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Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Three-Duy Siege

Donora, Pa, is little mill town of
1S,5OO, II miles from Pittsburgh. It's
zinc and steel plants lining the Mo-
nongahela river provide work for most
OF the men IN town and washing for
most OF their wives. Smoke streams
from the mills day and night, forming
haze high in the air over the con-
centration of steel plants in the Pitts
burgh area.
Last weekend fog, combined with
smoke, hung over Donora like a
blanket, darkening the sun. Residents
paid it no attention at first since smog
"a combination of fog and smoke) is
not unusual during the fall when
heavy mistS roll in from the river.
Then people began finding it hard
to breathe. The towns eight doctors
were besieged by calls from asthma
and cardiac sufferers.
Soon the hospitals were iammed
with people waiting for oxygen treat
ment. People collapsed in their homes
on the streets, at emergency aid sta
tlonS. Hurried calls went out to SIR
rounding towns for inhalators and
reSpirators.
Within S6 hours the towns doctors
treated between 400 and 500 cases. A
score died and the CharIeroi-Mones-
sen and Monongahela Memorial hos
pitals were jammed with patients.
Zinc Works Closed
The State Department of Health
sent in team of chemists. The Do
nora Zinc Works closed down.
The deaths were confined to nao-
pie in their middle SOS or older. One
health expert said so far as he knew
all who died had previously been
under a physicians care for heart or
asthmatic disorders.
On the third day the fog lifted. the
sun shone through and the plague
ended.
DR.. I. Hope Alexander, PITTSBURGH
health director, said he feared an epi-
demic of pneumonia.
Il know from long experience in
Pittsburgh that whenever we had p
continuous dense fog we always had a
number of acute respiratory infec-
tiOns."
The doctor said most of the deaths
occurred within two or three blocks
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Surplus
19 Gents on the Dollar

The vast job of disposing of Amerl-
can World War II surplus overseas is
almost completed.
The Foreign Liquidation Commis-
sion reported to Robert A. Lovett.
Undersecretary of State, that SO per
cent of the planes, trucks, clothing
and other material left in the war
theaters is either sold or price-tagged.
awaiting buyers.
Property which cost over 10 billion
dollars has been sold for $1,994, ,759.-
600. This is at the rate of 10 cents on
the dollar. Payment is largely on the
installment plan.
What is left is carried on the books
at value of 178, million dollars. In
cluded are 1900 motor trucks in "poor
condition" in Austria, a barge in the
Azores, office equipment in Egypt and
ships in the Philippines. Much will
have to be written off or sold as scrap.
In most countries, October 81 was
the last date for declaring surplus
any remaining equipment. BY June 80
1t is planned to close the Liquidation
Office entirely and handle leftovers
IN permanent government agencies.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
SideIiahts

9 japanese will travel in their first
sleeping cars in six years after No
vember IL. Sleepers were taken off
trains during the war as an economy
measure; since the surrender thew
have been reserved for occupational
personnel The first two sleepers will
be on the Tol1yo-Osaka run.
9 In Fort Worth, Tex, a veterinarian
whose finger was bitten off by a mule.
lost $4,000 damage suit.
. In st. Louis, Mrs. Mildred Profit
surprised prowler in her home and
gasped out her false teeth. The thief
snatched them in midair and made
good his escape.
. In belt-tightened London. a 1aborer
was fined for hitting his daughter
after she dropped an egg.
. In hospital at Ballymena, Ireland.
two pounds Of straw were removed
from the stomach of a meditative
4rishman who liked to chew on q
wisp while thinking.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
One-Man Victory AGAINST Odds

DRESIDENT TRUMAN, who
1 refused to accept the pollsters'
mo" for an answer, defeated Gov.
Dewey in the closest presidential
election since 1916.
His spirited fight against the
record of the Both do nothing"
Congress and Republicans as "the
party of privilege" swept in Demo-
cratic majorities to both the House
and Senate.
The vote constitutes one of the
most stunning upsets in national DO
itical history. 1t also amounts vir-
tually to a One-man victory.
The Democratic Party which had
carried President Roosevelt to an un-
precedented four terms was split be-
hind Mr.. Truman. The South had its
own States Rights Party. Henry WAL
lace, a former Democratic Vice Presi-
dent, was supposed to have siphoned
of New Deal supporters.
Convention Feuds
The Philadelphia convention pre-
saged anything but a happy CAM
palgn. Big city politicians and a group
OF Independents tried unsuccessfully
to draft Gen. Eisenhower. Supreme
Court Justice William Douglas turned
down chance to run.
Mr.. Truman got the nomination al
most grudgingly. The South took a
walk over the civil rights plank that
northern Liberals insisted on putting
in the platform.
Sen. Alben Barkley was a compro-
mise choice for the Vice Presidential
nomination and he was rumored un-
happy at accepting the honor which
like biscuits had been passed around
until they were cold"
Public opinion polls indicated Gov.
Dewey running far ahead as the cam
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Industry
Harmony in Glass

