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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-26
HARMON FIELD NOTES

enbach and Donald Cook.
Germs-Bob Wenger, manager;
Lynn Carmack, Charles Bucher, Ar
lin Campbell, Gene Badertscher, Don
Alspach, Fred Basinger, David Schu-
macher and Bret Triplett.
Senior League
Membership of the senior league
is as follows:
Cubs-Jim Clark, manager; Larry
Miller, Fred Swank, Mike Reagan,
Jim Stonehill, Don Sommer, Jim
Steiner, Jim Hilty, Jim DilIer, Bill
Simcox, Chuck Sheridan, Bill Nc
Cafferty, W. A. Howe, Edgar Cook
and Bert Swank,
Tigers-Don Moser, manager; Bill
Stonehiil, Wade Shook, Dick Klay,
John Hermann, Louie Meyer, Bill
MericIe, Al Diller, Lysle Niswander,
Morris Triplett, Don Critics, Paul
Greding, Hiram Bucher, Bob Shelley,
Jerome Herr and Jim Gratz.
Reds-Denver Augsburger, mana
ger; Byron Fritchie, Dick Wenger,
Maynard Pogue, Bob Luginbuhl, Gene
Mericle, Jim Hermann, Floyd Herr,
Mark Diller, Dean Niswander, Ropp
Triplett, Herb Devier, Stan Stauf-
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ming facilities. A shelter house and
numerous picnic tables are spotted
around the quarry. Weeds are kept
moved and poison ivy which was SO
prevalent is nearly eliminated. Most
| important in the eyes Of many, fish
ing is greatly improved through a
systematic stocking program.
This year under the management
of Gerald Clever, who heads the park
committee, cement bases have been
poured for two new outdoor ovens.
Swings have been completed and ad-
dition of more playground equip
ment is being considered. Much talk
is heard of building a strong fence
and gate around the playground
equipment at the north end of the
quarry, to protect the little ones
during picnics and fishing parties.
Additional improvements under
consideration include the building of
large shelter house which could al
So bG ho1h 1oI a IlaD HAeGliAS In01A
and erecting of additional smstl
shelter houses around the quarry
site.
So far this year the club has not
enrolled all who have been members
during past seasons. To carry out and
continue with the clubs share Of the
park program means the club must
retain all of the 1900 members on
the roll in order to finance their share
of the program. If you have not yet
taken care of this small chore of pay
ing your dues do so at once by con-
tacting any director of the club. Your
cooperation is greatly appreciated.
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Helping during the cement mixing
and weed moving party last Thurs
day night were Ray and Carl Mum
ma, A. E. Kohl, Jess Weiss, Russ
Montgomery and son, Ed Root, Ger
aid Clever, Leon Hauenstein and
father in law, Wilbur Fish and Silas
Diller. Much improvement was ac-
complished by these men during the
evening. Another such session is
planned for the near future.
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Jr. League Schedule
- -

Jr. League Schedule
JUNE %
Pirates vs. Giants
Yankees VS. Cardinals
JUNE %
Pirates VS. Cardinals
Yankees VS. Giants
JUNE 81
Pirates vs Yankees
Giants VS. Cardinals
sr. League Schedule
JUNE "A
Cubs VS. Tigers
Reds VS. Indians
JUNE 26
Cubs VS. Indians
Reds VS. Tigers
Folks go in debt to impress their
friends who are probably in debt to
impress them.
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Junior Baseball
Team Wins, 1919

Bluffton junior baseball team came
through with 10 to victory over
Conner in a league game played on
the Bluffton college diamond, last
Wednesday evening.
The victory gave the crew a 500
standing in the loop, with a record
of one win and one loss.
In the Wednesday game, Don
Schmidt went all the way on the
mound for the Bluffton team.
Next start of the team will be at
Vaughnsville next Tuesday. The
next home game will be on Tuesday
July s, with Columbus Grove pro
viding the opposition, it was an
nounced by Team Manager Laurel
Bauman, Jr.
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Bluffton Sportsmen Drub Lima
Electric Motors BY 2S-12 Score

