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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 5, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa valid ration stamps VALID RATION STAMPS Sugar ll - 1**1). 1-Mar* 15 (Each stamp, 'Three pounds) (’offee (I lh.) - Jan. I I el). 7 Gasoline No. I-Jan. 21-.Mar.21 THE MT PLEASANT VOL. LXXI, No. :50 FRIDAY, FER. 5, 1913 Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, 11 gallons) Fuel Oil I - - - Until Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallonsMT. PLEASANT, IOWA Behind I %i#m the-News5 By- Paul Mali.on jr 111 Hitler’s Caucasus Army in Full Retreat <Distributed by King Features Byn- riu at*-. Inc, Reproduction in Full or *i» Part Htri'tl v Prohibited.) \V tSlll S (' ION — WIDENING C RAC KS in Na/.l morale have inspired no expectation", 'Within President Roose- h velt’.s mgn bl w up fa Mr lino and serIou Will the con: pee tally rent (}< severity gauae I rent he Whil< Iv tellin ii a a jressl appl man h< riv that Germany she did last time. cit himself was realistic bcut the dangers of the in his m i vale talk with mal leaders. He was es-ve about tit trine campal !,n outsider "lens ubm ture cur- the can cur ium hue ic m . t t e inf ant -grave d is ? lire sd.stri auth 11 nine Panthers To Play Olds For County Title Mi. Pleasant Defeats Winfield Pleasant Lawn Loses Thursday Night Scores Olds. 30 Pleasant Lawn, 25 Mt Pleasant, JO, Winfield, 20, They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Bu* Mi TIII OI ll* IM POS! I ION Ainee in aru I rom Germ CHOUS True, they nay th notorious front rum? to VI-On - I Ii'. I within 90 days after 1 effort P was Augus Pershing look forms Amel i« .*n fight* is, sin* the ctcrmam Ii? t a I armistice The authorities her* whelming!) doubt ti will t> string* fiver the p< i xperf the e bsh do, or ev IT MUST however, tbs optimism its patently, there I people might exaggerate J tic hopes .md r**lax their Mt. Pleasant To Play at Burlington Panthers To Meet (Greyhounds In League (Game The Mt. Pleasant Panthers will take time out I rom 'he Henry County basketball tournament long enough to travel to Burlington tonight to play the Burlington Greyhounds in their last scheduled meeting of the season. The Greyhounds have an exception- Leaving All of Their Heavy Equipment Making Hazardous Crossing of Straits New Y:rk. New York GNS' Adolph ally good record so far with 7 wins Hitler’s Caucasian aimy Is in full rf-and 2 losses to the Panthers, 9 game treat by way of the only route left : s (open — the Ketch Straits — the Brit- The Panthers should however be able *ish radio reported today in a broad-o give the Greyhounds plenty of trou- cas? heard by CBS. blo it they olay basketball as they j The broadcast said the Germans have in the county tournament the were leaving all of their heavy equip-last two days. meat to the pursuing Russians. It The starting lineup for tonight’s added, “one German unit after an guine with Burlington will bet the same other is now making the hazardous that has .started the tournament crossing of the straits under the guns games. Bill Krabill and Howard Cot- of the Russian Black Sea fleet." trell will be at forv ards. Claience-- Pounds at center and Joe Messer and Dean Rich at guards. i sc team was unable of the Panthers he Panthers took >t it till the end Winfield was playing aid of Haight, a regular an atm fracture early in Backstage In Iowa Politics Lawn Olds defeat By F;ank T. Nit * low a Daily Press Writer) IL s Moines, la GDP A»—If wouldn’t be at all surprising if Gov. Bourke B. Hickenloopor and the legislature work La ssar .