N'IHOIlI UI GIQSS
The National Planning Association
is a nonprofit, nOnpolitical association
devoted to planning in America. One
Oh It's committees, studying the causes
OF good labor relations, has finished a
survey Of the plate glass industry
once bedeviled by strikes and Sit
downs.
Since the last big strike in 1945.
there has been harmony between the
Libby y-Owens-Ford Glass Co. and the
ClO-FederatiOn Of Glass, Ceramic and
Silica Sand Workers. Since then, the
survey found, company profits have
gone up and SO has workers pav.
More important than that, the COM
mlttee found, both management and
union seem to have found a formula
TOR working together. It may be ap-
pllcable, the committee feels, to other
mass production industries.
After the last big strike-a 13-week
shutdown over the first round of post
war wage demands-both sides shook
hands and said, in effect: Lets never
let that happen again."
The NPA committee of 29 labor
relations experts headed by Clinton s.
Golden, formerly of the CIO-SteeI-
workers, believes that promise has
been kept. They noted these day-to-
day relationships:
The company accepted the union
and the union kept out of manage
ment affairs. Top people did the bar
gaining, stunning '1egalism," and ne
gOtiations dealt with concrete prob
lens instead of abstract principles.
One of the unions big goals is boost
ing production.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
RedsCUnI I
Halt ECA
DAUL G. HOFFMAN, head Of

DAUL G. HOFFMAN, head of
i the Economic Cooperation
Administration, predicts that the
'MoscOw-directed" French coal
strike may be Russia's last big
try at preventing European re-
cOVery.
Just back from a European survey,
Hoffman thinks that Russia probably
will continue its attempts to hamper eff
ficiency Of the American foreign aid
program but he called the French coal
strike 'its last determined effort"
From now on, he believes, Commu-
mist ability to halt recovery will wane.
He said the trend in Europe has been
reversed and is now against Russia.
Reds Lose Ground
There is no country in Europe" he
pointed out, "Where there is a free vote
in which the Communists have not lost
ground"
He recommended that the United
States take advantage of this trend bv
spending 6 the entire $5,055, 100000
European recovery appropriation in IL
months instead Of Is.
By spending heavily now to turn the
tide toward recovery, he believes, the
U. s. will be able to spend less during
the next fiscal years (July l, 1949 to-
July l, 1950).
Reports from all ECA missions in all
countries show that they are making
good their pledges Of self help and mu-
tual aid, he said.
The ECA announced approval of
$l4,923,898 Marshall Plan shipments
to Austria, Belgium. Denmark, Greece,
Italy. Ireland, France, the Netherlands
and China. This brought the total of
ECA grants to date to $2,519, ,765,454
Soviet Trade Balance
Russia will wind up 1948 Shipping
more goods to the United States than
It buys from American manufacturers.
1t IS a direct result of the cold war.
What appears to be a favorable
trade balance for the Soviet Union re-
fleets an American policy to seeing to
1t that no potential war goods are
shlpped to Russia or her satellite
countries.
During the first half of this year.
American imports from the Soviet
Union amounted to $36,548, 900, COM
pared with exports to Russia and her
satellites of $24, 10000.
In August, the last month for which
records are available, Russian ship
ments to the United States were worth
about seven times what she was able
to get from America.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Germany
New Production Records

