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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01
CHURCH OFFICIAL
ASKS FOR RELEASE

The Rev. c. A. Calcote, of New
berry, S. c., who was due to ar
rive here today to fill the newly
created job of executive secretary
of the Wilmington Presbytery, has
asked to be released from his
promise to take the position, Or.
william Grove, Jr., pastor OF the
First Presbyterian church, said yes
terday.
The Rev. Calcote has been Offer
ed the position of educational secre-
tary of the Home Missions office OF
the Presbyterian general Assembly,
DR.. Grove explained, and 1t is pre-
sunned that he will accept.
The Wilmington pastor reported
that the Rev. Calote had been re-
leased from his promise and the
Wilmington Presbytery has writ
ten another man but has not recelv-
ed reply.
John E. Pfeil, new director OF
music at the church, arrived yes
terday morning, and will be INTRO
duced to the congregation at CIR
p. m. today, at evening services.
The new director, a native Oh
New York state and former organ
list and director of music at the
First Presbyterian church, Green's
burg, Pa, will be full-time dlrec-
tor of music in the church.
DR.. Grove said Mr.. Pfeil Will
conduct church-Wide music edu-
cation program and will develop
choirs in various age groups.
A graduate of Westminster choir
college at Princeton, N. j., the Gil
rector has been trained profession
ally as an organist, teacher of voice
and organizer of choirs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01
Roosevelt's Condition
Reported To Be Tip Top

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28-(UP)-
President Roosevelt returned from
Crimea in tip-top physical condi-
ton, Vice Admiral Ross T. Nc
1ntire, his physician, said today
White House Secretary Jonathan
Daniels said the President was in
grand spirits.'' "
The Big Three conferences were
firing and Mr.. Roosevelt lost lot
Of sleep, but he relaxed on the
cruiser horne, spending an hour or
two each day in the sun and sleep
ing late in the morning.
House Democratic Leader John
W. Mccormack said after a tele-
phone talk with Mr.. Roosevelt that
1.-The President was amused when
he arrived in this country to find
out that he had not been feeling
we'll" He quoted the Chief Execu-
tive that he had been very well
all the time"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01
Mother Says Dead Sons ChecL
From Army Had Deduct;o,

NORWOOD, Mass, Feb. o.
&-One dollar and fifty-eight
cents 'for laundry was deducted
from the final paycneck of an only
son killed in action in the Nor
mandy invasion, his bereaved
mother said today.
Mrs. Anna McDonough said she
was shocked" when the check ar
rived recently and that she plan
ned to write to President Roose-
welt and demand that he see to
| 1t that no other mother shall re-
celve the same kind of a letter.
The letter accompanying the
check, she added. noted simply
that the deduction was ''for laun-
dry"
There was no official comment
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01
Could Cleopatra Drink a Pearl
with Stomach Ulcer Pains?

An intriguing story of Cleopatra is the
one where an adnirer praised the beauty
OF two of her pearls. whereupon she
dropped one into a glass of wine and
drank 1t. She would hardly have done
this had she suffered Alternating pains
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heartburn, burning sensation, bloat and
other conditions caused by excess acid
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01

There are more than 70 bil,ion
nerve cells in the human brain
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01
Roosevelt Denies Talk
With Churchill On Japs

may have been discussed at Malta
in the Mediterranean before the
Big Three meeting. Churchill told
the House of Commons yesterday
that joint delegations meeting at
Malta discussed japan and that
he ard the President had approved
proposals which had been careful
ly worked out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01
Continued from Page One)

