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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 30, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 30 (Each Stomp, I iv** pounds,) Coffee 23 - Es pf fen May 30. TH IO MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Gasoline 5 F.spirr May 21 I), I.. F, P.lue stamps Expire Apr. 30 V B, C, n. Bed Expire Ap ii 30 I of I Oil 5.....I ntl! 8 pt. 30 VOL. LXXI, No. IOOFRIDAY, APR. 30, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News ) % Behind. " THE By PaulMali-on M f New Gains Made By American Forces Ii i S - BLJ (Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc;., Reproduction In Pull or in Part Strictly Prohibited.) Lewis Spurns Ultimatum of The President They’ll Do It Every Time - - - /"'aw, HAVE a ' \ heact;smelvin-' . thats the last \ j DECK LEFT in J £ / TE AR Ef-GuP' MS JERK HE Y / That's THE £ KTH DECK' \ / / 7 me OUGHT TO PITCH FOG J QiPS P -VECvThing in the same Sot his , ^ I O.USS,AND theyGE A X not Wv3Ctth ^EARING 'S' washington — the ADMINISTRATION had an insid* deal all ct with Uh* Republicans to modify Die Hull reciprocal trade powers in renewing them. Within Uh; House Ways and Means committee. Uh Democ;ala and Republicans got together on an ame ndment whereby Congress would be- allowed to t xe.cL e a veto pow*: over Mr. Hull’s t* within 30 or OO days after de Secretary makes them bill renewing these powers wa brough whooping without any-sn normal Democratic* fitment- Bt ub' it “Want Agreement and Want to Work” \ SPOOK LYN *S HE PLAVIN ’ »— , Sr/// {/ /that fuse fcl/8LOWER A GAME ASCOT JAS SOCIABLE AS A lNNChinG PAj-rrv y ai The thing Re pu i eneg T nr >mi No i re I in ti Mr. Hi vt* the ite and ne tha A ta rift rno- my ian Dim T» * OI use. ital! Mi ur ie He th a try. ed more K>w ors b« New York New York 'INS John L. Lewi president of United Mine worker .today spurned a back-to-work ul» limakum by Pet J dent Roosevelt to in-d cate that he would allow a general w Ik-out in the nations coal mines at midnight tonight. L<wi- after a meeting with the policy c mmdtee of th' Uni’ed Mine work-c rs union did rut reply directly to Prf i lent Ro* «*vf Ifs demand that sinking miner return to th* coil pits at IO OO a. rn fcmiorrow. However, he declared flatly that “we w it ? an agreement—we want to work.*’ Ties meant that the policy committee at a a Wien which lasted sr reel} more than an hour had voted to stand-by • i rad J11 rf ironer ' policy of “no contract, no work w w is. through the policy commit-addressed a long telegram to the f house In the telegram he Search For Missing Youth Score Some Success fn Is Continued jjar,i Fitrhtiny Men Work Up and Down Stream In Boats German Force* In Counter attacks fcTch cont'nued in the Skunk river near L/well today for J. Ned Allison, lying student with the air dotoehmenr at I wa Werlryan, mi.s.slng since the Raining plane in which he and Inductor Porter Alley were flying late Wednesday fell into the river. M‘n in boats worked up and down st t cam with draglines in a search for the body in the river. They almost continuously, one group Allied Headquarters in North Africa <INS»—New gams were recorded for American troops in savage f,gluing f.n the Tunisian hUtlefr nt t:day. although some successes were scored by German forces in counter attacks. On several tenors United D ates ti oops of Lieut General George S. worked. Pa,t°n* Jr s second army corps opened a slashing new drive yesterday which a g up when another had quit. Assisting wbth the work were a few of the soldiers of the Iowa Wesleyan unit hurled the enemy ba'k half a mile. Some of the residents of the vicin- Bitter Fighting ity operated boats from time to time On Tunisian Front I tee w h pal urn rn pair D< moors commit u warfare a reed Eight Ball Teams In Winfield Meet » XU out «**! a; a *» the ! sr v * ba tiff f RIOUS a lid He-resume t After an iburans came would projxisc » only giving A»r but other m s reciprocal from now on ’hat the bifominous coal op- I craters of the country which employ _ j « onh of hi.