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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18
Blu4fon In First World War
What Happened Here Twenty-Five Years Ago This Week

held in the Reformed church. The
services were in charge of Rev. Eli
Hershey of Lancaster, Pa.
A German gas mask and hand
grenade which were picked up in
France has been received by Dave
Bixel from his son Gordon who is
in the service.
Ray Staater, who arrived in New
York from France last Month with
hospital unit, has been sent to
Camp Taylor where he will be dis
charged from the service.
Vernon Ramseyer of Pulaski, Iowa,
who has been serving with the 88th
division in France returned Friday
to Bluffton College to resume his
studies.
Martha Diller, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Diller arrived here
Monday from France where she has
been serving as nurse in a base
hospital.
Myrl Alexander, who was recently
discharged after fifteen months
service, will leave next month for
Montana to take charge of his
government farm. He spent two
years on the farm before entering
the service.
One of the boys of the Rainbow
Division lost his wallet with all his
savings from service overseas while
parading in Bluffton with his divi-,
sion. The wallet contained 1926.
Phares Nusbaum, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan Nusbaum, returned Satur-
day, honorably discharged from the
army. The young man was with the
332 regiment which served in Italy.
Word has been received from Ed
Lora that he has arrived safely in
France.
Hiram Welty is stationed at Camp
Sherman.
Warren Kidd and Klay VanMeter
of France arrived safely in the states
it was learned this week.
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Pleasant View

Mrs. David Carr is visiting her
husband, who is stationed in Ark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Kessler spent
the week end with relatives in Berne,
Ind.
Mrs. Myron Reichenbach will at
tend the w. M. A. convention of the
u. 3. church at Toledo, Thursday
and Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Forney and
little daughter of Forest and Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Harris spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Harris
and little son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arden Zimmerly
spent Thursday evening with their
daughter Mr.. and Mrs. George Clap
per and daughter.
Word has been received by friends
here from Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Wilson
of Camp Make, Texas, that Mr..
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foreward base of the dorsal fin and
cut deeply along the entire fin. Turn
the fish over, insert the point of the
knife again at the rear base of the
top fin and cut toward the front If
the knife is kept at a slight angle
during the cutting the entire dorsal
fin will lift out.
The next operation is to insert the
point of the knife just above the
first fin behind the gills (the pectoral
fn) and cut straight back above and
beyond the anal fin (the last fin next
to the tall. Turn the fish and make
a similar cut on the other side but
starting at the anal fin and ending
at the pectoraI fin.
Now use the blade of the knife
next to its handle and starting at
the base backward and downward
just behind the gills and ending
when the backbone is severed. Catch
the head of the fish i'm one hand and
the body in the other and bend the
head downward. If the incisions
have been made properly the head
will come off, taking with it the en-
tire belly of the fish and most of the
entrails as well as all bottom fins.
The cleaning job is complete ex-
cept for the removal of heavy V
shaped bone connecting with the
backbone and the ribs of the fish.
Cut the bone loose from the ribs,
then twist and pull It loose from the
back bone. With it will come q
"blood clot" lying along the back
bone. The removal of this is i'm
portant to the flavor of the fish.
| The entire cleaning operation,
when one has become adept with a
sharp knife, should require from
half a minute to minute for each
! fish, provided two men work together.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

Crow hunting season seems to be at
ats peak locally with those men for
tunate enough to have rifle and shot
gun shells on hand having a great
time at the sport.
The stimulus for crow eradication
is the bounty offered by the Sports
mems Club for the heads of these
dusky creatures. The directors of the
club are offering 25 cents for each
crow head and "a cents for each hawk
head turned in during the campaign.
Harold Montgomery, Jess Manges and
Wilbur Niswander, club members in
charge of the program, having been
authorized to pay 500 for bounty pur-
poses. The campaign ends next De-
cember.
Gail Mumma, club license sales di-
rector, issued reminder to all tax
ing up the sport to be sure and carry
their hunting license. The license is
sued last fall is still in force until the
last day of August of this year, so it
is not necessary to procure new one
to get in on the shooting.
Some of the club members are in
terested in building blind for crow
shooting and E. c. Stultz has obtained
the stuffed owl from the hall with
plans to fasten the owl on a pole as
a decoy. If any farmer of the COM
munity is interested in having blind
constructed on his farm especially if
the crows have fyaway over his
farm to their roosting grounds, let
member Stultz know and the boys
will be out some evening to look over
the setup.
Another reminder to you fellows in
terested in picking up gun for next
falls hunting-noW is the time to
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FISHING CONTEST GOING
STRONG

