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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-11

Schumacher, piano tuner, plan to
take a trip to Europe next summer.
They will go directly from New
York to Naples, Italy.
Adam Steiner is in Iowa buying
horses.
Philip Schumacher is attending
Antioch college at Yellow Springs.
A graduate of Cincinnati Dental
College is DR.. Alvin Hilty, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. P. 3. Hilty.
Neighbors and friends gathered at
the home of Mrs. Philip Flath to
remind Mrs. Flath of her birthday
anniversary.
Misses Zoe Bentley, Pauline Garau,
Elva Moser and Helen Kibler, teach
ers in the public schools will attend
summer school at Oxford.
Chris Santschi, who left here with
his son on an European trip, is
home again. Santschi's son Louis
remained in Russia to visit with an
uncle.
j. E. Lugibihl spent several days
the first of the week with his sister,
Mrs. Albert Dubois of Continental.
Mrs. Noah Basinger is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Wood Scarborough,
at Lawrenceville, I'll.
Arthur Swank, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chris Swank, fell from an oil
derrick on the Mary Ewing lease.
He fell over 90 feet, but was not
injured seriously.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Binkley are
rejoicing over the arrival of baby
girl.
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NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF NOV. l5. 1917

This is how Dode Murray feels,
says a small card dangling below
a dancing wooden figure suspended
in the window of d. c. Bixe1 jeweler.
Dode won the election and is now
mayor of BIuffton.
Buttons street commissioner
Henson Good will receive 25c per
hour instead of a fixed salary.
John Hirschfeld and wife and
Horace Stratton and wife motored
to the Wilmington home south of
Delphos, where Hirschfield boarded
when he worked in the oil field.
N. T. Steiner and Lugibihl Bros.
say it pays to have stock sales with
blooded stock. At the Niswander
sale barn 65 head of pedigreed
Durocs brought $50 per head as an
average. At the sale a litter of s
six month old hogs sold for S942.
John A. Diller has returned from
Canada where he purchased 20 head
of Scotch shorthorn cattle. John
also purchased a great Dane dog
recently. He says chicken hunters
"had better stand little closer off,"
Sidney Hauenstein makes his
weekly trips to Pandora where he
has charge of the newly organized
band. The boys sure feel proud of
their talented leader.
Clair Fett is vitising his uncle and
family at Bridger, Montana.
Five Bluffton men left for Olean,
N. Y. where they will be employed
in the manufacturing plant of Clark
Bros. Those who left were: Leslie
Kimmel, Chas. Fenton, Ebert Day,
Armin Kohl, and Havel Dodge.
Eugene Kibele is superintendent of
the plant.
A pleasant surprise was given
Miss Blanche McHenry at her home
on North Jackson Street by her girl
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True Tales About Ohio
Concluded from page u

ter of Marietta and Belpre. Life
was rosy and all that could be
desired-until Aaron Burr came into
their Eden in April, 1905. Having
been Vice President of the United
States, he was received with distinc-
tion.
Burr's Wild Scheme
Burr had wild scheme to estab-
lish a great western empire and
easily interested the Blennerhassetts
in it. Margaret Blennerhassett
especially was favorable to Burr's
project because in the empire her
husband was promised prominence
Burr talked about settling on a
tract along the Ouchita River in
Louisiana; of being nearby for an
invasion of Mexico in case of war
with that nation; and of the separa-
ton of New Orleans and Mississippi
from the United States.
Burr said he needed a navy. So
in September, 1906, Blennerhassett
contracted for the construction of
Is large boats big enough to trans
port 500 men. These were to carry
the adventurers down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to the empire in
the southwest. Large supplies of
provisions and equipment were order
ed, Blennerhassett assumed response
bility for the payment of all.
Pledges Fortune
Blennerhassett's new mansion had
cost $4,000 but the entire balance
of his fortune he pledged to Burr's
scheme. Eventually his expenses in
the wild scheme of Burr exceeded his
entire fortune and left him in debt.
Though the exact depths of Burr's
plotting never were revealed, the
government decided that the whole
matter looked much like treason and
secession and on November 27, 1906,
President Thomas jefferson asked
civil and military authorities to ar
rest the conspirators.
Governor Edward Tiffin sent a
company of militia under Captain
Timothy Buell. to the mouth of the
Muskingum river to capture any
suspicious boats descending the Ohio
or Muskingum. Virginia also sent its
militia to Blennerhassett Island but
when the soldiers arrived on Decem-
Der 8 they found Blennerhassetts
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Misses lola Patterson, Clara Harris,
Alma Klay, Orpha Mason, Selenlma
Steiner, Beatrice Isham, Rosa Blakes-
ley, Nina Filhart and Mildred Nc
Henry.
c. E. Steiner rented the hotel in
Bluffton and will move there in the
near future.
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friends reminding her of her nth
birthday anniversary. Present were
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-11

