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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

garet Yant, Miss Jane Lewis, Rev.
and Mrs. Peterson.
Mrs. Cynthia Elliott of Perrys-
burg was Tuesday visitor of Mr..
and Mrs. Delmer Beery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Reed and
son Robert, Ray Reed, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clair Younkman and family of Day
ton were visitors the past week of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Younkman and
grandson.
The Win A Couple S. S. class of
the Methodist church met Sunday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Daryl
Robnolte.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Cook and Mrs.
VIM. Weick were Sunday evening
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Rockhill and son at Columbus Grove.
Miss Ruth Durkee spent the past
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Pratt
in Toledo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Lewis, Mrs.
Esther Lombard and son Bud had as
week end guests Daryl Lewis and
son Billy, Dude Brown and son
Wayne, Joe Lapackilwick of Lorain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold E. Downey
have received word of change in
address of their son Russell Downey,
Y &c of Norfolk, Va, to a Fighter
Squadron So, New York, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Matter and
daughter Carolyn of Bluffton were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Cook and Mrs. VIM. Weick.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

The jeep shot off the road and
along the sand trail.
was now standing halfway to the
ridge. He was reloading his rifle
and looking malevolently at the sky.
The plane came back.
Once more it spit heavy death
from its nose, and lighter, more gen.
tie death from its wings. Mr.. Tink-
er fired right back at it. His mouth
was open, he scowled fercely, and
he was yelling some kind of impre-
cation that couldn't be heard.
1t wasn't until a moment after
the plane had gone again, out over
the ocean, that Mr.. Tinker's arms
dropped and the rifle slid from his
hands.
He reached up, methodically,
slowly, and prShed his helmet back
on his head as if to get cool.
He looked about.
He might have been bewildered.
His voice choked and gurgled
when he called, Pop Hey.
Then he crumpled, like something
stiff gone soft, folding up and sink
ing to the ground.
Mr.. Wrinkle, watching this from
beneath the command car, couldn't
believe at first that it was actual.
1t had happened too quickly, too
much without warning to be any
different from field tactics in which
picked men simulated those hit
when the planes came over.
Then he realized that the plane
hadn't been friendly one.
He .crawled out from beneath the
car and got to his feet. His legs
seemed to function automatically.
without any volition on his part, as
he made his way to Mr.. Tinker.
The blood spreading over Mr..
Tinker's chest made him sick and
weak. He bent and touched him,
whispering his name. But Mr.. Tink-
er didn't answer.
Mr.. Winkle realized something
else. When the plane went over the
second time the Alphabet's machine
gun hadn't fired.
From the fox hole now there came
no movement. All about there was
silence.
He ran to the ridge He arrived
breathing hard, not rom exertion,
but from excitement .5e gasped at
what he saw.
Production of 90 in
1945 is exnected 70 % per
cent less than thu
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23
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Thanksgiving = Buttons third
since Pearl Harbor - and with most
OF the boys gone -. and gasoline
rationing :. family gatherings will
be fewer and smaller :. don't waste
time trying 10 find turkey
chicken will pinch-hit on most din
ner tables for the gobbler or
perhaps ring-neck pheasant-if
you were lucky over the week end
and many of the boys who
trudged the fields with dog and gun
report pheasants none too plentiful
and they were surprisingly wild
when the season opened last Friday
!. which leads old timers TO sur
mise that some of the over-enthusias-
tic may have pumped the gun-as
one coon hunter is reported to have
done last Thursday night :. and
hunters vow that pheasant are get
ting smarter-coming right into
town to sit out the hunting season
and early reports that trapping
season is extra good-one dealer
said TO have skinned over a hundred
muskrats the other night /. Coach
Burcky's high school basketballers
prying off the seasons lid over at
Lima, Friday night and the
Lima Legion drum and bugle corps
will add martial flourish to dedi-
cation of Buttons honor roll, Sun
day afternoon.
If Thanksgiving dinner at home
will cost more this year, there will
be no increase in cost to those dining
out, the office of price administration
has announced. OPA says the din
ner served by restaurants will cost
the same as last year. Public eat
ing places will be limited to a price
not more than 15 per cent above reg
ular Sunday dinner prices.
And Thanksgiving day this year
takes on added significance for the
Murray twins-Dwight and Dwain,
Bluffton natives-who will celebrate
their 41st birthday anniversary,
Thursday. Dwight is an attorney
living in Findlay and Dwain a
high school instructor in Ashland.
There's to be a family dinner at
Dwain's with the Murrays from here
attending.
More evidence that the Bluffton
News gets around-one of those
windshield defrosters advertised by
Vans service station was sent to Joy
Huber out at Newark, N. j., the
other day when he saw the ad in
the News. Joy, formerly residing
south on Bentley road, now holds a
responsible position with large air
craft manufacturing concern.
Fred Fritchie of South Jackson
street had a pheasant on his din
ner table Sunday noon-but that
doesn't mean that the family had
pheasant dinner. What happened
was that a large cock pheasant
crashed thru the window at the
Fritchie home and dropped on the
table, apparently stunned, but quick
ly recovered and flew out thru the
shattered window before the family
realized how nearly they had come
to having a fine bird presenting it
self for sumptuous dinner.
It's lost art-the know-how of
driving a Model E Ford-at least
as far as most of the teen age
youngsters are concerned. Anyway
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

