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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06

place at the Nov. 10 meeting in
Leipsic.
There viii be an officers sup
per at Belmore Jan. 27 while the
annual Pomona picnic will be held
at the fairgrounds in Ottawa July
2. The seventh degree will be con-
ferred Nov. Is at Pleasant grange
hall.
Union installation of officers will
be held at Gilboa Dec. %, 1914, in
charge of Shawton grange. The in
spection dates have been set as fol-
lows: Sharon, Aug. Is; Gilboa, Aug.
81; Pleasant, Aug. IS; Belmore,
Sept. 5; Pandora, Sept II, and
Leipsic, Sept. is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06

for October has been in the battery
safe for three weeks, just waiting
for you to get around to picking it
up"
He took a small envelope from be-
hind his back. "Twenty-one dollars
for services rendered through the
month of October. Harrumph! Mi
nus two-forty for theater tickets, mi
nus a dollar for haircuts, minus
seven dollars for canteen checks.
Private Hargrove, / present to you
your October wages-ten dollars and
sixty cents!"
/ took the money, looked at it ten
derly, and crammed it into my
pocket.
Winter, at last, is upon us, in the
rear ranks, the surest indication is
to be found in reveille.
All through the late summer and
the fall, we hoped out of bed as
soon as the whistle blew. Now we
crawl grumblingly out when the SER
geant puts the whistle to his lips for
a ''fall out!" blast. Since it is still
dark when we stand reveille, and
since we are aided occasionally by a
heaven-sent fog, there are many sa-
viors of democracy who slip on
merely a pair of shoes (partially
laced), a pair of trousers, and a
field jacket. The field jacket, when
buttoned all the way to the collar,
hides the absence of shirt and tie
and the sergeant is none the wiser.
In Headquarters Battery, the
process of getting up in the morn
ing has sunk into a rut of repetition.
It's the same procedure every morn
ing.
Sergeant Roughton, platoon lead
er- toots his brass al six o'c.ock
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06
Ottawa Building Debt
Paid Off

Announcement that he has paid
off the $4,095.60 which remained of
the debt on the Ottawa municipal
building was made by Edward A.
Doepker, clerk.
The payment was made to the
Ohio Teachers Retirement System
which held the last bonds which
were not due until 1945. The ad-
vance payment saved the community
about $3.50 in interest.
This leaves Ottawa with an in
debtedness of about $1,000 which
was borrowed to purchase a new
fire truck three years ago and to
buy parking lot last year.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06

.""As if ! didn't have enough trou.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06
News Notes From
Four Counties
CONTINUED from page y

condition of the bond retirement and
interest fund permitted their re-
tirement this year along with the
remainder of a $4,000 bond issue
of 1881 which financed an addition
to the school. The last of the lat
ter bonds were to be retired in 1916.
Elimination of the debts and in
terest charges represents a reduc-
tion in taxes of 90 mills, Mr.. Smith
said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06

Col. Grove, Mrs. Nolan Benroth cx
Vaughnsville, Mrs. Vic Thielhorn of
Washington, D. c. and Miss Ruth
Moore of Col. Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell Stewart and
son Gary were Friday evening guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Yant and son
at Lima.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Sawmiller spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Lansdown and daughter at Spring
field.
Mrs. Daisy Hall of Lafayette is
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Raleigh Watt.
Mrs. Arthur Best and children are
spending the week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis May.
Mrs. Eugene Young, Mrs. H. f.
Downey and Miss Ruth Durkee were
Sunday evening callers of Mrs. Ella
Andrews at Leipsic.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06

Officers for the Ohio Swiss Cheese
Association for 1914 are William ID.
Snyder, Baltic, president; Ernest
Mueller, Pearl, vice-president; r. B.
Stoltz, Ohio State University,
secretary-treasurer Goth consecutive
term); and Emery A. Mast, Millers-
burg, and Joe Yaggi, New Philadel-
phia, 3-year directors. The Associa-
ton contributed $4,000 to the Ohio
Dairy Products Research Fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
FIGHT TO DEFEAT COLORADO
PACT GROWS HARDER

