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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 13, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa# VALID RATION STAMPS Hilmar ll - Feb. I-Mar. 15 (Each tamp, Three pounds) Coffee (I lb.) - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 Vti Linn ‘21 -Mar.21 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel OII 3 - - - I ntil Feb. 20 (Kach stamp, 11 gallons) Fuel Oil I - - - I ntil Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallons Panthers Lose To Ottumwa Locals Lead Through the hirst Half 500,000 Nazi Soldiers Disaster PIX' The Pant! Built rem Friday g, 35 to I d the vt di p •a son, th! the first, I ll. PREDICTS BLOW AT JAPS They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Rejects Island IL paign Island ( am- ork a tout.** rs cu;} HWU Washing tm today has ti Roosevelt t would not rn to sm sh Hit the Europe a D C i INS i The world1 de i alrune? of President the United Nations t Japan in their drive 13 md Mu.:olm! and end j famous axis combine., In a fighting sjjeech that rang with" confidence of ultimate victory, Mr I Roosevelt asserted that we ale now ! mas im.’ armies” in North Africa to' a cquit Tunisia in force and drive the Germans from their last foothold outside the European c fitment, Tile Tunisian campaign, he asserted is but a pi elude to a full scale invas- J .tm of Euroj*e in winch the United Na- j tions armies will keep rolling until t 1 lie enemy ha been iurren irced mu an Btu bat th W ct coes of Tun laities.■* * must .ame i aion easy I will that i dor r r.st Mr, face •aim Rotsevel' that fact ourage a. Bur- you ought TO SEE HIW AT home- they'll DO IT EVERY TIME - TfuwMi. To DAN HEALY, NEW VORi^ J NOW ABOUT SOME M HEAT ? What ARE >%\ YOU RUNNING HERE,;|; A COLD STORAGE / plant ? cwon- j k GET .HOT NONE INJURED IN IOU BLAST Burlington, la. (INS)—Lieu: Col. W. P. I law J es, c< rnmandmg officers at I ,\,i o.nuance plant, announced day tiiat nothing serious occurred t;f xplcrives in blew up at the Russians Cut More Enemy Rail Lines . < n a ? mail annuli tv i ive condition a ..rd ’hi- morning. No workmen war ii .tv . s sa ;■>, Hi* « X pruner nru nt of tile mc.v to ll ay ; urn injure? Cai. Sever Comjni*nirahons German Divisions of was ma: Check Foruer Caught In Ohio Moscow. Russia (INS) -Axis armies totalling 5CO.OOO men were fating disaster t? day Russian columns im ieeprr into lines behin the Ukraine and i the enemy ptsi- Wanted Here; Believed To Have Passed 300 Bad Checks A who ant check forger, e forged two che last August, ha idem iv the ma •ks in MI Pleas bmn taken int it on the bittle- W rteiv a* lion l Pre vt ,■ night itne att D C - Great will be taken •fit Roosevelt and ut -against declared Grant More Steel For Farm Machinery NEWS TO RFN SERIES OF ARTIC LES ON GARDENING Nip Pac \!t. fie.i-tnt I i, < Uturnw .t I* Mi W Du Tc Offi? IO 3 I 4 0 n 16 PT Pl IP die i.sli FT’ with) mpting to peri 11 ions by island nt I turn ion .rn hdi wasting pree-rolt back the in the south th© na* ion of with the Brit-di into Tunisia •art foi the in- Washington. D C. The wa: pro duction board late Friday approved doubled production of farm machinery for Apili, May and June. giving Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard a victory in his demand for mon tool to produce 1913 crops goals. Along with an allocation of steel which can be used to produce chinery at ah ut 40 lier cent D« s Mo lug series a Victory for Iowa nos, T?. lip of article? Garden, es? will be di A»—A refresh-I how to grow dally ' tailored ibuteri bv the Iowa Daily Press Association through The News and other member papers beginning Feb. 16. Because more persons than ever ma- j before are expected to mise gardens the i this summer, and be? aune most of has De J> for offensive md in China in have been ope t a-and in ai con tra Cie in Chungking between Gen->o Chian# Ka;- hek ai.fi Lieut. If Arnold, chief o! the United the prs revcai- MeMichael, Stat I 4 0 0 9 To 9 4 13 0 0 35 tch- Ml ll pi c\fit, in addressing a din-r of tile White House correspondents of sat ion, laid heavy e mphasis on ins resulting from the Casablanca nferenre with Prime Minister iurchin as thee affect the far east, rate for the same quarters of JU: '.0-41,1 them are “amateurs' thi> se riel the war production board appro, eh , been prcjiared to fit their needs, amendments in a former farm ma- • Author of the serif is Dick Dear-chmery order which will make possi-imont. Shenandoah, an amateur gard-ble greater production of stock hand- j ener himself and a former newspaper-ling and dairy equipment. } man. Dearmont Is employed by the The decision of the requirements J May Seed and Nut ry Co at Shen-committee and Ferdinand Eberstudt. j andean. which is the heart of the its chairman, approved the second; nursery