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Convention Of 1887, private discus
sions have always preceded public
announcements" He said that at
the national political conventions
the committees hold public hearings,
but go into executive sessions to
draft their party platforms.
Replies to Senate Criticism.
Then, in what seemed to be a
reply to criticisms by Senators, he
added:
I'm the halls OF Congress mat
ters are referred to committees,
which hold public hearings and
obtain the views of various elements,
but the committees then go into
executive session and draft docu-
ments which are submitted to the
appropriate houses of Congress.
This, he said, is the practice
"of all the committees OF each house
Of Congress.
'The object of this procedure is
to obtain calm exchange Of views
IS contributing factor to eventual
agreement expressive of the ideas
upon which those responsible have
been able to formulate a concur
renee.
THE conversations at Dumbarton
Oaks are no different in this respect
from any other conference except
that in this instance 1t is q matter
OF international as well as of do
n1estic concern
Mr.. Stettinius said that other
agencies of the Government are be-
ing kept advised of developments
and consulted about them. He ap-
parently referred to private talks
which Secretary of State Hull has
been having with selected Senators.
Periodic Statements Promised.
AS to specific future promises, Mr..
etettinius said that the heads of the
three delegations had agreed to issue
periodic statements which would
necessarily be general In form" He
said that they could not be too
specific because the representatives
1T other governments must have the
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Broadcasts by Three
Governors Tonight
To Open Dewey Drive
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2ss-Republi-
can National Chairman Herbert
Brownell, jr., said yesterday that
radio addresses by three Republican
Governors tonight in support Of
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for the
presidency would mark the actual
beginning OF the Republican cam
paign.
The speakers on a coast Ito coast
Blue Network hookup at 1915 pm.
will be Gov. Earl Warren Of Cali
fornia, Gov. Dwight H. Green of
Illinois and Gov. Raymond e. Bald
win Of Connecticut.
Using football terminology, Mr..
Brownell said:
This will be the kickoff to start
the campaign"
He indicated that once under way,
1t would be continued without letup.
Other Groups Will Speak.
Other groups Of three Governors
will speak on similar coast-to-coast
hookups on September and Sep
tember S under present plans, with
probably additional programs of that
nature later. Gov. Dewey will broad
cast addresses from Philadelphia
September 7 and from Louisville
KY, September 8.
Mr.. Brownell yesterday appointed
Roger w. Straus of New York as vice
chairman of the Republican Nation
al Campaign Committee, issued q
statement defending the automobile
trip OF John Foster Dulles, Gov
Dswey's foreign affairs adviser, from
New York to Washington, and de-
parted for Chicago to complete
details Of the Republican national
organization.
Mr.. Straus, co-chairman OF the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews, president of the American
Smelling g. Refining Co. and a
longtime personal friend of Gov
Dewey, will have an office at the
partys national headquarters In the
Roosevelt Hotel here.
Brownell Replies to Pearson.
Drew Pearson, In a radio broad
cast Sunday night, said Mr.. Dulles
drove to Washington in one of Gov
Dewey's automobiles because of an
infected toe The commentator
also said that a speech made by Mr..
Dulles in 1889 led him to wonder
whether Mr.. Dulles was qualified to
represent the Republican party.
Mr.. Brownell replied that Mr..
Dulles had been hospitalized twice
in the last two weeks and made the
Washington trip against doctors Or
ders because of his intense desire
to render a contribution to the BIZ
partisan making Of a lasting peace.
The chairman added that the
quotes taken from Mr.. Dulles speech
were misleading" without the rest
of the context, to which Mr.. Pear
son replied that Mr.. Brownell tries
to cover up Mr.. Dulles apology for
the dictators by talking about his
sore toe"
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'Nush Funds Probe
Opened; Labor and
Industry 10 Be Called
By the Associated Press.

