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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 24, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Fuel oil I exp. Jan. 4, 2 cap. Feb. 9 Gasoline No. 9 Expires Jan 21 Sofar—29 (Book 4) expires Jan 15 Shoes—18 and Airplane I (Bk 2) TEE MT PLEASANT NEWS FANNED GOODS IL E F Green 'Bk 4) expire Jan. 20 Mea'*, Butter. Lard. etr. L M.N.P.Q Brown (Bk3i E'.pire Jan.l VOL. LXXJ, No. 300FRIDAY, DF':, 21. IO!:! MT. PLEASANT. IOWA Shi Agree To Use Force To Keep Peace By Paul Mallon < Distributed by King Feature* Syn cllcate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or (n Part Strictly Prohibited.* County 4-H Short Course THE OLD, OLD STORY, FOREVER NEW Leaders Will Be Here On Tuesday WASHINGTON, IL C. — HESSIAN STROKES near Novel and at poind. . cuth are being heralded as the launching cf the winter offensive - - to carry ——— Stalin to Berlin by .spring - -but they Je: r Lineweaver ac in tan? .tate* 4-H are not quite that. not yet leader and Miss Winifred Martin, rec- So far, they are discernibly only reational leader, from Iowa State col-; (pening phases of what limy develop, lege, will headline the day's program into a general offensive Exaggerated of th*' County 4-11 Short ©our e. Tues-notlons of the move so far spring day Dec 28 Dr E L Glasscock, bigcly from the Berlin radio which from Des Moines county health center, j has been playing them up (for its own j will have charge of health examina- ! purpo.se . no doubts far more than lion- Boys and girl.* 4-H folk will Mo cow gather Tuesday at the Legion Hall to Everything depends on the weather : mat shall forces for their part in the If the Reds can get a moderate cold. 1 dry spell before heavy snow pile in reads and fields, and the bottom of the I thermometer limits mechanical objectives. they conceivably could iw;ng into a decisive winter campaign, but the winter offensives rn Russia can hav*1 only very limited successes Long 1 swift .sweeps are im possible The Russian break through southwestward from Nevei for instance ha as its ultimate goal Riga and the Baltic there Tile Nazis knew it wa.* coming The very . pot wa designed by th: column as far back as newspapers cf November 24. just a. the break-through north of Dnepropetrovsk which broke I the back of tile Germans rn the south J last .ummer, and, in fact, the American invasion of North Africa Sicily and Italy were forecast Tills is not done on secret inform a- j lien. but upon sound military advice concerning dbviou strategic points for attack. Thus a drive from the region of el wots ar. obvious Russian demand to cut off the Shz, besiegers of th#' north tip of the line .n front of Leningrad _________ I THU NAZIS ( BAIM 250,000 RU iai were concentrated fcr it, which would make it one of the heaviest Red drives of the war, but then- is a question whether Stalin's skillful generals ai* not now using it for other than obvious purposes. If coming weather prevent it complete fulfillment the Germans suspect, else they would not be giving it so much advertising*, it nevertheless v.111 serve to force Hitler to withdraw J planes and support from tho Kiev front in order to hold hts communication.' j with Finland and the northern anchor of his line. Far more significant than this drive ts the collapse of the Nazi counter-attack against Kiev Hitler had thrown >r tT .tuck NEW faculty member rrr- JU NAMED at Wesleyan wav toward it., goal, the city of K:e\ Thi- 1. a Nazi defeat of the rnagni- New member of the Iowa Wesley,n tude of the failure of Its counterdrive faculty beginning January 1st. is prof. of July I which failed to stem the Levis D. Morgan. He will teach math- 1944 Food Production program 4-H Short Course, 1943 Tentative Program) IO OO a. rn. Registration Mrs. Ralph Sinutz, Co 4-H Girls chairman presiding. IO 15 a m Health Examinations - -scheduled all day. Movie ‘Guide to Good Eating 10:30 a. rn. Groin singing . Winifred Martin. Iowa State college specialist; Pledge of Allegiance County 4-H boy president 4-H Club PJf'dge. County 4-H girls pi evident. Introduction of Club, - Lillian Peck-ham, Co extension home econ mn >t; Floyd Mw GoodelJ, Co. extension director. A Talk from representative of Hie Aviation School. "Sing and Fun**, Winifred Martin. Noon - Bring SM k Lunch for Lunch Exchange - (Milk Turnihhedt Afternoon—Fritz Mayer Co 4-H Bo; chairman, presiding 1:00 p rn ‘4-H CS ti bs in World at Wa:" Jerrv Lino a eave: . Asm State 4-H Bo- s‘ club leader Reiaxe* Mn Win if led Martin Parliamentary Procedure - Coun'v 4-H Girl Pre ldent Dana Mater. Boys County 4-H business meeting. Girls County 4-H burnie s meeting. 