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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
LAST OF BLUFFTON
WAR PRISONERS IS
FREED In GERMANY
Pfc. Ned Schultz Liberated By
Americans On April 21, His
Parents Learn
Bluffton Man Had Been Prison.
er of Germans Since Capture
On December 16

! The last Bluffton man held in a
German prison camp has been
liberated in a conquest of enemy
territory in Europe, it was learned
Monday with receipt of word that
Pfc. Ned Schultz, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Schultz, of Kibler
street, is again with American
forces.
In telegram received from the
Adjutant General, Schultz parents
were notified that he was liberated
on April q and that he is now
hospitalized in the European area.
1t is believed that the hospitali-
zation mentioned is a routine pro-
cedure, for all Americans held
prisoners by the Germans have been
taken to hospitals for observation
Immediately following their liberia
ton.
Pfc. Schultz was captured by the
Nazis on December 16, during the
battle of the Belgian bulge, and his
parents were notified on Jan. 15
that he was missing in action. CO.
incidence figures in his capture, for
he was the last of the Bluffton men
reported missing in action at the
time of the German breakthru to be
identified as a prisoner of war, and
now he has been the last of those
held in prison camps to be released
The Bluffton youth was held
prisoner in Prison Camp Stalag 5B,
which was east of Leipzig, his
parents said. This area was one OF
the last to come under Allied control
in Germany, and it is assumed the
camp is in the vicinity of where
Russian and American forces made
their historic juncture.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
LIGHTING BARRED
BY BRO W WNOUT"
APPROVED AGAIN
Buttons Lights Expected To
Go On Again Within Next
Week
Restrictions on On Street,
Show Window And Adver-
tising Lighting

With the announcement Tuesday
that federal "brownout" restrictions
will be lifted at once, Bluffton lights
are expected to go on again within
the next week.
Officials of the municipal light plant
already are making preparations to
turn on 45 boulevard lights on Main
street which were put out last Febru-
ary in connection with the nation wide
"brown-out" campaign. This is near
ly one-half of the Ito lights on the
street.
Another development TO come with
scrapping of the "dimout" will be
brilliantly lighted store windows in
business places, and outside advertis-
ing and identification signs, which
have not been used since February.
Indication is that the town will be
lighted up again in "pre-browout"
style as soon as official confirmation
of the ban is received from federal
agencies.
Other than on Main street, Bluff
toms municipal lighting was not af-
fected by the "brownout."
Last February's regulations barred
outdoor advertising and promotional
lighting; outdoor display lighting
outdoor decorative and ornamental
lighting, show window lighting, mar.
quee lighting in excess of so watts
per unit and white-way street light.
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
HIGH SCHOOL TO
GRADUATE CLASS
OF Al ON MAY "a
Wooster College Professor Will
Deliver Class Address
Here
Baccalaureate Sermon BY Rev.
Smucker on Sunday Night,
May 20

Commencement exercises for Al
graduating seniors will be helc
Thursday night May "a in the Bluff.
ton High school gymnasium, with
w. c. Craig, of Wooster College
delivering the class address.
In the class are rs girls and II
boys, whose scholastic life will come
to close in a busy program OF
commencement activity opening with
baccalaureate services Sunday even
ing, May 20.
Rev. j. N. Smucker, pastor of the
First Mennonite church, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon.
Valedictorian of the graduating
class is Jean Ann Steinman, ane
Juanita Ann Bame is salutatorian.
Members of the graduating class
are Sarah Louise Amstutz, Juanits
Ann Bame, Esther Louise Berky
Alice Jean Bixel, Genevieve Elaine
Buhler, Lois Elizabeth Burkholder
Mabel Irene Burkholder, Dorothy
Eileen Dunbar, Gertrude d. Edge
comb, Lois Julee Garmatter.
Eileen d. Haller, Rachel Anna
Hoffer, Ruby Pauline Lehman, Mary
Lou Schmidt, Esther Kathleen Schu
macher, Mary Lou Shafer, Jane
June Steiner, Jean Ann Steinman
Miriam C. Stettler, Eileen V. Vein
hold, Roma Eileen Welty, Doroth,
Mae Wenger, Louise E. Which
Janice L. Wingate, Mary Lou Young
Laurel Bauman, Jr., Gordon A
Bixel, Jr., James L. Daley, Rober
L. Diller, Robert E. Gratz, Richart
j. Hauenstein, Evan Herr, Otto
Klassen,. Ray H. Luginbuhl, Morris
Moser, Dean C. Niswander, Pau
Reichenbach, Harley R. Steiner
Robert E. Stratton, Charles A
Triplehorn and Ronald K. Zimmerly
s4z
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Election Next November Will Have
Little OF Interest For Town Voters
Deadline For Candidates Filing
Passes With No Contests on
Either Ticket
Neither Party Has Complete
Ticket And Only Two Inter-
Party Contests Develop

