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Evening star., 1949-12-02
Court Refuses 10 Drop
Indictment Against
D. T.. Area Diaries

Judge Alexander Holtzoff today
refused to dismiss a restraint Of
trade indictment returned In
March, 1s4s, against seven Wash
ington area dairies, the Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers AS
sociation, Inc. and Bruce B. Der
rick, secretary treasurer Of the as
sociation.
Judge Holtzof gave the ruling
after hearing arguments by Attor-
ney John F. Hillyard. represent
ing the Wakefield Dairy. who con-
tended that the grand jury which
returned the indictment was ille-
gally constituted because some ol
its members were Government
employees.
The nine defendants face Dis
trict Court trial January S on
charges of conspiracy to restrain
trade in milk and to Ak milk
prices here. In addition to Wake
field and Mr.. Derrick. the defend
ants are Thompson's Dairy, Rich
field, Luzerne, Alexandria. Harvey
and Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase.
Attorney Hillyard made his ar
guments in the face OF two Su-
preme Court decisions which up
held the eligibility of Government
employees to serve on juries. While
acknowledging that these deci-
sions superseded older ones to the
contrary. he pointed out that the
eligibility question was discussed
last month before the Supreme
Court on an appeal by Eugene
Dennis, secretary-general of the
Communist Party.
Mr.. Hilyard also brought into
his argument strong dissenting
opinions written in the Supreme
Court cases which now govern the
Jury eligibility of FedSral EN-
ployeS. But Judge HoltZoff inter-
rupted the lawyer on this point
by declaring: Il am bodnd by the
majority opinion, not the dis
senting opinion"
"It has been this courts own
experience that Government en-
ployes are no more favorable to
the Government cases than any
other citizens serving on a jury
Judge Holtzoff said.
The defense lawyers also en-
tered arguments on other lesser
motions in connection with the
charges after the court had re-
fused to dismiss the indictments
The arguments were to continue
this afternoon.
Evening star., 1949-12-02
Youth Gets Suspended Term
For Kicking Puppy 10 Death

A 19-year- old youth, who earlier
had pleaded guilty to charge
that he kicked a puppy to death
received a suspended sentence
from Municipal Court Judge Ellen
K. Raedy yesterday.
Judge Raedy took the personal
bond of Leroy McLain. of the 4500
block of Quarles street NE, not
to repeat the offense.
McLain was charged with
cruelty to animals last August,
after neighbors reported seeing
him kick a German shepherd
puppy to death, then throw the
dogs body into the Anacostia
River.
Evening star., 1949-12-02

Plans are being discussed by
District officials to build COM
bination structure to house the
No. / Precinct and the Woman's
Bureau on the site of the old
No. / Precinct Station house on
New Jersey avenue between D and
E streets. NV.
The New Jersey avenue site,
which was vacated because of the
health and fire hazards, will not
be large enough to accommodate
the proposed building, but plans
are being made to purchase the
adjoining property on the south,
Evening star., 1949-12-02
| New Traffic Channels
At New York and H
To Open Late Today

Unless 1t rains today, the DIS.
trict Highway Department viii
throw open to today's late rush
hour traffic the new channeliza-
ton project at New York avenue
and H street NV.
L. M. Hedgecock, deputy engi'
neer of streets, announced late
yesterday the project has beer
completed, except for the painting
of guide stripes on the street
Weather permitting, this will bt
done today in time for the home
bound traffic stream.
The controversial project en-
bodied cutting through the park
in front of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church over the OBJ
jections of many members of the
congregation.
The triangular, concrete-co COW
cred plot was cut through, high
way officials said, to hasten the
flow of traffic at the busy inter.
section near Thirteenth street
NV.
Meanwhile, the Commissioners
yesterday approved new parking
regulations for the area, but they
will not go into effect until they
can be advertised - probably ir
about two weeks.
Under the amended regulations
no standing will be allowed on +
street from New York avenue tt
Fourteenth street from to 9.3(
a m. and from 4 to $50 ON. NJ
parking will be allowed at any
time along H street from New
York avenue west to the frs
alley on the north side of the
street. Parking also will be
banned on the south side of +
street from New York avenue wes1
to a point IL feet west of the east
building line of the church. There
will be no parking on the spul
roadway.
Twenty minute parking will be
permitted on the north side o1
New York avenue from H street
to Fourteenth street at all times
except on Sundays. There viii.
be no standing on New York
avenue from G street to the spul
from 7 to $50 am.
Evening star., 1949-12-02
Luchs Calls for Final
.$691,622 Squirt 10 Win
Chest Goal Next Week

