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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 14, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch. 16-May 31 ar (Each stamp, Five pounds) “ Coffee 26 - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stump, I pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VOL. LXXI, No. Md WEDNESDAY, XPH. ll, 1913 VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 4 - - - Until Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 i Each stamp. 11 gallons) Gasoline 5 - Mar. 22-May 21 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA BehindJI THE NOWS J By Paul Mallon jy"' sit I jtui by King Feature* Byn- in! ti* production in Full or 'n Pnr Strictly Prohibited.) Destroy 73 Enemy Planes WASHING! ON — ROMMEL lot .CW mi l) in i.a oner- alone nom the Report on (’. R. Tulk Evidently Incorrect Wounded-ln- Vet inn VI ii -,t Refer To I irst Information They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Hes so Scrupulous HEb RATHER HAN6 THE JOW THAN GRANT A DIME TO THE Plaintiff ( COME ON, LETS GET * V -ruicl utiTU* it et I? NO! Right is Right? J I DON'T CACE IF ITG ( ONLY A NkCkEL! IT’S V, MOT OUR MONEY WE’RE Jiving AWAY' M i re Int c kl rev. Ll OU. I tie Ii bt i n maw of Ta about :f th line third J Hight rn uld hat , as he i 80,000 el I os b1 ne mo h i army oru, 7 aru re been V but he ba citril Afrik I engage ly th re JI 45,0( ars Tho held the Marcth line until ,.(><■ norihwnd • lard orp » of man pill" Uie ( jxi.t ifleasof' to new papers ay night bv the war department j of ca-’.laitut rn North Africa Ii?-L as wounded in action, Collins Raymond Tulk, cf Mi. Pleasant. The report evidently is lmilar to1 the fin: p-por! re"??. * here by his! •nt r Mis EH a Hummell. and which ; wa.1 followed bv a telegram that he i hied of the wounds. A further verification of hi- death I a a leu* r confir ming tim telegram wa-- ieee.vert by Mrs Hummell. She also, : f*c< ived from the R( d Cross the ^ amount Af money which he had on his, ." ; ••!. ‘:u time of bm death a ^ Search For Bodies of Alcatraz C onvicts Only One of Four W ho Escaped Known To IU* Dead Sicily Stunning Blow Against Axis Air Fleet Most of Craft Were Transports Giant d< .th certificate ha been forward^i to the life insurance company which his insurance. Hummell also has had wore jiurpte bf ar? medal ss to be pre-posthumoualy and that the dk d to hr*r within 3ur Wow! WHEN THE JURY GOES OUT TO EAT YOU OUGHT To SEE HIM ORDER WHEN UNCLE SAM IS FOOTING THE BILL- T■fuxA'W.'Xcr ARNOLD arm TASE hollywood, ./—Tft AND SOME OF THAT CAVIAR STUFF. I CAN'T DO JUSTICE^ To OUR JOB ON AN v "V. EMPTY STOMACHf ) , rn v%* teft at El Akarit ut bel rn ar;-rn ii ti it ■ iv m VV '-hi mn for f r*g Ii-a' ■o md ti lit crc. D h ti a 11 carr R d Mr that a serifed award wilt bf forw# a aholt time VV iiif she WMuld Ilk*' to believe that her brother ss still alivet >he holds no In :m' that the report publish: i iii new papers this morning is a new development. San Francisco, California 'INK* — Pi iff n guards and law enforcement of-firrr.s searched the waters and shore f San Fiancisco Bay today for the _ bodies of tw; of four long term Aiea- , traz convicts who esc i ped oust od y . Allied Headquarters in North Africa yesterday in the most dai mg break in (INS*—A stunning blow agamist the The Rock's" history. Two of the axis air fl et being groomed for evac-oonvicts were recaptured. uation and reinforcement of Tunisia. Only on- of the convicts was known was disclosed today in an announce-:o be dc.id. He was James Boarman, merit revealing de traction of 73 en*-j. Kentucky bank robber, who was my plane- in a devastating Flying riddle d by bullets from guards’ rifles Fortress attack against Sicily. end was seen to sink 300 yards off Most of the craft destroyed were shore. giant transports. Floyd H milton. 