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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-01
Couple Weds in
Church Ceremony

In an impressive candlelight cere-
mony Saturday evening, Miss Ruth
Eileen Steiner, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Calvin Steiner, of Poplar street,
became the bride of Peter II. Muller,
of Brecksville, Ohio, son of Mrs.
Ruth Muller, Garfield Heights, Cleve-
land, at seven o'clock in the First
Mennonite church here. Performing
the double ring service was the
| brides pastor, Rev. Jesse N. Smucker
assisted by Rev. Loyal T. joiner,
brother-in-law of the groom, of
Greenvi1le, South Carolina.
The church was beautifully decor
ated with evergreen and white chrys-
anthemums. The bridal aisle and al
tar were softly illuminated by candle
light.
The brides sister, Mrs. William T.
Snyder, of Akron, Pa, presided at
the console of the organ. She played
"Kamennoi Ostrow," by Rubinstein;
''The Swan" by Saint -saens; "Noc-
turne in E-Flat," by Chopin; ave
Maria" by Bach-Gounod and Dreams
by McAmis. Miss Anne Burkholder
of Findlay, cousin of the bride, sang
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How
Do Love Thee" Lippe, and 40 Pow
er of Love-" Bortniansky. Another
cousin of the bride, Mrs. Paul Whal-
ey of Detroit, played a violin solo,
Romance" by Rubinstein. After the
prayer and benediction, Miss Burk-
holder sang "Savior Like A Shep-
herd Lead Us" while the couple
knelt at the altar.
Given by her father, the bride was
lovely in an ivory slipper satin gown
with net yoke, fitted bodice, tapered
sleeves, and long full train. She
wore a full length veil of illusion and
carried white roses with cascade of
small white chrysanthemums and
green ivy caught in the trailing rib
bons of her bouquet. A single strand
of pearls, a gift of the groom, was
her only ornament.
AS maid of honor, her sister, Miss
Marcille Steiner, was attired in a
gown of emerald green velvet with a
tulip-effect peplum, shoulder tip neck
line, fitted bodice, and full skirt. Her
accessories were long green lace
mitts and a tiara of green plumes
were worn at the back of her hair,
She also wore a rhinestone necklace
and earrings, and carried a colonial
bouquet of red roses.
The flower girl was little Jean
Stauffer, cousin of the bride, who
wore long dress of apple green taf-
feta and carried a silver basket con-
tanning holly berries. The mother
of the bride wore a black gown with
beaded yoke and corsage of pink car
! nations. The groom's mother was
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-01
Couple Married in
Xmas EUe Ceremony

The Christmas eve wedding of
Miss Nadine Altman and Rev. Mahlon
D. Wenger was solemnized last We'd
nesday night at $50 o'clock in the
home of the brides parents, DR.. and
Mrs. v. II. Altman of Blutfton.
DR.. Altman, superintendent of San
dusky conference of the Evangelical
United Brethren church heard the ex-
change of vows at his daughters
wedding under a silver-roped arch
way in a room lighted by the glow of
candles and lights from a Christmas
tree. Poinsettias completed the dec
orations.
Rev. Wenger, son of Milton Wen
ger and the late Mrs. Wenger is
minister of the West Findlay charge
of the Evangelical United Brethren
church.
The bride wore a white wool crepe
ballerina dress fashioned with a
waist-length jacket trimmed with a
full collar which extended over the
shoulders. The tailored sleeves were
cuffed and her corsage was of pink
roses.
Mrs. J. r. Keller of Lima attended
her sister as matron of honor. She
wore a brown tailored suit with blue
accessories and corsage of gardenias.
Judith Ann Bucher in a pink bal
lerina skirt and white blouse and
John Keller, Jr., lighted the candles
in the archway and the living room
preceding the ceremony. A program
of piano numbers was played by Miss
Sarah Amstutz.
Clayton Bucher, brother-in-law of
the bride served as best man for Rev.
Wenger. A wedding dinner followed
the ceremony.
For her going away costume the
bride wore a two-piece brown gaber-
dine dress with blue accessories.
Mrs. Wenger is a senior at Otter
bein college in Westerville where she
is president of Tau Delta sorority
The couple will make thir home with
the brides parents until fall wher
they will enter Bonebrake seminary
in Dayton.
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unable to attend due to illness.

