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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 4, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 13 - Through August 15. Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. 21 Fuel Oil 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS N, P, Q blue stamp* expire Aug. 7 R. S, T Blue Stamp* expire Sept. 7 T. I*, Red stamps expire August 31 Shoe Stamp 18 expires Ort. 31 VOL. I.XXI, No. 180WEDNESDAY, AI G. I, 1943 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA tub By-Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Pull oj In Part Strictly Prohibited.) American Army Throws Germans Back QI KBH , CANADA — TDK CANADIANS have dom a much better Job handling their food price and civilian war economy than the United Staten A fuil-eourse meal can be obtained in any of the firs? class restaurants of Quebec for 30 to OO cents. The highest priced dinner in the best hotels Li $1.25. TTo c costs are about one-half Washington price , while the portions are burger. The di parity widens even further whoa you consider the canadian dollar i worth IO percent leas than ours Toe ba. ic restaurant meal price therefore, really ranges bet* cen 27 and ad cents in our money. Announced national /rnti.-tics Blay not show these facts. Somehow, fundamental truths always seem to get lost the more they are statist lazed ( Here liquor, cigaret and luxuries generally cost twee as much a.-, in the states, while the fundamentals of life,1 such as food arid basic clothing * still unrationed) ar*- half as much. A package of 18 cigarets cost 33 cents. A bottle of Scotch costs $8 50 for a full quart, but is obtainable only in very Inferior grades and rationed to one bottle each tao week Ale and beef, the winking man’s drink, runs 25 cents to 35 cents a little, but the Crops Along Skunk River Under Water Lowlands Flooded; River Still Rising They’ll Do It Every Time - Hundreds of acres of crops In the lowlands along Skunk river, were under water today as the result of the heavy rains of Monday night along with the tributaries of the stream. The river was .-till rising in Henry county Both Oakland Mill and Merrimac reported the water level was going up at three o’clock this afternoon. although the rise was not as rapid as earlier in the day. The stage had been climbing at the rate of about two inches an hour. 8' I pet Over Dam At Oakland Mills the atter flowing 8 s feet deep over the dam was over the road east of the Oakland store and had backed up on some of the cabins, but had readied the floor f of only one, that of “Shorty” Ander-t son cf Mt. Pleasant, according to a telephone call from Oakland this af-' , ttrnoon. A house trailer wa. pulled; out of Uie low area this morning alter part of the trailer was dipping in the! water. Residents in a housetrailer on the tavern, are open univ from 5 p. rn to; m>rth slde of highway 34 west *ercj ll p in each day after working driven from their home bv the hight water, which was far up on the sides Harold J. Leichty of Near Noble Dies Was Son of Mr. and Mrs. William I^ichtv Wayland, Iowa — Harold Joseph Leichty, 17 year old son of Mr and Mrs William Lrichty, died at the home of his parents one and-half miles northeast of Noble this morning at six o’clock. He had bpen ill since last December Death was from the flu, pneumonia and complications. The funeral will be held Friday at I 45 at the home and at 2:30 at the Sugar Creek church of which he was a member. He is survived by his parents and two brothers, Glen and Mahlon Leichty. MISS DORIS CORNICK AND REV. ARTHUR BRENT MARRIED SUNDAY Advance of Six Miles in North Sicily Supported By Unit* of The U. S. Navy Burkharts Estimate Robbery Loss at $700 Allied Headquarters in North Africa —«INS)—The American 7th army strongly supported by units of the United States navy today threw the Germans back another six miles at the north end of the Sicilian front in stiff fighting in the (boronia area. The new advance carried the Yanks an appreciable distance along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea toward Cape Orlando where naval units off shore lobbed shells into axis positions to support the attack on the German flank. According to military sources the "Germans are continuing to contes' --- | every step forward and fighting as A beautiful and impressive wedding, hard as they ever have fought anv-ceremon, was solemnized at the home where even leaving their dead to be of Misses Anna and Vera Cornicle buried by the Americans." east of Mt Pleasant