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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Blu MPER WHEAT.
HARVEST EXPECTED
HERE THIS SEASON
Farmers Who Ordinarily Sell
AS Grain is Harvested May
Have to Store This Year
Heavy Yield and Rail Conges-
ton Expected To Make I'm
mediate Shipping Impossible

This summers wheat harvest, ex-
pected to reach record proportions
in the Bluffton area, will provide a
new problem for farmers-that of
finding adequate storage space for
most of the grain on the farm
premises.
Rejecting anticipation of a
bumper crop, wheat on the
BIufrton market dropped eight
cents Wednesday morning, being
quoted at S1.60 bushel. The
former price which held steady
ali.espring was. Sl.6S.
While wheat farmers are putting
their equipment into shape for har.
vest of what at this stage appears
to be one of the best crops or
record, they also are busily engaged
in preparing storage facilities at
home because of an anticipated
congestion in grain elevators al
shipping points during the harvest
season.
That railroad facilities will be
overtaxed once the local harvest gets
under way is based on the situation
which developed in Kansas this year
when growers We're forced to dump
their wheat on the ground because
of lack of freight cars to move
the crop.
Farmers Prepare Storage Facilities
Following the widespread publici-
ty dealing with conditions in Kansas
local farmers are preparing for a
possible repetition of that situation
by getting their granaries in shape
and by enlarging storage facilities
to handle the expected bumper crop
Little storing ordinarily is done
in this district, for most farmers
haul the bulk of their crop direct
to the elevator as threshing OF
combining is completed, thus elimin-
ating extra handling.
This summer however, a bottle
neck in shipping facilities would
result in more grain being stored on
farms than in many year.
Unusually favorable weather con-
ditions thruout the winter and spring
months have doomed wheat pros
poets, and many farm observers re-
port that the yield will be the best
on record, and certainly better thar
average.
Covered by deep snow thruout the
winter, the wheat was not exposed
to winds and the customary freezing
and thawing which exposes roots
and affects the crop. In the early
spring there was plenty of moisture
to give the crop an early start.
Practically all fields have grown
fence tall and rank, and farmer.
say the straw will be the heavies
in years. Harvesting machinery
which is old and already much
repaired, will be taxed in handling
the heavy growth.
Unless weather conditions chang'
materially the wheat harvest will
be later than in several past sea
sons, and very little grain will b,
cut before the Fourth of July.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
.a,. Bond Drive
At $1,000 Mark

With 10 more days of sales to be
credited toward the Seventh War
Loan Drive, Buttons campaign to
raise 100000 was over the top by
$4,000 Tuesday afternoon.
Indications at present are that ag-
gregate bond sales for the town will
top the S130,000 mark by the time
the drive is concluded on June 80,
Co-Chairmen N. A. Triplett and M.
III. Bogart said.
House-to-house solicitation has
been completed, and final reports by
captains in charge of sales in 10
zones viii be made within the next
week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
IO4 Attend Vacation
Bible School Here

Buttons daily vacation Bible
school opened Monday with an at
tendance of 104, it was stated by
Rev. Stanley Rupp, pastor Of the
Defenseless Mennonite church.
Late registrations are expected to
increase this total materially. At
tendance last year was 130.
Glasses are held in the morning
from Monday thru Friday at the
Grade school building for two weeks.
In charge of the school is Rev.
Paul Rupp of Bradley, Ind, who di-
rected the school here last year. He
is a brother Of Rev. Stanley Rupp.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Honor Veteran Home
From German Prison

Honoring Pvt. Murray Shulaw of
Lafayette, home from a German
prison camp where he was held for
% months, a family reunion was
held at the home of his brother, C..
B. Shulaw of Lafayette, Sunday.
Among those from a distance who
were present were: Czernia, Earl
and Ora Shulaw of Lawrenceville,
Ill, who visited relatives in Bluffton
and vicinity and Mr.. and Mrs. Amial
Shulaw and Mrs. Gladys Shulaw of
Middletown.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Sgt. Richard OberIy
Home From Germany

Staff Sgt. Richard Oberly, son of
Millard Oberly, of Cherry street, re-
leased from German prison camp
in the closing days of the European
war, arrived home last Saturday for
a so days furlough.
Sgt. Oberly, gunner on Flying
Fortress, was captured by the Ger
mans when his bomber was forced
down over Hungary while limping
back to its base in Italy after having
been damaged over Berlin.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Reunions

