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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-11
Pandora

Miss Mary E. Amstutz who
teaches in Ashland, spent the week
end at the home of her mother Mrs
Elizabeth Amstutz.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lugibill and
daughter Dorothy of Bluffton were
Friday evening dinner guests in the
Noah G. Steiner home.
Miss Mabel Basinger who has
spent some time in Los Angeles, ar
rived here on Thursday to spend
some time with her mother Mrs
Salome Basinger and family.
A large and appreciative audience
attended the Vesper Organ recital
given at the Methodist church Sun
day afternoon by Kenneth w. Jewell
of Cleveland with Miss Dorothy E.
Curtis at the piano.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Baumgartner
and family and Miss Irene Suter
spent Sunday at Camp Atterbury
Ind, with Dwight Baumgartner.
Mrs. Lucy A. Sommer will have a
public sale of blacksmith equipment
and auto on Friday afternoon, April
IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Schumacher
and daughters of Lafayette attended
the organ recital Sunday afternoon
and spent the evening in the Noah
Schumacher and Laurel Bracy homes
Emerson Basinger opened fur
niture store in the Noah Bixel block
on Saturday. He is handling the
Dunbar line of furniture.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Long and
son Gary moved into the Melvin
Hilty apartment on Saturday.
Harold Zuercher has purchased a
new Dodge of the Pandora garage
Miss Rosemary Mcdowell, stu
dent of o. S. u, Columbus, spent
the week end with her parents Mr.
and Mrs. Don Mcdowell.
Miss Dorothy E. Curtis was ar
over Saturday night guest of Mr.
and Mrs. M. I. Trostle.
The Ladies chorus of the Metho-
dist church will present an Easter
program on Palm Sunday, April Ia
in the evening.
Marion Stoody has opened an cleo
trical repair shop in the south room
of the Noah Bixel block.
Mrs. Susan Payne will have a
public sale of household goods Sat
urday, April 13.
Wayne Neuenschwander of Lima
and Edwin Neuenschwander spent
the weekend in Chicago.
25TH ANNIVERSARY HoNoRED
In honor of the 25th wedding an
niversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe
Geiger of Pandora, which occurred
on the evening of April Is, sur
prise celebration was held at Their
home.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs
c. c. Hofstetter, Aaron Geiger
Lydia Geiger, Mrs. Waldo Hofstettel
and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Amstutz and family, all of Bluffton
Lydia and Olive Amstutz, of Lima
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Grismore ane
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Grismor'
and family, of Pandora.
A program was given by the rela
tives with refreshments following
Many beautiful gifts were received
by the couple.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-11
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices)-W h e a t
sI.73; corn Slip; oats 8oc; soys $2.o4.
Evening star., 1946-08-11

system to replace the present pri
vate stores.
He says his campaign Is "cru.
SADIE" against wholesale liquor deal
ers. He claims they are making
$40 .000. 900 year in the State.
Del O'Neal, a former automobile
race driver and Hollywood stunt
man who at one time operated 9
Columbia night club, Is one of Gov
Williams challengers. He wants
legalized bars and pari-mutuel bet
ting to raise more money for schoo
teachers and State employees.
Three OF the States six Represent.
stives have opposition. Represent.
ative Hare in the Sd district Il
opposed by William Jennings Bryan
Dorm, former State Senator and a
war veteran. Charles c. Moore
another veteran and former State
Senator, is seeking the 4th district
seat OF Representative Bryson, ir
the sixth, two veterans, G. Stanley
Bryant and Wendell j. Holbert, are
in the field against Representative
Mcmillan.
Others in the Governor race are
y. Strom Thurmond, former circuit
Judge and war veteran; DR.. jaime!
Mcleod, president of the Stat.
medical association, also a veteran
John c. Taylor, former Sd distric
Evening star., 1946-08-11
FBI Agent Shot by Man
Using Family as Shield
BY ifs kssoeioied Press

KACKLEY, kans., Aug. To-
Glenn Russell Ruby. Federal Bu-
reau OF Investigation agent, was
shot in the thigh today as a party
Of officers approached a man near
Kackley to question him about a
bank robbery, Dwight Brantley, FBI
agent in charge of the Kansas City
Office, said tonight.
The bank was robbed Thursday.
Mr.. Brantley said the man, whom
he identified as John JacH Benton,
opened fire without provocation
when four officers got out of their
car and approached a farmhouse
where Benton was living. The off,
GERS did not return the fire, Mr..
Brantley said, because Benton used
his wife and children as shield to
escape.
Mr.. Brantley said that Benton had
come to Kackley from North Da-
kota within the last 80 days and
that little was known of his back
ground.
Charges of assault with intent to
kill have been authorized by the
FBI against Benton, Mr.. Brantley
said.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
3 New Drugs May Give Relief
lnHoyFeverCuses- Year

