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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
TT. Wayne Girls
Chorus At Pandora

Girls chorus of Ft. Wayne Bible
institute will appear in program
at the Pandora Missionary church,
Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock, They
will also have charge of the youth
fellowship meeting at GAS.
The chorus is directed by Prof. c.
A Gerber, instructor in voice at the
institute and accompanied by Prof.
r. L. Pfundstein, instructor in piano,
organ and theory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24

Bluffton board of education has
hired Paul Clark of Grove and Jack
son streets as engineer at the high
school building at an annual salary
of $1,000.
Clark, who took up his duties at
the school Monday, fills the vacancy
caused by the death of Wesley Ever
sole who died suddenly two weeks
ago, the victim of heart attack.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
ReU. Harmony Resigns
As Lutheran Pastor

Rev. w. L. Harmony pastor of
the Evangelical Lutheran church,
Bluffton, ahd the Findlay Trinity
Lutheran church, for the last II
years, has resigned to accept a pas
torate in Springfield.
Rev Harmony's resignation be-
comes effective on May Is, and his
family viii move to Springfield
shortly after that date. He became
pastor of the local church in June,
1888.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24

John Kiingler has purchased the
Gazette property at North Main and
Washington streets and is remodel
ing the residence.
Carl Devier of Lima, formerly of
Bluffton, has purchased the ROLAND
Stratton property on South Main
street and will move mere in June.
The Stratton family will move to
Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-24
Tea Leaves

All tea, green and black, grows on
the same kind of bush. Different
varieties result from differences in
climate, location, soil and methods
Of processing the leaves.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
Big cycIotron For
Swedish Industry

STOCKHOLM = The Physico =
Chemical Institute at the Univer-
sity of Uppsala, Sweden, the
head of which is the well-known
Nobel prize winner, The Svedberg,
will shortly be equipped with
m dern cyclotron laboratory
Sweden's Prime Minister Tage Err
lander recently at a ceremony
took the first spadeful for the
new building. This plant will, as
many other Swedish research in
situations established in recent
years, be financed jointly by the
private industry and the Swedish
Government. The plant is esti-
mated to cost about 100000
kronor, of which about 100000
kronor has been granted by the
Werner textile concern, of Gothen-
burg, the remainder being contri-
buted by the government.
The cyclotron, which is being
built by the Swedish firm LkB-
Products, will be situated in a
circular underground hall with
thick concrete walls and roof of
concrete and earth measuring 20
it., all with a view of prevent
ing dangerous radiation. The main
part of the cyclotron will be an
electromagnetic weighing $40 tons.
1t is hoped to attain energies of
go million electron volts for nuclei
of heavy hydrogen and of 12O mil
lion electron volts for ordinary
hydrogen nuclei.
The cyclotron will be used for
medical and nuclear research by
Professor Svedberg and his as
sistants, but it is also the inten-
ton that industry shall benefit by
the plant. Thus, it will be used,
among other things. to establish
the possibility of using certain
kinds of radiation in the produc-
ton of textile materials, mainly
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
Industrial Peace Continues In Norway

OSLO, March 81. = Norway
has reasonably good chances of
coming through the year of 1947
without major conflicts on the
labor-management front, unless
unforeseen events outside Norway
should disturb the present situa-
ton. This encouraging situation
is due to an overall price and
wage policy agreed upon by labor
and by the political parties from
right to left. a continuation of
the common political agreements
reached before the first postwar
election with a view to the big
reconstruction and rebuilding
tasks which had to be tackled
after five years of war and Ger
man occupation.
While the war still lasted rep
resentatives of the Trade Unions
and industrial management met
lin London and also illegally in
Norway. They agreed upon an
immediate wage increase of 20
ore -four cents) per hour to meet
rise in living costs. This meant,
of course, widening of the cleft
between available goods and buy
ing power The shops were still
empty. The Norwegian authori-
ties, however, had during the war
planned for tremendous import
of consumers goods and raw ma
terials and the imports in the
autumn of 1915 and the winter
of 1916 set an all-time record
At the same time Norwegian pro-
duction started rolling as soon as
German military construction was
I stopped and workers transferred
to peace time production.
Naturally. the small wage in
crease mentioned, could not by a
long shot compensate the price
rise that had been going on since
the war started. Living costs had
risen with so percent against a
raise in wages of less than %
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
international Ski
Races In Finland