At the end OF Its NTH report
week, the Washington area S
Community Chest drive still Is
nearly $150,000 short of what it
raised last year and nearly $780,
900 short of its 1850 needs.
Chairman Frank j. Luchs en-
phasized these facts yesterday in
urging citizens to close the gap
to the $3,991,719 goal.
The gap was narrowed by an
other 100000 yesterday. leaving
just $691 .622 more to be raised.
Four Washington units and one
nearby county reported the newest
subscriptions. bringing the drive
to 80 per cent.
Mr.. Luchs set two more report
meetings for next week-Tues-
day for Washington business and
the counties, and Thursday for
all nine divisions.
Closing Date Not Set.
The chairman called for "re-
doubled efforts. to achieve the
goal by next week cor get awfully
close to it. ;" He said it is ter
ribly important that we follow
through" Drive leaders have set
no closing date.
There are good signs that the
goal can be reached, Mr.. Luchs
declared. He cited the new total
of 321,000 contributors, 10000
ahead of the number at the same
campaign stage last year. The
drive also is $4,000 ahead of
last years effort in point of time,
officials disclosed.
But I don't personally feel that
we can yet accept congratulations
on doing a good job" Mr.. Luchs
told volunteer leaders. 1--WE have
got to raise $55o,000 more than
was raised last year in order to
meet our needs. We can't stop
now"
Stating that another 10000 con-
tributions will put the drive over,
the chairman called the goal still
attainable."
Goal Is Barely Enough.
II say we can do it," he de-
clared, Il know you want to- do it,
and I know the community gen.
orally wants this campaign to go
over"
The chairman reminded the
meeting that even reaching the
full $3,991 ,719 goal will barely sat-
isfy the requirements of the
Chests 100 agencies, Is hospitals
and the USO next year. To facili-
tate campaign success, leaders cut
$450.000 off the original budget
approved by the Chests Budget
Committee. he recalled.
The Government division, big
gest in the drive, pulled within
$4,000 of its quota yesterday
with new subscriptions totaling
$25.806. New standing of the unit
is $1,456. 500, or 81 per cent.
Two Tied at $50.
Washington's Business I and
Residential groups maintained a
percentage tie. with Business
reporting $41, ,489 in new gifts for
a total Of $1,154,905 and Resi-
dental reporting $9,491 for $751;
109-both 68 per cent of quota.
Business II listed $18,370 in new
contributions for a total of $176.-
879, or 73 per cent, and Mont
gomery County brought in $7.078
or $72,185, or SO per cent. Mont
gomery was the only nearby unit
reporting. Washington's Advance
Gifts, whose collections are cred
tied to other units, announced a
new standing of 83 per cent.
For the drive as a whole, sub
ScriptionS now total $3,3OO,O97.
Evening star., 1949-12-02
Church Fund Dinner Slated

A spaghetti dinner, sponsored
by the American Church Purchas-
ing Fund Committee, will be held
from / to 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Parish Hall of the Church of the
Ascension and st. Agnes, Twelfth
street and Massachusetts, avenue
NV. n
Evening star., 1949-12-02
Young Republican Porty

A Christmas party sponsored by
the District Young Republicans
will be held at $3.50 o'clock tonight
at American Legion Post No. ITO,
1901 Eastern avenue NE.
Evening star., 1949-12-02
Stote Society PIuns Dance

The South Dakota State Society
will hold its first dance Of the
season at $50 pm. tomorrow In
the Hotel 2400. South Dakotans
who hail from west Of the Mis-
souri, River will be honored at the
"WeSt River Night"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08
THURSDAY, DEC. s, 1919

Ted Morris on Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stager spent
Friday with Mr.. Will Daniels, of
near Kenton.
Mrs. George Wagner was brought
home from the Lima Memorial Hos
pital Saturday and is improving
nicely.
! Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Heldman, of
Bucyrus, and Jane Smith, of Arl-
ington, spent the weekend in the
C. M. Heldman home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emanuel Boutwell,
and daughters We're Supnday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Schaublin.
Mr. and Mrs. Estes Sanders, Mr..
and Mrs. Ferd Morris and sons spent
Sunday afternoon with relatives in
McGuffey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Amstutz were,
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nell Long. In the afternoon
they all called on Mr. and Mrs,
Francis Lugibihl and daughter of
Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rayon Boutwell, and
children Lynn, Lonnie and Ronda Kae
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Balmer of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08