•are r red so many times, in our nations history, with a $27 a plate dinner in Iowa as has Andrew Jackson. ; S me 8CC to OOO fiithful democrats1 will gather again in Dees Moines Sat-j us day, ostensibly to honor Andrew Special Flood but actually to swell the party coffers j SCARCITY With meat so s arco these days. J there’s no doubt that a fat steer would J be picked clean b* fore he could walk tbrough the Hotel For? Des Moines Lincoln Sunday River Six Feet lo Be Observed Above Flood Stage At Methodist Church French West Africa Resources To United Nations Allied Headquarters in North At-rica GNS*—The entire military resources of French West Africa — military. naval and air — were handed over to the United Nations* cause today. i tome*! time f their w hen mmand Of iber 6 w hen crim- of an ll. 1918 control in view > Hitler n Ti icy do April ai w K O c >. ere i; es int seem to some Brit-n nee* ssarily this year UNO Bl EK PORTED, officialdom looks upon lf with misgivings. Appro* fear that the opt im Efforts, although. logically, you would expect the army of a fully-mobilized nation, gathering for the kill, to redouble its efforts at the scent of final success. Certainly a people on the verge of victor) should work doubly hard. Tile news from Hel inki and An-1 kara shews the Finns and Turks scent it. Although Finland is Germany’s ally, Preside nt Kyi? has let the news | out through Stockholm that he ha" informed the FittHi h parliament “the war is approaching a culmination point,” (climax' and he expressed hopes the allies will understand Finland’s position. He is in a position to know, as are the Turks, who have excellent open avenues of information into the Can-I casus and the Balkans. Through Tur- i kev have come reports that Hungary and Rumania are ai king return of some of their sniffiers for economic reasons. H tier’s allies seem to be falling away. ATOP ALL THIS, convincing prodf is available here that German pro- j duellos has been on the decline the t past .several months. Indeed, this 1st I f ii f Olds-Pleasant ; game saw n. 30 I 29, but not with- out a substantial .savings for the tax- | cliiilng ro rn. so the Jackson Day dm- Lawn giving the Olds payers in thr cost of the Iowa state j ner guests will partake of baked chick- at tile beginning of the guard I ,.n instead. cole at the naif j The governor has announced that I chairman Jake S. More is hopeful favor cl Olds. he has asked the heads of the or- j tlia{ tickets will go over the 1.000 mark ter Olds built up a g&hizaticn to conf^ with him in or- j jie jsn t counting too much on it. uooenl;. h wryer, der to determine a policy for th‘,Last ypar sct the record with I JOO ed like a m w team guand under emergency conditions. ; tickets i>eing sold. mid move Pleasant — points. The quar- j Thp state guard is said to be the , s rn front 21 to Id best In the na-ion by national guard int Lawn five was inspection officers who have visited the drive and went many states. It bs a volunteer guard >k 25 to 30 defeat. and no one draws pay excep* those on FO. FT. PF. TP active duty a* Camp D“dge with the 6 ftj-ft military police battalion. Lincoln Sunday, February 7. will be appropriately observed at the F.rst Methodist church Following the ser- _ mon the honor roll will be read, the Des Moines. Iowa —(INS)— Swollen congregation will stand in silent prayer Italy and Fiance were bombed simul-waters of the Des Moines river today Warning Issued Along Des Moines River R.A.F. Bombs Three Countries London, England GNS > - Get many.hah TheI im* w a s 9 to 5 inT. th* third quar21 to 9 *0ftdL &pin ant Lawn lot kand bch ae Olds coLawn bi Kl tallied 7ter end* d with OldHo we vet , the Picasunable 0 keep up an honorabAH. IM) isanttie Pound Mess*-1 Rich, Bogle, Anderson, [ f SAVINGS Board of control members are working overtime in .’der to save the state some money in purchasing food for the inhabitants of 15 state institutions under their control, Tile board is I mine the possibility reached a stage of 21 feet, six feet above flood stage, at Eddyville, Iowa, and have overflowed highway 137 near Albia, it was announced in a special flood warning bulletin by the weather bureau. Red Cross and police at Ottumwa are standing by in the event warm weather and additional rain cause the river to rise to even higher levels, the bureau declared. An ice gorge, holding ice within three feeto f the stringers of