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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14
Twas This Way
BY LYLE SPENCER

q Western Newspaper Union.

a HUNDRED years ago, the busi-
ness of posting letters was an
expensive and difficult job. In the
first place, there was no such thing
as an adhesive postage stamp. And
even worse, there was no such thing
as modern envelope.
In those days, when travel was
slow and hazardous, relatively few
people ever had occasion to write
letters. The few who did, wrote
their messages on one side of the
note paper only, and carefully
wrapped it up SO that none of the
writing showed. Then they either
paid the postman directly, or sent
it postage collect. The reason en-
Velopes were so seldom used was
because an extra charge was made
for any paper, no matter how small
when wrapped up in another.
A few wrappers that might be
called envelopes had been used in
France early in the Seventeenth
century, and a few were sold in
England as early as 1880. But the
first American to manufacture en-
velopes was named Pierson, who in
1889 began to sell them in his Full
ton Street Stationer's shop in New
York City.
The United States mail service
has come long way since those
early times. The Pony express,
which numbered Buffalo Bill among
its brave riders, was a thrilling if
brief interlude. The first time mail
was carried on a railroad train
marked the beginning of new era
in communication. And the way
that our modernized Uncle Sam de-
livers literally billions of pieces of
mail annually with efficiency and
speed is a tribute to our unexcelled
form of government.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF JULY 25, 1918

and Miss Naomi Wilson have left fol
Wash, D. c., where they have entered
IN the civil service,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Geiger, daugh-
ter Marguerite and son Ivan and
Mrs. J. S. Steiner and daughters
Sonnie, Geneva and Josephine, left
on motor trip to kitchner, Ontario,
where they will visit E. B. Betzner
and family. They will return by the
way OF Niagara Falls.
Stanley Geiger is employed at the
overland factory at Detroit.
The following young men from the
Ebenezer church left for Camp Jack
son, S. c.: Aldine Roethlisberger,
waldo Diller, William Grismore, Hi
ram Neuenschwander, Edwin Am
stutz, Cyrus Burkholder, Cyrus
Steiner, Harvey Garmatter, Calvin
Deppler, Amos Tscheigg, Elmer Dill
Ter, Harvey Burkholder, Alvin Burk-
holder.
Pearl Geiger and Fred Bixel from
the church We're called to service pre-
Viously. The latter died while in
camp.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14
Summer Glasses
VIII Begin Nay 81

Summer courses at Bluffton col
lege, given in four, three-week sec
tions, will begin May 31st.
Tentative courses are as follows:
First Section-Bird Lore and His
tory of Russia.
Second Standardization Psy-
chology, Human Physiology and
Greek. Greek will extend over a six
week period.
Third Section-A Bible Course and
Native Trees.
Fourth Section-Christian Ethics,
Geography, Sociology 2, and a Music
Course.
Registration date will be set later.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14

Students raked the lawns, washed
windows, painted, put on screens
cleaned trunk rooms, etc.
Picnic benches, and a new fire
place We're constructed at Beaver
burg and the garden was plowed.
Horseshoe pits were built, and
library tables had all pencil marks
removed. The roof, floor and found
alton of the Y cabin were all recon
ditioned.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14
Students MOUe Trees
During Ciean-Up Day

Moving trees from the new gym
site to various parts of the campus
was an unusual project undertaken
during Bluffton college cleanup day
last Thursday. Evergreens, noun
tain ash, and others were dug, and
transplanted.
The entire campus and buildings
were cleaned by the student body.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14
Tuition And Room,
Rent Up At College

Changes in the rate of room rent,
tuition and the activity fee were
made at the Bluffton College Board
of Trustees meeting April |.
Tuition and room rent were raised
S. per semester while the activity
fee will be $1I50 instead of the
present 5000; the entire amount be-
ing used by the various campus or
ganizations.
Final plans for construction of the
new neutrality-suspicious. were also
approved by the Board. The new
building will be located parallel to
Lincoln Hall and Science Hall and
will provide ample space for 300
parked cars in the rear
Present plans provide for a glass
front on the south side of the build
ing with the remaining part being
constructed of concrete block with
brick facing. The gym will seat
400 on permanent b1eachers and an
additional 900 on the stage. Lava
tories, shower rooms, dressing rooms,
athletic instructor offices, and two
classrooms will be located on the
second floor.
Groundbreaking ceremonies are be-
ing planned as part of commence
ment week activities.
Further discussion at the meeting
centered about the purchase of a
new boiler for the heating plant.
A committee was appointed to in
vestigate the matter.
Present officers were reelected
for the coming year. J. S. Slabaugh
is president while Z. w. Baumgart-
ner is vice president. Secretary and
treasurer are Jerry sauder and Carl
Lehman, respectively.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14

