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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29

they square away in the contest.
Saturday nights meeting of Bluff
ton and Findlay will be the first Mid
Ohio league game of the season for
each school, and the traditional
rivalry between the two will further
add to the color of the occasion.
At Wilmington last Saturday, the
Quakers tailed within the first two
minutes, and then went on to score
a one-sided 80 to 0 victory. The
veteran Wilmington outfit got one
touchdown in each of the two open
ing periods, then added three more
in the third to round out the even
ing's assault.
Buttons Slutz, Frost and Howe
stood out in Bluffton play for the
evening. On the ground Bluffton
had a net loss of three yards, but
connected thru the air for a total
gain of SO yards.
The lineup:
Bluffton: Ends - Rosenberger,
Howe, Frost. Tackles - Gordon,
Groesbeck. Guards-Smucker, Hearn,
Center-Jerger. Backs--Bracy, Stan
ley, Alderfer, Slutz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29
Bluffton College Gridders Will Play
Findlay Saturday In First Home Tilt

With another week of practice
behind them, Bluffton college grid
ders are expected to overcome the
weaknesses apparent in their loss to
Wilmington last week, and should
show to advantage against Findlay
college Oilers in their opening home
game of the season under the lights
at Harmon field next Saturday night.
The game here will bring together
foes beaten last week by almost
identical scores in tits with larger
schools. Bluffton dropped 80 to 0
decision to Wilmington in their
season opener, and on the same night
Findlay was beaten by. Akron UNI
versity, 81 to 0.
Coach A. C. Burcky said this week
that the opener at Wilmington show
ed the Beavers will need lot of
work to prepare for the invasion of
the Oilers.
An almost identical statement
came from Findlay coaching head
quarters with respect to that team,
and both squads are expected to
show vastly improved form when
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29
Putnam County Fair Opens Next
Wednesday With Many Attractions

ness racing will start at 1880 p. m.
that day. Free acts will be staged
in front of the grandstand between
heats.
Annual Al livestock sale will be
held at $3.50 p. m. on the same day,
and in the evening the Sun Broth
ers Hippodrome circus will be
staged.
An all-county band concert is
scheduled for IL a. M, Oct. 7. Har-
ness racing and free acts are on
the card again in the afternoon
with the famous White Horse troupe
booked for the night show.
At 10 a. m. on Oct. 8, the All
livestock parade will take place.
Harness races in the afternoon, a
band concert and horse pulling con-
tests at 6 p. m. followed by free
acts will conclude the 1949 fair pro-
gram.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29
Slot Clothes Machine

Among the ingenious, automatic
vending machines which sell goods
and services to the American pub
lie are those which pop, butter and
salt bag of popcorn; wash your
clothes; deliver an electronically-
heated hot dog sandwich; sell rail-
road tickets or insurance policies;
shine your shoes; record your
voice; take your picture, rent you
typewriter. A new type of coin
changer, according to an article in
Capper's Farmer, enables a ma
chine to take a big coin, sell prod
uct and return the correct change.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29
BedUerdun, Telephone
Rates Are Increased

An increase in Beayerdam tele-
phone rates has been approved by
the Public Utilities Commission of
Ohio on an application made BY the
Lima Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Changes for Beaverdam service
rates were as follows:
Business, s4.25 to S7.65; two
party business, s3.75 to s6.65; rural
business, 1915 to $500; business ex-
tension, 81 to S1.15; individual resi-
dence, s3 to S3.40; fve-party resi-
dence, 81 to S2.40; rural residence,
81 to S2.15; residence extension, soc
to 65c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29

Local AHgIerS Report
Good Fishing Results

Good fishing is reported in Bluff
ton streams and quarries despite
|eool weather experienced for the
last two weeks.
Late Sunday afternoon and even
ling, Sam Stepleton caught the limit
|of ., including several bass and
rock bass. He was using a fly rod
with rubber legged bug for bait.
Carl Mumma, who also fishes the
stream area, reports good pan fish
ing, with rock bass and bass rising
for artificial flies. Both fishermen
regularly return home with ssring-
ers bearing evidence of their PROV
less.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-09-29
Ancient Chinese Art

