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PAGE SIX
ALLEN COUNTY
Woman Hurt By Ram
Mrs. Andrew Clements was return
ed to her home from a Lima hospital
where she was taken for examination
after being attacked by a ram at
their farm north of Delphos.
She received body bruises and es
caped possible death by crawling into
a manger where she w*as forced to
stay 10 hours until other members of
the family returned home.
Lima Ball Club Names
Officers
New officials of the Lima Baseball
club held an organization meeting
recently and elected officers. They
are: Joe Donnelly,
(Ted) Porter, vice
Grismer, treasurer
retary, and Frank
of the board of directors,
cers are board members.
president C. O.
president Adam
E. F. Evans, sec
Kahle, chairman
All offi-
The reorganization followed pur
chase of the Lima men of interest
in the club formerly held by Fred
Wile, C. E. Redifer and E. F.
Relics Sent Home By
Marine
A display of relics of World War
II can be seen in the window of the
Sheet Metal Work
of all Kinds
Roof Repair, Spout
ing, Furnace Repair
Come in and get acquainted
All work guaranteed
satisfactory
J. A. LEATHERMAN
One Block North of Traffic
Light
BEAVERDAM, OHIO
H. M. Thrapp, Auctioneer.
Lloyd Ewing, Clerk.
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NEWS NOTES FROM FOUR COUNTIES
Claw’son electric shop at Delphos.
Norman Clawson, Jr., U. S. Marine
Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Claw’son, sent the relics home a few’
days ago.
There is a Jap rifle which he re
moved from a dead enemy soldier at
Tarawa. There are also Japanese
money, notebooks, cigarettes, shell
case and 10 rounds of ammunition
remaining and various other personal
goods taken from the dead Jap’s body
by Clawson. There also are scenes
of the actual fighting on Taraw-a,
New Zealand money, New Zealand
cigarettes, beads, etc.
Delphos Soldier Miss
ing In Pacific
Nile McDonel, 23, tank operator with
the U. S. Army, is reported missing
somewhere in the Pacific area his
relatives learned at Delphos.
Sentence Lima Thief
Raymond Lloyd Yoho, 21, of Lima,
was sentenced to serve one to seven
years in Ohio Penitentiary when he
pleaded guilty before Judge Neal L.
Lora to a charge of grand larceny.
He admitted theft of $3000 from
Stone’s Grill, where he had been em
ployed,
Second Crash Victim
Dies
William W. Waitman, 47-year-old
Wapakoneta farmer, died in a hos
pital, the second vicitim of a two
car collision near Lima recently.
His wife,
was killed
riding in
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Open Evenings 8 to 10 P. M.
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Phone 642-W Bluffton, Ohio
Public Salo
I will sell at public auction at the home of the late Gertrude
Stratton in Mt. Cory, Ohio on
Saturday, June 10th
beginning at 1 P. M. the following property:
Dining room suite, set of 6 dining chairs and several odd chairs
stands, cupboard, 2 work tables, Detroit vapor stove, hall tree, lawn
mower, porch swing, drop leaf table, Clermont hard coal stove in
good condition, 4 beds, electric iron. Fuller brushes, oil stove oven,
bed springs, kerosene oil heater, carpet strips, lamps, stand lamp,
2 kerosene lamps, large quantity of feathers, alarm clock, jars,
cooking utensils, dishes.
Also 6 antique cane bottom chairs and rocker, antique chest of
drawers, antique wash stand, antique picture “Rock of Ages”, several
antique pictures, 7 old flat irons, 2 antique drop leaf tables, slate
and pencil, quantity of antique dishes and buttons, antique butter
bowl and butter paddle. 2 antique quilts and many other miscellan
eous articles.
Terms, Cash no goods to be removed until settlement is made.
Mrs. Emma Waitman, 47,
outright and three persons
the other car injured.
Inmate Shot In Es
cape Dash
Three inmates of the Lima State
Hospital were back in the institution
after a brief period of freedom, one
of them with shotgun wounds in his
back.
Superintendent R. E. Bushong said
Harley Metheany, 19 Akron Paul
Whitman, 24 Dayton, and John B.
Langfritz, 23, Cincinnati, late Satur-
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day climbed to a five-foot ledge
at the base of a 14-foot brick wrall
around the hospital grounds, on one
another’s shoulders.
Guard Richard Baker pursued
them, shooting Metheany and re
capturing him. The others made
good their escape, but wrere seized
two hours later by highway patrol
men in a woods north of Lima.
