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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 28, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Fuel oil I exp. Jan. 4, 2 exp. Feb. 9 Gasoline No. 9 Expires Jan 21 Snfar—29 (Book 4) expires Jan 15 Shoes—18 and Airplane 1 (Bk. 3) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS vol. lxxi—No. :mTU ESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1913 canned goods D.E. F Green (Bk4> expire Jan. 20 Meats, Butter, Lard, etc. L M.N.P.Q Broun <B£3 Expire Jan.l p p - n *t mp <B.3) expires Jan. 29 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Army Calls Union Heads To Conference Legislature To Convene On January 26 Special Session Called By Iowa Governor They’ll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full at tn Part Strictly Prohibited.* WASHINGTON — THE OFFICIAL HEADLINES have cheered us. with almost cl^ 11 v victories through 1943. but any sober contemplation of 1944 must make us look behind them at the reality cf our war e|fortv In Italy, the Pacific Islands and New Guinea, we have been engaged in costly, brave but token-scale fighting A very small fraction of our massive army i v*dP means by which members of the has even now—a month more than twojHrmed services enajr cast heir vote vears after the war started—-seen the ^-ie fbvemoi s proclamation set the enemy. There have been official e.sti-■ opening meeting ol ’he legislature at Des Moines, la (INS)—Oov. B B Hickenlooper today called special session of the iowa legislature to pro- AW, SHUCKS* IT OJLV COST 50 CENTS. G JESS A GUV'S JELLY 1 BEAM RATES A 1 CORSAGE WWEM N. i TAWCE hER To \ HV BOSS’S part y> 5OTL \ n NEVERTHELESS, NOU SHOULDN'T SPEND YOUR. HARD-E ARMED MONEY TAAT WAV, VOU MAUGMTV BOV BELIEVE ME, WWEM WE GET MARRIED, I’M GOING TO TEACH NO(J -SOMETHING ABOyr ^Vino MONEY- ; Wmat?minK!? I p p.p =r- p PTEEM J > MUNDR.ED ? WHERE DO VOU THINK I’M GOING *0 RA SE THE dough to OAV/ \ TOR IT ? ^ »'\ A \A ACTUA _LV, * ^' SAV Nu - VOU A LOT op MONE'V . //A BECAUSE that new s fvij' TA is oM *-URS -£1AR IS APTga^HEPiQST JPS T-E VEAR. A-L The QT-ER V, V ES A- /OUR With County Men and Women In The U. S. Service Railroads Now Operate Under U. S. Control OP-iCE HAVE ONE t DO VOJ WANT TO BE ASHAMED ,1) mates that 2,500 000 (possibly about a third of our preparing army* will overseas by new year's day. Official pronouncements disclose that we had four divisions in action in Tunisia, fi\e in Sicilv. and four or five in Italy—about 60,000 to 75.000 men fight* I mg at a time. About half these divisions have car- j ried on through, so that or.ly half of them may be assumed to be additional 10 a, m Wednesda- Jan 26 be f At the same time the governor issued i a proclamation calling for -pecial elections Jan. 19 to fill eight vacancies tn the legislature. For Primaries As \V«*II Hickenlocpe: in a statement said the j legislature .should provide for the sol- j dier.s to vote in the primaries as well j as in the general election He ,aid that I the actions of the federal government j troops. These considerations would are °* doubtfu: constitutional \. Such furnish an estimate that a little over proposals lie declared provide oppor-100.000 men had yet seen action on this tunity for voting onh for na lonal of-front * flees. On Guadalcanal and in tin- Solomons,« governor es imated that lie ses- three different divisions have been Rl°® should not take more than two or mentioned In New Guinea, elements three days to pass the needed legi. la-of two more have been officially de- tion. The presen law piovides clared A division is supposed to have j absentee ballot been involved at Attu One op the things that WAVERLY LIKED AROlT his FIANCEE WAS HER ECONOMV"* THE WAV SHE WORR ED ABOUT HiS POCKETBOOC" Three Unions Sticking to Strike Call Washington, D. C. (INS) Leaders cl the three holdout railroad ope a ting brotherhoods dis.dosed today that the scheduled conference with Gen. Somer-vi.l was postponed until tomorrow neon. No reasons were giver, for the change. Washington, D.C.. 1 INS>— Lt. Gen So THEY WED *** AND HE LEARNED about SAVING FROM HER. Tuan> to "’OSTEE., VA',-ASSET, N.y law may not more than 20 days Some officials believe be that sent out before elections, that moving up THl?S IN THE PACIFIC, the estimate could be safely placed at around 90,000 in action, plus