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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Propose Change In
Greyhound Bus Stop

Proposal to change the northbound
Greyhound bus stop from Vine street
to a Main street location was ap-
proved by municipal council at 0
meeting Monday night in the town
hall.
Under the proposal the bus stor
would be on the east side of Mair
street in front of the Bixel used ca,
lot and the Bixel and Marshall home
appliance store.
Representatives of the bus lines
are being contacted relatiae to max.
ing the change.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20

Prof. Wright, instructor in organ
at Baldwin Wallace conservatory in
Berea is also organist at st. An
drews Episcopal church in nearby
Elyria.
He was graduated from Baldwin
Wallace and Oberlin Conservatives,
a former pupil of Marcel Dupre of
the University of Chicago and an
associate of the American Guild of
Organists.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20

Four grass fires in less than "a
hours kept Bluffton firemen on the
jump Monday and Tuesday of this
week and established a new frequency
record for calls answered by the local
volunteer department.
Three of the alarms came within a
four-hour period Monday and the
fourth grass fire broke out at noon
Tuesday. No damage was reported.
All four fires were on property ad-
joining the Nickel Plate railroad, and
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Girl Wins Baton
TUirling AUdrd

Carol Ann, 11-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Moser of
Thurman street won second place in
a ive-state baton twirling contest at
Fairborne, Ohio, last Saturday. The
Bluffton girl, one of $50 contestants,
has placed first and third in pre-
vious baton twirling contests.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Methodist Church To Dedicate
New Organ With Program April 30

A new Wurlitzer two manual cleo
tronic organ, recently installed in
the Methodist church will be dedi-
Gated in a special recital program on
Sunday evening, April 80 at 500
o'clock.
Announcement to this effect was
made this week following completion
of arrangements for the dedicatory
recital to be presented by Prof. Ed
mund B. Wright, prominent organ
list.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Offer ReneIUuL OF
TUp. Fire C0ntracts

Renewal of contracts for fire pro
lection in Richland and Orange town
ships has been offered to boards OF
trustees of the two political subdi-
visions by the Bluffton municipal
council.
Cost of the service will remain at
the same rate as previously, $3.50
per year, council decided.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Insurance Man
Wins Recognition

Fl. F. Klingler, local representative
of the Prudential Insurance COM
pany, will be in Cleveland from Mon
day to Wednesday of next week at
tending a three day regional confer
ence of his company.
To qualify for this distinction the
agent must be one of the top so per
cent of production of the Lima dis
trict.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
BUSINESS MEMS MEETING

Monthly meeting of the Bluffton
Business Mems association will be
held Wednesday night, April 26 at
p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Old Pantries

Old pantries can be converted
into attractive and colorful powder
rooms by the installation of lava
tory and water closet.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20

Chimpanzees sometimes perform a
kind of dance, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20
Farmers Get Start This Week
On Belated Oats Paintings

Farmers this week welcomed the
seasons first favorable break in the
weather as an opportunity to get a
belated start on spring tillage al
ready considerably behind the usual
schedule.
Rain Wednesday with forecast of
fair weather Thursday will not SER
iously interfere with operations,
farmers said.
Preparation of ground and the
planting of oats will be nearly a
month later than last year, and plow-
ing of corn and other crops will be
the latest in the last several years,
because of an unbroken continuation
of bad weather during February,
March and the early part of April.
Bluffton area farmers expect to
see the start of oats seeding late
this week, barring rainfall, but the
crop will be late, and the acreage
may be down because of lateness of
the season.
Even if farmers get a favorable
break in the weather during the
next week, oats yields will suffer be-
cause of late planting, according to
DR.. L. E. Thatcher, associate chair
man of the Wooster Agronomy de-
partment.
REDUCED YIELD
coats yields drop sharply for
every day planting occurs after April
Is, DIR. Thatcher explained. ut is
safe to predict now that farmers al
ready have lost from six to 10 bush
els per acre in yield and each days
delay will add to the loss"
Flowing, too, is far behind sched-
ule, for weather conditions prevented
any breaking of ground in February
or March this year, and this week
marked the first occasion that plow-
| ing has been done since last fall.
Winter wheat, hurt by March and
April freezes, also is causing some
concern among farmers, although il
is too early at this date to determine
| il damage will be heavy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-04-20