Barring unexpected contests that
might result from filing by independ-
ents or unless some element of in
creased political activity should come
out of party caucuses to nominate
candidates for the Richland town
ship ticket and the Bluffton board of
education, next November's election
will offer little in the way of fire.
works.
At the filing deadline for muni-
cipal offices last Wednesday night,
no contests had developed on either
major party ticket and for the sec
ond straight off-election year no pri-
mary election will be held in Bluff
ton in August.
Now the only way any candidate
who has not filed can get his name
on the ballot next November will be
to file as an independent, and his
name would appear on the ballot in
separate column and under no
party designation.
When the filing deadline was
reached last Wednesday night, the
list of candidates remained un-
changed as announced in last week s
issue of The News.
This means that neither the Dem
ocrats nor Republicans will have a
full slate of candidates for the No
vember election, another factor which
points to fall election in which
there will be little interest.
Inter-party contests will affect only
two offices. Each party had candi-
dates file for treasurer to provide
one contest, and the other inter-fac-
tional rivalry will affect the race for
council with only 10 candidates NOM
mated for six offices.
For council, the Democrats have
six candidates and the Republicans
only four. No contest will affect the
election for the Board of Public AT
fairs, with two Democrats and one
Republican nominated for the three
offices.
Should Independents wish to get
their names on the ballot, they must
file 80 days before the November
election.
Deadline for party caucuses to Sc
lect candidates for Richland town
ship offices and three places on the
Bluffton Board of Education also is
80 days before the election in No
vember.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Booster Concert At
College On May Is

Replacing the traditional Button
College Booster banquet, Booster
concert presenting college musical
artists of other years will be held
Friday, May Is, in Ramseyer chapel.
Graduates representing more than
a quarter of a century in ,Bluffton
college musical history who will APP
pear in the concert include g. A.
(Dad) Lehman, Ola Luginbuhl Mos
er, Opal Berry Stauffer, Wilhelmina
Bixel Fuller, Oliver Schumacher,
Dorothy Burner, Samuel Flueckiger,
Carolyn Romey, Kathryne Lugibill
Patterson, Mildred Agner Hilty,
Christine Miller Wenger and Mabel
Herr Steiner.
Proceeds from the concert will be
used to purchase new grand piano
for Mrs. Pearl Mann's studio in
Music Hall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
BlHft0n Girl Is
Seminary Graduate

Miss Luella Luginbuhl, student in
Cincinnati Bible seminary, received
her pastors assistant certificate at
the seminary commencement exer-
cises, Thursday.
She is spending a week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Lugin-
bihl of West Elm street and will
leave Friday for Shadyside where
she will be with her sister, Mrs
Gerald Bright and family this sum-
mer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Deer Reported In
Game Refuge Near
Town Wednesday

Nelson Basinger, farmer resid-
ing north of Bluffton, report
ed a deer in the state game
refuge on the nearby Ezra Mos
er farm, Wednesday morning.
the animal was described as ap-
parently a young doc
Trespassing on IL refuge is
forbidden except with Moser's
permission and violators are SUBJ
ject to stringent penalties, it was
pointed out.
Attempts were icing made
Wednesday afternot to locate
the deer in the gan ssfuge for
the purpose of making motion
pictures.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
BIuft0n Chaplain
ArriUes OUersens

Rev. Ernest Bigelow, former pas
tor of the Bluffton and Rockport
Presbyterian churches who enlisted
as an army chaplain and was COM
missioned first lieutenant, has arrived
in France.
Word to this effect was received by
his wife, Mrs. Ellen Bigelow who
with their son Bruce reside on South
Jaeksons treet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Draft OF BLuftOn
Man Is Postponed

