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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Criticize Pilot In
Findlay Crash

Criticism of Sergt. Edward Hot
tensmith, Findlay Civilian Air Pa
troll member who was injured
critically when a plane which he
was plotting crashed near Rawson,
was voiced by CAA inspectors in a
report of the accident.
Clarence Dyer, a passenger in the
plane, also was injured critically.
The report, as issued by Ray
Vaughn, of the Vaughn Flying
School, stated that the planes engine
was in operation when the ship
crashed, that Hottensmith was div
ing towards the farm home of his
parents prior to the accident, and
that Hottensmith had been grounded
several times for low and dangerous
flying.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Learn ROmanian Pris-
Oner To Return

Am pleased to inform you that
your son, Staff Sgt. George A. Der
ringer has been returned to military
control and is en- route to the United
States by ship. He is expected to
arrive about Sept. %. He will be
given opportunity to communicate
with you upon arrival, and will be
granted a furlough at an early
date"
This was the telegram received by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Derringer of Ada,
from the war department. Sgt. Der
ringer has been a prisoner of war
of the Romanian government since
April 16, and was released when
Romania quit the war.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Lima Marine Wounded
Fatally On Guam

Marine Pfc. Leonard F. Mason,
"a, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hillery
Mason of Lima, died July 90 of
wounds received in action on Guam,
his parents were notified.
Private Masin, who also fought at
Bougainville, was reported buried at
sea, former employe of the Sup
perior Coach Corp. at Lima, he had
been overseas 18 months. His wife,
Donna, and a son, Larry, live in
Van Vert.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Receive Soldier Ballots
In Putnam

Ballots have begun to arrive back
at the headquarters of the Putnam
county board of elections from men
and women in military and other
war services all over the world, it
was learned from Clerk Leo NJ.
Moening.
The board has mailed 600 absent
voters ballots to men and women
from Putnam county who are serv-
ing in military or other war serv-
ices, the clerk reported. Some of the
ballots were requested directly by
the men and women while some were
obtained for them by relatives.
These ballots will remain sealed
until Nov. 7, the day of the general
election, when they will be placed
in the ballot boxes in the proper pre-
cincts of the county.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Two Inmates Escape
Lima Hospital

Two Lima state hospital inmates,
taking advantage of two new en-
ployes' unfamiliarity with the in
stitution were sought after they had
effected their escape.
The pair, John F. Mullen, "a, of
Cleveland, and James B. Morgan,
28, Harlantown, KY, were under
consideration for release from the
hospital, DR.. r. E. Bushong, super
intendent reported.
The men escaped by walking thru
the administration building after
they had informed a telephone oper-
ator that they had the permission
of physician to go to the institu-
tion bowling alley.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28

guilty to charges involving viola
tions of OPA rent ceilings in Toledo
federal court before Judge Frank
Kloeb.
The court also sentenced Mack to
one year in federal prison but sus
pended the term upon payment of
the fine and costs.
The suit, brought by federal OPA
enforcement agents, was the result
of an investigation conducted last
February, according to Harold G.
Bogart, director of the Toledo dis
trict of the OPA.
The court found overcharges total
ed $7,940.53 of which Mack had re-
funded S3,271.50 to tenants.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
ALLEN COUNTY
Slayer Of Five At
Lima Hospital

A 30-day observation period for
Vincent Nash, so, of Crooksville,
confessed slayer of his wife and four
children began recently when he ar
rived at the Lima State Hospital
for Criminal Insane.
Nash was brought to Lima after
sanity hearing before special
grand jury in Perry county, DIR. r.
E. Bushong, hospital superintendent
reported.
Nash had signed a fve-page con-
fession admitting the killings while
the victims slept, the Perry county
sheriff reported. According to the
confession, all five were killed with
blows from an ak.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28

passenger train struck the rear of
tractor-tarailer assembly owned by
Lecrone-Benedict Ways, Inc, of Co
lumbus and driven by Don Neal, %,
ex-marine of Columbus, and sent
the trailer crashing into the Huber
store.
Last March 80 Community Prod
ucts Co. truck of Ottawa was hurled
into the same window when it be-
came stalled in the path of a north
bound b. & o. freight train.
Damage to the truck and store
was estimated at about 800. Neal
escaped injury.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Sign Up Nearly $4,000
Voters

With registration of Lima electors
near the 1900 mark, Allen County
Board of Election officials urged in
eligible voters to visit the board of
fees in the courthouse and qualify
themselves for casting ballots in No
vember.
There are about $4,000 persons in
Allen county of voting age, it was
pointed out, but those residing out
side the Lima city limits need not
register. However, figures reveal
that there are about two voters in
the city to one in the county outside
Lima.
To date some 1000 ballots have
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Conservation Chief To
Head Ohio Pythians

