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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Snags Big Muskie On
Canadian Trip

Miss Elloise Patton, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Tenwalde of
Lima caught the largest muskelunge
of the season recently at Rustic Bay,
near Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Lloyd Strayer of Sandusky helped
Miss Patton land the big fellow
after 20 minutes of tussling. 1t
weighed 25 pounds, was 43 inches
long and was 20 inches around the
girth. 1t had huge head and its
mouth indicated it had been in many
previous skirmishes with fishermen.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03

No other injuries were reported.
The car went into the cornfeld
and burned at the Vert Reber farm
near the road as the flames spread
over the entire car. The boy had
no burns, but it was said a small
portion of his shirt front was
scorched.
Kenton fremen were called to the
scene and extinguished the fire.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Marine Wounded In
Action Is Report

Pfc. Garwood G. Hardy, of the
marine corps, has been wounded in
action, according to a telegram re-
ceived by his wife, Mrs. Marilyn
(Saltzman) Hardy of Findlay. He
is believed to be on Saipan.
Mrs. Hardy received letter from
him telling her that he had been
wounded in the arm. A graduate
of Findlay High School, Private
Hardy is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hardy, who now live in Bry-
an. He has been overseas since
January.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
HANCOCK COUNTY
ParatrOOper Missing
Since D-Day

Word has been received by friends
that Pvt. Oak Robnolte, native of
Findlay, is reported missing in ac-
tion since D-Day. He is a para
trooper and had enlisted in Mans
field IA months ago.
Private Robnolte was born in
Findlay and left here seven years
ago. His mother, Mrs. William
York, now resides in Clinton, Mich.
His father was killed in railroad
accident here 10 years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Twice Wounded Sol
dier Dies In Italy

Pvt. Donald L. Custer, 20, died
July l in a hospital in Italy of
wounds received in action, his par
ents have been notified by the War
Department. He was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Clyde Custer of Lima.
Private Custer was wounded Jan
uary %, and returned to active duty
in February, only to be wounded
again about four months later.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

ton and increased salaries for teach
ers represent the bulk of the in
crease, according to Board President
T. Carl Jansen. Total estimated
expenditures were listed at s648,380.
Jansen said an increase of one
quarter mill in the tax rate for the
school district will be requested of
the Allen County budget commission.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Escapes Blast At
Navy Yard

Pfc. Edward Beardsley, son of
Mrs. Ethel Beardsley, Findlay, was
in Port Chicago, Calf, at the time
of the devastating explosion of two
navy ammunition ships recently. He
notified his mother that he was safe
and uninjured. He had been sta
toned at Mare Island and was trans
ferred last week to Port Chicago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Package From Home
Is Real Surprise

Coming under the Small World
Department is the news that Staff
Sergeant Robert Hiegel, son of Mrs.
Martha Hiegel of Findlay, was
handed pack of cigarettes in Italy
not long ago and turning it over
read:
Compliments of the Differential
Steel Car Co., Findlay, Ohio, where
Down By the Old Mill Stream was
written. Sponsored by the Lions
Club" The package was one of
100000 packs which were sent to
20 different war fronts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Bake Cookies For
Canteen

Gilboa grange baked ID dozen
cookies for the Lima Canteen
recently.
The home economics committee
composed of Vera Wehrly, Bessie
Hindall and Ruth Phillips, looks
after the baking of this amount
every 16 weeks. The cookies are
delivered by George Lehman, of
Pandora, a truck driver. The sugar
and lard are furnished by the Red
Cross. The flour by Bessie Gierhart,
member of the Gilboa grange.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Death Results From
40 Feet Fall

Ed Bork, so, McCutchenville car
penter died in the Findlay Hospital
Saturday from head injuries sus-
tanned when he fell 40 feet from a
scaffold while shingling the Orson
Gibson home north of Carey.
At practically the same hour on
July 20, Mr.. Gibson, the owner sus-
tanned severe back and leg injuries
when he fell from the same corner
of the house.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Carnival Worker Is
Crash Victim