80 s~AS NoSOSAotSo 1hCoSs
The House Campaign Elk
penses Committee today begar
a drive to uncover "slush funds
and find out who contribute.
how much to the campaigns o.
candidates In the November
elections.
Labor and industry will be callee
before the group. Yesterday tn,
committee questioned Sidney Hill
man, head Of the CLOS Political Ac'
tion Committee. and drew from hin
4 vigorous defense of charges thai
the committee is "Communistic-en.
gineered from the top down."
Representative Church, Repub.
hcan, Of Illinois had made the
charge. Mr.. Hillman replied that
Mr.. Church was trying to preju-
dice the public against us" ano
that he, Hillman. would put his rec
ord Of fighting Communism against
that Of Mr.. Church at any time.
Opposes All Totalitarianism.
'I'm opposed to Communism be-
cause I'm opposed to all totalitar-
ianism-even In industry" Mr.. Hill
man asserted.
Mr.. Hillman said the Political
Action Committee is backing the
Roosevelt Truman ticket and seeks
to elect a progressive Congress. '
He emphasized, however. that 1t
will not contribute funds to the
Democratic NationalC Committee.
The C1O committee, he said, is
nonpartisan and might support a
Republican in any given campaign
In fact. he said, the CIO in 1887
gave $1,000 to support Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey in his race for district
attorney in New York.
Reports on Drive Promised.
With the assurance from Mr.. Hill
man that he would give the COM
mittee regular reports on the Poht-
ical Action Committees drive to
obtain 5000, 900 from C1O members
at a dollar each the committee
headed by Representative Anderson
Democrat, of New Mexico, an
nounced that officials of the Ma
tional Association of Manufac-
turers would be questioned at Its
next meeting. the date for which has
not been set. The House group is
merely seeking information, Mr.. An
derson emphasized, explaining that
there have been no complaints
about the NAM itself.
What other groups will be asked
to testify before the House COM
mittee has not been decided, al
though Mr. Hillman, during his tes-
tinony, urged the legislators to
extend their hearings to several
groups.
Mr.. Hillman told the committee
that his group has spent 1911 .086
in the current campaign. Only ST.
900 has been received in the drive
for IS 900, 900, he said, but the COM
naittee would consider quite salts
factory" contributions of 81 each
from 100000 CIO members.
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New Letter Asks CIerqy
To Support Roosevelt

NEW YORK, Aug. 20 LP.-A Sec
ond letter to Christian and Jewish
clergymen on behalf of President
Roosevelt's reelection was mailed
yesterday by the National Citizens
Political Action Committee.
It was not signed by Sidney Hill
man, as was the first letter, which
brought storm Of protest from
Republican leaders. nor did it men
ton the Presidents name. As'
The letter. written by the Rev
Dwight j. Bradley, said, in part:
you may not wish to meddle in
politics or to be identified officially
with any party or faction. but you
know that the issues that we face
now must be grappled with by
Government as well as by individuals
and private examinations"
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His offer was refused and movable
gear was dumped overheard in
stead.
Left for Dead on Field.
Pvt. Johnston, Colchester. Conn
Is recuperating In a hospital at
Framington. Mass, getting an op-
portunity to become better acquaint-
ed with his year-old son.
He was left for dead on the field
after his stubborn one-man resist
ance and was captured by the Ger
mans. When American forces rout-
ed the enemy from the area the next
day, Pvt. Johnston was able to re-
gain the American lines and give a
detailed report on the German po-
sitions. But he arrived there bare
footed, since the Germans had
taken his boots.
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Dewey to Visit Spokane
And Coeur dAIene

SPOKANE. Wash, Aug 20 P.-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Republican
presidential nominee, will visit Spo-
kane and Occur d'Alene, Idaho. Sep
tember is and II on his West Coast
campaign tour, National Commit
teeman Ezra r. Whitla of Idaho and
Howard C. Paulsen of Washington
said last night in joint statement
The announcement said Gov
Dewey would be in Seattle for a
major campaign address Septem-
her IA
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Mrs. Dorothy Knight Wed
To ReviIIe kniffin
: the Associated Press.

