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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 15, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALU) RATION STAMPS Suuar ll - lei). I-Mar. 15 (Each slump, Three pounds) Coffee (I lb.) - Eel). 8-Mar. 21 Lanoline No. l-.lan. 21-Mar.21 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil .3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Fuel Oil I - - - Until Apr. 12 Each stamp, 11 gallons YOU I X XL No. 38 MONDAY, FEIL 15, 1013 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA-. —■ .I ; "I ■?. I.. _ I .UTT*' "—r" Behind a v iMltA ZTkli&Z ( THE ■ *): 4 B' J tty I (mil Mali.on < lh: triou'ed by King Features Hyn- fii •!' fir prod ic Lion in Full or p. Oft rf StrtcUV Prohibited. J W I sH I N L; TOR 111) BRITISH empire covering hun Hare of :cl year: Pm that be an itc hy Mr. the on- 400 Army Air Cadets Cornin crc Red Armies Pound Nazi Defense Line They’ll Do It Every Time — The docs finest CREATION WAS MADE FOR A QUIET LITTLE <jUV LIKE THIS Kharkov Next After Fall of Rostov 'AA THERE GOES THE BEST UPPER PLATE /A I EVER MADE. PE Rf-L IT PIT I PERFECT Ca BITE' PERFECT COLOR oOCl / PEAuTIFUL job id like to I BUY IT BACK FROLA / V un 4 Amps. CTO MJC it I / VES, BUT }„ SOO LL WEVER \ OLT ANV / PU BLO TV V I OUT OF THAT \ I LITTLE CHURCH ) V MOUSE v Moscow. Russia < INS)—Tire fall cf Kharkov appeared imminent today as, ■/mushing victorious Red army forces elentit sly pounded Germany's winter defense line and approached to within 7 miles of the great Ukraine indus-trial center following the fall of Rostov gateway to the Caucasus. Bloody infantry and tank battles raged before Kharkov as Nazi rear vuard forces fought des|>erately to check enough to garrison. in rapidly city from making a I he lo cr uahed y a i in v B 'iff* • Red army columns long evacuate the main German The Russians were closing from three sides of the steel which tile Germans were hurried retreat. aer end of the line was esterday when strong Red umns surged back into the me nan gateway city of Ros- Will Receive Pre-Flight Instruction at Wes’ OI a n Oi -kl Bl I ANC * I \ I I.B WI It IMPORT the mallei bv th Rf Rf ie arm Mdmr victory by » cn the St ■ii 40 miles southern f viet I of I en meanwhile • I command cf Gen-followed tip the Ros- Panthers To Play At Muscatine westward in I Azov port of Tag- Will Meet Kochneff v beyond Rfj,stov, and a garrison of the Nazis. raiigf4 guns on the south i rot; based and Company Tuesday Evening PETIT JURORS NOT Vote Against to REPORTER month ‘Incentive’ Subsidies Pe'i- jurors, who wen- to report this - week have been notify not to report Committee until March 16, », Against Wickard’s $100,000,000 Plan uthwest of aided the Nazi os tai road leading to Taganrog winch German columns which rn Ro tm w*re withdrawing. Rommel's Korps In 18 Mile Thrust The MI. Pleasant Panthers will go to I Muscatine Tuesday night to meet the J Muscatine Muskies. The Muskies have one of the best I teams in the state again this year and I _ although they have been defeated only I once so far in the Little Six conference, ‘if You Want To Give Blood, More Blood Donors Needed IN: < -ai that being bv Burlington, they should! J come out in first place in the confer-J Headquarters rn North Africa «*»• At present they have won IO A sudden Sashing offensive ***** and lost one to keep them in| Th* y also land fortified axis positions first place in the Littic Six, in eastern Tunisia today have one of the high scorers in the at Fa id Pi carried Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel's conference that being Walt Kochneff \frika Korps 18 miles through allied The Panthers will have their bandi ]U> it ion and positioned a threat to full in trying to slow down the Mus- i February 24. many more donors are British and American key points in kies and Kochneff who has little trou- j needed Washington. D. C (INS* — The an-' nounced program of secretary of agriculture Wickard calling for the payment of $100,000,000 in “incentive" sub , sidles this year was rejected today by I the house appropriations