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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 9, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa VAMO RATION STAMPS VALID RATION STAMPS Sutfar ll - Feb. I-Mar. Iii (Each .stamp, Three pounds) Coffee (I lb.) - Jan. 4-1 eh. 7 Gasoline No. 1-Jan. 21-Mar.21 VOL. FXM, No. 33 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS Ti ES DA V, FER. <), 1943 Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) FtH Oil I - - - I ntii Apr. 12 Each stamp, 11 gallons MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News r'I Behind^ vtTWW THE ------ Japanese Forces Evacuate Guadalcanal / by Paul NaiJ.ON <Distributed by King Features Syndicate, inc , Re product lcm In Full or til Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON—.MASSI S OI MAIL Irom farmers an accumulating on official desks here in such tone and volume to verily suspiei rift that fowl production will not come up to quotas this year. The farm bloc Is out of the news, silently attempting to devise a workable farm help campaign In lieu of Mr. McNutt's proposal to muster a civilian army of unskilled latin workers. The bloc is about talked out, especially on the subject of pile* which are apparently not the root oi the1 trouble this time. In addit manpower out many * cr cannot tion’s nee* been snide with a rot increase.' will not b Livest *1 cannot e feeding i rn intr* bed * t to the problem t other reasons why plant en ugh f< ds. Farm mach Bred baling wire* pe for so long th repair allotmen ye efficient k and poultry easily bf increase and mg ft have ne Feed compaa ic oil rn in. f a rn the farm id tied i WRB it still essarlly di-cannot get Bond Pledging To Start Soon February 22 Set As For Starting Date The 1943 War Bond Hedge Campana will be held in Henry County starting February 22. E A. Hayes. Conutv War Bond chairman announced this week upon receipt of information from -he War Savings Staff office of the U. S. Treasury department. The Pledge Campaign will be con dude the i hope: low a A H aye Coon cover with nee! JO The t (sn bv will b d at the same time throughout tate and the War Band office that it will be completed IOO'; in by the last of the month. omp!efe campaign has bern re-i by County Chairman E A ? cal mg for the organization of a t> War Savings Staff The plan - all fie Ids of effort in conned Ion the Pledge Campaign and the acetic of bonds and stamps in c'n-m with fulfillment, of the pledge. art ive campaign will be carried of Minute Men who bv the County Chair- IOO Attend Meeting of Farm Loan Group Southeastern Association Serif ing 38* I a miles One Hundred membet >, wives, end other guests attended the annual meeting of the Southeastern Iowa National Farm T an Association Saturday. February 6, 1943. at Mt. Pleasant. The stockholders elected Glenn S Housman of Yarmouth and John Toff of New London for three ye r terms on the Board of Directors. Albert L Wick of Mt. Union was reelected for a ne year term. The other members of the Board are Adam L. Foggy of New London and Ray L Carden of Winfield. The Southeast* rn Iowfa National Farm Loan Association is serving 535 Federal Land Bank and Land Bank Com mission ei loans, serving 388 families in Des Moines, Henry and Le*’ Counties, according to the annual report of the secret a ry-treasurer, L. Oscar Challman. He pointed out that loans repaid during the last year have exceeded the number of new lo ms U.S. Forces Are Victors On Is!;m( American Marines Landed There Six Months Ago due tion feed’ Tis* '*n MHin there is Minth** old problem o: farmers’ gas ft- instrtion mg, which nee*’ In to bi? € orrecUd I of fcWith butcher a lid groee ry shops Cli I i ihere covering over their led , x wili TIdow with black cloth a ng! their * Us Ishelves emp! v of mo: i me * *a nd ( I fcanned vegetable: it .seen S quite on tpossible that the food p od uc t ion - a s *shortage of 1943 wi I be appal ling aud andin 194L may appro a cli rf I sa * U •r HaAll the food * zar Wk kurd h is beer* te*!doing about it so far is ta allocate I WJI Od.DOO .DOO or soti or gave mn rent pur nae HW til ai Ichase of vegetates resold at lower pf at high pr ices, the ees to be taxpayer:namer At rn** Men w (ions ai count v • iud I vi* 5 quota tome cf aers th* things ti hogs tm meet a I. with nmmit i a1 quo be held soon d receive their he assistance ft, will set up MEN PLACED IN CLASS I-A Soybean Awards Faith Lutheran To County Men! Elects Officers lr. ldua quos a