Bluffton Sportsmen won one and
lost one in play of the last week,
dropping an IL to decision to
Findlay Moose here last Thursday
night and drubbing Electric Motors,
27 to II, in a Monday night slugfest
under the Harmon field lights.
After going down before the Find
lay team, Manager Harry Klay
came up with a new pitcher, Will
kins, of Mt. Cory, who was the win
ming hurler in Monday nights vic
tory, although Kenny Bracy who
went in for Bluffton in the fifth
also looked good.
Playing under the sponsorship OF
the Bluffton Sportsmen's club, the
teams name has been changed to
the Bluffton Sportsmen.
In Monday nights assault on the
Lima Electric Motors outfit, jim
Clark had four hits, and Fritchie
and Pogue each banged out three.
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Petitions Circulated For Maumee
Valley Conseryancy District

Farmers of Allen County, northern
Hardin county, Putnam, Hancock
county and the remainder of the
counties IN the Maumee Valley hard
hit by spring floods for three con-
secutive years are seeking federal re-
lief through signing of petitions for
the formation of ID county Maumee
Valley conservancy district.
The program locally, endorsed by
the town council subject to approval
of city solicitor, Dan r. Tripplehorn,
Ralph W. Peters, Defiance news
paper editor and Foster Roszman,
Ottawa conservation official, are
heading up the campaign. United
States Army engineers have been
asked prior to World War II to come
in and investigate the need in the
Maumee Valley for flood control
program. This has been done.
Sufficient petitioning for the con-
servancy means the Army engineers
viii come in and survey the area and
plan what is needed.
In order to obtain Federal action
the law requires county commission.
ers of 8 of the Is counties shall GER
tify to their common pleas judges
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fer, Gail Rakosky and Neil Schmidt.
Indians-R. Howe, manager; Jim
Lands, Romanus Zuercher, Weldon
Deppler. Ralph Augsburger, Paul
Basinger, Norm Triplett, Rich Gratz,
Evan Herr, Dave Diller, Kenny
Winkler, c. Berky, Charles Steiner,
Jim Fett, Fred Tschantz and Dick
BurkhoIder.
Junior League Standing
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on the basis Of petitions that relief
is required.
As soon as of the Is common
pleas judges favor action they are
to name board of judges who will
meet with the army engineers and
arrange for the survey. Such survey
is financed by not more than = three
tenths mill on the land involved. Tax
es for same are collected on regular
assessment program of each county.
Petitions are being circulated local.
~ by SiIas DiIIer and Raymond
Stratton seeking 500 signatures from
the locality.
Benefits to the area viii include
elimination of flood control damage,
restoration of ground water table,
conserving floods for beneficial uses,
reclaiming and filling wet and over
flowed lands, regulating the flow of
streams, provide for the collection
and disposal of sewage, and provide
water supply for industrial, domes-
tic and public use.
Because northwestern Ohio has no
deep valleys it is generally agreed
that water control in the Maumee
valley will probably require a large
number of small reservoirs rather
than few large ones. These would
be dry in normal seasons. Lands be-
hind the reservoir would be flooded
during the flood cycles, but land
down stream would be saved from
flood inundation.
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League Play Finds Close Competition
Softball league play was in full
swing last week in both the junior
and senior circuits.
In the junior loop, the Pirates
dropped from first to last place by
losing four straight games, after
winning their first two. The Giants at
the same time climbed from last
place to a tie with the Cardinals,
each having won four while losing
two. The second place Yankees are
travelling at 500 clip in six games.
After being rained out of Tuesday
evening play, the senior league had
fine turnout on Thursday. All four
teams are deadlocked with records
of one and one. Interest has picked
up considerably and four full teams
were on hand for last weeks play.
An elementary league has been
organized for afternoon games. So
far only one game has been played
with the Germs trimming the Buck
shots, 7 to 3. The third team, the
Fleas, have not yet played.
Results Last Week
Junior League
Giants 13; Pirates z
Cardinals II; Yankees
Cardinals 16; Pirates II
Giants 8; Yankees 3
Yankees 7; Pirates
Yankees 9; Pirates
| Cardinals 8; Giants
| Giants s; Cardinals o
Senior League
Tigers 10; Indians 7
| Reds 10; Cubs
/ Elementary Leagus
| Team membership in the elemen.
tary league is as follows:
Fleas-Charles Schumacher, man.
ager; Don Tripplehorn, Karl Klassen
John Cook, Tom Bueher, Richard
Patterson, Don Badertscher, Jan Con.
rad and Gene Wells.
Buckshots-Paul Cramer, mana
ger; Bill Schumacher, Charles Hilty
Ralph Moeller, Don Badertscher, jim
Berry, Bruce Triplett, Eddie Reich
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Triplett Wins Third Straight With
liz Victory Over Delphos Millers