3 30 p en Leaders’ meeting with Jerry Lincweaver. 4:00 p. rn Report of Health Examinations - District Health Officers. Evening - Neil Rasmus, Co. 4-H boys’ president, presiding. 30 p. rn. Group singing. Presentation of Awards Recognition of 4-H leaders “Dedication of 4-H Service Roll’ -Frank Abraham, chairman Selective Service. "Under 4-H Flag" - film. Games or dancing Refreshments. Presbyterians To Dedicate Bell New Church Bell Will Bing This Evening The Presbyterians will dedicate their] new bell on Sunday morning. Special j numbers in recitation and song will • feature the first Sunday on which the] tell will be used for regular church I services, The bell F. Ii. Tells Of A greenie iii Of 4 Nations Eisenhower To Head Cross-Channel Invasion Hyde Park. New York (INS)—Presi-will be rung fif- ’ dent Roosevelt announced today that teen minutes before Sunday School and church services begin, and aga.n when services begin at 9:30 and 10:45 m the mo iling. Rev. Jeambey’s sermon . ubjcct will be: ’‘Bell Bible " Tonight (Christmas eve) the bell Will Britain, Russia, China and the United States have agreed to use ‘ international force to keep the peace" in the post-war world as he disclosed that cf the General Dwight D. Eisenhower will .head the cross-channel invasion of Germany in 1944 In his Christmas eve broadcast the sound forth the praises of the Christmas season, a.- well as on Christmas president declared he had agreed with Prime Minister Chia chill and Mar- day. Details ‘concerning the obtaining of shal Josef Stalin to so-strip Germany the beautiful 800 pound bell will be pre- of her military might that she could stilted on Sunday morning as part of not- ref?aln that might within the fore-tile special pp gram All members of seeable future but he said, the Ge:- the church are urged to be present man l)e°P^e wdl not enslaved. The president also announced that he had agreed with Churchill and Sunday morning and a special invitation is ext* naeci to all worshippers not otherwise obligated at that time. Christmas Party At Baptist Church China’s Chiang Kai-Shek that their Pacific goal would be the “permanent elimination of the empire of Japan as a potential source of aggression.” Tile president said there were 3,-800.000 American fighters now overseas and that tne number would be increased to 5,000,000 by next July. He warned American families at the'- “shall have to look J. T. Whiting Taken bv Death Gifts Presented To All Aviation Students Here Former Banker and Mayor Of Mt. Pleasant James T. Whiting. 82. for many years pp ident of the National State bank in Mt Pleasant, died at hi heme bepat three o'clock thi- morning. Mr. Tim ugh the efforts and generosity ol re ident.-> of MI. Pleasant and nearby, the men in the 82nd college training detachment at Iowa Wesleyan enjoyed a Christens party at the Service club here Thursday evening and each man received a gift. The more than 400 gifts had been neatly and artistically wrapped by the Business and Professional Womens Whiting had been failing for .several cjub ar.d were placed around a tree at j ears, but only re centi his condition t^e club for the distribution Thursday evening Each package bore the name flu. but 0f one 0f the aviation students. Gifts become serious He had b-*en ill from the went to his Justice Cf the Pe ce offk • were provided also for the officers and at the courthouse Wednesday of this ,Vv0 gifts were sent t0 schick hospital week He remained only a >rt tim*' however, and complained of not being well He was taken home by one or the county officers and fallen rapidly after that. at Clinton to students who became ill while here and had not yet recovered. The suggestion of a few weeks ago that