A great deal of interest has been
created as result of the fishing con-
test sponsored by the merchants and
Sportsmen's club. Every evening
there are many anglers at the Buck
eye quarry from all over the district
making an attempt to snag tag
bearing fish. The past week three
more bands were turned in making a
total of 10 of the banded fish captur-
ed. There are still 80 prize winners
swimming around in the quarry, or we
should say 38, for Spike Berry snag-
ged bass with a band and then later
on lost the band out of his pocket.
Tough luck, or perhaps it is good luck,
for the dealer sponsoring the prize.
Prize winners for the past week
were Fred Tschantz, who was lucky
in hooking a bass bearing band No.
9780z-which entities him to a small all
metal tackle box given by Ed Walter
mire, at the Gamble Store.
The ladies are proving to be just
as good fishermen as the men, for
Mrs. Emma Amstutz turned in band
No. 9799z taken from a nice bass
which entities her to a S4.00 blanket
given by the Lape Company as the
prize for this particular fish.
Another blue gill has been hooked
bearing band No. 9775z. Mrs. Ran
dali Wentz caught it and is entitled
to gallon of Sun Proof paint offered
by the Steinman Brothers Lumber Co.
This is the second blue gill carrying
a band that has been caught. There
are still 222 more prize winning blue
gills to be captured.
So the contest goes on and odds are
offered by many who are inclined to
think that not even half of the band
ed fish will be captured. There are
no entries yet in the weight contest
and some nice sized bass, blue gills,
and cat fish have been captured
Prizes are also offered for the heav-
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Wilson has been promoted from
Corporal to Sergeant.
Mrs. Herbert Howell and little
daughter and Miss Ruby Howell are
visiting the formers husband who is
now stationed in Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Cramer and
little son of West Independence,
Mrs. Dale Philips and little daugh-
ter of Fostoria, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Phillips, Jr. and children of Ada
and Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Basinger
and sons of Columbus Grove spent
Sunday with their parents Mr.. and
Mrs. L. M. Wynkoop. The occasion
was in honor of the birthday ami
versary of Mrs. Basinger, Mrs. Dale
Philips and little Sandra Philips.
Staff Sgt. Mary Jane Carr of
Wright Field Dayton is spending a
two weeks furlough with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Carr.
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Tuesday. Nav 8. 1919


With eyes aglint and faces bron-
zed b. long exposure to overseas
sun and wind, 440 veterans of the
Rainbow Division paraded thru Bluff
tons business section, Tuesday noon.
The men composed the headquarters
and supply companies of Battery A
of the I50th Heavy Field Artillery,
an Indiana unit on its way to Camp
Taylor to be demobilized.
Arriving at the Presbyterian
church park from special train on
the L. E. and w. the troops were
fed from long tables of food pre-
pared by the local Red Cross.
While the troops were enjoying
their luncheon the regimental band
played for the benefit of huge
throng of people gathered to witness
the spectacle.
The task of feeding the 440 husky
| fighting men was accomplished in
less than three hours and the Hoosier
boys said they could not have had
more royal welcome in their own
state.
Wilbur "Shorty" Potee Buttons
| hero of the Rainbow division is ex-
pected to arrive home this week
honorably discharged from Camp
Sherman, wearing three gold service
stripes on his left sleeve, denoting
| Is months service overseas.
| The 166th Infantry of which he is
a member received a tremendous
ovation when they paraded in Colum-
bus. Potee who enlisted in July 1917
saw active service in France in the
battles of Chateau Thierry, Cham
payne, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne
Forest, came thru the encounters
without wound despite the fact that
only a few of the original 166th
returned from the engagements.
A memorial service for Willis Nus
baum who was killed in France was
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make the swap or purchase. To start
the ball rolling Arden Baker would
Ike to buy 16 gauge gun. He has
nothing to swap, but says he has IL
sixteen gauge shells and needs a gun
to insure the bagging of six days linz
it of birds next fall.
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lest crappie, carp, rock bass, and sun
fish taken from the quarry. Later on
the fish may be also weighed in at the
bath house as we'll as Bigler's and
Basinger's Meat Markets. So weigh
those fish in-even a small fish may
win the cash award!
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18
CASTING TOURNAMENT

