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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-23
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

the blast and almost suffocated
by smoke. but was uninjured.
Il won't abandon this ship"
he told his commanding officers.
Each succeeding explosion APP
peared TO make loss of the ship
inevitable. The captain, alone,
could make the decision and his
faith held fast.
Capt. Harold c. Fitz, COM
handing the Santa Fe, a light
cruiser, was ordered to assume
command of the rescue opera
tons an hour after the bombing.
Four destroycrs were detailed to
assist.
The Santa Fee took some lines
and came alongside once, its fire
hoses playing on the flaming
carrier deck, the ncast off when
there was doubt whether the
carriers magazines had been
flooded. The carrier rocked with
a mighty explosion at the stern
about 10 o'clock, three hours
after the bombing. Circling
quickly, the cruiser charged in
across the bow, turned star
board, and stopped, almost rub
bing the carriers decks. The
wholesale evacuation began, as
the ships pounded together In
the swells.
A broken g. or 4-inch gasoline
line in the after part of the
hangar deck spilled flaming 100
octane fuel for several hours,
turning that part into cauldron
of fire. Burning gasoline spilled
over the side of the carrier and
blazed on the sea below. Fire
hoses from the cruiser would not
reach this area.
Il was watching and saw
three men 60 into that fire and
smoke and shut that line Off"
l.. f. Blair, chief carpenter on
the cruiser, Williamsburg, Kas.,
related. 1T was about three
hours after the ship was hit. 1t
wasn't until then that they were
able to begin to bring the fire
under control. I don't know who
they were, but if those boys are
alive, they sure deserve a med
al"
Blair said that 40-millimeter
shells were going off like fire
crackers and finally, 5-inch
shells on one of the after gun
mounts began exploding, cutting
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

two of the cruisers five fire
hoses. Flames blazed around the
mounts, even coming out gun
muzzles. A final explosion at the
stern of the carrier rocked 1t
agai about IL o'clock.
BY this time the Franklin was
listing SO steeply to starboard
towrad the cruiser that it was
difficult to keep ones footing on
the decks. Once the wounded
were across, men began scramb-
ling TO get aboard the cruiser.
About 1890 p. m. the cruiser
cast off, ending a ticklish time
when both were vulnerable to
Japanese air attacks. The still
smoking Franklin took a line
from another cruiser and was
placed in tow, limping along
south.
The impossible was happen
ing. The unsuitable Franklin
was heading toward safety al
most from the shores of Japan.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

on the flames while shrapnel
burst around them. Capt. L. E.
Genres, standing on the bridge at
the time, was knocked down by
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18
Poppy Poster
Contest Prize
Winners Announced

Prizes in the Poppy Poster
contest sponsored by the Amer
lean Legion auxiliary in the
Mount Clemens High School
have been awarded by Mrs.
Russell Branyon, president Of
the auxiliary.
Mrs. Edgar Racine, of the
High school faculty, who
judged the posters awarded first
prize to Roger Kleino of liza in
the Group three contest and
Beverly North of ga won first
prize in the group Two contest.
The former was given prize Of
S. and the latter received a So
prize.
Mary Ellen Gerkey of ia
won second prize Of So in Group
III and Bette Miller of liza won
third prize Of 81.
Lorraine Kepsel Of ga placed
second in the Group III contest
and received a prize of So and
Martha Grass won the third
prize Of 81.
The following won honorable
mention: j a mes Duncanson,
Virginia Foltuz, Arthur Seifert,
Melva Schneider, Anita Scheu-
nemann and Jack Ellis.
The posters will be on display
in the window of Malbin's fur
niture Store.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

mains will rest until the time
of services.
Besides his parents and sis
ter, the child is survived by his
grandmothers Mrs. Bessie Link
and Mrs. Stella Mccartney, both
of Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

Further study of the matter,
including the possibility of a
delegation from Mount Clemens
approaching Lansing officials,
was TO be made this weekend
by Copeland, Mayor Albert A.
Wagner and Theodore DeGroot,
Board of Commerce president.
Wagner pledged the city's full
support TO any Gratiot or bust
ness district Improvement plan.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18
GratiOt
Continued from Page I

to a planned protest TO the State
Highway Department against
the continuation of MOI and
Harper avenues around Mount
Clemens, until Mount Clemens
botlenecks on Gratiot are first
eliminated.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18
Ex-Bund Leader
Asks Restoration
of Citizenship