the 19,000 regulars who fought for the Philippines. Certainly few more than 200.000 troop—one tenth of the land force supposed to be overseas now and onh an Infinites anal 2u-; of the army we the deadline lor filing or withdrawal of candidates to 80 da\ before election and revising the time for sending out absentee ballots to 60 dav* will solve the problem Light Vacancies There are eight vacancies in the two houses Those whose places must Steel Industry’s C risis Ebbs Away Strikers Ordered Hack To Work Bv .Monday U. S. HAS MORE THAN 42 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Great Surface Battle Sank Ship Pittsburgh, Penn. (INS* -The steel | industry's first major labor crisis since I the days of 1938 in the Mahoney valley |ebbed awav peacefully today as CIO b*! President Fliilip Murra: ordered w.ld- Washfcigton. D. C. iNS- — Secretary of Navy Knox disclosed today that the United States now has more than 42 aircraft carriers. He made the disclosure in a re ,ew of development of the year and said that the navy personnel now totals 2,388,000. have been raising and training to beat I Idled nclude Senators F. Ray Emerson cat strikers to return to their mills and been turned upon ' °f Cre.ston and Sanford Zeigler of Fair- machines and resume production of j field and Representatives Carroll John-1 vital war products, son of Knoxville, D F. Moye of Mu quo- The return to work instruction* were keta, R R Dvorak of Toledo. Don .^ued last night by the chief of the Graft of Okaloosa, A. C Green ofi CIO after the War Labor Boaid gave Denison and Thomas L. Kuhn of Bed- Council Discusses Sites For Airport Duke of York Played Leading Hole London. Eng. (INS*—Caugin of floating steel, the 26.000 tot horst was sunk by ships of navy in the greatest surfa< since the Graf Spee early in ai a Lap Scharn-hc royal ;e battle the war. Pi Nb New address: Orval Ziykefoose S-2c, M. M.-K-4, Clt s B-26, Barracks 54 N. A j T. T. C., Norman, Okla. | ■ I d ward l kstrom, Swede’' to his friends in Mt. P easant, is enjoy.ng a • 23-day furlough at the Cooke* home. He has been in the navy eleven months,’ . and in that time has cnade a trip to Africa and a second trip took him aiound the world. He has been on con-j voy duty. He is an anti-aircraft gunnel cn a freighter and he says he has seen plenty of action. Edward is ex-i cept.onally modest, but he admits he i has had several very close caiis. Fighting the enemy is not the only Scmervil>, dnector oi the government I excitement while on duty. When he railroads, today stynm ned the chiefs no sed the equator he was initiated 0f three operating rail i-mon f.-i ,nto “Neptune’s Court and has the sticking by their original .strike call to certificate showing his membership in a conference at his off.ee. i trclet. The initiation consisted of Gen. Somervill, commanding general : pouring sorghum and egg over his head of the army service who is operating j and painting in* body green. the railroads under President Itoose- 9 4 velt’s order, called the meeting for < apt. and .Mrs. II. i. Iraut returned 11:30 a. m. at the waar department pen-yesierday to Mu-kogee. Okla., after tagon building, j pending the we°k end at the parental Called into the huddle with the three Fred I raut and F H. Gunter homes, was H. W. Frazer, head of the brotli-** erhood of conductors, T. C. Cashen. Kenneth Owens, U .-1 N. R. V-12, rc- chief of the switchman s union, and turned to Chapel Hill. North Carolina, d. B. Robertson, president of the broth-to resume his studies at the university erhood of firemen and enginemer.. after spending Christmas with his par- More than 18 hours after the presi-ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E Owens. dent took control, the three operating brotherhoods doggedly clung to the or-Kenneth E. Owens, naval aviation ders which called for a walkout at six cadet at the Lmversity ot North Caro- a. m. Thursday. The exact purpose of lina. Chapel Hill, N C., spent Christmas the conference with Gen Somervill was with hi parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M not divulged although some sources be- Owens. of the battle ciisclo. ed to- rhe AxLs—have yet the enemy. Thus doe,* not mean their fighting has not been great ami historic. Valor and greatness In combat do not rest on numbers. Nor will any future action of this war be more Important than the 'ford In addition. Rep Ear. Fishbtugh work they had to do The only point of! of Shenandoah is in the armed service this cold truth is we are still in the 1 and it H not known whether he of this war now I be able to return for the sessions start those whose vacancies are to be preparatory pha.