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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-24
SEVENTH WAR LOAN
DRIVE GETS UNDER
WAY IN BLUFFTON
Over 100 War Bond Solicitors
Are Making House-t0- House
Canvass of Town
Intensified Buying Needed Here
to Put 100000 Campaign
Over the Top

With teams of canvassers starting
solicitation rounds during which every
householder in the town will be con-
taeted, Bluffton's Seventh War Loan
campaign was we'll under way here
this week.
In the opening week of the drive,
purchases by residents of the town
represented only little more than
one-ffth of the Bluffton quota of
100000.
Sales figures at the close of Mon
days solicitation aggregated $21, $50,
or approximately 2112 per cent of the
goal. AT the end of last week, the
national campaign was 25ee subscrib-
ed, which is nearly five per cent better
than Bluffton's average so far.
At Baobilization OF the town's war
bond statesmen last Thursday night in
the high school cafeteria zone cap
tains selected the same teams which
have worked with them previously.
Those directing the campaign Tues
day announced that any solicitors
who have not yet received their kits
may obtain them at the Citizens Ma
tional bank.
Opening officially on May Ia, the
Seventh War Loan drive will continue
until June 8. House-to-house can
vassing of the town, however, is to be
completed before June 5, and if any
one at that time has not been contact
ed they are requested to telephone
either N. A. Triplett or M. M. Bogart,
co-chairmen of the campaign.
Altho the war in Europe has ended,
the Japanese campaign is spreading
over an ever-increasing front, and
fighting is becoming more bitter and
costly as American forces cut deeper
into enemy territory. Everyone should
invest in bonds to the limit of his abil-
ity to purchase, in an effort to end
the war more quickly and save the
lives of many American boys, the
drive chairmen announced.
One phase of the war may have
ended, but the buying of bonds is
more important than ever now, it was
pointed out in urging Bluffton cooper
alton in putting the drive over the
top.
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TWO men FROM
BLUFFTON DIE IN
ACTION OVERSEAS
Pvt. Leo Basinger and Pfc. Ray
Clark Are Killed on For
eign Battlefields
Basinger's Death Occurs on
Okinawa: Clark Killed in
German Fighting

Two more Bluffton men have beer
killed in action, one in fighting in
Germany and the other on Okinawa
according to word received here Tues
day.
The latest casualties are:
Pvt. Leo Basinger, 20 son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Basinger, of
Orange township, killed on Okin-
ava.
Pfc. Ray Clark, former proprie-
tor of the Bluffton Skating Rink,
killed i'm Germany.
Notification of Basinger's death was
received Tuesday by his wife, the
former Margaret Burkholder, daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. Quinten Burk.
holder.
A graduate of Mt Cory High school
he had been in the Marine corps fol
is months. He took his training a
Continued on page 81
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Wayne Deppler Is
Home From Iran

Staff Sgt. Wayne Deppler arrived
Friday night from Iran to spend a
thirty day furlough with his wife OF
Findlay and his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Eli Deppler of South Main
street.
Sgt Deppler was overseas for &c
months being stationed in Teheran
and on the Persian Gulf most of the
time. He returned in three and one.
half days by plane flying from TIE.
heran to New York city by way Of
Casablanca
At the conclusion of his furlougl
he will report at Miami Beach, Fla.
for reassignment. He and his wifi,
spent the first of the week in Co
lumbus visiting at the home Of hi
brother, Kenneth Deppler.
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Farmers Vote On Soil
Conservation June /

Richland township landowners win
vote on Friday night, June at an
election to be held in the township
house in Bluffton on the proposal to
establish a soil conservation district.
The measure is proposed under a
new state law which offers free
technical service to individual farm
ers or groups of farmers to deal
with any problem of conservation of
soil, water or timber and any prob
lem of drainage.
Polls will be open in the evening
from to 10 o'clock and any owner
of three or more acres of land in
the township is eligible to vote.
This eligibility to vote includes
both the farmer and his wife, provid-
ed title to the land is held jointly.
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MEMORIAL DAY TO
BE OBSERVED HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Services Will be Held at Maple
Grove Cemetery and In
III. s. Auditorium
Business Places Will Close Here
Generally; No Mail Deliv-
cries to Be Made