Industrial production in western
Germany has risen to another new
postwar record. Output in the British
and American zones (Bizonia) has in-
creased about "a per cent since cur
rency reform was inaugurated last
June, according to the American Mil
itary Government.
Postwar records were set in every
industrial group except coal.
The report says BiZonia's industrial
gains now are leveling off and the
economy is entering a new phase.
further improvement will be contin-
gent upon higher production and bet
ter utilization Of coal and electric
power.
The Berlin airlift continued with
the Americans encountering their first
heavy fog, which restricted service az
Templehof Airdrome. The U. s. now
is flying fOur-eLgine transports exc
cIuSlVely on the Berlin-Frankfurt run
and rushing completion of ground
control approach systems for blind
landings at Templehof.
AMG imposed a curfew at Stutt.
sdtt a1Ler last weeks riots in which
German crowds clashed with AmeriI
can soldiers for the first time since
the war. The curfew brought back re-
strlctions that prevailed at the close
Of the war.
Meanwhile, the Soviet-led German
Peoples Council issued a declaration
demanding a peace treaty wit "an
alderman government" under which
all occupational forces would be with
drawn within year after signing Of
the treaty.
Western authorities consider this
an attempt to embarrass the western
powers. 1t advances a Russian pro-
posal, made several months ago at a
Warsaw conference of eastern foreign
ministers, for an early withdrawal Oe
all occupying forces.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

ment after the loss of Mukden. Man.
churia's greatest city.
october proved the blackeSt month
for Chiang's armies in the history of
the Chinese civil war. The Reds in
this period captured Mukden. Chang.
chun and Chinchow in Manchuria
and Tsinan, Chefoo, Kaifeng and
Chengchow in China proper, besides
scores of towns and villages.
MOckery of US. Truce
Israeli troops are in control of all
northern Palestine after a two-dav
blitz, driving remnants of the Arab
liberation army" of Fawzi Pasha AL
Kaukji out of Galilee across the
Lebanese border.
The Jewish victory in the north.
coupled with the impressive Negeh
triumph in the south over Egypt.
has secured more than ever the new
states borders. The campaigns made
a mockery of the United Nations
truce.
The main strength of the South
Korean revolt, believed Communist
directed, has been put down but saw
age guerrilla attacks are expected
sporadically throughout the winter.
Many rebels fed to the Birren Noun
tains with their weapons.
1919 May Be Rebels
American advisers say that I'D to
10 per cent (5,GOO) of the Korean
armed forces are potential insurgents.
giving secret allegiance either to the
Soviet sponsored north Korean Com
muniSt government or to southern ex-
treme rightists.
In Greece, King Paul persuaded
the government headed by Premier
ThemiStokles Sophoulis not to resign
after a cabinet crisis. Guerrilla action
in the north continued even while
the United Nations discussed the
Greek case at Paris.
In Indonesia, Musso, the Moscow
trained IndOnesian Communist leader
was reported killed in a brush with
the new republics forces. Musso had
led a band of rebels who captured
Madden, the republics third largest
CITY. in September.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Balkans
Tightening Tito Line

Tightening Tito Line
Yugoslavia may be ready to drop
the pretenSe Of good relations with
the Cominform countries.
Belgrade IS reported almost unani-
nous in the belief that the patience
OF Premier Marshal Tito has been
stretched to the breaking point by
the latest expulsion of Yugoslav din
lomats from Hungary.
Up to now Tito has hesitated to
break with the COminform (Commu-
MIST International Information Bu-
reau) because he did not want Yugo-
slavia identified with the anti-Soviet
west.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

objections to him personally and that
1t would be possible for him to visit
the U. S. under different sponsorship,
the 74-year-old churchman hufily re-
fused.
Il hope to go to America" he said
then, when Mr.. Wallace is President,
as think he is sure to be-"
But since August, the REQ Dean has
had change of mind, though not of
heart. He accepted the offer of a
group of American religious and edu-
cational leaders to sponsor his tour.
The group is headed by DR.. Ralph
Barton Perry of Harvard University.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

graphlcal spread while the Truman
Barkley ticket was concentrated in
the east and midwest.
Republicans Were Confident
The Republicans were supremely
confident. Gov. Dewey and Gov.
Warren campaigned on a lofty plane.
refusing to debate specific issues.
They preached a doctrine of unity
and competence and talked almost
sympathetically of the tired, old
men" in the Administration.
President Truman doggedly set out
to give 'em help at every whistle
stop and hamlet" from coast to coast.
He called the 80th Republican Con-
gress zone of the worst in history
and cited its record on price con-
trolls, housing, labor, social security.
He accused Republicans of being
front men for big business and spe-
cial interests.
Before he wound up Election Eve.
MIR. Truman had Travelled 31,5OO
miles, made 351 speeches and shaken
more than 100000 hands.
When the returns began to come in
Tuesday night, Herbert Brownell, the
COP campaign manager, predicted a
Dewey landslide. Through the night
at regular intervals, his predictions
grew more and more modest.
At 11:15 am. Wednesday, Gov.
Dewey conceded.
The power and responsibility of the
American people in world affairs
never was emphasized so unmistak-
ably as by the freezing of United
Nations activity during the days be-
fore the election.
Despite the absence of any impor-
tant cleavage between Democrats and
republicans on foreign policy, world
diplomats sat back and waited.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
In Short