subcommittee Jon agriculture which refused to vote , the funds. , | The subcommittee, taking the usual auxilytic- __step of announcing its decision prior galoshes 1 • to confirmation by the full committee, W: r*- several persons have repor»en I disclosed that the vote was 6 to I that they will donate blood for a I against approval of the necessary civilian blood bank in Henry county I money. when he mobile unit comes here on Mrs. Roosevelt Visits Iowa VV AAC is. Franklin D. ts a:'mid, came to v and had her visit with the women's more than 4,400 udfy in review. She barracks. She dined en a WA AC fried chicken dinner and she gave five talk of varying length. And wh'-n i' was over, she said of her day with the WAACs: “They are most capable as a group in everything I ve seen them doing. Their condition Is good. They are k“tn. It ha been most interesting to se# the wornt n heie " The firs !aov* visit was not without discomfort. The mercury stuck close to the zero mark and at one point WHITE HOI SE PROBLEM Fort Des Moines. la, UNS* — Even the White Hour/* has in rationing problems, it deveined today folk wing the inspection of the WAAC contingent at Fort Des Moines by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. “We have had one great coffee drinkers among our guests," said Mrs Roosevelt. ‘’But we feed them a little coffee anti then have tea for lunch “They don't like it. but they seem to bear up, nevertheless.” Report This Week Mrs. Roosevelt stood in the shivering cold while 2.800 of!L er candidates and paraded by in four-buckle go I Girns and fleece-lined mittens. Training To Start at Local College March I Establishment cf an army a*; unit at Iowa Wesleva n starting M i rah I will bring som*1 400 army c dots to M‘. Pleasant by that date cr soon thereafter. Announcement of the designation of Iowa Wesleyan for one or the air units was made from Wcshingtva. DC,, late Saturday. Dr Stanley B Niles, president O'. Iowa Wesleyan, received a long d s-t inee call from Major Johnson of San Antonio, Texas, Sunday stating that four administrative officers from the ai my would ai rive here early this week to establish headquarters a' Iowa Wesleyan and to complete preparations for the coming of the unit. ( nurses Offered The 400 men will receive instruction in fundament <1 subjects relating to the r particular phase of the war work. They will be r.ught mathematics, physics, geography, history. English. Civil Air Regulations, and well receive physical conditioning and military training while here I-w> Wesleyan is well equipped to take care of this tvpe of instruction. Some additional faculty members will be necessary nnd numerous details and changes must be made to accommodate the cadets, but these are being worked out rapidly by Dr. Niles and his assistants. Dr. Niles had made a trip to Washington, D C . and another to Chicago, relative to getting a unit here, Albert I Led wick, n ted Wesleyan alumnus and prominent as an aviation school ex* cutive. recently made a trip to Washington in connection with the establishment of a unit and received issuance fhe unit would be placed area. ble in making his shots no matter H< 'ion nounces prepa: of thebe free in tin large of lie ministration si an aflnm- ublk an parked rn of the or aper the refore, prac-Indirect way ane thing called but which ap-of the land as y reinforced axis panzer divi- where he is .standing on the floor, ipparently under Rommel's per-on.il leadership, .struck early yester- that started the game against Ottum-dav, overwhelmed American artillery wa. Howard Cottrell and Biii Krabill jjositions and rolled swiftly forward to at forwards. Clarence Pounds at een-' becater, allied bases at Sbeitla, Gafsa ter, and Joe Messer and Dean Rich and Ferijma .guards. Tile donation of the blood is an im-1 portant part of the war program The! Coach Sharer will start the same five blood is kept in th. county and will Attend State UPW Meeting on Sunday Review. La er she reviewed 1,650 WAACs stationed in downtown Des Moines at here if local conditions and equipment the Coliseum in a ceremony