Take straw and stubble out of the
field as soon as possible after COM
bining to save clover or alfalfa seed
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-11

George Longworth, Clermont
county, claims 70 years of experience
in farming does not teach a farmer
everything about his business. Mr..
Longworth is producing some fine
tobacco in 1947 on contour strips
between buffer strips of an alfalfa
grass mixture. The meadow strips
prevent rains from eroding the
tobacco land.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Committee Approves
S85O,COO for Start
On Mental Institute

The proposed $7,500, 900 Institute
of Mental Health, to be built neal
Bethesda, today had the sanction
of an economy-minded House APP
preparations Committee.
The committee approved an initial
appropriation Of $3.50, 600 to buy land
and prepare plans for the institute
in reporting the independent Offices
appropriation bill.
This was the amount asked in
the Presidents budget. OF the total,
$450, 900 would go for land and $780,
900 for plans.
The institute would be national
mental health research center, with
laboratories and about 200 beds for
patients selected for research pur-
poses.
1t would go on land adjacent to
the National Institute of Health
and Cancer Research on the Rock
vile pike.
Before approving the mental cen
ter item, the subcommittee heard
testimony from United States Public
Health Service officials, who out
lined the national need for more
mental health research. ;
Vernon G. Mackenzie, Public
Health Service sanitary engineer,
said in testimony taken during hear
ings and released today that psy-
chopathic hospitals cost the Nation
S170, 900, 900 in 1912 and that "the
cost will exceed $3.50 ZOO, 900 within
a very short period"
Mr.. Mackenzie said the institute
is only part of a Public Health Serv-
ice program to ATTACK the entire
mental health problem of the civil
population of the country"
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Stun Agency's Work
|lymied by Denial Of
$4,000 Planning Item

Washington's long-range land re-
development program will be held
up at least year, If Congress fol-
lows action Of the House Appro-
priations Committee today.
In reporting the Independent
Offices Appropriation bill, the COM
mittee slashed from 1947-48 National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission funds a sos, 900 item that
had been asked to conduct the sur
veys and propose the master plan
required before slum and blighted
areas can be replanned and rebuilt.
This would mean the city's new
Land Redevelopment Agency cannot
ask Congress for the first chunk of
the $40, ,000, 600 revolving fund it is
authorized to spend to buy and re-
build obsolete sections of the city.
The authorization act setting up
the fund requires that the plans be
made before any actual redevelop-
ment is undertaken.
The committee said the fund
should be deferred until the de-
mand for housing has been met to
some extent and until the cost of
construction has decreased"
It gave this reason, despite the
fact the $95 900 worth of surveying
and planning would not have the
effect of tearing down or rebuilding
anything. Only appropriations
under the $40, 600 900 revolving fund
authorization can accomplish that,
and no appropriation of rebuilding
money was asked in the bill.
The bill now carries only normal
planning funds for the commission.
These are sufficient Only to pay for
the groups routine annual work.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Appropriations
Continued From First Page.)

SPOT, 100000, which the committee
said represented a budget cut OF
$73,00O0O0, including slashes for re-
serve fleet maintenance, new ship
construction and reconversion OF
vessels.
The commission was criticized for
presenting estimates on what the
committee called the theory that
the best results can be had through
a policy of confusion" The COM
mittee said the commissions budget
presentation was typical of the
fiscal management within the COM
mission"
The commissions public informa-
ton division was eliminated.
War Assets Administration-Cu
S49,600,730 from its request for
$306,750, 900, with the number OF
regional and zone officers ordered
reduced to cut down on high-paid
personnel.
Office of the President - These
budget requests granted in full:
$4,000 for the Presidents salary
$952,000 for White House salaries
and expenses; s5OO,o00 for the Pres
ident's emergency fund and $202,'
$50 for operation and upkeep of the
Executive Mansion and grounds.
S1,4I1 ,690,732 Savings Claimed.
Although the actual reduction be-
low budget estimates in the bill was
$3.50, ,540.732 the Republican, doni-
mated committee claimed total saw
ings of S1,411 ,690,732.
1t arrived at that total by adding
to the actual cut in budget esti-
mates their figures:
$73,200,000 ordered transferred tt
the Treasury from the Maritime
Commissions revolving fund.
s47,7oo,000 allocated to the Mari
Evening star., 1947-06-13

