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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 27, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch. 16-May 31 (Each stamp, Five pounds) Coffee 26 - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stamp, I pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS V XI ID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil I - - - I ntil Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Gasoline r> - Mar. 22-May 21 VOL. LXXI, No. 97TI ESD AV, APR. 27, 1943 MT. PLEASANT* IOWA News the By Paul Mallon 3^ (Distributed by King Features* Syndicate, Inc Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) Indications Point To Miners’ Walkout Battle Rages In Tunisia Allied Forces Drive Steadily Forward Allied Headquarters in North Africa WASHINGTON—*! HBI.It MAREK f JI;FFF KB* ‘rap with Elater Davis’( owl was ju t the usual government* hair-pulling over details, but his row with War Ut! er-Secretary Patterson ‘INS) Fighting of -unabated ferocity” raged throughout the hilLs and valleys of Tunisia today as allied forces drove steadily eastward on the road leading to 'he capital city of Tunis. .Supported by American troops rn from fron’ Jine positions and strategic lifters’ department ami gave them so iv-mts. General Sir Harold R L O challenge the ful- Alexander, rammed a spearhead of the will bf costly to American motorists in both gasoline and rubber. Tile Jeffers-Davis controversy develop-d when one of Mr, Dave-' brigh’ young men concocted a Sunray feature on the basis of old figure* They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Seems uke only A FEW MONTHS ago, little IODINE DIDN'T EAT ENOUGH To KEEP A CORPUSCLE ALIVE IODINE, YOU HAVENT TOUCHED YOUR DINNER. HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO GROW UP PRETTV LlkE SHALIMAR SHULTZ NEXT DOOR, IF VOU^ DON'T EAT 7/%%/ SHE MOST BE SlCk. I'M GOING' TO TARE HER TO DQ.EPSOM AGAIN* black a fillment pi fig ram. All exc mot e or I out Thi. essen Tai if the wdKJle the Jeffers rubber t k. mt Mr get \vn ’ 1944, wa non nee n calif J U fore the fact ere. Mr, Jeffer cal publicity men? censors gram can st mantis is sti The army inctea line but fo: established •pt one oi the facts were straight in the OWI hand-one. .suggesting that even motorists will br* unable to ie!ic tires before September, led out of the OW! ansu i en the mistake was Davis' attention, and beware printed in the pap- British I t army three miles to the <as~t on both -ides of Lake* Kourzian to come within striking distance of the vital Pont Du Fahs and Tunis road. Af the ^ame *ime, infantry troop farther to the north pressed axis forces back to a point within eight miles of T ebourba 3ur now that food is rationed, the LITTLE DE AC HAS AN APPETITE LICE A SIX-SHOWS-A-day CHORUS CIRL- TAoav* TXT J EAM BCOWW, CEDAR RAPIDS, TA Iodine !!) 40 < POINTS 1 ) Action Shifts On Russian Front > could survive this mu-from the official govem-», but whether his full pro-i vive Mr Patterson > dell a question, and navy are submitting Hunt Hammer Man In Chicago Area Attacks Ten Women and Girls and Small Roy Coal Strike May Be Called Only President’s Intervention May Stop Walkout Chicago, Illinois, UNS) A sleek-i aired hammer man who terrorized Chicago's northwest side by attacking ten women and girls and a small ooy with a claw-hammer and knife, inflicting minor injuries to four, was hunted by police today. The police squads, with orders not oufjawing to take any chances with the terrorist, were dispatched to the area. _ The hammer man first attacked two sisters, Claudia DAngelo. 15, and her Washington. D C UNS) Every insister. Mary, 12, who ushered him into dication in Washington today pointed their home when he inquired for a tcwaid a nation-wide coni strike with- room Drawing a hammer from his ,n the next 72 hours. Washington, D C TN3> With thn nation facing a disastrous coal strike. Senator Tom Connally, Texas democrat, today announced that he will ask the senate Thursday to enact a bill all strikes. He predicted its adoption. zippered tan coat, he struck both girls on the head and fled. Heavy Rains Fall During Night demands I >r fuel Oil. civilian lot only for and dwuptin programs Ii With end. Ttie probably v sacrificing and valve-synthetic military ii line. Much of Moscow, Russia (NS* Action on the extensive Russian front shifted today from the far south to the Lake Ilmen and Volkhov river sectors in the northwest where bitter engagements resulted from fresh Nazi attacks en Soviet positions. Tile