For the first time since 1908, a
Findlay man was installed as grand
chancellor at the convention of the
Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias,
Grand Domain of Ohio, which open
ed Sunday in Springfield.
The honor was conferred on How
ard Langstaff, district conservation
officer, who now is grand vice chan
cellor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Medical Meeting To Be
Held At Findlay

One of Ohio's oldest medical or
ganizations, the Northwestern Ohio
Medical Society, founded at Lima
in 1869, will hold its Tooth meeting
at Findlay October 3, beginning at
10:30 a. m. All physicians of north
western Ohio are invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Wounded KentOn Men
Rejoin Units

War Department kilograms ad-
vised the parents that Corp. Earnest
Lhamon, seriously wounded in the
neck, and Pvt Gerald E. Hogue,
who suffered leg wound, were back
in action with their units. Lhamon
is with an infantry division and
Hogue is serving with a paratroop
outfit, both in France.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
AllOt School Fund

Decision of the Lima Board of
Education to divide newly received
state funds equally among 260 school
emplyes was announced by the board
president, E. C. Jansen. Each teach
er and each maintenance employe
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
HARDIN COUNTY
Plan Victory Holiday

Hardin County schools will close
for day, if announcement of Ger
many's capitulation is made during
the school week, it was announced by
County Superintendent Frank C.
Ransdell.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Findlay Sailor Is
Missing

Robert S. Frye, "a, a motor ma
chinist's mate, second class, is miss
ing at sea, his wife, Lucille, and
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Frye,
were notified. He was a member
of the crew of a minesweeper that
was reported as lost in the hurri-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28

cane recently in the Atlantic.
Petty Officer Frye has a son,
Robert, Jr., a brother, Seaman James
H. Frye, and a sister, Petty Officer
Geraldine Frye, both of the navy,
are home on furloughs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
STATEMENT

Statement of the ownership, management.
editorshp. etc, of The Biuffton News, pub
lished at Buffton, Ohio, required by Act of
August "a 1912:
Publisher-The Bluffton News Publishing &
Printing Company, Bluffton, Ohio.
Edtor-C. A. Biery, Bluffton, O.
Managing Editor-C. A. Bery, Buffton, o.
Business Manager-B. F. Biery Bluffton, O.
Owners-B. F. Biery. @. A. Bery, Fred
Gettles, r. L. Triplett Eta Biery, Leona
Gettles, all of Bluffton. O.
Bondholders, mortgages and other security
holders, none.
G. A. Biery, Editor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
23rd day of September 1914.
Helen /. Diller,
Notary Public
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Sentence Lima Man

Lawrence LeValley, Lima, was
sentenced at Marysville, Ohio, by
Judge R. L. Cameron to from one
to three years in Ohio Penitentiary
for violating his probation on a
non-support charge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
news NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

been sent out by the board to men,
bers of the armed services, and it
is expected that a larger number
will be dispatched before the dead
line.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Register 20 At Find
lay College

Seventy students were registered
at Findlay College, opening day of
the new term. The number was well
in excess of last years enrolment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
PUTNAM COUNTY
Second Truck Rolls
Through Window

Looking up from a sale to see a
truck rolling into his store is be-
coming commonplace for Frank
Kahle, manager of the Huber Gro
Gerry at Ottawa.
A northbound Baltimore & Ohio
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Scholarship Awarded

Richard Purdy, Findlay, has been
awarded a scholarship at Reinhart
School of Dramatics in New York
City.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28

the keynote Japans SYM
following attack the United States
AS map shows enable Allied naves to throw block
rich of her conquered
empire hundreds of thousands of Jap troops on
Philippines suppemening those
islands, Japan itself would get unerci
blasting heavy including B29 Bomb
run to Tokyo is duck soup about 5000 gallons
the tank truck pictured below
they have a four-fgure flight
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
a Nf nLt1

Inc state OF ONO,
Allen County, IS.
Estate of Peter Matter, Deceased.
Sarah Matter. 13l N. Spring ST.. Bluffton,
Ohio, and Earl l.. Matter, r. R. No. q Bluff
ton, Ohio. have been appointed and quali-
fled as Executors of estate of Peter Matter
late of Allen County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this goth day of September, 1914.
RAYMOND r. SMITH,
Ok proba.a -
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Lima Hotel Owner Is
Fined $500 By Court

Henry A. Mack, owner of the
Waldo hotel at Lima, was fined ST.
500 and costs when he pleaded
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28

will receive a bonus of $50 month
for the current school year amount
ing to $3.50 each.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
Public Sale

Having decided to quit farming I will
auction at my home, u mile out Riley ST.
Ohio, on
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14

