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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27

Mrs. Inez Lippincott, Miss Lillian
Desenberg, Mrs. Louise Cloore, Mrs.
Bertha Desenberg and Mrs. Mollie
Allerding of Ada were callers of
Mrs. Jennie Eversole the past week.
Mrs. Beatrice Holloway and Miss
Garnet Sammons of Greenup,
Kentucky spent several days with
Mrs. Garland Ratliff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Sherritts and
David Sherritts of Lima were Sunday
guests of Mrs. Louise Cloore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Hall and sons
of Lima and Philip Hall were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. B. P.
Hall.
Lieut.. Charles Weaver of Camp
Gordon Jackson, Florida, and Mrs.
Charles Weaver of Tallahassee, Fla,
are spending seven day furlough
with relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Clum and
grandson Ronnie Zuber were Sunday
dinner guests of Mrs. Loretta Clum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bowers and sons
of Lima were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. F. McCague and family.
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Bluffton branch is one of seven con-
Germs designated as agencies to buy
nest-run eggs from farmers at 26
cents per dozen for resale to the
government at 20 cents.
Shed tear for the luckless winter
birds stranded in Florida and be
glad you stayed in Ohio. Oliver
Locher writes from Lake Worth that
scores are waiting their turn to get
railroad transportation north. Trains
northbound are crowded and sales of
railroad tickets are limited.
The station at Lake Worth sells
four tickets daily and West Palm
Beach only twelve. Locher says one
chap waited in line from one o'clock
in the afternoon until $3.50 the next
morning to get his ticketss.
Except for the cost of transporta-
ton, oranges in Florida are about as
expensive as in Bluffton. They sell
for $3.50 a bushel at Lake Worth
and express to Bluffton at $1.55
makes them $5.05 bushel here.
An unusual presenteeism record
received mention last Saturday night
at the presenteeism rally of The
Triplett Electrical Instrument Co.,
when A. f. Lichtenwalter arose to
receive his War Service Legion rib
bon. "Lich" not only had perfect
record for the first three months of
the presenteeism drive, but during
the IL years he has been associated
with the local organization he has
missed only one-half day when he
was scheduled to work.
West Elm street residents who in
previous years reported the presence
of pair of mocking birds here said
the birds made their first appear
ance of the season Monday. They
were sighted near the home of Mrs.
E. j. Hirschler where they nested in
former years. Those who have seen
them insist they are mocking birds,
despite questions as to their identity
raised by some local students of
bird lore.
Congratulations came from an un-
expected source last Sunday morning
just as Mrs. Agnes Birchnaugh, of
Bluffton, completed her radio inter-
view as Ohio War Worker of the
Week over Radio Station WTAM in
Cleveland. As she left the studio
she was called to the telephone for
conversation with j. c. Lehman,
of Cleveland, former Bluffton resi-
dent who worked at the municipal
light plant here years ago. He had
seen the announcement of Mrs.
Birchnaugh's selection as War Work
er of the Week in The Bluffton
News, and tuned in to the broad
cast Sunday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27