AT present there are 10 million
persons in the United States past
the age of 65; sociologists expect
this figure to double by 1880.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-04-14

News want ads bring results.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Search On for Flyers
Over Atlantic
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Sept. ia small
single-engine plane is missing to-
night on planned non stop flight
from the Azores to New York.
American and Canadian search
planes famed out over the At
lantic in a widespread hunt for
the plane.
The little plane-a modified
Beechcraft Bonanza-carried two
italian aviators who took of from
the Azores at 6:13 am. (EDT)
yesterday. They hoped to land at
La Guardia Field-2,000 miles
away-at dawn today.
The plane was piloted by John
M. Brondello and Camillio Bariog-
lio. They had loaded aboard suffi-
cient fuel to keep their craft aloft
through 10 am. today, under nor
NAL flying conditions.
The intensive aerial search be-
gan <about 10 hours after the
missing flyers made their last ra-
dio report to the Civil Aeronautics
Administration control tower here.
At that time, the Italian air.
men fixed their position at about
$40 miles northeast Of New York
and 180 miles south Of Newfound-
land. They were flying in a
drizzling rain.
The flyers reportedly carried a
five-man infiatable liferaft and
equipment for firing distress flares
In the event Of an emergency
"ditching" at sea. They also were
believed to have an emergency
portable radio transmitter.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Big 3 Reach Accord
On Program 10 Check
Far East Communism
ey the Assoeioted Pres,

Secretary of State Acheson,
British Foreign Secretary Bevin
and French Foreign Minister
Schuman reached agreement yes
terday on plans to check the
spread of Communism in the Far
East.
They announced accord after a
Commute conference at the
State Department which wound
up a detailed Big Three survey
of pressing cold war political is
sues facing the West.
In their final exchange dealing
with the Far East, a brief COM
Fmuniaue said. the three found
that their views on existing situa-
tons and the methods by which
they might be met were in
accord"
There were no further details.
In that region, Frances most
urgent concern is with continued
turmoil in Indo-C China. Mr.. Schu-
man asked for the final meeting
after he had gone over European
and Balkan problems with the
American and British leaders.
Schuman Optimistic.
On the outlook in Indo- China,
Mr.. Schuman told reporters he
was almost always optimistic"
and refused to add further to the
guarded words Of the communique.
The wind-up session freed Sec
retary AcheSon for a quiet Sunday
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Edison Grandson, 18, Victim
Of Fall on Glacier in Austria

of the great inventor. His mother
the former Madeleine Edison. is
the daughter of Thomas A. Edi-
son by his second wife, Mrs. Nina
Miller Edison. His mother said
she feared something like this
would happen"
Police at Heiligenblut who dis
covered young Sloane's body. re-
constructed events Of last Sunday
as follows:
Young Sloane, who had been
staying in the American occupa-
ton zone, hired a private car to
take him to resort hotel half
way up Glockner. From
there. he apparently tried to climb
further up the mountain.
He stopped on long, icy ridge,
took OF his heavy sweater. and
lay down to rest. Then, police
believed, he either slipped or was
pushed by a small landslide into
a deep creyice.
Police found one of his shoes
at the bottom Of the crevice. A
trail Of blood marked his tor
turous path back up its icy sides
The body was found on small
ledge of Pasterzen Glacier. He
had suffered severe head injuries
and q broken foot.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
BY the Assoe;otsd Press

VIENNA. Austria, Sunday, Sept.
18.-Michael Edison Sloane. 18-
year-old grandson of Inventor
Thomas A. Edison. lost a gallant
fight for his life on a wind-swept
Alpine glacier in Southern Austria
last week.
: Police said the youth survived
an 80-foot fall into crevice on
Gross -Glockner, Austria's highest
peak, only to die later of exposure.
The cause of his death was off,
cially listed as freezing and loss
of blood.
Young Sloane was reported
missing last Sunday after he dis
appeared from a tourist party on
a conducted visit to the 12.600-
foot mountain. An Austrian
search party found his body yes
terday at the foot Of Pasterzen
glacier in the British Occupation
Zone.
The youth, student of arch
aeology and art, was the son Of
John E. Sloane and a nephew
Of Charles Edison. former COVER
nor Of New Jersey. His home was
in Llewellyn Park. West Orange.
N. j.
He was the youngest grandson
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Death Toll in Ship Fire Near 200;
Search for Bodies Still Continues
In BIackened Hull at TORONTO Pier
400 Scramble to
Sofety as Flames
Sweep Vessel
By the Ak.oeioted Press