STOCKHOLM - The interna-
tional ski-contests at Lathis. Fin
land. saw Swedish victories in
two of the four events. In the Is
kilometer run Manfred Sjodin,
Sweden. won in l h. u min. 26
sec.t twelve seconds before the
Finn Teuvo Laukkanen, and in
the combined jumping and cross
country contest Sven Israelson
and. Erik Elmsater gained a
Swedish double victory
The Films Pekka Nanninen and
Matti Lahde took revenge in the
SO kilometer race where the best
Swede, Holger Iagglof, was
beaten by seven minutes. In the
jumping event Norway secured
the first two places through Pet
ter Hugsted and Henry Amdahl,,
who jumped nearly 70 meters.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
Every Second Swede
Rides A Bicycle

STOCKHOLM = 5000. 900 bicy-
cies are now in use in Sweden
which means that practically
every second Swede has a bicycle.
This information was given in an
address in connection with the
10th anniversary of the Associa-
ton of Swedish Bicycle Manufac-
turers in Stockholm recently.
100000 bicycles are made in
Sweden annually.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01

plastics, and for practical research
for Sweden's chemical industry
The laboratory will form tbA
very center of big science quar-.
ter which is to be built with
physical laboratory of consider
able size on the one side and
chemical laboratory on the other
while in the immediate neighbor-
hood there will shortly be erected
new bio-chemiea1 institute and
a large institute for inorganic and
organic chemistry.
Another large cyclotron build
ing is in progress at the Nobel
Institute in Stockholm, the direc.
tor of which is another Swedish
Nobel prize winner, Professor
Name Siegbahn. A smaller eyclo-
tron, belonging to this institute.
has been in operation since 1912.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01

percent. "A new wage increase
was effected by October, 1915,
when a compensation for raising
living costs of 80 ore (six cents
per hour was agreed upon by la
Dor and management, decreed a
third increase in basic wages to
Is ore (three cents) per hour to
be effected in three steps: one
third Is ore) by September 1, 1916.
5 ore by March 1, 1947 and ore
by September, 1947.
At the same time all agree
ments had rulings for wage regu-
lations by according to changes
in the index of living expenses.
Such a regulation will be affec-
ted if the index figure passes
1908. The figure was 1858 in
September 1916 and reached 100
by January 1947. To counteract
further raise the Government
has proposed to lower the sales
tax from 10 to 625 per cent, sup
posed to reduce the living cost
index figure to 157. The Trade
Unions maintain that the price
level should be kept as invariable
as possible. The wage-increases
have caused no important increa-
ses in prices.
After year and a half it can
be stated that the economic policy
followed has been successful. The
living standards have been i'm
proved all along the line and
simultaneously steady increase
in production has taken place.
The industrial production figures
has reached pre-war levels.
One reason for this development
is the active interest the Trade
p. Unions have taken in increase of
production. Workers of several
industries have been doing volun-
tary overtime work, primarily in
plants directly connected with re-
construction tasks. Labor and
management have agreed on sew
eral new enterprises with a view
to animate production. Improved
working conditions in the plants
is one of the means to this end.
Further, representatives of labor
will participate in the study and
evaluation of special contracts,
and in naturalization and plan
ming. Hundreds of industrial
plants have established Produc-
ton Councils with members ap-
pointed by management, employ
ees and workers. The next step
will be taken by. the Government
in the establishment on a nation
al basis of production councils for
each industrial group, Branch
Councils.
The will to cooperate in the
interest of the country which
brought Norway through the war
with honor has survived the trials
of postwar difficulties. The speed
of Norway's recovery has been
greatly accelerated by an indus
trial peace which has been practi-
cally undisturbed since liberation.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01

Six persons, two men and four
women, froze to death in the
mountains of the northern PROV
ince of Jamtland when over
taken by a sudden snow storm
while ON a skiing tour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Committee Approves
O Backed TaxS Slash Act;
% Nations To Get Plan Bids
New Date Set
For Meeting
Work On Marshall Formu-
la For European Recov-
cry Starts July II

