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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-04

SUNDAY afternoon at L O'CLOCK at TIE
home of the bride on Grove street in
Bluffton.
Adam Amstutz, 70, of Bluffton,
who died at the Community hospital
at $50 a. m, Tuesday, after an illness
of one week. Funeral services will
be held Thursday at 2:30 p. m. tfast
time) at the Ebenezer Mennonite
church. Burial will be made in the
church cemetery.
Memo Burkholder, near the Eben-
ezer church purchased the S0-acre
farm from Joseph Schroeder last Sat
urdav. It's the late Amos Welty
farm and is occupied by the Dennis
Diller family, who had it rented from
Schroeder for another year.
Mrs. Llewellyn Geiger, who has
been very i'll at her home for the
past several weeks was removed
from her home Monday morning to
the Community hospital at Bluffton.
H Peter Hilty, west of town who is
| ill with pneumonia was removed to
the Community hospital at Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Amstutz and
family of near Bluffton moved or
Saturday into the house on the
Shawber farm northwest of Pandora
/ Mrs. (Rev.) Dick Reilly of Nap
panee, Ind, is spending week a.
the home of her parents Mr.. ane
4 Mrs. Hiram Geiger and daughter
June.
| Mrs. Ida Steppler of Decatur, Ind.
is spending a couple of weeks visit
ing relatives hrere.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Reichenbaci
and family were Sunday Dime
guests in the home of Mr.. and Mrs
H. M. Kohl and family.
Hiram Geiger became suddenly Il
Monday night and was taken to tn
: Blrffton hospital where he submitte
to an operation for appendicitis. ep
March has made its advent witt
no uncertainties that balmy weathe
: is not Just around the corner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Lehman ant
son. Stewart and Miss linda Sprung
er of Berne, Ind, spent the weei
end at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
N. N. Soldner and family.
i Kathleen Amstutz is employed a.
the City Market in Bluffton.
i Advisory Council No. 2 met at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Sches
on Monday evening.
Henry Schellenberg and sons are
busy putting up wood on the farm
of Ray Sheidler east of Pandora.
j Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbert Miller and
daughter, Jerry, of Van Vert were
visitors in the home of his brother
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Miller and fam
lily Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schneck are
awaiting the return of their daugh-
i ter Irma to their home some time
this week. Miss Schneck, mission.
airy to Africa, recently arrived by
plane in Miami, Florida.
Raymond Zimmerman has recently
purchased another farm which is To-
Gated across the Lincoln highwa!
from their present home a short dis
tance east of Beaverdam.
Francis, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
Schumacher, is at present at hom'
on furlough.
Earl, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Leno
Grismore who has been in submarine
service on the Pacific for some time
is at home for an extended stay.
Word has reached us that Keith
son of Mrs. Dwight Hummon wei
known here, was accidentally kille'
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-04

lay Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and daughter Sue, Mrs. {. W. Mont
gomery called on Mrs. Eva Mont
gomery of Ada, Sunday.
The L. A. S. and W. NJ. S. of the
Liberty Chapel church will meet with
Mrs. Delbert Wilkins Thursday
afternoon, March Il.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-04

while in military service in Texas.
Friends and relatives of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Suter are happy to
know that March 14th will mark
their golden wedding anniversary.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-04

Departure of Ohio sheep shearers
to the armed forces emphasizes the
need for spreading out the shearing
season as much as possible by shear
ing some fiocks earlier than normal.
A recent report says one ton Of
rubber can be made from 10 tons of
corn. A barrel of industrial alcohol
can be made from 750 pounds of
corn, and the alcohol can be turned
into enough explosive to propel one
12-inch shell.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-04
Bluffton High Cagers Wallop
Upper Sandusky, 1874 Score

dusky got only nine fielders.
Leading the Bluffton scoring pa
rade were Smucker with Ia points;
Schmidt with IL and Burkholder
with 10.
Bluffton reserves also were victor
ious. spilling Upper Sandusky Sec
onds, 25 to II.
Zimmerly made eight points for
the Bluffton seconds; Gratz got
a1 81 Schmidt six
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

