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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-25

Mrs. Lucille Mcintosh, 936 North
Main street, was reported in fair
condition at st. Mary's hospital.
She sustained decorations of the
hand, question of rib fractures,
and back injury in fall down
flight of stairs late last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-25

Anna Raudis, 8O6 Bank street,
was reported in fair condition at
st. Mary's hospital where she was
admitted early this morning after
swallowing a quantity of roach
powder at her home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-25

Seaman LIST Class William Quinn,
u. s. Coast Guard, spent the week.
end at his home on Sylvan avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-25
Tribute To
Dead PreIote

Continued from Page u
Evening star., 1944-12-06

Join the Army mountaineering
as to Wharf.-The Sixth War Bond
drive.
Evening star., 1944-12-06

II. dreaming, walked in Arden's
woods ."
The voice, clear and full. had not
been heard in public since 1888, the
year E. H. Sothern died and the
speaker, Julia Marlowe, his wife,
went into retirement.
Now subdued, now intense. Miss
Marlowe read unfalteringly to the
end:
80 Sweet ladies I have loved
and lost"
My husband wrote this poem for
me" she said softly.
Juliet, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth
those were the ladies Julia Marlowe
had played. Her costumes and por-
traits were around her as she spoke
her gift to the Museum of the
City of New York
Now 78. her hair nearly white be-
meath black velvet cloche, she wore
orchids when she appeared to pre-
sent II trunkloads of theatrical ma
terial that belonged to her, her
husband and her husbands father,
T.. a. SOthern.
There were prompt books, jeweled
daggers, photographs-relics of an
acting tradition that dates from the
middle of the last century, when the
elder Sothern first played Lord
Dundreary in New York.
Miss Marlowe's husband capti-
waited the city in 1885 with a play to
raise funds for the Statue of Liberty
pedestal, His wife's debut, as Par
Ithenia in the forgotten "Ingomar,' -
came two years later.
George Washington University in
Washington, making her a doctor
of laws, once called Miss Marlowe
1.-The greatest interpreter of the i'm
mortal bard of Avon"
She still was Juliet to many who
applauded her entrance yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-12-06
By ,he Associated Press.

BY Nht ASsociateo Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. GA little old
lady stood beneath a portrait of her
self yesterday and her lips trembled
as she read from the volume in her
hands:
Evening star., 1944-12-06
laps Renew Warning
On Captured Raiders
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Sadao Iguchi, spokesman for the
japanese Board of Information, said
today the Japanese government
made an official reply to the United
States and Great Britain about the
treatment Of captured enemy avia-
tors.
His statement, intercepted by the
Federal communications Commits
sion, asserted the inquiries had been
made at the end of September
(nearly two months before the start
of the B-29 raids on Tokyo and
were officially answered December 8,
through the Swiss Legation.
The reply reiterated that the Jap
anese government would hold avia-
tors responsible who are clearly
found to have deliberately preached
the established tactics of warfare"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

Mrs. Hiram Diller, Mrs. Edsel Die
bert and Mrs. Carl Niswander from
Columbus Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Hilty enter
tanned the following relatives at Sun
day dinner: Milton Gratz and family
Gilboa, Harold Gratz and family of
Leipsic, Wilmer Gratz and family
Omar Gratz and family and Warren
Bridenbaugh and family.
Mrs. Regina Lemley spent several
days with Mrs. Nancy Basinger at
Columbus Grove last week.
Ralph Dush of Ottawa addressed
the Pandora Business mems associa.
ton, Monday night.
A Council Fellowship supper of the
four councils of the Mennonite
churches OF this area, held fellow.
ship meeting at the St. Johns church
east of Pandora, Monday night.
A service was held at the Mission
ary church Sunday morning for tht
local troop of Boy Scouts. Rev. H
l.. Mitchell spoke on "The Scou
Who Stood Alone"
Guest night was held by the Bi
Centennial Club at the Walnut Grill
Bluffton, Wednesday night at
o'clock. Mrs. Stanley Burkhart i
their club president.
Mrs. Francis Kempf entertaine
the Advance Club Saturday evening
Japs recently bombed the Missiol
Compound at Hanshow, China, wher
| Miss Minnie Hilty of Pandora is sta
toned. The missionaries had escape
the bombing by leaving Hanshoy
before by boat, taking about wha
things they could put on the boat
The radiogram was received by he
sister Elizabeth Hilty of Pandora
who also served many years as
missionary to China. Miss Mimi
Hilty has the privilege of returning
to America if she cares to.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