Lima Worker Commits
Suicide
Coroner Harry Lewis gave a ver
dict of suicide for John Wauben, 50,
who died of shotgun wounds. Wau
ben, a war plant worker, came to
Lima in 1923 from Germany.
Fetter Re-elected By
Allen G. 0. P.
Dewey Fetter was re-elected chair
man of the Allen County Republican
Executive Committee at a reorgani
zation meeting. Robert F. Wilson
was named secretary, and A. D.
MacDonell, treasurer.
To Prosecute Canal
Garbage Dumpers
Disposing garbage in the Miami
Erie Canal at Delphos must stop,
according to City Health Director
Dr. J. Sadler, or prosecution will
follow for those who violate the law.
&
Only a month ago the State Public
Works Department issued a warning
to the city, through Director Ras
chig, complaining of conditions here.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Exempt No One Says
Police Chief
Chief
dollar
for parking too long in front of the
municipal building.
Strict enforcement of parking laws
has kept police officers alert to in
fractions and the police chief’s car
was tagged along with others.
“If you ever find my car parked
over time again tag it”, the chief
instructed Traffic Officer Lester Mc
Clearly who had “arrested” him.
Resident Attacked By
House Thieves
Surprising two men who were ran
sacking his home John Chio, 66, was
severely beaten about the head
the men.
by
at
He
He told police he thought his
tackers used a piece of pipe,
w’as taken to the Findlay Hospital
and later released. So far as police
could determine nothing was taken
from the home.
Findlay Seeks Postwar
Factories
An invitation to be mailed to some
500 industrial concerns throughout
the country asking them to investi
gate Findlay’s possibilities for units
of their plants which may be devel
oped after the war, will be drafted
by the industrial committee of the
Findlay Chamber of Commerce, it
was decided. Other plans were out
lined to obtain new industries for
Findlay in the post-war period.
Gasoline Explosion
Burns Youth
Mr.
was
Lewis E. Smith, 15, son of
and Mrs. H. M. Smith, Findlay,
burned severely on arm, a shoulder
and his chest when gasoline exploded
as he was filling a tractor. He was
taken to Findlay hospital.
Lima And Findlay
Area In Labor
Shortage Class
The War Manpower Commission
has tightened its controls over the
labor supply in northwestern Ohio
by moving the Fostoria, Tiffin,
Findlay area from a labor surplus to
a labor shortage classification.
The three communities joined To
ledo in the WMC’c Group Two, de
scribed as areas of labor stringency
in which manpower shortages are to
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Figures show
statute miles
be
one is exempt”, said Police
Leo Larkins as he paid his
to Mayor Cloyce Duttweiler
“No
Invasion's Vital Miles
S’
[Cherbourg
LeHavre
FRANCE
expected within six months.
?remont, Port Clinton, Marion
and Mansfield all are in the same
group w'hile Lima has been declared
an area of acute labor shortage.
Urge Trained Staff For
Industrial Schools
Dr. Walter C. Reckless, professor
of probation and parole in the so
ciology department of Ohio State
University told judges, probation offi
cers and welfare workers of northern
Ohio that if boys and girls industrial
schools are to be
they must have a
fessional workers.
"They are not
now’’ for they do not pay their work
ers enough”, he said.
Map above shows varying distances Allied invasion craft face to
effect landings at opposite ports on the coast of Hitler’s European
Fortress. They will travel under the most gigantic “aerial urn-|
brella” of planes the war has produced. Fueled with U. S.-made
100-octane gas, which enables them to carry a greater bombload
than otherwise possible, Allied bombers will blast Nazi beachhead
defenses and the reserves far behind battlelines. Photo below, ra
dioed from London, shows U. S. invasion boats massed in English
harbor, awaiting D-Day order. “Shove off!”
centers
of pro-
treatment
personnel
properly staffed
Dr. Reckless and Judge Robert
Gabel of the Sandusky County Juve
nile Court, Fremont, spoke at the
last In-Service training meeting held
at Findlay as a part of a statewide
effort to combat juvenile delinquency.
Two Named To Findlay
College Staff
Two instructors were employed for
Findlay College and three positions
are yet to be filled, according to
announcement from the board of
trustees which convened recently.
Dr. Gale Ritz, graduate of Find
lay College in 1931, whose home is
near Leipsic, has been employed as
instructor in old testament theology
and will teach philosophy.