Robert Lee Cavender, 10, of Fall
coner, N. Y, a carnival employe,
died last Thursday of injuries re-
ceived on Wednesday when the auto
mobile in which he was riding
struck the side of a stationary
freight train at Lima. Two COM
panions are recovering in Memorial
Hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Hospital Levy To Be
BallOted At Lima

For the second time within a
year, Lima voters will have an op-
portunity to approve or reject at the
polls in November a proposal for a
$390,000 bond issue for expansion
of the city-owned Memorial Hospital.
A similar proposal was rejected by
about go votes last November.
OF the total, $4,000 would be
used for construction of a new
wing to the hospital and additions
to the nurses home, and $4,000
for furnishings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03

to learne none of the petitions be-
ing circulated on the question has
reached Allen county, check dis
closed.
The petition proposes a eonstitu-
tional amendment to prohibit any
sales tax levy of the kind we have
had in Ohio for the last eight years.
1t is understood that 1858 sig
natures must be obtained on these
petitions in at least "A counties be
fore the amendment will be placed
on the ballot.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Seek Mile Of Pennies

A mile of pennies-1,2 PAS of which
has been collected-is the goal of a
drive sponsored by the Ada XII
wants club. The drive, just a little
more than a week old, when COM
pleted will be used as contribution
toward a permanent memorial hon
oring Ada's men and women in the
service of World War II.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Donate Memorial
Books To Library

Books in memory of Mrs. Bonnie
Corns, Mrs. Florence Frey Stoltzfus
and George J. Keinath have been
received in the last few weeks by
the Putnam county library.
Two of these books presented as
memorials to Mrs. Corns have been
placed in the Columbus Grove
library. The others are in the main
library at Ottawa.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Annual Fair At Del
phos Aug. 22-26

Arrangements have been complet-
ed for Allen county's oath annual
fair scheduled to get under way
at Delphos August % and to con-
tinue through August 26.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03

had to talk fast to catch up on 43
years of separation in an hours
time. Mr.. Staples, who had not
seen Mr.. Newman for 43 years,
flew to FindIay and spent an hour
catching up" on the intervening
years, before flying back to Detroit.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
School Levy On
Ballot

Electors of Kenton Union School
District will vote Nov. on the
question of a special one and one
half mills tax levy for general OPP
Grating expenses of the local schools,
the Hardin county elections board
declared.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Seek $4,000 Increase
For Lima Schools

A tentative budget for public
school operations was released by
the Lima Board of Education call
ing for expenditure of $4,000 more
than for the current year.
Inauguration of vocational educa-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Marine Wounded In
Saipan Battle

Homer ]. Roller, marine, was
wounded by a bullet in his right
leg on Saipan, he wrote his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Roller,
of Findlay. He is recuperating
nicely he wrote.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03

construction foreman on the job for
the L. T. Building Co, which erect
ed the edifce. Since that time
about 100000 has been spent to
renovate the structure.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Church Requested To
Release Educator

At the meeting of Ohio Northern
University trustees in Ada, the
board went on record unanimously
requesting the release of DIR. Robert
o. Mcclure, president of Ohio
Northern, as superintendent of the
Lima district of the Methodist Con-
ference, that he might devote his
full time to the university. The ap-
peal was made to Bishop H. Lester
Smith, Cincinnati.
Nav~. Wax,+ Jr D,.i,cr
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Attempt Being Made
To Ballot On Sales
Tax

While merchants have been aware
of a movement thruout Ohio to bring
about the abolition of the state sales
tax, as far as they have been able
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Covers 43 Years I'm
One-hOur Talk

Willard Staples, in charge of the
navy flying field at Detroit, and J.
Frank Newman, cousin of Findlay,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03

News Want-Ads Bring Results.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
OIL SUPPORTS JEWISH
COMMONWEALTH
IN PALESTINE

