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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 16, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION Si AMPS fuel oil I pxp Jan. 4, 2 exp F*b 9 Gasoline No. 9 Expires Jan 21 Sugar—29 (Book 4) expires Jan 13 Shoes—IR and Airplane I (Bk 3) THE MT PLEASANT \ OL. I XXI—No. 29,3 TIL RS AY. DL (LTM HER IT 1913. CANNED GOODS A. B. (’, Green (Bk 4) expire Dee. 20 I), E F Green 'Bk 4) expire Jan. 20 Meats, Butter. Lard, etc. L M,N,P, B own (Bk3i Expire Jan. I MT. PLEASANT. IOWA THE By Paul Mallon * Distributed by King Feature* 8yn- nrate, Inc., Reproduction in Full or dtrt 9trtet.lv Prohibited.! i IT rain Collision T oil May Exceed I OO More Absent From School They’ll Do It Every Time By Jimmy llatlo WASHINGTON — FA VI ING, HOI BREA1HKD. 'ne hi Ak law on ll it senate elections sub-committee rushed Airward to investigate the nevi Spark' book contentions that Wendell Winkle used more than, campaign oratory, In fact campaign mazuma, to get nominated a' Philadelphia only to decide rather suddenly to postpone its appetite lox the facts until "after the f ii st cf the jear/’ not any special date of the new year, Just sometime then You know how those things are, Christina coming on. Santa Claus nearly here th*- weather cold, etc etc. Wnen “after th*- fir. t of trie year comes, there is more than an even chance that the committeemen will decide It is then leo near spring Indeed, if they get up enough gumption to seek money fi .rn the serial*- for investigating they are likely to co ne to a time-Iv end from lac* of funds. For truth be known the intertwining wires of politics, ii; which they already are entangled, have discouraged them ad and caused great shaking of lh* kn^es among New Dealers Republicans. Isolationist* Democrats Th* v are all looking for the fellow a I,o thought up the idea cf a senate investigation In the first place He is Senator Lang*-: toe North Dakota Republican who'4 primary lnter-e - * in pi ,moling the charges of the leK>k .rems to have tenured on the phase implicating Harry Hopk.n the presidents con-tar.t companion. Steady Increase In Absences This Week A steadv inc:ease in absences in the public .schools has o z urred daily this week with 239 riot pies*-nt today. Supt. C A Cot I rd reported after making a check of the attendance at the three buildings. At Junior high Tit were ab em to-cjav 'I he number absent. Wednesday was 113 and on r uesciav 90 Ai Sa under.-, 42 w<-re absent today. 36 Wednesday and LA Tuesday and f sci oui 'j , v.ere absent I Wednesday and 51 on T number of absences in all st hooks tod av was approximal thitd cl toe en re I. me I.’ Whether the epidemic Is at and th*- absences wn: now .ai line >■ a ■ *■- 'im. ,*.at t iii : tin ce days had the flu h a tilt high iv C3 on day. The .1 of the or.-- ti known tho: e tor n i. a ve peak . de-• oe ie of now School Program Here Is Cancelled ( hristma-Be (.iven Programs Not To Streamliner Plows Into Derailed Train Forty Bodies Removed From Wreckage Ttie Christmas p. ©grams usually given by children of the public schools in two sessions immediately preceding the hokday vacation has been cancelled, Supt c A. Cottrell announced today. i The great number of absences because | uf nine e- from the f.u makes it im- Pa;, mevile. N. Carolina ‘INS) —The pos -.tie to go ahead with the programs cham toil iii the wreckage ol two At-which -'.ere to have been given next lantic Coast Line pa.v^nger trains neat Mor.daj and Tuesday afternoons. Whi’e Red Springs this morning was placed many have teen absent and unable to at better than 50, .shortly before noon practice, many ethers still in school cr today. who nave returned are affected with Southeastern area headquarters of hoarseness and cannot sing. ut o ,ere< .ret- x»i w i then .'lost i v s; cj take til .I i. they OU* Ul of the c tilers tonger EU chil-corne they . fast (iood Renorts On War Chest W. J, Brown of Winfield Dies Fires Hinder War Program County Dairy •*' ft Group Elects New London Township and Winfield Over Top Stricken Suddenly With Heart Attack Two Plants Damaged In Blazes; Loss Is Heavy I III BOOK PRLS EN I S lift- (food Record Over Period ol > ears . pox I V. I , FMC util the Dr 1 • Ai Urn gu> nhr: H House onmving king Dr Connolly lei pieta-Laager ret con-ou se and chan man boort in- < i to na* u* e b Hopkins to a Lee, president of university, imply! con kl handle Wiiikie. or w with hun, and appalanti Lee to run against St'na (this all being Mr. Spark lion of vague tang tag thought he could expose s ne Hon between the Whit Wiiikie. But election* commit tee Green literally drooled at the ny to appoint a strong New Dealing rub-committee. w h i : h presumably would protect Hopkins and go after Willkie and the charger that bi*, Republican money flowed like Morgen-t hauls at the nonufiating convention. Ina* ome < I ha- peop.e bought the Arizona delegation for $19 DCO, an obviously exorbitant '■urn compared with Arizona's insignificant Six de'.