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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 20, 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 I - - - I nti! Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Gasoline 5 - Mar. 22-May 21 VOL. I,XXI, No. OI11 ESD AY', APRIL 20. 1013 President On Wartime Inspection Tour THE By Paul Mallon ^ (Distributed by King Feature*. Byn-cJifat*> Inc. Reproduction In Full or In Fart Strictly Prohibited > TWO BARRAC KS FOR NEW LONDON They’ll Do It Every Time - - - \N ASHINGTON- Kf*al that * vei vol < 11 nbihaat .or des. I his must be . ettli meat of d» Yet the Keyne; •he Bn ti h-Am< achieve this res many i larks of financial expert! -GNK v, ants POST VV VK to achieve is Gift H> FSA To Town Recreational Purposes For of intel national curren- done to allow trade bls. peaceful business. —White proposals to i iran Governments to lit have set off bo criticism among the . that it .seems likely their plans cannot be carried out So tar the debate ha- been confined to the experts, but you had better Stall thinking about it. because ail the fundamental clashes of theory con-the future world are involved plans to handle the money. holds the money bag control; ;> an- set up an international rd of directors primarily to handle md of thou* $5,000,000 000 <British 1 would have no limned figure-' would contribute $2.000,000 000, the of the world $3 000.000,000. cerning in tm He wh the wo Both Announeermnt I- made by Rep. Thomas F Martin of the fli t con giessional district, that two of the (XX: barracks buildings at New London have been given to the town of New London. The Federal Security Administration has approved the gift of the two buildings, for general community arni recreational purposes. Some of the group of the building formerly used by the CCC while work wa - in pi ogre at he Danville Sta*.;* Park have been assigned to Iowa Wesleyan for uh; for barracks for the soldier Just what will be done with the remaining fifteen or more buildings ha- not been learned. R* p. Martin’s telegram to the News fads I am pleased to inform you that Fe ie i al Security Administration has just appl o'. < d toe gift to the town of OOIMG- UP TO The P.X., OOE T Vs/AiT A \ Mi MUTE. I WANT SOME STAMPS V AMD STUFF. -J I’LL GiNE V NOU A . - \ LIST. TM (JET ME A PACX OF CIGARETTES Ii THE w ould I current from'i tries High thai ti w huh M it (OVIK I Bt MONS ■eld Whit .ii. We t he K* me $22. rid about 00.000,000 W •tly» d, 25 percent in ioL ars. British sr cent in gov-various coun- into toe fact gold standard (vague I and hav** professed shadow of gold New Lo foj mcrl> building general purpose ion of two barracks buildings used by the CCC These are given to New- London for community and recreational Union Good Friday Services Planned 2 County Bond Sales - $90,000; 112 Enemy Still Far Short of Goal Planes Down 00,000 ol go! KIM, the re $0 >00.000 .OOO ald b<* our I in it of Yet gold ting ab IL its la tiona ben i WI wortl natio » this fund. leaving us ie $22 OOO 000.000 .-ack. of I be fund thus would O’ on the 25 per cent gold in but the 75 lier cent of na-rurrencus and government Union Good Friday services will be held in th* Methodist c hurch Friday a Itei noon from 12 noon to three o'clock The service will be divided into six half hour periods enabling people to come or leave during the intermit-ion at each half hour. Watch the paper for complete program I The cooperating churches in this eivice ai* the Methodist. Presby-tman, Nazar enc and Baptist. i ll bt)a I POU I lr; ail writers are und is really a octal the J* can buy $8 or $16 which Americans n British pound undei currencies ar*- to be be decided by the inter-d. The group could decide UK) high in relation to the rder its devaluation. , ht now . the British fin-are complaining that, worth (in what it instead of the $4 >w pay for the the current stabilization rate. II these British could control the international board, they would devalue our dollar 50 to 75 per cent in relation to Ute pound. THE ADMINISTRATION *>’> the boa rd must have this power over currencies because, alter all, the real worth of a dollar, a pound,or a ruble is not it, gold backing, or, in truth, anything cise but what it will buy at the gio- cery store. AU (he New Deal manipulations in gold did not change the real value of the