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The Valley settler., 1945-05-25
tXTt NS|ON NEWS SEARS RCGBUCK & co.
 TERRITORIAL GARDEN CONTEST

contestants. The contestants are as follows:
 Nick .lullens Duane Smith Dick Caulkins Kent Sandvik Noel Woods Jimmy harsh Henry Gather Archie Ser an Helen Havemeister Dolores Lentz James l-ito ~.-- Karen Bryant Janet 5herrod Shirley P1umley athI aG Patton Violet Werner -uth l1tz Normc Nelson Iary Ann Linn Donald DinRel
 Parti ipcnts may order $500 worth Of oQui pnent from Sears and agree to plant and care for the gar. den. All .cGrdens will be judged throughout the sumner and cash pri- zes ard cd for best gardens.
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 The first moctin. Of Mir. Harry immor's group Yas hold Hay 24 at 500 p.m. in tho imaor homo. This Sroup also sol7ctod officers for their club and planned their All program for the sumner.
 The victory Canuors" Club met, with Hrs. Harry, ||imaor, loader, at hor homo l5onday lay 2l. Officers elected we're: Frcsi5ont-Barbara Hoc cker, co-pros -Joanno Dragscth, Socrctary-Loola DcLand, Reporter Shirley flumley, Song Loado1- Hazel Iornor.
 Mrs. Larry ynadgrass aot vi til hol baking club Wcdnosd Iy, May 23 at hor homo. Officers olcctad for this, group Wcro: Frcsid doht-Dolorcs BouW- ems, Vice-pres. -liarsaret Ann need, secretary LePak, Reporter Bonnie Larsh, Song eaier-Norma Lay- CT.
 Lavon Nelson Was elected presi~, dent of the Mt. View Club led by
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pToDaoIy Dy TIE e0ui4saS aIi4 ~ Tine
itself, they had come back to the
lake, these Chinese. and with bam-
boo poles had raised the thirty tons
of metal.
During my stay in China I have
watched the Chinese being bombed,
and have seen them 60 oat and pick
their dead from among the ruins of
their cities. Then wait bravely for
the Jap to come again, while they
went on scratching out a road with
their bare hands, stoically working
and watching for material to come
over that road with which to fight
the enemy. Waiting patiently, as
though they knew that some day
they would have a chance to fight
the japanese who have tried to ex-
terminate them.
I've seen Chinese woman run
into bomb crater, pull the dismem-
bered pieces of her child together,
and wipe the dirt from the face of
her dead husband, look of misery
on her face. Then, when she saw
me staring, she stood there and
smiled. When I glanced at General
Chennauit with a question on my
face, he said, Don't interpret that
wrong now, Scotty. She's showing
you she can still smile, no matter
what happens"
Even with the small fighter and
bomber force that we now had in
China, the people had taken a new
lease on life. Every time we had an
air battle over HeRgyang they would
capture another town along the
Yangtse or near the lakes around
Nanchang. I think we realized then,
as General Chennault had realized
for long time, that all these people
needed was a chance, with air sup
port for their ground armies and
modern equipment for their soldiers.
Our small force had put new life
into them. They had plaques en-
broidered in commemoration of the
battles that we fought. These would
sometimes represent the American
eagle holding the flags of America,
Britain, Russia, and China. In Chi
nese characters would be a poetic
account of the battle that the pilot
or the squadron had fought. AS we
drove along the roads in our jeeps
to the field for the alert of the "Jin-
bao," the little children would hold
their thumbs up and call again and
again, "Ding-hao."
More and more we asked our
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received reply this week on Tues
daytime days later. Their daugh-
ter, Barbara, enroute from Lisbon,
Portugal to Beirut, Syria, where she
will teach in mission school, stop
ped at Casablanca recently and spent
several days with her brother.
When you read about those hard
driving Yanks with Patton's army
that has been going places in Ger
many, you win be interested to
know that Laverne Huber, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Huber, is one of
the men driving the tanks that have
been hanging up military speed rec
ords.
And from the other side of the
world comes word from Pfc. Melvin
Nusbaum, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Nusbaum of Bluffton, who was one
of the Yanks who helped liberate
Americans held by the Japs in the
infamous Santo Tomas prison camp
in the Philippines near Manila. All
were hungry, especially children who
sought every morsel of food, includ-
ing that intended for garbage.