James A. Saunders graduated from
Z. S. naval academy at Annapolis.
He is spending a short vacation with
his sister, Mrs. julie Benroth and
husband.
Misses Viola and Gladys Zehrbach
and Bertha Mikes accompanied a
party of Lima girls to Russell Point.
B. F. Biery attended commence
ment exercises at Franklin and Mar
shall college, Lancaster, Pa.
George Lewis is postmaster.
The canoe on the placid waters at
the water works quarry could tell OF
humorous happenings, so could
Schumacher and Snyder if they
would.
After spending Is months with an
uncle in Russia, Louis Santschi re-
turned home. He also visited Switzer-
land. Arthur Santschi is attending
Miami University.
u. S. Amstutz is making success
of his musical instruction at Free
| man, S. D. He was conductor of the
May musical festival held in a large
tent with a seating capacity of 800.
John Amstutz of Petosky, Mich, is
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Abe Amstutz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue Of June Il, 1912

were in Lima witnessing the aeroplane
flights at the fair grounds. A Curtiss
plane was demonstrated.
E. NJ. Hochstettler and Miss Linda
Amstutz represented the Reformed
Sunday school at the state Sunday
school convention at Columbus.
Mrs. Helen Wells and two sons of
Mechanicsburg are visiting the form
er's mother, Mrs. lila Close.
o. G. Matthias purchased the meat
market in the Murray business room.
|. B. Stith moved his sawmill to
Bluffton.
D. w. Bixler was elected vice
president of the County Christian
Endeavor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08
East Orange

Rev. and Mrs. Robert Turner and
daughter Sandra of Redwood called
recently on Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Stager, Mrs. Mary Stager and Mr.
and Mrs. John Boutwell,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Bowman and
daughter Myra spent several days
with the formers aunt, Mrs. Bessie
Bedford of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Recent callers on Mr.. and Mrs.
B. J. Boutwell, were Mr.. and Mrs.
George Boutwell,, of Lima; Mr.. and
Mrs. OrIen Gallant, of near Findlay,
and c. r. Baker.
Mrs. |. Moore, of Carey, spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Tuttle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Inbody and
children Beverly and Buddy, of Ann
Arbor, Mich, spent Saturday night
and Sunday with the latter's mother,
Mrs. Fred Boutwell,. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Tripplehorn and daughter
Helen Ann, Mr.. and Mrs. Emanuel
Boutwell, and daughters Marbara and
Marcia were callers.
The Young People of Riley Greek
Church will meet in the home OF
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08
Organize Staff To Take Census In
This Area Beginning First OF April

Lima will be headquarters for 32l
men and women whose job it will be
to take the national census in SIX
counties beginning next April /, it
was learned this week.
Enumerators directed by the Lima
headquarters will be responsible for
taking the census in Allen, Auglaize,
Darke, Mercer, Miami and Shelby
counties.
In addition to the enumerators
there will be small staff to direct
the work. Most of the residents of
the six-county area handled from
Lima will meet only the enumerators.
They will ask the questions, many
of them highly personal, that the
government wants answered to find
out how the country is growing and
getting along.
Everybody has to answer 10 basic
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08

Miss Anna Freyman became the
happy bride of Henry Huber, Jr. at
the home of the brides mother, Mrs.
Anna Freyman, north of Bluffton.
Rev. Lahr performed the ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huber left on the inter-
rurban for a wedding trip to the
lake area.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Reichenbach
welcomed a baby boy.
Alva Lee is carrying the mail at
Mt. Cory while f. B. Reiter is on
vacation.
Lydia Fett left for Ft. Wayne
where she will help in the Bible
school.
Hector Kibele and Ray Triplett
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08
The Playhouse in
the Woods

