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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 7, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch. 16-May 31 (Each stamp, Five pounds) Coffee 26 - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stamp, 1 pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 1 - - - I ntil Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - I ntil Sept. 30 (Each stamp, 11 gallons) Gasoline 5 - Mar. 22-May 21 VOL. LXXI, No. 82 WEDNESDAY, APR. 7, 1943 British Break Through Rommel’s Defense News i % Behind: thd By Paul Mali,on 'jj (Distributed by King Feature#- Syndicate, In' Reproduction in Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) Trojans To Meet Local Track Team Fortv-five Report at Fairfield For Practice They’ll Do It Every Time — w % s III NO l ON JOHN I. J Ullecman T horn a Kf'timof ?h < War Labor Boa ird in a\er si imilar 'O t 11' he tried b'-tH‘* ruinet j an e i liei • labor bsuch situa t a wsti ion t idrawal differ# of mt i support, nowOil the *s>eea sion. Levrc' en suppc ted C irt Wa ID an< s more 1 hi: t hi • wiihdri n a govtlabor boa i d : could w Itl island 1man will ] probabl. y im ■ replaceCIO m* mb Ate i way. Mt K> nnei riy has nI unct the 1 u tl is a mer sonths !his w ork h as beenie by a <t« rna tethe m enuvi' met eh placeLI WIN eriy out maneu-ore oard by but the vis rep. iv. hi." bv a fair field field Hmh on til,- v. to Mt Pit the Mt. Thing# bright a have at but the;, be done About tinder n 11 The Trojans of Fair-will open their track sea-<k when the-, travel down sant for a dual meet with F lea.sant Panthers, have i t been looking too the local camp because they oluta Iv no place to practice, are doing the best that can under such handicaps. 4 > lad-, reported out for the ath and Coach Turk Balder- or, hi been more than pleased with erne of them G! these 45. about M or 13 of them will be carried down tc Mt Pieasant The day for th»* meet has not been set exactly, but It will be run for sun this week as theie are other meets coming up next week that will Most CIO 1 ion t M Lew [i del •r.e t Folk ho w /on ts ate: B b urdle Don te ms' attention, ag is a list of the players probably be earrierl and the which they might partici- He Rums mis own place WITH AN IRON WAND—' “STRICTLY NO ROUGH STUFF, Y’UNDHRSTAND? TELL THAT LOUDMOUTH AT THE SECOND TABLE TO BEHAVE HIMSELF OQ. I LL throw Him out f and Tell that blonde in the booth we don't J ALLOW NO SINGING in HERE * THIS is a high-class establishment 3utWoW! VOU SHOULD see him When he v/isits A COMPETITOR'S TAVERN ON HIS NSHT OFF - / WHOOPEE f I'M LOADED ) ( FOR BEAR* THROW ME < LOOSE - I CAN LlCR ANY ) man in the house - yw/t ■) PETER h bontse^a, east LANSlNfi, H.CH. 410 and 880 rui low , rn a nd hr been Mars intent o h, dii Lc w u mink rs* r s. loom I;* en Lev. i-Bu’ m lowwhich it 1 i No bit* Mornbuddit Do n Mt Kcimembf“ft K' ith 8cha1Ls, ha Vi ■ bet rn ( It it! - relay . h.df-msoward i ex is ting the Ed oie Warn*}teak d lown tlit* ad* disci; IS*i-In flat lOflH t> bar- i Lei anaid Eathe Lit! 1 e Steel’' mile relay100 low hurdles, jump. 100. 220, 4/0. 880 1 220.440. 880. mile NEW INTEREST Winfield Meet WILL COLLECT IN FISHING Among the Best! TIN CANS Catfish mile relay, mile Season Open To Nov. 30 April 5 Total Receipts f ifth I State In The mile relay, shot and New Interest is being shown in fi n-Kui * half-mile, 2Jn.g because of tin lationn . nd ul o because of the longer open season on atfish this year. L irm ? p**e! The s tin alia neo same direr posit/ side Through bills and < ing to br* tion port j,, rier, whd* positions To wf mg help from rest agonistic sources 'ongress lias been ipaigning in the ewis from the op ine the Banklv ai he ra ise, it hr k d wn th* s of the anti-Lew is attack and P Targe Lindsay 2 mile relay, mile relay, Murphy — mile rela. Brndfidd half-mile, 2 mile relay. Lull* neggar — 100. 