Americans used to freeze mince
pies Immediately after baking.
Arizona sun., 1950-06-16
Veterans News

Unremarried widows of veterans
who died as the result of service in
World War II are made eligible for
CT home, farm and business loans
under the terms of instructions
issued by Veterans Administration
to it's field officers.
Such unremarried widows be-
came eligible for VA-guaranteed
loans as the result of one of sew
eral amendments to the CT loan
provisions contained in the recently
enacted Housing Act of 1850.
Eligibility requirements for such
widows to receive CT loan guaran-
tees in general parallel those gov
erning death compensation payable
to widows of World War II vet
Grams.
The veteran must have served
in the Armed Forces at some per-
iod between September 16, 1910,
and July 25, 1947, his death must
have been a result of service while
on duty, or from service-connected
causes following discharge, and the
widow must not have remarked
following the veterans death.
Widows who are eligible for CT
loan benefits by virtue of their own
service in the Armed Forces re-
Arizona sun., 1950-06-16
BY BETTY BARCLAY
Wheat-MeaI Southern Style

Wheat-MeaI Southern Style
1 teaspoon salt.
IL cups boiling water.
q cup Grape-Nuts Wheat-Meal.
1 egg, slightly beaten.
1k cups milk.
tablespoons fat.
Add salt to boiling water in
saucepan. Add cereal gradually
and boil gently minutes, stirring
constantly. Combine egg and milk;
add gradually to cereal. Then add
fat and mix well. Turn into creased
shallow baking dish and bake in
moderate oven (350o F.) As minutes
to 1 hour. Makes 6 servings.
Cereal Coffee Cake
IL cups sifted -four.
2h teaspoons double-acting baking
powder.
~ teaspoon salt.
tablespoons sugar.
tablespoons shortening.
1 egg, well beaten.
x cup milk.
1 cup Grape-Nuts Flakes.
tablespoons melted butter or
margarine.
Il cup brown sugar, firmly packed.
u cup Grape-Nuts Flakes.
Sift -four once, measure, add bak-
ing powder, salt, and sugar, and
sift again. Cut in shortening. Com
bine egg and milk and add to -four
mixture, stirring only enough to
dampen flour. Add / cup cereal
flakes and blend carefully. Turn
into creased 9-inch layer pan. Mix
butter and brown sugar and spread
over dough; sprinkle with II cup
cereal flakes. Bake in hot oven
(400o F.) 25 minutes. Serve warm.
Arizona sun., 1950-06-16

Cool mornings call for hot dishes
= good to eat, nutritious, yet
stream-lined. Appetites are rampant
and real food demanded.
Cereals by all means! A slick
trick is to serve Grape-Nuts Wheat
Meal Southern Style, with bacon,
ham or sausage. AS an accompani-
ment, steaming coffee cake waves
the wand of content for all who
partake.
Bran Flakes Waffles also are
good like anything. as the young
sters say. Even when they dress
for school in. nothing fiat, there's
time to eat waffle or two.
And hot, fragrant coffee = that's
the finishing touch to an Autumn
breakfast where you've enjoyed
one or more Of the following
dishes:
Bran Flakes WaffIes
l cup sifted flour.
2 teaspoons double-acting baking
powder.
II teaspoon salt.
2 egg yolks, well beaten.
cup milk.
4 tablespoons melted butter or
other shortening.
1 cup 40% bran flakes.
2 egg whites.
Sift -four once, measure, add bak-
ing powder and salt, and sift
again. Combine egg yolks and
milk. Add to -four mixture, add
shortening, then mix only until
smooth. Add bran flakes and blend.
Beat egg whites until they will hold
up in moist peaks. Stir quickly but
thoroughly into batter. Bake in hot
waffle iron. Makes four 4-section
waffles.
Arizona sun., 1950-06-16