The Lima Bait and Fly Casting
Club will hold a casting tournament
at the Faurot Park pool on Sunday,
May 21st, 1914 at 200 P. M. Con-
testants will use 5-8 and 3-8 ounce
casting plugs for the events. Troph-
les will be given to the winners and no
entrance fee will be charged. All bait
casters of the area are invited to par
ticipate.
Thruout the rest of the summer
casting will be held every Sunday af-
ternoon at the Faurot Park pool and
bait and fly casters are invited to take
part in the recreation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

A friend from Camp Hood tells of
a new sport engaged in by the army
boys in the Lone Star State. Captain
Dale Zeisloft, home on furlough, has
had the opportunity to brush up on his
aff-hand firing with some of the other
fellows by taking to the field in q
peep for some jack rabbit shooting.
Using gas operated carbines the men
were able to dust off the jacks as they
sped over the range. He says some
times the jacks were clocked at 80
miles per hour, and one day they
bagged dozen of the speeding ami
mails.
1t is not unusual for these western
hares to outrun hounds in the field.
To knock off these animals while
shooting from bouncing car gives
the fellows excellent training and
does a service for the rancher at the
same time by eliminating a pest from
the country.
Do you have some sporting goods to
swap, sell, or give away? Or do you
have a good hound, pet cat, rabbit, or
other pet that you would like to give
a new home or swap? If you have,
this column offers its services in the
matter-just drop US card in care
of the News.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

News Want-Ads Bring Results.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

We've built and maintained an efficient
Civilian Defense organization. We've
collected scrap and rubber, tin and fats.
done - and then some!
The men and women of the Greyhound
Lines, like their felfow-citizens of Ohio,
have shared in all of these activities.
They've also shared in the vital job of
moving wartime manpower-in uniform
or in work clothes. Greyhound buses
by making near neighbors and good
neighbors of all the communities they
serve in this State - by linking cities,
war plants, farm centers, and military
camps and bases - are helping to keep
Ohio's war efforts rolling toward Vic
tory.
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War is long way from Ohio-but in
30 many ways it's mighty close to us.
Our men are fighting all over the world
Our factories and farms are produc-
ing an endless stream of supplies our
troops depend upon. But even that
isn't all - it wouldn't be enoughl
We have 50 much more to do right
here in Ohio - jobs that are up to all
of us jobs that must be well done. In
the 4th War Bond Drive, for instance,
Ohioans bought $500, 100000 worth -
1870 above our quota-but we're keep
ing right on buying more and more!
We've gladly given our money and
more than $4,000 donations of our
blood to the Red Cross-and hundreds
of thousands of hours of our time to
making surgical dressings and kits for
our men overseas.
We've supported and worked for the
U.S.O. and various war relief groups.
SIDNEY'S DRUG SHOP
N. Main st. Phone 1,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

Another reminder to you fellows in
terested in picking up gun for next
falls hunting-now is the time to
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-18

held in the Reformed church. The
services were in charge of Rev. Eli
Hershey of Lancaster, Pa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
THIRD BIG MONEY
BILL PRESENTED
U. S. Employees Who Pro
pagandize' Congress For
Funds Are Slapped

WASHINGTON, May 27-R-The
third major money bill reported
in less than a week-a 81, O4 ,972,8l4
supply measure for independent or
ficers-was used by the House
Appropriations Committee today
as the medium for verbal slap
at federal employees who "propa-
gandize" congress for money.
Directing it's criticism at the
children's bureau and the office
of education, the committee re-
ferred to a considerable amount
of correspondence" in connection
with the children's bureau and to
the particularly aggressive" at
titude of the office of education
with respect to funds.
The time of government en-
ployees should not be utilized in
propagandizing the congress in be-
half Of appropriations from which
employees be used in having mem
bers of congress 'circularized" in
behalf of appropriations.
Consideration of the bill VIII
start Monday in the house, which
this week dispoced quickly of ap-
preparation measures for the Dis
trict of Columbia government and
II miscellaneous home-front war
agencies.
More than half the money in
the bill was allotted to the federal
security agency, which receives
1929, 224,185, a reduction of $685.
621, ills from budget estimates. For
the labor department the bill
carried $67, $50, $50, a $2,164,850 cut
from the budget; for the EN-.
ployees compensation commission,
SIS, 100000, the amount requested
for the National Labor Relations
Board, $3,523,450, a cut of $625,
$50; for the National Mediation
Board, 1907, 900, a $46,500 reduc-
ton; for the railroad retirement
board, the $311, $4,000 requested
in the budget, and for the war
manpower commission, $76,941 1929,
a cut of $8,006,371.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
SAMPSON