Soviet high command reported in its noon communique that several doz' n more of Germans had been kill-.! be ' tied by Mr Jeffers cd when they attempted to approach Most of Henry county was soaked in i portion of the machinery Red army defenses. a series of downpours Monday night; Farber it had bern disclosed that’which caused streams to rise rapidly “numerically superior” Nazi forces including a rather spectacular rise in brok- into a Soviet held inhabited Ic- the water level of Skunk river, cality in the northwest but this enemy infantry charge was flung back bv a Achievement Day Program Former Milliner Dies at Memphis the the Palter vin-Jeffers argument which were to be used in ubber production, for the -odnotion of airplane gaso- Sharp Electrical Storm The Downpours Miss Lena Grant Was Residing With Niece Jeffers program wii no doubt survive. In fact. ii must survive not only as a civilian requirement, but as a military necessity, because it is just aa important that workers get to the factories to build planes a* it is for the army hi obtain gasoline to fly them No lea-, an authority than OWI substantiate.' th! opinion rn another Sun day feature round-up on transportation. saying: “It is rn the ffc-H of local transportation and from their jobs....that the most serious war-ation ex. • x x x x by the end of 1943. Russian counter attack Almost an entire German battalion was annihilat'd, Die high command said. Wednesday, April 28 10:39—Parade ot .schools, bando, i Iowa Wesleyan air detach-1 ment unit, etc., through business district. 12:00—Free drinks to those eating lunch in Central Park. 12:15—School officials’ luncheon with Dr. Earl Harper. I :()0—F’ree movies for children at each of the theaters. 2:00—Address by Dr. Earl Harper of the University of Iowa F ine Arts department in|Pieasant f0r burial Funera Central Park. R.A.F. Bombers On Way To France London, England <INS>—RAF bomb The intermittent hart .shown accumulated a total of 1.8 inches in M' Pleasant, the weather gauge at. the state hospital showed. In other parts! Ihroughout th** Day Exhibits of the county, tile rainfall was ade- of school work in merchants quate but probably not quite as heavy as in MI. Pleasant A sharp electrical storm, or rather £, series of them, accompanied the rain. At the Guy Anderson place near windows and in basement of courthouse. ens dr ned acros he English channel Winfield, a brooder house was struck toward France today in continuation of , ar‘b destroyed round-the-clock aerial assault which Pastures and meadow.* should b .mw (hr Nazi industrial city oi DUIS-,8rraUy improved by th'’ rau! Bccent yetting American workers ’> battered last nigh- rn one of the <*ry weather had been holding them heaviest raids ever made against the back »»» teed*rs to cut int0 hue passenger transport- .their supply of dry feed for livestock. Th* fighter escorted bomber forma-- ~ “ about four tim*- mon* Anv-ru'ai-> will f,0, flpw over (hf, English coast early Hj|a|*jo|K FVomniTS be going to work every day as can be afqernoon apparently bound for ® carried at any,'me time in all avail- Nazi occupied France, able public vehicles.’ Last night s attack rn Duisburg. No stronger demand for gasoline and bomb-battered industrial city in the, tubber for civilians has been made bean of the German Rhinel-tnd was Gay Nineties Party I Melodrama County Retail Sales Gained Word was received this morning of the death of Miss Lena Grant, 89. who died at the home of her niece, Mrs Olive Leedham Hibbitt, at Mem phi Mo. The body will be bi ought to ML I service will be held at the crane funeral home at 1:30 p m. Thursday. Miss Grant was a resident of MI. Pleasant for many years. She operated a millinery* stole on the west side of the square and will be remembered toy many persons. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. She is the last member of her immediate family. It was believed that only direct intel ventirn by President Roosevelt could prevent a walk-out which not only would throw* 450.one soft roal miners into idleness but automatically force eveiv steel mill and munitions plant in the country’ to shut down. - The War Labor Board, meanwhile, W PP Chairman F irst to Testify awaited the outcome of a meeting of the policy committee of John L. Lewis’ Says Gas Need Under-Estimated Before Committee United Mine workers union in New Yolk during the day before “cracking down” on the mine! s. The board apparently fearing to thieaten drastic action sent a telegram to Lewis and district presidents of the