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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03

sent the culprit to the torture mind ed gendarmeric.
 Troops in training were told and retold stories by their officers of heroic Samurai, Japan's ancient two- sworded warriors, along with false reports of current triumphs.
 The young men of IS and 19 soon kegan to fancy themselves in heroic roles and became arrogant and over bearing" said Yoshi They de- veloped into the fanatics who volun- teer for suicide missions-convinced their destiny was to die for the em- peror on the battlefield" 1 The result is an army hardened for death in which the hesitant are driven to undertake any hopeless mission through fear or maltreat- ment and loss of prestige.
 When Yoshi was sent to the Philippines he said he still believ- ed Japan had tremendous forces there, capable or repelling any in- vasion He landed at Ormoc with reinforcements Gen Yamashita was tossing in for his last-ditch de- fense. The shock of reality, said Yoshi, was terrific.
 Instead of Japanese invincibility he saw the emperor's troops fleeing disorganized against greatly super for American forces. Instead of brave, death-defying Nipponese heres, he saw officers and men flee ing to the hills during heavy bom- bardment.
 Not all the prisoners were so dis illusioned. Hata, a young peasant farmer, was evidently fanatic. He was captured while wounded too severely to move, but the viciousness with which he answered the inter preter showed he was still pitiless.
 Mass Hyptotism
 Suzuki, a 37-year-old newspaper man, was self hypnotized. Before conscription. he had published the governments false propaganda with out a Qualm because fin wartime the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
Nufiono Defense ar Production suppan Glasses n Jopdn

BEGINNING April 1 and continuing for one year. school children living in Japan will have completed their formal education upon graduation from the first grade. This an- nouncement comes from Tokyo and the reason offered for this sudden halt in the Japanese educational program is that it will be necessary for school children and teachers to devote their entire attention to national defense and war production. Pho tos shown illustrate the type of education which will take the place of the usual class room study. iInteLnafionai)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
AUSTRIAN JAILED BY
 kRGENTINA
Former Munitions Magnafe To Get PIdsties
 Plant Taken

BUENOS AIRES, April 3-Fritz Mandl, former Austrian munitions magnate, is being held here in- communicate, on unannounced charges.
 The Argentine Government has also announced it will seize Mandl's big metal plastics manufacturing company which has been on the Allied blacklist for six months.
 Mandl's arrest was made last night. The Austrian was one time an intimate of high Argentine of ficials both before and after the recent revolution. He has long been considered suspect by American and British authorities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03

production on behalf of the Rotary Club.
 Whole Towns Talking" will be presented only two nights, Thurs day and Friday of this week, at 8 o'clock at the Coliseum Theatre.
 An added entertainment feature of each evening will be the appear ance of the Juneau High School band. It will play outside the the atre before the performance and inside during the intermissions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
JaDaneSe Prisoners Of
 War SGII Think They
 Will Win Out Somehow

(This ercIuSiUe story on the men tai outlook of Japanese prisoners ot Ucr Uas cttained from inter0teOS throygh dn interpretcs by dfi ASso- eiated Press correspondent formerly stationed in Tckyo lrko lCas intern- ed by the Jdpanese and spent 19 months in ctuiltan concentration ccmrs in Mcnila and ShanghafJ
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
Giinny Is Doing
 Wartime
By BOB THOMAS

