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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
Wallace Hos
 Slim Chonce
BY JOHN L CUTTER

Washington, Jan. 3l-CUP)-Sen- ate Democratic leader Alben w. Barkley left his sick bed today for an eleventh-hour attempt to salvage for Henry A. Wallace at least di- luted version of the commerce sec- retaryShip.
 Administration forces conceded defeat in the fight to give Wallace the post with full control over gov ernment lending agencies, resting their final hopes on some compro- mise that may lead the opposition to abandon plans to repudiate Wallace under any circumstances.
 Barkley arranged to meet with Chairman JoSiall w. Bailey, D., N. C., of the senate commerce commit tee on a question of procedure that may decide Wallace's fate-whether the senate should act first tomorrow on the George bill to divorce lend- ing agencies from the department, or on the Wallace nomination It. self.
 Wallace's supporters admitted that he faced almost certain defeat un- less the Senate first took up the George bill, which was aimed frank ly at keeping lending powers out of the ex-vice presiden hands.
 But Bailey-Whose committee ap- proved the George bill and disap- proved the nomination-indicat that he would first call up the nom- ination regardless of his meeting with Barkley.
 Sen. Kenneth Mcclellan, D., Tenn, leader in the anti Wallace camp also favored prior action on the nomination and id he expected Bailey to follow that course.
 Tt will be disposed of right away hc said. T haven't the slightest Idea that Wallace will be confirmed"
 Wallace's friends did not dispute McKellars prediction in event the nomination Is first called up. Sen Allen J. Ellender, D., La, said the only solution would be for the pres ident to issue an executive order separating the Reconstruction F- nance Corp. And other loan agencies from the department before the Sen' ate meets tomorrow.
 "Only that way can we hope for Wallaces confirmation" he said.
 Senator Claude Pepper, D., Fla. another Wallace supporter, also hoped for presidential intervention saying that MT. Roosevelt's endorse ment of the George bill would tex pedite matters" But he added that he did not know whether the Pres ident will take hand in the mat ter"
 Some senators speculated on the possibility that the White House might withdraw Wallace's nomina- ton and re-submit 1t after the George bill Is passed and signed in- to law. Senator George L. Radcliffe,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

Lieutenant Governor William Haddon has been retained by Fire and Police Department members to represent their interests relative to the Pension Bill now already sub- mitted to the Legislature by the city pension commission. This latter bill has met with considerable discen- sion from city employees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
NEW PENSION BILL.
 TOBE INTRODUCED
City Employees Retain Serv. ices of ThOms; Hadden
 Acts for Firemen, Cops

Plans for presentation. by city employees, of compromise pension bill to the General Assembly con- tinued today with preparations for final draft of the bill. First reported in yesterdays Democrat, the bill is to be presented to the Legislature by Attorney John ThomS who has been retained by the employe group.
 Denials were made today that the bill iS being introduced solely in the interests of the registrar of voters, as published elsewhere today, as 1t was reliably disclosed to The Demo- crat that numerous employees of various city departments are sup porting the bill and have contribut- ed to the retaining of Attorney T'homs.
 Also stated in The Democrat yes- terday was the report that former
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

Thousands in South Africa have booked air transportation to other countries as soon aS facilities be- come available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Miss Alice Lorenson.

evening at 8 o'clock at the home of Miss Alice Lorenson.
 The mid-week Prayer meeting of the Waterville Union church will be held tomorrow evening at TAR at the church on Dwight street Rev. Milton 8. Nilsson will conduct the service.
 Francis Whalen, son of Mir. and Mrs. Francis Whalen of 1087 Huntingdon avenue has enlisted in the U. s. Navy.
 Mrs. Joseph Pollach of MiddleSex avenue will entertain the Fairmount women's bowling team this evening at her home.
 Charles Chuck" Sterling, U. S.. Navy, now at the Halloran General Hospital at Long Island, spent the weekend in town visiting Mrs. J..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

Lawrence McArdle who is . pas tient at the Undercliff Sanatoriuna is reported as rapidly improving.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31

Healey and Mrs. James Lealy ce Patterson Court.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Funeral For Amos
Lugibihl Friday

