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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08
TRUE TALES ABOUT OHIO
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Indians walked in. They were Nick
saw, John Mohawk, Bigson and his
two sons.
The savages were sullen but after
Daniel Diver, Johns brother joked
with them, appeared in better humor
and tried to get the Divers to drink
whisky with them and attempted to
decoy John to their camp. When
refused, they left.
Indians Lurk Near Cabin
When John opened the door and
was about ready to step out he saw
Mohawk before him with an upraised
tomahawk. The settler lodged back
and shut the door. About 10 o'clock
the Divers saw, by moonlight, the
Indians standing in ravine near
their cabin. Daniel Diver went aut
and tried to shake hands with them.
none but Mohawk refusing. AS he
turned to go back to the cabin
Mohawk shot him through the
temples. Diver lived but lost the
sight of both eyes.
Then Indians fled from their en-
campment into the northwest but
were pursued by the whites and
Nicksaw was shot dead by a settler
named Williams, of Hudson. Mohawk
escaped but Bigson, his sons and a
squaw were captured. The squaw
afterwards slipped away. The night
was cold and clear with about a
foot of snow on the ground. Most
Of the whites froze their feet.
Taken back to Deerfeld, Bigson
gave away to grief and hade his
sons an affectionate goodbye. He ex-
pected, according to the Indian
custom, to be taken out and killed.
Instead, he was tried by kangaroo
court made up of settlers, sentenced
to prison and the trek down the trail
to Warren began.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08
ArmOrsville

The L. A. S. and w. S. w. S. of
the Liberty Chapel church will meet
this Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Delbert Wilkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Klingler and
son Keith were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. King
Ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Moser and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Moser
and daughter were Sunday dinner
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08
BlufftOn Village Gets $4,695 In
Tax Distribution; School $29, ,453

Bluffton village last week received
$4,695.49 in the first half distribu-
tion of 1947 real property and public
utilities tax collections, more than
half of which will go into the towns
sinking fund with the remainder al
located to general fund expenditures.
In the same distribution, BIuffton
school district received an ALLEGATION
of 20,45316.
Beaverdam villages share was
S657.99, and the Beaverdam school
district received $8,060.34.
Lafayette municipal government
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08

benefited in the amount of S505.63,
and the Lafayette-Jackson school
districts cut was $13,768.03.
Richland townships share of the
tax funds were set at $2,137.03 ;
jackson township gat $2,225.35, and
Monroe township, $2,065,02.
Nearly half a million dollars were
distributed in the allocations, net
distribution of $991 ,339.75. Last
years net distribution was $780,
528.36.
In the township distribution, $10,-
142.63 goes to general funds and
$17,142.53 to road and bridge funds.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08

guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Moser
and family. Afternoon callers were
Mrs. Edith Shaffer and son Jimmy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne
Guider and family, Sunday after
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08

There are two ways of meeting
difficulties: you alter the difficulties,
or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde klingler and
son Keith, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. King
Ter called on Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Wilkins and family of near Airing
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11
KING OF THE MONKEYS
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take. Treff1ich got Is to 30 apes
and hundreds of monkeys. Most
of the ones now on view at ZOOS
throughout America were caught
by the Monkey Kings hench-
men. The accepted method is to
get a mother gorilla drunk on
palm wine. Only when she's
thoroughly plastered can you
get Junior away from her.
Today. thanks to Fulton
Streets master mind, monkeys
are big business. And a missing
monkey bureau has now been
set up by the harassed police.
They're HouiEizis
AS TREFFLIcH always tells the
judge, he takes every precau-
ton to keep his animals from
going over the hill. It's not his
fault if monkeys learn to pick
locks and chimps are born with
skeleton keys in their mouths.
But the law is growing impa-
tient. Recently Monkey Head
quarters paid a stiff fine -
including a bill for one
policeman's pants. They were
torn off by a baboon attacking
from the rear while the cop was
climbing the wall of the New
York Post Office in pursuit of
another delinquent who was
pelting him with tomatoes from
the roof.
Treff1ich's affection for mon
keys is inherited. He was born
near Hamburg, Germany, of
chimpanzee- importing parents.
A Thrifty Dishvvashex
WHEN he came to this country
he got a job as a dishwasher and
cook in a restaurant. With SIS, 600
saved from this job he made a
trip to India and returned with
70 snakes, 800 monkeys, a pair
of leopards and some cranes.
These he sold to an animal farm
in New Hampshire, but the trip
showed no great profit, 50 he
had to go back to the restaurant
business. By 1882 he had COL
lected another stake, has been
a jungle man ever since.
Today the 40-year-old monkey
monarch is worried about his
successor.
my little son." he says
sadly, doesn't like animals. He
used to cry even when he saw
one in a picture book" The End
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

