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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26

ent, as one moves north or south
from the tropical belt the proportion
of Negroes decreases as it does
similarly from east to west.
Apart from the Spaniards land
the Portuguese and the French in
Brazil and Haiti respectively who,
of course, constitute the basis of its
population in the same way as the
English do in the United States,
Latin America has absorbed large
contingents of immigrants not only
from Africa but from many other
parts of the world. Italians came in
great numbers to Brazil, to Argen-
tina, to Peru.
Buenos Aires has become larger
Italian city than Rome and there
are a million people of Italian
descent in Sac Paulo alone.
Southern Brazil and Chile have
seen the arrival and establishment
of large colonies of Germans, while
English, Scotch and Irish immigra-
ton accounts for the number of
names of Anglo-Saxon origin in
several of the South American
countries and principally in Chile
whose national hero is Bernardo
O'Higgins.
The Pole, the Russians and the
people of the Balkans are also found
in notable groups throughout Latin
America. The Japanese are particul-
arly strong in Brazil and Peru while
Chinese are found chiefly in Mexico,
Peru and Cuba.
In Havana there are reported to
be about 10000 Chinese, mostly
Cantonese" An interesting expert
ment in colonization is that of the
Mennonites in the Chaco region,
while in recent years a great many
Jews of European extraction have
come to seek tolerance and liberty
in Latin American countries.
While in many areas of Latin
America the natives have completely
disappeared, they still form the
backbone of the population in some
countries of Central and South
America, especially along the West
Coast.
Those countries are precisely those
where the Indians were organized in
a more civilized manner in pre-
Columbian times and were therefore
more unlikely to disappear alto
gether.
The survival of the native popula-
tion in these Western regions of the
continent "offers another explanation
to the relative absence of Negro
settlements" there.
Such is Latin America: a medley
of races, of peoples and of national
tiles which Spain and Portugal (and
France-let us not forget Haiti) have
covered with the unifying cloak of
their language, customs and civiliza-
ton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26
Latin America-Melting Pot OF Many
Divergent Races And Nationalities

grants.
The Spanish immigration was the
first to reach the New World, as
soon as this legendary land of
promise became accessible.
In search of adventure, of wealth
and of liberty they came, and
shaving established their primary
base i'm the West Indies invaded the
mainland, until their hogomony
stretched from California and the
southern United States to the tip of
South America.
If,-as has been estimated sever
al million Spaniards emigrated to
their overseas empire during the first
two centuries after the discovery,
how they came, the actual question
of shipping still remains an enigma.
Although settlement in North
America increased as years went by,
at the time of the American Revolu-
ton it had not yet caught up with
Spanish immigration. To his exodus
every region of Spain contributed.
From the northernmost provinces
of the Basque, the Asturian and the
Galician to the extreme southern
regions of the Extromaduran and the
Andalusian, from the borders of
France and the Mediterranean to the
domains of Portugal, the urge was
felt to seek the wonders and the OPP
portunities of the Indies.
Thus, all types of Spanish strains
from the tall, blond Asturians, to
dark, fiery Andalusians, were re-
presented in the descendants of those
first settlers and others who came
subsequently.
The Spaniards, almost Immediately
after establishing their settlements
began to ship Negroes to their plan
tations as slaves to replace the I'M
satisfactory Indians. In South
America, as elsewhere on the contin-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of February 3, 1910

A destitute tramp called at the
home of Eli Burkholder stating that
he had fallen and was sick. The
stranger was taken in by Mr.. and
Mrs. Burkholder who cared for him
and then called DR.. Sutter. Examina-
tion showed that he was hurt
internally. He died suddenly Sunday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Davidson are
receiving congratulations over the
arrival of baby boy at their home.
Albert Schumacher will be ordain-
ed Sunday afternoon by Rev. Gott-
shall and DR.. Mosiman at the Grace
church in Pandora.
|. B. Stith moved his sawmiil in
Dave Burkholder's woods. He is
saving out timber for barn.
A. D. Lugibihl who has been in
the Bluffton Hardware business for
3S years, has now associated with
him his son Harley. The new firm
will be named the A. d. Lugibihl
and Son.
F. H. Zehrbach has been awarded
beautiful brass jardiniere by the
Lima Poultry Fancier's Association,
for having the highest scoring bird
at the holiday poultry show in Lima.
Fred makes a speciality of buff
orpingtons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aldine Kohl are the
happy parents over the arrival of a
baby girl at their home on Lawn
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26

