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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08
First 10 Complaints On Property
RevaluatiOns Overruled By Board

The first 10 formal complaints
against reappraisal revaluations on
real estate have been overruled by
the Allen County Board of Revision,
it was announced last Saturday by
Ray w. Barnett, county treasurer
and chairman of the Board of Re-
visions.
Hearings were held in the court
house December 10 on the Complaints
with those protesting presenting
their evidence in support of their
claims that the new assignments are
excessive. A representative of the
Cole-Layer-Trumble Co., Dayton.
which made the reappraisal, appeared
to support the valuation.
In n case the property valuation
increase amounted to more than 400
per cent, although the average in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08
.Kenton Is Next WBL Foe For Pirates;
Game Slated Friday On Hardin Go. Floor

WBL assignment of the season, but
only in the nrst were the Pirates
able to gain a victory. Since stop
ping Wapakoneta in the league OPEN
er, the locals have lost to Shawnee
and last Friday night to Celina.
In the Celina defeat, by a score of
So to 48, the Bluffton team put up
a stiff first-quarter battle, then fell
off the pace in the second period.
At the close of the initial ~stanza,
Celina held a narrow two-point edge,
10 to 8, but by halftime the team
had widened the advantage, holding
a 81 to Is lead.
Warren paced the Bluffton scoring
attack with IA points on five field
goals and four free throws; Gerber
bagged IL points and Tom Bucher
had 10. d. Baker, Celina, was high
scorer of the evening with a 24-point
total.
Buttons next home game will fall
on Friday of next week, Jan. 16, when
st. Marys plays here. Last week the
st. Marys team lost to Coldwater,
SO to 80, but the star of the
Roughriders was not in uniform.
In another WBL game last week,
B~ellefontaine showed its strength
with a convincing SO to 50 victory
over previously unbeaten Van Vert.
The box score of last weeks Pr
rate tilt at Celina:
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08
BedUerddm Wins OUer
.COrU-RdJUsOn, 1866

With Bud Beamer tallying 81
points on a sensational sharp-shoot-
ing splurge, Beaverdam High cagers
bested Cory-Rawson by a score of
70 to &c last Saturday night on the
Beaverdam court.
Dick Amstutz, of Cory-Rawson,
also went on a scoring spree in the
tilt to rack up 20 points, but despite
the efforts of he and his mates,
Beaverdam led all the way in the
contest, holding a 40 to % edge at
halftime.
Beaverdam's varsity victory, how
ever, was pretty largely a two-man
show, for with Beamer getting 81
and Palte Is, all the rest of the
team Tailed only IS points.
In the reserve contest, Cory-Raw-
son was an easy victor, IS to 20, as
Coach Howard Trostmiller used every
one of his second-stringers. In the
tilt the reserves made good on 43
per cent of their field goal attmpts.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08
Two Home Games Slated By Beavers
Next Week Following GNU Tilt Thursday

Bluffton college will swing into a
Today period of intensive basket
ball play, beginning Thursday of
this week in a Mid-Ohio league con-
test with Ohio Northern university
at Ada, and continuing with a
schedule which brings up two home
games the early part of next week.
Following the Northern assign
ment, the Beavers will return to their
home court next Monday for a
game with Defiance colleges high
scoring Yellow Jackets; then on next
Wednesday the local gymnasium will
be the scene of a battle between the
Mastmen and Central States will
b~erforce) flashy negro outfit.
In the two home games coming up
next Monday and Wednesday, Bluff
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08

crease for the county is 1901 per
cent. On the first 10 complaints,
valuations on properties which were
on the tax duplicate last year for
$52,700 went to s96,120 under the
new valuation.
Subsequent complaints will be as
signed for future hearing dates,
County Auditor Russell L. Hire has
announced.
The third member of the Board of
Revision, along with Barnett and
Hire, is James M. Jacobs, president
of the County Board of Commits
sioners.
Taxpayers wishing to continue
their appeal after the Board of Re-
vision decision may take their cases
to the State Board of Tax Appeals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08
Knife Slips, Injuries
Local Meat Cutter

