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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-03

tunity to do a real job these days
by building and operating feeding
stations.
A large elaborate feeding station
is not needed. 1t can be very
simple, a swept piece of ground out
of the wind or a station made from
corn stocks and branches, as pictur-
ed here.
In either feeding area scatter ears
of corn, shelled corn, cracked meal,
wheat, oats, barley, or any other
kind of grain or seeds. Bags of
weed seeds are obtainable at any
elevator free for the asking. Small
birds particularly like this seed
mixture if mixed with other small,
or cracked grains.
Any feeding station so constructed
will attract rabbits, pheasants, quail,
squirrels and many other species of
birds and animals.
Be sure the snow is brushed away
before the feed is placed in the
station, otherwise it is easily lost in
the snow and may become crusted
under.
Winter feeding of wildlife by
sportsmen clubs and conservation
field men this winter will be a great
aid towards restoring and perpetual
ing our game crop and song birds.
Hen pheasants and quail are two
birds that suffer from winter hard
ships-so let's feed theml
Feed Will Be Furnished Free
As has been the custom of the
sportsmens' club in past years, feed
will again be furnished free to all
persons interested in operating a
feeding station. To Boy Scouts in
particular, to farmers, and others in
the Bluffton hunting area, to people
within the corporation of
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Gleason and
family spent Christmas with Mr.. and
Mrs. c. Zahrend of Waynesfeld.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brauen and
family spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan Badertscher and Christmas
Eve at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Miller.
Dennis Brauen and Hiram Reich
enbach went to Canada to attend a
funeral of a relative.
New Years Eve Celebration at the
Paulding Center school house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cal Herr and son
called on Oscar Zimmerman and
family.
Miss Nellie Huber and Lilly Fett
were visitors at the Robert Hess
family and Howard Smith homes in
Findlay couple of days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Bell and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Stratton
and family called on the Orton STRAIT
ton home Christmas.
Mrs. Cora Huber, Joy Huber and
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Bluffton this offer is again extended.
A. ]. Lutterbein, Allen county
game protector, says the Conserva-
ton Department along with their
regular winter feeding program will
furnish ear corn and other feed for
use in feeding stations located in
game cover. The warden can be
reached through the Beaverdam
phone service.
Bags of ear corn and screenings
will be available at Niswander and
Herring veterinary office on Church
street. There will be no charge for
the feed. For additional informa-
tion contact A. E. Kohl or Edgar
Root, who are in charge of the feed
ing program.
Feeding Boxes Attract Birds
Feeding boxes placed in clear view
of a window, or on the sill just out
side the window provide an abund-
ance of entertainment.
The same list of grains and seeds
mentioned above augmented with
sunfiower seeds and bread crumbs
will attract many of the birds that
spend the winter with us.
Suet tackled to trees or fastened
in the feeding boxes will attract
many visitors. Woodpeckers, chica-
dees, tufted titmice, nuthatches,
brown creepers will be attracted.
Alfalfa, carrots, hay, clover and
other feeds for rabbits is best kept
under a small shelter where it viii
be protected from the snow. Excel
lent shelters for rabbits and other
wildlife can be made from discarded
Christmas trees. These heaped to-
gether with an automatic feeder IN
stalled, such as used by poultrymen,
will make an excellent set-up which
provides ample protection for the
food and the bird or animal.
Save Christmas Trees
The Sportsmen's Club can make
good use of those discarded Christ |
mas trees again this year in building
feeding stations for wildlife and !
brush heap protection areas for the
fish at the quarries. So if you would |
like to give the club lift take the |
tree to either end of the Buckeye |
quarry and toss them on heap. The |
trees will be put to good use as soon
as sufficient quantity is on hand.
Duck Flock Increases
1t must be the "call of the wildn |
for the two maliard brakes released |
on the water works quarry several
weeks ago have attracted some com
panions. Edgar Root who has been
feeding the birds. says four other
mallards have shown up and the
flock has increased to six ducks.
All the ducks feed regularly at the
ear corn feeding station constructed
by Root. The birds seem quite con-
tented and although wild do not make
an attempt to leave the quarry.
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Escapes Death; Train
Crashes Automobile