unable to attend due to illness.
John Muehlberg, Parma, was best
man. The ushers were Sherwood
Burkholder, Findlay; William T. sny-
der, Akron, Pa; Ronald Diller, Bluff
ton; and Edwin M. Sinclair, Cleve-
land. Their bouttoniers were white
carnations.
Following the ceremony, recep-
ton for 125 guests was held in the
church parlors. The serving table
centered with a three-tiered wedding
cake topped with a miniature bride
and groom. Miss Theda Hankish,
Bluffton, Mrs. Racine Warren, Ken
ton, Mrs. John Williams, Bellevue
and Miss Miriam Diller, Bluffton,
served at the reception. Miss Edith
Amstutz decorated the church.
For her going away costume, the
bride wore a black taffeta trimmed
ensemble and lavender orchid.
The bridegroom attended Cleveland
College and served in the Navy for
three and ane-half years. He is
presently attending the School of
Horticulture at Ohio State Universe
ty. The bride is a graduate of Bluff
ton college and received graduate
degree in library science at Western
Reserve University. She served as
librarian for two years at the Cleve-
land Heights High School. After a
short wedding trip they win reside at
430 Northridge Road, Columbus.
Out of town guests included: Miss
es Ruth and Alice Muller, Harry
Muller, Edwin M. Sinclair, Miss Char
lotte Gallant of Clevland; Rev. and
Mrs. Loyal 7. joiner, Greenville, S.
Carolina; John Nuremberg, Parma;
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Burkhholder,
Sherwood, and Anne; Mr.. and Mrs,
J. w. Clymer, Findlay; Mr.. and Mrs.
William Ambrose and Mr.. and Mrs,
Lester Hunt, Akron; Miss Blanche
Courtright, Miss Helen Ewing, Mrs
Arthur Smith and daughter, Barbara,
Mr.. and Mrs. Webster Ewing, Nc
Comb; Mr.. and Mrs. Leland c. Leh-
man, Columbus; Miss Roberta Biery
E. Mortified, Mass; Mr.. and Mrs.
William T. Snyder, Akron, Pa; Mrs,
Paul Whaley, Detroit; Mrs. Daisy
Pifer, Rawson; Mrs. Edward Schu-
macher, Bowling Green.
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Family Gathering

Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Redd of South
Main street entertained at a family
dinner on Christmas day.
Present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Or
vile Redd and sons, Mr.. and Mrs.
Loren Redd and daughters, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Hosafros and daughter
all of Jenera; Mr.. and Mrs. David
Elsea, son and daughter of near
Rawson; Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Redd, son and daughter of Ada and
Mr.. and Mrs. Kent Burkholder and
daughter of Beaverdam.
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Annual Meeting Notice

The annual meeting of the policy
holders of The Richland Township
Farmers Mutual Insurance Associa-
tion will be held in the council room
in the town hall at Bluffton, Ohio,
on Saturday, January 10, 1948 at
100 P. NJ, for the purpose of elect
ing officers, and to transact any
other business that would properly
come before the meeting. 1t is ur-
gent that all members attend this
meeting.
80 Earl L. Matter, Secretary
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CARD OF THANKS

