barnet in Swingtime.'
ION information and belief. the said Lenore
Lennon is the wife Of the socially prominent
Jake Webb ;"
And she might have added one Of the
most breath-taking young ladies who have
ever relieved the montony of New York night
life.
Cafe Society first became aware that il had
another problem child on it's hands when Bev
erly Parker Palermo identified Lenore. Is and
the daughter of prosperous ticket broker, as
one Of the chief reasons why she and her hus-
band Joseph Palermo. Jr., the realty heir
weren't being seen in the same bistros any
more.
The American Weekly promptly assigned a
reporter 10 ask Miss Lennon how il felt TO
be a teen age menace The reporter tele-
phoned her home in some trepidaton, expect
ing at the very least to be told TO go climb
a lamppost
His surprise was considerable when Miss
Lennon. showing no signs Of being PROSTATE
or even wrought up over Mrs. Paterno's
charges cooed
Just think Here am only Is and already
named correspondent"
That was a slight overstatement: she
hadn't really been named correspondent just
one Of the girls in Josephs life and Beverly's
hair However the reporter didn't think the
point worth qubbling over, and when she in
vited him TO bring a photographer around to
take some new pictures Of her-she was getting
a little tired of the old ones-he decided on the
spot that this girl was destined to go places.
Her subsequent career seems to have borne
out his prediction. for il has included, among
other things, getting the heave-ho from the
swahk Stork Club Cfor throwing punches at
another glamour girl, number of colorful
theatrical ventures, and last but by no means
least, a comic-strip marriage TO Jake Webb,
great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt
The two are still married but, so far is
known, haven't seen anything of each other
since a couple Of weeks after their elopement,
when the groom fell into the clutches Of the
law because he had financed his honeymoon
with bouncing checks.
After that he was swallowed up by the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

BY way of illustrating
their own intentions in the
matter, the heHeymoening
couple went cling
around the night-club cir.
cult like a couple of ber-
serk rubber balls.
In one club, for the edi-
fication of the paying Gus
toners, they paused long
enough to re-enact their
marriage, bottle-opener and
everything.
During the day, they re-
cuperated in a suite Of a
large New York hotel, and
it was there that the law
caught up with jake.
where are you going ?"
asked Lenore sleepily, when
odd-looking men in derby
hats called for her husband
at an incredible hour one
Fall morning.
"Oh, just out to get
some tickets for the World
Series" replied jake.
Later, Lenore noticed
that the rain was coming
down in torrents and de-
cided that there was some
thing fishy going on.
She was right. jake
had been hailed into court on
a charge of cashing S120
worth Of rubber checks. A
friend lent him 5000 for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

All distinctly l remember, II was IN the
bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought
its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly / wished the morrow; vanly
had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow
sorrow for the lost Lenore,-
For the rare and radiant maiden whom
the angels named Lenore.-
Nameless here for evermore."
no wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his famous
poem, The Raven"
- Since The Raven" was composed in
ls45, Poe could scarcely have been thinking
of raven-haired Lenore Lennon. whose acidu-
lous career did not begin until another rs
years had passed.
However it is not improbable that the
modern Lenore has thought more than once
OF her nameess predecessor.
In fact Poe's grudgtng attitude towards his
Lenore may somehow be responsible for her
namesakes seeming determination TO be
named as often possible.
The latter may feel that her name has
been done a great injustice and that she was
brought into the world for the special pur-
pose Of putting things right
II so, she is now in a position 10 congratu-
late herself for of recent years she has been
so much in the public eye that Lenore- as
we'll as her maiden name Of Lennon and
her married one OF Webb-haVe become house
hold words.
Sometimes they are spoken as careessty
as the latest slang. bat every once in a while
their appearance in household is the signal
for an explosion.
1t happened that way about two years ago
in the household Of Joseph Palermo Jr., and
this year it has happened again in that of
the well known
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

Suing Wives All Seem
to Be Saying. Make
1t lie m m Of H." Com
pIoins Cofe Sociefy's
Lomen+ing Lenore.
Who Denies She Was
Mr.. Poferno's Inferno
or the Sour Cornef in
the Home Of Bond-
leader Bornef
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

