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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Ernest N. Bigelow, Minister


Morning worship $3.50
Church school 10:30
Mr.. Lawrence Begg, Supt.
The Women's Missionary Society
meets on Wednesday, Oct, s, 2 p. m.
at the home of Mrs. Walter Cupp.
The Women's Missionary Society of
the Columbus Grove church will be
the guests. Special speaker will be
Mrs. Arthur NJ. Romig Of Lima. All
the women are invited.
Bluffton:
Church school 9:45
Mr.. Ropp Triplett, supt.
Morning worship 11:00
Union church service, 1880, in this
church, with Mrs. Charles Lauby
giving an inspirational address on
the work of religious education in
our public school.
The Women's Missionary Society
meets on Tuesday, Oct, 7, 2:30 p. m.
at the home of Mrs. Evan Basinger.
All the women are invited.
This Sunday is World Wide Com
munion, a universal celebration of
the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
This church will join with the others
in this observance.
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FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH

]. n. Smucker, pastor
Thursday
2:3O Women's Missionary society
Mrs. S. T. Meyer is the guest speak
err.
7:15 Choir rehearsal
8:15 Bible study
Friday
TOO meeting of the Christian Edu'
cation committee
800 meeting of the church council
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school; Carl smucker
Supt. This is Promotion Day.
1880 The Worship service. We
join other churches around the worlC
6:30 intermediate Christian En-.
deavor
7:30 Union evening service at the
First Presbyterian church. (See
notice elsewhere in this issue).
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MISSIONARY CHURCH
Robert K. WeIch. Pastor

Wednesday,
Mid-week prayer service 7:30 p. m.
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school
1880 Morning worship
Message by Kent Welty.
We will have no evening service
of our own but will join in the union
service at the Presbyterian church.
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oIea4t the speaker.

Wolcott, the speaker.
Youth Fellowship $50 P. NJ.
Union service 1880 P. NJ. al
Presbyterian church. Mrs. Charles
Lauby speaking on Religious Edu-
cation. in Our School.
Thursday
Choir practice TOO p. m.
Official Board meeting, 1880 p. m
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Rlnau Huh

Once Cleopatra's capital. Alexan-
dria became the second city of the
Roman Empire, and was the great
Mediterranean harbor for ship
ments from the fertile fields OF
Egypt. A ship canal $50 feet widey
between the Nile and Red Sea,
made Alexandria gateway to the
East.
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CHURCHES OF CHRIST
r. Dm~I D~~A

CHURCHES OF CHRIST
c. d. Read, Pastor
Bluffton:
9:15 Worship service. Sermon sub
ject: Christ at Work.
1000 Bible School, Robert Z.
Luginbuhl, Supt.
Bethel:
1915 Bible School. Clyde Hart
man, Supt.
11:15 Worship service. Sermon
subject: Christ at Work.
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EBENEZER MENNONITE
Rev. Howard r. Landes, Pastor


Rev. Howard T. Landes, Pastor
Thursday
500 Prayer and Bible study
Sunday
9:30 Sunday School, Joseph Thomp-
son, sup't.
1890 Morning worship
No evening meeting. Joint services
with st. John Mennonite church.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Paul Fl. Cramer, Pastor
Sunday
Sunday school 9:30 A. NJ.
Rally Day
Morning worship 10:30 A. M.
World Wide Communion.
Afternoon Mems meeting 2:30 p,
m. at First Church, Kenton. Senator
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Supt.
1880 Morning worship
700 G. W. r. program E
7:45 Evangelistic service
A hearty welcome is extended to
all.
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LUTHERAN CHURCH

LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. John Hummon, Temp. Pastor
Communion and Worship service
900 a. m.
Sunday school 1000 a. m.
All members are urged to attend.
Others are cordially invited.
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IN Ohe
Churches
EVANGELICAL 4 REFORMED
CHURCHES

v. c. Oppermann, Minister
Emmanuels:
$3.50 A. M. Morning worship
1890 A. NJ. Church school
Kindly note change in time o
services.
The Sacrament of Holy Commun
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EVANGELICAL (DEFENSELESS)
MENNONITE
Rev. e. J. Shady. Pastor

Rev. E. J. Shady, Pastor
Thursday
7:30 Prayer meeting and Bible
study
$3.50 Meeting of Examining Com
mittee with applicants for member
ship.
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school, c. D. Diller,
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Miss Truman Flies 10 Detroit
Today for Radio Debut
BY the Associated Press

