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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

Byron Fritchie SM Sc of the
Navy is spending weeks furlough
at his home here.
Mrs. Ray Marshall of Orange
township is patient at Bluffton
hospital.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. A. Weed are
attending the annual Bible confer
ence at Lakeside this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Burkholder of
Trenton, Mich, visited Sunday with
Mrs. Ida Burkholder and daughters.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Soldner of
Cherry street are spending the week
at Lake Shipshewana, Indiana.
Portable outdoor grills-just the
thing for summer. picnics at Basing-
er's furniture store.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Huser and
Forest Harmon We're visitors at
Lakeside, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Gossman and
Bessie Arnold spent Sunday in Toledo
with Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Sheriff.
Miss Ruth Hankish of South Main
street has as her guest this week
her roommate at Bowling Green
State university, Miss Beau Opper-
man of Delaware.
Order your Agrico for wheat fer
tilizer now at the Master Feed Mill,
Bluffton phone 317-W IA
Mrs. Chas. Miller who was \
patient in Bluffton hospital with a
heart ailment is improving at her
home on South Main street.
All steel painted clothes posts
just the thing for your outdoor
clothes lines at Basinger's furniture
store.
See me for memorials of all kinds.
Samuel Bixel, 400 S. Main ST., Bluff
ton. Phone 429-W. Representing the
Lima Marble G. Granite Co. If
Cpl. Brooks Root has returned to
Elgin Field, Florida, after a 10 days
furlough at the home Of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Root of Mound
street.
Mrs. Ella McHenry has returned
home from Mansfield where she
spent the past two weeks with hel
daughter, Mrs. Ed Arnold who has
been i'll.
Mrs. Thomas Taylor and children
Adele, Alfred and Rodney of Toronto
Ohio, returned home Monday aftel
spending the past week with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Criblez
Mrs. Alfred Criblez and daughter.
Elvina and Rachel and Ida MAJ
Arnold and Alfred Taylor of Toronto
Ohio, spent several days last weel
visiting Pfc. Robert Crizlez at tn,
Nichols Army hospital in Louisville
Ky.
Diller ambulance removals: vii
liam Friedley from Bluffton hospita
to his home near Pandora; Mrs. 10,
Gerdeman from Beaverdam to Deca
tur, Ind; Delmar Beery, Jr., from
Bluffton hospital to his home Il
Beaverdam; Mary Gerdeman from
Cherry street, Bluffton to St. Rita
hospital, Lima. i
Mrs. Bess Pierce south of Blufftol
entertained at six O'Clock dinner las
Wednesday honoring her nephew, NJ
| Sgt. Edwin Cole, his wife and baby
recently returned from Alaska an
his mother Mrs. Edna Cole of Per
rysburg. Mrs. Pierce returned wit
the guests for a week end visit il
Perrysburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Niswander
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Niswande
and son Gene, Mrs. Inez Neuensch
wander and Sidney Stettler and Nj
and Mrs. Calvin Stettler visited Sun
day in Findlay with Mr.. and Mr.:
j. c. Hochstettler and their CUES
Mrs. Emma Stull of Lafayette, Ind
who is quite i'll at the Hochstettle
home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

In harvesting alfalfa seed, it is
highly important that the seed be
threshed as soon as possible after
the crop has been cut because the
pods will open and drop seed if they
become wet after having been dried.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Family Gathering

A family gathering was held at
the country home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andy Hochstettler Sunday in honor
of the birthday of Levi Hochstettler.
Other members also celebrating
birthdays the past week were Mrs.
Walter Hochstettler, Mrs. Irma
Augsburger and Glenn Schick.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi Hochstettler, Mr.. and Mrs. Reno
0berly, son Wade and daughter
Marilyn, Mr.. and Mrs. Cloyd Schick
and daughter Arlene, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Hochstettler and family of De-
troit, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hoch-
stettler, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Bader-
fischer, sons Maynard and Gene, Miss
Bernice Zimmerman, Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick Reichenbach and the host
and hostess Mr.. and Mrs., And,
Hochstettler and family.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
clubs, lodges
and Societies