Ferdinand Kohls, ST, Columbus
Grove, was painfully injured and
narrowly escaped death when the
auto he was driving was struck by
the locomotive of a northbound
Baltimore & Ohio freight train at
the Sycamore street crossing in Co
lumbus Grove.
Kohls was driving east and ap-
parently failed to see the approach
ing train. The auto, completely
wrecked was carried go feet down
the track.
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family were visitors in the neignD0'
hood the past week.
Paul Winegardner is convalescins
from an operation for hernia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold IounSn'an
and Carl Younkman were callers o''
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips
Rev. and Mrs. Dwight Nicn0is
spent the past week at the faui
Faze home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Huber and son
spent the Christmas season AZ hei
parents home in Oklahoma.
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WildIife Need Feed

We all remember the hardship to
wildlife last winter caused by the
deep and continuous SHOWS blanket
ing the countryside. Old man
winters icy breath has brought about
the same condition and again sports
men, farmers, and all others inter-
ested in preserving our wild life. not
only the game birds and animals
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past holidays when they proved quite
popular for Christmas gifts.

past holidays when they proved quite
popular for Christmas gifts.
Miss Katherine Gratz, returned mis-
sionary from French West Africa SAYS
that the Bluffton News which she re-
ceived in that country was read by
others at her mission station even
tho they did not know anyone in
Bluffton. The fact that it came from
this country gave it home-like fla
vor One regular visitor at the mission
station, Negro, educated in the
United States, was especially inter-
ested in reading the serial story pub
lished in installments in the News.
Joyce Irene Elliott, nine-months-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
ford Elliott, of Kibler street, has
made an auspicious debut as a pho
tographer's model.
Four photographs of the young
lady in New Years garb appeared
in four-coiumn spread across the
front page of Mondays issue of The
Toledo Blade.
The photographs were taken in
the proud fathers own studio and
submitted to the newspaper. He
heard nothing further about them
until he saw them featured on the
front page of the paper.
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Fifty years is long time-but
there are Bluffton News subscribers
who have been taking the paper for
that length of time-and longer.
We're looking up names for the
Bluffton News Honor Roll Of so
year subscribers which was started
last week with Horace Stratton-
and here are two more to add to the
list-Amos Thut of South Main
street, Bluffton hay dealer who has
completed half-century as a Bluff
ton News subscriber and Mrs. Caro-
line Matter of Bentley road who has
been a subscriber since 1892-more
than so years. An interest angle is
that in all that time Mrs. Matters
address has never changed, having
always lived in the same location.
Out in Manila where the basket
ball finals of the G. l. Olympics are
being played you'll find Cornelius
Schmidt former Bluffton athletic ace
as one of the mainstays of the
Okinawa team. If you are a sport
fan you'll remember Corny trav-
eled a fast pace on a basketball
floor when he was in high school
and now he's in faster company
with teammates including former
players with Army, Ohio State and
Long Island university. The Okin-
ava team, one of the favorites of
the tourney, was flown to Manila in
a CAT plane, making the trip by
air in order to avoid missing a
days workout.
And speaking of the Pacific war
theatre, Mrs. Freeman Basinger was
happy to receive a New Years
cablegram from her husband who is
stationed in Kochi, Japan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aldine Wiess really
had a happy double surprise when
both of their sons arrived on the
west coast on the same day, Decem-
Der IT. Master Sgt. Aldine, Jr., ar
rived home last Saturday from Camp
Atterbury with his Army discharge
after having been in service fc- 55
months, 22 of which were spent in
New Guinea and surrounding is
lands. The other son, Clayton, B. NJ.
&c of the Navy is expected home
shortly on leave. He has had 32
months in service, including the
Normandy invasion and later in the
Pacific on a L. S. NJ. 388.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
PHYSICIANS WARN
OF DANGER LINES
S%treptomycin May Increase,
Not Decrease Deaths
From Infection

