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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-10-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Gettles, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Thomas Of Wellston,
Robert Gettles of Dayton and Mrs.
James A. Griffith and daughter Kim
berly Ann of kenton spent Wednes-
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
GettIes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-10-26
PAGE FIVE
BedUerdan, Man
Is Prize Winner

E. NJ. Bridges, Of Beaverdam, has
won a Johnson Seahorse outboard
motor and other sports equipment
for contribution accepted by the
Rod and Gun Club of the Air, a
radio program, it was announced
this week.
Delivery of the motor will be
made by E. c. Stultz, local john
son dealer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-10-26

Entered as second class matter at
the postoffice at Bluffton, Ohio,
under the Act of March 8. 1879.
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Huntfor Bank Robbers
Who Got $4,000 in
Arizona Stepped Up
BY the Associated Press

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 9.-Po-
lice, working with scanty infor-
nation, stepped up their search
today for two men who robbed
the Bank of Douglas and escaped
with $116,250.
Every available law enforce
ment officer in the State, includ-
ing agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, has been mar
shalled for the hunt before the
trail becomes cold.
They are seeking a man de-
scribed as a light skinned Negro
between the ages of 80 and IS, and
Spanish-American, about 80.
They carried out the robbery early
yesterday.
Ignored Bills Above s1O0.
The bandits forced the janitor
to let them in the building about
s am. and waited until the vault
teller, James Wise, arrived about
7:30 am. He was forced at gun
and knife point to open the vault.
The men took only bills in de-
nominations of $100, $50, $40, $40
and 81. They ignored another
s113.852 in bills of larger denomi-
nations and $4,000 in silver.
Police admitted they had only
scanty information to work on,
but we're following numerous tips
they had received.
Waited for Time Lock.
The men waited calmly for the
time lock on. the vault to release
and forced bank employees into a
closet as they arrived. At one
time, while the robbers were up
stairs, an armed messenger from
an armored car service entered
the building to leave some COM
munications. walked across the
lobby. then left.
The pair stuffed the currency
into a 50-pound lard can and
walked calmly out of the building.
Full amount of the loss has
been refunded by an indemnity
company.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

Minister when does Socialism stop
in England. He quoted Mr.. Attlee
as replying:
"It doesn't. It goes right on.
Nothing can stand between ma
ton and it's goal"
(Mr. Oursler. when informed
in New York last night of the
aides remark, said: Il have re-
ceived no cable and no message
from anybody" He said he was
in Britain in April and ex-
planned: MY understanding was
that had permission to write
that article as I did,
The aide said he took the action
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Scott Nearing to Lecture

Scott Nearing, economist and
commentator on world events, will
close a series of 1850 lectures here
tomorrow with a talk on the
Present Trend in the United
States Toward RECOMMENDATION of
the Human Mind" Mr.. Nearing
will talk at 1880 pm. in the
Lincoln Congregational Temple,
Eleventh and p streets NV. The
World Events Committee Is spon-
soring the lecture,
Evening star., 1950-02-09
Correction Requested
On AttIee Quotation
Nv the Assnsiotad Prsss

LONDON, Feb. 9.-One of Prime
Minister Attlee's aides says he has
asked Fulton Oursler "as an hon.
orable man" to correct remarks
which Mr.. Oursler attributed to
Mr.. Attlee in the current issue
of Look Magazine.
In the article the American
writer said he asked the Prime
Evening star., 1950-02-09

last week before the Prime Minis
ter saw the published version Of
Mr.. Oursler's article. Mr.. Oursler,
the aide continued, did in fact see
Mr.. Attlee privately about 10
months ago on the understanding
that the talk was to be OFF the
record.
After some British papers last
week published summarized ver-
sions of the article, the aide, who
had arranged the interview, said
he had cabled the American
writer.
Only 13 States had birth regis
fra tim laws before 1Q10
Evening star., 1950-02-09

Cape Town, South Africa, has
had an epidemic of cat influenza,
postponing cat shows.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

No wonder! Sheridan's Fruit
and Vegetable Buyers put
their heart in their work
=. shey see to ii that you
get the finest, freshest the
market affords.
Evening star., 1950-02-09

Only 13 States had birth regis
tration laws before 1910.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Arlington Trial Slated
For Dodson Tomorrow