Sampson-17 OF 20:
Cherry 922; Mcdonald 675.
Hoey 1,073; Morrison 3O4.
Halstead 238; Ballentine 8O3
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
GERMANS TAKE UP
DEFENSIVE POSTS
Declare Whole Course OF
The War Will Be De-
cided This Summer

LONDON, May 27--In these
last days before the June full moon
Field Marshal Karl Won Rund-
stedt's army of the west has taken
up its final defensive position
from which the Nazis admit they
dare not bulge even to avert dis
aster in Italy-to meet the shock
of an approaching invasion in
which the Germans are saying the
whole course of the war will be
decided this summer.
The Germans, with a nervous
eye on the French channel coast
and contending with the spectre of
heavy assault by Soviet Russia
from the east, also have hauntin 6
fears that the Allies intend to
break into fortress Europe through
Scandinavia.
This is reflected in the worst
wave of Nazi terror yet experience
ed in Norway and Denmark, &C.
cording to reports from Stockholm.
Thirty Norwegian patriots have
been executed since May l., and in
Denmark 10 high Danish officials
and military men are under ar
rest, charged with participating in
secret military organization, the
reports said.
Ready to spring. the Allies to-
day warned Europe's underground
to keep off the roads when the
invasion armies fight their way in
to the continent from the west, to
take cover from bombardment, to
maintain discipline and to follow
orders Of their leaders implicitly.
The warning was beamed to the
continent from Gen. Dwight D. Ell
senhower's supreme headquarters
Across the 20-nlile watergap
which separates these two worlds,
Britons went into their traditional
Whitsun holiday weekend. Travel
crowds, thinned but still big enough
to form day-lonG queues at railroad
stations, knew they might be stran.
ded by cancellations of service, but
they reflected a feeling that this
weekend might be the last
''breather" on a home front strain.
ed by war work.
This weekend marked the fourth
anniversary of the start of that
grimly heroic Withdrawal of the
tattered British expeditionary
army from Dunkerque.
Within four years of the end O.
hostilities there will probably be
some 100000 civilian p a s ir
service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
Jewish Soldiers Will
Note Feast Of Weeks

Men and women of Jewish faith
at Camp Davis and Fort Fisher
will observe the religious holiday
Of Shevuos or the Feast of Weeks
Sunday night at 6 o'clock in Con-
gregation B'Nai Israel, 3l3 Walnut
street of the Yizkor or memorial
service for the departed. Chaplain
Sidney I. Goldstein will officiate.
assisted by Rabbi Harry Bronstein.
A social hour with Ben Wolfson.
Jewish welfare board worker III
charge, will follow the services.
The Feast of Weeks commemor.
ates the revelation of the Ten Com
msndments at Mount Sinai to the
Jewish people The festival derives
its name, which means weeks
from the fact that it occurs seven
weeks after Passover.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
BATTLE REPORTED
NEAR TSUNCYANC

CHUNGKING, May q. = up =
Fighting has broken out in the
neighborhood of Tsungyang, about
rs miles south of Hankow, in south
ern Hupeh province. a Chinese
communicate reported today, and
the possibility was being discuss
ed here of vast pincers against
the Chinese rear as a likely Jap
anese move in central China, aimed
eventually at this wartime capt.
tai
Chinese dispatches claimed the
Japanese drive in Honan province,
which is north of Hupeh, has been
stalled, and that a Chinese coun-
ter-offensive is making progress.
but it was believed possible here
that the invaders were adjusting
their positions and bringing up re-
Inducements for renewed assault
The Chinese communique report
ed further progress in the 10y
ang sector" particularly east OF
Lushin, but the fall of the ancient
walled city of Loyang itself, claim
ed by the Japanese, has been con-
coded as probability by Chinese
here. In the vicinity of Loyang.
planes of the Chinese-American
wing of the 18th Air Force STRAIT
ed enemy troops yesterday, COM
munique of 1t. Gen. Joseph w.
Stilwells headquarters said, kill
ing many enemy troops and de-
stroying at least 30 trucks.
"a Japanese communique broad
cast by Tokyo claimed the Chin
csc left 1896 dead, that $3.50 were
captured and much material TAX
en- in the seizure of Loyang)
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
WEATHER
Continued from Page One)