It is an eerie tale worth the tell
ing but having no bearing at all on
the growth and development of Ohio
it just happened here, that is all,
145 years ago. But the story is so
honey and so stirring to the hearts
of every home that it could have
been yesterday. What happened and
what was the end? Your guess is
as good as anyone's.
They were sisters, Lydia and
Matilda Osber, IL and seven, respec-
lively, and they lived at Williams
burg, Clermont County. 1t was
afternoon, July 13, 1904, when the
two girls went into the woods to
drive home the cows. They followed
the paths which led to the "big field"
a mile from the village, where the
cattle were usually grazing.
Lydia thought that the cows were
headed the wrong direction and left
Matilda to make a detour and head
them off. When she returned, her
sister was gone. She wandered
around and called loudly but got no
answer. Then, believing that Matilda
had driven the cows on home, start
ed there herself. Then, wandering
on, she found she was lost in the
woods. Matilda followed the sound
of the cow-bells and got home safe
and sound
Headed Wrong Way
Night came on and the neighbor-
hood was aroused. Soon torches
were lighting the forest in every
direction, bells We're rung, horns
were blown and shots were fired to
let the lost one know the neighbors
were searching for her. Some traces
of her passing were seen where she
had crossed rills and muddy places,
but all indicated she was going the
wrong way.
On the third day Cornelius Wash
burn, noted hunter and woodsman,
arrived with about 500 men and his
famous hunting dog. That night a
thousand men hunted the wilderness
until daybreak. Then the searchers
were formed into companies and
each took a different direction, meet
ing at night at some common spot.
Money was collected and sent to the
settlement for provisions SO the
searchers could stay in the forest
without leaving it to eat.
Seven days after Lydia Osborn
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08

questions, such as name, race, age
and sex. Every fifth Ohioan will
have to remember where he lived a
year ago, how long he went to school,
as we'll as some of the same informa-
tion the income tax man demands
each year.
City dwellers will get additional
questions about whether they own
or rent their residence and whether
they have running water and modern
plumbing.
Ohio farmers have a special census
chore to attend to before they can
get on with their spring planting.
The 37-question farmers special is
designed to find out practically every
thing about a farmer, from the
population of his bee hives to the
number of his ''sows and gifts far
rowing"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08

was lost more than 1000 persons,
many of them from Kentucky, were
in the hunt.
Find Traces
Washburn found the place where
the child had slept for several
nights. Also the canny backwoods-
man found where she had picked and
eaten grapes and whartle-berries.
The sleeping place was where tree
had fallen across another and the
Mich in the logs made a protected
place for sleeping. The whole crowd
soon congregated there.
The father, always with the
searchers, ran one way and another
calling Lydia! LYDIA" He was
like a wild man and lost no moment
day or night in the hunt.
The eighth morning, the company
started out abreast, three rods apart,
with a man in the middle and one on
each end to blow horns if a trace of
the child was found. Nothing hap
pened, though the line extended for
several miles.
On the fifteenth day of the search
her footprints were found on the
north fork of Whiteoak creek, in the
sand where she had crossed the
stream. They appeared fresh and
greatly revived hope that Lydia Os-
born would be found alive. Then the
party followed the creek to a large
blackberry patch where the back
woodsmen found that the girl had
eaten berries.
Child's Playhouse
Near the blackberry patch the
searchers found the playhouse in the
forest. Neatly built of sticks, over
which were placed in regular layers
moss for a roof, it had a little door
way and inside the house, a bed
made of leaves. Layers of moss had
been placed over the leaves and the
whole decorated with wild flowers.
1t easily was ascertained that the
house was the work of a child. There
in the wilderness, far from home,
the child had built a miniature
house, keeping alive the scenes of
home, parents and the sister who
had come back.
Lydia must have been there
several days because she had beaten
a path from the house to the black
berry patch. But night came on and
still no sign of the return of the girl
who had built the playhouse and
lived in it. The searchers camped
that night on the creek bank.
The father came to the spot and
seeing the house cried: "Oh, Lydia!
Lydia, my child-are. you still alive" /"
No answer came.
Captured by Indians, Theory
Next morning careful investiga-
ton disclosed that the tracks near
the house and blackberry patch were
several days. old. Horse. tracks also
were found and it was thought pos
sible the child had been carried away
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08