Miss Margaret Truman arranged
to leave Washington by plane at
2:15 pm. today for Detroit to make
her radio singing debut with the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra to-
morrow night.
Miss Truman. daughter Of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Truman, was to have
made her radio debut with the SYM
phony last Sunday but an attack OF
laryngitis caused a postponement.
The program on which Miss Tru-
man will appear will be broadcast
by the American Broadcasting Co.,
with Karl Kreuger directing. 1t will
be on the air from to pm.
Selections to be sung by Miss Tru-
man include THE Last Rose of Sum-
mer, Padilla's "Cielito Lindo," and
David's "Charmant L'Oiseaux."
COLUMBUS, Ohio. March Is (P).
Horace o. Schwartz, a Columbus
concert promoter, played a long
shot" and inquired if Miss Margaret
Truman would come to the Ohio
capital to sing.
He was surprised to receive q
note saying she would be happy to
come, he said today.
Mr.. Schwartz Will go to New York
to arrange a contract and hopes to
bring Miss Truman here in April
or early May.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
France Halls Negotiations
With Bulgaria, ExpeIs Two
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Mar. 15.-France broke off
commercial negotiations with Bull
garia today and expelled two Bull
garian newspapermen from the coun-
try on 48 hours notice in retaliation
for incidents at Sofia which resulted
in the expulsion of a woman reporter
for the French press agency.
The Foreign Office also said spe-
cial privileges accorded all foreign
journalists in France had been with
drawn from eight other Bulgarian
newspapermen. They will be per-
mtted to continue filing dispatches
to their newspapers, however.
The expelled journalists are Amy
Bakalov, chief of Bulgarian bureau
of information here and correspond
ent for two Sofia weeklies, and
Lovan Strelkov, correspondent for a
Sofia daily newspaper.
The Foreign Office also reported
that Giorgi Marinov, Bulgarian Min
lister to Paris, had left two days ago
for Sofia, presumably for consulta-
ton after the Greek government had
asked the War Crimes Commission
in London to list Marinov as a war
criminal. The incidents, however,
were not connected.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Wreckage Of Plane Missing
With q Sighted in Alps
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Mar. .15.-Search parties
reported today that an avalanche of
snow had covered the wreckage of
an Air France liner, which crashed
into cliff and exploded yesterday
on the treacherous slope of Mount
Moucherolle in the French Alps.
There was no trace of the 18 pas
sengers, 4 of whom were Americans,
or of the 5 crewmen.
Ground parties messaged to the
company's Lyon Office that fear of
starting a new snowslide on the
4,000-foot mountain kept them from
digging to examine the wreckage,
which they reached after wading
through feet of newly fallen snow.
The plane, two-engine DC-3,
left Nice yesterday for Paris. 1t
crashed into the mountain on its
southern slope and then slid back
down into a valley, the company
spokesman said. The site of the
wreck is in the neighborhood of
Chateau Bernard, Is miles south OF
Grenoble.
The company said the four Ameri-
can passengers were:
EDWIN Mantz, soldier returning
to Germany from a vacation.
A Mr., Anfossi of New York City.
Emmanuel Farber, identified as
having been recently with UNRRA
in Munich.
A Mrs. Muller, also identified as
an UNRRA worker, whose address
was not available.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Delay in Tax Slash
Because Of Crisis
Rejected by Knutson
Reply to Doughton Predicts
Committee Will Vote
Across-the-Bourd Cut
BY the Associated Press

Chairman Knutson of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee today rejected Democratic
demands to hold off tax cutting
until the world situation clarifies.
eff we don't cut taxes now We'll
never cut taxes" he declared.
Mr.. Knutson predicted the Ways
and Means Committee will back him
up next week by approving his bill
to slash income taxes 20 per cent
across the board.
This was his answer to an appeal
by Representative Doughton, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina to 60 slow
because of new dark clouds hang
ing over the world
Mr.. Doughton, who managed tax
legislation as ways and means chair
man while the Democrats controlled
Congress, said last night recent de-
velopments" have raised serious
doubts that President Truman's $751;
500,000,000 budget can be reduced.
He urged delay until we know what
our foreign commitments and ex-
penditures will be-"
Over loud protests by Democrats,
the committee late yesterday wound
up its two-day hearings on the
Knutson bill, which would trim in
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Pope and Gandhi Included
In Nobel Peace Candidates
BY the Associated Press