Honoring Blufftons soldier-dead of
three wars, Memorial Day exercises
here next Wednesday morning will
include the traditional parade, serv-
ices at the cemetery and a public
meeting in the high school auditor
ium.
Opening event of the morning will
be the parade, which will form at the
town hall at 10 a. m. From there
the parade will march to Maple
Grove cemetery where Memorial Day
ritualistic services will be conducted
at 10:30 a. m. The parade will be
led by the Bluffton High school band.
Invited 10 participate in the pa
rade and the service at the cemetery
are all ex-servicemen of World War
] and III, Boy Scouts, American Le-
gion Auxiliary members, Gold Star
mothers, and servicemen who are
home on furlough.
Services at the cemetery will be
ANaN AN AlA1 EtaNC VI isobGIb Nldys
veteran of World War III.
The Memorial Day program will be
continued in the Bluffton High school
auditorium at IL a. m.,. with Rev.
Milton Fronsoe, pastor of the Church
of Christ, delivering the principal
address
Special Memorial services will be
held for Gerald Tripplehorn and
Wayne Daley, as part of the pro-
gram, and music will be provided by
the Bluffton High band and quar-
tet.
Business generally will be suspend
ed in the town thruout the day;
there will be no mail delivery, and
windows at the post office will be
closed.
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George MOser Gets
Oak Leaf Cluster

T/5 George D. Moser, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Moser, of North Main
street, has received a citation for
Oak Leaf cluster to the Bronze Star
medal, for meritorious achievement
in military operations against the
enemy in Germany.
Moser's wife, who now lives in
Denver, Colo, is the former Pearl
Beery, a sister of Mrs. Clayton Muir
ray, of this place.
In field operations during Febru-
ary, T/5 Moser rendered outstanding
service as a member of a signal con-
struction team supporting the as
sault across the Roer river. He
helped lay and maintain traffic con-
troll communication systems under
enemy artillery fire.
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Rati0iiing Hits High
School Alumni Dinner

Attendance at the Bluffton high
school alumni banquet Friday will be
limited to 100 because of current
food shortages and rationing restric-
tions, it was stated by officers of the
organization. All of the tickets have
been sold.
The dinner will be held in the high
school gymnasium at $50 o'clock
followed by q program and dancing.
The program will begin at 1880
and includes a reunion of the class
of 1895, the first to be graduated un-
der superintendency of B. F. Biery.
Dancing will start at S:45
Attendance at the program and
dancing is open to all alumni upon
payment of current dues.
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Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Bernard, a
boy, Joseph Leroy, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Ream, Bluff
ton, girl, Jean Ann, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Bushong,
Fostoria, girl, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Sommer,
Pandora, boy, Monday.
A daughter, Darleen Ann was
born May 6 at Bay Village, Ohio, to
1t. and Mrs. S. P. Demming. Mrs
Demming is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Gorby, former Bluffton
residents. 1t. Demming is in the
army air service stationed at Okla.
homa City, Oklahoma.
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Willard COnrdd's Son
Killed In GernaanU

Sgt. Chester Conrad, 20, SON of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Conrad of
Lima was killed in action in Ger
many, May Z, according to word re-
ceived by his parents Tuesday.
The dead soldier'ss father was =
hformer Bluffton resident and hro-
ther of Raymond and Donivan Con-
rad of this place.
Sgt. Conrad was in the air corps,
serving as radio technician on B-24
bomber. He had been overseas since
January.
Surviving besides his parents are
three brothers, Virgil, Victor and
Arlo Conrad all at home and two sis
ters, Mrs. Neil Hennon of Lima and
Mrs. Ambert Davis at home.
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Ned Schultz, Freed From Germans,
Arrives In u. S.; Going To Hospital

Pfc. Ned Schultz, the last Bluffton
man to be liberated from German
prison camps in the conquest of
enemy territory, has returned to this
country, according to word received
Monday by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Schultz, of Kibler street.
Pfc. Schultz telephoned his par
ents from New York city, and ad-
vised themt hat before he will be
able to return home he is to report
at Grille General hospital in Cleve-
land.
He has been in a hospital in Paris,
since his liberation from a German
prison camp near Leipzig on April
21, the Bluffton youth said in his
telephone call.
Pfc. Schultz was captured by the
Germans on December 16, during the
historic battle of the Belgian bulge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-24
Findldy Chorus To
Appear Sunday Night

The Rainbow Women's chorus of
Findlay will appear in a concert at
Buttons monthly union service,
Sunday night at 8 o'clock in the
First Mennonite church
The service Sunday night will take
the place of the union service for
June, it was stated by the Bluffton
Ministerial association.
The chorus consisting of 40 voices
is directed by Mrs. Lynn McClelland
and Mrs. Russell Herman is accom-
panist. Membership of the organiza-
tion includes Mrs. M. L. Wahl and
Mrs. Melvin Murray, both known
here.
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Jap Grenade Wounds
BIuftOn Area Man

