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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Girl Hurt By Unruly
Horse

Janice Jones, a, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Irwin Jones of Dunkirk,
was reported in a serious condition
with a head wound suffered at the
farm of her uncle, Glenn Jones. The
girl was injured while the uncle was
attempting to quiet an unruly horse.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Rededicate Library

Leipsic's public library, recently
reopened in the village building, was
rededicated as a memorial to men
and women of the community in the
military forces.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Light Vote Cost In
Lima Primary

w. L. Ferguson, incumbent, and
William v. Daley will be the candi-
dates for mayor of Lima it was
revealed here when the results of
the light vote in the non-partisan
city primary election were tabulated.
Only 6,160 voters went to the polls.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
KentOn Residents Plan
Civic improvements

Residents of the Kenton community
have proposed these projects for
community betterment:
Construction of a municipal park
and swimming pool, Identification of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
New Mark Set By Allen
County Bond Drive

Allen county scared over its goal
for the Seventh War Loan by
S6,844,217.50, almost two and one
half times the quota.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
TOmat0-Potat0 Plant

A potato plant which has produced
five tomatoes was reported at Del
phos by Mrs. Chris Suever. She
said the potatoes in the hill were
small.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

of the firm to the Ottawa Telephone
company for $4,000. The company's
petition said the fund campaign
probably would be successful.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Findlay Sailor Killed
In Accident

Marion Roosevelt Spence, 20, ship
filter second class, died in navy
hospital at Crane, Ind, as result
of motorcycle accident there.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09
Findlay Teacher To
Leave For Alaska

Kenneth S. Clem, president of the
Ohio Elementary Principals Associa-
tion, will leave for Anchorage,
Alaska, where he has taken a civil
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-08-09

Effective July %, government set
aside orders for pork were reduced
from rs per cent to Il per cent of
the live weight.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
The Senate Votes
On Breton Woods

suppose you were sitting at that round
table IN PotSdam when news of the Senate's
approval of the Breton Woods program
flashed round the world.
suppose that, moment before. YOU had
been thinking about the visit of President
wilson to Europe just after World War One.
Passage of the Breton Woods measure
would then mean something more than the
success OF efforts to set up an international
financial organization. You might feel that
the event must go far toward .erasing the
memory of worldwide disillusion which
followed President Wilson's sad experience
from Versailles to Pueblo Colorado, where
ne delivered that tragic, broken appeal to
the people of the United States in behalf
OF the League of Nations.
PARTICULARLY if you were a European
statesman, you might say that it looked
as II things would be different this time.
AND whatever President Truman said from
that moment onward would have more force
SO tar as you were concerned
For the Breton Woods issue tested the
strength not only of political isolationism
IN the United States, but of economic isola-
tlonlSm as well. 1t showed that there is
something of both left in American think
ing, even after the lesson of two world wars.
But 1t showed, too, that there is enough
American determination to cooperate for
peace to warrant other nations in taking
the United States promises, and the United
states views on world adjustments, very
seriously indeed
1t showed, in fact, that not even the dis
trust with which the New Deal was re-
garded by some powerful sections of Amer
lean opinion could becloud the issue of in
humans endorsement of the plan won
some friends which it did not have under
the Roosevelt Administration But if so, this
only strengthens the position of President
Truman in world councils.
1t may be that experience with the Bret
ton Woods program will disclose need for
revision at some points, as important bank
ing groups have held In the circumstances
1t seems better that these revisionS should
take place after the plan is in operation
than at time when they Nigh result in
indefinite poStponement, or even in the dis
card, OF SO important a phase of interna-
tional cooperation.
Efforts to stabilize currencieS and to pro-
vide loans for reconstruction of a war
damaged world must be part of any broader
program for developing world economy of
peace. At Breton Woods, as at San Fran
cisco, not more than good beginning was
achieved. But more important than the
technical land amendable) provisions of
either the Breton Woods plans or the Char
ter is the attitude the American people ex-
press toward these beginnings.
The Senate vote on Breton Woods says
in the sort OF voice the world can hear
that Americans have entered upon these
beginnings willing to take necessary risks
to see them through
Reprinted from the
Christian Science Monitor)
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
rs Years Ago in Wyandotte