Funeral services for Amos Luigi
bihl, rs, retired farmer and livestock
breeder were held Friday afternoon
in The Lehman funeral home at Pan.
dora. Rev. P. j. Boehr officiated at
the services in the absences of his
pastor, Rev. Forrest Musser of the
Grace Mennonite church. Burial was
in Pleasant Ridge cemetery.
Lugibihl died last Wednesday night
at the home of his nephew Haydn
Basinger east of Pandora following a
five years illness of chronic arth-
ritis. He never married.
The son of David and Elizabeth
(Steiner) Lugibihl, he was born on
the same farm where he died. He
was prominent during the early de-
velopment of purebred swine in this
section some twenty-five years ago.
He was a member of Grace Men
MONTE church in Pandora.
Surviving are two sisters Mrs. Le-
vina Basinger, Salt Lake City, Utah,
and Mrs. Barbara Basinger, Pan
dora and a brother Lewis Lugibihl,
Pandora.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Democrats and Republicans Fail
to Fill Tickets For Fall
Ball0ting
States of Candidates Named by
Parties Monday Night
Filed Wednesday

Incomplete tickets for every
Orange township office except that
of trustee were nominated Monday
night at Democratic and Republican
caucuses to name candidates for the
November election.
George McElroy, Democratic NOM
inee for justice of the peace, is un-
opposed, and the Republicans named
only one candidate for constable,
with two officers to be elected.
States of candidates named at
Mondays party caucus meetings are
as follows:
Democrat Republican
Trustee
1.-TWO to Elect)
Henry Hilty Ray Marshall
Clyde Klingler Kenneth Dearth
Justice of Peace
Zone to Elect,
George McElroy
Constable
1.-TWO to Elect)
Orvie Frantz b. H. Winget
Gilbert Montgomery
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Orange Township Caucuses Nominate
Party Tickets For November Election
Memorial Service
For War Veteran,

Memorial services for Pvt. Adrian
Leo Basinger, 81, who was killed in
action on 0kinawa will be held at st.
Johns Reformed church, Sunday
afternoon at 8 o'clock. Rev. V. C.
Oppermann will officiate.
Pvt. Basinger met death May 4,
while serving with a Marine machine
gun unit. He is buried in the First
Marine Division cemetery at Okin-
ava. He was inducted into service
March "a, 1914 and went overseas
last September.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Margaret Burkholder, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Quentin Burkholder of
Bluffton; his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adrian Basinger of Orange township
and two sisters Alice and Mary 10
at home and paternal grandfather
Noah N. Basinger of Tucson, Ari-
zona. The family requests that
flowers be omitted.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Former Painter Here
Succltn,bs At FindIdy

Ezekiel T. Buckmaster, 70, Bluff
ton house painter until he moved to
Findlay in 1918, died Monday morn
ing at his home in Findlay after be-
ing seriously i'll for three months.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Irene Hissong; five children,
Mrs. Fern Williams, Toledo; Mrs.
Wava Colwell, Deshler; Russell
Buckmaster, Findlay; Mrs. Thelma
Swisher, Findlay, and Forrest Buck
master, at home; and sister, Mrs
Florence Robinson, Barberton.
Buckmaster was member of the
Bluffton Church of Christ.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday in Findlay and burial was
at that place
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Former BIuftOn Nan
Heart Attack Victim,

w. w. Kirkland, 81, former Bluff
ton resident, was found dead in bed
at his home in Mansfield, Monday
morning. Death was due to heart
ailment.
The family lived in Bluffton
twenty-five years ago when he was
employed at the Page dairy plant.
They moved from Bluffton to Mans
field in 1921.
He was a native of Benton Ridge
and brother of Victor Kirkland re-
siding near Bluffton.
Also surviving are his wife, the
former Zoe Young of Benton Ridge
together with three daughters Mrs.
Romayne Grey and Miriam and Coral
Kirkland all at home.
Funeral services were held in
Mansfield Wednesday morning fol-
lowed by short services in the after
noon at Benton Ridge Methodist
church with Rev. Whiteman of Mans
field officiating. Interment was in
Benton Ridge cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Disciple Church
Conference Here

The Ohio Christian Missionary So
ciety, an adjunct of the Disciples of
Christ denomination is holding an
adult conference on the Bluffton col
lege campus this week.
About so representatives from
churches of the denomination in
western Ohio are in attendance at
sessions which will close Saturday
noon.
In charge of arrangements for the
conference is Herald Monroe of
Cleveland, director of the church's
program of christian education.
This is the third denomination to
hold conference on the college CAM
pus this year, others being the Unit
ed Brethren and Presbyterian
churches.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
War On Bluffton's Mosquito Front
Waged Increasingly By Mayor Howe
Last Rites Sunday
For LuVerne Thut