Associated Press and two other
reporters, one from h United
Press and one from the Interna-
tional News Service. Mr.. Roose-
welt commented:
That the American public and
press were quite right in saying
with virtual unanimity that the
parley was a great achievement.
This m m n demonstrated
that, despite his five weeks Of
travel away from the White
House, he had been supplied re-
ports on the American scene.
Another indication of home front
connection was the disclosure that
while at sea, the President signed
the George Bill opening the way
for Henry A. Wallace to become
his Secretary of Commerce.
But there was not complete una
nimity at home on the Yalta
Conference-particularly with ref
erence to its decision to grant
eastern areas of Poland to Rus
STA. And, incidentally, there was
an uproar on Capitol Hill when
Mr.. Roosevelt offered Wallace for
the Cabinet post.
To Congress, Mr. Roosevelt is
expected to take the same stand
on the Polish matter that Prime
Minister Churchill and Foreign
Minister Eden have taken in the
British house of Commons Sum-
med up, this is that the Russo
Polish boundary line agreed on at
Yalta is fair and that Poland, with
it's accessions from noW-Germar
territory will become a strong and
respected member of the family
of nations.
A point of surprising interest In
Congress is when and if Russia
might go to war againt Japan.
We are respecting. Russia's neu-
trality, Mr.. Roosevelt told his sea-
going news conference. He said
that he does not know whether
Russia will be asked to enter any
discussion of Pacific problems be-
fore the defeat of Germany.
Still on the question of Japan,
there developed a contradiction
between the President n d his
White House staff on whether ne
and Mr.. Churchill talked over the
Pacific war.
A White House report on the
President journeyings, issued
February 20, said that at Alexan-
dria, Egypt, the two held new
and important discussions of at
least one subject which they could
not take up before Cat Yalta).
That had to do with Japan and
the war in the Pacific where So
Wet Russia is neutral power. :"
Mr.. Roosevelt told his news con-
ference that the war against ia
pan was not even mentioned eth
er at Yalta or at his brief meet
ing with Churchill in Alexandria.
Churchill already had stated that
Britain will throw all her re-
sources against Japan once Ger
many fails, the President noted.
Looking so to go years in the
future, Mr.. Roosevelt saw a,
chance that even Japan and Ger1
many might become respectable
nations some day. He dipped into
his recollections of history to re-
call that Japan became mflitaris-
tic less than 80 years ago and that
Germany turned ruthlessly to the
sword after 1890.
They could go the other way
just as rapidly, he said, in ef-
feet But he stressed that they
must purge themselves before
they are to be even thought of
as members of an international
organization to keep the peace.
A great conference of the Unit
ed Nations to charter such an Or
ganization is due to begin at San
Francisco April Is. Mr.. Roosevelt
plans to appear there, possibly
to greet the delegates from all
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-01

at a: Washington pending sxsni,,
ton of the records. 'l'-n''
IN, Mrs, - McDonough said her sn,.
Dand' Thomas, died Is vaar. ''oS'
from wounds received in WIS., s,
war | and that her son. serae.O ~
Ih0mas McDonough, was IiI1es
IN action on his 23rd bir4hs.
she e., has two grown daugbte ,.iuay'
1T is a terrible sbocI[ y
SAID ito discover that af+e, sns :
gave my only son to- NV Cow rl
MS Government is 50 small '''h y
to make such a deduction tro ss
the money they sent me" -'0'l'
--V----
There are more than 70 biI]io,
nerve cells in the human bro;r -o'
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07

Rev. J. N. Smucker of Bluffton,
pastor of the First Mennonite church
here was elected president of the
General Conference of Mennonites at
the triennial meeting of that body
which concluded its sessions in New
ton, Kansas, the first of the week.
The Bluffton pastor and his wife
were in attendance at the Kansas
meeting which elevated him to the
presidency of the largest and most
comprehensive body in the Mennonite
denomination.
G. T. Soldner also of Bluffton was
elected member of the church's
unity committee for a nine years
term.
The General conference consisting
of las Mennonite churches in the
United States and Canada serves az
a. clearing house for matters ot
common interest including progress
which the church is making, its &C.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
M EAT SITUATION
is DISAPPOINTING
DEALERS DECLARE
Closing Period Here May be
Extended to Three Days
Each Week
Not Nearly Enough Meat to
Supply Demand. Bluffton
Operator Says

Outlook for Bluffton's meat supply
this month is definitely disappointing,
according to local meat market oper-
ators the first of the week.
The meat supply available under
the present rationing system will not
be nearly sufficient to meet the de
mand, one retailer stated Wednesday
morning and added that the present
closing schedule of two days each
week may have to be increased to
three days.
Buttons two markets were in
operation last week only two days,
Friday and Saturday during which
time the counters were crowded by
meat hungry patrons. BY Saturday
night both shops were completely
sold out with exception of small
quantity of high ration point steaks
and some cold luncheon meats.
HEAVY BUYING BY PUBLIC
Buying has been unusually heavy
by customers who are intent on lay
ing in supply of meat while it ii
available and storing it in home
refrigerators or commercial lockers
Because of this enlarged demand
together with the limited slaughter
ing quotas, the shops here expect tc
be faced with choice of continuing
on the present schedule of being
closed two days each week and clos
ing the last of the month for an in.
definite period or adopting now q
closing schedule of three days each
week thruout the month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
In New Locations

