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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
.PRE-WAR Fathers
TO BE HOME OVER.
XMAS Is BELIEF
Some Fathers Probably Will Be
Needed to Fill December
Draft Quota
Furloughs After Induction Ex.
pected to Delay Leaving
Before Xmas

Belief that all pre-war fathers in
Allen county outside Lima viii be at
home with their families for Christ
mas was voiced this week by we'll in
formed sources close to Allen County
Draft Board No. 8, which has jurisdic-
ton over Bluffton and Ireland town
ship.
Date of the December draft call is
not expected before the middle of the
month, and even tho fathers are call
ed for induction they in all probabil-
ity will not be required to leave for
reception centers until after Christ
mas Day.
Altho date of the December call has
not been announced, it is not expected
until sometime after the 18th to be
in line with the procedure in previous
months.
Furlough Until After Xmas
This means that if fathers must be
included they will be with their fam
lilies over Christmas, because the
Army allows three weeks before IN
ductees report to reception centers,
and the Navy permits a seven-iay
stay. On this basis it is assumed
that even if a man is taken into the
Navy, he will be permitted to remain
with his family until after Christmas.
Informed sources said this week
that Board No. 3, like others in the
state finds itself at the bottom Of the
single manpower barrel and it ii sex-
pected that some pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers will be needed to fill the De
cember quota.
Call Fathers in January
More hers will be needed IN Jan
uary to = calls that national i. ,oufces
have a esed will be one es the
largest of the war. Nearly 100000
men will be taken by the armed ser.
vices in January, and with all avail.
able single men and married men
without children now in uniform
draft boards must call fathers to an
swer demands of the services.
Allen County Board No. 3 has been
one Of the last in this area to call on
fathers, but present indications are
that scme must be taken in Decem-
Der. Others are reported to be TAX
ing screen tests now, preparatory to
classification as available for Undue.
tion.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Radio Sermon

"My Better Half" will be the sub
ject of the radio sermon in the
series Living Today, broadcast by
Rev A. C. Schultz of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church from Findlay sta
ton WIN Friday afternoon at 3:15
o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Ebenezer Broadcast

A boys quartet will be heard in
the Ebenezer church musical pro-
gram broadcast from Findlay radio
station WIN, Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock. Members of the quar-
tet are Leroy Lugibihl, Clarence
Jones, Robert Gratz and Howard Dill
Ter. Miss Vidella Bucher will ac-
company.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
More Red Cross
Workers Needed

More workers are needed at Red
Cross headquarters in the Grade
school building to make surgical
dressings, it is stated by Mrs. j. S.
Steiner in charge or this project
here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
In North Africa

Evan Leiber, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin Leiber of Richland township
has arrived in North Africa with
the armed forces, it was announced,
the first of the week.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
COMPROMISE PROGRAM
IS SPURNED BY SOLONS
Continued From Page One)

in the holding down of family gro
Gerry bills.
Some Senators said the humping
House vote against the program.
coupled with the obvious Senate
opposition, might lead to the adj
ministration reshuffling entirely
its system to hold down the cost
of living by substituting farmers.
Without subsidies, administration
congressman argue the nation will
be swept into overnight initiation"
which will crack through price cell
ings wage controls and all OF the
complex machinery set up in Wash
ington to stabilize the purchasing
value Of dollar. Subsidy op-
ponents insist the count will be
better off - and production Will
increase - if farm prices are per-
mitted ito rise to norma market
levels"
The subsidy ban, to outlaw the
program after this year, was tack
ed onto House-passed bill renew
ing the life of the Commodity
Credit Corporation which has fin
anced several subsidies.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