* union member^ had Tournament NS ill Start at 9:30 County Still Short of Quota PRICES SET ON POULTRY 'wilfully bl eked ig foement ’ the making of an Additional Farm Machines In Iowa a. rn. .May 8 Top Figures Which Producer May C harge Winfield, Iowa -baseball trams will next week end to tart the play-off in th* t;at. sectional inurn -.men; oil 'ss local diamond. The tournament Henry county is still short of the — | t rid quota of $570,000 in the special __ Eight, high st I; cl i April (ii. vc purchases of Saturday, Maximum prices which Henry county come to WmfiGd ; May I. will bo counted in the drive. farmers and other producers may Up until April 20. only 7’3 persons, charge for live poultry were announced had bought bonds rn the county, or today by the district office of price than four pc reel r of the popuia- administration at Moline. 111. to help with the search; county officers, highway patrolmen and others were on the scene at intervals Reports stated that a coast guard unit might come from Burlington to help out. Motorboats wore used along W'ith row boats There were many suggestions dS to where the body might be found. Because the w ater was high and the j curient swift, most persons thought | Allied Headquarters in North Africa — (INS*—Bitter fighting all along the Tunisian battle front raged without I let up today as allied arrives came to grips with axis forces in a series of attacks and counter attacks. New allied gains were reported on separate < sectors while the Germans succeeded will Ie INV AMON VI). A TIU ll Ad mad begin at 9 30 a rn, Saturday, May 8, i lien in I ur fiber, ' 05 kh a t Norwa This w id cly peafed Room veil would be st Vera I I The p W I i i A- ’ V. urn in i Ap! o mu to III front -Oct -lit ary from pub! It ai ii. tnt UUU Hi nim * ait) View A Use i * led, not by hat DIK* Me-sr.' Europe but on ic rial steel allotments for farm pry manufacture are now .begin- a»d the championship game will be ( to show up in Iowa, A J Love- played at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, I I hah USD A War Board chair- ; May ll. announced Thursday More farm A11 ei«ht teams *TU action in iinery especially the labor-saving the ojx*ning round the first day. , is being hipped into Iowa with’ In opening game at 9.30. May 8, increased allotments being passed T)lds niff1 in the form of larger machinery Purchases by a big portion os The maximum price to wholesale! 96 percent will be necessary for broilers, fryers, roasters and light mer ’ regarding lhe acciaen in scoring two slight advantages over the body had drifted tar down stream 1 f rees at two points. Seal en is much more difficult because . f the high water. There is till the possibility that Allison did not drown, but it is believed by most workers at the scene of the accident that he did. Major Allison, father of the missing jouth, telephoned here to make fur- after the parents had been notified. i^ai . me f< are n ur but in obvious way w< Scandii en. an: Iron ore In va tg attempts But Holl t A db CC ack as s**cre?, general, the prospects are too to b f f jf'ts Invasion of Noi-lid break the Nazi hold on iv la. free the pressure of Swed-hmb Na/-i upjch on fb>h and cpi Li in evh Iowa county There is a definite easing up of the tight faim machinery situation.’’ Loveland emphasized, ‘and from now on we cai; * xpeci. n‘ rail.. mort rtju.prnpnt | • we originally »iv impaled." F -/j abl* increases in county machin- PJeasant Lawn. The ther morning game Is at H OO bet we n Npw London and Pissant Plain. In the afternoon at 2 OO Leo-, and Wyman fMav At 3 30, Winfield meets Mount Union. The second round game will be on Monday afternoon, May IO At 3:00 Monday th»- winners of the MEAT POINT VALUES CHANGE Iowa Farm Price Index Unchanged The index of prices received by Iow^i cry quotas have been made by the Old:-Pleasant Lawn and New London Iowa war board for cultuators, com Pleasant Pl.un games will vie for a chance t"- enter the final game. At 4 30 Monday ti e Winn* rs of the W:n- of Dr nmark could hardly be urn.I No-way w.t- cleared. :.d and Belgium o.'frr ho**-routes to the heart of Ger- have atly improved the binal ion stackers and loaders, corn p:linters and sweep rakes, on the basis of heed Following are the figures for machinery chi which quotas were increas- secU°nfd winner here