United Mine workers asking them to put a halt to the strike now breaking out in the coal fields because of the refusal of soft coal operators to meet Lewis' demands for a $2.00 a day W’age increase. Exceeded 1941, Comparisons With Other Counties Kiwanians and Wives Hear Talk on Birds At College Chapel even bv Mr. Jeffers. described by air ministry officials as SO ALSO WITH FI LL OIL. which on( of the heaviest assaults ever to Is no? a pait of the present contin- yie Reich. ver.sy, The bombardment by an estimated Transportation Director Eastman fcrcp between 300 and 400 of the has announced next winter the eastern heaviest planes in the RAF arsenal seaboard will be getting 1,600,000 bai:- was mad(> in “great strength,” a cornels of oil a day through new pipe lines mur jqUP said. and otherwise. This would be enough ______ to permit abandonment of rationing, p Affarlec but the army and navy are supposed ixeucw /ai lac na to be taking heavy quantities from the Against Kiska eastern seaboard supply. Stocks here are much lower. Soon the armed cervices will demand one-third to one-fourth of all To Be Presented Hilarious evenings may be expected by Mt Pleasant folks Friday and Saturday evening as Dr. Waldo Braden', troop of thespians throw a “Gay Nineties Party*’ at the college chapel. A three act melodrama .such as thrilled theater goers In the Gay Nineties era will be presented on these two eve nings. Advance information indicates that Breaking the play “Dirty Work at the Cross- Washington. D. C. GNS) a lull in America's north Pacific air! roads” is a real thriller and boasts one chat the offensive the navy today reported that 0f the most villainous villains ever .. army planes blasted Jap positions on' seen on the Mt Pleasant stage. Rum- eastern 'a joar !jmjlar conflict of Kiska 13 times on APril 25th and hit! or has it that Dick Buxton has so en Attu once despite continued bad tered into the spirit of his villainous weather. I role that it is feared his character may Poor visibility prevented observa-1 t,e permanently warped. It is expected lion of results in the Kiska attacks. J ^at a large audience will be present - i to hiss the villain as he makes his MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NOTES I nefarious plots and cheer the hand- Henry county’s retail sales in the first three quarters of last year exceeded those of a year ago by a considerable margin. Starting off with a big gain in the first quarter, the ales held up sufficiently to total sev-ral hundred thousand dollars more han in 1941. However, while the first and second quarters showed gains >vcr similar pf nods in 1941. a decline ollowed in the third quarter of 1942. The county's comparative sales in he first three quarters of 1942 with leighboring counties is of interest also: Henry ......................$4,258,100 Jefferson ................... 3.626,450 Washing! :n ............... 5,244.950 Appanoose .................. 3,997.600 Lee .........................11.083,200 Des Moines .................16,162,710 Kiwanians and their wives enjoyed a covered dish supper and a t ilk by T. E. Musselman of Quincy, III., at the meeting of the club Monday evening at the Harlan bal. An abundance of food was provided by the wives and after the supper, Ben Washington. D. C. (INS* Donald M. Ne.s n, chairman of the War Pro duction B >ard, flatly charged ' today that the war department under-estimated the amount of octane gasoline needed to carry on the war against the axis. Testifying before the senate Truman committee, the production chieftain vigorously delended WTB allocation of critical materials and flayed Under-j ______ Secretary of War Patterson and Sec-j rotary cf Interior Icker for precipiU- J Harlan, Kentucky. (INS> — An esti- ting a controversy over rile octane gas- mated 4.200 coal miners employed at dine and rubber programs. |H Harlan county mines were out on Nelson wee the first witness as the strike today as walk-outs spread in Truman group opened its investiga-] advance of the Friday expiration of Hon into the bitter conflict among {the miners current contract, the government’s top ranking produc- ton chiefs over the rubber-octane gas ' Des Moines, Iowa* LN8>—All Iowa and escort ship pr. grams. miners were at work today so far as --had been reported to the Iowa coal operators association headquarters in Des Moines. Iowa operators and miners this month reached an agreement for extension of last year's contract pending outcome of the negotiations in the East, with the wage scale greed upon to be