yam peninsula or the Dutch Indies.
By timing this with the Mac
Arthur drive on Rabaul, now ap-
parently nearing its climax, and
the Nimitz campaign just begin
ming. the Allie high command has
arranged to force a maximum DIS
persion of Japanese strength. This
compels the enemy leaders either
to concentrate their strength at one
point and let the others 60, or else
OF spread their strength weakly
and widely over thhree active sect
ors and thereby lose them all.
This predicament is imposed on
the Japanese by the numerical
superiority of American and Allied
forces, the higher quality of ou1
weapons and the infinitely better
performance of our troops. 1t is
undoubtedly situation much
worse than any the Japanese en-
visioned. this time two years ago
when they were planning the at
tack on Pearl Harbor.
Despite the advantages rankin,
American officers with whom thi
| reporter has reviewed the Paclf
ic situation still. emphasize tn
enormous amount of time required
and the huge number Of ship
and planes Necessary even to re
turn to the Philippines and spill
the enemy's conquered empire.
Reconquest Of the Philippine
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SANCR0 CROSSED
BY EIGHTH ARMY
Continued From Page One)

emy's powerful defenses is being
made at a point farther north than
Rome, but nearly the width of the
Italian peninsula separates the
Eighth Army vanguard from the
eternal city. 1t. Gen. Mark W.
Clark's American and British
Fifth Army fighting up the west
coast actually is nearer Rome
than the Eighth.
Near the center of the Italian
front other Eighth Army units, who
on the previous day took the burn
ed and deserted town Of Alfedena,
were reported engaged in brisk
skirnishes with the Nazis west of
Castel Di Sangro. Only artillery
exchanges an patrol clashes enliv-
ened the mired-down Fifth Army
front.
American and British fighters
and fighter-bombers braved storms
which would have gounded civilian
planes to give close support to the
Eighth Army as it consolidated its
bridgehead across the Sangro.
Eight formations of light and me-
dunn bombers attacked in waves,
smashing at every enemy strong
point in the high ground overlook
ing the lowlands.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

will complete a blockade agai...
Japan, which eventually must '' ~
frightened by an American "
vance from the Aleutian isI.s @g'
across the northwestern Pacifio ~
to the Kuriles. LII
Beyond that it will still be ~,
essary to get bases fran wbicb 'V'
bomb Japan heavily, which n9a No y
reopenlng the Burma road vi. =.
China unless Russia enters tba ~ 10
cific war. VIZ "a
The uncertain element in al a.,
is the japanese fleet and NAVY Ts
strategists say that Aneriosa1I
plans, always flexible and s,b .vaa
to change, may be modified pT ...'
ly by what happens to that fo oa'
which will remain force to ro"t
on until it cap be destroyed y"
The Japanese, for instsr..
might employ their fleet to tr,,
save their situation in the cS
oert-Marshall area and break f.,
new American offensive at its o ~'
set. If the fleet were succss W,
their garrisons in the Marsbsn.
would have nothing to worry abo,.
But if the fleet were weotsS Su'
as Tokyo adnirals NAV foar
the basis of its past performance "
; there would be nothing eyoo-,
Japan's airforce and Amer'ca n' eg
readiness to stop a direct inv va u,
| Of Japan. Invasion
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
YOUTH TO LEAVE
BOSTON HOSPITAL
Coast Guard Was Severely
Burned In Great Night
Club Fire

BOSTON, Nov. 25.-(P-A TALL
thin youth who cheated death al
the Cocoanut Grove, fire almost a
wear ago will don Coast GUARD
uniform tomorrow morning anu
slowly walk out of Boston city hos
pital.
The case of Coast Guardsman
Clifford Johnson has made medical
history.
Doctors at the hospital said to-
night that no patient ever before
suffered such burns and lived, and
they added:
1--WE learned more from him
about the treatment OF burns than
has ever been learned from any
other single patient"
A pleasant farm boy from SUM
ner. Mo-. his six foot frame lay for
weeks on bed of pain with the
back of him from head to foot a
layer of third degree burns, suffer-
ID in the night club fire that took
492 lives.
He was given over 100 transfu-
sions. His weight dropped from l65
to close to 100 pounds. Doctors and
nur7es attended him night and day.
He underwent 10000 pin-prick skin
CRAFTS.
When he leaves the hospital he
will weigh 1875 pounds and will have
most of the use Of his arms and
legs.
And he will carry with him the
kr owledge that his courageous fight
for life has given new knowledge
that will aid in the medical treat
ment of his comrades in the armed
forces.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