and use up my last gas trying to
see what the weather there was
really like (it turned out later it
was terrible), I turned and headed
back toward Surabaya Field while I
still had contact flying. and while /
had gas and altitude enough to get
in.
Which means uhiie ue could still see
the ground.l
"When l finally saw Surabaya
Field we had less than 1000 feet of
altitude left and I didn't dare think
how little gas. So l didn't try to
circle-just dropped my wheels,
asked for the wing flaps, and set
her down on that short runway, and
could be thankful the Japs had left
me my hydraulics so that my brakes
would stop me on that macadam
strip.
1--WE TAXED into our revetment and
l got Colonel Eubank on the tele-
phone at Malang. He was most
anxious; was the only one he'd
heard from. | could only tell him
what / thought were the results of
the mission. 1t turned out later that
the other planes had all come down
at Kendari and Samarinda.
''He told me to take my crew
and stay overnight at the hotel in
Surabaya and come back to Malang
the next morning. 1t was the first
time we'd seen the big beautiful sea-
port metropolis of Java except from
the air-months since we'd seen any
big city. Here were stores, and gilt
tering bars, movie houses, and the
picturesque natives and the Dutch
a pageant of the Far East. But we
were tired beyond any words l
have to tell, from those eleven and
a half hours in the air. The longest
mission I'd ever flown. The man.
ager of this big hotel wanted to
make a big occasion of it. 1t was
the first time they had seen the uni
forms of those American aviators
who were going to save Java. But
after what we'd seen that day down
through the mist, / wasn't so sure
we would do it. There had to be
more of us-and soon. So we told
him no, thanks, no party. We all
wanted to tumble into bed. We had
an early alert scheduled to check
the ship for our return to Malang."
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Ohio is expecting 1914 wheat
harvest of $685. 900 bushels.
LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE
Ruth 1. King. Adms. with
the will annexed. of the
Estate of James Norman King,
deceased Case No. 22156
Plaintiff.
Corrine Blackburn. ct al.
Defendants.
Mary Schiffke, who resides at No. 3e52,
Elwood ST.. Berk1ey. Michigan. and Paul
Rhodes. who resides at No IT'S, Seward ST.,
Detroit. Mich. will take notice that Ruth l.
King. Administrators. with the will annexed.
of the estate of James Norman King. de-
ceased. on the 18th day of March. 1914. filed
County. Ohio. alleging that the personal
estate of the said decedent il insufficient TO
pay his debts. the allowances to the widow.
and the charges of administration for said
estate. That the said James Norman King
died. seized in fee simple of the followine de-
scribed real estate. situated in the village of
Blutfton. Allen County. Ohio. to-wit: Part
of the North West Quarter of Section IL.
Town 2. South. Range s East. and being
No. SIS South Main st. in the Village Of
Bluffton. Ohio. and containing Five acres of
land. more or less. That Ruth /. King is
entitled to certain exemption and allowances
from said estate: and that the prayer of said
petition is for sale of said premises. for the
payment of the debts. allowances and charges
of administration aforesaid.
further take notice that they have been made
parties defendant to said petition and that
they are required to answer the same on or
before the 9th day of May. 1914.
RUTH I. KING.
Administratrfx
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Lafayette

The w. S. c. S. of the Methodist
church met at the home of Mrs.
Freda Arthur Wednesday evening.
Members present were Mrs. Belle
Bradley, Mrs. Edith Downing, Mrs.
die Arnold, Mrs. Delma Watt, Mrs.
Josie Hall, Mrs. Katherine Schu-
macher, Mrs. Louella Koogler, Mrs.
Hilda Badertscher, Mrs. Ethel Helser,
Mrs. Mildred Carey, Mrs. Bess
Brackney, Mrs. Inez May, Mrs.
Blanche He1ser and the hostess. Mrs.
Lillian Plate was a guest. Social
Evangelistic work was the title of a
talk by Mrs. Downing.
Mrs. Mollie Allerding of Ada was
a Saturday dinner guest of Mrs
Carrie Lentz.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Eversole OF
Bluffton, Mrs. Adeline Doernberg
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CHAPTER vi: Navigator Harry
Schneider tells of a fight with Zeros In
which Shorty Wheless takes part. He
lands In rice paddy and is surrounded
by Filipinos. The crew buys an outrigger
canoe and sail to the isle OF Panay. Later
they take off for Australia.
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II finally decide to give 1t that
thousand, and If ! get back, let
them jerk the wreck and put in q
new one. With that extra thou
sand now, maybe ! can get over the
target-we're about to begin our
bomb runs-and bag cruiser, which
is q good trade for ruined air
plane motor.
Meanwhile Jim has been pulling
ahead OF me as / limp along, and
now he is calling:
'Connally to Kurtz.'
Kurtz answering Connally,
say.
"'Got enough gas, Frank
Plenty of gas, Jim.' Which is
lie. I've got only just enough, but
I'm determined to get over that tar
get. i've got a motor out, and
wish you could slow down and stay
with me- salized later, of course,
that this ws asking lot of Jim,
but I didn't realize it at the time.
Nov we're approaching the ex-
act position of the target, and | be-
gin to realize the predicament I'm
in. Because if lose another motor
on the same side, I'll have little
chance of getting this plane home.
And also, sitting above this thin
layer overcast I wonder when /
will first see the Jap fighters push
ing up through its surface, maybe
boring their way almost straight up
through it, hanging by their props,
or maybe coming out of it leaping
like a school Of dolphins.
''Or when we 60 down through it
as we may have to to find our tar
gets-will they be sitting right un-
der it, waiting to pick US off?
"Al the time Jim's doing his best
to stay with me, but / continue to
fall back And just then Harris, my
bombardier, peering down through
the broken overcast, calls Target
ahead I'm glued to the PDI needle
now, but when my bombardier starts
to make his run and the bomb-bay
doors come open, their extra drag
on the air slows me down still more
and I fall further behind Jim as
trim the ship both to compensate
for those open doors and to keep
the wing which carries that limping
engine from falling. The plane con-
tinues to yaw to the left, and it's
hard flying. Both my co-pilot and !
are very tired.
= 'Then over my earphones Jim is
calling: Bombs away, Franklin
turning off the target and far ahead
/ can see the sun CLINT on his up
cooked wing as he heads for home.
But I'm still on the PDI needle,
my bombardier has picked up a
beautiful target-a gang of trans
ports and a cruiser down through
the overcast, the sea is laced with
their curving wakes as they try to
get away-but he can't seem to hold
any one of them in his sights long
enough to make a good run.
Finally Harris, in desperation,
pleads over the interphones, Frank,
I just can't hang onto that cruiser
let's turn east
"And ! soon know why, because
my co-pilot, raising up to peer over
the side, tells me we are quartering
across the wakes of hundreds o,
ships. It's long line of Jap trans
ports moving in pairs, and conveyed
by cruisers and destroyers.
Can you just hold it, Frank?
pleads Harris over the interphones
Just hold it, and we'll hang out
one in just q secondl'
And then Jim connallY. For
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AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE STANDARD
OF TIME FOR THE VILLAGE OF
BLUFFTON, OHIO, AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.

