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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-08-05

Monday evening callers in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. |. Trostle
were Mrs. Margery Belly, Wyan-
dotte, Michigan; Mrs. Lulu Mullen.
Napoleon; and Mrs. Edna Bartlett of
Hamler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Barnett and fam
lily of Rockport, and Kenneth Shill-
ing of Toledo, called in the Francis
Marshall home Sunday evening.
Mrs. Zella Frantz of Lima, spent
the week end with her son Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Frantz. The Stanley
Niswanders of Lima, also called in
the Frantz home Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Cupp and
daughters Nancy and Cynthia are
leaving this week for a vacation trip
that will take them through the
North Central states including Min
nesota and the Dells of Wisconsin.
The family of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. P. c. Sutter held a reunion at
the Pandora Park Sunday in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Sutter of Craw-
fordsville, Iowa. Among those pres
ent were: Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellan
Amstutz and their son, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wade Amstutz and children whose
home is near Flairborn; also Mr.. and
Mrs. Dick Gessler of near Lima; Mr..
and Mrs. Jim Anderson of near Bluff
ton; Mrs. Hulda Schumacher, Mr..
and Mrs. Ormel Schaublin and chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Sutter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Sutter and family,
Miss Martha Sutter, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dwight Sutter and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Smith from
Toledo, were over Sunday guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lue Leh-
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Baker of Ritz
man, were week end guests in the
home of Miss Madalene Bixel.
Sunday guests in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Correl Donaldson were Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Hostetter and chill
dren Patty and Ronald of Constan-
tine, Michigan, also Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Green and children Craig and Sue
Ann of Elkhart, Indiana.
Plans for arrangements for the an
nual Fall Festival for the Pandora
Gilboa area are in full swing. All
committees have made preparations
for bigger and better event than
ever and with the chicken barbecue
as an added feature the menu will of
fer variety of food, cooked home
style, to please every appetite and
purse. The prizes this year will be
an extra attraction, the first prize be-
ing 1000 pound steer ready for
butchering; second prize, a Delux
Schwinn bicycle and third, a 200
pound hog. There will be many other
prizes contributed by the business
places of Pandora and Gilboa and all
will be on display this week at the
Pandora Hardware and Supply Co.
The date for the festival is Wednes-
day, August Is.
The occasion Of the commemora-
ton Of the fiftieth anniversary of the
building of the local Methodist
church which was observed Saturday,
July 81, and Sunday, Aug. /, brought
friends and former members from far
and near. All sessions were high
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-08-05

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
THE STATE OF DHIoC
Allen County, ~.
Estate of Florence E.. Kramer Deceased
Clarence E. Kramer of Beaverdam, Ohio has
been appointeS~ AID qualified as Executor of
the estate Of %Brence e. Kramer late of
Allen Cou2y, ,kOH@ deeased; -
Dated Es'fafl It'd asss Of 5. 'Slz sEsSE4r isiai
Probate Judge
Aug. 5-l2-l9
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Mckinney 10 Lead
Byrd Campaign Fight
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE. Jan. 16.-The
100-man executive committee
which will engineer the H. C.
Byrd-for- Governor campaign
took on another member yester-
day when the former University
of Maryland president named j.
Evans Mckinney of Elkton to
the group.
Mr.. Mckinney, who will head
DR.. Byrd's campaign in Cecil
County. is a past president of
the county's Young Democrats.
DR.. Byrd's Office said Walter E.
Buck. chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee
for Cecil County also will take an
active part in the campaign.
George P. Mahoney, who will
oppose DR.. Byrd in the Demo-
cratic primary, is expected to
come up with campaign an
nouncement following a weekend
meeting with Eastern Shore
leaders.
State Controller ]. Millard
Tawes, one of the Shores most
influential party figures, ap-
peared to have adopted a tenn
porary "hands-off" policy on the
Byrd Mahoney struggle. He was
expected to make a weekend an
nouncement declaring his inten-
tion to run for denomination
without Immediately pledging his
support to either of the principal
candidates for the gubernatorial
slot.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
u. 5. Reimbursinq
Persons Who Held
Part Of S16O,OOO Loot