go per cent as much as the low
priced demountable house. Further
important savings are made in man.
power at the site, since four men
can have a trailer ready in a few
minutes, while even a demountable
house requires several hours. Since
war housing is needed in labor
scarce areas, this has made trailers
even more popular.
Employment in the Norfolk Navy
Yard, which is to be served by the
Portsmouth trailer community, is
due 70 increase about 40 per cent in
the next few months. The speedy
availability of the mobile homes
will make it possible fer the navy
to recruit workers long before it
could have if it had to wait for other
types of living units. The effect
on the naval shipping program will
be important to the early completion
of the war.
Trailers Accommodate Families.
Of the $500 units in Trailer City,
2,640 are standard trailers, normal
" housing two to four persons. The
other 500 are expansible mobile
houses, which are transported like
trailers but have wings that are
opened at the site to form extra
rooms. With a few quick move
ments these expansibles form four
room homes, comfortably accommo-
dating families of six.
THIS proportion of two sizes pro-
vides ample quarters for large fam
lies as well as smaller ones.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

sub-standard quarters in the city.
Electricity is provided at cost.
Although Trailer City at Ports
mouth is the high-point of the FPHA
use of trailers, it is expected to be
followed soon by similar projects in
other severely congested centers.
The government already owns more
than $4,000 units, situated in nearly
200 parks throughout the country.
Portsmouth Enthusiastic.
Portsmouth is enthusiastic about
its infant addition, for the housing
shortage has been its greatest head
ache since the emergency began.
But even more than the speed of its
completion, the projects effect on
the city after the war is appre-
ciated. Residents are glad that when
the need subsidies this emergency
subdivision" will be moved en-
masse, leaving only the vacant field
it mushroomed from, instead of a
"ghost" community.
George F. Miles, president of the
Trailer Coach Manufacturers asso-
citation, whose members supplied the
mobile units for the project, sums
up this aspect:
This city's birth is spectacular,
its contribution to the war effort
will be noteworthy, and its fate when
the war ends will make a dramatic
sequel to the whole tale. For unless
postwar needs exceed expectations,
the whole community is likely to
disappear even faster than it came.
The workers will move on to peace
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
Worlds Largest Mobile Community,
Built of $500 Trailer Coaches,
Will House $4,000 Naval Workers
Removal After War Will Leave No Ghost Town; Improvements
Expected to Stimulate Future Use by Migrant Workers.

From wasteland city of 5000 homes in 46 days!
That's the wartime miracle of Trailer City at Portsmouth,
Va where 900 persons will make the worlds largest
mobile community.
When the navy found impossible recruit workers for
the Norfolk because of housing shortages the Federal
Public Housing Authority requested supply accooda
tons quickly The huge trailer project the FFs to
this request
Nothing approaching this feat has been in hous
ing Through the combined efforts of manufacturers,
officials contractors and local workers. 100 mobile
homes day transported the site and placed foun
daon blocks ready for Since all the units
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

All other needs of this city, larger
than st. Augustine, Fla, are being
provided by the FPHA. Equipped
Fairgrounds dot the 290-acre site,
and two schools have been erected
for the children. A non-denomina-
tional church will be available to all
residents. Four community and rec
reation buildings will provide facili-
ties for stage shows, motion pic
lures, games, meetings and dinner
parties.
Four large play areas, each large
enough for full-sized baseball field,
will be available for adults, and sew
en- stores will occupy a large COM
mercial building, eliminating the
need for travelling into the city to
shop.
Each trailer has a plot at least
26 by 46 feet. Drainage has made
the soil fertile, and a Victory gar
den usually appears outside each
unit a few days after the family
moves In. Some build small picket
fences around their gardens, add
ing the final touch of suburban at
mosphere.
All trailers when delivered were
standard olive drab, but because
camouiage is not important at this
site they are being repainted vari-
Gus hues, to suit the taste of the
occupants.
FPHA rentals on these furnished
homes range from Sc to So week,
far lower than prevailing rates for
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

