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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15

the community with a wholesome
place for recreation.
The youths can enjoy dancing to
recorded music, various games and
refreshments which are provided at
the center. 1t is planned to close
the center about IL p. m. each even
ing.
Management of the center has
been turned over to an organization
of youths with Alice Boggs as presi-
dent. There are approximately 135
members on the rolls. The center
was established by an adult COM
mittee headed by Harry Corkwell.
Use of the building was obtained
from a group of 20 local citizens who
purchased it last fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
37th Hancock G. rs
Help Free Manila

0hio's 37th division, which has
covered itself with blood and glory
ever since it left home shores for
combat on little-known Pacific is
lands, is now in Manila. And there
is little doubt in the minds of many
Findlay families that some of the
home town boys are with it.
The 37th division, which fought
some Of the grimmest, iercest battles
in the Pacific theater of war, spear
headed the attack on Manila and
helped end the japanese occupation
of the city which had endured for
three years and month.
For the veteran 37th, the satisfac-
ton of helping to retake Manila re-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
HANCOCK COUNTY
Death Takes Fourth
Victim Of Tragedy

Mrs. Nellie Holden Smith, 48,
formerly of Findlay, died in a Ft.
Wayne hospital recently, the fourth
member of her family to die OF
gunshot wounds inflicted Jan. 8 by
her husband, Zeile ]. Smith. Alma
Jean, daughter, is recovering from
abdominal wounds and has been re-
leased from the hospital.
Another daughter, Audrey, %,
died instantly and Mr.. Smiths
mother, Mrs. Dora Smith, died the
following day. He also killed him
self.
A nervous disorder was given as
the cause of his deed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Prison Term Melted
Lima Inmate, Guard

A former guard at the Lima State
Hospital and an inmate who par
ticipated in a brief reign of terror
following his escape from the in
stitution last summer were sentenced
to Ohio Penitentiary by Judge Ches-
ter Pendleton of Findlay, occupying
the Allen County Common Pleas
Court bench by assignment,
Samuel Bonecutter, IS, Columbus,
the hospital inmate, was sentenced to
one to Is years on an assault charge,
one to 80 years for kidnapping, the
sentences to run concurrently.
He and Louis MARITIME, 26, Youngs-
town, escaped June 90. They in
vaded the home of Mrs. Minnie
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Outline Putnam All
Club Campaign

Projects and activities for 1945
were outlined and discussed at a
dinner meeting of the Putnam coun-
ty All Club Council held recently in
Ottawa.
Following dinner the group met
in the office of L. c. Holtkamp,
county agent, to set up the program
of boys and girls activities during
the approaching club season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Former Lima News
President Dies

Adolph Weixelbaum, So, former
president of the Lima News publish
ing company, died at Lima last
Thursday. He had been i'll 10 years.
Weixelbaum was a native of Ger
many and came to Lima when he
was 13 years old. He retired as
president of the publishing company
in 1929 and was succeeded by L. S.
Calvin, the present president and
publisher.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Sell Harmon Bldg. In
$4,000 Deal At Lima

Purchase of the fve-story Harmon
building at Market and Elizabeth
streets in Lima for $4,000 was an
nounced Saturday by the C. H. Co.,
a real estate company operated by
Lima business men.
The new owners reported the
building was purchased primarily
for postwar purposes, with details
not disclosed as to contemplated use
of the building. 1t is at present be-
ing used by the Westinghouse Co.,
for storage purposes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Lima Fire Chief Quits
After 43 Years Service

Harry Tafinger, fire chief, who
has been on sick leave since his
collapse Jan. at a fire which de-
stroyed the Miner Hotel at Lima,
announced his retirement effective
March 1.
Tafinger, Ga, joined the depart
ment 43 years ago and became chief
in 1889.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Card Received From
Long Missed Filler

Mrs. Catherine Lentz of Findlay
received official word last fall that
her son, Sergt. Kenneth Lentz, 20,
tail gunner on a Flying Fortress,
was missing in action over Europe.
She heard nothing more concerning
his fate until recently when she re-
ceived card from him. It was
written in a German prison camp,
and read:
"Just line to let you know that
l am o. X. and hope you are the
same. Some of these days I'm COM
ing home. Love, Ken"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Open Ottawa Youth
Center

