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Evening star., 1948-10-03
Truman Back, Ready
To Start 11-Day Tour Of
Midwest, Northeast
Just Begun to Fight He
Says; New Trip Will Take
Him Into New York
FEPC made to order for Reds,
Thurmond says. Page AS
BY Joseph A. Fox

FEPC made to order" for Reds,
Thurmond says. Page AS.
By Joseph A. Fox
President Truman returned
from his Western campaign tour
yesterday with the declaration,
1--WE just begun to fight" and
Immediately started planning
new trips into the Northeast and
Midwest.
The campaign into the Northeast
will open Wednesday and will carry
Mr.. Truman into the territory Of
his rival, Gov. Dewey of New York.
Starting next Sunday. a few hours
after returning from that four-day
Starting next Sunday. few hours
after returning from that four-day
swing into New England, the Presi-
dent will head for the Midwest.
He will go into Minnesota and
Wisconsin for the first time and
will speak in Akron and Indianapo-
lis for the first major talks in Ohio
and Indiana. The tour also will
take him back to Illinois for another
farm belt bid at Springfield.
Details Due Tomorrow.
Details of the new Midwestern
drive, which will end October 16,
are expected to be ready for an
nouncement tomorrow, but at any
rate, the Minnesota and Wisconsin
appearance will take him into St.
Paul and Milwaukee. with whatever
intermediate stops that may be de-
cided on. The three major speeches
in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois will
be bolstered with additional rear
platform appearances in these
States where he already has done
some stumping.
The Northeast drive will take Mr..
Truman to Albany. The President
also will cut across the upstate New
York district of Chairman Taber of
the House Appropriations Commit
tee, who frequently was assailed as
foe of the West by Mr.. Truman
in his tour.
The President will make a major
speech in Philadelphia Wednesday
night; Jersey City, Thursday night,
and Buffalo, Friday night.
To Go Through Coal Fields.
On the way back to Washington
Saturday, he will move through the
anthracite country Of Pennsylvania.
The Presidents route lies almost
exclusively across country which sent
Republican Representatives to the
Eightieth Congress, Mr.. Truman's
No. l whipping boy"
The President asserted his deter
mination to continue the fight
against the Republicans without
pulling any punches, in a brief talk
thanking the thousands who turned
out under the direction of the Dis
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Few Buildings Meet
New Fire Regulations

Most Washington buildings checked
against new fire safety rules sched-
uled to become effective January
have failed to meet code require
rents, Building Inspector R. D. Kim
ney said last night.
Few of the 1000 structures in
spected to date could pass the test
without changes ranging from minor
Items to major structural alterations,
Mr.. Kinney said.
He recalled this had been the find
ing on an earlier checkup, made be-
fore the Commissioners ordered
notifications in the strict code first
proposed
Mr.. Kinney pointed out, however,
that the present inspections are
final, insofar as he can foresee, and
building owners will be required to
comply with the new rules. Eight
inspectors are at work on the
project, which entails inspection of
approximately 10000 structures, he
added.
Memoranda are being prepared in
his Office for owners, Mr.. Kinney
said and they will be given 80 days
from January l, or from the date
of receipt of the notice, whichever
is later, in which to have the re-
quired work done.
Radio Programs, Page C-s
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Stricter Housing Code
To Improve Sanitation
Is Urged by Rutland
SIum CIeorines Called
Top Legislative Need;
5-Point PIon Offered

