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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20
norman and family, Sunday
Carolyn Basinger spent Monday
afternoon with Nancy Andrews.
StraIiyarius VfoIins

The earliest violins known to have
been made by Antonio Stradivarius
are inscribed Antonius Stradiuari-
us Cermonensis Alunnus Nicolai
Amati, Faciebat Ammo tthe date),
followed by the Maltese cross and
the initials A. S. enclosed within
double circle. On later instru-
ments ''Fecit'. appears instead of
Faciebat" and his name is spelled
''Stradivarius, the change from u
to having been made about 1880.
There have been SO many excellent
mutations of the genuine Stradiva-
rius that the expert knowledge of .
connoisseur is required to deter
mine the authenticity of an instru-
ment after careful examination.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20
Lincoln Hall will hold open hous.

Amstutz spent Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs. Ernest Gratz. Evening
callers were Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Coon.
Cpl. Ray Luginbuhl of Denver,
Colo, and his mother, Mrs. Herbert
Luginbuhl of Washington, D. c., and
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Coon and
daughter of Columbus are spending
a few days this week with Mrs. ]. l.
Luginbuhl and Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Luginbuhl and son.
Mrs. Mabel Jennings and son
Rodney spent Saturday evening with
Mrs. Pearl Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hilty spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
w. C. Schaublin.
Miss Mary Gratz spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Core
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz and
daughter Sharon and Miss Janet
Young spent Saturday evening at
the Earl Matter home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Faze called on
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith Sunday
afternoon.
Lyman Barnes is a patient in the
Lima Memorial hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Huber and
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings called
on Mrs. Maurice Bell at Bluffton
hospital, Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Koenig were
Sunday afternoon callers of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilson McBain.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20
John ROn1ey On Bar
Assn. Committee

John II. Romey, Lima attorney,
and son of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Romey, of South Main street, was
named to the entertainment commit
tee of the Allen County Bar asso-
citation in completion of the organi-
zation's roster for the coming year.
John l.. Gable is president of the
association.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20

Turkeys sometimes are infected by
swine erysipelas, and the death rate
for the sick birds has been about
100 per cent. u. S. Dept. of Agri-
culture scientists found in 1916 that
80 per cent of the infected turkeys
could be saved by injecting peni-
cillin into their wattles.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20
BIufffon College Notes
on Saturday evening.
~ n n

on Saturday evening.
The Student Recital, which was
scheduled for March Is, has been
changed to the evening of March 25.
DIR. Ernest Miller, president of Co
shen College, viii speak and show
some pictures which he took on a
European trip last summer, at the
Vesper Service next Sunday after
noon at the college chapel at 800.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-20

The local solicitation drive is be-
ing carried on to friends and alumni
of the college in the Lima area. A
luncheon was held on last Saturday
at the Dining Room Of the Barr Ho-
tel for the COMMITTEES and workers.
The committee consists of Martin
Winemiller, R. r. Schryer, Mrs.
James Mikeseli, Mrs. Zalia Harbaugh,
and Mrs. Verna Rouse.
=
Lincoln Hall will hold open house
Evening star., 1947-12-03

sion have been scattered through a
variety of committees. These COM
mittees are scheduling witnesses far
into next week and they have also
developed widely conflicting testi-
mony including differences of
opinion within the administration.
This is true even of what were
thought to be the less controversial
features: Export controls, restric-
ton of bank and consumer credit,
regulation of commodity exchanges
The really tough ones-price and
wage control and rationing-died on
the vine almost as Mr.. Truman was
planting them.
Democrats are Cautious.
Amid these indications that the
Republicans might postpone the
whole question until the regular ses-
sion next month, Democratic lead
ers were meeting informally to de-
eide what they could or ought to dc
in the matter. Much as they might
like to capitalize on Republican de-
lay, their own side of the aisle Is
far from united on any such price
program as Mr.. Truman of1ered
SO they must move cautiously.
They will meet again later this
week and suggest that some de.
Evening star., 1947-12-03

