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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The House-passed bill for q
Washington police force Of moi
less than $500 men was approved
Unanimously yesterday by a
Senate District subcommittee.
Action by the full COMMITTEES
on the bill is expected later this
week.
The three-man fiscal affairs
subcommittee took only five min
utes to approve the bill in ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17
EVERYTHING late
TURNED TO GAS

Fol. years suffered gas pains and discom.
forts OF indigestion. Nothing seemed to do
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17

larger force. As pointed cut BY
The Star Of March as, the wom-
en- have organized to demand
more police protection because
they are afraid to 60 about the
streets Of Washington after dark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-17

Engineers have found that today's high-horse-
power, high-compression engines are especially
sensitive to certain deposits.
Within only few thousand miles, deposits
form which cause spark plugs to miss. when
this happens, power falls off. Performance
generally gets logy. Obviously, what's needed
is way to stop spark plug miss.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
SHOWER OF GIFTS
Continued from Page u

various stores offering them.
The complete list of prizes follows: /:
Koontz Sinclair Service, $500 cash;
HauensteirRs Bakery, decorated cake;
Vida-VidellaN Shop, two pairs Mould
hosiery; Western Auto Store, child's
set, plate, tumbler and dish; Niswan-
der News Stand, box of candy; Stauf-
fer Pure Oil station, sportsmen's
flashlight; Master Feed Mill and
Gold Leaf Mineral Co., $500 in cash;
Bluffton Farm Equipment Co., toy
Massey-Harris tractor; Lugibihl's S
News Stand, box of candy; A. Hau-
enstein and Son, Johnson's baby gift
box; Fett Hardware, electric alarm
clock.
Dixie Marathon Laundry and Ser
vice Station, two weeks free diaper
service; Plain View Dairy, one gal
Ion of ice cream; Bixel Motor Sales,
five free lub jobs for the family car;
O.C. Hursey and Sons, toy John Deere
tractor; Swank Bros. Meat Market,
$500 merchandise certificate; Walter
mire's, baby blanket; Bluffton Ce-
ment Block, Inc, gift package; Bluff
ton Meat Market, picnic ham for the
family; Charles Co., baby bottle ster-
ilizer; Community Market, case OF
baby food; Crows 5 cent to $1.0O,
gift package; Steiner and Huscr'
necktie for father; c. F. Niswander
and Son, toy Farmall tractor; Farm
er's Grain Co., $500 in cash; Bas.
niger Furniture Store, bottle warm.
er; Basinger Funeral Home, free am.
bulance service for mother and baby
Leiber Jewelry Store, baby ring; Neu
Art Studio, 3 by portrait; Rice
Dry Goods-Tot Shop, $500 wearing
apparel; Jorg Hatchery, $500 cash
Bluffton Stone Co., $500 cash; Marsh
all and Bixel toy stuffed, foam rub
Der teddy bear.
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Hospital Auxiliary

Hospital Auxiliary
q The Bluffton Community Hospital
auxiliary Thursday afternoon, Janu-
ary 8, at 2:30 o'clock in the Nurses
dining room. The regular meeting
will be followed by tea honoring
Miss Sylvia Biederman, hospital
superintendent, who is resigning her
post December 81.
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tage in this area where people of
Swiss extraction abound.
The men paid SIS to SIS. Is foHrthe
watches and sold them in the $3.50
price range, claiming they were gem
.uine Swiss made watches recently
imported from that country. sBcrne
police said the watches were of hand
some appearance but of poor quail
ty. Several local residents who pur-
chased watches from the pair have
reported having difficulties with their
watches already.
Berne police said Nydegger and al
ready deposited 81 1000 in the Decatur
bank since going there and Brandle
displayed a wallet containing $1,000
when posting bond in the Decatur
court.
AS rule the men would deposit
the money in a bank in the commun-
ity which they were working, then
draw their money out before leav-
ing. They have accounts in several
cities and have over $4,000 deposited
in New York bank
Several local persons became sus-
picious of the pair during their stay
but no action was taken against them.
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Alpha Gamma Club


Travel Class
A Holiday Tea will be held on
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
ArmOrsville

