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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29

She previously taught in a mission
school there.
S. F. Pannabecker who received a
Ph. d. degree from Yale last week,
former missionary to China will
leave for that country probably in
August to engage in relief work. His
family living on College road, will
remain here.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Wenger, re-
turned missionaries from India will
leave this fall for that country to
resume their work in a Mennonite
mission.
Buttons Jail served as an over
night lodging place for two truck
drivers marooned here Friday await
ing repairs. With no other accom-
modations available, the Jail was of
fered to them by Nightwatch Murray
and they gladly accepted.
And speaking of the housing situa-
ton, Mrs. Maude Boehmer of Cleve-
land, former Bluffton resident says
that since rents were frozen by
government order, owners of proper
ties which they formerly rented now
find it more profitable to sell them,
since there is no ceiling on sale
prices. Cleveland, she says, has
witnessed an orgy of buying and
selling properties, but it is almost
impossible to rent.
That tornado which swept thru the
southwest corner of Pennsylvania
last Friday night brought some
anxious moments to Miss Ocie And
erson, Bluffton librarian, whose
mother and four married brothers
live in Green county, near Waynes-
burg, the path taken by the storm.
None of the five homes, however
was damaged. One brother, who
operates a poultry and egg truck
transformed his vehicle into an
emergency ambulance and took lao
injured residents to the Waynesburg
hospital. A tornado in a mountain
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29

Mrs. Tom Flemming, Mr. and Mrs.
Scott Fisher, Mr.. and Mrs. Avery
Watt and son We're visitors Sunday
evening in the Willard Jennings
home.
Mr.. S. Fl. Barnes has been re-
moved from the Bluffton hospital to
the home of his son Lyman Barnes,
south of town.
Mrs. Don Gleason and sons of
Lima were callers Thursday evening
in the C. M. Gleason home.
Guests in the Russell Huber home
the past week were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Clausing of Lima, Mrs. Ed
gar Herr and son, Mrs. Dick Leiber
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Winston
Jennings and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard Jennings and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. M. Gleason and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Salter and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Blosser and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Blosser and
daughter.
Mrs. Eva Tullis and Tom Owens
of Lima are spending the week in
the Owens home.
Guests in the c. NJ. Gleason home
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. C. H.
Zahrend, Miss Vera Zahrend of
Westminster, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Hover and daughter of Waynesfeld,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Zahrend and
daughters of Napoleon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29

to worry about. The Japs had put a
little landing force ashore on a tiny
island sixty miles north of Surabaya,
and taken over its radio station.
And now from all our sources
planes, ships, even submarines
came reports that a big Jap force
was closing in from the sea, not on
Borneo. not on Bali, but on Java
itself. The whole show was crack
ing up"
"They hadn't told us yet," said
the Bombardier, ''but we smelled it.
Rumors were running all over the
place that we might evacuate any
time now. Madiun, where / was
based, was being bombed every day
now-we'd 60 out on a mission and
always come back to find craters in
our runways. When we'd land, i'm
mediately there'd be another alarm
and we'd have to hop off the field
without servicing the planes or load
ing more bombs.
"Also, instead of going out to tar
gets in formations, we now were
going singly. AS soon as we'd get
one ship on the ground long enough
to get it gassed and bombed up,
we'd take off by our little lonesome,
lodging Zeros to pick just any target
from the countless transports that
were swarming off Java. In the
last week / got light cruiser and
a transport-blew the end off the
transport.
Mostly we were flying in a men,
tai fog. Rumorsl Every day they'd
say no, we weren't going to evac-
uate, because more reinforcements
were going to land on the field any
day now-even our own maintenance
crews were about to land by boat.
Then we'd hear their boat had been
sunk Git really went on past us to
India) and that we were pulling out.
Nothing was sure, except the fact
that all those Jap ships moving to-
ward Java weren't pleasure yachts,
and that we didn't have any recep-
ton committee to meet them. On
what turned out to be my last day
! got my plane loaded with bombs
and took off, headed for huge con-
voy we'd heard was coming down
toward US from Borneo. We met il
halfway - the plane ahead Of us
was already pasting it when we ar
rived. We came in at 5000 watch
ing this first ship plunking direct hits
on two parallel strings of transports
seventeen in each string, thirty
four in all, with fifteen or twenty
naval craft circling them.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29
MalnA1
DezAosoI

