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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 1, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Suisar ll - Feb. 1-Mar. 15 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee (I lb.) - Jan. 4-Feb. 7 Gasoline No. 1-Jan. 21 -Mar.21 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Far I Oil 3 - - - In til Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Fuel Oil I - - * In til Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallons VOL. EXXI, No. 20 MONDAY, FEB. I, IOLI MT. PLEASANT* IOWA THE tty Paul Mai.i.on (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction in Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON —THE HAPPY NOTION that we might teed ail th1 world after tin war has slipped awa) fast as it has become apparent we cannot even feed ourselves an well during it With spring planting only weeks off. some agricultural are conceding that less fried produced this year than last. 1 the greatly increased war dona most hopeful of optimists only allow themselves to yearn for an increase of four percent whereas demand calls for a 50 or IOO percent increase cr more. Our industrial output na. been expanded 350 percent over U.a year and will jump nearly two-thirds as much year. blit the food produc-rung along just about the the extraordinary part of e is even promising expan->t the situation. allie fflei als nay be o meet id. Hie again th lion is r same an it is no one t-aion to ino't th Food admin i manpower***- Mc at the problem soy bean I jo nu are getting reac jx»int svsti rn to city but the idea the obstacles and calor Wildcard I ult are pecking here and there s aud th* f to impose divide our i cf eraser llv rais; and i way Up Remnants of Army 27 Men To Leave Soon They’ll Do It Every Time — Will Go To Camp Dodge For Final Exams 7 w itty-y'Veil mri. ar*' scheduled 'o leave here at the end of the w'eek for Camp Dodge for final physical exams ani if they pass for induction into the U 5 a: rn* d forces. This will be the first group cl Henry county men whom JIT Tattooers a radical xxi scar- : through g enough arn. Rushes not tor Americans. British. Algen* Mans and others apparently (x curred to anyone A farmer friend of .mine who is also a good buxines man, has devoted some thought to the condition and has reached the conclusion that thr* * thing* ar** wrong — three basic thing-which could be* met if sufficient encrgj and intelligence were applied to iii* rn HK MU. i»s I» ti: Ie than th HIK I I HST, the fear among this fear is g lion this year Washington bureaucrats concluded with their little pens and pencils The fanner fears to plant primarily because he has no prospect of getting enough help to harvest He will nim hi cr p planting to what h< can [ .aIt*Et handle unit* he gets some formidable assurance from the government that greater planting is possible. A number of solutions have been offered on this phase — the importation of Ba iranians to the southern vegetable and fruit area^ and cotton fields. Mexican:, to th*: middle west, and even Chinese to the Pacific coast — but no one has done anything about it. or offered any promise. Temporary release of some men from the army or non-essential industry or schools to help in planting or harvesting is possible, but so far tire only hop** offered the farmer has been th** decision of the draft boards not to take much more of his help and talk, only talk from McNutt about amassing a “land tilling army of civilians” who wfould probably ruin more acreage than they harvest. The production of pigs and poultry could have been quadrupled in this country if anyone had the sense. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, to institute government sponsorship of such a movement, but officials then all weie saying we would have enough food because we had great stores of surplus wheat. Pigs and poultry could even now be doubled except for fear. The farmer must pay a high price for feeder hogs and premium prices for feed for rn** may be sen* to the navy. marines or coast guard to fill needs there In the past all draftees have scone into the army, but with the J doing of * nils ment-s in the other; branches, some selections will now be made for the other .services. Two of the men in this group. Paul I- :ward Kinney and Ralph William