DETROIT May Is - R -
Paul Giles, first leader Of the
Detroit chapter Of the German
American Bund, has filed Fed
eral Court petition seeking res
toration of his American citi-
zenship.
Now informed at Bismarck, N.
D., as an enemy alien, Giles
claimed he withdrew from the
Bund in 1884 because racket
GERS" had taken control and
never attended bund meetings
after that.
His citizenship was cancelled
by Federal Judge Edward j. Moi
net here in March, 1914. on the
grounds he had taken the oath
of allegiance with mental res
ervations" and had been a men,
Der of a subversive organization.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

One hundred miles of sensible
driving won't use as much rub
Der from your automobile tires
as one quick getaway.
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Eyewitness
Continued from Page I

while other ships all but skeleton The Santa FL
aboard $40 including 80 wounded destroyer the
removed picked 417 tn Marshall saved PIP, and
ships Frankn pilots
were n landed safely other shps)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

The rabbit bandicoot, a long
cared burrowing animal, is a
marsupial of Australia.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

NEW YORK, May 18- (P)
- GrievOusly wounded the
Aircraft Carrier Franklin was
berthed in the New York
Navy Yard today after a gall
liant 13, 400-mile voyage from
Pacific waters. Struck by two
Japanese bombs last March
19, the ship sustained more
battle damage than any ves-
sci ever to enter New York
Harbor under her own power,
the Navy said. The burned and
battered carrier reached port
April &c. Her foremost was a
Jagged stump, her mainmast
bent at a sharp angle and her
flight deck completely de-
stroyed. Her steel decks were
buckled and torn.
on the flames while Shrapnel
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18
NARROW ESCAPE

/, MARROW ESCAPE
Shortly after noon the tow of
the Franklin began. just then a
Japanese plane, the first to slip
through the protective cover of
patrol planes helping the strick-
en- Franklin. dived toward the
carrier and released its bomb.
The bomb missed, sending up a
great geyser off the carrier
stern.
Ships in the convoy sent up a
hail Of fire. Survivors on the
Santa Fe, their nerves shaken,
dashed below, still wearing
their life jackets and steel he'll
NETS. A second Jap plane ap-
peared two hours later, but did
not attempt a bomb run. Both
were reported shot down by pa
troll planes.
(The Jap plane that bombed
the Franklin was shot down a
few moments later by the
Franklin's own air group COM
mander, Commander E. B.
Parker, who was in the air ID
minutes before the bombing and
was circling waiting for his
command to come up. His kill
was confirmed as the Jap plane
plummeted straight down into
the sea from $500 feet.)
The crew of the Franklin
labored prodigiously to control
the fires and clean up the ship.
The carrier crawled away un-
der tow at three knots while
carriers and destroyers swept
round in a circle. The Frank
Inns engines were started and
speed was stepped up to four
knots, five knots and then six
knots. Each turn of the screws
seemed that much closer to safe
ty.
AMAZING EPIC
The rescue Of the crippled
ship and the saving of a major
ity of the crews lives provided
one of the most amazing epics in
American naval history. The
ship that wouldn't be sunk
couldn't be sunk.
The fight to save the mighty
carrier had begun Immediately,
although commanding officers
on other ships believed it i'm
possible. Damage and fire con-
troll parties labored indominate-
ly amidship playing fire hoses
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-18

Twenty-six different types OF
protective battle, and dress head
gear are worn by the u. S.
Marines.
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Baby
Continued from Page I

with Rev. Joseph L. Kennedy
officiating. They will be held at
the Cooley chapel where the re-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
INSTITUTE WARNS
FAR MS May lie
IDLE IN DISTRICT
Community Institute ResolI-
tions Ask More Labor for
Area Farms
Community and Farm Problems
Are Discussed at Two-Day
Meeting Here

Rejecting the critical shortage of
manpower and farm machinery, a
resolution adopted at the closing ses-
sion of the annual two-day Bluffton
Community Institute, Friday warned
that many acres of rich farmland in
this section may lie idle during the
coming summer.
In the action taken by the fnsti-
tute, it was urged that the matter
should have immediate and serious
attention of those who have the au-
thority to correct the situation.
Alarm over the farm food produc-
tion situation arises from recent Sc
lective Service announcements that
more farm youths will be drafted in
to the armed forces, plus the fact
that the supply of farm machinery is
in a critical stage, institute spokes-
men pointed uot.
Health Program
The institute also went on record
with a resolution urging a preven-
tive health service program for COM
munity families, not merely remedial
health service after illness has struck
In another resolution, the Institute
voiced its opposition to proposed
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
WINTER ASSAULT
CONTINUES WITH
new COLD WAVE
Old Fashioned Winter Goes Into
Eighth Consecutive Week
in New Assault
Battle To Open Snow-Drifted
Rural Roads is on Again as
Wind Piles New Drifts