ed; Cultivator increase of many The Na* . _ lOrtds ani concentrated reserves for mf at. shifting greater defensive powers to Combination power hay stackers and any poin* of invasion in those countries, loaders 423; no .original allotment. an ! down the channel coast of France. Corn planters—1,700. increase of 890. Yet we can get air supremacy over Tractor-type sweep rakes--269, in- invasicn po.nts there, and dirrwt in- Cl ease of 170. va hon is possible. Invasion in the soruth aLo has been promised by the authorities. The final acquisition of Tunisia will, of course, give us th* nearest air bases for invasion of Sicily aud Italy But it is apparent, earlier or simultaneous in-v a sin us coud be attempted east of Italy field-Mount Union and Letts-Wyman contests will be on the field. will go to a district tournament the we*k end tractor-mounted —6,490 cf Mav 15 Thr state tournament will j 1,500 over original allot- ** hcld at Manson beginning May 22. Break With French West Indies Leader W infield Soldier Sees President Washington, D C. GNS* Announc-i ing the abrogation of all agreements with Admiral Ge rgis Robert, high commissioner of the French West Indies, secretary of state Cordell Hull today said the American navy will be among on the alert to protect American bi ttie ok if the county is to meet its allotment, capons shall be 27.31 cents pound For Buy b nds Saturday to help Henry heavy capons (over six pounds) the county w ith its quota and to help your top price is 30 81. for old hens. 23.81 country. cents, stags and old roosters. 19.81 ani for all ducks. 25 cents. A wholesaler or ! a trucker may pay no more than this ‘ amount. However, a producer selling in less ^ »han wholesale quantities to a retail farmers April 15. 1943 was unchanged ; store or to a commercial, industrial. fr0m a month earlier according to Les-Complete table of points Is publish- j institutional or governmental user,Director of the Iowa Crop led elsewhere in this issue of The may add IG cents to the above prices. and Livestock Reporting Service. High- j News.) j lf a producer sells at retail, his ceil- er grain and cattle prices were offset ing price is the figure obtained by add- by declines in the prices of hogs. ling IG cents to the pi.ee shown In the calves and eggs to hold the index ai j schedule above and multiplying the 195 percent of the August 1909 - July total so obtained by I 2. As an example, 1914 base period. This figure reflects the price of broilers is 27-31 cents. Add a rise of 12 percent Irom the Iowa the IG cents making a total of 28 81 farm price level of April 15. 1942. I cents and multiply this figure by 1.2 Cattle prices at $14.20 per hundred I which gives 34.57 cents, the amount a pounds were the highest on record producer may charge when selling ai Average milk cow prices also topped letail. previous records at $120.00 per head Violations should be reported to the Oats and flaxseed at 60 cents and local rationing office. $2.97 per bushel, respectively,* were - --- priced higher than anytime since 1920 Average Prices Received By Iowa Farmers for Farm Products 5-Yr. Ave. Aug. ‘09 Mar. 15 Ap. 15 Washington, D C GNS*-The office of pri'c administration today made publi? the meat rationing ‘point table’’] J for May. announcing a one-point in- I crease in the values of many round j steaks and r©-sis, a light reducticn in! variety meats and cuts and in some canned fish. Heavy German Assaults Near Rostov Moscow. Russia (INS* — Increasingly heavy German assaults at the lower end of the southern front west of Rostov were reported today by the Soviet high command which declared that Soviet forces successfully beat off the attacks and inflicted a high toll of casualties on the Nazis. Two Wills Are Admitted Here MRS. KERMEEN NAMED LOCAL RECRUITER FOR WAVES AND SPARS Private Maurice Swan was the soldiers stationed at Lowery Field, ten sis in the French Caribbean area, through Sardinia, against the southern Denver, Colorado, who stood in review Hull announced that the United coost of France—or from Tripoli ani while President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roose- States has abrogated all of its agree- Bengasi bases