Columbus, O. ILNS).-The Ohio
State Federation of Labor, meeting
here, adopted resolution calling on
"our government and the government
of Great Britain to bring about the
immediate and unequivocal repeal of
the entire White Paper policy, replac-
ing it with new policy which shall
provide for free entry of Jews into
Palestine-a policy consistent with
the tragic needs of the Jewish people
and the magnificent contribution made
by the Jewish workers of Palestine to
the war effort of the United Nations. !"
The resolution also pledged support
for the programs of the American Jew
ish Trade Union Committee for Pal
estine which was organized "for the
purpose of crystallizing the sentiment
of American labor in behalf of a free
and democratic Jewish Commonwealth
in Palestine"
A similar resolution was adopted in
August by the New York State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and recently by the
CIO Industrial Council of the State of
New York.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
WHAT NEXT?

Bedridden battle patients at an
Army hospital in Battle Creek, Mich,
now read books, magazines, etc., off
the ceiling, with only push of the
finger. A new device resembling the
still picture protector used in the
home rests on the floor beside the bed
A cord with a push button on the end
extends to the patients hand. By
pressing a button the patient turns on
the light and reads page l as pro-
jected on the ceiling. The image is
about feet long and 18 inches wide.
With the flip of switch the patient
turns the film to page 2, 3, etc., of
reading matter photographed on 35-
nm microfilm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06

James got off the jollywhacker and
went himself straight to his time
clock, which he punched. Then he got
busy. But he kept thinking.
"Now you take me, amt missed a
day." he ruminated. 81 don't wanna
miss day. But if anybody thinks it's
picnic to keep on this grind every
golldarned day in the year except
maybe Sundays, he's nuts.
"Some smart guys tell us the cost
of living amt gone up more than SO
and so many cents, but l can tell 'em
one thing for sure, which is, to wit.
that when you tote it up in figures
made up from reports, it's one thing;
and by the great horn spoon when
you go to the store with your money
and try to get few things it's dog
goned we'll something else again.
81 wish some Of the guys that make
up the guvment reports would go out
with a market basket before they tell
us what's happened to the cost Of liv-
ing. Yea, but we amt supposed to
know anything about figures"
A foreman came along and James
| /. P. Sofacto forgot his train OF
! thought for while. But he got back
to it. 1t kinda had bored into him.
"They got something they call the
Little Steel formula" he thought
"Why the hell don't they lay it away
and git a bigger one. l don't know
rightly what formula is, but maybe
it's something like yard stick. Well
a yard stisk is all right for measuring
something that don't change none
But when you got something that'
changing all the time, like maybe !;
growing boy, you gotta figgure thing
in more inches than you used to.
Course maybe I'm just nuts, O
just cranky today, but / got bucl
or two to bet on the proposition tina
when the soldiers come home they will
darned well raise hell if wages DON
let 'em live decently. They'll wann;
know what for did we let things g
to pieces.
"They tell us-and they sure d
rub it in-that soldiers don't carr
much, but what they forgot so easy i
that the Army is one thing and
factory run privately is somethin
else again You gotta remember tina
chums. ."-CMW.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
RATION TABLE
SUGAR