LaVerne d. Thut, 80, of 20S S.
Main street, died early Friday morn
ing in the Bluffton Community hos
pital, following a serious illness of
one weeks duration.
Thut was born in Bluffton on Nov.
20, 1906, and for II years was affil-
lated with the Economy Clothing
store here. At the time of his death
he was field representative for the
International Correspondence Schools
of Scranton, Pa. He was a gradu-
ate Of Bluffton High school.
Survivors include his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Amos Thut, of South Main
street; two sisters, Mrs. Halle Alt
haus, Bluffton, and Sylvia Thut, Port
Clinton, and one brother Raymond
Thut, Springfield.
Thut's death last week followed
within a smonth that of an older
brother, Minor Thut, who died sud-
denly at his farm home near Bluff
ton.
Funeral services we're held Sun.
day afternoon at the First Mennonite
church, of which he was a. member
Rev. Paul Whitmer officiated. Burial
was in the Ebenezer. cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Lions Club Organized
By BedUerddnl Group

Organization of a Lions club in
Beaverdam under sponsorship of the
Bluffton club affiliated with Lions In
ternational was completed last Mon
day night at meeting in the Beav-
erdam High school building.
Officers of the new club will in
clude: Leo Nelson, president; Paul
Stoodt, first vice-president; Don
Forche, second vice-president; Will
liam Lutterbein, secretary; Gale Ar.
mold, treasurer; Alva Lutterbein
Lion tanner; John Manahan, tail
twister; and Clayton Rupright, di-
rector.
Charter membership roll of the
new club will be closed on August 20
George Bormuth, Chicago, Inter
national representative, assisted in
organization of the club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
BlufftOn Airman In Rome To Call Home
BY Radio-Telephone Friday Morning

What is believed to be Buttons
hrst transatlantic radio-telephone
conversation is scheduled to take
place Friday morning between and
D o'clock when 1t. Elias r. Augs-
burger, Bluffton airman stationed in
Italy will talk from Rome to his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Augsburger
of South Jackson street.
Arrangements are being made by
the Army which recently established
facilities for overseas soldiers in the
European theatre of operations to
call home and werd was received
here by Mr.. and Mrs. Augsburger
from New York, Tuesday to be at
home ready to take the call Friday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
RE-SURFACING OF
FOUR STREETS To
START THIS MONTH
Mile And One-Quarter of Street
Improvements Earmarked
For Summer Program
Parts of College Avenue, Har-
mon Road, Spring and Elm
Streets To Be Treated

Resurfacing of more than one and
one-fourth miles of four Bluffton
streets will be started late this
month, with improvements to parts
of College avenue, Harmon road,
Spring and Elm streets earmarked
for completion in the program.
Blacktop tar and stone chip hard
surfacing will be applied to 1854
feet of the four streets at an aggre-
gate cost of about 1926, it was an
nounced this week at meeting of
the municipal council.
The Churchill Construction Co., of
Lima, which last summer resurfaced
Main street and a portion of Cherry
street, has the contract for the inn
provement, and work will be started
this month. Application of the new
surface will cost the town IL cents
a running foot.
Resurfacing of Elm street from
Main street to the College road, a
ulStduCG Ol O,4oG 1cct, VIII NC Ihc
largest project on the summer street
program.
Next in Importance will be the i'm
provement of 1,848foot stretch of
Harmon road from Kibler street to
the Bentley road, and application of
a new surface to 1,056 feet of Spring
street from Elm to Riley street.
College road will be resurfaced
from the Nickel Plate railroad east
for a distance of 528 feet.
Improvements to two additional
streets are being considered should
funds be available, including resur-
facing of 1000 feet of College aven-
nue. from Jackson street to the Col
lege road, and the new section of
Kibler street to Grove street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
POTATO DEMAND DAT
STANDSTILL NOW
FOLLOWING famine
With Victory Gardens Produc-
ing Well Demand Is Light
In Food Markets
Growers of Early Potatoes Ex-
perience Difficulty In
Selling Crop