Miss Lois Porch, Kecksburg, Pa.,
has been engaged for public speaking
classes. She is a graduate of West
minster College, New Wilmington,
Pa., and took graduate work at
Western Reserve University, Cleve
land.
Other places on the faculty yet
vacant are physics and mathematics.
HARDIN COUNTY
Pair Hurt In Crash
Earl Frater, Jr., Kenton, suffered
fractured wrist and possible in
ternal injuries when his truck col
lided here with the automobile of
Robert Philips, president of the Ken
ton Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Phillips received knee and head in
juries.
a
Seek Escaped Youth
Abraham Lincoln King, 17, of Ken
ton sentenced last month for break
ing into a downtown service station
and stealing several antique firearms
that belong to Ernest Hover, station
manager, fled from the Boys’ Indus
trial School at Lancaster. Local
lice are seeking him in Kenton.
po-
Dwelling Burned
Falling plaster in their burning
home awakened Mr. and Mrs. Seph
Battery at Ada in time to save their
two young sons from fire of unknown
origin which destroyed their dwelling.
Kenton Gunner Miss
ing In Action
Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Schoonover,
Kenton, were notified by the War
Department that their son, Sergt.
Clinton (Bud) Kraft, is missing in
action over Germany. He was a
waist gunner on a B-24 bomber. His
stepfather, Mr. Schoonover, is a
linotype operator on a Kenton news
paper.
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Actuol mileogc is poor guide to
eosiest invasion route Shortest
path is 20 miles between Dover
and Calais, but invaders would
land at foot of sheer cliffs
Some longer routes lead to
easier landings, like beaches.
Motorist Injured
Clarence Everly, 33, of Marion,
was cut and bruised when his car
overturned in U. S. Route 30-S, east
of Kenton. He is in a Kenton hos
pital.
Ada Principal Named
Irvin T. Warthman of Somerset,
has accepted the post of principal
of the Ada high school and will fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of D. P. Bodenbender, it was
announced by Superintendent Rober
son.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Bonnie Corns Career
Ends In Death
Mrs. Bonnie Breckbill Corns, 54,
Putnam county welfare director and
wife of Dr. Walter C. Corns, died
Friday in her residence near Colum
bus Grove. At the time of her death,
she w’as chief of the county’s war
services, a County Civilian Defense
Council member and an official of the
Ohio Welfare Conference.
Mrs. Corns w’as recognized during
the late ’30’s as one of the out
standing relief directors in Ohio.
Much of the state welfare code revis
ion passed in 1943 was based on the
Putnam county system as estab
lished by Mrs. Corns.
Victory Garden Yields
Wedding Ring
If it doesn’t produce another thing,
Mrs. Ellsworth Compton’s Victory
garden in south Ottawa has served
a worthy purpose.
While working the garden a few
days ago, Mrs. Compton came upon
a metal object. Picking it up, she
discovered the object to be a wedding
ring. Further inspection of the band
revealed it wras the property of Mrs.
Watson Butler of Ottawa.
Mrs. Butler was thrilled to receive
the ring which she lost 30 years ago
while living in the property now oc
cupied by the Comptons. She re
ceived the ring in a previous mar
riage to the late E. T. Hixon.
Soldier AWOL In “A
Mess Of Trouble”
Arrested in connection w’ith
stove theft, Harold Ranes, 23,
Hudson, Mich., found himself in
“mess of trouble” at Ottawa.
a
of
a
Ranes was lodged in the county
jail by Cheriff Arnold Potts on a
charge of stealing a $75 heating
stove ow’ned by W. C. Kritzinger, of
Leipsic. Questioned by the sheriff,
Ranes admitted he stole seven catch
basin covers along state route 65 be
tw’een Ottawa and Leipsic during the
last few days.
Further investigation of the man
disclosed he has been AWOL from
Fort Bragg, N. C., since May 4. He
will be released to army authorities
at Camp Perry, the sheriff said.
Putnam Farmers Mus
Till The Soil.
Farm workers in Putnam county
will find it difficult to obtain a re
lease to get a job in industry before
next November, it was learned re
cently from L. C. Holtkamp, county
agent.
Release from farm work is granted
by the United States Employment
Service but officials of that agency
request a statement from the county
agent before granting such release.
Holtkamp said that he sees “little
betw’een
justification for releases
June 1 and Nov. 1, 1944.”
