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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 24, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Meh. 16-May 31 (Each stamp, Five pounds) Coffee 26 - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stamp, I pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil J - - - Until Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Gasoline 5 - Mar. 22-May 21 \ OL. LXXI, No. 95SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Enoch Anderson Taken by Death -i Former ML Union Farmer, Had ' Peen f ailing Several Years j Mi Enoch Anderson, 75, died at the M< mortal hospital this morning at IU o<;!■»< k H* natl been iii failing health foi several years. Mf ann Mrs. Anderson moved to Mi Pleasant from their farm south of Mt Union tour years ago. Surviving are Mr Anderson and their tire children, Boyd ol Mt Pleasant, Raymond ol MI. Union, Mrs. Marie Bloom of Winfield, Mis. Millard Bauii ol LaJurita, Colo., and Mrs Vivian Spahrr of Whitney, Nevada; also the following brothers and astel .. Otto W and Walter Anderson of Mt Pleasant, finn Anderson of N'f w London Mrs. Anna Van Tuyl, Mi Plea ant Mi S. B Lutes. Fairfield Mrs A W. Hook on). Des Moines, and Mrs Minnie Miller, New London. The boer. is at the Cookes funeral home pending funeral ai rangements. Americans Advance In North Tunisia Disease in Sharp Drop Since 1918. They’ll Do It Every Time - - - SEN. GILLETTE HOPES FOR ENACTMENT OF POST-WAR POLICY Washington. D C «INSi—Sen. Guy M Gillette Iowa Democrat, said today he hopes bf lore leaving the United States senate he hopes to secure enactment of a postwar which will "remove the the picture and do away among nations. The Hawkeye state's euler Ana tor reiterated bb •ions to leave politics whirl I oreign cl lids' with d sllve policy from sunity haired mten-s term expires in 1941 and retire near Cherokee, Iowa, to his Id t m FIRE SCHOOL TO BE HELD AT IOWA STATE COLLEGE Ames problem will tx school t lei of Iowa if muiiieip lghlighted b* held 1 June 21 to 25 tin engineering umired today. INB I- The wartime ail fire d* part merits at a working fire t Iowa State col-Lindon J Murphy extension service APRIL BOND SALES TOTAL 12 BILLION (■filar Rapids. Iowa fINS>^-Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau said today that April war b rid sales up to last night totalled $12,014,000,000 The secretary revealed that after leaving Cedar Rapids, he would continue westward to visit we tern cities. The presence of contagious diseases in Iowa i extremely minor compared to what it was dos mg World War I, the state department of health .said Friday. Dr Cai! F Jordan, director of the .if aith department's communicable ii.sea.se division, sa .cl the chiel reason for the sensational decrease since the .a t war lias been the check of dis-ea < through immunization. Dui mg the 17-month period from Apili. 1917, to August, 1918. the department reported, 1,075 cases of diphtheiia were reported. During a comparable period from December, 1911 to la • Tuesday, only 240 ca->es of th1, disease were reported. The most astounding decrease is in smallpox. During the 17-month period fart World War I 4 048 eases were reported as compared with only 42 since the United States entered this w ar Comparisons. Other comparisons: Spinal meningitis World Wnr I, 83 ca se*; Wbr'ld War II. 35 cases. Infantile paralysis; World War I 278 case. ; World War II. 77. The only major contagious disease which has not decreased sharply in the -'ate between the two great warsj is scarlet fever. The drop between the two 17-month periods is 3.556 to 3,185. I No Im muni/.it ion. Dr. Jordan emphasized that while there is convalescent serum for scarlet fever, there Is no established im-1 inunization. He also warned that while “the smallpox rate during the present war is extremely * ncouraging,” an epi- ( demit is bound to come to the community which relaxes its vaccination program j During World War I. Iowa .suffered along with the rest of the world from a scourging epidemic of Spanish in-1 fluenza and dm mg October. November j and December. 