PARIS, July 8. -W.H- France
and Great Britain today asked %
other European nations to meet
with them here July II and start
work on the Marshall recovery
plan.
Russia, Franco Spain and Ger
many alone were excluded.
Russia is out by her own de-
cision. Spain is out until the re-
gime of Generalissimo Francisco
Franco is ousted. But the Western
occupation zones of Germany will
be brought into the conference
through the United Atates, British
and French Military governments.
The following % countries were
invited to join France and Great
Britain in the conference:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bull
garia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ice
land, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Port
ugal, Romania, Sweden, Swltzer'
land, Turkey and Yugoslavla.
To Draw Program
The conference is to draw up the
program of self-help, mutual CO.
operation and relief needs for pres
entation to Secretary OF State
George c. Marshall, which he ask
ed when he made the offer In his
Harvard speech June 5.
Russian Foreign Minister Viache-
slav Molotov, who broke up the
Big Three Foreign Ministers con-
ference yesterday by announclns
the Kremlin's decision to boycott
the Marshall plan, left Paris 1or
Moscow by plane at 3:14 a. m
without bidding farewell to French
Foreign Minister Georges Bldaul'
or British Foreign Secretary En-
est Bevin.
It was believed that the Russian
See DATE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
LOST DUTCHMAN''
LEGEND GETS MAN
County Sheriff Starts
Search For Prospector
In Superstitutions

PHOENIX. Ariz., July 8 -P-
An amateur prospector was re-
ported missing today after flying
into the forbidding Superstitutlon
mountains in a helicopter in
search of the fabulous Lost Dutch
man gold mine.
Sheriff Cal Bois said he had
been asked to search for James
A. Cravey, g., retired Phoenix
photographer, reputed to nave
employed a helicopter to replace
the old-time prospcctor's burro as
a mean of packing into the rug
ged range.
The sheriff said c. W. Wander
flute. friend of Cravey, reported
Cravey chartered the craft June
10 and had planned to walk out
of the mountains last Friday.
Vanderflute said Cravey belleV'
ed he had discovered the location
of the long sought Lost Dutchmar
mine in a dream.
The Lost Dutchnan is shroud
ed in legend, ana its search has
cost the lives of many adventur'
ers. Adolph Ruth. retired govern
ment clerk of Washington, D. C.,
went into the Superstitutions in
1882 in quest Of the mine. HIS
Lullet-pierced Skull was found. He
was listed as the 18th victim OF
the Lost Dutchman's lure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
INDIANA SENATOR
WILL VISIT HERE
Homer E. Capehart TO Al
tend Meeting OF Music
Box Dealers

United States Senator Homer E,
Capehart of Indiana will arrive in
Wilmington today on a combined
business and pleasure trip ano
while here, and Mrs. Capehart vii
be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
L. v. Mccormack at their home
at Wrightsville Beach.
Senator Capehart, who is 8
member of the Senate Rivers anc
Harbors committee of the upper
House Of Congress is coming te
Wilmington to attend a meeting
of some three hundred dealers o:
coin operated music boxes WHIT
will be here on Saturday for
one-day showing Of the new Man
haitian" juke box. It is manufac
tured by the company which thu
Indiana senator heads.
The meeting of dealers IRON
the three states Of North and Soutf
Carolina and Virginia will be hele
Saturday under auspices of tn
Whitehead Music company Of Will
mington, distributors for the three
states with headquarters in tn
Jewel Box building.
While no set program has beer
arranged for the entertainment o
Senator Capehart while he is II
Wilmington, it is more than likel.
that an effort will be made II
take him on a tour of the lower
Ca.oe Fear where dredging opera
tons are now going on for tn
deepening of the river channel tt
80 feet, and the Wilmington water
front,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
JUDGE SUSPENDS
DRIVING PERMITS
Motorists Feel "Fangs" OF
New Traffic Laws;
Court Perplexed

