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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 17, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Fuel oil 1 exp. Jan. 4, 2 exp. Feb. 9 Gasoline No. 9 Expires Jan 21 Sugar—29 (Book 4) expires Jan 15 Shoes—18 and Airplane 1 (Ilk. 3) VOL. LXXI—No. 21)1 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS FRIDAV, DECEMBER 17, 19 i.1 < ANNED GOODS A B. C, Green <Bk 4) expire Dee. 28 E F Green Bk4) expire Jan. 2J Mrats B’.itler. Lard. ele. L.M.N.P. Brown (Bk3) Expire Jam 1 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Storekeepers Con trol Employment Babson Urges Them To Wake Up American Troops Gain In New Invasion Damage Suits Total 86.000 L ltimoic, Mti * Cop, right 1043, Pub-lishet F iruu.cial Bureau. In< > Committees are being foamed by industrial, isl.s ini over the country to insure employment for returning soldier and war-plant workers These committee, will be iound in Washington and in every slate and in many cities. Pau. G Hofl.nan, president oi the Studebakei Corporation, F C Crawford, president of the National As ociation ol Manufacturers and Eric A Jehnston, president of the U. S. Chamber oi Commerce are leaders in lint impoitan. woik We also read in magazines how the General Electric and other large from Jesse Mnler They’ll Do It Every Time •** 4 T*mm By Jimmy Hatlo Glanzmans, McTee Bring Action Against Miller companies are now drawing blueprints to provide for postwar unemployment These committees, however, are composed almost wholly cl manufacture’s. Importance of Merchants We heal Utile from storekeeper big o, small, independents oi chains These peop.e seem to feel that, their hands are tied and that they must take whatever comes from the manufacturers, in the form of goods to .eil or from the public in the form of good to buy, '1 nils a very wrong attitude for merchants to takf -Storek'«je , are really silting in the driver’s seat. They shcuid wake up and realize it. Manufacturers after sending out a few : amp.es—make their goods only on order- Even ‘the great national industries are dej>endent upon their -salesmen and their advertising campaigns and finally upon the storekeepers. The future of these big national-, known companies is 100 per cent in the hands of shopkeepers, .aige and mah I fe*-. so strong.y about tins that I believe F. A. Giui.zmun James McTee ana A F Gianzman have filed uits with the clerk of the district court here seeking a tot a, of $6,000 in damage of the men asks for $1,000 $1,000 punitiv* Good old PROF DRVDOME' AT ALL MIS LECTURES ME POTS MORE PEOPLE ID SLEEP THAN KNOCK-OUT DROPS'" 60 WE SE£ N^f HOW IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE, dqama AND STORY CONSTRUCTION HAD REACHED ITS .ZENITH-I QUOTE - J 3uTASkTHE NEIGHBORS WHAT LUCK ME MAS GETTING MIS OWN KID TO cork off-' ■So THE THREE \Gj BE ACS CAME HOME V J UNEXPECTEDLY- /I And the PAPA BEAR UPON OPEN’ I NO THE DOOR WAS Ac HAST"' WiU. County Men |L{)sses y ht And Women In ... XT . The Service Un N. I>ntain respective suit dr mages and in his actuai carnage*-T;.ey charge that on Nc fer.dent whlfuly and malic a v. arrant t' be issued pla ntiff s with the -i:n.e fences, produce or fixture cr mischievously. The men state they were and restricted of liberty inti cf November when the court the case and discharged the They claim the-, were dam r< • of ha us crfciu mfmerm ir, weie and ii : having wllif u!l carm* s a resul Jap Defenders of One Town Flee In Rout General MacArtiiur s Headquarters, m* f. F"i. (Government censon-L p rules continue to ask that unit identifications and ship name- not be pu.lished for servicemen at sea or overseas. This* explains why APO and FPO addresses I are not published in The News. Fre- , quent repo ts are received that “other |New Guinea UNSi-American invasion papers are publishing them." If these i t*rocPs on liie island cf New Britain i reports are true, the papers are violat- lcaa.'