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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-28
Markets at a
Glance
by UNITED PRESS

STOCKS 1rreguarly lower in quiet
trading
BONDS Irregular: 4. S. governments
steady and dun
CURB STOCKS Irregular
COTTON-Off as much as soc "A bale.
WHEAT unchanged to off y cent a
buShel
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-28
Los Angeles. July Is. CUP,

Los Angeles. July Is up
Eggs: Wholesale prices consumer grade
Large. Grade a 1911. Grade 1896: me-
dunn. Grade a 1899 small Grade a
22-23
Retail prices TO consumer: Large. Grade
"A $3.50, Grade A 53-5s. Grade 4O-43.
medium. Grade "A 1852. Grade a 1919 ;
small. Grade A 1922.
Candled graded eggs to retail! cr 5
cases: Large. Grade IA SOL 81 l. .
Grade A 46is Isl. Grade 1886. me
dunn. Grade A 39-41; small. Grade A
26-2S
Butter and poultry unchanged at cell
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-28
II:IRJZISISlISI8
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Thursdays Results
HOLLYWOOD 4 Oakland 2.
Los Angeles, 5; San Francisco, l,
Sacramento, 4; San Diego. 16
innings.
Seattle, As; Portland, 80 Ofirst
game - innings.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-28
TRAVEL KIT
Unfitted

Two styles to choose from -
both wa rproof interior.
Brown sim VI a tie d leather.
Greatly reduced for this red
tag sale.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
Fred Reichenbuch
Weds Bernice OberI1

Frederick Reichenbach, son of
Henry Reichenbach, of near Pandora,
who was wounded in France, was
married Sunday, December IT, to
Miss Bernice Oberly, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Reno Oberly, of north
of Bluffton.
The ceremony was solemnized at
the parsonage residence of Rev. P.
]. Boehr, pastor of the st. John
Mennonite church near Pandora.
Reichenbach suffered leg and
thigh injuries in France shortly
after the invasion of Normandy and
has been returned to this country
for medical treatment.
He is a patient at the Veterans
hospital at Cambridge, Ohio, where
he will return following the holidays
His wife will resume her work in
Toledo where she is employed.
Before going into the service
Reichenbach was an employe of The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.
of this place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
Captain Richard Backensto, College
Graduate, Wounded Twice In Pacific

scattering shrapnel which wounded
him about the face and one eye.
During the invasion of Bougain-
vile, Captain Baskensto received a
back injury when his ship, the
USS Mexican, was hit by Jap
aerial torpedo and sank as it was
nearing the beach.
In addition to the Purple Heart
won in that engagement he also
received the Bronze Star for indi-
vidual heroism for assisting in saw
ing the lives of several companions
in spite of his own injuries.
Captain Backensto entered the
service in July, 1941, as Marine
private, and was commissioned a
second lieutenant in June at Guam
tico, Virginia.
After spending the holidays with
his wife's parents he will return to
the Naval hospital at Philadelphia
for additional medical treatment.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. V,
C. Backenston, of Allentown, Pa.
He stopped here for a few days last
fall while enroute to the East
shortly after landing on the west
coast. His brother, John Backensto
who also graduated from Bluffton
college, married the former Lavon
Kohl, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Aldine Kohl, of this place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28

Marine Captain Richard M. Back
ensto, 25, Bluffton college graduate
who was wounded twice in invasion
action in the South Pacific, was a
visitor in Bluffton during the last
week.
Captain Backensto has returned
to this country for treatment for in
juries received in action against the
enemy on Guam, but was in this
area to spend the holidays with his
wife's parents in Venedocia. Mrs.
Backensto is the former Frances
Jones, also a Bluffton college gradu-
ate.
Following his return to this coun-
try, the captain received Gold Star,
awarded in lieu of second Purple
Heart medal. Presentation of a
Purple Heart medal earlier had been
made in the Pacific before the battle
on Guam, after Captain Backenstc
had been wounded at Bougainville.
In the invasion of Guam, the
Bluffton college graduate was wound
ed on the second day of the assault
An artillery liaison officer, he was ir
the front lines with the infantry
directing the fire of heavy guns
when the Japs opened with a mortar
barrage. One of the Nipponese
shells exploded near his position
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
In Memoiiam