Annual Owens school reunion will
be held Slnday, June "a at Richland
Grange hall. Pres, Russell Huber;
Sec, Kathryn Bell.
The annual Schaublin reunion will
be held at the Buckeye lake Sunday,
June Oath. Raymond Schaublin,
president.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Leave For Pacific Coast

David Anderson and Harold Main
of the Merchant Marine who were
stationed since last spring at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, left Wednesday
for the Pacific coast after a two
weeks leave at their homes here.
Anderson is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Anderson and Main the son
of Mrs. Brice Main, all of Orange
township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
SLASH IN SUGAR
WILL HIT HOME
FRUIT CANNING
Few Housewives i'm Bluffton
Area Received Early 20
Pound Allotment
Canning of Vegetables Now Re-
quiring Sugar is Expected
to be Good

Home canning of fruits which re-
quire sugar is practically out of the
question this year for housewives in
the Bluffton area who had not re-
ceived canning rations before a dras-
tic cut in allotments was announced
last week by the OPA.
Denied of all but meagre amount
of canning sugar, many households
will of necessity do less canning this
season than in many years, altho the
government is appealing for more
home canning to relieve wartime
pressure on food professors.
Plans for canning which require
sugar had to be abandoned by house.
wives who will receive only FIVE
pounds of sugar per person for their
household under the latest cut in
canning allotments, which started at
20 pounds per person and later was
cut to Is.
FEW GET 20 POUND ALLOTMENT
An informal local canvass this
week disclosed that comparatively
few Bluffton households have re-
ceived the maximum allotment of 20
pounds of sugar per person, and
more than two-thirds of the area
residents still are awaiting canning
sugar rations.
This tends 10 bear out the -conten-
tion of local housewives that the ma
jority of early allotments of sugar on
the 20 and 15-pound basis went to
city residents who could apply in per-
son to their ration boards.
In contrast, residents of smaller
towns and rural districts, obliged to
use the more inconvenient method of
applying by mail, did not get their
applications in early enough to bene-
fit from the larger allotments.
Another source of dissatisfaction
was the fact that 0PA announce.
ments had advised housewives NOT e
make application for canning sugar
until they had fruit to can, and
many who complied with that re-
quest will receive only the minimum
sugar allotment.
CRY RESIDENTS Ger MAXIMUM,
BELIEF
Observers see this situation as one
which will greatly restrict the en-
tire canning program, inasmuch as
in the cities where maximum allot-
ments of sugar have been released,
fruit will be scarce and high in
price. In the country and small
towns where fruit is plentiful and
reasonable in price comparatively
little sugar will be available. -
Canning of vegetables, however.
which require little or no sugar.
probably will be above normal here
this year, providing the supply is
adequate.
Allen county had issued so per
cent of its sugar allotment to only
one-third of the prospective home
Gamers before the last cut in ra-
tions was made, it was announced
last week, with the result that a
maximum of five pounds per person
is all that can be expected by those
who have not yet received their cam
ming sugar.
The sugar future has been describ-
ed as dismal because the sugar
beet crop, which had figured heavily
in the ALLEGATION schedule, has suf-
fered badly from adverse weather
this spring.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21

Work done at the Northern
Regional Research Laboratory,
Peoria, Illinois, indicates that about
80 to 95 gallons of motor fuel can
be manufactured from a ton of corn
cobs or of cottonseed hulls. Half the
volume of fuel is in the form of
ethyl alcohol. The manufacturing
process will be further tested on a
semi-commercial scale.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Delmore Clouse,
Bluffton, a girl, Carol Diane, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Isabel Vargas, of
near Mt. Cory, a girl, Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs Carl Simon, Ada, a
girl, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Motter, a
boy, Wednesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Light Plant To Buy
NelU Feed Pump

Purchase of new $3.50 pump to
feed water for the boilers at the
municipal light plant and water
works was authorized Monday night
at a meeting of the Bluffton council.
The pump will be bought by the
Board of Public Affairs, which is in
charge of operation of the plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
Seriously Ill

Don West, 40, formerly of Bluffton
and son of Fletch West, is seriously
ill at Hines Veterans hospital in
Chicago, according to word received
here the first of the week. He has
been a patient at the veterans hos
pital in Chicago for some time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-21
To Collect Taxes
Here July 2 And )