retroactive to April 1st. Air Attacks Against U.S.Called Remote Washington. D. C, (INS) — Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that German and Japanese air attacks against America's Atlantic and Pacific coasts are “possibilities" bu* • are very remote. This comment came from the secretary in response to questions as to whether the Japanese could attack America's northwest Pacific coast if and when they complete construction N»lr. flrst American three-star gen- Of their air base on Kiska in the <’«' "a wounded to this war. was McNair Anxious To Get Sack To Battle Front Allied Headquarters in North Africa (INS* - Lieut. General Lesley J Mo lesting comfoitably today in an army evacuation hospital and wa> anxious Galer led the singing cf songs. C. A Morgan, president, announced that a J western Aleut ians, joint meeting with the Burlington i “There is always a chance of a club would be held lari- in May and nuisance raid,” Knox said. “Even the ° >a( to ‘lf ro^ ls con James O'Connor welcomed C. A. Sharer Germans may make a suicide raid but tl0n was reI)OIt( sa is ac ory. as a new member of the club. (that is highly unlikely and should in- n_i>r._TlcI mj|Vr*n f\%S Supt. c. A. Cottrell introduced Mr. volve no military danger. REPORTS MIXED ON Musselman, who gave a highly enter-! -------- taming talk on birds. Recognized as one pjpGij.^ I »*» ^ 11111 i* of the outstanding authorities of the I lUllilvO III V'Ultll country on birds, he told inter sting J Jit RntBTV stories about them and some of his OllUvvll Cat I VIJ ICI! J personal observations. Thus you have a expectations between government departments as to what the civilian will get. Piece-meal government publicity-—and even the slanted OWI roundup material---merely adds to public confusion. Personally* it now appears to me that my recent officially-inspired a- TWO SMALL CAMPS FOR C.O.’S IN IOWA of the classic thrills of the old time melodrama. The hero and heroine are-] Maynard Whaley was admitted to- some hero and glamorous heroine I The author of this riotous farce has hopes that fuel oil rationing would be M,s- Mmtus ®mUh “J*1 Mas,er Le0 P’^ed into one three-act play most p .a. Woodford were dismissed, abandoned were over-optimistic, ai- _______ though the situation will no doubt chan--c three or four times before snow press plant is merely a national gov-!at the mercy of the villain through eminent edition of the famous leftist much of the play, but virtue emerges NO W AY EVER HAS BEEN FOUND journal PM in New York. | triumphantly in the final act and th* to make a government publicity de- Many employees of that unpreced- | horrible end of the villain proves again partment haimonious and efficient, en ted newspaper are still working un- that crime does not pay. Mr Davis came in here with a reput- der Mr. Davis as top-ranking division | The play is being presented on twc atlon ' for commonsense. His radio heads. Mr. Davis now finds himself de- successive evenings in order to enable broadcasts indicated he was not wedd- fending acts of his bureau which he the townspeople to attend on Friday cd to any particular ideologies. At the would caustically denounce if he were evening and The soldiers and other outset, it appeared he, had a better still an impartial radio commentator, students Saturday evening. A housecleaning in OWI and a clear- -- Ames. low * i INS'—Two small camps or conscientious objectors have been st abashed in I wa to assist the food production program in the state. Iowa State college authorities announced cday. Tho camps are being established at Ames and Crystal Lake. The conscientious objectors will per-orm work in connection with produc-ion of hybrid corn and soy bern seed ceding piss and milking cows at the \mes camp and will work with vege-able crops at Crystal Lake, it was fated. HOME FROM ARMY; SUFFERS AN INJURY STILWELL CAPTURE As he talked, he mentioned that on London. England <ENS' - The Nazi operated Paris radio, I’self, confused ; or deliberately attempting to spread unfounded rumor, reported today that I he program at Rotary Monday eve- Amerjcan ueUL General Joseph W Monday alone he had banded IOO blue- ning was the .showing of interesting g^jwejj chief of staff to GeneraliSvSi- birds taken from traps he has installed kcdachrome slides taken in August last mo chiang Kai-Shek, had been cap- in the vicinity of Quincy. ' year by Lyle Shellabarger and Mrs. bv thp japanese. --------- | shell abarger. British wrar office yesterday an- I ne I uded were pictures of the Bad rmmcpd that Major