Summer heat-mercury crawling
up over the 100 mark and
bringing wheat harvest Unexpectedly
early =. also making corn knee
high before the Fourth of July
and boosting popularity of the Buck
eye which was deserted when the
mercury went to Sc week ago
carefree 12-year old strolling down
street in the heat Tuesday noon
playing Pistol Packin' Mamma on
his harmonica-always wanted to
play one of them s. and Independ-
ence day in the offing-but the only
fireworks are those from the Chicago
convention and speaking of
politics did you know that Grant
was the only Republican ever to
serve two full terms as president
s fact and since they can't
celebrate with firecrackers the ju-
veniles were tying awning ropes to
bumpers of autos parked in the busi-
ness section Saturday night-and it
isn't going to be so funny if they're
caught looks as if everyone is
taking a vacation next week and
June is keeping up its traditional
reputation as a month of brides,
going out this year amidst shower
Of rice and old shoes-unrationed,
we hope and Sam Luginbuhl out
Gratz crossing way calls attention
that this column in recording the
funeral of the Left Bower not long
ago, failed to mention the Right
Bower whose rites were held at the
same time-with simple honors, we
trust and we're reminding you
that there's still time to buy that
extra bond you've been intending to
buy-better do it now and make this
real Independence day -.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lyons here
from Los AEgeles-Mrs. Lyons the
former Lille Zehrbach-sister of
Fred. Trains from the west are
crowded but they had priority as
Mr.. Lyons is delegate to the Re-
publican convention at Chicago.
Mr.. Lyons, who is member of the
California legislature, says the anti
japanese feeling on the west coast
is still tense. Japanese, born in this
country as well as those who i'm
migrated here are still confined in
camps, altho some children of mixed
American-Japanese marriages are
being released after being investiga-
ted by federal agencies.
The war, he says has intensified
the feeling of the native Californians
against the Japanese, who as a race
are regarded as treacherous. Even
those born in this country with
status of American citizens are re-
garded as being indoctrinated with
Japanese ideology.
Resentment against the Japanese
dates previous to the Japanese ex-
clusion act passed by the California
legislature in 1912 over protests of
President Wilson and the postwar
situation in that state to satisfact-
orily adjust American and Japanese
relationships will be difficult.
Bluffton missionaries and teachers
who came home from the orient two
years ago following the outbreak of
the war, are planning to return
this summer and fall.
Among these are Miss Evelyn Mis-
wander who has accepted teaching
position in the public schools in
Hawaii and will leave this summer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29

Currency in circulation in the u.
S. has increased from an average Of
300, 100000 in 1859 to s2l, ,100,-
100000 in March, 1914. The national
debt has grown from an average Of
s34, 500, 100000 in 1859 to $184,
zoe, 900, 900 in March, 1914. War ex-
penditures ran over seven billion
dollars per month for February,
March, and April, 1914.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29
ArmOrsville

Mr.. and Mrs. w. /. Moore are
spending a few days with relatives
in Indiana.
Past week callers at the Chas
Montgomery home were: Mrs. Mabel
Hilty and grandchildren, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Klingler, Mr.. and Mrs
A. C. Mertz, John Welsh, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kent Klingler, S. Sgt. and Mrs
Robert Matter, Mrs. Eva Moser and
son Sgt. Herbert Moser.
Thursday evening callers of Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan Montgomery and
family were Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Dean
Hofer and Janet Edinger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carey Niswander
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Young and
family called Sunday afternoon al
the H. o. Hilty home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty
Margaret Guider, Mareen McCafferty
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis KohleI
of Ada, Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Klingler called
at the H. o. Hilty home Sunday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Moore and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Holmes
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Dye
of near Alvada, Sunday afternoon.
Sgt. and Mrs. Herbert Moser anc
son Teddy of Ell Paso, Texas, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Zerante and family
of Lima, Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Mosel
and family, and Mrs. Edith Fox ane
son Jimmie spent Tuesday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. August Seifker.
| Sgt. and Mrs. Herbert Moser ant
son Teddy called on Mr.. and Mrs
Morris Criblez, Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Seifker ane
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Zerantt
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Hover and son, Mrs. Edith Fox ane
son, Sgt. and Mrs. Herbert Nose,
and son Teddy took Sunday dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Moser ant
family. Afternoon callers were S
Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Matter ane
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery.
The chief factors contributing tt
the failure of farmer cooperatives il
the years 1920-25 were: Purchase al
inflated prices, general under-capital
ization, inexperienced managers
shortage of freight cars, and pay
ment of too high dividend rates.
The 10,450 farmers cooperatives
which reported for the commodity
marketing year 1942-43 did a gros.
business of S3,7SO,00O,OOO. The or
ganizations which sold farm commod
tiles reported a business volume ol
So, ,180,0O0,000 and the cooperative.
dealing in supplies sold $4,000, 1000, ,O0(
] xuor<h -, tho yoor
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PAGE SEVEN