Coming Wedding
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Weinhold an
nounce the coming wedding of their
daughter Betty to Howard Ebay of
Ada. The ceremony will take place
Saturday afternoon at o'clock at
the home of the bride in Bluffton.
Alpha Gamma Club
The Alpha Gamma club will meet
at the home of Mrs. Helen Mas Of
near Lima, Friday night. An in
formal program has been arranged.
Orange Twp. Farm Women
Members of the Orange Township
Farm Women's club and their
families will hold a picnic at the
Orange Center Community house on
Thursday evening, Aug. 2.
Attend Summer Camp
Eight members of the Girls Gold
Star All club of Orange township
are spending the week at Camp
Ohio, near Utica in Licking county.
Attending the camp are: Esther
Wolber, Ann Montgomery, Twila
Henry, Juanita Keller, Rosemary
Montgomery, Carole Sue Gallant,
Edith Mae Henry, Sarah Willeke and
jeanette Murray. They will return
Friday,
Orange Twp. All Club
The Girls Gold Star All club OF
Orange township will meet next
Tuesday at the township Community
center.
The following demonstrations have
been arranged: Altering a pattern,
Emma Jean Miller; Bias binding,
Jeannine Stewart; Seam finishes,
Jeanann Klingler; Physical fitness,
Judith Benroth; Milk drinks, Joan
and Rosemary Montgomery.
Mrs. Frank Montgomery, adviser,
has asked that all wartime activity
and project books be turned in at
that meeting.
Stitch & Stir
Ruth Winner, Allen County Home
Demonstration agent was the princi-
pal speaker at a meeting of the
Stitch & Stir All club held in the
Beaverdam school building last
Wednesday.
A committee appointed to arrange
for a booth at the Delphos fair next
month consisted of JoAnn Wore
Janet Andrews, Marilyn and Wanda
Everett.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Janet Andrews, August
at 2 p. m.
Week at Lakeside
The following young people from
the Methodist church are attending
the Youth Fellowship institute a
Lakeside this week:
Lois Hauenstein, Phyllis Hardwick
Sara Jane Huser, Peggy Eckenweil
er, Joan and James Harmon anc
Burl Meyer. They are accompanied
by Mrs. Forest Harmon and Mrs
| Harold Beals as counselors.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

Grain (bushel pricesC - Wheat
S1.56; corn SLIP; oats 62c; soys
$2.04.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Rednces Hide Value

Side branding reduces the value
Of one-half the hide when tanned into
..ather by 35 per cent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

Entered as second class matter at
the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

News Want-ads bring results.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

ship will hold its 36th annual re-
union on Thursday, August 9. Pres,
Mildred Klingler; Sec, Fern Koch.
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Published weekly at .Bluffton, Ohio,
by tha>Bluffton News Publishing and
Printing Co.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Congressional Atrocity Report
Stresses Calculated KiIIinqs

shocking story of calculated misery
and degradation made familiar by
scores of articles from the scene.
Treating in detail on the estab-
lishment at Buchenwald, the law
makers said:
Pictures and descriptions of the
conditions at this camp cannot ade-
quately portray what we saw there,
and it is only when the stencil of
the camp is smelled that any one
can have a complete idea of the
depths of degradation to which the
German Nazi government and those
responsible for it had dropped in
their treatment of those who have
failed to embrace the doctrines of
the master race"
Death on Boardwalk.
A macabre detail of the Dachau
camp was related There prisoners
of distinction" including those with
military records, were permitted to
kneel on a small boardwalk as they
were executed by gunf1re. Women
and common political prisoners
knelt on an earthen bank to receive
their death bullets.
Since We had seen no coffins at
other camps visited, we inquired why
cofi1ns were used at Dachau, and
were informed that these coff1ns
were reserved for prisoners of dis
tinction."
The committee visited Dachau
within 48 hours after its liberation
by American forces.
When We arrived there were many
lSee ATROCTTIES. Page A-3.l
Evening star., 1945-05-15
7th War Loan Sales
In District Reach
St3,7O0,0O0 Mark
Most Purchases Result
From Increased PoyroII
Deductions by Workers