Francis E. Dodson, 81, former
Arlington policeman accused of
housebreaking with intent to rob
and rape, is scheduled to go on
trial tomorrow.
DodSon has pleaded not guilty.
Conviction could carry a maxi
mum sentence of death.
Police testified at preliminary
hearing that Dodson entered the
home of H. Jack Bartels, 281O-B
South Sixteenth road last Sep
tember. After forcing Mr.. Bar
tells and his wife, Eleanor, to dis
robe, police charged, Dodson made
indecent advances to the attrac-
tive 33-year-old housewife.
Judge Earl L. Abbott, Clifton
Forge, of the Nineteenth Virginia
Circuit, will be on the bench. The
case will be heard by a 12-man
jury.
Last November Circuit Court
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy or
dered DodSon sent to Southwest
ern State Hospital at Marion for
mental observation. He was ad-
judged mot insane" and returned
to Arlington.
Dodson was shot in the right leg
and captured by an Air Force
colonel and an Army major as he
tried to escape from the apart
ment.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Almost Forgotten
After Surrender of
Lee in His Home
BY the Associated Press

APPOMATTOX, Va, Mar. 18.-
Wilmer Mclean is being called
back to the stage of American
history next month to take a post
humous bow.
For 85-years Mr.. McLean's S men,
ory has lain in the shadows out
side the range of the spotlight
that fell on a great event that
happened in his house :. some
thing like the names of those
who were in Lincoln's Theater
party the night he was asSassi-
mated.
Mr.. Mclean, success in the
mercantile business in Alexandria
moved to Manassas in the mid
nineteenth century into the life of
a Well-to-do gentleman farmer.
But the early days of the Civil
War saw the conflict swirling
around his estate. He found him
self in the center of the First
Battle of Bull Run Manassas !.
The situation was repeated at
Second Bull Run and Mr.. Nc
Lean sought the more peaceful
surrounding of southside Virginia.
With his family he came here and
bought the handsome Raine home.
And peace arrived in his parlor
on April 9, 1865. Gen. Robert E..
Lee met Gen. U. S. Grant in Mr..
McLean's home that April day and
signed the articles ending the
Civil War.
The rebuilt and restored home,
made q national shrine by the
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Alexandria Yeggmen
Blast Safe, Get $1,000

Experts in the use of explosives
turned their talents to an Alex
andria grocery safe yesterday and
took $1,700.
That amount was missing from
the lockboX when Manager Jack
Rubin opened the Sunshine Mar
ket, police reported.
The safe, in a rear storeroom at
Pendleton and Columbus streets,
was blasted with such force that
the top was blown into the ceiling
of the Office on the floor above.
Police said the burglars muffled
the explosion with wet coats and
aprons but at least one resident
heard it. He didn't note the hour.
The safecrackers entered the
building. through a delivery chute,
police said. The paddock on the
chute door was pulled apart, then
apparently put together again.
The loot was in bills and silver.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
St. Morys Due to Get Painting
Of States First Religious Rites

Great Mills High School will sing
patriotic songs.
The painting, property of the
Society of Pilgrims of ST. Mary's
County, was to have been hung in
a county museum. The project did
not materialize, however.
The Rev. Louis A. Wheeler, 81.
pastor of st. Aloysius Church
here, and his assistant, the Rev
Charles Rholeder, Sd, offered the
picture to the county commits
sioners. It will be hung on the
rear wall of the court room.
Aloysius F. King. clerk to the
county commissioners and an au-
thority on st. Mary's County his
tory. said acceptance of the paint
ing is intended ito spur the
growth of civil liberty and re-
ligious freedom-the twin oaks
planted at the ceremony it por-
trays"
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Monroe Estate Suit
Goes Back 10 Court

Frank c. Littleton, former own
er of the historic Monroe estate at
Aldie, Va, is back in the courts
again in an effort to regain Oak
Hill.
Through his attorneys, Mr.. Lit
Teton petitioned Federal District
Court in Alexandria Friday to set
aside the sale of Oak Hill.
Oak Hill. once the home of
President James Monroe, was sold
at auction for $220,0O0 in Sep
tember. 1948, to Thomas DeLash-
mutt of Haymarket. Va.
Mr.. Littleton, who barricaded
the estate in an effort to prevent
the auction. declared in his latest
suit that no auctioneer, was ever
appointed or confirmed by the
court. Accordingly, he said, "all
the acts of the so-called auctioneer
who purported to cry the sale of
the said real estate were void
Other alleged errors included a
charge that trustees who sold the
property were not qualified.
Mr.. Littleton described himself
in the suit as 'farmer-debtor."
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Special Dispatch TO The Stor