Resolved: By the American Coun-
Gil of Christian Churches in conven-
ton at Philadelphia, to call upon
Representatives of the freedomilov-
ing nations for a complete and frank
showdown with Russia"
Jailed: By a Romanian military
tribunal, II Romanians from is years
to life, on charges of plotting with
American and British representatives
to overthrow the ROmanian govern
ment.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

Qenled a pa SpOrt I
by the State De-
partment last Au-
gust. At that time
his lecture tour was
to be sponsored by
National Council of
Americ an - Soviet
Friendship, which
is on the attorney
generals list of sub
versive organiza-
tiOnS.
Informed then
that the State De-
partment had no
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Quotes

George Bernard Shaw: "People
who al not fundamentally COM
munist IA not civilized"
President Truman, explaining
why he enjoyed travelling 31,5OO
miles and shaking hands with
10000 people during the cam
paign: 'The President is the
most important prisoner in the
world. The White House is the
finest Jail in the world"
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Strife &c BJOOdshed
In Postwar World

QNFiEE and violence beat tattoo this in the worlds
trouble spo emma, Palestine Korea, Greece and Indonesa
luton. - - 0N-SSS' "4lse-aay EeVO~
China must accept the lesson defeat bv the Communists and
light on GeneraSsmo Chang Kashek told his Nation
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People
Enfer fhe Red Dean

DR.. Hewlett Johnson, the Red Dean
OF Canterbury, is finally being al
lowed to enter the United States for
lecture tour because he changed his
mind.
The British cleric, an outstanding
exponent of Soviet philosophy, was
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

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graphical spread while the Truman
Barkley ticket was concentrated in
the east and midwest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-29
EBENEZER MENNONITE

EBENEZER MENNONITE
1.-TWO miles west of BIuffton)
Rev. Howard T. Landes, Pastor
Thursday
s P. M. Prayer and Bible study
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school, Phares Bixel,
Supt.
1890 Morning worship
7:30 C. E. programs
$40 Evening service
Gideon speaker, John Tosh.
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Security board, and used throughout
the Western hemisphere.
Ohio won't need to greatly change
its system to conform. Numbers now
are assigned to newly born babies by
the state, but beginning next year
0hio's code numbers will be added,
plus the year of birth.
Ohio's code number will be 134,
and the first baby born in Ohio
after January / will get a number
beginning with that set of figures. A
dash follows; then the year 40. The
last six digits are for the birth
number now in use. Thus the baby's
number would be 134-49-000001.
All state code numbers will begin
with 1, which stands for the United
States. Canada's number is 2, and
Mexico's 3.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

Sunday services at 1890 a. m.
Subject: Everlasting Punishment.
Testimonial meeting at 7:30 We'd
nesday evening.
The reading room at the church is
open every Wednesday from 700 to
7:30 p. m. The public is invited to
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-29
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. V. T. Monk, Pastor
$3.50 a. m. Sunday school
EVANGELICAL & REFORMED
CHURCHES

&AF a.
CHURCHES
V. G. 0ppermann, Minister
EmmanueI's:
$3.50 a. m. Morning worship
10:30 a. m. Church school
The choir of the church meets for
rehearsal on Thursday evening of
this week at p. m. All be present.
Catechism instruction Saturday
morning at 9:30 a. m.
The Consistory will meet at the
church on Monday evening at 500
o'clock.
Rural Life Sunday will be observ-
ed in the services on Sunday. A
basket dinner will be held at Rich
land Grange at noon with a program
in afternoon. All members of the
church are invited
The Mems Glee club of Ft. Wayne
Bible Institute will give a sacred
concert on Sunday evening at 7:30
in the High School auditorium. This
is a Union service and all are invit-
ed.
st. Johns:
$3.50 a. m. Church school
10:45 a IN. Morning Worship
Choir rehearsal on Thursday at
500 o'clock.
Catechism instruction Saturday at
$3.50 a. m.
The Mother-D Daughter meeting of
the Women's Guild will be held on
Monday in the church basement
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Union evening services on Sunday
evening at 1880 p. m. in the High
School auditorium. See details in
this issue.
Indian Lake Regional meeting Of
Women's Guild on Tuesday at St.
Paul's church New Bremen, Ohio.
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Babies Born Here Next Year Will
Be Numbered Uniformly By State