Sgt. Emanuel Boutwell,, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Boutwell, of Orange
township was wounded by an enemy
hand grenade in Luzon island i'm the
Philippines, according to word re-
ceived here.
He was struck under the right
shoulder blade by a fragment from
the grenade and the wound was de-
scribed as slight. Sgt. Boutwell, has
been in the Pacific area for the
past 80 months.
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Degrees Conferred At Forty-ffth
Commencement OF BlufftOn College
Class of Thirteen Seniors Grad
uated i'm Exercises Mon
day Morning
Class Address Delivered by DR..
Henry Crane, Detroit Meth
odiSt Pastor

Thirteen seniors were graduated
from Bluffton college in the 45th
annual commencement exercises held
in the First Mennonite church, Mon
day morning.
The auditorium was well filled for
the occasion when DR.. Henry H.
Crane, pastor of the Central Metho-
dist church, Detroit, delivered the
class address on the subject of "Val-
liant Behavior.
Taking an illustration from an
cient Jewish history of the Old
Testament, the speaker pointed out
the saving remnant of Judaism
which gave the world its highest con-
cept of religion and morality.
SURVIVES THO VANQUIsHED
"The Israelites", said the speaker
'lost all six of their major wars. In
fact that little parcel of Jews were
experts in getting licked. Neverthe-
less from that band of vanquished
people came our monotheistic concep-
tion of God, came Christ, the Bible
and the technique of triumph which
has survived when all of the great
nations Of that day have passed
away"
The speaker saw in the proposed
peacetime conscription the core of
militarism for future wars. Japan's
present military system was inaug-
urated when she was sold armament
by the western powers and her mill
tary leaders were trained in schools
of the civilized nations, the audience
was told.
Finances of the college are in sat-
isfactory condition, DR.. Lloyd Ram
seyer announced in the annual state
ment of the president. During the
past year a number of substantial
gifts have been received, he said.
VOCAL NUMBER
A vocal number by Mrs. Ola Mo-
ser of Chicago, former student in the
college here preceded the class ad-
dress.
Members of the graduating class
elected to Pi Delta, honorary scholas-
tic society were: Frances Becken-
bach, Donna Hartzler, Harvey Mitch
ell, Lois Sommer and Eleanor Weav-
er.
The Bachelor of Arts degree was
conferred upon nine members of the
graduating class at the close of the
exercises. At the end of the sum
mer school session three other mem
bers of the class will receive the
same degree while one will receive
the degree of Bachelor of Science.
GRADUATING CLASS
Members of the graduating class
were:
Bachelor of Arts-Frances Becken-
bach, Garfield, o.; Esther Habegger,
Busby, Montana; Donna Hartzler,
Bloomington, Ill.,; Evelyn Johnson,
Bucyrus, o.; Arthur Keiser, Quaker
town, Pa; Harvey Mitchell, Pandora;
Maynard Shelley, East Greenville, Pa;
Lois Sommer, Pekin, H.; and Eleanor
Weaver, Goshen, Ind.
At the close of next summers ses-
sion, those who will qualify for Bach
elor of Arts degrees will be Helen
Arters, Spencer, O.; Griselda Gehman,
East Greenville, Pa, and Fred Sold
ner, Pandora. Phyllis Bachman, OF
Washington, I'll. will receive a Bach
elor of Science degree in home eco
nomics.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-24
ReappOinted On
Library Board Here

Mrs. C. B. Fett of Campus Drive
was reappointed as member of the
board of trustees of Buttons public
library at a meeting of the board of
education.
She was reappointed for term of
seven years to begin at the expira-
ton of her present term the last of
this month.
The library board consists of seven
members, the term of one expiring
each year . e
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-24
Song Festival Sunday
At Ebenezer Church

A song festival will be held at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church west of
Bluffton, Sunday night at. o'clock.
Prof. Oliver Steiner of Ft. Wayne
will be leader with Mrs. Steiner ac-
companist. The singing will be sup
ported by the Ebenezer mixed chorus
of 20 voicas. .fsss
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Library Closed

The public library will be closed
from Monday until Thursday inclus-
i've, next week for cleaning and In
ventory,. il was stated By Miss ocie
Anderson, Librarian.
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Advanced In Navy

Paul Geiser in naval service, has
been advanced from the rank of sea-
man second class to radar man third
class, it was learned the first of the
week by his wife, Mrs. Marie Geiser.
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Publish Thursday
Next Week Because
Of Memorial Day