every man in the detachment -hould have a gift was accepted with He had conducted an insurance bUM- enthusiasm. A committee was formed. ness the last several years and hah served several terms as justice of the peace He formerly was may r of Mt v,. wv.., ., ______ ... , Pleasant. Russian advance, and thus enable the fanatic* in the military division of the He ^ survived by his wife. by a son Germans to dig in on a winter line of ] college- A graduate of the Athens Ohio john oJ san Francisco. Calif., and a the Dnieper They had to continue to high school, he received ids bachelors ciaughter_ Miss Edith, by a brother. Dr retredt de«ree from Iowa Slate Teachers Col- Hafry Whiting of Pairfielci. and a sis- This one is being covered skillfullyJ *eKe in 1918 and hi‘" Masters c]eg!ee ter, Mrs George Allen of Milwaukee. by Nazi propaganda (playing up the . Dorr tho State University of Iowa in Wi$> Novel front*, and the Reds have not 19-° I —•--- made much of it yet. but it certainly He has taught in the high schools of means the braves, German efton in Ha\’e Until F 1*1). I MX months has collapsed With winter a member of the -faculty at Kansas weather closing in to freeze the fan- * stare ™ To Buy Car Licenses ure. Hitler's long line can look only! indent of schools at Hone, iowa. tor j suggested donations in cash, which were freely given, and bought the gifts. A total of about $450 was raised. $50 cf the amount was used to defray costs of the party. The gifts included: 24 boxes cookies IO soap -ets 10 furlough tag* 6 bru h sets 34 stationary sets 42 shoe thining kits 5 cigaret cases I cribbage board 12 pairs of gloves 6 money bags 24 boxes candy 12 pens 37 shaving kit,-6 decks of cards 6 pocket knives 6 hair bru aes 11 sewing kl Lh 12 army diaries 19 boxes handkerchiefs II writing kits and dog tags 20 billfolds 7 games 6 money belts 3 military aprons IO billfolds 22 auto pencils 4 hairbrushes 14 belts 12 tie* 6 mufflers 5 sewing kits and cards 3 cigarette cases and cards I One hundred Baptists participated in the all-church Christmas party at the heme that church Thursday evening. Two beau- forward to large casualty lists - dead, tifully decorated Christmas trees along wounded and musing - in the imme-witli other yuletide apoointments made diate future." an attractive setting for the X-M-A-S "There is no eaiv road to victory," bioadca.sting station from which a he declared, "and the end Is not yet in most unique pros ram was given. Mrs. sight.” Roy Tewal' presided as announcer and ------- I cleverly introduced the program which n _______ f|.,4 I consisted of the devotional period by J?®™ jJ the pastor, cards, recitations and girls Uf City OI Kherson trio. Miss Virginia Mae Loper played Moscow, Russia (INS)—The German 1 a violin solo during the offering which armies was reported unofiicially towns taken for the war refugee children, day to have been smashed out ol the ! Marvin Long, as Prof Edwards, con- city of Kherson at the mouth of the ducted a Truth and Consequence pro- Dnieper river by Soviet forces, gram rn which a number of the aud- At the northern end of the battle I once participated, affording much line south of Nevel. the Germans | merriment. strove to re-establish their positions i Elue and silver were the colors pre- in the face of repeated Russian on-! dominating in the artistically arrang- slaughts. rd refreshment table, a feature of Nazi infantry* suppo; ted cy tanks , w hich w?as a huge four tier cake, top- and self propelled guns counter-at-; ped with lighted blue candles, tacked numerous times but they only ; blue stars and silver candies, suffered heavy losses and attained no j Mrs, L. L. Tumey, in her usual charm- success, * ing manner presenting the cake to Rev. and Mrs Carstensen, gave the Aerial Attack significance of the four tiers as: the Day London, England (INS*—The devas- {first, representing the Church; second, i Christmas; third, birthday of the pas- . , , . . . .