In memory Of our ldear mother
Mary Catherine DevieA who passed
away one year ago todA, december
28.
Dear Mother, thou has left Us
Thy suffering days now ale Ger
In heaven you are rejacing
With loved ones gone bebre.
At the old homestead we gather
But now you're no more thwe
We have so many heartaches
When we see your vacant chair.
Only God knows how we miss you
We shall cherish you all our lives
And to think you could not say
goodbye
Before you closed your eyes.
We shall always remember
Never shall your memory fade
Loving thots shall always linger
At the place where you were laid,
Sadly missed by your daughter
and sons, Mrs. Daisy Adams, GrovAr
C. Devier and Ernest E. Devier.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28

THURSDAY, DEC. 21. 1914
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
BIufffon In First World War
What Happened Here Twenty-Five Years Ago This Week

week end with his mother, Mrs
Bertha Woods of college avenue
Since his discharge from the overseas
service in the army, the young man
has been employed at the Ford Plant
in Detroit.
David Cramer who is in the service
of the u. S. N. is home with his folks
at Pandora for a short furlough.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
January 1st. 1920.

George Cone who enlisted in the
Navy last summer is home during the
holidays on furlough. He is stationed
at the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station. The young man has been
discharged from the hospital where he
suffered an attack of scarlet fever.
Harold Woods of Detroit spent the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
New Years Celebrated
At Different Times
ThruOut History
Continued from page II

solstice until the time of julius Cae-
sar, who in his reform of the cal
endar changed it to the first day of
January. The Jews began, and still
begin, their civil year with the first
of the month Tiser, which roughly
corresponds to our month of Sep
tember.
In England, December % was New
Years Day until the time of William
the Conqueror. His coronation hap
pened to occur on January 1, hence
it was ordered that the year should
officially begin on that day.
But the English later gradually
fell into conformity with the rest of
medieval Chistendom which started
the year with the spring equinox on
the 22nd of March. The Gregorian
calendar of 1882, however, restored
January / as the first day of the
year. Catholic countries adopted the
change Immediately, and the Pro-
testants followed suit later to adhere
to uniformity.
ROMAN GoD JANUS
Among the Romans, after the ref
ormation of the calendar, the first
day of January as we'll as the entire
month, was dedicated to the epony-
mic god, Janus. He was represented
with two faces, one looking forward,
the other backward, to indicate that
he stood between the old and the
new year, with regard to both.
Ovid and other Latin writers of
the Roman empire allude to the
suspension of all litigation and
strife, the reconciliation of differ
ences between friends, the smoking
affairs, and the white-robed process
sions to the Capitol, the first day of
Janus, of New Years Day, as we
now call it.
ELABORATE FEASTS
In connection with the celebration,
elaborate feasts and orgiastic festivi-
ties came into being. This fact
caused early Christians to look with
disfavor on the New Years celebra
tions and it was not until the da,
assumed character did the Christian
celebrate the beginning of the New
Year.
The celebration has developed
many traditional festivities and Gus
toms, varying considerably in differ
ent parts of the world. The OLE
World custom of sitting up on New
Years night to see the old year ou
and the new year in his general!
died out throughout the whole worlt
with the exception of in the Unitec
States.
In many large cities the New Yea
is rung in from some famous belfr!
that of independence hall, for ex
ample, in Philadelphia, and Trinit.
church in New York, attracting hug,
crowds which blow horns, and roal
and shout, the din being increased
by whistles from steam engines
afioat and ashore.
But the fact remains that eithel
New Years eve or New Years Da.
is celebrated in various manner
throughout the entire civilized world
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to all the neighbors and
friends for their aid and sympathy
during the illness and death of our
beloved father, Henry Koch; also Rev.
Irwin Kaufman who officiated at the
funeral services, pallbearers, singers
and others who assisted in any way
and all those sending flowers.
John & Fern Koch
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Koch.
War Bonds make excellent Christ
mas Gifts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28

in the evenings to prevent flower bud
formation.
The poinsettia is a short-day plant
Light at night, no matter how low
stops the buds from developing. II
the plant is moved every night to q
room where no light is used, il
should flower.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28

sons would --se information on
how to save the plants and grow
them again for the next season.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station has given some suggestions
for keeping the plant through the
year in a manner which should pro-
duce blooms.
Due to the drastic change of con-
ditions from greenhouse to the home
the plant dies quickly. Dry atmos-
phere, changing temperatures be.
tween daytime and night and expos
ure to draughts cause the leaves to
yellow and fall.
AS soon as the petals drop, the
plant should be placed in dark warm
basement and kept dry. Some water
should be added about once every
three weeks so that the stem re.
mains plump.
In May the plant should be repot-
ted in fresh soil, and the stem cut
down to within IL inches of the
ground. BY keeping the soil moist
and spraying the stem with water
several times a day, the new growth
will start.
This seems very simple, but some.
times in spite of all care, leaves
grow and s6owers fail to develop
This happens because in the average
home, enough electric light is usec
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-12-28

Lots of people know a good thing
the minute the other fellow sees it
first. job E. Hedges
Evening star., 1944-06-25
@l)e 9nnio19 &tar
Girl Operates Lunch Stand
To Aid CAP Cadet Fund
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
BY Ruth Davis, IS.