Treff1ich would like to see
more people use monkeys as
pets. He believes it would be a
good idea to use them as substi-
tutes for children. When a boy
or girl goes away to college" he
says, lis a good time to get a
monkey to take his place."
Most Of the 20, 900 slightly
sub-humans entering the
United States each year have
more important work cut out
for them than being pets.
Monkeys are extremely valua-
bic in the fight against infantile
paralysis. They react to polio
much like their more highly
developed brethren.
As an ally of the doctors study
ing infantile paralysis, Trefflich
enlisted the medics' help a few
years ago in one of the great
monkey crises of all time. Fear
ing that the animals suffered too
many hardships in transit, India
was threatening to curtail their
expectation. Doctors from all
over the United States bonn
barded the State Department
with protests. As a result of a
stiffening of our diplomatic mon
key policy, they continued to
arrive on their errands of mercy.
Diplosnatic Mystery
"A FRAMED letter on the subject,
from the State Department,
flanked by a gallery of dis
tinguished monkey portraits,
hangs on the wall of Henry
Treff1ich's Office. It's an unsolved
mystery of diplomacy why this
correspondence relating to the
,jungles of the Far East should
have been signed by James
Clement Dunn, Chief, Division
of Western European Affairs.
Although the Monkey King
didn't sell either Gargantua or
Toto to Ringing Brothers and
Barnum and Bailey, his whole
sale importation of gorillas in
the past few years has COM
pletely broken the circus ape
monopoly. Before the war,
permission had to be OBJ
tanned from King Leopold for
the extradition of any ape
from the Belgian Congo.
This permission was very
rarely granted. But during the
war, restrictions were eased and
scouts were permitted to 60 into
the jungles for an all-time high
The union times., 1948-04-17
SUNSET By Joe Henry
Blood, Ses a1,d Tears Seem to Sell Papers
From The Machinist, LAM

WYE BOW heads sympathy this
 Field repuedy the worlds richest war; when dollar worth lot than he supposed have income of $5,O0000O year.
 Mr. Field has been do something useful with his ardent FDR Since 19O Mr. Field has
  newspapers in New York and Chicago.
 Mr. Field the Chicago Sn months Bought I and then for all discontinued the Sun Within short Mr. Field scheduled Yoks PM We think the trade union pick from bones of the Field failures
 Look the Chicago St It couldn't morning the anti New Deal isoaonst Chicago the TrbnneS politics but Mr. Field like to read it.
 The PM experiment complicated PM poabo Sometimes the favorng But PM supported strikes when other New York PM chmpond with trouble only few people read it.
 In New York; working people prefer the Daily NewY published by the family publishes the politics Or they Harss 4ecan Roy Towards World Telegram All of them labor, Deal control and all of them Republican The working belong Democratic control and FDR Only minority buy the Democratic New York Post Fewer still bought PM The happy with the don't with
 Next somebody the Marshall they politics SuDDO that eaoainS
The union times., 1948-04-17
Pappy BoyiingtOn World War Ace, Joins The A.F.L.

LOS ANGELES-(FP) = Flying ace Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, Ma rine corps colonel and congressional medal of honor winner, has become a member of Local 70, Retail Clerks lntl. Assn. (AFL).
 CO-manager of department store under contract with the local, BOyingtOn was not required to join as a condition of employment but did so as matter of principle, LO- cal Sec. Joe De Silva revealed.
 Twenty months a Japanese prisoner of war, Boyington, the oldest flyer in the US. air force, was the first to beat Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 28 planes shot down, De Silva said.
 ''I have always believed in organ ization and teamwork, and a union is an organization which fOurishes only because of its teamwork" the former flyer explained. ''I am in- deed happy to be a member of the retail clerks union. It's a fine Or- ganization.'
The union times., 1948-04-17
Not All The Facts Given Public On
 Oak Ridge Strike
Copyright i94s