Among the liberated prisoners pass
ing by in a truck was one who re-
sembled David Kliewer, former Bluff
ton man in the marine air corps cap
tured early in the war. Last word
from Kliewer, however, was that ne
is being held a prisoner in Japan.
Comes a letter from the Oliver
Lochers down in TT. Worth, Florida,
who used to live in Bluffton and
shovel coal all winter like the rest
, of us. Now that's thing of the
past, they say. Fact is their total
outlay for fuel last winter amounted
| to S5 for wood for their fire place.
And of all things-we found out
where these Florida natives go for
vacation. Living right in the midst
of the nations top vacation spot with
seaside resorts and ocean fishing at
their door, doesn't mean a thing.
When they want to relax and forget
all about Yankee winter tourists they
travel north to the Carolina noun
tain resorts.
Top ranking surprise of the week
| occurred at Swan Stonehill's on East
Elm street Tuesday morning at 1:30
o'clock when their son Pvt. James
Stonehill recently liberated from
German prison camp arrived home
totally unexpected, got into the house
through a rear door and announced
his presence by switching on the
lights in their upstairs bedroom.
His parents received word a week
ago that he had been freed from the
prison camp but they had no inkling
that their son was in this country.
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IN 1nInesr anu luuls the cover from
the face. It was Lieutenant Minor,
and of course he was dead. His ship
in exploding had evidently thrown
him out and opened his chute, but
the explosion had killed him. He
had definitely not crashed with the
ship, for there was hardly a mark
on his body.
Wrapping Minor IN his parachute,
we took him back in rickety Chi
nese bus that we Communicated.
We knew we'd miss Minor and men
like him. He'd been one of the up-
and-coming younger pilots, and had
already shot down one Japanese
plane.
We took Minors body to the Cath
olic mission across the river. and
bought one of the old, ancient-look-
ing Chinese coffins, made out of
wood about six inches thick. with
corners that turned up like pagoda
roof: they must weigh two hundred
pounds. We put Minors body in
side and held a simple service: for
you have to work fast in tempera-
lures of hundred and eight, when
the humidity is just about hundred.
Then we filed the casket with quick
lime. sealed it up on our brother
officer, covered it with ten LAYERS of
heavy bricks to protect it from rob-
bers and rats, and left it there to
wait for the next transport to Kun
ming.
The headquarters in Yunnan is the
burial ground for all of our pilots
killed fighting against the Japanese.
There on the plateau in Yunnan is
the only memorial ground the 23rd
Fighter Group will ever have. Our
pilots lie beneath a gray slate slab
from the earth of Yunnan, under the
wings of the Chinese and the Amer
lean Air Forces. They lie there in
the shadow of a little Buddhist tenn
pie which for all practical purposes
is the Christian temple of our God
Captain A. J. Baumler was the
best operations officer ever saw
He could go out and shoot down
Japs all day, then come in and read
the combat reports of twenty pilots
digest them all, and write ont the
most comprehensive report in the
world-one that would give higher
headquarters ringside picture of
the fight that had taken place.
Ajax" was from New JERSEY He
had fought for nearly two wears with
the Loyalists in Spain, and had shot
down seven Messerschmitts and
Flats in that war; when he becams
an ace in the 23rd Group he was the
first man in the war who had shot
down German. Italian, and Jana
nese aircraft. Ever since America
had entered the war he had led =
hectic existence. Months before De-
cember 7th, he had left Americs
from California to join the AVG and
General Chennault, as a Lieutenant
in the Air Corps. He had beer
stopped in Hawaii for month and
then had received permission to con-
tinue on.
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Ma1nA
- aZA
DeAotz0I

Comes May . !. month of May
Queens and late spring frosts
=. and new sugar stamp -. and
peace rumors that persist and
fast time and some new red
and blue points =. and politics get
ting under way early this year
and top news flash of the week was
ham that appeared on the block at
Bigler's Saturday-some of the cash
customers almost passed out and
others well nigh got Mysteries and
everybody scraped together what red
points they had and that ham dis
appeared like a SNOWFALL on 4th of
July but no one was excited
about those pound cartons of butter
stacked up in the showcase-when it
comes to spending scarce red points,
looks as if steaks get the nod-and
margarine will pinch hit for butter
even if it isn't colored and all's
quiet on the political front with the
deadline for municipal candidates
filing at hand-where's the old time
spirit that made grandpappy take his
politics and his voting straight
never scratched a baliot-but now
adays they can't even fill the ticket
how come, we'd like to know
after all it's just as important to get
out the candidates now as to get out
the vote later i. why worry about
getting out the vote in November if
we don't get out the candidates in
May and fishing hitting a slump
Sunday-anglers say it's because of
a falling barometer :. and we hope
by the time you read this that peace
will be more than a rumor.