* gal* Then Wiiikie seized upon the chances of the committee investigation of him. announcing he would turn it into a defense forum to advertise his unsullied virtue to the world. The sub-committee chairman K/?oi»- of West Virginia, an ardent New Dealer named by Gieen, immediately bef.an to -ee the hearing running awa\ from him. Of the two minority Republicans on the committee, even the idea of whitewashing Willkie paled Vermont s Austin is pro-Wiiikie, and New Hampshire's Bridges is anti-but-careful on the same subject, yet both have been privately suggesting they are not particularly interested in going on. To make these reticences even more unanimous from a Democratic standpoint, the inner politicos have heart, that the Hopkins letter wa- furnisher, to Sparks by Democrats interested in getting Harry Hopkins out of the White House—and 'Sic original of the letter is even now in the hands of that un-l anted administration official. i ne • r. bf rs * Frat: Ronald el, ti' ( Encouraging r ships on tile He drive were re eel From New L Fitzpatrick said in $727 v. Four otiie Winfiek Lions cl toj a Vi fix*I us dry Cot in toe adon five township. J J arn> had turned over tile quota, lid to report Bellamy of the to a- chairman was over the having exceeded the $800 quo. ch wa s fai teams are with G G ary County D H I A id * heir annual me* ting at Eton home. bb® Mi Union, is the ne * -re: nun:; Albert lf*ut vii e pres iden’ La Mo v ne Mosher, secretary and treasurer, and two directors C W Haight and Wm. J Baker constitute the executive board for 1944. Arthur Porter, animal i Ii nm Iowa State college, in his talk to • h<- m- :i.i* . compliment* ii.em very highly on their outstanding accomplish, merit over a p* nob of years with special emu has.s on the 1943 record. Over an 11-month period, there has been tested and average of 365 cows per month with an average production of 33.7 lbs, of butterfat and an average milk production ct 847 lbs. per cow. For the month oi May the average butterfat trict manager of the lowa-Iliincis Tele-production tier cow was 40 lbs., a record I hone coml; ;u.y -rue Mast ii unequaled in the state. Francis Scott, tester for the assoc! anon is-'.' the top lie res from a produc D tioit Midi, the huge Pratt engine building Winfield— W. J. Brown 56, retired business man, *iassed away .suddenly at nu the town- j^is home in Winfield earlv this morn-t> War Chest mg after suffering a heart attack. He had assisted with the War Fund drive this week and had been in his usual health yesterday. Mr. B:own was in the grocery business for many years and less than a year ago closed his store "the Brown aheYs hulTying to safety. Food Marke' ’ bec;*ase oi his health ____ and the fact that his son-in-law, Loren Paisley who assisted him, was called (IMS —Fire damaged & Whitney air plane at the Ford Rouge With County Men And Women In The Service rn* rn* rn, Addle Pvt. Dan S. Either, Cd F. 4th Platoon 314 Rn.", el street. W. L.-fayette. Ind P'S A/N ( has R. E ther, 13th Ceile”" Training Del. Johnson City, Tenn. « Sgl. Edgar Smith cf the U S. Arni' taloned in Ne w Hampshire is home . on a furlough visiting his father, Fred ; Smith at Lowell, and with other rein- can ^ reached tives and friends. Wa New adc:re. VS Keith E. GI ver. Eqdn. G—Sect, 87. 309 Cig. Tng. Get. (ac> Texas Tech College. Lubbock, Texas. ft* Word has been received here by Mr i and Mrs F. J. Edwards that their en. ; the American Red Cress at Atlanta reported that field representatives at the .