dollar, but the rising war price, truly devaluated it in the increased price* you pay. In terms of bread, lettuce and meat, your dollar has really gone down. The rising opposition says the Rev Jeam bey Speaks At Rotary Meeting Th* speaker at the Rotaiy meeting Moi ids' evening was the Rev E L. Jeam bey of the Presbyterian church, Who chol e fo? his subject,, “Pass flan Week." and vividly portrayed events which transpired during this epochal week in the life and death of the Saviour. The subject Mr Jeambey chose obviously was especially fitting, this being Passion Week E C McCord gave a financial report of the joint Rotary-Kiwanis sponsored two-number series at Iowa Wesleyan taking the place of the Institute of International Understanding this year. Visitors were Prof. Lloyd Dresser. Dr. Glover of Kansas City, Mo., and Ray Vandenberg. Five-hundred one b'tid u ha.a t i in Henry county have ynight. $222 264 -15 in bonds during April up to anc. including April 17th. This is more bonds than have been -old i Hem-, f ount;( during any pre* r us monish since Pearl Harbor. This is an ex- j cedent record so far, However, the, quota for Henry county for tie 2n< War Loan drive now on is $570,000.00 This means that it will be nece ary ■ i I for Henry county to sell approximate $360.000 00 in bonds during the remainder A April in order to make our quota. These sales and our quota do* not include any purchases by the bank in Henry county. Already thi me nth. the banks in Henry bounty hav tought $319.000 00 in bond-* that ar* not included in thi- quota. Two Sale* SWUXX! Th*' largest individual sal* to date include one $50,000.00 safe and one $45,000 00 sale In addition, the’* i cne $15.000 00 sale, as well as several J’ (bid o n" keep Includes ne to tfie limit throughout! Seventy Transport Planes Describe Trip To Bomb Tokyo C>v eland. Ohio - Maj. Gen. Jimmy D little, with the cheers of the crew ( of United States aircraft carrier J Uriah g in hi: cars took off for the ;>tone Tokyo laid VO miles from J a pi level and Press disc a n, Ic.sc year ago only a story in the Monday. Tne t he bom ic pi a ■lid la first raid mar aly c t Decern be ct tailed account of whose origin was cret until now, wasj • by George Radu lovich. a 20-y*ar-oid aviation machin- i-t’s mat*1 of Lakewood, Ohio. who was (board the carrier. The Pr* - had bai n ‘ sitting on" the lot > ;nee obtaining it from Radulo- vu-.h aud only Monday obtained permission to print it fYom censorship AU Pd Headquarters in North Africa • INF’—The number of enemy plane shot down in this theater Sunday and Monday now stands at the staggering total ot 112 including 70 “Junkers-52" transports, allied headquarters disclosed today The successes against the big axis troop earners flying the vital supply route between Sicily and Tunisia were scored by American, South African and Biitish pilots. Twenty-four axis plane.-, wfie shot d wn by the northwest Aft ira air force , yesterday including 21 over the Gulf I of Tunis Ot these 12 were Junk‘*rs-52'. In actions elsewhere in this raging aerial theater, 39 other enemy Pleasant Lawn Defeats Wyman I la se ba 11 (.ame Is A Pitchers’ Rattle Aft*” having two games cancelled ecause of pi I i weather. *he Pleasant L wn high school baseball team f-Rally succeeded in getting to play heir first gam* -of the season at Wyman Thursday of last week. They won heir game bv a seer * of 3 to 0. The gam- was well played by both teams, only one error being made between the teams. A misjudged fly ball by one r.i the Wyman players a IL wed a lun to score for Pleasant Lawn in th ninth inning. Up to this time the score was I to 0. being a tight pitchers battle all the way. The game was very unusual in one respect. B »b Gipple pitching tor Pleasant Linn J Lr formed a hare" feat by striking out 23 men in the seven inning game. Gipple had so much “stuff" that his battery mate. Bob Wright, failed to hang onto the third strike on two men and he had t strik* out the fourth man en these two occasions to get this record in th*1 abbreviated game. He did not allow a hit or tun. and walked two men. The Wyman pitcher was aim very effective, allowing only four hits and cr** walk However, his support was just about perfect, the infield and outfield “gobbling" up everything that came their way. The remainder of the schedule l r the Pleasant