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Evening star., 1947-02-09
By DonieI De Luce
A..eeiote6 Pres. Foreign Correspondent


DARMSTADT, Germany, Feb. g.
Queen Victoria's great grandson ate
a meal of watery soup from tin
pail today and counted himself
luckier than most of the 1920 hun
CRY former Nazis in Camp Despair" !"
after 20 months Imprisonment
under Hitler and 81 months under
the Americans" said frail, wizened
Prince Philip Hesse, Il have learned
how to take it."
In a crowded former coal bin
of the headquarters of the Darn
stadt German civil internment en-
closure, dubbed Camp Despair" by
its inmates, the 50-year -old noble
man sat on his wooden bunk and
listed these gifts of fortune:
l. Because of his seniority as a
prisoner, he sleeps with few score
others In the warm Easements of a
building instead of in an icy canvas
tent like thousands.
Murphy Relays Message.
2. Called as witness at the Dac-
hau trial of Flossenburg concentra-
ton camp guards, he spent month
in the Dachau hospital where the
food was very good, for change"
8. American Ambassador Robert
Murphy recently relayed a letter to
him from his parents-in-law, former
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and
his ex-queen, now living in exile in
Alexandria, Egypt. 1t was the first
news he had received from them in
many months. al css
The Darmstadt enclosure, ringed
by barbed wire and armed outposts,
is a grim answer to claims by anti
American propagandists that "de-
nazif1cation is q farce" in the
American zone, ..,s-,G - s- x
Operated by the state Of Greater
Hesse, with $40 poorly paid German
guards, the enclosure, for men only,
is entirely dependent on the Ger
man economy and its food ration
theoretically is supposed to equal
Evening star., 1947-02-09

Francis paper. printed here from
mats flown from the West Coast
was distributed.
The Navy Band opened the pro-
gram with q concert and the Ma
tional Press Club Chorus sang. The
entertainment included Bonnie
Baker, singer: Bob Hopkins, comedi-
an; Gene Archer and Jeanne War
|ner, vocalists; Ed Mcintyre, piano
soloist, and Miss Jinx Falkenberg
motion picture actress and radio
broadcaster.
The outgoing president. Paul
Wooton, of the New Orleans Times
Picayune, presented his successor to
the audience, and Mr.. Francis intro
duced his fellow officers and board
of governors.
Other Ofiicers.
The other officers of the club are
Joseph II. Short, jr.,. OF the Balti-
more Sun. vice president; John G.
O,Brien of the Philadelphit In
quirer, board chairman: Henry D
Ralph of the Oil and Gas Journal
secretary; George w. Combs of the
Baltimore Evening Sun, treasurer;
Nicholas p. Gregory of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, financial secretary
and board members Radford E. Mo-
bley of the Knight Newspapers; G. p
Trussen of the New York Times;
Merwin n. Browne. who was with
the Buffalo News for 23 years; Car
son F. Lyman Of the United States
News; Paul B. MCGEE Of the Manila
News, and Gerard A. Robichaud OF
the Chicago Sun.
Early in the evening a buffet din
ner was served to more than Sc
guests at a reception. The East
Lounge, where the dinner took place,
offered display Of fruit. wines and
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Press Club InsiaIIs
Francis as. President
In California Setting

Warren B. Francis, chief OF the
Los Angeles Times Bureau in Wash
ington, was inaugurated president
of the National Press Club last night
amid a distinctive California atmos-
phere, including citrus fruit and Los
Angeles-groW flowers.
The stage in the club auditorium,
where he was sworn in was deco-
rated with carnations, rare bird-of-
paradise lilies and enlarged photo
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Trude Union Students
Ito See Government Work