time Commission from UNRRA but
not needed next year.
S1O8,00o, 900 of Maritime Commits
sion receipts ordered covered into
the Treasury.
Cancellations of s5,10o,oO0 in Fed
eral Works Agency and $4,000, 900
in Veterans Administration funds
not required next year.
1892 2,075,0 900 representing reduc-
tions recommended by the Presi-
dent after, the committee said, COM
mittee Investigators had made in
quiries."
$5O5 ,O75, 900 which the committee
said would be additional revenue
from the sale and charter of Mari
time Commission vessels, but which
were not included in budget esti-
mates of receipts for 1943.
Democrats led by Representative
Gore of Tennessee, a committee
member assigned the task of keep
ing books" on the G. o. P. economy
drive, challenged the total savings
claim and countered with a state
ment that the $3.50 o,540,732 actual
budget cut included a "phony" re-
duction of $30,300,0O0 from budget
requests for contract authority for
veterans hospitals.
'The other claimed reductions
simply are phony," Mr.. Gore tolo
reporters. THE additional money
from ship sales is not saving, ii
lis just additional revenue that will
be, received. The 1921 ,075 900 IN re-
vised budget estimates was a cut
requested by the President.
"The UNRRA money wasn't COM
ing out of United States taxpayers
anyhow, and the other claimed saw
ings are simply bookkeeping trans
fers which won't save the taxpayers
a single penny. The COP is claim
ing all this in face-saving attempt
because its highly advertised econ
ony drive has failed"
But Representative Wigglesworth
Republican, of Massachusetts,, who
headed the subcommittee which
wrote the bill, insisted the entire
claimed cut is legitimate and repre-
sents a better Treasury status.
Appropriations Chairman Taber
said he expected the Democrats to
try to "belittle our attempts to
save money"
Evening star., 1947-06-13
By w. H. Shippen, Jr.
Ayiation Editor Of The Sfor

While cutting back on other Fed
eral activities, the House Appropria-
tions Committee today refused to
apply the economy ak to basic aero
nautical research.
The National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics was allowed virtually
all of the budget request for funds
to maintain and enlarge services at
three big research centers where
development of supersonic planes
and guided missiles has become a
primary objective.
The committee recommended $685.
10000 for salaries and expenses, or
an increase of s5,950,000, over the
current year. The $4,000 cut from
budget estimates on this item was
the result largely of saving in
power costs at new wind tunnels, on
which completion has been delayed.
The committee also disaDoWed
$130,O00 asked for personal serv-
ices" in the District, while approving
requests for $2,400,0 900 plus another
81, ,143, 600 in contract authority for
improvement of laboratories and
new wind tunnel equipment, with
emphasis on supersonic research.
Urgency Stressed.
The report emphasized to the
House that such development work
is especially urgent because scien-
fists and technicians are in the midst
of revolutionary changes in aero
nautics, owing to new propulsion
units making supersonic speeds
possible.
A supplemental request for $7,479,-
600 was approved to defray added
construction costs at the Langley
Field and Cleveland laboratories.
DIR. Jerome C. Hunsaker, chair
man of the NACA, had told SUBJ
committee that, during World War
II, his agency decided to lay aside
long range research in favor of de-
veloping planes Immediately of a
type superior to those of the enemy
and as a result "we were figura-
lively scraping the bottom of the
scientific barrel" by the end of the
war. Testimony before the SUBJ
committee was released today.
DR.. Hunsaker expressed the opin-
Evening star., 1947-06-13