Lawn team is as follows: Wyman at Pleasant Lawn. April 23 Old at Pleasant Lawai, April 27 Mt Union at Mf. Union. April 29 Olds at Olds, May 4 New London at Pleasant Lawn, May 7 Winfield at Pleasant Lawn, May IO Gam* wit ii Winfield and Mt Union which were cancelled because of bad weather will be played before the end of the season, if possible. Brother Wounded In North Africa Visits Camps and War Plants In The South Travels “Off The Record” For Seven Days Aboard President- Roosevelt's Special Infection Trim - 'INS* President Roosevelt is en his second wartime inspection Lur of si vice c naps and war plants in the United S’ates. Travelling off the record" for seven days, correspondent, accompanying the presdent were permitted today to announce news of his trip as th-* halt-way mark was reached. At a special conference rn his private car. President Roosevelt evidenced Will Broadcast Tonight President Roosevelt is scheduled to broadcast tcirght at ten o’-c'ock. Central War Time, over; the major networks. The nature of his address was not revealed, great satisf ction with the progress of the military program and declared that troops he had se n s: far would do a good job Sn Europe. I he re ugh Training Sold ie us. sailors ann marlier, he asserted. are receiving trainirg far more thorough than during the first world war and those now going over seas ne ready to take part in the fighting when they land In contrast he pointed to the World War I experience when American soldier alter being shipped abroad had to undergo traili ng only a short distance behind the lines before they comd be thrown into battle. The president slipped quietly out of Washington, Tuesday. April J3th and rime th d time has reviewed troops at Parris Island. S C ; Fort Benning. Ga.; Maxwell Field, Ala.; Fort Oglethorpe. Tenn.; Camp Forrest, Term.; and '"amp Robins n. Ark Hillsboro- Mrs Howard. Harlan received word that her broth**:-, P. F C. planes have been brought to earth Glenn Cochran, has been wounded in boosting the two-day total bag to 112 the fighting in North Africa. $10,000.00 sales. Henry county is still fortunate in having several people and J authorities. organizations that can and no doubt J Radulc vie ’n said he carrier he was will make substantial purchases of aboard wa> part of a fleet which left) bonds during April. However, since; i we t coast port about two weeks be our quota this month amounts to over lore the raid, half cf our entire quota for the year En 1942. It means that it is going to be Aet ’ ATTEND ALPH1 XI EVENT IN GALESBURG necessary for every indivdual and business in Henry county to invest ev- ; cry dollar that they possibly can in1 war bonds during April. The quota amounts to approximately j ilO', of the total deposits of all the j banks in Henry county. This means j that we must have far more than IO' 1 of the income of everyone during J ! April since it is up to us as loyal I route to the takeoff point, the ank on*- Japanese destroyer and two Japanese fishing boats which might have ran ic od a warning to the mainland. FLAGS PRESENTED AT TRENTON CHURCH ey on it. Certainly some kind of an agreement like the old one. or otherwise after the war to fa- Americans to invest the limit in because most of ■»»<*“ now So far dmlng APnl onls' about 2v: of the people in Henry w ill be necessary cilitate foreign trade, our own money—and fhere is no deny- both goods The W R. C. presented a silk flag to the Methodist church at Trenton last Sunday. Rev C. W. Cochran, pastor in charge, opened the .services ay player and a Ie ady. welcome. The Mi its Jean and H [en Hulme sang a scheme give', away our right to control the other nations will be bankrupt in , „ . * Thpv pan he county have purchased War Bonds., ..... ‘ This is our largest and most important UG.' When ;6c Lights go on Again ins this. As in the case of me recent ^expected to buy so much more from that we have haci since the all ever the world.” followed by the luce “Freedom of the Air exposure. us than they sell to us that some fa-, - . { g7, presentation of the Christian flag by the adminstration contemplates some cilitv for short term credit will have j started. is ta i Surrender of it, sovereignty over mon-' , b(. o(tpr«f ante having nothing to of the people rn Henry count, to ex- <V to an international boart^ “^dowith MMM. or the