RENO, New, Aug. 29.- Mrs.
Dorothy Ledyard knight, wealthy,
socially prominent New Yorker, and
Reville Knif1n, New York business
executive. were married here yes
terday.
Mrs. Knight obtained a divorce
here March /, 1913, from Richard
Allen knight, New York attorney
who attracted attention In 1899 by
standing on his head at the lounge
bar Of the Metropolitan Opera
House.
Mr.. Knifnn Is executive vice pres
ident Of Zenith Home Products Corp.
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Roominq House Robbed

Mrs. Moss H. Pritchard. landlady
of a rooming house at 140O Ingra!
ham street NV. reported to police
yesterday that a thief had stolen
81 900 in bonds, radio and a watch
from her room. Four of her room
ers reported theft of several articles
of minor value.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
RAF Sinks CIemenceou
To Beut Nozis to Punch

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Aug 29.-Beating the
Germans to 1t, the Raj sank the
half-built French battleship Glenn
encsau In Brest harbor Sunday, the
Air Ministry announced last night.
The ship, which was unfinished
at the time of the fall of France
in 1910, was to have been q 35,O00-
ton vessel Of the Richelieu class,
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Philadelphia Policeman
Delivers 2lst Buby

By tne ASSOclHt10 PfeN.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29.-Pa-
trolman Samuel van Glider, the po-
lice departments baby expert. did
1t again yesterday, delivering his
2lst baby, q 6h-pound girl to Mrs.
Louise Bennett, 18. colored.
The baby, Mrs. Bennett's fourth,
brings the policemans score to IL
girls and 10 boys. LAS usual" he
said, my only trouble was with
the father"
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

HOUSE.
Opens debate on postwar demohil-
ization and reconversion legislation.
SENATE,
In recess until Thursday.
War Investigating Committee re-
opens Corrigan inquiry.
Military Affairs Subcommittee
hears Attorney General Biddle on
cartel and monopoly practices In re-
lation to war effort,
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Cedric Gibbons to Wed

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. % P.-
Cedric Gibbons, 40, movie studio art
director, and Hazel Brooks, 10,
actress and former model, obtained
a marriage license Saturday in
nearby Santa Monica, Mr.. Gibbons
disclosed last night. No wedding
date has been set.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Mundt, Richards Study
leuse-Lend in London
By the Associated Press

By the ASSOcfated Press.
LONDON. Aug. 29.-Representa-
tives Mundt, Republican, of South
Dakota and Richards, Democrat. Of
South Carolina, both members OF
the House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee, arrived in London today on a
visit during which they are expected
to study lease-lend operations and
plans for the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Floods Cut Food

Interruption Of transportation by
floods recently caused food short
ages in large cities OF Colombia.
Evening star., 1944-08-29
Two DC. Men Killed in Action:
Five Are Wounded, ! Missing

Two Washington men have been
killed In action. one Is reported
missing, one previously reported
missing is a prisoner of war, and
five have been wounded, relatives
here have been notified.
Killed
Pfc. Arthur d. Bainbridge, 20, son
of William w. BaMbridge, 1885 Sew
enteenth street NV, was killed
August 4 in New Guinea while
serving with a weapons troop, the
War Department has informed his
father.
Pvt. Bainbridge, who attended
John Quincy Adams School, was an
apprentice painter before enlisting
in June, 1912. He went overseas in
February, 1943.
Pfc. Dale Richards, 36, who previ-
ously was reported missing, was
killed in action July 30 in France.
the War Department has notified
his wife, Mrs. Irene Richards, 1877
Florida avenue NE.
A native Of Illinois, Pvt. Richards
came to Washington Is years ago.
He worked as painter and enter
tainer here before entring the Army
in September Of last year. He re-
ceived basic training at Camp Van
Dorm, Miss, and went overseas In
June.
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Prisoner
Wounded,

Wounded,
1t. Col. Ward w. Caddington, 43,
was wounded in action on Guam
August 6. according to word received
by his wife, who lives at II Leighton
place, Silver Spring. Md. A native
OF Silver Spring. Col Caddington
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Missing