35. Arkansas bank All were caught "silt ng” rn the lobber, also was caught in tho fuse- ground at two Sicilian airports loge frrm the orison launch and it It was the heaviest blow yet drat was believed he was slain. to axis air transports since the North - African campaign began. Hallowell Store . . British RAF formal Opening Assault Against Axis Bundesen Says Sulfa Drugs Aid In Meningitis Temperature Rise Is Predicted Southeast Iowa Council Has Largest Attendance lave stood tte-rc ;< Americana at* car at ti Gu‘t- r and Ml knit SSY DO MU t i I 5NYONI ut the British eight ;; bliny. Hit Bulls i, n r rn ill anyone hat happen* d The con .1 v< u a my did alt the s will nevei say else who knows Postpone Ceilings On Meat Products Will Reexamine Prices In V iew of President's Order (ant pi• uii of American and pa. twill • fly American Rem rn* I to pro-rrar l icht f J * I ;te Chicago, 111 — The use of ull.i drugs was credited Monday by Dr. Herman N Bundesen. president of ’Inboard cf health, with reducing the fatality rate among victims of spinal meningitis During the fir-*? quarter of this sear 12 of 81 patients died, compared with one death in two eau last year. Dr Buncos n said that while He disease was more prevalent this year, i th<* number of cases was not epidemic. •Lower However, ii was t,h< laigf-t number of _Southeast Iowa Council h3.s iargest attendance at Regional Meeting. Thir-Mercury To Go I p After Two ty-one men and we,men a,tended the ^ jn mwln|s the Berg Cold Nights Regional Boy Scout meeting in Des % t ___ ,____ ^ u The G A Hallowell store featuring paints and hardware will have a formal opening on Friday and Saturday of this w'eek in the new location on North Main street. In recent weeks, Mr. Hallowell has London, England <INS>—The British BAF carried out a doublebarrelled assault during the night and early today against the axLs, bombing the Italian naval base of Spezia and industrial objectives in northwest Germany. Three of the RAF big bombers were lost in the mission. ip in t i days weathc UUU lutrcu&in rn dl.-? . , , „ . . dahl building formerly occupied by Moines. Monday. Horn the Southeast ---- ,, ■ . , th'- Bennett grocery from the location . , . Iowa Council LhiiN t councils w Rnlain c Armv . . . at Main and Henn streets. He now DilidUl a OUI /Army the state cf Iowa were represented a’ . , IT . ■ * 1. wi ^ has his merchandise in good order ijnlpachAc Assault ... .. .... ~ ... this mePtinBi and for the third con- * unicusuca K,,rf, I ii for tonight ' , * * r- ,„„n and appropriately displayed in the oureau ior lomgni secutjVe year southeast Iowa Council , * „ . , niptnirv hart rtinivH far , . . , „ . new location. He is mak ng announce- meicury nan cupper 131 i jiaci the largest delegation presrnt weather of the dieted by the Washington D. C 'INS t>e< I veal, lamb and mutton priers for cases since 1936 when a American consumers were foreshad- ci se- was reported and 30 mote lug th ill WE,Ye Brit I. I tim ug been ? q t,} w a v r Bum . lf tj Mi * I line on hi? i Ilian hi? Pont line lac- owed today in an announcement by Urns died. Br IL is eighth urn He could the OPA, po toning for one month the Dr Bundesen described Hi do retreat from the* face of the effective date on new dollars and cents as “mildly contagious" and said The v arum -if gref v. hi ch . cr’ inc! o : aiel ! ills rea: it I rn ti I. the fact- but lf we broke ,r. b»* would hay ■ h* Nazi Briti5.fi ii or. filings on these products. .close contact' wilh patient: Tin- OPA said that the new ceiling:, essary to contract it. chi luted ’n become effective tomor-ing. hercfrie. row will no’ go into effect until May that made tig? ]7?n. "to jK-nnlt a re-examination of if,!<- because it the prices in the light of the recent, an i ilien from order bv president Rcf-eveR to ’hold to enable Gin- the line' against inflation." ne SAYS WAR SO FAR IS FIRST SKIRMISH t i zing. sal low of last night was v rf ;y >! ted I rom seven to IO below freezing. Garden plants reeze easily were put out of he production class and will have to b» replaced. Whether fruit buds were damagei will be determined within a few day*®. INITIATORY DEGREE CONFERRED BY I.O.O.F. Allied Headquarters in North Africa id the largest delegation pre.- nt , , Br faints do we rf til 8th armv , . ment of the formal openmg elsewhere tsi-. ain^s pywrriui om >(<h} This was thp regular annual meet- issue today unlashed an assault, against the ing of Region Eight, which comprises 1 ‘ ‘ • __ the six states of Iowa, Missouri, /i Kansas. Nebraska, Colorado and Wyo- |*QU|trV ( Cllin*rS ming - An outstanding leport frcm the I HU f HTH! Ii€V0I S'-ut.heast Iowa Council was given by ! Sterling Lord, president, in which he today unlashed an assault against the newly established axis fortified line between EntIdaville on the east coast of Tunisia, north of Scusse and nill position t: the west. Th** 8th aimy re-established contact with the r ar guard forces of the bat tu! Montgomery to bleak up any- ( I ,,r ( f n' ai I .chon. fCairouan. and Fondouk j * . jiy forced Rommel to reheat from th*- eighth rmv. There an- ts me who may say that our failure to break through to the toast and cut Rommel off completely j.