Owen. Jehovah’s Witnesses organza lion memo- s, had made app* ais a conscientious objectors, but were turn cd down and given I - a classifka' ions The men to go from here; John Mervin D&vey Earl Andrew* Hoover Roy Wayne Funk ha user Jack Lorraine Flam Warren Joseph Anderson I>alr- Delbert Hamilton Virgil Dale Ald rich Dwight Leslie Messer paul Edward Kinney K* i. ne th S Milks Merlin Fhvd Martin Milton Aden Jones Donald Lorraine Thomas Floyd Edward Bally De lmar O'is Barton E I win Alton Balm* r Emmet Smith Ross Leland Verden Pontzius Wilbur Chn Gooier Richard Guthrie Johnson Arthur De Wayne Peterson William Eugene Morrow Ralph William Owen Ralph Everett Was on Transfers, from other board.,; Noel I..avoy Guinn R* lxrt Earl Gat moe Wilfred Henry Soppe Junior ( lass To Give Unusual Play Lady Precious Stream” Hereon Tuesday Evening: 7 morrow eve nine at eieht I in* delightful Chine: e cnrmrty. “Didy Precious Stream” will be given on th* high school stage. This play, which had. an unusually long Broadway run. is an ancient Chinese ort** translated into E giish by Dr. Hsiung. It will be done in traditional Orion*al style, with pr* peaty with property men unconcernedly wandering about the stage during the action, se ting up proper-ties and taking them down. Greatest Loss of War For Hitler’s Army mr Sixteen German Generals Are Captured Moscow, Russ. a. (IN 3 > Complot.* liquidation of G* rman forces surrounded in the western part of Stalingrad was arm nu need today by the Soviet h gh command. The Red arar. now is conc'ntra ing on wiping om the la^t •emra ut the tim' The >f twenty-four includes • Naai siege army of 330,1)00 troops still Ling.fig desperately to positions rn Precious Stream, j Presbyterians To Have Special j Service Next Sunday ti Joy Weir Frederick Crane as her husband. I Hsith Ping Kuei, Dean Corder, as Prime Milliner Wang. Betty Wittmer. I Maxine Emminger, Wynona Smutz, Charles and Ke:?h Garretson a.s other j numbers of the Wang family, Joyce I Miller. WU lad* an Pickard. Kenneth; Myers, Richar d Wilson, Howard Ceti-j rill, Harvey Von Tuyl. Evelyn White,-Betty Linch, Glen HuehoP, Donald i Themes, Charles Hannah, Duayne Freeman. Frederick Klopfenstein. Lob, Du-cnberry, Ralph Clawson. Charlotte McCabe, , The play is directed by Ge**rge Martin and the technical production is in - , . the hands of Darlene Adams, Georgia There was a great reunion in North. Am going to rn.M home some ris j-^jj clark. Margin Gillaspey Bonny Africa about the middle ct Januars j postcards, etc. mat up till now would B rt,-'ajll and T)m McCabe, when a MI. Pleasant roster and broth-1 not have gone through. Will cf course l h* northern part of the city. WILL DEDICATE Local Sister and Brother SERVICE FLAG HaVe Reunion In North Africa Announcing details cf th** greatest d*f at stifit red by Hitle r's armies, th** high command declared at noon that Soviet troops were continuing to wipe out the remnants rf German detachments still at Stalingrad. The communique reported a force of 900 had bt rn either killed or taken prisoner during 'lie night. Destruction of those units of the beaten Nazi 6th army west of the centi a1 part of S'alingrad resulted in the capture of 16 German generals, among them the commander-in-chief, Field -maishal Friedrich Von Pa ulus. lica- er. both in the U S. service veari md her broth , There will be a service flag aet 'Hoi at the Presbyterian church next united after nearly 2 ' Sundnv morning. TIM- fellowing men J Lieut. Dorothy Will I J or, Harold Willits were stationed only the church or Sunday honored on this occasion. Tile par ents and relatives oi these boys are j.see her given a special invitation to attend this service and stand for their tom were re- ! have to tell the stories connected with them when I get home. New* York, New York <INS* —‘The last German soldiers ate now bein-wiped out of Stalingrad,” the British radio today quoted a M scow dispatch a.s saying, according to CBS. in service who have been members warnJri ,chool will be j about twenty miles apa.’t, Haiom learned and he got permission to go Love to all. HAROLD Change In Local Lumber Yard J. R. Weir Buys Interest Of when roll call is given. Honor rh Harold E. Karrer. Kenneth M Karrer. John R Ward. Emmett Spraker, Earl C Carnahan Hugh R. Carnahan, James E FUdtinger, James A Van Allen. Henry T. Traut, ! Eugene