whan vvere found adaptable to the require-wa^ attended by a limited number menus. Lorn the general public. Traut Officially Meat Alternates bt available for use at the local hospital jn case of emergency. Persons who car give blood are urged o notify either the high school, ph .ne 227. or the Mi Pleasant News. phone 19. They Hr uld do so by Saturday of this week. The donors will The State Braid mee ir.g of the Business and Professional Women met at the Ft Des Moines hotel in 0e> Moines on Sunday About seventy-five women were in attendance. The local chapter president. Mrs Iva G. Holland Listed As Injured Will Be Discussed bt notified the hour when they are to and Mrs. Joe Virden represented the appear. During her talks to various WAAC groups, and a- a press interview, the first lady t-cur ho I on a number ol v an me topics and made these observations; 1 Amt deans will have to use their imagination to under land what peoples of other nations are going thru cr we may find ourselves “isola'ed" from the rest of the world. 2 If the time comes when it is ir a ".ary for women to take over the Inspection Made Immediately thereafter two army officers, a cclonel and a captain, e rne to Mt. Pleasant and made a thorough inspection of the facilities here They made their report—evidently a favorable one—and notification was received here that Iowa Weslevan was being designated for a unit. The men to b> trained here will be high school graduates and their instruction will be on a college fresh et* I recd cm of the the thro* mile lim By immigration, cu striciions, each con sovereignty again." and encroachment. Bat if commerce fat arc air im is went only to off each shore. alien influence Tile work is to bf done by qualified - I persons, Only a comparatively short Washington, DC. (INS>—The war There will be a demonstration on imP will be required to take the dei nrtment today made public a par- meat alternates at the New London blood. Your action now may save the rial list of United States army per- high school Wednesday evening sonnel wounded in action in southwest Pacific ar vember, 1942 Some • Mt. Pleasant organization. Mrs. Vi: - y , cn Ioy d farms ceil a inly Amen- man level, advance intormati n to Ol den is the district director of the nine southea ern Iowa chapters. The purpose of this meeting was to transact the regular business and to hear the reports and recommendation- j life of someone at a later date, the purpose of the meeting is to get new j Thr Rpd Cr0:s and the state health f of the various committees, ea since early No- ideas and recipes and have an oppor- i department are co pirating in bring- e of the wounded unity to taste the different dishes. J mg he mobile uni; here. Tile work and port re- on !b(, d>t have recovered .md return-, Mrs. Ruth Seaton Hicks of Ames.: wjjj be done at tin Memorial hospital. protected its. ed t0 dttty extension nutrition director of the J --- Included in the list was Private Ver- I- wa State college, will cornu I HUS L Traut. whcse father Is Lyle meeting Everyone welcome. a Traut of Salem, Iowa. is to move in world of the air. freedom of the-- lev would seem to allow each woi Id TAKE NO ACTION ON air terminal of the Lnited to move its commercial ap-‘ States, Lug the shortest distance! WAR-RISK INSURANCE ! across the polar air routes from far- j ________ ! flung destinations. Unless the “free-; Des Moines, Iowa UNS) fully in upon all other coun- Marion Harshbarger Taken By Death can women will be able TO DO THE JOB AND DO IT WELL. 3. In England anc! in other nations which have been in the thick of tile war, the people have grown to place gnat value only on human beings— material things no longer mean much. 4. / mericans must be willing to Niles has indicated. The cadets in the pre-flight training are the 18 year olds, inducted in recent weeks, according to the information. Each uni-will b' in 'raining here for five months. Salem— Marion Harshbarger, 80, The Iowa Passe^ away at his home Sunday evening about 5:30. Tile oody was brought to the S evens Fun cal Home in Salem. Funeral services will be held Tuesday nation proud " w. »™.ki rot think of allowing the' dom of the air- was carried right to state executive council today decided J., . the French and Oilier, -to I Chicago, it would not amount to any- tentatively not to do anything about 15 • ,thinB 'war-rbk insurance for state property. build railroads en-, oui c • ( ’ , «• freedcm of the: The council tabled such a proposal, from New V* ;k '<> Si I- ui.