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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Ebenezer Broadcast

A children's program will be
heard on the Ebenezer church radio
program broadcast from Findlay sta
tion WIN, Sunday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock. In charge of the pro-
gram are Misses Vera and Mabel
Amstutz and Minerva Hilty and
Mrs. Vinton Bucher. Rev. J. J..
Esau, the pastor, will speak.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
COUNCIL BUYS new
MACK TRUCK FOR
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Expenditure of S6,203 for New
Pumper Authorized at
Meeting Monday
Delivery Probably Cannot Be
Made Before Next Spring,
Council Learns

Purchase of a new Mack fire truck
for Buttons municipal fire depart
ment at cost of $6,203.S5 was au-
thorized by the town council Monday
night.
The new truck will be a triple COM
bustion fire pumper with a capacity
of 500 gallons of water per minute.
1t will have a 400 gallon booster tank,
fitting it for rural fire fighting, to
comply with arrangements made to
provide fire protection for Richland
and Orange townships with the Bluff
ton equipment
Delivery from the Mack factory in
Allentown, Pa, can be made in about
four months after priorities are clear
ed, and councilmen do not expect to
obtain the truck until early next
spring. Application for the priority
will be made at once.
Unanimous Vote
Final decision of the council was by
unanimous vote after bids from four
companies had been opened and con-
sidered. The councilmen said they
were we'll pleased with the bids which
offered six different trucks.
Purchase of the Mack pumper will
take only s6,203.s5 of the 5000 fund
for new equipment provided in bond
issue approved at the polls here in
November, 1941, but most of the re-
mainder win be required to buy new
hose and other equipment needed to
revamp the department.
Bids considered by the council in
making their selection Monday night
were as follows:
Mack Fire Truck CO., New York
General Fire Truck Co., Detroit,
Ford chassis, $4,704.29; Chevrolet
chassis, S4,S94.
Howe Fire Apparatus Co., Ander-
son, Ind, G. nj. G. chassis, $500.
Union Supply Co., Toledo. Interna-
tional chassis, $500; Ford chassis,
s4,63s.05.
Present Equipment 0utmoded
Buttons present equipment con-
sists of 500 gallon pumper mounted
on a Studebaker chassis and a 500
gallon motor driven pumper furnished
by the Civilian Defense administra-
ton.
The Studebaker pumper was pur-
chased in 1928 and in the is interven-
ing years many changes have been
made in design and equipment that
makes the present equipment consid-
erably outmoded.
The Civilian Defense unit was sent
here two years ago but has never been
used since there is no means of trans
porting it to the scene of a fire.
In previous action taken two years
ago the council also purchased a Mack
pumper for $7,950. This order, how
ever, was later cancelled when it was
found impossible to obtain the neces-
sary priority at that time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
County Line Church
Homecoming Sunday

Special Homecoming services will
be held Sunday morning and after
noon at the County Line Church of
the Brethren, seven miles south of
Bluffton. A basket dinner will be
held at noon and all present and
members of the congregation and
their friends are invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Church OF Christ
Calls NelU Pastor

Rev. Milton Fronsoe of Collier,
w. Va, has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Church of Christ
here, it was announced the first of
the week.
Rev. Fronsoe has resigned his pull
pit at Collier, effective next month
at which time he viii move here
with his family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
WHERE OUR SOLDIERS ARE
Pvt. Robert Criblez 35241229
Co. B, 59th Bn. 18th Regt.
Camp Fannin, Texas
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop 81
BY Morris GrOmar

A game of touch football was play
ed at Monday nights meeting in Scout
headquarters, with IT Scouts and As
sistant Scoutmaster Gene Benroth
participating. In the game Keith
Kirtland's team defeated Harry Burk-
holders team by a score of 26 to IL.
A game of horse and rider then was
played with Karl Frick, the horse, and
Bill Haller, the rider winning.
Roll call and the collection of dues
was conducted by Maynard Pogue,
following which Assistant Scoutmas-
ter Benroth demonstrated a sparrow
trap built by Prof. Russell A. Lantz.
Next Mondays meeting will be helo
at $3.50 p. m. at Harmon field, where
touch football will be played.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Family Night Gathering Will
Be Held by Towns Oldest
Fraternal Organization
Order of Eastern Star Is OBJ
serving 30th Anniversary
of Its Organization