ed by the U.S.S.R. It seems strange
that the Russian delegation, which
blocked every effort of the U. N. to
solve other grievous problems-such
as Greece-should join America so
fundamentally in support OF Pales-
tine partition.
Many highly placed officials look
with suspicion on this one and only
case of Soviet cooperation with the
United States in the United Ma
tions. It is doubtful, they say, that
Russia would lend helping hand
to any Western nation in order to
bring peace into strategic area OF
the world.
Outbreaks Directed at U. S.
The present outbreaks OF the
Arabs, not only in Palestine but in
adjacent areas, are directed primarily
against this country. The problem
which confronted the administra-
ton. before it decided to back
division of Palestine with the ful!
power of its prestige, was not easy
to solve.
On the one hand the American
Government had pledged itself te
support creation of Jewish state
This pledge was given to Worlo
Jewry in 1914, when both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties in
cluded a national home for the Jews
in their platforms. Hence, morally
both American political parties were
honor bound to live up to thell
promises.
At the time when these promises
were made it was believed by top
ranking political leaders IN TINS
country that after the defeat OF the
Axis the wartime collaboration be.
tween the nations which were unltec
in a common fight would be con-
tinued after the struggle was over
No strategic considerations entered
the minds of political men, who ao'
vocated the creation Of an inde-
pendent Jewish state.
Gen. Marshalls objections to ar
early settlement of the Palestine
problem - objections which nj
strongly presented to the members
Evening star., 1947-12-03
On the Record
Partition of Palestine Fails to Settle
Major Problems of New Jewish State

territory is sandwiched between two
Arab territories, one of these bor-
dering on Egypt. The Jewish state
terminates in the south in point
In Saudi Arabia
Frontiers Sure to Shift.
Any one familiar with the dynam-
ism of Palestinian Zionism cannot
possibly believe that these IRA
tional frontiers will remain as they
presently are. Already the Amer
lean. League for a Free Palestine
which supports the Palestine radi-
Gals, has greeted partition as IAN i'll
omen for the United Nations =
The Hebrew people lose 81 per cent
of their national territory" The
whole Arab world, meanwhile, con-
tinues to maintain that all Pales-
tine belongs ethnically and his
torically to the Arabs.
The Jewish State, however, be-
lieves it can defend itself. Not self
supporting but certain OF financial
backing from world Jewry, and pos
sessing the skills and techniques OF
the west, 1t commands a compact
well-trained defense force. a IA
naticism fully equal to the Arab
the only two first-rate ports of the
country and almost all Palestine's
industry. 1t possesses powerful
supporters in Europe and especially
in the United States, where reside
half the Jews of the world, greater
number than ever will be available
for Palestine.
What spirit eventually will tri-
umph in the New Judea is not pre-
dictable. The problems of the state
within Jewry itself, in its relation
with the Arabs, and in its orienta-
tions with the rest of the world-art
not settled by partition. Nine
tenths of the people who voted fol
partition accepted 1t only as tht
best compromise in an all-but-tn'
soluble dilemma. The future atti.
tude, also, of the Soviets is not clear
for they-in sponsoring Jewish
state as a less desirable but never
theless acceptable solution-made .
turnabout from an anti-zionist pol
icy consistently maintained sine
the revolution. The Same orienta'
ton struggle exists in Palestine a
elsewhere. Many Palestinian Jew!
favor the Soviets and look east
ward, despite the fact that the ex
pertinent has been largely financed
from America. Others, however
look westward, against Britain bu
for the United States.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1947-12-03

Meyers gran nenry MeLemofe.
diose scale, but we did the best we
could as we hoped with Macarthur
from beautiful isle to beautiful isle
Ours was simple little device and
it had its stemming from the fact
that we all three were newspaper
men when the infantry beckoned a
finger our way and told us that, all
reports to the contrary, the MI
was mightier than the pen.
Whenever we had a chance we
posed as newspapermen and news
cameramen, and our particular
meat was the nonconls and officers
in charge of supplies. The routine
never varied. Tucker and would
equip ourselves with paper and pen
ellis, and Ritt would manage to bor-
row camera of some kind. Then
out we would go to write and photo
graph the story of the forgotten
men of the war-the men who
handled the food and the clothing.
Always Same Approach.
We would arrive at a ration dump
and ask for the officer in charge.
We got all ranks+everything from
Fort Benning wonders to regular
bird colonels. Our approach was
always the same. We would tell the
officer that our newspapers wanted
story and picture of him. Tucker
and I would take sheet after sheet
of notes, and they all read like this:
Capt. Edward r. Swarthmore, 33.
Wife named Agnes. One child,
named Joan. Went to Princeton.
Came in on D-day. Braved enemy
fire. Thinks Napoleon was right
when he said, Army moves on
stomach
While we were taking notes OF a
story never to be published, Ritt
would be posing the officer for pic
lures to be taken with a camera
without film. I have seen Ritt, now
editor or something important of
the Evansville 1ndD Press, pose an
unsuspecting officer for half an
hour, knowing all the while that all
lie was uUlllS Wdo "ol hii1S VII o1AS
poor souls vanity in order that the
Shree of us could leave the place
with booty.
This sort of thing never failed.
The officer could see his picture on
the front page of all the newspapers,
and with the picture story OF his
devotion to country, his fearless
ness, his love of his men, his dreams
of his wife and family. So he al
ways asked us If there was anything
we needed.
The Key Question.
That was the key question-the
thing we were shooting for.
We would always tell him that
yes, there we're q few things we
could use; things like socks, shoes
shirts, shorts, and almost every
thing else that Uncle Sam had sent
us.
We would move in quickly. AND
the thing that differentiated us
from Gen. Meyers, and eased our
consciences, was that we were
stealing not only for ourselves, but
Evening star., 1947-12-03
This Changing World
u. S. Officials Fear Palestine Outbreaks
Nav Stir Serious Middle East Trouble