Hammering out four runs in the
first inning, the Triplett softball
team racked up its third successive
win of the season with an IL to 2
victory over Delphos Milling, last
Friday night under the lights at
Harmon field.
Gene Beach and Lefty King
turned in fine mound performances,
before air-tight support, to set down
the visitors with only six hits.
In the opening five-inning chore,
Beach sut out the Delphos crew with
only two hits. The visitors broke
through to tally only in the sixth
when they punched three hits for
two runs off King.
Triplett's best two innings were
the first and the sixth, with the
team getting four runs in each. A
14-hit attack on two Delphos hurlers
was led by Moser who raped out
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1t was essentially a team victory,
however, with everyone who played
the regulation distance garnering at
least two safeties, as the team look
ed its best of the season.
The box score.
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three singles in FIVE chances.
Lewis, Schmidt and Hermann
each got two safeties and five
other players came through with one
hit
Evening star., 1947-01-14

President Truman will hold occa-
sional conferences with legislative
leaders of both parties to discuss
pending measures, House Minority
Leader Raykurn announced after a
White House visit today.
The matter already has been taken
up with Speaker Martin, and the
first meeting Swfll be held shortly.
Mr.. Rayburn said.
The conferences will replace the
weekly meeting that both President
Roosevelt and President Truman
held with Democratic leaders when
that party controlled both Senate
and House. The consultations Will
be in line with Mr.. Truman's ex-
pressed desire to cooperate with the
Republican majority.
Mr.. Rayburn explained, however,
that they viii not be carried out on
a weekly schedule, but simply be
held periodically, when the President
Evening star., 1947-01-14
1see CAFETERIAs, Page A-6.
Clio TO File Strike Notice
On SteeImakers Today
By the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, Jan. IA
spokesman for the CIO-United Steel
Workers Union says about SO steel
companies will be named in 30-day
strike notices to be filed today in
Washington.
The action was considered pre-
liminary to the opening Of contract
negotiations with the United States
Steel Corp. here Thursday.
Under the Smith Connally Act,
notice must be filed 80 days before
a strike begins. Most steel contracts
expire February Is.
Among basic steel firms to be
named in the strike notices are
Carnegie Illinois, National Tube, Co
lumbia Steel, American Steel & Wire.
and Tennessee Coal, Iron 81 Rail
road, all subsidiaries OF United
States Steel; Jones & Laughlin
Steel Corp, Bethlehem Steel Corp.
and Republic Steel Corp.
Philip Murray, president OF the
steelworkers and Of the CIO, said
the filing of strike notices is me
chanical procedure" and should not
be taken as an indication that the
union plans to strike If no contract
Is reached by expiration date.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Gen. Marshall 10 Extend
His Vacation in Hawaii

Gen. George C. Marshall will va
cation while longer in Hawaii be-
fore taking over as Secretary OF
State.
President Truman telephoned his
new cabinet chief yesterday after
noon and talked to him about 4
minutes. Press Secretary Charles
a. Ross told reporters that the date
on which the wartime Chief of Staff
would succeed James r. Byrnes SIS
still undetermined and would not
be fixed until the President had
talked to Gen. Marshall again.
Mr.. Ross said they had very
pleasant chat"
J Gen. Marshall stopped in Hawaii
to join Mrs. Marshall while re-
turning from his special mission
ID China.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Won Popen to Be Tried
In Nuremberg Jan. ~
BY the Associated Press