Farm workers are needed
in this county during the
cultivating and harvesting seasons
and if even a small number was per
mitted to transfer to industrial
work it w’ould mean a sharp curtail
ment of food production in Putnam
county this year, the agent declared.
seriously
planting,
Consequently, he said, farmers ap
plying for releases in the next few
months are not likely to obtain
them. “This is a hard rule”, the
agent asserted, “but war is always
hard. In peacetime every citizen
should be able to work whenever and
wherever he wishes but in wartime
the civilian population is much like
those in military service. They must
work wherever they can do the most
good in winning the war. For farm
ers their place is on the farm.”
To Face Old Bank Rob
bery Charge
John Lora, 44, of Columbus Grove,
w'ho has been held in the county
jail at Ottaw’a, has changed his
plans and waived extradition so
Flint, Mich., authorities could return
him to that city to stand trial for a
1932 robbery of the Citizens Bank
of Flint.
Sheriff Arnold Potts of Putnam
county announced that Lora has been
returned to Flint by Chief of Police
Byars of Flint. He and his brother
Ed Lora of Columbus Grove, are
charged with escaping with $2,700,
12 years ago.
John was released from the London
prison farm May 27 and arrested
by Sheriff Potts May 29 on the Flint
warrant. Ed Lora had been ar
rested in February when he w’as re
leased from the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus.
Beaverdam
Children’s Day exercises will be
held at the Methodist church on Sun
day evening, June 11 at 7:30 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited.
LEARN TO SMILE* at breakfast.
Ask grocer for magiu combination—
new’ Post’s Raisin Bran. Golden
flakes of wheat and bran plus Cal
ifornia seedless raisins.
Mrs. Lillie Manahan had the mis
fortune of falling and receiving a
broken arm. She is staying at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Herr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Zimmerman and
family spent Saturday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Russell
daughter at Ada.
Poling and
Arnold, Mr.
and family
Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
and Mrs. Arthur Pugh
were called to Van Wert on Sunday
on account of the death of a relative
Mr. Wm. Haver.
S. Sgt. Joseph Ridenour, wife and
son Lynn were entertained on Tues
day evening at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Williams. The Ridenours
left on Saturday for Camp Haan,
Calif. Otner guests present were
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Williams of Lima,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hall and child
ren, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Williams
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Zimmerman and family.
Ray
an-
Friends here have received
nouncement of the marriage of
Catherine Alibeth Eddy to Mr. Char
les Gray Barton of Kenmore, N. Y.
on June 5 at the Church of the
Transfiguration at Freeport, N. Y.
Miss
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1944
Miss Eddy was music instructor of
the local school here.
Mrs. Minnie McClure of Dayton
has been visiting the past week with
Mrs. Mae Bailey.
Mrs. Lester Bierly and sons of
Lafayette were Tuesday visitors of
Mrs. J. C. Yant.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leiber and
son were Wednesday visitors of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Clark at Lafayette.
Mrs. John Augsburger and Mrs.
Wm. Younkman were Friday dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Larue
at Lima.
Joanne Vanmeter spent the past
week with her grandparents Mr. and
Mrs. Delmer Beery.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rockhill of
Col. Grove were Sunday callers of
the latter’s mother Mrs. Etta Yant.
Mr.
and Mrs. rancis May and
moved on Wednesday to
family
Lima.
Miss
dinner guest of Mrs. Wm. Neubrecht.
Other guests were Mrs. Ella Hyde
of Pittsburg and Mrs. Martha Kol
lars.
Ruth Durkee was a Tuesday
Mrs. Ella Hutchinson is spending
a few weeks with her sister Mrs.
Clara
Jennings.
and Mrs. John Clark, Ellen
and Ruth Durkee attended the
and Central Commencement
Mr.
Clark
South
exercises which were held at the Lima
Stadium on Friday night.
Sherry Jan Zimmerman of Bluff
ton spent Sunday with her grand
parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Amstutz.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Anderson and
sons of Pandora were Sunday even
ing visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Younkman and grandson.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, Ohio, ««.
Estate of Elizabeth E. Parish, Deceased.
Elmer Koomey, of Bluffton, Ohio, has
been appointed and qualified as Administra
tor with the Will Annexed of the estate of
Elizabeth E. Parish, late of Allen County,
Ohio, deceased
Dated thia 24th day of May, 1944.
RAYMOND P. SMITH,
8 Probate Judfre.
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