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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
ALASkAC0ASTAL AERLINES MAKE
 THREE FLIGHTS

 Alaska Coastal Airlines made three flights yesterday carrying the fol- lowing passengers to Gustayus. George c. Leighton, R. H. Whitmore, Stephen Schmidt, Dan McCauley, Clyde Hill M. Oppers and MI Washill
 Juneau to Tenakee Charles Erickson
 Juneau to Sitka = John Cushing, Virgil E. Pullen, w. s. Sutton, George Baggen. Sitka to Juneau-Osten A. Eliason, Claire Helbing, Florence Holten, MT. and Mrs. Jack Goudie. Juneau to Skagway-Dorothy Irv- ing, Albert Guino.
 Juneau to Haines-Isabelle Mar tin.
 Skagway to Junaau-John Mur- dock, Robert Hutchins, c. A. Carroll, George Bavard, Eddie Jackson. Haines to Juneau-Isabelle Mar tin
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
Pioneers 10
 Meet Friday

Members of Pioneers of Alaska. Igloo No. 6, and also the Auxiliary will hold their monthly meetings Friday night at o'clock in the Odd Fellows Hall. During the business sessions installation of officers of both organizations will take place. Following the business sessions there will be a joint social time.
 Pioneers now in Juneau are asked to attend and will find other sour doughs at the meeting to give them a good time. This invitation includes Pioneers attending the present Leg islature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

relief demanded in said complaint and as herein stated.
 Witness the Honorable Geo. F Alexander, judge of said Court, and the seal of said court hereunto af- fixed January l7th. 1945 (Seal of Cour9
 ROBERT E. COUGHLIN,
 Clerk of the above entitled Court By. P. D. MCLEOD,
 Deputy Clerk. HOWARD D. STABLER, Shattuck Building, Juneau, Alaska. Plaintiffs Attorney. First publication, Jan. l8, l945. Last publication, Feb. 8, 1945.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

The overflow of the Amazon River is 1030,000 cubic feet per second.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Messiah Concert December 16
Will Mark Opening Musi-
cal Observance
Public School and College Christ.
mas Recess Plans Announced
This Week

With Christmas less than three
weeks in the offing, traditional pre-
holiday activities and preparation
for the Yuletide are beginning TO
usurp the center of the stage in the
Bluffton community.
Opening musical event of the holi-
day season will be the presentation
of Handel's celebrated oratorio, "The
Messiah, on Sunday night, Dec. 10,
in the Bluffton High school GYM
nasium.
Appearing in the annual rendition
will be the Bluffton College Choral
society, and soloists from outside
the community.
Rehearsals are we'll under way for
pageants and programs marking the
Christmas observance of Bluffton
churches, with announcement of the
schedule of offerings to come later.
Christmas vacation for Bluffton
High and Grade schools will start
with the close of classes on Friday,
Dec. 81, and school work will be
resumed Wednesday morning, Jan.
2, it was announced this week.
Bluffton college will start its Yule-
tide recess at 4 p. m. Friday, Dec.
81, and classes will reconvene at 8
a. m. Thursday, Jan. 3.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Real Estate Deals

Walter Gratz who operates
North Main street shoe store has
purchased the building in which his
establishment is located, from Fred
Gratz.
John Swisher, superintendent of
Buttons municipal electric light
plant has purchased a building lot
on East Kibler street from the John
Badertscher estate and will build a
residence in the spring. Swisher
recently sold his South Main stree
property to Ben Amstutz north o.
Bluffton who will move to town in
the spring. Amstutz last fall also
purchased the Bluffton Cement Block
plant which he is now operating.
Walter Hochstettler has pur-
chased the so acre tract known as
the former Austin Balmer farm 3
miles south of Bluffton which he
occupies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Lions Club Entertdins
High School Gridders