WHEREAS. it is now the opinion of the
Council of the Village of Bluffton, Ohio. that
it would be conducive to the best interests of
said village TO conform with the practise OBJ
served by Findlay and Lima. Ohio. and adopt
Eastern War Time the standard of time
for the summer months and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the us
uai daily operation of the village government,
in that in order to preserve the public prop
erty and safety. it is necessary that this or
dinance go into immediate effect, now, there
fore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF
THE VILLAGE OF BLUFFTON. OHIO.
TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS
ELECTED THERETO CONCURRING:
Section Beginning at $500 o'clock A. NJ.
Eastern Standard Time, Sunday, April 3oth
1914. and from and after that time and until
3 100 o'clock A. NJ. Eastern War Time, on
the first Sunday of September, 1884,. the
of the Village of Bluffton. Ohio shall be what
is known Eastern War Time and nil Off
ces and all legal and official proceedings with
in the limits of said Village of Biutfton, Ohio.
shall be regulated thereby.
Section 2. That every clock time piece
maintained at the public expense or upon any
public building or buildings belonging to the
Village of Bluffton, Ohio, shall be set,
and operated according to said Eastern War
Time by the person or persons in charge or
in control thereof
Section 8. From 800 o'clock A. NJ. East
ern War time on the first Sunday of Septem-
Standard Tine on the last Sunday of April.
1945. the standard of time within the corpor
ate limits of the Village Of Bluffton. Ohio.
shall be what is known Eastern Standard
Time. otherwise referred to as Central War
Time. and all offices and legal and official
proceedings within the corporate limits of
the Village of Bluffton, Ohio. shall be
regulated thereby. That during such period
every clock or time piece maintained
at the public expense upon any public
building or buildings belonging TO the Village
of Bluffton. Ohio, shall be set. run and oper-
| ated according to said Eastern Standard Time.
otherwise referred to Central War Time.
Thereafter in each year in like manner.
| from the last Sunday in April until the first
| Sunday in September, Eastern War Time
| shall be observed as the standard of time for
| the Village of Bluffton and from the first
| Sunday in September until the last Sunday
| of the following April. Eastern Standard
| Time otherwise referred to Central War
| Time shall be observed as the standard of
! time for said Village.
| Section A. That all ordinances parts of
| ordinances conflicting with the provisions of
| this ordinance. be and the same are hereby
| repealed
Section 5. That for the reasons set forth
| in the preamble hereto. which is made a part
! threof this ordinance is hereby declared to be
| an emergency measure and shall take effect
| and be in force forthwith.
+ w. A. HOWE,
| President of the Council and Mayor
| of the Village of Bluffton.
| Attest:
w. GEIGER, Clerk. /
| Our Want-ads hrinO results
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SYNOPSIS
g. WHITE

