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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 8, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa VALID RATION STAMPS VALID RATION STAMPS SuKar ll - Feb. I-Mar. 15 (Each stamp, Throe pounds) Coffee (I ib.) - Jan. 4-Feb. 7 (■asnlinc No. I-Jan. 21-Mar.21 THE IMT PLEASANT NEWS Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Fuel Oil I - - - Until Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallons VOL. LXXI, No. 52 MONDAY, FER. K, 1913MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News J :A > Behind THE/ By Paul Mali gn (LMft riouted by King Feature 8yn die*n*. Im , Reproduction iri Full cr t»i enc strictly Prohibited * VV$S|fINGTON — Mil MOUGIN THAT'S lax coun < I Randolph Paul, has taken the smart lawyer's way of b wling-up the house wavs and mean ; committee about the Ruml plan and pay-as-you-go. He has done a good job of it Tin committee is bewildered and th* public, no ti sub’., is also Mr. Pan! got hts training as a member of a large New York firm of tax lawyers and is supposed to have made a fortune working on that side of tho street Coming to the treasury last year, he indicated he intend*d to use just a»s much strategy and just as many tricks on the government side What he devised as a substitute for the Ruml plan confirms his promise although no one. except a corporation pres* tit it without laugh-suggested to the commit-traight poker ut taxpayers be tai laxei i veal s plat ■r the: to in th face, that n pa y - a s -ipre-the ifs* lawyer, < ing He tee. wltl the way you-go cedented payment Actually his man to ease *n* moi km of whether these war taxes can tx collected is to collect two years In one. making 1942 and 1943 tax* pay abl* this year minus 19 per cent Only incomes under $2,000 a iii to have th* lr taxes ap-doubied. To ameliorate he would increase the load 81 ijct cent Ii VER MR those wit. I year would proximate! iffer Russian Army Closing In On Rostov Mt. Pleasant Wins County Caire Titles They’ll Do It Every l ime - - - Defeats Olds In Championship Game; Winfield Third The 1943 Henry County tournament came to a close Saturday night with Mt. Pleasant the county champions. Tills was one of the cleanest tournament: in man;, years not only on the part o: th*- players, but as to the attitude of spectators as well. The officials who worked the games, Carl Johansen and Ed Samuelson, Johansen arid Samuelson, did a splendid job throughout the tournament and were given high praise for their work by the basketball fans Some ol the outstanding boys in the 1943 tournament were Malcolm Mason and Lyl* Van Vranken for Winfield. Everett Toll arid Keith Grins:cad for Mew London; Resehly and Orlin Eigstl tor Wayland; Robert Gipplc, Roland Lader, and Irvin Kaighin for Pleasant Lawn; Everett Boa!. Harold Olson and John Miller for Old Arthur Canby and Robert Mr.er for Mt Union; Emerson Meld*! ii and Charles King for Salem. Dean Rich Bill Krabill. Joe Messer, Howard Cottrell. Warren Anderson and Clan-nce Pounds for Mi. Pleasant. But-whem TREV BROUGHT HER. TO, WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS THE RRST TRiNG SHE SAID ? Former Resident Comments on Case Mrs. Nellie Minear Was l lv nu Trial Jury Cleaning Up »I M On South Punk of Don River Mrs Nelli* Minear, a former Mourn j nj i • Ll I I c I L I ant i* idem and now residing in!Making Headway In Suburbs Los Angele.% Calif, was a member of of City—Report the jury which heard the trial of El - j rd Flynn in Los Angeles county coup | -- the last four week* and reached a ver-1 Moscow, Russia <INS*- A large toll dict of not guilty Saturday. j of German dead was exacted today bv Mrs Minear was quoted Saturday in j the Soviet army in the opening phase connection with the widely publicized - of thP baUle fcr the Caucasus gate- case as saying , way city ol Rostov. While Red Army We kiev I Iv nu was no* guilty all artillery batteries shelled the Nazi held metrcpclis frcm the south bank of the Don River, it was reported the time, but we didn’t want to come out too soon because we wondered what the public might think if we did." Owen Reported In FBI Custodv T-K*i/»c)L Ti) HARRIET VON TOBEL, CRANSTON, R I the batlon NOT that this found a I cause It Dc ugh ton saved last and he h* It woufe pay two years everyone else larlv? So he w i th a s> rn pa t he tic Th* treasury did proposal for alioth* crease in taxes to formal plan A sn never do that, in th* honor ai spor After those for ti