The Secret Service has begun
mailing checks to persons who
innocently held $40 bills that
were part of the loot in the dar-
ing $160. 900 theft from the Bu-
reau Of Engraving.
A total of 336 of the bills have
turned up in the hands of local
merchants and banks, the serv-
ice said. This raises the total
recovered in $40 bills to $685.
800.
Hundreds of the stolen bills
are still in circulation here. the
Secret Service believes. Other
parts of the loot may have been
hidden or destroyed.
All of the money. has been
recovered in or around Wash
ington. None has been returned
from Baltimore, although one
man under arrest is quoted as
saying he changed some 100 of
LIlc Oils LIlcTe.
The Government asked banks
and merchants to watch out for
the bills. Any one with any in
formation about them should
call Executive 3-6400, Extension
5l65.
The bills are series of 1850 A.
drawn on the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York. They bear
a large "B" in a circle to the
left of the portrait of Andrew
Jackson. The serial numbers
fall in these two groups: {:
B 90236001A through B 9024-
COCOA, and B 9025200lA through
B 90256000A.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Business Publishers
To Honor Vice President

The annual Silver Quill Award
of the National Business Publi-
cations, Inc, will be presented
to Vice President Nixon at a din
ner at Ais o'clock tonight in the
Hotel Statler. The dinner will
be preceded by a reception at
$50 o'clock.
The award is presented by the
business publications for dis
tinguished service in behalf of
American business and industry.
The award itself is sterling
silver reproduction of a maga-
zine with a silver quill lying
across its open pages. It con-
tains 800 ounces of silver and is
mounted on an ebony base.
Mr.. Nixon will speak on his
recent Far Eastern tour. Top
officers of major business and
industrial concerns will answer
questions about 1854 business
prospects Harvey Conover, pres
ident of Conover-Mast Publica-
tions, Inc. New York. and chair
man of the board of National
Business Publications, will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
awards Presented 7 Students
For Essays on D. c. Home Rule

Seven District high school
students yesterday were given
awards at a luncheon in the
Capitol for winning essays on
home rule for Washington.
Odessa Chase. 16, of 342 M
street S.W., a student at WASH
ington Vocational High School,
was gwen the top award, a $50
United States Savings Bond, by
the Washington Chapter Of
Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion. sponsor of the contest.
Other winners, who were given
awards by Senator Case. Repub-
lican, of South Dakota, chair
man of the Senate District Com
mittee. are:
Ruth Abrams. Is. Of 6812
Fourth street NV, Coolidge
High School; Miss Egan O'Con-
nor. 16, Of 2035 Huidekoper
place NV, Western, and Miss
Julie Walker. II, of 646 c street
NE, Eastern. all of whom tied
for second place and received
$25 bonds.
Also, Elfreda Dixon. 16, of 245
Evening star., 1954-01-16

Sixteenth street Sc. Spingarn;
Alfred Friendly, jr., Is. Of 1916
Thirty first street NV, st. AL
bans School for Boys, and Sylvia
j. Washington. 16, Of 4315 Thir-
teenth place NE, Dunbar-all OF
whom received scrolls for hon
orable mention.
The luncheon, in the Vanden-
berg Room Of the Capitol, was
conducted by Tilford E. Dudley
chairman of the Good Citizen
ship Award Committee Of the
ADA.
Judges of the contest were Mrs
Mildred D. Morse. wife of Sen
ator Morse. Independent. of Ore
gon: Frank r. Jelleff, Municipal
Court Judge Armand w. Scott
and Robert F. Brooks, president
Of the Federation Of Parents and
Teachers.
The winning essays were Sc
lected from among more than
80 submitted in the contest. All
supported the home rule cause.
Senator Case said he planned
to enter the winning essays in
the Congressional Record.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
License inspection
5tep-Up Planned

