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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-12-04

THE STATE OF OHIO

THE STATE OF OHIO II
Allen County. 81. "
Estate of James M. Walacs. deceased
Ohio. has been appointed ahda qualified AZ
Administrator of the estate Of James M.
Wallace late of Allen County, Ohio deceased
Dated this 2sth day of November 1877.
RAYMOND P. SMITH
Probate Judge s5
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
Troop 10 Holds
A Parents Night

Troop 10, H. Lee Leatherman,
Scoutmaster, sponsored by Trinity
Lutheran Church, held its annual
Parents Night in the Troop room of
the church on Friday evening at 7
o'clock, with the Scoutmaster.> VI As
sistant Scoutmasters, Z Troop Com
mitteemen, "a visitors and 81 Scouts
present. The ScoutmaSter, l As
sistant Scoutmaster, l Committee
man and 10 Scouts were in uniform.
The meeting was opened with the
Troop Bugler blowing assembly and
the Scouts repeating the Pledge of
Allegiance to the Flag. DR.. Ard,
pastor Of Trinity Lutheran Church,
then pronounced the Invocation
Following this w. r. Millhouse,
committee chairman, introduced
the distinguished guests and officials
to the gathering.
Then the group settled down to
enjoy the individual stunts featured
by the various Patrols from the
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
st. James School

Several outstanding awards will
be presented to members of the grad
uating class from st. James School
at the Commencement Exercises to
be held Saturday, June s, at p m.
according to an announcement by
DR.. Vernon B. Kellett, headmaster
of the school,
The two members of the gradu-
ating class who have been offered
fellowships from the English Speak
ing Union in New York City, to
Marlborough and Cheltenham,
noted schools in England, will be
announced at the commencement
exercises. st. James School is
proud to have also won two of the
four-year Navy scholarships. which
have also been offered under the
auspices of the United States Mill
tary Academy and the Naval Re
serve Officers Training Corps, put
into effect by Admiral Holloway.
Five thousand such scholarships
have been offered to public and pri-
vate schools all over the country.
The winners of these scholarships
will also be announced at the exer-
cises.
President of the Astor Hotel Cor
poration in New York City, Robert
K. Christenberry, will be principal
speaker at the commencement pro-
gram, after which the diplomas will
be presented to the class by the Rt.
Rev. Noble C. Powell, D. D. David
w. Bryon, a member of the board of
trustees and chairman of the cam
paign fund, will also address the
class, followed by John G.. Camp
bell, Jr., president of the Alumnus
Association, and DR.. Kellett.
At the Baccalaureate service, to
be held Thursday evening, June 5,
at o'clock, the Rev. DIR. Harry Lee
Doll, rector of st. PauTs Church,
Baltimore, will be guest speaker.
The following evening, the senior
dance will be held.
The list of graduates is as follows:
Charles S. Baird, Clyde J. Blanch-
ard, Jr., John L. Bowles, George de
V. Davis, Wyatt ~ Elder, Thomas
E. Gilman, III, Robert E. Haux,
George w. Hill, Jr., Richard B. Hub
bell, Lucius E. Johnson, John A.
Leander, Richard H. Lohr, Francis
S. K. Massey, Junius w. Willard, II,
John c. J. Moser, w. Franklin Stick
ell, II, Alan S. Wortley and Corlus
c. Jordan, Jr.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
SUNDAY SERVICES AT
ST. PAUL'S METHODIST

DR.. S. Paul Schilling, who has
been the guest minister for St.
PauPs for the past several weeks,
will preach at the morning service
at II o'clock on Sunday. There will
be no evening service. Music by the
choir will be under the direction of
Mr.. A. Norman Lindsay, organist-
choirmaster. The Baltimore Annual
Conference is converting in West
minister today through Monday,
with Bishop Charles Wesley Flint
presiding. Mr.. A. H. Warne is the
lay member of st. Paurs with DIR.
P. l.. Russell as alternate.
The Woman's Society of Christian
Service will hold their regular
monthly meeting on Wednesday
evening, June 4, beginning with a
covered dish supper at $50 in the
social room of the church. The
guest speaker for the program will
be Mrs. J. Grafton Mason. A full
attendance is expected as those who
have heard Mrs. Mason will want
to hear her again. The regular bust
ness session will be held after the
program.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
MORNING DEVOTIONS
HEARD OVER WEI