H. Gunter, Theodore F Huene. ! James R Pobanz. Ralph C. Price, Kenneth A. Getehell. Otho T Miner. Paul F. Miner, Ward L Miner, Carol R Miner, Erwin C. Gillis. John Lawson, George Crane Richard C Howe, Don ! Chrissmger, Warren Howe. William HENRY COUNTY LAND INVOLVED IN CLAIM OF WOMAN AS WIDOW He has been with the hanoi of a unit in North Ireland for ovei j a year. Lieut. Dorothy is a nui se and ^ had been in North Africa only a few j weeks. The Inst information that they hadj located each other came on a post- card bearing brie. message,_ taUK ^ ^ ^ p <Denny, Carney notorious as a Chicago vice monger Chicago, Tribune — Mrs. Ray Cooney. who asserted she was rn trued to here last handwriting of each ieee mother. Mrs. Edit ii WiOlt week. This rnorniiig sh* r I rom each Harold is reprinted here living details of meeting his sister: Jan. 20. 194o Northern Africa Russell Van Brussels Hall Weir, Bussell Witt- j pamily —— George Williford. Earl Miner. J n,10 ftf ,h„ in 1903. Hied suit in Superior court Q 1pf,„ri Yesterday to obtain recognition a.s his (fot IV til n IL IL"* j - • i n lawful widow. Cooney died Jan 19. 1942. A complaint prepared on her belial; by Frank P. Miles and Leonard W. Stearns, her attorneys, named as de- Iowa Bond Goal At 215 Million Accuses Army And -! Navy of Interfering: Increase of 35 Million Over 1912 ----- j Washington, D. C. (I NS t—(Rubber I ledge (Junta j din e or William M. Jeffers today ac- - | cus’d th** army and navy of attempting to interfere with the civilian economy of the nation as he disclosed tha' Under-secretary of War Robert Patters on had written him demanding that all pleasure driving in the United States be stopped for the duration of the war. Patterson also requested, according to Jeffers, that trucks carrying beet and beverages and luxury articles which still are allowed to operate, should be requisitioned for use by the Des Moines. la (INS* low ans will be asked to declare their intent on to bu*. $215,000,000 worth of war bends for 1943 in the spec! I war bond pledge campaign which will be launched late this month. V. L. Clar!;, state administrator of the Iowa war sav ings staff announced today. This is an increase f $35,000,000 over the quota of $180,000,000 set for 1942. low a met the $180,000,039 quota and went over that figure for I94-i mer, Merrill Hoelzen, I One of the biggen and happiest days uhQ earlier qualified as Cooney s widow i Warren Ra use her, and Bas- Carl Register, Leo Jeambeyv Additions are constantly being mad such rolls as these and possibly by this service there will be The lumber firm of Weir sell dissolved partnership in a trans action Saturday, Mr. E D Russell to hie interest in the business to the time of Bussed Weir. The partnership others added when further mlormation selling Mr J was formed six years ago, Mr. Russell is obtained timelv he organization There will be special music, a time* sermon by the pastor, and reception of becoming active in „ , The Increased quota is based on in- fendant Mrs Mamie Kempton Cooney, ienuaiiL m creased income most Iowa farmers ann , B I c j * . Iowa workers will have for 1943 and in the army, wa, observed the ethel and was awar<teJ letters of a dm trite- consideration ,...reused day. in fact tost Saturday. Jan. i tration of the estate by the Probate ls „35ed cn si,;trP , was able to fulfill th.(dream,c get- court platnttft asked ..re court to ^ ^ ^ ting to see Dorothy We both tauten decjare Gooneys marriage to the ad- __ at once about 10.00'/ different tiling." ministrator “bigamous- and lo re- # Had baa a fee In.- in my bones for straiu her fr0m the deposal of the J j)0giri AuVRnCOU some time that she was here and aft- estate. er inquiring ab-ut her unit, finally j ^ ^er sujt claimant declared checked up on her—then through the was married to Cooney when she armed forces. REPORTED MISSING; HE’S A PRISONER Tint <’riV wm mum to the trade members and baptismal ceremony. 1 j assistance of the Red Cross I was was 17 and introduced publicly as na name of Hall and Weir Lumber com- class of candidates for membership tQ gQ tQ whert. she is stationed wife she said Cooney’s estate mclud- tip gveryCne jn her unit and everyone gd jarge holdings of Chicago cusinrs p»ny as it was known from 1916 to will meet with Ute session in the WSI James Weir, -on of Mr and Mrs. church on Thursday evening of this J R Weir, will return here from week. Beaumont, Texas and will be asso- lated with hts father in the bus!