Col. Giles Evans, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner. who is act
ing director of the Department
of Licenses and Inspections, is
about to improve the inspections
system.
The first step will be to have
the inspectors of the Weights,
Measures and Markets, make a
license inspection whenever they
go into a place to make their own
inspection.
Col. Evans has gone over the
program with j. Thomas Ken
nedy. superintendent of the
Weights. Measures and Markets,
and c. T. Nottingham, superin-
tendent Of licenses, and both
agreed it would mean the in
spection of about 5000 more
places to see that they had the
required licenses.
Mr. Kennedy has 13 inspectors,
who will undergo an intensive
training course on licenses and
then will begin their extra duties
Later inspectors from other
agencies will be used.
Mr.. Nottingham issues be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 licenses
for business every year and he
has only five inspectors. He has
however, the services of 80 mem
bers OF the Police Department
who supervise licensed places in
their precincts.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Sportsmen Protest
Plan 10 Ban SHOOTING

Montgomery County sports
men braved Thursday nights
sleet and snow to attend a pub
lie hearing at Rockville in oppo-
sition to a proposed ordinance
which would prohibit the dis
charge of firearms in the entire
Maryland-Washington regional
district except for a few limited
uses.
At present. the firing of guns
Is prohibited in the coun-
tvs heavily populated suburban
district. Hunters told the Coun-
ty Council the proposed ordi-
nance would take $4,000 acres
away from SportSmen.
Instead of the proposed ordi-
nance, Isaak Walton League rep
resentatives urged that firing be
prohibited within set distances
of highway and occupied dwell
ingS. Bethesda Trial Magistrate
R. Duncan Clark suggested pro-
hibition of firing within striking
distance of dwellings.
Clint Davis, president of the
Bethesda-Chev Chase Chapter
told the council that youngsters
like to hunt and the league
wants to train them to handle
firearms properly. Extension oi
the no hunting limits simply
would intensity hunting in the
upper county, he said.
The only support for the
measure came from Col. Frank
T. Chamberlin who presented &
petition from residents of thu
Bradley boulevard-River roac
area. He said indiscriminat,
shooting has angered a numbel
Of persons.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Teacher Loyalty
Move Defended

A stronger loyalty oath for
teachers does not imply they are
disloyal any more than vaccina-
ton implies children have small
pox. an Arlington women's club
said yesterday.
The Arlington County Wom-
ans Democratic Club, which re-
Gently recommended that the
Virginia General Assembly adopt
strengthened teachers loyalty
oath, said the proposed measure
is a preventative"
A spokeswoman, Mrs. William
Howes, club vice president, re-
leased a statement which de-
clared in part:
Just because we are asking
the teachers of Arlington to sign
a loyalty oath does not imply
that they are disloyal. This is a
preventative.
I'm view of conditions which
have been exposed by congress
sional investigation and the in
Struction of j. Edgar Hoover
(FBI directory we have taken it
upon ourselves and in co-opera-
ton with the OAR Daughters
of the American Revolution
to insist upon a loyalty oath for
all people who are employed in
unsupported institutions in the
State of Virginia. :"
The Arlington Education As
sociation, the teachers organi-
zation in the county, said
Wednesday 1t stands ready to
help, root out disloyal teachers
in Arlington but knows of none.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Garageman Critically Hurt;
Woman Held in 'Hit-Run'

A 55-year-old service station
attendant was reported in crit
ical condition today after he was
struck by a hit-and-run auto
bile yesterday in the 1900 block
of BladenSburg road NE.
Police said William F. Jordan,
1926 EvartS street NE, has two
broken legs and possible internal
injuries. He is at District Gen
eral Hospital.
The accident. police said, hap
pened about HOS pm. Police
said the car was later located
in the 2700 block of Twelfth
street NE. after witnesses had
furnished police with a descrip-
ton. Arrested on charges OF
leaving after colliding with a
pedestrian, according to police,
was Bernice j. Bledsoe, "a. of the
1400 block Of Irving street NV.
Police quoted the woman as
saying she thought she had
struck a patch of ice when the
accident occurred. Police said
she is an inspector for the Wash
ington Institute of Technology
in College Park, Md.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
School Boy Extohion
Racket Seen Broken
In Prince Georges