The following ministers will con-
duct the Morning Devotions for the
ensuing week, heard over radio sta
ton WEI every weekday morning
at 10:15 o'clock.
Friday, Captain Churchill, Saliva
ton Army; Saturday, Rev. Walter ].
Dice, st. Matthew's Ev. U. B.
Church; Monday, Rev. Raymond M.
Miller, st. PauPs Lutheran Church,
Funkstown; Tuesday, Rev. DR.. Will
liam M. Norment, First Christian
Church; Wednesday, Rev. Harold
Tapscott Smith, Presbyterian Church
Waynesboro; Thursday, Rev. David
G. Fleagle, Seventh Day Adventist
Church.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

DR.. w. H. Shealey, chairman of
the Antietam Memorial Committee,
has announced that Major General
Willard G. Wyman, Washington, D.
c., commander of the Army Ground
Forces, will be the principal speak
er at the annual Memorial Day ex-
ercises, to be held at the Antietam
National Cemetery, tomorrow (Fri-
day. afternoon at 2:90 o'clock
A feature of the exercises will be
the strewing of flowers over the
graves of Union veterans and other
soldiers in the National Cemetery.
by C-82 Packet Army plane, pilot
ed by Colonel Robert E. Haynes.
This will take place following the
sounding of Taps and before the
lowering of the flag.
Preceding the exercises a parade
will be held, in which school chill
dren, war veterans, lodges and other
groups will take part. The parade
will move from the Sharpsburg
School at 100 p. m. (DST), will be
reviewed from the porch of DR..
Shealey's home and will then pro-
coed to the cemetery.
A firing squad will be furnished
by the American Legion.
In connection with the strewing of
flowers, Captain Mcclure, of the
Hagerstown us. Army Recruiting
Station, has announced the follow
ing depots for the collection of cut
flowers to be used in the unique
decoration of the soldiers graves:
The main depot in Hagerstown
will be in the Army Recruiting Of
flee in the City Hall building, col
lections will be received until 2 D.
m. on Friday. There will be a sill
yer recruiting truck in Williamsport
from 9 a. m. to II a. m. and then it
will be located at the city park in
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
TO HOLD INTERFAITH
MEMORIAL SERVICE

An interfaith Memorial Service
will be held in the Newton D. Baker
VA Center, Martinsburg, w. Va.
tomorrow (Friday) at 1000 a. m.
The three faiths participating in
the service will be represented by
Rev. Henry L. Scott and Father
Hayden, both Chaplains in the New
ton D. Baker Hospital, and Rev. Will
liam A. Buchheim, Rabbi of B'nai
Abraham Congregation, Hagers-
town.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
WiIliamspOrt High School

For leading the senior classes,
which consist of az students,
throughout their high school years
and maintaining their excellent rec
ords, Miss Jeanne Miller has been
named Valedictorian, and Miss
Anna Rae Gossard, Salutatorian, of
the graduating class of the Will
Transport High School. The COM
mencement exercise will be held in
the high school auditorium on the
evening of June II.
Miss Miller, who has attended the
Williamsport schools since the sixth
grade, is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Miller, Is West Church
street, Williamsport. She is an aca-
demic student, and is particularly
interested in reading, library work,
stamp collecting, coin collecting and
archaeology
Miss Gossard, the granddaughter
of Mrs. Anna Mary McCardell, %
South Conococheague street, Will
Transport, has attended the Will
Transport schools since the first
grade. She is a commercial student
and has been membr of the glee
club for the last four years. Her
hobbies are reading, collecting in
sects and nursing.
Miss Miller will continue her
studies in college, and Miss Gossard
plans to secure employment in the
business world soon.
The Baccalaurate service for the
graduating class is scheduled for
Zion Lutheran Church on Sunday,
June 8, at 7:30 p. m.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