Next year may be good one for
hay fever sufferers if three new
drugs achieve the results their
sponsors hope for, but meanwhile
a large supply of handkerchiefs still
is an important part of the equip
ment Of hay fever victims as the
season opens.
The three new drugs, none of
which is yet available on the gen.
eral market, but which physicians
are studying with great interest,
according to DR.. Harry S. Bernton,
"a local expert in the field, are
benadryl, anthallan and pyribenza-
nine. The first was developed by
the Mayo Clinic, DR.. Bernton said,
while anthallan is of German origin
and pyribenzanine is the discovery
of a New Jersey firm.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Hong Kong Battles
Big Black Market
BY the Associofed press

HONG KONG.-This British colo
.nlal government, admitting its whole
price control organization has been
undermined, has declared war on a
huge black market ring which has
been using gangster tactics in get
ting hold of imports of vital COM
modities.
Warning that it intends taking
action against those who permit the
stocks to reach black market sources.
the government said it may take
over the entire distribution of es-
sential commodities.
The black marketeers employ spies
to watch Withdrawals from bond.
The gang leaders then visit the i'm
porters or wholesalers and demand
.supplies-sometimes the entire Ship
ment for which they pay cash.
Often threatened, the importers
Evening star., 1946-08-11

| is Hugh M. Jones, former director O
the State Motor Vehicle Depart
ment.
Tops Vermont Contests.
Vermont-Contests for Senate
House and Governor are topped By
the Flanders Waterman COP scrap
Mr.. Flanders has been high ir
State party councils for years. Ht
is president Of the Jones Il Lamsor
Machine Co. and former head o1
the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Mr.. Waterman, his st. Johnsbury
opponent, has been active for some
time in young Republican circles
in New England.
Gov. Mortimer r. Proctor, Repub.
lican, is being challenged for sec.
ond term nomination by forme,
Senator Ernest w. Gibson. The
States lone House member, Repre-.
sentative Plumley, Republican, Is
opposed by Andrew E. Nuquist, Uni
versity Of Vermont professor.
There are no Democratic contests
South Carolina-Gov Ransome j
Williams, who succeeded to the gov
ernorship in 1914, when Olin D
Johnston resigned to 60 to the Sen
ate, Is one OF II candidates for Demo.
cratic nomination as Governor. HI
Is supporting a State liquor stores
Evening star., 1946-08-11
New Retirement Paw
Expected 10 Create
Teacher Shortage

Washington public schools expect
to be faced with the problem of
finding replacements for elderly
teachers who will retire on the
basis of the more liberal annuities
provided in the teachers retirement
bill signed last week by President
Truman.
1T seems logical to assume a
good many now will retire." DR.. Ho-
bart M. Corning, school superin-
tendent, said. However, he declared
1t Is impossible to estimate now
the number who will elect to take
advantage of the new law in the
near future.
We may know of the prospective
retirements in September, before
school opens" he said. There
probably will be an additional num-
ber who will make up their minds
about retirement during the COM
ing year.
THE teachers are scattered now
and probably many do not know
the new retirement plan is now
effective. 1t takes time for an in
dlvidual who had counted on con-
tlnuing teaching to re-examine her
plans in the light of the new law"
Retirements will fall most heavily
on the elementary schools because
that Is where the acute teacher
shortage exists now.
Under the law, annuities for
teachers earning $4,000 and more
were stopped at sl,225. Annuities
under the new act, based on the
following salaries, would be:
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Wisconsin 10 Decide
Fate Of La FoIIetie's
Party Switch tuesday
BY the Asscciafed Press

