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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 20, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa—W- "'WW I VALID RATION ST A MTS T'Uel oil I exp. Jan. 4, 2 exp. Feb. 9 (lanoline No. 9 Expires Jan 21 Sugar—29 (Book 4) expires Jan 15 Shoe?*--18 and Airplane I (Bk. 3) VOL. I,XXI, No. 2% THE MT PLEASANT NEWSMONDAY, DEC. 20, 194.3 CANNED GOODS A B. C. Green 'Bk 4i expire Dor. 20 Ii. E. I Green (Bk4> expire Jan, 20 Meats. Butter. Lard, etc. L.M.N.P.Q Brown Bk3) Expire J aru I MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Russia’s New Offensive Thunders On THE' By BxUL MALLON ♦ Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited ! Go Over Too In W ar ( hest I They’ll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo WASHINGTON — NO ONI HERI has exhibited more than ca uai diplomatic politeness to conceal the displeasure of State Secretary Ho.I an I our foreign i>olicy makers (possibly Including Mr Roosvelt himself! over The treaty Stalin has concluded with Benes of Cocco-Slovakia You may nave noticed the stat'- department gave out innotuou comment when asked about the matter -a*.in; it was .something that long had been under consideration and was not understood to be in conflict with general post-war security. They would have put & question mark after that comment if they hail been expressing their doubts Truth is before Tehran Hull intervened and held up conclusion Of the treatie Indeed, no other position Is possible here in view' of Mr Hulls as-. ni durance to congress in his report after his Moscow conference, that there woulo bi- no alliances and no spheres of Influence or balance of power in the future world The agreement therefore, cannot be interpreted as one of the deeper meanings of the Teheran pact, but it must be accepted as the first public Indication of what Russia wants for post-war-Europe Half of Townships and Three Towns Over 7-VJW000?5^'0A\SY -SEE , IRMA- I Told you i mao a wav with ^ ( CMI LOREN — WE’RE GETTING ALONG „ I FINE-WAIT Till VOL) SEE MOW funny he looks at me, Vh&niJ I CROSS My EVES AT HIM .. SOME PEOPLE NEVER. WISE dp. I’D L'KE TO «< ( SHAKE FATSO UP IN A v CEM ENT- MIX EQ. AND SEE HOW SHE'D EKE T- SHE HAS A WAV MTH CHILDREN- like A JEEP HAS WITH A Visiting Here; Taken bv Death Half of Hemy county* township and three of the town-, were over the top today in the War Chest drive. Tov.:, inpf, which have met or • d ' f ir quota.1 ar*1 New Lot.dun. Wayne. Scott. Jefferson. Salem and Ba.timWe Town ever ire top an New Lo:.don Wayland and Winfield. Tin' drive m the M‘ Pleasant residential district is vlnualiy completed but there L till some solicitation to be O'iu in toe Mt Plea-.ant brunei district. . Any rural or town worker who ha. not completed hi work hef t is expected to do so and turn it in by Tuesday Home on Furlough Stricken Suddenly Michael O Connor, 75. died Sunday afternoon at 12 30 at the Mem.rial hospital. Mr O Conner a formei Henry county resident, had resided in Nebraska th last CO years. H * and his sister, Nora O'Conner. came here two month.- ago to visit relatives. Only recently both became ill and were taken to the hospital. The sister is -.till confined there Mr CTC.i.nor was never married. The funeral will be held at St phonsus Catholic church New Drive Moves Ahead Twenty Miles Many Inhabited Localities Are Taken I Moscow. RU.- ia. (INS)—Ru-sia’s third A'.- great winter offer ive thundered en t -Tuesday ward the Nazi border today as tank morning at 9:30 and burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Rosary will bo recited at the Crane Funeral home thi' evening at 8:30 Et Wmfi< d Hf . H* *. it ’ 31 UBN p.* cd aw ty .< fidenly home of his parent.- Mr and Lloyd Hewn’ near Ma h Ho.Ii rived home Tuesday on a thirty Mr,. ar* day More Interest In Airport Election Receives Call To Indiana Church INDEED. THE I Ut ATV I* SI Lf it is offered a. a pattern to other adjoining nation , meaning certainly Poland (not this exiled Polish government, however) Hungary, even Austria end po ibiy Rumania bul no’ Baltic states which Stalin intends to take over a part of Ru ua along with Finland IL, language sounds generou promt -ing “non-interf* rence in fhe inner affair. ” of luther na*<n by t • ether and “mutual respect t< r their independence and sovereignty” Probably no stronger promise could be written in reasonable wor that Ravia will not attempt to communist*-or dominate the little nations it pr< -po es to re-es tabli- h by