About 200 youths and 125 adults
attended the opening of the Ottawa
Youth Center in the old Masonic
temple in Ottawa last Wednesday
night.
The opening marked the climax of
extensive remodeling and planning
which began last fall. The center is
designed to provide boys and girls of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
O. C.. Kohl Named
Drainage Engineer

o. C. Kohl who will be succeeded
Feb. Is as district highway engineer
by Max Stringfellow of Findlay, will
Joint the staff of Allen County En-
gineer Hobart Humaugh as an as
sistant engineer.
Mumaugh, in making the an
nouncement, said Kohl would be in
charge of drainage.
Kohl has served as district high
way engineer since his appointment
in 1889 by Gov. John Bricker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Ada WOman's Husband
Liberated In Manila

Carl T. Bauman, civilian prisoner
of the japanese army in the Santo
Tomas prison camp, Manila, has been
liberated, according to telegram re-
ceived at Ada by his wife from d.
G.. Folts, of the Standard Vacuum
Oil Co. of New York.
Mr.. Bauman, ST, had been in Ma
Mia as territory auditor for the
company since 1885. He would have
retired in 1943. Mrs. Bauman had
three cards from him since his i'm
prisonment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bauman have three
sons, all in service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
5000 Get Dog Tags

Nearly 5000 dog licenses have
been sold thus far this year, Allen
County Auditor Floyd w. Griffin an
nounced recently. Despite inclement
weather preceding the Jan. 20 dead
line, the auditor said most of the pet
owners came in ahead of the dead
line.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Jury Probes Lusk Case

Headlining the list of cases to be
heard by the Allen County jury is
the investigation into the death of
Mrs. Blanche Lusk, 81, found severe
ly beaten in her south Lima home on
Dec. 27. Harvey Lusky, So, widower
of the dead woman, is being held in
Allen county jail on a $1,000 bond.
He is charged with manslaughter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Select Kenton Gym For
Hardin Tourney

Drawings were made recently by
representatives of Hardin county
schools for the annual Hardin county
basketball tournament, to be staged
at the Kenton high school gymnas-
ium February Is, 16, II and %, 23,
"a.
Charles Secoy, Kenton high school
principal, is tournament manager.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES

charges was arrested last February
with his wife in a downtown Lima
hotel and held in Allen county Jail
three days, filed two suits in the
court, one against Burkhart for s5,-
900 and one for the same amount
against Daley, then county sheriff.
A. M. Rodgers, attorney for Van
Sky, said that no charges were filed
against Mr.. and Mrs. VanSky while
they were in custody in the county
iail.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
ALLEN COUNTY
SNOWFALL Stops Pas
senger Train

A Pennsylvania Railroad passeng-
er train was delayed Is minutes at
Lima-by a SNOWFALL.
Engineer o. E. McCutcheon of Ft.
Wayne, had to stop his train and
receive first aid for face decorations
suffered when he was struck in the
eye by a SNOWFALL thrown by boys
along the tracks.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15

Cramer, near Delphos, bound her to
chair and robbed her. When AL
bert Backus, a neighbor, called at
the home they kidnapped him.
The pair was arrested later in a
hideout south of Lima and Clarence
Coffman, so, the former guard, was
arrested on charge of harboring
them. He was convicted by jury
and sentenced to seven years.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Sue Two Lima Officers,
False Arrest Charged

Suits were filed in the Allen coun-
ty common pleas court naming VIM.
V. Daley, former Allen county sheriff
and Detective Bernard L. Burkhart
of the Lima police department, de-
PENDANTS in $4,000 false imprison-
ment charge.
Wallace Van Sky, whose counsel
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Section Hands Find 5
Tires Under Trestle