That North Cardinals new traf-
fic laws are going to make it
tough on offenders was demon
strated for the first time yester-
day in Recorders court although
it still is not clear to either the
court or attorneys how some OF
the laws are to be enforced.
Two motorists were handed stiff
fines yesterday and saw their driv-
ing Licenses suspended for one
year. At the same time, court
varied police, deputies and high
way patrol officers to be sure that
offenders were guilty before max
ing arrests.
One copy of the new laws was
in the hands Of the court-evident-
ly the only one available here for
the present. Attorneys clamored
to read it during yesterdays
court.
Judge Winfield Smith said that
hereafter all offenders brought be-
fore him will receive the new
penalties regardless of whether
they we're arrested before July l.
The only exception will be cases
that were continued at request OF
the state.
What bothered the court and at
torneys alike was a provision
See JUDGE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
NO STORM DANGER
WEATHERMAN SAYS
Describes Reported
Blow AS "Slight Disturb
ance AT Sea"

Small coastal craft captains a
take off their oilskins and the clt1-
zens of Wilmington and the nearby
beaches can prepare to enjoy the
Fourth of July.
The storm off the coast OF North
Carolina will present no danger
here, the U. S. weather bureau al
the Custom House reported this
afternoon.
The weather bureau reported
that the storm. which caused some
alarm when its proximity was an.
nounced this afternoon, was 3oo
miles off the coast of North Caro-
lima at 2 pm. and was travelling
at about 40 miles an hour IN .
rortheasterly direction. weather.
man Paul Hess termed the winds
a "slight disturbance at sea" and
late this afternoon assured resi-
dents of this area that there Is nc
cause Of worry as there is mo
indication of any trouble whatso-
ever along the coast here. The
storm, he said, has been moving
northe asterly since 10:30 am. This
means the storm is moving furth-
err out to sea
The barometer is rising, the bu-
real said, and the forecast for to-
morrow predicts partly cloudy
skies and a high temperature OF
81 degrees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Thousands Expected Ia
Throng Beaches; Trans
portation Heavy

What's your pleasure? Fishing
rods, picnic baskets, swim suits
or armchairs beside a radio?
It's the fourth day in July. hide
pendence Day.
And despite the storm warning
yesterday, which bore no fruit,
the day has been forecast to be
only partly cloudy and the tenn
perature is expected to rise to
80 degrees. 1t looks like a good day
for anything.
All over the state people are
going to vacation for a long week
end.
A great many of them are ex-
pected at nearby beaches. Reser-
vations at hotels and cottages for
the weekend have been above
normal and rooms are at a prem
ium at both Wrightsville and Caro-
lima beaches. The largest crowds
of the summer at those places are
expected today and the following
two days.
Officials at the Union Bus termi-
nal predicted larger crowds this
fourth than last. The railways ex-
pect record crowds also and Ma
tional Air Lines officials said their
heaviest reservations were tor
See WEATHER On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Saves
.Ailing Wife
Thousands Join In Suppl
cations For Johns
Hopkins Patient

BALTIMORE, Md, July 3-W.p
- Last week a tall, well-dresseo
man walked into Johns Hopkins
hospital where his A. year-old wife
was critically i'll, and faced two
doctors.
The doctors were sympathetic
but they didn't mince words.
Your wife is dying" n sale
to 51-year old Austin G. White.
a matchmaker.
They explained that an opera
ton was the only way to halt in
ternal bleeding.
"But she is so weak that she
probably will not survive the oper
ation," another added.
White bowed his head. His witt
Audrey was his world. He hat
spent the money he and Audre.
had saved for a home to provide
the best hospital care and doctors
But it was not enough.
In Gods Hands
81 knew then that she was il
the hands of God," White said to
day.
Il never was much of a Chris
tan and I didn't 60 to church yer.
often.
But, when all hope is gone, yo'
turn to Him."
White prayed for his wife ant
appeared to the public to pray. too
His story has appeared in tn
newspapers was picked up on tn
radio, went out over the news wire
Of the nation.
And all over the country, peopl
began to pray.
They prayed for a woman the.
had never seen, whom they didn'
know; prayed because one ma
had asked for their help, the onl.
help. they could give.
Some wrote White not to Civ
up hope. A school girl in Chicag'
made daily trips to church. !
woman in Cleveland said mornin
and evening prayers in her home
A steel worker in Pittsburgh ask
ed st. Jude to intercede.
Thousands Pray
In Baltimore, people calle'
White at the hospital to tell hin
they were praying, hundreds c
others visited his home to offe
See PRAYER On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
SEVEN KILLED
IA INJURED
Tornado Strikes In Three
Places In North Da-
kota Last might