Calvin Coolidae Hish School.
Helen Lee, is, a student OF Calvin
Coolidge High School, leads a busy
life since she joined the Civil Air
Patrol last March II. Following in
the footsteps of her brother, a lieu
tenant in the Air Forces, she has
been interested In aviation as a
hobby since she was II years old.
Her leisure hours since then have
been spent reading all she could
find on flying.
Since joining the CAP, she has
been going to Central High School
on Monday and Thursday evenings,
taking courses in Morse code and
military customs and courtesy.
Later, her studies will include navi-
cation, aerodynamics and meterol-
ogy.
She always spends her Sundays
at Congressional Field, where she
operates lunch stand for the cadet
fund. If she can possibly find any
one to operate 1t for her, she washes
airplanes, digs bitches, and some
times mops up the hangar.
On March Is she went UP in a
plane for the first time and, she
says, enjoyed it even more than she
thought she would. She Is going
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Names in the News
Bv Frank Colby.

COUTANCES, road junction south
of Cherbourg. The N" Is nasal
Say: koo-TAH (NSS.'
SAINT LO, important town and
road junction on Wire (veer) River.
Saint has the fat "a" as in man
The IN" is nasal and the 1T" is
silent. Lo rhymes with "foe, hoe. "
Say: SAM LOE.
LISIEUx, town and rail Junction
south of LIE Havre. The second syl-
liable, -ieux, has sound resembling
the word "yearn," but with no trace
of I'm" The vowel sound is some
what like the "" of urn" Say:
leez-YU.
SEINE, most important river of
France. The French pronunciation
is: sen, to rhyme with men" The
accepted English pronunciation Is
sain, to rhyme with main" The
name means seine; fishing net"
ROUEN, large city on the Seine
northwest of Paris. The second syl-
liable has the vowel sound of "ah."
The m is nasslized. Say roo
All tN.
CIVITAVECCIA, Italian port north
of Rome In Italian, "ci-" Is pro-
nounced "chee" Say: CHEE-vee-
tah-VEK yah.
MYITKYINA, city in Burma
Both "i's" are short. as in init,
chit" Accent third syllable. thus
myi-chi-NAH.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Rays Corner

"tepee," also spelled "tipi." The
name came from the Sioux language
and means used for dwelling"
The standard tepee of the Kiowa
Indians may be taken as an ex-
ample. In building it, the Kiowas
were in the custom of using 20
poles, each about rs feet long. The
poles were cut from stout saplings,
usually cedar. They were set in the
ground so they made a circle about
is feet wide. The upper parts of
the poles were held together with
a rawhide cord, which was wound
around them about feet from the
ends.
The framework was covered with
a great sheet formed by sewing to-
gether from Is to 18 buffalo hides.
The sewing was done with thread or
cord made from sinews of animals.
Where the edges Of the sheet met,
wooden pins" were used to fasten
them together. except for an OPEN
ing which served as a doorway.
This opening had cover. or flap,
composed of the skin of a buffalo
calf, coyote or a panther.
At the center Of the tepee was .
fire pit, and there was an opening
at the top through which smoke
could pass.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

well merits the distinction. First
prize, given for the best work shown,
went to William Calfee for an ALE
gory"-three figures in tempera;
first prize for a print to Marguerite
Burgess lithograph-"Circle in
Summer" and honorable mentions
to Sarah Baker. for a figure in oils,
entitled Evening" and Robert
Gates for a water color-a land
scape, "On the Allegheny Front"
Phillip Bell shows an excellent
water color of a little town, done
with simplicity and colorful in ef-
feet; Margaret Gates is well repre-
sented by q landscape in water
color, and from Caroline Van H.
Bean MRS. Binyon has come an
excellent painting of yellow flowers
Enthusiastically rendered and very
effective.
There is great variety In this ex-
hibition. but taken all in all it is
rather bewildering. The subjects
chosen are melancholy in many in
stances and unintelligible in others.
The artists almost without excep-
ton seem very self-conscious,
moody, detached. Also much of the
painting has been, it would seem,
carelesesly done, with the false be-
lief that such bravado indicates
independence and courage. In this
connection we ask ourselves, Would
an Impractical musician gain ad-
mission to the concert stage?
Would an ungrammatical writer find
publisher or readers? Surely the
first step to success in any field is
the mastery of medium. Especially
is this true in painting.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Girl Scouts Visiting
Fire House Watch
Action on Alarm
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION
By Rita Bofkin, L3,
Wheatley School.