on highway 34 Through the smoke of battle the Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock when 7th army rolled forward further south Miss Doris Lucille Cornicle became the beyond Troina The hilk->, crags and ————-- br:de of Rev Arthur E Brent. Dr. L L canyons in that sector are hiding the j Born in Shanghai, China, Leonard A. an interesting part of his talk. Weis read the double ring ceremony, actual progress of Lieut. General J Kotnor one of the aviation students in J Tn his opinion the Japanese hav** There were no attendants. ( George S. Patton s forces as they ap- the unit at Iowa We-.eyan, told Ki- used China largely m a practice field.1 Preceding the ceremony Miss Marg- preach to within striking distance of I wa/ans Monday evening « rn* of hi He believes thew r I Heavier Loss Ro™ In Shanghai, Aviation Student Here Than Reported Tells "f War lncidcnts ln (hina wa/ans Monday evening 9 me of his He believes they could have made acrite Morrison of Salem sang "Be- the key points of the* Etna line de hour, Canada has time drinking minister .av ought to solve her war-problem (the prime* consumption has dou- of the trailer this morning. A netter Boats Many person who had boats in the bled) bv practically eliminating river were busy Tuesday seeing that man beer only alter work is a me. I tjgey were tied high on trees, or re- — j moving them from the water. TMF REAL SFI KFT of her success! Some farmer, who were depending is that silt has kepi prices down by j upon the bottom land for their entire ruthless prosecution penalties against crop will suffer nearly total loss of price violators One Montre al mer- j their 1913 production, it seamed likely chant last week was fined $25 000 for j today. With the water standing on seven minor infractions, and even the j the corn ail day today and probably amalic t single offender uas fined j for many hours longer it will likely be $250 to $600 in two other cast | of little value -Alien th'* flood recedes. Their basic gasoline allowance figures out to bt* just about tw'iee as much as ours. They get 160 of our gallons a year as compared with our present ration rate of I Mi gallons per week, or 78 gallons per year *— and they generally have received their gas- j ^ dine supplies from us and British source^. There is no ban on pleasure driving. Some restrictions, are enforced. such as limiting taxicabs to a ^ c^sm 0f equipment furnished the li-mii' radius <-■ he city. men. Mathews acting commander COMMANDER NAMED OF OTTUMWA GUARD J <xperiences and observations in China, greater advancer if they had wanted Heve Me If All Those Endearing Young fenses. ----j China has gone through all thaf to do so. One of the airports used by Charms” and "I Dave You Truly." The Fierce Investigation continues of im break-1 pew fortes have told. he said. As an the planes he traveled on was bombed wedding march was played by Edie in and theft of the Burk! I) X • I examnle of Jana nose at.roritips he re- . fmm *im# limo in u'hot Via Ar.ID.-J T T i a t of Atlanta Ma lion at New London Saturday night. IhtU * hat he *saw a Japanese sentry practices. j To the .strains of "Lohengrin" the Few clews were left bv the thieve who|st,,b an eldfrly woman jn the arm with I Back To I. S. ‘bridal party took their places at an I carried away the cash register and contents, took five tires and other merchandise. The Burkharts estimate their In a’ about $700, which is considerably high- battles were in progress southeast of captured Cantenuova where the German counter attacked with tanks for the first time in a week. They were driven back after lated that he saw a Japanese sentry practices. stab an elderly woman in the arm with his bayonet w-h<*n she failed to bow to Komor wanted to come back to the altar of ferns and pink and white losing three tanks including one large I.im as she passed, th‘*n left her for ; United States to be on this side of the gladioli. The bride given in marriage tiger tank as British infantry stood seve ral minutes while she bled pro-1 war he said, and darted only a few by her fa’her wore a floor length dress its ground despite lunges of the Nazi fuseiy. Sometime later sue was taken days before the attack on Pearl Harbor of white silk dotted organdy.,fashioned Goering division. amay in an ambulance. Komor also On the President Coolidge, the las. with shirred bodice and full skirt, and _ er than their first estimate The Itol<i other incidents and Information j transport out of Manilla before the a finger tip veil of lace and net. She amount of money was mere than they I a^°ut the -reatment °f the Chinese by attack, he traveled over wide expan.