ceive no additional benefits as wild
oWS.
CT loans for home, farm or busi-
ness purposes are made by private
lending institutions, with VA guar
anteeing the lender against loss on
a portion of the loan.
One of the recent amendments
authorizes VA to make direct loans
to eligibles for home purchases
after July 10, 1850, in localities
where mortgage financing at 4 per-
cent is not available.
Arizona sun., 1950-06-16
g
Well Folks
June 16, 1850

Did you ever get ALL THE ICE
COLD WATERMELON TIL A T
YOU COULD EAT AT A PRICE
YOU COULD AFFORD TO PAY?
Well, if all goes well, that is just
what you will be able to do in the
East Lake Park over this weekend.
The proceeds of the melon sale will
go to the "Reddy's Corner7 Crown
er" baseball team. They are really
entitled to more support than 1, as
an individual, can give them. So
/ have taken this way to give you
a chance to help support them and
still get your moneys worth on the
side. To date they have played "a
games this season, winning 16,
which isn't a bad average. They
have won the last games they
played in the South Side League at
Mesa, which should put them up
pretty well in the top for that
league.
Sunday they go to Florence to
play a doubleheader, morning game
i'm the, Prison and an afternoon
game with the Florence Merchants
on their diamond.
Next Tuesday night at $3.50 and
Friday night at 1880 we will again
play i'm Mesa. The boys will need
your "whoopin'" support because
they are going up against some
pretty tough teams.
But, to get away from baseball
for just a moment-have you ever
tasted Seagram's Ancient Bottle
Gin? That is, that golden colored
gin made by the same people that
makes Crown, the symbol we
carry on our baseball uniforms.
They make the best white gin pos
sible and then they put it i'm bar
rels and age it, just like whiskey-
you know what aging does for
whiSk ey-how much better it
makes it. When they take it out
of the barrels, it has acquired that
distinctive golden color and has a
better taste than any gin you have
ever tasted. Ask Annie Mae Or
VirIee about it, they know how
good it is-or better yet, try a bot
tie for yourself. The price isn't
too high-only $1.22 on the II pint
and $2.38 on the full pints.
Those long tall cool drinks go
very good these-should we say
warm days.
Come on over. We've got mix
ings, too.
AS Always
Annie, Mae, Virlee
and Freddy"
Evening star., 1950-09-27
WEDNESDAY. SEPEMRER - - - -- -O

paper. '"There!" he said. That's
mel"
It went on for nearly an hour
A wonderful performance. There
was no getting any kind Of hold
on him at all.
At last, defeated for the first
time in my career-but unable to
keep myself from smiling-I said
to the Intelligence Department
official who had accompanied Mr..
Jean Dufour:: Send him-as soon
as you like! The Gestapo will
never break him. After the police
in Belgium have picked him up
and let him go for the twentieth
time. every policeman who spots
him coming will dodge up a side
street until this nuisance has
shambled by! He is perfect"
The Intelligence man smiled.
We'll send him." he said. Jeans
trouble enough to the London po-
lice as it is. We have beauti-
fully furnished fiat for him in
Edgware road. but he won't sleep
there!
"He spends every night in Hyde
Park. sleeping on the grass. He
won't take more than a few shill-
ings pocket money-says it wor-
ries him!"
So the peerless lean Dllfour was
Evening star., 1950-09-27