Young and strong, this Maryland
farmer shouldn't need retirement
benefit payments for many years
unless sickness or an accident
should incapacitate him. But the
time will come when he will be too
old to work. During his good years,
he should have a chance to accu-
mulate retirement fund through
Social Security. His family too,
should be protected under the sur
vivor's benefit provisions. Under
present provisions, however, the
farm family is excluded from the
system.
ance protection somewhat enviously.
The Social Security board receives
many letters from the self-employed
professional people, small bust
ness men, gas station operators,
restaurant keepers, operators of
cleaning and pressing shops, of
beauty parlors, and so on, wanting
to know why they can't get old-age
protection. They pay premiums for
their employees insurance, but
themselves cannot build up rights to
benefits. ''Why this discrimina-
tion?" they ask. eve have no more
security than our employees
Few From Farmers.
Very seldom among these letters
from the seize Employed is there one
from a farmer. Yet farmers have
fully as much reason to seek social
trc yorotapfior Nfh Of
the self-employed. The notion that
farmers are an Independent and
self-sustaining group is no longer
true. 1t is hangover from earlier
times, when most farms were self
sufficient. Today farmers are much
more vulnerable. They have to buy
more and sell more; operating
costs are higher, and falling prices
often mean serious losses.
Then too, sections differ as to
agricultural prosperity. North and
south, west and middle-west are
widely unlike, while in each there
are plenty of spots that present a
quite different picture from the rest.
In 1899, the last year before the
war BOOM" nearly one-haf of the
farm operators in the country had
a gross annual money income yield
(alloWing for food consumed by the
farm family of less than 5000; two
thirds had less than 81 900, and SO
per cent had under $4,000.
It is difficult for farm owners to
save much out of these small cash
incomes. Even a farmer with an
average net income of $4,000 year
finds it hard to put much aside for
old age or misfortune. The constant
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14
A Remarkable Map

The many members of the Ma
tional Geographic society have re-
ceived the remarkable new map OF
Japan and adjacent regions put out
recently by that organization.
This is the first time that a de-
tailed map has been computed with
the geographic heart of Toxic as its
center. The National Geographic
Bulletin states that the exact spot
is Tokio's central railway station
about which cluster the imperial pal
ace, the central post office and the
Marunouchi building, one of the
city's largest official structures.
The map has been compiled OF
entirely new base material and is
being used by the general staff and
other government departments
which opened their files to the Ma
tional Geographic researchers for
its preparation.
Just because we have our eyes on
western Europe at the moment is no
reason why we should forget what is
going on in the Pacific. Fortunately,
our forces have been built up there
to the point where we can carry on
simultaneous action with the move
ments of the armies in Europe.
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Benefits Of Social Security Could Be Extended TO
Farm Owners and Their Emp| oyees, Officials Say

demands for maintenance OF fer
tility, repairs, buying machinery
and livestock, and so on, all re-
quire cash, and there is often little
left at the years end to build up
retirement fund Often, when the
farm operator has to quit work, his
family is in difficult straits, and may
have to depend on public aid or
charity.
The tenant farmer and the farm
laborer generally are in worse cir
cumstances than the man who owns
his land, once they have to quit
working. With little or no savings,
the tenant and the farm hand who
cannot earn anything are soon hard
up indeed. They and their families
suffer humiliation and want.
War Changes Things.
The war, of course, has made
great difference in the farmers stu
alton. The incomes of many are
double, in some cases treble, what
they were before. But the war-and
perhaps our present prosperity-is
temporary.
Farm people were left out of the
social insurance program not be-
cause they were thought to be al
ready secure. The reason for ex-
GLIDING them was that in 1885 the
program was new and the admins
trative hurdles looked very high.
But now the Social Security board
is convinced that old-age and sur
vivors insurance can be admins
tered for farm people simply, at
low cost, and without being unduly
troublesome to them.
What would it mean to farm
operators and farm hands to have
this insurance? It would mean the
same protection it means already
to those who are under the system.
A couple of examples will illustrate
the protection old-age and survivors
insurance offers.
Back in 1886, when Harry J. was
nearly 60, he got himself a job with
a construction company. After eight
years, he wanted to stop working
and retire to his small place in the
country. He hadn't felt he could do
so, however, because he wasn't sure
he could earn a living from farm
ing his few acres. Upon inquiry he
found that his monthly retirement
payment would be about $27, since
he had earned an average of 500
month. His wife, who was also past
IS, would get half that much; so
that would make the family income
over $40 every month, sufficient for
their needs.
Widow Got $40 a Month.
Mr.. c. was a newspaper linotype
machine operator and had always
earned high wages. He hoped to give
all five children a good education.
The two elder ones were attending
the university. Suddenly Mr.. C. got
pneumonia and died within a week.
The widow was left with three
children still at school and no in
come save what Mary and Jean
could earn by leaving school and
taking jobs. She went to the Social
Security field office, thinking that
perhaps there would be a small
lump sum going to her, probably
no more than couple of hundred
dollars. She was amazed to learn
that she was entitled to monthly
payments for herself and the three
younger children! She received
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14
All Difficulties of
Administration Can
Be Smoothed Out