Allen County Draft Board No. 8
announced that the induction of
Harold James Crawfis of Bluffton
was postponed by the state director
until the June call. Crawfis was
previously scheduled to go with the
May quota which left for induction
Tuesday.
The board also announced that
Albert Newton Kerns had been trans
ferred from its jurisdiction to Local
Board No. ! at New Albany, Ind,
for induction.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Returned Missionary
At Reformed Church

Rev. A. j. Martin, returned mis-
sionary from Brazil will address
joint Ascension day meeting Of
Women's Guilds of the Emmanuers
and st. Johns Reformed churches
this Thursday night in st. Johns
church at 8 O'Clock. The public in
cordially invited
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
BIuftOn WOnadn's
Husband Wounded

CPL Gail Rakosky was wounded in
action in Germany on April 10, ac-
cording to word received by his wife,
Mrs. Rosalie Rakosky of South Main
street the first of the week. Cpl.
Rakosky was with an infantry unit
at that time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
BluftOn Man On
Otterbein Board

DR.. v. II. Altman, residing south
of Bluffton, was in Westerville last
Thursday and Friday attending a
meeting of the Otterbein college
board of trustees of which he is a
member. The college, an institution
of the United Brethren church has
an enrolment of 465.
DR.. Altman Is also superintendent
of the sandusky conference of the
United Brethren denomination.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Student Recital

a recital by students in the Col
lege department of music will be held
IN Ramseyer chapel this Wednesday
night at $50 o'clock. The public
is invited.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Stores To Close On
Thursday Afternoons

A number of Bluffton retail
stores will close on Thursday
afternoon during the summer.
A list of business places appears
on Page four.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
Sandwich Filling

Make a tasty sandwich filing by
seasoning mashed liver with chill
sauce. onion Juice and nayonnaiss.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-10
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) Wheat ST.
So; corn $1.12; oats 75c; soys $2.04.
Evening star., 1945-02-02
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

In the moment when this is written
"wednesday the Russians are so miles
from Berlin, and nobody can say exactly
when they will stand at the gates Of
the German capital or how long the
fight for Berlin will last
But in his speech, Tuesday evening,
I had the impression that Hitler-with-
out, of course mentioning it-had al
ready given up the German capital.
And it was not the speech of a de-
feated spirit. This is significant. For
militarily the situation of Germany is
hopeless and Hitler knows it. He knows
that the military war is already lost
OF course, he did not say so.
The speech was primarily political,
and careful study reveals that he be-
lieves that If the organized German
military resistance is broken, there will
be no armistice, no surrender. and no
peace. And in that dubious twilight of
a war which is lost. and yet not ended
Of victory which is won but not trans
lated into real peace, Of Europe which
is liberated but not pacified, the Nazi
revolution-or counter r-revolution-will
not be lost, but will eventually, in the
inherent nature of things, win allies
from some Of those who are now its
enemies.
This view is presented with some
logic. Hitler is clearly convinced that
in the long run it will be impossible
for Britain, the United States and the
Soviet Union to agree on a European
peace 1t Is amazing how closely his
mental processes follow those of Lenin
and Trotsky after the last war Then
they signed with Germany a Cartha-
ginian peace which partitioned Russia.
Russia lost the Baltic states, Finland
and the entire Ukraine at Brest Lit
ovsk. But the Bolshevist leaders argued
that this was entirely temporary; the
social forces consolidating in the world
for a revolutionary showdown would
end in civil wars, and in the chaos
and weakness caused by these the
Soviet Union would recover and expand.
At the end of the last war the Soviets
had only one interest-to prevent con-
solidation of any non Communist social
Evening star., 1945-02-02

rivers, no railway lines and few roads
worthy Of the name. Long out of
close touch with the national GOV
ernment at distant Chungking, this
southeastern area is held by poorly
armed provincial troops and even
worse armed guerrilla forces. Pro-
vided the japanese high command
can concentrate intensively on this
area. its flying columns, working in
from every side. should soon be able
to slice it into segments and mop up
in detail.
All this may we'll have a distinct
bearing on the surprising lack Of
Japanese resistance on Luzon COM
pared with the desperate resistance
on Leyte. The delay on Leyte may
have given just enough time for the
co-ordinated campaigns in China to
get into their full stride. The en-
phasis being now on China, the Phil
ippines can conceivably be written
off in japanese calculations with a
minimum of sacrifice after having
served their purpose in Tokyo's
larger strategy.
Evening star., 1945-02-02