They come and they go from the
Replacement Center more quickly
now, or perhaps it merely seems
that they do. The training cycles
have not been cut down much, but
the turnover of men seems greater.
Perhaps it's just that we notice the
arrivals and departures more, now
that war has given them grimness.
We call the train-the one that
brings in recruits and takes out SOL
diers-the Shanghai Express. The
term probably was used first by
some disgruntled soldier who put
into it the bitterness of difficult
transition from civilian to soldier.
Now the term is used with a certain
tender fondness by the permanent
personnel of the Center, we who
watch the men come and 60.
The melancholy moan of a train
whistle is heard in the distance of
the night and sergeant clicks his
teeth wistfully. Here she comes,
boys" he says. Here comes the
Shanghai Express The sound of
the whistle Identifies all that touches
the heart of a soldier.
There was a group of new men
coming in this morning, down at the
railroad siding. Their new uniforms
hung strangely upon them, conspicu-
Gus and uncertain and uncomfort-
able-new uniforms on new soldiers.
They were frightened and i'll at
ease, these men. A week ago they
had been civilians and the prospect
of the Army had probably hung over
some of them like a Damoclean
sword. They had been told, by we'll
meaning friends, that the Army
wouldn't be so bad once they got used
to it. The Army will make you or
break you, they had been told. The
Army really isn't as bad as it's
painted, they had heard. All of this,
In diabolically suggestive way, had
opened conjectures to terrify the
most indomitable.
This morning, they still hadn't had
time to get over their fears. They
still had no idea of what Army life
was going to be like. Most of all
and first of all, they wondered;
''What sort of place is this we're
coming into?"
Their spirits were still at their
lowest point - past, present, or
future.
The Replacement Center band, led
by wizened little Master Sergeant
Knowles, was there to greet them
with welcome that might dispel
from them the feeling that they were
cattle being shipped into the fort on
consignment. First there were the
conventional but stirring military
marches, the "Caisson Song and all
the rest. And then there was a sly
and corny rendition of the "Tiger
Rag" friendly musical wink that
said, "Take it easy, brother"
A little reassured but still suspi-
cious, the men went from the train
to the theater, where they would see
program of entertainment and pos
sibly hear short and casual well
coming address by General Parker.
This afternoon the sound of march
ing feet came up Headquarters
Street from the south and a battery
of departing soldiers. approached.
As they neared the headquarters
building, there came the order,
Count cadence-command!" and
two hundred voices took up a chant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

''Their spirits were still at their
lowest point-past, present or fu-
ture.
They passed, counting their foot
steps in ringing ordered tones.
Laden with haversacks, they
passed in perfect order. Their lines
were even, their marching CO.
ordinated and confident. Their uni
forms no longer bore the awkward
stamp. Their caps were cocky but
correct and their neckties were
tucked between the right two but
tons.
The cadence count is the scheme
of the battery commander who feels
proud of the men he has trained,
who wants to show them off to the
higher-ups in Center Headquarters.
''The general might be standing by
his window now, watching my men
pass" they say. IF he isn't, we
should attract his attention.
Just as their arrival marks an
emotional ebb, their departure is the
flood tide. The men who came in
a few weeks ago, green and terri
fed, leave now as soldiers. The cor
poral whom they dreaded then is
now just jerk who's bucking for
sergeant. Although they are glad
that they have been trained with
other men on the same level here,
the training center which was first
a vast and awful place is now just
a training center, all right in its
way-for rockies. They themselves
have outgrown their kindergarten.
The band is at the railroad siding,
this time to see them off with a
flourish. They pay more attention
to the band this time. They know
the "Caisson Song" They know
their own Replacement Center
Marching Song, composed by one of
their number, quiet little ex-music
teacher named Harvey BoselI They
hum the tune as they board the
Shanghai Express.
They see the commanding general
standing on the side lines with his
aide. He is no longer an ogre out
of Washington who might, for all
they know, have the power Of life
and death over them to administer it
at whim. He is the commanding
general, good soldier and a good
fellow, and it was damned white of
him to come down to see them off.
They board the train and they sit
waiting for it to take them to their
permanent Army post and their part
in the war.
As a s-ecial faxor and for Old
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