- consolidated their cea-h nead by ing the censorship request. The News! occupying the entire Arawe peninsula would like to publish these addresses and tattling the.r way inland through as a favor to the families and .so that tangied vegetation and o.h< i volcanic friends might write to the men. but <lLr:aln Several enemy attacks on the believes it should comply with the re-que t cf the censorship bureau * Pvt. John F. FreehHI, 3rd Platoon Btry N 24th C A.j Fort Wadsworth, New York, Light 775. Staten Island. even arrested on malicious charg matter of public record ai.d a was subject of comment in the local newspaper and gave great pub.ic-lty to the matter of arrest and unlawful prosecution and this greatly increased President Hack At White House TownshipsMav Epidemic Peak Exceed Quotas Hdicve<lJ’a5Swl ( pi. Harry F. Garmoe, A. 8 N. 37191- 696, IIq. Students Regt.. T D Si’h., Camp Hood. Texas. * Th< cciroct ar.fii«■; ol Pvt. Beatrice Itiley i 702707. Co 4 Reg .3, 2nd WAC Training Center, Davtcna Beach. Fior-ida. * S I < II ir* Id Kerr, n ol Mr. and Mrs John Kerr, is home on a fifteen cay leav H - is station* d at Camp Scott, Farragut, Idaho. merchant, shouid receive some special j lhe humility and disgrace growing oui tes and ^ 'a*a*se and malicious prosecution 7 he Will Make < hristma> Kvt Report on Plans Attendance Higher At Two newly won positions were successfully ! beaten -off. ! Coincident with the advance on New !Brita.n, Australian jungle troops in New Guinea moved up on the Huon peninsula toward Laxona. 13 miles north of Finschhafen. Capture of La-kona was exoected m enentarLy. i Japanese defenders of Arawe on the southwest coast of New Britain fled -.efoie the Americans m complete rout, atandonuig equipment in panic and setting fire to supply dumps. I The American surprise invasion in strength of this enemy held southwest Pacific island, announced in an offi-,ial comm uni ,ue b1 General Mae Arthur, was accomplished “without the loss cf a single Allied plane or ship at dhn Wednesday. “Casualties amon2 the invaders also tax consideration- by ciues, the Federal governm* nt ;n the war struggle for employment ( (tain ^tore .Managers In addition to in*- merchant le sibiiity for national employment, stores have a special local respoi tty When I wa u bov, Glow £Mj -fendants were compelled to employ counsel 10 defend against said false and malicious charges and were disgraced in the eves of the community uni and suffered much humility on of said unlawful arrest, the further charges account pi titioii Wi Roosevelt ret a today ana it nounced that make a Christ the world on D C rned w a i the ma. Al (INS — President to the White House i m mod lately a n -ihief executive will All Making Good Show- School Buildings ing; Four Over Top Lieut. (j. g.i L. W. Cross ha been appointed to the teaching staff at the vvere e:'tremely Hght, University of Arizona. Tuc :n, where he _ __ ha- b en taking his indoctrination Attendance in two o: the public Lieut Cr •- is teaching navigation and Crushing Blow school buildings was higher today than expects to remain in Tucscn perma-the Thursday, but there was an increase in ; nentlv. His address is: Lieut, (j. g>, the number bf absences at S* under- L. W. Cross. U s. N R N T S. Eve radio re; ted war and or’, tc peace Individual Hond (Quotas Are Higher himiiii. The P f i* eption gresslonal iden and lead on an his cabinet wh* White House loric mi-^ion an impr orn t. he . <!h panic returned t 9:25 a m from his his- ceeded their quotas the Middle East amounts. ,x>n- ' liMill nibil-• Per Ma achun * is, had a leal Man. Street where most of the stores are located and it Ls Mill known as Main Street ’ Forty years ago the stores were all “independents ' owned by local people who were the leaaers in the churches and civic organization: of the community. These former independent stores De.s Moines. Ia (INS*—I .wa s war have since nearly all vanished; both bond quota for the four h war loan sides of Main Street are now lined with campaign has been set at S177.CCOOCO, "foreign” chains. V L. Clark, executive rn&nager of the Chain stores have come to stay. They Iowa War Finance committee, an-are as necessary and as important a nounced today, part of the distnbuting system as are The national quota is $14,000,003,005, department stores, mail order houses a billion dollars lev than the quota for and independents. States or citie.s the Thud war loan campaign In Sep-wiiich are handicapping the chains by tember. special taxes or otherwise are making While county quotas are no: yet a huge mistake. The chains are ren- available, Clark said that the total-deiing a real service to consumers and for the counties would be lower, but producers by providing fresher goods; that quotas for ikiles to individuals and and better styles,—and all at lower E b aid quotas would b higher prices. After World War II. when peo- Increased sales to individuals will be pie may again be obliged to coun’J the goal of the campaign. The Iowa their pennies, these chains will be a Series E Bond quotas will be $66,600,000, godsend But I do appeal to ’lie man- and the quota : r individuals wii. b _ agers ol these chain stores to make $103,000,000 rhe corporation quota ,v, Thf. M: Pleasant high school bas-more friends with the people of their i be lower and will total $74X00.000. ketfcall team will go to Keokuk tonight communities by becoming more active The -Hogan for the Fourth war loanjto batlle the Keokuk quintet in a In their churches, civic organizations . campaign will be 'Let s All Back the jeague gamo While Keokuk has a ccm- FJaaiv report* indicate ail of townships of Henry county will go ove. ... Tke f’u eoidemic nrofcablv has nasfoet Staff Lmver.