extension of this treaty through Europe . - yet somehow the document strangely lost and am;'ted provision No. 5 cf the An-glo-Ru ,sian agreement upon which i* leave from a hospital in California where he had been receiving treatment for an arm injury, and was to return there for further treatment at the end of his furlough He entered the service u. April of 1942 Be. ides his parents he is .survived by two brothel R'hert cl Winfield and pri .mab)} Mila in the ervicc. two asters. Mr. Third Possible Site For port Deported Available Air- Stockyards Are , * 9 Swamped with Hogs i - at the Chi- With the election only a day aw?" ne; - in the Mt Pleasant airport question is on the increase. While the question of where the ar- The Rev. Alton Koch, pastor of the local Lutheran congregation in this city, has received the call to become the pastor of Zion Lutheran congrega-J -- Hon of Woodburn. Indiana. ! Chicago. Ll. 'INS'— The nations Acordmg to the Statistical Yew I stockyards were swamped wit a ;v:<gs book ol the Missouri Synod. Zion Lu- 1 today, receipt' a: too twelve leading liberal! congregation of Woodburn at markets exceeding 200.000, greatest in 10,000 Received cago Market. Chicago, 111 INS port is to be located is net to b* voted the enc. of 1942 numbered 256 souls ana. fifteen years. 1 en. many person have discussed th! 185 communicants, having a church’ Forty thousand hogs were received he Chicago yards, largest receipts Marvel Smith and Phyl!;. bom at on. many pc home; one nephew one niece and his phase and will be interested to kn .w | and property valued at $23,000 and; in Hew that a third sin . now reported avail- ' with total contributions for the year of,in a year. and Only 28.COO were sa.came able This ite located a short is- more than $5,200 ranee -ast of Mt Pleasant at the Tic congregation also has, a good ( clown northeast city limn Details have no’ .zed parochial school and employs a j enough to been worked wit relative to this site, full-time school teacher who teaches i spokesman said nor have they for the one west of Mt. the eight grades in the school and who I Plea ant or for the Duttin farm north-! assists the pastor in the work of the east of town Final action on the ques- congregation especially in the field of tion of buying some site for the air-; religious education. port will await the deer ion of the vat- a special meeting of the voting mem-era on Wednesday. hers of the congregation will be held The men who hold an option on the With County Men And Women In The Service pi lb in Wendell Perkins has wiT'en he parents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur ePrkms, of I his safe arrival in North AU lea and aid ti a’ Raymond ( ult.- r. who was drafted in the same group as Perkins, sent to the same training camps in this country, had also creased with him and the two are now living in the same tent in Africa He said they had a pleasant crossing, which took 8 days, and enclosed 20 and IO franc notes, which are worth 40 and 20 cents in our money Perkins will have a birthday December 30. Four New Loud' n girl are now ac-11veil ervirg«in this waf effort LL Betty Conard, Red Cross nurse now in England; Mildred Stormont, recently called bv Hie Red Cross and ccmmis- grandfa’hcr Henry Totemeier o London Funeral rviee will be held Wrdnc -day afternoon at 2 OO o’clock at the Marsh church ILLINOIS SAVES 4 MILLION MILES OF TRAVEL end infantry forces poured through a '0 mile wide break in the Nazi defen line to a depth of nearly 20 miles. The spectacular drive which in it first five days re ulted in the cap are cf more than SCO inhabited localities, the killing of at least 23,CCO enemy tromps and the seizure of 2.003 more was announced by the Soviet midnight communique (The Naz. DNB agency reported I a German force have evacuated the “Kheison bridgehead” - - presumably the territory below Kheison on the . outh bauk of the Dnieper river n^ar u-mouth. The report if true means that ne Nazi, have given up their last imperia nt holding en the left bink of the Dnieper below Gomel.* Severing the extremely important railway running from Nevei to Vito b k, 57 miles to the south, the Rus-Uans tore yawning gap in the German’s elaborate- system cf defensives shielding the Baltic states. They apparently anre moving in alc rig the railway in a movement that may outflank the Nazi ba1-*’ at Vitebsk which lies astride the Leningrad-Odes: a anc! Smolensk-Dvmsk reads. Tens of thousand.' cl expert kid were reported joining the Red army n take part in front-wide winter operations. Sport.