IHlu the IHB- Dt-
came sort of
Vanderbilt.
Until the night
Of our wedding had
never seen Class 3 picture in tcchnicolor
walking. Yes, You guessed IT, jake was
tattooed from head to foot He had battle
ships, flags eagles and even a straight
poker hand.
"Mr. Webb proved quite amusing on our
honeymoon. l used TO drop quarter in his
mouth and the eagle on his chest would light
up and play, Jingle-Jangle-Jingle Seems
ne acquired these tattoos while ne was doing
a stretch in the Navy. Now he's in the
Army With training on both sea and land
he ought to qualify for a marine next
There were some ugly rumors about our
being estranged but the fact is that Jake
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

Fearing from this that the
years had sobered and sad
dened Lenore. the reporter was
relieved when she frightened up
and went on Well since I
last talked 20 you have proved
myself scintillating nation.
wide character. one might de-
scribe me as the poor mans
Patsy Kelly.
II was the inferno in the
Palermo case hack in those
days and il was just about
then that the zombie was Gre
ated. Most people drank them
but Miss Lennon threw them
mo zombie was ever Gre
ated that threw a Miss Lem
mon.
For the benefit Of those who came in late
and don't know what zomhie is a zombie
is drink, better described as a Mickey Finn
with lemon inside
I'VE now run along TO the Summer months
and find little Lenore spending the month
of August following the horses at Saratoga.
l still would be following them, but four
gallons how far can you go? Your gas is as
good as mine.
"One beautiful memory I have of life at
Saratoga is of the kindness of Liz Whitney
in naming a horse after me. It was high
class, blue.blooded horseethe only horse with
his own ration card for Jumps of sugar
This brings me 90 a three-month period
during which 1 decided TO embellish myself
with a little theatrical culture. See what ]
mean? In one jump went from a Liz Whit
ney horse 10 an Ethel Barrymore Colt
MY theatrical aspirations were interrupted
by trip 10 Princeton which somehow ended
three days later in Monks Corner South Caro-
lima. There, thanks 10 the bottle-opener which
Jake Webb slipped on my finger-he couldn't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

Army and when last heard from--this wa
just the other day-had been tossed into tn
brig for being AWOL-not once but twice
on learning that Mrs. Barnet was following
Mrs. Paterno's example in naming Lenore
the same American Weekly reporter felt tina
the time had come for a retake of his earlier
interview. since history seemed TO be re-
peatng itself
So he called her up again and this time
she obigingly gave him a synopsis of her
history. from matrimonial suit TO matri-
monial suit.
Why" she began sadly, cant people
go PITT without me? l used to think the
standard divorce prop was the blonde in
the boudoir, but it seems everybodys
switching to Lemons these days, And
the funny part Of it is I'm the little girl
who wasn't oven iherel"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03


bandleader. Charlie
Barnet.
Mrs. Barnet, like
Mrs. Palermo before
her, and unlike Poe,
has decided Lenore
shall not be name
less.
She re en- thy
named her - in a
suit for separation.
Without bother
in < to put her
griepances into
rhyme, or 10 give
them any fancier
title than Barnet vs..
Barnet, she in
formed the ~ ew
York court that:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

1913 by American weekly Inc Great Britain Right. Reserved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-03

find the ring be-
came a sort Of a
Vanderbilt.
Until the night
Of our wedding had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-30
Happy Days Are Coming

Railroad executives, who used to regard
passenger traffic as something OF bother,
seem to have changed their minis. II
human freight is an evil, at least they
have decided that it is a necessary one.
So they are planning how to make travel
pleasant for uS-and cheap-after the
war. A survey by Railway Age, for its
current passenger progress issue, lndl-
Gates that the big boys If that field are
optimistic about holding their own
against airplanes and BUSES because
thew plan to offer lower fares, new
streamlined equipment, new services and
modern merchandising methods. Already,
in the workshops, are finished blueprlnts
for fast, economical, comfortable, attrac-
tive new types of cars i which it should
be a pleasure to ride. But more import
ant, it appears that the roads have
learned their lesson about tariffs. AS one
executive put it:
We shall have to reduce rates after the
war and do it quickly and thoroughly.
ANY daWdling and hemming and having
will only result in our emptylng our trains
again and in the loss of the highly de-
sirable public relations and advertising
value that an immediate and voluntary
slash would bring" The significant
thing about this statement, when one
stops to think it over, is it's recognition
that passenger traffic is of vital import
ance to railroads. Freight additionally,
accounts for 88 per cent of railway reve-
rue and passengers for only IL per cent.
The roads used to be impatient about
having to trouble with travellers. Now they
see the fallacy of that attitude. ''The rail
ways have been too prone to subject the
passengers interest to the whims OF me
chanical and operating offices and to the
requirements of mail and express sched-
ules," one spokesman conceded. Another
went further:
We have denuded our railway Of pas
senger service at many points and we are
thoroughly ashamed of having done SO.
A railway is judge Tin my opinion wrong
ly) by the type of passenger service which
it renders. It is impossible to measure
what this has cost us . but do know
that we became very unpopular in many
places as result of this policy
There is going to be a great pentup
flood of travel desire, when peace comes
back, and If the railroads live up to SUCH
promises as these, they need fear no de-
structive slump in business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-30

