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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
GilbOa Sergeant Is
Wounded In France

Mrs. r. d. Ferrell, of near Gilboa,
has been notified that her son, Sergt.
Joseph r. Ferrell, was seriously
wounded in action in France June
II. However, letters written by
Sergt. Ferrell, state that his wounds
are healing and that he expects to
leave the hospital soon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Delphos Marine Is
Killed In Pacific

Norman Clawson, Jr., marine,
was killed and buried in the Pacific
war area, the Navy Department no
tilted his parents. He wrote his
parents June 20 that he was en-
route to the Mariana Islands, pos
sibly Saipan. He also took part in
the invasion of Tarawa.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Tire Thieye Active

When Miss Lillian Stark, of
Findlay, opened her garage doors
recently she found her car mounted
on bricks and the four tires and
wheels stolen. Police were told two
tires and rims were stolen from an
automobile of Harry Shaffer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Two Farm BlaZes Are,
Started By Fire Bugs

Hardin County officials joined
Fire Chief Ralph Jones in a search
for the motorists who stopped twice
along State Route 81, east of Ken
ton, once to set fire to a load of
hay and again to apply a torch to
wheat stubble. Firemen battled the
flames 212 hours and saved farm
buildings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Kenton Bomber Cap
tured By Germans

Staff Sergt. Walter Byers, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Byers of Kenton,
was reported by the War Depart
ment as prisoner of Germany.
Previously, he had been listed as
missing in action since March 6. He
was gunner on a bomber.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Findlay Physical Ed
Director Leaves

Harold M. Dierenfeld, physical
education director in Donnell Junior
High school since 1887, will leave
for Santa Maria, Calf, where he
will take similar position in the
Union High School and Junior col
lege there.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Attack Victim
Recovering

Mrs. Minnie Kramer, 70, who was
beaten several weeks ago by two
escaped inmates of the Lima State
Hospital for the criminal Insane,
will be returned from a Lima Hos
pital to her home, south of Delphos,
members of her family said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
ALLEN COUNTY
Railroads Will Spend
100000

improvement of right-of-way and
grade crossings in Lima by the Bal
timore & Ohio and Nickel Plate
Railroads will cost at least 100000
by the time work is completed
October l, R. E. Chamberlain, di-
visional engineer for the B. & o..
said recently.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Lima School Debt To
Be Erased

Under the present schedule of
bond retirements, the debts of the
Lima public school system, now
totaling $171,000, will be erased
within seven years, Supt. J. Mclean
Reed told the Board of Education.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Ada Soldier Wounded
At Saipan

Pvt. William A. (Billy) Benham,
10, was wounded in action June 21
on Saipan, the War Department no
titled his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry A. Benham, living northeast
of Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Germans Capture Mis-
sing Delphos Airman

Tech. Sergt. William Rekart, re-
ported missing since June 81 on a
bombing mission, is a prisoner of
war in Germany, the War Depart
ment has notified his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Rekart of Delphos.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Reasons To Be Spoiled

Judith Ann Kerns, who was born
this month to Corp. and Mrs. Don
aid Kerns of Belle Center, has a
right to expect to be spoiled. She
has nine living grandparents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27

in June because of an error in the
notice of the removal meeting sent
out by the Lima Presbytery. The
latter body reaffirmed its removal
order June 26 at which time Rev.
Bakers salary was ordered termin-
afed
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Observe Goth
Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Eckerrode
observed their Goth wedding ami
versary with a family dinner gather
ing at their home in Ada. They are
the parents of seven children.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

in Toledo, Harrod, Sidney, ostrand-
er, Findlay, Hicksville, and Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myers have one
son, l. L. Myers, Columbus, and five
grandchildren. All reside in Co
lumbus.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Dunkirk War Veteran
Home

Pfc. Harold King, %, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Irwin King of Dunkirk, is
home on furlough after 27 months
service in the Southwest Pacific. He
participated in the New Guinea cam
paign and was stricken with ma
laria.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
HARDIN COUNTY
Heavy Onion Crop In
Marsh Apparent