TORONTO, Ont. Sept. IT.
Nearly 200 shipboard holiday
makers, most of them Americans.
died in a raging night fire that
swept flames and panic through
the Canadian pleasure cruiser
Noronic in just a few minutes.
early today.
Awakened by screams and
smoke, more than 400 others
scrambled or jumped to safety
through the flames that turned
the 36-year-old Great Lakes
queen into a blackened, sunken
hulk at her dock here.
Mayor Hiram McCallum esti-
mated the death toll at "close to
ZOO" But an exact count was
unlikely for days. Many of the
survivors scattered after the trag-
edy. Some of the victims were
believed trapped in the twisted
ship that sank onto the harbor
bottom in % feet Of water.
III Bodies Gathered.
At midafternoon police said 100
bodies had been recovered, but
only lit had been gathered in
an emergency morgue tonight and
authorities withdrew the earlier
estimate. The ship carried 511
passengers and crew of ITO.
The Canadian Press-from un-
co-ordinated reports by police. the
Red Gross and hospitals-esJi-
mated that about 80 besides the
lit known dead were unaccounted
for.
Toronto hospitals and first-aid
stations at two hotels counted 189
injured, Is of them seriously.
Canada Steamship Lines owns
the 6,905-ton cruise ship.
Worst Since 1847.
1t was the worst Great Lakes
ship fire disaster In more than
a century. The only such fire in
which more lives were lost was
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Broad Examination
OF D. T.. Government
Planned by Nicely
Senator Doesn't Expect
To Stop With Clinic;
Seeks Model CopitoI
By Don S. Worren

A broad examination" into op-
Grafton of the District government
was planned last night by Chair
man Neely of the Senate District
Committee as a follow-up on his
current series of citizens clinics on
legislation.
From his home at Fairmont,
w. Va, Senator Nicely confirmed
reports that he would set the COM
mittee staff to work promptly to
gather information.
The West Virginia Democrat,
who succeeded former Senator Nc
Grath at the helm Of the commit
tee. said he would not call the ex-
animation IAN Investigation" and
added that he had no particular
department in mind.
Reported Foe of Barrett.
Reports on Capitol Hill had
been to the effect that Senator
Nicely did not think too well of
Maj. Robert j. Barrett. superin-
tendent of police, and it was re-
called there that earlier this year
Senator Neely spoke out sharply
against confirmation Of John Rus
sell. Young for fourth term as
Commissioner.
In an interview with a reporter
of The Star last night, Senator
Neely said II do not expect to
stop" with the citizens confer
ence scheduled for next Tuesday
as perhaps the last of the round
tables.
Il want to get all the informa-
ton I can," he said, so that the
District Committee can be of the
fullest possible service in help
ing to make Washington the
model capital it should be-"
He indicated he will move soon
for the employment of perhaps
several additional staff members.
including professional assistants,
to help gather the desired infor-
nation. There are several open
spots on the present staff, where
four professional aides may be
employed at s10,330 a year. There
now are only two in this salary
class.
Seeks Data on All Units.
Several witnesses during last
weeks legislative clinics urged the
committee to make an investiga-
Evening star., 1949-09-18

in 1847, when the steamship
Phoenix burned in Lake Michigan
with PAT dead.
The Noronic death toll. however.
was only one-fifth that of the
steamer General Slocum which
burned in New York's East River
on June Is, 1904, with a loss of
1921 lives. The worst disaster
on the Great Lakes occurred when
the excursion steamer Eastland
capsized in the Chicago River
July "a, 1915, with loss of 812
lives,
The sister ship of the Noronic,
the Harmonic, burned on July IT.,
1945, at Point Edward near Sar-
mia, but unlike the Noronic, all
but one of the 325 passengers and
crew were saved.
Dominion and city authorities
began investigations into the
blaze.
As the Canadian Department of
Transport ordered an immediate
Investigation. X. r. Marshall,
Canada Steamship Lines presi-
dent, said he had determined "be-
yond any reasonable doubt" that
(Continued on Page A-4. Col. II
Evening star., 1949-09-18
BY Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