The Bluffton High School football
squad and managers were the guests
of the Lions Club at dinner Tuesday
night. Dan Dillon of the Ohio State
coaching staff was the speaker of
the evening. He emphasized that
Ohio State was greatly concerned
about the character development of
their players and good sportsman
ship and honesty as the best policy
for each athlete. He cited Les Hor-
vath for his unselfish calling of
plays for his team.
Pictures of the Ohio State-Michi-
gan game of 1914 and the Ohio
ate-Wisconsin game this year were
shown to an appreciative audience.
About thirty athletes enjoyed the
evening with about the same num-
Der of Lions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Organization To Sponsor Community
Projects May Be Formed Wednesday

club that functioned here years ago
will be an outgrowth of the session.
Community clubs, businesses, or
ganizations, industries, ETC., designat-
ed in II groups of interests, have
been asked to have representatives
at Wednesdays gathering.
Interests represented will include
industry, labor, church, business
men, youth organizations, govern
ment, service and clubs, financial,
educational, health and farm groups.
Anyone unaffiliated with organiza.
tions but interested in the movement
also is invited to attend.
Letters explaining the purpose oi
the meeting have been forwarded tc
all interests by a committee consist
ing of Rev. v. c. Oppermann, presi
dent of the citizens committee; A., J
B. Longsdorf, its secretary; Ernes
Smith, N. E. Byers and Harry F
Barnes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Victory Loan Total Here Short OF
Quota AS Drive Enters Final Week
Canvass i'm Bluffton Will Of
fically Close Saturday
Night
Bonds For Christmas Gifts MAY
Boost Total Now Below
$4,000

Victory Loan bond sales still were
tagging below the $4,000 mark this
week, altho buying of bonds as
Christmas presents is beginning to
swell the volume.
Final reports in house-to-house So
licitation of the town will be made
to Drive Chairman N. A. Triplett
early next week, and captains of the
10 zones into which the village has
been divided are completing their
phase of the work this week.
Heavier individual purchases are
urged if Bluffton is to again meet
its quota, but quite a bit of impetus
is expected to be added to tagging
sales as the buying of bonds for
Christmas gifts reaches its peak.
Lets Finish The Job," slogan for
the eighth war loan drive, empha-
sizes the need of additional funds to
bring men in uniform back home, re-
habilitate the wounded, for veterans
benefits, etc.
All sales during the first week o.
December are credited toward The
Victory Loan total, and the drive
will officially close Saturday night
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06

Formation of an active community
group to sponsor and support pro-
iects beneficial to the general well
fare of Bluffton and the surround
ing area is expected to come out of
an open meeting at 7:30 p. m. this
Wednesday in the Bluffton High
school cafeteria.
Invited to the session are repre-
sentatives of all community inter-
ests, to whom will be presented a
proposed plan of organization draft
ed by the Citizens Advisory COM
mittee, which recently completed its
work in support of renewal of the
three-mill school levy.
Need for a central organization to
lend unified support to measures of
benefit to the community, its schools,
etc., will be discussed at the meet
ing. 1t is hoped that permanent
group similar to the old community
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
-FOUR BLUFFTON
area men IN DRAFT
CALL THIS MONTH
Draft Board No. 3 Notifies Ten
Inductees To Report For
Armed Forces
Seven Others From BlufftOn
District Will Take Preinduc-
tion Physical Exams

Four Bluffton area residents will
be inducted into the armed forces in
the December call of Allen County
Draft Board No. 8, and seven others
from the district will report for pre-
induction physical examinations.
Inductees, who have passed physi-
cal examinations, include Gordon
Arthur Bixel Jr., 1876 Spring street;
Herbert Ray Luginbuhl, 137 w.
Kibler street; John E. Finn, Route
8, Columbus Grove, and Dale E.
Kempher, Route /, Lafayette.
Among those who will take pre-
induction physicals during the
month are seven from this area
Russell V. Suter, Lincoln hall; Robert
ID. Shelly, Lincoln hall ;Charles A
Tripplehorn, 554 S. Main street;
Harold E. Weaver, Route 2, Bluff
ton; Jaes Fedele, Lafayette Route 2;
Arnold Bailey, Lafayette Route 1,
and Howard Spallinger, Lafayette
Route 1.
In addition to the four Bluffton
area men to be inducted, six others
will include Clarence Prince and
Frederick Foust, both of Elida;
Vernon Clevenger, Conner; Harry
Snyder, Billy Lauck and John Cuth-
bert, all of near Lima.
Other registrants in a group OF
% who will report for preinductior
physicals are Victor Sherrick, Elida;
Richard Swift, Delphos; Louis Tay-
lor, James Burden, Paul Hunt
Lawrence King, Leroy Weaver, Johr
Cottrell, all of Lima; Raymond Gill
Harrod; William Arthur, Conner
and Herbert Fought, Spencerville.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Citation For Action
In Naval Emergency