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Mar. 18.
A painting depicting the first
religious service in Maryland will
be presented to st. Marys County
Monday.
The 7 by 18-foot picture por-
trays a mass celebrated March 25,
1884, soon after English settlers
came ashore at st. Clements Is
land from the Ark and the Dove,
the ships which brought them
across the Atlantic.
Chief Judge John B. Gray, jr.,
of Maryland's .7th Judicial Cir
cult. will make the principal ad-
dress at 10 am, just before OPEN
ing the March court term. States
Attorney John H. T. Briscoe will
be master of ceremonies. Pupils
from st. Marys Academy and the
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Feline Born in Pentogon Closet
Wins Cat Show Champion Prize

and equally well fed, filled cages
in the first floor Everglades Room
and overfoWed into second floor
quarters.
By closing time last night, the
judging had put Sylvan Blue
Rajah, a Siamese owned by Mr..
and Mrs. j. c. Readey Of 100
Philadelphia avenue. Takoma
Park, Md, into the best kitten in
the show class.
Felise, "the cat of the year." a
big Persian blue with huge orange
eyes, was present for exhibition
only. Felise is owned by Mrs.
Merald. E. Hoag. of 1915 North
Court House road, Arlington.
Thirteen-year old Jeanne Marie
Mott of 5000 Cummings Lane
. Chevy Chase, Nd. was delighted
when her one-fourth Persian
China II, won the designation OF
best kitten in the household pet
class. sCats in this class do not
have to be full-bred.
The blue ribbon for the best
Persian female kitten was won
by Blueface Pearl Harbor Mi
nerva, owned by Mrs. r. A. Lacey,
of Johnson City, Tenn. The blue
ribbon for the best Siamese Seal
Point male kitten went to CATH
ness Ramchandani, owned by Mr..
and Mrs. William Goodwin. 2105
North Court House road, Arling-
ton.
Most of the cat fanciers were
women but there was an occa-
sional man among the exhibitors.
The judges were Mrs. Lester
ONeill of West Allis, Wis, and
Sven Nelson of Braintree, Mass.
One of the goals of the organ
ization is to create enough inter-
est in cats so that the pound will
keep them for adoption as they
do dogs. Unless it is an unusually
good specimen, every cat taken in
by the pound is put in the gas
chamber right away, according to
Mrs. Bayer, who is vice president
of the group.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Bus Re Routing Plan
Will Be Submitted 10
HyattsyiIIe Council

Hyattsville's City Council to-
morrow night will be asked to
indorse re-routing of the Capt.
tai Transit Cos. College Park
Prince Georges General Hospital
buses to bring more people into
Hyattsville business areas.
Sylvan V. Deitz heads the COM
mittee that worked out the re-
routing plan. which has the in
dorsement of the Hyattsville Pro-
fessional and Businessmen S
Association.
Serving with him is Council
man Jesse S. Baggett, who will
present the plan to the council.
He is chairman of the councils S
Transportation Committee. John
T. Norman. vice president of the
professional and businesSmen's
association, also Is on the COM
mittee.
The plan calls for re-routing
of buses leaving College Park
south on Queens Chapel road to
accommodate students at the
Nicholas Orem High School now
under construction on Colesvllle
road: left into Colesville road to
Forty second avenue, south on
Forty-second to Farragut street,
left on Farragut to Rhode IslanG
avenue and north on Rhode Is
land avenue to stop at or near
Gallatin street. The buses then
would continue to Bladensburg
and the hospital.
Returning, the buses would go
to Cottage City and Colmar Man
or, and via Thirty-eighth avenue
to Rhode Island. avenue and
north to Gallatin street, Hyatts-
vile; west on Gallatin street to
Forty-second avenue, north on
Forty-second to Colesville road
and then back to College Park via
Queens Chapel road.
It is pointed out by Mr.. Deitz
that the re-routing would help
church-goers to reach Hyatts-
vile by bus.
Hyattsville's council also will
be asked to authorize building a
driveway into a part of the old
Magruder residence property on
Farragut street, east of Memorial
Methodist Church. 1t is planned
to establish a parking lot there.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Coviington Man Kills
Sister, Then Himself
BY the Associated Press

COVINGTON, Va, Mar. 18.-
A Covington truck driver, angry
because his sister planned to evict
him from the home he rented,
shot her dead here today and
then killed himself.
Police identified the two as
H. Mckinley Tucker, SO, and Mrs.
Viola Offenbacker, So. Allegheny
County Coroner DR.. Michael
Hanna pronounced a verdict of
murder and suicide.
Sheriff William P. Henderson
said Tucker entered a combina-
tion tea room filling station
operated by Mrs. Offenbacker and
her husband, Charles H. Offen-
backer, about 4 pm. today and
said:
Viola, you did me dirt"
Mr.. Offenbacker, only other
person in the room at the time,
told Sheriff Henderson his wife
replied:
Il have no time to talk to
you now"
Sheriff Henderson said Tucker
then whipped out a 38-caliber
pistol, fired one shot into his
sisters breast, then fired another
bullet in to his mouth.
Tucker and his wife rented part
OF house owned by the Often
hackers, adjoining the station.
The sheriff said Mrs. Offen-
backer had sworn out warrant
for eviction of the fuckers several
day ago and that her action led
to todays double shooting.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