of the best turnoutS in audiences
were present.
Only "dud" of the whole program
was the much publicized speaker
who turned out to be a very poor
speaker. Other than that the en-
tertainment was up to par.
The only excursion to Putin
Bay was held with the Marion Bax-
ter Lodge as sponsors of the trip.
A northbound street car ran into
a local merchants delivery rig and
injured the horse very severely so
that it had to be shot.
Several young business men Of
the city have met and formed an
AT Your Service" club and are
busy planning out activities for the
coming year.
An EcorSe home was ralded by
prohibition officers and found TO
contain $4,000 worth of bootlegged
liquor. The owner was arrested and
fined.
A city ordinance creating six vot-
ing booths in the city was intro
duced and passed at the recent
meeting.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Neafesf Trick
Of The Month

We have been watching the Germans
Can Do No-Wrong- They-Are-People-Ju
Like-Us" apologiStS in this country with
more than little interest and expectation
ever since the American Army over-ran the
Germans and exposed their revolving afro
cities, later confirmed and documented by
the Generals of the Army, visiting parties
OF Congressman and Senators and group
Of American editors and publishers We
have been wondering if and how they would
merge to come out in favor of atrocities
very difficult side to be caught on even for
an American NaZi lover.
We didn't think they could do it, but by
George they did, and we want to be the
first to congratulate them on the neatest
trick Of the month, if not for the whole
year of 1915.
The line they have been taking is that
after all the living skeletons, madmen and
tattered cadaverS found in Buchenwald,
Dauchau and other German recreation CEN
tiers were not Americans but only other
Germans, Russians, Poles, Belgians, Dutch,
Greeks, Norwegians, French, Jews, CzechS,
Jugo-Slavs, so what is all the shouting
about? These were not prisoners of war,
but just people the Germans didn't like.
Americans, except those who apparently
through some organiZational breakdown
were starved to shocking skeletons were
treated according to the Geneva Convention.
So you really cannot call what happened
to Jew, Pole, Belgian or Dutch Slave
laborer an atrocity, can you now? The mil
lions of starved, beaten, shot, hung, roasted,
eviscerated, flayed and roasted of Europe's
humanity were merely local politicoS who
erred in not seeing eye to eye with the
German government.
The boys putting out this engaging line
haven't yet managed to sweeten the odd
couple of hundred American prisoners
butchered in an open field by SIS Troopers
during the Bulge break-through. This yet
unexplained affair is a sort of untidy ap-
pendage which can hardly appeal to the
neat, methodical mind of the Naz-lover,
and we hasten to suggest to them that it
was merely boyish prank, the natural ex-
uberance of a strong and healthy soldiery
carried away by the glorious stimulation
of combat. And besides they were under the
momentary alteration that they were going
to win, that they would hold the ground
on which the massacre had taken place I'M
til they could remove the traces in which
case nobody could prove anything There,
that makes it all right, doesn't it?
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Until That Day Comes

In Americas army camps, some soldiers
are getting ready to go home In long white
barracks, they're sweating out the final
steps of processing, leading them, at long
last, out of it. For these men, wearing the
gold bars of overseas service, the stars and
ribbons marking Americas battles from
AnZio to Saipan, the shellfire and tracer
bullets are over. They're going back to CIV
ilian life.
But the war isn't over and they know
that full well. Even as they 60 through the
camp gates, they see other soldiers forming
up, with barrack bags on their backs and
rifles on their shoulders preparing for the
march to the train and the train ride to the
port and the boat ride to the war that still
goes on. The old men leaving know what
the new men going into battle can expect.
The new men sense that future, too. AS
they march to the train, their nerves are
tense, their faces set They've been told
and they know it in their hearts, that the
war is far from over. They know that some
will not return; that wounds and death must
pay for Pacific backgrounds yet to be won.
Welcomed home by their families and
friends, returned to the liberties and lux
uries of civilian life, the old veterans will
be the last to forget these men going into
battle. IF we can do one thing for our
buddies over there and the ones going over,
it's this" said one discharged veteran from
Italy, "Its to make America know that the
war won't be over until the last shots fired.
It's to make America see that no ones
effort should be spared if it can make the
war shorter by single day. It's to make
America know that our men will be
wounded and killed until that day comes"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Retailers And Prices