A more stringent code to rid
the National Capital of insani-
tary conditions in it's sub-par
housing last night was called the
city's No. l legislative need by
Health Officer George c. Ruh-
land.
Commenting in the Health De-
Partment's annual report on the
year ending last June 30. DR.. Ruh-
land outlined the following program
to make the Capital a healthier
place:
l. Prohibition Of insanitay con-
ditions arising from poorly main
tanned housing and the nuisances
arising from dilapidated frame
sheds, high board fences. insanitary
water closets and yard hydrants.
2. Two building maintenance
boards now in existence. the Board
of Review for Unsafe Buildings and
the Board for Condemnation of
Insanitary Buildings, should be
combined and their Jurisdictions
extended.
3. Laws providing for sewerage
and drainage Of private property
should be combined.
4. Legislation is needed for the
destruction of starlings and to COM
pei cutting of weeds on private
property.
S. Redrafting of legislation re-
garding hospitals, together with
greater District authority over other
types of medical institutions, such
as nursing and convalescent homes.
Codifying Laws Urged.
Work OF codifying health laws on
environmental sanitation already
has begun in the Bureau of Public
Health Engineering, it was learned
DR.. Ruhland cited a shortage of
Health Department personnel, but
said the new law to license multiple
dwellings would bring sufficient fees
for additional inspectors later on
Ito reduce the number of nuisance
complaints being received"
The health officer stressed the
need for a new psychiatric building
at Gallinger Hospital. However
the Health Departments recently
released budget for 1850 did not in
clude any construction items due
to the Districts generally strained
financial condition and the Com
missioners' directive against new
construction.
Death Rate Drops.
DR.. Rutland noted that deaths
from all causes dropped from 1O4
per 1000 population in 1916 to 1C
per 1000 population in l947. Fol
the first time in Washington
recorded history. there were nc
deaths last year from diphtheria OF
typhoid fever, he said.
Major causes of death changed
but little. In deaths per 100000
population, heart disease increased
from PISS to 276.7 persons. Cancer
decreased from 1879 to 1853. Neph-
ritis dropped from 86.2 to 80 and
pneumonia deaths were 348 COM
pared with 34.6 the year before.
Births increased from 25,929 in
1916 to 49, last year, with a sig
nificant drop in infant mortality.
Evening star., 1948-10-03
Truman's Home State
Hears Dewey Defend
Congress
Republican Candidates
Aides Are Optimistic as
Western Tour Ends
WARREN DEGREES EFFORTS to
Splinter Democratic Party.
Page AS
By J. A. o'Leoy
S,., St.tf tfc.,,s.,.na.,,

ABOARD, THE DEWEY sPE-
CIAL, Oct. Gov. Dewey re-
newed his defense of the Re-
publican Eightieth Congress
yesterday as he carried his bid
for election into Missouri, the
home of President Truman.
Fighting against heavy odds to
remain in the White House, Mr.
Truman is using the record of that
Congress as his chief weapon in
urging the people not to elect Re
publican administration.
Apparently determined not to be
gcaded into a verbal slugging match
with the President, Gov. Dewey
nevertheless continued in Missouri
as he did throughout the West, to
take indirect jabs at the present ad-
ministration, as he pleaded for ma
tional unity.
His journeying through Missouri
late yesterday was the last leg OF
a Western trip which took the Re-
publican nominee more than $500
miles to deliver SO speeches in IA
States.
Advisers Optimistic.
AS his 17-car train started back
toward Albany late tonight, Gov
Deweys political advisers on board
were more optimistic than ever over
his chances of ending 16 years OF
Democratic occupancy Of the White
House.
High lights Of the final day were
l. A prediction by former Senator
Townsend of Delaware, that If The
sweep for Dewey continues" the Re-
publicans will keep control OF the
Senate by margin of 5 or 6
seats. Mr.. Townsend heads the
committee working for the election
Of Republican Senators.
2. Former Gov. ALI M. Landon of
Kansas, who carried the Republican
standard in a hopeless fight against
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1886, gave
reporters on the train three rea-
sons why he believes the Dewey
Warren ticket is on the way to
victory this November.
Mr.. London believes, first, that
the people will give Gov. Dewey a
decisive victory to avoid the un-
certainty and confusion that could
flow from q close division of elec-
toral votes among the Republican,
Democrat and States Rights tickets.
Sees Congress As COP.
The Kansan's second point was
that this trend toward Gov. Dewey
and Gov. Warren would help keep
both branches of Congress Repub-
(See DEWEY. Page A-4.)
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(See U. NJ, Page A-4D
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(See TRUMAN, Page A-5D
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tSee CHEST, Page A-9D
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tSee LINCOLN, Page AS
Evening star., 1948-10-03