tive town of Bellona in Italy had
been the scene of a German mas
sacre in which his 21-year-old
daughter, Maria, was the central
figure.
He recalled vividly the quarry
where the villagers met their
death. and called by name many OF
the principals mention / in the dis
patch.
Cafaro said he first heard OF the
tragedy week ago but at that
time released story did not iden-
tify the persons involved.
He called down imprecautions
upon the Nazi assassins responsible
for tie multiple murders and said
that it was his hope that some day
he might be allowed to avenge
the attack upon his daughter
and the wholesale slaughter OF
his friends.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
IN MARSHALS
HAVELITTLE CHOICE
Continued From Page OneC

bases and many defenses, includ-
ing the great bastion of Truk.
Truk will have to be knocked out
and permanently flanked before
line can be driven close enough
to the Philippines to link with
American forces there.
1t probably will not have to be
taken, for while it is OF great use
to the japanese as their pearl
Harbor'' it's location gives it little
strategic value in relation to Amer
lean detectives.
The invasion of the Gilberts is
expected to produce many impor-
tant long-range results. Primarl-
ly, however, it should be viewed as
the first step in a westward PIN
GERS movement aimed, like Gen.
eral Douglas MacArthur's South
west Pacific offensive, at getting
back to the Philippines.
Once in the Philippines, where
large airbases can be set up Or
Luzon, Mindanao and other is
lands. it will be possible to sever
Japan's economic arteries to the
Netherlands Indies and Malaga
cutting off her richest sources o.
raw materials and such strategic
outposts as Singapore.
A third of these pincer arm:
should originate il Lord Loui!
Mountbatten's southeastern Aiss
theater, probably as an attack OF
the Andaman islands in the Bay
Of Bengal. That is regarded a:
as essential preliminary to any
naval or amphibious actor
against either Rangoon, the Mala
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
WINS WINGS

Pvt. Walton Peter Burkhimer,
son of Mrs. Lucy H. Burkhimer of
210 Colonial Drive, earned the
right to wear the, wings and boots
of the Paratrooper, following his
fifth and qualifying night jump
recently at Fort Benning, Ga.
This tactical night jump completed
his Parachute Jump training which
lasted the standard four weeks
and which included jumping from
the towers $50 feet high and
learning completely the technique
OF safe parachute jumping and
landing
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
|Fifty-Four Italians Are Reported
Massacred By Once Friendly Nazls

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
GIERS, Nov. Is Up Because a
villager attempting to save his
niece from abduction killed a Ger
man soldier and wounded another,
81 Italian men and boys of Bel
Iona, near Naples, were massacred
by the Germans on Oct. 7, accord
ing to British Observer officer.
The British officers ,:ccount was
made public today by Allied head
quarters.
The girl was named az 21-year-
old Maria Cafaro, daughter OF
Gabriel Cafaro. a naturalized
American citizen. Cafaro formerly
resided at SO Franklin St. Rutland,
VT, and is believed to be in the
United States at present.
According to the officers ac-
count, the girl was seized by three
German soldiers who climbed the
orchard wall of the home. Maria S
uncle and his son, hearing her
screams, went to her help with a
rifle and the uncle killed one and
wounded another of her attackers.
The third German fled, leaving
the gorl bleeding from abraslons'
and that night the uncle and son
fled to the mountains.
Before dawn on the following
morning, German troops battered
in every door in the village with
their rifle butts, 'lerded all the
males into the square and gave
them two minutes to disclose the
whereabouts of the girls fugitive
relatives.
THE priest and his curate were
taken from the celebration OF
mass" the officer account said.
THE monks were driven from the
monastery. The doctor ano sur
geon were ,ulled out. dying man
was taken from his bed and the
monks carried him.
When the two minutes elapsed,
the German commanding officer
selected 81 men and boys at Ran
dom and marched them to near
by stone quarry.
There they were divided into
groups of five, marched to the
brink Of the quarry md shot down
by machine-gun fire. The quarry
became their grave when the Ger
mans touched off dynamite, cas-
cading tons of rock over the bodies.
British patrols entering the vii
lage several days later found wo-
mendigging for bodies of their hus.
bands and sons.
RUTLAND, VT, Nov. Is Up
A boilermaker employed by the
Central Vermont Public Service
Corporation, was grief-strlcken to-
day when he learned that his ma
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
Ettinger Research