winked at me. I sat up suddenly
for I thought I had seen an ex-
preston Of shrewd sanity fit
across that imbecile face.
"All right" I said. more inter-
ested than I had ever been in my
life. What age are you, Jean
Dufour?" spoke in Belgian
French, his native tongue.
"Age!" He laughed happily,
smote me on the shoulder. MY
age. old cock? How should
know?" He roared with fnirth.
Where was he born? He didn't
know. Where had he lived? He
laughed until his sloppy lips were
wet, then he wiped them luscious
ly on the back Of his soiled hand.
"Me-pal? I live nowhere"
Talk sense!" snapped. How
do you mean-you live nowhere?"
I gave him my fiercest glare.
He wasn't a bit impressed, Just
chuckled more violently. Hobo
-. I live on the grand routes-the
highways of Belgium-the fields
and woods-the haystacks."
What does your father do?" I
growled. He threw back his un-
kempt head. like a mop with eyes,
shook his grimy golliwog tonsure
with untidy merriment.
Father Even More Stupid"
"My father-you ask me-my
father, you say" The joke was
proving too much for him. that I
Evening star., 1950-09-27

cover story" It would be send
ing him to his death.
Since even the most carefully
tailor-made "cover story" must
sometimes fail, it became neces-
sary to teach these men the tech
niques of what we call "the story
within the story" This Is how it
came in useful.
"Second Story" Is Necessity.
When an agent under suspicion
was being examined by the Ges-
tapo he was tortured to find out
exactly who he was and where he
came from.
So the perfect agent should
endure a little pain then-as
though his spirit were broken
should tell his second story" such
as: well, you've got me. I can't
stand any more. I'll confess. It
is not true that I spent eight
months in Nice. I was there only
a few days. I was penniless and
hungry. I started begging from
passers-by. There was one-an
Evening star., 1950-09-27

elderly hag Of a woman, about 50,
with dyed red hair.
"She took me home. After a
couple Of days got fed up with
her, took her money and jewels.
hid from the police for weeks in
the countryside until I bribed a
'passeur' to conduct me across the
frontier"
A Gestapo agent who would
never believe tale of courage
and loyalty would often swallow
an untrue confession" Of mean
ness and deceit-especially If 1t
appeared to have wrung out by
torture.
That. then, was the technique
Of the STORY inside the story"
It undoubtedly saved the lives Of
many agents who fell into German
hands.
Gradually in that most secret
dossier Of all. more agents were
marked: Mission accomplished,
agent returned safely" instead of
''Missing-believed in Gestapo
hands"
Perfect Agent Looked Like Joke.
But there was one British agent
who, alone Of all the men and
women I examined. brushed
through my examination with
magnificent, faultless aplomb.
He was the perfect espionage
Evening star., 1950-09-27

lagent. He passed many times into
occupied Belgium on secret mis-
sions, was never once suspected
and is alive today, I believe.
Yet when I was first confronted
with him I thought it was a joke
in bad taste.
He looked like an idiot. He was
deformed. His lower jaw and
cheeks were fully three times
normal size. His mouth hung
slackly open, his pale blue eyes
were vacant, silly. A gaping wet
grin never left his face.
did not then know that behind
such an unpromising mask CLINT
ed one of the keenest, bravest wits
I have ever encountered.
My eyes popped when I saw him
led into my room. He leered at me,
giggled stupidity.
What is this?" I asked the In
telligence officer who brought him
to me. "Is this somebody's joke?'
Smile Of Keen Wit.
The officer smiled. ALLOW me
to introduce Mr.. Jean Dufour," he
said. "One of our couriers who
if he passes your examination
will be carrying sums of money to
our agents in Belgium and
France"
The man Dufour giggled
touched my inkwell with a clumsy
finger, as If it were some object
of unbelievable beauty, then-he
Evening star., 1950-09-27

