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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 2, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 13 - Through August 15. Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. 21 Fuel OII 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS vol.. I.XXI, No. 178MONDAY. Al (U ST 2. 1913 VALID RATION STAMPS N. P. Q blue stamps expire Aug 7 R, S, T Blue Stamps expire Sent. 7 T. U, Red stamps expire August SI Shoe Stamp 18 expires Oct. 31 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA War Far Away In Hawaii Honolulu. July War clouds continue to dim Hawaii’s nightlife, but, Otherwise, the territorial islands seem as far removed from the world conflict today as New York or San Francisco. People of Honolulu by no means f _ have forgotten Pearl Harbor and the Officers Arrest fact that their city at the outset ol the war was a fighting front. Eighteen months later they appear nonchalant and show no more anxiety over the possibility of a future enemy air raid than doe., the citizenry of the mainland shore lines. Few civilians here believe that Ja- Full Scale Drive Against Trapped Nazis «*■ New London Boys Accused of Break-In Two Saturday Night Two New London boys are being held in the county jail pending a hearing In juvenile cour in connection with a brcak-m at New London last Thursday night The boys, Robert Nees, pan can carry out another “blitz.' The 15. and Atlee Alton, 14, have conic seel vast military Suring. preparedness is reas- Still Looks Peaceful Presence of the armed force. also is breaking into Burke s Beer tavern and taking $9 in cash, officer aid. Sherrif Manning Cline, Deputy Warren Allen and Marshal Earl Drewer the boys They’ll Do It Every Time - the only sulking pro.! that Hawaii i• J'»f * up the boys Satuiday nig it frontier against Ja- after receiving a tip regarding the The place still has identity of the persons involved in the ol » jreaceful theft. After some questioning Nees, the first arrested, told of the break in Americas main pa nest aggression much the appearance tourists mecca. Its botels, however, no longer are Alton also told of hts part -in the theft with lull pocketed vacationists The boys have been questioned also filled and honeymooners. The war-time malihim. as local residents insist upon cath rig their visitors, are soldiers, sailors and marines. Social life is curtailed by the IO p rn curfew unposed by the military governin' nt. Honolulu is shrouded in stygian blackout alter sundown, and by IO o clock ail persons except the few with special permits must be off the streets. Very Little Night IJfe Enlisted personnel of the armed forte must return to their barrack.* and ship between the .hour., of 6 o -clock and IO. Parties for civilians that extend pa t the curfew deadline arc most likelv to continue all in connection writ a break-in at the Ballard cafe last Tuesday nigh* Nothing was missing at Ballard s. Alton s father died Thursday and was buried Saturday afternoon. Hi:* mother (Led about two months ago. C.A.P. Members Attend Meeting Aged President of China Dies Ch inn g Indorsed As President Acting Chungking, China —‘Monday-*AP) - China’s aged president. Lin Sen, died Sunday after a long illness. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek was formally indorsed as acting president. Venerable. dignified 76-year-old President Lin Sen. popularly known a., “The Grand Old Man of China”, had been stricken with ilMnees tor many weeks. President Lin suffered a stroke on May 12 while motoring from his official residence to the national government headquarters, where he was to receive the first Canadian Minister I to China J The president for 20 years had been! one of China’s most astute statesmen. j Quiet and unassuming and not often Allies Score New Advance In Sicily British Launch Attack Catania On Allied Headquarters in North Africa — <INSi—Allied forces on the Island of Sicily cpened a full-scale offensive against German troops trapped in the Messina corner today and chalked up immediate successes with American units capturing the vital towns of San Stef,mo and Mistretta and seizing 10,-000 additional prisoners Under orders from General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to "get on with the job” the British 8th army launched its attack against Catania .. . _ while the Americans opened up along in the public eye, President Lin, was 1 , , , t the northern coast and pushed rap- Local