Twelve trade union workers were
scheduled to arrive in Washington
this week end from New York for
a series OF visits to Congress and
Federal agencies.
The workers, including both men
and women, are students in q public
affairs training course offered by the
New York Women's Trade Union
League. In addition to seeing Gov
ernment agencies in operation, the
students will visit Mount Vernon
the Library of Congress and the
National Gallery. They will return
to New York tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c. As
3,

other typical West Coast products,
while enlarged pictures of Santa
Anita race track, other Los Angeles
scenes and travel posters covered the
walls.
Among those taking part in the
swearing-in ceremonies were:
Seniors Knowland and Downey OF
California, Admiral Emory S. Land,
president of the Air Transport As
|sociation: Miss Falkenberg, Attorney
General Tom c. Clark, Representa-
tive Lea, dean OF the California dele
CATION to the House, and Col. Clar-
'ence M. Young of the Civil Aero
nauticS Board.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

graphs OF Los
Angeles. House
Speaker Martin,
administered the
oath, as mem
bers of the new
p r e S / d e n T. S
family, political
celebrities, and
several hundred
clu b members
looked on. Mr..
F. r a n c Is W a S
born In h e
Speakers Con-
gressional dis
trict in Massa-
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Civiton Clubs to Heor
Commentator Don Bell

A joint meeting of the Silver
Spring and Bethesda Civitan Clubs
will be held at a pm. Wednesday
at Stone House Inn. Silver Spring
A number of civilians from Vir-
ginia and the District have been
invited to attend. Don Bell, news
commentator for WGAY, will be
the guest speaker.
Evening star., 1947-02-09
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Evening star., 1947-02-09
BooKKEEPERs

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Evening star., 1947-02-09

Philip Hesse great grandson of Queen Victoria Of
England and sonnlaw of former King Victor Emanuel of
Italy shown eating from tin pail in basement cubbyhole
civil inernment in Darmstadt where he
awaiting denazcaon trial He has been imprisoned for
months-2O months under Hitler and q months under the
Americans. -AP Wirephoto
Kodiak mirror., 1947-04-26
Cannon Hunters Here

Two bear hunters for Pat Can- non, local guide, arrived via PIMA Wednesday and will leave with Pat for Uyak bay sometime today.
 The men are N. P. Smith, of Lexington, Ky, who raise tobac- co and horses and has a cab bus mess, and Elton Cooley, of Plne- dale Wyoming, a cattle 'rancher
Kodiak mirror., 1947-04-26

The breaking of the ice at Ne mana will hold no greater thrill for Father Louis Fink, of the le- cal Catholic church, than hls own private ice breakup thls week
 At l:3O Wednesday the water line in the church and living qua. tars thawed out. It had fro- zen on Dec. 3
 Father Finks' blessing is not unal oyed- the sewer Is still fro- zen.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-04-26
Choose Delegate

Mrs. Jeanette Bailey was cho- sen as delegate to the depart ment convention at the regular meeting Tuesday of the Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary. The na- tional president will be at the convention, to be held June l at Anchorage
 The Auxiliary also voted to sponsor the work of the local Girl Scouts.
 The Legion members played host and prepared and served refreshments for the Auxiliary
 A red-striped Gruman plane, owned by Gren Collins of Anch- Orage, arrived here Monday, pi- loted by Jack Elliot. Elliot took a group of cannery workers that arrived by Cordova Air service Tuesday to Uganik and Larsen's bay, and was also char tered by the George Petty hunting party.
 A Seabee plane, with Bob Hall as piloted, also owned by Col lins will be stationed here all summer, Elliot said and will be available for charter trips.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27

Proceeds from benefit concert to
be presented by the Blnffton college
vesper choir Friday night at 500
o'clock in the Blufftons High school
gymnasium will be donated to the
colleges new auditorium- gymnasium
fund, it was announced this week by
officers of the Blufftop Lions club,
sponsors of the prograni
Featured soloists i'll tide choir's
concert will be Lois Oyer, mezzo-
soprano, and Elizabeth Brand So
prano, both of Blutfton laurence
Burkhalter, violinist, alsd will ap-
pear in the programme l.
Ticket sale for the corrert is be-
ing promoted by nieHlbers of the
Lions club. All prdesdds will be do
mated for a new @5b,0oo gynnas-
ium-auditorium planned for the col
lege campus. E
The Vesper chnh vas organized
in 1914 by Prof. H. A. CDad) Leh-
man, and it has been directed since
1923 by Prof. RussellFAi Lantz. A
concert tour through Illinois, Iowa.
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota and Minnesota g win be held
in late spring by The. 8o-yoice iehoir
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
Noon Meals Raised to % Cents
for Grades Four Through
Twelve
Loss of Nine-Cent Subsidy
Boosts Price of Noon
Lunches