Seventy-fifth anniversary of Bluff
toms oldest fraternal organization
will be observed here this Thursday
night at a family-night meeting of
the Masonic lodge held in conjunc-
tion with the 30th anniversary cele-
bration of the Order of Eastern
Star.
Dispensation to organize the Bluff
ton lodge was granted by the Grand
Lodge of Ohio on June 25, 1866, and
the first meeting of the local or
ganization was held on July of
the same year.
Charter for the lodge was granted
on October 20, 1869, and the lodge
was officially constituted on Nov. II,
1869, when the officers were in
stalled. From June % until Novem-
Der temporary officers had served,
who for the most part comprised the
same group that later filled the var
ious posts.
Petition to organize lodge here
was filed by nine prominent early
Bluffton residents, as follows: E. G.
Greene, Samuel S. Yoder, John Goble,
John Meyer, Jacob Moser, j. j. Fer
rail-, J. G. Honnell, John Eaton and
James ]. Crawford.
OFFICERS INSTALLED
First officers, who were installed
on Nov. IL, 1869, included: E. w.
Greene, master; S. S. Yoder, senior
warden; John Goble, junior warden;
John w. Cahill, treasurer; Andrew
Hauenstein, secretary; J. j. Craw-
ford, junior deacon; and J. F. Mer-
riman, tyler. Oldest member is B.
F. Biery, who also is the lodges
only surviving 50-year Mason.
During the rs years of the lodges
history, it has met in three different
halls. The first lodge room was in
the old Steiner and Cahill building,
which stood on the present site of
the Bluffton Slaw Cutter Co.
Next meeting place was on the
secoaa floor OF the forrner Bogart
Harness Shop building, now owned
by DR.. NJ. d. Soash, when that struc-
ture stood on North Main street.
The third and present location is in
the Hauenstein building above the
Elk restaurant.
o. E. S. 80 YEARS OLD
Thirtieth anniversary of the Order
of Eastern Star also is being OBJ
served, that organization having been
instituted in October, 1914. Present
membership of the Star organization
numbers 1870.
Eastern Star officers are: Matron,
Elsie Buckland; Patron, F. L. Todd /;
Associate Matron, Dorothy Stratton
associate patron, Walter Marshall +;
secretary, Charlotte MARSHALL; con-
ductress, Effie Herring; treasurer,
Emma Studler; associate conduct
ress, Helen Campbell; marshal, Mar
jean Todd; organist, Marjorie Buck
land; warder, HERNIA Rauenbuhler
sentinel, George Rauenbuhler; Star
Points, Carolyn Alderman, Alice
Devier, Irene Brauen, Theola Stein
er and Blanche Harmon.
Officers of the Masonic order are
Donavin B. Conrad, master; Arden
Baker, senior warden; Bert Swank
junior warden; Robert Niswander
senior deacon; Lloyd Brauen, junior
| deacon; Ralph Stearns, secretary
DIR. Evan Basinger, treasurer; Ber
Shafer, senior steward; John Thomp
son, tyler; and George Rauenbuhler
chaplain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
In New Locations

Gerald Berry and family have
moved from the Biederman apart
ments on South Main street to the
Elmer Burkholder property on West
Elm street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ewing have
moved frc the Chase Ewing firm
in Orange township to the Corda
Ryan property on East Elm street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
TlUO Receive Army
Pre-InductiOn Call

Two youths in the Bluffton area
were sent to Fort Hayes, Columbus,
Tuesday, by Hancock county Draft
Board No. 2 for pre-induction call
and physical examination for the
armed service. They were Ernest
Bosse of Bluffton and Richard West
all of Mt. Cory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
mterned Missionary
Speaks Here Sunday

Rev. Harry Wood, returned mis-
sionary who was recently interned
by the japanese will speak at the
Defenseless Mennonite church SUM-
day morning at 10:30 o'clock.
Rev. Wood who spent nearly 27
years in the orient was one of the
first missionaries to Japan and later
worked in other countries in the
Far East.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Messiah Concert
RehearsdIs Begin