The Pentagon has produced q
champion mousetrap.
Born in clothes closet in the
worlds biggest Office building, it
is a tawny, perfectly marked cat
named Pentagon Rusty.
Rusty, lynx-eyed, graceful and
full of aplomb over his growing
fame, gathered enough points to
become a champion in Judging
at the 4th Champion All-Breed
Cat Show at the Annapolis Hotel
last night.
The hotel was no place for q
saucer of cream or a mouse.
The show began yesterday and
ends with final judging at pm
today, with several hundred OF
the most beautiful and most
efficient mousetraps in the world
As production, the Cat Fanciers
of Washington have quite a show
Rusty, owned by Mr.. and Mrs
Harold Bayer, of 3444 Twenty
fourth street Sc. is one of four
cats born to a red tabby mother
and gray tabby pappy.
The mother, at least, was resi-
dent of the Pentagon and was
owned by an enploye there.
Rusty'e entry in the show busi-
ness was as accidental as his
birthplace. Because the Bayers
have at least eight other cats,
Rusty went to his first show strict
ly as a travelling companion to
another Bayer cat.
His markings, which drew the
acclaim of the judge, Mrs. Lester
O'Neill, last night, have been
called perfect" by three British
and five American judges. Since
then he's been collecting ribbons
in Norfolk. New York, Boston,
Buffalo. Pittsburgh, Chicago and
Atlantic City-Which is fair grade
ribbon collecting for an eight
month-old tabby.
Cats of all colors, most of them
contented and all we'll groomed
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Appomattox House Owner Honored

But the committee found that
Mr.. McLean's memory, rather, had
faded into obScurity.
Careful checking of old records
and documents did disclose finally
this much about the forgotten
man of Appomattox.
He was a son of Daniel and
Lucretia Mclean who came over
to Alexandria from Iona, Scotland.
The family gravestones in st.
Paul's Episcopal Cemetery show
the parents spelled the name NC
Clean"
Not too much was discovered
about Wilmer McLean's youth. But
he succeeded in business quickly
in early manhood and became a
partner in the wholesale and retail
food firm of Kerr & Mclean. Some
say Mr.. Mclean donated the land
for the erection of st. Pau's
church where he and 18 members
of the family are buried.
Prior to- the Civil War he moved
to Manassas. He was over-age for
active service but acquired the title
jor"-perhaps the result OF aid
he gave the Confederate procure
ment services.
On surrender day at Appomat-
tox the family consisted of Mr..
Mclean and his wife, Mrs. Mamie
Maury Mclean; Wilmer Mclean,
jr., Lula Mclean and Virginia
Beverly Mclean, and two of Mrs.
McLean's daughters by a previous
marriage, Oceola and Maria
Mason.
Mr.. Mclean returned to Alexan-
dria after the peace. A citizen of
prominence he held job as col
lector of the port.
He died June 5, 1882. in his 68th
year.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Good Prices Reported
By Maryland Coop
For 1949 Tobacco