*e more than two years after it will All That none of us has fully appreciated ( Biled are Republicans. these facts, however, is due to several! natural reasons U 3116/) Hftrr In the first place, collapse of the German war machine wh anticipated VI jrio ( (lllfpct because of a shortage o: oil and raw materials, and this proved unjustified. Secondly, the air corp* expected bombings of German cities to bring a possible caoitulation due to the same reasons, and this may come any day. but it has not come yet Furthermore, it was w ise and necessary for us to make the Nazi* continue to believe new invasions were imminent in order to keep a* many Germans as approval to President Roosevelt s plea and guaranteed retroactivity of any pay boost won in the current negotiations. j The abrupt end came as -seel, produc-S tion dropped to its lowest rate since : 194 3 when America’s war program got under way. Miss Wanda Barr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Leslie Barr of north of Mt. Pleasant, won first pLce in the wrar bond contest which has been conducted through the columns of the News with local merchants participating. She receives the $50 bond award. Second place goes to Miss Jean Jeambey of Mt. Pleasant, who receives I possible away from the Russian front, a $25 bond and third to Raymond Fit*. Finally, the profound extent of Nazi Patrick of Mt Pleasant, who receives stuDbornnes.s in continued fruitless re- ^ in *ar •‘-’amps. Russians Run Over Nazi Forces Moscow, Russia, (INS* -Twin Russian drives, which are but the initial phases of a steadily developing winter offensive. Ian roughshod over the Nazis | today. In their spurt to wrest key , communication centers faom the en-i emy, the red army severed a railroad ! and captured up to 130 towns and vii-i lages and killed more than 5,000 nazi troops. The Mt. Pleasant city council met in special session Monday morning to discuss possible sites for the location of the airport authorized in the recent city election. Present plans call 1 or the selection of several sites as possible locations and then have a study made of the sites by a Civil Aeronautics official to determine the one best for a community of this size Condemnation proceedings might even be necessary to get the .desired location. Council members were interested in learning that a tract maybe condemned for a new airport as well as for expansion. first detail day. The mighty battleship Duke of York, which carried Prime Minister Winston Church;U to the United States for one of his conferences with President Roosevelt, played the leading roie, but it was the 8.000 ton light crui.ser Jamaica, built in 1940, which delivered the coup de grace, firing the last and finishing torpedo mto the huge Nazi battleships vitals after other vessels had crippled her. Only a few of the 1,400 crew members of the vessel were saved when the vessel sank. Swedish newspapers said today quoting underground Nazi radio Oregon, came reports. Robert W. Potter, A S U S 1095-43 Camp Hill, Farra- Address: N.T.S., Co. gut, Idaho. l*vt. ( harles < raig Smart of Camp Crowder, Mo., spent Christmas at the heme cl his parent*. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smart, at Hillsboro. Pvt. Lawrence (). IIowc, of Camp Dodge, De* Moines, la., spent Christmas with his wife of Burlington, at the home of his mother. Mrs. Alta Howe at Hillsboro. Jieved the leader wanted to ’«npress upon the leaders the consequences of a wartime strike against the United States government. Meanwhile the executive committee of the brotherhoods of railroad trainmen and locomotive engineers, the two big unions cf over 200.000 members who broke the strike by calling off their walkouts on Christmas eve, went into a conference. Pfc, John A. Logan of Camp Wh*te, on Friday to sistance to the Russians has been truly amazing. Only a nation which wants suicide could continue to face what Germany faces with the new year. THE END OF THE WAR in Europe is surely to be expected this cc-ming year. Fuller use of our great power is