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[CTORY VOLUME NO. LXVII REGISTRATION FOR GASOLINE RATION BOOKS NOV. 9 -11 School Teachers to be in Charge Of Program Similar to Sugar Rationing Further Details Announced Limit for be of Plan to Five Tires One Car for the Bluffton motorists will register gasoline rationing cards, under direction of the Bluffton public school teachers, on November 9 to 11, it was announced the first of the week by A. J. B. Longsdorf, superintendent of schools. Word to this effect was received from state rationing headquarters and further amplification as to pro cedure is now being awaited from the county board. Details of the registration have not been worked out but it is likely that the same general plan used in the sugar rationing program will be used in the gasoline rationing arrangement, it was pointed out. The high school cafeteria likely will be used as rationing headquarters. Exact time of the rationing and other details of the program will be an nounced in the future, it was stated by Supt. Longsdorf. The local rationing program is part of the nationwide plan to limit the use of gasoline and save tires, it has been pointed out. After the program goes in effect on November 22 the en tire nation will be under the rationing plan. The Office of Price Administration explained that the whole program is gear to the tire saving policy of the government. The following regula tions have been issued by the OPM: 1. There must be periodic tire spections to secure a renewal of tions, as well as any application tires or recaps. 2. Five tires is the maximum lowed any applicant. over this must be turned in government. 3. Rations will be revoked duced to drivers who exceed mile per hour speed limit. in ra- for al- Any amount to the or the 35 on The registration beginning November 9 will be for the “A” cou pons. The rationing plan will then go into effect on November 22. The applicant will be required to list the serial number of all tires he owns. If he lists more than five tires for each car, he will be an “A” coupon book until he that he has disposed of the tires, it was pointed out. denied shows excess Bible Lectures At Reformed Church Dr. Karl Koepke, minister of a large Reformed church at Fort Wayne, Ind., will be the speaker at the annual Bible lecture series at the St. John Reformed church from Sunday through Thursday nights. The first meeting will be held at the high school auditorium as one of the regular community union church services on Sunday night. The re mainder of the series will be at the St. John’s Reformed church with all meetings scheduled to start at 8:00 o’clock. The topics are as follows: Sunday—When the Tide Comes In. Monday—How Are You at Writing Letters? Tuesday—Your Place as a Chris tian. Wednesday—The Church in Our Homes. Thursday—Do You Know Barna bas? The public is cordially invited, it was stated by Rev. Emil Burrichter, pastor. Enlists As Naval Radio Technician Wade Shook who recently enlisted in the navy left Wednesday morn ing for Great Lakes Naval Training station to begin training as a technician. He is ranked as officer third class. radio petty Clark His wife, the former Bonita and little daughter Karen Kay, are making their home for duration of the war Mr. and street. with the former’s parents Mrs. Paul Clark of Grove Ebenezer Broadcast A mixed quartet consisting of Mrs. Milo Lora, Mrs. Myron Luginbill, Clayton er, of church, station 4:15 o’clock. Bucher and Aaron Messing the Ebenezer Mennonite will sing over Findlay radio WFIN Sunday afternoon at College Refugee Student Interned In Three French Concentration Camps 38 Selectees Leave For Physical Tests Thirty-eight Allen county selectees were scheduled to leave Lima for Toledo, Wednesday to undergo final physical examinations preliminary to being inducted into military it was announced by Allen Draft Board No. 3. service, County Worth- Two of the group, Dwight ington and Wade Shook, were from Bluffton. Shook, however, enlisted in the navy and left Wednesday morn ing for the naval training station at Great Lakes, Illinois. Others from this part of the coun ty included James Carl Blair and Maynard Lewis of Lafayette Donald Raymond Johnson, Ada Lewis Wendell Rockhill, Columbus Grove, and Robert Riley Van Buskirk, Cairo. EXPRESS OFFICE HEREfcWILL BUY EXCESS TIRES Must Sell Tires and Tubes in Excess of Five Per Car to Government Receipts Will be Issued by Ex press Company at Nickel Plate Station Bluffton motorists may dispose of their excess tires and tubes through arrangements made with the Rail way Express Co. at the local station of the Nickel Plate Railroad Co. All necessary forms are ready it was stated by Agent Fred Hofer. All tires and tubes over five for each car are regarded as excess and as such must be disposed of in order to obtain a gasoline ration card. Gasoline rationing officials have ruled that only five tires and tubes will be allowed for each car and that any amount over that must be turned over to the government De fense Supplies Corp. Stiff penalties are