The Maryland Tobacco Cooper
ative has sold at Favorable prices
100000 of the million pounds of
tobacco it purchased last year.
About 95 per cent of the sale,
representing all grades, general
manager Paul T. MacKie said,
have been shipped to Europe. He
said data indicating the average
price was still unavailable but that
considerable amount had
brought more than the 544 cents
a pound average received for the
80 million pound 1948 crop.
The cooperative, a locally oper-
ated agency backed by Federal
financing, began operation last
year when the Government price
support program was inauguratej
in Maryland.
Farmers pay a $5 lifetime men,
bership fee which enables them
| to turn their tobacco over to the
cooperative on a loan basis when
bids of private buyers do not eX-
ceed federally fixed prices.
Non-PrOfit Organization.
If the cooperative later sells its
holdings at higher prices, farmers
will receive the difference, minus
warehousing and other handling
charges. The cooperative is a
non-profit corporation.
Emphasizing that he did not
want growers to count on such
returns, Mr.. MacKie explained
that it probably would take at
least two years to sell purchases
made in any one season.
However" he declared, eve
are beginning to see a result of
the recent trip to Europe made by
Gustav A. Buchheistef. the States
newly appointed tobacco ambas-
sador."
Several inquiries have been re-
ceived, Mr.. MacKie said, from po-
tential buyers in Switzerland.
Belgium and Germany Some will
eventually lead to sales. but time
is required to complete arrange
ments under Government pro-
grams.
Mr.. MacKie said his agency
is concentrating it's efforts on sales
to the export trade because every
pound shipped overseas slaves off
the day when acreage allotments
will be imposed in Maryland.
Quotas Fixed by Law.
The Secretary of Agriculture is
/ required by law to fix quotas
when domestic warehouse stocks
exceed the normal demand. At
present the two figures are not
far apart.
Farmers must approve such re-
strictions in referendum. If
they do not approve. Government
price supports would be with
drawn.
Mr.. MacKie predicted that the
1949 crop to be sold between May
and August 4 will total As mil
lion pounds. The Government
estimate is Al million.
Furthermore he said informa-
ton at hand indicates that the
crop-second largest in the his
tory of the area-will be at least
equal in quality to that grown in
1948. The latter was conceded
one of the best ever offered.
Lowering of the 1850 Govern
ment support price to Alb cents
a pound from last years level of
439 cents will not mean lower
prices, in Mr.. MacKie's opinion.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Gas in Radiator
Gives Hot Foot
To Bystonder
BY the Associated Press

SALISBURY, Md, Mar. 18.-
Allen Prior, baking salesman,
picked up a bucket and filled the
radiator of his truck today.
The fluid was gasoline. Some
of it spilled out and hit the hot
engine, bursting into flames. Mr..
Prior jumped back unhurt, but
some of the gasoline spilled on the
shoes of another employe, Will
liams Jones.
It gave him a hot foot. He
danced an involuntary jig, and,
in the process, stamped out the
fire on his shoes. Before the fire
was put out, police said, it did
about 5000 damage.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
z Fort Meade Scouts
To Attend Jumboree
Special Dispaieh TO The stor

FORT. MEADE, Md, Mar. 49,
Fred Rail and Thomas Russell
will represent Fort Meade Scout
Troop BIT at the National Boy
Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge,
Pa, in June, 1t. James C. Howard.
jr., scoutmaster, announced to-
day.
Rail is the son of Col. and Mrs.
S. E. Rail and Russell is the son
of Maj. and Mrs. Lawrence Rus
sell.
At a court of award this week,
the Fort Meade troop received a
crusade plaque for accomplish
ment of its 1949 pledges. Col.
Rail made the presentation.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
D. C.-Ba|timore
Road Death Toll
50 in "a Months
Injuries Exceed 500
In 73o Accidents on
30-MiIe Boulevard
BY the Associoisd Press

BALTIMORE, March 18.-The
bloody Washington Baltimore
boulevard has claimed so lives and
more than 500 injuries in the IA
month period since January l.,
1949.
There were 739 accidents on
the 30-mile stretch of highway
last year, according to 1t. Joseph
K. Cushwa, head of the State Po-
lice traffic collision statistical bu-
reau.
The boulevard record in death
and injury during 1949 was reg
istered despite 9,791 arrests for
traffic violations along the thor
oughfare. Also, 25,953 warnings
were meted out by State Police.
The majority of suggestions put
forward to lower the boulevard's
high accident rate call for ply
sical improvements.
Elimination of Curves Asked.
State Police officials have asked
the State Roads Commission to:
|. Eliminate the dangerous
curve on the approach to the Elk
ridge River bridge across the Pa
tapsco River.
2. Make the road leading into
Elkridge, which branches to the
left Immediately across the same
bridge, one-way northbound.
8. Eliminate or straighten the
hump at One Spot, near the Wat
erloo State Police barracks.
4. Remove the blinker light over
the boulevard at Riggs road, lead
ing into Beltsville, replacing it
with a no-left-turn sign. The
blinker, police said. is at the north
end of blind curve, and cars
turning left can't be seen until
northbound traffic is almost upon
them.
S. Place signs at strategic To-
cations to warn drivers of the
DOuleVarQ ndZdfQS.
6. Build cement island up the
center Of the highway. Head-on
collisions cause the greatest num-
Der of fatalities on the road and
police believe an island would re-
duce the number of these sharply.
improvements Sorely Needed.
Capt. Carl B. Dillinger, COM
mander Of the Waterloo barracks,
said 1--WE realize that mere ply
sical Improvements will not stop
accidents.
But it is certain the improve
ments we recommend are sorely
needed. They'll at least help
lower the accident rate"
It is one of the most heavily
travelled roads in the country.