Washingtonians have bought
$13, 100000 worth of War Bonds
mostly through increased payroll
deductions, so far in the Dis
trict's Mighty Seventh" War
Loan drive for $113, 100000, Off
cials announced today.
The amount represents 1876 per
cent of the S70,000,000 quota as
signed to individuals. 1t does not
include a report of the $4,000, 900
worth of bonds sold for the Bob
Hope rally Sunday. nor does it in
clude any report from the corpora
tions which have been assigned a
$60, 0,700,0 900 quota, officials stressed
The purchases announced have been
made since drive accounting began
April 9 and were the first to clear
the Federal Reserve Bank at Rich
mond, Va. Figures later this week
will begin to reveal the amounts of
cash sales here since Sunday, it
was said.
Exhibitions Planned.
Meanwhile, exhibitions of flame
throwers, B-29 bombers, bazookas
and merchant ship-more mill
tary and maritime might than
Washington has ever seen in War
Loan pefore-have been planned by
drive headquarters to demonstrate
to individual buyers what their
money will do for the armed forces.
The flame-throwers and bazookas
went on display yesterday and will
(See BOND SHOW, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1945-05-15
By the Associated Press.

A congressional mission re-
ported today that its inspection
of German concentration camps
forced the conclusion the Nazis
carried out a calculated and
diabolical program of planned
torture and determination"
The mission, composed of six
members of the House, flew to
Europe April % and spent most of
a fortnight looking over the notori-
GUS camps at Dachau, Buchenwald
and Nordhausen.
In their report, the group termed
the Nazi program of starvation,
torture and unhonored death for
slave laborers and political prisoners
mo less than organized crime
against civilization and humanity -
Those who we're responsible
should have meted out to them
swift, certain and adequate punish
ment," the report advocated.
Present Agencies Adequate.
In view, however, of the existence
of the Allied War Crimes Commits
sion, the committee said it did not
believe any additional agency need
be created.
''The agencies now dealing with
the problem are responsible and
competent and will approach the
subject from the standpoint of
y,ra cficaI iIYstice in everv orea and
in all categories of crimes that may
be involved" the report said.
In general, it recounted the same
Evening star., 1945-05-15
President, Eisenhower Agree
On Free Press for Germany
Policy Differs From Elmer Dovis' Plan
For Strict Control of information

manner consistent with military
security"
At the same time, the Truman
statement added, I'VE are not going
to lose the peace by giving license
to racialists, to pan-Germans, Nazis
and militarists so that they can
misuse democratic rights in order
to attack democracy as Hitler did
When the time is right, he said
Germany will be given a full free
press.
Reached by reporters after the
Presidents conference, Mr.. Davis
said: Il have nothing to say"
The text of the Presidents state
ment:
Gen. Eisenhower has advised me
that he has issued no policy or order
dealing with the importation of pub
lications into Germany. The gen.
eral has expressed the personal
opinion that free press and a free
flow of information and ideas should
prevail in Germany in a manner
consistent with military security.
Gen. Eisenhower has emphasized,
however, that there can be no res
toration of free German press in
Germany until the elimination of
Nazis and militarist influence has
been completed. We are not going
to lose the peace by giving license
to racialist pan-Germans, Nazis and
so that they can misuse
democratic rights in order to attack
democracy as Hitler did.
Il agree with Gen. Eisenhower.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Nozis Quickly Learn Who Won
AsD.C. Colonel axes OverCit>

about what was going on in Boil
zano headquarters of both SIS
troopers and the German Army
after spending two days looking
over the town and listening to our
soldiers by the dozen asking: What
the hell's cooking-who won this
WARP" But the story was stopped.
There has been no official expla-
nation of why the situation was
permitted to exist for 10 days after
the German surrender in Italy on
May 2.
Until today Gen. Karl Wolff, head
of the SIS in Italy and in charge of
Gestapo Chieftain Heinrich Hmm
ler's personal staff, and Gen. Helm
rich Won Vietinghoff -Scheel, Ger
man commander in Northern Italy,
retained elaborate headquarters
here.
The officers and men in their out
fits paraded around the streets and
had everything just about their own
way. The 88th was told to keep
its hands of.
For at least three nights groups
(See FEEDER, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1945-05-15
BY the Associated Press.


