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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-07-06
WANT-ADS

Wanted-To buy raspberries. In
quire News office.
Wanted-To rent 2 or room
furnished apartment; married couple;
no children. Inquire for VIM. Snider
at Triplett Electrical Inst. Co. IL
Hot Shot or "B" batteries $1.S9.
CANDLES Dealer Store.
Notice to owners-Register your
farm or city property for sale with
me. | have a list of cash buyers
for good farms. Thirty years sue
cessful real estate experience. Long
term farm loans at 4e6 interest.
Terms to suit you. E. ID. Collins,
Masonic Bldg, Lima. If
For sale-Used automobile hot
water heater, good condition. Inquire
Bluffton Implement & Harness Co.
For sale-Used battery radio set
complete with battery ]. Frederick
Hoffer, 2 miles east of Bluffton on
Rt. 103.
For sale-Fairbanks stock scales
5000 pounds capacity, good condition,
reasonably priced. Harry Anderson,
Bluffton phone.
For sale-Four piece bedroom
suite. Mrs. A. D. Gratz, 129 South
Lawn avenue.
For sale-Man's pre-war bicycle.
Mrs. Herman Stager, Bluffton phone
315-W.
For sale-The w. J. Jackson resi-
dence on South Main street consist
ing Of 8 room house all modern with
three car garage; also brick and
CRANE machine shop building at
Grove and Jackson streets. Inquire
sos S. Main street. tt
For sale-Green stringless beans
Mrs. Paul shulaw, Bluffton phone
578-Y.
For sale-Small barn, first class
material, suitable for garage or farm
building; also door track complete
Sam Stepleton. Il
For sale-John Deere s ft. grair
binder, excellent condition. Pau
Andrews 212 miles east of Beaver
dam. L
| Lost-Ration Books and 4. Find
er please return to Grover Devier
South Main st. 1
Lost-Ration Book No. 4. Finde
return to Florence Ann Hofer. |,
Lost-Large pink cameo pir
Finder return to News office.
Lost-Ankle chain bearing nam
Dolores. Finder return to Mrs. Ra
Clark at skating rink. Reward.
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Held To Grand Jury
On Attack Charge

Charles Sweet, 81, charged with
cutting with intent to wound, was
bound over to the Allen county grand
jury and placed in the county. Jail at
Lima following a hearing in the
court of Mayor w. A. Howe, Tues
day afternoon.
The charge against him was filed
following an affray in North Mair
street establishment Saturday night
in which Peter Schnegg, sc, was
slashed about the head with knife
Sweet who was being sought by
local police in connection with the
affair returned to his home here
Tuesday after an absence of several
days during which time he is said
to have been visiting in Findlay. He
said he had no recollection of the al
legged attack on Schnegg.
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Richland Grange
TWenty Scouts Enjoy
Weeks Camp Outing

Twenty Bluffton Boy Scouts, mem
bers of Troop 81 will enjoy an out
ing next week at Camp Shawnee,
near Defiance.
The troop will assemble at the
town hall Sunday afternoon at l
o'clock to leave for camp. They will
be accompanied by Assistant Scout
Master Eugene Benroth who will be
in charge of the Bluffton delegation.
Scouts who will enjoy the outing
are:
John and Kenneth Bracy, Harry
Burkholder, Bob Coon, Bernard Fish,
Dean Ferguson, Don Fritchie, Earl
Frick, Morris Groman, James Howe,
Keith Kirkland, Robert Niswander,
Maynard Pogue, David Stearns, Rog-
er Linden, Ralph Dunifon, Billy Hal
Ter, Roddy Balmer, Addison Myers
and James Huber.
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Where Our Soldiers
Are

Robert Eugene Stratton AS
co. 1893 L. S. n. 7. S.
Great Lakes, Illinois
Pvt. Evan y. Niswander 15345187
Glass 32, Sec. 7 (53)
3704th A. A. f. B. L.
keesler Field, Miss.
Kenneth Finton
Co. 1409, L. S. ". T. S.
Great Lakes, Illinois
Pfc. Raymond Holden
0pr. Sch. CO., Amph. Tractor Bn.
Specialist Trg. Reg.
T. T. C.-F. NJ. F.-S. p. A.
Camp Pendleton
0ceanside, California
Jackson W. Koontz AS
Co. 1929, U. S. N. I. S.
Great Lakes, Illinois.
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Hannah Wdlfhers
Rites Last Frid0y