-ity cf Arizona. Tuc-on the top m their respective War Chest ^ ■ cir ves the peak at Junior High ar.d the high 1 Ariz, The county headquarter.' in Mt. school and likely *as a the peak atj ieasant received word todav that New I Saunders today. Jefferscn and Salem At Tunicr High the number of abate over Of the| sence-s dropped to 113 today and there the towns, Wayland and Winfield have ex- considerably fewer absences at substantial Seni°c High. At Saunders, 65 were absent today, or nearly 44 percent of By U. S. Bombers Ve n- London, Scott, townships already TAXI CAB BANDIT CONFESSES SLAYING by Alg.er-', Africa (INS* - Another crushing blow b' American four-en-giiied Flying Fortresses and Liberators against Geiman con nunications con-neciipg ItaU' anci Austria was reported tcday fcv General Eisenhower. For the third day in succession the American bombers roared out against the ei^emy’s communication and supply lines, this latest sortie carrying them Des Mcine.%—Earl William Hoelscher The Joint congressional reception was The drive in the other towns Tnclud- the enrollment. j 19 a former marine who fought on agajnst the rail bridge and tifhnei at seer as recognition of the fact the pres- ing M* Pleasant continued satisfac- School officials were hopeful that Guadalcanal. Thursday confessed to Dogna> in the Alps south of the Aus-nient wa> re’ irnir.c fi n the . re&’e ’ torily, but the Mt Pleasant business there v°uld be an Improvement over, the slaying on Nov. 19 cf a salesman trMn border, and to the rail center of *..<•• of ,nt*-i national wartime confer- district was needmg further work by week ei;C* anc^ -iU • Lt pci - (-*ta* F(« . Wavne. Ind.. ac^ordin0 t padua, in central Italy, ences m which, an Amei .can chief ex- the solicitors Some of the business centage of the pupils absent this week j police. All the American aircraft returned ecu live has ever participated. district teams have either not started W1*J oe back in school by I Hoehxhei vas arrestee here .a, t safejy i Saturday after he was wounded in ? Secret:, notified that the president or have only a small part of their Monday wa- returning this morning, -ome 100 work done. They are urged to get out of the nation's leaders hurried to the immediately. White House to greet Mr Roosevelt in the diplomatic reception room. The president was deeply tanned and appeared completely rested despite the live arduous weeks and the 25.000 mile journey. He was in a good humor. MEN LISTED IN CLASS 1-A gun battle with police. He admitted robbing several De.s Moines taxicab c , . nt drivers uHlHShin^ oiOWS In his gned confes ion Hoelscher At Jap Supply Lines High School Team At Keokuk Tonight and. welfare movamenbf Investors Have a Responsibility In the final analysis the owner- of big department stores, mail order houses. and chains are the stockholders w ho read my column Therefore, the final re.-qxmsibility rests upon us. Let us not be indifferent and rely upon tne greai advantages which merchandise seeur- Attack , Clark .said. paratively weak team this -.ear. M’ i Pleasant ha.s been the "goat” in previous meetings with the Keokuk boys | on other occasions. Much will depend : on wbfther the locals are battling as they did against Washington. NOne of the mt nber.s of the team Wilma Eubank presented the have been hit by the current epidemic Project lesson "Short Cuts in of flu. Presents Home Project Lesson At Sponberg Home Mrs Home ities always have had. It is true that Housework ’ t » the following ladies a 1-- the chains have no conversion prob- the home of Mr. Russell Spongerb on CrUAfVI NORTH OF lem, no troublesome bond issues and i Tuesday. Dec 14: Be sie Lyon, Velma ” are not tied down on one location. Ecli, Ruth Sp nberg. Helen Bates L ua Merchants do not require skilled help Gilla pey. Maxine Seberg. Charlotte and hence will have low postwar labor Wilson, Gladys McG han, Fannie -Se-I costs. They are not tied down to onefberg and Kitty Hanae. kind of goods, like a manufacturer; The group also appreciated seeing a but they can purchase the best goods demonstration on making candles from wherever they are manuiactured