-, a th apijjointm.’ factor in our suc-m No doubt a break through of Mi: h a na turf? wa, part of our strategy. But it had to bf* i such rwhelniing strength that it could be defended successfully not tnly from Rommel on the southern .side. but from Von Amini on the north. Romm? I would have birred on us in his retreat and our break-through Traitor Stephan To Die April 2 ta r> the nin Tin it ini’Mtoiy device was conferred ! < andidates Monday eve-L dge No. It). I O. O. F. g w * r“ introduced and d in the degree: Glen Ben Hannah. Jas Pitzer, a i ll Harris, Everett Nicholson. Or-1 lr W Us and Ralph R'ikgaber. Thomas MeQuav a member from class o in Hem E fellow in the*duly in ’rue irs | v/,; it man. h. PASSENGER REVENUES I Washington, D. C. — Undersec I of War Robert P. Patterson tot j house military committee toda; current struggle against the a: Ncith Africa "is merely a prelimin tv I skirmish when viewed in its setting in i j the entire war scene." I Germany and nazi held Europe and J Missouri was voted in by transfer Max Stephan. German borne restau- thg rich p-ssess!ons seized by the Ja-1 A large air; adance was present. Af- revenues thus far in 1945 indicate an rant keeper will die by hanging in the panese are ..the chief beltie-ground*-. | ledge games and various ways of ccid gray dawn of Tuesday, April 27th. and those battlef, baVP not yet been ent-rtaii ment were enjoyed., The The loose-lipped pudgy-faced Steph- fought •• hf. declared while testifying!; on- has been greatly improved by in support of legislation to draft civil-! new memccis. ians for war work. Patterson said he believed "ihe ‘SILVER BLOC’ WANTS means of victory are in our hands. CI! X/TD IMPI linen .but added that "the struggle will be a SILVfcR iNLLUDLD bitter one. that the casualties will be ... . ~ TKTC3 .. if red Gel man Afrika korps as allied brought out that the council had re-1 Washington. D C INS' An r ^ the shortening axis cniited to the program 608 new boys rollu.g back _poti ry price? _ od Y R Lridgehead tightened their lines around during 1942. which gives the council F«*d a list cf imp n ng PA ac German and Italian troops trapped «f aoainct thp na- designed to rherk the Using cost of , . I an index figure of 6a,. against ne na ; . in noitheast Tunisia. French forcdis i tional index figure of 45. . .. .r . . ... Wt. driving eastward continued their ad- ' Among those attending from Mi ! ofh lals dl‘rl sed tha ceilings Pleasant were Orval Nesbitt. Frank be established on poultry prices at the vancc to thc teft of ttlC « arm>’ Lankford and Manly Frazer of ME ^rm level theret » ’ieving the Pleasant. in Detroit, Michigan —< INS»—Traitor en heard the date for the hanging set con I p Us: ie d with federal Judge Arthur Tuttle just 24 hours alter defense counsel admitted that onh intervention by President Roosevelt can now save him. "squeeze" on wholesalers and retailers Heavy Raid and permitting a “rolling back” costs to the consumer. f -United States Headquarters in Aus- Wa.-hington, D. C. —'INS)— Hax Stephen. Detroit restaurant keeper. today applied to the supreme court nation • heavy, and that the winning of the war will demand our utmo-: effort as unit vvmild have ben opposed b th Jor a stay ol cxecution so he can seek north and south at the ^.hearing of his petition for a writ The wav it happen:! was j"Pvi<-w from the same tim: much sure r and safer though less decisive. Fo now Rommel, with his battered Aink j c ips. tilled with replacements, h -a managed to preserve some con- COIXEGE GIRL VOLUNTEERS TO AID IN FARM WORK Ames. la.