Mrs. Hannah Walthers. 6s, Riley
township, Putnam county, died last
Wednesday night at the home Of q
daughter, Mrs. Curtis Hook, of Ben
ton Ridge, after an illness of 10
months.
Her survivors include the husband
and six children by previous mar
riage.
Funeral services were held last
Friday afternoon in the GiIboa NJ. p.
church, with Rev. P. J. Boehr Off
ciating. Burial was in the West
Belmore cemetery.
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Shower for Freda Fritchie

Celebrating the approaching mar
riage of Freda Fritchie, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fritchie, of Jack
son street, to Jacob Warkentin, on
July 10, a pre-nuptial shower was
held Friday night in the Warkentin
home on Cherry street. Alice War
kentin of this place and Mrs. Rice
of Ottawa, sisters of the groom-to-
be were hostesses. Those attending
included graduates of Bluffton High
school in the class of 1914, of which
Miss Fritchie was a member.
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pie will reside in Bluffton where
both are employed at the Triplett
Electrical Instrument company.
Among out of town guests attend
ing the wedding we're: Mr.. and Mrs.
George Taylor, Toledo; Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Vasco, Swanton; Miss Melva
Burkholder, Dayton and Mrs. Francis
Amstutz and daughters of Wisner,
Nebraska.
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Descendants of the Christian Stet-
tier family will hold their twelfth
annual reunion at Lincoln park on
East Elm and Shawnee streets,
Lima, Sunday, July Is. Pres, Mrs.
j. C. Hochstettler; Sec., Mrs. c. N.
Smith.
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Clubs, lodges
and Societies
Honor Madeline Mecune Deppler

A wedding shower was held Sat
urday night in the Howe residence
on Spring street for Mrs. Madeline
MeCune Deppler, a recent bride.
Hostesses for the affair were Misses
Jane Howe, Margaret Griffith and
Glenna Swick, classmates of Mrs.
Deppler in the Bluffton High school
graduating class of 1914 Other
members of the class largely made
up the group Of guests.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all the friends
and neighbors for their aid and
sympathy extended during the ILL
ness and death of our beloved father,
j. William Stonehill; also Rev. OPP
permann who officiated at the funer-
al services, the singers and those
sending flowers.
The Stonehill Family.
News Want-Ads Bring Results.
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Busy Bee Club

The Busy Bee club will meet next
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. Plans
will be made for camp outing July
"a to 27. Reservations must be in
by July Is.
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Bridal Shower


A shower was given for Mrs.
Howard Habegger, the former Mar
cile Luginbuhl, at the home of Mrs.
Elvira Suter and Mrs. Carcella War
rem last Wednesday night.
Many lovely gifts were received
by the bride.
Those present were: Misses Edith
Augsburger, Gaynelle Basinger, Clara
Geiger, Vidella Herr, Marie Kennel,
Dorothy Basinger, Sylvia Biederman,
Ella Geiger.
Agnes Amstutz, Pearl Basinger,
Janet Soldner, Clara Schumacher,
Carolyn Romey, Maeanna Steiner,
Elizabeth Zimmerly, Letha Niswand-
er, Marcile Steiner, Dorothy Schu-
macher, Lucille Steiner.
Mesdames Pauline Gable, Evelyn
Reichenbach, Eleanor Morgan, Evelyn
Stauffer, Marcella Bernard, Alice
Devier, Mary Smucker, Elma MIS-
wander, Fannie Luginbuhl and Lulu
Niswander.
Gifts were sent by Misses Dora
and Stella Kirchofer, Marjorie Mis-
wander, Magdalene Geiger, Myrtle
and Princess Basinger, Theda anc
Rita Hankish and Mrs. Melvins
Whistler and Mrs. Ethel Niswander
Richland Grange
Richland Grange will observe
family night at its meeting next
Tuesday evening. Answer to rol
call will be the greatest need of oul
community.
Appearing on the program will be
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Huber, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Roseboom, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilford Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs
Leonard Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
McBain and Mrs. Beulah Bernard.
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Sportsnlen Rush
70 Get Duck
Shooting Papers

Los Angeles and San Diego sports
men were in a mad scramble Thurs
day to get duck shooting permits
from Imperial Valleys 81 rice grow
ers, growers said.
News that valley growers had re-
ceived a federal permit, enabling
them and their agents to shoot
ducks 81 hours cay without any
bag limits to bother them, leaked
out in the coast areas even before
the growers knew their request had
been granted by the federal wild
life service.
Approximately 80 sportsmen of
Los Angeles and San Diego tele-
phoned Arthur Hofmann of the rice
growers association Wednesday and
requested permits. Hofmann also
was the target for requests from
valley sportsmen and up to noon
Thursday had issued 20 permits,
handling the issuance of permits at
the insistance of the growers Hof-
mann thought local sportSmen
should be taken care of first.
The federal orCer, long sought
by farmers as means of protect
ing their drops from duck damage,
permits rice growers and their
agents to shoot ducks now and up
to and including November l. On
Continued on Page 8, Col, 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Chamber Board
Speeds Plans
For E. {. P|unges