foundation blocks and ready for oc-
cupancy IN a few minutes.
The movement was unique in the
annals of the American construction
industry. Whereas the ordinary Gre
alton of settlement of this dimen-
sion would have required many
weeks of labor at the site, most of
the work on the project was done
hundreds of miles away. Final in
staIlation at the scene required rela-
lively little time.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

com mp4ered and furnlShed at mid
western factories, it was a matter
of a few minutes for four men to
emplace them and connect electric
lines.
The successful completion of this
project, which is expected to be fully
occupied about July IS, is the high
point of a revolutionary change in
housing techniques, motivated by
war necessity.
Deliver Complete Unit.
Completely reversing the centu-
ries-old method of transporting parts
or sections of houses to the site
and then assembling them, the trail
er csach industry has applied as
sembfy-line methods to home-con-
struction and delivers complete
units, including essential furnish
ngs.
Just as mass production tech
nlques have changed automobile
manufacture from small-scale out
put at high prices to million-unit ca
pacity at low cost, this new con-
struction method for homes brings
speed, quantity and economy into
housing at time when all these
factors are imperative for the war
effort.
In manufacture, this method saves
80 per cent on manpower. The mo-
bile houses require less than one
third the ordinary amount of criti-
cal materials, permitting much
greater volume from a limited stock
pile. The average trailer coach,
furnished and installed, costs about
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

patriotism, citizens on the
home front with billions in
war doomed income on
their hands should invest
regularly in war cost "bar-
gains" for soldiers, sailors
and airmen fighting on the
world fronts. Some of these
bargains" are shown
here.
Right: Il tUar bond about
to go off! The SI8.75 that
buys a tUar bond ,UiH pay for
seuen hand grenades such as
this-enough to send a lot of
Japs to join their iLIustrious
ancestors.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

tons, have been installed at the
Willow Run bomber plant near De-
troit. By attaching several Of the
units at the expansible sides, COM
plete mobile hospitals, auditoriuns,
nurseries, churches, theaters and
other community structures have
been formed.
This dexibility completes the plan
for complete mobility of entire COM
munities which began with the for
nation of trailer towns.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

the units were loaded at Flint and
Chicago, two to a car, for the 1000
mile run. The other $500 trailers
were conveyed by truck conveys,
consisting Of special dual units which
carry one trailer and pull another.
Complete units, containing all es-
sential furnishings, were lifted by
cranes into gondola freight cars and
clamped to the floor. At Ports
mouth they were unbolted, lifted
onto trucks, and transported to the
site, where they were placed on
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
Shopping for Victory
With u. S. War Bonds

Nneve cents out of dollar under the budget SUBJ
ed by President Roosevelt going be directly
costs and interest public debt the Office of War Information
reports The owl points that everything produced the
today goes One consists
of tanks planes guns for the The second
goods which civilians share The
heap gow the heap shrnks We should less
of the consumers heap put into bonds As matter of
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

open out to form extra rooms when
they are placed on their foundation
blocks. The design is similar to the
expansible mobile houses, which
form four-room homes when opened,
and are made by the same manu-
facturer.
Besides the expansible trailer and
the utility units, the design Of the
expansible unit is being used In
many other ways. Duplex mobile
houses, with center partitions sepa-
rating two fanaily-size accommoda-
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
Use Glass in Bearings

Tiny glass jewels, formed under
heat and polished by flame, have
replaced sapphires as bearings in
manufacture of many combat in
struments produced for the army
and navy. Introduced because the
war made sapphires difficult to i'm
port from Switzerland, the Ameri-
can-made jewels probably will be re-
tanned after the war for many
electrical instruments. In certain
instruments glass jewels produce
less overall friction than sapphires
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

Complete mobility of part of Ports
mouth, Virginia's, Trailer City is as
sured by the use of portable laun-
dry and toilet units. If the traiIers
in this section should be moved to
another site, these utility units could
move along and be ready for use
as seen as the trailers were re-
occupied.
AS used in scores of governments
operated trailer parks, these utility
I1nits are transported like regular
traIiers, but have extensions that
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
Traers Day Moued by Truck and Rail to Site of Vast Ne Cv