Mostly sunny and cooler with highest
about 68 today. Tomorrow, fair and con-
tinued cool Full report on page A-2)
Temperature Yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-10-03

See WALLACE, Page AID
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(See SUPREME COURT. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1948-10-03

(See BLOCKADE, Page A-4.J
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Roger HoUe Wins
City Tennis Tilt

Roger Howe, Allen county singles
champion, won the Bluffton singles
crown in the annual city tennis
tournament with a 6-2, 60, 90, Ga
victory over Dale Reichenbach in a
match here last Sunday afternoon.
To reach the finals Howe had de-
feated Woodrow Little, and Reichen-
bach won over Bob Simsox.
Doubles championship of the two
was won by Little and Reichenbach,
who defeated Howe and Simcox, TO,
6-4, 6-3. No doubles matches were
played, and the two seeded teams
met in the championship round.
This concludes city tournament
play for the season, although several
Bluffton players are planning to COM
pete at the Northwestern Ohio tennis
tourney in Toledo over Labor Day
weekend.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
FIRST DRAFT MAY
TAKE NONE FROM
BLUFFTON VICINITY
Initial Call Win Average One
for Every 10000 Popu-
lation
Average viii Require About 8
or Q Draftees From Allen
County

Blufton, Beaverdam and Richland
township may have no draftees in
the first selective service call if it
represents fair proportion of the
total population.
The call which will go out about
September for $4,000 men will take
about one draftee for each 10000
persons throughout the country.
Population of Richland township
area, including Bluffton and Beaver
dam, roughly 5000, would rate one
half a draftee, according to the ma
tional average.
EIGHT OR NINE FROM COUNTY
Eight or nine draftees will be fur
nished by Allen county on the basis
Of an estimated population of s2,466.
Similarly initial draft calls will
take three men each from Putnam
and Hardin counties.
Present indications are that the
men will leave early in November
for induction centers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Rites Here Thursday
For Put. Otto Queens

Military services will be conducted
at Maple Grove cemetery Thursday
morning for Pvt. Otto James Owens,
a grandson of the late Andrew j.
Owens, former mayor of Bluffton.
Pvt. Owens was killed in action in
Eastern France on Nov. 10, 1914.
The body of Pvt. Owens, whose
home was in Youngstown, is at the
Basinger funeral home awaiting fun
erai services and burial. Rev. Simon
Glasl will officiate at rites in st.
Marys Catholic church at $3.50 a. m.
Thursday, with the rosary recited in
the funeral home at $50 p. m. We'd
nesday. -
Members of the Bluffton post,
American Legion, WIN meet at post
headquarters at Q a. N. Thursday
to attend the services in a body and
to conduct military rites at the
grave.
Pvt, Owens was born at Mansfield
August 2Z, 1918, Wmte ms father
DIR. Otto J Owens, was serving over
seas in World War |. DR.. Owens is
deceased, and survivors include the
mother, Mrs. Otto j. Owens, of
Youngstown; and two brothers, DR..
Andrew ]. Owens and DR.. Francis J.
OVENS both of Detroit.
Before entering military service,
Pvt Owens was employed as an cleo
trician by the General Firproofing
Co., of Youngstown. He was a
graduate of Youngstown East High
school and had attended Ohio State
university.
The body arrived in Bluffton Tues
day night on the Cleveland-St. Louis
Nickel Plate, train.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Sudden Cessation of All Crime
Would Cause Serious Eco
n0mic UpheavaI
DIR. X. E. Bushong, Superinten-
dent of Lima State Hospital,
Is Speaker

