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The Nome nugget., 1947-07-02

India Independence, Big Experiment
 (By Barnet Nover)
 AUGUST 15 1947 the second anniversary of the sur render of Japan will mark the beginning of one of the most momentous political experiments in all historv- experiment involving the fate of fifth of the human 
 On that day. the destnes of the subcontinent that India, with it's 400 million people of many races re- gons castes and conditions of e will pass wholly into Indian hands. By then-ten months ahead of schedule Great Britain will have completed her withdrawal from that country ending rule than has lasted than two centuries. However the end of British rule in India may not mean the end o the historic association between Great Britain and India.
 Until June 30, 1948, India or the Indias-t may be partitoned into two nations-Hndustan and Pakistan will belong to the British Commonwealth of Nations This relationship may prove tenuous and temporary since after June 3O 1948 the of India or more specifically, the governments of Hndustan and Pakistan, may decide to withdraw from the common wealth
 It is tremendously significant however that the de- cison to assume membership in that international fed eratiOn of free and independent nations was not inn posed by Great Britain but voluntarily accepted by the Indians themselves Indeed many of the Indian leaders no doubt saw in this commonwealth membership the only way in which that unity of India which now threatens to be broken be preserved in fact not in form
 One of the great objections the Congress party had
 
 ened the unity of India by permitting provinces or groups of provinces to decide whether join the h. dian federation go their way.
 This, essentially, is precisely what Pandit Jawahar lal Nehru and the Congress party leaders have now agreed to. The choice as they it, between par tition and chaos
 For M A. Jinnah and the Moslem, too, the agreed plan falls far short of expectations.
 Pakistan, as Jinnah envsaged it, would have nclud ed all of the Punjab, Bengal Assam Sind, Baluchstan and the Northwest frontier province.
 The plan as agreed upon makes possible partition of the Punab and Bengal to exclude from Pakstan those parts of those rich provinces which not Mo- hammedan. The Sikh of the Punjab, for instance is certain to vote to join Hindustan.
 Even in it's originally conceived form, it is question able whether Pakistan had the possibility of becoming viabe state The eastern and western portions are separated by great Hindstani corridor of thou sand miles However in contrast to Hindustan it is nomically the ess-well-off part of India.
 It remains to be whether the Moslems once they have achieved their independence, make their state work.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Child Cenfers Return
S14,599 10 War Fund

ChildDay Care Centers, Inc, yes
terday returned to the Community
War Fund $14,599 OF the $4,000
which was appropriated last March
by the War Fund to carry on the
work of the centers. =
Herbert L. Willett, jr., executive
director. Of the War Fund, which
today officially changes its name to
the Community Chest Federation,
said the refund was the sum not
spent from the appropriation which
was given the day-care centers to
tide them over the period March l
through June 80 after Lanham Act
funds were cut of and before Con-
eress and city officials took action
to provide public support.
Without the grant from the Com
War Fund the centers used
by working mothers for their young
children probably would have had
to close. A group of citizens as
sisted the mothers in keeping the
certers going until the Community
War Fund came to their rescue and
helped them incorporate into the
Child Day Care Centers, Inc, with
Miss Gladys II. Cook as president.
Congressional legislation was
passed June 80, 1916, to finance the
centers for one year. and they were
placed under the administration of
the Board of Public Welfare. At
the present time, Miss Cook said,
Ii day-care centers operate in the
public schools, and public housing
projects care for $50 children of
working mothers.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
House Press Honors
William P. Kennedy

william p. Kennedy, retiring leg
islative reporter and columnist for
The Star, was given a farewell re-
ception at the House press gallery
yesterday afternoon by his COL
leagues Of the press galleries in both
houses.
Samuel w. Bell of the New York
Herald Tribune. chairman of the
Standing Committee of Correspond
ents. presented Mr.. Kennedy with q
scroll of appreciation from his fell
low writers and the gift of foun-
tain pen.
The scroll pointed out Mr.. Ken
nedy had been a member Of the
congressional press galleries since
1918. During his career, it stated,
he became a doctor of literature, a
columnist, an author, political an
Alyst and historian Of the Washing
ton Society of the Friendly Sons of
st. Patrick. He is a past member of
the Standing Committee Of Con-
gressional Correspondents.
Speaker-desigpate Joseph w. Mar
tin paid tribute to Mr.. Kennedy's
long service as a correspondent on
Capitol Hill and wished him well In
his retirement.
Bill Kennedy" said Representa-
tive Plumley, Republican, Of Yer
mont, has served his God. his
country and his reading public
faithfully and prolifically over the
years"
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Mrs. Spencer Leaves
$3SS,00o 10 Children

