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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 12, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS SuKar ll - Fib. 1-Mar. 15 (Each stamp, Three pound*) Coffee (I lh.) - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 Gasoline No. t-Jan. 21-Mar.*.I THE PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Fuel Oil 4 - - - Until Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallons By Paul Mallon <Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., FO sJfOductld® in Full or in Phi* fv rally Prohibited.! VIK. storj j u r > byum i Pres ennui K rn to u Russians Wins First In Contest German Held Rail They’ll Do It Every Time - - - >rr rn 'A I (lf red .acre. iff: V- Ii k cunt 40 T ti a vc; WASHINGTON - did not tell the wt dent Roosevelts 4 decree. The radio-1.st*-th reading pubic get lure that the g log down en ti increasing the war product! n power situation The way he t i$ determined t increases bey < formula, and again Nj ,* j ieee other were ins < w orkers' pay ” Say tin hour on wage cl ? hours non but $12. The un least tim* the addit paid at ti crease of rate, and cent incr the week Instead ary st n u ceiling therefore, proc lf Ie . snot hr r crease in the rat flatron to that tx Even jo tills might lo typical R oxevelt move Lewis-Murr.<v campaign the government I it? I** ilia, and hold the Uh down to eight percent another day’* work out in CM \KINJ* IHI NI *V w AGI IM'RI: ASI " v c r,*r . rd a moi - *■.■ er and anti-inflath Roosevelt nd By vt cd the fartical pat vantage of thwart st - with lab r approval Their coup nigh* fu the radio listeners and ers as being a* good a because Industry join* approval. Tile truth is tin coit of the increased wages will no* come from industry but from Ute taxpayer, whav* approval is never sought Most factory work It being done for the government Patti Joy Weir To Compete In State Meet When you wobble im to a DRUGSTORE ON A MORMINO Mi Th Patti Jf Weir daughter of -i Mrs J Russell Weir, won it in the district declamatory at Davenport this week and in the .state contest to Id in the near future. Will .*• tip* second time that ii Panthers To Play Ottumwa Tonight Bulldogs In Third League Place In Mi- Weir ha St. I AO gh the I competed in the state j ais ago Jut advanced Urn mary contests ana I Doesnt it burn VOO Up ? 7hE.Y'LIDO IT EVERY TiV\E •tory Mr high in thr final meet Shy in the dram tic dvis.n and i-> her selection this year, “Dark M*Cold. also competing in tii t meet at Davenport, re-, a second place rating in the; al division. This high honor i , c:< chi to students and the j ley are doing in Mf Pleasant! ho l nd Mr J R Weir accompan rn to Davenport T-* oAvg To N.S BAKST EL J*2 PHILADELPHIA. The Mt. Pleasant Panthers af*cr their county championship will engage another Little S'x team tonight in their next to the last home gam" of the season. The Pam hers w ill meet the Ottum wa Bulldogs n the local floor. The Bulldogs are in third place in the Little Six conference with Muscatine and Burlington in first and second respectively. The Bulldogs although lacking the Soviets Rout Crack Nazi Guard Unit Cut Off Section Army of Nazi Mc;, ccw. Russia. (INS)—The Soviet high command today announced *ev-e. i nee cf an important German held iail line in tho Chuguyevlozovaya area south rf the Ukraine steel center of Kharkov against which the Red army height they had last year still havens intensifying its assault, plenty of speed and power. The Pan- j Rupture of this communication cut thers who are showing more speed; cf! the Nazi force at Kharkov from and better ball handling, can hardly j Gel man armies threatened wi h en-be expected to vin, yet there is always j circkment in the Donelz basin. cut the. rail line. Food Rationing Questions, Answers Body of Baby Boy Found In Mail COPPER OR BRASS WILL ADMIT TO TEMPLE SATURDAY fit re n lie horn the n eight mw th* Q A- No Q I) e pan! Ye. me dm sic cunt", do w< gin dines, t in- >rn- IIad Arrived At ( hicago Post Office Feb. Bt h Saturday moral .e will be Copper and Brass time at the Temple