My Sweetie, a rejuvenated Gold
Cup boat that managed to finish
only one heat of the President S
Cup race here a year ago, yester-
day set a ord-breaking pace for
five other Gold Cuppers to win
the opening heat of the Presi-
dents Cup Regatta off Hains
Point. An estimated crowd OF
81 900 saw the races.
Forty one-year-old Bill Cantrell
of Louisville, KY. drove the Alli-
empowered My Sweetie to a new
Presidents Cup lap record Of 83.1s
miles an hour and a l5-mile hea,
record of 1854 miles. On the
straight-awsy. @Contrell gunneC
the boat at better than 100 miles
an hour.
The most interested spectator
was Horace Dodge. wealthy De.
troit sportsman, who purchased
Evening star., 1949-09-18
NY SWeetie Sets Two Records
Before 81, 1000 Regatta Fans
Dodee's Racer Is Easy Winner Of First Heat,
With FinoI Two Scheduled This Afternoon

My Sweetie from a Detroit syndi-
cate in July.
If Cantrell wins the remaining
heats slated at 2:30 and 4 pm.
today. he will have made a grand
slam of Americas Gold Cup races
this year. He drove My Sweetie
to win the Detroit Gold Cup and
Silver Cup events and the Ma
tional Sweepstakes at Red Bank,
N. j.
Three quarters of mile behind
the mahogany-hulle winner was
Jack Schafer's Such Crust I OF
Detroit. driven by Lou Fageol OF
Kent. Ohio. This boat won the
Presidents Cup a year ago with
Dan Arena at the wheel. He set
lap and heat records then, only
to have them fall yesterday.
Arena yesterday was at the
wheel of Schafer's Such Crust II
which had not been raced before
He placed third-a performance
Continued on Page B-I Col
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Lord Tedder, Chief Of Raj,
Due Here Today for Tour

Air Marshal Lord Tedder, chief
of staff of the British Royal Air
Force. was scheduled to arrive at
National Airport at 1880 am.
today for an inspection of United
States Air Force installations.
He will visit this country en-
route to Canada and remain here
for approximately three weeks,
the Air Force said.
1t added that Gen. Hoyt c. VAN
denberg. Air Force chief of staf1.
extended the invitation to Lord
Tedder to inspect air installations
here.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Democrats Mysiified
By Hurry-up Wires to
Attend House Session
6. O. P. Tokes No Chances
And Matches Coils to Be
On Hand Wednesday
BY the Associoted Press

MyStif1ed House Democrats
prodded by hurry-back kilograms
from their leaders prepared yes
terday for possible legislative sur
prises or trouble when they re-
turn Wednesday after a months S
vacation.
The Republicans didn't know
what was up either. They were
taking no chances. They'll get
out matching wires to their men,
bers telling them to be on time.
Ordinarily, the high command
doesn't rally the Democratic clans
by telegram unless something big
is on tap.
Yet nobody seemed to have any
idea what it might be. Some
thought 1t didn't mean a thing
but a way to make sure enough
members showed up to do busi-
ness.
Financial Business Piled Up.
The House has the job of clean
ing up financial business that
piled up during the layoff. There's
an October l deadline on that.
So far as the records indicate,
the main effort will be to push
three big appropriation bills un-
der the wire.
But some members are worrying
q bit that something else is up.
Unless there is. they can't figure
out why Speaker Rayburn and
Majority Leader Mccormack sent
this telegram to all Democrats:
1--WE think 1t important that
you be present when the House
convenes on Wednesday. septem-
Der 81. Best regards"
The legislators knew when they
knocked OF work last August 26
that they were supposed to be
back September 81. But word got
around there wouldn't be much
doing that day and there was no
real need to return before the
following Monday.
"Just Courtesy Telegram"
Then along came the Rayburn-
McC cCormack summons.
"Just a courtesy telegram" was
the way Representative Cox, Dem
ocrat, Of Georgia. described it.
Mr.. Cox has been acting Speaker
at token sessions twice q week
during the vacation.
Some Southern Democrats won-
dered whether there might be q
maneuver to ram through the
House q bill creating q permanent
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission to combat racial discrim-
In the hiring Of workers.
But other members said the
party leadership couldn't afford
to run any trick plays with that
hill
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Assassination Plans
Described by Two in
Hungary treason Iria!
Night Of Terror Planned
In Killing OFF Top Reds.
Defendants Testify
BY the Associated Press