out region is unusual and this one
proved to be of the hedge-hopping
variety.
They're a smart looking outfit that
band of the 37th Division in the
Southwest Pacific area. Herbert
Kindle who was formerly with
regimental band was recently trans
ferred to the division band which
numbers 70 we'll trained bandmen.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29
(Chapter 16 Continuedl

"When got back late to the ho-
tel there was that beautiful Dutch
girl, the one with the black hair
and the pale face which was so
wistfully sad in repose. Only there
were no sudden little smiles light
ing 1t up now. She was at the table
where she and John Robertson
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-06-29

CHAPTE vi: Navigator Harry
Schreiber tells Of fight with zeros IN
which Shorty Wheless takes part He
lands IN . rice paddy and Il surrounded
by rilipinos. The crew buys IN outrigger
canoe and sad 70 the isle of Panay. Later
they take on for Australia.
The union times., 1944-11-04

suburbs for the health and happiness of congested metropolitan millions. The Presidents Committee on High ways recommends the expenditure of $3,O00,000,000 annually, and MT. Kai- ser estimated that this would supply jobs for l,500,0O0.
 ''Dare to envision 5000 air ports ready to serve the youth who have learned to live and work in the air." MT. Kaiser said, pro- ceeding to the next item in the job program. s'The Civil Aeronautics Authority has budgeted a billion dollars of Federal aid for 5000 such airports. If they are built in the first postwar year. they would supply employment for 45O,OOO workers"
 Such highways and airports will be needed, MT. Kaiser argued, because automobiles and airplanes Twill at tract a hundred thousand American families. !" Automobile manufacture will provide direct employment for 3,N5,0O0, he said, and 225,00O will be needed to build the planes. As for railroads, MT. Kaiser said that em- ployment in that field alone will call for 100000 workers, not only for the first years, but for long time.
The union times., 1944-11-04

tice. They emphasized that state- ments relative to expected 40 per cent cuts in war production after victory in Europe have upset work CTS throughout the country, even those employed in plants which will not be affected at all.
 Advance information will enable many industries to avoid the neces- sity of discharging employees by ob- taining materials and orders for civil ian goods, Mr. Green said In this way reconversion can proceed on a more orderly and efficient basis, he stressed.
 Meanwhile, the WPB declared that no large cutbacks are in sight until complete victory in Europe.
 War Production Board figures re- vealed that 85,0O0 employees of prime contractors have been displaced by
The union times., 1944-11-04
Kaiser Sees 3OAon Jobs Created Big Building Program

cutbacks since June IS, or fewer than one in 1000 war workers. Lay-off figures, however, do not show what the impact might be on subcontractors.
 Official sources said that if the fight ing in Europe runs deep in 1914 more and more runouts" s"-contracts com pleted and not renewed-wi11 take place.
 This would mean a gradual tap ering-Off next year, so that VIE day would bring a smaller industrial dislOcation than the 40 per cent slash officially predicted. ''Run- outs" are less feared, by business and labor alike, than sudden con- tract cancellations by the Army and Navy, because firms can make ad- vance preparations for other war or civilian work.
 In the months since the armed ser vices began reporting cutbacks, it was disclosed, those large enough to be re- ported have numbered 800, represent ing armament cuts of about $980,- 100000.
 Fewer than a dozen, however. have had serious repercussions on employment in the cities involved and in many cases the lay-Offs ex.
The union times., 1944-11-04