Her three children are the chief
beneficiaries of the $388,000 estate
left by Mrs. Katherine Price Spencer
who died December II, according to
q petition to probate her will filed
in District Court late yesterday.
Mrs. Spencer, who was 68, was the
wife, of Henry Benning Spencer
president Of the Fruitgrowers' Ex-
press Co., the Western Fruit Express
Co., the Burlington Refrigerator
Express Co., and president and
chairman of the board Of the Ten
nessee Railroad Co. She lived at
2012 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
According to the petition, Mr.
Spencer. who was named executor
of the estate, will receive tangible
personal property, such as household
effects. The residue of the estate
then will be divided equally among
the three children, Mrs. Violet
Spencer Thoron Of the 1900 block N
street NV; Mrs. Louise Spencer
Cortesi of New York City and
Samuel Spencer, an attorney with
Offices in the Union Trust Building,
who filed the petition.
The estate is composed Of about
$50, 900 ia bank deposits, $500, 900 in
securities and $1,000 in furniture and
personal property, the papers said.
Mrs. Spencer was native of Louis
vile, KY, and had lived here since
1904
Evening star., 1947-01-01
War Orphans Benefits End
With RuIinq on 'HostiIities'

The termination of hostilities will
close the list OF pupils here who are
eligible to receive war orphans edu-
cational benefits and will extend for
only six months longer the validity
on special driving permits for mill
tary personnel.
The provision under which some
IL children of veterans, who died in
service in World War II are receiv-
ing 5000 q year to help finance their
education was extended from De-
cember 7, 1s41, until the termina-
ton Of hostilities.
The funds are administered by the
Board Of Education.
While those now receiving the
benefits will continue to get them
where there is sufficient appropria-
tion, no new students may be added
to the list under the provision, ac-
cording to an Interpretation Of the
statute In the education office.
Operators permits for military
personnel will not be valid after six
months from today, since the act
which makes them valid expires six
months after the date OF termina-
ton of hostilities.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Nationwide Hunt Asked
For Missing Sergeant
By the Assoeiofsd Press

BENSON, Md, Jan. 1.-State po-
lice have instituted a nationwide
search at the request of Army au-
thorities for Sergt. John r. Bufhng-
ton, who is listed as missing under
peculiar circumstances"
The Army told police that Sergt.
Burlington, 31-year-old instructor at
the Aberdeen Ordnance School and
q combat veteran, had been missing
since December 20, when he called
his wife from Baltimore and told
her to meet him at an Aberdeen bus
stop: He never showed up, his wife
reported.
Army officers expressed fear that
Sergt. Burlington, a former resident
Of Meriden, Conn, whose mother
lives in Los Angeles, had met with
foul play.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Four Firemen Buried
In Building Cave-In
Are Removed Alive
sy The Asseeiaisd Pres,