The Blufton Neaos presents
another in the series of articles
on South American meighbors.
-EDIToR.
With the United States long con-
sidered the greatest melting-pot of
the world, the mixture of peoples
that form the rest of the hemisphere
has been greatly overlooked.
However, should the question:
"What are little Latin Americans
made of" come up, the answer
would be far from easy to give.
Maybe not sugar and spice or
puppy-dogs' tails" as the Nursery
Rhyme will have it, but certainly
many other ingredients.
The history of the people of our
continent falls roughly into two
periods. The first begins with the
advent of man in the New World
and carries his population history
down to the discovery in 1892. The
second epoch begins with the dis
covery in 1892 and concerns itself
with all subsequent population move
ments to the present day.
The Indians whom Columbus and
his companions found living on the
Western Hemisphere, had they
originally come over from Asia or
not-the point is subject to discus
sion-may be considered as native to
the Americas, and all those who
came later are immigrants either Of
white, oriental or negro race.
The re-peopling of the Western
Hemisphere has been the result of
the coming Of over fifty million i'm
migrants, some of these have driven
out the native Indians, others have
lived alongside them without great
intercrossing, while still other inn
migrants have crossed freely with
the Indians and with other immi-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26

Samuel kairns and William Boards
". G. A. r. Veterans of Columbus
Grove took the early Bluffton inter-
urban for Fostoria to attend the
reunion of the 49th regiment.
The first football game of the
season will be played Friday when
Bluffton meets the Mt. Cory eleven
on the Schmidts field.
|. w. Geiger left the community
to accept position on the faculty
staff at the University of Minnesota
in Minneapolis.
Charles, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Dillman is convalescing nice
ly from an adenoid operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Rupright
and Mr.. and Mrs. Gene George at
tended the Bowling Green fair
Wednesday.
M. Nj. Bogart, Jacob and Ed
Bogart visited their brother Charles
in Cleveland, Sunday.
The Steiner Brothers, mfg. of
tools, who sometime ago started
business in Lima, will erect a new
structure to meet the demands of
their business.
Mrs. w. ]. Staater had the mis-
fortune to fall down the stairs and
break her ankle.
Mrs. Frank Todd and daughter of
Ottawa spent Sunday with Mrs.
w. H. Mckinley here.
Carpenters are busy erecting the
framework on the Hector Kibele
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26
SHORTS AND MIDDLINGS

Poultrymen of southwestern Ohio
and of adjacent areas in Indiana
and Kentucky are organizing the
Ohio Valley Egg Cooperative. 1t will
sell graded eggs for members. Other
similar sales agencies in Ohio have
provided reliable outlets for market
ing poultry products. In normal
times, eggs are sold at auction by
the cooperatives but federal regula-
tions now limit sales to an offer and
acceptance basis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26

avenue.
Adolph Lee is remodeling the room
of the First National Bank block
and will open a new jewelry store
soon.
The high school basketball team,
Ralph West, Earl Heckathorn,
Clarence Biery, Harley Spangler,
Harold Woods, Arthur Amstutz,
Homer Moser, accompanied by [. w.
Geiger, Albert Stettler and Waldo
Lugibill, went to Spencerville, Fri
day evening, to play game with
the high school team of that place.
The boys found the Spencerville lads
a little too fast and the floor too
slippery. The entire team stayed
over night at sSpencerville.
Waldo Lugibill surprised his
parents by arriving here unexpected
ly from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where
he has been employed by an express
company for about Is months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hermann Wittkofski
are happy over the arrival of a ten
pound baby boy.
Chet Mcdowell who spent the past
month here returned to Robinson,
III. to resume his duties in the oil
field.
The Bluffton Progressive Associa-
tion elected A. D. Lugibihl, pres. (;
S. P. Herr, vice pres; ]. P. Owens,
sec'y and II. o. Frederick, treas.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26
Combat Mosquitoes

The soldier is trained to protect
himself against the mosquito which
transmits malaria. He is supplied
with mosquito netting, with mosquito
repellents, with mosquito bombs"
to clear cut his tents or living quar-
ters, and he is taught not to expose
himself at sunrise or sunset.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-04-26
$4,000 FEWER HANDS