s produce ; Will IX' based on ao-I. In th*' ca a->< as will be baaed will produce such beala. milk, eggs In every inst ■■*nee on a conservative New Group Announced By Selective Service oi I ne i fact r wit defile Kl UC - purist it what help. ,*er P to stand the loft; for tin increasing production. That thin bonus met In* Lion expansion will not . pose is evident from the dues not fund tv the f rm hts mail sa vs he needs— equipment and gasoline. i It ii increasingly evident to interested conv re men that the government should have declared agriculture an essential war industry at the start and given the farmer the encouragement and leadership that was given industry and labor for production — DIFFICULTY of getting Mexican labor for American farms is well illustrated by the inside story of what happened to block the move last fall The farm bloc blamed the farm security administration, which, in turn. blamed the state department, which followed the usual course and blamed farm security for the original failure to negotiate a prompt agreement with the Mexican government. After some week. * f such bouncing of th*1 trail back and forth, farm security sent a delegation to Mexico City to write un a contract. The delegation at one time is supposed to have reached the colossal strength of 47 able-bodied American negotiators. * They found the Mexican government wanted its workers to have an eight, hour dav, compensation above usual farm rates, modem sanitary facilities, etc. Mexico intended to impose the Maximum hour provisions right back at us. But a limited solution of some nature seemed likely to be fulfilled until it developed that the laborers solicited for American farm work were largely taxi-drivers and bar-flies from the Mexican streets and bars. Mexico . which * of iou ’iv pun I ie Pa Ile a (ipie are employed and ( hecks an * I fort will be ll th* Payroll Allotment ILs Lr a regular drduc-morr *.f piv ?o tx* used <> of War Bonds Where ll Allotment Plan is not availed rn* will be taken bv Minute M* In connection with the Pledge Campaign County Chairmen Hayes stressed the fact that many people had income from outside sources and money craning in from various enterprises not in connection with their definite busi-He urged that these people*] when cal *d on, take into account this * xtra money they will receive and make their pledges accordingly, even though, the individual quota they are asked for Is not in keeping with their ability to buy War Bonds. We expect to have the Pledge Cam-paign completely organize within th*, next few days and ready to go throughout the county before the date specified by the Treasury department for the launching of the campaign all over the state,' Mr. Hayes said. We want to be among the first, counties in I wa to complete this job! and be KMF; over the top in the; pledge Campaign tin year With th-j help of our Minute Men and our lead ier tries of a group of Henry County men classified in I*A were announced today by the I teal Selective Service board. The new group includes: Robert A. Rester Lee Burdette Raster A ven Dee (Soberly Walter Rex Billing b y J. R. Jackson Frederick Joseph Clark Ellis Le Roy Hem see Randall Meyer Edward Le*1 Klopfenstein Harold Raymond Smith Loren Keith Hobart Lawrence John Menke Donald Phillip Play ne Frank Jr. Wellington Raymond Eugene Colton Harold Lloyd B uge Jack William Blethe Harley Ralph Neihart William Calvin Vaughn Marvin Duane Rich Irwin Harold Gairels James Ellis Myers Donald Rich John Robert Bishop Franklin Jr. Hill Jesse Carrol Linch Acquires Home Chapel During Year and Am* iowa R G. stcakr of Church j I racr and Scott Holloway of Kirkman I were named as the winn* rs^in the 5-I ,irre .soybean yield contest and the ! 10-acre corn yield contests respectively it was announced today at the College Farm and Home *■«*«! the following officers to serve In its regular meeting. Monday evening, Faith Lutheran of Mt. Pleasant Iowa State Week. Stoakes won Che John Sand trophy with a yield of 37.77 bushels of soybean. Hollow av ’.s cot n yield was 167-93 bushels to the aer In the soybean cot * . eicnt men in addition to Steak*., won prizes. They included: Jay Canbv, Mount Union; Craig stoops. Stockport; T A. Whitaker, Batavia and W J. Fie her, Mount Pleasant. E. I). Russell Buys Mt. Union Yard Keep Canned Goods, But Report Number When You Register II. G. King Sells Lumber and Fuel Business E. D Russell, who recently sold his interest in the Wen and Russell