WASHINGTON. May 19-P-A
danger area in which the new drug
streptomycin increases rather than
decreases deaths from infection
was reported today by U. S. Food
and Drug administration research
ers.
Penicillin, another war-born drug,
may also have this effect, the re-
port added on the basis of prelimi-
nary studies.
Tested on Mice
Carrying out tests on more than
1000 mice, the scientists found
the amount of streptomycin used
determined whether the drug kill
ed or cured. Disease-fighting con-
centrations lie relatively close to
those that stimulate disease.
So far, this theory has not been
tried out on humans, but DR.. Henry
WEIGH and his co-workers in the
division of %penicillin control and
immunology, declare it is "entirely
logical" that improper dosage
See DANGER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
DELAY EXPECTED
IN APPOINTMENT
Truman Probably To Name
Man From West To
Succeed Stone

WASHINGTON, May 19.-R-
President Truman repeatedly is
looking around for a vigorous or
ganizer, preferably from west of
the Mississippi river, for chief
justice and may delay a court ,ap-
pointmert for some time until he
finds one.
Members of Congress who have
been keeping in touch with the
situation said the selection of a
successor to the late Chief Justice
Harlan F. Stone has been pushed
to the back OF the Presidents mind
by the current strike crisis.
Needs Healer"
But there is evidence that Mr..
Truman has been going over list
Of possibly a dozen appointees
carefully looking for a man he be-
iieves might be able to heal what
has come to be regarded generally
as not cnl. a legalistic but a Der
sonal split among the eight sitting
justices.
Unless the indications are all
wrong. these members of Congress
think that MI, Truman will go out
side the court for the chief justice.
See DELAY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
LARCE-SCALE WAR
LOOMING in CHINA
Truce Teams Work Urgent
" To Halt Or Minimize
New Clashes

NANKING May 19-P)-Chi-
nese government and Communist
sources reported Sunday night that
fighting in. the North China prov
inces Of Shangtung, Hopeh and
Jehol was merging gradually into
a large-scale general conflict.
Truce headquarters and field
teams with American members
were working urgently to try to
halt or minimize the ella she's.
government central news
agency dispatch said a supple
mental agreement had been reach
ed in Shangtung, giving hopes that
the government coulG save Tslnt,n,
Commmist-threatened provincial
capital, but its effectiveness was
still to be determined.
Another form of agreement be-
tween the bitter antagonists was
reported by the Chinese National
Relief and Reha Utilization admins
tration, which said the Communists
had promised to help repair the
Yellow river bikes.
This project, under way for some
months, is intended to restore to
hungry China vast wheat lands
which were flooded when the river
was diverted in 1888 to try to halt
tt Japanese.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
Along The Cape Fear
SECRET

SECRET MISSION - We have
been away on a secret mission.
Right after our story about Cap
tain Harper's Steamer Whining
ton" appeared, we heard that the
captain once had another vessel.
The fact that he did have more
than one ship isn't what intrigued
us, however. 1t would have sur
prised us if a salt of Captain Har-
per's stature didn't have more than
one boat.
No, folks. What sent us off on the
mission was a story told to us
about the good ships fate.
SHOUTS AND A~LARUMS-Some-
where around the turn of the cen
fury (the' story goes) this ship
was locked at Southport. Late one
might've haven't been able to
discover the date-the South Port
ers were reused from their beds
by the shouting of sailors and the
ringing of alarums Gas alarms
were called in those days..
The ship had caught afire at the
dock and melted the bottoms out OF
2 number of gasoline cans stacked
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20

on the wharf. The gasoline ran
out, spilled into the Cape Fear
river, and also caught afire.
WRECK OF THE BLANK : 1t
was a super-spectacle, the story
goes. The ship, flaming from stem
to stern, broke away from her
moorings and sailed majestically
through that river of fire out to
sea.
Now, the reason we went on the
secret mission was to find out all
the details of the story-the date it
happened, the name of the ship,
and so on.
From the little we do know about
it, it must have been one of the
most tremendous and yet most
beautiful marine disasters ever to
occur along the Cape Fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's
1.-The Wreck of the Hesperus'' has
had top billing long enough. It's
high time Captain Harper's 1.-The
Wreck of the Blank was given a
chance at page one in the anthol-
Ogy
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20