Potatoes which barely a month ago
were virtually unobtainable have
done a complete about-face so far
as the supply situation is concerned
and today are practically at a
standstill marketwise.
Demand for the tubers has drop
ped to negligible proportions, and
operators of food stores report the
supplies they have on hand will last
for a long time at the present rate
of purchasing.
Growers who have been digging
early potatoes have been disappoint-
ed by the lack of demand, and
several who took truck loads to
large city markets have been forced
to return home with part and some
times all of the consignment unsold.
Will Not Stock Up
Principal reason advanced for the
lack of demand on the part of whole
salers is the fact that with an ex-
cellent yield of early potatoes in
prospect, dealers anticipating a pos
sible lowering of price ceilings will
not lay in any considerable stock at
this time.
Marketwise there is little demand,
for victory gardeners are harvesting
and using their own potatoes rather
than buying from grocers.
Early potatoes are not stored for
winter use, therefore the present
! glut on the market cannot be solved
by consumers purchasing now the
potatoes they expect to use during
the coming winter season.
Small Volume
Actually the volume of potatoes
| in commercial food channels is
small, but so far it has proved more
than sufficient for the curtailed
demand resulting from the fact that
most consumers have sufficient sup
ply on hand and wholesalers and
retailers do not want to be caught
with large stocks on hand should
the price drop.
Inability to promptly move po-
tatoes % market adds 10 4 pyramid
ling farm storage problem, already
aggravated thruout the district be-
cause farmers have been unable to
sell to elevators their bumper yields
of wheat and oats.
Big Crop
Altho some of the larger CONNER
cial growers in this area may
produce fewer potatoes this year
because of reduction in acreage and
some drowning in spring rains, what
they may fail to produce will be
more than offset by a big increase
in victory garden plots of the tubers.
In addition, the victory garden
yield was helped along by the fact
that the past season has been un-
usually favorable for potato produc-
ton, and the veriest amateurs had
excellent success with their potatoes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Name BluftOn Man
On Jury Commission

Aldine Kohl of Bluffton is one of
two members of the Allen county
jury commission, named Thursday by
Judge Moran B. Jenkins of the COM
mon pleas court. The other member
is O. J. Mannon of Lima.
They succeed R. r. Schryer and
Brent Harsh. The new commissions
ers will be in charge of placing sew
eral hundred new names in the coun-
ty jury wheel this week.
Names of grand and petit jurors
to serve during the September term
of the common pleas court will be
drawn next Monday in the courtroom
by Kohl and Mannon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Reunions

The 23rd annual reunion of the
Rote and Zearbaugh families will be
held at the Orange Center school.
Sunday, August 10. Pres, Levi
Gable; Sec, Mrs. Levi Gable.
The Black school of Orange town.
ship will hold its Seth annual re-
union on Thursday, August 9. Pres,
Mildred Klingler; Sec, Fern Koch.
The Huber family reunion will be
held Sunday, August 10 at the
Paulding Center school south of
Bluffton on Bentley road. Pres,
Russell Huber; Sec., Mae Huber.
The 10th annual Augsburger re-
union will be held at Lafayette park,
Sunday, August 10. Pres, Jess Augs-
burger; Sec, r. E. Griffith.
The Peter Burkholder family
reunion will be held Sunday, Aug. l2
at Ruihley park, Archbold. Noah
Burkholder, Pres; Iva Roth, Sec.
Members of the Bluffton high
school class of 1887 and their fami-
lies will hold potluck picnic sup
per at Buckeye lake Saturday night
at 6 o'clock. Those attending please
bring their own table service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Sister Of BiuftOn
Man Dies In Findlay

Mrs. Margaret Stanfield, 63, sister
of Charles Lloyd of Bluffton, died at
Findlay hospital Tuesday morning.
Death, due to a heart ailment, fol-
lowed an illness since last October.
She was the widow of John Stanfeld
who died twenty-five years ago.
Services will be held Thursday
afternoon at the Barnhart funeral
home, Findlay, with Rev. Paul Te-
well, pastor of the College church
officiating. Interment will be in the
Findlay Maple Grove cemetery.
Besides her brother of this place
she is survived by four children, two
other brothers and one sister.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Portable Tree Spraying Outfit
Serves AS Heavy Artillery
In The Attack
Mayor Wades Thru Sewage.
Laden Creeks To Combat
Mosquito Menace Here

