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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 23, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaCANNED GOODS D E, F Green (Ek4) expire Jan. 20 VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel oil I exp. Jan. 4. 2 exp. Feb. 9 Gasoline No. 9 Expires Jan 21 Sugar—29 (Book 4) expires Jan 15 Shoes—18 and Airplane I (Bk 3) Meats. Butter, Lard, etc. L M.N.P.Q Brown (Bk3) Expire Jan.I THEProbe Iowa Mystery DeathPleasantville Station Oper ator Found DeadWith County Men And Women In The ServiceAuthority To Buy Airfield Given Council By Jimmy Hatlo They’ll Do It Every Time { MES PL AVI NKS IT YU SAFE WITH WHITE, \ ) BUT SHE PROftABLVp K WA Kl TS POLKA > DOT COLOPY ZJ' I leasantvllle. Iowa <INSA— Marion count-, officials today in v eft ligated the mystery slaying late yesterday of W H Bare, oil .station and bus depot op-c rator. Bare was found dead in his .station last night with a bullet wound through his heart and with mark? indicating ne had been slugged. He had a fractured skull. A light apparently preceeded the shooting and deptuv heriff Thcmp on of Knoxville said it vias assumed that Bare had beer. attacked by a bandit. It was apparent, he said, that theie had been a violent struggle in the station before Bare was killed. Bare had been .-lugged v. .th the tel* phone befo:e he vias diot according to the deputy ‘■ht-riff Marion county Sheriff Paul Applegate indicated this afternoon that officials have clues which the-, are following but he did not reveal their nature. If robbery was the motive as officer £aid they believed, then the bandit must have fled after the killing, for $174 in cash vias found in t oi drawer.' in the station, the sheriff reported — Zm( HAQVEV ANTGOT ENOUGH /s* fr' < woe»es - Kiow Hts akj « I ' VI 'MTEaOQ.D5COR.ATQR * L CONSULTANT- BET HES ER. I AM- 'fk COLOR SLI KID/- TOO1 • r- THINK A MICE p -—--*-<r— WHITE PAINT J \ VAX)LD OO / / Give mer ^ X Good with \ ( any color, an THAT«VE6 f (THEN MAKE HER J WHITE-/ . V OVE THE \ F -v I CURTAINS- J. J COU^D K/OU TEI _ VE “what COLOR paint WOULD OO WITH SHOWER CUQTA NS l.iK£THiS? I’m DOING THE SATH ROCM 4 WALLS > NAT COLOR WOULD VOU CALL THIS-v ITS A LITTLE FADED^ V NOW— Hixh School Bame Scheduled For Friday Evening (Governin'-:.i Censor iii.p rules continue to ask that unit identifications and sh.p name' not be published for servicemen at sea or overseas. Tnio explains why APO and FPO addresses arc not published in The News. Frequent reports cire reserved that “other papers are publishing them.’’ If theoe reports are true, the papers a.e violating tile enworship request The News would like to publish these addresses as a favor to the families and so that friends might write to the men, but believes it should comply with the request of the cen-sor-ihip bureau > PH Claire Bishrp, rationed at Camp Beale, Calif., for over a year, has been transferred to Camp Bowie, Texas, ac-i corning to a letter received by his par-riv Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bishop. / I BET S== SHEIL WIND UP BCV I NG : HER CAN OF PAINT ACROSS v THE STREETW804 Votes Cast In Special Election Local basketball enthusiast* will have opportunity to see - * ne of the players of recent years who are now in the service and are home on furlough in a game against the Mi. Pleasant high school team at the school gym Friday evening These “old timers include Joe Messer Oliver Taylor, Howard Ferrel Marvin Rich. Leo Bra , and possibly Others All are in good phvsieal condition as a result of '.he r service training and with their past basketball experience she old give the regular* a battle vCflAH lr IT DOESnY TURN! out right, she can always blame ^he HARDWARE MAKI "T^Uov*^ To--' EDWtKJ PURDY) chicago, III New address Pvt. Willian I). Tribby, A. S N. 37678194, Co A, 63rd Bn.. 13th Reg* Camp Tannin, Texas, U. S. Army. New London, iowa — Inc choir OI the Pres:yteriari church will nresent the cantata The Mu ic of Bethlehem” in th* church auditorium Sun-da;. even ng a’ 7 4' MI- Helen Campbell will cure*! the 24 voices and accompanists will be Mrs Frank Tm.