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-Ginny simrns is a girl from Fresno, Calf, with lovely face and big heart. She also has a sweet singing voice which she is fond of using for the fenefit of men in this country's uniforms.
 For instance, she came to this desert town to visit Torney General Hospital. The place was once an axransive resort hotel Now it is used by the Army tc take care of it's rheumatic fever victims and others disabled for active duty.
 Ginny met with several hundred of them in the rec hall These were the ambulatory cases-the ores who could walk. The song stress sang them about a dozen scngs and they clapped hard after each number. There were some low whistles and perhaps howl indi- genous to GIs.
 "Cuddle up a little closer " she sang and there were many who expressed eagerncss.
 When the show was over she ran through desert rain to the PIX. She had a coke and talked with the boys and signed her name to cur Iency from all over the world. Then we wheeled a piano down a long ramp to the wards to see the patients who couldn't get out of bed.
 Remember me, Miss Siinms?'' said a soldier. T saw you the last time you were here
 Why certainly. You gave me that lovely scarf you had made. Are you still making them?"
 Nav, I got tired of them I'm working with plastics now
 Ginny dedicated a song to boy whose foot was in cast:
 Give me land, lots of land The boy was a Texan and he gazed at his cigarette smoke as though he really didn't want to be fenced in.
 After a few songs, Leo Rojo, who plays piano at swank hotel every night, asked the audience if they would like some boogie woogie. One of the boys said he'd rather hear the Hungarian Rhapsody. The whole ward listened quietly as Leo played the Hungarian Rhaspody.
 Ginny chatted with the boys and asked them how they were and where their home was. A number of them asked her for her autograph although others deplored this as be- ing rude. In return for her sigma ture, one boy gave Ginny service ribbon.
 That's the way it went Ginny visited seven wards that day, sing ing to audiences of from seven to 50. I thought you would like to know how Ginny is taking care of some friends of ours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
GOES SOUTH TO JOIN
 HUSBAND IN SEATTLE

Mrs. George Larson sailed south over the weekend to join her hus- band in Seattle.
 The Larssons expect to live in Seattle indefinitely.
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teraam, Rotterdam, and Hague will se scaled off for liberation
 British Second Army troops have fought to within five miles of Os- nahrueek. which was bypassed by the U. s. Ninth Army move to within fifty miles of Hanover, when it's Second sArmored Division reacksd the We're River south of Hsrford, at a point nine miles from the Weser River.
 First Army tanks and infantry men shattered violent German at tenlpts to crash out of the Ruhr trap, which was frightened on the north side when Ninth Army Divis- ions captured Recklinghausen, and cleared virtually all of the built up Ruhr area north of Emcher Canal, between Duisburg on the Rhine and Dortmund.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
MRS. STEEL OUT

Mrs. Olga Steel, Secretary of the
 Senate of the recent legislature, and her little son, have left for the
 south on a visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
PLANNING HOME

Dr. Evelyn Butler and pr. George Dale are planning to build new home on their lot at Ninth and B streets where the old tennis scourts used to be,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
HEBRON ON VACATION

D. w. Heron, of the Treasury Disbursement office. has left for the states on vacation to be ex- tended one month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
BANKER OUT

Elwood McClain of the First Na- tional Bank staff has left for the States on a business and pleasure trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
CLARK AT HOME

i Bill Clark, Empire reporter, is recuperating at home from internal injuries suffered recently while ski ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
CORNELL ON VACATION

Mir and Mrs. Lloyd Cornell have left Juneau to spend vacation in the States He is a druggist at Harry Races.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
TO JOIN HUSBAND

Mrs. Patricia Satire, wife of Sgt. John Satire, has left for the States to join her husband.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-03
DAN ROSS GOES SOUTH

MT. and Mrs. Dan Ross and son have left for the south for a visit in the states.
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FROM SEATTLE H. c. Nelson, of Seattle is guest at the Gastineau.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01

A youthful ambition to be rail-
road man is being realized by DR.. B..
w. Travis, Bluffton physician, who
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01

and Mrs. William Basinger were vis-
itors at the Louis Risser farm, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Niswander re-
turned home from several weeks trip
to Georgia, Sunday.
Since the snow has melted the
lawns and meadows look very green.
The perennials are quite far advanced
and trees and shrubs look good from
the moisture and protection of the
long covering of snow over them the
past few months.
Mrs. Ernest Burkhart and daught-
ers, Edith Burkhart and Mrs. A. L.
Diebert spent the week end with the
William Starting family at Ft. Wayne.
Daniel Cook, who has been visiting
his relatives here, left for Findlay,
Tuesday 10 spend the remainder of
his furlough with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Cook.
c. ID. Steiner, Farm Agricultural
Census enumerator for Riley town.
ship expects to finish his work this
week. His work contacted him with
some two hundred families in the
township.
Robert Crawford and family, living
on the Davy heirs farm moved to a
farm near Jenera this week.
Wheat in Riley township is look
ing quite good.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01
Pandora