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Ffremen,
working in the glare of huge
searchIights, clawed their way
through tons of twisted steel and
crushed concrete today to extri-
cate four comrades who were
buried when three floors of a
Manhattan building collapsed
during a four-alarm fire.
Last to be removed from the
debris was Fireman Michael Ben
nett, who had lain beneath the
rubble sincs the floors buckled at 9
o'clock Last night, two hours after
the fire broke out in the building,
located at 749 Broadway, near the
wanamaker Department Store on
the edge Of Greenwich Village.
Fire officials theorized that the
fourth, third and second floors
crumpied under the weight Of water
poured into the building.
Mr.. Bennett was freed after a
fire department physician crawled
through the wreckage to give him
. blood TRANSMISSION.
Others removed from the smolder-
ing remains were Battalion CHIEF
william Hogan, Fire Capt. John Nc
Guire and 1t. jeremiah Cronin. All
were removed to the hospital.
Before the rescues were accom-
plished. DR.. Harry Archer, 7S-year-
old honorary chief surgeon of the
fire department, crawled through
large heaps of debris to administer
to the men. He remained inside
nearly two hours.
The fire broke out at about 8
pm. and the floors collapsed two
hours later, as the fire was being
brought under control. Fire OFF,
cials said the fourth floor was the
first to give away, carrying the other
two floors to the ground.
One of the firemen in the build
ing, Capt. George Winters, gave this
account of what happened:
"I was on the fourth floor work
ing with my men when all of q
sudden there was a puff and the
next thing knew I was going
through space and when I woke up
! was on the floor"
Heavy ice forming on apparatus,
hose lines and the pavements him
dered fremen in fighting the fire,
which sent dark billows Of smoke
over the area and drew a huge
crowd Of the curious from Green
wich Village, many of them for
mally dressed and on their way to
New Year eve parties.
One fireman was brought up
through a hole drilled in a sidewalk
at the front of the building. About
II firemen were injured by falling
debris and three others suffered
smoke poisoning.
Assistant Fire Chief Timothy
Donovan said the fire was difficult
TO combat because it was centered
largely in bedding and drapes, ap-
parently the property of Bell Bed
spreads, Inc, which occupies the
second, third and seventh floors Of
the building.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Typos Here TO Observe
Anniversary on Friday

The 1920 anniversary of the Col
umbia Typographical Union NO.
l01, affiliate of the Internationa!
typographical Union (AFL), will be
celebrated by the group at re-
ception and dance at $50 pm.
Friday at the Wardman Park Hotel
The union is the oldest labor or
eanization in continuous existence
in the world. It's first meeting was
held on December 10, 1914, in Wash
ington. At that time, 10 local
printers met for the purpose Of
forming ''one body for the mutual
benefit Of each, binding ourselves
ons to the other ."
Evening star., 1947-01-01
|Siassen ioBe Speaker
In New York as Dewey
|Backers Lose Fight
By ihs Assoc. s,ssd Press

NEW YORK, Jan. THE New
York Times said today that Gov.
Thomas e. Dewey's supporters were
the losers in q fight to keep the
annual Lincoln day dinner of the
National Republican Club on
strictly local basis - and as a.
result Harold E. Stassen of Mime
sofa probably will be the principal
speaker at the affair.
Mr.. Stassen, former Governor of
Minnesota, is the only avoWed COP
presidential candidate thus far.
"T1e controversy came to- light"
the Times said, "as the result of q
Washington dispatch that listed Mr..
Stassen as a speaker and said SEN
ator Taft OF Ohio had declined, !,
while no reply to an invitation had
been received from Gov, Dewey"
ut was also reported that Mr..
Dewey was opposed to having any
ayowed or potential presidential
candidates speak at the dinner the
Times continued, adding:
Edward Rager, chairman of the
Lincoln Day Dinner Committee,
presented the official version of the
situation. He said that the dinner
committe met several weeks ago, and
that it did not want the dinner to
be confined to any particular can
didate or held on local basis. Nor
did the committee want the dinner
to be built up as a boom for any
particular candidate.
"He explained that the committee
decided to invite Mr.. Stassen to
present the liberal point of view
at the dinner and Senator Taft to
present the conservative point of
view. It decided also to invite Mr..
Dewey, as Governor OF the State and
a three time speaker at the dinner
either to preside and introduce the
others or to deliver principal
speech himself, as he saw fit"
Only MIR. Stassen has accepted the
invitation, the Times quoted Mr..
Rager as saying. If the others re-
fuse, he added, the invitations will
be extended to Senator elect John
w. Bricker Of Ohio, Senator Van
denberg Of Michigan, or Senator
Wheery of Nebraska.
The Times quoted committee CO.
members as saying that limiting
the clubs dinner to local speakers
would minimize its Importance in
national affairs.
Evening star., 1947-01-01
Spuniurd Dies at III

vIGO, Spain, Jan. / P.-Mrs.
Serafina Lais, who was said to be
1T years old, died yesterday in the
nearby town of Redondela She is
survived by 72 grandchildren, great
grandchildren and great = great
grandchildren.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Another Accident
At Spring And Evn,