This war manpower shortage is
putting some of the old timers back
in the harness-for instances there's
Med Murray than whom there is
none whomer when it comes to hang
ing wallpaper. He's on the job this
spring putting on paper for Lima
concern. Yes, Med's II, but you
would never suspect it when you see
him WELD paste brush.
Mayor Howe, who announced his
| candidacy for another term the first
of the week has not missed a coun-
Gil meeting in more than nine years,
which we believe establishes an all
time record. He has attended every
meeting since he first became identi-
| fed with the town administration as
member of the council in January,
1886 and if he keeps up his present
pace by next December he will have
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CHAPTER XVIII

| So Johnny glided to the field with
his missing engine, and then we
heard him say that he couldn't make
the field and was going to sit down
in the river. The moon made it
fairly bright, but even at that knew
! that Johnny had to be mighty good
and very lucky Then | wondered
whether or not he was wounded.
Silhouetted against the light from
the three bombers he had shot down,
his fighter looked awfully low. He
SKINNED over the Chinese junks on
the river, and ! saw the splash as
the P-40, with its wheels up, hit the
Slang Kiang. Down on the ground
they heard his engine give one more
dying gasp, as with a surge of power
probably from full gun and prop
in low pitch-it lifted him over the
last Of the masts of the junks and
let him level off to skid across the
surface of the river.
We came in and landed now, for
the ground crew had gotten the
smudge-pot boundary lights set out
to mark the runway as well as the
bomb craters. We gathered togeth-
er fast with the boys who had stayed
on the ground, and talked about the
great battle. | remember Tex Hill
shaking his head and saying, "Tm
afraid Johnny didn't make it. Dog
gone, he was good boy" We all
felt a sinking in our hearts. We
waited and we kind of prayed too.
I sent Captain Wang, our salvage
man, out to see if he could get any
news of Major Alison. We made our
reports out and kept waiting on the
alert. Just when we had really
given up hope, we heard the sound
of sharp explosions. All of US ran
out of the alert shack, to see the
strangest sight that we ever saw,
even in China.
A procession had entered the field.
The Chinese sentry had passed the
crowd of people and was himself
holding his thumb in the air calling
''Ding-hao-ding-hao." In the midst
of the procession and surrounded by
children shooting Chinese firecrack-
ers in celebration, was sedan chair
carried on the backs of the villagers
of Hengyang. And Johnny Alison
was in the sedan chair-smiling.
While we cheered too and some of
us even got some firecrackers from
the kids and shot them off, we
helped Johnny out and heard his
story. He'd hit the river like a
feather-bed, ne said, and had swum
ashore, having to kick off his good
American shoes to make it. As he
crawled up the bank of the river the
Chinese had rushed uron him. think
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selves, "What couldn't we do with
plenty Of equipment for the Chinese
ground armies, and us over their
heads with adequate air support?"
Would the day ever come when We
could make an attack with force
that was a credit to the greatest
country in the world? Towards the
middle of August, as our pilots died
in the old ships that we had, we
had begun to doubt it.
j For no, we didn't win all the time.
Sometimes we lost, even when we
traded one for ten. We lost because
the Jap could replace his lost
planes; we could not. 1t was more
than losing ships-sometimes our pi-
lots died in the unequal battles.
-s>Aass@4A--
One day in August, Johnny Alison
was leading six P-40's to intercept
a larger number of japanese COM
ing in against Hengyang from both
Hankow and Canton. When inter-
ception was made, the Japs had
fifty-three planes. They were In
three waves, so of course Johnny
didn't get them all together and let
them take shots at his little force.
He circled in the sun, waiting for
the opportunity to strike, and get
away with all his ships. Then it
came. He dove through nine of
them, and his six planes shot down
four of the enemy. In his second
attack, after diving away and climb
ing back into the sun, he sent four
of his six down against them and
then came on with the other two,
just in case the enemy should follow
the small attacking force out OF the
familiar ''circling movement that
the Jap with his ever superior num-
bers always went into.