Ihe attempt OF Senator La Fol-
lette to throw off his Progressive
Party designation and buck the
Wisconsin Republican organization
for another senatorial nomination
high lights primary battles In four
States this week.
All sides say the Wisconsin con-
test will be a close race, one of the
closest of the year. La Toilette sup
porters say they believe he can win
if the vote is heavy.
A light vote, they add would
benefit the organization candidate,
Circuit Judge Joseph r. Mccarthy,
former Marine Corps captain.
The Wisconsin primaries will be
held Tuesday. Vermont and South
Carolina will elect candidates the
same day. Delaware holds a Re-
publican convention Wednesday,
and Delaware Democrats wind up
political activity for the week with
a primary Saturday.
Interest In Vermont.
The Vermont senatorial primary
presents an interesting fight. A
WeLl-known businessman, Ralph E.
Flanders, is opposing Sterry r. Wa
terman, 44-year-old attorney, for
the Republican nomination. The
seat is being vacated by Senator
Austin, who will become American
representative on the United Ma
tlons Security Council
A South Carolina gubernatorial
race among II Democrats is attract
ing attention in the South because
1t involves a liquor issue.
The primary will be watched, too.
because it is the first since the State
abolished its primary laws. This
left the election entirely a party
matter so Negroes could be chal-
lenged If they tried to vote. Never
theless, two Negro organizations
have advised their members to at
tempt to enroll for the primary.
Here are the high lights of the
primary contests this coming week j:
Senator La Toilette, Progressive
of Wisconsin, who dropped his Pro-
gressive label several months ago
and offered himself as Republican
got only one vote in the State party
convention. 1t indorsed Judge Nc
Carthy with 1928 votes.
The convention refused to SUPPORT
83-year-old Gov. Walter S. Good
land in his bid for another term,
lndorsing Delbert J. Kenny, so, an
investment banker, for the guberna-
torial nomination.
Hoan Is Unopposed.
A third COP candidate for Gov
ernor is Maj. Gen. Ralph M. Immell,
former State adjutant general.
Backed by Senator LaFollette, Dan
iel w. Hoan, former Socialist Mayor
OF Milwaukee, is unopposed for the
Democratic nomination.
Perry J. Stearns, Milwaukee
lawyer defeated by Republican SEN
ator Wiley in the last primary, is a
third man in the race with Senator
LaFollette and Judge Mccarthy.
Former Representative Howard j.
McMurray, defeated by Senator
Wiley in the last general election, is
the lone senatorial candidate on the
Democratic ticket.
Two House members facing stiff
opposition are Representative Waste
lewsh, Republican, and Representa-
tive Hull, veteran Progressive who
has switched to the Republican
party. Representative Wasielewski Is
opposed by Edmund v. Bobrowicz,
chairman Of the State CIO Veterans
Committee, with strong labor back
ing. Representative Hull's opponent
Evening star., 1946-08-11

Aim of the drugs, DR.. Bernton
explained, is to neutralize the his
famine, a substance produced by
the body in reaction to the pollen.
Benadryl ,anthallan and pyriben-
canine all are being tested as pos
sible antidotes.
Physicians throughout the coun-
try will have an opportunity this
year to study the effects of these
drugs on a fairly large body of
patients, the Washington doctor
said. IT the results are good, hay
fever sufferers in great numbers
may have some relief next year.
Otherwise, the specialist said,
There is not blessed thing new
about hay fever" He estimated
that about 10000 District residents
are affected by pollen during the
season.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Mob
Continued From First Page

e.
to the hospital. I feel that it is
all over now" he declared.
Judge Rosenau said a semblance
OF order was restored about night
fall after law enforcement officers
from all over Northern Alabama
poured into Athens, town of 5000
population.
All stores and moving picture
theaters closed at 6 pm.
The two white participants in the
tight were arrested but the Negro
escaped.
Mayor Richardson reported he
later freed the white men after
members of the mob promised to
disperse.
Judge Rosenau said gangs of white
men sought to enter several mer-
camille places in which Negroes were
customers but they were barred
by the proprietors, who said they
would shoot if the gangs came in"
50 Highway Patrolmen Sent.
The judge said approximately SO
State highway patrolmen were on
duty in addition to police officers
from other cities in North Alabama.
L think the worst is over, and If
we can get through the night with
out any more trouble, I think it
will be finished" Judge Rosenau
said.
During the height of the dis
turbance, bands of so to 100 white
boys and young men would form
IN flash at the sight of Negro" "
B. c. Shelton, publisher of the De-
catur (Ala) Daily, said.
One Shot Is Fired.
They would push, shove or strike
the Negro-trying to get him out of
town." MIR. Shelton added.
The publisher said that two white
men were slightly injured by mem
bers of one of the mobs which they
attempted to disperse.
He added that so far as he could
learn no one was admitted to a
hospital for treatment and only
one shot was fired.
An officer pointed his gun in the
direction OF band of white men
advancing toward the city JAIL"
Mr.. Shelton related. "A fellow offlcer
knocked his arm upward and the
bullet went into a wall"
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Chicagoan Will Head
Unit Sold by Carson
By the Associated yrsss

CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-I. G. Gra-
woig, wealthy Chicago industrialist
sad today he presumably" would
head Batavia Metal Products. Inc.
part of combine investigated by
a Senate committee and recently
sold by Henry Carson.
Mr.. Grawoig's statement followed
an announcement in New York by
James Stein and Herman Starr
Eastern industriaTists, that Mr.. Ora
woig was slated to be president of
the firm.
Mr.. Grawoig said Mr.. Stein, Mr.
Starr and others, including himself
had purchased "all of Garsson's in
terests" subject to court action now
pending against Batavia. He re-
fused to state the purchase price
but said that Carson as part pay-
ment for his stock would receive a
percentage of profits from the new
company.
Mr.. Grawoig said his group turned
ooV1i VAC odtdFld utdl UIlIGp weeks
ago because we would not do busi-
ness with Carson or his crowd. We
wanted the Government stamp of
approval"
THE company from now on" Mr..
Grawoig said, will be a different
type OF company. My policy has
been never to run in with Uncle
Sam"
He said the deal for Batavia
would be completed after settlement
of a pending bankruptcy action
against Batavia. Attorneys for six
creditors of Batavia and a subsidi-
ary, Challenge Co., are seeking ap-
pointment of a receiver.
Receivership hearings have been
continued to August % while the
Government investigates Garsson's
sale OF his controlling stock interest.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Six Of Seven Victims
|0f Bomber Collision
lin Montana Identified
BY the Associated Press

GREAT FALLS, Mont, Aug. TO-
Six of seven persons who were killed
yesterday in a spectacular airplane
collision and resulting fire at the
North Montana State Fairgrounds
were identified tonight.
Capt. Sanford Meats. public rela-
tions officer at the Great Falls Army
Air Base, released Identification OF
three Army officers who perished
in the flaming ruins of two Army
AIS Invader attack-bombers. He
said they were:
Capt. Howard c. Melroy, %, Lake
Charles, La.
1t. George F. Osgood, 27, Rotter-
dam Junction, N. Y.
1t. George B. Colwell, jr., Is
Luling, Tex.
Part Of Body Found.
Part of the body of another victim
was found late today in the ashes
of race horse barn, which was set
aflre by ,one of the burning planes
and which yielded three bodies
yesterday, after two air show planes
collided in view of 10000 spectators
Police Chief Harold Mady an
nounced
The body was believed to be that
of a civilian.
Chief Mady announced also that
one OF the victims found yesterday
was positively identified as Andy
Seaman, horse trainer of Great
Falls and former resident OF Rex
burg, Idaho. Identification was es-
tablished by Mr.. Seaman's wife.
Two of the dead previously were
identified as 1t. Arthur Pelletier,
Coleraine, Mimi, pilot of one of the
planes, and Dorothy Szabo, Belt,
Mont, a student at Montana State
University who died in the barn.
A search was started for Kenneth
Pulver, 19, Seattle, apprentice
jockey, missing since he repeatedly
was seen in. the vicinity of the barn
shortly before the accident, Chief
Mady said.
Planes Tail Severed.
It's tail severed one aircraft burst
into flames, plummeted into the
barn and caromed into an auto
parking lot. The other plane few
over hill, crashed and burned.
Nineteen horses died and eight
automobiles were destroyed after
the crashing plane sprayed flaming
fuel over the area.
At least rs persons were injured
three seriously. Hospitalized, but
expected to recover, were 6-year-old
Edward P. Murphy, Stanford, Mont.
Herbert Taylor, As, Payette, Idaho
and Joseph Bouman, Jordan, Mont
Those less seriously hurt were
treated at emergency first aid sta
tions in the fair grounds.
A third plane in the air show
event was undamaged. All the
planes were based at Lake Charles
1aD. Army Air Base and were fly
ing under the command of Col. Will
son r. Wood, from the Smyrna
(TennD Air Base.
Evening star., 1946-08-11

les into such matters as favors given
and received by Army officers, was
a show but he's quick to add that
there was plenty to be learned
from it."
ITO think that people spending
public funds-which 1 think should
be handled with greater care than
their own money-didn't make as
much inquiry into those they ad-
vanced credit to as the corner gro
Ger would to extend $40 credit to a
neighbor," said the chief counsel,
shaking his head.
IF anybody had told me as a
citizen in Ann Arbor that many con-
tracts were let that way, wouldn t
have believed it. Why, it's fam
tastic that SO little was done to
find out the kind of people the War
Department was doing business
with"
Has Little Time to Relax.
The 2l5-pounder, who likes to sing
Spanish songs at parties, play chess
and get in an occasional round of
golf, has no time for such diversions
these days.
While his wife and three children
vacation In northern Michigan and
most OF the committee members are
home campaigning, he labors from
before 9 am. until long after 6
p.m.-including Sundays. He talks
to investigators, accountants, reve-
nue. agents and potential witnesses
scattered all over the country.
Usually even-tempered, he's in
clined to scowl when the committee
is accused of partisan politics. As
an avowed Republican on a COM
mittee headed by a Democrat, he
feels strongly that the committee
is operating in a field of public in
terest-not politics.
He looks forward to the dav
when Congress will have an in
vestigating arm which will be able
to deal with the complexities of
modern government instead of
getting its legislation from lobby
lists or government departments
both Of which are self f-seekers."
That's the man across the witness
table-the son of a Methodist min
lister who still clings, after three
years in Washington, to the ideals
he brought here from Ann Arbor-
that the Government should do
business in business like way.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
High Officials Fail to Dazzle
George Meoder, Probe Counsel
Michigan Lawyer Asks
Pointed Questions in
War Profits Inquiry