-. in in-, ‘ 1 working on the offered by an insurance company after j nficrncnn 2 o dock from the Salem d( m 01 lhe ir would allow them to an -nth lasts t J O ^ ^ c b Akerg obseryed that Methodist church with the Rev B. G maintain many through tnt skier theoir tha . ' ^ can get the war picture is brightening gml j Rankins officiating Burial will be in And. hi a vc,UC. .i the i mare when mo* p lane,, amt ,*.au*r W. O. C. Bagley ,minted)'he new addition to the East ceme- ! LOUI would be only 48 I .oms ■■■ J ° - seems out that Iowa's state owned property tery. a,r away from Australia and Bu,, ta..-nation- cartg't o . . .- ^ pach risks are widely separated. M'- Harshbarger i surv.ved by his that r:-hi u sume- far more signify to be slipshod think g, v ____ wife, Mrs. Etta Harshbarger, and two cut than a raiUoad would. We could of the 20 Latin Ameiitan nutu n... ox daughters, Mrs. Ray Trueblood near ( j tTol a i ilroad instance, could maintain its own an DciCdt Proposal i Of ^ | s -Urn. and Mi* \ u>la Harshbarger, WH VT OI IM MIG II VITON, customs lines into the United States and ignore Governor's Mansion Fund 'who teaches in th. chools at Wyman. and tariff protections when everyone , ours. Des Moines, Iowa (INS) — Tile sen- 1 flies around and lands of Defease? With Brit .....n I i” mvolive'The dangers | even the Nazis and Japs of the future ^ country by giving -Rom forming their own companies Thp upper chamber defeated by a I among residents cf each The meeting began with a breakfast at 8:30-and the luncheon speaker at one o’clock was Prof. Clarence H Masterson of the history department of Iowa S ate college. The subject of his address was “Can We Have a Lasting Peace?-’ • It was decided at the meeting that the regular annual state convention In May be changed to a war conference _ mee:ing. This state meeting will convene at Mason City on May 22. Dele- Fort Des Moines. la. INS) Aaaer-gates from all chapters in the state ica's first lady was to leave tor Kau Regular ( < urscs fontinuf Dr. Niles emphasizes that the regular share, bo h in this nation and “with colkge courses Wlll be ccn inued. The he res cf the world.” M:s. Roosevelt arrived .shortly before noon, from Washington. D. C„ in a lerge army transport ship and went immediately to the WAAC consolidated rn ss a- Fort D’s Moines. will be sent to this meeting. FLAG PRESENTATION AT SAUNDERS SCHOOL WI HU rvri yoni | iViUiWCd, BJW cl UHD) ---- * * --------- —„ at will? What I Only two of those nations are in a ^ of thp Iowa legislature today de- : U/TDCTFR XTRFFT tin now able to position to maintain such a line, bu! & moye fco set up funds for con_ , WE.. nn AnrnTir r/x. rx PR0PEKTY SOLD puradiute ftocps to Algiers, would nothing could keep the Britlsh _ u‘ struction of a mansion for the gover this not see! cf giving away a away its air? Tile program at Saunders school at he Flag presentation by the Daugh- ^or ters of Union Veterans was as follow' Song. America American Slogan—Marion Ludwig presentaton of Flag—Mary Williams doins accompanied by the color bearers. j^rs Rocxsevolt usual academic courses will be given and no part will be eliminated. Some adjustments may be necessary in class schedules, but the instruction for the boys and girls already here and who may enroll while the unit is here, will not be curtailed in the least. I Iowa Wesleyan Is the only Iowa school to receive a unit of this type in las City, Missouri/ today after taking the announcement of the .s lv>ols de, -a hurried, thorough, glimpse of the ignated as given in Sunria> newspa-Womens Army Auxiliary Corps at pers. Most of the schools listed were Fort Des Moines yesterday. ! universities and other I as go inuit u- The WAACS, who turned out a1- tions. most en masse to see Mrs. Franklin D. \ Roosevelt during her tour of the post EASTER WHITE SHOES and put on two parades, were enthus- MAY BE SLOW SELLER inst ic about their distinguished vis-J Said the president's wife about, the, gt L>0UjS mo.