Mrs. c. d. Steiner entertained the
following at dinner, Thursday: Mes
DANES j. c. Reese, William Basinger,
Mrs. Aaron Hilty, Mrs. George Ba-
singer, Mrs. r A. Krohn, Mrs. Julian
Kempf, Mrs. Clara Light, Mrs. Peter
Hilty, Mrs. Winford Geiger and dau-
ghter Sandra, Mrs. Duff Rayne and
Misses Elizabeth and Lena Riser,
Harriet Krohn and Inez McAdams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milford Haas, Ralph
Basinger and Lloyd Soldner of Bluff
ton made business trip to Columbus
one day last week.
Mrs. Hiram Diller recently spent
over a week with Mr.. Diller who is
stationed at Camp Barkeley, Texas.
Rev. E. E. Mosslander, formerly
pastor of the local Methodist church
here, now of Crokksville, and Mrs.
Mosslander were visitors in Pandora
two days last week.
Pfc. Victor and Mrs. Bucher are
the parents of son, Richard Wayne,
born at Bluffton hospital last Satur-
day. Pfc. Bucher is with the armed
forces in France.
Mrs. Jessie McBurney of Amster-
dam, Mo. is visiting her sisters Misses
Mary and Harriet Davy. She will go
from here to Carey to visit her sister
Mrs. Rose Davy Diller and family.
Mrs. ]. c. Chanitz and son Michael
of st. Louis, No., were recent guests
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon
Tousley.
Riley township school board recent
| ly purchased another school bus.
Mrs. Orlo Marshall of Rockport
writes that she is enjoying her Flori-
da trip. She travelled to Florida by
bus, and reports the weather there is
warm, almost too warm-the flowers
are lovely and oranges in their prime
She had been to st. Augustine and to
Daytona Beach the morning she wrote
the note.
The beautiful candle lighting ser.
vice held by the Youth Fellowship
group of the local Methodist church
Sunday evening for the men and WON.
en- in service of the local church anc
those of the Riley Greek church was
we'll attended.
Mrs. Charles Reese entertained the
Bi-Centenial club, Wednesday evening
at the farm home north east of Pan.
dora.
Mrs. (Dr. A. B. Hilty) of Columbus
Grove is visiting the Winston Buchel
family at Takoma Park, Md. Win
ston is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Bucher, south east of Pandora
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Diller left 70,
Florida last week.
Miss Wanda Newton local banl
| clerk has joined the Waves. Miss Net
tie Basinger, who has been with tn
bank five years will take up Cade
Nurses training at o. S. u, Colum
bus. Her sister Elnore of Lima
will also take Cadet training with hel
Mrs. Mildred Eisenbach and chilc
rem of Findlay spent the past wee
here at the Ben Eisenbach home.
Otis Mcbride and son Halton @
Lima, Winford Geiger and famil
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01

Lieut.. Gen. Joseph ("Vinegar
joey Stilwell, one of the most popu-
lar generals in the United States
army, who has seen lot of fighting
on the Chinese front.
mand was important, I'd been
trained for fighter pilot. And here
I was, just sitting up there in
transport, like a clay pigeon for the
Japanese.
I still remembered that for nine
years I had been too young; then
when war came was suddenly told
] was too old to be fighter pilot.
When had I been the right age?
/ wanted to tell General Chennault
that story. At the great age of
thirty -four, just didn't consider that
] was too old to fly fighter planes
and with his help I meant to prove
It. Even with only one fighter ship
In the sky with our transports.
knew I could give the boys in the
transports just q little more con-
fidence. Besides, l kind of thought
I had a date with destiny, so to
speakzor at least q date with a jap
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bombs, bombs that leave a splash
of aluminium paint on the ground or
an aluminium slick on the water
where they hit, in order to show the
pilot how near he has come to the
! target. I aimed at the black snags
J in the river with the guns, then
came around again and tried to dive
and glide-bomb the snags with the
little bombs. was trying to train
myself, trying to make up for the
four years that had been away
from pursuit aviation and from tac-
tical training in the art of killing.
needed a lot of this gunnery and
bombing, for my life was very soon
to depend on it.
I'll never forget the first time
pressed the trigger of my guns and
heard the co-ordinated roar of the
six fifty-calibre machine guns. Just
by pressing a small black button be-
low the rubber grip on my stick I
could make three lines of orange
tracers from each wing converge out
ahead of my fast-moving fighter and
meet on the snags in the Brahma-
putra. Nearly a hundred shots a
second those six Fifties threw out,
and the muddy river turned to foam
near the targets. The sense of their
power impressed me as the recoil
slowed me many miles per hour in
my dive; could feel my head snap
forward from the deceleration.
Sometimes when the guns on only
one side would fire. the unequal
kicks from the recoil would almost
turn the shin.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01
Soau SIiyers