The story behind the stories under the scare headlines about a possible strike in one of the atom bomb plants at Oak Ridge has, as usual, remained untold by the commercial press. h. stead, newspapers throughout the country muttered editorially that something ought to be done-and the government obliged by getting out an injunction to forestall a strike.
 But here's what the newspapers didn't put in their stories:
 Until recently this group of 900 workers, members of the AFL, were employed by the MOnsantO Chemi- cal Co. They had decent union contract, including such features as 90 days annual disability leave with pay, $1O,OOO free life insurance policy, free shoes and tools to re- place those contaminated by radia- ton, and other special clauses.
 Trouble started when Monsanto de- cided to pull out and the plant was taken over by another company-Un- ion Carbide. Officials of the AFL group attempted to get similar con- tract with Union Carbide but the com pany refused. Despite the fact that the union offered to arbitrate all issues and the company refused, the Truman administration nevertheless went ahead and obtained an 80-day anti-strike injunction.
The union times., 1948-04-17
N. E. Musicians
 To Meet In New Haven April 25

Delegates representing 6 local un- ions in the New England area will assemble for the spring meeting of the New England Conference of Musicians at the Hotel Garde on Sunday, April 18th.
 The newly elected president, Harry L. Benson of New Haven Local 234 will call the meeting to order at II a.m, and a recess for luncheon will be declared at 1 pm.
 Mayor William C. Celentano, Jos eph M Rourke, secretary of the Conn Federation of Labor, and Clair M. Meder of New York City represent ing President James C. Petrillo of the A. F. of M will be the guest speakers.
 Topics up for discussion involve plans for participation in the national convention at Asbury Park in June, the A. F. of M. recording fund, free public lo48 music project program, radio and television broadcasting, and other important matters.
 Other officers of the conference are James Falvey, Springfield Vice-Presi- dent; William A. Smith, Boston Secre- tary- Treasurer; A. Leon Curtiss Brockton, and Ralph Scott of Boston, Mass. trustees.
The union times., 1948-04-17
! lkSlolR!es B ol!e
 ! NEWS N NNSz

CLEVELAND - A presidential fact-finding boards recommends ton of l52c hourly increase was rejected as ''nOt acceptable" by three railroad brOtherhoods. The unions gave the rail carriers until April 27 to negotiate an acceptable agreement warning that otherwise strike date would be set Gas soon as possible thereafter"
 DETROIT-To pile up a reserve for the contract negotiations with General Motors, Chrysler and other corporations, and to be prepared in the general anti-labor atmosphere, the United Auto Workers executive board levied a dollar assessment on all of the nearly million members of the union.
 NEW YORK-FP)-Unfair Ia- bor practice charges against the New York local of the IntI. Typo graphical Union were withdrawn by the NLRB April 6. The same day the NLRB ended hearings on un- fair labor practice against the ITU and locals in Newark, N. J., Chi cagO, Detroit, Philadelphia and St. Louis.
 WASHINGTON-The U. s. navy singled out publisher William Ran dolph Hearst as the first civilian to receive the Distinguished Public Serv- ice Award. Hearst was given the award for 'his great assistance in helping the American public under stand the navy and the part it plays in the security of the country"
 KENOSHA, Wis.-Tired of wait ing for the landlords to do some thing about the housing crisis, a group of AFL drivers here are gO- ing into the real estate business for themselves. The drivers. all mem- bers of Local 95, Intl. Bro. of Teamsters at Nash Motors, have Or- ganized a cooperative association and bought 24O acres of land, on which they will build houses, raise crops and market them.
 WASHINGTON-High prices at the grocery counter pushed their way into the halls of Congress to move legislation repeating discriminatory taxes on oleomargarine toward the House floor A discharge petition brought out the Rivers bill, s. 2245, for House debate April %. Backed by all arms of organized labor, this and other margarine bills have been con- sistently fought by the proft-greedy dairy lobby in the Capital.
 ROME. Ca.-(FP)-A company inspired attack by 75 hammer welding scabs on three women pickets boomeranged as a Georgia judge ordered the Anchor Rome Mills not to interfere in any legiti- mate strike activities" of Local 787, Textile Workers Union.
The union times., 1948-04-17
Prof.. Dunlop
 Of Harvard To Settle Issues
Impartial Chairman To Pre- vent Interference By "La-
 Dor Relations" Board