The pond recently completed on the
farm of Earl K. DeVore, in Adams
county, is expected to provide about
100000 gallons of water for livestock
annually and 200 pounds of fish for
Mr.. DeVore. This farmer says it
seems impractical to be short of water
when milk is 81 per cent water, meat
contains 65 per cent water and eggs
have about 55 per cent water.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23

day of December, 1914. the salary for other
regular skilled labor of the Municipal Electric
Energy and Water Works plant of the said
Village shall be One Hundred and Fifty-five
(S155.0 .00) Dollars per month, Payable semi
monthly.
SECTION 8: That from and after the first
day of December, 1914. the salary of the
Clerk of the Municipal Electric Eenergy and
Water Works plant of said village shall be
Eghty-five (ss5:O0l Dollars per month. pay
able semi-monthly.
SECTION 9: That from and after the first
day of December 1914, the wage scale of
common labor of the Municipal Electric En-
ergy and Water Works plant of said village.
shall not be more than Seventy (S.70) Cents
per hour. payable semi-monthly.
SECTION 10: That all ordinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent herewith be, and the
same are hereby repealed and this ordinance
take effect from and after the earliest period
allowed by law.
Passed this goth day of November 1914.
w. A. HOWE,
Mayor.
W. o. GEIGER.
Clerk of Council 80
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-23
AN ORDINANCE

FIXING SALARY OF CERTAIN EMPLOY
EES OF THE VILLAGE OF BLUFFTON.
OHIO. AND REPEATING ALL PRE-
VIOUS ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT
THEREWITH.
Be it ordained by the Council of the Village
of Bluffton. County of Allen and State of
Ohio:
SECTION /. That the salary of the clerk
of the Cemetery Board be One Hundred and
Fifty (l50.00) Dollars per year. payable semi
annually.
SECTION 2. That all ordinances or parts
of ordinances inconsistent herewith be, and
the same are hereby repealed and this ordi-
nance shall be in full force and effect from
and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Passed this goth day of November. 1914.
w. A. HOWE.
Mayor.
Attest:
w. o. Geiger,
Clerk. 32
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