SEATTLE-Flat repudiatiOn of the indorsement of Gov. Arthur B. Langlie by the executive board of the Washington State Federation of Labor was voted by the Machin- ists Council, representing all locals of the International Association of Machinists in the state, by the Everett Central Labor Council and two powerful LAM affiliates in Seattle, Local 79 and Aeronautical District Lodge 75l.
The union times., 1944-11-04

A graduate of the Connecticut State Teachers College in New Ha- ven, she is the mother of two little girls. Her husband is in the Merchant Marine as Chief Radio Officer. Speaking before the Machinists' local at the Atlantic Wire last Sunday she said:
 Support of the Roosevelt ticket in Connecticut and in Branford is of vital importance in establishing for all of us locally, the fruits of last ing and prosperous peace"
 Running with Mrs. Farmer on the Democratic ticket is Michael Laich, 42 years in the AFL, a member of the National. Croatian Federation and a delegate to the American Slav Congress.
The union times., 1944-11-04

pected by Washington authorities did not take place or were sub- stantially lower than estimated.
 Many curtailments were cancella- tions of future increases rather than cuts in current production Others simply brought manufacturers sched- ules down to goals that could be met.
 In some cases hardship has resulted from cutbacks, especially where they fell in smaller communities. Such in stances will continue, officials said, but in most cases the cancellations oc- cured in production centers where management could get new orders or employees could locate new jobs readily.
The union times., 1944-11-04
AFL Asks WIPE For 30 Days Notice OfPlanned CutbacksI War Output

The American Federation of Labor this week urged the War Production Board to give union officials thirty days advance notice of cutbacks or contract termina- tiOns in war industries.
 AFL President William Green told WIPE Chairman J. A. Krug that if such a policy were followed it would avert confusion and needless unem- ployment and suffering.
 The conference was called in con- pliance with recent directive by War Mobolization Director Byrnes requir- ing that labor and management be given as much advance warning as possible of pending reductions in war orders.
 Labor leaders had complained that sometimes cutbacks were ordered with only few days mo-
The union times., 1944-11-04
Double-Barreled

(Continued from Page One)
 the law enforced, and the guilty brought to justice, penalties inn posed by many courts are so in- adequate as to be beartbreaking.
 For example, in Washington this week a leading meat dealer who sup plies hotels and restaurants, and who pleaded guilty to having obtained 776,- 00o pounds of meat on the pretext that it was to fill a government con- tract, was let off with a fine of $6O00 which was paid in $1 ,000 bills.
 The dealer was not only guilty of ration and price violations, but also of Offenses under the Second War Power Act, which carries stiff penalties for those who wrongfully claim to represent the government. But he is rich and he got away.
The union times., 1944-11-04
Urges Broadening
 Of Security System

Protection of millions of workers not now safeguarded was urged this week by Chair man A. J.. Altmeyer of the So. cial Security Board. He par ticul larly stressed the need of bringing into the pension and job insurance systems employees of churches, schools, hospitals and other non-profit institu- tiOns.
 Altmeyer recalled that the board had recommended to Congress laws providing insur- ance against wage losses due to disability and a cOmprehen- sive system of medical and hos pital insurance.
The union times., 1944-11-04
Post War Plans
 Offer Opportunity