For his enterprise in organizing
emergency medical relief when his
ship was struck by Japanese dive
bombers, Lowell Dean Powell, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Powell of
Orange township has received a
naval citation.
Powell, recently discharged after
27 months service is at his home
near Bluffton.
The citation followed an attack on
his ship, the aircraft carrier Bunker
Hill. With no medical officer avail
able because of intervening fire,
Powell, a pharmacists mate directed
medical treatment and first aid relief
during the emergency altho much of
the ship was without lights and fill
ed with smoke and gases. AS a
result "many lives were saved, the
citation stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Masonic Officers
To Be Installed

New officers of the Bluffton
Masonic lodge will be installed at
next Mondays meeting, with Past
Master Armin Hauenstein serving as
installing officer and Past Master
Donavin B. Conrad as grand mar
shall.
Officers of the organization for
the coming year include: Bertrand
Swank, master; Robert Niswander,
senior warden; Ben Shafer, junior
warden; Kenneth Schaublin, senior
deacon; Eugene Wells, junior deacon;
Ralph T. Stearns, secretary; DR..
Evan Basinger, treasurer; Ben Whis-
ler, tyler; Arden Baker, trustee;
Wilbur Amstutz, senior steward;
Edgar Cook, junior steward; Arden
Baker, chaplain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Hold County Peace
Contest On Sunday

Six winners in Bluffton Prince of
Peace defamation local contests will
appear in county contests to be held
Sunday night. The contests will be
held at Conner in the morning at
10:45 and in the evening in Lima at
Wesley Methodist church and the
Church of the Brethren at 1880
O'Clock.
The following from Bluffton will
appear as principals: Catherine
Bohn, Eleanor Linden, June Hauen-
stein, Elmer Stonehill, Joan Clark
and Mary Kathryn Bauman.
Alternates are: Imogene Wenger,
Anne McGinnis, Margaret Groman,
Sara Jane Huser, Margaret Groman,
and Alice Pannabecker.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Music Program At
High School Sunday

Bluffton high school band, orches-
ira and chorus will present pro-
gram of Christmas music in the
auditorium Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock. The band and orchestra
will be under direction of Carl Twin
ing of Findlay, instructor in instru-
mental music.
The chorus, directed by Miss Har-
riet Brate will present a cantata,
Christ is Born" Soloists are Anne
McGinnis, Margaret Diller, Louise
Soldner, Mary Bauman, Ferol Alt
haus. Imogene Wenger, Betty Bixel,
Jean Burkholder, Ray Follas, Elden
Beery, Elmer Stonehill and James
Howe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
MAY DROP WINTER
FAIR HERE DUE TO
LACK OF HOUSING
Exhibit This Year is Cancelled
Because of Lack of Accom-
modations.
Future of Buttons Fair Will
Depend on Developments, Say
Officials.

Buttons Mid Winter fair has been
cancelled for this year, officials an
nounced the first of the week and ad-
ded that whether the fair would be
held in future years will depend upon
developments.
The annual exhibit dropped since
1941 because of wartime conditions is
not being held this year because of
lack of suitable buildings to house the
various exhibits, officials stated.
The announcement was made fol-
lowing the annual election of direc-
tors held last Saturday night. The
fair usually is held the first week of
December and this ordinarily would
have been fair week.
Directors Discuss Prospects
1t was admitted that there exists
definite possibility that future fairs
here will be dropped and that the sit
uation has been discussed by the fair
board.
However it was decided to keep the
organization intact for another year
in hope of developments which will
permit resumption of the fair.
Directors elected Saturday night
for a three year term are: Hiram
Kohl, Edgar Herr, Ben Amstutz and
Clyde Klingler.
Officers of the fair board reelected
for the coming year are:
President, Hiram Kohl; vice pres,
Albert Winkler; secretary, Harry F.
Barnes; treasurer, Ray Marshall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
START EXCAVATION
FOR new PICTURE
THEATRE BUILDING
Completion of New, Modern
Show Room Expected
BY Early Spring
Auditorium VIII Be Three
Times As Large AS !.
Present Show