Paul Raymond Lanigan, %, radar-
man, second class, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond M. Lanigan. 639
Fourteenth street NE, was listed by
the Navy Department as missing.
Mrs. Lanigan was informed that
her son was lost in ma jor air dis
aster July Is over the Atlantic, from
which no one returned" She said
the plane, with IA men aboard, was
on a routine patrol hop off the coast
of South America. A vessel was
sighted, which the crew decided to
investigate. The crew of the vessel
reported that the plane nose -dived
into the sea.
Pfc. Lanigan was graduated from
Mckinley High School in June, l94l.
He worked at the Army War College
for one year before enhsting In
the Navy in August, 1912. He was
stationed in the Caribbean area
for almost two years, and received
the Purple Heart for wounds of
August, 1943.
Prisoner
Pfc. Byron Eliot Herde. q, who
was reported missing in action In
France July S, is now a prisoner of
war in Germany, his wife, Mrs.
Laura L. Herde, 1919 P street Sc,
has been informed.
The infantryman attended WASH
ngton and Lee High School In
Arlington and the Washington
DIESEL School. He worked at the
Washington Terminal Co. before
entering the Army in September.
1943.
His mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Herde.
lives at 80 v street NE, and a
brother, Pfc. Manuel Herde, is sta
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

CHAPTER VIII: u. S. fiers arrive at
the Dutch field, and shortly after start
on flight for Davao. in the Philippines,
but run short of gas and come home.
Gas up and take off at midnight for
Davao, but fail to make target. On third
trip over, Kurtz sees tremendous concen.
tration of ships. makes bomb run. Jap
fighters come UP. Bombs awayl"
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the Japs were flying 1t too; they'd
come in strafng and we'd have to
jerk our old NUTS off the ground
quick"
Anyway" said Frank Kurtz, 1--WE
had stopped the japanese there in
Macassar Strait for a while. The
little Dutch Navy helped, but mostly
it was American air power. We'd
sunk quite gang of them, so the
rest had to go home and lick their
wounds, realizing they couldn't
move in on Java until they had air
control. This meant they would have
to clean us out of our advance fields
in Borneo and the Celebes. 1t
wouldn't be hard, for the Dutch had
no troops to speak of on these is
lands. Everything had had to be
withdrawn to hold Java. But it
took time for the Japs to take over
our little advance bases at Samarin-
da and Kendari, and being new to
war, we foolishly thought Time was
on our side. We were thinking of
those thousand planes. We hadn't
learned that Time in war is
treacherous ally who favors anyone
who will use him.
"But meantime Colonel Eubank
had hauled me down to the ground
for a while to do a different Job.
Too many wars were going on. The
japanese were running pretty good
one, but against them were the
American Air Force, the Royal
Dutch Air Force, the American,
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ElrOSe