theatre Every person who brings one pound or more of scrap copper Washington. D. C. (JNS)—Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board. tc day condemned or brass to the clothes hoarding as “really selfish Hom(, society Saturday by the pur- Th an- not nirtg ut start March I we include chicken ry count? A ’ I ' m • m< de ! rn* ie me* Are bot Urn of fruit jill m.ed fruits? Yes d commercially bottled I had two days supplv Of coffee and more than my allowed one Am I to surrender i Tm /IMC tv-,, imm f * ti l nter will be admitted abnlutely Chicago, Illinois (INS' Tm bony ~i j uci( ! :n a babv bov believed murdere d was! free. found today Ut a neatly wrapped cat- Th" for »:s ,h“ “> “** ‘T "Of* “ rn the genera! deuvervdeptrtmtn-: Per and bra-* hate ber me virtually 1 /J the Ctticago !-°SI-office Th, pack- I ac precious Ss go'd in -he nation's age marked general delivery, arrived | war production, and the War Produc- counted February 6th from Bos Wetmore, {lost-office inspector nounced. IV Dowing a brief examination of I alleviate a the body. Dr. Samuel Levinson Mi Mi th olitical ad-ui no driv Mon. Albert E«'tion Board has issued an urgent ap an-' peal for an immediately civilian col-| lection of scrap copper and brass to critical shortage of cop-Cor-: per in our war plants. The motion i No- 23 Am I to surrender nhv,tetan said i P'ctur'' Industry is resp tiding lo this eelier -am,.? The baby was fully developed,, but call by presenting thousands of free A TOU are ■ report POUNDS of of the cordition 0( the body, j shows and tree Copper and Brass days flee owned on Nov. 28. 1942. minus ^ ^ impossible to determine now ; all over the country. h for per- n- included whether thc was malled alive, or1 ---------------- The declaration being placed in the box.* MERCHANTS DISCUSS The baby was in a paper carton 14 expe a chance i The drive which The starting five for tonight's game the noon communique said, resulted in ii. not definite Joe Messer and Dean the rout of an eli'e guard “SS" regi-Ricli will st rt at guards. If Keith merit of ‘Das Reich” division which BoEle. who has been out i school., was transferred from France In midis arts Kta-ill will move to center and January in a desperate bid for Hitler j Howard Cottrell and Bogle will play to check the surging Soviet winter rewards, otherwise Krahili and Cot- offensive. troll will be at forwards with Clar-! The elite guard 'roopers were sup- ence Pounds at center. ported by 60 tanks, 35 of which were _______ destroyed. The drive against the Caucasus gateway city of Rostov was pressed from the south wi'h new artillery assaults which were said by the high command to have ousted the Germans from strong positions. Many pill boxes and block-hcuses were seized. Another Soviet column was closing in on Ros'ov from the direction of Novocherkassk, 25 miles to the northeast Several localities were liberated in this area, large quantities of war material were* seized and prisoners taken. Nelson Condemns Clothes Hoarding K SATURDAY MORNING Contributing to the Iowa Children’. WITH COUNTY MEN IN THE SERVICE jill’ j ouno n your declaration lo* s rot call for parts of pound Q—Are we >f f ed for us occasionally for her appear lr 1 leadline read-they say it I" j b( a regular boarder at your home. labor in Ur J bP nia^ turn over his ration to you. , ide rn* all helpers? A Not fo ;<twed any extra cans jong< 12 inches wide and Cl when w* have to pro- Jnches deep Found in the box, fold-j ed on the tiny chest, was a Lowered handkerchief to which a sacred heart medal was attached. HOURS AT MEETING hired the occasional helper If Senate Petition Tire Ration Report j Asks Return To About 35 representatives were presr i ent for the meeting of Leal merchants called by the Chamber of Commerce Thursday afternoon to discuss * opening and closing hours of stores. I Alter views had lieen expressed, the I meeting was adjourned and a vote will ! be taken soon new and paid for. by the people in axi s. A the war production outlay i SI OO .OOO .OOO,000.000 a year. the cost oi this wage incre se may be several britons a year to