of the House OF Representatives
were based purely on the considera-
ton that In the event of trouble be-
tween Jews and Arabs we might
have to send several divisions to
keep order, and they could not be
spared. Gen. Marshall at the time
was Army chief Of staff.
The situation today is somewhat
different and those who are respon-
sible for our national defense admit
reluctantly that unless the Soviet
government changes its tune and
shows some degree of cooperation,
we must set ourselves to hold Stra-
tegic points throughout the world
Saudi Arabia, Iraq and, to les
ser extent, Syria are considered i'm
portant strategic defense points for
the United States. In the event Of a
clash with Russia, the oil and po-
tential air bases in those areas are
about as vital to us as is Alaska or
some of the Western European
countries.
Skillful Red Move Seen.
Moscow's eagerness to join the
United States in the plan for a
Jewish state is considered by many
military observers as skillful oper-
alton to bring about permanent
break between the United States and
the Arab states bordering Palestine
Russia needs neither strategic air
bases nor oil from the Arab coun-
tries. If she has alienated the Arabs
from the United States. she can re-
joice in a permanent strategic VIC
tory.
1t is difficult to ascertain at the
moment whether the hostility dis
played against America in the Arab
states is due to temporary anger OF
whether it is likely to grow into a
permanent hostility. 1t is also diff
cult for our political and military
leaders to forecast whether the
clashes, which have occurred evel
since the U. N. Assembly approved
partition, are mere outbursts OF
whether they are the prelude to 6
hard fight.
Our military planners are asking
whether, if the Arabs show the abll-
ity to overwhelm the Jews. the
United States will be compelled un'
dec its U. N. obligations to send a
force to keep order in Palestine
Such a force would be compelled tt
fight the Arabs actively and the
consequences of such an armed CLASH
would put an end to all expectation
of having reliable allies in the
strategic Middle East.
The possibility of economic col
laboration between the new Jewish
state and it's Arab neighbors seems
to be the only possible answer to 6
serious situation. But whether the
Arabs, whose economic needs are
limited, will be willing to work or
such a basis, and whether the Jews
who are basking in their victory
will have enough craftsmanship tt
seek such collaboration, are moo
questions which no one in Washing
| ton is able to answer.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
G. @. P. Oracle Speaks
Taft Sets Adjournment for December l9;
Outlook for Living Cost Action Is Bleak

cision may be forthcoming by next
Monday-which Is only 10 legls-
lative days from the Taft adjourn
ment date.
Their problem is that after all 1t is
their Presidents program and ne
has let it be known that he will
stand by it in the State of the Union
message with which he will open
the regular session. They can hardly
act as if it were solely and entirely
a Republican responsibility.
Marshall Plan Promise.
They have been quick to promise
that they will not let the Marshall
plan get caught in any such at
mosphere of drift, balkiness and
buck passing. State department
drafters are already at work on
legislative framework for that criti'
cal measure which is designed to
answer once and for all the charge
that no plan exists but only set Of
general proposals.
About what will happen then ne
difference of opinion exists IN elthel
party. All hands predict that the
famous plan on which Europe has
been led to depend will be subject
to microscopic examination and te
endless revision and development
Senator Vandenberg has candldl5
warned its proponents that he can.
not promise anything about the fina
form in which it will emerge.
And over all the debate will loon
rising prices and the 1948 election.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c. As
WEDNEs