times sake, the band swings slowly
into the song that is the voice of
their nostalgia, 1.-THE Sidewalks of
New York." Yankee or Rebel, Min
nesotan or Navadan, they love that
song.
You can see their faces tightening
a little, and a gentle melancholy look
come into their eyes as the trom-
bone walls beneath the current of
the music Their melancholy is mel
ancholy with shrug now. Home
and whatever else was dearest to
them a few months ago are still
dear, but a soldier has to push them
into the background when there's a
war to be fought.
With the music still playing, the
train pulls slowly out and Sergeant
Knowles waves it goodby with his
baton.
An old sergeant, kept in the Re-
placement Center to train the men
whose fathers fought with him a
generation ago, stands on the side
and watches them with a firm,
proud look.
'Give 'em hell, boys" he shouts
behind them. Give EN- hell"
THE ENDl
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17
Pandora

The following from the local M. f..
church attended the Putnam county
M. E. church Brotherhood banquet at
Leipsic, Thursday evening: Messrs.
M. |. Trostle, C. d. Steiner, John
Culp, Eldon Reichenbach and Charles
Reese. The March melting will be
held at Gilboa and the ladies also
are invited to attend the banquet.
l. N. Harris, who died in Findlay
last Wednesday, formerly made his
home in Pandora with his daughter,
Mrs. Joel Basinger. The Basinger's
moved to Bluffton last year.
Hiram L. Basinger, postmaster,
heads the boy scout organization
here which numbers nineteen mem
bers. Leroy Lemley and Jack
Tousley are assistant scoutmasters
and Dwight Probst and Galen Ba-
singer are assistant junior scout
masters with Mark Diller as senior
patrol leader.
Rev. John P. Suderman, of Berne,
Ind, addressed the Mennonite church
councils of this vicinity, of which
there are five, Grace, St. John,
Ebenezer and First Mennonite of
Bluffton and First Mennonite church
of Lima, at their fellowship meeting
at the st. Johns church one mile
east of Pandora, Monday night.
Wives and husbands of members also
attended.
The heavy fall of snow during the
past week has helped lot for the
1914 wheat crop which had suffered
for lack of moisture the past few
months. 1t will also greatly benefit
other crops as well.
Mrs. Donald Mcdowell was at Ann
Arbor hospital last week for obser-
vation.
Ladies of Pandora and vicinity will
fold bandages at Bluffton Red Cross
room on Wednesday evening, Feb.
23 and Tuesday evening, Feb. 20.
William d. Steiner, U. S. N. r. is
an electricians mate, third class, in
active sea duty.
Pvt. Robert R. Reese has gone
overseas.
CPL. Harold E. Sutter, of Camp
Gordon, Ca, is visiting his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Sutter for ten
days.
Mrs. NJ. D. Headington, of West
Orange, N. j., writes that fuel is so
scarce there, lots of folks not having
any stored at all. Those not having
coal have to call the board of health,
who have a few bushel baskets full
sent to them at a time, until they
| run out again.
Mrs. H. A. Niswander and Mrs.
Allen Niswander gave a dinner for
Mrs. Franklin Rodebaugh, formerly
Lois Niswander, Thursday evening
The following guests were present;
Miss Clara Bracey, Mrs. Melvin Long
and son Gary, Mrs. Francis Sommer
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17
PAGE SEvEN
ElrOse

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hamilton,
daughter Betty, Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Nonnamaker and family were
Sunday guests at the Ira Slusser
home near Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Nonnamaker,
daughter Kaye, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Lendon Basinger and
family and Mrs. Emmaline Nonna-
maker.
Gladys and Dorothy Klingler were
Sunday dinner guests of Betty Bish
at the Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Bish
home.
Staff Sgt. Harold Bell spent a few
days last week visiting with Mrs.
Bell and other relatives here.
Union prayer services will be held
at the A. ]. Nonnamaker home
Thursday evening.
Lloyd Arnold Jr., left last Tues
day for camp in California. He Is
the first boy from this neighborhood
to be in the Marine Service.
Callers at the Ami Nonnamaker
home the past week were Mrs. Mary
Hartman, son Cloyce, Mrs. Peter
Pills, Mrs. VIM. Stotts, Mrs. Clara
Bergman all Of HoytsvilIe, w. 3.
Cramer, and Rev. Irwin Kaufman of
Mt. Cory. Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Nonnamaker, sons Harold, Dean and
Ralph, Mr., and Mrs. Chauncey
Klingler, son Howard and daughter
Marilyn, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Hamilton and daughter Betty and
Charles Nonnamaker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Benroth
and family entertained friends from
Michigan last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Klingler and
family called at the Nj. j. Stratton
home, Sunday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17
BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop Sc
By Malcolm Basinger