T. & o. C. railroad section hands
found five tires beneath the Big Four
trestle at Kenton, and have turned
them over to police who are investi-
eating. They are used tires. 1t is
believed the tires were stolen and for
some reason abandoned beneath the
trestle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Judge Crow Estate
Owes $3.50

Probate Judge G. B. Dewitt ruled
that the estate of the late Appellate
Judge Phil M. Crow, Kenton, owes
$5,760.14 to the estate of Margaret
Fogle of which Judge Crow was
executor.
The case was heard on exceptions
of Mrs. Inez Fogle, widow of Fred
Fogle, one of three heirs of the Mar
garet Fogle estate, to an account
filed by executors of the Crow estate.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Check Housing For
G.. Us At @. N. u.

A survey is being conducted at
Ada to determine what accommoda-
tions are available for returning
veterans who may inter Ohio North
ern university under provisions of
the G. l. bill. A number of veterans
desire to bring wives and children.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15

warded it for its grim experiences in
the taking of Buna, the Russell Is
lands, Munda, Bougainville, and its
liberation landing on the Lingayen
Gulf coast of Luzon Island.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
he C. v. Klingler family of near

the c. v. Klingler family of near
Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Marshall,
son James and daughter Arlene
spent Saturday evening with the
Lendon Basinger family.
Mr.. and Mrs. ROLAND Koontz and
daughter Martha and son John of
BIuffton called Sunday evening ar
the Arthur Nonnamaker home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Stauffer of
Bluffton called at the Emmaline
Nonnamaker home, Sunday evening.
Ruv War Rnnds for Vicfnruf
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
Bilibid Liberated By
KentOn Commander

1t. Col. Herbert w. Radcliffe of
Kenton, commander of the Second
Battalion, 148th Inf. Regt., directed
liberation of Bilibid prison in the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
HARDIN COUNTY
O. N. II. Drive Headed
By LII. J. SOusley

H. J. Sousley has been appointed
to head drive in Ada to raise $10,-
900 for Ohio Northern university.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15

Buy War Bonds for Victory!
Evening star., 1945-08-14

out to industry many opportunities. 1t
looks, however, as though this new deal
ish proposition was designed eventually
to work up an lever normal business
comparable to the lever normal granary
idea" that was the crux of Mr.. Wallace's
agricultural program. Emphasis is being
placed on the aid which it might bring
to small businesses-either old or new.
One thing 1t certainly would bring
another new bureaucratic agency-with
thousands of agents-perhaps compel
ling thousands of reports from busi-
nessmen.
The alternative to this kind of gov
ernment planning for industry and en-
ployment is to take the wraps of busi-
ness and give American enterprise a
chance. to be free, removing some of
the Government restrictions that now
exist, and permitting profits and a
reduction OF taxation. This. the new
dealers insist, will not work. They claim
to be friends of free enterprise. But
they want to hedge it round and provide
set OF doctors to tell it what to do.
1t seems ua0f1fely feasible that some
arrangements an be made, however,
oHlollS UuSlIeSS, LABOR ana Government
to get the best results. Government
can very well play its part and make its
contribution. II it undertakes to die
tate to industry-and it will if given an
opportunity-down to the most minute
detail the goose will be cooked, and well
cooked. There is tremendous amount
to be done to meet reconversion to peace
economy and to provide adequate en-
ployment. The sooner Congress tackles
these problems the better.
No political party with any sense is
likely to oppose the objective of full
employment" The Republicans, If they
are wise, will have proposals of their
own to help bring about full employ
ment-and not conf1ne themselves to
attacks on the Wagner and Wallace
plans.
great deal is tied up politically in
the matter of employment-with the
congressional elections a year off. If
the Democrats fall down on the Job, it
may mean Republican House. Pre-
sumably the Democratic administration
will do all in its power to see the work.
ers are taken care of. However, if it
starts another WPA and relies on that.
the country is not going to be satisfied
for long. Nor is it going to be satisfied
merely with employment insurance.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
1t Will Have to Lost