Left to fight almost alone, California
must not let up single minute IN guard
ing the water rights of the Colorado
river. endangered by the treaty the gov
ernment has signed with Mexico. The
new senate, it is feared. will be even more
friendly toward ratifying the pact than
was the 18th congress which ends the
first of the year.
The administration advanced another
step recently when a protocol was signed
and sent on to the senate. This protocol.
or amendment came at the inslstence OF
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, and only
provides for retaining his grip on water
projects. 1t does not modify the dlsas-
trous terms of the treaty one whit.
Even if the new secretary of state, Ed
ward Stattinius, should oppose the treaty,
that will not be of any assistance. Inc
treaty was drafted in secret and signed
by his predecessor with full approval OF
President Roosevelt and Stettinius Will
have nothing to say about it
The California legislature appropriate
ed $4,000 as a fighting fund State of
ficials. cognizant of the peril too, not
only current water uses, but to control
of the River itself, are gathering forces
to carry on a vigorous opposition.
Imperial Valley already is organized
and prepared to battle TO the laSt uiCch'
The issue is not within the valley or
the state. 1t is national. The nation
must be aroused to the implications OF
this treaty. because if it is ratified, it
rings the death knell to any power any
state may have over its water rights. If
a secret treaty can give away the Color
ado river rights, another can do likewise
with any other natural resource in the
country.
This treaty is the main business Of
California from now on.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
MILITARY TRAINING
IN PEACETIME
pasadena Star-NewS)

Nobody should be surprised that strong
opposition is rolling up against the plan
of congressional leaders to seek early
action on legislation requiring military
training in peacetime
1t runs counter to American traditions
and to we'll established political beliefs
in this country. As recently as the first
World war compulsory military service
even in war was vigorously opposed
And few months before Pearl Harbor,
the bill to extend selective service passed
by a margin of single vote in the house
of representatives.
The explanation is apparent. Democ
racy and militarism are incompatible.
The powerful argument for the plan
is that the existence of large body of
trained citizen-soldierS in the United
States will be the best insurance against
this nation being dragged into war that
it could have, and also will be a potent
influence for world peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
WORK ON OUTFALL SEWER
APPROACHES COMPLETION

Work on reconstruction of the
outfall sewer along the northern
city limits of FL Centre between
Eighth street and Imperial avenue
i2 ABOUT 30 per cent completed, E.
Paul Ford, FL Centre city engineer.
announced.
The remaining 20 per cent of
the work can be completed within
two weeks, Ford said, provided the
project does not encounter bad
luck.
The work now being done, how
ever, Ford said. applies TO the
"juiciest" part of the terrain, and
lust how successfully 1t can Re car
ried out, so far as the time element
il concerned, is conjectural.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
THE SAGA OF WILLIE
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The question as to which is the best
and most authentic pair of rhymes about
Willie. the child who made catastrophe
laughing matter. is a tempest raging
among bibliophiles who hold in esteem
an out-of- print volume entitled Ruth
less Rhymes for Heartless Homes:
One lover of beautiful letters affirms
that the only true and faithful version
goes: Little Willie. in the best of sashes,
fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes.
Suddenly the room grew chilly; nobody
wanted to poke poor Willie
Another authority denounces the fore
going lines as fit only for milksops. He
prefers: "Willie fell down the elevator
Wasn't found till eight days later. All
the neighbors said, Gee whiz, what a
spoiled child Willie is
To all of which we would add only one
tender blossom Of poesy, to be spoken by
valedictory voice: Little Willie. who
did things neatly, got blown up almost st
completely They found an ear, but don t
be silly-that's just about enough OF
Willie"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
IMPORTANT If TRUE
(San Diego Union)