OSLO, Norway, Mar. 15-Pope
Plus XII and Mohandas K. Gandhi
are among the candidates for the
1947 Nobel Peace Prize announced
by the Nobel Institute here today.
Among other candidates proposed,
the institute said. are Herbert H.
Lehman, former director general of
the United Nations Relief and Re-
Mobilization Administration; Sir
John Boyd Orr, director general of
the U. N. Food and Agricultural Or
ganization; President Eduard Benes
of Czechoslovakia, and Nine Alex
andr Kollontay. former Russian
Ambassador to Sweden.
One proposal, the announcement
disclosed, was to split the prize be-
tween Nine. Kollontay and Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, United States
representative on the U. N. Eco
nomic and Social Council and chair
man of the Human Rights Commis-
sion.
Other individual candidates .in-
cluded Carl Joachim Hambro,
Norwegian statesman, and Lionel
Curtis, British political writer. In
ternational institutions put forward
as candidates were the Society OF
Friends, the Carnegie Foundation,
the Academy of international Law
at The Hague, the Bureau OF Peace
in Geneva and the Interparliamen-
tary Union.
The institute said no decision
would be made before next De-
cember 10.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Clay Assumes u. S. Command
In Europe From McNurney

hope that when our mission is COM
pleted, peace and security will have
been guaranteed throughout the
world by the United Nations"
He declared that I'VE have no more
important task in Germany" than
that of rehabilitating German youth
and said that would be one of his
prime objectives. ..,
Gen. Clay expressed his intention
of following essentially the same
policies as Gen. McNarney in the
general administration of Germany.
Gen. McNarney, who has been
in command here since November,
1945, is leaving to become United
States Army Air Forces representa-
tive on the United Nations Military
Staff Committee. Gen. Clay has
been his deputy here.
Describing Gen. McNarney's COM
mand as eventful, Gen. Clay said
it had been ''the crystallization
(See CLAY, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Rewards Tota|ing S37,655
Posted in McNear Staying
BY the Associated Press

PEORIA, ILL.,, Mar. 15.-Rewards
totaling S37,655 have been offered
for the arrest and conviction of the
slayer of George P. McNear, jr.,
president of the Toledo, Peoria g.
Western Railroad.
The road, through its attorney,
John Lundholm, announced it had
posted at s25, 900 reward, while the
additional $l2,655 was received by
Radio Station WMBD. The station
said it would act as a receiving
agency for persons wishing to offer
rewards.
Police and FBI agents continued
their investigation of the ambush
Staying of the 55-year -old rail ex-
ecutive last Monday night. Chief
clues were three footprints found
near the scene Of the shooting.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Snyder Boy Gets Life
Term, but JudgeHo
Out Hope for Parole
Defense Plans Appeal
In Staying; Prosecutor
Muy Ask Detoiner

Fourteen-year-old Robert w.
Snyder today was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for the murder
of his foster father, but the
Judge who sentenced him held
out hope that the boy will come
out of prison and be "a credit to
society later on"
Judge Charles w. Woodward of
Montgomery County Circuit Court,
who sat in the case with Judge
Stedman Prescott, faced crowded
courtroom as he sentenced the boy
to life term in Maryland Peniten-
tiary.
Defense Counsel Joseph G. Cissell
Immediately announced he will file
ar appeal early next week on the
ground the. Circuit Court lacked
Evening star., 1947-03-15
New Federal Courthouse Here
Approved by Budget Bureau
Structure on Constitution Avenue Costing
$4,000, 900 Proposed in Senate Bill
BY Harold B. Rogers

The Budget Bureau has given
a green light" to the proposal
for a new Federal courthouse in
the District.
This approval, which normally
would be followed by Endorsement OF
the President, was communicated
today to the Senate Public Works
Committee, of which Senator Rever-
comb, Republican, of West Virginia
is chairman.
The Senator had asked the bureau
for a report on a bill he has pend
ing in the committee, and received
reply that the bureau had no OBJ
lection whatever to the measure
calling for construction of the new
courthouse here.
Senator Revercomb said he has
received favorable reports also from
the Federal Works Agency and from
the Commission of Fine Arts.
Under the Revercomb bill, the
Architect of the Capitol would be
authorized to build, equip, and
furnish a courthouse on a Consti-
tuition avenue site, between Fourth
street and John Marshall place
NV. The project would cost
$10,300,000.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
By the Associated Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar
15.-As 200 planes roared over
head, 1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay
assumed command today OF
American armed forces in Eu-
rope, expressing hope for world
peace and security.
Gen. Clay took over from Gen.
Joseph T. McNarney at military
ceremony here and prepared to de-
part for Moscow under summons of
Secretary of State Marshall.
Before several hundred troops as
sembled on the lawn outside the
Army headquarters building, Gen.
McNarney decorated Gen. Clay with
an Oak Leaf Cluster for the Dis
tinguished Service Medal.
In his response, Gen. Clay said:
Here In Germany our forces are
devoted to the task of peace. We
shall continue our work in the full
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Appeals Court Stays Return
OF Coal Mine 10 Owner
By The Associoied Press