A schoolboy extortion racket
that appeared to be developing
at the Greenbelt Junior High
School has been broken up,
Prince Georges County police re-
ported.
Police yesterday arrested two
15-year-old youths on juvenile
petitions for alleged attempts to
extort protection money" from
their schoolmates. according to
Detective Emmett F. G. Gray.
Police made the arrests after
one of them was paid off with
a marked" 50-cent piece and
implicated the other one, De-
tective Gray said. They face trial
in Hyattsville Juvenile Court
Wednesday.
No Ring, Police Insist.
Police said no extortion ring
was operating at the school.
One of the youths was released
in custody of his parents. The
other was committed temporarily
to the Maryland Training School
for Boys at Lock Raven, police
said.
Police said the youths indi-
Gated they had tried the pro
lection business" after reading
about gang activities at the Paul
Junior High School in the Dis
trict.
Police were called into the case
when a l5-year-old victim told
his parents he was supposed to
bring so cents to the pair last
Monday.
Another victim, 13, said he al
ready had given one of the
youths Is cents and was sup
posed to bring so cents last Mon
day.
Both Given Marked Coins,
Police gave both of the youths
marked coins for the alleged
Monday payoff. Snow, however,
closed schools and Thursday the
13-year-old made the payment
when he got to school.
Police then called the would
be extortionist into the prin-
cipaPs office. He said he got the
coin from a boy who owed him
money.
Detective Gray said one of the
victims told him the money was
demanded or lit would be taken
out o. my hide"
One of the pair arrested said
he was taking the money for
protecting the victim from other
people who were always beating
him up. He said he had meant
it as "joke."
TIL evictim, however, said the
only ones who ever picked on
him were the two who demanded
the money.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Second Of 6 Boys Caught
In Receiving Home Escape

Police last night picked up
another of the six boys who
escaped from the receiving home
on December %.
The 17-year-old colored boy
is the second to be arrested by
police since the escape. Juvenile
Squad officers got information of
his whereabouts last night. He
was arrested in the 1900 block of
Eighth street NV, police said.
The youth had been held at
the receiving home since Decem-
ber Is on three charges Of petty
larceny.
In another juvenile case, police
said a 17-year-old boy was drunk
and carrying switchblade knife
when picked up at tavern in
the 1900 block of H street NE.
is being held at the receiving
home.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
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Evening star., 1954-01-16
Montgomery Press Club
Awards Scholarship

The Montgomery County Press
Club has granted a $10O scholar
ship to Miss Barbara Joan Riley
of 4808 Wellington drive. Be-
thesda. to aid her in the COM
pletion of her junior year at
George Washington University.
Miss Riley attended the Be-
thesda Elementary, Leland Jun
ior High. Bethesda Chevy Chase
Senior High and Montgomery
Junior College before enrolling
at George Washington. She was
editor of knights Quest at MIC
and is a reporter on The Hatchet
at CIV. She is employed part
time as secretary for the Inter-
national Association of Chiefs of
Police.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
S. Million for Virginia
Seen in Truck Tax Plan
BY the ASsocioted Press

RICHMOND. Va, Jan. 10
Virginia would realize an esti-
mated IS million annually from
proposed weight-distance tax
on heavy trucks.
That was the estimate yester-
day from a firm of consultants.
Griffenhagen & Associates. whose
report will go to members of
the General Assembly next week.
About 81 million in gross rev.
enue would be produced by the
tax extended to out-of- state
truckers who are not required to
pay the present gross receipts
tax. the report said.
Another 81 million could be
realized by the enactment of a
proposal that Virginia start COL
lecting its 6-cents-per-gallon
fuel tax from out-of State truck
ers who buy their fuel outside
the State but use State roads.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Germantown BoyDie!
Of Injuries After
Sled Hits Auto