-es wore a gold cross, a gift of the groom first thought was taken The Me-I hc Japs of the Pacific with a convoy, arrived Her bouquet was of white gladioli and Dodge Fighters at Pearl Harbor soon after the attack baby’s breath. Caskey cash register was comparative- ly WW and was valued ut more than I A -ra,lu;,M‘ "f 'he University of Call- land saw the wreckage there as la cr , fcmia in 1940 Komor returned to the , disclosed. 99 China, which he left in 1936 and where j Delegates to the Kiwanis his faThe: has been a resident 40 years ; convention to be held next Following the ceremony a reception was held for the bridal party and on<“ HEH WHOLE HANDLIN! civilian war economj has been equally calm, and, therefore, efficient. Tile confused point system of food rationing, winch we have, has been avoided. Meat, tea, *ugar and coffee are rationed, but on a basis allowing a certain number of jjounds i>er period, so! Ottumwa, la (INS)—H. U Mathews I)fV Moines. Iowa —(INS as a no'anted commander of 0f griculture Harry Linn the Ottumwa State Guard unit to today that 99 per cent of Iowa’s ucceed Harry Price who stepped outing m ^ ?r(.wjng ffum hybrid seed. Linn cited figures by Agricultural Statistician Carl D. Reed on the growth of the use of hybrid seed in of the guard after an outspoken criti- district hundred guests. Ifir * PHDM i*»*>'> *“ *»'-* ucwcw mu, .. ii. iuciu .tvBtc ^uiucuuuu iu ut- iiciu iicxi month' Mrs. Brent is the daughter of Harry Ur IU WA LUHN land his grandfather wa- a res.dent were elected as follows: c A Morgan. Comick of Mt. Pleasant. Mr Brent i' FROM HYBRID SEED there before him, to fly as an engineer James O’Connor and Everett Clover; the son of Mr. and Mrs. E E Brent of __I v. i* h China National Airways, a part alternates. Ben A. Galer, H E. Jaques. Muscatine low i ' the Pan American Airways system C. A. Cottrell and R. K. Ellis. | Both are graduates of Iowa Wesley- D jiff lenities experienced in successfully Rev. E. A. Mathews, Kiwanian of an college. Mrs. Brent was an in* dodging Japanese fighting planes made Buffalo. New York, was a guest. js'ructor in the Salem high school last 1 \ ear. Mr. Brent wras formerly pastor of Gathering at Foster conner leads in I the Methodist church at Salem. U. S. Cruiser Hammers Axis Positions Allied Headquarters in North Africa UNS)—A heavy United States cruiser is hammering axis positions in northern Sicily from a point off Cap? Orlando, a headquarters announcement said today. acting I since Price quit received the appoint-( * ber J 0j Commandef from Col. G. V. ! Caught in of Council Bluffs. • In 1933 Carl reported, only .7 of I per cent of Iowa's seedcom was hybrid. Home at Winfield the pas: ll years. WLB TO HOLD HEARINGS IN MUSICIANS CASE Washington. D. C. 'INS)—The War that every housewife and merchant La^r Board today assumed jurisdic-can compute through the ration books yc>n jn the dispute of the American which have been issued, exactly what Federation of Musicians headed by is allowed. I James C. Petrillo and seven electrical Any child can understand the ar-1 transcription manufacturing complin- seed ~Linn rangement. Each person therefore get.-, ies and appointed a three man panel j his lull share. Nothing is lost in the t0 hold hearings in the case, complexities of point juggling. He listed the pr igressive increase as follows; In 1934 , 2.1 per cent; 1935. 6 per cent ; 1936, 14 4 per cent; 1937. 30.7 per cent; 1938. 51.9 per cent; 1939. 73 4 per cent; 1940, 90.3 per cent; 1941, 96.9 per cent; 1942. 98.9 per cent. The total planted com acreage in Iowa this year is 10,935.000 acres, of which 10.826 000 was planted to hybrid said. The same torte of simplicity is ap- , B! PAYROLL WAY FP parent on clothing. Not even shoe.-'* washington —'INS)— Tile Federal are rationed. Each merchant acts as Bureau of Investigation has 7,800 wo Winfield — Saturday evening a group of friends and relatives gathered at the Clyde Foster home and enjoyed a covered dish supper. The honored guests were Mrs. Foster’s aunt. Mrs. Horace Hilleary of Chicago and Mr. Foster.- brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Foster of Des Moines. B. W. Foster is engaged in insurance work and Mrs. Foster is an instructor at the A I B. college. They were wreek end guests at the Footer home. Those present for the supper besides the honored guests w*ere; Mr. and Mrs. Max Carden. Evelyn and Floyd. Mrs. Walter Walker Thomas and Helen Walker of Middle- MISSISSIPPI ELECTION (INS)—Former British Bombers Damage Nazi Airfield London, England GNS)—Whirlwind bombers of the British RAF last night .They will makp their home at North wrought considerable damage on a Liberty, where Rev Brent is pastoring Nazi airfield near Brest. France, the the Methodist church. Jackson. Mississippi ..,o | out of town guests were: Mr, and Governor Martin S Mike" conner M„_ E E Brent. Mu5Calin(, Mr held almost a 2 to I lead over his air ministry announced today. Bomb bursts were observed near sta-and tion buildings. All of the bombers returned safely. REPORT PEACE STRIKES IN ITALY’S PLANTS London, England (INS) Workers in town j^r. and Mrs. Charles Carden of a guardian of his stocks, allowing only men employes, or 13 times as many a*1 Italian factories at Milan and other Gjds and j^rs will Carden, Mr. moderate buying. Most stores per-1 jn pre.^ar days. j leading cities are staging daily 30 and ^rs Maurice Utter and Leslie, mn purchase of only two pairs of —- minute peace strikes rn an eiiort to Mr and Mrs Ray carden, Mr. and socks, for instances. THUS NO SALES RUSHES are created such as have caused Americans to buy more than they need in some instances merely to cash their points before an expiration date. calm and cooperative. THE TENSIONS which seem to have hurry Italy’s departure from the war, Mrg Carl Carden and Mr. and Mrs. Reuters News agency reported. Lloyd Swan and Martha Mae of Win- field. corrupted our civilian economy are SEVEN SERVICE MEN Cleo Carlson spent her vacation at latent and unobservable. In one phase, they are as bad or much wore than the United States. AM TD AIK! tfll I CH ‘be home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs UN I KAIN MLLlD l m Carlson she is employed at the Seattle, Washington (INS)—Seven Vogue Beauty Shop rn Mt. Pleasant, service men were killed and 12 others Mr. and Mrs. Carl E Garmoe of Brent. Muscatine Mas. Edgar Busch, Muscatine; Mrs nearest opponent for the democratic Laura Bvers Salem; Mr and Mrs-- nomination for governor of Mississip- Harold Byers Hillsboro; Mr. and Mrs. pi today but apparently will have to w_ g Gabriel. Columbus. Junction; Ani6fKinS PrCSS On in 3 SCC°nd Prim’,fr- and BIrs wifGa?f hColTbUS Towards Munda Airfield di\ /\u0u.ai «ui. ’Junction; Bert Wolfe. Columbus Junc- As returns horn yesterday s election ^jon; and Mrs. W. W. Farmer and were tabulated it appeared certain RuUl Kellerton. Mrs. Archie MrCahon that Conner would not obtain the ma- and Leah Del. Shannon City; Mr and jority of all votes cast which is nee- Mrs R B Coe and Donna Dee, Chi-essary for nomination. ; cago; Mr and Mrs perry CorniCiC Burlington. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Coe Cast-Away on Pacific isle and Avon Diane, and Mrs Beatrice To Wed Iowa Girl Next Week Crawford> New London; Mrs Amelia lo nea iowa uiri next neeK Morrow Mrs Greta Gray Mrs Alice Friend, Mr. and Mrs. Frances True-blood and family, Salem; Mr and Mrs. Robert Gray, West Branch; Harvey Knudson. Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. J. W Rhynas and Rev. and Mrs. Walter L. Sieck , Stockport; Katherine King Joyce Shumaker. Gwendolyn Shumaker, Jacqueline Morrison. Virginia Ku- Ottumwa. Iowa »INS)- Twenty-one year old Delmar Wiley, Glenwood. Iowa sailor who spent 200 lonely days as a cast-away on a South Pacific island after his plane had been shot down by Japs, was revealed today to be planning to wed Doris Jackson, 21, of Pacific Junction. Iow-a, earlv next week. With American Forces Approaching Munda, New Guinea, August 3—(Delayed >—< INS) —Hard fighting American soldiers pressing on toward the Japanese airfield at Munda havt engaged in hand to hand combat with the enemy and annihilated half of a force of Japs pocketed deep in the jungles within the past 48 hours. The Yankee southern flank drove more than 400 yards past a village destroying numerous enemy pillboxes. Germans Fall Back At Orel Moscow, Russia (INS'—German defense forces en the outskirts of Orel No effort has been made to reform Strikes are frequently called, even in anyone. The regulations are not de-J such vital war line as the Vickers! jnjured morning when a Chicago, Fairfield called at the Fred Crawford signed to shake the populace into a ‘ Arms plant. One textile manufacturer, and St. Paul passenger home last Thursday They formerly deeper realization of the war. Nor are closed for more than a week in Que-j train ftnd & branch shocking statements or down-carcking bec province, is threatening to lemain Moses Lake sideswiped at Worden, warnings