provided for those who do comply with this regulation, it announced. not was ra- Registration for the gasoline tioning cards will take place, likely at the high school for three days, Nov. 9-11, and disposal of excess tires and tubes must be made before that time or the registration can not be authorized, it was pointed out. The rationing starts November 22. Receipts Issued al the are are Numerous residents here have ready turned in their tires at Nickel Plate station. Receipts given at the time the tires turned over to the agent and they are shipped without charge to a To ledo warehouse representative praisal. where a government will make the ap- be mailed to those in within 30 days, it If the tires are not Checks will bringing tires was announced, good enough for use on an automo bile they will be used as scrap and payment will be made accordingly. People turning in their tubes may be assured that a fair price will be paid as governmental appraisal ma chinery has been set up in accord ance with established standards. Three Pounds Sugar Next Ration Stamp Bluffton housewives may obtain three pounds of sugar with ration stamp No. 9 for use between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15. Stamp No. 8 which calls for five pounds expires at mid night, October 31. The sugar rations for home use remain unchanged at one-half pound a person each week. Institutional users, including restaurants, will re ceive 60 per cent of their sugar base for November and December. These users received 75 percent, including a 75 per cent bonus in the preceding two months. Arrives Overseas Lyle Kohli has arrived at an un disclosed overseas destination with an army unit, according to word re ceived here the first of the week by his mother, Mrs. Eva Kohli of West Elm street. In Medical Corps Corp. Gene Hilty, Bluffton college graduate in the class of 1941, is now in the Officers Training Medical Corps. He was previously located in army camp in Illinois. German Born Social Worker From Paris, is Bluffton College Senior American Freedoms are Won derful Blessing to One Re cently from Europe horrors of living in experience was stated After experiencing the totalitarian ruthlessness, America proves to be an of indescribable worth, it by Miss Brigitte Schneider, Bluffton college refugee student from Paris, in occupied France. The various freedoms and abud ance of things that Americans accept as commonplace are like getting a breath of fresh air and one feels that a big burden has been lifted when he Schneider steps on this soil, Miss said. the fact that she had no she entered Spain after Despite exit visa, crossing the Pyrennees mountains on foot and was thus enabled to start on the journey ultimately leading to the college here where she is en rolled as a senior. Five Months Interment After five months internment three concentration camps she came desperate enough to take most any risk in order to escape. to converse with the concentration very inadequate The prisoners of centers were fed food. No meat, fat, cheese, coffee, rice, sugar or milk was included in the diet. The bill of fare was something as follows: for breakfast a tea essatz without milk and a (Continued on page 5) Bluffton Salute Over Station WLOK “Salute to Bluffton” will be the theme of the radio broadcast by the Lima war bond committee over Lima radio station next Wednesday night from 7:30 to 8:00 o’clock. Bluffton has made one of the out standing per capita records in the sale of bonds in the state of Ohio and the Lima organization under the direction of T. Emmit Curtin munity special broadcast. D. McLaughlin and will give the com recognition in the Remains Of Former Residents Buried Here Remains of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott, former Bluffton residents, were buried in Maple Grove ceme tery, Friday afternoon. The bodies were removed from the mausoleum at Lafayette where they have re posed since death. Mrs. Scott died May 11, 1914. Her husband died February 11, 1941. Two Youths Enlist John Lloyd, son of Charles Lloyd, and Harry Shrider, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shrider, have en listed in the country’s armed forces. Shrider enlisted in army air corps and left Monday for Toledo induc tion center. Lloyd enlisted in the navy and reported at the Great Lakes Training station in Illinois on Friday. Platoon Leader Jack Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clark of Grove street in naval training at Great Lakes, Ill., the past two weeks has been appointed acting master of arms and leader of one of his company platoons, it was announced the first of the week. THE BLUFFTON NEWS in be al- Miss Schneider was born in Ger many near the Polish border. She studied in the School of Social Work in Berlin and when the Nazis came to power she fled to Paris where she attended the University of Paris and worked as a social worker specializ ing in family welfare. After the outbreak of the war, the French government issued a de cree of May 12, 1940, that all child less women of German descent should