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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 11, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 13 - Through August 15. Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. 21 Fuel Oil 5 - - I'ntil Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS R. 8, T Blue Stamps expire Sept. 7 T, U, V iud Stamps exp re Aug. 31 ■shoe Stamp 18 expires Get. 31VOL. IAX I, No. 186 WEDNESDAY, AIG. ll, 131.1 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA They’ll Do It Every Time Churchill In Canada For Conference Corn Made Good Progress In Week Russians Seize Husre Amounts Of Booty By Paul Mallon 4o YEARS IN HARNESS, HORSEFEATHERS! 40 ^ YEARS SWInGIN’^X [ THE WHIP HE ' \ Y MEANS- APTER 40 VE A RS IN HARNESS I AM RETIRING AND TURNING OVER THE FIRM TO MV SON. I KNOW VOO WILL > GIVE HIM THE SAME SuPPORTvCU V. have so lovallv Given me.-* x V^€N old man Bludgeon finally RETIRED, ABOUT A VEAR AGO,THE JOY IN THE OFFICE WAS UNCONFINED- W the OLD ^ Simon LEGREE 6000 EVE AND GOOD RIDDANCE! (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) Reed Comments on Deluge In Henry County (^joQR^d) WASHINGTON — THE GERMANS have pined a new front — the peace’ front. i The officially announced switch I from ingh -headed Hitler control to: a triumvirate of Keitel, Goering arid Dcenitz has called some attention to-it, but seem to hair less direct ion-: neotiun with it that, popularly .supposed. The German militai v men haa to g"t the riot-light cfi Hitler for rml-it«*r•> and morale lea,sol*. His intuition had lo. t it magic since he took sir.gl»’ control for the Russian drive a year ago. Hrs name no longer assures popular visions of success in view of the disa leis ince then Hope had to be radiated by directing army th ught toward a mw leadership. Technically, it makes no difference to any on The character of the trad' erstnp i the same Keitel and Doon-it?, are ruthless Germans, and everyone knows what Goerir.g is Actually they were all running the show anyway in Hitler s name. But, more Insidiously, the dominant German (lowers have been working toward a separate peace with Russia They have been planning surreptitiously to give up practically everything in the east, even a large slice of Poland to get a peace on the Russian front. Th. would release a vast additional army to resist u , Confer With President Roosevelt Suburbs of Kharkov Make Other Gains Quebec, Canada <INS) - Concerted new blows against the axis wore lore-shadowed today by the arrival’in Canada of prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain for a erie:; of conferences with chieftains of the allied command and President Fr nklin I) ROS .se veil The surprise arrival of Churchill in Canada followed a period of speculation about when and where the allied war chiefs would next meet now that Italy is on the brink of collapse and great Inroads have been made against the axis powers in Europe. The sftUuitBn a it now stands with Italy wavering between peat'- and continued warfare under pressure of Germany probably can be solved only bv direct contact between the uppermost leader of the United Nations. Belief among the well informed is that the British and American will agree on a common policy as regards Italy which will be acceptable to the Ru ans ever, though no Soviet of- Sales Drop After Stamps filii I i able t attend the conference v. , .. , . .Not Needed I HAVE BEEN CALLED TD SERVE MY COUNTRY. I KNOW NOU WILL ALL BB DELIGHTED TD HEAR.THAT MV FATHER HAS CONSENTED TD COME BACK AND < TAKE OVER. The REINS IN MV ABSENCE - Sherman wAs Right a " But this is war, FOLKS,THIS IS WAR AND THERE Ain't NO JOY TODAY— HAPPy CAVS are gone AGAIN? j "T^uoavxt Tcr J M RUSSAK^ f} NEWVOC^NV Unrationed ( offee Not In Demand Meeting Planned To Discuss School Code THI. RI SMAns Will not fall for thi connivance They furnished an indirect answer to the German feelers August l, when the official j»arty organ. Pravda, gave front page, two column, display lo the work of the lYee German National C mm.ttee of Anti-Fascists. " I his editorial praised the committee formed last July among German refugees in Ru.-> ta and promised the kind of •’democracy’* that would b* made by them as the soviet objective for newt war Germany. There is always the chance that Ravia will stop lier advance at her borders and tell us t<* finish the job. But even ii you do n t trust entirely commitments Stalin has made against a st pa rate peace* '.nu must be im-pre: ed by the logical impossibility of such natural enemies as Nazism and Communism existing side by side. The whole German game of playing for a lim.ted defeat, first with Russia and then with us. is thick with gut-teral stupidity. As the general staff nowrecognizes defeat cannot be avoided. Unconditional surrender immediately would be the best way cut. PRESIDENT CALLS PACIFIC WAR COUNCIL TALK ON ARMY LIFE AT ROTARY FISH FRY Wayland, Iowa — A pretty wedding was solemnized at Wayland Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock when Dorothy Graber, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Graber, and Dean Mallory .only son of Mrs. Ruth Thompson, exchanged vows. Betty Wyse with Mrs J B Pooley at the Piano sang I Love You Truley tnd "Ave Maria.” Rev. J. B F^lev read the double ring cerenrny in the presence of 28 relatives and dose lr ends. Attendants were Dorothy Davis and Warren Graber, brother of the bride Ushers were Charles Etcher and Edward Freyenberger. Prepared by Mrs. Ralph Wenger and Mrs. Leonard Wyse, a wedding dinner was served in the home of the bride's parents immediately following the ceremony. Servers were Annette Schrock. Lorraine Schlatter and Doris Eigsti. The bridal couple is visiting relatives in Harve,, 111., while Mallory awaits h s army call for final examination.

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