and Representative Vinson Cd. :
Ga.), advised Forestal against
entering "any compromise" with
Secretary of War Robert P. Pat
terson in conflict with their views.
Follows Senate Action
President Truman recently di-
rected his War and Navy cabinet
members to iron out their Dr.
ferences over ~unification OF the
armed forces. This action amt
after the Senate Military COM
recommended Senate pas
sage of a bill that would abolish
the present War and Navy de-
partments and set up a single new
department with land, sea and air
branches.
Forrestal and all other Navy
leaders have continued to blast
at the plan during recent hearings
bv the Senate Naval Affairs COM
"Would Not Approve"
After listing in great detail eight
"major defects" of this bill, the
congressional Navy leaders told
Secretary Forrestal at three places
in their joint statement that Con-
gress would not approve.
1--WE believe the bill (merger)
accentuates the differences be-
tween the services the letter
said. "Its enactment would not
the breach which now exists.
Instead it would widen the breach
since Naval. officers are firmly
convinced, as a result of their re-
cent war experiences, that Naval
aviation and amphibious operations
played a great part in winning the
war. They are also convinced that
in the forseeable future Naval
aviation and a%mphibious forces
will play a major role in prevent
ing any potential enemy o
bringing war to our shores
Other Methods
Conceding that "some weakness
in our defense organization Wefv
during the war;" Walsn
and Vinson said these could pc
corrected without completely dis
organizing the defense structure
which was so successful in bringing
See MERGER On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
GOOD SAMARITANS
GOOD SAMARITANS
Welcome Mat Always
Out AT Parish House
Father, Mother Halleck OF st. Johns Church
Befriend Hundreds Of Young People
Each Week: Work Goes Along
BY PHIL WRIGHT

The welcome mat is always out
to the wayfarer at the residence of
Father" and Mother Halleck,
and the parish house o. St. Johns
Episcopal church.
Father" Halleck is the Rev. E.
w. Halleck, rector of St. Johns,
and Mother" Halleck is his kindly
and no spitable wife. The welcome
mat" is out usually through the
generosity of the rector and his
wife, and the benevolence of the
Pensioners.
Twenty Years
The rector and his wife cele-
brated their Goth anniversary as
master of St. Johns, last October,
and during their stay in Whining
ton the couple has found fulness
through lending their aid to fellow
men who are down and often out.
People who know them and are
familiar with their acts of kindness
and benevolence in Wilmington,
will tell that few are the needy to
be turned away from their doors.
whether the need is spiritual or
material.
Helping Others
Through the cold of winter and
the heat of summer, the couple is
ever on the alert for a chance to
help someone in need. Through
channels of local charities Or by
tips from other friends, but usual
ly by their own personal contact,
they find a needy soul and lend a
helping hand.
During the five years of war IL
terally thousands of servlcemen
and women, some of them just
homesick, have found comfort and
peace at the portals of St. Johns
parish house. Thousands others
have been billeted and sent on
their way through the kind acts
See WELCOME on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20

WASHINGTON, May 19.-(E1-
Reconversion Director John w. ony-
der reported Sunday night thai T.
CSC, 900, including $40, Vetel a.lS,
will want to go to college next .all
but that only 1000, 900, including
SO, Oco veterans, can be accommo-
dated.
The report noted acute shortages
not only of housing but OF facllltles'
books, and teachers.
1t urged President Truman TO
appoint a national commission on
higher education to work during
the summer on these and otner
problems and report Gin time 1or
their consideration by the admins
tration and the next Congress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
PRESIDENT FLIES
TO GREET MOTHER
Truman Takes ADVANTAGE
Ut Uneasy Strike Truce
To Make Trip

KAfSAS CITY, May 1e-R
president Truman took advantage
an uneasy truce in the coal
labor crisis fly here Sunday to
visit his aged mother and make a
brief speech Monday at William
Jewell college.
Mrs. Martha Truman. 93-year-old
mother Of the President. who re-
Gently wa. abed for a few days
with a cold. was among the group
OF relatives who met the President
a Gr2ndview airport.
The landing field was closed to
the public and only members of
the Presidents immediate family.
airport attendants, and secret sor-
vice men we're present when the
plane landed.
When the presidential party took
See TRUMAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
TRY YOUR LUCK?
There's Almost Nothing
To ~Shrinping---Not Much

how. gained by years of experience
in actual fishing operations; the
loss of equipment; paying your
helpers mos: fishermen work
on the share system: operating
expense gas, boat repair and
maintenance; and last but not
leas5. the fact that you may spend
long hour Of trawling and come
in like We dio yesterday morning
with a tcta, of IA pounds OF mixed
shrimp and squid and a few fish
to snow for our efforts. Incidental
ly the squid which are good bait.
bring the same price as shrimp.
When l say we, | mean Ed Glenn
See SHRIMPING on Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
Senator's Nav
Get Together
On Curb Bill.
Some Hopes Of Compromis-
ing Differences
Now Seen
HOT DEBATE LOOMS
Foes OF Restrictive Labor
legislation May Yield
Some Points