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty and
son Donald, Charley and Margaret
Guider, MIR. and Mrs. Clarence Frid-
ley and Neoma West spent Christ
mas eve with Mr.. and Mrs. Wm j.
McCafferty and Dan.
Carley and Margaret Guider spent
Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne
Guider and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Montgomery
and family were Christmas dinner
guests of Mrs. Lenore Montgomery
and Sue.
Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Coldiron and
family were Sunday dinner guests of
Mrs. Grace Klingler. Evening callers
were Mr.. and Mrs. Don wilkins, Mrs.
j. w. Wilkins and children and Mr..
A. L. Martin.
Past week called at the Owens
home were Mr.. and Mrs. Orvin Writ,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Barnes, Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Thigss and daugh-
ters Sandra and Patty, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Owens. Mr.. and Mrs. Dale
Owens and daughter Sue, Mrs.
Elizabeth Seig, Margaret Guider,
Margaret Sheets, Marcella Schu-
macher and Ben Daily
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl McCafferty and
son Charley and Margaret Guider,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j. McCafferty and
daughter were Christmas supper
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Max McCaf-
ferty and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hilty and family
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ewing and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Spencer
and family spent Sunday with MIR.
and Mrs. Fl. 0. Hilty.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Montgomery
and family and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Matter were Christmas dinner guests
of Mrs. Lenore Montgomery and
daughter Sue.
Those who enjoyed Christmas din
ner with Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Klingler
and family were Mr.. and Mrs. J. w
Wilkins and family, Mr.. A. L. Martin
and Mrs. Grace Klingler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Reams, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Klingler and sons were
Christmas eve guests of MIR. and
Mrs. c. w. Montgomery and family
Those who enjoyed Sunday dinner
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Dunbar were
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Grant and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hermann
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hofel
and family. MIR. and Mrs. Don Dun
bar and family and Mr.. and Mrs
Jr. Dunbar and family.
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Bluffton Hospital
DECEMBER %

Admitted: Noah Steiner, Bluffton;
Dan Tripplehorn, Bluffton.
Discharged: William Beard, Watse-
ka, ILL.,; Brenda Bohlar, Detroit;
Winifred Grismore, Pandora; Mrs
Maurice Umphress and baby, Bluff
ton; Mrs. John Schmutz, Jr. and
baby, Bluffton.
DECEMBER %
Admitted: Mr.. Leroy Lobdell
Lima; Mrs. John Nonnamaker, Find.
lay.
DECEMBER "a
Admitted: Mrs. Mary Lambert
Beaverdam.
Discharged: M. M. Murray, Bluff
ton; Leroy Lobdell, Lima; Mrs. Gene
va Buttrom, Detroit; Walter Buttrom
Detroit; Mrs. John Moser, Bluffton
DECEMBER rs
Admitted: Mrs. Alta Garau, Bluff
ton; Sarah Rausch, Ada; Mrs. Hattie
Lugibihl, Pandora; Mrs. Kay E
Robb, Findlay; Jim Nonnamaker
Findlay.
DECEMBER 26
Admitted: Yvonne Agner, Pandora
Discharged: Miss Sarah Rausch
Ada; Mrs. Kay Robb, Findlay.
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ties for deportation.
The men, Theodore Brandle, 26,
and Hans Ulrich Nydegger, %, both
natives of Switzerland, are said to
have been selling cheap watches at
high prices, under the claim they
were Swiss imports. They found a
large number of customers in the
Berne, Ind community and it is re-
ported they made a number of sales
during their stay in the Bluffton vi
cinity.
Frequent use of different names
while in Berne is what caused the ar
rest of the men. Brandle registered
in a Decatur, Ind. motel under the
name of Sam Brown, Nydegger un-
der the name of John Decker. Ny
degger also used the name of John
Victor Nydegger. He used the name
John Geiser in signing watch guar
antees. While in Bluffton they used
the names of Geiser and Brandle.
The men attended the EbeneZer
Mennonite church west of town sew
eral times while they were in the
area and apparently used the con-
facts they made there to sell their
watches. They are reported to have
made a great number of sales in the
Bluffton-P Pandora area during the six
or seven weeks they were here.
They came to this area from Wayne
County where it is believed they prac.
ticed the same scheme. The Swiss
natives used their ability to speak
their mother tongue to great advan'
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WINNERS NAMED
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lCOnunueQ from page IL
First honorable mention went to
The Gift Shop, operated by Mrs.
Russell Lantz, former art instructor
in the local schools. The display was
in direct contrast to the Vida-Vidella
entry. Although it featured many
items, the display was artistically
arranged with good conference. The
general arrangement of the decora-
tons was very impressive to the
judges.
Other businesses to rate honorable
mention included Rice Dry Goods and
Tot Shop, Basinger Furniture Store
and Balmer's.
In the church lighting contest
nativity scenes presented by the
Presbyterian and Methodist churches
were chosen as co-winners. The SIS
first prize was divided equally be-
tween the two groups. The judges
expressed the hope that next year
more churches in the area would COM
pete in this phase of the contest.
Judges in the merchants window
decorating contest were Ken Cove,
editor of The Columbus Grove VII
dette, DR.. Howard Raid, associate
professor of economies and business
at Bluffton college, and Milton Ed
wards of The Bluffton News.
The church decorations were
judged by Kenneth Basinger OF
Basinger Florists and Earl Lehman,
assistant professor of music at Bluff
ton college.
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Swiss Watch Peddlers Who Operated
Locally, Arrested, Fined In Berne