1918, a total of 93,590 cases was reported, In Cycles. Dr Jordan warned that Spanish influenza arna I iv' comes J-iSt When baby LSOF.S TO SLEEP-every RELATIVE FOR MILES AROUND WANTS TO HOLD HIM--A OH ISNT HE DARLING f LET ME HAVE HIM • COME to Aunt marge, Boeov- Service Call Imminent For Skilled Men ‘Verdun’ of Tunisia Falls Deeds Recorded Park Services Plenty of Canned At Courthouse Again This Year Goods In Alaska at the court horn Rev. E. Deeds recorded Kday included: John R. and K'ziah Ford to Kenton j Y and Katherine Housh, property or. | North Jay street. Mt Pleasant. Frank and Nora Elmore to Marion W and Mabel M Ashby. Hillsboro f services in ‘ Rev. E. L. Jeambey ha Cons ide rat ion is given a- propei ty. $1 .OOO Bertha E. Masden to Salem property. L Belle Kerr. HOUSE IS AMUSED AS FDA DEFINES AN IRISH POTATO Washington, D. C.— R^p. Fled E Bus bey ?R , 111 * gave the house to understand that he 1ms his own ideas in worldwide »b°ut reasons for the current shortage WITH OUR BOYS IN THE SERVICE T, "rvr. r;vT? Mt. Union School md ' ui ■> of the Army Au rcrees was st,,Thursdsy oi guyg Many Bonds Uncle Bams new lighting pilot- icadv j and eager to hit Hitler and Hirchlto wheie they can feel it from tin A AF Gulf Coas cycles. There was one in 1890 and potatoes. His colleagues snickered then, 28 years later, in 1918. Now 25 as he suggested that they may have years have elapsed since the last one. been frightened off the market by a 'Tile Spanish flu epidemic usually definition of Irish potatoes published comes about once a generation and is tin* food distribution admimstrat- accnmpamed by complications, chiefly *on pneumonia, he said. j "The term Irish potatoes means any i _____________________ and all varieties of the edible starchy subterranean tuber of an American plant of the species Solanum tuber* Alaska, once the mecca of gold L. Jaunt bey Announces hunters, offers a haven from the rig-Services Aiwain jots of rationing and food homages as _j well as a winter season milder than Chicago's. Because of Hic popularity of tile | This report was made yester ay by Central park last year, t ira ^ Fender food .specialist for the decided to bureau of labor statistics, who has , I . just returned to Chicago from a month survey of operating margii Alaskan merchants. , “Tires and typewriters are the only goods rationed in Alaska," Fender said. continue the same sort of programs again this year. The weather will betel mine how soon these services will begin. Mr. Jeambey has gathered much interesting material during the w aiter months to present in the open i ' Coffee, sugar, meat and canned good air this summer. Seme of the messages will include trips to the lands of our enemies; their religious beliefs; things and places some of our boys are seeing; the story of creation in seven parts; Bible stories and Character studies, and many other interesting feature services in picture and song. Mr. Jeambey plans on one or mere patriotic .services when our boys and girls in service will have tribute paid them. In tbe.se services their pictures will be projected on the screen and a short history given of their activities. Parents in Henry county who wish their sons and daughters in serv- of are available in ample supplies The reason is sirhple. Alaskan merchants always maintained large stocks because of the uncertainties of shipping and custom of the inhabitants of keeping finite periods tor training new em- Chicago.- Skill? d young men hold-• rig fat ton jobs that have been con-.deled th rabic will be drafted during the next lew- months, and their plans mu,1’ be filled by older men, handicapped mr n or women. Cap! John B. Moi gun, elective service system occupational advisor in Chicago, gave notice to this effect yesterday to 500 department : uper-inten .f Hts and personnel officials of Cook county industries at a war problems luncheon given at the La Salle hotel by the Chicago Association of Comme*rce. Going In Near Future. Yr a are not going to like to hear this." Capt. Morgan said, “but from now on you are going to lose many of your highly skilled machine operators, from about 18 to 28 years old. Seme of these young men are being deferred for as long as one year on your if placement schedules, but whin these schedules are revised you will not retain them. They are going into the services in the very near future." Giaduate engineers, tool makers, Cie makf i s, and other men in highly specialized skills requiring. long apprenticeship will not be taken at this stage, regardless of their age. "I do not think men in these categories will be taken at any time." Capt. Morgan