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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 30, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 14 - Through October 31 Gasoline No. 7 Expires Kept. 21 Fuel Oil 5 - - Until Kept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS R. S, T Blue Stamps expire Sept. 20 T.U.V.YV Red Stamps expire Aug. 31 X, Y, ted slams expire Ort. 2 Shoe Stamp IM expires Oct. 31 VOL. LXXL No. 202MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Bloody Clashes With Nazis In Denmark THE* By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Feature* ayu dlcate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON—THE SEMBLANC E of a suppressed smile flickered on the face of James A Farley in pictures of the New York state committee meet-1 ing and not without reason. The .story told the public was that President Roosevelt’s emissary, national chairman Frank Walker, hurried up to New York and arranged the nomination of Lieutenant General Haskell, of the national guard for the special lieutenant governorship election. The implication was that FUR hao mid*' the choice and people here won-deied why Farley would o docilely accept it, and had the way for it, in view of the fact that the election Is being bull’ up a a test on the fourth term and everyone knows how Mr, Parley ha felt about that Mr. Farley had reason to be docile. He slyly iippwg around to the American lab'ir party leaders and arranged their ender em* at of Haslet ll, even before Walk* r arrived in N* w York By the time Walker got on the acone, the bird us not only caught by Mr Purify. but cook“d and eaten Haskell be* * me Parley s candidate more than Re • sevelt s Th" racy L supposed to be a test of the pull log | JOA cr of Governor Dewey, current leading republican candidate, against Mr. Roosevelt in hts home sta*". but Dewey din1 not make the chou*' of the republican candidate either Hull ( alls Report i Bis Falsehood i I 'sex Strong l.anj-uai’e Regard* ing Story Washington, D. c. ‘INS* Secretary of State Cordell Hull described as a monstrous and diabolical falsehood a recent published rt port that he and other high Mate department officials want to see Soviet Russia "bled white.’’ U ;ng the strongest language he h a ever applied publicly to a newspaper critic in the ten year., that he has been secretary of state, Hull said the report in question had been published and broadcast by Dr* w Pearson Washington columnist and radio commentator, Hull s statement said that I desire to brand these statement:, as monstrous and diabolical falsehoods" and added that the fact that some of these utterances have concerned our relations with cur allies prompted him to issue todays statement. Sounds Like a Puzzle - This Water Flow In Alaska Most Schools of County Open Today miss IRMA l. ROGERS’ College Classes ENGAGEMENTANNOUNCED^ ^ ^ Captain Elbert C. Rogers. U. S 1 Shafer writes from Ala ka a Open Sept. 7 Many Mf Pleasant rural >0)100, and I Mi Pie., ii.- Ros follows: L. Peterson Camp _ August 24. 1943 On a recent rip to Fairbanks which Till REPUBLIC \ S NOMINEE, ma- is about 140 miles from camp, I saw joritv leader Hanley ol the state sen- a very unusual condition. At one centre. wa • naturally wholly a <♦;cable tam >pot on the highway, which runs I Getting of enough earner> to till to Dewey and no differences lie be- shout north, the water on the east the positions in th* schools ha, twe* n them side of the road is running s uth to been a problem for upenntendcmt., Yet in" republican situation was this point and south of his point it and directors. Ii. th** rural school: fttch that the governor, whose prest- is running north, while on the west have been having greater difficultv Getting Teachers Has liven Dif- Navy> an(1 Mr Ro*ers *nnounce he Registration Early Part of Week engagement of their daughter, Irma i * Oculi; MI. Pleasant To lubbie, to pre Harry e. Lore. jr.. u.j I,|rst Classes Thursday S. Army, son of Dr. and Mrs. Harry I - E. Lore of Cedarville. N. J. Miss Rogers! Freshmen will register at Iowa Wes-a senior at Washington College, I leyan on Monday and Tup; day of next ed ools.Chestertown, Maryland. Mr. Lore ta week with prospects indicating about * 1 a second year student at the Univer- as many freshmen as last year, but sitv of Pennsylvania Medical school. all of the town and con; of the county, except opened this morning Getting of enough teacher AIR CORPS BOARD IN THIS VICINITY As part of a state-wide intensive .SILVER WINGS" campaign during September