A 6-year-old Germantown,
Md, boy died today of injuries
suffered when a sled he was rid
ing struck an automobile on
Berryville road yesterday.
The child was identified by
Montgomery County Police as
William Douglas Driver, colored,
of Route No. 2, Germantown.
officials at Suburban Hospital
said the child died Of a skull
fracture.
Police said the child came out
of a driveway on his sled into
Berryville road and ran into the
right front wheel of a car driven
by Leon Hebron. 90. colored. Of
Germantown. Police said Mr..
Hebron was unable to stop. He
was charged with having no per-
nit in his possession, police said.
In other accidents traced to
weather conditions. a 22-year-
old mail carrier was injured
yesterday in Arlington when he
slipped on ice.
The mailman. George D. Nc
Leod. 1716 South Twelfth street,
received a dislocated left should
q in the fall on the icy steps
of a home in the $500 block of
Lee highway.
In another Arlington accident.
16-year-old boy received a
broken left ankle when he fell
off a sled yesterday morning. He
was identified at Arlington Hos
pital as George Hersey. 5623
North Twenty-third street.
A third weather casualty was
Mrs. Lillian Tyler, SO, colored.
/ Of 232 Tenth street Sc, who fell
on ice in the 1400 block OF North
Taft street. She was admitted
! to Arlington Hospital for treat
! ment of a broken left leg.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
z Youths Gef
6 10 18 Years
For Robberiies
Another Involved
In Housebreokinqs
Also Sentenced

Two young men were sentenced
yesterday to serve from 6 to 10
years each for their part in two
holdup-rohberies here last
September.
They are Waymon r. Cum
ningham, 19, of the first block of
K street NV, and Willie j.
Pough, "a, of the first block of
L street NV. both colored. They
had pleaded guilty. Sentence
was by Judge Alexander Holtz-
off of the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
In one of the cases, a Capital
Transit Co bus driver was robbed
at Bladensburg road and Gen.
tral avenue NE. In the other
case, a variety store proprietor
was robbed of $40 in his store
in the first block of H street NE.
Judge Holtzoff gave each of
the two men from 3 to 8 years
for each robbery and ordered
the two sentences to run con-
Secutively.
CO-defendants Sentenced.
Judge Holtzoff gave two CO.
defendants 3 to 10 years each for
taking part in the $40 store rob-
berry. They are Lloyd j. Smith.
18, of the first block of I street
NV, and william j. Gass, 18,
of the 400 block of Second street
NV. Smith and GaSs, who also
are colored, await trial on a
charge of taking part in the rob-
berry of the bus driver.
An 18-year-old youth drew SEN
tences totaling from 16 months
to 4 years for four housebreak-
ings and thefts in three of them
when Judge Burnita Shelton
Ma Ehews ordered three sentences
to run concurrently. He is Ray
mond Gregory, colored, of the
1900 block of E street Sc. He
had pleaded guilty.
Police gave statements regard
ing Gregory in IA housebreaking
cases for consideration by the
United States attorneys Office.
In November, he was indicted for
the four housebreakings. There
was insufficient evidence in the
other cases, a spokesman for the
United States attorneys Office
said.
Clarence w. Keitt. 10, COL
ored, of the 100 block of / street
NV, was sentenced by Judge
Matthews to serve a total in
concurrent sentences of from l
to 3 years for three housebreak-
ings and thefts of money and
property totaling $648 in two of
them.
Evening star., 1954-01-16

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president and
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Evening star., 1954-01-16
Trucker Found Dead
Al Alexandra Dump

An Alexandria man who was
stricken while unloading his
truck at the city dump was
found dead there this morning.
Policeman Allan Glass said
the victim, Charles M. Poindex-
ter, Sc. colored. of 118 North
West street, was found dead by
another trucker.
The policeman said Dr.. Alfred
Abramson reported the man died
of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Evening star., 1954-01-16

Mr.. Quirk'S career at the de-
partment store since he first
came there in June, 1913, as a
clerical worker.
Mr. Quirk was promoted to Of
flee manager within a year and
five years later was made con-
troller. In 1884 he was elected
a vice president of the corpora
tion and four years later was
elected to the board of directors.
Mr.. Quirk is a director of the
Bank of Commerce and Savings
and a member Of the Manor and
Columbia Country Clubs.