by Indians.
Two miles from ''Lydia's camp" as
the place was called for nearly a
century afterwards, the searchers
found her bonnet. Further on was
an abandoned Indian camp, several
days old. Further search was deem
ed useless and the hunting party
returned to their homes. The father
never gave up the search but
penetrated the widest parts of the
forest and sought her among the
Indians until the day he died. The
child was never found.
Washburn declared that the child
might have been found had the
searchers not made so much noise
with horns, bells and guns. These,
hidden from men just as she would
from wild animals.
Upholds Hunters Theory
One of the searchers, L. w. Clay
pool, of Brown County, upheld Wash
burns declaration by relating: 81
once was lost when eight or nine
years old, with Jake Ashton, year
younger, when we went out early
one morning to hunt the COWS. Soon
the path gave out and we were lost
in the fiat beech swamps between
Glady and CLASSY runs.
"We wandered around until night,
coming out at a new road recently
underbrushed, just at the time an
Unfair party of several couples on
horseback were passing. Though
lost, and knowing most of them, we
hid in the brush until they had
passed"
Washburn and other oldtime hunt
ers declared that had the searching
party gone quietly along, noting a
leaf upturned, pea vine, brush or
anything else disturbed, and using
the keen perceptive intelligence that
such experienced woodsmen and
hunters possessed, the child might
have been found. Many of the hunt
ing party could see nothing except
when Washburn or others would
point out to them her tracks on the
sandbars, beds of leaves or branches
disturbed.
So goes the true story of Lydia
Osborn, Clermont County's lost child.
She had wondered far-her play
house was in Brown County, adjoin-
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08

Hogs of all ages may be naturally
infected with the swine-type brucel-
losis.
Standard windbreak varieties in
Ohio are Norway. spruce, Austrian
and Scotch pine.
Cream separators flushed with hot
water just before using will separate
more cream than when cold.
- n t~ssxass ~ -
Liberal feeding of grain will keep
cows in good body condition and
stimulate production.
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EDITORS NoTE-This is one
of series of articles TO appear
in the Blufton Neaos dealing
with early Ohio history. Others
wiH appear in forthcoming
issues.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-30

terms and our thinking. Time was
when movie stars went to all
sorts of lengths to conceal the
fact that they were parents. The
theory was that maternity or pa
ternity would interfere with pop
uiarity, spelled box OFFICE.
When the secret was found out,
the stars always pretended the
concealment was caused by fear
of kidnapers.
Then, round about war time,
all this was changed. Some brave
stars went right ahead and adj
mitted they had, or were going to
have, children. Pretty soon it
seemed as though all Hollywood
was producing families. It seems
to me that maybe Hollywood
soon will be doing the same thing
about grandchildren
It's undoubtedly a good thing.
In the first place, it might indi-
cate that the American public is
no longer completely concerned
with youth for youths sake. Per-
haps as nation we are able to
appreciate the values of maturity
No matter what it means, it's
nice to think that there's some
thing besides rocking chair for
people who don't like to rock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-30
Calendar of Evesats

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
WatercOlor Exhibit by Martha
Watson Sauer, Woman's Club
on Duval Street, through
April 8, 1-6 PM, Daily.
Lenten Classes held Wednes-
days, $3.50 PM, in Parish
Hall, st. Paul,s Episcopal
Church, Mrs. James Mace Con-
nell Conducting Glasses and
All Members Invited to At
tend.
THURSDAY, MARCH BIZ
Watercolor Exhibit by Martha
Watson Sauer, Woman's Club
on Duval Street, through
April 8, 10 PM, Daily.
joint Meeting, Ladies Auxiliary
VIEW and Post 391l, 8 PM,
Post Home.
MONDAY, APRIL
Audubon Screen Tour, Bits of
Land Along the Coast, by
DR.. Telford N. Work. Matinee
ZOO PM, Division Street
Elementary School AUDITOR
UNI and 800 Pm. in High
School Auditorium.
Executive Board, Poinciana
School, Meets at Home of
Mrs. Genevieve Kerry, 2801
Seidenberg, 8 Pm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-30
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
lKnow Amsrical

10 Davidson, famous sculptor,
born in New York, Sc years ago.
Floyd B. Album, corporation
head, chairman of Radio-Keith-
Orpheum Corps, born in Union
City, Mich, 81 years ago.
Leland S. Buckmaster,, presl7
dent of United Rubber Workers,
Go, Arkon, Ohio, born in &C.
neva, Ind, SIS years ago.
Sidney w. Sours of st. Louis,
life insurance head, rear admiral,
U. S. NJ r., ex-director Central
Intelligence, born Dayton, Ohio,
81 years ago,
Lieut.. Gen. Walter c. Short, re-
tired, Hawaiian chief Of staff at
Pearl Harbor in 1941, born at
Fillmore, Ill., So years ago.
Harvey. H. Bundy of Boston,
ex-assistant secretary of state,
born in Grand Rapids, Mich, 81
years ago.
DIR. Erwin Panefsky of the In
stitute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, N. j., professor of the
history of art, born in Germany,
81 years ago.