Lumber yard, has bought the lumber and coal business of H G. King at Mt. Union. The yard, which will be man-i aged by Mr. King until April I. will I be known as the Mt. Union Lumber I and Coal company. I Mr. Russell expect! to continue to I reside in Mt. Pleasai for a few months at least. In his many years of business life. Mr. King, a former Henry county supervisor, who now is 81 years old, is ' working as an employee for the first. the congregation during the coining year; Charles Sprott, chairman; Fled Schuerman. secretary; Walter Stigge. treasurer; Hero Larsan. elder; and Carl Kwh, trustee. Old officers who still have a year to serve air Elmer Heil. as trustee and Walter Stigge as elder. One of the outstanding events in the history of the congregation for the year w'as the purchase of a home to be used for a chapel and parsonage combined, an arrangement that has been working out very satisfactorily to the advantage of both the congregation and the pastor. Many improvements were made in the home and in the chapel rooms, with the congregation being able tr> keep expenses at a minimum by doing the work itself. Several members donated several days work each, with the result that this donation f time enabled the congregation to pay all its local bills so that today the congregation does not have a single outstanding bill in the city. made, which is a healthy condition.! He further pointed out that the Federal Land Bank system of loans is a fine way in which to repay and that at the same time it provides protection during any readjustment pencd fellowing the war. The financial report dis* lo * d thai this cooperative Association had ne’’ earning in 1942 of $2.522 66 and that the surplus and reserve accounts now stand at $13,102.65. Short, talks were made bv Glenn P Campbell, Chairman of the Henry County War Board and AAA Committee; Floyd Go'dell, County Extension Director, C, Philip Camp Vo adonai Agriculture, New London; ai d R. O Elefson. Secretary-* reasurer and B. F Huston. Jr. assistant sccretary-treasur-er of the Mi. Pleasant Production Credit association These talks dealt mainly with the production requirements and problems in connection with P od for Freedom and financial arrangements that could bo made and are available to increase this product tion. Glenn S. Houseman made the rep**: of the activities of the Board of Directors, calling attention to the increased responsibilities now resting upon the association members in order ta nmwe the association «n increasingly home managed institution urged that more income be used in the purchase of War Bonds; that the disclosed today association office was now an auth j - orized issuing agency of the Treasury Washington, D. C. (INS* -laten*’ vc farces are evacuating Guadalcanal and enemy resistance on that cmfeat'led island has ceased. Secretary of the Navy Knox disclosed today. Thus, almost six months to the d ty that hard fighting Un ted States Marines landed on that, tropical island i to ceize and hold the important Henderson airfield, the American forces emerged victorious, and another .step is taken on the read to Tokyo. The marines landed on Guadalcanal early last August. Army forces relieved them in January. Tile admission by Knox was a dra-! matic climax to the American land offensive which began late in December ! and culminated with the encirclement recently of Capo Esperance on the i northwest tip of the i lard. It was I the second major land defeat for Nip-! pen esc force.) following closely the J victory on New Guinea by troops un-| der the command of General Douglas MacArthur. I Knx made this statement after read-' ing a Berlin dispatch quoting Tokyo sources which stated that the Japa-J nose forces on Guadalcanal and at I Buna in New Guinea, “had been transferred” to other base,-. I “I don’t think there is any doubt j about the truth of that statement,” Knox fold a press conference. | He added, however, that full confirmation of this latest Japanese move .still was lacking and said that small croups of enemy forces still may be holding out on the island, j According to communiques and official and semi-official reports from tile battle zone, approximately 9.000 ti 10,000 Japanese have been killed in the land fighting on Guadalcanal Estimate Jap Losses At 60,909 to 70,000 Washington, D C. <INS> — Six months of fighting en and around Gaudalcanal have cost the Japanese He also' an estimated 60,000 to 75,000 troops. sailors and airmen, unofficial