order In Europe. Had that happened
the treaty of Brest Litovsk would have
been final. So they tried by revolution
airy means. to keep all social orders in a
state OF hux. Far from assisting social
democratic parties, which represented
the solidest progressive forces in all
european countries, and supporting a
solid labor movement, they directed
their attacks precisely at these, know
ing that these and not the reactionary
parties held the best promise for bring
ing about new political order salts
factory to the masses of the people.
Now, Hitler, who is a revolutionary
tactician and an able one, sees in the
situation following this war exactly the
same opportunity. He himself has de-
stroyed the Europe that existed pre-
vious to 1885, Europe will be devas-
tated, hungry and desperate. 1t will
divide, inexorably. into right and left
wing factions. To prevent any COM
promise of the middle from ever oc-
curing will be his aim. To do that he
is prepared to fight now on this side,
now on that. a es,.
He intends to prevent any orderly de-
mobilization of Germany. Soldiers must
keep their arms, and the more chaos
the better and the more civil war the
better.
A -
For he speculates that ultimately
Russian troops and Anglo American
troops will become involved in these
Nazi-promoted conflicts and on oppo-
site sides In this situation the Nazis
will have bargaining power. Hitler does
not believe in the capacity of the de-
mocracies to fight the Russians-nor,
for that matter, without the Russians,
to fight the Germans successfully-and
he makes clear his confidence that in
this situation the Germans will be
called out of the grave of their military
defeat to save the West against the
East
That this is Hitler's concept cannot
be proved by word quotations, but it is
implicit in his whole argument, and is
the only explanation Of his unbroken
confidence in such moment.
released by the Bell Syndicate Incl
Evening star., 1945-02-02
A Hand for the Gunners
Prom the CHICAGO Daily News.


correspondent of the ST. Louis Post
Dispatch with the, Sd Army has dis
covered an old regiment of the Missouri
National Guard now serving as the
128th Field Artillery Battalion of the
9Th Armored Division Also in the
division is the 212th Battalion from
Massachusetts.
This illustrates how our Army has be-
come mixed up by reorganization since
this war started. 1t is almost worthy of
note that the correspondent was able to
find q few Missouri men still in the
outfit.
But we are taking note of it for an
other reason. We anticipate that some
day great howl will be heard from
men in the artillery. Infantry regiments
have been frequently identified in dis
patches, but the only other field artil-
lery outfit we can recall seeing men,
toned was the 5th Battalion of the lst
Division.
The artillery has been doing some Of
the best fighting in this warm fact,
out artillery is rated as tremendously
effective in battle, and In that branch Of
the art OF war we have taught the
Germans some things they didn't know
before.
We think the artillery ought to get
more credit for the excellent work it II
doing.
Evening star., 1945-02-02

stone set in the silver sea-" People,
literally, are less apt to freeze to
death on the ocean than they are
on dry lard. But the terrain in
which American men and boys cur
rently are fighting in Eastern
France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Hol-
land and Germany is not dry. Rather
it Is a zone of frequent rain and
snow. Many of the difficulties of
the Allied forces of liberation at
tacking the Siegfried Line have de-
veloped from the clouded skies. The
operations of the air fighters have
been restricted day after day by a
low and heavy ceiling. Coincident-
ally, the ground advance has been
retarded by roads knee deep with
mud and slush or buried in pow
dered ice.
Evening star., 1945-02-02
Jopun's Strategy in Chino

Japan'S capture of the last link in
the railway trunk line from Hankow
to Canton is an important item in its
plan to dominate all Eastern China.
1t is the logical result of the prior
success which insured control of the
branch line to Kweilin. thereby cut
ting China in twain, gaining round
about access to Canton from the
northwest. and establishing land
contact with Indo-China. At that
time the japanese pushed their Of
fensive northwestward from Kweilin,
threatening the inner section of the
Burma road and perhaps Chungking
itself. This drive failed, probably be-
cause the japanese had outrun their
supplies. The operation should.
therefore. be considered as gamble
to test the degree of Chinese dis
organization and possibly negative
the impending opening of the Burma
road from its Burmese end. It's fail
ure neither jeopardized nor even
delayed the major Japanese objec-
tive. which is the mastery of South
eastern China.
That objective has been steadily
pursued through several co-ordi-
mated operations, of which the open
ing of the Hankow-Canton trunk
line.is merely one phase. During the
past two months the japanese have
been very active all along the south
eastern coasts, and have now en-
tirely sealed off Chinese access to the
sea. Thus, landing attempt by an
American expeditionary force would
nowhere find either friendly terri
tory or efficient Chinese aid from the
hinterland. The landlocked block OF
territory which remains in Chinese
hands in Southeastern China is sim
gularly undeveloped. It is a tumble
Of hills and valleys, with no large
Evening star., 1945-02-02
Vanishing Poll Tax