Reports by J. NJ Holdson, state
director of agriculture, show that
Ohio on Jan. had $4,000 fewer
farm workers than one year ago.
Of these, the state director said,
10000 had gone into the armed
forces.
Some official indication of easing
in the draft pressure was also seen
last week in announcement by State
Selective Service headquarters that
no more Ohio farmers would be
drafted if the registrant's local board
and his county farm war board agree
on his deferment for agricultural
purposes.
Board of Appeals decisions an
nounced this week by Allen County
Draft Board No, 8 are as follows:
Miles Vincent Whiting, Jr., Lima.
Classified in Class IA by the Local
Board Lima Locomotive Works,
employer, appealed. Classification of
Class IA upheld by the Board of
Appeals. Registrant is 27 years of
age.
Melvin Oscar Parker, Lima. Clas-
sified in Class IA by the Local
Board. Employer, Lima Locomotive
Works, appealed. Classification of
Class Ia upheld by the Board of
Appeals. Registrant is % years of
age.
Albert Newton Kerns, Elida. Clas-
sified in Class IA by the Local
Board. Registrant appealed. Classi-
fication of Glass Ia upheld by the
Board of Appeals. Registrant is 20
years of age.
Gerald Carlton Scitt, Harrod.
Classified in Class IA by the Local
Board. Employer, Ohio Steel Found
ry, appealed Classification of Glass
IA upheld by the Board of appeals.
Registrant is % years of age.
Allen Painter, Lima. Classified in
Glass IA by the Local Board. Nick
ell Plate Railroad appealed. Classi-
fled in liza by the Board of Appeals
until June /, 1945. Registrant is %
years of age. He was formerly of
Bluffton.
Dorsey Peter Miller, Lima. Classi-
fled in Class Ia by the Local Board.
Registrant appealed. Classified in
Glass TIC by the Board of Appeals
until Sept. /, 1945. Registrant is
26 years of age and engaged in ag-
riculture.
Lyle Jesse Badertscher, Rawson.
Classified in Class Ia by the Local
Board. Employer, Lima Tank Depot,
appealed. Classification of Class IA
upheld by the Board of Appeals.
Registrant is 27 years of age.
Earl Wayne Prime, Spencerville.
Classified in Class IA by the Local
Board. Employer, Lima Locomotive
Works, appealed. Classification of
Glass IA upheld by the Board of
Appeals. Registrant is 27 years of
age.
Gerald Altman Leatherman, Spen-
cerville. Classified in Class IA by
the Local Board. Employer, The
Buckeye Machine Co., appealed Clas-
sification of Class IA upheld by the
Board of Appeals. Registrant is 2s
years of age.
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Deer Skin Leather

Garments made of deer skins, of
which there is decided shortage,
are especially desirable for use in
sub-zero weather. as such skins pro-
duce a soft and pliable leather.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR PETER PAN PEANUT BUTTER
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Grocer Gets Bank Post

COLDWATER, Sept. 22- Max
D. Kemp, a veteran groceryman
here has been appointed assistant
cashier of the Branch County
Savings Bank of Coldwater.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
Gets Term in Sugar Theft
Detroit Times saEinas Bureau

Detroit Times saEinas Bureau
SAGINAW. Sept. 22-Gustave
Benzenberg. "A, must serve l 10 ID
years in prison for stealing sew
eral hundred pounds OF sugar from
a canning plant.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23
GreenviIIe Pay Raise Hangs on 0PA Pad

allowing the Gibson Refrigerator
Co 10 raise lis selling price. The
workers have entered into a "u-
day tentative wage agreement
with the management.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

GREENVILLE. Sept - tUPl
Members of Local l37 JAW
CCIO) today banked hopes for a
wage increase on an OPA permit
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
Violence Feared in Poris
Between Reds. DeGoullists

PARIS, Nov. 10 - R Paris
police officials openly expressed
fear of violence today between
the Communists and supporters
of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, az
the constituent assemply prepsr-
ed to meet for q decision wheth-
er to accept or reject the Gener-
ais resignation as interim pres
ident.
The city was calm this morn
ing, but police placed hundreds
of extra guards in and around
the Palais du Bourbon. Crowds
gathered and people fought to
obtain admittance to the build
ing where Frances political
crisis over composition of the in
terim government was nearing
q conclusion.
Crowds also massed In the
streets as elegates thronged the
corridors. Themonstituent as
sembly was to meet at z D. m.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
Redeployment in hdia-Burma'
Expected to be Over BY Jan. I