Wneauey 6CQooI.
Girl Scout Troop 229 visited its
neighborhood fire house No. 10.
We saw the hook-and-ladder
truck, with all its brooms, hatchets
and other equipment. We saw the
hose which will knock down walls
by such q powerful force Of water.
Then we saw the two engines and
the siren and fiickering lights on
one Of them. The captain pulled
the switch for the siren and turned
on the lights.
We heard the short-wave radio
and saw the microphone that can
talk to and receive messages from
the police and other fire stations.
The captain told us how to work
fire box on a corner.
After inspecting the firemen's
living quarters, we watched the
captain slide down the poles used
in emergencies. AS he was about
to repeat 1t for us, the alarm rang,
and the men came hurrying out
to the trucks. They quickly donned
ire-f1ghting togs, mounted the
trucks and with sirens shrieking,
were of. 1t was all very thrilling,
and we are grateful to the captain
and his men for such an interest
ing afternoon.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Prizes for Best
|COntributiOns

The Junior Star awards as many
as five prizes of 81 each for the best
contributions published each week
Boys and girls of high school age
and under are invited to compete
Here are the rules:
All contributions must be ORIGI-
NAL. Write on one side of paper
and give your name, age, address,
phone number and school. Type
written contributions must be double
spaced. The editors choice of win
ners is final, and he reserves the
right to use any contribution in
whatever form he deems advisable
regardless Of whether it is awarded
a prize. Checks are mailed to the
winners the week following publica-
ton of their work Reporters cards
will be issued to writer's who, in the
opinion of the editor, deserve them.
No contributions will be returned.
Address The Junior Star, 727 Star
Building, Washington 4, D. c.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Dress Up Your Camping Site
With These Distimctipe Sipus

No summer camp is complete
without an attractive and distinc-
tive sign bearing its name.
For the first sign illustrated, you'll
need piece of soft close-grained
wood and coping saw or sharp
knife. It's cutout design, so be
sure to select one with bold outlines
that touch at several points. This
would be particularly suitable for
a camp named Moose Lodge"
Make a paper pattern of the shape
you want your sign to be. Cut
your wood by the pattern, then
trace or draw your design on the
wood. Take your saw. and cut care
fully all around the design, except
where 1t touches the border or other
parts OF the design, removing the
wood as you work. Cut around
the letters in the same way. You
can make 1t silhouette with black
enamel, colored sign with colored
enamels, or just varnish it as 1t is
You'd better give it coat of
weatherproof varnish, whatever I'm
ish you use.
The second idea is simpler to
handle. Rule border around the
edge Of your wood, then trace your
design inside it. With q sharp knife
outline the picture, then with the
knife or carving tool, work out
the background so the design and
the border stand out in bold relief
This type Of sign Is very effective
with the design in white against q
black background.
Or you can make a combination
Of these two ideas by using the
last idea for the design and gluine
or mailing cutout letters on top of it
as In the Kamp Kozy illustration.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

the class is ito encourage originality
of thought" 1t is gratifying when
this emerges in an intelligible form,
as it has done frequently in the
present show Prizes have been
awarded in three age groups, to s,
9 to IL and II to Is. Selecting the
prize winners must have been diff
cult in view of the large amount
of good work done.
King.Smith Sfudents Shoe
Paintings an drawings from the
Saturday children's classes, in
structed by Charlotte TroWbridge
now occupy the gallery at the King
Smith Studio School One wall is
given to portraits, another to out
door paintings emotional ideas
are themes of large group, while
symbolic and imaginative works and
few objective sketches have en-
gagged the attention of the students
who range from 6 to 16 years of age.
Evening star., 1944-06-25
New Names in American Art at G.Place:
Student Shows at Two Local Galleries
BY Florence s. Berrv,nou