Tie largest movement of complete
homes IN history was required to
erect the 13,000-population Trailer
City, Va.
Since virtually all of the $500
units were moved from factories II
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan,
meeting the delivery quota of 100
units a day called for unequaled ef-
forts by manufacturers, railroads,
truckers and government officials.
Fer the first time, trailers were
transported by rail. About 800 of
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
Tool Temperature

A fine machine tool cannot turn
out the same size article during a
cool midnight shift as during hot
noon shift, unless the temperature
at the machine is the same. Heat
expands the tool and may vary the
size of the part enough to disrupt a
final assembly line completely. The
temperature control necessary for
maximum precision is obtained
through the use of refrigerants such
as the safe "Freon' fuorinated
hydrocarbons.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
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SUBMARINE ANTIDOTE

SUBMARINE ANTIDOTE
A history making event took place
recently in the long war against the
submarine. Official tests were made
OF the helicopter, which, despite op-
position Of the navy, has been urged
by officials of the army and War
Shipping administration for anti
submarine patrol
Within a few hours after the pub
Ication Of Merry -Go-Round story
on this subject, group of officials
from Washington, including highly
interested and highly placed officials
of the British admiralty, British ship
ping mission, and the Raj, stood In
amaZement on the deck of a tanker
offshore while little airplane with
a crazy rotary wing on top landed
and took off from deck space not
more than twice the size of the plane
itself.
It was Sikorsky helicopter, pilot
ed by boyish colonel who remind
ed everybody of Charles Lindbergh
In his younger days-H. F. Gregory,
from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio,
who knows more about helicopters
than anybody else In the air force.
Gregory made "a landings on the
tanker during the two days Of trials.
He operated under all conceivable
conditions-when the tanker was rid
ing at anchor, when she was run
ming at 151z knots, when she was
headed into the wind, and when she
was running with the wind.
The War Shipping administration,
which supplied the tanker, had of
fered to remove the mast, to provide
safer landing space. But inven-
tor Sikorsky scorned that as "too
easy" Accordingly, his plane was
set down by Colonel Gregory in the
space between the mast and the
deck house, with only 14-foot clear
ance on either side.
Far-Seeing Eyes
To the British and American ship
ping experts whose ships are going
to the bottom every day, the sig-
nifcance of this feat was inescap-
able. They firmly believe the hell
copter can be used to supplement-
the escort vessels for the greater
protection of merchant ships in con-
voy.
It is too light to carry much strik-
ing power of its own, except few
rockets, but it can fly out ahead Of
the convoy, hover over the sea, spot
the wolf pack, and report by radio
to the escort vessels. This saves
movement of the escort vessels,
which in present practice have to
maneuver constantly around the
merchant ships, with heavy con-
sumption Of fuel oil.
Moreover, the helicopter, without
firing a shot, brings alarm to the
prowling submarine and causes the
U-boat to dive.
Earlier acceptance of the helicop-
ter was prevented by the navy's bu-
reau of aeronautics, which contends
that the machine is defenseless
against the guns of submarine.
The defenders reply that the plane
can dart about so crafty that it is
too evasive to be easily hit. More
over, helicopters can be built for
$15,0 each, and the loss of a few
would not be serious, compared with
the loss of escort vessels.
In any case, the matter has gone
beyond the stage of argument.
The War Shipping administration is
determined to have helicopters, and
If the navy won't come along, VISA
will make a deal with the coast
guard to train pilots, and another
deal with the war department to
place the planes on it's ships.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
HUMAN RIGHTS
AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

WHEN IN 1920 Gen. Leonard
Wood was a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for President,
we frequently ate lunch together at
the Adventures Club in Chicago. A
plank in General Woods platform
pronounced for property rights. I
insisted that human rights were of
far greater Importance than prop
erty rights.
''If you can prepare statement
for me-" said the general, (which
defines human rights but does not
encompass property rights, I will
accept your statement"
I tried, but did not succeed. HUI
man rights and the right to accumu-
late are inseparable. It is the hui
man right to accumulate which is
the foundation of American progress.
It has encouraged invention and sci
entific investigation; it has built in
dustries; it has put the soil under
cultivation. The right to own, to
have and to hold, is the incentive to
work. General Wood was right.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27
BOX OF CANDY
AND BUREAUCRACY