That groundwork for Ell Centro's
plunge swimming facilities will be
handled, in part, by the Chamber
of Commences civic Improvement
committee, was determined We'd
nesday evening, when members of
the board of directors met in cham
ber offices.
A portion of the session discussion
was devoted to postwar planning,
president, who announced that no
cefinite steps had been taken. The
national affairs committee discussed
Mexican problems and a new COM
mittee on vegetable industry was
appointed with Mark MCGEE named
chairman.
1t was decided that Ira Kinsey,
chairman of the Imperial County
committee, will study and prepare
for discussion state amendments
slated for vote in the November
election.
AL MisSildine presented a report
on progress made thus far by the
planning committee for Ell Centro's
victory in Europe" day Bramkamp
observed that it was the job of
that committee to knit together"
arrangements made by schools. mil
itary, scout, merchant. ministerial
and other organizations in the city.
The second and third Wednesdays
of each month have been scheduled
for board meetings until otherwise
designated, it was announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Butter Ration
Points Go Up
To 70 on Sunday

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. CUP)-
Creamery butter will go up from Is
to 20 ration points pound next
Sunday, the Office of Price Admin
istration announced Thursday. 1t
indicated that the increase of four
points would hold for at least 80
days.
Present point values on all other
rationed food including meats.
cheeses and processed items-will
remain unchanged for the October
ration period.
Only creamery butter is affected
by the ration change. Farm and
process butter continue at IL points
a pound.
The civilian ALLEGATION of butter
for October, it was pointed out, will
be 100000 pounds below that of
September, when the supply was so
precarious that the OPA decided
but later rescinded the decision
after charts were printed-to give
the item a 20 point value. Civilians
during october will receive 85,000,-
900 pounds compared with 100000
900 pounds in August and 95,000,-
600 in September.
Since butter is the only rationed
commodity for which point values
will be changed next month, OPA
will not print new point charts.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Flax Producers
Hear Call to
Sow With Caution

In spite of record of "a bushels
of flax to the acre in 1914, Argyle
McLachlan, manager of the South
west Flaxseed association, Thursday
urged association members in I'M
perial county 70 remember that
bumper crops will beat the game"
even though farming is "one of the
greatest of CANDLES"
The average yield of $4,000 acres
of association flax in 1914 was "a
bushels to the acre or one bushel
per acre above the report cf last
August /.
With uncertainties in the market
for all agricultural commodities, "
McLachlan told association men,
bers, "it is smart to farm in a way
to grow bumper crops. Don't let the
good markets of the past two or
three years blind you to the fact
that farming is one of the greatest
of CANDLES. Bumper crops, which
are possible under irrigation farm
ing, will beat the game"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Yankee Planes
Strike at Java

PEARL HARBOR, Sept. %. CUP)
Land-based fiehters from nearly
conquered Peleliu have joined the
growing Allied aerial campaign in
the Philippines theater, where
Southwest Pacific bombers rained
new blows on Mindanao and carried
out 3000mile round-trip raid on
Java, it was disclosed Thursday.
(The apaneS Domei news
agency. in a wireless dispatch re-
corded bv FEC. said 100 American
planes raided the Palaus Tuesday,
concentrating mainly on Koror is
land near Babelthuap0
The mission was the first from
Peleliu. where U. S. marines and
army troops have gained complete
control with the exception of two
small japanese pockets on rugged
Umurbrogol mountain and at the
northeastern tip of the 12-square-
mile island.
Admiral Chester w Nimitz said
the two pockets were being steadily
attacked and also disclosed that the
count of enemy dead on Peleliu and
nearby Angaur now tctaled 1887.
The broadcast said American
troop reinforcements again had
been landed on the eastern beaches
of Peleliu. $50 miles east of the
Philippines.
While Nimitz' forces pushed the
Peleliu campaign toward a conclu-
sion, General Douglas MacArthurs
Allied bombfrS intensified their
strikes on the Philippines and the
protective bases as far to the south
as Java.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