Millions of Americans are living
in blissful anticipation of the lifting
of gasoline rations within a short
time after VI day. The thought of
the open road again, with a speed
ometer needle climbing for the stra-
tosphere of fifty miles per hour and
more, is almost as far out of this
war-weary world as the speculations
over future atomic energy. But this
is a good time for some sober sec
ond thinking on the subject of speed
and automobiles.
In the first place. eighty per cent
of the automobiles now in use are
eight years old or older. Thirty per
cent are more than ten years old.
In prewar days, a seven-year- old
automobile was uncommon. There
are about 1000 automobiles being
scrapped every day. one in every ten
of them being hopelessly wrecked
from accidents. A police check last
year in the United States and Can
ada indicated that about one in
seven cars now running is deficient
in brakes. Retreaded tires, at high
speed, represent hazard, and there
are not many unretreaded tires of
preWar manufacture now in use.
There is a direct relation between
mileage and accidents. For example,
rural mileage in June increased
about per cent over June of 1914,
and the accident rate increased 3.5
per cent. The mileage will increase
tremendously when gasoline is no
longer rationed, and this, plus me-
chanical deficiencies of old automo-
biles, is certain to bring a sharp
increase in accidents.
About 250,O00 automobile will
be manufactured this year under
quotas granted before VI day.
Quotas may be lifted entirely after
VI day. but full production may
not be underway before the middle
of next year. Before the war, an
nual replacements in automobiles
were running about 3,5OO,00O a year.
The biggest automobile year, 1929,
found almost 100000 cars coming
off the assembly lines. But with an
estimated 100000 or more auto
mobiles needing immediate replace
ment, the average man is going to
wait a long time before he can get
new one. Perhaps only one out of
six people who want new automo-
biles can count on getting one be-
fore a year from now-the probable
tiles being that it will be longer
than that.
All of which means, to anybody
who thinks about it, that unrationed
gasoline should not mean abandon
ment of the none -too-careful driving
habits of the war. Take care of the
car you have now. 1t will be a long
time before new one is available.
Evening star., 1945-08-14

the W. rocket, with this dreadful
new force in its war head, can be
perfected to fly accurately, at a
speed three or four times the speed
OF sound, to transoceanic targets?
And what OF the tanks we have
now? And the great field guns? And
the strategical and tactical use of
infantrymen by the millions?
These are some of the questions
that come Immediately to the fore
as we shift from war to peace and
face the task of deciding what to
do with our weapons. In magnitude
and variety, our military establish
ment is without precedent in his
tory, but so revolutionary are the
potentialities of the harnessed atom
that all this immense power, or
very large part of it, may actually
be already obsolete and completely
useless in terms of the future. The
thought is staggering one.
Evening star., 1945-08-14
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,On

the military because he was prisoner
in their hands
This does not weaken the thesis of
the high-ranking Americans who want
to maintain the dynasty and expect to
be able to change Japan into peace
loving" nation under the direction OF the
Allies Quite the contrary. These COM
petent observers say that the element
which has been corroding Japan is the
military clique supported by the ignorant
men In the armed forces These latter
were made handy tools in the hands of
the military clique, which has used the
prestige of the sovereign with the masses
to achieve their war-mongering purpose.
1t is possible that now when they
realize that the plans which had been
carefully laid for the last 20 years have
collapsed, this military clique may have
attempted to save itself by coup d'etat.
They may have attempted to do away
with the dynasty in order to appear in
the eyes of the public in the Allied
countries as "neo-democratic govern
ment" similar to those established in
the Balkans.
American military men find it difficult
w dtidCi oedAo WHY CIlc 1AWdllCUIlS ARMY,
the best trained and equipped japanese
force, has failed to offer even a token
resistance to the Red Armies, which are
advancing on a wide front from the
Mongolian Republic to Vladivostok. 1t
is conceivable that its commanders have
decided to nurse their remaining
strength in order to be in better po-
sition to disobey the orders from Tokyo,
thus placing the Allies in the position
of having made peace with a central
authority which will be a liability to
them while strong military force will
resist in China and certain parts of
Manchuria. Hitlers IS and Elite Korps
which at one time were compared with
the Kwantung Army, were reported to
have had such plan but were frus-
trated by the quick advance of Gen.
Pattons Bird Army into the Bavarian
Mountains
High officials in Washington believe.
however. that the japanese riddle will
be solved within the next 4S hours at
the latest
Evening star., 1945-08-14