a SMALL CHILD with WhOm !
have established a friendship likes
candy IN box, but the mother OBJ
jects to the child having more than
haE-pound box. In candy store
I found an abundance of the kind of
candy the child is permitted to have,
and also large supply of empty
half-pound boxes, but none that were
filed. Five young lady clerks were
on duty and I was the only prospec-
tive customer in the store. But I
could not buy a haf-pound box of
candy. I could buy the candy de-
hvered to me In a sack. I could
not buy box. They could not put
the candy in box and sell it to me.
They could send to some place a
mile or more away and have a girl
at that place put half pound of
candy into a haf-pound box, and
then sell it to me if could wait an
hour. A law, not passed by con-
gress but created by executive de-
cree, made it unlawful for those
clerks to put candy in a box. We
are today regulated by some 10000
such executive DEGREES. That is our
modern bureaucratic democracy.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING as
a British empire. There is British
Commonwealth of Nations. Each is
free and Independent Of the other,
with the English king as head of
each state, and he is but a symbol,
with no actual authority. It is all
seemingly simple, yet not easily
understood.
TO BE A GOOD LISTENER may
be a greater asset than to be a con-
tinuous taIker.
FOOD RATIONING
CANADA is at war, as is the
United States. We are fighting the
same enemies. Canada is a food
producing nation, as is the United
States. Canada is helping to pro-
vide food for England and the Allied
armies. Canada has been at war
more than two years longer than we
have. Canada has not found a food
rationing system necessary. She har
depended upon the patriotism and
good sense of her citizens, as we
did in World War I. and it has
worked.
IT MIGHT COST US LESS in both
blood and treasure to win the war
quickly than to string it out over a
period of years.
WE HAVE a representative form
of government when our representa-
tives listen to the voice of the people.
When they do not, we have a habit
of changing representatives.
DIRECTORS OF POLITICAL.
PARTIES should discover that they
can influence more votes with facts
than with vituperation.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

Sho,Un at left is the ceIe-
brated fishing Kit sUith tUhich
every naUy Efeboat is not0
equipped. Experiences of Eddie
RickenbGcker and others
shotUed hOtU these kits could
prouide the means of saving
Liues at sea. The SI3.75 that
buys a s25 bond tUiH pay for
three of these kits. BeIOtU: 4
S25 tUar bond tUiLL send this
Light tank, tOhich is forging to-
tUard Jap lines, trUenty miles on
its sOay. In ttoenty miles this
tank can blast a lot of Nips.
The Ely miner., 1943-05-27

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
AND MINISTRY CONTROL

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
AND INDUSTRY CONTROL
SO FAR during the war the fed
eral government has invested be-
tween Is and Is billion dollars in
the erection and equipment of war
industry plants. These plants have
been operated by private concerns
working on government contracts.
The National Planning board pro-
poses as a postwar measure that
these plants be retooled for the man.
ufacture of peace-time products and
be operated by the government as
a means of surmounting the after
the-war unemployment problem.
Such a move would mean the be-
ginning of state capitalism in Amer
lea.
Free enterprise as we have known
it in America cannot live with state
capitalism. Private capital cannot
be induced to compete with the un-
limited funds of government. When
government enters business, private
capital quits.
In the end we would all be work
ing for the government, if we worked
at all, and there would be no more
jobs than would be provided by our
present system of free enterprise.
The incentive that produces inven-
ton, scientific discovery and prog
ress would be gone. We would be
a completely and permanently regi-
mented people-worker, farmer, pro-
fessional man, all of us. We would
be permanently subject to the direc-
ton of a bureaucratic system, as
are the people of Italy, Germany
and Russia.
American people want none of
that. Such a system is not what
our armed forces are fighting for,
or for which the home front is will
ingly making sacrifices. It is not a
thing we can afford to encourage,
even as temporary solution Of an
employment problem. Once saddled
upon the country, it means the end
of the system which has made
America great and prosperous and
given to us the highest living stand
ard the world has ever known. We
must beware of any such expedient.