vsmans joy! dr lip. should go a merit splendid basketball Shoes Limited To 3 Pairs Per Year year. Bu rn ions WI, ex d prod ut. VY ill I IJJ f~ll I lion drawing partly bn the huge vol-,***** IVvlllIUUI lune already stocked by the trade. PUI can ne, but h amnion has ! his man ually war be ou kl be c gh-pla< * d st} happen. that c of the committee year his taxes for I them in the bank no hardship for him to j In one. and he think hould have saved Sims is backing Mr P.tu ubstitute not advance it HI per rent in this year as a I rt lawyer w*>iild face of public he championship game Superintendent C A Cottrell presented hi* trophies to the captains of the winning team The consolation prize went to Winfield This was the game ball Superintendent Cottrell explain-♦ ct lo th* fans that the game ball was more year No Shoes Sold At Today Byrnes’ announcement continued! j "For 1943 estimates sole leather and {reclaimed rubber will b< available for [ only 335 million pairs of civilian foot-| wear, including slippers and infants’ I soft-soled shoes, which are not ra- Schools For Lunch Not To Exceed Seven Cents Per Child William Gwen, one ol th* who failed to show up to go to Camp Dodge Saturday with local draftees, is now in the custody of the FBI at Ottumwa, according to information received here. Owen was taken into custody at Burlington, according to the report. He is facing a federal prison sentence as a result of his failure to appear this time His appeal after a previous failure to appear had been heard some time ago. Paul Edward Kinney, who also failed to appear Saturday, will go through of Owen after some Russian units h <d made their way across the waterway and were battling the defenders in the suburbs. The high command lent support to word arriving from the battlefront that engagements already were under-j way between Russian and German local men . troops in Rostov's .southern outskirts. It was stated officially that on one sector of the Rostov front the Rinnans “crossed a water barrier and occupied three inhabited localities.’’ Earlier, it was proclaimed in a special communique that the principal points of Nazi resistance on the south bank of the Don river had been cleared. Successful Raid On Naples to other members of his family living Washington. D. C. —Immediate na- I in lflc >ame household He said this valuable than the trophies this lion-wide shoe rationing was ordered J would permit families to make pur-due to the fact that basketballs Sunday by the war production board. .. bases as needed cannot b* purch.i <*ri on account of the All retail sales were ordered - upended j Provide for >:rp.*ir Needs. war, anc! that Winfield .should be until Tuesday noon :o enable seders to) Byrncs said **a liberal allocation of proud to ret (ive the ball. {prepare for rationing, which begins* Mt Pleasant received the large tro- that day. phy and Olds *he .mailer one for the! initial plans call for a ration of runner-up position, j three pairs per year per person.] I ii* {Panthers defeated Olds 26 to 15 styles will be standardized, and manu-1 in a game that progressed very slowly j_____j all lour Quarters Much of Mt. Pleas- I , , , 1 „ 0. . . persons not having more than one ants vexing was due to then height1 Fairly Well stocked. over their opponents as they had con-| Centerville, la. < INS'—Harry Tilton, trol ol 'he ball more, giving them more Centerville. la., presider of the Iowa opportunities to shoot Mt. Pleasant shoe retailers association, said today led 4 fo 3 at the I inst quarter, the that while shelves of most Iowa shoe “a ;-ole b ather for rep iii purposes has been provided" to piolong the life of old shoes, He added that in “hardship cases" special ration certificates will be available at local rationing boards for LOCAL STUDENTS WILL Cairo, Egypt. (BJS) —A “very suc-American east high command today as units of the British 8th .army smashed forward to the Tunisian border. American pilots flew hundreds of miles over enemy territory without fighter escort to reach Naples at the cost of only one bomber. A strong force of German and Italian fighters enthusiasm for Rum;. He doesn t even officially oppose the s Ruml plan, and professes to believe in I pay-as-you-go. He merely let bim-(count was tied IO to IO at the half retail stores are fairly well filled, deal-witness and scil be called as a jffered , and the Panthers led 22 to ll at the ers, have been unable to make a satis- uggested the doubling Idea as stltute” for