The third traffic accident in
three weeks at the Spring and Elm
street intersection occurred at 9:45
p m. Tuesday when automobiles
driven by Rev. C. D. Read of Orange
township, pastor of the Church of
Christ, and Miss Pearl Basinger,
Cherry street, collided at the cross
ing.
Rev. Reads automobile was travel
ing north on Spring street and Miss
Basinger's car east on Elm. No
one was injured and damage to the
automobiles was minor.
Night Policeman Albert Reichen-
bach, who Investigated, said the
street light was out of order at the
intersection and Stop sign former
" erected there was down.
Last week cars driven by Paul
Quenzer, of Omaha, Nebraska, and
Mrs. Beatrice Wells, of West Elm
street, eollided at the intersection,
and the preceding week Tom Burk-
holder, Pandora motorcyclist, was IN
a collision with car operated by
John shromquist, of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Elizabeth Moser to Sail Septem-
Der 26 From New York
City
To Head Hospital Nursing
School i'm Near East For
Three Years

Miss Elizabeth Moser, Bluffton
native and professional nurse will
leave from New York, September 26
for Beirut, Lebanon, Syria, where
she has accepted a position as di-
rector of the American university
hospitals school of nursing and
nursing service. Her term of serv-
ice will be for three years.
Miss Moser who has had wide
experience in her profession, both in
this country and abroad, is a sister
of Ezra Moser, north of Bluffton.
In order to accept her present
position in Syria, she resigned as
assistant director of the Cornell
university hospital in New York city
where she has been for the past
three years.
She spent four years in China on
the nursing staff of the Pelin Union
Medical college, 1885 to 1889 and
after the outbreak of the Chino-Jap-
anese war returned to this country
and was connected with Johns Hop
kins university hospital in Balti-
more. She holds a Master of Arts
degree from Columbia University
Teachers college in New York City.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Funeral Wednesday
For EdICin NislUander

Funeral services for Edwin
Niswander were held Wednesday
afternoon in st. Johns Reformed
church of which he was a member
with his pastor, Rev. v. c. Opper-
mann officiating. Burial was in
Maple Grove cemetery.
Mr.. Niswander, 81, retired farmer,
died at his home one mile north of
Bluffton on the county line Monday
morning at 6:30 o'clock following n
seven years illness.
He was born July Is, 1890 in
Richland township, the son of Noah
and Sarah Kohler Niswander. He
was married November 26, 1914 to
Clara Freyman, who survives.
Also surviving are his mother who
made her home with him, two daugh-
ters Mrs. Josephine Klinefelter,
Mechanicsburg, Pa, and Kathleen at
home; son Lyle at home and a
sister, Mrs. Russell Huber of Bluff
ton. Two grandchildren also SURVIVE
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Former Bluffton Woman Accepts Position
With American Hospital In Beirut, Syria
Here's A SQItirreIIy
St0ry-But It's True

George Combs of S. Main street,
out hunting Tuesday just couldn't
believe his own eyes when he saw
two squirrels in the same tree, aimed
his trusty shotgun, fired, and two
squirrels come down-but one of the
two squirrels which George saw was
still perched jauntily on a lamb and
peering down at him.
George had brought down two
squirrels with one shot all right
but one of the pair was hidden be-
hind foliage of the tree and was not
one of the two which he had sight
ed. Taking aim and firing at the
remaining squirrel George brought
it down, also, making three squirrels
with two shots which is a happy
thought to conserve ammunition in
these days of higher prices for
shells.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
PRICE CONSCIOUS
BUYERS TURN DOWN.
BUTTER FOR 0LEO.
Housewives Shy Away from
Grade-A Butter Priced at
SO Cents Pound
Demand for Oleo Booms as But
ter Nears Dollar Mark in
Wave of Price Increases