Mrs. WayneHarris and children of
South Lawn avenue left Tuesday for
Pullman, Mich, to join Mr.. Harris
who is superintendent of a milk con-
densing plant at Pullman, near South
Haven. Harris was formerly en-
ployed at the Page plant here.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. V. Wentz of the
Zehrbach apartments, Vine street,
left the first of the week for Fair
mont, w. Va. Wentz who is en-
ployed by the Westinghouse organiza-
ton was transferred from Lima to
Fairmont.
Mrs. Sherwood Diller and children
Sally and Peter. III, formerly of
Bluffton are visiting the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. p. M. Driver
of Lima. They are enroute from
Ypsilanti, Mich, to Alameda, Calf,
where they will join Mr.. Diller who
is now connected with the Alameda
Naval Air base. Mrs. Diller and
children will leave Lima, Thursday
and stopa st. Louis for ten days
visit with Mrs. w. E. Diller and
Miss Jeanne Diller.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
WAR BOND DRIVE
PASSES $4,000
MARK WEDNESDAY
Allen County Farmers Approve
Creation OF Soil Conser-
vation District
Free Technical Service Avail.
able In Soil, Water Conser-
vation Problems

Buttons campaign to raise
100000 in the Mighty Seventh War
Loan drive had passed the $4,000
mark at the close of bond sales on
Tuesday, it was announced Wednes-
day morning by N. A. Triplett and
M. NJ. Bogart, co-chairmen of the
local war finance committee.
With the campaign extended unit
June 30, house-to-house solicitation
of the town will be continued instead
of closing next Saturday, as origin.
ally intended.
Any householders missed in the
first canvass of the town, or who
now wish to make additional pun.
chases, are urged to notify Bogart
at war bond headquarters in the
Citizens National Bank, and ar.
rangements will be made for 9
solicitor to promptly call.
Zone captains now are checking
with canvassers preparatory t
completing arrangements for th,
closing phase of the house-to-houss
solicitation, so that final reports vii,
be available by the close of the
month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
Sgt. Robert Koontz and Sgt.
Richard 0berly Held at
Nuremberg
Sgt. Koontz, Freed April %,
Arrives Home on go Day
Furlough

How he met Sgt. Richard Oberly,
also of Bluffton, among the $1,000
men held in the German Nuremberg
prison camp was related this week
by Sgt. Robert F. Koontz, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Koontz, of east of
Bluffton, who arrived home last Sat-
urday for a 60-day furlough.
Sgt. Koontz was liberated from the
Germans on April 20, after being
taken prisoner on February is when
the Flying Fortress on which he was
a gunner was shot down near Hamm.
Germany, after bombing the railroad
yards at that place.
Flax caused the loss of the plane,
two motors and striking
the gasoline tank at 10000 feet. The
crew of nine bailed out, and all
landed without misfortune except the
pilot who broke his leg. The plane
continued on about two miles and
then blew up in the air.
Twelve planes bombed Hamm on
the mission, and that to which Sgt.
Koontz was assigned was the only
one lost.
1t was intensely cold at 10000
feet when the crew bailed out, and
Koontz froze three of his fingers in
the descent. He landed in a tree ON
the edge of a woods.
All members of the chew were
taken prisoner upon landing, except
the tail gunner who hid out in the
woods for five days. However, he
could find nothing to eat but cab
bage and hunger forced him to sur
render to the Germans.
Sgt. Koontz was in several prison
camps, but was first sent to the one
at Nuremberg, which then held IT,
900 men. 1t was there that by
chance he encountered Sgt. Richard
Oberly, son of Millard Oberly, whose
plane had been shot down over Aus
tria. He said Oberly was in good
health In several of the other
camps, he also saw men that he
knew.
At the conclusion of his furlough,
Sgt. Koontz will report at Miami,
Florida, for re-assignment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
Man In Hospital
After Auto Crash