‘■cene of the wreck estimated that the ,toll would run up to IOO. The injured are estimated to total more than IOO. At least 40 bodies have been removed from the wreckage and carried to undertaking establishment at Red .Springs An undertaker In Red Springs reported that bodies were coming in so fast that an accurate check was impossible, and no attempt has yet been made to identify the victims. Red Cress officials stated that the rescue work is progressing very slowly as workers are forced to use acetylene torches to cut away portions of the coaches before tile injured and dead Rescue work is also hampered by near zero weather and the .ce and snow The accident occurred about 2 30 tills morning when a north bound train was derailed and the South-bound streamliner ploughed into the wreckage. At least three coaches of the northbound train were overturned. p.a:.' earl;, to slay curtailing p: touc- gnd Lieut. Walter N. Edwards, who is Hon, although officials said only one v as injured and nine others were overcome by fume.', in the blaze that sent unit personnel officer at Camp Carson, Wju* Now Ffltcnni? Colo., has been promoted to 1st lieu- - tenant. into the army. Besides his wife he is ta slightly at this time and with additional gift- expected. Scott township's bandman rural drive was making good progress survived by Hie daughter, Mr also. Three of th* ll teams in Tippecanoe in Ireland, one brother, George of Marlow nvhip had turned in $230, Fred OWt, shaltown. and one sister, Mrs Clara Its Crucial Phases ^ London, England <INS)—*The Algiers Mrs, Nelson Brooks has rece.ved tile iadio sported today thai General Eis- Dallax. Texas. (INS)—The pectacu- address ol her daugnter who recently cnhower. ailed commander in chief of lar fire which burned * ar loads of mag- j0in(.(i the WAC; Beatrice M. Riley, tlie Mediterranean theater, had mas chairman, said today. SCHRUPP PROMOTED TO MINNESOTA DISTRICT New Load n—W H Schrupp, dis- ,ois 7 1934. received a message that he has b*en p.o-moted to manager of the Slay ion Mir.n., district It is a much large. resium and the foundry, machine pvt A g ^ 702707, Co Ma urine shcFfc and offices of a government plant ’ m Par ley the son-in-law, Loren Pa.s.ey Cperw$®d near Dallas bv the Austin i New address Lieut. Robert Baker, Bridge Co., was burning itself out to- 720 N. Palafox street, Pensacola, Flor-day. The loss is estimated at several u.a millions of dollars. -- No one reported a, injured. Th, PRESIDENT BACK fire started last night in the foundry. Bc-hieu of Washington, la. Funeral service will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Win- f.eld Methodist church with the pastor. Rev. J. C Porath in charge. IN UNITED STATES 4 Regt. 5. 2nd sa§ed bds troops that "the war is no’* entering its crucial phases." The broadcast, heard by Reuters, quoted Elsenhower as saying, “I ask each soldier to do his utmost.’’ All London informed observers be lieved the message might herald an all-out allied offensive in Italy. ... .. . v . Churchill 111 Miss Margaret Baker wj(h ,>neum((nia 1 aken bv Death __ London. Bogland (INS' Continued Progress On Italian Front Algiers. Algeria, 'INS) -Continued progress by the 8th army in the Or-The president, who left the U 3 on scgna sector in the face of furious Naz: rhe nlaim- Noy ^ js not yel ,n washington and lesistance and bad weather, was re- Wa.'hmgtcn, D C. 'INS)—The White House announced this afternoon that President Roosevelt ha:- returned safely to the United Staten ticn standpoint for the calendar year ending 1942: A. eruge BF per cow Ronald Gibbs. Mf. Union ...... 445.9 Mt Pleasant Stat- Hospital 443 C L Schrieber. Lockridge 440.7 Albert Ha ut. Winfield.....134.7 C W Ha iglu Winfield . 420 Henry Co Heme, Mt Pleasant 405.3 The O T Wilson herd of Jerseys and the I wa Penitentiary Holstein herd at Ft. Madison have a partial recced 1 r 43 and have been making outstanding results. district than here and ai Miss Margaret Baker, a patient at ing disclosuie hat 69 year old Pi im* wixite House did not disci:se the ported today by General Eisenhower. one town where they operate the electric light plant. The area covers -outh-ern Mi rules: ta and part of S;uth Dakota. T. J Ne femur., erg.neer at the main office cl the Centra I Electro: and Telephone Co at Sicux Falls, S D will succeed Mr Schrupp here sometime after the first of the year. He is a man of middle age and married. J *nc*U(i'‘' the Memorial hospital the last few Minister Winston Churchill has been t;me de js expected to return to th weeks, died at the hospital this after- stricken with pneumonia somewhere in noon about 3 15. Miss Baker was the middle-east, was made to the house tricker in her apartment at the Glen of commons today. Nihart home and had remained clit- Deputy Prime Minister Major Rich ic a lh- ill. MRS. CHARLES GREEN FUNERAL SATURDAY ard Clement Attlee made the announcement and despite his assurances that the premiers condition is satisfactO'.y •as can be expected" an immediate depression wa- noted on the London Germans Increase Their Air Power On the 5th army front, Lieut. General Clarks forces battled their way forward and captured an important held position. On the Adriatic end of the batt) 1 front General Montgomery’s Anglo-Canadian troops reached the important Crtona-Or.