lpower project the Senate commit
Itee also had to add s9,3l4,ooo of
new money to provide funds the
House thought were available from
last year.
In other words, out Of the net
increase of $54,I16,o0o, more than
$38 600, 900 was required to keep the
reclamation fund at the level in
tended by the House, leaving only
s14, 12o, 900 of actual Senate increase.
Committee experts were not ready
today to say whether the revised
bin would require the dropping OF
more or fewer Interior Department
employees than the House bill, but
they expect to have the answer be-
fore the Senate takes up the bill
next week.
Some May Be Dropped.
There will be more jobs ON con-
struction work in the West, but some
bureaus in the department may
wind up with fewer employees.
After partially restoring reclama-
tion and power project funds, the
Senate committee reduced some of
the other bureaus by total of s2,-
378 600 below the House. OF these
cuts, $398, 500 came from the Indian
Affairs Bureau and $5oo,000 from
the National Park Service allotment
for physical improvements.
Republicans and Democrats ap-
parently compromised their differ
ences over Western projects, because
Chairman Wherry reported the Ap-
preparations Committee was unani-
nous in reporting the bill. It made
only two minor changes from the
recommendations of the subcom-
mittee.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
'Peacefime Controls
Over Credit Buying
Opposed by WoIcott
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Chairman Wolcott of the
House Banking Committee told
newsmen today he is against
peacetime Government credit
controls urged by President
Truman.
In view of Mr.. Wolcott's posi-
ton, his stand made it appear that
an early end to restrictions on in
stallment buying is in sight.
MIR. Truman advised Congress yes
terday that he thinks easy con-
sumer credit may keep prices un-
duly high, but he said that unless
Congress passes specific legislation
providing controls he will order them
taken off. ~ T.
The controls are in force now
under a wartime act.
/ Mr.. Wolcott said, MY own per-
sonal thinking is that the power
should not be continued"
1T is my opinion" he added,
that such regulations are highly
discriminatory in that they ex-
FC4QAC 4iOl1l GitC 1lieiI hCUo tf1JSC NIlU
have not been able to put aside any
savings"
The curbs apply on durable con-
sumer goods, such as automobiles,
refrigerators, radios and washing
machines. Generally, on installment
purchases, one-third down payment
is required, with the balance to
be paid off in Is months.
Meanwhile, the United States
Chamber of Commerce opposed any
extension of consumer credit con-
trolls and urged sharp restrictions
on powers of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. If it is permitted to
stay in business after June 80.
The chamber declared in a state
ment filed with the Banking Com
mittee that control of consumer
credit "tends to interfere with mar
keting processes which must be al
lowed free play for attainment of
full production, lower prices and
higher level of employment"
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Committee Backs Millions
For AeronouticoI Research

ion that the Government Is "formu-
lating a policy Of maintaining at
least O. nucleus of sound and
healthy aircraft industry" This is
being done, he added, "by orders for
some production of aircraft Of pres
ent types, but largely by orders for
the experimental development of
new and improved types of aircraft
and missiles"
Power Units Developed.
The expert pointed out that,
while no airplane has yet reached
the speed of sound in level fight,
new jet and ram jet power units
have been developed which can
push aircraft through the sonic
barrier to enormous velocities, once
problems of lift, stability, control
and structural strength have been
solved.
at seems certain now," he con-
tinued, that really high-speed
flight is going to require thin wings
of unconventional shape, and swept
back, so that the new airplanes may
look more like arrows than air.
planes" When such types are de-
veloped, he said, a ram jet engine
weighing no more than 400 pounds
can deliver a thrust equivalent to
10000 horsepower at 1,5oo miles an
hour"
AS to guided missiles, DR.. Hun
saker said, his committee has To-
Gated, on an island off the Virginia
coast, a firing point where missiles
powered by rockets are used as We
hieles for conducting research at
high speeds on problems of aerody-
namics, stability and control
launching, tracking and guidance.
I'VE are just beginning to feel
| our way ahead" he said.
| At this station on Chincoteague
Island, winged rocket, under at least
partial radio control, are launched
over the ocean on flights from which
telemetering instruments radio back
air speed, altitude and the amounts
of pressure needed to actuate the
controls at supersonic speeds.
While some of the missiles cosi
up to $4,500 each, it was said, they
are relatively cheap in view of thu
cost of wind tunnel research al
such. high air speeds. The smaller
missiles have range of about
miles
Evening star., 1947-06-13
2 Army Pursuit Planes
Missing in Alaska
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 13.-
Army officials at Elmendorf Field
reported today that two Psi pur-
suit planes have been missing since
9 am. yesterday when they took off
on practice mission.
The Army put its aerial rescue
unit into action at noon but con-
tinuous flights over the area have
failed to produce a trace of the mis-
sing craft.
The Caribs are sometimes called
the vikings of South America since
they migrated to the West Indies in
canoes before the coming of the
white men.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
|S2,994,000 Denied
For Buying Additional
|ParkWays in Maryland