dropped by parachute over Bel.
gium. In his pocket was 400
pounds in Belgian currency for
one of our secret agents in
Brussels.
Within two days the message
came: Mission Accomplishment"
He was dropped again, and sue
ceeded again. Throughout the
war this illiterate, vagabond.
petty -thieving poacher carried out
the risky duties of courier to the
British Military Intelligence with
unfailing diligence. He took thou
sands Of pounds to agents in Bel
gium-never a penny was missing.
He was never late for meetings,
seemed to brush his way through
clouds of police and Gestapo.
Jean Dufour with the face of an
imbecile. dressed like a fithy
scarecrow - was the tattered,
laughing cavalier Of the British
Secret Service!
I hope one day we meet again.
I would give him such a chicken
dinner with sparkling French wine
as he would long remember.
I wouldn't even mind him
humping my shoulder and calling
me "old cock!"
Thursday: Thirteenth man
qives aWdy U-bodt spies.
Evening star., 1950-09-27

should ask about his father. He
spluttered mirth all over my desk
and me. That's a good one, old
sparrow! My father? He is an
imbecile-a loony-he is so stupid
-"
Dear heaven, If the father were
more stupid than the son
"Why?" shouted impatiently.
"Why?-Because he works, does
my father-the old fool"
snapped at him: "And do you
not work?"
He thumped himself delightedly
at this fantastic idea. Network? :?
Why should I work? I sleep lovely
in the fields. I dine better than a
duke! A farm-cows to milk
when the farmer does not see .
and in the evening a little squeeze
around a hens neck, and there is
my nice chicken dinner!"
Despite myself was beginning
to smile. Have you never been
to school?" I asked. No, he had
never been to school. But, he
added with absurd Importance, he
could write his name
Let me see you do it,"
Signed His Name-'X'.
He seized my pen awkwardly,
fixed his ragged cuffs, hourished
his arm, and magnifcently
scratched a wobbly tx" on the
Evening star., 1950-09-27


not so bad in Belgium under the
Nazis, so he returned to Brussels.
This was the tale he would have
told Gestapo examiners.
What" I said, was your job
on the flower plantation at
Cagnes?"
Just laboring, sir" he replied.
I looked at his hands. They were
the soft, pale fingers of a book
keeper - but not a plantation
laborer.
"All right" I said. "Now-this
flower plantation-what kind Of
flowers did you grow?"
"Oh roses and carnations. r"
Then he was silent. 'Fuchsias?"
I prompted. No, there were no
fuchSiaS. Tulips? Not tulips,
either. Geraniums? All, yes
there had been geraniums, he
agreed.
laughed in his face. Ger
aniumS ON the Mediterranean
sea coast! My. boy, the gentlemen
of the Gestapo would be squeezing
your f1ngernailS in the door for an
like that!"
He smiled wryly. Il am not
gardener, he agreed. sadly. That
being the case, as I pointed out
the same afternoon to the chiefs
of his department, the lad should
not be equipped with such a
Evening star., 1950-09-27
| Fought Spies-VII
By Col. Oreste Pinto