The little force of fighters knocked
down another Zero. But one of the
P-40s was in trouble. Johnny said
later that he had seen the enemy
ships following the Forty, but
thought the closest one was another
P-40. Too late he realized the error
and went to help the pilot, whom he
knew by then to be a boy named
Lee Minor. The Zero rode the
American fighters tail and shot ii
down with cannon, and the P-40
burned. Johnny watched for chute
to open, but nothing happened.
As we drove out along the high
way that afternoon-Baumler and
Alison, Jack Belden of Life maga-
zine and I've were hoping by some
fiuke that Minor had baiied out and
that Johnny had failed to see him
do it, but we suspected that we were
merely being optimistic. The far
ther we drove down the road to the
South, towards the battle area of the
morning, tie more we expected what
we found. Finally we saw it.
Four Chinese coolies were walking
towards the nearest village, carry
ing an object lashed to poles, and
carrying it in the old way of the
East, with the poles over their shoul-
ders. The thing they were carrying
was wrapped in grass mating, but
saw the bare feet sticking out We
stopped the jeep and called to the
coolies. Jack Belden- snoke to them
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Col. Robert l.ScOff


CHAPTER 4: scotfs early experiences
with gliders and airplanes. He goes to
TT. Mcpherson and enlists in the regular
army as private
CHAPTER II: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur.
Tough before reporting He is graduated
as a second lieutenant of infantry and
goes to Europe. which he tours on a
motorcycle He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER Ill: Scott makes his first
solo fight. Drives 1900 miles to Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl. Scott
Is now. graduated from Kelly Field and
has wings pinned on his chest. Ordered
to report TO Hawaii but wanting to get
married he lays his plight before the
General and is ordered to report at
Mitchell Field N Y. instead.
CHAPTER w. En- route to New York
Scott is stopped by police who mistake
him for a bandit. He carries the mail
for Uncle Sam In order to gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: The wai edges closer
and he Is farther than ever from combat
for combat flying. and after December z.
1941, he begins writing Generals all over
the country for a chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: scott solos q Flying
Fortress for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves for
India from a Florida point.
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In AT.
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi India. covering
lz.0oo miles In eight days.
CHAPTER vIu: Col. Haynes orders
the group to report at base In Eastern
Assam. on the India.Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma Is falling into
the hands of the Japs. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
land at Schwebo. Scott meets General
Sttlwen and his party.
CHAPTER X: Scott's group carries
refugees out Of Burma, heavily overload.
ing the planes. He pays q visit to Gen.
Chennault and tells him he Is a fighter
pilot and not a ferry pilot and Is prom.
ised the next P-4o that arrives from
Africa.
CHAPTER xI: Open season on Japs-
the big adventure is near. Scott gets
his first japan army bomber on the
ground. He burns up some Jap trucks
and fuel dump.
CHAPTER XII: Scott goes on some
strahng missions with his "Old EN-.
terminator." as he has now nicknamed
his KittyhaTk. and cuts Jap battalion
to bits.
CHAPTER XIII: The AVG are told
they are to be inducted into the u. 8.
army. Scott returns to India and con-
tinues his single ship raids on the Japs.
He Is now known back in the States as
sthe one man air force"
CHAPTER XIV: Col. Haynes Is moved
to China to head the bomber command
under Gen. Chennault and Scott In left
alone as commanding officer Of the Ferry
Command Scott is ordered TO report to
Gen Chennault in Running. China. as
commanding officer of the 23rd Fighter
Group.
CHAPTER XIV: Col. Scott Is ordered
charge of fighter operations.
CHAPTER XVI: He intercepts flight
Of Jap planes and downs q bomber.
His tank Is empty but he succeeds In
landing II dry.
CHAPTER XVII: In which Scott tells
about his friend. Major TEX" Hin, to
whom he owes his life. Maj. Alison Is
hit and tries to land his crippled bomber
at night
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rounded out a decade-10 years-of
perfect attendance. He served as
member of the council until Noven.-
Der, 1888 when he filled the vacancy
left by the resignation of the late ].
Norman King. He was subsequently
elected mayor in 1899, 1871 and 1943.
Two fiappers passing the Bluffton
News office Tuesday when the follow
ing bit of gossip fioated thru the
open doorway: "Yeah-he's a good
egg, but it amt Easter.