The art of enameling on cast iron,
by which enameled cast iron plumb
ing fixtures are made, is one of the
oldest arts and traces its ancestry
to the. ancient Chinese workers in
precious iades.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

1912, serving as lieutenant q. g.
on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific
and was discharged lieutenant
commander in october. 1945. He
then accepted the Herald Tribune
job and, before coming to Wash
ington, flew often in that news
papers airplane to cover stories.
He is survived by his widow, Peggy,
and son, Christopher, 2, of Great
Neck, N. Y.
BERTRAM DYER HULEN, so,
covered the State Department for
the New York Times, the Oldest
correspondent on the beat in point
of service. Mr.. Hulen lived at
1920 Dumbarton avenue NV.
Born at Cliftondale, Mass, July
9, 1889. he was graduated from
Tufts College in 1911 and later
studied at Harvard Law School.
He was employed by the SPRING
field (Mass.) Republican from
1913 to 1918, when he joined the
Boston Office of the Associated
Press.
He was transferred to the A. P.'s
Washington bureau in 1920 and
served there until 1926, when he
Evening star., 1949-07-12

ment. Before going into radio she
was an associate editor of House
Beautiful.
Miss Dick was responsible for
the documentary type of radio
program presented by the net
work. Her latest, THE Atom and
YOU" was a four broadcast series
on the atom and it's relationship
to man.
GEORGE L. MOORAD, Al, was
a commentator for Radio KGW
at Portland, Greg.
Mr.. Moorad's trip to the Far
East was a return to news beats
he had been covering off and on
since the early 1930s.
Almost Immediately after his
graduation from the University of
Oregon in 1880 and study at the
Northwestern College of Law, Mr.
Moorad went to China. For five
years early in the Sino-Japanese
War he worked on the China Press
and the Shanghai Times. He also
was full-time correspondent for
Time and Life in that area. In
1887 he returned to the United
States to become news editor of
the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel.
.In 1941 he became Pacific area
director of public relations for the
American Red Cross. After Pearl
Harbor he returned to news work
Evening star., 1949-07-12

resigned to join the Times.
He numbered among his close
friends many high officials, in
Charles Evans Hughes,
Cordell Hull and Calvin Coolidge.
He detached himself from the
State Department beat to cover
the lattsr's presidential campaign.
In 1910 he wrote some of his i'm
pressions in the book, Inside the
of State"
Until the summer vacation pc
riod this year, Mr.. Hulen was
teaching a class in current events
at st. Adams School for Boys.
. He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Katherine Hulen. now living
at the family home in Massachu-
sets.
FRED COLVIG, about 40 was
in charge of the editorial page of
the Denver Post, where he had
worked since his discharge from
the Navy in 1916.
During 1945 and early 1946 he
was stationed in Washington as
editor of All Hands magazine. the
official publication of the Bureau
of Personnel of the Navy, with
Offices in the Arlington Annex.
"A native of Oregon, hesewas b
graduate of the University of
Oregon and before his Navy duty
Evening star., 1949-07-12
DC. Officials Delay Tour
or SIums in Northwest

The Commissioners today post
poned their inspection of the block
bounded by Eighth, Ninth and v
strets and Barry place NV, on
account of the rain.
The area was selected last week
by E. M. Dulin, of the Health
Engineering Department, at the
request of the Commissioners as
an experiment to see how far the
city could go in slum clearance
under existing regulations.
The block. while it contains
substantial apartment house and
several other well-kept residences,
has a number Of houses needing
repairs.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

Howard Newspaper Alliance, with
time out for a tour in the Army
Air Force during the war.
He joined Scripps- Howard in
1884 in his native Columbus. Ohio,
just after leaving Ohio State Uni
versity. One of his important pre-
war assignments was covering of
graft which he helped to bring to
light in the Ohio State Admins
tration.
His war service took him to the
European theater and later to the
Pacific as an aerial gunner. Dis
charged in Chungking as a cap
tain, he rejoined Scripps-Howard
at once.
For 18 months he remained in
China as a foreign correspondent
then spent more than year in
Europe.
His widow and 9-year- old
daughter Sally live in Columbus.
THOMAS A. FALCO, SO, of 1904
Naylor road Sc, had been at
tached to the Business Week staff
here since l945. except for a year
in 1916 and 1947 he spent as
economic editor for the American
military government in Berlin.
He was on general assignment
work at the time he went to the
Far East.
During the war. Mr.. Falco did
editorial work for the War Pro-
Evening star., 1949-07-12