Bluffton College Choral society is
holding rehearsals every Tuesday
night at 1880 o'clock in Ramseyer
chapel in preparation for the an
nual Messiah concert to be given
during the holiday season. Prof.
r. A. Lantz, director of the chorus
has extended an invitation to all
singers of the town and community
to attend rehearsals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Bluffton Residents Are Holding
Their War Bonds; Few Are Cashed
S0utherndires Will
Sing Here October I9

The Southernaires, an outstand-
ing radio and concert vocal ensem-
bic, will appear in the Bluffton High
school gymnasium at $3.50 p. m.
Thursday, October 10.
Appearance of the group in Bluff
ton is being sponsored by the Bluff
ton College department of music.
Prof. Russell A. Lantz is in charge
of arrangements.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Redd of
Lafayette, son, Dennis Ray, last
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Schick OF
Bluffton, son, Roger Warren. FRI
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Donaldson
of Columbus Grove, a daughter
Nancy Ann, Saturday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
ARMY PROMOTION

Robert Matter of Bluffton, sta
toned at Wright Field, Dayton, has
been promoted from staff sergeant to
technical sergeant, it was announced
Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
Olive Branch Rally
And Homecoming Day

Olive Branch church of Orange
township viii hold rally day and
Homecoming services, Sunday. Serv-
ices will be held in the morning and
afternoon with . basket dinner at
noon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-10-05
BLUFFT0N MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices s)-Wheat s1.59;
corn SLIP; oats roc; soys s2.04.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14

remain closed on Monday and close at
4 p m. on every other week day until
April 30 lowing to the necessity of
the utmost economy of power due to
the coal shortage, the Swedish news
paper Svenska Dagbladet reported re-
Gently
Aside from the demands of war and
the fact that Hungary has never been
self sufficient as a coal producer the
country's present acute coal problem
has been aggravated by her absorp-
ton of new territory as an Axis part
ner earlier in the war.
Before the war the bulk of Hun
garian coal was imported from Ger
many's mines in Silesia. Now Hun
gary, in addition to requiring more
coal for her war industry, must also
satisfy the fuel needs of newly incor-
porated territories that have no mines
of their own.
The incorporated part Of Slovakia
used to draw its coal supply from
Bohemian coal mines, now producing
for Germany. The newly acquired
parts of Pennsylvania were formerly
supplied by the coal mines of Petro-
sani. Petrosani, however, is in that
part of Pennsylvania that remained
with Rumania.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14

master a decree was entered con-
firming in the power company the
right to the use and control of the
waters of the Missouri up to a stated
maximum flow necessary to operate
the power plants of that company,
plus the flow requisite to keep its
storage reservoirs filled. The decree
permanently enjoined the defendants
from diverting, storing, or using the
waters of the river except at. times
when the prior demands of the plain
tiff have been satisfied"
In its summing up, the court stated:
ut is argued that even if the mem
bers of the board are state officers
the suit is maintainable in the federal
courts, because, it is said, the board
acted in excess of its statutory author
ity. The nubbin of the argument ap-
pears to be that the legislative act
recognizes vested rights of prior APP
perpetrators, and that the board in
vaded appellees rights merely by
making an appropriation of water and
by taking steps looking toward the
erection of a diversion dam. How
ever, the act specifically authorizes
the making of appropriations and the
of works. There was no
at the outset that in pur-
suing the program outlined for it by
the legislature the board would violate
prior rights. The injunctive relief
sought was supplemental to the main
purpose of the action, which was to
quiet appellee's title to the waters of
the river. This suit is not typical of
hose relied on by appellee where the
relief asked for was injunction against
the commission by state officials of
specific wrongful acts. In any event
the act itself afforded appellee an ade-
quate remedy for any actual invasion
of its rights. Section 349.22 thereof
provides that "the owner of any prior
right contending that the board is not
and respecting such ap-
may resort to a court of
equity for the purpose of determining
or not the rights of said
claimant have been invaded and the
board shall observe the terms of such
'inal decree"
In dissenting opinion, holding
hat a corporation like the State Wa
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14
POLITICAL AIMS
OUTLINED BY
MURRAY OF Clio