Bands
Unite
GueriIIas Put
Forces Under
Allied Command

ROME, Sept. 28. (UP)-
Greek guerilla forces were
placed under orders of the
A llie d supreme command
Thursday in anticipation of
the liberation of their coun-
try, but military secrecy veil
ed the movements of Allied
troops invading naighboring
Albania.
Supreme headquarters of the AL
lied Mediterranean command re-
manned silent on the amphibious op-
Grafton across the Adriatic, which
was announced yesterday in care
-worced communique giving no
indication of where the landings oc-
CURED.
1t was indicated, however, that
special Balkan air force communi-
que would be issued later in the day,
giving some information on the in
vasion. The communique of yester-
day indicated that the main blow
was struck at an unspecified point
Continued on Page 8, Col. 90
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Highway Patrol
Officer Would
Round Out Force

Requests for personnel and equip
ment to bring the California High
way patrol squad in Imperial county
up to requirements" are included
in the l945-1947 budget set up by
Captain Mark HebblethWaite.
"In the past" Captain Hebble-
thwaite said, Imperial county had
a squad of one captain, one serg-
cant, and l3 patrolmen. Today the
squad consists of one captain and
seven patrolmen."
He asked that the squad be
brought to include one captain, two
sergeantS, 10 patrolmen, and four
clerks and radio operators, depend
ing upon the type of radio equip
ment furnished the patrol in the
county. He also asked that Is auto
mobiles and more radio equipment
be provided for the work in the
county.
1T will be necessary to place the
patrol on 24-hour basis with one
sergeant in charge of the day shift
and the other in charge at night"
the officer explained in outlining
the highlights in the 1945-l947 bud
get he presented to Gordon H. Gar
land, California director of motor
vehicles.
Along the same lines, Garland
appealed to Governor Earl Warren
to give serious consideration to re-
placements throughout the state.
Within a two-year period, Garland
said, traffic personnel has been re-
duced from GOT to 614, net loss
of 293 due mainly to military leaves
and designations.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Offensive Opens
Below Arnhem
Drive Starts
As Port Of
Calais Falls

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TERS, AEF, Sept. %. tUP)
The British Second army
lashed out northeastward
from the Nijmegen area be-
low Arnhem Thursday in a
new drive to clean out the
triangle inside the forks of
the Rhine preliminary to a
new effort to blast open the
gates to northwest Germany.
Far behind the main bat
tlefront, assault forces of the
Canadian First army captur-
ed the Calais citadel, big fort
in the heart of the Channel
coast city, carrying a long
siege near a successful con-
clusion.
Lieutenant General Sir.
Miles C. Dempsey's Second
army reach e d the Mas
(Meuse) river on a 14-mile
front in it's eastward drive
from the Nijmegen salient in
Holland, now bulging out in
both directions and threaten
ing to spring the trap on
100000 Nazis to the west.
To the south, Lieutenant
General George S. Patton's
U. S. army stormed the for
est of Parroy in the Luneville
area of the Moselle Valley
after 300 medium and fight
er-bombers had blasted it in
the most concentrated aerial
assault yet delivered on that
front. Long Tome 1855 took
up where the bombers left,
off, then fell silent as the
infantry attacked.
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans we're falling back slowly be-
fore the attacking Yanks to a new
line anchored on heights immed-
lately beyond the Parroy forest
few miles northeast of Luneville.
A dispatch from Lieutenant Gen.
Continued on Page 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
ALLIES AIM new BLOW AT REICH GATES
Civilian Workers
Trimmed Out
At Lockett Center
Former Personnel Officer
Challenges Statement
Issued by Col. Chamberlin

Disruption and disorganization
that have torn at Camp Lockett
civilian worker ranks for the last
few weeks Thursday appeared to
near complete depletion CT the force
with wholesale personnel slashingS,
designations and other discharges
in the offing
Among civilians let out following
recent submission of petition di-
rected to Ninth Service Command
headquarters and elsewhere was
Harold Harvey, chief of the civilian
personnel at the mountain con-
valescent center Harvey accused
Colonel Frank T. Chamberlin of
causing his discharge when he re-
fused, at Chamberlin's request, to
write a derogatory account of the
actions of Lockett's former execu-
tive officer, Colonel Waldron j.
Cheyney.
WAS FIRED
Admitting unhesitatingly that he
was fired last Wednesday for in
competency in personnel admins
tration and classification" the eX-
civilian chief added that he did not
believe this to be the true reason"
for his dismissal.
Locketts employe roster al S o
lacked the names of at least three
other civilians Thursday, these of
Charles OConnor, foreman plum
bcr; Mrs. Donald Nahan and Mrs.
Harvey. The latter resigned.
Certain statements regarding the
civilian housing situation at the
post made by Chamberlin to coast
papers last week end were answered
in part by Harvey.
Lockett's commanding officer,
whose administration is under in
vestigation at the present time, tcld
the coast press that upon his arrival
he discovered that some civilians
were occupying quarters without
paying rent, that some occupants
were not even employed at Lockett,
and that one family was leasing
three-room post quarters at SIG a
month while renting three nearby
houceS of it's own to soldiers at $50
to $35 month.
Harvey pointed out that Cham
berlin arrived on the post prior to
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Sow iets Advance
On All Fronts