o qualify and enlist 17-year-olds as future Aviation Cadets in the Army Air Corps reserve, a traveling cadet examining board from De, Moines w ill be at the Keokuk Post dent tai fortunes art* directly involved, side of the road the water divides and perhaps'than the town schools. new was not fre«• to go out and pick the runs both ways away from this point, vacancies occurred over the week end strongest possible man politically from It really makes two unusual conditions Nearly all of the school* had teache s all angles to represent him personally in one, for on each side of the mao Ibis morning, however. in th*- fight the water is running in opposite dir-1 At M Union, Which a.ready was Tile contest. Will b<- tough and close, felons, and north or south of th" scheduled to operate with fewer teach- an .I no* Mal, , Dew,n-Roo',veil tost point rn the read th. water ers this year than, .astthe_ loss of ^ 91h Fort although It r- apt to be adverted na- tuns iv. one directton on one me and John Moore to the a..ny end;M,<toon p,^ office Friday. September Mortally as such the other direction on th" other side caused a problem Burlington Pos- off’ce Mon Even- available Inner development of the road. j Tire Mf. Pleasant school will onet. 10th and BurUngton Pos. off.ee M indicate' Dew. y is resisting the move- Tn ridsng along it seems impossible on Tuesday, September 7 men! for hi own presidential cand!- but I stopped and got out to make dar- Hi home-town folks in Michi- flia‘ I *a se**ing right Die con- nCAn IQ TOI I gan ar* known to have attempted to aition is earned by a dike ’brough a If DfcAU lu start an organization for him, t sort swamP on onP S!de and a natural of unofficial home-town boom, the fe- crpe*c on l^e ether. Mv mission in Fairbanks was one of Kiska Is Short Road To Japan Adak, Aleutian Islands ‘Delayed* — ‘The completeness of the bloodless victory of our ai my and navy forces on Kiska Lsland is hourly be un ing more ipparent,” Vice Adm. Thomas C Kin-kaid, commander of the North Pacific forces, said in an interview today. "Now that we can see Kiska thru oui ■ per soectiVd we can enumerate butter the lmnli* attorns of its peaceful occupation on Aug. 15," Adm. Kinkaid added. "The Jap.> may laugh at what they call our discomfiture at finding them gone, but ours is the heartiest and last laugh. We have Kiska and we still have tile magnificent men we might have lost in taking it by battle." The explosion of the myth of Jap do-or-die tenaciousne.st and its adverse effe ct on Nipponese moral was an important consequence, he said, but it is more significant that the fall of Kiska marked our transit from the defensive to the offensive in the Aleutians. Short Road to J?pan ‘ Now that the Jap.' are out of North America and we have a continuous chain of bases leading virtually up to their strong ooints.” the admiral said. we cannet lase sight of the fact that this is the short road to Japan, and we think it ,s the logical one." Pmramushiro, in the Kuril* Islands Last 45 Of Denmark Fleet Units Scuttled Destruction of Fleet Confirmed Stockholm, Sweden (INS*—Bloody clashes between Danish and German troops in the guards barracks in Rosenborg were reported today in the wake of Denmark’s defection from the axis. Scuttling of the major part of the Danish fleet and subsequent internment of King Christian X at Sor-genfry Castle outside Copenhagen An off.cial statement issued bv th® Danish legation in Stockholm reported the fighting md confirmed destruction of the fleet the moment Germany declared martial law over Denmaik in an effort to subdue a rasing tide of discontent. The Statement The statement said: Imposition of martial law’ over Denmark by Nazi Germany was not accomplished without incident." The bulk of the Danish fleet was scuttled in the harbor of Copenhagen, another portion succeeded in escaping, chain and the most northerly of the and a number of ammunition stores Japs’ fortified outposts, is only 735 J were destroyed. miles by an from Attu Island, which j "Clashes between Danish and Ger-was wrested from a strong enemy gar- man troop: are reported to have oc-ris* n last May. With the big threat curred at the Royal guards barracks Lorn the east chm.hated, our land in the town of Rosenborg.” based bombers are well within effective (Editor s Note: A British broadcas. .striking distance of the Kuriles. | heard by CBS said that Danish royal Adm. Kinkaid depicted tile Kiska guard, who barricaded themselves in operation as the most realistic practice the barracks at Rosenborg