__ . fating aerial offensive against Hitlers ! tcr which is on Christmas dap and B ® , T- „ Europe roared into its fifth consecu-fourth, the third anniversary cf Rev. H . , , „, , _ Packers Point To Heavy Slaughter four years and high school principal at Uhrichsville. Ohio. for IO years. For backward and expect hard, continuous winter fighting He was unable to relieve the situation. In all communiques, emphasis is placed on territory gained. That is the customary w-ay in which military matters. are presented to the public. But HIO real Buss,ai, objective this j 'amil’, will move to MI Pleasant winter is not Poland or Berlin, or even the Baltic coastline, but the destruction of the German army If this can be accomplished, tho Russians will reach the German capital by spring. It has not been done yet |W ashing ton, D C. (INS)—-The "Big Four" packing companies emphatically denied today that they are not facilities to the limit in an et* of Des Moines, Iowa ‘INS*—Attorney the last year he has bet*i a statistician general John M Rankin today brought usin on the U. S. Air Corps Airplane pro-1 a word of Christmas cheer to the Iowa lort to la^e care 0f a record glut duction staff at Dayton, Ohio. | motorists who are squeezed between hogs Prof Morgan is married and has five paying Yuletide bills and buying their children. It is not known when his 1944 motor vehicles license by January Senator Guy Gillette, Iowa demo- i c at, who received complaints that the I Rankin announced an opinion hold- big packers were seeking to dcmoraF ing that motorists will not ta' penal- is® the pork situation in order to turn I ized if they lad to buy their licenses .people against the administration ask- 1 bel ore February 1st. (ti whether they were using ficezei i nib ruling reverses superintendent o, cooler space to capacity Dale Shaw of Ute division of motor PROGRAM PRESENTED AT CANAAN CHURCH Rail Strike ( ailed Off By ‘Big Five’ Washington, D. C. —(INS*— The brotherhood of railway trainmen and the locomotive engineers, two of the largest of the "Big Five” operating rail unions today called off their strike scheduled for December 30th. The announcement w’as made by A. F. Whitney, president of the trainmen md Alcaide. Johnston, head of the engineers after a conference at the and Mrs. Carstensen which occurs on New Years day; The Misses Phyllis ’ Moore and Marcella Tewait sang a j greetings to the Carstensen's using a - unique Christmas carol composed by Miss Marjorie Moore. The refreshment table was presided I I over by Mrs. George Jchnscon, Mrs. R. , S. Eland and Mrs. Roy Branded Mrs. Carstensen cut and served the cake. At the close of the evening, Christmas treats were presented to the children. The committee in charge of the , evening’s entertainment was: Mise ' Hazel Neff, Mrs, Rov Tewait, Mis.se Marjorie Moore, Phyllis Moore. L< uisc Messer, Mr. Marvin Long. Dale Smith. Mr'. R S. Eland. Mrs. George Johnson and Mrs. Roy Braudel. tive day in the early hours of Christmas eve today as mighty RAF armadas dropped 1,000 tons of bombs on weary' Berlin and American Flying Fortresses attacked northern France. ‘DEAF AND DUMB’ MAN CAUSED DISTURBANCES CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR VETS AT HOSPITAL Canaan—A nice crowd attended the Christmas program and -White Girt" 'elliclc "^‘ration wh0 had announ- orv.ee at Canaan Wednesday oven- Previously that persons who faded ing. Mrs. Edmund Kneger was in w have now licenses would be subject , barge of the program. Treats -» t0 *msl after Januar>' lst' were Increase In Influenza Cases ________ Des Moines, Iowa (INS*—Iowa health I provided tor the children. commissioner, Walter L. Bierring. Mr. and Mrs. George Krleger NEWS NOT TO BE w-arned today that influenza still Isl Monday for a trip to Excelsior Springs, pr^ySHED SATURDAY spreading in the state and sighted a Missouri. 