Retail business men have been leaders
IN insisting that practical methods be found
and enforced to prevent the dizzy spiraling
OF prices which always ends tragically for
business and the public. Retailers were
among the first to ask for sensible price
control. They proposed procedures by which
it could be kept effective. We are suffer-
ing now from the unacceptable results of
lodging reality for the sake of political
eXpediency.
Retailers asked Congress to state defin-
itely what it meant by phrase, generally
fair and equitable" Such loose wording
permitted those in charge of price control
to force theoretical interpretations upon
business and the public With a thousand
different minds at work on price regulation,
many of them with no practical business
experience, there could only be confusion
over the term "fair and equitable" in re-
gard to prices, when the law did not pro-
vide a specific formula.
An example of the clash between theo-
retical and practical application of price
control was shown in the insistence by the
Price Administrator that his Highest Price
Line" ruling be maintained. Business men
protested this regulation and proved that
it encouraged initiation, diminished the sup
ply of lower-priced clothing, and disrupted
the distribution of goods to consumers
After long and stubborn refusal of price
regulators to correct this self-evident error
Congress gave relief
Inasmuch as the Office of Price Admins
tration cannot in itself produce an ounce
of food, clothing OF commodities to supply
American consumers, it would be wise for
both it and Congress to seek the sugges-
tons OF those who must and can supply the
needs Of the nation when given a fair
chance. Certainly we have learned by this
time that playing politics with the nations
domestic supply line is dangerous and de-
feats the legitimate ends sought by ration
ing and price control.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Let's Have Both Sides

There is entirely too much hypocrisy"
says Ted Crosby, Sin the hackneyed COM
plant that busineSs-managed utility COM
panies engage in propaganda while their
,>>cltical critics engage in the same activity
even Rn0xe hnsensiyely and continuously.
Why not admit that both sides are out to
advance given viewpoint and let the
public judge its merits?
dissolve the fiction of hypocrisy which
proponents of socialized management have
lssidxously built up around their use of
the word propaganda and applied to the
purely defensive, and n:sen pitifuly made
quate, efforts of business-managed COM
panies to stay alive and continue to do
business-the business of public service"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
II WASAlNlGION ~
4 .SkAAoTS ~

Astute James F. Byrnes, new Sec
rotary of State, will play the star
part in determining whether foreign
cartels make a postwar comeback
to compete with American farm
and factory products, menacing
jobs.
Defining cartel as another word
for monopoly or trust, which re-
stricts competition and tends to
raise prices to consumers" leaders
Of industry are urging the govern
ment to get rid of international
cartels permanently through volun-
tary agreements with other ma
tions.
Responsibility for such agree
ments would fall to 65-year-
Jimmy" Byrnes, who represented
South Carolina in Congress IA years
and served 16 months in the Su-
preme Court before reSigning to be-
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
PRODUCE WAR MATERIALS

In the Saar Valley, special units
Of the U. S. Engineer Corps are
working an area Of 1000 square miles
which has yielded tens of thousands
OF tons of vital war materials, such
as prefabricated steel truss bridges,
locomotives, boxcars, trucks, auto
mobiles, road grading machines,
hand tools, batteries, generators,
large tractors, boats and cupboard
motors, and several million tons OF
steel. Tremendous savings In money,
manpower and shipping space are
being realized by diverting to the
use OF our armies millions of tons
Of this captured Nazi war materiel.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26

come a chief "trouble-shooter" for
the war program.
State Dept. Shake-Up
Quick witted, friendly, with q
yen for singing tenor in informal
quartets, the South Carolinian, who
learned law while working as a
court stenographer, will be enter
ing a new field of endeavor when
he attempts to prevent revival of
German cartelS and eliminate inter-
national monopolies in rubber, dia-
monds, tin, etc.
He is expected to begin by shak-
ing up State Departments foreign
service, particularly the CONNER
cial branches. But even with aids
Of his own choice, "Trouble-Shoot-
er" Byrnes has a hard task to fin
ish before he can spare much time
for his favorite sport of fishing off
the Carolina coast.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26