into Adria tic. Greece and the AI LII «) DOMIN NM I of th* iii I what has made all observers so confident of swift final .success in Tunisia. The Americans and British practically rule the air. As Hitler has been unable to match them up to now', there is hardly c Chance that, he can do so hereafter, in view of the limited number, and tightly 1 pn i(,^*n<'f -pressed position of the few airfields he theorf ticall' controls around Tunis and Bizes te. Americans are fighting in the toughen terrain in the North, unable to use armor because of the mountains. If we get Mat ear. however, we might, take Bi/f'Tte directly. But the two easier key entrances to both Tunh and Bizerte lie at Font Du Fa ha and Tebourba. velt and General Arnold visited their merits with Admiral Robert because the training camp recently. They stood in latter insists on considering himself ranks for four hours before the dis- a representative of the Vichy govern-tingiiished guests made their appear- ment of France and refuses to ccop-ance. crate with the United Nations in the - ’ war effort to liberate his own country. ATTEND FEDERATED , club convention New Lund lo Aid The navy recruiter from Burlington ! day *nnounced that Mrs. Phil Kerman has been appointed chairman of The American Legion Auxiliary Com-nuttee sponsoring enlistments in the WA VIS and SPARS. Women between toe ages of 20 to 25 years old are invited to call Mrs Kermeen. the telephone number is 508 Black. Many women are now much money in the WAVES SPARS as they did in They enlist af $50.00 a month. In addition, all living expenses are pod. including gCod food, comfortable quarters, the finest, medical and dental care and $200.00 worth of clothing—all free. “Dirty Work at The C rossroads The Iowa Wesleyan players are giving a pl ay tonight at the College Chap-\ el. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads.” j lr is an old fashioned melodrama of the Cav Nineties period and is under the direction of Dr. Waldo Braden. The prcg-am is going to be given some Corn Wheat Oats Barley Rye Soybeans Flaxseed Hogs Unit July ’14 1943 Bu. $ .52 $ .87 .85 .34 63 .67 Bu Bu Bu Bu Bu BU Cwt With Farm Labor Mesdames I T Nelson. D. S. Staebler. M F Hendricks, Cha.**. ___ Swan, Stanley B. Niles. Hattie B. Washington. D. C. (INS)—President Leach, Fred G Gilyeart, Helen Virden. Roosevelt today signed a bill appropri-B. B. Dohrman, C. J. Reinhart. Misses ating $26,103,000 to aid in supplying S grid Stark ani Gra^e Roberts attend agricultural labor despite pleas by the cd the Henry County Federation of CIO and farm “liberals” that he veto Women’s Clubs Annual Convention in the measure. the Methodist Church at Winfield, The bill provides funds for machin- Thur. day afternoon. ery to be .et up by food production Mrs. W J Grimmer of Winfield was administrator Chester C. Davis to meet re-elected County Chairman and Mrs. the farm labor shortage earning as, anfj I like a Gay Nineties party and civilian jobs. j °‘her are °" ,he pr°8ram ■*' Bf cattle Cwi apprentice seamen at -*c*es Pl’1^ VI Calves Cwt, Sheep Cwt. Lambs Cwt. M Cows Head Horses Head Mules Head Chickens Lb. Eggs Doz. Butterfat Lb. Milk i Wholesale) Cwt. Wool VELJOCSIK-KESTER WEDDING AT KAHOKA Two Placed On School Committee Des Moines, Iowa (INS) — Appointment of the house of representa tives to the school code revision corn-jmittee by the speaker of the house. Winfield- Frances Veljacsik beearn- j Henry Burma of Allison, was an- the bride of Kenneth Rester on April pounced today by the governor’s of- Hay. All Lb, 1.64 7 30 6.00 6.50 4 40 5.90 52.00 162 00 .IOO .193 .26 1.53 .19 . 