Japan's delay in accepting the general
terms offered by the Allies irked the
average American, who had been pre-
pared since Saturday to celebrate vi
day. But high officials in Washington
who have kept abreast Of developments
in Japan for the last few years believe
that the delay was due to the fact that
Emperor Hirohito was not quite certain
whether the commanders of the forces
on the Asiatic mainland would follow
his orders.
The final note sent to Tokyo Satur-
day demanded the unconditional sur
render OF all land, sea and air forces
in all theaters of operations-from
Sakhalin to the Netherlands Indies.
Unlike the case Of Germany, the Japa-
nese have been defeated while their land
forces are still intact.
Last May the Germans were caught
In a huge pincers from east and west
and had no means of escape. More
over, the two men who could inspire
them to resist to the bitter end-Hitler
and Goebbels-had gone out Of the
picture and the war-weary army COM
manders decided that further bloodshed
was useless.
The situation is different in regard
to the Japanese Armies-on the surface
at least. There are between 4,500,0 900
and 100000 men fully armed in Japan
and on the Asiatic mainland. At least
3,500,000 are located in China, the
Netherlands Indies, Indo-China and
Burma. And while Tokyo, under the
impact of the first two atomic bombs,
is anxious to have the war over at any
price provided the dynasty is safeguard
ed, the court is not sure but that the
generals in the field might still wish
to fight in order to save their own skins.
&
The current belief in the countries
outside Japan is that the diety of the
Emperor should insure blind obedience
from all his subjects, regardless of their
social status. The lip service given him
by the military clique has further in
creased this belief But American OBJ
servers who have been in closer touch
with developments in Japan know that
the contrary is true and that it is the
Emperor who has in the past obeyed
Evening star., 1945-08-14
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

The World War is over. 1t ended with
the unconditional surrender first de-
manded in CaSablanca early in 1943. 1t
has lasted six years for Britain, four for
Russia, and three and a half for the
United. States. And it has lasted IA
years for China-flve years of unofficial
war after the invasion of Manchuria,
and nine years of active war thereafter.
The last land battles were conjoined
where the war really began-in Man.
churia with Russia's last minute en-
trance. 1t was truly a global war; it
rounded the circle completely.
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1t engaged the manpower and econ
omy of the planet. Mankind threw into
this war all that it possessed and drew
upon its descendants as we'll
It's dead are as yet incalulable. Ger
tainly civilians contributed as many and
probably far more casualties than armies
and this is not over.
The last to perish in the war-in the
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-died,
we are told, "a death no one ever died
before" They were not bombed nor
burned to death, but simply disappeared
into nothingness-were exactly ami
hilated, the word derives from the Latin
"nihil," from which comes also "nihil-
ISM" The war ended not one moment
too soon. 1t started as a terror war and
ended as the ultimate terror against
which there is no defense and from
which there is no appeal.
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Thus, underneath the celebration
there is more relief than joy. The last
weapon to be discovered and used awed
and frightened its own users. That was
clear from President Truman's speech.
He felt called upon to justify the use of
the atomic bomb by listing the crimes of
Germany and Japan and even then the
words rang, somehow, hollow.
But If we are no longer at war, we are
not at peace. There was q terrifying
Introduction to this war, and there is an
enormous aftermath. Within the war
there have been revolutions, and moth
ing on this earth Is the way 1t was when
the war began.
Not only the countries Of our enemies
have been disintegrated; the structures
OF all countries have been shaken to the
foundations.
AT the outbreak Of this war there
were the following great powers" on
earth: The British Empire, the United
States, Germany, Japan, italy, France
and the Soviet Union. Britain was the
strongest naval power, Germany the
strongest land and air power, Japan
the leading power of Asia, France was
rated high, the Soviet Union was rated
low. The United States was rated