Old-fashioned winter went into its
eighth week of uninterrupted assault
on the Bluffton district Tuesday with
a new sub-zero cold wave following
on the heels of a near-blizzard that
piled fresh drifts on the few country
roads that had been opened.
From mid-moring Tuesday, the
mercury dropped steadily to reach a
low mark of two degrees above zero
Wednesday, and weather forecasts
predict the cold wave will continue
several days before its icy grip is
broken.
Biting winds that made the cold
more intense reached blizzard pro-
portions Tuesday morning and drove
loose snow which had fallen on Sun
day and Monday into new drifts that
closed north and south roads and
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
Home On FurlOughs

Cpl. James Benroth who has been
stationed at Love Field, Dallas, Tex
as, is spending weeks furlough
visiting his. parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Benroth of North Main
street. At the conclusion of his
furlough he will be assigned to duty
at Wright field, Dayton.
Pvt. Robert Criblez spent weeks S
furlough with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Criblez. He completed
basic infantry training at Camp Fan
min, Texas, and will now receive spe-
cialized training at Fort Ord, Calf.
Byron Fritchie of the Navy spent
the week end on leave here visiting
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Fritchie.
Cpl. Floyd Herr of Camp Polk
La, is spending a furlough at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Nelson Herr Of North Lawn avenue
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
80 ALLEN COUNTY
MEN RECEIVE PRE-
CALL
Bluifton Registfants Among
Those Called for Physical
Examination
No Bluffton Men in Group of II
to be Inducted Into Army in
February

Eighty Allen county men have
been notified by Draft Board No. 8
to report for pre-induction physical
examination on the February call, it
was announced from board head
quarters, Wednesday morning. A
number of Bluffton men are included
in this number, it was indicated.
This number is one Of the largest
called for pre-induction physical ex-
animation in recent months.
At the same time the board an
nounced names of IT men who will
be inducted into the armed services
on the February call. None of
these is from Bluffton.
To be inducted in February are:
Lima-James w. Turner, Clifford
Stewart, Lewis Bassett, Mark Jacobs,
Ronald Miller, Oliver Wildermuth.
Springfeld-Ralph Clouser.
Mt. Gilead-Paul Eley.
Spencerville-Karl Stockton, Lloyd
Adams.
Delphos-Firmin Pothast, Chester
Diller, Richard Busch, Leonard Allen.
Harrod-Junior Glover.
Lafayette-William Crist.
Waynesfeld-R Rodger Stimmel.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
Midwest Lumbermen Preparing For
Postwar Business, Survey Shows
Forrest Steinman, Bluffton
Dealer, to Address State
Convention
To Give Results of Survey at
Columbus Meeting Thurs
day Morning

Forrest Steinman, manager of
Steinman Brothers Lumber Co. here,
will be one of the principal speakers
on the four-day program of the Gath
annual Ohio Lumbermen's convention
in Columbus this week.
Steinman, a past-president of the
Ohio Association of Retail Lumber
Dealers which sponsors the conven-
tion, will speak at Thursday mornings
session on "The Retailers Postwar
Plans"
His address is based on a sampling
test survey which he conducted
among lumber dealers in territory
from Flint, Mich, south to Louisville,
KY; east to Johnstown, Pa, and west
to Indianapolis, Ind.
From facts ascertained in the sur
vey, Steniman says lumber dealers
are actively preparing for the post
war market In the future their op-
erations will put more emphasis on
service, and thru them home owners
may obtain a complete building SER
vice rathen than simply going to them
to buy lumber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steinman left for
Columbus, Tuesday morning to par
ticipate in sessions of the conventions
opening on that day and continuing
thru Friday.
Chief public interest in the con-
vention will center on an address by
Upton Close, radio commentator and
a critic of the Administration, which
is to be feature of the closing day.
Another item of general interest
scheduled for the convention will be
report on the house prefabrication
industry, which has been doomed as
postwar possibility.
More than $500 persons are expect
ed to attend the four-day session.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
Returns After 80
Bombing Missions