The House Appropriations Com
mittee today cut Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties out of a
So, ,994, 600 Federal advance and loan
to buy additional parkways.
This was the total amount the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission had asked. One-third
Of the amount would have been an
outright grant, while two-thirds
would have been noninterest-
bearing loan repayable after eight
years.
It was asked to buy valley land
along Oxon Run, Little Falls Branch
and Paint Branch.
State Unable to Accept.
Half the slash, or s1.494,000, was
caused by failure of the Maryland
LEGISLATURE at the last session to
extend the limit of bonded indebted
ness that can be incurred by the
Maryland National Capital Park and
Planning Commission in making
parkway purchases. In other words,
the 81 ,494 900 would lie idle, even if
Congress were to appropriate 1t, be-
cause Maryland could not accept it.
The rest OF the fund was denied
by the committee on the ground
land costs will go down ''at a later
date" 1t gave this reason after
hearing Mai. Gen. U. S. Grant III,
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission chairman, and others
testify at hearings that land costs
are constantly being increased by
new building and that the time to
get the land is now.
Other Purchases Provided.
The committee, however, did leave
in the. bill 100000 to continue pur-
chases for the George Washington
Memorial Parkway and $4,000 to
buy two new District Fairgrounds
totaling about five acres.
One of the Fairgrounds would be
adjacent to the Kingsman School,
near Fourteenth and D streets NE.
The other would be colored area
near Minnesota avenue and Nash
street NE.
Testimony at hearings brought out
that the planning commission al
ready has 1921, 900 in unexpended
balances which it intends to spend
on Is different playground projects
| in the District.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Juliono's Boby Daughter
To Hove Eye Operation
BY the A.soeiated Press

AMSTERDAM, June Is. - Maria
Christiana, youngest daughter of
Crown Princess Juliana and Prince
Bernhard, will undergo an operation
on both eyes soon, it was announced
yesterday.
After her birth last February, a
communique said, it was discovered
the princess had congenital
cataract.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
BIuebirds Ground Plane
During Nesting Season
By the Associated Press

BRAINERD, Minn.-An Army
surplus airplane is grounded indefl-
nitely by a Mr.. and Mrs. Blue
bird.
The birds picked corner Of the
planes engine to build their nest
and raise a family.
John c. Riedl, manager of the
Gull Lake-Heywood Airport, where
the plane is berthed, said the pro-
peller won't be turned over until
the two tiny eggs in their nest are
hatched"
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Lords Told Many Scots
Think About Secession
" the Asxocioted Press

LONDON, June 13-The House
of Lords listened gravely last night
to a report from one of its own
members that many folk in Scotland
are thinking about seeding from
the United Kingdom.
The Labor Governments zeal for
Capitalization, the Earl of Selkirk
told the Lords, is causing a growing
uneasiness in Scotland. He said
many Scots feel that the impulse
to run everything from London is
becoming so pronounced that they
are deciding the kingdoms should
separate.
Evening star., 1947-06-13
Funds for Return
OF Agencies Denied

Federal agencies trying to get
back to Washington after spending
the war elsewhere were disappointed
by the House Appropriations Com
mittee today.
The committee cut from the in
dependent Offices appropriations bill
a 100000 item which the Public
Buildings Administration had in
cluded to bring out-of- town agencies
back home in 1918.
The reason: They are supposed to
come back according to a time
schedule doped out by President
Truman. So far he hasn't said
exactly which ones come back and
when, except to tell the Railroad
Retirement Board it must remain
in Chicago for an indefinite time.
The committee wants to wait until
a schedule is arranged before con-
sidernig any appropriation.
Testimony on the bill, which was
released by the committee today
reveals that only about 1900 Fed
eral employees in the following agea-
cies have been brought back since
the war:
The Patent Office from Richmond
Rural Identification Administration
from st. Louis, Farm Credit Ad-
ministration from Kansas City
Wage and Hour Division OF the
Labor Department from New York
Commodity Credit Corp. from New
York and few employees" of the
Agriculture Department solicitors
department and a very few en-
ployes" of the Interior Department. s
Miscellaneous Services Division
from Chicago.
The proposed 100000 would have
brought back $500 employees in
agencies like the National Park
Services and Securities Exchange
Commission.