WASHINGTON, May 27.-(P-Weath-
er bureau report of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending pm.
in the principal cotton growing areas
nd oil
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
ONE MAN VOTE

NEW YORK, May 27-R-
The single maintenance worker
in a Manhattan loft building
will be the only voter in a one
man election June Is to deter
mine whether he wants to be
represented by a union as his
bargaining agent.
The election was ordered by
the State Labor Relations
Board, it was announced today,
because agents of the buildings
owners maintain that the
worker, Patrick Finn, does not
constitute an appropriate bar
gaining unit.
Owners of the building are
Beatrice and Alice Berle, the
two daughters of Assistant
secretary of State Adolph A.
Berle, Jr., Their agents refuse
to recognize local "a and 94A,
Operating Engineers I'm i o n
(AFL), in its arguments on
Patrick's behalf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
SOUTHEASTERN AREA
GIVE GIVES HOEY, CHERRY
p RIG LEADS in VOTE
continued from Page One)
COLUMBUS

colunbus county-23 OUT Oh q
Coinl ,complete).
prev gor Senate: Simmons, 49,, Rlteh
+, f0 Newton, 10; Morrison, 1888;
Hqey, Governor: Mcdonald, 1880;
pdv d 50; Cherry, 2,36l.
Nv Nv Lieutenant Governor: Bal
,,d [Hr 2o3l; LYDIA, 316; Halstead
602 Tor Secretary Of State: Craw'
.ord 6s9; Eure, 2,5l2, 49,.
10I vor State Auditor: Hunter, 1873;
Pq Eur State Treasurer: Johnson,
. AZ; Phipps. 49o'
A1 Wv House of Representatives:
p Df Brown, 1851; Homer G.
Az T s,,% Judge of Recorders Court:
" ~ + HARRISON, 1852; Isaac c.
n w. 641; Richard E. Weaver,
9 ! Ios David N. Council, 1872.
j. I For County Commission; F.: D.
casEjns. 1,O3O Leman P. Ward,
2S42,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
Presbytery May Act
On Merger Proposal
At Meeting Tuesday

The Wilmington Presbytery is
expected to act upon the proposal
to merge St. Andrews Presbyteri-
an church and the Church of the
Covenant at meeting at the lat
ter church at II am. Tuesday, Of
ficials said yesterday.
The Presbytery failed to reach
decision on the proposal at a
recent meeting and postponed &C.
ton until the May 30 session. Fur
Their study of the proposed merger
was assigned to special COM
mittee which will report it's find
ings Tuesday.
approval of the merger was Civ
en- at separate meetings of the
church congregations on May Z.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
Ugly Eczema
No Joke

The itching torment of eczema
is enough to make anyone wretch
ed and anxious for relief. If you
suffer from the itching of eczema,
pimples, angry red blotches and
other irritating blemishes, get
Peterson's Ointment, 35c all drug
sists. If one application does not
delight you, money refunded.
Peterson's Ointment also wonder
full for itching feet, cracks be-
tween toes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
NEW BOMB

LONDON, May 81 Up The
ordnance section of the air service
command disclosed today that 4
new kind Of bomb, which explodes
nine ten-thousandths Of a second
afte.: impar-, was being used by
American airmen in bombing Eu.
ropean detectives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28

Within four years of the end of
hostilities there will probably be
some 100000 civilian p anes in
service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-28
DUPLIN

nupljn county-19 out OF 20 pre-
'-' FOR Senate: Morrison, 1,oo1;
II For Governor: 20 out of 20 pre-
.;ncts (complete), Mcdonald, l.
DID, DID, Boyd, Is; Cherry, 2,745.
For Lieutenant Governor: Bal
,pntine 2,236; Halstead, 555.
For Secretary of State: Craw-
fo~d. 499; Eure, 2,549.
For state Auditor: Hunter, 780;
pou, 2211,
For State Treasurer: Johnson,
1892; Phipps, 512.
For House of Representatives:
E E. Quinn, 2,499; Emory Sadler,
1926.
For County Commission: J. R.
Groom. 2O7; Arthur Whitfield, ST.;
l. Preston Wells, 995; M. B. Holt,