announced plans for the graduating
exercises and awarding of honors.
The class night exercises will be
held in the auditorium of the Wom-
ems Club, on Friday evening, June
6, at 8 o'clock, when a skit will be
presented by the entire graduating
class, characterizing the class will
Jean Keller will then read the class
prophecy, after which will come the
speeches of the Valedictorian and
Salutatorian.
Miss Ford, in her Freshman class,
held the Office of vice-president and
the following year was elected to
the office of treasurer. A few of
her other activities included: Fea-
ture editor of the school paper,
Santa Maria, member of the Junior
Latin Classical Society and the Glee
Club and special Library work, all
in her junior year. In her senior
year she served as vice-president
of the C.S.M.C.
Miss Kerns first served as president
of her Freshman Glass. Later, in
her sophomore and senior years, she
served as parliamentarian Of the
C.S.MC., vice-president of the Junior
class, feature editor of the Santa
Maria and later as associate editor.
She was also active in the Junior
Classical Latin Club, the Glee Club,
the Quill and Scroll and in school
library work.
Father Carl Brady, of Waynes-
boro, Pa, will be the principal
speaker at the graduation exercises,
to be held, Sunday evening June 8,
at 7:30 p. m. Parents are cordially
invited to attend both the Glass
Night and graduation exercises.
The list of graduates is as follows:
Lorraine Baker, Betty Lee Bowman,
Lyndell Cromer, Katherine Dayhoff,
Tom Diehl, Sarah Jane Ford, Jean
Keller, Kathleen Kerns, jeanne Nc
Cune, Thomas Martin, Betty Jean
Schroyer, Richard Startzman and
Edward Mullenix
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

Troop. First on the program, the
Mohawk Patrol demonstrated the
correct use of knots. Then the Arrow
Hawk presented skit entitled "The
Grave yard" This part of the pro-
gram was concluded with the pre-
sentation of the shadow play Casey
at the Bat" by the Silver Fox Pa
troll.
Attendance, Patrol and Advance
ment awards were then presented
to the Scouts in an impressive cere-
mony, by Assistant Scoutmaster
Dave Emmert. This was highlighted
by the comforting of Eagle Rank,
the highest awards given by the Boy
Scouts of America, on Scout Glen E.
Funkhouser. Mr.. B. J. Hagedorn,
Scout Executive of the local Coun-
Gil, made the presentation.
The Scout film, ''The Trail to Cit
izenship," was shown and the meet
ing closed with the boys silently
praying for each other and for all
the Scouts of the world. Refresh
ments were then served to all pres
ent.
Among those present were:
Neighborhood Commissioner Rich
ard Miller, S. J. Donley, Cubmaster
of Pack "a, Broadway School; and
Troop Committeeman c. J. Schlot-
terbeck, r. w. Furst, j. w. Vorous
and c. Robert Dean
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
SERVICE AT FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

"Ancient and Modern NEGRO
NANCY, Alias Mesmerism and Hyp-
notism, Denounced" will be the sub
ject of the Lesson-Sermon at the
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
235 North Potomac Street, on Sun
day.
The Golden Text will be from
Matt. 4:10-"Get thee hence, Satan:
for it is written, Thou shalt worship
the Lord thy God, and him only
shalt thou serve"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-James Al
From whence come wars and
fighting among you? Come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war
in your members?"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page 452-'When
error confronts you, withhold not the
rebuke or the explanation which
destroys error. Never breathe an
immoral atmosphere, unless in the
attempt to purify it.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
st. Mary's High School

The Valedictorian and Saluta-
torian of st. Mary's High School
graduating class of 1947 will be two
young ladies of the senior class, it
was announced last week
Miss Sarah Jane Ford, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray A. Ford, 816 Gull
ford Avenue, has been named Val
edictorian, and Miss Kathleen
Kerns, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
J. Kerns, 800 w. Howard Street,
has been named Salutatorian of her
class.
Sister Mary Hermes, principal,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

Hagerstown until / p. m Another
truck will be in Sharpsburg from
9 a. m. to 10 a. M, moving to
Keedysville and on to Boonsboro
from II a. m. until IL noon. This
truck will make a stop at the Funks-
town Post Office between 1890 and
l p. m. before going to the airport
to load its flowers on the plane.
There will also be depots established
from 8 a. m. to IL noon in the fol-
lowing towns: Fire House Hancock,
Post Office Martinsburg, and Win
chester Hall in Frederick. Flowers
may also be delivered to the Hag-
erStown City Airport.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
Somewhat Involved

