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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Cathedral Windows
At Church Of Christ

New stained glass cathedral win
dows will be installed in the Church
of Christ next fall in an improve
ment project directed by commit
tee of which Mrs. Helen Wells is
chairman.
Eight windows in the church will
be replaced in the program, sched-
uled to start in October. In fnanc-
ing the project, assistance from
former members and friends of the
church will be welcomed, it was
pointed out.
In addition to Mrs. Wells, other
committee members include Mrs.
Arthur Amstutz, Mrs. Swan Stone
hill and Mrs. Ralph Patterson.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Btuft0n Exhibitor
Wins In "GLad" ShOU

Kermit Herr, Of Biuffton, who
grows gladioli as an avocation, won
awards at the Northwestern Ohio
Gladioli show held at Toledo, Satur-
day, where gladioli growers thruout
this section exhibited the top pro-
ducts of their flower gardens.
Of twelve entries the Bluffton man
won seven first awards, two seconds,
three thirds and a sectional cham
pionship.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Garden Club Plans
FIOUer ShOU Sept. 10

The Bluffton Garden club will hold
a flower exhibit at the Methodist
church, Wednesday, Sept. 10 from 2
to 10 p. m.
The club invites anyone interested
in displaying specimen flowers, min
iatures or other bouquets to enter
exhibits Wednesday morning from
9 to IL o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Three Weeks Heat
WdUe Is Broken

Break in the heat wave which
gripped Bluffton for three weeks
was broken with cooler weather and
showers Monday afternoon and Tues
day. The cool weather continued
Tuesday night with drop in temper
ature to the upper sixties early We'd
nesday morning. Somewhat warmer
weather is forecast for Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Organ Here For
Reformed Church

A large pipe organ purchased by
st. Johns Reformed church arrived
here Wednesday morning and prep
arations are under way for its in
stallation which is expected to be
completed within the next two
weeks.
The instrument is manufactured
by the Kilgen Organ Co, of st.
Louis, VIM. Miller, a representative
of the company will supervise it's in
stallation.
Regular services will be resumed
next Sunday at the church which
has been closed for the past two
months for interior remodeling.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28

Tom Burkholder, 10, of Pandora,
was slightly injured at 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday when the motorcycle he was
riding figured in crash with an
automobile driven by John Raymond
Shromquist, of Lima, at the West
Elm-North Spring street intersection
here.
Burkholder was travelling west on
Elm street, and Shromquist's car
was northbound on Spring street.
The motorcycle was badly damaged
in the crash.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
viii Teach Music
In Bethel COIege

James Bixel, formerly of Bluffton
has accepted position as instructor
in piano and theory of music at
Bethel college, Newton, Kansas. He
and his wife who have been visiting
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Bixel of South Main
street left last week for Kansas. En-
route they will stop at Kalamazoo,
Michigan, to visit her parents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Stores VIII Close
Here On Labor D0u

Labor Day will be observed in
Bluffton next Monday with business
places and industries generally
Gil, for the weekend holiday.
There will be no mail deliveries
and windows at the post office will
be Closed from Saturday at | p. m,
until Tuesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Real Estate Deal

DWIGHT Spaythe, manual arts in
structor in the Bluffton schools has
purchased the Cliff Elliott residence
on West KibieT street. Possession
viii be given the latter part of Sep
ternber. Elliott and his family ex-
pect to move to California.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Man Injured When
Team Runs AUdy

Robert StaIey, farmer living on
The sanduskv road south of Bluffton
is conyalescing from severe bruises
and other injuries received in run
away accident when a team of
horses which he was driving became
frightened by a herd of hogs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Miss Fay's Little
Paupers