CHAPTER l: The story Of the famou.!
10Th and 7th Bombardment Groups. Of
Lieut. Col. Frank kurtz and his Fortress
crew In the tremendous air campaign
n the ns aay Paee sae Lieut. Ku
who was pilot Of the old Fortress. known
as The Swoose," which escaped from
Clark Field. in the Philippines. tells Of
PEDALS to the Hss wreck Of pe Old g. nds eight
OF his crew lying In an irregular hne-
CHAPTER III: Lieut.. Kurtz tells how
orders to camoufiage Old SO were coun..
bombs. Then he was ordered to jerk the
bombs, reload with cameras and rush
the camoufage. Preparations made for
taking pictures of Formosa. Someone
shouts. Look at that pretty navy forna-
ton. The navy formation" happens to
be flight Of Jap planes.
CHAPTER III: Bombs hit the mess
another hum. sP-4o.s." they think. but
they prove to be Zeros coming in from
the direction of Corregidor. The boys
duck back into their foxholes.
CHAPTER Nv: The pilots are given
their targets and towering above. the
group is Colin Kelly. about to head out
on his first mission. Buzz Wagner IS
es Rss Sy 'aps in his snd G sey BE eoe
Jap field. Church fails to return. The
death of Colin Kelly.
CHAPTER v: Fortresses are kent in
the air TO save them from the Japs.
Through some mistake someone opens
fire on them. Japs begin photographing
the place. No longer safe to sleep in the
barracks, cots are moved into a corn
field. With no fighters left to defend
them. evacuation begins. Lieut.. Kurtz
tells of last plane trip out in patched
up plane. Japs land light tanks at Apart.
Squadron commander Major Gibbs fails
to return from mission. u. S. forces flee
from Clark Field to Mindanao.
CHAPTER vi: Navigator Harry
Schrefber tells of fight with Zeros In
which Shorty Wheless takes part. He
by Filipinos. The crew buys an outrigger
canoe and sail to the isle OF Panay. Later
they take off for Australia.
CHAPTER VII: Lieut.. Kurtz takes up
the story again. He describes the hot.
dry Christmas day in Australia, and how
U. S. fliers spent it, A report comes in
over CIV radio. It was from Schaetzel
saying he'd be In after dark with one
body aboard. Schaetzel gets In, his plane
a wreck. Gen. Brereton lands on the
field and the boys are summoned to
meeting.
CnAf len VII. y. ,. HeIs arrive az
the Dutch field. and shortly after start
on fight 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 awayi"
CHAPTER TX: Bombardier says they
had caught Japs fat-footed. AT Malang
Field boys are briefed before dawn.
told about big concentration of Jap ships
NE. of Borneo. They take of, but hit
a frightful fog. Cannot see plane right
ahead. Coming out OF fog they see q
huge black cloud resembling tornado. II
was the Dutch burning their Borneo oil.
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Ma1s|
A2Z
'DeAosdI

These days-when it's cold enough
to keep on shoveling coal to keep
the house warm-and warm enough
to start lawn moving and you
better take good care of that lawn
mower-it'll have to last for the
duration and open season for
succulent "greens'-we always did
like 'em and Sundays warm
and sultry spell was reminder of
mushroom season coming soon we
hope and it rained, too, last
Sunday which makes two of the
seven rainy Sundays after Easter
and Bluffton folks up extra early
Sunday morning to hear Mrs. Agnes
Birchnaugh, Bluffton woman desig-
mated as Ohio war worker of the
week, broadcast from Cleveland
and reception was unusually clear !.
and the boys getting fishing
tackle ready for next Sunday, last
day of open bass season until after
June Is !. and speaking of fishing,
we saw a sign the other day that
read Life like fish ait"-remember
the old days when it was a bowl
of cherries and the town
council talking about putting the
police in uniform :. and Buttons
new dog catcher-Dewey Foreman
yes, the name is correct and
remember when you wind the clock
on Saturday night to turn it ahead
one hour.
James and Joe Birchnaugh, soldier
ing in the southwest Pacific area
probably didn't hear the broadcast
last Sunday morning when their
mother, Mrs. Agnes Birchnaugh
broadcast over Station WTAM at
Cleveland, being honored as the Ohio
war worker of the week, but they
will hear it at some future date.
Two records of the broadcast were
presented to Mrs. Birchnaugh, one of
which she is sending to her sons.
Spring has come to the southland
even if it did get sidetracked on
the way to Ohio. Jimmy Basinger
with an army air unit at Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, says the trees are in
leaf and Mrs. Nello Steinman former
beauty shop operator here says that
they're having sultry summer wealth
er at Morgan City, La, which is Is
miles below New Orleans. Haying
season is over, she says and the sale
of this years Irish Cobbler potatoes
has started.
Remember when as a youngster
you read in Arabian Nights the fan
tastic tale of the magic carpet OF
Bagdad which flew thru the air with
the greatest of ease to all parts Of
the world? Well, Major Herbert
Luginbuhl of the army signal corps
who is here after 18 months over
seas duty in Iran-Persia to you
and incidentally stationed near Bag
dad didn't make the trip on a magic
carpet-but it was something which
would have been more remarkable
to the old timer who wrote Arabian
Nights.
Fact is, Major Luginbuhl's triI
home is an example of what moderr
miracles are being performed a!
routine duty in these days of fas
air travel. He covered a distance o.
$4,000 miles by army plane in 81,
and one-half days in the air. TIL,
trip was made by way of Africa ant
Brazil.
| Herbert is one of four sons of Mr.
and Mrs. j. |. Luginbuhl in th'
service. Another brother Kennetl
is also in the signal corps; Woodrow
and John are in the navy.
Cheer for poultrymen in the Bluff
ton district who have been having
bad case of blues. The Gray 4
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-27