220. Not man — high hurdles, golem —• mile run. FIRST MEETING OF NEW PRESBYTERIAN GROUP Winfield’s sectional basketball tournament was one of *he best “pay” tournaments in the state, a report of the sta*'- high school athletic associa- Have Them On Your Front Lawn Saturday Morning The stab legislature changed theltion shows. Winfield ranked fifth in the fol ic d it rice l estric- tf la t ton bar -i the wage L It wdl help Lew: it Lee| ‘ Lew pru succei ght against formuLi because* the s is based on a con's art already too the “Little sol* claim tention tl high , Thu Mr Roosevelt and his mild anti-inflationary formulas arc beset fr in two sides by forces believing that they are working against each*other, although actually thm arc furnishing water to each other’s grinding wheels. In the middle, lost and unrepresented, is the average citizen on a salary who is not a member of a union and not a farmer. Campaigns such as those raging her*' now ma> force jome wages higher, but not his, although they will force higher the places he must pay for his livelihood. The $1 he eaVned before the war has already been cut to 76 cents in purchasing power by rising prices. Anything that ends prices up or even threaten- to, whether it be Lewis, the farm bloc, or the government its'If in the OPA, increases this hardship. The first g*netal meeting of the new organization of Presbyterian worn-Sen will be held at the church on j Tuesday af'ern on a? 2:30. A very interesting program ha*- been planned There will b* special musical features and oth* r attractions. Miss Barnett, supervisor of the Montgomery Settle-ment Hou.se, near the new housing area in Burlington will be the speaker Miss Barnett is a graduate in Religious Educa’ion of the same Seminary in New York that the local pastor attended. All women of the church a re. urged n attend. ORIGINAL PLAY ON WESLEYAN BROADCAST The Iowa Wesleyan college radio program for Thursday afternoon at 5:15 p. m. over station WSUI will feature an original one-act play by Morell Ruby, a freshman student. The play "The Sign of the Cress" is about the life of Jesus Iscariot It will be the 1 first original play presented over the | radio b> the Weslevan dramatics class The authcr. Mr. Rubey, is from Ncrwalk, Conn . and is student pastor of the Methodist church at Salem. Iowa. The Iowa Wesleyan choir m furnish a background of religious inTi-sic. MIL ICKES ANNOUNCED hope that fuel oil rationing might be dropped next winter is possible of ful-fillnifnt. Next year is election year. Political wisdom requires the softening of all rationing hardships to as with lekes, great extent as possible while the campaign is on next year. Certainly if Mr. Ickes expects to, THE HTML PLAN seems destined work tor the fourth term a.-- cleverly as to be considered squarely on its mer its. If is always getting into political complications. The unexpected defeat of the pro- for once, in the expectation that ways will be found. he did for the third, a lot more oil is going to be brought into critical areas by one means or another. The luel oil rationing program always occupied a dillerent category than the other rationing steps. This Country has always had enough oil for any war and civilian purposes. I oral in the house was unexpected only up until two or three days before the v te. Then it was apparent that a number of democrats began to fear the political results of republican The problem was one merely of trans- leadership in this matter. season so that the open date to t ike atfish will be April 15 and taking of ratfish will be peimitted until Nov 30 with no cl sed season during the -ummer. Licenses have been issued a county recorder’s office to th* low ing: Fishing and Hunting C M. Row** Danville Lee Pickle. New London Dr N Campbell, Yarmouth Myron A Doan. M* Pleasant Allen E. Hood. Mt Pleasant Clyde H Bunker, Salem Byron Fay McGuire New London William D Tribby, Mt. Pleasant Harold R Young, Mt Plea-ant M L. Burtch, Danvnle H. W, Kiger. Mt. Pleasant Homer Kephart. Trent n Rollie Hyde. Wayland Wilbur Sater, New London William Sater. Mt. Pleasant Max Rouse, Mt Pleasant S. F Clawson, Mt, Pleasant F M Richards. Mt. Pleasant D. B Davey, Mt Pleasant Tom Alter. Brighton Harold F. McLeran, Mt. Pleasant John E. Lundquist. Olds Edward Raymond Drewer. New Lon don Darrell Gerber, New London John W. Metcalf. Mt. Pleasant Chas. Smith, Mt. Pleasant. Alva Sammons, Rome John Scott, Mt. Pleasant Harlan Ford. Mt. Pleasant Leonard Redlinger, Mt. Pleasant Earl