A War Department announce
ment, made public in Detroit today
by Colonel Allison Miller, Detroit
District Engineer, U. S. Engineer
Office, reports the participation In
the Okinawa campaign of one Of
the first Army units to see COM
bat action in both the European
and Pacific theaters. The unit is
the First Engineer Special Brigade,
a shore engineer command organ
ization which began its career of
Delays on the beaches near Oran.
North Africa. November 8, 1912.
The First Brigade headquarters
took over command responsibility
for beach supply operations on Oki-
nawa on April /, having been ship
ped from Europe through the Uni
ted States in February of this year.
Activated under the former En-
gineer Amphibian Command at
Camp Edwards, Massachusetts,,
June q, 1912, the Brigade was
headed overseas within one month
of its activation date. After the
landings at Oran, the First was
converted from an amphibian to
shore engineer organization; they
helped move the Seventh Army
across the beaches at Celia, Sicily,
where it has been said that the
American Army first demonstrated
to the world that it could conduct
a major invasion without the aid
of captured port facilities" In Sep
TENDER, 1913, the Brigade was at
tached to the Fifth Army for the
Gulf of Salerno landings.
A simple stone monument on
Utah Beach built by the surviving
Engineers honorS the men of the
First Brigade who died to help
make the Normandy landings sue
coed. For two days their section Of
the beach was swept by direct en-
filading fire from German gun
positions which were protected
against our offShore naval Smelling.
In the face of this fire, the Engin-
GERS never faltered in their reSpon-
sibility for getting supplies across
the beaches to the assault teams
moving inland, although some Of
the Engineer Battanons sustained
80 per cent casualties.
With the redeployment of the
First Brigade to the Pacific, Army
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Engineers First To Serve In
Two Theaters OF Operation
First Engineers Unit Participates in Okinawa
Campaign; Establishes Beach Supply Operations

Engineers now have three amphib-
ian brigades in that theater. The
Second and Third Special Brigades
have been carrying out the num-
erous "shore-to-shore" combat
landings by means of which Gen
eral Macarthur has been splitting
up and isolating Japanese garri-
sons in the Philippines. The organ
ization of the First Engineer Bril-
gade, however, is considerably diff
ferent from that of the Second and
Third. The Second and Third are
made up Of Engineer Boat and
Shore Regiments. three to each
Brigade, plus Boat Maintenance
Battalion. Brigade Headquarters,
and attached Ordnance, Quarter
master. Medical and Signal units,
with total strength per Brigade
Of between 1000 and 1900 officers
and men. The only permanent part
of the First Brigade, however. is
the Headquarters company. The
necessary Engineer combat battal-
ions, Quartermaster, Signal, Med
ical, Transportation, and Ordnance
units are attached to this Brigade
Headquarters to constitute a bal
anced shore party force for a par
ticular operation.
The Fifth and Sixth Brigades
participated with the First in the
Normandy landings. but no an
nouncement has been made of their
subsequent operations. The Sixth
Brigade was last announced as sup
cruising coal mining operations for
the Army In Germany.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
STILL IN THERE FIGHTING

Most Of the more than 100000
Engineers are going to have to ex-
plain to their families, their former
bosses. and friends why they are
still in there pitching and doing
the dirty work, points or no points,
long after a lot Of the other CTS
are home. The Engineers should
not have to make the explanation
for themselves. 1t should be done
for them well enough. so that when
anyone sees a Gil come home after
the war with Japan is ended with
a patch on his shoulder showing
the Engineers Castle, or the but
tons of the Engineers on his uni
form. nobody will have to tell them
what that insignia means" - From
the Congressional Record, May %,
l945. Ga
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26

One of the biggest things ever to
happen to Wyandotte was the open
ing of the filtration plants which
offers the people of this area the
opportunity of drinking clean wa
ter without being afraid of what it
contains.
Listed as being one of the best
ever to come to town, the recent
Chatauqua boosted success as one
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
NeWs Of The Book World