A prominent educator, John T. Dunlop of Harvard Uni versity, has been named im- partial umpire over jurisdic. tiOnal disputes which may arise in the building and con- structiOn industry.
 MT. Dunlop will serve under the plan recently adopted by the AFL's Building Trades Depart ment, the Associated General Contractors of America, and vari- ous speciality contractors.
 MT. Dunlop is Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard and mem- Der of the faculty of the Littauer School of Public Administration. He is also consultant to several govern ment agencies.
 TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN
 In his new post, Mir. Dunlop will serve as chairman of the board of trustees appointed to administer the dispute settlement plan which, it is expected, will Obviate the need for interference in the industry by the National Labor Relations Board.
 The board of trustees established by the plan will be open for business on May l. Requests for decisions will be accepted from international unions and individual contractor associations em- ploying union members affiliated with the American Federation of Labor building trades, provided they agree to abide by decisions.
 When requests for decisions come in, the trustees will decide whether any new issue or principle is involved. If the principle already has been determined by a decision of record, the case will be termin- ated at that point. If not, the dis pute will be referred to a joint board composed of two representa- tives of the union and two repre- sentatives of the employers and the chairman.
 The union and management mem berS of joint boards will be chosen from pools of 12 persons from each side. MT. Dunlop will be chairman of the board set up in every dispute.
 The agreement signed by the principals provides that there shall be no stOppages of work in juris- dictiOnal disputes and that princi- ples established by joint board de- cisiOns shall be binding on local jurisdictiOnal boards.
The union times., 1948-04-17
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

We want to apologize. Not long ago in story dealing with 1947 profits rung up by General Elec- tric, we used an estimate of SIS million for its yearly profits, since the final figures were not in.
 The final figures are now in and the total is actually $95 mil- lion.
 The Tennessee supreme court says in Rowe Transfer & Storage Co. V. Intl. Bro. of Teamsters (AFL), decided Feb. 28, that the US. Supreme Court is in favor of peaceful picketing as ''free speech, :" and therefore refused to issue an injunction to prohibit such picket ing.
 The Massachusetts supreme judi cial court says in Davis Bros. Fish cries V. Pimental, decided March II, that peaceful picketing to ob- tain the union shop in Massachu- setts is illegal and that until the US. Supreme Court makes ''an un- equivocal pronouncement'' that peaceful picketing is legal, the Mas sachusetts courts will adhere to the view of the law laid down in our own decisions"
 In this case the Tennessee court is at least 100 years ahead of the Massachusetts court.
 A minority report, signed by two Senators and two Representatives, brings out in bold relief the plenti- full flaws of the Taft-Hartley Act. The statute, fathered by the Na- tiOnal Association of Manufacture CTS, has proved failure and it has thrown the nation back to the dark era of gOvernment-by-injunction says the minOrtty's impressive dOcu- ment, which bears the names of Senators James E. Murray of Mon- tana and Claude Pepper of Florida and of Representatives Augustine Kelley of Pennsylvania and John Lesinski of Michigan.
 The guaranteed wage used with care, with full recognition of its limitations, and with eyes open to dangers in exceeding those limita- tiOns, can become an integral part of rounded program for greater security, for harmonious industrial relations, and for more lasting prosperity
 The Council of Economic Advisers now has in its hands the study's
 (Continued on Page Two)
The union times., 1948-04-17
Double Talk On Taxes