Henry J. Kaiser, genius of q far-hung industrial empire, predicts without reservations > that jobs for thirty million persons can be created within the first year and half of peace by intelligent prepara- ton now.
 This can be done, he explained to a national forum, through home construction, hospital con- struction and socialized medicine, development of transportation facilities and construction of highways and airports. These alone would provide jobs for 11,50O,OOO, he estimated, and he reminded his listeners that the activity of each of these workers would provide jobs for two in the service industries.
 MT. Kaiser insisted that labor must benefit from the improved technology of the world ahead if the bOOms and depressiOns of the business cycle are to be avoided. I'm pre-war economics, he asserted, reductions in cost too often were made at the expense of labor, with a resultant decline in purchasing power.
 "Jobs for All,' which was the topic of Mir. Kaiser's address, could well be the first slogan for a ''just and lasting peace," he said. This fol- lowed his definition of as meaning more than just cessation of hos tilities. Peace" he said, lis state of mind. It is based on the sense of security. There can be no peace in the individual soul unless there is peace in the souls of all with whom we must live and work"
 Discussing the problem of building homes, MT. Kaiser announced his con- viction that 100000 homes should be built for ownership or rental in the first year and half after conver- sion. This would mean, by his esti- mates an expenditure of $8,0O0000,0 900 and immediate employment for A. 0O0,000 workers. In addition, he said, there is demand for $3Q0O,0O00O0 work of repairs in existing housing, which could employ an additional l. 100000.
 But MT. Kaiser would not be content with just the erection of homes. He would provide their Oc- cupants with health service on a self-sustaining basis, at a price within reach of all. ''The cost of such medical care," he suggested, ''might be incorporated in the monthly payments on the home, freeing the American family from the fear of illness and loss of in- cOme."
 Expanding on the subject of health, MT. Kaiser declared that if American industry would build and equip mod ern hospitals in 1000 communities in the first year after the war the $5OO,- O00,OO0 so expended would generate employment for 250,OO0 workers. Pre- paid medical services could then be organized around the hospital facili- ties, he said, adding that organized medicine is beginning to see the wis dom of this sound principle"
 He next considered highways, en- visioning them as great six and eight lane arterials lined with trees, lawns and parks which would open up the
The union times., 1944-11-04
Full Employment Is Held Safety Factor

Full employment is the "sole factor of safety in our postwar economy, Henry J. Kaiser, miracle shipbui1d- CT, told the New York Financial Writers Association this week.
 If we do not have jobs for all," he declared, I've will face not only form of national backruptcy, but social up- heaval in which the American form of democratic government might we'll be swept away"
 Asserting the right to work is basic and fundamental" Kaiser added that If private industry and finance can- not assure jobs they are doomed"
The union times., 1944-11-04
Mrs. Farmer Is Candidate In
 Branford Race
Running With Michael Laich Of A.F.L. For State
 Representative

The Democratic candidate for State Representative from Branford is Mrs. Estelle Farmer, wife of Leonard Far mer, treasurer of The Union 7inteS Mrs. Farmer is a member of the Democratic Town Committee, Chair man of the Branford Democratic Wo- mems Club, and Vice Chairman of the Connecticut Italian-American Democratic Federation.
The union times., 1944-11-04
JOINT ACTION

SEPARATOR, Ill.-Trades & Labor Council and the Building Trades Council have appointed a joint post war planning committee of 10 to in vestigate every possibility of public works in the community.
The union times., 1944-11-04
AS PENN. GOES. ETC?

Pennsylvania shows 53.2 per cent majority for Roosevelt as of Oct 1, the Fortune survey of public opinion reported.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-17

saving in costs OF S16,700 - an
amount which would immedi-
ately almost make up for the
$4,000 which the commission
will be obliged TO spread on the
general tax roll debt service)
this year, because Of the $780,
900 bond issue.
consolidation and reorgani-
zation" form the basis of the
Harper economy plan, under
which Roseville will get more
for its money" in the municipal
payroll. The work of officials
and clerks will be coordinated
to produce better results, and
some jobs will be changed. The
first move was to combine the
separate treasurer's and water
department offices, with Treas
urer August Peters in charge of
the combination.
The commission voted unani-
mously to back Harpers econ
omy program.
In discussing the villages new
burden of Indebtedness. the viii
lage president told commission
ers that they must recognize the
fact that there is a limit to the
ability of the taxpayer and this
limit must not be exceeded
through waste and extrava-
gance.
He warned against financial
lapses which would jeopardize
the status of the bond issues and
place them in default:
If we don't get efficient, the
bonds read that bondholders are
entitled to raise the water and
sewer rates in order to meet in
terest and principal in default"
Harper said. 1T is imperative
that Roseville live up to its OBJ
legations"