Soap slivers and scraps, too small
for efficient handling, should be
saved and used. Toilet soap scraps
can be tucked into bags or squares
of old terry cloth toweling and used
for baths or showers. Odds and ends
of kitchen or laundry soap have a
number of uses. They can be dried
thoroughly and grated and used like
packaged soaps.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01
Mal~A
pea4oIsoI

March :. month for new auto tags
:. income taxes -. maple syrup :.
and spring plowing . and paper
hangers busy-if you don't believe it.
try to get one :. yes, we said spring
plowing-frst of the season was near
Spencerville, Saturday, when the
weather looked like the first day of
spring and then came Mondays
freezing rain that coated windshields
and winter staged comeback !.
and skating rink singing its swan
song the first of the week with the
youngsters having one last fling be-
fore folding up for the duration :. :.
and basketball's a dead letter since
the team dropped out of the tourna-
ment-interest vanishes when the
team loses and income tax man
here Monday to help you get your ac-
counts square with Uncle Sam-and
if you didn't get your report in shape,
you'll have to fix it up yourself with
Is is the deadline and there were
a lot of surprises Monday when tax
blanks were being made out-one
Bluffton man who had it all figured
out that he woldn't have any tax to
| pay was irked when he was nicked for
couple of ten spots :. and congrat-
ulations to Lowell Schaublin, former
Blufftonite who has been appointed
acting chief of the maintenance divi-
sion of the state highway depart
ment.
Friday will mark the close of the
buttermaking career of Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Phillips, residing south oi
Bluffton who have been supplying the
Bluffton market since their marriage
fifty years ago last fall. Phillips
butter has been known to successive
generations of Bluffton people as one
of the choice and most sought for
items reaching the market here. The
couple have considered discontinuing
butter making for several years and
once decided to quit but later recon
sidered the move. This time, howev-
er, they say it's final. Mr.. Phillips,
II and his wife 68, expect to raise
chickens this summer and take up
other activities less strenuous than
butter making. Mrs. Phillips began
butter making at the age of thirteen
when she learned the art from her
parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Younkman.
In memory of Joyce Nonnmak-
er, Bluffton high school senior whose
death occurred early in January, a
volume Encyclopedia of Bible Life
was presented to the library by stu
dents of Mccormick Theological
seminary, Chicago. Joyce was a sister
of Mrs. Wilma Mumma whose hus-
band, Richard Mumma is a student in
the seminary. The volume is a par
allel reference work for ministers,
teachers, libraries and the home, it is
announced by Miss Ocie Anderson, Ii
brarian, and will serve as fitting
and useful memorial.
So
A youthful ambition to be a rail-
road man is being realized by DR.. B.
w. Travis, Bluffton physician, who
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01