1.26 .57 .72 .72 I 61 2.74 14 70 1380 14 40 7.50 1450 119 00 95.00 107 OO .210 .331 .52 2.50 42 Once the British and French crack Ja>' Ow*y was elected County Vice- these, the Germans should be sunk. If chairman. ______ ___ they can press on through these two points to Tunis, they will ea^e the task to hinder such an operation. of the right flank of the eighth British Methods of attack used t* the allies, army in the mountains to the east and however, suggest that the tightening even turn northward and take Bizerte norse Is boing pressed equally in reverse before we can get there the from all sides, shorter, harder way. TIII* ONLY CURRENT Most Bizerte fortifications face th USE OF C.C.C. BUILDING UP FOR DISCUSSION i 17 at tin Method! t church at Kahoka. Missouri. The Rev Mr. Monroe read the marriage ceremony. The attendants were Maline Sins-h'Tm. a sister of the groom, and Fred Hontz. a friend of the bride and tile groom. The bride wore a brown suit with light blue accessories. Tile groom also wore a brown suit. Mrs. Rester is employed at the Iowa Ordnance Plant Mr. Rester has re- Ton 10.00 1040 1943 $ .92 1.25 .60 .74 .75 I 61 297 14 40 14 20 14 20 7.40 14.60 120.00 98.00 108.00 .213 .325 .52 2.50 .41 10.50 Sarah Fllen Cone by the terms of her will admitted to probate at th*' courthouse today left half of her estate to her relatives and half to the relatives of her late husband. Beneficiaries include Wade Cone. Carrie Hawes, May Gamble. Edna Weller Bertha J. Williams, Leslie Cone. Lena Pousch, Edson E . J B , F G . and C. Gilyeart, heirs of Betta Chilson. Lena Swards, and Mrs. Lizzie Schenk. The will was made Apr I 29, 1940, and was witnessed by Lucile Reinhart and Clifford M Vance. In a codicil of Dec. 15, 1942, she directed that any Inheritance she received from the estate of her deceased brother-in-law should go to the Gilyeart relat ves and that Bertha J Williams short should go to Edna Weller since Bertha J Williams had died since the will was drawn. C. M Vance was named executor of th** will. Ralph Rulings left his estate to h s wife and she was named executrix The will was drawn Feb. 16. 1929. and was witnessed by A. M. Van AJlen and Margaret Lynchard. RECEIVES REPORT ABOUT EDWARD BEACH (ice , ' brose Those appointed were Rep A. LG Doud, Jr., of Douds and B. S. Moyle of Maquoketa, both republicans. ----- By Turkish Governmen 22 Airmen Released BABY STRANGLED BY STRAP IN CHAIR John Beach received the following telegram today: “Your son. Private First Class Edward H Beach reported a prisoner of war of the German government. Lefter of information follows from Provost Marshal General Signed, Th*' Adjutant General." This confirms the radio broadcasts regarding Edward received a few' week-ago. New London— Members cf the Cham- j hard be- of Commerce met at the electric light office Monday evening to discuss PREDICT- the gift of a CCC camp building to the THIN on the end of the war is being town for recreational purposes. After But the French (before the Nag's circulated by the financial ^eer. Roger ncetirg more than an hour discussing Shook today on an intoxication charge sand Babson, who thinks it will last until proposed plans, they voted to await Five dollars of the fine was suspended successfully with an inhaler to try action by the American Legion. on good behaviour. to revive the child. Clinton. Iowa (INS*—Two-year old Michael Kier was killed accidentally Wived an honorable discharge from J today, .strangled by the strap of his the U. S. Army. j high-chalr. I The child slipped partially out of Fined On Charge the hteh-chair and became entangled Stare Carpenter was fined $10 and in the strap and strangled befoie he in the court of Mayor H. L. could be released by his mother Doctors and city firemen worked un- London, England — GNS*— Sixteen American airmen and six British fliers who had been interned when their cr ft alighted on Turkish soil left 52 POUNDS OF WOOL FROM ONE SHEEP : A’ kara at midnight for Cairo after j their release by the Turkish govern-!nr“t. Reuter's news service reported odav. came) also erected a fortified dune line on hills southeast of the city after the elections in 1944 Deed Given N f W London Journal—doe Colton, sheep shearer, cl ppod the wool off a Delano at the Joe Edgar farm which set a record in irs many years of shearing. The delanc, which Is a show animal, produced T2 pounds of wool. Clipping from several others in the herd tipped the scales at 42 pounds, Th‘s one delano wi’l produce wool for Francis and Rachel Fallon have giv-! many suits cf clothes Mr, Edgar has en a deed to Glenn H. and Mary' M fcr many years exhibited his sheep it Freeman for a New London property, county and state la ifs

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