History repeats itself-with minor
variations, to be sure-and the pres
ent peace conference has an inter-
esting counterpart in some age-yel-
lowed press sheets promoting inter-
national peace after the First World
War presented by Miss Alice Ludwig
of Poplar street who was engaged in
publicity work at that time. The
theme is almost identical with that
of the present San Francisco meet
ing, with one important exception
that Russia, now in the forefront of
the peace promotion conference was
at that time portrayed as the boil
shevik menace to civilization.
Albert Benroth, caretaker of the
town clock was on the job Sunday
morning when Bluffton officially
changed from slow to fast time.
Altho most of the clocks about town
were advanced an hour, before mid
night, the town clock continued on
slow time until the appointed hour
3 o'clock when it made the one hour
jump.
Another chapter was added last
week end to friendship which be-
gan some years ago in China when
Barbara Hayes, Oberlin College
freshman, visited at the home of
Mrs. Floyd Pannabecker on College
road. The two Hayes and Panna-
becker families, engaged in mission
work in China before the war, lived
for time as next door neighbors.
They had not met since living in the
Far East.
The Bluffton News follows the
boys to all sorts of places these days.
Latest is that it reached Okinawa
three days after the start of the in
vasion, according to word from Rich
ard Gratz, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
Gratz. The News of March / was
in Okinawa on April 4, he said.
And speaking of fast transporta-
tion the Sidney Hauensteins who
wrote letter to their son S. Sgt. Nell
son Hauenstein of the Air Transport
Command stationed at Casablanca,
North Africa on Sunday of last week
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NOTICE OF THE TRANSFER OF PUBLIC
MONIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND
TO THE ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND
Notice Is hereby given that on the goth day
of April, 1916, the Township Trustees of
Bath Township, Allen County. Ohio, filed
their petition in the Common Pleas Court
of said County praying therein for authority
to transfer Five Thousand Dollars ($5. .0O0.00l
now in the General Fund of said Township
to the Road and Bridge Fund of said Town
ship. The reason for the desired change
being fully set out in sakd petition.
Said petition will be koz~~haaRina~ia~ said
Court on the on day of May. ls45, at 80
FRANK JOSEPH
H. K. MOWERY
CHARLES L. MASON
Trustees of Bath Township
Allen County, Ohio
Paul S. Driver, Clerk
Bath Township Trustees
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NnrrcE oF ApPorNTMENr

The State of Ohio Allen County, S.
Estate of Elizabeth Tschantz, Deceased.
ID. w. Bixler, of I1S gKibler ST., Bluffton.
Ohio. has been appointed and qualified as
Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth
Tschantz. late of AlleH County, Ohio. de-
ceased.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
2 Probate Judge
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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
IE STATE 0F 0HTn

Allen County, IS.
Estate of James Arthur Hauenstein, De-
ceased.
Leland Diller of 113h Main ST.. Blufton,
Ohio. has been appoihted and qualified as
Administrator of the estate of James Arthur
Hauenstein late of Alien County, Ohio, de-
ceased.
Dated this 18th day bf April, 1945.
Raymond p. Smith
8 Probate Judge
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CHAPTER 4: Scotts early experiences
with gliders and airplanes. He goes to
IT. Mcpherson and enlists in the regular
army as private.
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And speaking of fast transporta-
tion the Sidney Hauensteins who
wrote letter to their son S. Sgt. Nell
son Hauenstein of the Air Transport
Command stationed at Casablanca,
North Africa on Sunday of last week
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1945-01-29

nelkoliko izrezani oprsnik je ma
znaceval pod zoltimi cipkami ma
petost njenih bujnih prs.
Nikdar Sc nnu nj zdela tako
sveza. Bila je res zapeljiva.
Resna in dostojna kakor po ma
vadi, je kazala v vsem svojem
vedenju mirno mamo, nlimo ka-
tere gredo galantni pogledi mo-
Skin, ne da bi Sc ustavili ma Mi.
Govorila je sploh zmerno o ma
vadnih, znanih stvareh, zakaj
njene misli SO bile pametne, me-
todicne, lepo urejene, brez vsa-
korsne prenapetosti.
Njena hcerka Suzana, v roz-
natl obleki, je bila kakor prenov:
liena Watteanjeva slika; in ME-
ma starejsa sestra je bila podob-
ma vzgojiteljici, najeti "a druzbo
tel ljubki drobni deklici.
(Dalje prihodn1ic)