-.cgna read in three separate Secretary places, after a furious Unk and infan- M0RGAN-VANDAGR1FF WEDDING ON DEC. 26 IF THE INVESTIGATION DEVELOPS this .-.apposition, it will expose a fight against Hopkins within the presidents own official family. On the other bund tile charge has been made by an international columnist that the book is really isolationist propaganda, written bv isolationist Senator Gerald Nye instead of its pro- ANGUS BREEDERS PLAN SALE FOR MAY The eleven counties in the district were represented at the Aberdeen Angus breeders dinner and meeting here Wednesday evening, and plan.' were made to have a sale next May. The sale will be held in Mt. Pleasant if use of tne McMillan Park buildings can be obtained. Earl Canby and Dan Cash were named as the committee to make plans for the sale with Cash as the manager of the sale. Invitations are cut to the wedding cf Miss Louise Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, F. A. Morgan, and J. Earl Vandagriff, Jr., son of Mr, and Mrs. J. F Vandanriff Washington, D. C. (INS) of War Stimson revealed today that try advance captured the town of Be ' t stock exchange and public *ppr°hension ,de qC!mans nave increased their air largi. Funeial seiiice foi Nils. C-hailes over his illness Was appaient every- i-abpf thp Ttnixin front and re-cee,, Who riled Tues*,, evening at „hCre ;££ aT. d en "e h^r of Et. Madison after being overcome by Chuichu suffered an earlier attack of Ban (),. Dec 2, the Nazis destroyed at refrigerator gas .umes at .he Gieen pneumonia only last February. lea^t five American merchant ships -tore, will be held Saturday- afternoon The finest medical authorities of an(i causec{ an estimated 1.000 casual- at one o’clock at the Hall Funeral home Great Britain are attending the Prime ties in Ft Madison with Rev. Wilson Hyde Minister, Atlee announced. _ Churchill is in London but his One Killed Pleasant on Sunda\ afternoon, Dec. 26. officiating and at three oclock at the Mrs Trinity Methodist church in Keokuk, son, Randolph and his sister, Sarah Ph W(‘df:n-~- 'Al11 takc Burial will be in the Oakland cemetery who we e present with him at the Cairo. In Nebraska Wreck place at toe Me:nodu-; chur n in Mt. at Keokuk. and Teheran conferences which im- Silver Creek. Nebr. (INS) Mrs. Green was born in Keokuk in mediately preceded his illness, are be- Union Pacific railroad engineer 1903 and resided in Mt. Pleasant eight lieved to be at his bedside years while she and Mr. Green had a-- grocery store here. They have operated a stole at Ft. Madison the last .'even years. Farewell Party For Guy Hummells F lends anti neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hummed and family gathered at their beautiful country home and gave them a farewell party Saturday evening. The Hummels are moving into _ Mt. Pleasant. They were presented the New York with a very nice and u ' till token. DONALDSONS BUY MCLERAN PROPERTY Vote Boost For Spanish War Vets Washington. D C The house Wednesday passed by voice vote and sent to the senate a bill increasing pensions of Spanish-American war veterans and ‘hcT widows. The measure would increase pen ions Silver Creek, Nebr. (INS1 - A veteran cl Spanish-American war veterans was from $60 to $75 a month and for theii killed and the locomotive and even widow ' from $30 t:• $40 a month, both cars of an express train were derailed effective upon reaching the age of 65 when the train anc! a .'emi-tra:ler truck A widows pension would b' increased collided at a crossing near Silver to $50 if she was married to the vet- Attack Railroad Junction In Austria Algiers, Algeria. (INS)-—Large lh roc of allied bombers heavily attacked th railway junction LO miles north cf the Brenner Pass to ad ive publisher of fesvsed author. C. Nelson Sparks, former Herald-Tiibune, the Cowles brothers Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Merle mayor of Akron and campaign man- and other*- a move which may well Cans, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nelson, Clara ager of Gannett iii 1940 dampen Mr. Wiliness ardor toward Ne!.