for other infantrymen that needed
the stuff. I would take size 7, 8, 9,
10, II and IL shoes. Tucker would
burden himself with shorts that
ranged from midget to giant size.
Ritt would run the gamut in shirts.
When we reached home. our COM
pany would meet us. And, after
taking what we needed (after all,
we we're human, we shared the
wealth. 1t made all three OF us feel
good to see an infantryman have
pair of boots as good as the ones
they were handing out In Europe to
the fancy Dams.
Made us happy to know that by a
simple playing on the strings OF
vanity we were able to give few
Pacific soldiers stuff that was regu-
lar issue on the other side of the
world.
Also, it made me happy to know
that all of us Americans are BROTH
ers under the skin, and that few
kind words were the key to our
hearts.
That even goes for second lieuten-
ants, most of whom cheated when
they took a razor from the Red
Cross.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Covenant Defense Fund
Plea Weiqhed by Group

An appeal to help meet the costs OF
defending the two District covenant
cases soon to be brought before the
Supreme Court was referred last
night to the Executive Committee OF
the Metropolis View Citizens Asso-
citation, so the committee can. give
every member "the opportunity to
help"
The appeal came in the form OF a
letter from the North Capitol Cit
izens' Association, read at last
nights meeting of the Metropolis
View group in the Crosby Noyes
School. Tenth and Franklin streets
NE. The letter declared that every
citizen has stake" in the outcome
of the covenant issue here and
should be jealous in looking out for
his best interests.
Mrs. Franklin G. Sartwell, presi-
dent of the association, offered a
successful motion commencing Capt
Walter Storm of No. IL precinct
who is to be transferred, and well
coming Capt. Benjamin Kuehling 70
the precinct. Sergt. John F. Ryan
of police headquarters addressed the
group.
Evening star., 1947-12-03

Wnlcn was Co.'S
mopolitan in its
influence, h a d
been followed in
1848 by nation
altst revolutions
and the radia-
tions of these
had been unfa-
vorable to t h e
Jews.
In 1881 there
nd0 Deen OUT
bursts of anti
S e m i t is m in
many. parts OF
E u r ope, a n q
these led Herzl
Evening star., 1947-12-03

b1I III Pdil6o VA
t h e t wo n e W
states, or wheth-
er they m e a n
that we will be
confronted with
serious trouble in
the already ex-
plosive M i d d ! e
East.
The new Jew
ish S t a t e was
ere a t e d prin-
cipally through
the efforts of the
United States in
the U. N, enthu-
clio cficallv q SSiSt-
Evening star., 1947-12-03

to his thesis: Either the Jews
must completely assimilate by inter-
marriage, or they must assure their
preservation by national reunion IN
state of their own.
With a few notable exceptions
Israel Zangwill and Max NordaW :,
he failed to convince the leaders OF
Jewish thought. The majority OF
these, thoroughly Europeanlzed
wherever they were, believed anti
Semitic waves to be transitory, not
symptoms of anything more pro-
found. But Zionism, from the be-
ginning, took hold of the Jewish
masses, especially those of Eastern
Europe where the ghetto still pre-
vailed. From Eastern Europe Rus-
sia) was to come Herzls most dis
tinguished successor, Chain Welz-
mann. Observation-Disclosures IN
England and professor at the Uni
versity of Manchester, who looks
and speaks like an Old Testament
prophet-primarily- was responsible
for persuading the British, whom, as
a chemist, he had greatly aided dur
ing World War I, to establish ma
tional home for the Jews in Pales-
tine under British protection. A
mandate, for that purpose subse-
quently was confirmed by the League
Of Nations.
Two Schools of Thought.
,,,,,,s ,,,oro +uyo crho0lS (at
Ileast) of thought in the Zionist
movement. The majority school
hoped to see Jewish state estab-
Ilished under the protection OF the
Leading powers. The minority
school, whose original leading spirit
was man of remarkable energy
named Jabotinsky, believed that all
states were created through strug-
gle and blood; that the Jewish state
should rely on the power OF Its own
sword and the fait accompll, and
advocated national action regard
less of, or in contradiction to, any
great power decisions. 1rgun, the
fighting group in Palestine Who'
with the stern gang, have been re-
sponsible for the terror, are spirit
ual descendants Of Jabotinsky ana
his "revisionists."
But Adolf Hitler-who, like Herzl,
came from Vienna-must be ac-
knowledged as perhaps the most
DYNAMIC contributor to Zlonlsm'
Hitler's persecution Of the Jews IN
Europe drove the hitherto asslmlla-
ZIONIST Jews into the Zionist camp
Hitler disregarded assimilation by
intermarriage or conversion, brand
inp with the mark of the unasslml-
liable any person with one jewish
grandparent. Jews who had played
proud roles in European life were
driven into exile or the gas cham-
bers. zionism became fanatical as
il never had been, as hundreds OF
thousands became convinced there
was no positive security for jews
except in a state of their own.
The Jewish state, as its frontiers
have been drawn by the United Ma
tions, is, indeed, a strange geo.
graphical formation. Neither Jew.
Iish nor Arab Palestine Is a sollo
unit. There are Arab erlclaves II
Jewish Palestine (for instance. the
mort of Jaffa), and Jewish enclaves
in Arab Palestine. Certain Jewish
colonies on the northern end OF the
Dead Sea will find themselves in the
Arab world. In the west, the Medi'
terranean forms a bridge and de'
tense, but eastward a spit of Jewish
Palestine lies between Arab Pales'
tine and Arab Syria. Only the
River Jordan separates an Araf
! enclave reaching almost to the sea
from Arabian Transjordania, while
in the southeast a strip OF jewish
Evening star., 1947-12-03