Ruml. Unfortunately, the tax lawyers representing the public on he ways and means committee have not h*d as much experience as Mr. Paul. Suspicion md confusion have been spread among them. THE ADMINISTRATION ha planted the suspicion that the Ruml plan would favor the rich 'over $2.000> in some way or an "her not sufficiently evidem to be presented clearly and forcefully. The committee in turn, has become suspicious of Mr Pauls sincerity in backing pay-as-you-go. What will come out of it, nobody knows The only thing certain to an observer is the fact that the wh le system of war taxation has not efficiently organized to get the money with the least suffering. Neither the treasury nor congress: has been able to furnish the leadership Iolson for devising new methods, but merely! R Roaj continued to increase old taxes more J E' Roal and more each year toward the break- j jjuitflil ing point. A SIMPLE SOLUTION for the conspired confusion over the Ruml plan would be to simplify it still further. Let Mr. Ruml eliminate the feature j lib-I end of the third jjeriod. j factory seasonal buildup of lines fort I The Winfield-Piea: ant Lawn game Spring. ' .showed pretty evenly matched teams, i_j although Winfield had more speed, J j pleasant Lawn was rapidly increasing facturers have been requested to de-j to lour black, white, town brown, tile score when time ran out ending velop a war model," a utility type I and army russet. Two tone shoes will the game. Winfield led IO to 9, 24 “of standard quality and pleasing de- J be prohibited. Revisions in the food procurement Stores ' honed. This compare; wi h about 440 J procedure for community school lunch steps similar to those million pairs for 1942 I programs in Iowa which will enable his first failure to appear, reports to-' ces-ful" raid by American Liberator Byrnes said that an individuals schools operating lunch programs in d;i.v stated. bombers on the great Italian port of I (hoe ration shtmp maw be transferred areas lacking facilities for warehous- - Naples was announced by the middle- ing and distributing bulk commodities to purchase food supplies from local merchants and be reimbursed by the j GO TO SPEECH MEET Food Distribution Administration _ weir announced today by George B. Sheehe, FDA State Supervisor. Under the new program, schools which do not have access to bulk com-i motiities allocated by the FDA to the state for distribution, will purchase food commodities from local wholesale, retail or producer groups. Reimbursement, not to exceed 7 cents per child per school day, will be based upon the type ol lunch served, the sponsors abd-,drama' V*** rK‘dm* tty to ass,st. and the number ol par-lo>'s speaking, original after-dinner speaking, ticipatmg children. „ , * . ... # . commodities for which reimburse-' Student who will participate from Intent will be made will be selected «><* MI Pleasant high .school arc:' 'from a list designated by the Food A'1™ McCoid. Wynona Smut*. Sally Distribution Administration based up- RteUne. Darlene Adams. George Mar-1 ion local availability and nutritive Un is debate coach of the high school. value. Mr. Sheehe explained that the FOA THREE MEN ARE pair of wearable shoes, for persons Aith jobs particular*, hard on shoes, like mall carriers and policemen; where a change of job requires a*new i pair of shoes, at I for expectant mothers who need maternity shoes.” Tile announcement stated WPB in la few days will issue an order which will provide among o her things: I. Colors will be reduced from six to 14 34 to 27 and won 47 to 38. S 'ign at a reasnable price." 2. Heel heights mo Mi. PleasantPlayers Ibis. FG FT PFBogle F 0 2 21 Cottrell F I 0 0I Krabill C 2 I Ij Rich G 3 0 3i Messer G I I I! Pounds F I 0 3] Arbuckle F 0 0 2| Shook G 0 0 0| Anderson G 2 I 0• Kloplenstein C 0 I 0j Tribby0 0 0(Carnahan0 0 0IIO 6 12Under the order only one pair of)will be limited lo women’s shoes inches. Leather TP 2 2 5 6 3 2 shoes per person may be purchased between now and June 15. They will be obtained with .-.tamp No. 17 in the sugar ration book. Byrnes Announces Program. boots will be limited height. Leather pla soles on certain typos of women's novelty dress and -; * -rt shoes) will be cut down, and ii is ■ stimated that reduction in these platforms will save a to lo inches iniseif sustaining to cover 'tins I ex 11 a (.hick .tome nt.hpr foods !nh Miller R. Huston Saltzman Olds F F C G G G G 2 3 0 0 3 IO James F. Byrnes, economic stabile.