a bridge at church at 10:30. Eddyville, may cause a serious situa- * The choir will .sing a patriotic an-lion if it to not broken. j them Mr. Gordon Rhodes will be the at Eddyville soloist, singing “The Blind Plowman tor the men in our armed forces and taneously during the night in the *:ur country, and then all will sin** rajf’s largest aerial operation of the “God Bless Our Service Men” to the War against both European members tune of “God Bless America.” Cards 0f the axis, the air ministry announced of invitation have been sent to the today. parents and wives of the sixty-one a great weight ot bombs was drop-men whose manes appear on the roll. ’ ped on industrial ncithern Italy, war February 7 is also Annual Boy Scou: productsn centers in Germany's Ruhr Sunday and the two Scout Troops and valley, and the Nazi-held submarine the Cub P'ck in Mt Pleasant will at- tase at Lorient, France, tend the service and sit t geth**r in Turin, Italy's lamest industrial a prominent section of the church The conter, and the naval base of Spezia, Scouts are asked tea meet at the 50 miles south of the bomb-blasted port of Genoa, were heavily attacked. _ 1 of being unable to buy in the quan- 13 In his speech as outing governor. sav,n?s bu( )t 0 Senator George A. Wilson said that 5 then are 22 officers and 210 men on 3 active du y at Camp Dodge. Enlisted 3 men draw pay equivalent to that of 0 their rank in the army, plus $1 a day — each from the state, and officers draw Totals ......... U infieif) .10 IO 17 30Mason, f .......... .3 3 2 9r Vail Vianken. f . .1 0 2 2Rod ruck, c 2 0 2 4Remick, g ...... . .1 0 2 2L Van Viankyn, g . . .0 3 3 3Haines, f ......... 0 0 0 0 — — — —Totals ......... . . 7 6 ii 20are stated Pleasant Lawn Kaighin, f Lauer, I ---- Gipple, c Wright, g Miller, g Rara k g G -riels, g ... Totals .. Olds Olson, f R. Huston, f E. Boal, c J. Huston, g Miller, g Saltzman, I R. Boa!, t ...4 ....0 ....I ....0 ....0 1 2 4 I I 0 0 12 3 0 3 I I I. cers with the same rank. Ratio— Using the figures supplied by the outgoing governor, there is one officer at Camp Dodge to less than every IO men, whereas the regular army ratio is about I to 25-30 men. It is believed ’ that the present governor, who is a veteran of World War I. would like to determine just how* many active duty guardsmen are actually needed and it wouldn’t be surprising if a cut in their number, along with a corresponding wider officer-men ratio,, would be the result. High Ranks— When the governor ‘old the press is working out the problem with federal officials. HEALTHY One of the reasons why the statehouse press corps gets a big kick out of “covering' low a’s new Gov. Bourke B. Hickenlooper is because of such things as the following: A reporter asked the governor if he recalled another reporter who had coiered the statehouse when the governor was a state representative. \ Mt ■Yes,” replied hizzoner, “I do." {went “He was in town today,” the reporter said, “and wanted to be remembered to you. He’s inst Keen commissioned a second lieutenant.’, “Fine." said the gov. “theres at least one newsp pfermtn who has remained healthy." Highest known water was in May. 1903. which measured about 24.8 feet, according to the weath- direct the music and Mrs. L. P R s-er bureau. jtlne will preside at the organ. Mr. C Dynamiting would relieve the gorge A. Cottrell will give a three-minute situation at Eddyville, but no facilities lay address and Rev. George G Hunt, available, the weather bureau pastor, will oreach the sermon: Our Country Under God ” Allusion to the _ life and religious beliefs of Lincoln i will be frequent. I,t was the first time in the course cf the war that the bomb command had sent its planes over all three of by Clarke Professor S. C. Ham will thP major continental nations to at tack objectives in Germany, Italy and France. Soviet Armies Surge Forward School Debaters To Tournament ii 8 ll 3C Totals ...... almost officially confirmed by the new I Berlin announcement of a draft for IYT VOV! I even German from the cradle to the I as LO I lYlOVIS IU Salem Parsonage TODAYS MARKET Chicago. IP GNS)—HOGS: 16,000 guard officials had been asked in to including 4.000 direct; market goner- — confer with him. it was pointed out ally active and .