Cost Of meals served in the
Bluffton High school cafeteria was
boosted the first of this week as a
result of loss to the school of ap-
proximately $3.50 monthly for the
remainder of the term through ex-
haustion of federal funds allocated
for the Ohio public school health
program.
Plate lunches previously provided
at a cost of 20 cents for students
from the fourth grade through high
school sold for 25 cents beginning
Monday, as a five-cent increase was
put into effect by school officials.
Pupils in the first three grades,
however, will continue to receive
meals for Is cents a plate, a price
that is unchanged from the former
basis of operation.
$2.250 YEAR SUBSIDY
With Ohio's $1,750,O00 federal
grant for cafeteria aid exhausted,
Bluffton High school will lose a sub
sidy of nine cents for each meal
served. This amounts to approx
mately $2,250 for the nine months
school term, but approximately $500
will be cut from that total this year
because of exhaustion of the federal
funds two months before the close
of the school year.
Blutfton High school serves an
average Of 125 to $50 noon lunches
daily when school is in session, and
the increase of five cents will only
partly cover the loss of the innocent
federal subsidy. However, the cafe
terra endeavors to serve meals at
cost and operations will be studied
to determine if a five-cent raise will
be sufficient for the remainder of
the year.
Bluffton received payment of the
federal subsidy from September thru
February and for Is operating days
IN March before funds were exhaust
ed, Supt. Ralph Lanham said.
MoRR SCHOOLS GET Am
Rising food costs and increase in
the number of Ohio schools receiving
aid resulted in funds being spent
the middle of March which should
have been available until the end of
the current school term. Last year
SOC school cafeterias received aid.
This year there were 1,168, without
an increase in the federal ALLEGATION.
Menu for Bluffton High schools
plate lunches includes sandwich,
potatoes, another vegetable, milk or
fruit juice, celery or carrot and
cookies. Helpings are the same for
grades l to and thru II, but
older students receive larger help
ings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
School Cafeteria Lunches To Cost
Pupils More AS Federal Aid Ends
s., 900 Damage Suit
Against TOlUn Settled

Mrs. Ilo Isham's $4,000 damage
suit against the village of Bluffton
has been settled out of court on the
basis of the towns payment of SGT
for medical services, City Solicitor
d. II. Tripplehorn announced this
week.
Mrs. Isham claimed the damages
as the result of a fall sustained at a
precinct voting place in the fire de-
partment room at the town hall on
election day, Nov. 5, 1910. At that
time Mrs. Isham was a resident of
Bluffton. She now lives in Lima.
Settlement out of court was made
on the basis that the town pay half
of a medical bill of $54, City Solici-
tor Tripplehorn said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Doyte Yoakam, La.
fayette, a boy, Wednesday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Henry, Bluff.
ton, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Williams
Ada, a girl, Virginia Marie, Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Conner Stewart
Blutfton, boy, James Robert, Sun.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambert Basinger
Bluffton, boy, Thomas James, Sun.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene staley
Bluffton, boy, Eugene, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Warner, Beav.
erdam, a girl, Jacqulyn Joan, Sat.
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ewing, Beav
erdam, boy, Paul Robert, Satur
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis J. Lugin
buhl, Ada, boy, Frank Wilson
Thursday. Mrs. LuginbuhI is tn,
former Susanna Lugibihl of Bluffton
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Fenster
maker, Leipsic, boy, Robert Den
mis-, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Vail, Airing
ton, a girl, Linda Lee, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Baker, Find
lay, a girl, Bonnie Lee, last Wed
nesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27

Lloyd Thomas of South Main
street has purchased the Gerald HUI
Der property on Thurman street and
will move this spring. Huber re-
Gently bought one of the new houses
on College road north of the Elm
street intersection built by Albert
Garmatter.
Paul Greding who purchased re.
Gently from Mrs. Bertha Balmer the
South Main street property oecu.
pied by Thomas viii occupy it, NOV,
ing from the Fred Badertschel
apartments at South Main ane
Kibler streets.
Mr.. and ldrs. James Elvin ant
Miss Huldah schifferly will move
this spring to Millwood, Ohio, neal
Mt. Vernon where they have pur
chased a property They recently
sold their Poplar street residencr
here to John Amstutz Of Norwalk
It will be occupied by Amstutz'
mother and sister, Mrs. Eli Amstut
and Miss Rhoda Amstutz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
new WELL NEEDED
FOR CITY SUPPLY
AS DEMAND GROWS
Additional Water Source Win
Cost Town Approximately
$3.50 Board Says
New Well Win Be Fifth Oper.
ated by Municipal Water
works Plant