Excavation for Buttons new
$4,000 theatre is under way this
week, and construction of the new
freproof structure will proceed on a
schedule that should permit its
completion by early spring, it was
announced Tuesday by George Car
mack, local theatre operator who is
erecting the structure in the ex-
pansion of his motion picture inter-
ests here.
Contract for excavation work is
held by the Kohl Construction Co.,
of Lima. Harry Melicle, Bluffton
contractor, will put up the building.
Of one-story brick and cement
block construction, the new theatre
will have no basement, but excava-
ton is required for the foundation
and also for the sloping-type floor
required in show house construction.
+ Site for the new motion picture
house adjoins Carmack's two-story
business building on: South Main
street, occupied by theAA and P food
store. It's architecture land materials
used for construction viii match that
of the present building to which it
will be attached.
Air Conditioned
With a seating capacity of 400,
the new theatre will have an au-
ditorium about three times as large
as that provided by the present Star
theatre, also operated by Carmack,
1t will be modern in every respect
including all new equipment, and the
building will be air-cooled and air.
conditioned.
The show house will have front
age on Main street of 3sas feet, and
it will be 135 feet deep. Its auditor
ium will be acousticalnT treated, anc
it will be constructed to make pos.
sible the projection of televisior
when it is made available.
Heat for the new theatre will be
provided by the heating plant in the
present Carmack building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. David Reichenbach,
Col. Grove, a boy, Douglas Alan,
Thursday.
Pvt. and Mrs. Glen Seyer, Bluff
ton, girl, Rowene Kaye, Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert K. Derrick
son, Rawson, boy, James Robert,
Monday.
1t. d. .g.) and Mrs. Don Wenger,
Bluffton, a girl, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Staley, La
fayette, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sims, Bluff
ton, boy, Roger Edwin, Tuesday.
Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Neuensch-
wander of Yoder, Ind, boy, Edgar
III, born October 20. Rev. Neuen-
schwander, formerly of Bluffton Is
pastor of the Missionary church at
Yoder.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
CHAS. EMANS new
CLERK OF BOARD
OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Named Tuesday Night to Sue
ceed Paul Augsburger Who
Resigned Position.
Leland Diller to Fill School
Board Clerkship Resigned by
Augsburger.

Paul Augsburger has resigned his
position as clerk of the Board of Pub
lie Affairs and the vacancy will be
filled by Charles Emans it was an
nounced following a meeting of the
board Tuesday night at which time
Augsburger's resignation was accept
ed.
Augsburger submitted his resigna-
tion to the board last Friday, it was
learned, and asked that it become eff
fective Immediately. He agreed, how
ever, to continue in office until after
the monthly electric current collec-
tion period which will close next
Tuesday.
Nervousness aggravated by the du-
ties of his office was attributed by
Augsburger as the cause of his de-
cision to resign. He has announced
no plans for the future.
Augsburger also resigned his po-
sition as clerk of the Board of Edu-
cation. Official acceptance of his res
ignation will await the boards month
1y meeting next Monday night.
However, Ralph Lanham, superin-
tendent of schools stated the first of
the week that Leland Diller the form
er clerk, would assume the duties of
the office until January /, at which
time the board elected last November
will take office and a permanent clerk
will be named.
Altho Augsburger will continue as
clerk of the Board of Public Affairs
until December 15, Emans reported at
the boards office on Vine street We'd
nesday morning to become familiar
with the duties which include collec-
tion of water and light service as well
as other records and books of Bluff
tons municipal utility plant.
Emans is War Veteran
Emans was recently discharged
from the Navy after three years SER
vice. He is a graduate of Bluffton
high school and spent year in Bluff
ton college. Before being called into
Naval service he was employed at the
plant of the Triplett company here
He and his family reside on Riley
street.
Augsburger, also war veteran be-
came clerk of the Board of Public At
fairs, August 1, succeeding Edgar
Hauenstein who resigned. He also
became clerk of the Board of Educa-
tion on November /, succeeding Le-
land Diller who resigned.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
FINDLAY YOUTH
TRIO CONFESSES
R0BBERIES HERE
Admit Breaking Into BlufftOn
Store i'm Raid Last Wednes-
day Night
Police Expect to Clear Up Other
Burglaries in Arrest of
Juveniles