First Lieut.. Harold L. Peterson,
%, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Peter
son, South Main street, Bluffton,
has arrived at Army Air Forces Re
distribution Station No. 2 in Miami
Beach for reassignment processing
after completing a tour of duty out
side the continental United States.
Veteran of 33 bombing missions
over Europe, Lieutenant Peterson, a
B-24 Liberator navigator, returned
to America on Dec. 80, 1914, decor
ated with the Distinguished Flying
Cross and the Air Medal with FIVE
Oak Leaf Clusters. He also flew as
a bombardier on two missions during
six months in the European Theater
of Operations.
He is the husband of d. Louise
Peterson, of Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
Oldest Resident
Has 92nd Birthday

Mrs. Joseph Mumma, of North
jackson street, believed to be Bluff
toms oldest resident, is receiving con-
gratulations on the occasion of her
92nd birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Mumma, the former Euphe-
mia Hamilton, was born in Orange
township the daughter of Jonathan
and Elizabeth Hamilton on what is
now the Elmer Anderson farm.
She has been lifelong resident of
this vicinity and has lived in Bluff
ton for SO years. For so years she
has occupied her present home on
North Jackson street. Her husband,
the late Joseph Mumma, was chief
of Bluffton's fire department for
many years.
A family dinner was held at her
home in honor of her birthday an
niversary which was Tuesday of last
week. Her four sons are Jay and
Harry of Toledo and Forrest and
Gail Mumma of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
Jeremiah Bdsinger
Funeral SATURDAY.

Funeral services for jeremiah Ba-
singer, 68, of Cherry street, were
held in the First Mennonite church,
Saturday afternoon with Rev. j.
N. Smucker officiating. Burial was
in the st. John cemetery near Pan
dora.
Mr.. Basinger, retired farmer and
insurance salesman died in the Bluff
ton hospital, last Wednesday night
following a six months illness.
He was for many years prominent
in farm organizations serving for
% years as president, secretary and
director of the Mennonite Mutual
Aid society and also had been an
officer of the Pandora Mutual Tele-
phone company and the Putnam
County Farm Bureau. He was a
member of the First Mennonite
church here.
The son of Peter and Lydia
(Beeshy) Basinger he was born in
Putnam county December 13, 1876
and was married to Anna Diller who
died five years ago.
Children surviving are: LAMAR
Basinger, Lafayette Luther of To-
ledo; Pearl, Myrtle, Gaynell and
Dorothy Basinger and Mrs. Princess
Richard all at home; Robert Basing-
er of Pandora; Mrs. Augusta Decker
of Carey; Mrs. Eta Ross of Clyde
and Mrs. Gladys Bum of Bedford.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01

Recent war casualties have been
heavy for Mr.. and Mrs. John Bader-
fischer of South Lawn avenue who
have received word that grandson
is missing in action, nephew killed
and the wounding of a grandson
and grand nephew. Three of the
casualty messages have been received
within the past week.
The grandson missing in action is
End 1t. Homer Gratz, Jr., in the
Pacific area. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Gratz of near Bluff
ton. His mother is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Badertscher.
The nephew killed in action is
Russell Badertscher, son of the late
Noah Badertscher of Lorain who lost
his life in France, January 13. He
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
Farmers Protest Towns Return
To Fast Time Here During Summer
Community Institute Resolution
Ayers Change Works Hard
ships on Farmers
Permanent Schedule Adopted
By Council Provides for Re-
turn to Fast Time in May

Reiteration of the opposition of
farmers to fast time during the
spring and summer months was evil
denced in resolutions adopted at
Buttons annual two-day Commun-
ity Institute, Friday.
Consistently opposed to fast time
since its adoption was recommended
by President Roosevelt in the first
year of the war, rural residents re-
affirmed their stand in the drafting
of the resolution, with the explana-
tory statement that setting clocks
ahead one hour works hardship on
the farmers.
However, despite the opposition OF
farmers, there is little prospect thai
Bluffton will change it's intention OF
returning to fast time on the last
Sunday in April.
Arguments pro and con were
threshed out in detail by the muni-
cipal council last spring, and result
ed in the adoption of permanent
schedule under which the town will
operate on slow time from the first
Sunday in September to the last
Sunday in April. During the rest
of the year the town will be on fast
time.
Farmers charge that fast time
cuts food production essential to a
successful prosecution Of the war, be-
cause they can not operate as eff
GENTLY as on slow time.
Following the, outbreak of war
Bluffton changed to fast time in
February, 1912, and operated on
that schedule until October, 1943,
when the town clocks ran on slow
time for the winter months. In
April, 1914, the permanent schedule
was set up, providing slow time for
the winter months, and fast time
for the summer.