—College girl volunteers RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENT NEEDED SAYS HULLS’ ASSISTANT W liir-ctcri. D. C. <INS»—The sen--f •. iv - be c” today demanded that • ret jrv i the treasury Morgenthau's proposed international currency stabil-tion plaiis includes silver as well .s . I d • I: is the unanimous view of the inmittee that i? is inconceivable that my bank. national or international. can i^e regarded as sound that does >• have as basic money gold and silver -aid Senator Pat McCarran, Ne-uda. democrat. TWICE YEAR AGO ADDITIONAL GROUP ___I ARRIVES AT IWC Chicago, 111. — Railroad passenger | ' - _________ . An additional group of men ar- increase of about IOO per cent above the rjvecj jn pleasant recently to join 1942 level, which was double that of the pre-cadet group at Iowa Wes-1941, Hugh W. Siddall, chairman of leyan. Coming frcm the Nebraska the Trans-Continental and Western areat the group is one of severral small Passenger association, said. contingents expected to boost the total He told members of the Western So- t0 (be capacity at the local college, ciety of Engineers, meeting at 205 Wes' tiaiia (INS)—Japanes** planes made a heavy raid en Milne Bay at dawn today beating out General Douglas Mac-Arthur’s j rediction that the enemy is opening an all out aerial offensive against New Guinea. SUIT FOR DIVORCE FILED WITH CLERK Wacker drive, that the smooth movement of unprecedented numbers of RENEW APPEARANCE OF i . managed to preserve sonic t«m- ----- . Washington, D. C. • INS' Declaring j him ,,bl< mbs my power for the final will help relieve the labor shortage on (hat ljnless the reciprocal trade agree- j ii .V a^t 'he side of Von Arnim. the Iowa State College farms near ment program i,s renewed a third SO I \ST WAS HE FLEEING pass- ^ Ames. world war will result. Francis B. Sayre. . ----- cd Si ax he did not have time ta lay I They were called on to assist with special assistant to secretary of state toiro fONf.RFSS INTFNT L.nd hi me-, and establish himself an garden products by the reclamation Cordell Huff today asserted that unlc on en tp\r | Anrj | iwjf* *UV nit ii i r n natural line which was and conservation committee of the international security can be a. ared (jKAJLfh LAdLLLIINu * d ir- lor hun 15 miles south of student war council. after the present war, "our civilizatn n I - ;.oU.;lhi line running from Ma-1 The first call, to cut and process two ls doomed.’’ Wa hington 1). C. < INS)—Price ad- 5a)ii {1Tin the ra to a dried-up chott acres of asparagus, brought 140 co-ed ..The votr of COngrc> s upon the bid inn! ti or Prentiss M. Brown admit- ■ P , cnnnbled quickly before the ’ volunteers, who will <vork \ soon a:> now bef0re you,” he told the house I to a boil e committee today that ••tehth army with the usual loss of the crop is ready for cutting. ways and means committee, “will bi a , •» t sure” whether OPA had ' ‘ I To qualify for the work, for which regarded bv other nations as the acid m> local authority lo institute its re- Italians. I The mountain line north of Enfi- they will receive regular rates, the test of America's future intentions. Ca Ville, was obviously the best place Student must have a grade point aver tor tinal resistance. The highest [leak age QI 2.0 or belier._ in all n rth east Tunisia (Djebel Zag-j «r. * . »mjr PAMTpni hcun» is in that range. Tart of the | few days. Our fields are scattered JLA LAHL i Joyce 13cOley tiled suit for divorce Horn Gerald O Dooley with the clerk military persona, was the result of INSURANCE BUILDING of the court here today. Cruel and constant perfection of a system estab- _ inhuman treatment is charged. The fished by military and railroad officials The Central States Insurance petition asks the comt to approve a more than 20 years ago. building at the northwest comer of settlement reached between the pn- The handling of four times as many the Mt. Pleasant squarr was getting a tle*s granting the plaintiff alimony of troops in the first 12 months of this facial today that when finished wih Slr> a >* cek war, in comparison with the corres- give the building a new appears ne* They were mamfd at- Elk P°lnt- S. ponding period of the last war, with 40 The exterior was being blasted, fresh- D • on Feb in, 1959. and lived t -get per cent, fewer passenger cars, is a ening the appearance of the brick and 01 tintl1 March 27. 1943, the petition tribute to the efficiency of the roads stone work of the three-story struc- states, under private management. Siddull ture. asserted. ------- EAST MONROE STREET Olds School Calendar April 26—Senior lington. class trio to Bur- PROPERTY IS SOLD DENIES CHARGES ARMY IS HOARDING FOOD ADMITS JAPAN HAS ut order for grade labelling of can't’ goods and asked for congress to make clear its “basic intent." ‘ ti oi.r re doe.