LONDON, Sept. %. CUP)-Rus-
sian tanks and riflemen drove full
tilt through the chain of lake and
river barriers covering the northern
and eastern approaches to Riga
Thursday, routing rag-tag army
of German reserves thrown into the
bttle in a desperate attempt to win
time for the evacuation of the Lat
Wan seaport capital.
simultaneously, Axis sources hint
ed at the start of great new Soviet
offensive against East Prussia and
reported that Russian columns were
across the Hungarian border in
force less than 100 miles southeast
of Budapest, menacing Szeged, the
second city of that Nazi satellite.
The German DNB news agency
said Hungarian authorities had Or
dered a general evacuation of the
threatened border areas, and re-
ports from Turkey said Budapest
again was trying to obtain an arm
istice from the Allies.
The Soviet early morning COM
mulllque CeIJeTeu OH Clle odCtle loI
Riga an6 made no mention of the
East Prussian or Hungarian fight
ing, a customary Russian practice
during the initial stages of major
campaign.
More than 200 German-held towns
and villages fell to the advancing
Russians north, northeast, east and
southeast of Riga Wednesday in a
series of armored thrusts that car
ried as much as % miles through
the city's main outer defenses.
Attacking behind a rolling artil-
lery barrage, Soviet infantrymen
broke through a ring of German
trenches in the marshes west of
Continued on Pg. 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
County's Voters
Rush to REGISTER

Voters swamped the county clerks
office in Ell Centre Wednesday and
Thursday in last minute rush to
register before the deadline Thurs
day night.
On Wednesday 300 registered in
the county clerks office alone. City
clerks in the county also reported
a last minute rush on the part of
voters but most of them had not
kept a tally of those they had
signed.
All registration books will be re-
turned to County Clerk w. j. Nc
Clelland in El Centro as soon as
possible so that the names of all
persons eligible to vote may be en-
tered in the master register.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Warren States
Three Talks
Outside State

SACRAMENTO. Sept. %. (UP)-
Gov. Earl Warren Thursday dis
closed he will make three speeches
on behalf of the Republican ticket
in the middle west early next
month.
The California governor said he
had accepted an invitation of the
Republican national committee to
speak in Minneapolis on october Q,
in Rockford, Illinois, October 3, and
in Columbus, Ohio, on october d.
Warren said the speaking tour
would take him out of California
for less than week. He said he
would take such active part in the
Dewey -Bricker campaign in Califor-
mia as requested by the national
committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

of a new liberal leader in the gov
ernment.
Other reports said General Ho
Ying Chin, war minister and chief
of staff, and H. H. Kung, finance
minister and brother-in-law of
Madame Chang, were under sharp
ly, outspoken criticism"
Talk of government shuttle fol-
lowed closely upon the Peoples
Political Council meeting, in which
various government leaders and
policies were criticized profusely.
Well informed sources said it was
probable communists will emerge
from the reorganization in possess
sion of at least one and possibly
two ministerial posts in a move by
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Communists Gain Places
In Chinese Government

the government to placate Chinese
communists.
Kung was criticized for holding a
government post while at the same
time he headed four of the largest
banking institutions in China. The
peoples political council passed a
resolution requesting that the fin
ance minister be prohibited from
holoing his government bank jobs.
General Ho has for several months
been subject to public criticism for
the failure of Chinas armies in
operation against japanese sum-
mer campaigns in Honan, Hupeh
and Human provinces, and for eX-
istence within the army of corrup-
tion decried by the PPC.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

CHUNGKING, Sept. 28.
(UP)-Reports of an i'm
pending shake-up in the ma
tional government of Gener-
alissimo Chang Kai-shek,
with the possibility that com
munists may be given one
and possibly two ministerial
posts, were current in Chung
King Thursday.
One report said Foreign Minister
T. V. Soong, brother of Madame
Chang, may play a prominent part
in the shake-up, assuming the role