reports In addiition to the w*ork donated, department for this purpose. which saved the congregates considerable expense the treasurer of the congregation was able to report a SOU increase in actual contributions on th*1 part of the congregation. Albert L. Wick reported upon the activities of the loan committee Red Army Columns Surge Westward Moscow, Russia rlNS» —Red army Emergency stocks cf commercially ors in every walk of life we know that canned and bottled goods of eight we can do the job. It is not a one ounces or more, must be included in man job — it is a job that calls en all declarations by consumers when the1 I ^me the manpower in our county. Every-: register for War Ration Book Two ____ one w orking in the campaign will be during the period from February 22 J given a definite job to do and they through February 27, W. K. Rogers HANS0N-CRAWF0RD will be expected to do this work and chairman of the Local War Price end do it well. I Rationing Board announced today. He “There is no more important activ- emphasized that holders of excess laity in the war effort on the home tioned foods are merely required to front today than the Pledge Cam-; declare them, and not surrender them. I paign for the purchase of War Bonds; Mr. Rogers explained that the Of fcr 1943. We must finance the war flee cf Price Administration does not | and give the boys on the fighting consider the declaration of excess ra- j fronts, from this county, the mater- tioned foods a penalty, as families with \ isis they need to make this a Victory reserve stocks are not necessarily j had no real farm labor In quantity I year for our Army, Navy , Marines, hoarding. The declaration and deduc- J which it was willing to spare. 1 Coast Guard and other divisions of tion of stamps are made so everyone ! —o— {the military. j may start off under rationing on as1 DEMIK'KATIC HOUSE LEADER “I want to urge the people of this equal footing as possible. McCormack looked dolefully at th* county to start right now to think j The emergency .stocks hay*1 been ] about their War Bond purchases for laid in by some families for use only | 1943, and make their plan now to sign jn case of an air raid or some other] a pledge when they are called on." disaster. However, they will be count j _------ ie(j jUSt as other canned goods in ex cess of five cans of eight ounces or1 more per person, and one eight-point blue stamp will be taken from the ration book for each excess can. Families having emergency stocks Service Concludes Centennial Series Rev. I. Cedric Peterson Speaks at Baptist Church WEDDING ANNOUNCED Winfield. la — Mr. and Mrs Fred Crawford announce the marriage of | then son, St aff S<ioeant Keith Crawford to Miss Mary Hansen of Cedar Falls. Iowa. The wedding took place on January 31. 194.; at the Congregational church in E *'t Hartford, Conn., where Crawford is stationed. He is with the 79th C A. <AA> Med. Der, and has been stationed at East Hart-I ford the past year Mrs. -Crawford, a former teacher in approved resolution of the rules committee allowing congressional investigation of the orders of any bureau, and even, theoretically, the president, to see if they are legal and said: “I am not the leader of this house. Truly, the southern democrats and republicans have assumed leadership in all that has been done so far this session rvirginia’s representative Howard Smith was behind the rules committee action.) The new congressmen and, apparently, many of the old, have the conviction, as one said; “The people sent us down here to do a job on the bureaucrats, and we are going to do it." Action along that line will accelerate from now on. although there is remarkably little that the correction-(Continued on page 3) The address by the Rev. I. Cedric Peterson pastor of a Chicago Baptist church which now has an annual budget of $45,000. clos* d the series oi events in observance of the tooth anniversary of the First Baptist church Monday evening. Rev. Thorwald Jensen, a former pastor of the church, read the Scripture. Rev. Peterson, also a former pastor of the local church, was popular here and evidently is highly successful in his Chicago pastorate. The church was filled for the evening service. Preceding the service, a banquet wa:, served in the basement where the A message was read lrom E N. Van * flute surged westward through eastern Ukraine today a large scale campaign to smash the entire Nazi winter defense line. The Soviet drive was speeded following capitulation of the Nazi strong point of Kursk. 