Every baby born in Bluffton after
next January l will get new-type
serial number under a numbering
system adopted by the state to fit a
national plan.
Numbers assigned to babies after
that date will tell the year he was
born, the state in which birth oc-
Cured and include his own birth
number.
w. H. Veigel, chief of the state
division of vital statistics, said the
new plan is one recently adopted by
the State Registrars association, in
the hope of establishing national
uniformity in the registering Of
births.
1t is expected that the plan even
tually will be adopted by the Social
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Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Boutwell, and
son Michael spent Sunday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lafferty
of Arlington.
Miss Judy Mathewson of Ada
spent the weekend with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Byrl Mathew
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES

The Rev. E. n. Bigelow, Pastor
Rural Life Sunday will be observ-
ed in both churches this Sunday.
Rockport:
Special guests are the Pleasant
Grange of Columbus Grove. A full
program is planned:
Morning Worship 9:30
Church School 10:30
Mr.. Lawrence Begg, Supt.
Basket dinner 1890
Afternoon program 2 p. m.
Button:
Church School 9:45
Daniel J. Alspach, Supt.
Morning Worship 11:00
Meeting for new members 4 p. m,
downstairs in the church.
Union Church Service, 8 p. m. in
the high school auditorium, with the
Mems Glee Club of the Fort Wayne
Bible Institute giving a sacred con-
cert.
The Women's Missionary Society
meet usually planned for this coming
Tuesday is postponed until Tuesday,
May II, in the evening.
Church Party for young and old,
on Thursday, this week, May 90, 8
p. M, downstairs in the church. For
all members and friends of the
church. Special feature: "The Pres.
byterian Quiz Kids"
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East Orange

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hiets of
Lima, Mr.. and Mrs. George Wagner,
S. T. Gorby were Sunday dinner
guests recently of Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Wagner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Dorman of
Bowling Green, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Leiber and sons spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Estes Sanders, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ferd Morris and sons.
Callers in the Rayon Boutwell,
home the past week were, Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis LugibihI of Bluffton,
Miss Dorothy Long of Lima, Harry
Amstutz of Harrod, Mr.. and Mrs
w. NJ. Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. B. J.
Boutwell,, Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd Morris
and sons Joe and Ted, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Marquart and daughters, Mrs.
Harry Marshall and Mrs. Virgil
Frantz, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Potts
and daughters of Bluffton.
Master John Boehm who under
went an operation at the Findlay
Hospital last Monday is improving
nicely.
Miss Helen Ann Tripplehorn of
Findlay spent the weekend with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Boutwell,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman of
Bucyrus, Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Smith
and daughters Ann and Jane, Mr.
and Mrs. c. NJ. Heldman spent Sun.
day evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Ker-
NIT Boehm and family.
all services and to visit the reading
room.
This society is a branch of The
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
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son and family. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Heldman and
Charles were Sunday dinner guests
of Mrs. Katie Neff of Jenera.
Stephen Boehm is spending d
couple of weeks with Mr.. and Mrs
Ezra Heldman of Bucyrus.
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EVANGELICAL MENNONITE
e. ]. Shady, Pastor

Thursday
8 P. M. Prayer meeting and Bible
study.
Sunday
9:3O Sunday school. c. D. Diller,
Supt.
1880 Morning Worship
There will be no evening service
in the church Sunday evening. All
are urged to attend the Sacred Con-
cert in the High School auditorium
Remember the Youth For Christ
Rally, Saturday at 8 p. m. in the
High School auditorium. Full partic-
ulars elsewhere in this paper.
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Supt. Glasses for all ages.
1890 The Worship service
$3.50 Christian Endeavor
1880 Union service. Ft. Wayne
Bible Institute. Mems Glee Club;
High School auditorium.
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FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH
]. n. Smucker, Pastor
Thursday:
7:15 Choir rehearsal
3:15 Bible study
Sunday
9:30 Sunday school; Carl Smucker,
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IN Ohe
Churches
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Paul III. Cramer, Pastor

Rev. Paul II. Cramer, Pastor
Sunday school $3.50 a. m.
Morning worship 1890 a, m.
Sermon by the pastor.
Special music by Senior choir.
Knight Templars from Findlay
will attend this service in observance
of Ascension Day.
M. Y. F. 6:3O p. m.
Wednesday p. m. w. S. C. S.
Study group.
Thursday-Senior choir practice
Friday after school-Junior choir
practice.