Two crafty watch statesmen, who
made number of sales in Bluffton
recently, were fined $100 and given
three month suspended sentences in
Decatur, Ind, city court last week
on charges of falsifying their identi-
fication.
When arrested the men had plead
ed not guilty but the next day they
changed their plea to guilty.
They may be in for deeper trouble,
however, for representative of the
Internal Revenue Bureau has been i'm
vestigating the claim that the men
also collected luxury tax but may
not have reported it for the articles.
1t is also believed one of the men
is wanted by immigration authori-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
Beayerdam PTA
Phyllis Kersh To Wed
Put. MahLOn N. Geiger

Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Kersh, Route
1, McComb, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Phyllis, to Pvt.
Mahlon M. Geiger, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Monroe Geiger, Pandora.
Miss Kersh is a member of the
senior class of McComb high school.
Mr.. Geiger, a 1862 graduate of
Pandora -Gilboa high school, is pres
emily stationed at Ft. Sam Houston,
Texas.
No wedding date has been set.
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JOHN HARNIsHFEGER
Continued from page u

appointed to office in February, 1850
during the administration of Arden
Baker and handled numerous major
legal matters including legislation for
building the sewage disposal plant,
sale of the municipal light plant,
building the swimming pool, and a
damage suit growing out of stream
pollution prior to building the dis,
posal plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
Beaverdam w. S. C. S.

Beaverdam w. S. C. S.
Hostesses for the Jan. 3 meeting
will be Emma Trout, Eloise Shick,
Lois Arnold and Betty Zimmerman.
Roll Call, New Years Resolutions;
Special Feature, Edith Wolfe; Pro-
gram Leader, Carrie Cook.
Beaverdam PTA
Beaverdam P. T. A. will meet
January 2 at 500 p. m. Devotions
will be given by Mr.. Paul Spallinger.
The program will be Teachers APP
probation Night and School Night
(class visitation). Refreshments will
be served by the 9th and 10th grade
room mothers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
Niswander Radio
Winners Announced

Winners of two RCA Victor table
model radios given away during the
Christmas holidays by c. F. Niswan-
der & Son were announced Wednes-
day by Dean Niswander. The winners
are Joe Wilson, Ada rural route, and
Sadie Hamilton, Route /, Bluffton.
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Society a,sdHsbs
Poinsettia Club

Poinsettia Club
Mildred Keel will be hostess to the
Poinsettia club at their next meeting
to be held January 2. The program
mo Delinquents in Chinatown"
viii be given by Edna Schultz; and
"The Power of Prayer" by Blanche
Harmon.
Alpha Gamma Club
On December % the Alpha Gamma
club will meet at the home of Carolyn
Basinger. The program will be given
by Lois Rodabaugh on ''The Book of
Bells.
Alice Freeman Club
A book review "When God Says
No" will be given by Celia Hilty al
the next meeting to be held at 500
p. m. on January 2. Hostess for the
evening will be Zilla Amstutz.
Travel Glass
A Holiday Tea will be held or
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28

December % with Jean Triplett,
Mildred Hannum and Helen Diller as
hostesses.
.ss1 ***
Lutheran Ladies Aid
The Lutheran Ladies Aid and Mis-
sionary Society will meet Wednesday
afternoon, January at 2 o'clock in
the home of Mrs. E. G. Stultz.
Blue Star Mothers
/ The Blue Star Mothers of the
Wayne Daley chapter will meet We'd
nesday, January 2, at p. m. in the
home of Mrs. Rhea Amstutz. New
officers of the chapter will be In
stalled.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
Orange Twp. Farm Women's Club