CALCUTTA W.H-Thousands
of American men and women OF
the United States Forces station
ed at various places in the India
Burma and China theaters-at
one time a single theater of op-
erations and the largest in World
War II-are today converging on
the ports of Karachi and Calcur-
Ia on their way home. Their
tasks we'll done, they arrive by
plane and rail at the ports OF
embarkation, begrimed and dirty
but singularly happy. Many OF
them have travelled thousands OF
miles to reach the replacement
depots at Camp Malir (KarachD
and Camp Kanchrapara (Cal-
cutta).
II is officially estimated that
100000 men either will be on
the way home or awaiting ship
ment at the depots by the end
of November. An additional 26,'
600 will have been airborne
over the Hump from the China
theater. In December, however,
men leaving China will move
out through the port OF Shang-
mai.
Troops at present are being
transport to the East Coast
New York, Boston, or Hampton
Roads-in vessels with capaci-
ties of either 5000 or 5000
While the trip takes 26 days
from Calcutta, it is five days
shorter from Karachi.
FEW TO FLY HOME
Only a relatively few will 60
home by air. These lucky ones
will ride the ATC airline from
Karachi to Abadan, Carlo, Tri'
poll, Casablanca, with their des-
tination either Miami or New
York.
1t is expected that the major
number of the installations IN
Burma and Assam will be clear
ed out by the end of November.
New Delhi headquarters, Base
Section headquarters in Calcut-
ia. and Karachi, meanwhile, Will
continue to be the main points
of concentration of American
troops. -,
Points scores for casuals will
continue to drop as the clearing
out process continues. 1t is esti-
mated that by the end OF the
wear, or soon thereafter, the
great bulk of troops will have
departed. The few remaining
will be low-point men handling
surplus property disposal or
other necessary operations pre-
paratory 70 closing out Amer
lean operations in India.
Only about three hours elapses
from the time homeward- bound
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19

% a. m. EST for the crucial
vote.
De Gaulls requested the vote
In . letter to Socialist Assembly
Felix Gouin. Gouin himself was
presented by the Communists az
a candidate for the presidentcy.
The General asked the assem-
bly, either to confirm or with
draw the mandate 1t gave him
less than q week ago to form
the interim government.
HAS VOTING STRENGTH
The Communists, who precip-
itated the dispute with their de-
mand for either the war, For
eign Ministry or Interior Port
folio In the interim cabinet, an
nounced they would vote against
De Gaulle. But political observ-
ers thought the tall General
might win out by the votes of
the popular Republican move.
ment (MRP) and right wing
deputies.
The powerful Socialist party,
announcing it would abstain
from voting, called upon the
Communists and MRP to "con-
sent to work together to find
what personality would be quail
flied to form q government in
the image of the nation"
Communist, Socialist and
MRP delegates met last night.
The Communists proposed the
candidacy of Gouin as the only
other man capable of heading
the interim government.
MRP delegates announced
they would decline to support
that proposal, and the Socialists
seconded the MRP stand. The
MRP also announced it would
refuse to enter any three-party
government which Is not head
ed by De Gaulle.
The Communists, on the other
hand, said they would enter no
Government headed by the Gen
eral.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19

troops had stormed and captured
the Nationalist stronghold OF
Paotow, in Inner Mongolia.
This reported setback on the
western flank Of the National
ist push into strife-torn North
China came as Communist
sources here admitted they had
been thrown back into southern
Manchuria, 10 the east.
The Chinese Central News
Agency said Paotow one of
two focal points in the struggle
for control of the Inner Mon
golian province Of Suiyuan -
fell after Communist troops
forced the west gate late last
month.
The city, once Nationalist ar
my headquarters in Suiyuan, is
the western terminal of the
Peiping-Suiyuan railway, one of
the most important latera
routes in North China.
Presumably long besieged
Kweisui, Suiyuan Province cap
ital 80 miles east of Paotow. still
held out.
U. S. DENIES CHARGE
The Nationalist forces in both
cities were not believed strong.
The Communists had charged
that American Marines were
spear-heading a Nationalist at
tempt to get relief forces in from
Peiping. The Communist charge
has been denied by American
authorities here.
Nationalist forces, who Fri
day forged into the rich north
ern province after capturing
Shanhaikwan, widened h e r
hold around that great wall
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19