President Truman said today
that he and Gen. Eisenhower
are in agreement that a free
press should prevail in Germany
''in a manner consistent with
military security"
This is a reversal, the Chief Ex-
ecutive told his news conference, of
the position taken last week by
Elmer Davis. chief of the Office of
War Information, who contended
information reaching the Germans
should be strictly controlled.
Mr.. Davis acted in good faith, the
President said, but had misunder-
stood the policy agreed on. In a
statement last Thursday, the Owl
chief said Allied newspapers and
magazines would be barred from
circulation in Germany for an in
definite period, asserting:
THE reason is very simple-Ger-
many is sick man. He now can
have only what the doctors pre-
scribe"
Today. President Truman read a
statement asserting that Gen.
Eisenhower has advised me that he
has issued no policy or order deal
ing with the importation of publi-
cations into Germany" and adding
"the general has expressed the per-
sonal opinion that a free press and
that free flow of information and
ideas should prevail in Germany in
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Congressional Review
Of Blank Check Policy
Urged by Warren
Controller General Gives
Plan for Increased
Government Efficiency
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Congress should begin to re-
examine the blank-check spend
ing authority it granted Govern
ment bureaus at the start of the
war and tighten its control over
the purse strings, Controller
General Lindsay C. Warren told
the joint committee studying
ways to improve congressional
procedure.
II feel that it is not too soon to
begin to re-examine these large
grants in the light of the progress
of the war. and to draw back to the
Congress the control of expendi-
tures,' said Mr. Warren, who was
member of the House for many
years.
while Congress no doubt deemed
it necessary in the early days of the
war to authorize administrative Of
flcials to act without regard to the
provisions of many laws otherwise
controlling" the witness continued:
The present progress of the war
makes continued granting of such
authority highly questionable, if
the Congress Is to regain it's control
over the purse. Now is the time to
begin to draw in this authority"
Closer Budget Check Urged.
Mr.. Warren, who was a Demo-
cratic Representative from North
Carolina when he was appointed
Controller General, made these five
recommendations:
/. Closer scrutiny of budget esti-
mates by the Appropriations Com
mittees, with more information in
the budget as to specific agency pro-
grams. To accomplish this, he rec
commended larger technical staffs for
the two committees and greater use
of the General Accounting Office,
which was set up to be an agent of
Congress, independent of the execu-
tive departments.
2. Creation of a joint committee
in Congress to receive and act on
reports submitted by the General
Accounting Office on expenditures,
efficiency and economy in the de-
partments. He suggested that the
department affected by a report,
the Budget Bureau and the Gen.
eral Accounting Office could be
called in by this committee to thresh
out the matter.
g. Re-examine the erous
statutes granting authority to ad-
ministrative officials to make ex-
penditures without regard to the
general laws controlling the use of
public funds.
4. Removal of many small statu-
tory restrictions which hamper ad-
ministration without accomplishing
legislative thought.
S. More careful scrutiny of re-
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Officer Dead Of Gas,
) Persons Overcome

First 1t. Justine N. Worthington
of the airborne infantry, Camp
Mccall, N. c., was killed by gas
asphyxiation today in the Carlyn
apartments, $500 @ street NV.
Three others overcome by gas
were taken to Emergency Hospital
after members of the fire rescue
squad had worked on them with
inhalators for more than 80 minutes.
Detective Sergt. John K. Baker of
the police homicide squad gave their
names as:
: First 1t. Bernard Trombley, ad-
dress unknown.
Mrs. Frances ]. Hagens, IS, Carlyn
apartments.
= Mrs. Lois B. Guerry, As, of 2615
Fourth street NE.
Sergt. Baker said gas burner was
open in the stove of the apartment
and there were signs of cooking.
The apartment was No. $50, occupied
by Mrs. Hagens.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
President Opposes
Tax Cut During War
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Truman declared today
that he is opposed to any reduction
in taxes until after Japan has been
defeated.
The President told his news con-
ference there can be no reduction
no possible reduction-until after
the whole war is over.
He said 85,000,000 bond holders
had to be protected and that the
only protection lay in continued
high taxation.
The President was asked if he had
seen a statement by Chairman
George of the Senate Finance Com
mittee suggesting a plan for the
gradual reduction of taxes.
He replied that there can be no
reduction in taxes while the war
is on.
There is no possible way to re-
duce taxes until the war with Japan
has been ended, he added, and as
long as the Nation is obligated to
levy taxes to meet its debts.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Truman Has No Early Plan
For Veterans Agency Shift