worked on the Portland Orego-
nian. During the war he served
as an air intelligence officer on
carrier duty in the Pacific Theater.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Brigid Colvig, and three
young daughters, all of Denver.
While stationed here Mr.. Colvig
lived at Shirley Homes, South
Arlington. A frequent visitor to
Washington since moving to Den
YER, he was member of the Ma
tional Press Club.
VINCENT MAHONEY, editorial
writer for the San Francisco
Chronicle for the past four years,
had been in the newspaper busi-
ness for nearly a quarter of a
century, working on many beats.
Born July l. 1902, in Dublin. Ga,
he was graduated from George
town University. and went directly
into newspaper work. He worked
successfully for the Associated
Press. New York News, United
Press. Los Angeles News and Time,
Inc, before the war. From 1941 to
1945 he was the chief of the Bureau
of Intelligence of the Office of War
Information for the Pacific Theater.
In that job he was charged with
analysis and evaluation of prop
aganda efforts.
He joined the Chronicle as an
editorial writer in April, 1945.
His widow, Mrs. Virginia Mahoney,
and two sons, live in San Francisco.
NAT A. BARROWS, 40, had been
a foreign and war correspondent
for the Chicago Daily News since
1941.
After joining the News, he COW
cred South America extensively
and served as European corre-
spondent during the war. After
the war he covered the United Ma
tions sessions. Last May his news
reports on the United Nations
were cited by Sigma Delta Chi,
national Journalism fraternity, as
the outstanding foreign CORE
spondents work of the year. The
report specified his stories on the
Russian aerial supply line to
Israel.
Mr.. Barrows, who was born in
Massachusetts. was a member of
the Boston Globe staff before
joining the News. He was mar
ried to Dorothea Whittier, a Bos-
ton landscape artist and painter.
While with the Globe he COW
cred the sinking Of the submar-
Evening star., 1949-07-12
House Democrats Caucus
Today on Farm Bill
By the Associoted Press

All House Democrats were called
to a caucus late today in drive
by administration leaders to bring
order into congressional confusion
over farm legislation.
The party mass meeting WI
consider a bill from the House
Agriculture Committee. This bill.
while repeating the Alen bill
enacted by the Republicap-corl-
trolled 8Oth Congress, would per-
nit only a three-crop trial run
next year for the Truman admin
istration's farm subsidy, plan,
House Republicans, meanwhile
appeared to be organizing a drive
to set aside the Aiken law b
1850 and continue the present
farm program, with rigid price
supports on major crops for an
other year.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

requests. All in all, none
of the judges decisions influenced
me, although some of them were
strange"
Robert w. Pitman, Dun & Brad
street credit analyst, who voted
guilty, thought it was hard to de-
eide whether the judge was biased
but there were times when he
showed little preference to the
defense"
Vincent H. Shaw, clerk, who
voted guilty. said the judge did
appear to favor the Defense
Arthur L. Pawlinger, advertis-
ing employe, who voted for ac-
quittal, said "the judge was not
prejudiced. I don't think he fav-
ored one side or the other
Felt Attitude Was Different.
Allen M. Blake, a production
manager who voted guilty.. said
the judges attitude toward de-
fense witnesses seemed to be diff
ferent than toward the other" but
added: II don't think he was
really biased in favor of Mr.. Hiss.
In fact, If all this hadn't been in
the newspapers after the trial. !
wouldn't have thought about it at
ALL"
James Hanrahan. marine ac-
countant who voted guilty, said
he had no opinion because he was
not versed in legal matters. He
said the judges attitude wasn't
mentioned in the jury room.
Hubert James, the jury fore
man, a Junior executive Of Gen
eral Motors Acceptance Corp;
Louis Hill. secretary of the Man
haitian Bargain House, Inc, and
Thomas o. Bryan, unemployed
hotel manager, refused to COM
rnent. 40 =. 81 & - --.''. -
MT: James and Mr.. Hill voted
for acquittal, and Mr.. Bryan voted
guilty.
Mrs. Louise A. Torian, a dress
maker who voted for acd1ittal
was visiting Long Island and could
not be reached.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Henderson 10 Give Views
On New D. T.. Loan Law