had been in amphibious tactics our troops could ordered by King Christian to cease j fire Another London broadcast re-Kiska Proves a Blessing j ported the Finnish newspaper, Hel- with a very high percentage of the class being girls. Enrollment in the upper classes, will be consideiably smaller than last year, the present trend indicates. The upper classmen will register on I have received. Wednesday and classes will start on Thursday morning j Adm Kinkaid is credited with orig- singen Sanomat, as saying that Fin- Opening events will include open • bating the strategy of by-passing Kis- land understands the Danish situa- house at Harlan Hall, several smarties ka *ast spring to move on Attu, to the don. “The long period of occupation during the week and the all-college northwest, a step that caught the foe-has tried the nerves of the Danish OF TWO BLAZES sponsibility for which could not have Birmingham, Ala Nineteen coal been attributed to him. but he dis- purchasing clothes and supplies for the* , mrm- 8Utided them men ln camP That Js a real job’ miners, including at least four mem A certain southern republican worn- Checks to cadi. money orders and bank bens of volunteer rescue ere w .....2f.t and clothes of every des- killed and 2 other, injured last night an leader likewise went to New York to get, ana domes oi eve.v aes- (. .f, to try lo get just a private word that crlpfon, In preparation foredid wrath- and early today when two ie^ cMS er. Sex, underwear, gloves, mittens, explosions blasted the Republic steel caps. con s, shirts, shoes, and trousers, corporation's Sayretou No. 2 .-lope here, all size- and colors. I was 2H days at The dead included E. J. McCrossin, it and believe that I walked thirty chief state mine inspector, and George miles each day. I Ferguson, Sayreton superintendent. The road to a’nd from Fairbanks is who headed rescue groups good and the scenery beautiful which mine in desperate of torus to save the offset all else and made the trip worth- men trapped two mitt from the open- no opposition would be offered to starting something on her own account. but she was stopped also. The parti leaders here counted on the i nergetic spread of Mr. Willkie's strongly -organized movement to bring Dewey out of the shell he proposed to occupy at Albany until the end of his gubernatorial term, but now are begining to wonder. t The existence of a growing popular movement behind him has continued to 1 be exhibited in public polls however i to tile point where the democratic day, September 13th. to conduct official examinations for men interested in becoming future cadets. EXPECT DEATH OF BORIS TO KINDLE FIRE church service on Sunday. Sept. 12. London, Eng. — A mad scramble for powder that could set the Balkans ablaze following the mysterious death of King Boris of Bulgaria was predicted today by London morning news flatfooted. people," the paper was quoted as say- • The Japanese occupation of Kiska ing. “And in addition, the changes in June, 1942, ifter the enemy’s plan which have taken place in the world to capture Dutch Harbor was headed war have rsl-ed great hopes of a off by a surprise air counter-attack on speedy liberation.”) June 4. was a blessing in a sense," Adm Kinkaid said. "It provided much swifter development of the Aleutian Meanwhile, reports were current that ; bases than cur normal planning would a frea Danish government-in-exile have brought (may be formed by cabinet members Frankly admitting that the Jap fade- said to have escaped the Nazi doin-begins north of Para-'out at Kiska was not predicted by our inated country aboard warships and U. S. FLYERS LAND ON RUSSIAN PENINSULA june a. was a messing in a sense. Aam May Form Government i k i I I v x I r I vain lr nrrivirmn min r. London, Eng. — The Moscow radio said early today that an American plane had landed on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, Aug. 12 and that its crew was interned. Kamchatka __ __ ______ mushing the Japanese north pacific! forces, the vice admiral smilingly term- merchantmen that reached Sweden island outpost which has been raided ed 11 a oleasant surprlse- ThP ->oshing after bulk of the Danish fleet was several times by American airmen that imm^iately followed the battle scuttled. based in the Aleutians. ithat never devel°Pecl he likened to the Tile 72 year old King Christian X The Tass Dispatch, broadcast from nervous lighter that follows a close remained In the grasp of the Nazi how- Moscow and recorded bv the Soviet shave. papers as Germany faced collabora-i --- tion problems I.IOO mile apart across I Momtor- <*u0“ lhe 1*>™bp,rs a* subjugated Europe sa!