the treasury of the United States. Labor costs go.into calculating i-■ '• j st war contracts are on a cost, pin I \\ .ir l*r;<e and Rationing Board No. 44. Tires and Tufa a Issued From February 1st to February 7th Inclusive Standard l ime UNCLE sam has date WITH MR. TAXPAYER Des Moines, Iowa (INS)—The Iowa (mos basis anyway) so industry has little | to lose. Tu winterer heights union! wages are run up. the government will have to pay most, of the bill in thej price ol tanks, machine guns and wea-1 pons of war .senate tackled some national legisla-.j ^ Moines. Iowa * INS)—Mr. and lion today by adopting a lesolution; jowa Taxpayer were advised to- Ge< rge Shiner, Winfield, I truck Which petitioned congie.ss for the re J j- Birmingham, collector of tires. turn of standard time, an investiga- j intrrnal rpvenue for Iowa. that Uncle I Roy Tew alt Mt. Pleasant, I grade I tion of commercial stock foods, ehm- j ^ a dfttr with them not later tire. ination of the federal gasoline tax and j than March 15th. 1943. Isaac Van TpU. Mt. Pleasant, » opposition to a pending bill restiict-, ^ Birmingham said further that he appealed to civilian consumers to chase of an emblem from the girls halt unnecessary “runs” on supples anc| boys who will lie about the busi-The WPB chief reiterated that cur- ness an(i residential streets, will mean ront stacks are “in good shape” and people are helping some of “Iowa's declared that there are “no plans now own” h toeless children. The Iowa for rationing clothes.” society does not employ solicitor* am* “Runs on stores are the surest way makes but one appeal annually in each___ to bring about rationing, he warned county. . . r\ f I hope they will not continue Hoard- Tho1-* who hate been invited to cox* Decisive Deieat ing of clothes is really .selfish. pete for the five cash prizes and the- Jjjp$ In One Ar CB ---— —i— ater passes are asked lo meet with Mrs Virgil Hillman in the cornic I United Nations Headquarters in chamber. City Hall, ten a. rn. to re- Australia (INS) Decisive defeat of ceive instruction Thesp gifts hav > Japanese forces in the Wau area of ** ** t^en made available by friends of northeast New Guinea by Australian Sgt. Paul E. Smith who has been children to help the society secure the jungle fighters was announced today home on a ten day furlough expects to iargPSt amount of funds for its horn" in an official communique which dis-leave Saturday for Camp Robe:”* finding work. The committee asks closed that nearly 1.000 Nipponese hurl Calif., where he has been stationed the everyone to give what he can to help teen slain and a much greaten num-past year. Paul Is the son of Clar- an unfortunate Iowa child ter wounded. ence Smith of East Washington street..__j Allied loss in the action which drove UflMflP I AMP's RfKHART the Japs from Wau> 35 miles south' Robert E. Nib art was recently traps- nUPIDIx Dv/«JiTrtI\ I west of the large enemy base of Sala- ferred from Abilene, Texas, to Lees- AT WAYLAND GATHERING maua, were “relatively light, the Ville, Louisiana. His address is Pvt. -- communique from General Doughs Robert E. Nihart, 37440848, Seventh Wayland. Iowa — James Boshart. MacArthur'* headquarters said Medical Supply Depot, care Post- r-^d a*t New London. Conn . ----- master, Leesville, La. came Thursday on a .surprise visit to , his parents. Mr. .md Mrs. Orus Bos- \f OM S^tltCnCCCi T OF The change in the address of Pvt. ^ and remained her** till Feb IO. ^ ^ Richard Van Tuyl is Serial No. James 23rd birthday falls on this DriltlliPn DfIVIIIC! 37654218, Co. “A". 85th Inf. Tug. Bn., d (te ^ his relatives had a coopera- ® Camp Roberts. Calif., U. S Army. tlve birthday dinner at his home here -- Monday evenly with the foUowln* C’cm T-wes. 59. a farm worker. 