The hearing on proposed new
under consideration
for small loan companies here was
held up today by the Commission.
ers at the request of Leon Hender.
son, representing the Russell Sage
Foundation, and Attorney jeff
Lichtenberg, who requested a
hearing before the regulations
were promulgated.
The Commissioners agreed to
hear Mr.. Henderson and Mr. :sLich-
tenberg at the board meeting next
Tuesday. The small loan regula-
tions have been prepared by a
committee from the Bar Associa-
ton and Chester Gray. assistant
corporation counsel. to provide
new and stricter regulations gov
erning small loan company opera
'tionS.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
India Crash
Continued From First Page.)

'SOIlGlIlucu CIOlIl TuSG FdRe.p
over a 2-mile area along slope
300 feet high.
The plane caught fire and
charred trees on the rain -drenched
hilltop. One eyewitness said the
bodies were 30 badly burned that
Identification was difficult.
The accident was said to be the
worstsn India s. aviation history.
The Indian government began an
investigation and granted special
authorization to kim to send an
aircraft and Dutch technicians to
the scene.
Tour Sponsored by Dutch.
The Swanson company. in CO.
operation with the Netherlands
government. had invited Amer
lean newspapers. radio stations
and news agencies to send re-
porters on a tour of Indonesia,
visiting The Hague en- route. In
donesia has been torn by war be-
tween the Dutch government and
the Indonesian republic. Com
plete freedom of action" had been
promised those accepting the in
vitation.
The Constellation was en- route
from Batavia to The Netherlands.
An announcement by the air line
at The Hague said:
"The plane was approaching
Bombay at 10 am, local time
Q2:30 am. EDT today, was
caught in heavy monsoon weather
and obviously was forced to con-
tinue circling round the air field.
Thereafter the plane in it's
flight collided with hill and was
completely wrecked"
The plane was due in Cairo to-
night and Amsterdam tomorrow.
KIM officials in New Delhi point
ed out that the line never had
served Bombay and it's pilots were
unfamiliar with the Bombay air.
port area.
Rain has been coming down
necessarily since yesterday and
forecasts had predicted it would
last at least another two days.
Plane Given O. X. to Land.
Dutch planes had not been al
lowed to land in India since the
conflict between the Dutch gov
and the Indonesian re-
public, but a special request from
the American newsmen that the
restriction be relaxed was approved
by Indian Prime Minister Java
haral Nehru.
The plane left Batavia, Java,
July 10. The newsmen had been
entertained last night in New
Delhi by American Ambassador
10y Henderson. They left New
Delhi for Santa Cruz early today.
At the New Delhi reception last
night, some newsmen said they
had made the request that the
plane be allowed to land in India
in order to avoid the long over
water hop to the Island of Maui
ritius::
Evening star., 1949-07-12

and covered the Guadalcanal land
ings for the Saturday Evening Post.
Then he followed the 32d and 41st
Divisions during the Buna and
Sanananda campaigns in New
Guinea for CHS.
Subsequently he covered the war
almost around the globe. He was
back in Manchuria in 1916 when
Russian trouble threatened. He
also covered the atomic bomb tests
from Kwajalein Island. He joined
the KGW staff in 1916.
Mr.. Moorad published a book on
Russia, Behind the Iron Curtain"
and another, on China. had been
accepted for publication.
He was born in Portland and
was graduated from Lincoln High
School there. Survivors include
the widow and two sons, and his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Moorad
of Portland.
LYNN MAHAN, well-knoWn New
York public relations consultant
and a former major In the Air
Transport Command, was the
conducting official on the press
tour.
Mr.. Mahan joined the party at
The Hague. and had planned. on
his return. to bring his wife. Doro-
thy, and two young children to
Holland, where he was to repre-
sent the New York public rela-
tions firm. Mr.. Mahan informed
his New York Office a few days
ago that the correspondents had
found plenty to write about and
were bringing home great deal
of background material on the
troubled political situation in the
Far East.
During the war, Mr.. Mahan
was chief Of public relations for
the North Atlantic Wing, A. T. c.
He had many friends among
Washington and New York news
paermen, radio commentators and
magazine writer's.
Evening star., 1949-07-12