Stamps 80, 81, 80 and 33 Book ~
valad for five pounds indefinitely;
stamp 40 Book ~ valid for five
pounds for home canning through
next February.
Spare stamp 81 must accompany
application (Form R-323) to board
for additional home canning sugar.
SHOES
"Airplane" stamps l and Book
81 are good indefinitely.
CANNED GOODS
Blue stamps A-8 through rs, and
AS through L-5 Book ~ are valid
indefinitely. Worth 10 points each.
MEATS
Red stamps AS through Z-8 Book
d. and AS through G-5 are valid in
definitely. Worth 10 points.
TIRES
Tires of commercial vehicles must
be inspected every six months or
every 5000 miles, whichever is first.
Passenger tire inspections are re-
quired only when applying for tire re-
placements. Inspection records must
be retained for use when tire or sup
Elemental gasoline applications are
made.
GASOLINE
A Coupon 13-Valid for A gallons
through December 81. B-4, B-5, ca
and C-5 stamps are good for gal
Ions each until used.
B-3 and C-3 coupons are invalid
after September 80. Coupons issued
for use beyond September 80 may be
exchanged at local ration board.
R non-highway-use coupons are
good for gallons each and E nom
nighway-use coupons for gallon each
until invalidated. R coupons are valid
only when gasoline is delivered to the
premises. They may be exchanged at
| local boards for E coupons valid at
filling stations.
FUEL Oil
Periods and coupons are valid
through September 80 Period l cou-
pom of 1944-45 heating season is valid
indefinitely All coupons have loyal
lon unit value, with most coupons
worth several units each.
All change-making and reserve cou-
pons are now good.
LIQUOR
Current period expires Oct IA,
with whisky and domestic gins as the
only spirits rationed.
USED FATS
Each pound of waste fat is good
for two meat-ration points.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
MACHINISTS TO TRAIN
DISABLED WAR VETS

Washington, D. C.-Harvey w.
Brown, President Of the international
Association of Machinists, ordered all
local lodges of the union to set up Re-
habilitation Committees to help train
disabled war veterans for self-sup-
porting jobs in industry.
"This war has shown that industry
can use handicapped workers." Mr..
Brown declared. Disabled veterans
must not be relegated to the scrap
heap. They must be afforded every
opportunity to get the finest type of
training to make an adequate living
for themselves and families"
The Machinists Union took the lead
eight months ago in offering mem
bership to honorably discharged vet
erans without payment of initiation
fees, step which many other AFL
unions have since followed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
FACING THE FACTS
(From the Baltimore & Omio
Magazine)

It's grim and SOLDERING fact that
more casualties among our B & o men
in the armed forces were reported for
this months magazine than for any
other issue since the war began. Ex-
actly 28 special stories and Among
Ourselves items covering young men
killed, wounded, missing or taken
prisoner in action, appear this month.
A great many more, as yet unreported
to US, undoubtedly have given their
lives or been injured since the inva-
sion of France began.
These facts and figures are not
pleasant to contemplate, but they
should serve to make US stop short
in any day-dreaming we may have
been doing about a quick, easy vic
tory. This war and the frightful toll
it exacts are realities still very much
with us.
These are days that call for renew.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

last-minute warning if robot bomb
was directly overhead. When this
warning was given by the roof-spot-
ter, the workers took shelter, but not
until then.
Not only have the men and women
in the factories-and in the offices
and shops-of London and southern
England helped, in this way to defeat
Hitler's desperate attempt to smash
British morale, but thousands of
building workers came to the robot
area from every part of the country
to give first aid repairs to buildings
vital to the war program. The build
ers, living in camp conditions, formed
a pool from which groups were sent
without delay to any point.
X
Labor and Industry in Britain" re-
called that on Sept Is, 1910, it was
the young men of the R. A. F. in their
Spitfires and Hurricanes who ended
Hitler's dream of crushing England by
shooting down 1876 Nazi planes in the
Battle Of Britain.
To-day, the tables are turned" the
publication points out. Britain and
her allies are liberating Europe. The
few to whom so many owed so much
have grown into mighty armies.
"The earlier planes have been sue.
ceeded, during those years, by ad.
vanced models or by new British
planes-Mosquitoes, Typhoons, Tenn
pests, Lancasters, Stirling Barracu
das. The robots made life grim fol
Britain; but they did not affect the
final victory"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
PRICE CONTROLS MUST
BE MAINTAINED AFTER
VICTORY, GREEN SAYS