be interned. Coming under this cate gory Miss Schneider was sent to the internment camp at Paris, then to the camp at Gurs and then to Mar seilles. Arrived February, 1941 She arrived in this country in Feb ruary of 1941 unable to speak Eng lish. Assistance in obtaining the visa for passage was made by the Emergency Rescue Committee and the International Relief association. After her arrival she enrolled at the Schauffler School of Social Work in Cleveland and transferred from that institution to Bluffton college this fall. In that short period of time she learned the English lan guage and is able ease. A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INT ERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY BLUFFTON, OHIO, TH County Common Pleas court by licitor Durbin several weeks ago. Court Action AY, OCT. 22, 1942 'REEK AWSUIT AGAINST TOWN DEC LLUTIONl BER 1 Action by Oliver Locher Seeks Damages in the Sum of SIO.OOO 'o be Tried in "Allen County Common Pleas Court Huber Suit Later o av a. The Mayor was informed as to as signment of the trial date in a letter received from City Solicitor Francis Durbin of Lima. $10,000 Damages Huber’s suit is for |15,ooo*and will I Formerly His Students, at be tried separately at later date, the I ('amp Shelby Mayor said. Both plaintiffs are rep- I resented by R. S. Steiner, Lima torney. at- Births More Than 150 Out-of-town I Women from 12 Counties I Expected at Meeting Su,a of Oliver Loe. er the church on Thursd Bluffton munidpali^, .llegmg dam- A„ WQmen (ho communil ages to h» farm because of stream Whether members of a club or not, po lution, set for hearing in the are invited t0 attend the meetin Allen County Common Ph ,. court on it „.as announced Mrs w Bau. Tuesday. December 1, St v announc ed by May’or W. A. Howe. The plaintiff seeks damages from the town in the sum of $10,000 and the trial is one of two suits filed more than a year ago by Locher and Henry Huber, living near town. Big Riley’ creek, the stream involved i the suit flows thru both famuk I Worked Public Invited to Attend Even ing Meeting Addressed by F. B. I. Agent More than 150 out-of-town women from 12 counties will attend the northwestern Ohio district meeting of the Ohio Federation of Women’s Iclubs be beld at tbe Methodist Of Army Chaplain’ Activities Locher’s petition fbe I the soldier boys entrusted to him, it in the Allen Bluffton club. re- At that time the landowners taken. They Born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Moral Problem Moyer, of Toledo, a baby girl weigh ing eight pounds and five ounces on Monday afternoon. Mr. Moyer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Moyer I cjrcurnstances away from their homes of Cherry street. I without certain moral and social Training Officer Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Tschiegg are! probierns developing, the parents of a baby boy born I pOjnted out. Tuesday night at their home west of I Immoral women have been driven! toWR. I away from the camps and if The following births at the Bluff-1 are congregated in nearby towns the ton hospital: I town Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lung, a girl,| until the matter is cleared up. last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene girl, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bracy Leipsic, a boy, Sunday. Prof, and Mrs. Harold boy, this Wednesday morning. a In New Locations street Radio Sermon Series noon at 3:45 o’clock. District Conference Of Ohio Federation Of Women’s ClubsiMeets Here Thursday Uncle Sam is taking good care of pollution of the stritm du» to the|was stated by the Rev. J. Norman I ______ I Members of and other livestock to drink. If' .... I Depositions were filed I CHAPLAIN It has been idicated by sewage en- leased from active service. He is anJ precinct chairrnan. This together with the good food builds the young men up into tip top physical condition. LhL,nnYou Yo?mn Pnot I government is man, president of Federation. One Day The the Bluffton City Meeting meeting was with Bluffton Boys, and some practice of emptying ifito it untreated I Ring, of the military home at Day-1 I because of the traffic tieup the sewage has not only treated an odor I ton, at a meeting of the Lions club|Each Family to Give About I train was detoured at Lima and ar nuisance but that impurities in the I at the Walnut Grill Tuesday night. I Five Dollars to Meet Quota, ............. water make it unfit for dairy cattle the Pandora Business Bluffton college and Witmarsum a systematic house-to-h^use canvass .. u u. seminary, minister of the Presbyter- Lr(, jn a„ effort cuntribu. I affirmed that unless-somethrng wasl ian church, and teacher in the public l0 mc6t th(_ loral ,a ,lf $25IIO done by the town effect relief, schools. the A)len cam I court action would be 20 Ybaks I indicated that they were interested! jje served as chaplain in thel Mayor W .A .Howe .chairman. '1 only in elimination of the alleged I United States army for 20 yearsl Following a meeting h^ld at thel stream pollution and measures