BUDAPEST. Hungary. Sept. II.
Plans for a night of terror in
which Hungarian and Yugoslav
plotters were to kill key Commu-
hists and seize the government
were related by two treason trial
defendants here today,
Lazar Brankov, 37-year- -old
counsellor of the Yugoslav En-
bsssy in Budapest, testified that
officials of Premier-Marshal Tito's
regime decided last October that
peaceful methods were not enough
to convert Hungary into a Yugo-
slav satellite and "other methods
should be used"
These other methods, he said,
included the dispatch of "two ex-
perts in political murder" to Bu-
dapest to shadow the Communist
chieftains and kill them when
the evolt signal was given.
Yugoslavia has denounced the
trial in advance as a fake. Eight
men. headed by Laszlo Rajk, are
up before a five-judge peoples
court on charges of treason and
espionage.
Brankov and 1t. Gen. Gyorgy
Palffy made public confessions
today before the court, speaking
with the same alacrity Rajk dis
played yesterday. .Brankov plead
ed partly guilty" Palffy said
guilty" Palffy was commander
of Hungary's army.
The paunchy general, 40. testi-
fed he had maneuvered Hungar-
ian army affairs In an effort to
support the plot. He said he
hoped the revolt would lead to
creation Of a Western type cap
italist democracy"
Supporting the governments
charge that Britain and the
United States were involved,
Brankoy said all the secret in
formation obtained by Yugosla-
Was Hungarian agents was turned
over to the American legation
here and leading Yugoslavs also
exchanged information with their
British counterparts.
Both he and the general said
Alexander Rankovic. Interior Min
lister and police chief Of Marshal
Tito's Yugoslav government, was
the brains behind the plans for
assassination Of key Communists
and revolution as part Of move
to pull the Balkans from the
Soviet sphere.
Brankov charged that Allen w.
Dulles, wartime head Of the Office
of Strategic Services in Europe
during World War II. was linked
with the purported plot. He said
Winston Churchill, Britain's war
time Prime Minister. sought early
Continued on Page Az. Col. -
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Bridge
At East Capitol Street
Urged as Vital Need
Highway Planners Favor
New Site Rother Thon
Massachusetts, Ave. Spon
By Hurriet Griffiths

Extension of East Capitol street
by a $10,0o0,000 bridge over the
Anacostia River to fill an "im-
mediate, vital need" is recon-
mended in a study prepared by
the District Department of High
ways and released by the Com
missioners last night.
The report on highway bridge
needs in the Anacostia River VAL
ley area OF the District also advo-
Gated steps toward establishing a
site and preparing preliminary
plans for another bridge between
the Eleventh Street (Anacostia)
and Pennsylvania Avenue (Sousa)
bridges.
Declaring that points OF future
congestion are clearly deter
mined" to be concentrated at those
bridges, the study indicated the
need for this additional bridge
would begin to show by 1858, and
would be felt urgently by 1861.
Work by 1881 Urged.
In the interest of safe and ade-
quate highway transportation to
the section of the city east of the
river, however, 1t is imperative"
that construction on the proposed
East Capitol street span begin by
January l, 1851, the report stated.
Authorization was asked of the
Commissioners for the Highway
Department to proceed with prep
aration of plans. specifications and
cost estimates for the crossing.
The Commissioners are sending
the report to the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
for its views on the conclusions.
Among them is a recommends
ton that the proposed extension
of Massachusetts, avenue Sc. over
the river, the location contem-
plated by the Planning Commis-
sion, be eliminated from further
consideration as failing to provide
q satisfactory solution.
"The weight of factual data
overwhelmingly favors the extern
sion of East Capitol street over
the Anacostia River as the proper
location of the new bridge" the
report states.
To Study Plan This Week.
The planning commission, it was
learned, will take up the study at
its monthly meeting Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday.
Experiments by the District
planning analysts and trafic en-
gineers Of the Bureau OF Public,
Roads indicate that motorists
time on the Eleventh
street. Pennsylvania Avenue and
Benning Bridges can amount to
as much as 100000 hours a year
CONTINUED on Page A-3, Col. IL
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Identified Dead
Names, Addresses Given
For IS Killed on Noronic
BY The Assoeioted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
&, TORONTO. Sept. 1.-THE list
Of identified dead in today's
Noronic ship disaster follows:
DR.. Morris Alperin, Cleveland.
Mrs. Morris Alperin, Cleveland.
- Mrs. Deva Pearl Brickell, South
Bend. Ind.
Emerson Davis. 70, Detroit.
Eunice Diedrichs. Cleveland.
e., Blanche Farragher, Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Walter George Haag, Cleveland.
Mrs. Walter Haag, Cleveland.
Mrs. Myrtle Harper. so, Youngs-
town.
George Jobbitt, Detroit.
Mrs. Bell D. Palmer, Saginaw,
Mich.
AL Speedy. Cleveland.
Mrs. AL Speedy. Cleveland.
David H. Wilder. Strongsvine,
Ohio.
Mrs. Hazel Wilder, SO, Strongs-
vile, Ohio.
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