-, orgaiiizitions and rn ill- Washing'.en. I) C —More titan .our miliion miles of automobile travel b ’ state owned vehicles in Illinois was wa. founded, a provision pledging no lived m the three months period end- emphasized that they will gladly sur-territonai aggrandizement Either ac- mg last June 30 compared to the cor- render the option if a more satisfactory . i dentally or purposeful! v that pro- responding pen od in 1941 the office of ,ite is found, that they are not in terns ion was forgotten. Treaties are only treaties and word this t venmg to act upon the call. Dutton tract 31. miles northeast again rice administration said yesterday. ested in the location nearly as much a* Tins saving was brought aboilt by an they are in acquiring .-ame site for the Held on Oil Lease Swindle (harare sioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the nurs-The farmers are just ioading rn mg corps, stationed at Camp White in tary unit, were -aid to ’..av trained and we can't slaughter fa>t Or* gen: Garnet Lavon Davey, Red wo and a h It million J :uth.s in ei* - keep up with them,” a Crass recreational director aho in Eng- mentary courses designed to prepart land and Margaret Conrardy, U S. O. them for winter tactic- Receipts at the national stockv ards hostess for more than two years in ----— at East St. Lours. III., today were 28,000 Anchorage, Alaska, and now in the despite appeals to farmers to stop Southern California area shipping. There was a carryover of Miss Stormont is the latest to enter 2.COO hogs from Saturday. Officials j service, having enlisted some time ago piedicted 14.000 would be carried ever and being rejected at that time She to Tuesday. »a.-, con.'idering reenlistment when she American Troops Press Forward Algiers, Africa (INS* — American troops pressing home the advantage they gained by the capture of San Pie- received her call at Sacramento, Calif. tr0 openecl a frontal a? amt today on Farmers Union Officials To Speak where she has been on duty dnce last spring. only words, the fact of this matter be- economy program worked out by a ;ng that Czechosiov ak.a and smaller state mileage administrator app unled nation, will not dare resist their great by Gov Dwign* H Green as pm of i and dominant new friend after making national program to cut official auto-such an agreement. mobile travel, 'he OPA .'•aid To; .. _nation, the saving in the three montns THE NERY ACT of the treaty est ab- period was <2.640.097 miles, an over-ad lushes eastern Europe a. the Russia® 30 per cent decrease from 1941 mileage sphere of influence, although literally airport. B. F. Bailsman Taken bv Death New Haven. Conn.—Ray A Farr, son of Mr. Frank M Farr, cf Hillsboro, re- - ^ ceived his commission and gold bars State officials of the Fa: ne: > Un.on «ximrsda.y at the graduation ceremony of the Army Air Farces Training Command School at Yale University. Having met rigid physical and mental apti-cials will include the state pi evident, tllde tests, Lieut. Farr was ,*ent severs months ago as an the treaty is aimed at mutual giro tee -tion against a future Germany in which Russia will irv-ist upon a similar non-aggressive government Russia then wants I t of little states in Europe, not with social:-’-collectivist governments, but within a Russian sphere of influence Weak democratic OPA estimated the program effected a saving in 3 months of 11.500 pre-war tire... and almost 0 million gallons of j Creek vanity dyd DM. 8 gasoline. Benjamin F Bausman. 86. a former Henry’ county resident, in the Cedar. at Modesto J Calif., and the funeral w’as held there ; on Dec. ll with the Rev. Donald G West officiating Burial was in the I I C O F cemetery. Mr. Bausman went to Cilit:rmu, _ about four years ago. HLS wife, and I Belfa-1 Ireland -United States sol- two daughters, all cf California, sui -adopted 40 war orphaned vive; a..'0 a sister. Miss Anna Bat, - Muscatine, la. <INS»— L. R. Baker.. alias VV. H. Walton, of Centralia. IU-1 will come to Mt Pleasant en WedBfs- reniained in the Muscatine county ( ^ay 0f weejt ancj speak at the jail after being held to the count;. ; union hall at one o'clock The offi- grand jury on an oil lease swindle charge. Bond was set at $50,000 Bak- j Vjce_president and secretary. el is accused of having obtained $22,500 j They will discuss problems nertain-from Dr J J Bomke, Muscatine dent-1 jng. to ^le farmer, will talk on subsi- ....... "" dies, the AAA. inflation and deflation. The public