- foot 0[ hathtr . ch oJ more lhan 0 lion director, who announced the pro-|,5 mlllion palrs of sjoes'_ 0 gram from the White House, said ra- . 3 No heav, „utv leather be 5 Honing was ordered “to make certain | allmvi(1 for anythl!u. but wprk shoes 1 that the American people continue to j 4 several kinds of shoes 0 have all the shoes hey need “thruout 0 the war.” 26 Byrnes said the action was decided ' upon Friday after a meeting of the 6 economic stabilization board at which 0 representatives of labor, business and j u spike gQlf 8 agriculture approved the step. An- J ^ ban Qn guch 0 nouncement. was delayed until Sunday 1 afternoon, a time at which most of tkr 0 nation’s stores were closed, to prevent 0 a buying rush. Byrnes said. using lea* her suitable tot more essential types of shoes will be discontinued. This will include n. ,ny sport shoes. mens patent loath r shoes, women’s evening slippers, men’s sandals, and Byrnes said support will not cover the entire op- j crating costs of the lunch programs.1 and that as in the past, sponsoring agencies will be required to give assistance to programs which are not costs of such items as other foods, labor, and equipment. He emphasized that the new program will be first extended to schools which do not have access to bulk commodities still available in the state. In addition to benefits accruing to communities through the direct purchase of foods on local markets, the new program will by-pass wartime difficulties which have arisen in warehousing. handling, and transporting the bulk commodities, Sheehe said. At the present time FDA commodities arc helping maintain lunch pro- Cedar Rapids; la.—One hundred and eleven students from sixteen Iowa high chools will compete in the seventh annual Coe College Invitational High School Arts tournament to was rnc(>unt('red ovet the tai get area be held here Thursday. Feb. ll. and shot down or dispersed, through Saturday, Feb. IU T'"'° planes Wl're known 10 The tournament includes dx rounds have been destroy'd and three others of debate, impropmtu speaking, radio (iamaged. extemporary-1 Headier General Timberlake, United a tory and e<1 States bomber command chief, said: , "It was one of the most successful raids yet carried out by United States air craft in this theater. It is a prolog to things to come.” "Every bomb fell on the target,” one of the Libera*or pilots .said. 'TTiere was a great conflagration. Fire and smoke could be seen all along the water front and docks. "We didn’t see a single bomb fall into the water.” PLACED IN CLASS I-A Three men havf been cia:.sifted in 1-A. the Selective Service office an-ncunced today. They are Russell Carl Parker, Rodney Ellsworth Thornburg and Wendell Floy Peterson. Oscar Daniel Richard and Louis Frederick Gugel, conscientious objectors, have been called to re[>ort for work at a Colorado c;mp. FEBRUARY COURT TERM OPENS TODAY 15 Pleasant Lawn on the basis of earnings this year. Then the taxpayer would pay this year exactly as at present on the basis of earnings made last year. but let it be called this year's taxes. Lot each taxpayer in future years pay similarly on the basis of his previous year s earnings. Fliminiate only b’s obligation ol being always a year in debt to the government. When he dies, or his earnings otherwise cease because of illness cr unemployment, let his tax obligation cease. Or if his income is diminished his tax obligation diminish as of the same date. This would put the nation on a pay-as-you-go nlan devoid of unprovable suspicions. It would help the man unable to pay hLs taxes, but not the man whose income justifies taxes—unless he die, become ill or unemployed, age. (Continued on page 3) time Players Pos. FG FT PF TPKaighin F 5 I I llLauer F 6 3 I 15Gipple C 4 4 3 12Wright G 0 0 0 0Miller G 0 0 0 015 8 5 38 Winfield Mason F 9 I 0 19It. Van Vranken F 3 1 0 ij 6Rodruck C 0 0 3 0Linder G I 0 3 2L. Van Vranken G 7 2 0 16Shaitan C 0 0 0 0Haines G 2 0 2 422 3 IO 47All types of shoes and boo s made wholly or partly from leather or with rubber soles will be rationed. Only house slippers and infant’s sofl-j soleed shoes are excepted. Byrnes said rationing w*as made necessary “by the critical shortage of heavy sole leather.” He said more than one-third of the total sole leather supply is being used for military and lend-lease purposes. on will eliminate labor a day. 5. Straps, fancj tional trimmings, leather bows, etc., WPB al*o will designed to force lonessetial shoes 100.0'K) man hours of