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 15.-The
United States Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals has entered an order sus-
pending a Federal court injunction
at Wheeling, w. Va, which would
have returned a West Virginia coal
mine to private ownership at 4:30
pm. today.
The appeals court ruled that the
Injunction, entered by Federal Judge
william E. Baker against Secretary
of the Interior Krug, be stayed
pending final determination of the
appeal.
Judge Baker had ruled that the
Fox Coal Co. Mine No. 3 in Monon-
gala County, seized by the Govern
ment after the general soft coal
strike last fall, be returned to Ralph
A. Fox.
The Government had contended
that it was obligated to carry on
operations of the mine under the
provisions of the War Labor Dis
putes Act and the National Wage
Sterilization Board.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Snyder Boys Mother
Once Praised Judge
Who Passed Sentence

Montgomery County residents
today were recalling a story
which appeared two years ago
in the Bethesda Record praising
the sincerity, capability and
serious -mindedness" of Judge
Charles w. Woodward-one of
the two judges who passed
sentence today on young Robert
w. Snyder for killing his foster
father.
The personality sketch on
Judge Woodward ended with
these words:
Surely in this mans hands,
justice is secured"
The author of the sketch was
Mrs. Jane Russell Snyder, Bob
by's foster mother.
Evening star., 1947-03-15

Need for the new structure long
has been stressed by justices of the
District Court, the District Bar
Association, and the public. Severe
congestion of court facilities has
seriously hampered the work of the
courts, it has been contended.
Hearings on the measure probably
will be held within few weeks, it
was indicated today. The bill will
be considered by the Public Works
Subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds, of which Senator
Cain, Republican, of Washington
is chairman.
Chairman Dondero of the Pub
lie Works Committee of the House,
and Representative McGregor, Re-
publican, of Ohio, chairman of its
subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds, met with Chief Justice
Bolitha j. Laws of District Court
and w. E. Reynolds, Public Build
ings commissioner yesterday to dis
cuss House legislation for its new
courthouse.
Questions of procedure were dis
cussed. Mr.. Reynolds recently tes-
titled before the McGregor Com
mittee on the urgent need for the
building
Evening star., 1947-03-15
NewsGuiIdHead
SaysReds Rule
New York Local
House Group Is Told
Communists Role
Is Small Nationally
By jones Y. Newton

Milton Murray, president Of
the CIO American Newspaper
Guild, told the House Labor
Copmittee today that the New
York guild local was dominated
by Communist" and that Com
munists guide" the affairs of
the unions Los Angeles local.
He added that Communists have
mo control over the national guild
organization, making up only "a
minute fraction" of the membership
over the country.
Mr.. Murray testified before the
committee on its final day of public
hearings on labor legislation and
Immediately after the group ordered
what Chairman Hartley described
as IAN all-embracing" investigation
to determine whether some witnesses
pecjured themselves in the six weeks
of testimony. Perjury charges have
been raised against some witnesses
in connection with the Communist
situation.
DtHicS dpcI was smut.
The Newspaper Guild president
fatty denied charges that the guild
forced closing of the Philadelphia
Record last month by its strike
which began in November. J. David
Stern, publisher of the Record.
told the committee earlier that the
guild had forced him to close and
sell his newspaper plant.
Asked by Representative McCon-
nell, Republican, of Pennsylvania to
name any guild members he knew
to be Communists, Mr.. Murray re-
piled that Jack Ryan, executive vice
president of the New York Guild,
and William Brodie, executive sec
retary of the Los Angeles Guild, are
Communists.
Mr.. Murray described Communists
as busy little beavers" who are so
willing to perform almost any job
in a union that they become almost
obnoxiously useful"
Believes in Exposing Reds.
He said he believed the proper
approach to the Communist problem
in unions is to expose" them and
to work to defeat them when they
aspire to union Office. He added
that it is easier to deal with the
situation once a Communist Is
pointed out to union membership.
Mr.. Mcconnell asked Mr.. Murray
If he saw any Communists in the
committee hearing room. The wit
ness turned, surveyed the press table
and spectators and replied mo"
Mr.. Murray said that he con-
sidered Communists not only harm
| full to the guild, but to all labor
and other organizations with which
they become affiliated.
| Communists Called Menace"
He described Communism as def
nitely a menace" and Communists
as "destroyers of democracy" II
allowed to go far enough they could
destroy the Congress of the United
States" he asserted.
The Philadelphia Record sus-
pended publication February / as a
result OF the guild strike, according
to Mr.. Stern.
II venture the surmise," Mr.. Muir
ray told the committee, "and it must
be surmise because Mr. Stern
never offered to show his books to
prove otherwise-that Mr.. Stern
could have met the guild demands
(See LABOR, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Late News
Bulletins
Air Discrimination Chorqe