to be I and after active duty as chaplain fori Wgh school last Friday night in which I taken were for the to-.u to determine. I one year at Camp Shelby he was rt-| exnlanatians were made bv klie Mavorl! gineers studying the local problem! now chaplain at the military home! underway on Saturday. It will con-1 that the only effective method of con-1 in Dayton. tinue through Friday of th7s week, trol would be for the town to build al The chaplain serves as spiritually Mayor said. |I sewage disposal plant. I adviser to the boys in camp con-1 About.30 workers were selected foriI However, materials for the con-1 ducting religious services on Sundays. each precinct under the direction of| struction of the sewage disposal plant I During the week he serves as theF would be almost impossible to obtain I go-between officer for the boys and at this time, according to an opinion I the commissioned officers. U expressed by Engineer Pettis of thel other social and advisory activities! firm of Finkbeiner, Pettis and Strout, I are taken over by the chaplains of Toledo engineers, who were retained I the camp. by the council several years ago to I In order to be able to endure the prepare plans for sewer system here. I strenuous activities of army life the boys are worked hard in the camps. Mumma, Ralph Pattemon. a it „TXa Zoo •K!r per8on in order to re8Ch the *2'5"0 problem. can take a0,000l the Mayor pointed out. men and place them in entirely new| Tf np(.pesarv that the monev I they is placed on a stay-off doing its best to Haas, al this problem, Rev. King stated. I Attention is given in the camps I CrawfisJ now to the spare time of the soldiers I and the United Service Organizations LinscheidJ are doing a wonderful piece of work in meeting this problem. __ esses look after the leisure interests of the young men in a most com mendable manner, the speaker said.1 —”under one head, it was ex-| Many workers will be Second Lieut. Ralph Raach, former! W 0YS I plained. meet the local Red Cross Bluffton High school coach, is as-1 At Camp Shelby Rev. King and I 1 sisting in the physical program atl another chaplain met the soldiers asl I nounced this week by Mrs. J. S. the Miami Beach Training school.lthey came to the camp on the train.l EnrOUtC 10 UalllOmia I Raach was coach of athletics here I In one °f his opening addresses tor I The headquarters for the work are from 1933 to 1935. I Mrs. Lou Eaton has moved from I here. After the address he counted I two months’ training course at Nor-I apartments at the Mrs. Eva Patter-1 ten boys from Bluffton who were ini folk, Virginia. His rank is chief! son residence on South Main to the Mrs. Fred Zehrbach ments on .Vine street. I his classes here. I Clifford Houtz and family moved! boys, the first of the week from the Guid-1 printed 1,250,000 New Testaments fori bach and left for San Diego, Satur er apartments on Riley street to the! distribution to the soldiers. I day. newly completed Staater apartments I The struggle today is for the vital 1 above the Peter Gratz drygoods store. I principles on which our country was -------------. founded and as yet we have not won| that war, the speaker said. There is a need today for firmer belief in the spiritual values of life and God’sl Union services at the Bluffton “Don’t Be A Misfit” is the sub.iectlhelp is needed to carry us through I High school auditorium will be ad of the address by the Rev. A. C.lto victory, the speaker said in con-1 dressed by the Rev. Dr. Karl Koepke, Schultz, pastor of the Ebenezer Men-1 elusion. I many eggs. I petty officer. apart-1 Church services are held regularlyl The couple spent the latter part ofL for Protestant. Catholic and Jewish last week here visiting his parents,L^,, strect in trsini The government has recently| Postmaster and Mrs. Ed Re.chen-| Kcntnckyj visited his over the week end. held year The last district here about 12 years ago. Last the conference was held in Wauseon. For the first time this year the con ference will crowd its activities into a one day session, two days being usually devoted to the meeting. There have been very few over night reservations, most club mem bers driving here for the day. Ar rangements are being made to en tertain the ing in the said. women in homes for rest afternoon, Mrs. Bauman to be represented at the Allen, Defiance, Counties Uncle Sam Takes Good Care Of Soldiers In Army Camps, Rev. King Tells Lions meeting include: Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Lu cas, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, (Continued on page 8) ““125 SOLICITORS IN LOCAL WAR CHEST CANVASS House-to-house Campaign for Funds Being Made Here This Week I Mayor Says Members of the Pandora Business Men ’s association were guests of the Rev. King who ad So-1dressed the meeting was formerlyl Approximately 125 volunteer work-1 mayor of Bluffton, professor at ers from the comnlunity hri. making paign, it was announced this week by I O| a tt ton, Mrs. Harvey Gratz and Mrs. Ev- I .. n I by a train. erett Rowland. I ________ Eevry family should give an