Dy TfOfence y. Berrvn0n
New Names in American Art"
at the G Place Gallery through
July presents SO Negro artists in
about so oil and tempera paintings,
water colors anG sculpture. The
exhibition is not altogether an in
troductlon to the artists (as the
name implies), since more than one
third OF them have exhibited earlier
IN some Washington gallery,
Although the works range from
traditional to abstract, the gen.
eral flavor of the exhibition is mod
ernist and somewhat somber, due
partly to the predominantly dark
color schemes and partly to the SUBJ
Ject matter of about a fourth of
the works.
Mob Victim" by Lois M. Jones
OF Howard University's art depart
ment, one of the best figure paint
ings in the show, Is tragic in its i'm
pllcations. Two paintings by Hale
Woodruff, head of Atlanta Univer-
sity's art department, include a
desolate landscape of a burned
over farm and the hopeless face OF
"a sharecropper boy. Garbage
Man" by John Biggers, who is
now serving in the Navy. is under
standably morose Besides the sa.
tirically handled figure, this canva.
has some well-executed If noisome
still-life painting.
But in addition to these and othel
paintings of similar subject matter
there are a. number just as vel
done which have happier impact
on the visitor. Mother and Child,
by John Wilson, is a sympathetic
treatment OF gentle. meditatiyt
Evening star., 1944-06-25
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
PAINTINGS and sculpture by great
masters. Special loan collections
French and Belgian paintings. Other
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Art
Collection, Constitution avenue and
Tenth street-American paintings
from private collections and other
Mural Psintinss from caves Of India
by Sarkis Katchadourian; through
' SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, pivi-
sion of Graphic Arts. Independenee
water colors Of the 18th century;
'N1EsEa FREER seas GALLERY OF Art, Twelfth
and B streets S.W.-Oriental and Far
s9FR s Wh.r St ars and os Ams sne
''te cokcosAs asssIs snsaslis dMhESY oF ART
Seventeenth street between New York
n,nsnxs and .nd IeuD;urs ss5seAmSTc,n t5e
Clark collection. Special exhibition
Of PAINTINGS. drawings and prints by
,eP6 PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY;
tom sSe today to jans s for
contemporary French artists, also
from Phillips collection, and some
LIBRARY Of CONGRESS East
Capitol and First streets, Division of
Prints-Second national exhibition of
prints made during the past by Amer
lean printmakers: through June
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and K
streets-Drawings by Pietro Lazzari;
THE ARTS CLUB, e017 I street
Summer exhibition Of paintings in
oil and water color by members; to
WHYTE GALLERY. 1890 connecti-
cut avenue-Third annual summer
exhibition of works by Washington
artists; through June 80.
G PLACE GALLERY, 916 g place
Special exhibition American Negro
paintings.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY-127
Randolph place N.W.-Creative paint
ings by children and junior members
OF Lois Mailou Jones Saturday Morn
ing Glass; June 10 to July 15.
Evening star., 1944-06-25

Long ago the land between VIM
nipeg, Canada, and the Missouri
River was occupied by Indians who
were, for the most part, members Of
the Sioux Nation, or family of
tribes. The Sioux included the As
siniboin tribe of Canada and the
Omaha, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri,
,Winnebago, Usage and Manxdan
tribes.
Most of the Osages were residents
OF land which came to belong to
the United States. They were
moved, at length, to the Indian
Territory, later the State of Okla
homa. There they settled on some
rich oil land. For its oil rights, the
Usage tribe has been paid as much
as $50, 100000 in a single year. That
was an average of about $4,000 for
each man, woman and child in the
tribe.
The Blackfeet were among the
other plains Indians.."1Ehey did not
belong to the Sioux group. but had
much the same manner of life.
Some of them lived in Montana, but
a greater number made their homes
in Saskatchewan.
Oldtime Indians of the Western
plains had homes of several sorts.
but the most famous was the
Evening star., 1944-06-25
COlOred MasOns
To Burn MOrteaee

A parade from the Colored Scot
tish Rite Temple, 1888 Eleventh
street NV, at 2 pm. today to the
New Bethel Baptist Church, Ninth
and S streets NV, where mort
gage burning service will be held
by the Acacia Temple Builders As
sociation, will mark the observance
of Saint Johns day by the Grand
Lodge of Colored Masons. Grand
Master Allan A. Griffith will preside.
The invocation will be by the Rev
Hampton Gaskins, pastor of Liberty
Baptist Church. The Rev. A. j.
Edwards will read the scripture
Elmer S. Spriggs will make a well
come address to which Past Grand
Master j. E. Smith will respond.