Civil Air Patrol member attended a joint meeting with the Burlington squadron at Columbus Junction Sunday. Meeting of this type are being encouraged in order to give members who do not have planes an night behind opportunity to pilot or take rides and ‘Armed Camp’ In Harlem After Riot Tires Stolen at New London Station Nine Section Hands Killed having crisis t0 the east aft,er shattering main axis defense positions. An official communique reported stiff resistance and heavy axis counter attacks in all sectors but allied troops cor erywhere. $150 In Money And C hecks In eluded In Loot nevertheless credited with helped solve the political which might have changed the course cl history in China. Lin has served as president of China for eleven unbroken years. A widow- . ... troops continued to push forward ev er of long standing he has no chil-1 ^ F dren. His principal “family’ respon- _ sibility ha.- been a number of young} scientists and scholars whom h** has Comment th* drawn shades of the host s Testdrive, but instances of the- kind are unusual The town’s nightlife is lived during daylight and very shortly .thereafter. Nearly all of the swanky hot spots aie collecting cob-webs after nightfall The blackout-curfew imp- ted through martial law', is maintained as an extra precaution against attack Military officials claim that the curlew also enables them to keep down the pos ibiiity ol sabotage, Barbed Wire on Brache* Beaches surrounding the island of Oahu and fringing fhe city of Honolulu, still are sandy and white- and combed by the blue white-capped surf, but war has left its imprint even there get the feel of planes. Two local member.,, Charles Jennings and Sills Tovrea, Hew their planes to Columbus Junction. Sev- Six Dead; 200 Injured In Clashes New* York, New Y k —UNS)— New eral Burlington members have tneir (York’s Harlem wa turned into a planes there while the Burlington air virtual armed f ain]) today in th** wak* port is being built and shared the of a wild night of rioting which alpines with others present? j ready has caused six deaths and in- Thoae from here attending were: juries to scores ut persons. Don French, Mr. and Mrs. Max Ni-J As more than 5.000 policemen, fire-hart, Mrs Ellis Tovrea and Mr. Tov- 'men and soldiers moved into the .urea rea, and from New’ Jennings. Officers are investigating a break-in at the D-X sta’ion in N*w London Saturday night in which $150 in money nd checks and some merchandise! not immediately made but all are be was stolen. Sheriff Manning Cline was called to help with {lie investigation. Tile loot from the station, which is operated by the Busrkhart brothers, included besides *he money and checks, live new tires, a 12 gauge shotgun, Qn_coming flyer five boxes of shells and some cigarets. Entrance was made through a window on the west side. A pane had been broken for some time and was covered sent abroad for advanced .studies and he helps them entirely out of his own Oil Kiskd Landing meager savings. President Lin never touched tobac-j co cr alcohol in any form. His simple way of living was almost a legend in China. A lover of flowers, his idea Uevtd to be residents of Nokomis or of a good time is to sit in his garden an dtalk about how he acquired each Nokomis, Illinois * INS)—Nine section hands were killed today when a Big Four express train cut a swath of death through the group of 13 men at wcrk on the track. Identification of the dead men was nearby towns. The men, witnesses said, were watching a freight train switching on another track, and failed to observe the Washington, D. C. *INS»—The navy today mantained a “no comment” silence on the Vichy report that American tr:ops landed on Kiska Island raising the possibility that the enemy ardio .station had been knocked out and that the Japanese were “fishing” for information. A similar situation existed on Attu London, Charles armed with riot gum. clubs and re-, with cardboard. The cardboard was re volvers, in anticipation of further trouble -he latest toll read this way; LICENSE TO EXPORT C in r “ n: [‘l 3“ DC VKIT! W A UCI n Scores of [i s IU were Itta XKI at AKO LH! I IHA ll !!