is cordially invited to attend Sap Vittore, two miles beyond th** mountain village that was the scene ot seine of the bloodiest fighting of Hie entire Italian campaign. At the same time the British Eighth army cap.ured the town of Consalvi six miles north of Orscgna, inland anchor cf German defenses at the Adriatic end of the battlefront. Despite strong opposition 8th arm;, tank,' over use bv allegedly oil lease. misrepresenting an this school where he began training to become a technical office Maintenance Engineering YANKS ADOPT 40 ORPHANS IN IRELAND government in Germany for instance might soon be » government working have and ,h(, Rlan of Mt. Pleasant. for another war jind redemption „ . . . , . _____ . . ... number seen will be doubled. Already acme great author,,*, are ^ $M0 Ls provided interpreting this and other current per- of sgo a year Will DISCUSS Plant S rmTt^f. ^ Se • one un,, -uonrd somewhere „ ut -, Use of Chemicals In Soil Czech treaty on IU (are. roreeasi wha, ^« vh Je ,liber we,' tau 'a,',ea‘ she expects to get ut Europe up to the doughboJ,s have never seen her - 1 ' What does the Pl int do «: h C rn- Rhine, at least, and. In view of the {cr and rece.Ved 150, leal cf t-e Scil?" ,, lo b- the subject Rust tan sympathies cf toe quanti h„ picture, one for each -ol-llor the second Aclu' Agr.sultuee Even- French governments in exile, wnat she lng wednesday. Dec. 22. at 8:00 may get there also. ' ^ Q]d ^ vlm>e tather o'clock. The mysiertes of how plants and hear these men CHURCHILL MAKING I SATISFACTORY PROGRESS FUNERAL TUESDAY London, Eng. GNS*— Prime Minis- IFOR S. F. DONALDSON ter Winston Churchill, battling against his second siege of pneumonia in ten months, today appeared on the road to recovery with the issuance of an official bulletin announcing that he is • making satisfactory progress.” ran enemy positions and inflicted aviation cadet to lieavV casualties on die Nazis. Fifth army foot soldiers stood within six miles cf Cassino, key point of tho German defense system south of Rome, situated some 70 airline miles from the Quantico, Va Robert T. Speaker of eteina^ 200 E. Washington street. Mt. Pleasant, ^•'t> caPture f f Sa:- *>lr 10 al n •“,f' low.!, was recently commisi-oned a Sec- anci nl8!‘f ■ !ilP ni0"f end Lieutenant in the U. S Marine ^toting of the Italian 1 ampaign open- Corps Reserve. Lieutenant Speake •• ^ “Uc> t!’e L,1!i !Uei %<i“[ attended Iowa Wesleyan college and an<* Yankee pa toL' .o.-t no time punch- received a BS degree. He will now be iny int° !hp ^reacl1 CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT TRENTON CHURCH Salem.—Funeral services for Samuel alined to active duty F. Donaldson will b<’ held from the Methodist church in Salem. Tuesday at 2:00 p. in. Interment in South cern -I tery. j The remains arrived from Mi jenix. Ariz.. Monday mc ming and were taken I to the Stevens funeral home until time for the services. Address: Pvt. ( barie?, F, TG 905. TS 540. BTC No Amarillo Army Airfield. Amarillo, Tex , Denied Return Haviland, n: QAC of Bond Money was killed in an air raid on Belfast, feed and grow will be studied Likewise, she already has been promised 'wnottlietic representation in . .... ..up« . , f ha.- been adopted by a London unit. whatever Italian government is formed. Marshal Smuts has inferred much publicly, saying the United Slates will b“ the second world power and Britain third. Those who attended last week were and received the surprise of his life Cleo. H. Scott, Lester Decker. Cai roll when a colonel of the unit came to see Lessenger. Keith Smith. Eugene Smith. I I Dewey Phe lp-. Gary Van Amerongen, _ __ Paul McPukham. S. W. Hustcn, Rich- ; ani Dutton. Harry Hazen L G Smith, j Orville Stipe, w ater Lund, Marvin N. I Cornicle, Verne Wright. Elvin Cornick. i ami Lynn Wright. A Christmas program w’ill be given at Uie Methodist church in Trenton Thursday evening. In connection with tile exercises by the Churel! school, everybody in the community is invited to attend and have a part in the singing of Christmas carols. SUFFERS INJURIES IN HIGHWAY ACCIDENT TO PRESENT PROGRAM AT OAKLAND MILLS REALISTS IN DIPLOMACY are becoming resigned to this inevitable consequence of the war. They can see that \ Russia also is an Asiatic power, close to the Chinese and through them to India, with certain oriental tics of religion and race. Planning must be on that ba.'is apparently. and. A' far as Smuts and certain British diplomatists are concerned, they see what the Russian plan may require them