Harold Bushatz, meat cutter and
counter man at the A to z Meat
Market was injured last Friday after
noon while boning fresh ham at the
market. A knife which he was using
slipped and the sharp blade plunged
a inches deep into his right thigh,
severing a vein.
He was taken to Blaffton Commun-
.ity Hospital for. treatpsent and will
possibly be released this Wednesday.
Bushatz and his wife and 3 children
reside in the Chamberlain apartments
on Main street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08

Bluffton High cagers will be the
underdogs again this week when they
tackle Kenton in a Western Buckeye
league contest on the Hardin county
floor, Friday night.
Last week the Kenton team demon
strated its potent offense in smother
ing Ada, 65 to so, thereby gaining
an easy victory over a team which
defeated Bluffton earlier in the sea-
son.
The game will be Buttons fourth
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08
AT FURNITURE MART

William Edwards, manager of
Basinger's Furniture Store was in
Chicago early this week attending the
Furniture Mart's showing of new lines
and selecting his spring merchandise.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-01-08

Reserves: Button, 30; Celina
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
Constitutionality Of Coast
Guard Waterfront
Screening Is Upheld

: SAN FRANCISCO, pa fed
eral judge Tuesday upheld the
constitutionality Of the Coast
Guard waterfront security screen
ing program, but told the govern
ment to change the program to
better protect the rights Of af-
fected seamen and lockers.
District Judge Edward Murphy
turned down the request of six
West Coast seamen for an injunc-
ton to stop the screening, pro-
gram. Under it, no man who has
not been cleared by a Coast Guard
board on security may work on
of-shore vessels or cargo consid-
cred vital.
Holding that in the present state
of world affairs, the Coast Guard
has the right to check the 10y
atty of maritime workers, Murphy
said that seamen under investiga-
ton cannot always have the right
to- know or cross-examine adverse
witnesses.
The FBI, he said, has objected
that to disclose the names of in
formers would make them value
less in further investigations.
But the judge said workers I'M
der suspicion should at least be
told the gist of testimony against
them and be given the chance to
refute it. By not doing so in the
past, he said the Coast Guard 'un-
reasonably impeded" the defense
of screened workers.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
Ousted WI. Head
Accused Violation
OF Game Laws

WASHINGTON, Up - Senator
Bricker R-Ohio) has asked for a
check on whether Albert M. Day,
ousted Wildlife director, himself
violated a duck hunting regula-
ton he was supposed to enforce.
Day has retorted he did not.
The row over corn repeatedly
scattered in a. Maryland duck
blind four years ago broke yes
terday after Day contended his
firing was politically inspired -
though not by Bricker 80 and
Bricker accused Day of playing "a
dirty political trick" on him.
Secretary of the Interior Nc
Kay ousted Day from the $4,000
a year dictatorship of the Fish
and Wildlife Service. Day said he
was the victim of pressures from
California duck hunters and Alas
ka salmon packers.
Bricker said in a statement that
during last falls election cam
paign Day had barred hunters
from a marsh where Bricker had
been invited for duck hunt. Day
said he had received protest
from Bricker after the election.
But he did not consider the SEN
ator one of the political enemies
he said brought on his dismissal.
Leon Cool, a former agent of
the Wildlife Service, gave a re-
porter this account of the incident:
He was flying patrol over Smith
Island, Md, looking for illegal
batting when he spotted one blind
loaded with corn"
He landed and was told by care
takers they had put out 200
pounds Of corn and that Glenn l..
Martin, Baltimore aircraft manu-
facturer, was coming the next
Continued on Page Two
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
Living Costs Edge Up
FractiOnally Last Month