/ wish to thank sincerely all my
many friends who were so thought
full in remembering me with the many
beautiful Christmas cards.
Mrs. Noah Augsburger
Evening star., 1948-07-30

troops went ahead with their rou-
tine training and the preparation
of equipment for the operations Of
next week.
In this connection. the officers
and men of the 104th Ordnance
Company. which has jurisdiction
over the expensive automotive
equipment issued to the Guard,
found in checking 1t over that 20
of the vehicles were facing possible
serious damage by what they said
was failure of the top command
maintenance forces to remove the
preservative grease from the run
ming mechanisms and replace it
with operating lubricants.
The equipment, although in pos
session of the top command for
months, was only ISSUED to the field
troops on Friday night before the
Sunday departure for the camp,
officers said.
Two of the District guardsmen
have been sent to the Post Hospital
at Fort Monroe, Va. Pvt. Lawrence
F. Garfinkle, 10. Battery A. 1927
Kansas avenue NV, a recruit, de-
veloped acute appendicitis and was
operated on. His parents were noti-
fed, and officers said his mother
few down here.
The other case involved the badly
infected finger of Pvt. Fred c. Posey
OF 1127 Owen street NE, a recruit
in the same battery.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
1ornadoes Hif Rural Areas
In Wisconsin and Iowa
BY the Associotsd Press

CHICAGO, July 30. - Cooler
weather moved into parts of the
Midwest today after a series of
small tornadoes struck rural areas
in Wisconsin and Iowa last night.
No relief from the hot and humid
weather appeared in sight for the
Eastern and Southern States.
The twisters killed one child and
caused some crop and property dam
age. They hit near Madison and
La Crosse, Wis, and near Luzerne
and Blairstown, in Northeastern
Iowa.
The Weather Bureau said the
tornadoes were associated with
thundershowers over an area from
the North plains to the Great Lakes
region and middle Mississippi VAL
ley. Strong winds were reported in
several areas.
A tornado which struck the Frank
Ballwegg farm home near Madison
killed Lucille Ballwegg, 10, and in
jured her parents and nine of their
children. Three other children in
the family were not in the house
when it was leveled.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Retail Store Held Subject
10 Taft Law Provisions
BY fhs A.seeioisd Press

A retail store was held subject
to the Taft-Hartley Act for the
first time in q decision yesterday
by an examiner for the National
Labor Relations Board.
The examiner. Isador Greenherg,
overruled q plea by an AFL retail
clerks union that it could not have
violated the law because the store,
the Al Photo Service at San Pedro,
Calf, is not engaged in interstate
commerce.
Mr.. Greenberg ruled that the
store Is in interstate commerce be-
cause it buys A per cent Of its
merchandise outside California.
The store sold all but $500 Of its
$l33,700 sales in q year at retail
within California.
Mr.. Greenberg's decision was at
odds with the policy Of the NLRB
itself. The five-man board con-
Evening star., 1948-07-30

Mr.. Larkin was born in Wash
ington and attended st. Johns High
School. He went to work with the
gas light company as an Office clerk
on the death of his father in 1918.
Mr.. Larkin served in the Navy in
World War I and was a member
of the Catholic War Veterans and
OF American Legion Post No. A.
He also was a member of the Holy
Name Society of Holy Comforter
Church.
Mr.. Larkin was married in 1924
to the former Catherine E. Mere
dith, who survives him. Other sur
vivors include four daughters, Mrs.
Mary v. Hall of Arlington, Va, ana
the Misses Betty c., Jean Ann and
Catherine L. Larkin of Washing
ton; three brothers, John L. and
Robert P. Larkin of Washington
and Carroll Larkin of Alexandria,
and a sister, Miss Catherine L. Lar
kin of Washington.
The body will remain at the home
until $3.50 am. Monday. Requiem
mass will be said at 8 am. at Holy
Comforter Church, with burial in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
japanese Leftists Fight
MacArthur's Strike Ban
Ry the Associated Press