TOO. L KNOW,
because I was
one of them.
And while I'm
about it, and in
the best squeal-
ing tradition of
Gen. Meyers,
I'll implicate a
couple of other
infantry m e n
John Tucker of
Washington. D.
c., and Carl Ritt
of Evanston, Ill.
We didn't op-
crate on Gen.
Movers gran
Evening star., 1947-12-03

that the pres
ent outlook for
cost = of = living
legislation is
corresponding l y
bleak.
ct h e oracle
has spoken, thus
saith the oracle
commented one
dryly. He was
not too critical,
Hearings on the
10 point pro-
gra m wi t h
which President
Truman stunned
Evening star., 1947-12-03
By Dorothy THOMPSON

By Dorothy Thompson
1t is exactly so years since the
first Zionist congress was held ir
Basle, Switzerland. The year be-
fore, in 1896, a Viennese Jewish
lawyer, Theodor Herzl-who had &C
quired repute as a literary critic
published book called "The Jewish
State"
In Herzl's time actions and reac.
tions had led to wave of anti.
Semitism. The French revolution
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Bv Constantine Bro,Cn

1t is not yet clear to high Wash
ington officials whether the present
clashes between Arabs and Jews in
Palestine are merely the inevitable
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Bp Doris FeeS0n

Senator Taft has passed the word
to his. colleagues that the special
session will adjourn December 10
and interested Senators now feel
Evening star., 1947-12-03

Start now. go after throat surface
germs before they go after you..
Gargle Listerine Antiseptic.
Actual tests showed reductions Of
bacteria on mouth and throat sur
faces ranging up to 96.7% fifteen
minutes after the Listerine Antiseptic
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Mclemore-
Recalls Grabbing
Share of War Booty
Br Henry McLemore

The Air Forces feel badly about
Gen. Meyers and rightly so, but the
other arms of the service had
scamps abroad in World War II,
Evening star., 1947-12-03
KimbuIl PTA Plans Carnival

The Kimball PTA is sponsoring a
carnival from to 9:30 pm. tomor-
row for the benefit of the school.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
SN NEEzINc?
Act fosi go offer ihroo sufoee germs with Lis'etns
An,iseptic vp to 967% germ reduction In oetuol tests

gargle, and up to so% one hour after.
, What's more, in tests over a 12-
year period, those tuho gargled Listerirs
Amtiseptic tVice a day had fesuer colds,
and usually had milder colds, and
fewer sore throats. than those sCho did
not gargle Listerine Antiseptic.
Evening star., 1947-10-01

justment should be part Of any new
Evening star., 1947-10-01
By the Associated Press

DENVER, Oct. IA lightning
bolt struck in the midst of the
Denver University freshman foot
ball squad yesterday, killing IT.
year-old player and knocking four
others unconscious.
The lightning killed Ken Nc
Cauley, jr.. son of the superintend-
ent of schools at La Junta, Colo.
The bolt leaped from cloudy sky
to dirt football practice field north
of the Denver University stadium,