*on. Ms ami M s. R ilph Binge and dayt and ajs0 blasted tile Viaduct over The truth about that seems to be that turning the investigation into his own lamily. Mr. and Ms. H E. Mveis, Mi. Avisio liver and the Bolzano rail Nye's secretary, Gerald Movius. a well- endeavor, and ^rs- Ra’l'h Myers. Lloyd and El- known writer who hits the Saturday That there will have to be an mvesti- canal*, Mr. and Mrs Walter Reynolds I veiling Post two or three limes a year, ration, a real search tor facts bv some and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Lf,s-' was known to Sparks, who is no writer, judicially toned authority, the above* sanger and family, Mr. and Mrs. Art and Agreed to do a re-write job on the cited incidents make certain, although Myers. I ria and Ed Saum*. Mr. and book after it was finished by Sparks— the participants do not seem to realize M -. Orville Wed and Jerry, James and, therefore, had no connection with it vet. Such charges cannot be left Sheets. Mr. and Mrs. Damien Burns, must cither reduc^ the number of its the charges or facts presented- Nye had hangtag permanently In mid-air. Mr. and Mrs. Percival Myers, and Mr. grant®, or the amounts involved, bencite at all. But if the investigation is conducted and Mrs. Eugene Ye ley and family. cause of curtailed income due to p e- Finallv, Sparks himself seems to have by the now shy Kilgore committee, it vailing low rates of interest, Waiter A. added a death blow to the inquiry bv is likely to be nothing more than a proposing to summon WiUkie’s leading free-for-ali political row iii which no Creek, today. Crushed and buried under the ov turned locomotive was Otto Beckle Wayne T. Garretson of the real es- Omaha. tats turn of Garretson and Garretson, - and Ro:t Hannah, house saleman, re- Pensacola Has First eran at the time of hi; military service. eav 1a 11 ports the sale of the Thornton MtLeran o * o* lfiQC ■n of Inn* br uck. Austria. ....... , .. u„h snowstorm OIHCC 1898 yards, 35 miles south cl the pats. Carnegie To Reduce Gifts; Income Is Down New York. N. Y.—The Carnegie Corp. ha use on Franklin street to Mr. and Mrs. F< ne t Donaldson of Salem. Iowa. This s a bungalow tone oi house, full basement, stoker heat Mr. and Mrs. Ton a Id.son purchased thn property for a home. DANCE AT GOLF CLUB ON DEC. 29 r iirsians Control ? It' Miles Along River Moscow, Russia (INS)—Russian armies held control cf a 250 mile st ret h of the twisting Dnieper river from Nikopol to Cherkassv today as a re.'UK dent . many of whom never had seen a of the junction ot their Cherkassy and snowstorm, looked on rn amazement as Kremenchug bridgeheads, two brief flurries, lasting about 13 min- Red army troop' fanning out scuth- wesfc of Cherkassy linked up with its moving up from Kremenchug. One Ru alan column batt* red its way for-waid 12 miles below Cherkassy, to ap-! roach within three miles of the vitally Pensacola, Fla,—Snow fell here te-dav tor the first tune since 1898 Re.'i- utes tach, blanketed the city. A dance will be held at til? Golf and Country club on Wednesday. De: 2.9 Mi s Ada Wilson, employed at the Jessup, president, announced Sunday. The committee in charge is Mr. an I e \s the last few 1 eeks. went to Iowa He said the corporation’s curtent in- Mrs. Bruce Rohde. Mr. and Mrs. Fran- friends, Thoipas Lamont of J P Moi- one ever will know what was true, and City tooav to make pinna for en olla: gan and Company, Mrs. Ogden Reid, the public* will be little the wiser. at "he University. come is only three-fifths cf what it was , cis He bb M and Mrs. Lloyd Estes IO years ago aud Mr and Mrs Harold Hawkin'. U*Reats Failing; Hitler Calls Admirals To Explain Berne. Sw it: erland—It was announcer .important rail road junction cf Smeia. tomcat from Berlin that. Hitler has Meanwhile, Rec army forces battling called in fcr consultation his U-boat desperately to check the German admiral, Karl Doenitz, for a "d.setts- counter ofTensr e against Kiev, regained sion of the present. U-boat warfare ' save ai populated points from the en-Recent Ce man claims for sinkings in (vrv as the tide cf the ever changing th Atlantic h ive dropped to new,lows. a ain turned against the Nam

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