(copyright, 1850, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
In London during 1941 dwelt
certain sturdy young men who
wore no army uniform. They
dressed well, appeared to do little
work. Yet they lived in luxury
flats. One of these was in Edg-
ware road, another in Sloane
street. Every few weeks some of
the young men disappeared; others
took their places.
Some were foreigners. Most of
the others were boys who had
been at school in France, Belgium,
Holland, Germany. They were
British secret agents, waiting their
turn to be parachuted into Nazi
territory.
1t was a perilous journey. Far
too many of them failed to return.
They were dropped into oblivion,
swallowed up by the German GeS-
tapo.
I was requested to give "Ges-
tapo-style examination" to these
boys before they left England. so
that there might yet be time to
correct mistakes.
The first test took place a few
days later. Three young fellows.
uuiet-with the clear eyes of per-
feet health. They had to be young.
Men over 40 tend to cripple them
selves on night parachute de-
scents.
Romance Means Swift Death.
These three had completed
months of careful training as spies
and saboteurs in a British spy
school. For months they had
lived under perfect self-discipline,
never a drink too many, an idle
word, nor a girl friend. To a Sc
cret agent romance is swift death;
that is one of the reasons why
women do not make good spies.
The three young men had lived
In Sloane street fat, well
clothed, with comfortable allow
ances. So far as possible, they
were allowed a good time.
But they were keen to go. They
faced me across my desk. grinned
family, waited for the first ques-
ton.
I turned to the official who had
brought them to me. When do
they go?" I asked.
DAY after tomorrow" he said.
I looked them over carefully.
"Just as they are?" I asked. He
nodded. They were neatly, un-
obtrusively dressed, had the ap-
pearance Of young Belgian busi-
ness men. They were all watch
ing me. I got up, walked to the
first Of them, reached out my
hand-and pulled out his tie.
Tie Would Have Betrayed Him.
"Selfridges, oxford street,
WI" said the label!
Had I really been a Gestapo
examiner I knew only too well
what my next move would have
been!
Six days later I was called to ex-
anime another young man wait
ing to be dropped in Belgium. He
was eager, intelligent. watched me
alertly. He had not a stitch of
English clothing on him, though I
examined him from shoe-heels to
hair-cream. Obviously, some one
had learned a lesson.
So I let him tell me his cover
story" This is a prepared, de-
tailed tale, which spy learns by
Evening star., 1950-09-27
A Misshopen> DrooIing idiot .
BATTLES Nozi Gestdpo Agents

heart, to explain where he is sup
posed to come from. and what he
is doing in the place where he is
found.
When the Germans entered
Belgium. he said, he had fled
toward Southern France. He told
me all about his journey, where
he had stayed, what the scenery
was like, the description of the
market squares. Then, he said.
he got to Nice. where he found a
job as laborer in flower planta-
tion at Cagnes. on the outskirts of
Nice, and took a room in the Rue
des Trois CroiX. He worked for
eight months until he learned
from travellers that things were
Evening star., 1950-06-10
z D. c. Women Entered In Liqht Plane Race

Two Washington women will
compete in a light plane race from
Montreal to Palm Beach. Fla,
next week.
Mrs. Victor w. Tatelman, 1921
Lincoln Road NE, wife of
World War II pilot, will fly her
Navion in the cross-country event.
One of her students, Mrs. David
Evening star., 1950-06-10
D. {. Building Permits
Issued in Month
Break All Records
Continued From Page BID

Continued From Page BID
and cinder-block dwelling. 1891
Thirty-f fourth street NV; to cost
$25, 900.
Southeast Construction Corp.
owner. 1905 K street NV:
Robert I. Silverman. builder. lo06
K street NV; George T. SAINT
myers, architect. 2009 L street
NV; to erect four two-story brick
and cinder-block dwellings. $50
through So Oakwood street Sc;
to cost $4,000.
w. c. & A. N. Miller Develop
ment Co., owner and builder, 1880
Massachusetts, avenue NV; Ed
ward r. Spano. architect: to erect
one two-story brick dwelling, 5145
Tilden street NV: to cost $23, 900.
Malcolm Scates. owner. 1876 JET
ferson street NV; builder, not
selected Warren Shoemaker,
architect, 5000 Wisconsin avenue
N.W3 10 erect one z-Story brlck
and cinder-block dwelling, 1910
Argyle terrace NV; to cost $20,-
900.
L. Fitzhugh. owner, 1919 Good
Hope road Sc; Robert L. Hill.
builder, Sandy Springs, Md; Earl
Won Reichenbach, architect. 1919
Good Hope road Sc; to erect one
2-story brick and cinder- block
dwelling. 1922 Jackson street NE:
to cost $4,000.
Stanley Hayman, owner. 1915
Varnum street NV; builder, not
selected: Abraham Waronoff, ar
chitect. las Kennedy street NV;
to erect one 2-story brick and cin-
der-block dwelling, 1913 Leegate
road NV. to cost $4,000.