to do. Smuts spoke action. Such alliances necessitate coun-of a counter alliance composed oi ter-alliances. conflict, and eventually northwestern European democracies war. outside the communist influence, mean- Unquestionably they are going to WASHINGTON PRINTERS ORDERED BACK TO WORK Russell Guinn. CotemUl bread truck driver, suffered a crushed foot and tuner injuries when ho bread truck left rived Sunday for a few day Lieut. Ralph Price spent the week Virgil Thorn n L d case in ti end with ins parents. He is stationed attempt to recover the $2C0 bond posted at Great Lakes. ni his behalf in connection With * j*?. truck overload charge a few week ago. Lieut Geo. M. Baal arrived home on Alter Thornton had failed to appet-Saturday morning from New Haven, fir hearing on Hi cee occasions, the Conn., to spend a .few day - with his bond was declared forfeited. Later parents. Mr. and Mrs. C F. Baal, cr.- Thornton was tak°n into t t tody a route to liis next pest which is Denver. Fairfield, brough’ here am fined. H Colo. contended that he hod a templed to * get here ftr the hearing and asked re- l.n Ugli CU M Hurley and family ar- turn of' the band mom His req ac ( visit with wa denied by Judge P u! McGOtid. Tile annual Christmas program off — Oakland MIIF, presented by the pupil- lie I cf the oakland Mills chooi, will u< i Wooden Leg Dmuggles given the oakland church on Thin - Messages of Prisoners day evening. Dot. 23 at 8 o clock. Youj Middleburg, o.- Betore the Italians are cordially invited to attend. Reel I ,urr(>acjereci they exchanged prisoners, tat ions plays and dialogues constitute * the highway and plunged over an embankment on 218 near Crawfordsville Friday night Guinn thought he mun have gone to sleep He was brough: to the Memorial hospital here. The truck was badly damaged his sister.'. Mrs J A Marguerite Hurley. Panther and Mis the program. ; including a 25 year old American field i service ambulance driver whose mother i I elated that he carried with him good news for the* relatives of 340 other American prisoners. Mrs. Amory Perkins said her son. Charles E. Perkins. Washington, DC. 'INS)— The war-labor board today ordered printers on Washington's four daily newspapers to return to work immediately and scheduled a hearing on a wage dispute at — four o’clock this afternoon. , The printers refused to return to YMI. CLUB MEETS their jobs last night and no alternoon DINNER P ARTY New address: W. E Doh; man, S' S K School - - Section 32. Bk Camp Peterson, Farragut, Idaho, 17 editions of Washington papers • were printed today. Tile Y M. L club me: Friday even- New Haven. C nn.—George M R ai son of Mr and Mrs. Charles F Baal. ol Mi. Pleasant, received his cammis-sion and gold bars Thursday at th ■ graduation ceremony of the Army Air SAI FM SCHOOLS CLOSED BECAUSE OF FLU Salem schools were closed Si surd if for tlii' week, due to the flu epidemic Ech .ol will re-open Dec. 27 1 To Santa Dear Santa Please bring me clay the others here are opposed to Stalin's becoming evident to all I her. and roll* r ing at 6:15 at the Yellow Lantern for Forces Training Command School at skates, sticker kit. Please bring rn dinner, af er which the group went to Yale University. Having met rigid brother Kent some’ ing nice. Aho my the home of Mrs. Ed Yocum for their physical and mental aptitude tests, grandmas and grandpas and Mother -- Christmas party. Vi ning and a gift Lieut Boal was sent several months ag and Uncle Ber? and Aunt Ma:-a- ? A marriage license has been issued a: exchange were enjoyed. This dub ha as an aviation cadet to this schoo. £lnd Daddy and ab bo vs and girls, here in the war countries and their Wiles. 32. and Anna Le wry. 23. both of the vear and has gone to the Red Cross technical officer in Aircrait Mainte- mothers and haddie and t he - tiers Marriage License Issued ing Norway, Sweden. Denmark, Holland continue to work here toward united J carried out the addiesses of the rela and Belgium postwar action. At any rate, the true' fives on slips of paper concealed in his the courthouse here to James Harvey given up the regular meetings through where he began training to become a arri Fundamentally, this I' why Hull and size of the problem ahead is at last j artificial leg. then sent them on to Wile*. 32. and Anna Le wry. 23. both of the year and has gone to the Red Cions technical officer in Aircrait Mamte- mothers and haddie Wellman. sewing roam to w’ork. nance Engineering. Jared Hill

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