*-, at th*- piano and M:. Marjorie Conard at the organ Student Recognition Day will b*‘ observed at the Methodist church Sunday morning, recognizing young people cf iii*- church who are attending col leg* Mi Kathleen Olson Mis Wanda I demeter. Donald Bv*: and J, ti* Keizer will participate in the ervi.-e Re. c. O Strchl will sjteak en the ‘Cru ad* for a New World Order.*' Rev and Mn James L Britten will have a family house oarty over the holiday* Tic lr son, B*>b, band direr tor in the Pella schools will be here as will their daughter. Mrs Ludv. Rev Ludv ami their daughters, Lu-cretia and Shirley of Paulding Ohio Rev Liny has enlisted a* an army chaplain and rn leaving here will be cut to Harvaid University for a few week- training beice * entering service.President Wants To Scrap “New Deal Norman Moehlc, S-3 c. is spentlin an 8-day furlough visiting with horn fclks.Will Collect Waste PaperPresident Offers His Arbitration Washington, D C • INB • - The Whit*-Housr- disclosed today that President Roosevelt wan is to scrap the phrase “new deal” and substitute in it place a new slogan of * win the war ” The presidents secretary, Stephen T Far.'. , said that the “rn * deal phra e wa-- the on*- adopted in a national emergency back in 1932 Tunes, he said, have changed. Early did not explain Mr Roosevelt's intentions in using a new slogan "win the v.ar but political observers Immediately rased the question of whether or not the new slogan might be President Roosevelt campaign slogan for a new term. w* On Christmas dav, a family dinnci a: the heme of his sister, Mrs, Theodore Eye and family will honor 1st Ll. Donald Morrow who arrived Tuesday from Conn Rucker. Ala . to spend a IO day leave with hU parents. Mr. ana Mrs. Harvey Morrow and other relatives.Iowa In Grip Of Winter TodayMUNICIPAL AIRPORT AT PHILADELPHIA CLOSED Des Mollies low(INS I >wa wa in the icy grip of winter today and Hic weather bureau reported readings of 9 below zero last night or early today at Spencer and Mas ii City. The bureau predicted th*- cold wave would ease in western Iowa tonight but yarned it would continue throughout the night in eastern Iowa The bureau's shippers forecast placed northeast Iowa's minimum at 8 below zero tonight and that for southeast Iowa at 5 below The shippers forecast for southwest Iowa is 6 below' and that for northwest Iowa 2 above zero Subzero temperatures last night included 8 below zero at Fort Dod«e and Sioux City, 6 below at Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.SOYBEAN MILL IN FULL OPERATIONSmashing Gains On Italian Front Algiers, Africa *INS* — Sana bin? gains by Indian troops of General Sir Eernard L. Montgomery's eighth army in the center of the tran--Italy battle-lront were reported today by General Dwight D Eisenhower. On Montgomery’s front “the enemy though fighting fiercely, is being forced back.” Eisenhower reported, adding that “the enemy attack in the mountains was repulsed.”FIREMEN RESPOND TO TWO ALARMS Local firemen made two runs today —one on a false alarm and the other to the William Hoover place on East Madison street. A board near a stove was ignited at the Heaver place and was extinguished without damage. The faUe alarm reported the fire at the Universal Motors, but evidently was the result of a misunderstanding. There was no lire at the garage. The fire at the Hoover place was about one o’clock and the other alarm was turned in during the mc ming.SON OF LOCAL PROFESSOR HONOREDSeries ot Allied Air Raids Continues London. Eng. (INS* -The smashing scries of round-the-clock allied air raids on Nazi occupied Europe continued unabated today when shortly after dawn a large force of heavy bomber-escorted by fighters swept aero.-.-, the southwest coast of England toward targets in France. Washington. D. C. Included among SOO officers and enlisted men cf the United States armv I Jill air force decorated for action iii the South Pantie, the War Department announced recently was the following: Air Medal—Capt. Steve W. Hockctt Caph Hockett is the 23 year old son ol Professor S. W. Hockctt of the faculty of Iowa Wes’ey sui College.ATTENDANCE NEAR NORMAL AT SCHOOLS Not Necessary To Renew Truck Certilicates HOG DELIVERIES SOCIAL SECURITY BOOKED 4 WEEKS AHEAD TAX RATE FROZEN PREDICT DECLINE IN HOG PRODUCTION

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