President Truman declared today
the Veterans Administration must
be modernized to meet the expand
ing needs that will be created by the
return of servicemen, but he de-
clared he was not planning any i'm
mediate shakeup.
He fatty denied reports that he
planned to appoint former Senator
Clarke, Democrat, of Missouri, as
the head of the agency, which has
long been under direction of Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines.
There have been recurrent reports
that Veterans Administration
shakeup was impending.
Mr.. Truman said the administra-
tion is going to have to be expand
ed, just as it was after the last war,
and he said that the expansion
should include a modernization of
procedure.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
By SID FEDER.

Associated freSS war correspondent.
BOLzANO, Italy, May 13 De-
laye0 The Nazis in this wartime
nest of the SIS finally have learned
that the war is over and that Ger
many has been whipped.
For the past 10 days they have
been staggering around doing
about as they pleased, granting the
American 88th Division "permis-
sion" to set up a command post,
driving through the streets in pow
erful cars, fraternizing with civil
ians or eating in restaurants cater
ing almost exclusively to German
soldiers.
But now the honeymoon is over.
Col. James G. Fry of Washington,
assistant division commander of the
88th, took over yesterday as COM
mandant of the town and within a
few hours he had ended one of the
most fantastic situations which has
grown out of the German surrender.
Col. Fry told the Nazis bluntly
they were defeated army and from
now on would be treated as such.
I had written story last week
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Former Gov. Richard Leche
Of Louisiana ParoIed
~ the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
Former Gov. Richard w. Leche
of Louisiana, serving 10-year
prison term for using the mails to
defraud, was paroled today by the
Federal Parole Board, effective
June 80.
The 46-year-old one time associ-
ate of the late Huey P. Long began
serving his sentence December 81
1941, in the Federal correctional in
stitution in Texarkana, Tex. He
became eligible for parole April 80
The board made no comment in
announcing its action.
At his trial the Government
charged Leche used the mails to
defraud the State of $31 900 through
a deal involving the purchase of
highway trucks. The Government
contended that Leche ordered the
trucks purchased at excessively high
prices and received the $31 900 in
a "kickback" from the truck dealer.
Evening star., 1945-05-15
Britain Denies Givinq
Tito Order 10 Clear
Troops From Trieste
Merely Told Him Ports
Status Must Be Decided
At Peace Conference
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 15.-A British
spokesman today labeled as
exaggerated" reports published
in London that Marshal Tito OF
Yugoslavia had been ordered
peremptorily to withdraw his
troops from Istria and the Ad-
riatic port of Trieste.
Britain and the United States
hold that Trieste would remain un-
der Allied control until the peace
conference settled its status. The
spokesman said this policy had been
communicated to the Yugoslav gov
eminent through ENJOYS at Bel
grade in an atmosphere of frank
ness and friendship. He declared
there was no question of a crisis or
Iof an ultimatum.
Similar to Grew Statement.
His statement was similar to one
issued Saturday in Washington by
Acting Secretary of State Joseph
Grew, who said the Yugoslav gov
ernment had been informed that
Trieste would be controlled by the
Allied Military Government until
its status was settled in the orderly
manner pledged by the United Ma
tions for the solution of such prob
lens.
In Belgrade, Edward Kardelj
second vice president of the Yugo-
slav government, said certain for
eigners are repeating a slander to
the effect that Yugoslavia in oc-
cupying this territory wishes to
place before the world a fait ac-
|compli."
These allegations have no foun-
dations whatsoever" Kardelj said
These calumnies are inspired by
the same imagination which in the
past accused the Yugoslav Army of
committing cruelties upon the Trst
(Trieste) inhabitants. Yugoslavia
has never refused to confer and ex-
press its requests as concerns from
tiers at the peace conference"
Kardelj said the Yugoslav Army
had liberated the Slovene Littoral,
Istria and Trieste at the cost of
many lives" He added, however
that "the Yugoslavs cannot be de-
MED the right to organize military
occupation authority in order to
assure law and order until the prob
lem of fixing frontiers is solved by