161 ACRE FARM NEAR Mr and Mrs. ROSS Severt, ™ hoed MOO or sentenced to 90 dave Ibl ACRE. rARW t -Mr and Mrs Rex sevcn and son, ,r jai! by Judge E O Newell here ROUND PRAIRIE SOLD Wellman. Dr. and Mn. O. F. Boller, late Thursday when Tewes pleaded Washington, Mr. and Mrs. grade I tire. ing state control over private aviation.; ^ Sam *ould keep the date faith- Fi Bds Dnnk.ill. Winfield. I truck The senate also received a new a,rf'* fu]lv ^c^se 0f his need for the 1942 tire. to-dependent-children measure sign- j ^ retums Faye Ba ham. ML Pleasant. I grade p(J by n senators which is similar to < Taxpayeri.. h(, declared, are invited I trie. the house A-D-C bill except that it. ^ ^ their nearest jnternai revenue R v. Burrs Moore. Wayland. 2 grade is so WOrded that the state can accept j collertor>s if they desire assist- federal aid provided federal super vis- , out their returns. Mt Union. I jon js eliminated. Ii _— ■. ........ ----«—:-- —— I The senate commntee en child we!-. Naturally, hoHtever. industry pi fers this covert method of a wage in-| anBCf^ Elevator, the Lewis-Murray pr;'* | ,._W_ J* irUCR Lilt!. * II Eland, Winfield. I truck tire. fare aiso introduced a bill setting up Linier Patterson. Mi. Pleasant. I a child-placing agency which would', grade I tire. license all such agencies and place; W Patterson, Winfield, 2 truck tires them under the supervision oi tin j Edward Parker. Mt. Pleasant. I >state department of social welfare. * 'grade II tire. The "Iowa emergency war act of * RELATIVE OF FOR MER LOCAL RESIDENT GETS JAP SWORD II tires. vert method or a waae in- j crea' e over the I^wls-Murray pro- j Ure pose la to boost the hourly late directly. Even so. you bay glance hastily a* the proposition and view It as fair enough in the face of rising casts oi living. But from the standpoint of ^ fairness thc most vital factor? wet J W1^.t ^Harper, New Loads®, I grade 1943-. bip was also placed for consid- ( ried stories and pictures of Marin*. omitted by Mr. Byrnes j ^ eration after both house and senate Charles A. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson WH FN THE I MONS got the 40-, j Meinsen, Mt. Pleasant, I grade committees on national defense ap-«and their baby son. Mrs. Johnson is hour week some years ago. they insist-( ^ proved the measure laste yesterday, [a daughter of Presley McCoy, a form- Clarence Rash, Md Pleasant, I grade • er Mt. Pleasant resident. n tiro. _ MONROE STREET The Los Angeles Examiner gives the PROPERTY IS SOLD following when Jelmer guilty to county attorney’s informa-Garretson and Garretson Real Es- johnson and Ruth, Swedesburg, Mr. tion charging him with operating a tate brokers report the sale of the J. and Mrs. Prank Boshart and children, motor vehicle whne he was n ox c . O. Eastburn 161W acre farm located Crawfordsville. Mrs. C. C. Wenger, Mr.^Tewcs started serving: e )t i * in the Vega neighborhood south of the ancj Mrs. A. C. Wenger and sons, Mr. Judge Newell also three e Round Prairie Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Goldsmith. Wayland. dri ei s dcpnse ( r vc Eastburn is now a resident of Otter- Besse Allen and Mable Mitchell of ^7/Prte^ShdL Wednesday bein. Indiana. Mr. Henry Stark of Oskaloosa. the Tcwes car had backsaw was the purchaser of the East. - *ri into Grval Neft)lt *s car near the burn farm.___PLANE CRASH VICTIM Nesb,tt c-tore on East Monroe. Nesbitt KNOWN A f WAYLAND went out and asked w’hat was the __ matter. Tewes drove forward, then Wayland, Iowa — Lieutenant An- put the car <n reverse and took andrew R. Roeder *jg> pilot of a plane ether try at back ng Into the Nesbitt which crashed Saturday in a lake car. near New Orleans, La., was a former Tewes had been employed part time California newspapers lecently car ed it should not be accompanied by a decrease in pay. If thcY worked 48 hours before the new law-, they wont- So ed 48 hour- pay for the 40 h<*» gradc „ tires. Clone Swalison, Mt. Pleasant. J they received a pay increase, in , when the work week was cut, and now The fairness aspect crumbles oven II Id Real Estate reports Well, darling. I shot my first Jap the sale of yesterday morning. Of all the Japs more when you consider Mr. Byrnes words: “Some men can be drafted arni and white abroad at $50 a month". The congressional the Mrs Emma Jewett residence, in here it was an officer, at that. I rated on Bas' Monroe street, to Mr. brought bark the saber he was carry « Hay Scarf! of this