Washington, D. C.-AFL President
William Green cautioned the Govern
ment and the OPA against any move
to abandon price controls as soon as
the war in Europe is won.
Such action, he warned in public
statement, would push the American
people Unto destructive booby-trap
planted on the very threshold of post
war prosperity"
The greatest single threat to full
employment after victory, Mr.. Green
declared, would be failure to continue
existing price controls until 1--WE COM
plete the readjustments of our econ
omy and achieve basis for post
war stability"
He insisted that as reconversion
progresses the civilian products in
dustry is allowed to make be kept
under price controls. He pointed out
that this would not work any hard
ship on industry because production
costs have been lowered and labor
productivity has vastly increased.
At the same time, Mr.. Green called
upon the OPA to offer special protec-
tions to small business and to those
firms which will have a small initial
/ volume of production and accompany
ing high costs. Such price adjust
ments, he said, should be temporary
and self-terminating He added:
"The number of items to be brought
back into production, while relatively
small and therefore not cumbersome to
| administer, is vital to the cost of liv-
ing and the standard of living of the
people in the years to come. We must
not allow these essential household
utensils to be priced out of reach OF
the mass of consumers. Nor must we
allow that workers making these goods
be denied full employment opportunity
by speculative price policies.
"The full impact of inflationary
pressure may not come for six OF
seven months after victory. Even il
there is a temporary sag in prices
after the cessation of hostilities the
public must not be fooled into the
abandonment of price controls. There
was such a short-lived sag after the
armistice at the end of the last war
but it was followed by a swift ant
devastating runaway initiation which
brought in it's wake wholesale bank
ruptcy of business, evictions and des
titution to thousands of farmers ant
, large-scale unemployment to wag'
: earners. We must not allow ourselves
to be pushed into destructive BOBBY
trap planted on the very threshold o
, postwar prosperity by abandoning
price control as soon as the war il
won"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06

AS Allied armies on the continent OF
Europe have been forging toward Ber-
lin in bloody fighting, workers in
southern England have been on the
front lines again, carrying on in the
face of robot bomb attacks as they
did during the many months of the
Nazi air blitz over Britain in 1940-
Al.
For period of 60 days, the robots
were destroying or damaging an av-
erage Of 700 houses every hour of
every day. In June and July, casual
ties from the robot bombs totaled 49,
992 persons, of whom 1919 were kill
ed Many more have been killed since
July and the attacks are still going
on, though on a very diminished scale
at this writing.
In facing the robot attacks, British
workers have shown, once again, that
nothing can deflect them from their
determination to go on producing the
weapons and equipment that are need
ed in the fight. Labor and Industry
in Britain" published by the British
Information Service, comments.
A message to all factory workers.
reproduced in the publication men
toned in the foregoing, reflects the
spirit in which the robot attacks were
met. "Only one thing, says the mes
sage, "can make this worth Hitler's
while-if we allow these bombs te
weaken morale or interrupt war pro.
duction /. 1t is up to industry to see
that he fails"
The method adopted to save prec
ious working time was to rely on {
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-10-06
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1914
A KICK IN THE PANTS

The fate of the Kilgore reconver-
sion bill in Congress is something
for voting workers to think about
when they go to the polls next month.
This bill, had it been enacted by our
national legislators, would have pro-
vided an orderly shift from wartime
to peacetime production, with min
imum of suffering on the part of
workers without employment during
the process.
However, even before it got before
the Senate the so-called George bill
was substituted for it, and at the
present time even this bill has been
emasculated to an extent which just
about entirely relieves it of any eff
fectiveness whatever.
Those Senators who supported the
George bill instead of the Kilgore bill
are thus placed in somewhat unen-
viable light. They claimed they want
ed to do something for the workers,
but they said the George bill was a
better bill than the Kilgore bill; it
would do everything necessary in a
more orderly manner. But the bill in
its present form, as one labor official
puts it, won't do nothin' for no.
body"
Labor officials supported the Kill
gore bill and had high hopes of it's
passage. In it they could see industry
getting back to civilian production in
the shortest possible time, with min
imum of dislocation. But the forces
of reaction were too much for them;
had too much influence on Capitol Hill;
and were able to shelve it, at least
temporarily, and another patch was
brushed off the workers pants.
On Nov. Z you should do two things.
You should of course vote, but before
you vote you should think-seriously.