said, ‘because it is a practical imijossibility to replace 1 them." Army training is so strenuous, ire ■ aid, that men over 35 years old "cannot take it." Deferment to Be Difficult. “We must take tile younger men out of the factories,” he declared. “and it is going to be much more difficult for them to get occupational deferments.” He recommended that more employers adopt the Manning table replacement schedule plan, which Axes Gains of About Five Reported Miles in II oi th Africa , cf L eut. ►cond army ive in the today Capsuling ad- i Allied Headqirei let — (INS)— American tro O' n Gcrrgc S. P:ittrn’s rerpr, trek over the off nr rthr rn sector of Tunis Muring strategic hills an vances of re vre I miles I One hill taken was only 29 miles houthwesf of the capital cf Tunisia, j Tile Ini] has rime to be known as the •Verdun cf Tunisia because of the re-, f .stance of the- Germans against i countless attack, by the Biitish first army. Undpr cover of a terrific aitillery b irr ge. the Americans gained approximately five miles over exceedingly d fficult terrain. East cf Medjez el Bab a seven* Nan mech pitted attack broke down in the face ol withering British tire. Germans Cease Assaults In Caucasus Moscow. Rus:la UNS* The Sovi-t high command today announced the cessation of furious assaults against Red ai my positions in the Caucasus by the Germans bled white in a futile halt the Russian threat to the Black Sea naval base of Nov-< mss is k Printing nut that the Nazi army in the Kuban valley had sustained terrific losses over the past several days in unsuccessful attacks, the noon communique desired that, the mauled Hitlerite units refrained from carrying cut operations during the night. Tile toll of German dead was counted in thousands and the Nazis lost rec reg of tanks and airplanes. pantries and larders well filled." An OPA Employe Fender, who lives at 2304 YVt t 120 :: place, Blue Island, is assigned to the regional office of price administration. His survey of wholesale and retail selling margins is being used as a basis for revising price ceilings for Alaska. He said price control is necessary because of the war time expansion of consumer demand and the influx of construction workers and mill ice so nonored will please send photo j tary personnel. o-um." he quoted from the FDA hand- in uniform and history to the local p.ONP' to substitute for draft eligibles. “Too many employers have been asking deferment of all their men,’ he declared. “I've seen young kids just out of school called very essential by their employers. That is not playing the game You must train cider men. and handicapped men, or women, to do these job."." STATE HOSPITAL COW MAKES A RECORD out The chamber howled. _ But the merriment ceased abruptly were graduated I Mt. Union. la. — In the recently as the congressmen referred to pub-Traming c mpleted Stamp and Bond Sale for lashed photographs showing Italian • Onter ten advanced living schools. t Numbered among the new pilots is Lieut. Hebert VV. ( handler {rom Mt Pleasant. IU San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. Tex. — Eager to get behind the controls of a primary trainer for the first time in their roles as aviation cadets, another large class cf Uncle Sam s potential fighters of the air has been advanced Irom the preflight school of the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. The cadets will undergo training in the air at primary, bisie and advanced Hying fields before winning the coveted wings and commissions of flying officers. There advanced from the preflight school included 126 from Iowa including one from Mt. Pleasant. He is: Aviation (.idol Glenn F. Hultqui^t, Rt. 6. Pa Mrs John Sprott received word this week that her son. Frank B. Whitaker has been promoted to the rating of Technical Sergeant. He is still sta-tioned at Fort Richardson. Alaska, where he has been for over two years. He begun his third year of service there on April I. the purpose of buying Jeeps, the first prisoners in North Africa enjoying a and second grades led the whol$ meal which included American grown school. potatoes. r Follows a summary of the results of "Can it be possible that the shortage* each room; I Ar 2 ...............$3,163.60 3 & 4 ................ 62.70 5 & 6 ................ 145.60 7 Ac 8 ................ 648.30 H. S................ 1,394 IO Grand Total ........