- Hfjll P.. IV Contest ness until James goes into service. TV lit v* He will return to Mf. Plea.*5ant afterwards. The James Weir family will arrive in Mt pleasant Wednesday eve At Huron Tonight Clarence Graham, son of Mi’s. Edward L Jeambey’s youngest brother, who was reported missing in action since the fall of Corregidor. has now-been reported a prisoner. Young Graham, an anti-aircraft gunner had the high record of shooting down Jap A new class in advanced First Aid planes {rom the sky. having brought will start Wednesday evening, Feb. 3. down the mast planes with the fewest First Aid Course chickens, and the margins ordained by the government are so short that ^ j on future work. a few die he cannot make any money, t nine and will reside al he J. Russell Allan McCoid and patti Joy Wen ; home , will represent Mt. Pleasant at the ii James Weir had been employed with district declamatory conte st at ul_ _ the Credit Investment Trust Corpora- tins evening. Aha us pc a n lien at Corpus Christi. Texas, until atorical division and Patti thirty days ago when he was trans- matic. ferred to Beaumont with a nice pro- ~ZTTn motion. TOO MANY RUBBER ______ E. D Ra"sell will continue to reside EXPERTS IN NATION | m Mt. Pleasant, but has not aecided _____ . . , J, a ^ in the Lunch Room at the Senior High rniinric ammuniti n in mine arc b tickled over .he whole property, three lots in Florida, md L M, plea ant. at 7:30 oclock. ^ffetlL “ the International thing as we are. Go; to spend 3 hours 567 acres in Henry* county, Iowa. j . ho h cc mote ted the i nr mnrp with her and then the next ; An>(ne uh( aas completed toe News SerViCe wrote up his accompl.sh- dav on Sundae she was able to ccme ' s and*rd Ald <*urse ments very widely. He has also been nay on o ‘ ,...,e while Because cf the land owned in Henry to take this work. Classes will meet written up at length in the book: and see me ioi a ^ ^ *^ conuty, the former O’Loughlin farm at each Wednesday evening for a period ..Men of Bataan A message from the c *' ' u. farniiv in .strange home, ancillary administration is nee- of five weeks. Each class will run two g0Veriimem recently received by his mZ*rndmsituations. The last time essary in court here. Papers have hours. "parents in Nebraska, stated that he . . , vni remember was in been filed at the courthouse and Ben ^ one of the many prisoners taken by Mf. Pleasanton Aul 1st. 1941. and now A. Galer has been named the ancill ny JOKING SURVEY OF the Japanese wile ti Bataan and Cor- we'.nee, in AfriJ in Jan. '43. A administrator. ___SCHOOL BUS ROUTES ftU _ “Stars and Stripe^ reporter is going | ^ ^ ^ to interview to son:, and get the story jy|rg> Qeo> gcarjj0r0 u M il,, ,, (INS. M s Jes- r Jfead.Y Id StflKe t Washington. D. C director William Jet leis of our meeting I r the paper So far I've only got one copy of the African edition ol the “Stars and Stripes will mail ii and some ct Ii* • i things soon. The paper here is en INS*—Rubber ! a weekly basis ia; today told I as it was in the British Isles. M. Parker, .- 'ate supe, mtendenr of Taken By DCiltll Public instruction, today announced the pe s nile I cf a state-wide comm! -‘ , , -ce which is conducting a survey of r,r- Mrs' <-jCOlge A -C*al, ^j° ft .rnnnn *scbool bt^ t ram pert a lien routes, ter than the daily at the Memo; ial lv.spita usa 1 The .survey was requested bv the When at two o’clock. Mrs. Scarb ro, who Hard Blows - Knox Far better it Is for him individually I-. crTnm ICP RD flit FN' U.sTmilii uv I the copy of our story c Hies out. Ill natl been ill for ten years, was taken to ., , ti - A- -.......... ll I. lo ,he . ELECTROLIER BROKEN , a joint try and get some extra eop.es. the hospital a week ago &turday ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ STRUCK BY CAR and naval were too many rubber experts and too j 1 We are going to take some pic tures Mr. Scarboro, who is also ill, was tak- Know tha. en to the hospital the same day. P ari Harbor, Hawaii. tIN3>—Secretary of Navy Frank Knox. back from a 22.C00 mile air tour of the Pacific front, during which he was twice bombed, declared today that America has finished preparing and i> ready “to s rike hard blows - - possibly at Tokyo.” cffice