center in the middlewest. He “the manner in which these professional writers; and agriculturalists make the simple business of gardening seem difficult, technical and even scientific." “In fact.” he continued, “if I did not know better, I would be afraid to have a garden unless I could aff rd a tool shed. blacksmith .shop and chcm-ical laboratory. With viability and soil analysis and fertilizer and special equipment they are positively fright- George Miller custody in Cincinnati. Ohm, according to notice received by Sheriff Manning J Cline Locally he gave two checks, one for $2687 to the Laager clothing store and the other for $21.88 io the Filly Cafe, after making small purchases The checks were about fool for the ordinaly person. The printed in the name of Kohrs Pack lug company, had the name “George Miller” typed in as payee, and were signed bv a name purported to be th? treasurer of the company. Thee were endorsed in the name cf George M I* fir and the Polly Cai'' check also bore the handwriting 'of Winfield” under the endorsement Officers have been informed tha‘ the rn sn now held in enmg. Cincinnal, had used 65 different “Yet. it remains a fact that von can Dames, is believed to have passed hardly destroy the spark of life Old more than 300 fraudulent checks and Lady Nature puts in the seed and js wanted by 50 sheriffs and city po- for nominal space a .spading fork. a hce officers. Because of the long list cut tions. Remnants of the 25 Nazi divisions were believed to be cut off in the western caucasus as Red army units occupied Krasnodar and drove westward towards the Black Sea poit of Novorossisk where fragile nG of beaten axis divisions gathered for a sea escape to the Crimea But the Rn sian Black Sea fleet was reported .standing off N vc rosa \ to smash the attempting at a “Russian Dunkirk German forces holding the ap-proaches to Rostov fought bitterly lo hang on to their positions on the outer defenses of the threatened city en the lower D n. A series of battles was reported northeast of Rostov in the proof NovorossLsk area. w’< iv “Our forces continued to advene?-on this sector and occupied a number (f localities,” said the Soviet mid-day communique. “The enemy made a cfi’(.ermined attempt to held bid was eventually dislodging." Another Soviet offensive appeared to be developing to major proportions northwest of Rostov in the area o. Krasnoarkeyskaya where Red army forces plunged westward after capturer the town and dislodging the Ger-m us from 40 strongly held positions. quarter program almost exactly as submitted by Secretary Wickard. Of the steel allocated, however 50,-000 toas is to be Bessemer or remelted rail, and the farm machinery in firm? rly worked for The Evening Sentinel al Shenancmah. § Dearmont u is inspired to write the articles because he felt there is a defi- rake and a hoe are all the tool one needs “All of which boils cfi wn to in opinion that present propaganda to encourage victory gardens tends to dis courage gardening—or. at least, ii any- of officers who want him. including j those in Ohio, there is little chance that he will ever be brought back here. Goebbels Premises German Offensive nite nm! for them, and because he does not encourage it nearly so much md leat it Ne hat yr concentrati n in dustry. which has not used this type ! felt that professional gardening wait- as would a plain statement of simple Thirty Injured In Train Wreck th Africa and Europe will not be wed to overshadow completely the ai inc Tile one di st reef - Intl lire rn (INS*—Thirty p< i hem war plant worker oday when a Penn y! •ailroad passenger train crash-' a mo or-bus and a street-car Broadway crossing in Gary, troin threw tile loaded bus in re. non mid the north-bouno ar to the other side of the attack on Japan. Inching Procedure The presidents firm disavowal of th* cost Iv procedure oi inching inland bv island to sweep the Japanese back, and then attack the rn un Japanese pm j of steel in recent years, must adjust ; itself to handle the special steel. Total steel allocated for the pro-! gram was 185,000 tons ers have abused their subject. He makes no bones about the fact that he is somewhat worked up by facts.” Watch for the first article of this series beginning Feb. 16 rn The News Lincoln Day Is I Observed At Dinner EDITH PAULINE WATERS MARRIED IN TEXAS Aged New London Man Dies In Car Japs Make Big Claims of Success New London. la William Redding, one of New London * older citizens, parsed away Friday shortly after noon, in a car. as he was being taken from his home to the Calhoun home in the south part of town. where ar- right-of-way as it struck. Most of those injured were the bus which had c ome from Crown Point Indiana. The motor-man wa the only person aboard the street-car, winch had just unloaded war workers