Orange Twp. Farm W0men's Club
The Orange Township Farm Wom-
ems club will have an all day meet
ing at the home of Beulah Hamilton.
Roll Call-What was your greatest
blessing of the past year?; devotions,
Beulah Hamilton. Others to appear
on the program are Lillian Anderson,
Evelyn Grow, Edna Crawford, Cleah
Ewing and Phyllis Downey.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-12-28
Girl Scout Troop 124

Girl Scout Troop Ia
Girl Scout Troop 124 held Christ
mas party last Monday afternoon.
After trimming tree they took the
tree with them as they went caroling
to the homes of number of local
-shutins. They distributed fruit and
candy at the various homes they
visited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Senators Hope
To Quit by July q
By the Associated Press

Senate leaders predicted today
Congress will quit for the year
some time between July 81 and
July %.
Senator Clements Of Kentucky
acting Democratic leader, told
reporters he thinks both Houses
can clean up their work by July
% "or earlier"
Senator Knowland OF Califor-
mia, the Republican leader. said
he thinks Congress could com.
plete its tasks by July 81 if all
goes well.
He conceded, however, that II
the House attaches an anti
segregation amendment to a
school aid bill scheduled for &C.
ton there this week. st would
make things difficult" South
ern Democrats would fight any
such amendment and might re-
sort to a time-killing filibuster.
Chairman Hayden, Democrat
Of Arizona Of the Senate Appro-
priations Committee said it has
been his observation that Con-
greSs decides to go home soon
after all the annual money bills
have been passed. Two such
measures still are pending. one
to provide funds for the foreign
aid program and another to APP
prove supplementary money for
various Government agencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
Postal Rate Rise Seen
Doomed by Democrats

be called the Congressional Fis-
cal Responsibility Act of 1856. "
Representative Moss, Democrat
OF California. denounced it as
the Stamp Tax Act of 1856"
He contended it would put an
unfair burden on the ordinary
letter stamp user who has nc
lobby and is a soft touch"
Republicans said Congress was
responsible for much OF the
postal deficit because of salary
increases and other measures
which ran up departmental costs
They declared Congress now has
responsibility to provide fol-
corresponding revenue.
Democrats described the Post
Office Department as primarily
a service organization not ex-
pected to be self-sustaining
They said most of the hackers
OF the proposed rate increases
were large corporations. They
contended that the proposed in.
creases would amount to "a tax
to underwrite serious deficien-
cies' in some of the other rates
not touched by the bill.
Representative Mason. Re-
publican of Illinois. declared the
increased postal rates would
actually mean a saving to indi-
vidualS and families. More than
half of the present postal deficit
is paid in taxes by individuals
he explained. If the deficit were
made up through increased rates
more than three-fourths of il
would be paid by business con-
Germs, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
335 Broinwoshed POWs
Return Home to japan

MAIzURU. Japan, July 3 CP,
Brainwashed and bewildered. 335
japanese prisoners OF war re-
turned home today after more
than 10 years of Chinese Com
munist captivity.
Before leaving the repatriation
ship. the returnees gave news
men a printed Joint statement
confessing their guilt. Some OF
the group praised Red China.
One OF the Japan Red Cross
officials who went to North
China to accompany the prison
ers told reporters: These peo-
pie were brainwashed. Please
don't try to label them as Com
munists. They are victims who
deserve the most warm hearted
welcome from our people "
The Joint statement was
signed by all 1886, who called
themselves war criminals re-
leased first by China They
pledged to work for the cause
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
LOST