E. J. Wahlie, Bluffton hatchery
operator, is in the Bluffton Com
munity hospital with broken collar
bone suffered in an automobile col
lision at the Ezra Amstutz corner,
21a miles north of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church, at 9 a. m. last
Friday.
Wahlie's car, westbound, was i'm
collision at the corner with north
bound auto operated by Ed Bogaert,
who lives on the Peter Rixel farm.
Bogaert and his wife, who accompan-
led him, were unhurt.
Both cars were rather badly dam
aged, and Wahlie was taken to the
Bluffton hospital by passing motor
ist. He will be removed this We'd
nesday evening from the hospital to
his home in apartments in the
Charles Stratton residence on Elm
street.
Wahlie is a co-owner of the AM
stutz hatcheries operating in Bluff
ton and Pandora. At the time of the
mishap he was enroute to the Pam
dora hatchery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
BOARD OF PUBLIC
AFFAIRS TO OPEN
DOWNTOWN OFFICE
Location on Vine Street Being
Remodeled; Five Year
Lease Taken
New Full Time Clerk is Expect
ed to be Appointed This
Month

Bluffton's Board of Public Affairs
which operates the municipal electric
light and waterworks plant will
open downtown office next month
for collection of electric current and
water bills and transaction of other
business with the public.
This announcement was made by
the board Tuesday night following
its monthly meeting.
The office, it is stated will be on
Vine street at the rear of the
Basinger furniture store. The room,
formerly part of the Basinger store
is being remodeled and fitted up for
office purposes while the exterior
will be modernized with new wind
ows and a new brick front.
Possession July l
A five year lease has been taken
on the location beginning July /, it
was stated by Harry Barnes presi-
dent of the board. AT this time the
board hopes to have a full time
clerk in charge, altho no selection
to fill this position has yet been
made, he said.
This will be the first time that
the board has maintained separate
downtown office. Previously the of
flee has been in the business place
of the clerk, who heretofore was a
local business man and performed
the duties of clerk as part time
work.
Revamping of the office setup
was undertaken by the board follow
ing the resignation in April of
Edgar Hauenstein, Bluffton pharma-
cist who served as clerk for the past
25 years.
Expect to Name Clerk Soon
In presenting his resignation to
the board, Hauenstein asked that il
become effective June 1, provided a
replacement could be obtained by
that time. With no one as yet
designated to fill the office, Hauen-
stein will continue for the remainder
of this month. Meanwhile the board
hopes to announce the appointment
of new clerk before July l, it was
stated.
Increased volume of clerical work
resulting from a larger volume OF
business handled by the municipal
plant, together with the present
shortage of help were reasons which
prompted his resignation, Hauenstein
indicated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
BlufftOn Pastor Named President
OF Mennonite General Conference

complishments in mutual undertake
ings as well as a forum for discus
sion of problems confronting the de-
nomination as whole.
Meetings are usually held every
three years, but the one scheduled for
last summer was postponed because
of wartime travel restrictions. Per-
mission to hold the meeting this
year was granted by the federal gov
ernment.
The next meeting will probably be
held in two years in order to resume
the regular triennial schedule. Place
for holding the next conference has
not been definitely decided, but in
dications are that it. will be in
Berne, Indiana.
Other Bluffton people attending the
conference we're DR.. L. L. Ramseyer,
DR.. and, Mrs. ]. S. Schultz, Rev. and
Mrs. J. J. Esau, and Miss Maeanna
Steiner.9it5alss ~
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
Two Bluffton Air Men Meet BY
Chance In German Prison Camp
Missionaries Are
Flying To Brazil

Rev. and Mrs. Adam J. Martin,
missionaries to Brazil who have been
in this country on furlough left
Bluffton Tuesday night for New
York city on the return to resume
their work in that country.
From New York they will go to
Miami, Florida, from where they will
take a plane for Brazil the first of
next week. For several weeks they
have been visiting here at the home
of Mrs. Martins parents, Rev. and
Mrs. w. H. Lahr of Harmon road.
Three days of flying from Miami
will be required to reach their des-
tination which is a new location at
Joacaba, south of the seaport of
Sac Paulo.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
PLANS FOR HOME
CANNING UPSET BY
new SUGAR CRISIS
Cutting Off Issuance of Canning
Sugar Leaves Housewives
In Quandary
Three-FourthS Of Residents
Have Not Received Sugar
For Summers Canning