BECAUSE of the Memorial
- day holiday on Wednesday
the Button News will be pub
lished next week on Thursday.
All news items and advertising
copy should reach the office on
Tuesday as usual. The Office
will be closed all day Wednes-
o16.v ssa s 80.
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al SENIORS WILL
Be GRADUATED AT
HIGH SCHOOL HERE
Commencement Exercises viii
Be Held in Gymnasium
Thursday Night
Prof. William c. Craig, of WOOs-
ter College, Will Be Class
Speaker

Climaxing the events of Bluffton
High School commencement week,
graduating exercises for class of
Al seniors will be held Thursday
night at s o'clock in the school GYM
nasium.
Presentation of the diplomas mark
ing the completion of the graduates
IL years of public school work will
come as the concluding event of
commencement week activities which
included the baccalaureate on Sun
day; the senior class play on Mon
day and Tuesday and the senior class
night program on Wednesday.
Prof. William c. Craig, of the
speech department at Wooster col
lege, the commencement speaker this
year, has wide experince on the pro-
fessional platform as lecturer and
actor.
RADIO SPEAKER
He also has appeared on radio
programs, has served as president of
the Ohio Association of Teachers of
Speech, and is widely known in edu-
cation circles as one of the leaders
in his profession.
Ranking scholastic honor students
of the class, Jean Ann Steinman and
Juanita Ann Bame, will deliver the
valedictory and salutatory orations,
respectively, and musical numbers by
members of the class will include a
vocal solo by Dean c. Niswander
and violin solo by Alice Jean
Bixel.
John M. Tosh, president of the
board of education, will present the
diplomas to the graduating seniors;
Rev. r. r. Welch will ask the invo-
cation and Rev. V. c. Oppermann
the benediction.
Special music will be provided by
the high school orchestra.
Il UliOWliiS SOHliiiCiiSCuiCit CASlSlSCSt
the annual alumni banquet will be
held Friday night in the gymnasium.
CLASS ROLL
! Members of the graduating class
are Sarah Louise Amstutz, Juanita
Ann Bame, Esther Louise Berky,
Alice Jean Bixel, Genevieve Elaine
Buhler, Lois Elizabeth Burkholder,
Mabel Irene Burkholder, Dorothy
Eileen Dunbar, Gertrude d. Edge
comb, Lois Julee Garmatter.
Eileen d. Haller, Rachel Anna
Hoffer, Ruby Pauline Lehman, Mary
Lou Schmidt, Esther Kathleen Schu-
macher, Mary Lou Shafer, Janet
June Steiner, Jean Ann Steinman
Miriam c. Stettler, Eileen V. Vein,
hold, Roma Eileen Welty, Dorothy
Mae Wenger, Louise f. Which
Janice L. Wingate, Mary Lou Young
| Laurel Bauman, Jr., Gordon A
Bixel, Jr., James L. Daley, Rober
E. Diller, Robert E. Gratz, Richart
IL. Hauenstein, Evan Herr, OFT,
Klassen, Ray H. Luginbuhl, Morris
Moser, Dean G. Niswander, Pau
Reichenbach, Harley r. Steiner
I Robert Z. .ha stratton, Charles A
Tripiehorn and Ronald X. Zimmerly
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BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices} = Wheak
sl.6s; corn si.l2; oats 75c; soyx
s2.04.
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Business Property For Sale
For Sale or Rem

BUSINESS PROPERTY SUBJECT
to lease. Yield loGd on investment.
Box W-29 care Press.
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The YpslantiD ailyPress

GEORGE c. HANDY. Publisher
Entered as second-ciass mail matter
The Ypsilantian. Jan. ., 1850.
The Ypsilsnti Daily Press, March 10.
1904, Ia accordance with Sec. $50.
p. I. A r., (Mar. .. 1870. at Post
office, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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BY Mail. one year " Ypsilanu
trading zone. comprising
Washtenaw County and vest
srn portion OF wayne County 1900
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Special rate to soldiers. yesr. 800
Independent OF politics and pub
lishsd daily except sunday with an
aim toward serving the Ypsilanti
trading territory.
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BURBANK FURS
LATES STYLES in Ladies' Fur
coats now available in all sizes
at reasonable prices. Credit
terms can be arranged. IS S.
Huron. Phone 1862.
PRE- WAR MODEL Boys Bicycle
Good condition. New tires and
tubes. Sam Treat. 10 ". Mich
igan. Phone 1s0-M.
WHITNEY BABY BUGGY. Norge
oil heater. used mo. LonerEau oil
heater used winters. sos ". For
est Ave. Phone 1910.
BABY SCALES. bathinette, play pen.
stroller and car seat. Some articles
pre-War zoe Cornell I'd.
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Classified Advertising