faded into oDScuflty through the
lapse of time the name Catherine
Fay Ewing ought to stand blazoned
in every one of 0hio's SO counties.
It was she who 80 years ago opened
at her own expense the little two
room bethel which grew into the
states great system of County
Children's Homes.
Miss Fay always had liked child
rem, though she never had one of
her own. A farmers daughter, born
in Westboro, Mass, in 1922, she
moved with her parents 20 Washing
ton County, Ohio, II years later,
where she taught school in an
Indian mission. Her salary was 500
a year and her found" She stuck
to the job 10 years, saved up 5000,
then quit.
Once at the mission she had seen
child killed accidentally during a
drunken brawl by several Indians.
Later on a visit to the Washington
County Poor House, Marietta, she
found a number of small children
living in the squalor and degradation
of that institution. 1t was not the
sort of place where children should
receive their first impressions of
life. So Catherine Fay decided to
found a home for them.
Gets Little Aid
The best deal she could get out of
the directors of the infrmary was
their agreement to supply a new
suit or dress to each child when she
took them; pay one-half the cost of
medical attendance and all the burial
expense if a child died; and pay 81
a week for the food, shelter, care
and entire subsequent support of
each of the children. 1t was little
enough.
To her 5000 savings Miss Fay
added the $160 legacy she had
received from her parents, borrowed
another 800 from trusting friend
and launched the first of Ohio's
Children's Homes. She bought
ramshackle two-room house on
twelve acres along a mud road on
Moss Run, 10 miles east of Mariet-
ia and on April /, 1858, moved in
with the nine children the Poor
House had given her. Eight of them
were boys and all were under the
age Of ten. Four of the children
were babies.
In just month, May 1, the dis
trict school would onen-and five Of
Catherine Fay's little paupers were
of school age.
The writer does not term those
little waits paupers in derision but
in tenderness-and to the shame of
the shades Of some Is WASHINGTON
County snohs whom He who said-
t'the least of these" must have fore
warned St. Peter to throw back
down the hill should thev ever have
the temerity to peep in at the Pearly
Gates.
Waits PAIRED From School
It was the 16 men who waited for
Catherine Fay at the schoolhonse
door when she arrived with her five
little proteees on the first dav Of
school and told her "You cent take
those little panpers into the school
among our children.
When Miss Fay appealed to the
Coneinued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Called To Arkansas
By Death OF Brother

Dick Troy of Thurman street was
called to BatesviIle, Arkansas, early
Friday morning by the death of his
brother Neil, AZ, of that place. He
was accompanied by another brother
w. M. Troy of Lima Rt. s. They
returned Tuesday afternoon,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Library Hours
BEGINNING September I:

sKKIFEHKEE. e KzN.Et1A7NA
8 a. m. to .. n. daily except
Wednesday and Saturday.
Wednesday hours-s:00 a. m. to
300 p. m.
Saturday hours-12 noon to 500
p. m.
Evening Monday, Wednes-
day, Saturday $50 p. m. to p. m
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
DIR. BIxEL HOME

Dr. NJ. z. Bixel, Bluffton physician
who has been a patient in the hospi-
tai here since June i'll with a heart
ailment has been removed to his
home on Cherry street. His condition.
is reported improved.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
MARRIAGE LICENSE

A marriage license has been IS
sued to Charles D. Hartman, %, of
WfIliamstown and Ruth Johnson, "a,
OF Biuffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-08-28
Bluffton Minister Reelected President
OF General Conference Of MennOnites
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81 HARRY :. AALh

EDITORS NoTE-This is one
of q series of articles to appear
IN the Blufton NetUs dealing
a0jth early Ohio history. Others
tVilt appear In forthcoming
issues.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Dead Woman Identified
As Mrs. Blanche MiIsfead

A woman found dead on the side
walk at Thirty-second and @ streets
NV. early yesterday was identified
last night at the District morgue
as Mrs. Blanche Milstead, So, Of
1872 Thirty-seventh street NV, by
her husband, James Milstead, ac-
cording to police.
Mrs. Milstead remained unidenti-
ed at the morgue all day, police
said, but Coroner A. Megruder Mac
Donald had established, by an au-
topsy, that death was due to nat
ural causes.
The Identification was made after
friend CT the dead woman, Miss
Frances Sweeney, 3146 Dumbarton
avenue NV, heard her description
over the radio. Miss Sweeney,
knowing her friend had been MISS
/ ing from her home, called police
to say the description fitted Mrs.
Milstead. Mr.. Milstead, care
taker, was summoned and ident.
fled the body.
The body was found by Police-
man S. w. Rowland of the Seventh
Precinct at 220 am. Police said
there were no papers in Mrs. Mil
stead's effects.
Evening star., 1947-03-30