de*. ITM* JJM** « «> « ° I, .. Mrs which our national representation can owed us) , Ta trie tic Instructor of the WRC. then he more than 25 per cent 'though our, In thp oW days. when they owed us; world War the auota for' P»’« **tt d the national emblem. Rev. ante is 40 per cent). balances, they shipped us gold. Under rodman accepted both of the flags on The administration feels tins to a, these new schemes, they would go to £“l“oo or nearly -half cf the church in a short talk. double the quota. The total number! Alter the service' a fine luncheon cf individual subscribers amounted to Uls served which was appleciated by $5.444 00 or over IO times the aum be* j 61 . A n umber of cadets were present that have bought bonds in Henry: county so far during this War Loan \CCUSF.D OF DESERTION; drive Henry county has more pen-1 jm SQUIERS BACK Mi Vela William Mrs. Willis Chris--inger gave a beautiful reading “Tile Veteran fiokiieri Ida Attender Beta chapter of Alpha Xi Delta sor-ority was the guest of Alpha chapter in Knox college at Galesburg. IIL, at the 50th Founders day banquet and spring formal. Saturday evening. The girls went to Galesburg on the train Saturday afternoon under the chaperonage of Dean Frances Moser. They were guests at the girls dormitory at Knox college. The beautiful rase dinner was held at the Custer hotel in Galesburg. Four the founders were present at thp banquet: Mrs. Bertha Co k Evans, Miss Julia Foster, Mrs. Alice Bartlett Burner and Miss Amira Cheney. Janice Grover gave a short talk, presenting Betty Ann Tinsley who gave th:1 liberians report. Following the banquet, the spring formal was held at 9 o'clock in the Custer hotel. 4ENRY LODGE, I.O.O.F. E. P. SMITH FARM SOLD TO MUELLER Chattanooga, Tennessee —* INS* -April nth (Delayed)- Girls and mole girls clad in official army rlive drab uniforms—greetecT President Roosevelt today with a mixture cf military precision and squeals of delight as he reviewed the WAACs stationed at nearby Fort Oglethorpe, Tenn. S. D. Garretson and Wayne T. Garretson. real estate brokers, announce the sale cf the E. P Smith farm of HO acres. This farm is located 3 miles west cf Mt. Pleasant Herbert Mueller of Hillsboro was the purchaser and will take possession next year. nee: ssity. The congress is sure to think the international authority and buy “unitas" or otherwise because the constitution international chips, called gives it the power to fix the value of ( “bancor.** Either way. we arg likely to money, and it does not intend to sur- wjnd up all the unitas or bancor in render that power. I the w’orld. just as we wound up with The administration argues that all au the gold, foreign nations will have to surrender I But \n financial truth, the new the same power under this plan. No Ullitas or bancor would merely repredoubt. the British will want to if they \ sent what the gold now represents--can get a more favorable rate of exchange for the pouhd although Keynes’ plan envisages complete Brit pie living here now than during that period. The county should have even j more bond purchasers than at that j time. Everyone is in this war to the an IOU to us. OTR GOLD is merely a metalli IOU. carried on treasury books at $35 limit. Let each and teveiyl-ne buy an ounce, but worth very little in a bonds to the limit. In the 4th Victory Loan of the 1st ish control of the board. but WHX JOE ST AUN have any lr* “ “^^"6 world War. the quo. a for of tins? Win he give an internatkma! it from us in fioods. b timust$1,149,800.00. Actual sale In board the power over the value of his to owe us mole and more as long as we . rubles, the right to channelize his sell them more than they can pay for foreign trade, when he has never a1- in goods. lowed any alien even to know the It is the first step toward interna-simpleat facts of his financial situ- tionalizing the world, and perhaps the It lr,,, «,• Hic ivaHf' nosition? most important. No compromise seems 1 Before the war, we had a simple possible, at least not on the todispens- j actual sales ©f the 4th Victory currency stabilization agreement with able point of w^ntro^ the ^ many humJreds Britain and Fiance. It worked very It looks, therefore, as it the issu ^ well without this sovereignty hocus- must be fought out to a decision foi ‘ . . . wen wunom was . 