$5,414 30 This amounts to a sum large enough to purchase 6 Jeeps of Irish potatoes in our markets is due to the generosity shown our enemies ” he asked. “I believe in humane treatment for prisoners, but something must be really wrong when we supply potatoes for our enemies at the expense of our own citizens." pastor and ask for further information. Iowa’s Ration Calendar inspection PREPARE FOR HEARINGS ON FOOD PRODUCTION AFTER THE WAR SAYS NAVY WILL ADMIT SUBMARINE LOSSES _____ j Washington, D. C. (INS*—Chair- Washi ngton. D. C. <INS* —Senator man Fulmer, South Carolina demo-Brewster of Maine. Republican, said erat, disclosed today that the house today he had been informed that the agriculture committee is preparing to navy will admit the truth of the open hearings on post war food prostatement in a senate Truman com- duction problems “so that something mi Hee report that submarine losses can be done by congress this year.” last year were one million tons of Fulmer said his committee’s inves-shipping a month. i ligation independent of the forthcom- Sen. Brewster, a member of the mg international food conference at Truman committee which framed the Hot Springs, W Va., will embrace .such report, said the committee was sur- an element of farm products for in-prised to learn that Sec. Knox labelled dustrial use as well as for food connie committee's estimate as inaocur- sumption. ate. The complete address of Pvt, James E. Pratt, son of James Pratt here, who entered the army on March I. is j as follows: Pvt. James E. Pratt, 82n Ij Inf. Tra. Bn., Co. B, 2nd Platoon,* Camp Roberts, Calif. Bolivian President to Visit U.S. as Guest of Roosevelt “We want to be ready to meet the tremendous postwar problems that will confront the farmers of the country and we want to br* prepared to fill the gigantic demands for food to feed the J - starving peoples overseas,” he said. Washington. D. C. 'INS)—President ------ Enrique Penaranda of Bolivia will vis- CYDCrT SURPRISE it the United States next month as a AflffllTTC WCYT IU! A KI TLI guest of President Roosevelt. The DLAUivUU I o l\ ti A I MUN 1 H state department announcing this, said - the South American executive is ex- Des Moines, la. (INS)—Rodney Q. I ires Class A Ration: Second deadline—Sept. 30. Class B Ration: Second inspection deadline—June 30. Class C Ration or bulk coupons: Second inspection deadline—May 31. Commercial vehicles: Every 60 days or every 5,000 miles, whichever occurs sooner. Gasoline A book coupons No. 5 *4 gals each) expire May 21 Fuel Oil Period 5 coupons <11 gals, each* now valid, expire Sept. 30. < offee Coupon No. 23 <1 lb.) valid April ^6 through May 30. Sugar Coupon No. 12 <5 lbs.) expires May 31 Point Rationing D. E. and F blue stamps (processed foods) valid through April 30. G, H. and J blue stamps valid April 24 through May 31. A. B. C and D red stamps (meats, edible fats, cheese, canned fish), valid through April 30. E red stamp valid April 25 (expiration date not set). Coupon 17 in War Ration Book expires June 15. “Altho price control was imperative I to prevent an inflationary spiral, wide- | spread rationing was not necessary in Alaska,” Fender said. “The pimple there have not been buying extravagantly and have not engaged in any wildfire hoarding as has occurred in the United States. There is plenty oi food and few people are worried about getting a square meal when they can see that the stores are well stocked. Plenty of Candy Bars. "There are many items which Alaskan stores have which you cannot g°t easily in Chicago, such as candy bars, chewing gum. spices, and tea. Fender described the Alaskans as macle at the age of 6 years. 5 months cooperative and war conscious. Coad- when she nroduced 21.462 pounds of a1 towns, because of the threat of milk and 721 pounds of butterfat. Japanese attack, dim-out each even- All her records were made under ing. He said the normal population supervise of th" Iowa State college of 75.000 has been swelled by an un- of Agriculture in cooperation with tile disclosed number of soldiers, sailor.