and cld candles and crayolas. C0PP0CK DESTROYED they can sell them at the lowest prices. What About Inflation? No one, in the long run, can profit frcm inflation; but far-sighted mer- A potluck dinner was enjoyed a the noon hour. has frontiers ol undeveloped land chants should surely be able to profit | which have taken care of the unem- by it for a few years. While railroad- ployed after previous wars. This may and public utilities may suffer great- be true of new lard, but it is not true ly from inflation, the merchandise in of new discoveries. The end of the stores is slowly rising in value. Hence war may find your city one of the along with good farms, certain oil great frontiers of America clue to the stocks, etc., merchandise securities development of new products, new Washington. Between four ai 1 five o’clock Thursday morning, the Eurekt school building, .-ix and cne-.ialf miles ,-outh of Washington, on the Coppock read, was destroyed by fire, with its contents. The Eureka school has eleven pupil-who lost their books and other school equipment in the fire, as nothing was Lumber town, N saved from the burning buildm was a mass of flames when the Another grcup of men have been cld-b.fied in 1-A at the Henry County Selective Service office. They are: Harry Edward Moss Leo Percival Craig Ht>old Elmer Niece Robert E. Lee Stanley Gardner Arthur Ritchie Morrow Norman Alfred Pete/son John Stauffer Robert Leslie Gilla--pey Fester Malhe Gill Meredith William Steward Charles Henry White Dale Richard Foss Rex Miles Payne Gerald W'ayne Andersen Dale Irwin Thornburg Henry Eugene Osborn Malcolm Floyd Mason Melvin Ray Rich Wayne Lewc, Kiopienrtein Edward Junior Van Dor in Wayne Eugene Allender Dec The time h EXTEND TIME FOR CHAUFFEURS LICENSES _ | declared he shot Jack F Scheme, a r aiiffpnr rpr »w iK m»- ho oh* mpr’ Chicago sale.-man. ribbed him of $33 Washington, D. C. < INS- —• Long- at the Henrv countv court hou-e Sat ! and threw his bcKi> in a creek, accord- ranS# American submarines have deliv- SSl*"* *» ■*“> C-temno. er- n«w.smas^ blow, at Japan. Hoelscher said in his confession that • upply ,ines by sinking 8 ca,go ships m j whilp n'f-firino- hie mflrinp uniform h*- foray.> throughout the Paciiic ano Fal fact that paper f~r applications could wniie wearing nis marine unnorrn, ne not be obtained sooner. * Each person ; :’ad hitch-hiked a ride with Scheine in a~ e “ _ . . , , c,tiii->aDro Hp shot Scheine thrnti2h thp ^ his was reported by the Navy ;Oday must appear in person with his or her ; nuicago m noi acneme uir-ugn tne M 4. *. * -» head as. the sale-man «leDt in his ca>- in a communique that listed the casual- own license, take the vision test, and : ncaa as w.e s<ue..iuaxi m iu.-> v,a. , , ,. , . j narked alone the hizhwav the con- tics as two »arge transisorts, two large sign the new application. Men m serv-: *-a™ u uw mgHway, wi v ni fession gaid tankers, three medium freighters and Threw Money Away, r ne . mail freighter. Ca.-telline quoted Hoelscher as saying The latest successes by the Yankee ice need not worry’ as their licenses are automatically extended by law until 6 months after they are honorably dis charged. Will. A. McKa.sson, Drivers License Examiner. I he became so scared by the sight cf subs lock on adaed Mgh.ficance in view . blcod“ on the money he obtained from <f the Allied invasion of New Britain Scheine that he threw the $33 in a to.- Island tn the road to the important let in Chicago. Jap case at Rabaul. Destruction of the tight enemy vessels boosted the total war score for American subs to 374 ships sunk, 36 p.obably sunk and 114 damaged. The total includes .10 warships sunk. These ana other crushing attacks by sea and air forces against Japanese Train Death Toll Now at 81 C. i INS/—The death It,; toll in the wreck of two Atlantic coast fire line passenger trains near Lumbertown was discovered and nothing could be! climbed to 81 victims today, done to save either the building cr the Wrecking crews reported 12 bodies stih contents. were trapped in by a mass of twisted , Mrs. Lzuise Gilla.