BASS TRUMPET, in front Of Crescent
reward JU. 5-646s
BILLFOLD, dark. trimmed with red In
or around Hot Shoppe on East West
hwy reward. MRS NJ B LEE, oil.
BILLFOLD, maroon colored with money
and earrings inside: interested in get
ting earrings back. HO. 2-7S6g.
DOG. collie male, IA yrs. old; sable and
white: has limp; vic. Goldsboro I'd be-
tween Bradley blvd. and River I'd; an
sWers TO name sonny; reward. OIL
ture inside, Monday afternoon. TU
GLASSES, mans, gold rims: vic. 10Th
and II: 50 reward. A. SEIGLER 1888
Eve St. NV.
SOLITAIRE iady's white gold. Las
carats, lost between downtown D., e
and Lake Jackson. Reward. ME, S-0132
PARAKEET, green. gold leg band: LOST
vic. Meadow lane Chevy Chase Md
OIL. 2-2542 or OIL. 2-l234.
PARAkEET blue. band on left leg, vic
OF Cherrydale, Va. reward. Call ia
PURSE. white vic ne. sunday night
papers and money; reward. Call RIA
5iih and GARFIELD Wo. 6-496e
WATCH Gruen small. square shaped
white gold lost Thurs. Conn. ave, bet
Davenport-Nebr. Reward EN-. 2-S309
WATCH, ladys gold Elgin Friday eve.
ning, Cabin John line name on back
Hattie G. OIL. 2-gl65. ASK for JAM
ALLEN
WRIST WATCH. mans, polished steel
initials on back Of case sraS
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03

Of the Japan China friendship"
The repatrlates included FAC
former servicemen and SO civil
lans. They had been held in
Communist concentration camps
without trial. some of them since
1910 Last month the Peiping
regime termed them war Grim
inals and announced they had
been "pardoned from prosecu-
ton.
All the returnees SHE'D away
from reporters. They would say
only. what We have to say is in
the statement. The Chinese gave
us good treatment" Many ap-
peaIed beWildered.
Parents. wives and children
who had almost despaired oil
their relatives waited impatient
ly at the pier. AS soon as the
returnees landed, they dashed tc
them, chung to them and crieo
aloud, tears streaming dowr
their cheeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03
|Fin|etter Says
West Is Losinq
Ahead on Reds

HAMILTON, N. Y, July 3 (Pl,
Former Secretary Of the Air
Force Thomas K. Finletter said
today the West is rapidly los
ing its "air-atomic" superiority
over Russia.
I'VE have slipped seriously in
the military strength which we
Of Western society need" he
said. 1T may be that there
is no likelihood that Russia will
start an atomic war. The fact
remains that it must be our pol
icy to have at all times a clear
superiority in the decisive weap-
on OF modern war, the air.
atomic arm ;.
I'VE had this superiority only
year or so ago. We are rapid
ly losing it. We must regain
and keep a clear superiority in
air-atomic power over the Rus
slams.
Mr., Finletter's remarks were
in a speech prepared for deliv-
cry at the annual Conference on
American Foreign Policy at Col
gate University.
Foreign Policy Criticized
Mr.. Finletter criticized the
foreign policy of the Eisenhower
administration as following the
orthodox ways of the diplomacy
of the past"
THE administration should j..
be inventing new, daring and
imaginative methods to meet
and conquer the novel and high
ly dangerous conditions of the
world today" he said.
Mr. Finletter said United
States efforts to set up military
alliances in the Near East and
Asia have produced disastrous
results.
United States emphasis on
militarism brought about our
Near Eastern troubles. plainly
he said. The northern tier or
Baghdad Pact is a. direct
cause of the threatening situa-
ton in this area"
Moreover. our policies in the
Far East and Southeast Asia
are increasing the risk of war
he continued. Our belligerency
there is unnecessary and
should be Immediately reversed
FOrmOsa Cited
He also said:
Our FormoSa policy has been
a big offender l refer to
the unilateral assertion by the
United States that it intends to
be the sole judge of the future
Of Formosa and with the Ma
tionalist Chinese its sole de-
fender
This was an unlawful as
sertion OF authority by the
United States over territory to
which We have no claim"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-03

of this Mediterranean island
colony.
A Greek child was killed and
two British soldiers were
wounded when bomb was
hurled at British motorized
convoy in the village of Roma
Ylalou, on the Karpas Peninsula.
The bomb thrower was slain as
he attempted to flee on a bicycle
In Nicosia suburb, the home
of a member OF the British
security forces was the target of
a gasoline bomb. No one was
injured and the house was
damaged only slightly. The man
who threw the bomb was ar
rested.
Some 40 miles west of Nicosia
more than 1000 persons fought
a giant forest fire that has
ragged three days in the TroodoS
Mountains.
Cypriot authorities said the
fire was started accidentally. 1t
has destroyed at least five square
miles of timber about Is miles
from the area where 81 British
servicemen died in another for
est fire June II while searching
for EOKA members.