Wages today are high, and
jobs plentiful, and there is a
ready market for all farm prod
uce and manufactured goods.
Most people probably realize,
however, that the present pros
perity is a result of the war, and
that a downturn is almost GER
tain to come with peace. There
may be no depression, at least
not for several years, but the
present very high level of activ-
ity is not likely to be main
tanned.
But in any case, there comes a
time in everyone's life when he has
to slow down. Whatever stage the
business cycle is in, those who
are unable to work get no income.
Everyone who has to make his own
living must be somewhat concerned
about the future.
A very large group of wage and
salary earners have found partial
answer to these troublesome ques-
tons. They are the workers in pri-
vate industry and commerce, those
in so-called covered" employment,
to whom the old-age and survivors
insurance program of the Social
Security act applies. These workers
are building up rights to monthly
insurance payments when they grow
old and retire, and for their fami-
lies, when death comes to the bread
winner.
Others, not so fortunate, look
upon the group that has social insur-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14

A midwestern farmer smiles with
satisfaction as he reads the figures
on a check received for his produce.
Agricultural income is now two to
three times the 1889 level, but this
happy situation won't last, econo-
mists warn. Unless this middle
aged man is fortunate, however, his
savings will dwindle away, and he
will face old age without security.
about $40 month under the old-age
and survivors insurance program!
Mrs. C. is one of 765, 1000 persons
workers past IS, their aged wives,
widows, and children and depend
ent parents-who today are receiv-
ing monthly payments on account of
old-age and survivors insurance. To
date the system has paid out nearly
half billion dollars.
The mechanics of oldage and sur
vivors insurance are simple. Every
pay day every worker in covered
job pays, under present rates, l per
cent of his wages as a premium on
his old-age and survivors insurance.
This is deducted from his pay by
his employer, who pays an equal
sum. Four times year the en-
ployer sends both contributions in
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14

Left An elderly woman cashes
her old age insurance check in a
New York bank. Since February l,
1910, persons over 65 are eligible to
receive the benefits Of Social
Security payments, even though
they have worked only a short time
under the system and have contrib
uted little to the fund.
(Right) This New York couple
was the first to apply for monthly
payments to which they were entitled
under the Social Security system.
The checks began to flow out in 1910.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14
TOOLS

tachable wise and portable ratchet drill
press, $3.50 delivered Literature free.
W. F. ELkINS TOOL CO., Floydada. Tex.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14
B r E F S. by Baukhage'

Pillow feathers are so scarce in
Hungary and the Balkan countries
that Nazis are offering a bride of
one gallon of gas for quantity of
feathers worth about is cents.
A "seat changing" signal is given
at regular intervals in the crowded
trains in Japan, and people who
have been sitting stand up to change
places with the others.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14

Julius Caesar would have had
more water to cross today in invad-
ing Britain-the cliffs of Dover have
receded that much.
Nazi slave-labor recruitment
among women in occupied northern
Italy now applies only to unmar-
ried women between the ages of 10
and 30, resulting in a desperate
matrimonial rush.
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No Complaints, Please

You can judge what the govern
ment is thinking about the attitude
which Berliners are taking by an
article printed in the Lokal An
zeiger:
For the sake of your lives be
CAREFUL" it says and then begs that
no complaint about their work or
revelation of what they are doing be
made which might reveal some
thing to the enemy.
Talk about how well we are fed"
the writer begs, SAY that the Ger
man people get more bread, butter
and milk than ever before, that
everybody still gets fresh white
bread and even occasionally eggs
and some lovely apples"
Obviously this is directed to a
people utterly discouraged by minds
equally desperate. From another
source, which l cannot identify, is
revealed a message said to come
directly from the High Command it.
self, calling for "strong hearts" to
meet the news of the retreats on
the Russian front, which it freely
admits has become a PSYCHOLOGY
cal burden"
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PHOTO FINISHING
REMEDY

PAIN OF ARTHRITIS
Relieved. Has helped thousands. Not a
drug. 100 ARTH-DEE so. 600 units Vitamin
I'D" Capules $3.50. 500 for $751; Postpaid.
Van Scott Lab. 422-C S. Dearborn, ChEo.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14
Fish in Desert

Water from wells 300 feet deep
have brought fish to the surface of
the Sahara desert. 1t is presumed
they have Travelled through under
ground streams.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-07-14
NO ASPIRIN FASTER

than genuine. pure st. Joseph Aspirin.
Worlds largest seller at 10t. None safer.
none surer. Why pay more? Why ever
accept less? Demand St. Joseph Aspirin.