The 1914 harvest of onions should
be little more fearful than any of
recent years, because there will be
more of them, w. w. Bowers, secre-
tary of the United Statistical Onion
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Juke Boxes Given
Curfew

Village Council of nearby Forest
reported an ordinance is effective
there now, requiring iuke boxes and
player pianos to be silenced after
IL p. H. licenses for all amuse-
ment devices are required.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Cannery Worker Hurt

Larry Vincke, 20, of Ottoville,
suffered a possible skull fracture
when he fell from stack of can
ned goods in cannery at Delphos
He is in a Lima Hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Lima Hospital
OvercrOWded

The greatest number of patients
ever accommodated in st. Rita's
Hospital at Lima were housed in
that institution recently, with 1872
persons oyerfowing the rooms into
solariums and the corridors.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Association. predicted.

Association, predicted.
On the Scioto march, near Kenton,
where onions have been Just a fill
in crop the last several years, there
will be 100 more acres to harvest.
Higher prices and the efforts of
farmers to cultivate their own little
plots without benefit of much trans
lent help are credited for the boost
in local acreage.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Air Trooper Wounded

Pfc. Joseph B. Gogley, son of Mrs.
Mary Hoch of Findlay, was wounded
slightly in France June IT, accord
ing to word received by his mother
He has been overseas a year with
an airborne division.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27

were saved,' the captain wrote.
MANY bodies were not recovered,
but in your sons case we were
fortunate in finding and identifying
him."
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27
Findlay Airman
Decorated

Sergt. Ray E. Baker, son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. E. Baker of Findlay,
engineer-gunner on B-24 Liberator,
has been awarded the Air Medal.
He is based in Italy
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-27

Total 1943 u. S. slaughter of cat
tie, hogs, and sheep is estimated to
have been 149,975,0 900 head.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
The Shocks Of Peace

During recent address at Princeton uni
versity, Secretary Of the Navy James " For
restal said: 'Democracies have proved that
they can Withstand the shocks OF war. Is
there reason to lack confidence that with equal
will and with equal sacrifice they can with
stand the shocks Of peace?"
There is no good reason to doubt that a
true democracy weather the shocks OF
peace, but so far as this country is concerned
there is reason to doubt its continued exist
ence in freedom if the entertainments upon
the cardinal principles of its democracy which
have marked its governmental policies in re-
cent years increase.
So much of the Constitution and the Bill OF
Rights, upon which the democracy OF the
United States is founded, has been abrogated
there is serious question Of its power to sur
vive the ordeal of peace as it is withstanding
the shocks of this war.
The American people, who have surrendered
so many of their Constitutional rights, face
perhaps even a greater battle in peace than
any they must fight in war-the battle for
restoration OF the Constltuuon, LOT the Ie-es-
tablishment of the rights guaranteed to them,
(the right of free enterprise without govern
mental interference among others) and free
dom from the totalitarianism which has been
creeping up to submerge them as the tide
covers the wreck upon a beach.
Only when its people grid themselves to
win this battle can the United States democ-
racy Withstand the shocks of peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
"Use" Stamps For Cars

However unjust this misaamed 'use'' tax
for motorists may be, and it's plenty unjust,
the fact remains the stamp that costs S. per
car was due to be displayed on windshields
yesterday and owners who have neglected to
buy it and display it are liable to be punished
unless the Internal Revenue department sees
fit to close its eyes for few days 10 infrac-
lions.
It is called "use'' tax only because some
body has an exaggerated sense of slapstick
hurnor. The truth is the tax represents tax.
alton without operation, for no automobile in
the country is making normal mileage But
it must be paid, none the less
Might as well put Up. the cash and be done
with. it, and await better day for a reckon
ing with the bureaucracy that imposes it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
Invasion Staggered Enemy