Scearcy, Salem V. N. Breneman. New London Denzell W’oodsmall, Mt. Pleasant Bob LaFollette. Mt. Pleasant Joe Strang, Mt. Pleasant John A. Behn. Mt. Pleasant C. D. Watton, Lowell Fishing Olin Jarvis, Lowell Alvin James Griffin, Winfield Henry L. Moody, Winfield Russell Canby. Winfield Albert Neil, Winfield Axel Anderson, Rome Oral Fitch. Mt. Pleasant E. L. Morphew, Mt, Pleasant J. W Woodsmall, Winfield Paul L Prange. Mt. Pleasant A. M. Patterson. Mt. Pleasant Bruce Miller, Hillsboro the total receipts and was fourth in the amount of money turned in to the state association. With total receipts of $1,124 80. Winfield was one of six schools in the state to report a total of more than a thousand dollars The tournament turned in $873.30 to the state. Other figures in connection with the tournament were: federal tax. $130.80; | travel expenses $111.50; local school. $150; officials $97.70. Burlington's gros*- was $609.10 and Fairfield's $416.25. Fifteen Register During March Tin Can Saturday will be observed j In Mt. Pleasant on Saturd y f this , week. Tm Can Salvage Chaiiman John Wilson announced today. Mt, Pleasant residents are asked to cooperate by placing the cans which they have prepared for deliver., on their front lawns so Bov Scouts may collect them and carry them to a nearby intersection w'h* re Wils n truck*, will pick them up. Cans should be out for the collection by 9 o’clock Saturday morning. Persons who wish to deliver then cans may take them to the Wilson Peps; Cola bottling plant ju t south cf the square on Jefferson street Cans should be cleaned, paper removed the top and bottom cut ou! and the can smashed flat before they are put out for collection. Help win the war by putting your cans out on Saturday or by taking them directly to the Pepsi Cola plant. Fi'teui boys who reached their 18th birthday during the month of March registered with the Selective Service here. They are: Max Darrel Gorham. New London Glenn Dean Conrad, Mt. Pleqsant Robert Horace Stevens. Mt Union J ck LaVern Rose. New London Keith Rodney Haight. Winfield William Paul Kruse. Salem Keith Darrel Grinstead, New London Melbourne Gale Feldman, New London Wendell Roy Prott-man. Winfield James Lee Scott. Mt. Pleasant I Maynard Glenn Bittle. Jr., Mt. ) Pleasant Louis Harvey Long, Mt. Pleasant William Mark Carnahan. Mt. Pleas-nt Jack Alvin Hartley, Salem Carroll Vernon Parks, Salem ROSS FURNISHINGS LOST IN FIRE Planes Arrive For Local Field Will Be I sed For Training Pre-Cadet At least eight planes. will be used by ■he M nthiu flying service at the oral airfield to train the pre-cadets at Iowa Wesleyan and about a dozen pilots and mechanics will be in Mt. Pleasant this week or soon thereafter to assist with the training. Two of the planes which were being Icwn hue from Jefferson, la., arriv-d here Tuesday. The strong wind raused some difficulty in flying here and ne plane was forced down near Knoxville when the gasoline supply tec?me low Others were landed at Pella for the night and to rome on here today. Notice! Civilian Defense Workers Stream Up Eastern ( oast of Tunisia Report Capture of 6900 Nazi Prisoners All Civilian Defense workers are re quested to come to the high school Wednesday evening, April 7 t tonight» for the showing of films on several phases of civilian defense work This is an important educational p>rt of ur local work and all workers should attend This will include all wardens, policemen, firemen, first aiders, etc, C A COTTRELL, Mt Pleasant Civilian Defense Chairman SC0UTERS TO ATTEND REGIONAL MEETING SGT. J. C. COMSTOCK MARRIED IN TEXAS portation and of supply. Food and ga administration not I On the senate side, also, such an j adm'nist ration non-conformist as Senator McKellar of Ten- restrictuns do not 1 democratic challenge the health of the people. but'uHsree turned against the plan, al-the fuel restriction did. A man mayj though he has been fighting the ad-live healthfully on a diet and even improve physically. But no phys:cian has yet arisen to contend that 60 degree temperature, and even less in offices and homes, during winter cold, labor and worker groups, improves the health of the average man and woman. So while most to the contrary