- Holstein-Friesian Association of Am- Brattleboro. Bt. — Mount Pleasant state hospital. Mt. Pleasant, is the owner of a Holstein ccw which has just completed a lifetime production rec-oi d of moi" than 100.000 pounds of rn lk.the Holstein-Friesian Association of America announced .tocla,^ Her name is Mt Pleasant Ona Aaggle, and she is the 668th Holstein in the country to produce more than this amount of milk In six yearly milking periods, ‘ Ona" has produced a total of 110.887 pounds of milk and 3,614 pounds of butterfat. Her highest single record was Nazis Raid England; Russians Pound Town London, England *INS—Nazi 1 aiding I Janes bombed a large town in the English wrest midlands shortly before midnight, the ministry of home security revealed today The extent of damage was not disclosed. Moscow meanwhile announced that 200 Soviet planes lashed at the German industrial city of Interburg in east Prussia Thursday night in the heaviest Russian Mr assault to date en objectives in the Reich The attack lasted for two hours and the entire city was .-aid to have been left in flames. Senate Moves To Settle Dispute and construction laborers. Orders Workers To Return to Jobs erica. Washington. D C (INS*—The senate Truman committee today moved to Fettle the bitter dispute among the government's top production chiefs over the rufcbei and high octane gasoline programs. The senate committee stepped into the controversial picture as high officials swapped charges in apparent '.disregard of the government's position in giving the public the facts. .S* n. Tillman, chairman of the com-I mittee. said an investigation will be iconducted a- quickly as possible to | halt th** quarreling mong government (officials and to give the public facts. Report 3 Reds Executed For Spanish War Work BI ACK MARKET IN gasoline linked with Lewis Defies California murder WLB Authority Washington, D. C. < INS) —President Roosevelt today ordered striking workers in the Celanese plant in New ark, N. J., to return to work by noon Monday or the government will act. Prof. Glockler To Speak At Pleasant Lawn School London — The Vichy radio reported from Barcelona that. three former members of the Communist committee in the Catalonian town of Vichy Selby, executive secretary of the Iowa had been executed after being tried by A. T. Larson, who has reached the 38 year old age limit for armed service. has received his discharge and returned to Mt Pleasant Friday He pccted to arrive here May 5 and to re maln in the capital about four days, civilian defense commission, today a Spanish military court for their ae-1 distinction given only to top-ranking He also will visit war industries in warned Iowans to expect surprise test tivities during the Spanish civil w%r. men in the various scient fie ii I ! raid blackouts beginning next The specific charges against the three Dr. Glockler spoke in Mi. Pleasant st Prof. George Gloeckler of the University of Iowa will give the commencement address at Pleasant Lawn consolidated school ' n May 13. He went to thr Urivenity of Iowa a:, head of the department cf chemistry in September. 1940. and is one of the starred men in American Fe u nco. a I,'-, Angeles, Calif.. UNS' What mav be a Mack market involving millions of gallons of gasoline -purred police in tli° search for the murderer of I John Tudisco, 33 year old Lo." Angeles 11: okmaker. A cache oi 1.333 tolen ga: cline ra-, tiering becks and supplementary gas-ici ne coupons was found in buried oil cans in the man's garage, police said it was pait of the loot stolen from a (latening bo id recently. I Washington. D. C -—'INS* John L. Lewis, president cf United Mine Workers todav defied the authority cf the War Labor Beard and rf fused to ap- i j eat v ag" p tors A New for a hearing into cont * overs v with soft the union coal oper- pokeman fen the irene union in Yolk • id lewis has na plans has been stationed at a camp in Utah. When dismissed, he was directed to either go on a farm, or to work at an Detroit, Mich., and Buffalo. N. Y., and alr ordnance plant. spend a few’ days in New York. month. were not mentioned. I a bond rally a few months aga. Ten More Axis Supply Ships Sunk London. Eng. (JNS)—Ten more aids supply ships including an aimed merchantman have been sunk in the Mediterranean, the British admiralty admitted today. whatever to leave that city today ESTIMATE 11.000 ACRES OUT OF PRODUCTION Council Bluffs, Iowa INS*- One-third rf the 32,000 fores of the P-'tta-vi att amie county farm lands flooded by tire Missouri river will be out of production this year. county extension hi rotor Clifford Johnson estimated today.

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