A new disease attacking pigs and
older hogs in Ohio causes excessive
securing and occasional vomiting.
Any swine showing those symptoms
should be Immediately isolated, or
the disease will spread rapidly. No
cure is known for the disease, and
the death rate is 100 per cent.
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NOTICE Is hereby given that Robert Gill
more Gotf will petition the Probate Court of
Allen County. Ohio praying that his name
be changed to Robert Gilmore Miller.
Said petition will be for hearing on or af-
ter the 2eth day of April. 1914.
ROBERT GILMORE GOFF
BY b. f. Weity.
His Attorney
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-04
Prisoner Walks
Out On Sheriff
Robinson
Slips Out OF Elkton Jail
Unnoticed And Makes
His Getaway

Richard Branch, colored, convicted
I'M the circuit Court at Eikton, Oh
criminal assault and sentenced TO
maryland PeniIentlary Ior life, es-
CAPPED from Elkton jail last week.
Branch. formerly an army sergeant
stationed at Aberdeen, was conhneu
in cell on the lower two tiers a.
The recently rebuilt 'escape-proof
iail. lie ate his lunch Sunday and dis
apuearea sometime between then and
haonuay morning roll call.
Snerin ROBINSON said county po-
lice were warned Immediately after
the escape was disclosed and the law
enforcement agencies OF adjacent
counties notified The sheriff went t.
New York, Branch 8 home, to see IL
aa,. culvreu convict had made ms
way there.
nrancn and Ralph Mackie, OF
North Carolina, were convicted OF
apsacking two white women, both
workers at the Triumph Explosives
Company Pant, Elkton, last Septem-
her ~. Testimony was given that
inc men picked up the women, VINO
we're .tnumping' ride to Baltimore
AND pulled into side road and as
sauItea them.
t,ne OF the women was seriously
beaten by the colored soldiers and
required hospital treatment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-04
tuberculosis Seal Sale

The Cecil County Tuberculosis AS
sociation opened it's seal sale cam
paien on November Is, 1943. Christ
mas seals were mailed to Ais per-
cons in the county and were placed
on sale in the public schools and at
the Federal dorn1itories. To date, the
total amount received is $2,SO7.SS.
It is requested that all persons
who have not mailed their remittance
40 So within the next few days. The
money collected is use& to Anance
tuberculosis clinicsS to assist persons
nj obtaining sanatorium care; tospay
Tor x-ray pictures, where the patient
is unable to do SO; and to finance
other activities related to the con-
troll of tuberculosis.
The tuberculosis clinics are held in
the ofices of the Cecil County Health
department, 201 Court House Build
ing, on the second Wednesday OF
each month, with DR.. Bartus 7. Bag
gobt, Baltimore, as clinician.
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Achievement Pins
Awarded

The Cecil County Homentakers
Club with Miss Helen /. SmitIGiAs the
home demonstration agent, sfas an
nounced the following Awards to
girls in the county for outstanding
work. The dress revue pin for cloth
ing, Nancy Edwards, of Perryville;
Betty O'Brien, of Calvert; Jane Mar
tents and Patricia Ottey, Appleton.
The dairy pin for demonstration in
cheese. sponsored by 0the Kraft
Cheese Company, Jane MARTENS and
Patricia Ottey, Appletonss Mary Rakes
received the clothing achievement
pin for the county. The victory gar
den pin went to Norma Rae Fell of
the Calvert Club. Myra LippiAcott
received the girls record pin for her
diversified program Of activities, and
Lois Cowan, the pin for foods and
canning work done over a period of
years.