practically promised officially, not on far scattered atolls but in concentrated power. Places where the blows are to be launched have almost officially been suggested. Disappointments cannct continue to delay the inevitable. Yet if we continue only to plod along remote sandy island by island in the Pacific, and mountain by mountain in Italy, with no more than 200,000 men in action on land, anyone can see this war could last interminably (the long hard years originally forecast.' My best guess is Germany will yet ship crack, and quickly, that the war in Europe will certainly end in the first six months of 1944, probably the first quarter, and that Japan will last less than a year longer. The standings of the contestants was as follows: Wanda Barr ..........2,652.009 Jean Jeambey........ 1,480.631 Raymond Fitzpatrick . 70.915 Marilyn Adams ...... 40.937 Mrs. Kinney ......... 7.245 Out-of-Town Guests at Wedding Sunday Are Listed Coming Tonight Weir and Company — ■* Mu catine’s ba ketball team. w..ich will play here thi* evening, will b:? led by hotshot Malcolm Weir, who scores them from all angles. Weir, who transferred from Grandview high school, made ten field goaU in half of a recent game and was able to score 17 points agains: Davenport. The Mt Pleasant boys have escaped the flu to date and are hoping they can step Weir and company. Eight Report For Assignments Eight men from the group who were inducted into the armed forces in December reported back at Camp Dodge today fcr their assignments. They are: Virgil Hileman, acting corporal, Max Boese. Donald C Myer-. Joe Lyon. William R. Mar.kc, Gilbert Messer. Erwin Ranck and Donald J. Be.i. Washington — The war department announced today that soldiers will be used to operate the nation’s railroads in event of a strike Thursday. Secretary of War Stimson announced pend a all of the penalties of the Smith-Con-furlough with his wife at Ft. Madison nally anti-strike biil will be brought to and his mother, Mrs. Gertrude Logan bear against any union strikers, at Hillsboro. Secretary Stinson also announced ep« ^ pointment today of a board of raiuoad < pi. and Mrs. Earl H. Mabeus of officials to act in an advisory depart-Venice, Fla , left Tuesday night to re- ment In the operation of the railroads, turn to Florida after spending a 15 All will be commissioned colonels in the da\ furlough here with their parents U. S. army. The central western di- Petit Jurors Are Dismissed Petit jurors for the November* court term have been rismissed for the term. No jury trials were held during the term. and many other relatives and friends. ft Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stafford received word from the:r son Harold w ho is with ’he 472nd Ord. Evac. Co. in California that he i,a* been promoted from corporal to Sgt. Harold A. Stafford. vision’s representative is Ralph Budd of the Burlington route. Another Rail Headache For F. II rc- Deeds Recorded At Courthouse Deeds recorded at the courthouse cently include the following: Referee, deed from John M King to Herbert Bak^r for 40 acres in Marion tcw’nship Consideration is given as $4000. S ella Herron Smith and George W. Smith to John W. and Pearl Allen, tract in section 26, New L ndoti town- AVIATION STUDENTS GO TO MANY STATES W.*W. Fyc. administrator of the John W Fye estate, to Floyd and Mabel Lane, property on North Adams. ’ Mt. Pleasant. Consideration is given as $3,5ro C. Van Brussel, trustee under the Neola Morrison will, to J. F. Menden-h II, property on South Main street . Mt. Pleasant. Consideration is given as $2,050. Charles J. and M iry Ballard to E I-ward and Bertha Cummings, Wayland property. Consideration is given as Many aviation students of the detachment at Iowa Wesleyan had week end passes’including Christmas and took advantage of the opportunity and scat- $1,203. tered to distant points. ------------- Three of the students chartered a Homer City. pa. (INS* plane from Chicago and flew to New 0(K) point values' of meat York, others bought a car and went to smoke when fire destroyed tl>o slaugh-t Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Elmme arc lh -their home in another state and still ter house cn the J S. Mack farm, near parents of a son born Monday, others used a combination of rail and Homer City. Three sides of beef, eight Walter Virden and Mrs. Harry car