issued by officials. (closed for the duration because he Wa&hington The Canadians went at it on the; cannot reach agreement with the un-j ___ basis that they had just so much to ions. 400 YFAIK TO distribute and they arc distributing ill The strikes generally are short, and *IUU 11ADO I U as quietly and as efficiently as they concern the demand of the workers^ BUILD INCH Ur I Ur oUlL can. Their feat is all the more re- for an increased bonus pay, based on markable because she is an import the cost of living index. Employers country, relying on us and Britain. pay these bonuses as a temporary , L There are few or no black markets, wage increase, assuming, apparently. observed in rooortina that The situation which creates them that they will return to normal wage Christensen cb ved in polling that me siiwatiud win . many fields in Clayton county have, largely has been avoided. No e not - altu t ie wai . t due to recent rains, lost more topsoil anon or degeneration of services is The militant class consciousness cl replaced in a century noticeable. the unions is as deep and revolution- *»"> can ^century. The railroads are crowded and the ary in Canada as in our country, and Canadian National and the Canadian carries similar post war forebodings. I In I-A Pacitic have pooled certain services, Even so, OPA’s Mr. Brown could well but their trains are clean, their over- Elkader. Iowra —(INS’>— "It take.' nature 400 years to build an inch of line train from resided here. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Shive of Eldon are the parents of twins, a boy and a girl, born Monday. Mrs. Shive was formerly Geraldine Peterson. Mrs. Berda Kneen spent Monday in Mt. Pleasant visiting with Mrs. Courtney and Mrs. Gilbert Poth who left Wednesday to return to their home at Manhattan Beach, Calif. LUNDY ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY Des Moines, Iowa (iNS> State Senator Hugh W. Lundy af Albia today announced he would be a candidate for lieutenant governor in the 19’4 Republican primary. He is the first candidate to announce for the 1944 UNCONFIRMED REPORT state election Lundy sought the same office in the last election, but w'as defeated by Robert Blue of Eagle Grove. aobe Nadine Kuiobe, Vivian Long, todav fen back on their threatened Loretta James, Charles King. Rona.1 strongholds in full retreat as charging Shumaker, Billy King, Harold Mills. BijSSian armies surged forward, moved Dorothy Pidgeon. Salem; Miss Veld: Kinyon, Greenfield; Mr. and Mrs Kenneth McCoy, Margy and Davey, Columbus Junction; Mrs. Hazel Spar-iow. and Mr. and Mrs. A J. Zion. Columbus City. up big artillery pieces to bombard the city. Russians from the nor*h rapidlv pursued the Germans down the road fiom captured Volkhov northwest of i Orel. 1 Front line dispatches today said the Russian pinzer of Orel has narrowed Coach Resigns at Olds j Olds, Iowa — Mr .John Sager of Centerville has resigned as coach. His Robert S. Brown has been classified future plans have not been learned, send some of his experts to Canada in I-A, according to the local Belee- The musical vacancy has not been Relative to Mrs. En ice Edwards the south escape corridor to the west ABOUT HITLER’S HEALTH to 13 miles. All highways surrounding -- , the base were reported under con- London, England (INS) —An uncon- stant fire by Soviet artillery with firmed report that Adolnh Hitler's smril groups of Russian gunners har-health was giving rise to concern was anting Nazi attempts to conserve manure divorce action cl received today. A message said that power and equipment by moving them Heinrich Himmler, chief of the gesta- into side-r ads. Two Children agains: Goergc burdened wartime traffic, is pleasant, to find out how they did it. I tives Service office bulletin board. filled here. Edwards, it was stated that they are ( po. had a-ked Hitler's physician for a The Moscow newspaper Pravda said the parents of a daughter, Evelyn. I true report and the prognosis was de- J the Germans during the last 24 hours Mrs. Edw-ards has two children, Donald scribed as "very bad.” j attempted to gain air superiority over who is serving in the U. S. army and I Hitler often appears apathetic and the Ord front bv throwing large is stationed at Baltimore. Md., and di tressed and discussions in Germany formatio: s of war planes into the Evelyn, who is at home with her ab ut his eventual successor already battle. Seventy of the Nazi planes mother. , have begun. were shot down Pravda .'aid.

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