whom learned to swim. The fact
that so per cent of last years en-
rollees learned is cue to better
system of instruction.
Parents Were Doubtful.
Big problems in the first years
were how to keep boys that could
swim out of the school and con-
vincing parents the YMCA could
teach their sons to swim in six easy
lessons, Mr.. Fuller said.
Some $4,000 boys have taken the
learn-to-swim course and about TO-
900 of those have acquired the abil-
ity they sought. More than 1000
of those who learned have gone on
to pass life saving swimming tests.
"Y" records show.
Largest attendance at any of the
learn-to-swim campaigns was in
1912 when 100 boys participated. 1t
was found that a large crowd over
taxed the facilities. Efforts have
been made since to hold the num-
ber down to around 500.
The "Y" will have eight or nine
instructors to handle the youngsters
who put in an appearance April 7
J. E. Coulter, aquatic director OF
the Boys Branch, will be in charge
of pool instruction. George Caputc
is director of the learn-to-swin
campaign.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Home Accidents
Reach 7oin Week.:
| |AduItsHoyeShore

Adults ran children a close race
in the number of home accidents
reported last week, the Red Cross
Accident Prevention Service an
nounced yesterday.
Among the 78 non!atal accidents,
man almost lost an ear when a
picture fell from a wall, an elderly
woman bit her tongue when she fell
over a box and man drank rubbing
linament thinking it was medicine.
Another man was bitten on both
hands by a cat.
Children swallowed buttons, a coin
and a tack. A 5-year-old girl, for
whom a physician had prescribed a
suifa tablet at specified intervals,
got the bottle and ate 20 tablets.
She is under observation at Chill
dren's Hospital.
A small boy tied a string on tin
can and whirled it around his head.
1t struck his 9-year-old brother and
cut a deep cash over his ewes.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Lipstick- Cartridge Tronsnitter
Used by Scientist in Broadcast
DR.. CIedo Brunetti's
Tiny Set Hos Ronge
Of About 10 Miles

A scientist yesterday broadcast
part of radio program from a
transmitter contained in lipstick
cartridge.
The scientist, DR.. Cledo Brunetti
Of the Bureau of Standards, used
the tiny transmitter to talk on
Watson Davis Adventures in
Science" program over Station
WTOP and the Columbia Broad
casting System.
DR.. Brunetti's tiny sending set
broadcast his talk to a high-fre-
quency receiver few feet away in
the studio at WTOP. The receiver
relayed it to the network and
WTOP. Because the range of the
tiny sending station was not con-
fined to the studio and the broad
cast could be picked up by receivers
outside, permission for its use was
obtained from the Federal Com
munications Commission.
The lipstick transmitter IS made
possible by a development at the
Bureau of Standards which was
used in the proximity fuse. A prox-
unity fuse is tiny transmitter and
receiver in the nose of projectile.
The signal from the transmittcr
bounces back from the object ahead
(the targeD like an echo.
The echo" gets back quicker as
the projectile gets closer to the
target. The fuse can be adjusted so
that when the projectile is certain
distance from the target-say IL
feet-the projectile explodes.
The bureaus development was
painting or printing on plastic sur
faces "a conductor-a line of silver
ink-instead of using insulated
wires. Printed wires and the tiny
tubes developed for the fuse make
possible a receiving station of four
tubes attached to a plastic plate
hardly larger than a calling card.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Special Unit Proposed
ToCo-ordiinafeD District
Programs
By Rudolph Kouffmonn II