• LI/ hospital' follow::;, sporadic clashy FOR RE-EXAMINATION touched off by th* shooting of a Negro _______ military policeman by a white patrol- Wa1-bing ton. D. C. — Tile office of man after the former has inlet ferred Barbed wire entanglement and economic warfare has notified United with an arrest air: struck 'he pa iol- moved and the window opened MISS MYRTLE HOBSON AND ROY EICHER MARRIED SUNDAY and at! was a policeman while gun empladamant-* can be seen at states exporter ^ that, with certain ex- man with hr club. strangle spots along the beach. ceptions, aU outstanding individual Stabbings wen frequent All ver Hic island, other military licenses for exportation to Argentina least 9 persons including a policeman installations make it clear that Hawaii which were issued before May I, 1943, were shot. One of the victims remains a potential battlefront Anti- have been revoked, effective August 2. shot and killed by aircraft guns and barrage balloons a1- The action, taken to assure hat cur- running away from a grocery store so are prevalent rent shipments to Argentina were dir- after breakins the window and steal- Out at Pearl Harbor and nearby feted only to “satisfactory” consignees, mg some merchandirn. army airfields, there is a constant has the approval of the interested There were no organized disorders bustle of activity. The scar bv the Japs on their day of infamy are few and far between workers, heavy trucks, bulldozers: at Washington COUNTIES PAY TOTAL OF TWO MILLION; GET 14 PER CENT BACK Miss Myrtle Hobson, daughter of Mr and Mrs. John Hobson of Mt. Pleasant, anc! Roy Eicher of near Swedesburg were married at the home , i in wjvhnH I ability he acquired during the many Simon Gingerich in Wayland ... ... of the many varieties planted around and talk about how he acquired each discussions with other veteran party ... ... > nir.n when the Japs lost contact with their and government leaders have taken I tinvl garrison after the American bombard-place among the flowers in Mr. Lin si® . . garden. President Lin was the most democratic of China’s high officials. He had never been known to have used his position or prestige f°r furthering his personal aims His private fortune is practically nil. Quite unknown to most people, President L.n spoke perfect English — an ment and landing there put out feeler reports to draw out news on the progress cf the invasion. Des Moines, Iowa —<INS)— Iowa counties paid $2,015,590 to state ele-emosynary institutions in 1941 and collected back 14.56 per cent of it from relatives and estates, the Iowa Taxpayers association reported today.; Payments by the counties were towards support of their resident* in of Rev. at 6 p. rn. Sunday evening. Rev. Gingerich read the marriage ceremony. Attendant.^ were Mr. and Mrs. John Roth. Following the ceremony a wed-! ding dinner was served at the Roth home. The bride wore a blue dress with matching accessories. Her corsage was of sweetpeas. The bridegrooms suit 51 Axis Fighters Shot Down Cairo. Egypt GNS)—At least 51 axis fighters were shot down yesterday when they attempted to intercept a years he spent in caUIornla rallying ^ ^ rald by m (o ^ Am support among the oversea. Chinese Llberator bombers that devas people for the late Dr. .Sun Yat Sen. J father of the Chinese Republic hospital!, schools and other instltu-1 ^iue tions are Cherokee, Clarinda. Mount i ^irs. Eicher has been employed at . _ mimed were s nick J pleasanL Independence, Woodward. ^ rationing cffice the last several inflicted Argentine authorities and most of those injure® ere s U Glenwood, Council Bluffs, vin'nn 1 Holders of revoked licenses are fo by flying bolti* and stones Construction submit them to the office of exports Several wen clubbed by policemen or revalidation. The as gangs of youths mostly in their Anti-Icer Ends One of Flying’s Chief Hazards San Diego, Cal. Perfection of a tated the seven principal refineries at the huge Rumanian Polesti oilfields Middle-east headquarters today announced that 20 of the four-motored bombers were shot down and a number of others have not yet returned from the raid which was declared to have “materially aifected the course of the war.’ crane* and concrete mixers are ru.Gt- revocation of the licenst s does not ap- teens began hurlin inn new building projects to compte- ply in the case of .shipments on dock, and house windows tion. I doc! Is Not Rationed If you asked a civilian to tell you about Hawaii today, he probably would MILITARY CURRENCY Stones at store . months and prior to that she w*s ( —---- _ _ , Oakdale, Davenport and Toledo. I cmpi0yecj at the employment office at new thermal anti-icer which definitely Panic SciZCS Butler ccunty led others in the re-| thp courthouse. Mr. Eicher is a covery of its outlay, getting back from, m(?r They wiU