cf Defense Transportation in an amount of bu i porting pupils to and from school. ..J and mail them to you. Know uw **« ««* »............Heading tin* committ e :■ Supt. Ear! An electrolier at the southwest cor- many army and navy men a g | ^ #u ^ h ppy to know th„ Survivii^ are her husband and three I ^ ( p u) R „p. ner of the square in front of the Mi. expediters in sin u . t 1 ’.your 2 o. S. army representatives arc children, Mrs Lissie ti e sui resents the slab department of pubh • nnnnrnTV Pleasant Oil company station was cf the nation. I within a few miles of each other in field, Mrs. elal n <> ■ 10n on thc committee. SHEPHERD PROPERTY We cannot haste,, our military £ j ^ ^ p ^ j#eU and „ Idah0. Pormst McFarland of at. Louis.. ^ m(mb(.re ,ncludl Sup.. Boy S0LD JQ H> HILD I the same as ever. First time lei eve! enr av Wise. New London The C J Shepherd property at East driven bv Hugh Peterson. The car "^fblum. spoken Jeffers »•>» caned'.seni her In her uniform! MISSIONARY TO SPEAK - and - re-- in Mt knocked over and broken into many ( pieces Sunday afternoon by a car fensive on rubber we don t have, do matter how disastrous it is to the country — to tighten in his production range to what he needs for himself and can handle safely in addition. This is the second correctable thing wrong. Fear of his farm machinery and repairs and the gasoline rationing restrictions is the third factor working toward curtailment. His situation on ti licks, tractors and tires urge him riot to and. in fact, prevent him from doubling or tripling his production as the national situation requires. Unless .someone takes hold of this situation like Jeffers took hold of the U1 ... . similar confusion on synthetic rub-] Davenport. .;Ia. (INS)-Thcy could WIN NINTH GAME I near together, instead cf her being cripsholm will be the guest speaker proposed "alary increases was mane symphony orchestra ' Burinist n 01 I,.cholla m- Romnwhfire. »t. the missionary guild of the Pres- today by the Iowa I txraycrs associa- skidded on the slick pavement and hit the iron pole. charged i She has been in Africa about , week ppcCDYTFRI AN fUII D SUGGEST REDUCTION prs con- i longer than I have. We have been |Q PRESBY ILK1 AN uUlLU OFFICE PERSONNFT R.A.F. MEMBERS VISIT DAVENPORT, IA, before the committees after he that there were to, many loafer nQu. {or nl0re than a year. so nected with the synthciic lubb.i lit , _ _ _ otlleI. Ior g%hile. Mcnroe and Wait ut Pleasant has bern sold to H. M. Hild cf this city. Miss Anna Moffet, who for 20 years MT. UNION GIRLS .if we sta\ near ca* n otnor ior avwm*. miss Anna iviuiut, w nu iv. ^—, tir»ii ii a L I I’ll keep Dorothy from getting home was a Presbyterian missionary’in China Des Moines, la. 'INS* -Suggestion Will Hear Orchestra i sick Really its swell ii she has to and only a few months ago returned. that th** Iowa legislate reduce per- Local member cf the Civic Must* •be cut of the U. S. that we can be to this country, on the steamship j cannel rn state jobs enough to offset association will hear thc Indianapolis take hold of it and j not visit their native Davenport. Eng., HIL— tin Australia or somewhere. at the missionary guild SO* two Roya! Air Force members in union girls defeated WymatJ We are still getting Christmas mail, byterian church Wednesday evening at training in Canada were on furlough • ^ ^ ^ ^ night fm the I Everyone was so good -got package.* 7:30 at the E. H Gunter home. Al! today in Davenport. la. n„inM victory this season, .-and letters and cards from so many ‘missionary members are nixed to hem ber — and he did dispel it — food production may decline to such an extent as to startle* the bureau boys. Regimented economy seems to have failed again. It worked all right on (Continued on page two) The mea picked the American moth points and Carlson. | folks! Will try to write th, rn all some this speaker. Davenport as the place to see on their Wick^ AU mer. of th. cho ch are vei.omt leave. Tuesday evenirg with Fabien SeviUky tion iii its publication, The Iowa Tax- conducting Of interest to members payer. also is tha* announcement that the The editorial asserts that it w uld date of the GDdys Swart bout concert be impossible to reduce personnel in has been changed to Thursday. Apr I most offices. I.

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