Why do men commit crime? DR..
K. E. Bushong, superintendent of
Lima State hospital for the criminal
insane gave some of the answers i'm
an address before the Lions club at
their luncheon meeting in the Wal
nut Grill Tuesday night.
Principal factors contributing to
criminal tendencies were listed by
the speaker as poverty ,unemploy-
ment, poor family life, an appeal for
easy money and for business reasons.
If by any miracle there should be
suddenly a complete end of all crime
1t would cause a greater economic
upheaval than any depression because
all the many agencies to combat law
.lessness would be useless and their
statfs out of jobs, DR.. Bushong de-
clared.
Crime and cost of controls in the
United States reaches the stipend
Gus total of $18 billion dollars every
year. There are two million major
and 20 million minor crimes commit
ted annually, he said.
During hard times, the trend is
toward crimes against property and
in prosperity most crimes are against
persons, he pointed out.
The crime rate in this country is
very low among Jews, the speaker
said principally because of the
strong ties of family life. Likewise,
little crime is noticed among Japan
ese because Of their veneration for
ancestors. Criminal violations among
the foreign-born population of this
country are three and one-half times
greater than among native born
DR.. Bushong dclared.
He also said there is more crime
in cities than in the country, altho
the rural criminal rate has been
climbing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Rites Tuesday For
Mrs. Susan Miller

Mrs. Susan Miller, 80, widow of
David C.. Miller and a former Bluff
ton resident, died at her home in
Belmore last Saturday of heart dis
ease. She had been an invalid for
IL years.
Born near Bluffton in Hancock
county, June 10, 1859, she was the
daughter of David and Mary (To-
bias) Whistler She was married in
1876 to Mr.. Miller, who died in
1882.
Survivors include two sons, How
ard, Garrett, Ind, and Carl, Lig-
gonier, Ind; a daughter, Mrs. Zoe
Rupright, Belomer; and two sisters,
Mrs. Ezra Shel1ar, Rawson, and Mrs.
Ed Ferrall, San Diego, Calf.
Funeral services were held Tues
day at Belomer Burial was in the
Clymer cemetry mar Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
TOWN SCHOOLSAND
COLLEGE TO OPEN
LABOR DAY WEEK
Public School Classes Will Begin
Fall Term on Tuesday
September 7
College Registration To Start
Same Day; Classes Will
Convene September Q

Resumption of Buttons scholastic
activity, always one of the major
events on the community calendar,
is less than one month away, with
the public schools and the college
preparing to begin their fall terms
during Labor Day week.
Bluffton High and Grade schools
will open for the new term on
Tuesday, Sept. Z, and classroom ses-
sions viii start at Bluffton college on
Thursday, Sept. 9.
4 full complement of teachers has
been engaged for the start of public
school activity, Supt. Ralph S. Ian
ham announced, and students will
report for a full schedule Of class
room activity on the opening day of
school.
Fall football practice will get
under way prior to the start of
school, with the first workout set
for August 20 under Coach Richard
@. Lowry, new Bluffton High ath-
letic director. This will permit the
team to be rounding into shape for
its first competition of the season
in the second annual Bluffton foot
ball preView set for September 10.
College Registration
Altho Bluffton college classes will
start on Thursday, Sept. 8, registra
ton will be completed in the preced-
ing days of the week, it was an
nounced by college authorities.
Freshmen will report on Friday,
Sept. 2, for registration and week
of orientation, and members of the
upper classes will begin their regis
tration on the Tuesday following
Labor Day.
Dormitories are fast filling, in
,dicating another record enrolment,
it was announced by President L, l..
Ramseyer. As for the past several
years, men again will be, guartered
in Ropp hall and women in Lincoln
nall.
Extensive alterations being made
in College hall where administrative
Offices formerly on the second floor
are being moved to the first floor
and classrooms shifted to the second
story will be completed in time for
the opening of the fall school term.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Both Sides Heading for Show
down at Next Meeting on
August IS
Charges and Counter-charges
Hurled as Issue Splits
Clubs Board