NUREMBERG, Jan. IA. - Franz
Won Papen, German diplomat acquit-
ted of war crimes charges by the
international tribunal, will go on
trial before German denazification
court in Nuremberg January "a, 1t
was announced today.
Won Papen, indicted as major
offender" for allegedly helping Adolf
Hitler to power, will be tried before
a court of seven judges in Nuern-
berg,s City Hall, a former school
house. His counsel will be DR.. Egon
Kubuschok, who defended him be-
fore the international tribunal. The
penalty on conviction might be 10
years imprisonment.
German denazification authorities
said Hans Fritzsche, Nazi brOad-
caster also freed by the international
tribunal, probably will be tried JAM
uary ~ In, another courtroom in the
City Hall.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Truman Will Hold Bipartisan
Conferences on Legislation

has something he wants TO discuss
with the legislative group.
Mr.. Rayburn was asked II 1t was
not possible that the legislators
themselves might initiate meetings
at times. and he said he assumed
they could.
While ne said his conference with
the. President this morning was to
take up a personal matter. Mr..
Rayburn explained that they had
also talked over something that
the President wanted to take up
at a session with the legislators.
] While the Democrats were in
control OF Congress the Presidents
saw the president pro tenn OF the
Senate, the Speaker Of the House
and the majority leaders of both
Senate and House. These repre-
sentatives of the Republican Con-
gress win be brought into the
White House meetings now, along
with the minority leaders Of both
Senate and House.
Evening star., 1947-01-14

The 7-month-old baby daughter
of wounded soldier was drowned
in a bathtub at her home today
when her 2h-year-old brother
turned more water into the tub
while the young mother was busy
on the telephone.
The infant, Ruth Louise Hine, was
placed In about 3 or 4 inches OF
water at 1918 am. by her mother.
Mrs. Ruth Hine, "a, according to
her usual practice, Mrs. Hine told
police tearfully.
The father, Army Pfc. Frank 3.
Hine, %, Walter Reed Hospital
patient, who was wounded In the
recapture OF Corregidor. was away
Evening star., 1947-01-14
10 Injured in Fire
In Bronx Apartment
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Ten per-
sons were injured, two seriously,
when a three-alarm fire swept
through the top of two floors of a
five-story apartment building in the
Bronz early today, driving $50 ten
ants to the street.
Those seriously injured, residents
of the building, suffered burns. The
others were firemen who suffered
smoke poisoning.
The fire started at am. on the
fourth floor and spread swiftly to
the top floor The fire was brought
under control at 6:15.
Authorities said they believed the
fire started in a refrigerator on the
fourth floor
Earlier, fire broke out in the en-
gine room of a staff building at st.
Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn when
boiler pipes burst under heavy pres
sure. The flames were eXtinguished
without casualties or disturbance to
patients, police reported. The two
story brick structure is set apart
from the main building.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Blum, Att|ee, Bevin
Confer in London
By the Asseeioted Press

LONDON, Jan. 14.-French Pre-
mier Leon Blum conferred for 40
minutes today with Prime Minister
Attlee and Foreign Secretary Bevin
in circumstances suggestion sthat
general questions involving British
French relations might have been
considered.
A statement from Mr.. Attlee's
Office last night said Mr.. Blum had
come "to discuss questions of COM
mon interest to the two countries" !"
Economic matters = particularly
Frances bid for more coal from
the Ruhr-were understood to be
the primary topic. There was specu-
lation that any of several other
questions might be taken up, among
them:
IAN exchange of views on the
German peace treaty which British,
American, Russian and French
Foreign Ministers deputies began
considering, in its preliminary
stages, in London today.
Exploratory discussion of a
formal British French alliance pos
sibly involving customs agreement.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Polish Count, 2 Co-defendonts
Sentenced to Death for Treason
Womon Gets 10 Years in Trial Thot Linked
British Ambassador to Underground Group
By Lurr Allen
A.soeia,ed Pres. Foreign Correspondent