| With the alacrity that has marked their per-
formance since this war began, American en-
gineer units and Seabees were at work de-
storing Cherbourg's harbor installations before
the smoke of the battle had cleared and the
thunder Of the guns ceased. Already restora-
ton Of the port is well under way and within
a matter of weeks, or even days, Allied arm
ed forces will be stepping from ship to wharf
and material will be unloaded in tremendous
quantities. The day for reaching shore by
way Of the beachhead is rapidly drawing to
an end.
The whole invasion operation is worth pom
dering as an example of the kind OF planning
that preceded it and has characterized every
move since the initial landing. 1t has been
pointed out that the failure of the German
command to comprehend the extent of Cen
eral Eisenhower's preparations and the power
behind them robbed Marshal Ron1mel of the
great advantage he had at the start of being
firmly planted on dry land to meet invasion
forces that had to wade ashore and bring all
their equipment through the surf before they
could get started 1t was by discounting this
planning and preparation that the Germans
brought about their first defeat in Normandy
and has given the Allies Frances third great
est port through which to move troops and
tools as quickly as American engineers and
Seabees have restored It,
The probability is that already close to half
a million troops are in Normandy, and not
troops alone but tanks and planes in great
number and all munitions required for the
combat now going forward. General Montgon1-
cry, for example, would not be able to turn
back German counterattacks and close in on
Caen without big guns and tanks and land
based air protection. Nor would General
Bradley have been able to complete the cap
ture of Cherbourg, with its extraordinary de-
lenses, except for the successful landing oper-
atoms at the beachhead which have steadily
increased sinceD-day.
| William Fry, writing in the Christian Sci
ence Monitor, says, Nothing in previous mill
tary experience could have prepared the Ger
man General Staff for an amphibious oper-
ton of such staggering size and power, and
the enemy staff was not prepared for it"
The success Of the operation and the known
ability Of the man who planned it and under
whose personal direction it was executed, Gen
eral Eisenhower, BODIES no good for the enemy
in the continuing process of liberating Europe
from the German yoke.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
All-Out Offensive

Bachelors and unmarried women more than
IA wears old are getting scarcer and scarcer,
according to recent survey made by the
Bureau of the Census, which shows that the
,,ronortion of married couples in the popula-
ton is higher now than at any other time
for which figures are available.
Maybe this means that American youths are
not letting themselves be licked by the wa,
that they refuse to concede that everything
should stand still until It is over. They have
gone about the wholesome, normal business
Of getting married and having children. r
wartime that takes something of the rugged
nioneer spirit that many were afraid hat
faded forever from the American scene.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
LETTER BOX
DEWEY'S RECORD
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDIIOR:
MIR. Pegler has praised Governor
Dewey as the gallant young knight
who may knock Roosevelt and the
New Deal out of office. This is not
surprising as Mr.. Pegler's hatred
CT our Commander-in-Chief is 60
great that he would have endorsed
anybody on the Republican ticket.
Besides hating Roosevelt a n
Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr.. Pegler has
also been denouncing strikes, dicta-
tocial labor leaders and gangsters.
John L. Lewis is one of the most
d;ctatorial labor leaders in the
country and his is the only union
which has officially called and con-
Quoted strikes against the govern
ment in war time. Lewis personal
aLpointee and close adviser, K c,
Adams, the editor of the United
Mine Workers official papers, has
endorsed the Republican party
labor plank and is supporting Gov.
Dewey.
Also, we find that Governor
Dewey, in an attempt to WOO the
AT. of L. vote in New York, has
blocked the procecturion of a die
tatorial labor leader, Joseph Fay,
who was indicted under the COVER
rorship of the New Dealer, Herbert
Lehman.
1t is true that Governor Dewey
deserves credit for beginning the
arduous work, when he was Dis
trict Attorney in New York, Of
sending gansters to prison or the
electric chair. He did this large
ly by promising immunity to other
gansters if they would turn states
evidence. But we Should remember
that district attorney Hogan, good
New Deal Democrat from Brook
lyn, famed for his conviction OF
the leading spirits of Murder
Inc, has surpassed Dewey's re
cord as a gang buster and without
giving immunity to so many criml"
rails.
ALFRED BAKER LEWIS
New York, N. Y.
June 80. 1914
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
Steel For War