-Leady to strong with 25 that many of the officers - and there yesterday’s average. T:p: $15.50; are many good men - - on active duty ll hold high ranks al'hough only 210 4 enlisted men are involved. 9 Men with much lowru, ranks handle1 0 that many men in the regular army. 5. Odds— 0 Betting in the legislature is that 1 Governor Hick* nlooper will either re- appoint the three highway commissioners for another term or he Pleasant high school debaters to Rock Island- III. today to compete in the Augustana college tournament. Iowa. Illinois and Missouri teams will compete. Those going from here were Allan McCoid. Winona Smutz. Alanson Elgar. Darlene Adams and Sally Ris-tine. They were accompanied by Speech Instructor George Martin. Moscow, Russia GNS)—Soviet armies, cutting off the retreat of Nazi for* ces below Rostov, surged forward today across the western Caucasus toward both the Sea of Azov and th«» * Black Sea in an attempt to trap the $ Germans before they can escape into - the Crimea across the Kerch Strait The Lockridge National Farm Loan while Red army land forces ad-Association held their annual meet- Vanced steadily westward Soviet coming at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on Tues- mando units were reported landing on dav Paul F Helterbran of Lockridge tpe Black Sea coast to cut off es- Loan Association Elects Officers 180 to 330 lbs., $lf 20 to $15.45; 160 to 180 lbs. $14.65 to $15.40; 360 to 550 lb., packing sows. $14.60 to $14 90. CATTLE: 1.500; Calves: 500; fed steers and hcif* s, finn; best steers, $16.25; best heifers, $15.85; cutter ccws. $9.60; light sausage bulbs, weak at $10.00 to $11 OO; weighty sausage bulls. J14.OC; venters, weak to 25c low-wili et* at $16.00 to $17.00. PAYS FOR MURDER BEFORE FIRING SQUAD Salt Lake City. Utah GNS)—William Robert Avery. 34. who termed capital punishment “cruelty and revenge." was executed by a five-man firing squad today. The execution took place at 8:23 a. rn.. MWT. Avery paid with his life for the murder of an Ogden, Utah, policeman Hoyt L. Gates, on February ll, 1941 Gates' fellow officers on the Ogden was reelected president; Harper E. Hillman, Fairfield, Iowa, vice-president, William G. Hunting of Salem, and Kenneth Ziliman of Lockridge were elected directors fra three year term L. Oscar Challnian was elected sec-retary-treasurer to service this assecution. grave. Hitler’s inexcusable ducking ol his tenth anniversary celebration and the; --- defensive fear-spreading ton*1 of the I Salem. Iowa File Rev. fur- Campbell and his mother moved from of the beard, the holdover members whosp terms do not expire until 1945, appoint three brand new commissioners. In other words, 'he boys feel that he won’t split the three appointments among old and new men. Each of tho three to be appointed must be a re-Gecrge publican for the other two members Winfield Goering and Goebbels remarks, im-, nisi, further proof that lh.' decline of Fairfield to Salem this week. and are first evident en I making their home in the Gong re ga- ' tarnal parsonage. The Rev. Mr. camp- K Ute governor bell is the new minister of the Salem ,,lfl oifl Congregational church. '«"»• ,hert"s * chance that lw0 sena is progressing Official Nazi morale the Ku: shin front rapidly. An early end would not be amazing therefore, even if it is not authoritatively expected. Last time, the final crack was a German naval mutiny) October 29, just 13 days before the) armistice. It swiftly spread through j all Germany doesn’t re-appoint commissioners to another BEGIN DELIBERATING FATE OF ERROL FLYNN AS FAE Aft THE PACIFIC is concerned, navy Secretary Knox has rather indicated to congress that our (Continued on page 3) tors may be named to fill a pair of the posts. They are