War on Bluffton's mosquito front
is being continued in an all-out
frontal attack this summer, with a
portable tree spraying outfit serving
as the heavy artillery and discarded
automobile crank case oil the am
munition.
Mayor w. A. Howe is the one-man
army pressing home the war on mo-
squitoes, and his task for 30 hours
every week takes him sloshing thru
Shiny water over treacherous un-
derfooting of slippery rocks, while
burdened with a 25-pound spray
tank.
Continual war on the winged pests
is necessary to prevent a repetition
of conditions not so many years back
when it was practically impossible to
be out-of-doors at night without be-
ing attacked by swarms of mosqui-
toes, Mayor Howe said this week.
CONTINUOUS BATTLE
AS long as any water is present,
mosquito larvae will thrive, and only
continuous program of spraying
will help combat the menace.
Once each week the mayor slogs
thru the unsavory waters of Big and
Little Riley creek IN applying spra,
to larvae-laden pools. Big Riley is
treated from the College Avenue
bridge to the corporation limits be-
low Spring street, and Little Riley
from the Motter farm to its juncture
with the Big Riley.
The worst area in this two-mile
mosquito war font is a stretch of the
Little Riley from Krehbiel bridge on
the College campus to the Big Riley,
Mayor Howe said. Altho there is no
industrial waste in the Little Riley,
the volume of water which passes
thru it in the summer is small, there
by aggravating its condition.
Liberal quantities of used crank
case oil are sprayed on both sides of
the two creeks once each week by
Mayor Howe, who had to take over
the mosquito treatment program two
summers ago when the scarcity of
labor grew so acute that there were
no applications for the job.
Sewage particles that virtually
clog both streams are ideal for mo-
squito breeding. The larvae cling to
the sewage and to make certain they
all are killed it is necessary to get
in the water and kick the deposits
over, so both sides can be coated
with spray.
It's a dirty job, but those who re-
member when Bluffton every summer
was infested with swarms of mosqui-
toes can bear witness that the pro-
gram is a worthwhile one for the
town.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
1t. Chapin, Mt. Cory,
We'd In independence

1t. Warren E. Chaplin, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Z. Chaplin, of Mt.
Cory, was wed last Friday at Inde-
pendence, Ohio, to Miss Arlyne E.
Muhlhan, of that place.
Rev. Paul Moore, of Garretsville,
campus friend of the couple while
they were attending Bowling Green
State university, was the officiating
minister.
Both the bride and groom We're
graduated from Bowling Green. 1t
Chaplin entered military service in
1941 and served in the European
theatre for II months, winning the
Bronze star for meritrious service
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
BIG OATS YIELD
ADDS TO PILE OF
GRAIN ON FARMS
Bumper Yield OF Oats Comes
At Time When Wheat Takes
All Storage Space
Railroad Transportation Bottle.
neck Grows Worse And
Farmers Can't Sell Crop

Aggravating the already overtaxed
storage facilities on Button area
farms, bumper crop of oats now
being harvested and threshed cannot
be moved to market because of a
railroad transportation bottleneck
which finds dealers unable to buy
grain from farmers who have no
place to store it.
This years oats crop is paralleling
the bumper wheat crop. With thresh-
ing well under way the yield is from
so to 80 bushels per acre in com
parison with the longtime average
of about so bushels.
However, oats cannot be moved to
market, for a transportation bottle
neck precipitated BY a shortage of
freight cars to haul the grain is now
in its third week and is providing
major headache for both farmers
and dealers.
Elevators in town are filled to
overfiowing and unable to accept
grain regularly from farmers who
have virtually exhausted storage
possibilities at home,
There are reports Of some farm
ers who have grain In silos, chicken
houses and dumped on barn floors.
Now, the problem i to find addition
al storage space for the bumper
harvest of oats for which no market
outlet can be found at this time.
The freight car supply is totally
inadequate, and the flood of oats
coming at a time when bottle
neck in handling wheat is really at
its worst has left dealers and farm
ers alike with their worst transpor-
tation problem since World War
days.
1t appears now that the wheat
bottleneck alone cannot be cleared
until the latter part Of September
and what then to do with the oats
crop will remain problem, fol
normally soy beans begin coming OF
markets about that time.
Many repercuss - the farm
situation are expecfed as resul
of the transportation tieup, and th,
farmers income may suffer accord
ingly.
Forced storage in temporary ano
unsuitable conditions will result il
much spoilage, and prospects of q
good income frightened by the record
crops are little uncertain in view
of the transportation situation.
The present oats crop is the
heaviest in recent years and many
fields in the area are down because
the full heads of grain have proved
too heavy for the straw. The quality
will be equal to the quantity, with
tests showing as high as 44, in
comparison with the usual average
of around 80.