Plans for a special committee to
try to solve varying recommends
tions on Washington's long-range
highway and transit problems are
to be made early this week.
Engineer Commissioner Gordon
r. Young said yesterday he expects
to confer on such a project with
Highway Director H. c. Whitehurst
by midweek.
For more than two years the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the District High
way Department have been at odds
over system of depressed express
ways and underground streetcar
lines proposed by the latter.
This has eliminated during the
last three months in each making
public plan of its own. The plans
agree in many respects but dis
agree on the eXpressways and
underground carlines.
Compromise Sought.
The committee now proposed
would bring the two agencies to-
gether with representatives of the
Public Roads administration, the
Public Buildings Administration
and the transit companies as well
as officials from Maryland and Vir-
ginia. The committee would be
expected to reach compromise
and bring forth highway-transit
proposal on which general agree
ment could be obtained.
More than two years ago when the
E. j. Greiner Co. of Baltimore and
the DeLeuw, Gather Co. of Chicago
the highway departments consult
ants, urged a $6O,000,Oo0 downtown
subway system for the District, the
planning commission asked that
such committee be formed.
The committee which was formed
then, however, was composed en-
tirely of District officials. 1t was this
committee, advised by the same con-
sultants, which brought out the
plans for a system of depressed ex-
pressways and underground street.
car lines criticized by the planners
Suggested in January.
The suggestion for the new com.
mittee came, Gen. Young said, al
the January meeting of the plan.
ming commission, but was not made
public. 1t was repeated publicly BY
the planners Wednesday as part oil
their criticism of the plan drafted by
the all-District committee on which
the planners had been refused q
place.
Gen. Young met this suggestion
with the remark that the District
government now favors the idea fol
a committee which will include Other
agencies as suggested by the plan.
ners.
Gen. Young said Thomas H. Mac.
Donald, the. United States Commits.
sioner CT Public Roads, has promised
that his agency will take full par
in the committees work.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Annual Ledrn-to-Swim Schoo!
To Start Here Next Week
Stur and YMCA Offer
Free Instruction for
Boys From 8 to II

Hundreds of Washington boy!
from to II will have chance te
learn to swim next week and il
won't cost them a. cent. The Stal
and YMCA are sponsoring their an
nual free learn-to-swim school.
All that is necessary is to fill out
the coupon on this page and mail it
at once to the YMCA. Those who
do will get an answering post card
in a few days telling them what
time to report on April Z for their
first earn-to-swim lesson.
The swim school" starts at
I'm. on that date and ends at
pm. on April II. In those six days
of Easter vacation some 500 Dis
trict youngsters will learn to swim
It is a case of first come, first served
so those who get the coupons in first
will be sure of a place in case there
is an overflow of applications.
Glasses at Two Locations.
Swimming instruction will be CIV
en- at both the YMCA Central
Branch, 1882 G street NV, and the
Twelfth Street Branch, 1916 Twelfth
street NV.
Every hour those pools are oper
each day next week new group o1
youngsters will be in possession with
instructors putting them through
their first swim strokes. Each "stu-
dent" will get lesson day fol
six days. After that, instructors
say, at least 80 per cent of those
who attend will know how to swim
This is the 33d annual learn-to.
swim campaign and "Y" officials
are sure it will be the best. Ths
campaigns were started in 1915 by
Earl B. Fuller, Boys Physical Train
ing Director.
Yesterday he recalled there were
about ITS boys enrolled the first
Of nav ~
Evening star., 1947-03-30
d. c. Legion Considers Buying
Mabel Bourdmun Town House

The District Department of the
American Legion is seriously con-
sidering" purchase of the Mabel
Boardman town house at 1901 p
street NV. for use as headquar-
ters and clubhouse, The Star learned
last night.
Herbert J. jacob, head Of the
legion's Clubhouse Committee, said
chances of acquiring the property
look extremely favorable" The
asking price is SITS. 900.
Miss Boardman, former national
secretary of the American Red Cross
who died last March, made her
home for many years in the three
story terra Gotta and stone resi-
dence. At the time of her death
the value of the house was said to
be $139, ,720. Sale of the property,
which was left to the National Ca
thedral Foundation. Is being han
Evening star., 1947-03-30
U. N. Association Opens
Student Farley Thursday
BY the Associofed Press

SWARTHMORE, Pa, Mar. o.
The American Association for the
United Nations will sponsor a meet.
ing Of more than $50 students rep
resenting Al colleges and UNIVERSE
ties in three-day program of con-
ferences organized as a model
United Nations beginning Thursday.
DR.. Arnold Wolfers, professor of
international relations at Yale Uni
versity, will address the group on
international Control of Atomic
Energy Olav Paus- Grunt, director
of the Educational Services Division
Of the U. N. secretariat, will discuss
the work OF his division at Lake
Success, N. Y.
Other prominent guests will in
clude DR.. Walter Chudson, of the
economic and financial section of
the U. N. secretariat and DR.. Bryce
Wood, chairman of the Social Sci
ences Division at Swarthmore Col
lege.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Two Pay S400 in Fines
On Numbers Charqes