Senator Ray Emerson, Creston, for the southwest district, and Senator Sanford Zeigler.i Jr., Fairfield, for the southeast dis-' Los Angeles, California (INS)—After trict. j a 30 minute charge by the court, a Among those being mentioned for jury cf 9 women and 3 men today be- the third job is none other than GOP gun deliberating the fate of Screen State Chairman Fled B. Gilbert, Star Errol Flynn, charged with at- Des Moines, la. —GDPA)—ProbablyI tacking two teen aged girls. no man, living or dead, has been hon-, SHEEP: 3,500 including 1,000 direct; force made up the firing squad, fat lambs, steady; sheep, steady. Estimated for Saturday: Cattle: 500; Hogs: I,COO; Sh" p: 500. LOCAL HOG MARKET Market steady. Top: $14 80; 160 to 180 lbs., $14.20 to $14.50; 190 to 300 lbs, $!>’ .60 to $14.80; packing sows $14.10 to $14.50. (At the Krey Station) Market seady to 10c lower. Top $14.60; 160 to 180 lbs., $14.00 to $1140; 190 to 330 lbs, $14 30 to $14 60; packing sows $14.00 to $14.30. Bishop To Visit St. Michael’s Sunday The Et. Rev. Harry S Langley. Bishop of Iowa will make his annual Visitation to the St Michael’s Parish Sunday afternoon. The service will begin a? 2 ©TKck The public is cordially invited to attend flit* service. Bishop Longley has been a Bishop in the Diocese of Iowa for over thirty years, and is recognized as ore of the catstane!in# ecclesiastic of the west, He is well known in Mt. Pleasant as an cape cf the axis remnants. After penetrating German defense: in the Rostov area the Soviets closed in rapidly on the Caucasian gateway city. Other Red army units were advancing on the Ukraine city of Kursk from three directions. A* noon the Soviet high command said that the Red army was continuing to move forward south of Rostov' after overcoming German resistance At another point on the Trans-Caucasian front Soviet tankmen waging Gfensive attacks broke through Nazi defenses and wiped out a battalion of infantry. Several inhabitated localities came back into Russian hands as the Red army streaked across the Krasny-Li-man front midway between Khark v and Kursk. ASKS MORE MONEY FOR THE U. S. NAVY NEW LONDON STORES TO CLOSE ONE AFTERNOON LOCAL MARKETS Eggs—32c. Cream, sweet—51c Cream, No. I—50c Cream, No. 2 48c. Heavy Hens—-18c Leghorn Hens—14c. Leghorn Cox—8c. Heavy Cox—9c Winfield. la. — Miss Beach, inns instructor, has chosen Tile Magic Pi- upstanding preacher. per" as the operetta to be presented by the first six grades. No date h *:■ been set for the presentation. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Nicholson of Columbus Junction are the parents of - a nine pound girl born at their home New London Journal — Majority of on February 4. Mr. and Mrs. Then- the New London retail places will close dole Schenk ol Winfield are the ma- at 12 noon on Thursdays and remain ternal grandparents. The baby W:’s clcsed the remainder of the day corn-born on her .cousin, Ruth Sandqu'st’s mencing next Thursday noon. Feb. ll 13th birthday. Washington, D C (INS) President R n evelt today asked congress to appropriate an additional $4,772,000,000 more for the navy — the money to be si>e/it by the first of July of this year. EISENHOWER TO HEAD FORCES IN AFRICA-RUM0R Washington, D. C. GNS)—The ap- For several years there has been pointmen! of Lieut General Dwight Mr and Mrs. Jess Spellers are the very little retail business on Thursday Eisenhower, United States African parents of a seven pound, IO ounce afternoons and to give clerks a naif commander as supreme commander I daughter born Saturday at. the Wash-1 day off and conserve on fuel and lights oyer all allied forces in North Africa. I ington county hospital. She h s t entthe store will follow the course estab- w ill be announced within a few days I nam*** PPtro v, Joyce Mrs. Lawrence fished in other towns by closing a half according t rumors breeding in named Peggy Joyce Metzger is the maternal grandm thet. da> each week. Washington today

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