Georgia's decision to repeal its
poll tax leaves but seven States
which cling to this outmoded levy
on the right to vote. And in some of
these the forces of repeal are making
unmistakable headway.
The Tennessee Legislature, in l943,
repealed the poll tax, only to have
the State Supreme Court hold that a
constitutional amendment was nee
essary. In South Carolina and Ala
bama moves have been initiated to-
ward modifying the poll tax, the
purpose being to cut down its restric-
tive effect on voting. And in some
other States, notably Virginia, there
is growing public sentiment against
the tax
1t is hardly to be expected that
either Georgia's action or the other
developments in the South will re-
strain the more ardent advocates OF
congressional repeal. In their own
way, they are as intolerant as those
who cling to the poll tax in the un-
worthy hope of denying the vote to
Negroes, and neither constitutional
arguments nor indications that the
tax is slowly dying of public repudia-
tion carry weight with them.
There is reason to believe, how
ever, that the evidence of changing
Southern sentiment so far as the poll
tax is concerned will strengthen the
position of those who deny that Con-
gress has constitutional power to
impose its will on the States in this
matter. They believe that, given
time, the States will abolish the tax
themselves. But as an alternative
method they are prepared to support
constitutional amendment which
would ban the tax. Had the advo-
Gates of congressional repeal been
willing to support this entirely
proper approach to the problem, the
poll tax would have been on its way
out in every State in the Union by
this time ....-.z -.-.st. --es
Evening star., 1945-02-02
Jap Forces on Luz0n
Bv Mai. Georfe FieIdinf Eliot

Yamashita?) was caught of balance by
Gen. MacArthur's sudden blow in Lin
gayen Gulf, and has since that time
not been able to recover from the effect
Of this strategic surprise. 1t is charac-
teristic of the japanese mind that hav-
ing made plan, it sticks to it regard
less of changing conditions.
The Japanese had made up their
minds-apparently, at any rate-that
we were going to land on the east,
not the south, shore of Lingayen Gulf,
and on the south coast of the island
below Manila, possibly in Batangas
or Tayaban Bays. They disposed their
forces accordingly. and when we came
in where we were not expected, they
have just sat tight and watched us
occupy the central valley of Luzon and
cut one vital highway junction after
another without doing anything about
it other than to defend themselves at
some places when attacked.
Such conduct may be explained on
the ground OF weakness, or on the
ground of inability to adapt themselves
to new conditions, or finally it may be
explained by q realization on the part
OF the japanese commander that he
is not able to compete with Us on equal
terms in open country and prefers
to wait until we have to come after him
in the mountains.
-
The real test will be Manila. If we
get the Philippine capital back with
out a major battle, the loss OF face
which the Japanese will suffer all over
East Asia will be enormous. II we are
able to reopen Manila Bay for our use,
we shall have gained substantially all
the strategic advantages for which we
came to Luzon in the first place, ex-
cept for q foothold in the north as q
steppingstone toward Formosa.
It is possible that In this last con-
sideration there is q key to the de-
fensive policy. They may be much more
worried about Northern Luzon than
anything else, because it is an ap-
proach to Formosa and eventually to
the japanese main islands. The one
real fight they have put up Is for the
road functions which form the exits
from the northern mountains-.1otably
for the Rosario Udiao- Camp One area,
where the main road from Baguio comes
down to Highway No 3, and also for San
Manuel to the southeast, where two
mountain trails come into the main
highway system.
But 1t Is still dificut to believe that
the Japanese can really mean to give
up Manila without real night If they
are capable OF making = real night In
that part OF Luzon at all.
(copyrisht, 1945.)