Representative Sol Bloom of New York
makes the somewhat disconcerting an
.iouncement that he finds the Constitution
of the United States unconstitutional. Mr..
Bloom bases his statement on the allega-
ton that the convention which drafted
the Constitution was not called for that
purpose, but to amend the Articles of
Confederation. Under established par
liamentary law, he explains, it is illegal
for a convention called for one purpose
to undertake some other purpose. Hence
the Constitution is not constitutional.
This should be good news to Attorney
General Biddle, who seems to have re-
garded the Constitution as something of
a nuisance anyhow, and to the new deal
supreme court, which appears to have
difficulty at times in deciding exactly
what the ancient document means.
The old charter has done fairly well
for better than $50 years, in spite of GER
tain attributes once relegated to the
"horse and buggy age, and it's too late
to go back and do it all over. The big
worry these days is not about how con-
stitutional the Constitution is, but how
closely we can stick to it in the midst OF
assorted wild-eyed theories of govern
npnt
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
NO MYSTERY ABOUT
CIGARET SHORTAGE

There really is no mystery surrounding
the now disputed shortage of clgaretS Tor
civilian smokers throughout the country.
Neither is there any mystery why the
mystery is not solved. AT Washington,
government bureau chiefs and host OF
hiph-salaried statisticanS are issuing
propaganda statements one after the
other on following this trail and that. All
in an effort to fog the real situation, save
their own faces and try to appeaSe the
smokers.
The very fact that these bureau chiefs
are so intent in hunting down the cause
furnishes the actual solution. But these
bureau chaps are looking everywhere else
than their own offices.
Following through, everybody but the
administration knew more than two years
ago that there would be need of a tre
mendous increase in tobacco production.
Yet today in the midst of the shortage
wailing. the Commodity Credit Corpora
ton keeps up restrictions on planting and
production.
Then along comes the War Food Ad-
ministration to allocate the free crop to
professors and manufacturers. Next the
War Production Board says how much
or how little (mostly how little) machln-
cry NAV be allotted to cigaret makers.
After finding il impossible to get machin-
erv manufacturers are limited on help
bv the War Manpower commission. But
there is more Along comes the War La
Dor Board and further tips the applicant
by arbitrarily fixing wages in tobacco
plants. In the meantime the Foreign Eco
nomc Administration steps in and sets
lend-lease ALLEGATIONS for overseas ship
ments. and at the end of the procession
is the Office of Price Administration to
fix prices on finished tobacco products,
And calmly the CCC is going ahead
with plans to release 400 million pounds
of leaf tobacco in 1945 for the foreign
market.
Mind you, nobody has thought about
hnostinp acreage for next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
laundries Get
Wage Schedule

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. up
Southern California laundries put
into effect a War Labor Board
orc cred maximum wage scale Mon
day which industry spokesmen term
ed 80 low it will strip the man.
power from 80 per cent of the laun-
dries"
The new rates range from so
cents to 95 cents per hour. They
were passed by a 5 to vote Of
the regional board over an industry
appeal for a 60-cent base and ap-
ply to all laundries except those
which had legally established high
er rates before october 2, 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
PRINTERS STRIKE"

ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 4. tUP) -
Printers failed to report for work on
both of Atlanta's daily newspapers
Monday, but the Evening Journal
published an emergency edition Of
four pages, prepared on typewriters
and printed from an engraved plate.
A spokesman for the papers said
the printers, whose contract is in
the process of negotiation, had pre-
sented no demands on the manage
ment and had quit without warn
ing"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
$4,000 Blaze
Hits HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4. (UPl-
Roaring through a restaurant and
four sWank shops in the heart of
Hollywood, a two-alarm fire Sunday
night which snarled theater-bound
traffic and attracted hundreds of
spectators was estimated today to
have caused $4,000 damage.
The blaze apparently started in
the two-week-ol Pops restaurant.
swept to the roof and from there
to clothing store, shoe store and
women's snop in the same building.
An Oil explosion earlier yesterday
was famed by a 27-mile- hour
wind into blaze causing $45 COO
tamage at the Doran Engineering
Co., Los Angeles war plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
PLANE CRASH INQUIRY
WATTS INJURED RECOVERY