Continued from Page n that no other members of the WAC detachment were involved and that the indiscretion of the five in ex- changing notes with the prisoners had no connection with the soldiers involved in the escape, officers said.
 The report on the investigation at the camp was made public last night, two days after discovery Of stills used for the manufacture ol brandy in the prisoners quarters.
 Most of the prisoners were moved here from an interment center as Trinidad. Colo, where few months ago they reportedly were involved with Japanese girls working in near. by fields.
 The investigation at the inter- ment center high in the Colorado mountains was touched off by the escape of Erhard Schwichtenberg and Heinrich Kikilius. former mem. bers of Rommels Afrika Korps.
 The two prisoners and Maple were captured by Mexican authorities just south of the border and were turned over to U. s. Officers.
 Maple, a graduate of Harvard University. was held by the Seventh Service Command pending his court-martial. He is the first Amer lean soldier to be charged with treason In this war.
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 and his interest in crossword pug. zles.
 He entered the execution cham. Der at l2:58 @. m. and aided guards in adjusting the chain and leather. belt death harness. Eighteen min- utes later, he was pronounced dead.
 Despite the fact 1t was the first execution by the state in 72 years the hanging attracted very little inc terest. No request for a stay was received by Gov. Andrew Schoeppel.
 Only one Kansan showed an inc terest in the hanging. He was tor- mer Warden M, F. Anrine, who resigned in protect against execu- ton of the death sentence.
 Hoefgen Is survived by his widow who sued him for a divorce this week. Divorce papers were served on him while he waited in the death house.
 He also Is survived by his parents who separated some time ago. His father is a farmer living in central Kansas and his mother was believed to be living in Oklahoma City.
 While he was in the death house, he did not hear from either Of them and he never asked about them.
 No one claimed Hoefgen's body and 1t will be buried by the state in o small cemetery near the prson'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
.Jop Fleet
 Still Holds
CcOntlnued from Page D
Ss others building.

with 3B others building.
 A united Press compilation Showe cd that SO far the Japanese have lost 20e strictly combat ships. This would appear to indicate that tho ,Japanese had little better than 30 of its known pre-Pearl Harbor corn- bat strength left. However, one of the nations highest naval ofiic lalR recently estimaed that Japanese combat ship losses approximate one third of the pre-war fleet strength.
 On the basis of the best available information, some of 1t from Chin csc sources, the Japanese have at least IS batleshipS. They have lost three, all comparatively old types. since the start of the war.
 The chief weakness in the Jap aneSe fleet is in carriers. They were supposed to have entered the war with eight of them and with two others building. So far, they have lost at least six. The U. s. Navy's vast carrier fleet, Including all types probably numbers close to 50 such ships.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Firms Pay For Law Violations

Boston. March l0.--(UP)-Child labor violations by New England firms producing government con- tracts have increased to a record total of $56,000 assessed and paid as liqutdated damages under the Walsh Healey public contracts act during February as compared with $32,8i5 for the whole nation during the last fiscal year ending June 30 l943, according to a U. s. Labor Department announcement.
 Regional Director Leo A. GIeason said last night that in addition to the record amount of iiquida ton damages for child labor violations total of $S5,307 in restitution was computed as legal wages due near iy 2c00 employees under the wage and hour act.
 The combined totals of liquidated damages as payment for child labor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10


 
 unless Russia was in mood to lle- gotiate along modified lines.
 Most sources were convinced that the negotiations for a termination of the northern front fighting had reached a critical stage with Fin lands action in rejecting the origin al Soviet proposals.
 If Russia is unwilling to modify its demands, there was every req son to believe that the negotiations will collapse.
 The newspaper Aftonbladet, Quot- ing well informed Stockholm sources, said the Finnish reply to the original Russian proposals reached Stockholm Saturday but was returned to Helsinki 'softened' by certain Swedish circles" Fin land reportedly agreed to the Sug- gested modification and Swedish in- termediaries handed the note to the Soviet legation here Wednesday, the Aftonbladet said.
 Original Proposal
 Russia's original proposals were understood to have included de- mands for internment of 100000 German troops in Finland, with drawal of Finnish troops within the 1940 borders and release to the So- viet Union of all Russian and AL lied war prisoners and civilians in advance of any armiStice.
 The Films reportedly countered with suggestion that these ques- tions be left for negotiation after the fighting was terminated, just as the Soviets had agreed to leave to later negotiation the questions of reparations. Finnish demobliziation and possession of the Petsamo region.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