live on a farm lighter, or laden aboard the exporting The entire area carrier before August 2. talk about: A noticeable absence of food rationing and the general domestic situation. PRINTED IN U. S. FOR TROOPS IN INVASION bounded by 110th ) ‘and 145th streets and 5th and 8th j J avenues, home of thousands cl Negroes ^ having got was closed to traffic by orders o. • Ql wj. cent Qf wha(. paj 1 Mb vor F H LaGuardia, wad poi son-» 1 ally went on the radio to appeal to. residents of the district to cooperate) with police. Housewives in Washington Portland. Dallas and Minneapolis would find Hawaii a dream land where women do not worry about counting the ration after they landed in Sicily, ii was dis- Allied Hdq. in North Africa — Both* —------- the United States and British armies BROWN-HALLOWELL-were supplied with military currency MENDENHALL REUNION point value of meat, coffee, canned goods, butter and sugar. Except for liquor and gasoline, nothing is rationed in Hawaii. Rents Are Very High Rents are high. Modest apartments cost at least $60 per month Real estate values are booming. Food prices _ also are up. Haircuts cost 75 cents the bills and the bootblack charges 25 cents. A newspaper want-ad offered a salary of $50 a week for a curb service waiter. Hawaii’s economic picture seems to have the early earmarks of an inflationary spiral. Labor, meanwhile, is not plentiful. Virtually all of the construction of military projects is being done by crews of imported workmen from the mianland. A move already is underway to enlist the aid of high school students in getting the annual pineapple crop out of the fields. Most of the regular field hands are Japanese. Hundreds of them remain in the islands, the vast majority as respected second-generation American citizens. It is significant, however, that the Jap populace has been nearly closed today. The American note is called a “yel-lowhead” rather than greenback be- j estates and relatives 84 68 per cent | of the $6,067 it paid the state. Butler also led in percentage of recoveries for the four-year period back 36.01 per cent of what it paid the state. For the four-year period. I Chickasaw was .second, recovering 35.-90 per cent. Sioux recovered 35.70 per cent, and Bremer 34.74 per cent. Amounts naid bv counties, and the amounts recovered respectively, in 1941, included. Henry $10,629; $1,301. west of Swedesburg. MRS. WILL WAUGH DIES IN TEXAS eliminates one of the chief hazards of Qerman Capital aviation—tee formations on w*ings —I wa. reported today by Tom M Gird-) Stockholm. Sweden (INS)— Panic ler, board chairman of Consolidated | seized Berlin today as all non-militarv Vultee Aircraft corporation. I men and women and children were or- AUGUST 8TH The annual Brown-Hallow ell- Mend - J cause of a yellow seal on which is enhall reunion will be held at McMill- J named the place of circulation. j an park Sunday. August 8. Basket United States treasury printers ear-'dinner at noon, ried the job right up to the most vital phrase, printing the word ••Sicily” on Deeds Recorded FOUR PAY FINES OVER WEEK END Girdler said the device, now being installed on military planes, had been • Word was received this morning of given final tests in far northern lattice death of Mrs. Will Waugh of nudes and functioned perfectly. Summerset, Texas, near San Antonio, j with the new contrivance, hot ex-Mrs. Waugh suffered a stroke of apo- haust gases which formerly were wast- plexy about a week ago. ed are used indirectly to heat the wing The Will Waugh family lived in Mt ancj tail leading edges. These exhaust Pleasant many years ago and have gaseo heat air thru heat exchangers many friends and relatives here. Mrs.; m the exhaust pipes. The air then Is Waugh was a sister of Mrs. Mary | circulated thru wings and tail sur-Wright, John G. Abraham and Frank jaces wjth controled initial tempera- i Abraham of Mt. Pleasant. She was a tures ranging as high as 850 degrees. dered to leave the German capital, at once in anticipation of allied mass air raids like those which have devastated Hamburg. Leaflets ordering the evacuation were distributed to all homes as civilians during the week end frantically dug zig-zag trenches in public squares, parks and backyards. sister-in-law of H T. Waugh. Having reached that point, they sat down to wait for the flash that the landing had begun. When it came July 9 they went into action. A few days later two transports left Cabe.s addition to Mt. Pleasant. Four arrests were made by city of- , fleers over the week end. Frank Wellington and John Chri.