Nov, these two boys are sisters"
said the housewife to the census
taker.
"You mean brothers, don't your"
the census man asked.
mo, the girls out in the yard are
brothers, but the boys are sisters"
"Boys sisters and girls bro"
'Now I mean just what I say.
These two boys belong to my sister,
who lives down the street, and the
girls are my brothers daughters
who are visiting me-"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

The United States experienced its
first financial panic in 1887, during
the administration of President Mar
tin Van Buren,.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

Coney Island, famous New York
City amusement resort, is located on
a small island about five miles long
and one mile wide, and is separated
from the mainland by Gravesend
and Sheepshead bay.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29

Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Tru-
man are the only persons who were
born and lived west of the Mississ-
ippi river to occupy the office of
President of the United States.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
Three Schools Announce Commencement
Exercises Programs For Graduation

Honor Students Named For ST Mays And Wiamspot High
Schools-S James School To Announce Special Scholarship
Awards During Their Exercises.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-05-29
General Wyman Will Be Guest Speaker
At Annual Antietam Memorial Exercises

Feature Of The Exercises VIII Be The Srewing OF Flowers
Over Graves OF Union Veterans And Other Soldiers In The
National Cemetery By C-S2 Packet Army PIane-Parade
VIII Precede The Exercises
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

The committee is headed by
DR.. Malcolm Dole, atomic scientist
of the Chemistry Department of
Northwestern University.
According to DIR. Dole, the Ma
tional Science Conference is being
called to draw up program of
progressive political action for the
scientists of the United States.
Discussion at all of the sessions
will be concerned with various
phases in the relationship of
science to politics.
we are singularly fortunate in
having DR.. Harlow Shapley as
Chairman of the Conference" DIR.
Dole announced. Ellis outstanding
reputation as scientist of world
wide note will go far toward
making the Conference a success"
DR.. Shapley, who is director of
the Harvard College Observatory,
president of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science, president of the Ameri-
can Astronomical Society and
leader in the movement for
National Science Foundation, is
also chairman of the science divi-
sion of the Progressive Citizens
of America.
delegates will be asked to pass
on a resolution in favor of COM
plete freedom of worldwide scien-
tific research" DIR. Dole declared.
'There will be special emphasis
on the importance of keeping all
peacetime research and develop
ments free from military control
and of urging the immediate con-
firmation of David Lilienthal as
Chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission"
Following the morning session,
hundreds of scientists and Chicago
laymen interested in scientific
matters will hear DIR. Shapley
speak on the topic, 1.-THE Scientist
and International Politics"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
. Hoircut

At the bang-up Star trade union
conference last Wednesday, (see
page 100, Ed Schonfeld, FEE dis
trict educational director, told
this story about a worker who
learned his political economy by
reading the Star.
This worker was being given
hell for leaving his job to go out
and get haircut.
what do you mean by getting
your hair cut on company time"
the boss demanded.
well" he replied, 'my hair
grew on company tim e, didn't
it,"
Indignant, the employer sput-
tered and roared: "You can't tell
me that it all grew on company
time!"
''Well, no." was the reply, "but
you see, didn't have it all cut
off,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
BY JOYCE POTTER

CENTRALIA, ILL. = A ri d e
through the country and all the
towns around Wamac, Ill, where
Ill men were buried alive in No.
5 mine, property of the Centralia
Coal Company, is lesson in how
America really lives.
The press, radio, movies, all
avenues of communication, are al
ways parading a fancy standard
of living before the American
people We live, we are told, in
the richest, most powerful country
in the world. We're asked to be-
lieve ourselves rich because we
live in the U. S. A.
It's true our nation is vast and
abundantly endowed. Beautiful
fruit orchards with land neatly
plowed between the trees bloom
through the rolling hills and val
leys of the country around Cen
tralia.
THE highway connecting the
towns of Wamac, Central City,
Sandoval, Centralia winds through
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Nine Sums mock a beautiful countryside