(Continued from Page D high command reported in its mid night communique.
 Deep Penetration
 Tn their deepest penetration ot the German defenses, Malinovskys men captured Gorozhany, 42 miles north of Nikolaev on the railroad to Dolinovka. They appeared headed toward the southern bug above Voz- nesensk in the hope of cutting the Odessa Kiev railway. further crip- bling the movement of supplies and reinfrcements in the German Sal- tent.
 Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's tanks and infantry Of the lst Ukrainian army broke Into Tarn- opol, a five-way junction on the Odessa Warsaw railway. yesterday and at last reports were clearing the Germans from the city street byb street. The penetration of Tar nopol extended the Rd Army's hold on the Odessa Warsaw trunk line to 60 miles.
 Simultaneously. lst army columns also seized Khodachkov, six miles west of Tarnopol and 94 miles from the former borders of Czechoslovak- ia, and Obarzhantse. B miles north- west of Tarnopol and 65 miles from Lwow. one of the biggest conmuni. cations centers in all Europe.
 The central forces under Zhukov seized Starokonstantinov to remove . threat to their flank and pave the way for 8 fullscale assault on Pros. gurov, another junction on the OOdessa- Warsaw railway 24 miles to the southwest. while his eastern wing captured Cherepas shintsy In a renewed drive toward Vinnitsa, 20 miles to the south.
 In one sector. the list Army forced the southern Bug rivGS and encir. cled two German battalions. annihi- lating or routing them and captur. ing their entire armament, includ- ing IS tanks in full working order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

cisionS.
 3. Clear definition of the inten- ton of Congress so that there will be mo misuse of powers"
 We want the OPA to control prices, but we do not want them to construe the language of Congress to the extent of controlling busi- ness," Walcott said.
 The fight over subsidies, favorite administration device to hold down food costs, will start where 1t was left oil last mouth when President Roosevelt vetoed the Commodity Credit Corporation extension bill because of an anti-subsidy pro- vision.
 The strategy of the arltl.subsidy forces Is that MT. Roosevelt would find 1t hard to veto a price control extension with a subsidy ban be {, cause 1t would threaten the exist ence of the office of price admin istration, which operates under the price control act.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

are expecting, will create a state of emergency such as no great city ever has known"
 A U. s. army communiQue an. nounced last night that the 8th army air force in Britain and 18th in Italy had dropped nearly 2A,OO0 tons of bombs on -ermtr fighter plants and other NAzi targets last month.
 8th Air Force
 The 8th Air Force alone account ed for 18,O00 tons, while the 18th dropped 5,8Sl tons. The two forces, along with escorts drawn in part from the 9th air force. shot down 90S enemy planes - considerably more than Germany's monthly fighter production capacity" the communique said.
 The 9th Air Force lost 250 flying fortresses and Liberators for casual ties of 2.5 per cent of the planes en- gagged. The 9th also lost 70 fighters, less than per cent of those en- gagged, while the 9th lost IT fighters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

oContinued from Page D quickly seized the Momote alrfield and have been expanding their posi- tions steadily. American planes, in. cluding bombers, already are using the field and apparently carried cut new attacks on Lorengau and the north coast of Manus, the main Admiralty Island.
 Other Allied air units continued their wide sweeps over the enemy's southwest Pacific bases, shooting down 17 and probably 10 other planes in furious battles with ape proximately 70 Japanese fighters along the northern New Guinea coast
 Five other planes were destroyed on the ground at Rabaul, where Sol- omons- -based bombers dropped six tons of explosives. while other Amer lcan planes were hitting Panapai ardrome on New Ireland wiht 6S tons of bombs.
 The communique also disclosed that virtually isolated Japanese forces on Bougainville in the north- ern Solomons, had attacked Ameri- can positions at TorokinA with are tillery fire, which was Silenced quickly by counter fire from U. s. guns.
 The Japanese artillery scored only light hits on the Piva and Torokina airfields, Q dispatch from 0uadal- canal said, although several planes were damaged and one American killed.
 It also was disclosed at Guadal- canal that American anti-tank per- sonnel occupied the tiny Magine islands on the mouth of Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville, Feb" ruary 27.
 The U. s. troops met no opposi. ton in the landig, which followed Q heavy artillery bombardment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