Some idea of the vital role steel plays in
war is reflected in an effort by the American
Iron and Steel Institute to evaluate numeri-
cally the products made by the steel industry
for direct war purposes, says the Wall Street
reporter on the New York Times. The effort,
he continues, appears to have resulted instead
in a description of the scores of categories
of such materials in which steel has played
predominant part.
"All told,' he adds, around fifty individual
steel companies have assumed the double bur-
den during the war not only of making steel
at an unprecedented rate and in tremendous
tonnages but also of fabricating that steel into
war equipment. Among their products he
lists many types of shells and bombs; guns
and mounts; aviation parts and equipment
ships and equipment; barracks, huts, shelters,
hospitals hansras, garages. and numerous
other structures; ammunition boxes, cartridge
clips, fuses and bangalore torpedoes, and
countless other items
The steel industry, the Times reporter con-
cludes, has not only supplied war maaufac-
turers in every line; it has, itself, produced
an untold number of materials for the armed
forces of the United Nations
Chalk up another white mark for American
enterprise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02

bombers and torpedo planes within effective
range of their targets"
Howard Mingos, editor of the Year Book
declares this technical superiority is rapidly
bringing about that absolute control of the
air over all fronts so essential to early vic.
tory" He comedies that air power cannot do
the whole job, but with this summary OF
American superiority it is clear that it will
not fail to play an important role in ending
the war, as it has been in reducing enemy
production and fighting strength.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02

jobs. There is no doctor within
ten miles of the settlement, so
first-aid treatment is in order, also
the transportation of patients to
the doctor or hospital. Churches in
both places have recently under
gone extensive repairs. Mr.. Silas
reports that no Juvenile delinquen-
cy problem exists and that the
church school is growing. He and
Mrs. Silas built the log-cabin par.
sonage in which they live.
THE foreign missionary move
ment OF Christianity is a symbol
Of the fact that the church stands
for the unification of men and ma
tons under the laws of brother
hood which are the laws of God
as Christ revealed them,' says DR..
Douglas Horton Of Boston, Mass.
= In all nations it attempts to bring
into being a type of men and wona-
en- who, governed by their own
conscience, can be trusted to keep
me welfare Of mankind to the fore.
The foreign missionary movement
ct the church is opposed to the in
ternational hatred which is being
disseminated today and bids the
nations which are to gather at the
peace table, if they have any con-
Germ Tor their own future, to build
their new world order on the foun-
dation Of the Christian principles
OF the Fatherhood Of God and the
brotherhood of man."
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
American Air Power

For quite a while after this war started
air power as to quantity, speed, ma1euvera-
bility and fighting power. Germany had been
of every improvement its engineers could de-
wise, so that it appeared the handicap we
were under at the start might not be over
come in full even at the end of the war.
But the handicap was overcome. American
aircraft designers and plants have been so
efficiently on the job that today the United
States Air Forces top the world.
This is revealed in detail in 1.-THE Aircraft
Year Book for 1914, which is the reference
annual at the Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce. It shows that this country has five
types of fighter planes, for example, with
speed exceeding 400 miles an hour. The clos
est competitor is Great Britain with three
Germany has two and Japan none. Another
example Of superiority is found in the Boeing
Superfortresses and Fortresses and the Con.
solidated Liberators. No enemy bomber says
the Year BOOB, approaches their range, bomb
capacity, accuracy and defensive power. And
Of medium bombers, it is said:
Neither German nor Jap has been up over
Allied areas with twin-engine bonbers in any
degree comparable to our twin-engine NORTH
American Mitchell. Martin Marauder, Doug
las Havoc, Lockheed Ventura and the British
Mosquito. Only on rare occasions have thu
Germans or Japs succeeded in bringing theil
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
Freedom Statue And
Capitol Dome Slated
To Receive Cleaning