125 miles noah of Kharkov, and threatened the whale German line in south Russia. Heavy blows w'cre unleashed against the Caucasian gateway city of Rostov, southern pivot of the Nazi line, and early collapse of the German hold ♦here was expected Horne, president of the Federal Land Bank. Following the stockholders meeting the Board of Directors met and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Ray L. Carden, president; Glenn S. Housman. vice-president: L. Oscar Challman, secretary-treasurer. and Virginia M. Pogemiller, acting secretary-treasurer. The officers wert well pleased with the attandance, in view af weathet conditions. Senate Votes 50% Income Tax ( ut desired t Thp historical service was held it Grand Jurors In Session Here are cautioned to use them at the same Grand iurors were in session today J of at least 'ate as the monthly ration of those; ottumWEi Ia. making an investigation ane case. Members of the jury select rd this morning from the panel called for this year are Constant Lindeen, foreman, Frank Barr, W J. Brown. Loren Dusenberry. William Kilbourn. Carrie Munger and Fred Stuckerjuer-I gen. County Attorney Ben A. Ga let’ was presenting evidence to the grand jurv without such reserves. Otherwise they may exhaust their canned foods and be unable to replace them. the Winfield school, has been employ tfice at the c*nirch dining room was twier filled j to accommodate all who The young couple w ill make their |cat home in East Hartford. | , the afternoon wuth Dr. Frank Ander- {son of Des Moines giving the address ! on ^sunday evening, a union sci vie* J w*fl(held in the church with other 1<> I call churches joining in the service at _| wJxch Rev. B. G. Field gave the a Ralph William Owen, j dfess-jr.. of Mount Pleasant, la., was held I * cd the past year in the Cedar Falls college Owen Is Held Under $5,000 Bond Basketball Season Drawing To C lose After the games Uhs week, Iowa Wesleyan and Mt Pleasant high will play only one more heme game each. Iowa Wesleyan meets Penn here on Wednesday evening and Mf Pleasant will plav Ottumwa here on Friday night. The only remaining horn*’ game for the Tigers as the season draws to a dose is with St Ambrose here on February 19. Mt, Pleasant will meet Keokuk here on February 26 iii Hie final regularly scheduled game of the season. I in Wapello county jail Monday under I $5,000 bond folowing his arraignmen Funeral Held Funeral service was held this after-’ before United States Commissioner J noon at the Cookes Funeral home b for the first time in his new capacity, Wilbur Dull for violation of the selei this being the first sess’on of the tive service act. grand jury since he took office J:*nu- Owen, who claims conscientious ob-ary I. Mrs. Irene Johnson Rah is jecticn. pleaded innocent. He will be serving as clerk. held for the next federal grand jury. I Wayne Edward, baby stillborn to Mi and Mrs. Warren Housel at the Me mortal hospital Monday evening RCI E. L. Jeambey officiated at the fustier 1 a1 and burial w:as at Forest Home. Des Moines — Legislation to give Iowa individuals a 50 per cent cut in state income tax payments due in 1943 tand 19411 advanced half way through th*1 legislature Monday. The*senate. by vote r f 47 to 0. passed I he administration bill just as it was drawn qy the income tax reduction committee, save for corrective amendments, and ordered its immediate message to Hie house. I There a companion bill, drawn by the house income tax reduction committee, is on the calendar. The senate hill can be substituted for the house bill, which prabably wbli be made , a special order for Thursday. The substitute senate bill wil be open to ■ house amendments like those the sen - 'ate batted down as fast as they came' - ; up. j P J. Hurl** and Son today report The bill carries a publication clause ’the sak Df the 80 acre faim belonging to put it into immediate effect so tax-j to George S~arboro »nl located 'OU h-puyers may pay oniv half the tax I east of Mt. Pleasant, in the Pleasant Computed at regular rates when they | HUI neighborhood, so Clifton Heller of file their returns tor tit s year due on pan I) ego, Calif. Mr. Heller was or before Mar. 31. Th" bill provides. formerly from Des Moines county and that a burnover wh~ owes, say $50.'returns to Iowa to make his future shall ppv only $25 this year and next home. CENTER TOWNSHIP FARM IS SOLD

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