aver*|EJ j-, zi/T* age of about five dollars or one dollar Union Services At I Reformed church nonite church and Bluffton college I I Ft. Wayne, Ind., Sunday night atl farm south of Bluffton to Wilmer Bible professor to be given in the I Each hen in the laying house Living Today series 'over Findlay I needs one-third foot of space at the I This is the second in the series of! en December 1 when Huber will radio station WFIN Friday after-1 feeder. Hungry hens NUMBER 26 DRIVER KILLED AS TRUCK HITS SIDE OF FREIGHT TRAIN Fatal Early Morning Crash at Nickel Plate Crossing North of Town Traffic on Line Tied Up Wreckage Blazes Mail Service Delayed I escaped death at the same the following captains: Af-I. B. I Beeshy, Mm. J. S. Steiner B-Reb- 1M"’ \hen h‘s trUck ,h,‘ ert Ewing, Don Conrad C-Fred Get- SeVe”‘ ties, Charles Cobum Pre.ght tram were wrecked, and the I1™* was.a,8° In Richland township the solicits- o,(aMon. tion is proceeding under the direction I an‘ of Henry Huber, chairman T. V. I °5 Ro'al. Oak’ u the crossing when a passenger car Stim, Arthur Bowers, Raymond Strat-1 ... 4 With the exception of the Red Cross! there will be no more drives for warl /lUU COSS KOOITl relief this y’ear since all of the cam-1 I paigns are under one head, it was ex-1 plained. II about 500 men assembled he noticedl Dale Reichenbach, accompanied byl at the grade school building and vol a group of boys standing on one side I his wife are enroute by auto to San I unteers are urgently requested to as of the room and he saw they were! Diego, Calif., where he is assigned I sist in meeting the quota in the next all former Bluffton High school stu-l as a physical instructor in the navy. I two weeks, dents of his when he was a teacherl Reichenbach recently completed al I entering High School Sunday bee" t0 technician w I grade corporal. Bible lecturer from 18 o’clock. I Badertscher. do not producel Union meetings sponsored by thel move to town. The deal was Bluffton Ministerial association. As and was One man was instantly killed Bluffton’s morning mail service delayed for twenty-four hours when a truck crashed into the side of a eastbound freight train at the in tersection of the Dixie highway and the Nickel Plate railroad two miles north of town early last Thursday. Victim of the accident was Harold Boots, 29, of Anderson, Ind., driving a large semi-trailer. He was alone in the cab of the truck at the time of the crash. The accident marked the third crash in the last four years at that location. Three cars of the train were de railed, two of which were loaded with livestock. killed pled. Several hogs were others badly crip- Delayed Mail accident occurred at 5:05 a. The m., forty-five minutes before the St. Louis-Cleveland fast passenger is due here, which brings the bulk of Bluffton’s morning mail. I rival of mail destined for Bluffton did not reach here until 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Delivery was made Friday morning. Wreckage at the crossing tied up traffic over the Dixie, and on the railroad, until noon Thursday. For a time rescue workers had fire to contend with, and the wrecked truck was entirely destroyed by flames. The Bluffton fire department was called to prevent spread of the blaze to other wreckage. Fog Obscured Flashers Boots was followed by another truck, the driver of which told I officials that Boots evidently failed I to see the train because of the heavy fog, altho he said electric were working. I Robert Goble, a Lima flashers trucker, crossing destroyed by fire on 1939, Gordon Black, Mich., was killed at v.r I’n which he was riding was struck i Bluff ton Officer Advances In Rank I ____ i it is not necessary cnat me money ^ade Lape, son of Mr. and contributed be given to all the war I E s Lape of Grove street has ad_ the sneaVerl rP'ie^ agencies listed on the reverse I vanced in rank in the United States side of the pledge card. Anyone or I navy from ensign to lieutenant jun several of the agencies may* be desig-1 jor grade according to a letter re nated. I Ceived from his parents this week. In case no designations are made I new grade js of tfoe same rank limitl^6 na^ona^ war c^eR^ committee will I jn army as 1st lieutenant. Lieut. Th I distribute the proceeds of the sub-1 Lape js pilot of a scout plane on a meet scription according to the allocation of u. S. Navy cruiser patrolling the he budget committee. I waters somewhere in the Pacific. These pledges may be paid in in-1 ne directs the activities of 35 stallments or cash may be given atl men who work in the repair and the time of the solicitation. I’rovis-1 maintenance of planes on the ship, ion is made on the pledge to make I IlKorfcers Needed At «Mrs. needed to quota for 4,500 surgical dressings, it was an Steiner, director of supplies. Named Corporal Donald Luginbuhl, son of Mr. and Oswin Luginbuhl of South at Ft. parents I Chester Huber sold his I by H. W. engaged I Luginbuhl who has been 1 in repairing trucks and tanks since the army last summer has Real Estate Deal 80 acre Possession will be giv- Althaus. made