LOS ANGELES. Dec. !. CuP) -
Transcontinental and Western AR
line officials Monday awaited re-
covery OF injured survivors to hold
a civil aeronautics board inquiry on
the crash Friday morning Of a TWA
airliner preparing to land at Bur-
bank. The crash killed seven per-
sons almost instantly, and another
died Saturday Of injuries. A cor
oner's inquest also is scheduled as
soon as survivors are aDie to appear.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
TWO AUTOS STOLEN

Two cars were reported stolen
from parking lots in Fl Centre Sun
Gay.
One was a red 1885 Ford coup,
belonging to Fred J. Nelson, Ca.
exico, reported stolen from the Safe
way parking lot at go pm.
The other was a black convertible
1885 ford belonging to Albert La
Barge, Rt /, Box 3O9 Ell Centro, re-
ported stolen at 1880 pm. from the
United Artists parking lot.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
FIVE DRAW DRUNK PENALTIES

Five Ell Centrans were sentenced
on drunk charges in El Centre po-
lice court Monday as follows:
Ten Riy ras. 80. Indian, IS DAYS:
p. @. Navarettn 80 500 fine: lose
Saucedo Cruz, %, seven days; Ange-
lima Rubieo, SO, $40 fine; Fred ".
Cole, So, $l4 fine:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
chians Appeals
For Full Unity

ed the national administration just
prior to Mondays announcement,
demand ing that Chang reorganize
his government from top to bottom
and take direct command of his
armies at the front.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
CALLS FOR RALLY

Chang then summoned his new
cabinet ministers and in an address
called upon China to rally against
the Japanese.
The present war situation he
said. rs extremely difficult, but it
is near the stage of final victory
Chang said that the military de-
velopments at the front, including
the dangerous penetration by the
japanese of Kweichow province
were within our anticipation.
The enemy inSiGe Kweichow must
be given a crushing blow and COM
pletely annihilated," he said
The appointment of Soong came
at time when experienced observ-
erS in Chungking were predicting
that the next 60 days warfare in
China may be the most critical OF
the conflict with China facing the
possibility of being knocked out as
on effective land fighting force.
The move was described officially
as continuation of the process be-
gun on November 20 when Chang
removed six cabinet ministers, in
Guiding King, who lost his finance
in that re-Shuffle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foiioUtng edit
0riais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions UOiced by editors eiserhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04
MORE CHANGES SEEN

Further changes also We re-
garded as possible in view OF the
frankly alarming situation created
by the fast-rolling japanese often
sive in KWeichow province.
The influential independent news
paper Tia Kung Pao openly criticiz-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04

Turing the holiday season and all through the
- rest of the year Nationals the job
speeding service, protecting money, providing
valuable records.
And in every transaction there's satisfaction on both
sdes-for Nationals fast service protects
and public alike
For months, store people have been working out
ways to make your Christmas shopping quick,
easy and pleasant.
Let's help them all we can Let's put the Christmas
spirit into shopping this year by being thought
full by shopping early and shopping patiently
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-04

CHUNGKING. Dec. 4. up
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
Monday took public cognizance of
the extremely difficult military
situation but called on China to
rally and annihilate Japanese fore
eS which have driven into KWeichow
province, a bare 200 miles from
China's capital.
Faced with an explosive military
and political crisis. Chang took
further steps to reorganize his gov
ernment. naming Foreign Minister
T. V. Soong, brother of Nine. Chi
ang Kai-shek. acting president of
the executive Yuan, a post which
Chang had held himself.
The Valley settler., 1944-05-12
HOSP TA NETS NOTES