Ettlnger Research
CONTINUED expansion in the
output of war goods is carry
ing the volume of sales by the
manufacturing industry. taken as
group, to a new high peak this year.
But despite this increase in net in
come, industrial earnings are tend
ing to become stabilized because OF
income taxes which tend to offset
any change, either upward or
downward, in corporate earnings
before taxes. AS the chart shows,
taxes have absorbed about 6o per-
cent of net income during the first
nine months of l943, as compared
with 81 percent absorbed by taxes
in l94l. Qnternational) .
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
DEER HUNTER

DURHA 4, Nov. Is --R-At least
one Durham merchant was frank
about what he planned to do on
Thanksgiving Day. The merchant
operator of a main street meat
market, printed in large white let
tiers across his front window this
statement "rlosed ali day Thanks
giving to go deer hunting. Will take
nv dear with me-"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
WILLKIE SPEAKS

DALLAS, Nov. 25-tR-Wendell
L. Willkie, Republican candidate
for president in 1910, said today
main objective of his current
tour of the South was to bring
that region Unto the Republican
party, in order to make it par
ty more representative of the ma
ton as a whole +"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
WINS WINGS

PFC. Oscar Blake, son of L. M.
Blake of 1910 South Second street,
successfully made his fifth and
qualifying night Jump recently and
earned the right to wear the
coveted wings and boots OF the
U. S. Army's most modern soldier.
the Paratrooper He has been
training at the Parachute school,
Fort Benning, Ga.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

Second Lieut..
Edward 3. Regis
ter, pilot, son Of
Mrs. E. B. Regis
ter of R. F. D.
/, Wilmington,
has finished his
training at the
Army Air Base
at Kearney, Ne
braska. He has
been in the ser.
vice since April
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
1000 JAPS SLAIN

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC HEAD
QUAR- IRS, Friday, Nov, rs Up
- The slaughter of more than 1000
japanese since Americans invaded
Gougainville in the Northern Solo
mons Nov. l and possible killing
Of 1000 others was reported today
by spokesman for Admiral Will
liam F. Halsey.
He gave the estimates while Cen
eral Douglas Macarthur was an
nouncing that japanese counterat-
tacks had been repulsed both
against the beachhead at Empress
Augusta Bay on Bougainville and
at Sattelberg, plateau position in
the northeastern New Guinea jun
giles which Australians are NOV
ing from there sides.
The Bougainville estimates in
cluded ground action up to late
afternoon Monday. They embraced
104 dead Nippinese soldiers left
behind late Monday after the
counterattack, reported by Genera.
Macarthur, was thrown back.
American casualties in this en-
gagement along the Piva river or
the northeastern flank were report
ed light.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
ACCEPTS

HUTCHINSON, Kas., Nov. 25-tP
Seaman Dale Dawson Of the Nav
al Air Base attended church and
sat next to woman who wanted
to be hospitable to visiting serv-
icemen. She invited him to dinner.
Dawson accepted with a straight
face. He's a Hutchinson resident and
had been attending that church for
wears.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
IN MARITIME SERVICE

X o b e r t NJ.
Boyd, son of Mr..
and Mrs. G. B.
Boyd of 204 North
Third street, is
now training at
the U. S. Mari
time S e r v i C e
Training station
In St. Peters
burg, Fla. Boyd
attended H i q h
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
VISITING PARENTS

Pvt. Currie Melvin is now visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R..
B. Melvin of Ivanhoe. Private Mel
vim has been stationed in Alaska.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26
ATTENDING SCHOOL

Major Joseph H. Davis, Of Har-
bor Island, is now attending the
Antiaircraft Artillery school at
Camp Davis.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