WASHINGTON, July 1 III
Freedom" at the United States
capitol is going to get cleaned up
this summer for the first time in
five years. So are the 8,9O9, 200.
pound iron dome and part OF the
building-alI for $4,000.
The bronze statue which has
looked out over the vast political
stamping ground of Capitol Hill
from atop the dome for 81 years,
will get a linseed oil bath.
And it will take 1000 gallons of
paint, seven weeks and IS painters
to do the job on the dome and
central part of the capitol.
Freedom, probably the only lady
ever to get "a 35-gun salute lat
her dedication), stands 1912 feet
high, weighs 1895 pounds and
cost $23,796.S2.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
GObbels A COrker

To people who are compiling 'Ten Best
lists for the end of the war we nominate
Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb.
bells as the man with the most vivid magma
ton. We would bestow the honor on the Herr
Doktor for his lucid explanation of the pres.
ence OF Allied armies in France. They're
refugees from the German rocket robots raid.
ing England he explained to harassed Der.
liners. Now all he has to do is think ur
similar comforting explanations for the pres
ence of Allied armies in Africa, Sicily, Italy
Greece Yugoslavia and Finland
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
English Countryside
In Winged Bombs Path

| section of the entire 17-county Sec
tor.
Kent's northwest corner is solid
with London suburbs. Even as it
was the route for Caesar and
William the Conquror and, is now
the route for winged Nazi bombs,
it carries main rail and highway
roads which virtually extend from
Europe Wis Dover, Folkestone,
Ramsgate and other ports to Lon
don. These roads are lined with
towns and industries.
But despite crowded centers and
drab, industry-lined arteres, Kent
is farm country. Still two-thirds of
its area is under crops and grass;
and a wild-flying bomb dropping
along this London approach has
far more woodland, orchards, mea-
dcws, and grain fields than indus-
trial, transportation and residential
area in which to fall.
Cutting Kent in halves is a curv-
ing ridge of chalk hills-the North
Downs - sweeping from Wester-
ham, ten miles south of London,
eastward through Maidstone to
Folkestone. The county's highest
land, around 300 feet, is at the
ridges western end.
South of the ridge is Kent's pic
ture-book land - the cattle and
sheep meadows of the Romney
Marsh in the east, the oak and
beech forests of the Weald, clusters
Of red-roofed houses and a spire
around each of countless village
greens, Towering hopfields and
orchards. The Darent, the Midway
and the Stour gather tributaries in
the hills south # the Vale of Kent,
flow north and cut through the
chalk ridge, ending in busy estua--
les joining that of the thames.
North of the North Downs ridge
are the county's coal producing
corner between Dover nd Canter.
bury, and most of the county S
cities and industries. Canterbury
itself north of the shortest trade
routes, is famous as Britain's reli-
glous capital. Chatham and Roch.
ester, on the Midway estuary, are
manufacturing cities. Margate and
Ramsgate are big port towns on
the chalk cliff coast of Thanet,
north Of Dover.
Although London has constantly
reached out to take more and more
Of Kent into its suburbs, Kent has
Large dairy farms right to the very
edge of London.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-02
THIEF GETS DANIELS PASS

Jonathan Daniels, White House secretary
and son of Raleigh publisher, Josepkks Dan.
iels doesn't mind the $22 stolen from his
home last Monday night as much as the
White House pass which was also in the bill
fold.
Daniels was put to considerable trouble and
embarrassment going through the red tape
of reporting loss of his pass and obtaining
another.
He knows however, that NO one else will
be able to use the pass, for White House
police can recognize Jonathan block away
and any person attempting to enter the White
House grounds would quickly find himself in
plenty of trouble.