Deputy from the Allen county
treasurer's office will be at the Citi-
zens bank here for collection of real
estate taxes on Monday and Tuesday,
July 2 and 8.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
.Jeep. BUSTERS
BY LARRY McMANUS

jeep was gone. They began frantic
search that ended only when the
general CHANGED to look overhead
There. swinging gently from cargo
boom, was a jeep. Even as it was
lowered into a forward hatch, the
general scrambled back up the gang
plank. He raced down the deck to
the hoist operator. an imperturb-
able boatswain's mate.
Without word, the bosun stopped
his winch, reversed his gears. and
foated the jeep back down on
the pier.
Slow ON the Hoist
A MISTAKE, the Navy said. The
men thought the jeep was part of
the ships cargo. Apologies were
made and accepted. although both
parties realized that the only mis-
take was that of the bosun in not
being faster man with hoist.
Ordinarily, though, the Navy got
its jeep. There was the submarine
crew which acquired jeep and,
finding little use for it, traded it
to larger ship for five gallons of
ice cream.
And there was the chief petty
officer who managed to transfer a
jeep from Kwajalein to Honolulu.
More than year later. he was still
driving his ROLLER skate" while in
port and housing it in girl friends
garage while at sea.
He had the car serviced and re-
fueled at Navy stations without
question, and bithely permitted
the attendants to register the serial
number painted on his jeep's hood.
What no one ever discovered was
that the number cleaning so boldly
on the chiefs jeep was his girl
friends phone number.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Every time the Army
turned its back, the
Navy would 'liberate"
another vehicle

DURING the war it was automatic
IL that no one needed an Army
jeep as much as the man who didn't
have one.
The reasons for this paradox were
numerous. but hardly so interesting
as the methods employed by the
have-nots to rectify the evil. Briefly.
these we're based on a friendly and
informal system of borrowing with
out the knowledge of the lender.
Army men grew very skillful at this
pastime, but to hear them tell it. the
Navy's ability bordered on genius.
There was, for instance, the in
spired Seabee unit which hid an
Army jeep on tiny. overcrowded
Eniwetok atoll until its owners
shipped out. This feat, comparable
to hiding a bass drum in phone
booth, was accomplished by COW
ering the jeep with tarpaulin and
then with sand until it looked like
just another filled-in Jap pillbox.
They Got Stung
AT LEAST once, however, the Navy
got stung. This was when an Army
general boarded a ship at Pearl Har-
Dor to bid unit of his men good-by.
His driver. a law-abiding It's. felt
like a smoke while waiting and, no.
ticing a number of NO SMOKING signs
about. left the jeep near the gang
plank and retired to a smoking area.
When the general and the TVS re-
turned to their parking space, the
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01

Imagination puts science To
work To make sure that B-29
engines won't fail their crews
over Japan - or that your
car won't fail you ON the road.
When no known measuring
devices could check the quality of
BIO engine gears. our scientists
developed n way tO make
chemicals do the measuring!
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01

Strange chemicals-invisible atoms-sounds
you can't hear-light YOU can't see-science
and Imagination turn these curiosities TO
use at Chrysler Corporation, to improve
products or reduce costs.
Applied with Imagination, our practical
research in chemistry, physics or metaliurgy
pays of in better war materials - or more
useful and seryiceable cars and trucks.
This inventive Imagination leads us to
many car improvements - the combination
of Fluid Drive and Floating Power, for
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01

AiRTEhP
Heating, Cooling, Refrigeration
CHRYSLER
Marine end Industrial Engines
OillTe
Powdered Metal Products
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01

example, that brings you such smooth per-
formance and economical maintenance.
Such useful Imagination is the directing
force at Chrysler Corporation. Its influence,
like all our methods and experience, is
applied to all our products.
To-day, practical imagination is at tcork
on guns, tanks, rockets, B.29 engines and
other wdr products zoe build in large guam
Hty. When peace comes, it will again inn
prove the comfort, service and performance
of the cars and trucks We make for you.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
Coiro Gong Chief Caught In Egypt
By SAREYR D. SOUKI United Press Stan C0rfeSnOndentl