CONGRESS has just approved a N$4.8 billion tax reduction bill over Pres. Truman's veto. Republi- cans hail it as boon to purchasing power. The administration claims the new law will impair prosperity.
 Analysis of the new tax law re- veals it is loaded in favor of the rich, while it gives meager tax sav- ings to the poor. The married man with two children making $3,OOO gets a tax saving of 800 year, or $l.73 a week. The $IOO,OOO execu- tive receives a tax saving of $l6,- 658 a year, or more than $32O a week.
 Put another way, the take-hOme pay after taxes of the $3,OOO man is increased 39o by the new law. The take-hOme income of the $lOO,OOO man is increased 44%o.
 The $3,OOO man has his taxes reduced $50 per thousand dollars of income. The $lOO,OOO man has his taxes cut by more than $l66 per thousand dollars of income, a rate of saving more than five times greater than is given to the $3,OOO man.
 Overall, the new tax law works this way. About 4O9o of the total tax reduction goes to individuals making $5,OOO or more a year, who comprise less than 5 % of all tax payers.
 The major joker in the new law is the split-incOme provision. This is a device designed to permit wealthy taxpayers to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by splitting their incomes for tax purposes with their wives or husbands. Thus, the $lOO,OOO executive will now pay taxes at a much lower rate on $5O,- 900 and his wife will also pay the lower rate on the other $5O,OOO. By using this tax-dOdging gimmick, the $IOO,OOO executive will save about $l2,OOO a year in taxes.
 The split-income gag brings saw ings to taxpayers making $5,OOO or more a year. The 96%o of tax payers who make less than this sum get no savings.
 Congress also applied this prin- ciple of favOring the greedy at the expense of the needy to gift and in- heritance taxes. This will bring say. ings of about $25O million a year, nearly all of which will go to l2,- 900 wealthy families.
The union times., 1948-04-17

labor.
 OFFICIALS ACT
 The issue was raised by the let ting of new construction on the Osborn Prison Farm to be done with inmate labor. A series of meetings were held with Commis- siOner of Labor John J. Egan and Comptroller Teller by President Michael J. Barry of the State Build ing Trades Council; Secretary Treasurer O'Kane and Joseph M. Rourke of the Conn. Federation of Labor. Explanations were made by Teller which indicated that something of an emergency existed at the Osborn Prison Farm. The executive board, after discussing the pros and cons of the situation. unanimously arrived at the cOnclu. sion that the use of inmate or pris- on labor was opposed to the best interests of the entire community, and should be outlawed.
 Secretary O'Kane reported on or ganizational conditions i'll Danbury, and announced that a new Building Trades Council had been organized ill the Hat City. With the exception of the Bricklayers, all trades are joining the Council, which has received its charter.
 Rourke told the executive board that he was assigning Assistant Sec retary J. Lawrence O'TOOle as a part-time organizer for the State Building Trades Council to work in conjunction with O'Kane in an ef- fort to organize and strengthen the building trades councils in all To. calities.
The union times., 1948-04-17
Service Offers Dispute Forms

WASHINGTON - (FP) = New forms which may be used for notih- cations of labor management disputes are now available to unions, the Fed eral Mediation & Consolidation Service announced this week.
 A union operating under Taft Hart ley law procedure is required to file a dispute notice with the FMCS within 30 days of notifying management it in- tends to terminate or modify a con- tract. Use of the forms is not compul- sorry, the agency says. They are offered as a convenience. and may be repro duced without permission.
The union times., 1948-04-17
Strike Notice Up In Florida Skies

Tampa, Fla. (LPA)-As if towing a picket sign thru the skies wasn't enough, the striking Air Line Pilots Ass'n-AFL members here are now using sky-writing. National Airline Pilots On Strike" was the notice written across the sky in smoke so that residents of Tampa and St. Pet ersburg couldn't miss it last week.
 The picket-line activities of pilots for National, which operates between Newark, Miami, and New Orleans, continued as the strike enters its seventh week. ALPA President David Behncke countered company claims that operations were normal with a report that "percentagewise their load factors and completed schedules are in6nitesimal compared to what they were prior to the walkout."
The union times., 1948-04-17
10000 Join AFL
 In R. R. Shop Crafts

PITTSBURGH = (FP = Swing ing 10000 members into cooperation with AFL railroad union groups, the Bro. of Railroad Shop Crafts of Amer ica, Pennsylvania System, has joined the AFL.
 The action was announced by the brotherhood at the close of its 2-day convention here, attended by 100 dele gates who ratified an agreement of af- fliation with the AFL Railway Elm ployes Dept.
 Bro. Pres. Paul D. Reese and Louis M Wicklein, executive council mem Der of the AFL department, said the agreement provided for full coopera- tion with the other AFL rail unions in all matters pertaining to shop en- ployes' representatives on the Penn sylvania Railroad"
 The brotherhood also pledged sup port to pending measures in Congress to increase benefits under the railroad retirement and unemployment acts.