Cannink plans of Bluffton house
wives are up in the air" this week,
following OPA action last Saturday
in halting issuance of home canning
sugar certificates in Ohio and four
adjoining states.
Cutting off canning sugar for this
part of the country without any
substitute program announced as
yet, leaves the housewife in a
quandary as to what course to fol-
low in this summers canning activi-
ties just at time when the cherry
crop is beginning to turn" and will
ripen soon.
Those who have not received
canning sugar certificates fear they
will get only limited supply, for
OPA officials on Monday announced
that home canning sugar viii be is
sued on an emergency basis only
for the remainder Of the season in
Ohio.
Little Sugar in Stores
Approximately three-fourths of
the residents of the area still are
waiting on canning sugar rations
before they can make their plans
for the summers canning, and those
who have received coupons also are
encountering difficulties, for they
find it impossible to get sugar from
stores whose stocks are exhausted
almost continuously.
Uncertainty in the canning sugar
situation is a serious matter in this
area, for home canning is a major
summer activity in small towns ano
rural areas where plenty of fresh
fruits and vegetables are available
the year around at comparatively
reasonable prices.
Much Canning Here
Much more canning is done In
rural communities than in the larger
cities where fruits and vegetables
| are hard to obtain.
Here, however, many housewives
have their own fruit trees anc
vegetable gardens, and supplies are
plentiful in the surrounding farm
district. With a shortage of labor
| complicating the farmers harvest
| problems. MANY local residents nicL
their own fruit and vegetables al
reduced prices, making available al
ample supply of foodstuffs for can.
ming.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
Mrs. VIM. Underwood
SHccunabs In Oklahoma

Body of Mrs. Catherine Under
wood, Bluffton resident, whose death
occurred Sunday at Tulsa, Okla, ar
rived here Wednesday afternoon and
was taken to the DiIler funeral home
pending funeral arrangements.
Mrs. Underwood was the widow of
the late William Underwood and for
many years resided on Cherry street.
Because of failing health she closed
her home here last fall and since
that time has been living with rela-
tives. She was at the home of a
niece in Tulsa when her death oc-
Cured.
The body left Tulsa, Tuesday
afternoon and arrived here accom-
panied by her sister, Mrs. Margaret
Robinson of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
BluftOn Soldier Is
Married In England

Corp. Harry Shrider of Bluffton
who has been overseas for the past
Is months was married Friday to
Marie Cullen of Grinsby, Lincoln
shire, England, according to a cable
message received Tuesday by his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Shrid-
er of North jackson street
The wedding took place in Grinsby
where the bride was proprietress of
dressmaking shop. The couple are
now on wedding trip thru Scotland
Corp. Shrider has been stationed in
England since he was sent overseas
in the fall of 1943. He is a gradu-
ate of Bluffton high school in the
class of 1910.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
FARMERS VOTE ON
SOIL CONSERVATION
CARRIES IN COUNTY
Canvas for 100000 Goal Moves
Into Its Final Stages
Here
Arrangements Being Made for
Completing Individual
Solicitation

Designation of Allen county as
soil conservation district was assured
Friday when ballots cast in township
elections showed PSI votes in favor
of the project and only eleven
against it.
To establish the soil conservation
district, it was necessary for 65e6
of the votes cast to be affirmative,
and the measure carried easily in
the county.
In Richland township voting con-
Quoted in the town hall Friday night,
80 votes were cast for the proposal
and only one against it.
Certify Results
Results of the election were certi-
fled the first of the week to the
state department of agriculture by
Allen County Agricultural Agent
James Warner, setting into motion
the preliminaries necessary toward
establishing the district locally.
Counties operating as soil con-
servation districts receive many
benefits, including free technical
services to individual farmers deal
ing with any problem of soil, water
or timber conservation, or in drain
age.
Districts are on a non-profit basis,
participation in its activities are
purely voluntary, and there is no
cost for the service to Allen county
or the state, it was pointed out.
First Meeting Last Fall
Sentiment for an Allen county
soil conservation district came to
head last November when a public
meeting of farm leaders at Lima
approved submission of the question
to a referendum vote of farm
residents of the county.
A sponsoring committee of Is
farmers has been in charge of
presenting the matter to farm areas
in the county.