-pry is teacher oi *teel in the wreckage in adjfiticn to .the school. She lives at the home of the 69 deaths previously reported. CHURCHILL CONTINUES hospitai TO SHOW IMPROVEMENT MEHITS OF H0SP1IAL U MlUW IMTKU VfcWIfcN W£RE C0NSIDER£D London, Eng. <INS>—Prime Minister - Winston Churchill, battling against his A copy ol the Supreme Court ruling second attack of pneumonia in ten made Tuesdav on the Henry County months, continued to improve today: HosqUal appeal in the Anna Wright supply hues paved the way lor many somewhere in the Middle East. s Shumaker estate, was received by at- cf the recent Allied invasion successes An official release at No 10 Downing j torneys here tcday. It is stated in the in the central and southwest Pacific. - tree? reported tersely that the Pre-j opinion that the Soyreme Court "care- - • tnier's improvement in general condi- fully considered the merits of the ap-tion has been maintained “ ; pea..” and that the decision of the LomberS Strike Meanwhile, political quarters in Lon- trial court appears to be right Perlin Affain dor. discussed the possibility that an Justices Mulrcney and Miller dissent- ® /interim premier may have to be seiec- ed, stating that in their opinion the London, Eng. 'INS —Strong i rces Of ted to carry.’ on vital war matter-. pioperty in queition shcuid have been giant RAF’ Lancaster bombers gutted I subjected to decedent's debts. large areas of Berlin last night, the air TWO IOWA WFSI FYAN Mrs. Shumaker had willed her home minirtiy .mnounc* i today in < fifteen , propen» to her brother and sistet hundred ton -a.c wh.ch kindled roar* STIJDFNTS IN WHO’S WHO and at,,)he"" and li*e ltaai Que>* in8 lin- in k y area JiUULlllJ 111 wnu J jtion raised on behalf of the county The fifth major attack o:i Berlin in • hospital was • whether the property less than a month, the assault cost the FUNERAL SATURDAY ought to be the best inflation hedge.. methods and new ideas. I hope that her bother, Paul Bell near the school Storekeepers, after the war. should have every city in which this column is another great advantage, namely, printed will remember the famous story through the ending of price controls, by Dr. Russell H Con we 11. “Acres of rationing, etc.. which is inevitable. Con- Diamonds”. This is a story of a man FOR MARGARET BAKER sidering how well the chains and inde- who travelled all over the world seek- _ pendents have got on during the war, ing diamonds and finally found one of Funeral services for with all these regulations* and other the largest deposits in ihs own back- Baker, who die: at Memorial hospital they are eligible to obtain fuel oil. the Buying Oil Heater? Determine Eligibility First Miss Imoitene Bates and Norman j Weis, Iowa Wesleyan .-indents, will b< listed in the 1943-19-11 issue of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges The book is published through the cooperation of over COO American univer.* tie- and colleges. PUBLIC GATHERINGS could be devised by will free of debts. RAF 3C rimes and v.a.; c rried qut un-An earlier report which appeared in de: weathe*- ccndriun- which returning the News stated tire decision was sole- crewmen described as idea; ly on a technical po.nt, but it now ap- British Pathfinders opened the attack pears that the merits cf the case were shoitlv before 7:00 p. m laying their tuily considered and passed upon by tn i indicate!s light on the German the Court. eapitol and blazing the route for the - giant heavy bomber- which pounded >h“ Russian Forces 1 tv wi h ' ”:l "r - 2S* Hold Initiative MOSCOW RUSS a 'INS' minute period. A'- the Lancasters approach rd they flew through Nazi f.ght-Russian fore- er flares which started thirty mile- Pei sons who are expecting to buy an BANNED AT HUMBOLDT Miss Margaret oil heater should first find out whether ___ Humboldt, la. (INS)—Public gander- es 1 eld the initiative again today in the awav fiom Berlin i self handicaps, you may quickly visualize yard. Every store—whether an inde- Thursday alien oon. will be held at the local rationing office pointed out today, ings were ban red . nci all thurche raging battle west of Kiev, while othc: Other British planes attacked tamer, what they can accomplish when these pendent cr member ol a chain—can be- St. Alphonsus Catholic church Satur- Some person.- are ineligible to get oil schools and theater in Hun b ar w e Soviet hoops 2<X) miles to the south- m v rthcrn Francs* wui'e M jui o handicaps are removed. ccne an acre of diamonds if the owners day me:ning at 9:30. Rosary will be and in at least one case purchase of a under orders today to cl se until n tm.st were reported to have buttered planes bombed o ctive- m western Onf moie thought. The pessimists will xt*tp awake and obsei\e the Gold- recited tonight at 8.30 at the Crane stove before Determining eligib lity has 2, as a precautionaiy measure to ci.. r. t! way into me o.itskirrs of the im- GcTman*. anc laid mi »- in eneniv tcday claim that America no longer en Rule. Funeral home. lt d to embaiassment. the spread cf influenza. U hub of Em* la. wan r-

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