For the first time in American his.
tory, union labor has formed a ma
tional political organization-the CLIO
Political Action Committee. Although
not a distinct political party, its
avowed purpose is to throw it's weight
into the crucial 1914 campaign, and
into future elections. The February
issue of the American magazine
brings to its readers the political pro-
gram of organized labor as expressed
by one of its most powerful leaders
Philip Murray president of the CLIO.
Discussing the background and
events which led the CLIO to take this
momentous step, Mr.. Murray makes
some statements of special interest
to agriculture and farmers He says:
The failure to control initiation has
been a scandal and a disgrace. Act
ing chiefly under the pressure of the
so-called farm bloc, which is really
made up mostly of big business and
profiteering middlemen masquerading
as farmers, congress has systemically
crippled all effective efforts to hold
down the cost of living, and has
opened the door wide toward a really
dangerous initiation
This is not by any means a blow
at labor alone. 1t hurts every sol
dier's dependent living on fixed al
lotment; every person earning a re-
latively fixed income; every person
owning war bonds; every person who
tries to save something for the future
or provide for his family through in
every person who benefits
Or hopes to benefit by Social Security.
And, finally, it leads on toward all
The inflationary dislocations which
can sicken the economic and social
ife of the nation"
The action of congress in relation
o taxation and initiation is an exam |
de, says Mr.. Murray, of what can
happen when public apathy allows |
selfish, and short-sighted |
men to get into congress. And it |
makes us dread to think what might |
Happen if such men should be in con-
rol when the terrific problems of the |
vars end arise. The Political Action
will work to prevent the
e-election of men like these"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14
LEND-LEASED FARM MACHINERY

Less than per cent of the United
States production of farm machinery
went for Lend-Lease between March
IL, 1871, and November 1, 1913, ac-
cording to the Presidents thirteenth
report to congress on Lend-Lease OPP
erations. Allied need for farm ma
chinery was increased because of mill
tary demands. American flying for
tresses now use airfields which four
years ago were among Britain's best
farms, thus necessitating reclamation
of marshes and rough hill land for
farm acreages. When Australia was
threatened by Japanese invasion early
in 1912, thousands of Australian farm
tractors were conscripted for con-
struction of military roads and air.
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14

SerVaClOn DOaru ana C1e BROAD
water Missouri Water Users
Association in a majority opin.
ion reversed the judgment OF
the federal district court which
had granted the power com
pany the injunction asked and
directed that it be dismissed as
against the State Water Con-
servation board.
In it's opinion, the court cited the
history of the case as follows:
"In its complaint the power COM
pany asserted the right by prior APP
preparation to the use of all the wat
ers of the Missouri river and its tribu-
taries for the purpose of operating
certain hydro-electric plants-seven in
number-located on the upper reaches
of that stream. II alleged that on
June 28, 1888, the defendant State
Water Conservation Board had filed
a notice of appropriation of 400 sec.
ond feet of the waters of the Missouri
for the purpose of irrigating lands in
Broadwaer county and for other bene-
fetal purposes; that the board had
plans for the construction
Of a dam and irrigation works to di-
vert the amount of it's appropriation
at a point above the dams and hydro
electric plants of the plaintiff, and
had let or was proceeding to let con-
tracts for, and to construct, a diver
sion dam across the river with the
design of conducting water from the
stream for the irrigation of seasonal
crops; all of which conduct was al
legged to be in derogation of the rights
Of the plaintiff. There was a prayer
that the plaintiffs title to the use of
the water of the river be quieted as
against the defendants and that they
be permanently enjoined from con-
structing and maintaining the dam
and diyerting water or from interior
ing in any manner with the flow of
he stream and plaintiffs use thereof.
"The State Water Conservation
Board and its members interposed
notion to dismiss on the iurisdictional
ground that the action was one
against the State of Montana and not
me between citizens of different
states. The motion was denied, the
answered, and after ex-
ensive hearings before a special
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14