Price conscious Bluffton house
wives were turning to the use of
oleomargarine this week as they
shied away from butter priced as
high as SO cents a pound for Grade
A quality.
A few purchasers holding out
against change took cheaper grades
of butter priced down to 10 cents,
but most of them had switched to
oleo, some brands of which sell as
low as 25 cents a pound.
With butter bringing nearly four
times as much at current quotations,
sales of oleo sky-rocketed here over
the weekend, with the trend con-
tinuing into this week in increasing
volume. ..
Coffee, Milk Prices Up
Price increase on coffee and milk
also have added materially to the
cost of filing the family market
basket. Coffee has gone up an aver
age of two cents pound, and milk
prices last week were boosted one
cent to Is cents a quart.
Altho meat prices generally have
advanced since last spring, local
butchershop operators whose volume
is made up principally of home
killed meats pointed out that current
prices in the markets here are sub
stantially lower than packing house
prices for the same cuts.
1t is these latter figures, they add
ed, which form the basis for ex-
travagant accounts of soaring prices
which appear in the daily press over
the nation. Home killed meats, they
maintain, can be marketed at lower
prices because of less overhead and
handling costs.
Not All Foods Advance
Other aspects of the overall food
situation indicate that not all food
items have shared the advance to-
ward higher price levels during the
past three to four months.
Canned fruits and vegetables like
wise are holding steady in price at
substantially last springs levels,
Prunes and raisins, expected to be
plentiful this fall, viii be compara-
lively cheap, according to indications,
Fresh produce is at prices about
usual for this season, and bread,
one of the staple items, has shown
no increase since the present trend
of higher prices set in late last
spring.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
SPEEDERS, MOTOR
SCOOTERS UNDER
FIRE AT COUNCIL.
Mayor Urges Better Observance
of Traffic Laws AS Enforced
Drive Opens
Traffic. and Nuisance Hazards
Protested to Officials by
Local Citizens

A major Button traffic problem
created by speeding automobiles,
reckless and noisy operation of
motorcycles and motor scooters and
failure to observe Stop signs came
under fire at Mondays meeting of
the municipal council.
Additional emphasis on enforce
ment of traffic laws, ordered by
Mayor w. A. Howe, will be the first
step in remedial action, and the
towns chief executive urged motor
lists of the area to cooperate III the
program or run the risk OF paying
substantial fines if they are found
guilty as violators.
Requests of residents of the town
for a full-time patrol of streets in
an enforcement campaign was tabled
for the present because of problems
involved, including unavailability OF
extra police officials and proper
vehicles, but additional attention to
traffic violations will be charged to
regular officers.
Speedway Main and Grove Streets
Speeding on Main and Grove
streets, and the noise-nuisance ot
motorcycles and motor scooters have
brought numerous requests for towr
action in clearing up the situation.
Especially vexing to complaining
citizens has been the nuisance Great
ed by the popping noise Of motor
cycles and scooters operated without
cutouts, and often driven recklessl!
by teen-age youths who weave II
and out of heavy downtown traffic
Speeding automobiles and truck
on streets of the village ii violation
of municipal and state laws provid
q menace in several areas Of tn,
town, that are of particular DANCE,
To children.
In urging better observance o
traffic laws locally, Mayor How
cited a new state slogan "Aler
Drivers--Alive Children" as one o
the principal reasons why motorist
should be willing to operate thei
vehicles sensibly within the villag
limits.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Unusually Good Hunting Marks
Opening OF Squirrel Season Here

Marking the start of the happiest
time of the year for the hunter,
squirrel season opened last Saturday
with host of nimrods stalking their
elusive prey in woodlots of the Bluff
ton area.
Surprisingly good results were re-
ported by virtually all hunters who
took to the field during the first few
days of open season, and advance
indications are that this years hunt
ing will be equally as good as that
of last fall which went down in
history as one of the best of all
time.
Many hunters on the opening day
were back in town with their limit
of four squirrels within a couple of
hours after the season opened, and
there were very few who failed to
bag at least one animal.
Another break for hunters is in
the duration of this falls open sea-
son on squirrels through September
27, giving them three Saturdays for
hunting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-09-18
Births

The following births at Biuffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Miller, Dun
kirk, girl, Joyce Ann last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Cox, OF
tawa, boy, Larry Eugene, Thurs
day.
Rev. and Mrs. NJ. S. Ringenburg,
Pandora, girl Ellen Mae, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lewis, Beav-
erdam, a girl, Patricia, Tuesday.
=
MIR. and Mrs. Francis Hochstettler,
Van Vert, boy, September 2, at
Van Vert.