BODY OF CHILD FOUND IN CELLAR Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania cINS>—Be-ministration on other matters. Fur-1 trayed and then strangled to death by thermore other democrats prcfessed tola youth in whom she had placed fear the political efforts of tax “for- childish faith, four year old Theresa giveness," (misnomer that it is) among J Williams, w'as found buried today in the cellar of an uptown home. Together these factors were suffi-1 Under arrest for the crime was a cient to cause the defeat of the meas- 17 year old neighbor who had sought Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Comstock have just received announcement of the marriage of their son Sgt. J. C. Corn-stock and Miss Isabelle Doak which was solemnized Monday evening at 8 o'clock at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in FI Pas-. Texas. The Rev. Father McGovern, Priest of the parish, reading rhe ceremony. Mrs. Comstock is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Doak of Grundy Center and has been employed as a beauty operator at Pitzie’s in Waterloo. Sgt. Comstock was also employed at Pitzie’s before entering the air force at Biggs Field near El Paso. The couple will live in El Paso. PRESBYTERIANS WILL MEET THIS EVENING The house known as the Horn home southwest of Hillsboro and occupied by Charles Weller and lamily burned to the ground Saturday about noon. The family was in the garden when they noticed the roof was on fire probably started by a spark from the chimney. Canned food and other thing-in the basement, and part of th? things on the first floor were saved but nearly all the clothes, bedding, etc. on thp second floor was lost Al>o lost in the fire was all the household goods of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Ross of Mi. Pleasant which was stored in one of the upstairs rooms. The goods ow ned by the Wellers was covered by insurance but that of the Ross’s was not. Coincidently the school known as the Horn Sshool just south of this house burned about a month ago. Both structures were built by Mr. Horn quite along time ago. Ucouters from Mt. Pleasant, Burling- i ten. West Point, Keokuk, and Hamil- ! ton, are planning to attend the Annual Regional Meeting oi Region Fight, which is being h* Id in Des Moines, April 12th. Three such meef- ; ings of this type are being held over ithe regi n which comprises six states Iowa. Kansas. Missouri, Colorado. Nebraska, and Wyoming The meeting will be opened by the Regional report given by Harold Lew-man. Regional Executive ot Region I ight. Council reports will be submitted by each Council president. President of the Southeast Iowa Council to make this rejjort is Sterling Lord. Mr. Charles Henry' and Mr, Dwight Ramsey, both of New York City, will be part of the altilnoon program The afternoon will be devoted to group met tings on general Scouting subjects. Outstanding laymen in Region E ight have beer, contacted to serve as chairmen in these groups. The Southeast Iowa Council for the past two years has had the largest delegation of Scouters at the Regional Meetings, and it is hoped by the Scout Officials that this record can be kept intact this year. Allied Headquarters m N rth Africa tINS>—General S t Bernard Law Montgomery's triumphant British 8th lmy streamed ro the eastern coast of Tunisia today alter cracking a wide hole in Nazi Field-marshal Erwin Rommel’s defenses at El Akarit a no taking 6,000 prisoners. German resistance crumpled under a terrific barrage by more than 500 BrTish cannons at a point 20 miles north of Gabcs. Ot the battle General Montgomery aid: "My troops fought magnificently. The fighting has been as tough as nvthing encountered since El Ala-mein.” In the course cf an half hour attack beginning at 4:30 a m yesterday, the Briti.h seized their main objectives — Djebel Teb?ga Fatnassa and Djebel Er Rounina noUh of the El Akarit Wadi where Rommel has raised his defenses Liberators Bomb Messina, Sicily CaTc, Egypt < INS) - Liberator bombers of the United States 9th air lorce last night successfully bombed the harbor of Messina. Sicilv, a communique announced today. Direct hits weie scored on ferry terminal buildings and harbor quays. AH