employed in Gar. steel plants. Special Program At Junior High Assembly program at junior high school on February 12, Lincoln's birthday, was as follows: America, the Beautiful lincoln, the Statesman .. Miss Olsen Lincoln’s Early Life .. John Greenup! - I inland encouraged those wha have New London. Iowa — Word has been hoped for an all-out air attack instead, received cf the marriage of Edith by-passing the Philippines and other pauime Waters and Tech. SSL E. J. areas which have been conquered by* pveshart which took place Sunday at the Japanese to strike at the heart of Waco, Tex. the empire. j The bride is the youngest daughter • There are many roads " declared o{ Mr an(j Mrs. Fred Waters of New rangements had been made for caring I the president, "which lead right to London. She is a grad a Ute of the for him. aboard i Tokyo. We shall neglect none of them iocai high school and would have com-? wm. Drenning Redding, 73, passed “We do not expec t to spend thw pfited her course in nurses training at away Friday after a lingering illness, time it would take to bring Japan to Burlington hospital with this years jjp wa8 born at pleasant Grove, Iowa, final defeat merely by inching our cjass she left Burlington for Texas january 22. 1870, the son of Martha way forward from inland to island Friday. The groom, whose home is in Dodds and James J. Redding. He across the vast expanse of the Pa- Boston, Mass . is stationed a’ Camp cam(. t0 New London to make his home cif ic. Temple, near Waco, where the couple “Great and decisive actions against make their home during his servile japanese will be taken to drive jce tpere> tho invader from the soil of China. |-- “Important actions will be taken in « the skids over China— and over Japan itself.” Mr. Roosevelt declared the plans at Casablanca were not confined to any one theater of war, or continent or ocean. “Before this year is out, it will be Three Accused of Using Yellow Paint about 43 years ago Thirty years of this time was spent in the draying I business. He is survived by one sis tor. Mrs. Lillie Miller of New London 1 four aunts and sev> ral cousins, i Fun? ral services will be held Mon day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Elliot chapel. The Rev. C. O Strohl paster of the Met:.odist church will officiate. Burial will be in the Burge Republicans Attend Event Harlan lintel At Newspapers Report 110 I Warships Sunk S. Events in Lincoln' Life.Martha Have I marje known to the world—in actions Civil War Days ...... Hazel Johnson j rafber than in words—that the Casa America Gettysburg Address .... Jessica Wets IP acting .......... Howard Woodard Reading .......... • Patricia Hersey filar Spangled Barnier. Hershey To Speak On Draft Status Indianola. Iowa (INS)—Two teenage girls and a 15 year old boy were cemetery. to appear before Justice C. C. Briggs ! ---- at Indianola. Iowa, today, in cornice- lion with the daubing of yellow paint ( HOCKS Ord 01*0(1 blanca conference produced plenty of cn the car of a deferred farmer. The car was owned by Ben Gfivk-ler, operator of his mother’s farm and “AND THE JAPANESE," the presi- twice deferred as an important farm news; and it, will be bad news for the Germans and Italians.” Cleared at Far 'lent added significantly. worker. Members of the War rep county se lves Moi tics. la The Iowa house Friday passed by an 84 to 16 vote the W. Roger Jacobs Taken By Death fictive service board said Gleckier is senate bill which would require all properly deferred. He is a scoutmaster state banks to clear checks at their The bill now goes to the Wallington, D. C. —(INS)—War Man-p< over Commission chairman Paul V McNutt and draft director Lewi B. Hershey tonight will make an important radio broadcast on “the draft status of all American citizens." Announcing that the broadcast weald be made at IO; 15 over the Blue Network, the Office of War Information said that the two officials will tpeak for half an hour on the topic. “Man-power and Draft”. par value, governor. Opponents contended during two W. Roger Jacobs, age 87. paned VI;,. Ha VP Million h°l“!' !ha' 'he W.