Witnesses know him as that man
who sits between Senators and
blandly asks questions that dissect
their carefully prepared statements.
He's George Meader. 38-year -old
chief counsel of the Senate War
Investigating Committee, a Michi-
gan Republican with a passion for
accuracy and good government.
A few years ago, when he was
prosecuting attorney for Washtenaw
County, Mich, he had no idea he'd
be sweating out this summer in
Washington with a desk piled high
with papers and stream of re-
porters beating a path to his door
I wanted to get in the Army or
Navy as military government
officer" he reminisced yesterday be-
tween debating a statement and
taking telephone calls. Il thought
being prosecutor who knew for
eign languages and had specialized
in international law-I might be
useful.
The War Department said why
didn't I go home and prosecute. I'd
do more for the war effort in Ann
Arbor. Then 1 got a letter from
the Navy. 1t was a form letter
sent to members of the interna-
tlonal comparative law section of
the American Bar Association. want
ing the names of people interested
in military government. I applied
myself but 1 was told all the Navy
wanted was anthropologists, that
lawyers were dime a dozen"
L told Hugh Fulton former chief
counsel of the Investigating Com
mlttee) about my efforts and he
suggested join the committee"
Became Chief Counsel in "A,
In 1914, Mr.. Fulton left the COM
mlttee, Mr.. Meader moved up to
assistant chief counsel and shortly
thereafter became chief counsel.
And ever since he has watched a
parade of brass" pass before the
committee-Army generals to whom
he has addressed pointed questions
about travelling to parties at Gov
ernment expense, naval officers who
have had to explain why ships were
tied up for months in the Pacific
while nobody made move to un-
load the cargoes and bring the ships
home.
But If he's amused at the idea that
he is now in position to make
generals wish he were safely over
seas as a military government off,
Ger instead of across the witness
table from them, he gets an even
bigger thrill out of being in some
thing of national Importance"
"If I were in private practice" the
broad-shouldered lawyer explained,
I would be representing only one
individual at a time. What we
do here affects everyone in the
country.
There's thrill in accomplishing
something. For instance, there was
that matter of the strategic re-
serve. The War Department was
going to store lot of stuff for the
next war-pay fantastic storage
costs and then find the stuff OBJ
solete. When We got after them,
they declared a billion dollars worth
OF materials surplus"
10000 Miles in 81 Days.
Mr.. Meader has travelled around
the world with the committee-30.-
900 miles in 81 days. He has studied
case after case where loose pro-
curement practices cost the Gov
ernrnent money. He has seen waste,
fraud and corruption but he has
never gotten over his original shock
that Government is not handled in
a more business-like way.
He will concede that the Carson
inquiry, with its side uuer-
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Citizens Chinese Wives
Aided by New Quote Law

A bill to place Chinese wives Of
American citizens on a non-quota
basis for immigration purposes was
signed yesterday by President
Truman.
Previously such wives had to be
included in the yearly quotas for
admission Of Chinese to this
country.
Evening star., 1946-08-11

or wholesalers prefer not to report
the incidents.
The gangsters distribute goods to
street hawkers who add a small per-
centage OF profit. The government
feels it Is useless to deal with the
hawkers on a big gscale, because for
each haWker arrested, another two
take his place.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Crossroads Sailors
Get Chest Tattoo
OF Atom Bomb Cloud
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
HONOLULU, Aug. 1O.-Pa-
cif1c style note:
With each new arrival of the
Operation Crossroads fleet,
local tattoo parlors are
thronged with sailors seeking
a full-color reproduction-usu-
ally on the chest-of the
atomic bomb cloud.
The aerial test is out In
front SO far, but the under
water blast is catching up.
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Broun Named Kew Banker

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. 10
(SpeciaD .-R. Bascom Broun, jr.,
vice president and cashier Of the
First National Bank here, has been
named key banker of st. Mary's
County by Maryland Bankers Asso-
citation, it was announced today.