--Shoe rationing ha, WAACS: “They are most capable as a hrdught manUfar:Urn . and merchants group in everything I have seen them the problerA of what to do with millions of pairs of white "hoes ready for „ . _ .. , _ , „ said she wlU vlsit,sale rn the spring and early summer Response, Bob Estle (a Cub S,ou fh(, Mid!and R;idjn and Television assisted by Billie Beattie i Mounting ol flag on staff Pledge of Allegiance pre pert y for a home. P J. Hurley and Son today repart of these yQte 27 to 15, an amendment by the sale of the Alva Holland property I hc -.cepe cf this threat to American j countries and flying over us at will, senator Dewey Goode, republican of: on Webster street, to Mr. Earl Cook of j S ac Spangled Bannet )U.n nlv iUl naturally terrified a ) The advantage in any rivalry Bloomfield, which would have set aside •, this city. Mr Cook is employed at the j God Bless America j. ut ion t the American aviation in-j tween the United States and Britain the interest on $2,775,500 of capital ap- ! Ordnance Plant and purchased this ( .ti'- in en the proceedings so far for control cf post-war air routes propriations frozen for the duration The conflict of opinion already has] would seem to lie with the British. After an all morning debate the sen-. nuwnod a more moderate group of I While their air minister is screaming ate passed a bill freezing the funds “freedcm of the air" enthusiasts who ; about commercial manes, .they have which had been appropriated by tile , only to carry that freedom ; commercial bases throughout the world. last legislature. This included $1,650,000 „„ ’ , la thrra-mtle limit They would | whereas we have kept to our own for a new state office building. $300,000 only where! sh res largely in the past. for a law library at the University of season starting at Easter Ume in Apr’,. One large St Louis dealer, who TWO RECENT FARM SALES ARE REPORTED Talk by Mr. dottrel I Taps—on the pian^. I OK OLD TIMES SVE! s Crawfordsville ! To celebrate their 57th wedding ab- VV viand en the Schools. Inc., at Kansas City today and later go 10 Columbia. Missouri | asked tha{ his name rn- be used, de- - I scribed the situation this way. COTTER AND WAYLAND Sr't need them or not. They re not going to be able to buy another pair un ii the next coupon becomes valid June will play 116 and py then our white -hoe sea on I O MEET THIS WEEK - Cotter Crav, fordsville floor is almost over cut tin ____I niversary. Mr. and Mrs William J Wednesday. Feb. 17 for the Tri-coun-. “After the Ft ut-h of July w< F d Swailes reports the sale of the 1 Sheppard of near Knoxville made the <• thanptonshin This game will start! price of white shoes b- a IMC lh. 1 befire 1 at 7:30 Immediately after this game stores are trying art rid of them. 1,1 ' ! (i"1U °! ,!' ail OUiJ W1U1 { The rUrrent oropaganda sympathy Iowa, $650,500 of capital improvements Howard Ensminger farm north of same trip they had made yr i> n . 1 f,;ee', . , M J tLn, nm- S prem.tu*, to say or UrO of cont*! institutions. $45.- Rome Also the 160 acre farm known ss They ate dinner in the redraw on the cmwfo^viile fndependentt *U1 buy wit e .-noe or rhis 'm,nd sl‘Rlltl-v "np " ' ’ ' im for a childrens’ addition at Iowa the Herron farm, to Wm MeMurran almost the same spot of .he eft! e of r-lay the Wayland led,ients Hah-. when he knows (ha- ,t he w.lt/ von consider that air routes do not the least. „ city and $130,ooo for the heating plant This farm is half a mile north of the magistrate who married fir m in mo ther of Burlington w.,1 officiate coup* of weeks he can buy th, rn to, A new subject .. . at iowa State College. Lockridge. Knoxville. |toto games. |a song? follow searoutrs. For instance Chi- might be the future important very, very

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