travel to get to their homes as far of veal, V hogs and 12 lambs—all dies- Townsend and baby girl were dis-away as Alabama and Kentucky, t sed—were lost. ir*)'sec* today. j Out of town guests at the Morgan- I j Vandagriff wedding Sunday were: Mr.! I and Mrs. Sam J. Miller. Winfield; Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Corey, Mt Union; Mr, and Mrs. LaVerne Hult, Swedesburg; I John H Huston and family, J. A. Hus-I ton. Mrs. Orrie Rew, Mr. and Mrs. j Grover DeYainian. B. E. Hu>ton and family, A. H. Huston and family, Olds; Mr and Mrs. Max Stein. Iowa City; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spratt. Miss Sheila Spratt. Mrs. Chas. Bush, Fairfield; Mr. and Mrs. B. P Williams, Priscilla and Marguerite. Evanston, 111.; Ena. and Mrs. M. B Bergstrom. Swedesburg; Mr. and Mis. F. S. Bridger and family, Richland; Paul Watson, Council Bluff:-; Mr. and Mrs. Lander Kenned} Washington; Miss Kathryn Stiles, Burlington; Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Corey, Doris Morrow, Kay Olson, Don Byers, James Heizer, New London; Meda Hauen-stein, Columbus Junction; Jeanette Prouty, Lockridge; Howard MeElhinney, Jim Sheafor, Morning Sun; Mrs Hall Weir, Burlingt< n; Mr. and Mrs. L, W. Ne’son. Oakland. Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carlson. Mr. at d Mrs. Don Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Morrow, Mrs. Franc Ncrman, Mrs. Robert McIntosh, Winfield; Martha Van Brussel. St. | Cloud, Minn.; Mrs. Paul Galcr, Chica-! go. Nearly 15.-! went up in MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NOTES ,GREEK REFUGEES FLEE FOR SAFETY The new address of Cpl Dwight Mes- .Washington, D.C (INS' -President ; ser is as follows: Cpl. Dwight Messer, Roosevelt was faced today with another ‘ A S N 37660171, 349 Sig. Co. Wing, headache in the railroad situation foL I Camp Pinedale, Fresno, Calif. lowing gover nment seizure of the car- : iers. ; Joe Messer, A-S, and Oliver Taylor. ju&t a few hours after the chief ex- i A.-S*, have returned to St. Ambrose ecutive had ordered the army to take j cOiiege after a three day Christmas ever the railroads, the ((resident's fair vacation with their parents and other employment uractice committee turned relatives. over to the white house the racial dis- crimination cases involving 16 south- Pvt. Joe I Mc( ultough. A S. N 37- eastern roads and their unions. Both ! €81930, Co B, 215th Bn, 66th Reg?., carriers and unions have refused to ,C amp Blanding, Florida. a’:ide by an order directing tmployoatut ** of negro work^ s, F. D. McCullough. A M M 1-c, Avi- ationTraining (Line) U. S. N A Clathe. Kansas. Fire Damages Focal Property i - j Fire damaged the upper portion f . Dio hcuse at 311 South Jefferson Mon- ? day evening about seven o'clock Tl> ! fctase probably star ted from a defective chimney. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore, a young c up’'* 1 . who had only recently moved to the i place, g. I their household goods out j withcut much damage. The water and fire damage to the house was rathe- heavy. Fined On Charge Moss Serup was fined five dollars and STRIKE WOULD COST ARMY 303 PLANES DAILY Washing?on I> c. UNS* - Gm. H H. Arnold, chief of the at my air forces, dec ared today that the national railroad strike would the U, S. army 300 planes a day flc ns Still Important On Navy Menu Washington (INB» The War Food administration disclosed that beans .. tiaditioral item ot naw tare - till occupy a prominent place on menus lor this btanch o( the aimed services. In reviewing the needs of mil tarv fe crs fcr this high protein content food, the WFA s>id that, as every iai’or know.s. the r.avv probably has been the most consistent user of beans. An average acre’s production will A SHIPLOAD of Greek refugees from a bombed isle in the eastern Mediterranean are shown here as they sail to safety in an Allied-held port. Whenever possible, the people of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seas are escapin , from danger zones. 'International) ‘costs in the court of Mayor H. L. Shook frrve around three times as nr.any sol - this week. Serup. nicked up by a high- dicrs as sailers.” the food agency re- way patrcman. was charged with pass- ported, ‘because of the frequency of ing a car in a restricted area servings in the navy.”

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