‘n* ,hfC>' had “J1 raId ™ MISS VIRGINIA CHURCH , , . . . nese positions in the Kunle islands, of In addition to keeping sharp watch![ _ Ti _ into the j on Bulgaria, bomb shaken Germany had to crush a ‘Deople’s revolt" in ever. Refugees reported he was under i strong guard in the royal palace IO miles north of Copenhagen. while. TODAY’S MARKET CHICAGO LIVESTOCK HOGS: 20.000 including 7.000 direct; ing. A Republic spokesman said he believed all the men were now out of the ! mine. He estimated that more than j IOO of the regular night shift of 135 men made their way to safety unhurt leaders here are convinced he will be market generally steady to strong with before the se .. the nominee anyway. Friday’s average. Top. $15.50; 180 to k mc K TV 240 lbs , $14 90 to $15.10; 240 to 270 lbs., DONALD ALKLAuL _ $14.75 to $15.00. 270 to 350 lbs., $14.50 _ _ _ _ _ *mr%c AD TLH TD MANY MAY HAYE WONDERED, j1480; 350 to 550 packing sows.! SOLD IO MRS. ARTHUR why the government failed to live up t0 ^1410, choice light weights, j --- to all its advance promises to abandon $54 25 j s D Garretson and Wayne T. Gar- the pleasure driving ban in the eas! ^ MATTLE: 17,500; calves, 800; fed retson, real estate brokers, report the at the time the mid-west was drawn s^eers an(j yearlings, steaay; bulk. $14- sale of the Glen Donald acreage locai-into rationing. j^-. ^0p steers, $16.65; fed yearlings, ed 6 blocks from the square south on The promises came from the OPA.' heifers, steady; cows, steady to federal highway 218 to Mrs. Ann Arth- and almost directly from its general canner and cutter cows, $9 25 - ur of Oakland Mills. This is one ol manager. Bowles, who was working de- jt2.00; best heavy bulls, $13.50. vealers, the nicest acreages in the cry of Mg teimmedlv toward that end. OPA un- steady at $16 00 d0wn. Pleasant, hard wood floors, new furn- deistood that petroleum poobah Ickes SHEEP: 13,000 including 9,000 direct; ace, built in bathroom fixtures, etc. would join the promise w’hen he wen* iambs slow; good to choice spring Mrs. Arthur will move from Oakland to Chicago for a conference with mid-<]ambs $1300; slaughter ewes, steady at Mills to her new home when she takes west congressmen. $6.75. possession November 1st- However, the contents of the various ^ ESTIMATED for Tuesday: Cattle. ......... plan:, leaked to the press from the g m Hogs> 14 000 and sheep, 3.000. j OU I QUIZZES ICKES ON * OPA office in Chicago before Ickes hadjLorAL „ori MARKET, Brey Station MAGAZINE ARTICLE a chance to speak. I Market steady; top: $14.40; 160 washington, D. C. — Elmer Davis, Denmark, thereby ending the fiction '.hat the little Scandinavian country; wa, a cheerful, willing collaborator and a happy example of the model Nazi vassal state. The Moscow’ radio asserted that Hitler had called a conference of the heads of all satellite state “in order to discuss the international situation" possibly as a result of the Danish-Bal-kan manifestations. which Paramushiro v- a nart, and then were forced to land in Soviet territory because of engine trouble. (The Russian report accounts for one • of two Liberators missing from the Aug. 13 attack on Paramushiro and CIANO AND FAMILY ESCAPE FROM ROME The last 45 of Denmark's 67 fleet un- AND JOHNNIE METZGER its were reported to be lying scorched or sunk in Copenhagen harbor after MARRIED ON SUNDAY heroic Danish seamen, emulating French patriots at Toulon, destroyed ——..... ' their nroud little fleet to keep it out of Nazi hands. Some 50 Danish warships and ar* undetermined number of merchantmen Mr. and Mrs. Harry Church of Mt. the nearby Island of Shimushu. Nine Peasant announce the marriage of planes participated.* thcir daughter Virginia, to Johnnie Metzger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Metz- Ber of Olds, which look place at the eludrd German <*" a,,d naval patrols First Baptist church in Seattle. Wash.. in the narrow “»"»** to a" Sunday, August 29. at 9:00 a. rn. Im- rive safely at ,he sou,h S*’ed,3h P°rt$ of Malmoe and Landskrone bringing U. S. STAMP HONORING FRANCE ON SALE SOON Washington. D. C. — A 5 cent postage stamp honoring Fiance, the seventh stamp in the overrun countries series, will be placed on sale Sept. 28 mediately following the ceremony the couple left for Vancouver, Canada. On hundreds of letugeeo ti urn Nazi ag- London, England — Count Galeazzo Ciano, former Italian foreign minister md son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, es-j •aped from Rome yesterday with his wife and children, the German overseas radio reported today. The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, said Ciano eluded a police guard at his home and fled to an unrevealed haven. j The house had been closely guard- j cd day and night by eight detectives! and Ciano had not left home since their return they will be at home at gresslcn 911 Lakeview Blvd., Lakeview Apt. 20 -C, Seattle ‘2’, Wash. Bo h Mr. and Mrs. Metzger are employed in govern at Waslrfngton. the post office depart- ment WOrk ment announced today. Tile central de- _______ sign of the stamp will be the flag o* France in red, white, and blue, Collectors desiring first day cancellations may send up to IO self addressed envelopes to the postmaster at - Washington wdth cash or money order Chicago, Illinois, —(INS)— Tile in remittances to cover the stamps’ cost. fantile paralysis epidemic reached a INFANTILE PARALYSIS HIGH IN CHICAGO Postage stamps and personal check, r-ew all-time high today in Chicago, will not be accepted in payment, and Dr Herman Bundesen, department of lequests for uncanceled s'amps must health president said the city total was not be included with orders for firs'. 330 cases with 25 new’ cases and wo cay covers. for Ickes came back here mad and re- lg0 lbs $13.80 to $14 20; 190 to 330 director of he office of war infer-j July 26. the broadcast asserted, adding MfYDE* TD AM AIiriTCT ‘that his wife, the former Edda Musso-] 1 “U MURE. rRUiYl AUUUdl fused to allow the ban-lifting as part $13.90 to $14.40; packing sows, mation (CWI), said Saturday night of the program. He may have had $13(M) ^ $13 40. a valid reason, but you cannot convince OPA men of anything except I that Ickes was angry at the leak and J acted from pique, possibly believing* OPA was trying to push him around. Estrangement has continued between Ickes and OPA since then until recently when Bowles asked him to lunch in an effort to patch up differences. LOCAL MARKETS Eggs—36c. Sweet Cream-7-51c. Cream, No. I—50c. Cream, No. 2—48c. Heavy Hens—21c. Leghorn Hens—19c Heavy Springs—25c. Leghorn Springs—23c. Cox—17 c. the agency had asked Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes “some questions” I about his article on the coal controversy in a national Tnagazine. I Davis said the article had been submitted to OWI for clearance and some corrections had been made, ‘‘bu’, for new deaths deaths. There were 105 cases in Cook count} outside Chicago with two new ca;es Sweden Rejects Germany’s Answer Stockholm. Sweden ‘INS*—Sweden today brusquely rejected Germany’s negative answer to her sharp protest over the sinking of two Sw-edish fishing boats by German warships in the Skaggerak The Swedish government refused to accept as “completely absurd" Nazi (Dims that the unken vessels had forfeited their own neutrality by an imi, had left home every day for brief j walks wdth her children and had also received friends. Marriage License Issued Utter they reported an aggregate cl 33 ^ tering .international caters.'- * Editor's Note: A British broadcast heard bv CBS reported that Sweden may retaliate for the sinking and QUOTA ARE ACCEPTED i,nd ninc dea,hs' ,hus there ar" 433 herman .Mutation* bv bantling Sweden** in the area. 27 new ones and «jufc terrjtcria, watW5 t0 the Germans., sentiment in Sweden German injuiftlces, and in Norway and Denmark was greatly increased by Germany’s claim that the j tw-o Swedish craft sunk by Nazi guns John Moore and Darrell Goodard. "’f*1 of 43 dealhs durinB t4ie eP'demi': held over at Camp Dodge a few days there for final examinations last week, were accepted Promoted to Captain t Anti-Nazi aroused bv Melvin Long of the U. S. army, son A marriage license was issued at the by the army. This concludes the re-. ____ __ . . . .1 _____ _________ some reason the corrected copy did courthouse at Washington Saturday 'n port on those called for the Augus of Mrs John Mitchell of Mt. Pleasant, J "forfeited their neutrality” by in tinpot appear in the magazine. Collieis. Marvin Edward W id mer cf Crawfords- quota. Moore was accepted for the has been promoted to the rank of I tionaliv” violating German prohibition He did not say what the con ection.> Vjjje ancl Ethel Pauline Roth of Way- forestry division, a field in wjiich he is Cap ain Capt Long is stationed at! acts sailing in wa mine areas of inter- involved. land. especially qualified. Camp Pilot Knob, Yuma, Adz. national waters.

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