people were poor. They were
poor, haggard and Inundated
with plugging along under the
burden of being seedY and
broken-out at the seams.
They've lived in pitifully small
dwellings which were sick and
ready to crumble before the build
ing of them was finished They're
more like dingy tents than houses.
+ =
THE thin walls are Slumped and
tired as if any day now they'll
heave sigh, give up and stretch
out flat on the ground. One won
ders why housewives would bend
down to scrub the floors of such
shantieS.
WEAKNESS, squalor, hopelessness
signs up from the whole area. Too
often the heroism of the bereaved
families is sad resignation.
"Well if the men had to die
to make the mines safe tor others
maybe it's Gods will
AT THE graveside of one of the
men being buried the priest made
this prayer: "Take out of their
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

hearts the spirit of rebellion, al
mighty God"
was ashamed before God of
this prayer. 1t seemed to me the
man in the casket must rise up
and shatter this shame
IF the men filling the ceme-
ferries around Cenfralia have
died only for safe mines-onlY
for that they have died in vain.
The haggard widows have
right to expect more than mere
safety for work for their bright
eyed little children Somehow the
spirit of the dead men must show
the American people how miners
have lived and are living, how
most working pople live in this
land where most of the people
cannot share the boast abuud-
ance and wealth
This whole area is one vast
agonized explanation of why
miners strike, why any worker
throws down tools to take up a
picket-sign.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
BY the Society Editor

5 is marrying 5 on June 21st.
American workers are used
to reading-with tongue in
cheek-of the latest nuptials
in the Upper Clawses. But
this one, friends, amounts to a
bigger bankroll. In fact, it's an
industrial merger!
Appropriately, the marriage
of William Clay Ford and Mar.
tina Firestone was announced
last week by Hearst's sensa-
tion-hungry American Weekly.
And Hearst highly approved Of
the match of Ford's and Fire
stones grandchildren. Hearst
pronounced:
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

wide corn-fields and pasture-land
turning green. Trees are tall; cows
and pigs are fat; the country is
splendid wherever you go - ex-
cepting for the houses in which
people live.
One is NOT accustomed TO
thinking of small country
towns as having slums. Slums
belong TO the city.
But Wamac is deep in slums-
black, slatternly, make-shift, little
grimy cracker-box houses, COVER
ing like NANCY old dogs beneath
the black threatening stick of the
mine-shaft.
WHEREVER you go around here
porches are falling off the fronts
of the houses; paint is worn to
the wood. Women hanging laun-
dry in their back yards are gaunt,
withered and spent.
People in this part of the
countryside aren't rich. Be-
fore the great explosion took
Ill of their men from their
families and friends these
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

merger will settle close by the
safety deposit vault of the Ford
Company in Detroit.
But we can't resist quot
ing Fl e arst once more:
"MoneY-plentY of it-has
prevented lot of things from
happening. but all the
money in the world has
never been able TO stop ro-
nance"
We wonder if Martha and
Willy will call their firstborn
Preferred Stock Certainly not
Common Stock, then settle
down to a lot of little divi-
dends?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

ally sparkling the campaign in Lo-
cal 453 which set itself modest
goal of 1000 subs that shouldn't
fool anybody.
At conference last week, the
campaign blueprint was laid out
covering the locals 81 shops. The
three biggest-National Malleable
in Cicero and Melrose Park, and
Maremont Springs, Harvey, have
pledged sos subs between them.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

IF the two families could
h I've arranged everything
just as they wanted it with
out consulting Billy and
Martha. they couldn't have
done it any better"
MARTHA and Billy met two
years ago when they were 10,
on Billy's first liberty from a
Navy boot camp.
Billy candidly admitted to
the Hearst reporter that when
he was presented" to Martha
Ct almost didn't look twice"
What, after all, is a rubber tire
heiress to an automobile scion?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

Automobile scions have an al
tentative these days: synthetic
rubber tires! But Billy, forti-
fled with that, second look.
went off to the wars; Martha
went off to Vassar.
The wars end brought re-
conversion: Billy went to Yale
and courted Martha on week.
ends. According to Hearst,
there was no need for night
clubs or theatres"
Sometimes. we even
played gin rummY." Hearst
quotes Billy as saying.
BUT them days are gone
forever. After the wedding the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
. Steward kits

indispensable sub drive mate
rial is contained in the special
steward kits" that are available
at the Star office of from your
own chief steward.
They contain the ''tools" for
sub-getting = attractive material
on the Star. tips on how to do it,
information on the Star and-of
courSe-sub blanks.