Recall Shoe Export Report. Last Nov. 30. the office of war in- ongues, nonfunc-extra stitching, vill be dropped. *ssue a regulation manufacturers to keep making their usual quotas of economical shoes, to prevent the industry from shifting to more expensive models on which profits migh bp larger. Manufacturers also will be urged* to seek i new model using little or no leather w*hich could be sold without rationing. Prentiss M. grams in 3775 Iowa schools with an average of 79.800 children participating daily. Winfield and Mt. Union are included in these schools. TO TAKE APPLICATIONS FOR FEED, SEED LOANS Carl W. Danielson, Field Supervisor for the Farm Credi Administration, will be in Mt. Pleasant. Iowa, at the Farm Bureau Office, on Friday. Feb. 12, 1943. from 10:00 a. rn. to 4:00 p. rn. to make out 1943 loan applications. Farmers in need of funds for seed. feed, tractor fuel, and repairs on ma- T(he Februarv com term opened here this afternoon with Judge E. O. Newell presiding. Grand jurors will report Tuesday. Chimney Fire Firemen w*erc called to 701 East Washington, home of Rev. Robert Weathers, Saturday evening when a chimney fire threatened to get out of control. Resigns at Wayland Bank To Take Kalona Position Expect Desperate Effort To Aid Japs Washington, D.C. (INS' The Japanese today were expected t: make a desperate last minute attempt to relieve or aid an estimated 3.000 of their forces which were trapped on the | northwest tip of Guadalcanal. The Nipponese forces were caught in I a pocket around Cape Esperance with an American pincers movement closing in on them from the east and the northwest. This latest development of a land battle f r Guadalcanal came when a strong American force outflanked the Japanese and established positions at Titi, five miles northwest of Esperance. Way lard A A. Jackson, assistant cashier cl the Wayland bank, has resigned and has accepted a position as cashier of the Kalona bank. Bombs Dropped On Rangoon New Delhi. India 'INS' Thirty tons of heavy bombs were dropjied upon the Japanese held Burmese port of Rangoon during the night by the RAF. the British-India command announced today. Large fires were started rn the target area. formation announced that consider- i s^oe ski** until Tuesday to prevent a able quantities of shoes would sent under lend-lease to supply Brown, price admtais- \chinery to pu in their 1943 cr p tra'or. who ordered tho suspension si I shcuW sep him on that datr in North Africa Officials; Johansen, Samuelson. titles of footwear w*ere being purchased by lend-lease agencies for ex- be j run on shoe stores, warned store-1 thelepers and jobb* i s to keep careful records of sales. He said no inventory I ________ Mr. and Mrs P. J. Taylor received supreme court word Saturday that their son. Corporal Brown explained the procedure for S justice and a Waverly lawyer tor 48 Leon Taylor. 25. of Camp Davis, North dealers by saying that they will On the same date New* York retailers; ** sh°e stocks will be taken now*, bu and wholesalers complained that quan-;one Witt be required soon. I FORMER COURT JUSTICE DIES Waverly. la 'INS) Edward A Ha ger, 70. former Iowa Son of Local Couple On Way To Officers School Killed Weaver Construction Co., at Burling-be 1 years, died in a hospital here Sunday Carolina, had died of a skull fracture ton. Leon lived here with his parents last year while he was employed with the Drivers Corps To Meet The second meeting of the Mt Pleasant division of the Civilian De- port to Africans who may never have required, beginning Tuesday, to collect night after a brief illness. suffered in an auto accident, tense Drivers corps will be held to- worn shoes before in their lives. from each shoe purchaser, stamp 17, Judge Sager served six years on the’ He was enroute to Washington. D night at 7.30 at the Ervin Motors gar- Byrnes estimated civilian shoe pro- or a shoe purchase certificate which iowa supreme cont bench, from Janu- C. from Camp Davis to attend an ot- on<’ biothci survive All students are urged to be on duction will total 300.000.000 pairs this will be issued by local ration boards ary I, 1937. to last January I, this ricers school The body will be brought cluser of Monticello, and Raymond, ot Besides his parents, one sister and Mrs Mildred Aur- year, compared with 440,000,000 last to persons not having a stamp. year. He was a Democrat. back with burial at Monticello, Iowa. Camp Dodge. i

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