WASHINGTON, Up -- The gov
eminent reported today that liv-
ing costs edged up fractionally
between mid-February and mid
March. This reversed a three
month downward trend.
The Bureau Of Labor. Statistics
said the its consumers price in
deX rose two enths of one per
cent over the month. This brought
the index to 1886.
The index uses average prices
Of 1947-49 as a base Of 100.
The living cost level is pres
emily only about one-half of one
per cent off the record established
last November when the index
was 114.3.
Actually living costs have re
NAMED stable and changed very
little since last fall.
Summing up the price situation
the Bureau said:
''There were STABLE increases
(after controls were ended in the
retail prices Of cigarettes, coffee,
gasoline and fuel oil, but no other
important cost of living items
were affected at that time. The
groups which are predominantly
service groups have continued to
edge upwards, but food, apparel
and house furnishings are gen
orally. lower than a year ago."
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
sos Million Planned For
Alaska Highway Work

JUNEAU, Up The chief engi-
neer of the Alaska Road Com
mission says expenditures of more
than 95 million dollars are plan
ned for this summer on paving
and other improvement of Alas
ka's highways.
William J. Niemi listed these
major items: SO million for the
Richardson Highway; 2734 million
for the Seward Anchorage Tok
Cutoff; close to Is million for the
Alaska Highway.
Some contracts have not been
awarded. Bids are due as soon as
Congress completes action on ap-
preparations.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
U.N. May Ask Reds
To Return More
Disabled Prisoners

PANMUNJOM, Up - The U. N.
Command Wednesday night called
for a meeting with Communist
liaison officers Thursday, touch
ing off speculation that the Allies
might again ask the Reds to
return more disabled captives.
The U. N. prisoners already
freed have told of many sick and
injured Americans and other pri-
soners still in Communist prison
stockades.
The official announcement said
only that the meeting was called
''to discuss matters in connection
with the current repatriation OPP
erations."
The session is set Wednesday
an hour after the Reds start
turning over IA more Americans
and Sc other U.N. and South Ko-
rean prisoners.
American and U.N. captives in
Japan on their way home We'd
nesday added bitter new accounts
to the stories of death in Com
munist stockades and on brutal
marches. Associated Press CORE
spondent Robert Eunson said the
figures add up to 1900 dead.
The Reds, meanwhile, made
propaganda capital of the sick and
wounded exchange, describing
prisoners returning from Allied
camps as "mutilated, emaciated
wrecks"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
8 Lost In Crash
OF Huge DEC In
San Francisco Bay

SAN FRANCISCO, GA huge
airliner carrying 10 persons Mon
day night plunged into San Fran
cisco Bay with roar and flash
minutes after unloading "A pas
sengers at San Francisco Airport.
Two survived, four were killed
and four were missing.
The crew Of five and five pas
sengers on the Western Air Lines
DC-6B were on a short, low-level
10-mile hop from San Francisco
to Oakland, last leg Of a flight
from Los Angeles.
The giant plane - one Of the
largest types Of passenger craft
crashed at 11:08 pm. in Is feet
Of water in the southern part of
the bay, about four miles from
San Francisco and six from Oak
land It was almost the same spot
where a United Airlines plane
crashed in 1887, killing IL, and
exactly a month after the crash
Of a Transocean Air Lines trans
port that killed 35 in landing
attempt near Oakland.
Apprentice Seaman Devon c.
Peterson, %, Glenwood, Utah, Of
the Alameda Naval Air Station,
plunged into the debris Uttered
oily water with a line from
crash boat and rescued Steward
ess Beverlee Nelson and Passen-
ger Jerry Adams, 81, Of Fairbanks.
Peterson said he swan for Is
minutes in the oil-slicked water
among floating bits of plywood,
pillows, clothing and plane seats
all that remained of the giant
plane on the surface.
The Western Air Lines station
manager at Oakland said that the
DC-6B was making a routine
approach and had given no in
dication of trouble. He said cause
Of the crash was unknown.
Western said it was the lines
first crash since December, 1916.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
John Christie Killed His
Wife Because He Wanted
''TO Put Her To Sleep"