WARSAW, Jan. IA Polish
military tribunal today sent
enced Count Ksawery Grocholski
and two other men to death for
high treason on charges that
they were members OF an or
ganization which sought to over
throw the Warsaw government
by force.
During the trial, one of the de-
PENDANTS testified that the British
Ambassador to Poland had received
state and military secrets from the
underground organization, known
as WIN.
Condemned with Grocholski were
Waldemar Baczak, "a, former en-
ploye of the Polish Foreign Ministry,
and Capt. Witold Kalicki, 36, of the
Interior Security Corps.
Dark-haired, attractive Chrystina
Kosiorek, %, the fourth defendant,
was sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
COP. Reported
Agreed on High
Luxury Taxes
Group Drafting Bill
Sees Way TO Spur
Income Levy Cut
BY the Associated Press

A decision that wartime tax
rates on liquor, furs, jewelry and
some other items should be ex-
tended indefinitely was reported
reached today at a meeting of
Republican members of the tax
writing House Ways and Means
Committee.
One member, asking not to be
quoted by name, told reporter the
feeling was that continuation of
these levies may be necessary to
grant reduction in taxes on in
dividual incomes"
Under present law, the wartime
rates on liquor, transportation, tele-
phone charges and some other items
are due to drop to about prewar
levels on July l.. The liquor tax,
for instance. would go down from
SO to Sc gallon.
The extra rates imposed during
the war brought in about $780, ,000,-
600 a year.
Truman Favors Retention.
President Truman urged in a mes
sage to Congress last week that the
wartime rates be continued.
The committee member told re-
porters the feeling apparently was
that:
/. Congress should go ahead and
decide soon what it will do about
those wartime rates. He said busi-
ness now is being hurt in some lines
by consumers delaying purchases in
anticipation of tax rollbacks in July
on specific items.
2. It may not be possible to make
income tax reductions if the war
time rates are not continued.
Chairman Knutson of the Ways
and Means Committee is pushing a
bill to cut individual income taxes
by 20 per cent in 1947, reducing tax
collections by $3.50, 100000.
Snyder Opposes Tax Cut.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
told Congress in report today that
the Nation cannot afford general
reduction of tax rates"
Mr.. Snyder said high level taxes
must be maintained not only to get
a budget surplus for debt reduction
but also to hold down inf1ationary
pressures-presumably by draining
off some of the buying power exert
ing upward pressures on prices"
The Secretary's comments were
made in a letter transmitting to
Congress the annual report on "the
state of finances" The report COW
cred the fiscal year ended last
June 80.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Food Rations Increased
In Soviet Zone Of Reich
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Jan. 14.-The Soviet
Military Administration today an
nounced an increase in food rations
effective February / in the Russian
zone, giving the normal consumer
about 210 to 230 calories more daily.
The change affected only the low
est ration group, which includes
housewives, the aged and other nom
working adults.
The Soviet announcement con-
tanned no calorie figure, but, ac-
cording to quadripartite statistics
kept by the American Office Of Mill
tary Government here, the official
ration for the normal consumer In
the Russian zone has been 1858
calories daily, except in the large
cities of Dresden and Leipzig, where
it has been 1,407.
The official ration for the nor
NAL consumer in the American and
British occupation zones is 1850
In Berlin, which is fed from a four
power pool, the normal ration is
1.519.
Evening star., 1947-01-14
Buby Girl browns in Buthtub
After Brother Turns on yfoter

from the home at 1914 Irving street
NV.
Mrs. Hine said she left the baby
girl splashing happily in the shall
low water Of the tub and went TO
telephone a girl friend she had not
seen in four years. Before she made
the call the baby boy. Frank q.
Hine, ~, asked his mother II ne
might play in the tub also.
The young mother told detectives
she undressed the boy and placed
him In the water with Ruth. She
often let the children play together
III shallow tub of water, Mrs. Hine
said, and they loved 1t.
Half an hour later she hung up
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