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Circuit Court Commissioner.
Dated: October 3. l9iS.
ALFRED T. DE OTTE
Attorney for Plaintiffs, II ~. wash
ington Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
ADV k-l1n2
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the Matter of the Estate Of
Paul L. Ross, Deceased

Margaret V. Ross having filed IN
said Court her petition praying that
tho administration OF said estate he
granted to Margaret V. Ross or to
some other suitable person.
II Is Ordered. that the 9th day
Of October A. d. 1915, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon at said Pro-
bate Office be and is hereby appoint.
ed for hearing said petition.
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Real Estate
Houses For sale

Harry {. Peet
REALTOR
lls Pearl 81. Phone lSIL
a ROOM APARTMENT house, West
Cross 81. near College. Furniture
goes except caretakers apartment.
Reasonable price. Terms.
& ROOM BUNGALOW, garage, close
in. t2.6b0. Terms.
WEST CROSS STREET, 10 room
modern house. newly decorated.
Immediate pos session. Rent or sell.
MORT HAMILTON ST. room
modern house. $3.50. Terms.
4 ROOM MODERN bungalow, near
Miles 81. Possession five days,
S3Os6.
6 ROOM MODERN semi-bungalow.
Excellent home. $500. Terms.
EAST SIDE BUNGALOW, 4 rooms
and utility room, complete bath.
Inlaid linoleum IN bathroom and
kitchen. Hardwood floors. Nice
built-in cupboards in kitchen with
tnlaid linoleum. Plastered walls.
Garage with cement floor. Picket
fence around lot. $3.50. Terms
81 900 down, $35 month.
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STATE OF MICHIGAN, County
OF washtenaw Circuit Court Com
missioner's office.
Alta s. Turney Mary V. TuvneH
and Lillian II. Liger, Plaintiffs.
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APPOINTMENT OF ADMrNIsrRA-
TOR

No. 54SS1
STATE OF MICHIGAN. The Pro-
bate Court for the County OF WASH
tenaw.
At a session Of said Court. held at
18th day Of September A. d. 1945.
Present, Hon. Jay G. Pray, Judge
Of Probate.
In tba Mattar of tha Tstata IF
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T. II. KRYDER, MGR. PHONE 2614
PROSPECT ST, 10 acre farm, four
room house. insulated, bath, about
5 acres corn, : acres woods, 2 car
garage. $500. Terms. H. PEET,
Realtor, ll9 Pearl st. Phone 1871
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-07-08
1b,b00 Akron Tire Plant
Workers Stay On Strike

AKRON, O.. July 7. OUP)
Local officials of the Unit
ed Rubber Workers CIO) at
Firestone Tire and Rubber plants
in Akron indicated Saturday that
they would ignore a National Labor
Relations board order to return to
work Monday.
The ultimatum., Issued Friday
ordered the 16,600 strikers back to
work. or to send their leaders to
q show-cause hearing in Washing
ton Tuesday. If the order is ig-
ncred. the board said it would be
forced to subpoena the union Off
cialS. as was the case in the Good
year hearing.
The Firestone strike over griev-
ances is in its seventh day.
Meanwhile Capt H K. Clark,
navy officer in charge of the five
3eized Goodyear Tire g. Rubber CO.
plants, said conditions there were
about 80 per cent normal" Many
of the strikers were not expected to
return to their jobs until Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-07-08
Borneo
Oil Port
Seized
Aussies Score
Victory in
Speedy Landing

MANILA, July 7. (UP)-
The Australian Seventh Di-
vision Saturday. won COM
plctc control Of Balikrapan bay,
Boruc0'a greatest port. with leap
frog landing on tt@ west shCre
Gen. Douglas Macarthur head
quarters reported tLat the Austral-
ianS landed at PCnadiam, three
miles acrocs the bay from Balik-
papan at 100 p m. Thursday. Thus
thcv secured the approaches to the
fine harbor which used to be jam
MOI with tahkCrs in pre-Pearl Har-
Dor days
on the ca shore of Balikpapan
bay. the Australians still battled
for TIC PandanSari Refinery area
on the outskirts Of Balikpapan
town AfaCArthur'S COmmunique
said the Aussics Wcr7 closing in on
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