Before World War II and the
campaign to salvage fats, house.
wives were throwing away 2,000,-
100000 pounds of used kitchen fats
year. This figure equaled the
amount imported.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

..v.u school at White
vile. Prior to his enrolment, he
was a welder inspector. Boyd's
brother is in the Army Air Corps.
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ARE SHOT DOWN
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were three fighters and one torpedo
bomber.
The Navy statement quoted Ad-
miral Chester W. Nimitz, COM
mander in chief in the Pacific, as
saying that ''mopping up opera
tons on TaraWa, Maxim and Abem-
ANA are virtually complete
Few live japan csc remain in
the Gilberts," the admiral added.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-26

RUTLAND, VT, Nov. Is Up
A boilermaker employed by the
Central Vermont Public Service
Corporation, was grief-stricken to-
day when he learned that his ma
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-01-28
Kennewick to
Battle Again for
North Bank Hiway
Representatives to be
urged to have extern
sion included in plans

That this community should GET
busy Immediately to see that the
extension of the North Bank High
way is put on the comprehensive
plan for future road DEVELOPMENT
was the concensus of opinion ex-
pressed this noon at the regular
meeting of the chamber of com
merce.' The road committee of
the state legislature now in ses-
sion is setting up plans for road
development work to be undertaken
by the state as soon as war condi-
tions permit. MI AZ.
Millions of dollars will be avail
able for the several projects, &C.
cumulated from the gas tax money.
Every district in the state is ask
ing for improvement in the high
way system to favor each locality.
Inasmuch as the extension of the
North Bank Highway from Mary
hill to Kennewick has been before
the state highway department for
several sessions, always with the
approval of road officials, it seems
feasible that it can again, be re-
paced for the definite program to
be set up for the immediate fu-
ture. r.-s 81. -. a...s . r.
That the road is of great military
value is also one of the arguments
to be used in urging its placement
on the comprehensive program for
the state. The road committee. of
the schamber is already busy in
urging the local representatives to
secure all possible aid in having the
road included in the plan.
A letter from Senator c. F. Sim
son in regard to the plan was read
before the chamber which started
the movement to have the local
project included in the statewide
plan.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-01-28
Mitchell Now In Navy

A few days ago he was civilian,
but now Robert Alan Mitchell son
of Mr.. and Mrs. @. S. Knowles.
Havstad Apartments, Kennewick, is
wearing the uniform Of an appren-
tice seaman and is receiving his re-
cruit training at the U. S. naval
training station.
Dressed in the smart uniform Of
a navy bluejacket, he is rapidly
learning the fundamentals Of his
new duty He will be instructed in
seamanship, toughened in the navy's
physical hardening program ana
immunized against disease. on
graduation, he, with his many COM
rades, will either be assigned to
navy service school for training in a
specialized field or will join the
fleet for early action at sea.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-01-28
Chamber Seeks
Portion of
100 Housing Units
Fifteen new homes to
be begun within next
three weeks

The local housing situation has
the community ga-ga and any RELIEF
indicated is gleefully accepted. A
recent announcement that a hun
dred or more units Of the Federal
Housing Administration to be To-
Gated in this area has aroused
hopes that portion of them can
be located on this side of the river
Negotiations are already under way
with the Authority for an investi-
cation OF available sites.
In addition to the promised re-
lief by the Federal Housing, Roger
Records today announced that his
priorities, commitments, etc., nee
essary for the construction OF fifteen
more residences had been received
and that probably within three
weeks actual construction would
be begun. He has already completed
four houses in the south part of
town, where his additional allot-
ment viii also be located.
With the completion Of the local
defense project just being started,
there viii soon be a great need
for additional housing facilities.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-01-28
Kiwanis Birthday

Being birthday week for the XII
wants organization. j. H Siegfried,
of the local club gave some OF the
highlights Of the local clubs activi-
ties during its eighteen years since
the presenting of the charter. He
told how the original club was
started, of how it had changed its
ideals and detectives to those now
accepted and OF some of the out
standing accomplishments of the
local club. Only five Of the local
clubs charter members are still
active, while eight KiwanianS have
died since its beginning eighteen
years ago.