Wilson, pointed the way for us to CO.
He implored us to help Germ, and join,
a League of Nations to help keep the
peace. The money changers did not
want enduring peace. They wanted
to make more money rebuilding Ger
man ornaments to slaughter men, to
make widows and orphans. Had Will
son found support at home, he could
have put his plan across at Paris.
Isolationists joining with our big
bankers and capitalists, undermined
him in a vicious press, weakened his
power, drove him to a premature
grave.
Secrets of the Convention at Paris
in 1919 were lately opened One may
surprise you folks this evening. Will
son bitterly opposed giving the Japs
a mandate over the islands scattered
for a thousand miles south of Japan.
He told Lloyd George that it would
endanger American commerce, and be
dagger pointed at Australia and
New Zealand. Henry Cabot Lodge,
Gnu obhCi VI dliOt JCoiOuo VI w IL
son, standing in with the bankers.
prevented him from keeping these
islands out of Japanese hands. Our
boys are paying in blood for the folly
of Lodge and his coterie.
Wilson was friend of the railway
workers, and other workers. He de-
manded laws limiting the hours of
labor, safety appliance acts. He
found that the isolationists, the money
changers, the munitioneers, the labor
baiters, were all in one group. OF
these he made a prophesy his dying
indictment of capitalism.
Wilson's last printed words appear
in the Atlantic Monthly of August,
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14
ExPEDIENCY
IMPERILS
VICTORY

| Howard Y. Williams, national field
director of the Union for Democratic
Action and a leader of the Minnesota
Farmer Labor Party, today warned
that the Allies might fail to achieve
a complete victory if military sue
cesses were not matched by a clear
Reputation of the policy of expedi-
ency both in the international field
and in domestic politics.
In his fifteenth annual political re-
view, issued from the New York City
office at East 46th ST., Mr.. Williams,
who has just returned from nation
wide speaking and organizational
tour, pointed out that, despite the mo-
mentous series of international con-
ferences at Washington, Quebec, Mos
COW, Cairo and Teheran, here was
still a strong current in Allied foreign
policy running toward support of re-
dictionary governments such as Franco
Spain and monarchial Italy, which
could not be squared with our de-
clared intentions to establish DEM
ocratic world order on the basis of
the four freedoms.
''Too often our policy has not been
based on a realistic calculation of the
popular forces in the various coun-
tries. We were forced to recognize
General de Gaulle only after the ig-
nominous collapse of our efforts to
deal with semi-fascists and to initiate
Giraud Now men such as Pucheu
and Peyrouton, with whom we collab-
Grated are being held by the French
committee as traitors to France. We
have lent our prestige to the exiled
royal governments of Greece and
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-14
PRICE CONTROL
REALLY WORKS
In BUTTE

Butte's OPA Price Panel is writing
history in making price control work
in that area according to word re-
ceived by The Peoples Voice.
Under the aggressive leadership OF
Stanley Babcock, retiring president of
the Butte Miners Union the tremen-
dous possibilities of price control ON
a local level have been clearly DEM
onstrated.
During the past week practically
every food merchant in Butte has
been called into series of educa-
tional meetings at the WPR Board
Office to review the results of re-
cent price check made in all Butte
food stores.
According to Babcock and other
panel members the great majority of
merchants are anxious and eager to
cooperate in observing price ceiling
and rationing regulations That small
percentage who show no inclination
to observe OPA regulations are turned
over to the OPA legal department
for action with board records showing
five cases turned into the Helena
office this past week.
Describing the makeup of the Butte
Price Panel for the benefit of The
Peoples Voice, Mr. Babcock said:
Our price panel is made up of a
cross section of Butte. We have mer-
chants, wholesalers and labor repre-
sented. We all live here in Butte
We're volunteer workers for the fed
eral government who are interested
IN price control and keeping down
initiation. We want to see our Butte
business men stay in business-but
we want them to do it legitimately
md help us keep our oath of office.
"All we ask our merchants to do
s to post their ceiling prices where
hey may be readily referred to by |
shoppers and mark and sell their |
groceries, in line with these legal cell |
ng prices. If they have any COM
,laints about prices charged by whole |
alers we are eager to get any such |
and we can promise |
prompt action. 1t will be the same |
ort of prompt action we give a con-
umer who makes complaint about |
N overcharge in retail stores.