The meeting was in charge of
Eagle Scout Robert Ramseyer and
was begun with the Scout Oath and
Law led by James Harmon. A bust
ness session was then held followed
by the roll call and payment of dues.
The group then disbanded into
patrol meetings where the problems
of a social meeting were discussed
BY joint approval it was decided that
it would be attempted to arrange a
meeting down at the College Gym
followed by a Pot Luck. At the
foregoing meeting basketball and
other games would be held.
After the patrol sessions all the
business of reregistering the troop
was taken care of and also the
resubscription to Boys Life.
James Harmon was elected for the
new assistant patrol leader for the
Cobra patrol.
Troop 50
The meeting was opened Monday
night with the pledge of allegiance,
and Roger Linden, new member of
the troop, led in repeating the scout
laws.
Following the patrol period, Dallas
Berry, conservation merit badge
counsellor, gave a talk on the re-
quirements for this badge. Maynard
Pogue, the first member of the troop
to earn the badge, made few re-
marks regarding the benefits to be
derived from passing the tests.
Roger Linden completed a wooden
bird plaque in the patrol period
activity.
In the closing ceremonies a tender
foot investiture service was given
for Ralph Dunifon, Jr., by candle
light, with the scouts standing in
horseshoe formation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17


month, the rurnors said. Probably,
by that time, all of us will be in
Hawaii or Russia or Persia or AT
rica. Green and unframed and help
less. This business of teaching a
man for thirteen weeks in replace
ment center will be dispensed with,
now that war is upon us. You're
civilian one day and a rookie mem
ber of seasoned fighting outfit the
next.
Except for a few for whom the
radio held a terrible fascination the
men thought first of communicating
with their families, their friends,
their sweethearts. They immediate
ly went for writing materials and
for the two public telephones of the
club. Almost all of the $4,000 men of
Fort Bragg were trying to reach
their homes through the eight trunk
lines which ran out of the pitifully
overburdened little telephone ex-
change in Fayetteville.
Miss Ethel Walker, who was act
ing as senior hostess for the Re-
placement Center's Service Club,
had planned an entertainment pro-
gram for the evening, but when she
looked out at the tension in the So
cial hall, she despaired. She tele-
phoned her boss, Major Herston M.
Cooper, the special services officer.
"There's no use trying to put on
the show tonight" she said. "Shall
/ cancel it? And may I turn off
the radio?"
IF it's good Program, keep it,"
said the major. And by all means
leave the radio on. Just hang on;
I'll be there in five minutes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17

The method of allotting points to
obtain food for lunches served in
schools has been liberalized some-
what. The change was made to
apply particularly to schools CO.
operating with the War Food Ad-
ministration but other schools serv-
ing lunches may benefit.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17
CHAPTER XIV