- not art 1 11 feel the# . -po” bilify rests with me and I will et,” Brown told a committee investi-atiurj grade labelling. 7'! NAZI CREW MEMBERS LF AVE SHIP; PRISONERS —m— 1 Garretson and Garretson, real es- April 26—Olds, Ainsworth and Claw- brokers report the sale of Dr E fw».ricviiiio mucir* nmarram to be , E. Westfall resilience property near the high school to c. Herbert; Dyad, lee A photographer. This is one of the tetter homes cf the city and Mr Dy-;<U purchased it ft r an investment Washington, D. C. —(INS)—Major Central E. B Gregcry, army quartermaster general, today emphatically denied charges that the war department is hoarding food He also slayed Essertrns that the army is ignoring rivdlian needs. , HOT FLOOR FIGHT ON MEET ON SATURDAY, FARM BILL EXPECTED water simply for Tunis is drawn from far back and thus better protected. there bv auueduct I Whether the Germ tis can escape United Nat’ons Headquarters in Aus- ' Only through narrow valleys in this successfully in another Dunquerque de- tralia (INS? An admission that Ja-raiigc can we approach Tunis and Bi- pends en the coming fight in the air. pm has “complete control of the sea ■me and the Germans have placed We have the ma power, a superb I lanes in the western Pacific anti he their artillery in such position to make land force and air force (up to now), outer app-oaches toward Australia, , advances through the valley extreme- S lf Hitler can hastily assemble was made today by General Douglas ■■ Mdler : dim;ult enough planes to get a temporary MacArthur, but lie added land based v.’itl. the Atlantic Fleet at Sea- ll“ “ , Bul I hey only have about Big ah- local air superiority o»rf the 90-mUe aviation skiBJully co rdinaied with (INF, .Delated. More than 70 Naa W lbur Glossap u>.s Kennedy He'd, lei! three large cues amu* Miebtretch of waler from Tunis to Sicily, swill striking ground task fo, 'es will I re* in mix- • OI a German blockade May 1-Junior-Semor b«q*t IU , hie ' cines and three or four aud thus harross the cperatior.a of the make possible "bold massive stroke , n r aru ate prisoners of the Am- My :> Baccalaureate sci vt mailer fields huddled closely within British-Ameriean fin. he might to defeat the enemy. ; ,i- ■jj.t, ,vy because they left their, Congrttalion church ..... heir narrow lines sneak the bulk of Irs army cut in Japanese control cf tIf aa lanes., • , ad ol lighting it out. .Mag !3-Oommencfment f.er.i. .. a Vee hay. had 'superiority .in the ptanes and small boats and attain leave Gene. a1 MacArthur sa,d. is wed.,, 'n ny vessel ads Intercepted by Olds high school ai, until now and should be- able to behind the Italian army to be cap- rnty by American submar ,r a- r it . a Am nean ask .cree in the south May lt-tnd ct sch-ol .< . “wfii'-h are not to be discounted. fordsville music program held at Crawfordsville. April 30—Senior class play: The cast: "Bolts and Nuts”— Benita Bolt ...... Miriam Huston Lutie Spinks ____ Louise Tolander _______ Rebecca Bolt ...... Arlene Palmer < TF ATMPPQ TO Martha Grubb .... Dorothy Davis IYUIYcXL I CnvilEiIVj IXJ Tw ink Starr ........ Jack Huston Dr. Hippocrates Joy . Harry Black j Henry Goober .. Ralph Johnscn The mr ! teachers of the county® Washington, D. CV (INS)—A hot Phineas Plunkett ............ j will meet at the courthouse on Satur- ' floor tight on 'he 1944 farm app1 ......... Edwin Swartzendruber jdav afternoon at I 15. Plans for the j Dilation bill was promised today as Miss Prunella Figg.Louise Fenton; n Deluding events of th** scho I year j bonze agriculture committee members Codwallender Clippv ........... 'will b»> dismissed. ! vc'red resentment of the sweeping Eugene Quick ( _ : 'legislative” revision written into the Mrs. Gertie Glossap EXPECT 24 CENTS FOR sg'e u:ture pro lam by ’h# appropria ROASTING CHICKENS make hash out of those fields in a tured. I tion committee. ‘ .Atlantic. It wcs scuttled. backet dinner at anon. Ame; Iowa -<INS» - I:wa poultry ra sersHfday wen* told that they could expect the average prices for live roasting di ckens weighing from 4 to St pcurc's to be about 24c a pound this year. Deed Given E R and Virginia Chittenden have given a deed to Charles H Pease for a Mew Lender, prop Tty Consider*-;cn was $4,750

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