of the Liberator returned to their base. Russians Repel German Attempt Moscow, Russia —(INS)— I’wo companies ol Nazi infantry were destroyed when Russian troops repelled a iresh German attempt to smash Red army defenses in the Donets basin >outh ol Izyum, the s yiet high command announced today. A German tank attack along the middle reaches of the northern Donets also was repulsed Men Accepted In U. S. Forces Recent Group of Selectees Will Be Represented In Three Branches GROCE HERE TO WORK ON TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Public Invited To Flag; Ceremony Auxiliary To Present Flag At Pre-Cadet Parade Ground W H. Groce of Okaloosa, has arrived here to begin work on a new telephone directory for the Mt Pleasant Telephone company. Friends ot Mr. Groce, who has woiked with local business men on other occasions in connection with publishing of directories. wrill be glad to knew that he is again able to be at work after a long illness. He and Mrs. Groce are residing a’ the Yellow Lantern while he is working here. RUTH CANFIELD AND EVERETT STUCKEY MARRIED RECENTLY Announcement has been made of _ Ithe marriage of Ruth Canfield, Mt A ceremony to which the public is Pleasant. Ia and Everett Stuckey invited will take place at the pre- j Salem, w hich took place at Kahoka. P°n ' : (,u cadet parade ground east of the Iowa I M< . Saturday, April 3 Mr and Mis, Wesleyan chapel Friday afternoon At '; Stuckey w 11 nnke their home in Sa- Stuckev is * lural mail Of the Henry county men who recently reported undei the Selective Service and parsed their final examinations, one went to the marines, one to the navy and the remainder to the at my. Robert Speaker went to the marines and J. Carroll Linch to the navy. Those accepted for the army and who returned home for a week’s furlough are: Edwin A. Balmer Joe N Blair Harold L Rogue Warren R. Burns R bert W Harpe r George E. Kepper Ivan R. Knous Lawrence W. Logan Wyman K M'fferd Mervin A. Murphy Frank W Parker Elmer G Phili ps Eugene B Stauffer Vein H. Trueblood George W Tyner James R Wick Names of the men accepted were released today through the local Selective Service office. Names of those* rejected cannot now be released, it is The annual meeting of the Presbyterian church will take place tonight five o’clock. lem where Mr At that time, the American Legion cairiei Auxiliary of Bob Tribbv post will' rnAn n present a flag to Captain Herbert for WAVE-5PAR Representative the pre-cadets. The Iowa Wesleyan band will participate in the parade. Foreclosure Suit Thomas J. McCabe, guardian Will Be In Burlington of reports are running lire, and if it had not been defeated and predicting a in the house, the stand taken by Mc- to threw suspicion from himself by aiding in a 10 hour search which led j Trustees at 7:30. Reports from all departments Pearl Hathway, incompetent, has filed of the church will be given. There a foreclosure suit against John Green-wili also be election of Elders and up. Mrs. John Greenup, Louise Green- A traveling WAVE-SPAR recruiting party will be in Burlington at the U. S. navv recruiting station, second: floor ot the pest office building on i April 15. 16 a nd 17. A WAVE repre-j Tommy Dorsey To Marry Hollywood. California 'INS' Bandleader Tommy Dorsey and Film-bit player Patricia Dane, left Hollywood tcday to be marrb d in L is Vegas, Nevada Dorsey announced from the stage of a Los Angelo, theater ye>terday i that he and Miss Dane would elope to the Nevada gambling town Deed Given tentative will be on hand lor inter-j James Mahoney ha* given a cPed to views and information in regard to I Andrew’ J Hoover for 135 acres in sec- to fill the vacancies of up and the state of Icwa. It is claim- j harder fuel winter ahead (oil men Kellar suggested it would face an “un-jto discovery of the body in the cellar , those whose terms expired and other ed $812.04 on a note given in 1935 and ithe WAVFS nd SPARS throughout hum 10 ar.d 15 in 1 ippecan * wn freely say so>. I am stringing along expected’’ situation in the senate. Jof his own home. 'vacancies made by removal. taxes totalling J3C.95 are due. Ithe three days. •'hip

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