(Continred from Page D Stettinius, Jr., today was expected to leave soon for his announced trip to London for . series of import ant conferences that may develop stern Allied attitude toward the Irish governments continued rela- tons with the Axis.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned to Washington yesterday from a Florida vacation. relieving StettiniuS of his added burdens as acting secretary of state and open ing the way for his esrly Ekcgr- ture.
 Stettinius' visit in London will be the first by an upper r-level Amer ican diplomatic official since Brit ish Foreign Affairs Minister An thony Eden came here in l942. Many important questions will be on the London agenda. including estab- lishment of a joint attitude toward neutrals such aS Spain, Portugal and Turkey who are wavering in decisions to side with the United Nations. either by actively joining the war or stopping all aid to the enemy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
DeothsPuzzIe Boston Police
tContinued from Page Il

 couple apparently had been asphyx- lated by steam which escaped from a broken radiator valve.
 Mrs. Catherine McGinley, s5, a well-to.do widow who was slashed' bludgeoned and burned to ceath Nov. 23, 1922 in her apartment by a fiend who is still at large It was directly behind this apartment that Mrs. Sheridan's body was found.
 Detained for questioning in the death of Mrs. Sheridan was John H. McDonough 56, who toAd police he had lived with her for the past 10 or F years.
 Medical examiner William J. Brickley, completing an autopsy early today, reported that h..e' Sheridan died either OH Monday, when she disappeared, or on Tues day. A cord had been wrapped tightly around her throat, Dr. Brick ley said, and her head had been bat tered with hard, rough instrument which caused brain injury.
 Soon after her death, the med- ical-examiner found, she was bur- jed face down. and considerable time elapsed before the body was ex- humed. Police theorized that the slayer was trying 10 remove the vic tim to some place for final disposal when the body became caught in the fence.
 Investigators said there was no immediate evidence to connect the two deaths in the steam-filled cabin at the Sleepy Hollow Camp in Saul gus with the death of Mrs. Sheri- dan. However police went to Saugus this morning to take fingerprintS of the victims.
 The body of McGuineSs, Boston Navy yard worker. was Identified by his wife, q Somerville resident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10
Blast Plant 12 Miles
 N. w. Of Marseilles
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details, United Press dispatch from Stockholm said. German paS- sengers on the Berlin plane acknow- ledged that the raid lasted from 1 to 3 p. m. and admitted that both civilians and government officials were evacuating the city in increas. ing numbers.
 Nazi party bosses were said to be 'conspiciouS by their absence Gov ernment offices were being moved to southern and southeastern Ger many, one traveller admitted.
 The London Daily Mail reported from Stockholm that the series of daylight raids. coming on top of the RATS night offensive. had thrown -,erlins communications in chacs.
 Trains carrying supplies from the Ruhr to the central and northern Russian fronts had to be detoured and some eye witness as saying.
 Food trains for Berlin itself were held up outside the city.
 Motor transportation also was slowed. All traffic came to a stand- still during raids, the Daily Mail said, and piles of rubble shut off many of the city's principal arter- ies even during raidless periods.
 Transportation
 Transportation tie-ups, along with slump in morale, especially among foreign workers. resulted in Wlde- spread absenteeism in war factor les, the dispatch said.
 Large numbers of troops, mostly from SS Elite storm troop units and police patrolled streets. One traveller was quoted as saying, "lift in Berlin has not broken down com plctely," he added, but confusion l. tremendous. Day and night raids which all Berliners now anxiously
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-10

tie of Manila where he was severely wounded. He also served in various other engagements and during the last war was chief of one of the country's principal Navy yards.
 According to the will of the de- ceased. published January l2, 1944, the greater share of the estate is left to his son Stephen Wright Kel- logg, now a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy serving in the Pacific war area.
 The will which contained 8 spe- cific disposal clauses and had four additional codicils attached to 1t, contained many provisions calling for consideration of the deceased's s 1ephews and neices, sisters and brothers besides persons employed by him. In addition, the sum of $i0.- 900 was set aside to be held in trust by the Colonial Trust Co, for in- vestment and reinveStment, from which the net income is to be paid to the Waterbury Hospital to be used by the latter in providing care and treatment of poor and suffering patients otherwise unable to pay"
 The sons share of the estate was left in trust to the Colonial Trust Co. and is to be dispensed in frac- tional payments to the son as the latter attains specific ages. Upon reaching the age of 50 the son is to receive one-half the remainder of the estate with the remainder to be held in trust during his lifetime, income from which he is to enjoy
 Tn addition the sum of $500 per month Is to be paid to the testator's brother Charles P. Kellogg, so long as the latter continues to reside at the family homestead. 83 Prospect street.
 The Colonial Trust Co. was named executor of the estate.