LONDON, R-A government
prosecutor said today that John
Christie had confessed to strangl-
ing his wife ''to put her to sleep"
and to struggles with three other
women whose bodies were found
in ChriStie's house of murder in
London's drab Noting Hill dis
trict.
Christie, SIS, mild-mannered
clerk, blinked through his horn
trimmed spectacles as Prosecutor
John F. Claxton disclosed in a
courtroom for the first time Chris
ties own account of what took
place in the. apartment whose
walls and floors hid the bodies of
four women.
He was arrested March 81 in
the climax to man hunt that
rivalled the search for the dread
Jack the Ripper.
Claxton gave picture of a sex
crazed killer who gassed or half
strangled his victims before hid
ing their bodies.
Claxton said the prisoner con-
fessed killing his wife, Ethel, on
Dec. IA, but declared the three
other women died in struggles
after they had picked quarrels
with him. Mrs. Christie's body
was found under the floor.
The bodies of three other wom-
en- were walled up in an alcove.
All were in their -twenties
and well known in Noting Hill
night spots. All three bodies show
ed evidence of sexual intercourse.
Claxton gave this as Christie's
statement:
''On Dec. IA I was awakened at
about 8:15 am. 1 sat UP and saw
that my wife appeared to be con-
vulsed. I could not bear to see
her so. I got a, stocking and tied
it around her neck to put her to
Sleep"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
sabres Used as Fighter-Bombers

SEOUL, Up - US. Sabre jets
flew double duty as fighters and
bombers today, as the 155-mile
battle line remained relatively
quiet for the third straight day.
The US. Fifth Air Force said
one group of Sabres swept north
to the Yalu River hunting for
Communist MIG jets while modi-
fled Sabres smashed a Red supply
center in fighter-bomber strikes.
The fighter Sabres fought three
high altitude duels with MICS,
but made no claims of destruction
or damage, the Air Force said.
Twenty other Sabres fly
ing as fighter-bombers flattened
% buildings of the Red supply
area. \
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
Northwest To Increase
Alaska Service As Percent

SEATTLE, R-Northwest Air
lines will give its new scheduled
service to and from Alaska a As
per cent boost under a new sched-
ule which will 60 into effect Sun
day, April 26, George Hatch, west
ern region sales manager, said to-
day.
Tourist flights and all : cargo
schedules will show the heaviest
increases, Hatch said.
''Northwest at present operates
daily tourist flights to Anchor
age" Hatch said.
beginning Sunday, we will fly
five more tourist round trips each
week, making a total of II tour
ist flights a week between Seat
tle-Tacoma Airport and Anchor
age.
"In addition to scheduled SER
vice." Hatch said, arrangements
have been made to operate as
many extra passenger and freight
sections as needed to accommo-
date heavy seasonal travel north"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
Death Marches, Semi Starvation
And Brutality Described By
Second Lot OF Returned CHS

TOKYO, R - A SloW-talking
sergeant from Oklahoma said to-
night American soldiers were
punched with bayonets, dubbed
with rifle butts and left to die"
by their Communist captors on :
bitter 13-day March thru North
Korea in sub-zero cold.
81 saw men that looked like
they couldn't 60 any farther,
showed over embellishments and
left to die," said Sgt. Ode Law
ley of Medicine Park, Okla. s'Lots
Of men just dropped while they
were walking. The Communists
showed them. off the road and left
them to die"
Lawley's story and those of
other men under treatment in
Army hospitals here added new
horror to the accounts of brutal
Red death marches which cost the
lives Of nearly 1000 Allied SOL
diers.
Beating and BaYonetting
Another young American re-
leased from Communist captivity
Monday at Panmunjom said Chi
nese Red guards hauled away to
labor camp, beat up and once
bayonetted American prisoners
who defied Red rule.
But, said Cpl. Donald K. LeGay
of Leominister, Mass, prisoners
who went along with the Com
munist line "got little better
treatment"
"We called them the No. l
boys" he added wryly at a news
conference at Tokyo Army Hos
pital. He said about "25 or 80
men, in his company of 220 men
got special treatment.
Odie, who is suffering from
malnutrition and other ailments,
told newsmen $50 many men died
Of sickness at the camps I was in
that I don't have any idea how
many died. There was so many
died I lost all track of them.
eve had five or six men tried
to escape but they caught 'em.
They never got very far. They
brought 'em back and kept 'em
in what we called Turnip Dugout
away from the rest of us. They
had to do extra duty-extra work.
They wouldn't allow us to see
'em."
LeGay said zone time we had
a little riot" He did not recall
what started it, but said the pri-
soners occasionally decided to
Continued ON Page TwO
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22