TOKYO, July wing gov
ernment labor unions, claiming
membership of nearly 100000
workers, announced today they
would fight Gen. MacArthur's ban
on strikes by government employees.
The powerful Railway Workers
Union and the communications
workers unions in parallel state
ments echoed the Communist Party
line in announcing plans to meet
the labor crisis
General headquarters Of the rail-
way workers announced "a state OF
emergency" 1t said it would carry
out a struggle" when the Diet con-
siders legislation to implement Gen.
MacArthur's recent letter to Prime
Minister Asflida outlawing strikes
by government workers.
These typically japanese terms
could not be Immediately clarified.
They could include an intention to
strike but union leaders know such
a course would invite Gen. Mac
Arthur's direct intervention. In
dications were the struggle" would
be limited to. political pressure,
propaganda and possibly demon
stratlonS.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
William Larkin Dies;
WAS Gas Firm Official

William E. Larkin, 81, former
construction work supervisor for
the Washington Gas Co., died yes
terday at his home 1923 Massa-
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Dr.. DetIev w. Bronx Expected
ToBe NewHeod of Hopkins u.
Research Council
Chairman May Get
Appointment Today

Johns Hopkins University plans to
announce the appointment of new
president today and in line for the
job is DR.. Detlev Wulf Bronx, 81,
chairman of the National Research
Council here, the Associated Press
reported from Baltimore.
DR.. Bronx, internationally known
physicist and psychologist at the
University of Pennsylvania, has
maintained a home here as well as
at Hill House Farm. Media, Pa, be-
cause of his scientific work with va
rious Government departments in
recent years.
In 1912 DR.. Bronx was appointed
co-ordinator of research for the Air
Surgeons Office at Air Force Head
quarters. He also worked In the
medical section of the National Re-
search Council.
The likelihood of his appointment
became known yesterday when he
visited the Hopkins campus and uni
versity sources acknowledged he was
among the half dozen candidates
chosen from an original list OF about
125.
He is expected to succeed DR..
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Alabama S Electors
Pledged 10 Ihurmond
BY shs Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. July 3o.-
Alabama's II electoral votes were
pledged today to the States rights
ticket OF Gov. J. Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina and Gov. Fielding
L. Wright Of Mississippi.
This action represented the first
formal support Of the presidential
slate chosen by rebellious south
ernors ct the Birmingham States
Rights Conference July II.
Similar action is expected to be
taken by the Mississippi Democratic
Party in meeting Tuesday at Jack
son. Miss.
Mississippi's elector nominees, like
Alabama's, already are pledged
against casting the States ballots
for President Truman In the elec-
toral college.
States rights leaders hope to enter
the Thurmond-Wright ticket in all
States in the November general
election.
Gov. Thurmond is scheduled to
open his Nationwide campaign al
q States rights rally at Houston
Tex, August II. when he will for.
mally accept the presidential nomi-
nation.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Press Gag Imposed
On District Guard S
Supply Difficulties
By William }. WheotIey