Arrest of three Findlay youths at
that place last week cleared up two
Bluffton burglaries, and authorities
found in the confessions of those
held belief that all of the wave of
robberies occurring here during the
summer and early fall may have
been committed by the out-of-town
ring.
So far 1T burglaries in Bluffton,
Findlay, Lima, McComb and Cygnet
have been admitted by the youths,
with the loot including nearly ST00
in cash, $125 in checks and mis-
cellaneous assortment of mer-
chandise.
Bluffton depredations admitted by
the trio included the midnight loot.
ing of the Risser Sandwich shop two
months ago which netted only $5 in
change, and burglary last Wednes-
day of the Ruff 5 and 10 Cent Store
which they said produced $50. How
ever Ralph Patterson, manager OF
the Ruff establishment said nothing
was missing, according to police
here.
Authorities believe the same group
is responsible for other local rob-
berries, including two burglaries OF
the Hi-Speed filling station on North
Main street, operated by Dick
Habegger; the Rosebowl, North
Main street beer and tobacco estab-
lishment, and the Community Mar.
ket, operated by Zelma ingalls,.
Burglaries confessed by the trio
date back to last June Is, when they
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Pre- Christmas Activities Herald
Approach Of Holiday Season Here
Pre-War Street
Lighting Again In
Down Town Area

QLUFFT0N'S business district
will be illuminated this year
with ornamental lighting for the
first time since 1911.
Installation of arches across
Main street was being made We'd
nesday by linemen from the mu-
nicipal plant and the vari-colored
lights will be in operation Satur-
day night.
Ornamental street lighting, GUS
tomary in Bluffton during the
holiday season for many years,
was discontinued during the war
i'm order to conserve electric cur
rent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
World Peace Speaker
At College Tuesday

DR.. Albert Palmer, president of
Chicago Theological seminary will
speak in the interest of world peace
in a lecture in the Bluffton college
chapel, next Tuesday night at 8:3t
o'clock. His subject will be Wanted
"A Code for Victors."
DR.. Palmer, an author, also served
with the Y. NJ. c. A. in Siberia DUR
ing the First World War and later
was pastor of church at Honolulu,
Hawaii.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Pfc. John StOnehiLL
Back From Europe

Pfc. John Stonehill has arrived in
New York after 10 months service
in Europe, according to word re-
ceived by his wife, the former
Meredith Burkholder and his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Stone
hill. He will receive his Army dis
charge at Indiantown Gap, Pa.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Steers Of Two Bluffton Area BOYS
Place At Chicago Livestock Show

the nation with Shorthorn and also
sixth with a Hereford, both highly
competitive groups.
Bassett, pupil in Lafayette high
school placed fourteenth among al
club boys of the United States in the
highly competitive black cattle di-
vision. The grand champion steer
was chosen from this division.
The animals were sold Wednesday
at the colorful auction of All club
cattle which features the exposition
each year. Top winning steers in
variably command fancy prices.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06

Two boys of the Bluffton district
placed in keen competition at the
Chicago Fat Stock show, it was an
nouced Tuesday.
The boys are Arthur Neuensch-
wander son of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Neuenschwander residing west of
Bluffton and James Bassett, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Bassett of
near Lafayette. Both are All club
members.
Young Neuenschwander, a sopho-
more in Bluffton high school won
two steer awards, placing sixth in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Veteran Is Back
From OUerSeaS

Mrs. Robert Barkimer has received
word that her husband, Cpl. Bark
inner has arrived in New York after
16 months service in Europe. He
will join his wife and daughter here
after receiving his Army discharge.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Barkimer of Columbus Grove.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Ebenezer Group To
Lead SingspirdtiOn

A group from the Ebenezer Mem
MONTE church directed by Waldo
Hofstetter will lead the singspira-
tion services at the Defenseless Men
MONTE church, Sunday night at 9
o'clock. Some special numbers have
been arranged it was stated by the
pastor, Rev. Stanley Rupp.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Donald McCdferty
Released By Army

Pfc. Donald McCafferty, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl McCafferty, living
south of Bluffton returned home Fri
day after receiving his discharge
from the Army at Indiantown Gap,
Pa.
He entered the armed forces
September /, 1912 and spent 27
months overseas with the 36th
General Hospital in Africa, Italy and
France,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Veteran To Enroll
In Aviation School

Staff Sgt. ROLAND Lehman, re-
Gently discharged from the Army is
now at Nashville, Tenn, with his
wife and the couple will spend the
holidays with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. G. Lehman of Lima, form
er Bluffton residents.
Staff Sgt. Lehman was in the
service for ST months, 80 of which
were spent overseas in the Fiji Is
lands, New Hebrides, Philippines
and Japan.
After the holidays he expects to
take a college course in aviation.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
Sgt. Rudy Wilkins
Home From Arnau

Sgt. Rudy Wilkins, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John wilkins of Cherry
street has received his discharge
from the Army and returned home
recently. He was in service over
four years, 36 months of which were
spent in the China a-Burma-India
theatre of war.