"Ahem," l said. He stopped hum
ming a little tune with which he had
engaged himself, and he looked at
me with kindly curiosity. "Ahem,"
repeated. "Are you the waiter with
the water for my daughter?"
He turned on tight, polite little
smile. ''The water, monsieur, will
be forthcoming. I have sent my
friend Charles for the water"
The Redhead looked up, openly
curious. stYour friend Charles,
take it, is the younger of the two
and more capable of carrying a
glass of water?"
The waiter shrugged his shoulders.
He is timid man, madame. Why
should l 60 for the water when he
will get it for no? I am tired"
"You are man of some astute-
neas," / ventured. ''In the Army
you would be d sergeant within two
months"
Perhaps I shall, monsieur. A
month, two months, who knows? You
are at Dix?"
Il am at Bragg" I told him. II
am at the Field Artillery Replace
ment Center, largest artillery train
ing station in tie world. Brigadier
General Edwin P. Parker, Jr., COM
manding."
Il have friend at the Field Ar
tillery Replacement Center" he
said. HE is in the Twelfth Bat
talon. You must look him up. I
write his name for you on my card.
You will give him the regards of
Eduardo Enriquez?"
'The day l return" / promised
him, II shall look him up"
The timid Charles approached
with the water, which Eduardo
poured for the Redhead. "This is
too joyful an occasion for water,
madame" he said. "A Martini"
Does Eduardo Enriquez person
ally endorse the Martini?" the Red
head asked.
Eduardo Enriquez has been
drinking them in the kitchen himself
all evening"" he beamed.
81 thought" said the Redhead,
"that something more than music
had soothed that savage breast"
IA
The Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor this afternoon came as stun
ming news to the men at Fort Bragg.
There had been rumor, one day a
couple of months ago, that Germany
had declared war on the United
States to beat us TO the draw, and
since it was merely a rumor, there
was no confirmation or denial over
the radio all day long. That sup
posed news back then had been
taken with philosophic shrug and
the thought, well, it's what we've
been expecting"
This today caused a different war
feeling. 1t was not what we had
been expecting. To the soldiers
here, whose only attention to the
newspapers is quick glance at the
headlines, it was startling and
dreadful.
The men who heard the news an
nouncement over the radio this aft
ernoon at the Service Club were, for
the most part, new to the Army,
with less than a month of training
behind them. Their first feeling of
outrage gave way to the awful fear
that they would be sent away, green
and unframed and helpless, within
a week.
The rumor mill began operation
Immediately. New York and Fort
Bragg will be bombed within the
- xyy VJlT1T
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17
Indicates Vitamin Coupt

Freshness Of Produce is a good
indication of the vitamin count: a
fresh, crisp product usually has the
maximum amount of these valu-
able elements.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-17
Absorbent Carbon Produced

An absorbent carbon, suitable for
medicinal use and water purifca-
ton, has been produced from cotton
seed hulls.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-15

things which do not bother him
during the rest of the year.
the bedding, mattress and pill
low cases should be made Of
non-allergic materials.
Third - Treatment by pollen
antigens by hypodermic i'm
munization. This produces COM
plete relief in about Is per cent
OF cases, partial relief in about
so per cent. The antigens can
be given before the season be-
gins, just before and during the
season or throughout the year.
The most important recent dis
covery about them is that the
immunity they confer. II any,
Is extremely shortlivcd. The
little fractional doses beginning
long before the season begins
are all neutralized before they
are needed. Therefore. short
pre-seasonal or during the sea-
son treatments are probably
more likely 10 be. effective. All
year round immunization for
several years Is a type OF treat
INIT best fitted only for suffer
ers whose business will not per-
NIT them vacation during the
hay fever season. Trying 10
taken pollens by mouth and OBJ
tain immunization that way is a
waste Of time.
Fourth-AccesSory methods OF
treatment. Nasal sprays of
adrenalln. ephedrine, benzedrine,
or, probably best of all, the new
est drug Of similar action. neo-
synephrin, give A good deal OF
temporary rehef. The use of
histaminaSe in the treatment of
hay fever has been disappoint-
ing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-15

THIS was an outdoors event
L and came up over q kissing
of auto tenders. Barney claimed
the decision and spoke slight
inly Of Mikes pugilistic proves
afterwards. but, OF course. Mike
fights better indoors, where he is
more accustomed TO the air. /
doubt that he was aware of
Barney's identity, and this is the
chief reason why l am going to
advise Mike to hang EN- up and
retire.
He is i'm his mid-fifties him.
self and grown soft from luxuri-
Gus living, and when he becomes
so careless as TO take on an op-
penent without knowing who he
is, il is time for Mike 10 do an
ell foldo. He might unwittingly
choose some guy like that Texan
whatppprhIs name
is. who tagged Fat Di Cicco and
get busted in two.
A man can ad lib himself into
a lot of K. O.'s by not picking
spots as John c. McGraw. the
manager of the New York
Giants, discovered years ago.
McGraw was noted for getting
himself flattened. He was a
choleric and pugnacious little
man and healthy and strong, too,
but he couldn't fight lick. Yet
he was always fighting
EVEN when he was in his
~ middle years and had a
paunch, he was smuggling IL out
with ball players, umpires, spec
tators and innocent bystanders.
The New York newspapers made
much Of McGraw's fights, as
they do Of the battles of cafe
society OF today, and with each