>tner each paid ' fines of $10 and costs on intoxication Deeds recorded at the cour house charges and Rodney Feehan and B H recently included the following: Brewer were fined $10 and costs, each, Vivan W. Snyder and wife to Der- for driving without a driver's license, rell W. Goddard and wife, lot in Mc- All were arraigned before Justice of the Peace James T. Whiting in the Hail Damages Corn Over 50-Mile Area Estherville la—A severe hail storm struck an area of about 50 square miles west of here early Sunday, damaging corn crops. It slashed a path extending from a half mile west of here to Superior, la.. The heated air keeps the leading edges of the wings, where ice usually forms first, at a temperature of 69 degrees—28 degrees above freezing, even when the outside air temperature is 40 degrees below zero. Girdler said that for several months new units of the navy’s Catalina long range flying boat patrol bomber have been equipped with the anti-icer. America with the bills, headed for Si- ^ Carolina Nordquist to Essie Igo and absence of Mayor H. L. Shook, who island a 10-mile stietch from Raleigh, la., The people were told in a proc- .. — _____..____! T>r«v>( rut a Hon wa* of an oily lamation that the would be accepted as legal tender. others, property at Olds, allied currency charles Sumner Blanck and wife to on vacation. Long Row of Corn Ida Muriel property. Latimer, New London cj, ^ __I Army Order Share Sioux City Fire Kills Monona. Iowa GNS)—Roy Eiffert has a corn row he calculates is 14.6 miles long, which is quite a ride on a corn cultivator. Eiffert practices contour farming, and the row. cork- chlckens-laymg hens and pullets that for manufactured supplies, the war de- screw-like, runs around and around woul<i have “fly thls rail—were partment reported Sunday. In a sur- a hill. northward Precipitation was .56 of an DUSTER RITES SET lnch _____ I FOR TUESDAY MORNING Leave For Service Des Moines, Iowa — Services for Leo J Duster, 49, executive secretary to Washington. D. C. — Small manu Six Thousand Chicks facturers currently are receiving 48.8 - cents of every dollar spent on pro- Six thousand curement bv the army service forces. Harlan Jerrel left this morning u Gqv Bourke B Hickenloopcr and a report for active dun in the serval lorrnPr ^ate commander of the Ameri- Sioux City, Iowa after his three weeks furlough at. home following induction. lost in a fire Saturday on the property vev of the first half of 1943. the de- of R. E. Duxbury on the edge of the partment said 23.6 cents of every dol- 1 city. The fire is believed to have been lar goes to such plants on prime con- military started by spontaneous combustion, tracts, and first-tier subcontracts furn- entirely removed from strategic defense permitted to work within areas and that only a handful are posts, naval bases and restricted areas. Duxbuiy estimated his loss at $10,000. ish the remaining 25.2 cents can Legion, will be at 10:30 a. rn. Tuesday in Immaculate Conception church at Cedar Rapids, la., his home. Will Announce Winners Th Rt Rev Msgr. John M. Molloy Announcement of the winners of the will officiate, and burial will be at Mt two scholarships to Iowa Wesleyan Calvary cemetery. Cedar Rapids. Mr. given by the News in cooperation with Duster died of a heart attack the college will be announced within day morning in the governor’s home in a few days. Des Monies. Trying To Stem New Red Army Advance Moscow, Russia —GNS)— German forces defending the main Nazi base at Orel fought desperately today to stem a new advance bv Red army units menacing the vital Orel-Bryansk railroad northwest of beseiged Orel Late dispatches from the battlefront indicated that Russian gains In the fight to sever rail communications between Orel and the companion base of Bryansk to the northwest had norrowed the neck of the Orel sack to almost 30 miles. Should Soviet troops northwest and southwest of the doomed Ord bastion effect a juncture the estimated force of 250.000 Germans bitterly defending the pivot ba>e would be completely cut off from all sides News of the latest threat to the Orel-Bryansk railroad closely followed an official Moscow communique announcing gains of five to eight miles and Liberation ot more than IOO towns north, east and south of Orel. The gains represented the Red armies most substantial advances in a week.

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