Callers at the Ami Nonnamaker
home the past week were Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Agin, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Arnold, Waunita Gossman, Mrs.
Mary Hartman and son Cloyce of
Hoytville, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Non
namaker and sons, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chauncey Klingler and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Hamilton and dau-
ghter, Chas. Nonnamaker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Koontz and sons, Mrs.
Arthur Nonnamaker and daughter.
Mrs. Lucinda Koontz was a Sunday
dinner guest.
Mrs. Emmaline Nonnamaker, Mr..
and Mrs. Lendon Basinger daughter
Jeanette and son Gareth were supper
guests last Tuesday evening at the
Arthur Nonnamaker home.
Union prayer services will be at
Bethesda church Thursday evening.
Bernard Stratton and son Ortho
called Sunday morning at the j. C..
Christman home near Findlay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Ebay and
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Koontz and sons, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Ebay of near
Ada.
John Cookson of Rawson and Rod
erick Nonnamaker spent Saturday
night with Floyd Hartman.
Mr.. and Mrs. ROLAND Koontz and
family of Bluffton called Sunday
evening at the Arthur Nonnamaker
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Stauffer of
Bluffton, Arthur Nonnamaker daugh-
ter Kaye and Martha Koontz called
Sunday evening on Mrs. Emmaline
Nonnamaker.
Mrs. Thomas Koontz spent Sun
day at the ]. r. Fisher home.
Mrs. Nina Thomas and son John
Lowell of Cleveland and Mrs. Guy
myth Hainer of Toledo, spent Mothers
day at the E. l.. Bish home. Mrs.
Thomas and little son will spend the
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physical condition-been leading ma
tive troops through the jungles. Said
his wife was high up in the Java
mountains and hoped she was safe.
Next morning we left on mission
and never saw him again."
1--WE came up little later" said
the Bombardier, "and by the time
we got there, the Japs were moving
into the rivers mouth, just below
Palembang. The weather was over
cast-a ceiling of 1000, so we had
to work down below that. None
of us liked it, because a Fort is
hell of big easy target SO close to
the ground-never built for that. AS
we came in, so close to the ground,
our radio operator called Skiles on
the interphone.
"'Captain,' he said, oxygen
doesn't agree with me, but I'm will
ing to begin chewing it any time
now and I broke in, you can say
that again.
captain Northcott was leading
the mission-six planes we were,
and when we sighted the target he
called over the command radio, as
signing our flight to transport on
the left.
s'It was monster, a huge Maru
liner which I've seen as luxury
cruise boat tied up to the San Fran
cisco docks. Suddenly she cut loose
a hell of an antiaircraft barrage at
us. all coming from this one trans
port-a regular Fourth of July at
three O'Clock in the afternoon. 1t
was like looking down into a cone
of fire, with this transport at the
tin. and smoking red-hot rivets,
they seemed like, whizzing up at us.
They were rocking us around when
suddenly we shuddered violently and
almost went over on our back. An
ack-ack shell had burst under one
wing near the fuselage. Big pieces
of it tore a huge hole just where the
wing ioins the fuselage, and one en-
bedded itself just a few inches from
Captain Skiles.
I'VE were already on our run, al
most at the release line, and the
lar had thrown out the bomb sight
il was completely imperative. But
I'd done some practice low-altitude
bombing at Muroc back in the
States, SO / said the hell with a
bomb sight-Td guess at it. ! was
good and mad at the shaking-up
we'd got. All right, you
- - :, here they come!'
hollered, and dropped four in rapid
succession. They landed in q clus-
ter about twenty-five feet from the
transport. The other four released
more slowly. We'd come down to
1000 feet now. and that's low.
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M1|
Des4osoI

Well the boys lave scratched
corn planting off their list for a day
or two since Tuesdays rain and
have gone mushroom hunting
rains and humid weather really made
those fungi pop and they say
there's no time like the first two
weeks in May to find the best ones
this is a little late-but so is every
thing else this spring excepting
mosquitoes which are here-we got
our first mosquito bite the other day,
so it's time to get spraying under
way and truth to tell, corn
planting hasn't done too badly for a
late spring with quite a little plant
ed over Pandora-way and ideal
weather for College Mayday on the
13th-that's defying superstition
and summer vacation season at hand
with plenty of jobs awaiting teach
ers and pupils-that's different from
the depression days when vacation
came and not a job in sight and
speaking of school, Supt. Longsdorf's S
resignation came as a surprise to
everyone-including the school board
and you would never suspect
existence of manpower shortage
from the number of schoolmen eye-
ing the coming vacancy.
Scores of Bluffton mothers with
sons in service were remembered
last Sunday, Mothers day with let
ters, greeting cards and gifts from
their boys, many of whom spent their
first Mothers day away from home.
Among the boys overseas sending
flowers to their mothers were Char
les Conrad, Nelson Hauenstein and
Roger Howe.
And Lee Coon asks us to remind
Bluffton motorists once more that
double parking not only slows up
traffic, but it's dangerous. A double
parked car may cause others to stop
or swerve suddenly and may result
in a serious accident. So don't
double park, even to run into a
store just minute and when park
ing, park properly.
If you have only one set of keys
to your car, better get duplicate
otherwise you're likely to be in a
jam, sooner or later-as was Lewis
Van Meter last Saturday night. The
Van Meters, living near Beaverdam
came to Bluffton for shopping anc
lost the keys to their car on The
street. 1t was the only set of keys
they had, the other set having beer
lost in fire at their home some
time ago. With no keys to their car
they were trying to devise ways ant
means Of returning home when th'
Harry Hauensteins from Pandor;
turned in the missing keys at thu
News office.
And speaking of hard luck il
losing things-there's Gerald Spike
Berry who snagged one of the priz'
winning tagged fish in the contest a
Buckeye lake the other day, only t.
lose the metal tag before he had al
opportunity to turn it in and CLAIM
his award.
And the next time you see ;