Korean Casualties Reach l33.787
WASHINGTON, Up - Announ-
ced US. battle casualties in Korea
reached 133,787 today, an increase
of 324 since last week.
The Defense Departments
weekly summary based ON mott
fications to families through last
Friday showed:
New
Increase Total
Killed in action 21,264
Wounded .............249 99,384
Missing ...................14 1879
Total ....................324 133,7S7
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-22
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES

CBY THE ASSOCIATED PREssJ
American League.
Cleveland 4-St. Louis 3
New York l - Boston @
Washington 5 - Philadelphia l
Chicago z - Detroit 5
National League
Philadelphia Z - Brooklyn l
Pittsburgh 5 - New York
Cincinnati 5 - st. Louis 4
Coast League
Seattle 4 - San Diego
Portland 5 - Sacramento 4
Los Angeles 6-San Francisco 5
Ookland IL - Hollywood 5
, 1953-03-23

Savings Bank Book No. ALSO
having been reported lost or
stolen, the holder thereof is here
by requested to present it to the
Bank within twelve (12) weeks
from this date as otherwise the
Book will be cancelled and a new
one issued in its place at the expi-
ration of this period.
Virgin Islands National Bank
Christiansted Branch
March 2, 1858
, 1953-03-23

Perfect fudge In 10 minutes with.
out cooking, beating or cold water
testing can be made with . new
recipe developed in the test kitchens
Of Hershey Chocolate Corporation
and Durkee Famous Foods.
j Corinne Calvet, co-star in "Thun-
der IN the East, . Paramount pic.
ture, Is shown above as she demon.
otrates the ease with which the
delicious new fudge can be made.
So simple that even the youngest
junior miss can be sure Of success
with It, the new Wonder Fudge
recipe Is expected to create 3 ma.
tional revival Of the f~udee-making
art
, 1953-03-23
christiansted, st. Croix, v. |.

Christiansted, st. Croix, v. I.
Gentlemen:
May / take this opportunity to
welcome you, the members of the
Board of Directors of the Virgin
Islands Corporation, on your visit
to the Virgin Islands. / sincerely
wish you a very pleasant sojourn
among our people and hope that
, 1953-03-23
GOOD GOLF COURSE
NOE LONG AGO We commented editor

NOT LONG AGO we commented edtorialIy that Presi-
dent Eisenhower may even look in this direction for a winter
White House Such a move by the President would be
grand, and bring much publicity, and a shot in the arm to
business. There is really no barrier to such a move. Distance
is out of the question, and to the contrary there are many
points in favor, such as climate, privacy and the like.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is a golf enthusiast, and
is said to play an excellent game. Do we have here a good,
l8-hole course? If there is not, can one be put in shape fairly
quickly? When people seek certain things they must be ready
and willing to pay for them.
NOTICING AGO the St. Croix Golf Association revealed
that plans had been completed for making a real champion
ship golf course at the Alexander Hamilton Airport. This pro-
ject should be sponsored by the Virgin Islands Corporation as
part Of its overall program for Tourist Development, and one
which would contribute substantially to the economic welfare
of the Islands. Lest there be those who wonder, a golf course
can be a paying proposition, if there is enough attraction
and use.
WHENEVER THE President of the United States travels,
he carries a stable group with him which include his aides
and advisers. But this is not all. The President sets the pace,
and once he heads in a given direction there are many scores
Of others who will do likewise, all of which can work for our
good, should the Chief Executive decide to use the Islands as
his winter retreat
DETAILS ARE NOT important here. It is enough to call
attention to the fact that if we intend to be host to the Presi-
dent, everything must be done to make our distinguished
guest comfortable and happy, and one Of these is a fine golf
course.
, 1953-03-23

People do not believe all they
read-unless the headlines are
large enough to be convincing.