°Uld away at the home o! hi grandson. iVId> 11 dVe 111,,!,IMI1 strangle small Jew. commumties L Shellman, near Glasgow. Friday War Casualties Ii , T flspons°T "J morning at IO o'clock The body was "dl 1 OSUrtllU » ,“large banks, wholesale firms and mail i . . n „ ,e. - order hollies.” which do not want the brought to the Stevens Funeral home in salem 1 Washington. D. C. (INS)—Senator expenses of check exchange charges. Funeral services will be held from Rufus C. Holman, republican of Ore- They also contended that smaller the Christian church at Stockport 8-n- toda)' warned the American poo- banks needed the cheek exchange fees Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Burial will P& to steel themselves for an expect which range from 5 to 25 cents-to be in the Spencer cemetery near ancy of 1.000,000 war casualties during make operating expenses and maintain and was attending a boy scout meeting when his car was painted. May Have Million War Casualties Tokyo, Japan GNSt — Japanese newspapers declared today that 140 United States warships had been sunk ar damaged in the area of the Solomons and New Guinea from August 7 to February 15. This figure, the papers claimed, in-(luded six American battleships sunk and four battleships damaged; four aircraft carriers sunk and four aircraft carriers damaged. Also they claimed 36 U. S. cruisers had been sunk or damaged and more than 1,300 planes had been shot down. In the same period of time. the newspapers asserted 35 Japanese warships were sunk or damaged and 611 Jap planes were destroyed VANDERBILT RELATIVE FACES COURT MARTIAL Reno, Nevada (INS) Nine hours after lie escaped from an army air base hospital near Reno. Jacob L Webb, 24-year-old great grandson oi the late Cornelius Vanderbilt was apprehended by police today. Webb faces court martial for allegedly impersonating an officer. He was found in a cheap hotel, id wearing the bright red robe he wot when he made his get-away fr rn th hospital Chief observance of Lincoln's birthday in Mf. Pleasant was a Lincoln Dav dinner at the Harlan hotel Friday evening with Republicans from Mt. Pleasant and from over the county attending. Copntv Chairman E. C. MeCoirl presided at the program following the dinner. The Cathey sisters sang short talks wen given by Sen. William Carden of Winfield, Miss Martha M -Clure, rational committeewoman, and Mrs. O. W. Anderson, county vice-chairman. Mrs. Marie Wilson^ led the group in the singing of America. A splendid spirit uas shown and the gathering was enjoyed by the group. Divorce Granted In Local Court Berlin. Germany 'INS)—Germany has suffered serious setbacks in Russia. but will retrieve its losses in a new offensive. .This new promise to the German people was pronounced by propaganda minister Jostph Goebbels in a warning that only an ail-cut effort would st ive off defeat of tho a xis. “The enemy has convinced us tha* partial effort will never lead to victory.'’ Goebbels declared in a weak end summary of the war situation. "Total war in all fields of national activity is the command of the h air." Up to the present German strategy has been to seek victories at the smalest possible risk. Goebbels declared. In the future, he intimated, the Reich xx ii throw its whole strength into the far-flung battle lines in an effort to overwhelm its enemies. CLOTHING SUPPLY IS CALLED ADEQUATE Ann? E. Tackenberg w s granted a divorce from Arthur -J Tackrn^crg b Judge E. O Newell in court here on Thursday. The couple was married in 1909 and livrtl together un!ti 193H Cruel and inhum rn '(raiment was charged. A property settlement had been made in which Arthur Tackenberg is to pay Anna Tackenberg $4,300 for he^ share in their farm. I NSM I SS MI V .ll MI* Jimmy Boos became I Tightened when kerosene on tho surface f a pan of water placed on a stove at hfi home at Fertile caught (ire. The llames were quickly extinguished by the use of quilts, but the yftung bey. Washington. D. C (INS) High government officials today backed pp 'bar disavowal of clothing rationing with positive assurance that supplies are in excellent shape and adequate to meet all demands if runs and scare buying are averted. CHEEVER RAMSEY DIES AT BURLINGTON Young Webb. a private in the army, who was still in bed, was awakened faced court martial, according to th army, for "deceiving 'he public and bringing disgrace to the uniform ot the United States. and to escape the flames, he jumped through the window', suffering cuts on his figs. Cheever Ramsey of Burlingt n dfi’d suddenly at his home shortly aft r iron today. Mrs, Ramsey was formerly Miss Alice Winters of Mt Pleasant. No funeral arrangements will be made until word is received from tile son, Dr. James Ramsey, who is rn the US navy and is enroute to California. TALKS SCHEDULED FOR P.T.A. MEETING Injured In Fall Stockport. the present year. their services. Mrs. Dora Nicholson had the misfortune to slip and fall on the ice Friday and fracture her wrist. “Worthwhile Quartet” will b* the tc pie of the talk Dr J W Potter will give at the Junior High PT A mect-Accepted In Navy mg at the Junior high building Tin'."* Three Henry county young men dav afternoon at three o’clock. Supt, were accepted for induction into th-’ C A. Cottrell will also sneak Hfi navy at B s Moines this week. They topic 'will be the outline of the new are Dick A Willey, Vernon L Wood school cede There will ta.’ several and Manse I E, Beavers, r.utr.bors by the pupils. I

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