GIs detruck at the processing
area until they're assigned to
areas to await alerting for the
ride to the dock. Which speaks
volumes for the system the u.
S. Army Transportation Corps
has evolved here. How long GIs
remain in the replacement de-
pots depends. of course, on the
backlog which piles up between
ships.
GO THROUGH PROCESSING
Upon arrival a GI's orders are
checked, his points verified. He's
tagged for water or air trans
portation. He's asked whether he
intends to stay In the Army. If
he says yes, his orders home
send him to a reception center,
where he's again processed to
continue his Army career. II his
answers Is in the negative, nis
orders call for direct transporta-
ton from the home port to a
separation center. This separA-
tion center 10 one nearest his
hometown.
The men are entitled to get a
full or partial payment. Very
few avail themselves Of this op-
portunity, for they all want to
draw their money when they hit
the East Coast In order that
they may indulge in the cele-
bration spree they have dream
ed Of for 50 long.
A shadowdown inspection a
clothing issue and the proc
essing Is finished.
Col. John H. Hauser of New
ton. N. c.. Is commanding officer
of the Replacement Service
which handles these departures
The Camp Malir depot Is under
the. command of 1t. Col. Frank
lin S. Pruyn, Jr., OF Baton
Rouge. La, while Camp Kan
chrapara Is commanded by Col.
Edgar w. Rugheimer Of Charles
ton, s. G.
The speed and efficiency
which highlights this mammoth
task of repatriation is a tribute to
the officers and men who are
handling this intricate and COM
plex task.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
Vital MongoIion City Oyerrun
by 80. 900 Chinese Communist.

anchor, but Communists were
reported bolstering their posi-
tions in the interior.
The Nationalist success elm.
mated the necessity of amphib.
ious landings in Manchuria, an
operation made hazardous by
failure to agree with Russia on
ports of entry and by American
refusal to use its ships to trans
port Chinese troops there.
Meanwhile, American Marines
in the North China port of Tsing-
tao began loading 5000 disarm-
ed Japanese naval air force per-
sonnel on japanese merchant
ships for return home.
The Sixth Marine Division
will move approximately 1900
daily until an estimated $4,000
disarmed Japanese in Shantung
Province are repatriated.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
Servants Drinking Room

A drinking room for the ESQ
royal servants at Buckingham
Place was established by Queen
Victoria to prevent their gossip
from spreading outside the pal
ace walls. Here the servants still
can buy q variety of fine wines
and liquors.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
Indirect Assistants

Barnacles helped the Allies.
These crustaceans collect on all
ships, but Axis vessels being
forced to remain more constant
ly at sea, were unable to have
them removed, and a barnacle-
incrusted hull lowers q crafts
efficiency.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
Bright Planet

The planet Venus Is so brill
liant in July that it can be seen
in broad daylight, and, after SUM-
set, it actually casts q shadow.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-19
BY SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING. Nov. 10 Up
Chinese press reports said
today that 10000 Communist
Evening star., 1945-08-15

One harried civilian bought ticke'
to the Metropolitan. explaining, "It'
much safer inside than out"
One exuberant sailor, navigating
F street, kept yelling, Hot dog, NJ
more court-martials.
The crowd got a laugh at Thir.
teenth and E when three sailor,
surrounded a soldier who refused t.
drink with them. 1--WE never had {
drink, and I'm not going to star
now, even If the war is over" HI
insisted. They gave up in disgust
All Civilians Now.
One CT threw his arms around 8
civilian, shouting, we're all civil.
ians now"
Shortly after $50 pm. it took q
reporter Is minutes to walk from the
White House to the Star Building
pushing through almost solid masses
Of people, more often in the street
than on the sidewalk. This was typ
ical of progress downtown through.
out the clamorous evening.
Servicemen grabbed and kissed
every personable girl In sight. Ever
male civilians availed themselves OF
the opportunity.
After a long embrace, one grin
ming sailor looked up, wiped lipstick