United Press stan C0rrespondentl
 Cairo, Aug. 22.-(UP)--A tWo- year-old Maurice de Ia Bruyere. deserter from the South African Army and leader of a notorious band of international thieves, ended in Alexandria when the Egyptian police finally caught up with him.
 Handsome and speaking several languages, de la Bruyere gathered around him thieves of all nations that the fortunes or misfortunes of war landed in Egypt. His knowl- edge of army supply bases enabled him to lift substantial quantities of materials which he sold to black narketeers. He often added some officers ''pips" to his uniform to help ease his way into some sup- ply depot.
 His gang included several vet eran smugglers who would sneak the loot out of the country to sell 1t in the neigfboring states.
 Seen in Hotels and Clubs
 The youthful gentleman-b burglar was always well-dressed and had apparently been mistaken for a wealthy young Egyptian. He was often seen in the leading hotels and swank nightclubs of Cairo and Alexandria. usually sporting a fez, spending money lavistly and driv- ing up in sleek-looking cars. Then he would disappear for some weeks and everyone presumed the rich young man had gone back to his farms.
 He had several hide-outs in both Cairo and Alexandria, and for more than two years managed to evade the police and the British military authorities whenever they scented his trail. With time, he got more daring and staged several burglaries on wealthy Egyptians. Then followed armed attacks.
 Recently the police trailed him to the home of an Italian family. They surrounded the house and broke in. De la Bruyere after putt ting up 8 short fight, was hand- cuffed, and then to police head- quarters. Several of his accom- plices were also rounded up, but there are still a few loose.
 1t is believed that the gang has made tens of thousands of pounds profit out of the loot they sold to black marketeers. Police officials say that investigation will probably reveal that de la Bruyere's gang was probably responsible for sew eral unsolved crimes and assaults.
 De le Bruyere joined the South African Army at Durban in Febru- ary, 194l, and shortly after was shipped to Egypt where he worked for a year in a tank repair work shop. He deserted a year later and that was the last his comrades heard of him. All British military police outposts had his photo graph. describing his appearance and the fact he often wore . tarboush (fez).
 For two years the young chief of this international gang skill fully plotted and carried out thefts. He apparently hoped through his knowledge of languages to go to Eu- rope as . returning refugee and live the rest of his life Hitting through the capitals of Europe and America.
 It looks as if the only things he now will see Is prison cell and q firing squad. r,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
ENGLIsH-sPEAKNG PROJECT

Invitation to Music' offers ar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
RetaEicns Enioy Addfess 0n 0fex

Uses of latex an1 ofllef Hyilthetic rubber were described by ". M
 Achilles, Chicago rubber expert, al a meeting Of the Rotary club yes- terday at The Elton. MT. Achilles, who Is In the research and develop uent department Of the .. s. Rub Der O., spoke on the topic, "Syns thetic Rubber and It's Applicati ton in Tires Former Gov. Charles A. TenpIeton introduced the speaker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
Truck Ronns Won1on s Car

Joseph Martino, g, Devore street, Brooklyn, N. Y, was arrested yester- day afternoon by Motor Patrolman Matthew Guarini, on charges of vio- iation of the rules of the road.
 The officer reported that Martino, driving a truck owned by the Royal Warehouse Corp, Brooklyn, backed his truck across Cherry street, near East Main street, and struck car driven by Elizabeth Carosella, Bur- ton street.
 The accident resulted in damage 10 the Carosella car of the front door, both windows and the entire right side. The truck was damaged slightly on the rear tail board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
'WAVEL. FITS
 BY BILL HARRINGTON

k
 Sally Moore sings Amour, viens alder from Saint-Saens' opera Samson and Delilah" on her pro- gram tonight over VERY at 6:3O o'clock. The balance of the pro- gram consists of Handel,s "Omhra mai flu" and "Homings by Del Riego. Miss Moore is assisted by the Co., lumbia Concert orchestra under the direction of Alfredo Antonini.
 Art Linkletter, who is noted as an expert ad-lib artist, was out ad- libbed by a five year old girl who was 8 recent guest on his VERY House Party" program. Linkletter asked the little girl when she was born.
 "On my birthday" the youngster quickly replied.
 Brian Aherne, as Simon Templar, title role Of "The Saint" is of on another mystery-adventure of mur- der and intrigue, tonight over VERY at 800 o'clock. Louise Arr thur plays The Saints girl-friend, Patricia Holmes: Ken Christy plays 'Hoppy" Uniatz. William Robson directs the program; Leslie Char teris colalborates on the scripts. .
 William Bradford Huie, well- known foreign correspondent and rowing editor of the American Mer- cury Magazine will preside over the romance round-table on the broad cast of Leave It To The Girls to- night at 10:30 o'clock over WOR.
 Ready to defend their standing as experts on matters of love and TO- nance will be Broadway's popular Columnist, Dorothy Kilgallen; Ro- bin Chandler. assistant to John Ro- bert Powers; Eloise McElhone, cover girl, and, as guest, Frances Robin son, stage and scvreen star.
 sInvitation to Music" offers an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22