Jus for an attack. Furthermore, the
afternoon was so far gone that the
returning planes must make carrier
landings by night. The particular
target which the fliers went after
a large fleet in motion, bristling
with guns and containing as prize
plums several large carriers-wss
one to challenge the most daring
spirit.
The authors let us in on each
moment of suspense: the taking off
Of the planes; the sighting of the
enemy fleet; tn fights with the
Jap zekes; the feeling Of fatality
as enemy fire gets one Of our planes
and it plungeS into the sea. The
return journey, into the darkening
east, increases rather than relieves
the tension, as pilots fight panic at
being lost, nerves, fatigue.
When Vice-Admiral Mitscher
watched these pilots, he commend
ed: You know, I'm proud to be an
American. Only the finest country
in the world could produce boys
like these"
The Book of the-Month Club Sc
lection for September is 1.-The White
Tower" by James Ramsey Ullman.
a novel about a group of mountain
climbers in Switzerland.
You've often heard of Chinese
face saving" Here's one story
about it. Karl ESkelund, the ad-
venturouS author of My Chinese
Wife," was attending Yenching
University when Monaghan troops,
hired by the Japanese, invaded
Northwest China. Patriotic Chinese
students were quick to start CAM
paign to collect funds for the Chi
nese troops. One student related
how he jumped on the running
board OF a car and demanded funds
Of the driver to fight the Japan
csc aggressors. The driver tried TO
strike him. GO to h." he Kissed,
I'm from the japanese Embassy"
The others laughed at the story
but Eskelund commented he would
have struck the Jap. But don't
you see-he made a fool of him
SELF" answered the student. IF I
had struck him, I would have made
a fool of myself"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26

In the afternoon of June 10, 1914,
an American scout plane spotted a
large contingent of the elusive jap
anese fleet and flashed their posi-
ton. That flash was the signal for
all the planes of Task Force So to
get into action, and in the next few
hours followed one of the most dra-
matte raids of the Pacific.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26

Mission Beyond Darkness" by
1t. Comdr. Joseph Bryan and Phil
ip Reed, Is the story Of those hours,
and in particular of the role played
by the "a filters from Air Group 10.
Theirs was an incredible hazardous
assignment. Fuel for the ships Of
Task Force So was running low, and
the enemy was outside a safe rad
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
Ration News
Meats and Fats

Ration book four, red stamps K2,
to P2 good through July 81; Q2-U2,
through August 81; v2-Z2 through
Septc- lber 30; A1-El good through
October 81.
Canned Goods
Ration book four, blue stamps
T2-X2 good through July 81; Y2-Cl
through August 81; Dl-Hl through
September 80: JIM good through
October 81.
Sugar
Ration book four, stamp No. So
good through August 81. New stamp
due September /.
Shoes
Ration book three, airplane
stamps !, 2 and 3 valid indefinite.
~. Loose stamps not accepted.
New stamp due August /.
Gasoline
Ais, six gallons, good through
September 81; BIT, CT, B8, CO, no
expiration dates set.
Liquor
Stamp No. f. whiskey, now valid.
Gin unrationed.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-26
-QUOTES-
OF THE WEEK

~She stands in cigaret lines for
mew-Lone Pittsburgh man in
block-long line of tOomen to get
pair Of hose for his ioife.
Frankly I think they would be
better American citizens" FLEET
Admiral King, advocating mill
tary training for y. S. youth.
"And l thought I'd seen every
thing in the movies"-GPs
Eskimo lCife, amazed upon reach
ing Seattle, Wash
Governments main RESPONSE
bility is to provide an economic
atmosphere in which people will
confidently put their money in
iob-making enterprises with ex-
pectation of . fair return on in
vestment."-Georgs Ericsson,
Christian Science Monitor.
cit is a form of cartel which
must lead ultimately to monop-
oily and industrial slavery."-Dr.
Alfred p. Hddke, economist, on
"planned economy"
Nothing that embarrasses
anybody is ever funny."-Mark
Ethridge, Louisville publisher,
quoting his fathers injunction.