Two possessors of numbers slips
were given stiff sentences in Mu-
nicipsl Court yesterday by Judge
Ellen K. Raedy, who felt that both
have been in here too many times
to get off with the customary $50
fine or go days imprisonment.
Roosevelt Spencer, u, colored,
1000 block of Seventh street NE,
paid $3.50 in lieu of going to jail
for three months, and James A.
Robinson, At, colored, 100 block OF
Sixth street NV, paid $3.50 to avoid
90-day term.
Both were arrested Friday after
noon at Pennsylvania and Branch
avenues Sc, and in addition to
having numbers slips in their pos
session were found to have about
$40 cash between them. The men
pleaded guilty to the charge of pos
session.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Truman Will Review
Army Day Parade
Planned Here April 7

President Truman and members
of his staff will review the Army
Day parade April Z sponsored by
the Military Order of the World
Wars, it was announced by officials
Of the order yesterday. .
In addition to veterans of two wars,
the parade will include II bands,
Ia company of the 82nd Airborne
Division from Fort Bragg, N. c.;
battalion of WACs, mechanical
cavalry, a group of invasion land
ing barges, a battalion of Marines
and other military units.
The parade will start near the
House Office Building, pass across
the Capitol Plaza and move up
Constitution avenue to Seventeenth
street NV, it was announced.
Exhibit at Walter Reed.
A number of features have been
planned in Washington and
throughout the country in observ-
ance of Army Week, April to IL,
including an exhibit of the latest
developments in medical care at
Walter Reed Hospital next Sunday
Veterans organizations with a
total membership running into the
millions will participate in Army
Day exercise in at least IS major
cities where chapters of the Military
Order of the World Wars have been
organized.
How the Army takes care Of its
wounded and sick personnel will be
demonstrated to the public at Walter
Reed from 2 to $50 o'clock next
Sunday.
Among the devices to be demon
strated in the recreation hall of the
Red Cross Building on the medical
center grounds are the Arny's new
artificial limbs, including the recent
ly developed cosmetic glove.
Russell Film Slated.
There also will be an exhibit from
the Aural Rehabilitation Center OF
the hospitals Forest Glen section,
and from the Army Medical Depart
ment Research and Graduate School
Motion pictures to be presented
include a history of the Women s
Army Corps entitled ''To the Ladies, ,
and Diary of Sergeant" made by
Harold Russell, Academy Award win
ner, former Walter Reed patient
Escorted tours will view 1000, ,00C
volt X-ray machine used for radia-
ton therapy, craftwork and art
exhibit of the work of disabled sold
iers, and the Walter Reed gymna
sium, which includes one of the
worlds largest indoor swimming
pools.
A battalion aid station will be set
up under simulated combat condi-
tions, and demonstrations of front
line medical care will be given dur.
ing the afternoon.
/ The entire exhibit will be open te
the public from 2 to $50 pm.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Coroner Probing Death
OF Amputee Veteran

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
last night was investigating the
death of an amputee veteran of
Anzio beachhead who was found
slumped over the wheel of his auto
in garage, apparently the victim
of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The engine of the car was still
running when the man, Wilton
Richardson, 80. colored was found
His cousin, Alphonzo Brown, 10, dis
covered the death at pm. yester-
day when he went to the garage at
748 Irving street NV. to get a
scooter, according to police. +
DR.. w. D. Claudy, of 1746 K street
NV, pronounced Mr.. Richardson
dead.
Members of the family said Mr..
Richardson lost his leg while serving
with the 372d Infantry Regiment in
Italy. He had been living with his
cousin, Mrs. Lucille Brown, at the
Irving street address.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
D. c. Sales Tax Opposed
By Rudio Artists LocuI

The Washington local of the
American Federation Of Radio Art
lists yesterday came out in opposi-
ton to District sales tax.
1t would hit hardest those least
able to pay. the local said in a letter
to Chairman Bates of the fiscal
subcommittee of the House District
Committee.
Only States which found them
selves in a desperate situation
have enacted sales tax, the organ
ization said. In the District, ii
added, "taxes are relatively low and
the budget is within per cent OF
balance. The District is in good
condition and has no reason to re-
sort to a sales tax"