Demands on the output of Bluff
toms municipal waterworks have in
creased to the point where another
we'll is required to assure providing
adequate service for patrons, the
town council was told when the
board of public affairs requested
Legislation to spend approximately
S3,590 ON the project.
Negotiations for the new well site
are nearing completion, but legisla-
tion by the council to make avail
able the money was sought by the
board prior to working out final de-
tails, to permit obtaining pipe for
we'll casing at the same time pipe
is ordered for a $4,788 water mains
extension program announced last
week.
Cost Of the new we'll was estimat
ed as follows: 1864 for 220O feet
of six-inch pipe; 5000 for an elec,
trically operated pump; 5000 fol
drilling the well, and 1896 for ditch.
ing.
AT present the waterworks pumps
from two city water service wells on
waterworks grounds and from one
on the Mrs. Caroline Matter addi-
tion.
Afourth well on the waterworks
grounds is used to provide service
for washing milk cans at the Page
Dairy Co., which is nearby.
With addition of a new we'll to the
coming summers program, a total
of $8,378 is earmarked in a 1947
plan expansion program to keep up
with Buttons rapid residential and
industrial growth.
The S4,7SS water main extension
program announced last week calls
for the laying of new lines in six
parts of town, including 1000 feet
of six-inch pipe; 24OO feet of four.
inch pipe and 1900 feet of three,
inch pipe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
SCHOOLS CLOSED
AGAIN BY BADLY
DRIFTED HIGHWAYS
North-South Road Hooked by
Snow; Highways reacherous
With lee.
Mile-An-Hour Blizzard Hits
Four Hours After Spring
Like Rain.

Buttons public schools were clos
ed Wednesday because of snow drift
ed country roads which il sde It M
possible for buses to make their
rounds thru the rural settibns of the
school district.
Clearing weather, Wednesday noon
brought announcement dna the If
flee of Superintendent df Schools h.
S. Lanham that classes would be re-
sumed on Thursday.
Hampered by illness and bah wath-
er, Buttons schools have been op-
Grating on a day-to7day basis since
the beginning of last week
Because Of the influeRka situation
classes were closed for four days last
week on order of the coilaly district
health commissioner. III
Open Monday, Tuesday In
Operation of schools Nas resumed
Monday with so absentees, l6qs Of
the enrolment. Tuesdays attendance
figures showed 12s absentees, q Of
the enrolment.
Supt. Lanham said, however, that
Tuesdays absentees tota might not
represent any substantial Increase i'm
illness among pupils, as some 81. it
proably was caused by Bad weather
conditions.
A chest x-ray clinic scheduled to
have been held in the schools the first
of the week has been postponed until
Thursday and Friday. Il that time
the mobile unit operated by the Allen
County tuberculosis society win ex-
anime pupils whose parents have
authorized the procedures sapt. Ian
ham saids@
Beayerdam and Iafavstte schools
have been closed since Fuesday be
cause of impassables roa conditions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
Residential Building Program Under
Forced Draft Despite Bad Weather

Buttons spring building program,
launched before a break in winter
weather, is continuing under forced
draft despite unfavorable eonstruc-
tion conditions
In the Matter addition on Harmon
road, new house being constructed
for Harry Shrider, Jr., is under roof,
.sheeting has been completed and win
adovs and doors are in place.
shrider's house is located on the
first lot south of a new home com
tpleted in early winter for Harry
Turner, Jr.
Excavation was completed last
week in the Fred Mueller addition
on Jefferson street for a new home
to be erected on q lot owned by Dor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
SEVEN MILES OF
TOWNSHIP ROADS
TO BE IMPROVED
S11,5O0 Resurfacing Program
on Three Township Roads
Planed Next Summer
Cost of Work VIII BE Shared
By Richland Township
and Allen County