follows model railroading as a hobby.
In the basement of his home on West
Kibler street, DR.. Travis has one of
the largest model railroad outfits, in
dividually owned, in the state. Detail
ed description appears in this issue of
the News. The Bluffton physician is
widely known among model railroad
ers and his articles on technical phas-
es of his hobby frequently appear in
national publications devoted to this
field. He is making plans for an even
larger model railroad sctup after the
war.
A reunion of Bluffton boys took
place in Corpus Christi, Texas, re-
Gently when 1t. Joel Kimmel, enroute
TO Brownsville, stopped off to see Ems.
Gerry Todd of the airforce and Ev-
erett "Sutie" Sutermeister, who is in
the army band. Joel was recently
transferred to the Brownsville Army
air base as officer in charge of the
third echelon aircraft maintenance
and shop work there.
Sgt. Carl Beery, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Delmer Beery of Beaverdam who
has been overseas since last summer,
is stationed in Paris, according to
word received recently. Sgt. Beery
is with the Army Signal corps. He
is an experienced telephone lineman,
having been employed previously on
long line construction on the Alcan
highway connecting Alaska and Can
ada.
Interested in keeuino in touch with
the old home town and home folks
come two new subscriptions to The
Bluffton News-one from the east anC
other from the west-both from form
er residents. From the east is Johr
! Burkholder of Terre Hill, Pa, wht
will be remembered as having beer
employed in the office of the Blufftor
Manufacturing company about Il
years ago. From the west is Mrs
M. d. Patterson of Caldwell, Idaho
who mas formerly Verna Kohl, dau.
er of the late Dan Kohl, Bluffton
poultry fancier. And from Los An
geles comes CHEEKY "Hello" from
Corrine Kimmel Rhind, sister of Mrs
Homer Bracy of North Main street.
A girl who started her musical
training in Bluffton is making good
as an accompanist in Saginaw, Mich.
high school. She is Carolyn, IA year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Neuenschwander, former Bluffton res
idents, now living in Saginaw. She is
accompanist for glee clubs in high
school of 1900 students and for the
second year has been piano soloist
for the clubs, besides playing mar
imba in the school orchestra. She be-
gan her piano studies with the former
Miss Mabel Luginbuhl, now the wife
of Rev. Gerald Bright of Shadyside,
former pastor of the Church of Christ
here.
Sgt. Roland Swank of Bluffton is
stationed near Paris, according to
word received here the first of the
week. Sgt. Swank who was stationed
in England for a year was the author
of several unusually graphic descrip-
tions of London which appeared in the
Bluffton News and we hope he will
find time to send something similar
about France.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-01

Belmont county farmers by popu-
lar vote Saturday, February 10, ap-
proved the establishment of a soil
conservation district in that county by
a 25 TO / majority. 1t is the 36th
such district organized in Ohio to con-
serve natural resources.
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CHAPTER 1: Scott's early experiences
TT. Mcpherson and enlists In the regular
army as private.
CHAPTER III: Scott wins the West
Point competitive exam and gets fur
Tough before reporting. He il graduated
as second lieutenant of infantry and
goes to Europe. which he tours on
motorcycle. He sells his motorcycle and
arrives at Randolph Field. Texas.
CHAPTER III: Scott makes his first
solo fight. Drives 1900 miles to Georgia
over every weekend to see his girl Scott
Is now graduated from Kelly Field and
has wings pinned on his chest Ordered
to report to Hawaii but wanting to get
married he lays his plight before the
General and is ordered to report at
Mitchell Field. N. Y. instead.
CHAPTER Nv: En- route 10 New York
Scott Is stopped by police who mistake
him for bandit. He carries the mail
for Uncis Sam In order TO gain more
flying time. and gets married.
CHAPTER v: The wal edges closer
and he is farther than ever from combat
60tys nc hd5 OECH tOAd ttt 10 t~S St~
for combat flying, and after December z.
1871. he begins writing Generals all over
the country for a chance to fly fighter
plane.
CHAPTER VI: Scott solos a Flying
Fortress for the first time and makes
twenty practice landings. He leaves for
India from a Florida point
CHAPTER VII: Easter Sunday In AZ.
rica. They fly along the Arabian coast
and land at Karachi. India. covering
1000 miles In eight days.
CHAPTER WIN: Col. Haynes orders
the group 10 report at base In Eastern
Assam. on the India Burma border.
CHAPTER TX: Burma Is falling into
the hands OF the Japs. Flying over
bombed and burned Chinese towns they
land al Schwebo. Scott meets General
Stilwen and his party.
The union times., 1945-10-27
Navy Suspends Strange Ruling On Supervisors
Regulation Discriminated Against Men Friendly
 To Organized Labor

Washington, D. C.-The Navy De- partment's order against supervisory employees in naval establishments par ticipating in union affairs has been suspended until the President reviews the purposes of the order and makes a decision. This action was taken at the request of the Government Elm ployes Council of the American Fed eration of Labor
 The order, effective Oct. l8, pro. vides that any supervisor who takes an active part in unions must give up his job or face charges of insubordination leading to discharge. A former order had even provided separation for mere ly attending union meeting.
 A group representing the council met with Raymond R. Zimmerman, the Presidents assistant for federal personnel. It was explained to MT. Zimmerman that the navy's order is contrary to all practices in private employment and to a consistent line ot precedents set up by government agencies administering affairs relat- ing to labor.