AR discrimination L h0rge
Chairman Brooks of the Sem
ate Rules Committee today
announced his committee will
hold a public hearing at 2
pm. Tuesday on charges Of
discrimination against col
ored correspondents in the
Senate Press Gallery and
against coIored employees eat
ing in Senate restaurants.
Missing Plane Safe
NEW YORK P.-The Trans
World A'rlines said today that
one of their Consultations had
radio trouble en- route from
Shannon Airport in Fire, but
had landed safely at Gander,
Newfoundland. Earlier the
London airport had said a
TWA plane with 80 aboard was
presumed missing" after q
radio message twas suddenly
interrupted"
Evening star., 1947-03-15

jurisdiction. He said he believed
the boy should have been tried in
Juvenile Court.
Life Sentence Mandatory.
Robert was convicted by jury
Thursday on a charge of first-degree
murder in the shotgun Staying of
Ross H. Snyder November %. He
confessed this murder as we'll as
the murder of his foster mother,
Jane Russell Snyder, and their
adopted daughter, Jane Ann, II.
The life sentence was mandatory
since the jury found Robert guilty
without capital punishment"
Judge Woodward spoke gravely
but in a fatherly tone as he passed
sentence on the boy standing before
him.
Il hope you will come out of the
(See SNYDER, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Government Blamed
For Grain Fluctuations
By Commodity Expert
'UnpredictobIe Actions
Attacked in Reply to
Higher Margin Request
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 15.-A COM
modify exchange officials charge
that "unpredictable Government
actions" are causing the wide
fluctuations in grain futures
prices today confronted Govern
ment officials, who blamed spec
ulations and asked that margins
be boosted.
The request, sent yesterday to the
Nations three major grain ex.
changes in Chicago, Kansas City
and Minneapolis, brought quick
reply from Walter Scott of Kansas
City, president of the National AS
sociation of Commodity Exchanges
and Allied Trades, Inc.
"The high prices that are ruling
today are directly due to Govern
ment policies and activities that
have brought about conditions that
the entire grain trade views with
concern and ALARM" Mr.. Scott de-
clared in statement issued by the
associations headquarters in New
York.
Competition for Grain.
Mr.. Scott said widespread compe-
tition has developed for meager
garin supplies because of "the an
nouncement in November of the
completion of relief purchases, the
backing away of prices, the re-entry
of the Commodity Credit Corp. in
the market at above-market prices,
the announcement of greatly ex-
panded governmental export pro-
grams, Government activities in alb
sorbing all offers of grain as soon
as they became available in COM
petition with the trade"
The Commodity Exchange Au-
thority in Washington asked that
speculative traders be required to
put up at least Is per cent of the
cash value of grain futures con-
tracts purchased.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
has said that he believed specula-
ton was talking loudly" in grain
price advances and that corrective
measures" are needed to avoid
speculative excesses."
Trying to Prevent Break.
Government officials said they
want to try to prevent any grain
market collapse this spring similar to
the cotton market break last October,
when prices dropped cents a pound
within a few weeks, causing heavy
losses to many farmers and traders
Administrator j. M. Mehl of the
CEA said there has been a sharp
increase in holdings of small traders
as grain prices have increased. Such
traders, without strong financial
backing. would be quickly forced out
of the market in event of a short
series of price drops. he said, and
this would cause a sharper decline
than warranted by economic condi-
tions
Only one exchange, at Mime
apolis, took action yesterday to fol-
low the Governments request. The
Chicago Board of Trade met but
lacked a quorum. Richard Uhl-
mann. first vice president, said di-
rectors would consider the matter
early next week."
Doubts Value of Plan.
At Kansas City, an official of the
exchange there said the board may
meet today or Monday.
Mr.. Uhlmann also expressed
doubt that higher margins on spec
ulative accounts would halt wide
price fluctuations.
At present the clearing house
here requires initial margins on
speculative accounts of 80 cents a