Seven miles of Richland township
roads will be re-surfaced this sum-
mer in an $11,500 improvement
program announced by township
trustees.
The road work will be completed
in cooperation with Allen county
commissioners, and its cost will be
shared equally by the county and
township.
Four miles Of "sealed coat re-
surfacing will be completed in the
Improvement program. In addition
three miles of township roads will be
treated with mat" improvement.
Foundation Treatment
The mat consists Of a three inch
tar and oil mix applied to gravel
roads, principally as a foundation
coat. In the year after a mat coat
is placed on a road, sealing surface
Is added by spreading a one-inch
coating of asphalt mixture.
Sealed coats will be placed this
summer on three miles of the Fett
road from the Putnam county line to
the Rockport road, and on one mile
of the Swaney road between the
Lincoln and Dixie highways.
Mat treatment will be on two miles
of the Bixel- -Grismore road from the
Pandora road to the Fett road, and
on one mile of the Swaney road
from the Lincoln highway south to
the Jackson township line. The
latter road will then connect with a
hard-surfaced road previously put in
by Jackson township.
County to Repair Roads
Repair and patching of other
township roads also will be done
during the summer by the county
road crew, it was announced.
Lack of heavy snow this winter
until early in March which cost ap-
proximately 500 to operate the
scraper to clear the highways,
has made it possible for the town
ship to expand its road improvement
program next summer, since prac-
tically no money has been expended
in keeping highways clear of snow.
Two years ago, the township spent
approximately $4,000 to clear snow
from roads, an expenditure which
would have paid for two miles of
road improvements, it was pointed
out by spokesmen for the board ot
trustees. The cost of road improve
ment now is about 10 per cent more
than it was two years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
RECORDS OF DRAFT
BOARDS TAKE ON
new SIGNIFICANCE
Senate Committee Votes to
Keep Selective Service Data
Available
Suggestion To Transfer Records
To State Headquarters De-
layed Until June

Allen eounty's World War II draft
records which have been gathering
dust in the office Of the county
selective service boards In Lima have
taken on a new significance as
result of world events Of the past
week.
Seriousness of the present crisis
as it affects Greece and Turkey in
the Mediterranean struck home to
residents of the Bluffton area when
the armed services committee Of the
u. S. Senate voted last Thursday to
retain all draft records in offices Of
local boards until June 80 as ''in-
surance" against critical develop
ments in the world situation.
The Senate committee refused to
scrap local draft machinery which
has been inactive for nearly a year
and it approved an appropriation to
maintain draft records at easily ac-
cessible places.
Await Developments
Altho the present draft law is
scheduled to expire on March 81 and
the county's draft organization viii
be kept intact, there is no present
indication that members Of boards
may be asked to resume their duties
barring further developments in the
critical aspects Of this nations place
in present world conditions.
In the past, the three Allen county
boards have operated in separate Of
fees, and it is possible that in the
interest of economy records Of the
three units may be combined in one
office. However, moving records to
Columbus, as proposed earlier, will
be delayed for the present.
Two lines Of reasoning dictated
the Senate armed service committees
decision 10 postpone removal Of draft
cards, according 10 spokesman for
the group.
First was the fact that universal
military training may be considered
by Congress this spring, and such a
program would require use of the
local records. The move also means
assurance that local records will be
readily available in case the world
situation develops critically.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27
With The Sick

Noah Niswander, retired Bluffton
merchant, is a surgical patient in
Bluffton hospital where he under
went an operation, Saturday morn
ing.
Mrs. George Klay is seriously i'll
at her home on Mound street.
Roma Wilch Newlan who has been
i'll at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Levon Downey of Beaverdam was re-
moved to the Findlay hospital, Mon
day for observation.
Mrs. Noah Augsburger who has
been seriously i'll for the past month
is somewhat improved but still moi
allowed to have visitors.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-27

Fruehey. The Fruchey family have
been residing in a temporary home
at the rear Of the lot, consisting of
two prefabricated poultry houses
Clair Rucher i completing remod-
cling Of a house moved into town
several weeks ago on his lot in the
Berryhill addition on West Elm
street, and work is progressing as
weather permits on a new house be
ing built on South Main street, near
the corporation line, BY Clayton
Bucher.
IN several other eases. concrete
blocks are on building sites and ex-
eavation will get under way as soor
as weather permits.