General S. W. Lands of the Dakotas and many oi e(jjwpd general officer commanding the famous scenic spots in Yellowstone British forces in Java had been taken park The showing was made doubl * prfs0ner. Grand Jury In Session Today Grand jurors for the April court interesting by the descriptive talk by term organized this morning and prob- Mr. Shellabarger while the pictures ably would conclude their w’ork this were on the screen, afternoon. Members of the jury art* Several of the l eal Rotarians are Mildred Mathews, foreman, Loren E. eligible to attend the meeting of the Dusenberry, William Kilbourn, John twenty-year members at. the Cedar DENY LOSS OF U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER Washington, D. C The navy Mon- chance to do a straight-forward reporting job than any of the others. But evidence developed by congressional committees show’s his organization is permeated with many left- tog cr the confused ,atmosphere. over ^merjcan Bombers the gas and rubber programs, thers- fore, seem on the way. The govei a- Attack Unemy Airdrome ment publicity may not be much wingers and ideologist promoters in better after the reorganization, but it fition Qf hpavy American bombers car- key positions as well as good news- will at least be different and certain y a iieaVy daylight attack papermen. The Dies committee has less leftist and less political. against the enemy airdrome at Bari found a 24-year-old man in charge of The gas and rubbei clearances ap ^ Adriatic coast of southern Italy, language newspapers in this pear likely to leave the motorist an ^ communique fr Wayland— Alvin Wenger, recently eturned from army training decided o keep fit by going to the timber to lay in a plentiful supply of firew’ood, missed his mark and cut an ugly gash Cairo, Egypt (INS*—A large form-jib his foot He Is going about with a cane and is now on the disabled list B Martin. Walter Scarff. S. P. Shore Rapids convention to be held within a day denied that the United States ab and Fled Stuckerjuergen. WITH OUR BOYS IN THE SERVICE Lt. Paul Rasmus wlv h been horn* on a furlough for IO days left Friday He was transferred from Carl bad. New Mexico, to Avon P.u*k, Florida * I rn Pvt Delbert Flayh uty who wa home on a furlough left tost week for camp Aberdeen. Maryland. ff>w weeks. They are J. P Budd**, R K. Crane, F. M Edwar is, V. D Morris, W. A. Sternberg, J R Weir, J S I twson, H. T. Waugh and F B. Crane First meeting of the club here war, January 24. 1921 Guests were Rev. Rn.' ell T. Raunchier and Mr. Howard Winder, reporter | for Judge P. H, M' Coid. DEATH TAKES FORMER STATE P.E.O. PRESIDENT Warren Kendig Rogers* Jr.. S. 2-has been transferred from Camp Perry, Deed Recorded Williamsburg, Virginia, to Camp Endi A deed transferring ownership of I cott. Davisville, R. I His ad I refs i !the former bank building at Swedes-1 Warren Kendig Rogers. S 2-c, IS craft carrier R anger had been torpedoed and sunk in th® north Atlantic, as rep' rted by the Berlin radio. “Neither the Ranger nor any other U. S carrier has been sunk or damaged in any ocean,” a navy official said. ‘Dream Will* Admitted The “dream w ill” in the Denis Coon-cy rs'ate was admitted to probate in court hert* Monday The will, which In-VI Ives the former (XLaughlin farm ay R rn'*, was admitted to probate in Chi-cp“o recently after Cooney’s wife had treated the will following a dream, she said. foreign language newspapers in tins pear imcijr i»j wv _ a communique from middle-cast head- country who reads no foreign language. home heater with less in the way o quarters said today. Jbtirg from Herman E. Elgar, trustee,* Battalion, U. S. N. R„ Company A. ria The current newspaper curbstone gas, tires, and fuel than he had reason Direcl hits werp scored on all hang._ * tQ WaIte_ s Lund and wifp was re. | toon 2. Camp Endicott, Davisv lh.| was de ,:caf*.4 in her honor at the P F cm:'* to Alaska where he Alii be em- Marshalltown, iowa-Mrs. C. F Moffat, wife of the M & St L. agent her' and the only woman in the P. E. O _ sisterhood to serve as president of two TAI! state sisterhoods, Iowa and Minnesota, DOCS IO Alaska died here Sundry. In 1938, a mirror Wirf eld. Iowa An iy Schmidt ha.^ joke in Washington holds (with some to expect, but probably enough to g*.t ^ ancj on administration buildings. over emphasis, no doubt) that the OWI along bv pinching. corded at the courthouse here today. Rhode Island. O. memorial library at Mt. Pleasant, la. ployed on construction work.

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