Congressman Andersen of Minnesota
and Fulmer OF South Carolina had an
interesting tete-a-tete after Professor
Carlson OF the University of Chicago
threw down the challenge: "Just try
coloring butter red and see If any one
will eat it," Andersen wanted to know
why margarine must be colored yellow.
Fulmer insisted that five million farmers
were opposed to lifting the restriction on
the sale of food "that wanted to look like
butter" Professor Carlson Clipped in
and said he considered tax against mar
garine "tax against the common man."
and he expressed the belief that there
should be an abundant market at all
time for both butter and its "Substi-
tUte," inaSmuch as the two are equal in
digestibility and nutrition.
Charles w. Holman, a dairyman. adj
vised the protagonistS that fight about
margarine and butter was just like fight
in small country church, in which he
said, "the church is all but torn down
when the fracaS is over" He reminded
the Congressman "thiS thing started in
1876 and will be going on for many years
yet" The upshot of the whole subject
indicates that if the Federal restrictions
are removed there still will be restrictions
imposed in 80 States, inasmuch as mar
garine has long been product about
which nobody is neutral.
The margarine manufacturers say that
their product is now fortified by Vita
Minis and D, but the dairy industry still
insists that it is not flair competitor"
and Congress has been warned that the
dairy interests object to all efforts that
will masquerade margarine so that it will
look like butter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-30
Latin American Rubber

Df. Earl N. BreSSman of Costa Rica in
IN article prepared for the Office of the
">o-OrdlnatOr of Inter-American Affairs
TedlctS that production of rubber in the
3oplcal Americas will survive postwar
competition both from loW-cost planta-
lion rubber from the Far East and from
synthetic manufacture. Technically this
Is true. Undoubtedly there will continue
10 be some natural rubber produced in
Latin America and purchased by the
United States and European nations. This
vas true even before the war created a
Hers market for Brazilian rubber But
y may just as well be realistic. The
Mount OF Latin American rubber flow
iag to world markets is going to be small
Unless the entire setup down there is re-
Vised fast.
Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, principal rub
Ter producing countries of the Amazon
eSin, original home i the hevea bra
/. iiensis, are relying upon wild rubber,
which is costly beyond all competitive
disability.
In Haiti and in Central America some
plantation trees have been started. There
ire not enough to supply the major world
demand for rubber And labor costs,
t>en in Haiti are pretty high in contrast
til those in Malaga. If DR.. Bressman is
,7ing that tropical America can obtain
me economic benefits by producing
some rubber for the industrial nations,
then he is correct II he is inferring that
Inc United States, for example, can hope
~ rely upon tropical America as it's prin-
c,pal postwar source OF rubber then he
ie much over-optimistic, so far as devel-
CpmentS thus far are concerned.
That is too bad. This country would
]i:,e 10 get rubber from it's good neigh
ocrs, in order to have aTcess to supply
tl.at would not deplete our petroleum re-
solrces and that yet could never be cut
eff by the aggression of future Nipponese
.anerations. 1t is not unavoidable If
u e Amazon countries choose to open up
plantations, which could begin producing
n around seven years, they can count
upon hearty cooperation from us. But II
they have any idea that we are going to
cortinue paying triple and quadruple
prices. and even higher, for rubber, after
i, becomes available at normal prices,
they are due for sad disappointment