Pulitzer Prize winners and
writers whose by-lines were known
to millions of readers were among
the persons who died in crash
of a KIM Dutch airliner near
Bombay today.
III. r. KNICKERBOCKER, 81,
foreign correspondent and lee
turer, won the Pulitzer Prize for
reporting in 1880 for a series of
articles on The Red Trade
Menace"
A native OF Yoakum, Tex. he
began newspaper work on the
Newark IN. j. Morning Ledger.
In 1925 he went to Moscow for two
years as correspondent for the In
ternational News Service.
In 1923 he returned to Berlin as
correspondent for ms and the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. He
was a correspondent in the Ethi-
opian war, the Spanish civil war
and the Sino-Japanese war in
1887. During World War II he
covered the Battle of Britain and
the Battle of France in 1910. After
covering the North African inva-
sion he served in the Southwest
Pacific for a year and then re-
turned to Europe. He was chief
of the foreign service OF the Chi
cago Sun from 1941 to 1945. More
recently he was with Radio Sta
ton WOR. He had lectured ex-
tensively.
He is survived by his second
wife, Agnes: a son. Conrad. who
is Harvard University senior and
presently employed by the Chi
cago Daily News, and three daugh-
ters, Julia, Myranda and Suzy.
The family was vacationing at
Marthas Vineyard off Massachu-
sets. Their home is in Nyack,
N. Y.
s. BURTON HEATH, so, former
reporter for the Associated Press,
won the Pulitzer prize for the
best job of domestic reporting in
1889 while a member of the staff
of the New York WorldTelegram.
Mr.. Heath wrote the stories
which led to the resignation, con-
viction and prison sentence for
former Judge Martin T. Manton,
of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals Manton, con-
victed of selling his judicial in
tegrity for cash. served one year
and seven months in a Federal
prison and was fined $4,000.
Released in 1941, he died in the
fall of 1916 at Fayetteville, N. Y.
Born in Lynn, Mass, Mr.. Heath,
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Borrows Reported Rumor
OF Bomb on Earlier Plane

CHICAGO, July IL (CDN) Nat
A. BarroWs, Chicago Daily News
correspondent who died in the
crash of a Dutch airliner near
Bombay today, wrote his wife
from Indonesia there were rumors
a bomb had been placed aboard
the kim constellation which eX-
ploded off Bari, Italy, June %.
with 33 dead.
That constellation, the Roer-
mond, had carried to Batavia the
American reporters who were
killed today on the way home. The
Roermond was en- route home
after having taken the correspon-
dents to Batavia, where they Re-
mained until yesterday.
Mr.. Barrows, according to his
wife, was inclined to doubt. the
rumor.
Mrs. Barrows told of the letter
this morning after hearing a re-
port that Mrs. Dorothy Brandon
of New York Herald Tribune had
refused to return aboard the
second Inflated kim plane that
crashed near Bombay, for fear Of
sabotage.
Mrs. Bafrows was inclined tt
believe reports that today's dis.
aster was due to bad weather.
Evening star., 1949-07-12
Pu|itzer-Prize Winners Among Dead
In Dutch Air|iner Crash in India

inc Squalus. later writing a book
about the disaster entitled BLOW
All Ballast When DR.. Arnulfo
Arias was ouSted as President of
Panama, Mr.. BarroWs obtained
the first complete inside story to
be printed in this country.
Mr.. BarroWs' articles written
for the Chicago Daily News For
eign Service appeared frequently
in The Star.
WILLIAM HI. NEWTON'S IS
years as a newspaperman all were
spent in the service of the ScrippS-
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duction Board, and previous to
that had been attached to several
Federal agencies here. He was a
native of New York City and a
graduate of the College of New
York. Mr.. Falco is survived by
his widow. The couple had no
children.
MISS ELSIE DICK was director
of women's religious and educa-
tional programs for the Mutual
Broadcasting System. A native
New Yorker, she joined Mutual
seven years ago. She started her
news and radio career with the
New Yorker Magazine where she
was in charge of the art depart