CAMP PENDLETON, Va, July
30-Second Army Corps headquar-
ters at Fort George G. Meade, Md,
has imposed press and information
gag on Regular Army and National
Guard personnel here.
Smarting under the publicity of
the supply fiasco, top officers ad-
monished personnel to keep clear
of newsmen.
Meanwhile, as the inspector gen.
erals department of the Army con-
tinued investigation of the supply
breakdown which sent troops into
training without proper equipment,
two truck loads of personnel equip
ment were being issued today.
Tires Due to Arrive Today.
The two heavily LOADED trucks,
which lefti camp here shortly after
reveille yesterday, rolled back into
the area shortly before midnight
from 150-mile trip to Fort Eustis,
Va.
Another truck is expected today
with spare tires for the heavy auto
motive equipment which were not
available to the units before the
convoy made the trip here to open
camp. The truck had to make the
45o-mile round trip to Guard head
quarters in Washington for the ma
terial, which officers said should
have been issued during prepara-
tions for the encampment.
Telephone gag orders were re-
ceived In camp early yesterday.
Shortly before noon, Col William
R. Watson, corps inspector general,
few down here. He rolled into
camp, by-passed post headquarters
and was taken to a dwelling in Sc
cluded section of the post. There,
he was closeted for more than five
hours with Col. Charles NJ. Myers,
the Regular Army senior instructor
assigned to the District Guerd.
1t was said that he did not con-
fer with any of the Guard officers.
While he had told personnel he
would see no newsmen, the writer
confronted him as he was leaving
camp.
Top Echelon Reported Shaken.
He shouted, mo comment!" with
out listening to a question, threw
up his arms and ran for an automo-
bile, which whisked him back to the
Naval Air Station at Oceana.
There was no doubt, it was said,
that the attention focused on the
District Guards poorly equipped
troops here has severely shaken the
top Army echelon at time when it
is preparing to take thousands of
young men into the service for
training.
Officers here have received copies
Of the statement issued by Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox, commanding
the District Guard, in an effort to
explain the shortages among troops
in the field. officers smiled particu-
larly at his statement as to prevail
ing differences of opinion as to when
troops are properly equipped.
They commented that a trooper
is either equipped to sustain himself
personally in the field, or he is not.
An incomplete uniform and no
change is not conducive to health,
and neither is the use Of another
mans eating utensils. they ex-
planned.
: /" Still Short Of Mess Gear.
Five days after leaving Washing
ton, several hundred District troops
are still going to mess without their
own meat cans.
Meanwhile. the rank-and-file OF
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Legion Boys 10 Open
Forum al American i.

The campus of American Univer-
sity becomes an independent state, u
today as 90 youths from As States
arrive to initiate the third annual
American Legion Boys Forum of
National Government.
The delegates, chosen during
State Boys Forums earlier this
year, will be divided into two poll
tical parties-Federalist and Ma
tionalistLand will conduct simu-
lated Congressional and judicial
sessions.
A boy president will be elected
just before the youths visit Presi-
dent Truman at II am. Thursday
The forum will end Thursday after
noon.
In addition to hearing a brief
speech by the President, the dele
gates will be addressed by Cabinet
members, Congressional leaders
and other Government officials
during their weeks sojourn here.
Headquarters for the forum will
be at Clendenin Hall on the univer-
sity campus. The delegates, how
ever, will visit many Washington
points of interest, including the
Pentagon, the Navy Department,
the State Department and the
Capitol.
DR.. Paul F. Douglass, president
of the university will open the
forum officially with an address at
4 pm. today in Hurst Hall on the
campus, American Legion officials
also will speak at the inaugural
session. .>,
Tomorrow, the youths will visit
the Capitol and will be welcomed
by House Majority Leader Halleck
and Representative Kitchener, Re-
publican of Michigan.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
z Missing D. c. Girls
Found in New York

New York City police reported to-
day that two 15-year-old Washing
ton girls, missing from their homes
since Wednesday have been located
there.
They are Annette Capter, 400s
Seventh street NE, and Harriet
Caudell 4649 Hilltop terrace Sc.
The Canter girls mother was en-
route to New York today to bring
them home.
Evening star., 1948-07-30