'lives, the least we can do is lend our pocus. In fact, our treasury made mon- one side oi the other. bonds amounted to $1,^66.750.00. These were bought by 4,586 purchasers. Again Henry county exceeded the quota by a good margin. The present quota, while large, is only aBt>ut 40”;. of the Fort D s Moines. Iowa (INS*—Tw* oldie cs Darien Jones. 24 and Van McMurrin, 17, accused of desertion were back at the Fort Des Moines guard house today after a two-day •Ilase. The two were captured by state highway patrolmen yesterday near Woodburn, Iowa. Married Here CONTINUE SEARCH FOR MISSING SEA SCOUTS LittL Rock, Ai kansas (INS*—April 18th (Delayed >—President Roosevelt paused briefly on his second wartime nspectiQn trip today to attend Palm Sunday religious ervices at Camp Joseph T Robinson near Little Rock Mr. Roosevelt after riding through the post worshipped at non-sectarian services conducted bv army chaplains in the camp’s huge gymnasium in company with approximately 3.500 officers and men stationed at the psst. , Sayville. Lone Island — 1 INS*—With J seven bodies already recovered, the , navy and coast guard continued their i search today for the bodies of three j additional Sea Scouts missing after { their 36 fey t cabin cruiser foundered ■ and capsized two miles off shore here , yesterday. The only survivor wfa>. Fred Meyer. 30. skipper of the tiny craft, who was rescued by a passing merchant ship. Fort Betting, Georgia --(INS* —April 15th (Delayed' — President Roosevelt saw and heard war tcday—1913 style— is advanced troops at this military post cai rich cut a realistic sham battle under a hail of live machine gun ammunition and 80 mm mortars. For more than t*n minutes. Mr Roosevelt witnessed our troops advance amid th' fin and smoke of simulated battle ronditrns as part of a two hour inspection of soldiers and their equip-, mer t at Fort Benning. SMALL ROOF BLAZE AT CONFERS DEGREE ON 7 Governor To Use Part of j ..... -Back Yard For Garden L0CAL RESIDENCE The first degree was conferred en a ; lass < I se4 n Mdnday evening in I Henry Ledge. No. IO. I. O. O PL They I were as follows: Everett Nicholson, Ralph Rukgaber, Orville Wells, Glen Whitmarsh, Ben Hannah. Jas. Pttzer and Lowell Harris. Tile lodge is great- . ly benefitted by the addition of these , new members. A large crowd was in I attendance and games of various kinds ; were enjoyed before and after lodge. j 30 CASES OF LIQUOR SEIZED AT WEST POINT _ I Des Moines. low a < INS) — Governor B. B. Hickenloqper is planning to spade up a portion of his back yard tor a victory garden, h*1 disclosed today. The Governor als: reported he Ii ad enough seeds shit him to fill “at least s*x acres.” More Bombs Dropped On Kiska A roof blaze at the John Behn reside-) ce on North Ma'n street Monday evening about eight o’clock was soon extinguished by firemen. Damage was very small. The bouse is the first s' uth of the college gym and is owned I' Ic wa Wesley ’n DR. STERNBERG NAMED CITY PHYSICIAN I ai! I conand Soucy of Irwin, 111 Loan p:e-ca ’ct at Iowa Wesleyan, and Betty I u Wheat of Chebanse, III., were of boys married Ea*urday evening at the home lending their f jn tice of the Peace G A. Hallo-1, wi o officiated. Burlington. la—Seizure near W- J Point of a pickup truck carrying 3'* cases of liquor was announced Monday by Lee county officials. They said two men. Joe Barnanh land Allen Thompson, had posted $250 bond each after being charged with | illegal transportation of liquor. I Tile liquor bore Illinois seals, ac-i cording to the officers. Washington. D. C. (INS)—The navy tep ated today that American army; fighter planes dropped 34,000 pounds1 cf bombs in nine new attacks on Jp-i pines* positions at Kiska in the J Aleutians. No bombers were mentioned in the: navy announcement, which said tile j total ct 17 tons of bombs was dropped by Warhavvk and Lightning fighter rimes which screed hits in the main •amp aion and started fires around ' the enemy submarine base. Dr. V/. A. Sternberg has b'-en appointed citv physician to f ll th*1 vacancy caused by the death of Dr J W Land, Mayor H. L. Shook said today. Dr Laird had been reappointed only a w’eek before his death. Marriage License Issued A marriage license was issued at the courthouse here today to Richard R Hull. 22. end Betty Jean Wright. 20. br th of lit Pleasant.

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