Who remembers the old days when sweet young H6ses spent their leisure hours Of August after e4 nfter the h0use Aufies were eaned sttng ln the sfe ef ebe oi4 aple tree (of maple ns the planting E'kI De} ia fhe backyard, hemmng plIIow eases, dDb '3#4|4. ek reading '.khe CFleAsv HNfnuofaFkv sThe N zA< Qf HnYH of "Yhe vfeln'an"7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22

Austin, Tex. (uP- With g picked school teachers from the Rio Grande Valley, the University of Texas is conducting q summer course in teaching six-year-old children of spanish-speaking parents to speak English.
 The project. supported partly by the once of Inter-American Affairs, is to devise teaching meth ods for Spanish-speaking children who come to schools where instruc- tion is all in English. z
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22

Fergus c. Fay, former local resident, member of we'll known family, now residing in Helena, Mont, is happy grandfather his first grandchild, born to It. Fergus Cruse Fay H. is getting his first view of Army
 life in Phoenix Ariz where his dad s attached in- suctor to Luke Field Fergus Fay senior who married Miss Gertrude C0ughan also of this city was former proprietor and owner of what called The Phelan Tea store East Main street The family have been
 living for many years in Helena have three all in the U. S. Army Air Forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
SOUND DETECTS POCKETS

Sound waves are now used to detect air pockets in rocket-pow- Ger grains. If pockets are left in the grains, they might cause the rocket to fall short of its target. Frequency of waves used is so high that they cannot be heard by hu- man ear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
dlssif fae turing clo Plans Moss aafin6

O. !. o. members of the Water bury Mig division of the chase Brass and Copper CO. will hold . Mass meeting arranged hy Local 56b tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at Con- cordia han, according to an an. nouncement by James McGrath, president. Plans for re-employmert of recently displaced workers VIII be explained, and q discussion will De conducted on seniority rights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
COP Committee To Meet Friday

Members of the Republican Town Committee will meet at the Central Y. M. c. A. Friday nigth at 8 o'clock to consider selection of a successor to Vernon L. Hall, chairman Mir. Hall turned in his resignation last winter and is now serving in an acting capacity.
 Dates are expected to be set at the meeting for the primary and city convention. and discussion will be conducted on prospective candi- dates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
and Madeline.

The aptitude for comedy that service men display on the Bob Hawk show, Thanks to the Yanks'' gives rise to the idea the postwar world will be peopled with funny men. Each Monday night during the past year has found a soldier, sailor or marine tying the audience in knots with fast and humorous com fnent. Take Sgt. Robert Rickel of Hillside, N. J., for instance, who .ap- peared recently. When Hawk asked: What's the difference between kissing your sister and kissing your girl2" the soldier flashed, Fifteen minutes"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22

Japs who used to operate neigh- borhood laundries in Lima, Peru. have been called to the colors and the city badly needs g steam laun- dry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-22
Good Evening.
ENCoRE-THAT BARBER SHOP CHORD
pY 11Ir MAN lN rHs rowER

E ENCORE-THAT BARBER SHOP CHORD
 rtem Society for Preservation of Barber mop quartet Singing Lifts Ban on Sweet Adene Bar Room sltty, eo-Caled).
 when the Barber Shop Quartet sang Sweet Adeline
 By the Old Mil Stream in the Good Old Summer Time,
 The boys would gather round every night to sing, Harmonzing proper their voices would ring.
 The Barber Shop Quartet those flat straw nats
 while they warbled on in sharpS and flats.
 There little chance for Adeine to pine
 With Me, you remember, and the World Is Mine
 good to recall those harmonizing boyS An Sweet Mystery of Life one of their joys when the Barber Shop Quartet sang Sweet Adenne By the old Mill Stream in the Good Old Summer Time! Na ss - FEM EM.