WASHINGTON, May 19- up -
Some hopes of compromising wide
spread Senate differences over new
curbs Tor labor were raised Sun
day i'll the face of prospects for
another week or more of debate.
Senator's fighting what they term
restrictive legislation were report
ed to have been feeling out the
chances Of reaching an agreement
and a vote-by yielding some
ground
An informant, asking anonymity,
said members of this group had
minated they would not object
to amendments outlawing secon-
darv boycotts and eliminating fore
men from coverage Of the Wagner
act if this would head off other
proposed changes. He said he saw
scant glance, however, that a COM
promise could be reached.
The Labor committees bill, for
which Chairman Murray D-Mont)
and Senator Pepper O-Fla) have
been leading the fight, would estab-
Iish a Federal Cancellation and
mediation service under an indie
pendent board. Its only other major
provision is a ban against unions
interfering with farmers deliver
ing perishable produce to market.
Stronger controls quickly were
proposed, however, when the soft
coal strike suddenly gave labor
legislation new impetus. They have
stirred heated debate.
Critics of the committee already
have charged its friends with fill
clustering.
But Senator Tunnel (D-DeD, a
defender of the measure, told re-
p~orters that he looked for voting
to begin before the weeks end.
He also said he would not engage
in any filibuster and that he look
ed for the bill to be amended
rather drastically.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
Aailroad Men
Expect
Soon
Fiive-Hour "Interim" Strike
Disrupted Runs Sat-
urday Night
WORK AT. SHUTDOWN
Road President Appeals To
Railroaders To "Heed
Truman Plea"

Passenger train schedules
on Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road runs will be back to
normal today, George L. Cain,
assistant to the company's
president, said last night.
Schedules remained disrupt
ed last night, however following a
five-hour shutdown Saturday, when
all members of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, and the
Brotherhood of Railway Engineers
went on an interim" strike.
All Quiet
"AlI is quite along the lines to-
day, but it will require several
hours to get schedules back to
normal" the executive said.
Transportation in the Wilmington
yards was at a shutdown stage
Saturday for nearly six hours, and
all up and down the some $500
miles of the company's track, a
similar situation vas reported.
This. despite the fact that the
operating brotherhoods had agreed
earlier that the strike, originally
set for May 10 at 4 o'clock, had
been called off until May 2S.
Hope for Agreement
Local officials have expressed
the hope that the five-day post
ponement Of the nationwide strike,
will result in a workable agree
ment between the union officials
and the railroads.
c. Med. Davis, ACL president,
last Friday appealed to the rail-
road men to heed President Tru-
mans plea" to keep the trains roll
ing.
Although local officials of Sea-
board Air Line railway could not
be reached last night, unofficial
sources said passenger and freight
service was working again." and
See RAILROAD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-20
l7PEOPLE SAVED
IN ship COLLISION
Four Boats Involved In
Marine Wreck Off
Jersey Coast

NEW YORK, May 19-(P-Sev-
enteen persons were rescued from
life boats and the crew of one YES
sci was transferred to another aft
er two collisions involving four
ships off the New Jersey coast in
fog early Sunday, the Coast Guard
reported.
The four vessels were reported
enroute to New York, one under
tow and another with a rescue
ship alongside, after a ply search
plane, a %helicopter and other Coast
Guard and Navy craft had been
sent to the scene.
Lieut.. Comdr. R. M. Munroe, dis
trict public relations director Tor
the Coast Guard Rescue Control
Center, said information received
so far indicated no lives were lost.
The first collision, about SIX
miles off Barnegat light, involved
the 7,000-ton Abraham Baldwin OF
the Mississippi Steamship company
and the 8,000-ton Santa Olivia OF
See COLLISION on Page Two