tends 1t should consider only cases
having a substantial effect on inter.
state commerce. But the NLRB's
general counsel. Rogert N. Denham.
maintains that any establishment
in interstate commerce-no matter
how small its business across State
lines-comes under the Taft-Hart.
lev Act,
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Ma|Iace Says 6. 0. P.
And Democrats Talk
Big, but Don I Mean Il
BY the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, July 30.-Henry A.
Wallace says the Democrats and
Republicans talk big" about hous-
ing, poll taxes, lynch law and infia-
ton, but they don't mean It,"
3 The Progressive Party presidential
nominee made the statement last
night as he was given radio time
on NBC at his request to reply to
President Truman's message to Con-
sgress on Tuesday.
: Mr.. Wallace said the President
sought to "hoodwink millions of
Americans" in calling a special ses-
sion of the talk big little" Con-
rgress."
Calls 1t Shadow Boxing"
"The Republicans talk big about
ending the poll tax and lynch law,
but they don't mean it," Mr.. WAL
lace said.
THE Democrats talk big about
ending imitation and building houses.
They don't mean it either.
ut is all shadow-boxing. They
have not landed single solid blow.
Only the Progressive Party packs a
real wallop."
Mr.. Wallace said Mr.. Truman
called the extraordinary session "in
the mistaken belief that he could
make Congress the scapegoat for
his own inadequate and often dam
eerous leadership"
Lays Imitation to Foreign Policy.
Mr.. Wallace said "the fundamen-
tai fact for every wage-earner, far
mer, housewife and Independent
businessman to recognize is that
the Republicans and Democrats
both agree on the basic policies
which cause imitation. They agree
on the bipartisan policy of the cold
war-on the program for militariz-
ing our economy"
To-day, the Government, with its
war policy, directly or indirectly
gives employment to more than
100000 men," Mr.. Wallace contin-
ued. "If those 100000 Americans
were working for peace instead of
war, prices would be going down
right now.
But that would mean that both
the Republicans and Democrats
would have to forego the luxury
of using the Red menace as their
chief political asset"
Calls for Cabinet Clusters.
Mr. Wallace suggested removal OF
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder,
Secretary of Defense Forrestal, Un-
dersecretary of State Robert A. Low
EFT, Assistant Secretary of State
Charles Satlzman, Secretary for Air
Symington, and his assistant, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secre-
tary of the Army Royal, and Un-
dersecretary of the Army William
Draper, tr.
Departing from his prepared
speech, Mr.. Wallace referred to Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, who, he said,
"smugly and silently sits in Albany
while the special session meets.
Says Dewey Approved Tactics.
But Dewey gave his approval to
the Republican tactics in Congress,
Mr.. Wallace said.
. "He approves the Republicans
getting out in front to block Tru-
mans demagogic request for price
controls, while the Democrats get
out in front to block the equally
demagogic request of the Repuhl-
cans for civil rights legislation
Mr.. Wallace said the Republican
candidates silence docs not sb-
solve him as candidate from siIar-
ing his party's guilt-in cooperation
with the Democrats to scuttle price
controls, to-prevent low cost hous-
ing and to prosecute the infiatioa-
breeding cold war. . p" Both Tru-
man and Dewey are ready for more,
not less imitation.
Evening star., 1948-07-30

Isaiah Bowman, renowned geogra-
pher who asked last March that he
be permitted to retire before the
start of another school year. Presi-
dent of Hopkins since 1885, DR.. Bow
man will be 10 in December. He has
said any one who survives the toll
and tension of position of high re-
sponsibility up to 10 is biological
miracle"
Evening star., 1948-07-30

chusetts avenue
Sc.
In i'll health
for five years,
Mr.. Larkin had
resigned from
the gas lig h t
c o m p a ny two
years ago. He
had been with
the company
for 80 years and
had become a
member of its
Quarter Century
Club on COM
pleting 25 years
of service in 1898.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Iowa Democrats Meet
To Pick State Committee
BY the Assscia,sd Press

DEs MONIES, July 3o.-1owa
Democrats met here today to elect
a new State Central Committee and
to adopt a party platform which
was expected to recommend a cut
In the State sales and income taxes
The party also planned to nomi-
nate 10 presidential electors. The
general election ticket was COM
pleted in the June primary and
there were no nominations to be
made for State Offices.
Iowa Republicans were holding a
State judicial convention today. In
dications were they would renom-
mate three present State Supreme
Court justices, Halleck J. Mantz
Audubon; John E. Mulroney, Fort
Dodge, and William A. Smith,
Dubuque.
Evening star., 1948-07-30
Jomoicu Governor Robbed

LONDON, July 80 (P.-Scotland
Yard announced today that Sir John
Higgins, governor Of Jamaica, cost
$4,000 worth of jewelry to burglars
July %, while he was on a visit In
London. Sir John now is heading
back to Jamaica.