GRAND FORKS, N. D., July 8.
At least seven persons were
killed and IA hospitalized when a
tornado struck three places near
Grafton, N. D., early tonight.
Six migrant farm workers, three
of them children, were killed on
the Luther Kykken farm two miles
vest of Auburn and one man, Frank
Rogalla, died in a hospital after the
twister hit Warsaw, N. D., south
of Grafton. Mrs. Rogalla was re-
ported missing.
Nearly the entire town Of War
saw was wiped out, States Attor'
new Wallace Warner said, with on
Nv the Catholic church and town
hall left standing.
The migrant laborers were all
members of several families, about
20 persons, living in one house
at the Lykken farm, seven miles
See SEVEN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
Americans Look Back III
Years To Declaration
Oh independence
BY b E MILLER

One hundred and seVen1y-one
years ago the people OF the United
States were made free of the
tyranny of England with the sign
ing of the Declaration of Ind
pendence.
Since that time American citi-
zens have celebrated July 9TH
First by shooting fireworks,
whose explosions symbolized til c
cannon and musket fire of the
Revolution. Later the observance
was made a holiday and most Of
the civic, county, state Offices,
a n business establishments
closed in order that their workers
might relax as they please.
Residents of this area as vel
as others in the u. S. will flock
to the vacationlands of their de-
sire. Others will remain at home
and enjoy the freedom OF a demo
cracy as their ancestors did after
tine hard-fought battle with Great
Britain years ago.
Six Wars
The revolution was the first war
the people of America fought. AT
ter 1776 there came the War Of
1872; the Civil War, 1850; the
Spanish-American War, 1898;
World War l, 1917; and World
War II, 1941.
When Thomas Jefferson, author
OF the Declaration Of I%ndepend-
ence and John Hancock, president
of the congress in 1776, set their
signatures to the document with
the other signers, they made pos
sible the United States right tc
fight for a freedom which has
been preserved through all the
years. But at the cost OF blood
shed.
Meantime the army, the same
army which in l776 began to bat
tie overwhelming odds, will cele'
brate the first Independence Day
since 1910 on which all the me
are secured by the volunteer sys
tenn.
Peace Strength
1t marks the settling down. o
the military force to 1,07O,0 O'
men, fixed by congress as the re
CURED strength On July l. TIT
million-man service, largest il
our peacetime history, is required
to carry out the army's domestic
assignments plus overseas dutie
in Europe and Asia.
Today also marks n OF tn
most disastrous of the year. De
spite pleas Cor ga, safe and san
fourth many people will die OF
the highways and in other holida.
accidents.
This day is your day. The PEG
pie of America fought for it. AM
it will be commemorated for tn
thousands who have died sine
1776 in order that their country
men may enjoy peace.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-04
saRATAGE DISCOVERED

okz
It was along about the last OF
March. 1941, that 1t. Henry
Garcia, now commander, Of the
Coast Guard. with Assistant Col
lector of Customs, E. c. Snead,
boarded the "Villarperoso'. Their
purpose was to ask the captain,
Adrianne Merlano to move the
vessel up to Horseshoe Bend.
They explained to him that the
new berth would be without
charge.
The captain agreed readily to
the suggestion but asked for q
DAYS to put his motors in running
condition.
As Garcia and Snead walked
ashore Garcia remarked that If
Is days all the engines could be
completely overhuled and re-
assembled and then there would
be some time to spare.
Without further ado a tug was
ordered to move the "Villar'
peros" to Horseshoe Bend where
no damage could be done.
This was done and shortly at
ter 1t. W. D. Shields, now com
mander, of the Coast Guard, put
a group of men on board to guard
the vessel. They found the engine
room locked.
SEIZURE - The Coast Guard
stayed on board all night and next
day they received word to seize
the ship. Snead and the Coast
Guard officers found the captain
OF the craft dressed up in his
navy uniform, bedecked h
medals. He produced the key to
the engine room. All the power
plants were found to be smashed.
Later it was discovered that scrap