city. Possession is mg. 1 sent ? w , 4„ri, let • “Tedav I sold it for SIDO. to be given April 1st. * ________________ i sending you the money because you reaction to th) « • « can use it as you see fit tor Junior I ani move was hesitant and mild, "out tnc above are some of the unstated fac- John Nelson Injured when he arrives.” they ave getting another wage increase j when it is restored. Also, the great bulk of the workers of the country are not in the unions tut nay taxes as clerk collar workers., Their taxes to the treasury will pay the increased union a contract calling for J J.hich a ie be,,rad'j'0"at neon today that. John NeLson, S. M C. of Seattle, wrote that from time anc! a half for overtime. J Lhh'indmtrv and lab/..- a,.parent- non of Mr. and Mrs. D. M Nelson. Guadalcanal to his 19 year old bride If the government intend* to ex-I move anrl no one pressing formerly local residents, had been in- of IC months who lives at 10210 Mount - tend its decree to them and requne | *.* - ^ the taxpayer 'Mr. Byrnes lured. He is with the U. S. Marines. a*r street, Tujunka City, last Decorate small business man to increase nQt shrink from high Mr. Nelson was formerly secretary of ber his wfige erst-, the g^rn™?t^,;axation during wartime"), the sub- the national farm loan associations ” er, anti gnna ^ ^ tQ pass unapPre- here. He now holds a similar position i Announcement was made over the Private Charles A Johnson, 21, U benefit of the $100 for his debut. It Tomrmlite of Wesley Pritchard at I by Henry Woerdeman. was a 9 pound. 2 ounce boy. g -p. c . Cedar F ills. II** with two — - Today I had some time off.’ J bn others lost their lives Twelve were ~ pprcrMTCf) TQ son wrote his wife from the Solomons. savpd .-Andy" visited here only last rlAb TJWl I6U I V I decided to look up a pal in the Qf.{/>brr and spoke before the high SAUNDERS SLHUUL front lines. schorl assembly. Wesley will attend When I’d gone c-out a half mi? his funPrai at Rockwell, la. He was The Daughters of the Union Veter-I saw three guys come out of the ^ sQn q[ Mr anf] Mrs Ed Roeder of ins presented the Saunders school jungle, but I didn't pay much atten- Hockwell. “Andy” vias an instructor with a flag at an appropriate proton to them. Pretty seen we got at th(1 naVal air station, Pensacola, -ram at the school house at one-closer. I stopped. They stopped. At Fla I thirty this afternoon. Mrs. Mary Wil- the same time we caught on that we . _ hams made the presentation speech weren't friends. They jabbered a few DI TD CAII WOMFN I Several patriotic songs were sung bywords and the two smaller ones, p, >- * MrcT IN ICrCTDCnN ^ chlldrpn and the ^ SalUte WUH ably enlisted men. dropped the cocoa- MEE I I'N JtrrLIxDUii given. nuts they had been carrying and ran - -- -The big one dirt not move. He Just , Wayland. la. Loede-s of Women'! PERSONALTY PORTRAITS stood and stared at me I knew he Farm Bu-eau mi-t Wednesday, lea ll ATU C ACCCMRI V officer because he wore their i in thc heme of Mrs. Ted Tschantz , A I it. AOuLIflDL I sward and had j The lesson on “Use and Care of was an little cap. carried a promote inflation furtLu the vanishing small basinets man even further into the dust. What he didn’t know was that Junior had arrived December ll at the a pistol. I dropped to one knee. unslung my good rifle and hied I ■ ** Jap pitched forward on his fare. v sword falling in front of him. I Hi H two shots at the Bodier*, but they reached cover before I could gc dated in its subtler aspects. at Cedar Falls. Glendale Sanitarium and has the them." Household Equipment” was presented j Jessie Rae Taylor gave personality bv the coup tv home economist lead- j port nits befoie an assembly cf the cr. Lillian Peckham. Those present j high school students here today. A ’’■•ere Mrs. Jacob Etcher. Mrs. Ira Mil- Lirofessicnal along this line, she gave lei- Mrs. Milton Roth. Mrs. Anna Neb- nartraitB of louis Pasteur, Juarez of el Mr^. Farl OingerCh, Mrs Andy M&kjHPo. Mr. Ch’ns, Martin Gmvther, Tschantz and Mrs Max McGuire. Ab- Lincoln in Illinois and others.

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