MT. and Mrs. Lauritz Loberg announce the birth of son on May 4. He has been named Jeff LeRoy.
 Mrs. Grant France had ma jor surgery on Thursday.
 While at Chickaloon on a school holiday last week, Bernard Bouwens injured fling CT while riding the cable car. The end of the finger was cut off and skin was grafted on in an attempt to save the tip. his is new type of skin graft that is accompli shing great things in this war. Present indications. point to successful ntaken.
 MT. Kelly AcCarroll a Palmer 4. R. C. em- ployee, received hospi tai tre atment thu S week. The hosp1 tai has just received new ahes- thetic machine, Is of which will be I n next weeks paper. :. Pastor Harold Wood, Chairman of the hos pital board, flew to Palmer in hi $ pr1-: vate a1rpl ane this week. Wi tn him was Pastor V. L. Anderson of Walla Wal1a, : Washington who Is president of the North Pacific Union of Seventh Day Adventists in whi ch Alaska s located. In this
The Valley settler., 1944-05-12

capacity he is vitally interested in see- ing that the Aatanuska Valley Hospital maintains the high standard set by tht denomi na ton for their insti tut ions. U.l their tour of inspect tion, Pastors And son and Wood wi Il be interes sted in get ting acquainted with the people in tn Valley. Monday evening the hospi tai board x1ll meet wi tn the M.V.F.C.A. bo4rd to discuss the progress made by the hospi tai, and ts future plans.
 National Hospital Day is May l2, however 1t is being observed here on May 18th.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
JUST FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE RULES:

win be awarded 10 each tying contestant.
Decision Of the judges win be final. No en-
tries can be returned. All entries and IDEAS
therein become the property Of Lever Broth
srs Company.
0. Any person rs years Of age or older In
the continental United States or Puerto Rico
and Hawaii may compete, except employees
Of Lever Bros. Company, their advertising
agencies. and their families Contest subject
10 all Federal and State regulations. All en-
tries must he the original work Of comics
tantS submitted in his or her own name. All
members Of family may compete, but no
more than one prize will be awarded to one
family.
3. Names Of major prize winners will be
announced on the George Burns a Oracle
Allen and ''Bright Horizon" radio pro.
\gams as soon as possible after the contest
closes. Complete list Of winners will be sent
20 anyone sending stamped, self-addressed
envelope.
J. Contest closes December 1s, 1914, and
all entries must be pOSfm0rked before
midnight Of that date, and received before
JanuarJ 9th, l945.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
ROneleSS
Army Decides TO Send
Only Meat Abroad

NEW YORK. Nov. 16 (INS)-
Boneless cuts of meat and chops
are the postwar outlook for the
housewife as the result of the
army's development OF space
saving homeless meats for, troops
abroad.
The homeless meats developed
to conserve vital cargo space will
keep under refrigeration much
longer than heavy cuts from
which the bone has not been re-
moved.
In the postwar period the house.
wife will be able to buy as much
as a months supply at one time
and the meat. wrapped in special
paper at the boning plant, will be
just as fresh and clean a month
after IL Is put In the refrigeration.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17

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be sure 10 print clearly your 6xn yams and
address and that Of the dealer where you
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and II you win prize, he wins one too.
Write on one side Of paper only.
,. Mail your entry to Swan, Box rs, New
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you wish, but each entry must be so.om-
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=. The winning names win be selected for
their originality and appropriateness BY an
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contest judges. In case Of ties, the 1s-word
statement (which must accompany each sue-
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The deciding factor on the basis cf origi-
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thsre are sny remaining ties. duplicate primes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
7 Strikes Cut Output
OF Coal 1900 Tons

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16 (INS)
Strikes Of two western Pennsyl-
vania mines today left approx
mately 430 men idle at a cost to
bituminous production of 1900
tons daily.
Out of production were the
Euclike mihe of the Pittsburgh
Coal Co. at Fitz Henry. West
moreland County, and the Ring
gold pit of the Allegheny River
Mining Co. at Timblin.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
Third Army Uses
New Tank DESTROYER

LONDON, Nov. Is (UPl-A
Times dispatch from the Ameri-
can Third Army front said today
that the army is using new mo-
bile tank destroyers of 81 tons
which has speed of 80 miles an
hour and carries a 80 millimeter
gun which fires 24-pound pro-
jectile.
1t said the gun had shattered
tanks "as though they were made
of cardboard"