Directors Of the Bluffton Com
munity Sportsmen's club are divided
by four-foot wire fence in the first
major split in the history of the 90
year-old club enrolling some 750
members and one of the largest
groups of its kind in the state.
This became known the first of the
week as both factions were prepar-
ing for a showdown at the directors
meeting on Thursday night of next
week when the boards full member
ship of 81 is expected to attend.
. The issue of the cence which has
been essentially an intraclub row
came into the open this week as
charges and counter charges were
hurled and several directors resigna-
tions were reported in prospect.
Difficulties started at a directors
meeting June "a when a majority
voted to erect a fence at the clubs
park at the north end of Buckeye
lake as a safeguard for children.
About half of the $50 feet of field
fence had been erected when at the
next directors melting on July 20, a
voted to remove the fence
which later was done.
HAZARD FOR CHILDREN, CLAIM
Ralph Reichenbach, club secretary,
said this week that the park with
out fence constitutes a hazard for
children since water is from Is to 20
feet deep at the banks of the lake,
an abandoned stone quarry.
Aldine Kohl, ex-president of the
club said both the president and vice
president were absent at the June
directors meeting which had no
legally constituted chairman. More
over, he added, the fence as original
ly planned interfered with members
fishing. Plans are now being made,
he said, for children's play areas at
safe distance from the water en-
closed by a fence more in keeping
with other facilities of the park than
the former field fence.
According to Secretary Reichen-
bach there are 81 votes in the board
of directors as now constituted, all
of which are expected to be repre-
sented at the meeting next week.
Attendance at the two previous meet
ings was reported as only slightly
more than 10 directors necessary for
a quorum
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Golden Wedding For
Henry Habeggers

Marking the Golden Wedding an
niversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Habegger, Riley street, a family din
ner followed by an open house OBJ
servance for close relatives, will be
held Sunday at the home of their
sin-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Glen Schafer, northwest of
Benton Ridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Habegger were mar
ried on Aug. 25, 1898, at the home
of the brides parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Chris Zimmerly, west of Bluffton.
Rev. John Moser officiated.
Mr.. Habegger's parents were Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Habegger pioneer
Settlement residents.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Habegger are
IA. They have been residents of
Bluffton for the last quarter century,
moving here from north of Bluffton
where they lived on what is now the
Roy Hauenstein farm.
Living children who will join~their
parents in the Golden Wedding cele-
bration include: Mrs. Marie Hector,
McComb; Mrs. Nell Flick, Bluffton;
Mrs. Vera Schafer, Findlay rural
route; Vincent Habegger, Rawson;
D. c. Habegger, BIuffton; and Merl
Habegger, Bluffton. There are nine
grandchildren.
Mr.. Habegger has the following
living brothers and sisters: John,
Joe and Noah Habegger, all of Bluff
ton; William Habegger, Pandora !;
Isaac Habegger, Alta Iona, Calf. :
and the Misses Nancy and Susan
Habegger, both of Findlay.
Mrs. Habegger's surviving broth
ers and sisters are Leonard and
Arden Zimmerly, both of Pandora; !;
Homer Zimmerly, Bluffton; Mrs.
Caroline Augsburger, Mrs. Lavina
Habegger, Mrs. Pauline Lehman and
Mrs. Anna Amstutz, all of Pandora.
The children, brothers and sisters
of the couple will join with them in
the family dinner next Sunday, and
open house will be held from 2 to
p. m. for nieces and nephews.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-19
Rites Here Tuesday
For ". r. Steiner

N. F. Steiner, rs, a former
Bluffton college trustee, died at 1925
a. m. Sunday in his residence, three
miles west of Bluffton.
A retired farmer and breeder of
registered hogs, Mr.. Steiner had
been i'll for IL weeks.
He was born Jan. IS, 1873, in
RichIand township, the son of Abra-
ham and Mary Ann (Kohler) Stein
er. On Jan. 6, 1895, he married
Susan Gerig, who survives.
Other survivors include five daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Albert Oyer, Mrs. Adella
Oyer and Mrs. Earl Jorg, all of
Bluffton; Mrs. Harry Bertsche, Arch
bold, Ohio; and Mrs. Karl Gierman,
at home; and two sons, Nelson Stein
er, of Bluffton, and Stanley Steiner,
of Detroit.
One sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Lugin-
bill, of Ft. Wayne, Ind, IA grand
children; five step-grandchildren and
three great-step- grandchildren also
survive
Mr.. Steiner was a member of the
Evangelical Mennonite church of
Bluffton.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon in the Bluffton Meth
odist church. Rev. Eli Steiner, of
Lafayette, Ind, assisted by Rev. E,
J. Shady, of Bluffton, officiated.
Burial was in the Evangelical Men
monte cemetery northwest of Bluff
ton.