1 gain in the week’s report, of cases to Mr. and Mr-. Leo Hollingsworth Millis department. tenanted the Young Adults Sunday Cases this week up to last night to- j school class at a tailed 10.298 compared with 4.002 re-1 Friday evening. ported in the full week ended last Sat- Mr. and Mrs Charles Fricke, Jr., and Dan Heller Dies ii rd ay and 2.337 In the previous week. I son have moved from near Burlington The glut of the hog market Wilson However. Dr. Bierring saw a bright to the Fricke farm just east of Alden Dan Heller, a prominent Wesleyan and Co. reported is due to several side to the statistics. The outbreak is Fricke s. student of a Rw decades ago. died a fac tors. One of them, the company diminishing in the areas where it first A group of neighbors charivaried Mr. few weeks ago in California, accordin', *’d. was a failure to adjust support appeared such as Waterloo and Cedar and Mrs. Willis Baker at their new tc word received here. Death came un- prices last fall with the result that FalLs heme Wednesday evening. expectedly. there was a lag in marketing. i 1 * The Mi PL ) ant New- will not b Christmas party last Pu4>1L'hcd on Christmas. Swilt and Co. and Armour and Co.. In reply said that slaughtering of hogs is at an all-time record. Armour reports that its freezer facilities were taxed to capacity and said it has slaughtered more hog.-v in the last six weeks than at any ime in history. Swift and Co. told Gillette that lack ot cooler or storage space has not affected killings. It said it had killed at an all-time record for four consecutive weeks. Win fie kl Beacon—The “deaf and dumb” man who disturbed householders here Thanksgiving day get plent ; of insults and considerable ca.-h, he revealed at a Mediapolis bink las week Tile Mediapolis Ne v Els pub;! lied a story last week telling of a man “deaf and dun b" w ho entered the bank there and placed a large amount of silver on the cashier’s counter, asking in writing to have it changed to cur-rency. There was more than $80 in tit* pile of coins, which he explained, .also in writing, that he had cb'ained by - ’n'uc!i hard w rk and a lot of insults ’ The recreational hall at the Mt. Hew fruitful the man - eff-its were Pleasant State Hospital which was prre ;-s uot known, bot hi pran*eo - White House with war mobilization* gaily decorated with Christmas colors hic halt d zen r -o hoi e he stopped director. James F. Byrnes. and a beautifully decorated tree iii one aj wats lo V\alk m;o (lie '. >u. ^ williou The two unions combined, represent corner of the hall, was a perfect sett- knocking, it p ss hie, sn.! pre,sc nib about 230.000 ol tile total Big Five mg foi the Christmas party Wednes- to the first pencil in e house wh membership of 350.000 operating day afternoon for the World War I and confronted him a n lr reading, “Giv worker*. III veterans, hospitalized in the hes- na® CO cents, I ain deaf and dumb, aud ---— pital. have a double hernia.” “WHITE GIFTS FOR ; Card tables were arranged on one Mary people obliged, apparently, ai- TI4R TOT AI *Mde of Hie tree where the men played though a.-, far as an b* : cured Int MING IIJI AL vol J bingo, receiving candy bars and apples n pped a: on ii a few home- lier*. December 19, Green Mound observed as prizes, and a deck of cards to the *jie sou’hea't p*r! of t An. a “white gift for the King” service, person for the grand prize. Later a Thanksgiving night he ‘topped a which was a great success. The church lunch of sandwiches, chicken sa’ad. few farm p! ■ north { lure, and it planned to purchase a new carpet for Ritz, apple pie. coffee and home-mad*' jj, .a;C} t at SIv'riff Oik el . nd > . the Green Mound Bethel which cost candy was served. During Hie serving oui. of Wapello the n x dav, Led S3LO.OO At this special ‘white gift" all enjoyed Frank Bandy playing the officer- here were not called, bu: wer; se vice each enc present from the pri- Hammond organ. trying to piece the report together las' mary group to Hic adult group, march- Each man also received a gift box week ed up to the altar and placed their containing a pair Of socks and a bright The Now L adon Journal curried “Gift for the King" on a table. colored tie from the Department of rep it last week I a man begging In When the money was counted there the American Legion Auxiliary. a >bailor manner there. was a total of $373.70. Auxiliary members assisting with the it : understood that thi,- man , The committee in chares was: Mrs. parti were Alice ©row!, Anna Millen- begg.ng in Old , Ruth Tschanf/. Mrs. Allen Rich. Miss berger. Lottie Jeffries, Aletha Corn ck, No further reports of the man hav Leola Roth. and Ruth Peterson. been learned here.

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