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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 25, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa VALID RATION STAMPS VALID RATION STAMPS Sugar ll - Feb. 1-Mar. 15 (Each at amp, Three pounds) Coffee (I lh.) - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 Gasoline No. 4-Jan. 21-Mar.21 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Fuel Oil 4 - - - Until Apr. 12 Each stamp, ll gallons VOL. EXXI, No. 17THURSDAY. FER. 25, 1943 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News THE by Paul Ma I [.ON (Distributed by King Features Syndic ate, Inn, Reproduction in Full or to Part Htrlrtly Prohibited.) WASH IND I ON — < O M M E N TA- T'OKS, particularly on the radio, have adopted the habit of attributing our sui prise set-back in Tunisia to "green ire: ps.” There was nothing wrong with those tro'.ps They were no greener in battle than their general. Every report agrees they fought well There w'*re just too few of them at the particular point in the line where the surprise attack was made Troop* just as green did ailright on Gu dal' anal, in New Guinea, and at Midway Furthermore their Nazi adversaries tins time were supposed to be exhausted and demoralized after a 1500 mile retreat Hie fficial military viewpoint here does not attempt to place the responsibility in such a remote quarter, What happened on that front Ss explained here like this: Our he ivy force were concentrated at the northern end of the line for a prr ml ed attack upon the Germans Th* southern passe- which we had re-cenfly taken over from the French, Pursue Rommel’s Retreatin a v r crees SPEAKER TELLS OF WOMEN AT PLANE WORK They’ll Do It Every Time - - - were lightly held. The crafty Nazis a local superiority armored divisions I man thrust They leading back to coa concentrated there f planes and two ut a typical Ger-had good roads vt a I bases, whereas How grandmas, waitresses and house wives are manipulating rivet guns and welding torches instead of egg beaters to whip Herr linier and Hirohito was described here today to Iowa Wesleyan College students and faculty members by an executive of North American j Aviation, Inc., builders of the famed j twin-engine B-25 Mitchell bombers It | was the B-26vS which raided Tokyo and which today are battling the! °nemy on virtually every front. j The speaker was Robert A. Pother- j gill who ie in charge of molding raw recruits - - almost half of them women - - into skilled aircraft work- J era at the company's gigantic plant iii Kansas City, Kansas. He was the eighth speaker to address college and high school students on the “Air Age" ( theme as part of their aviation course, w hich was arranged in collaboration with Transcontinental Western Air,1 Inc. The lecture was broadcast to .scores of high school classes in Iowa ! Illinois and Missouri Many of the thousands of skilled workers now engaged in turning out bombers at a rapid pace had never been inside an aircraft plant when they were employed, the training supervisor said. They represented vir- - tually every walk of life ranging from Will Be (illest of Iowa Wesleyan our much loi-g'T communications rambled circuitously back through the hill They could and did throw |jow**r in fader titan we could. An < <tra rdmarv phlegmatic altitude toward the set-back hos been no-tpebble, not only in Berlin but in Algiers and Washington as well. OI It OI FICI AL C ONTTIH NCT; is no doubt due to our superiority in planes tanks and men, from the northern t:p to the southern, as a whole Churchill said allied forces on both sides of th< front <including the British eighth army) numbered 500)000 against 250,000 Germans. Y ii lf axe noticed our command did not rush superior reinforcements into the breach, but kept its troop* placed largely where thev were in preparation fbr our promised attack. From this you would judge our attack is still or-ganized and ready *o spring, despite the German diversion effort Berlin s failure to propagandize the success may be attributed to the fact th.it this is a small story in Berlin, compared to what is happening on the Russian front. It Is our first land engagement in the eastern theater of war and big to us but the number of troops involved is a handful by comparison with other wars Hitler is fighting NEW SALVAGE DRIVE SOON Iowa To (’oiled Tons of Heavy Farm Scrap Allied Planes Take Heavy Toll of Enemy A new Salvage drive is gettng un- _ re'-uay in iowa to help collect more Au lections of America Are scrap materials to replenish stocks which have dwindled rapidly during the winter months. In the present Spring Salvage drive, i Uncle Sam has asked Iow*a to collect Represented In Battle Allied Headquarters in North Africa < INS»—American and British troops 100 000 tons cf heavy tai rn scrap dor- jn norffl central Tunisia pursued Fielding the firs* six months. With 213,.118 marshal Erwin Rommel’s forces farms in cur state, this means snout through Kasserino pass with unrelent-1.000 pounds of scrap for each farm. jng Vigor today as allied air craft took In addition a goal cf 75 pounds per an increasingly heavy toll of the enemy. While the badly malled axis battalions fell back' steadily, abandoning arms and equipment, leading elements Henry county Is making preparations cf the British 8th army ln the south capita of heavy household scrap fot every village, town and city in the state has been se*. to get in the drive You’ll more about it soon. be hearing Bishop Magee Will Come Here Sunday For Several Days former ministers, salesmen and clerks to beauty operators, waitresses, dancers and artists. The speaker described the never-nding school conducted by the own -pany and the many phases of airers f production which are being taught. TIU' trainees, he added, are being paid Sunda,., February 28 During his visit to the Bishop J Ralph M. gee of the Iowa- j Des Moines Conference of the Meth- ! cdist church will be a guest of Iowa Wesleyan for several days beginning Leaves for WAVE Training Methodist Men Miss Nancy Louise Lankford left t Hear Dr. Weis early this morning for Cedar Falls I where she will receive her indochina- ! , " lion training in the waves Miss Church Recreation Hall To He 1 Lankford was inducted into the serv-i ice on Dec. 30 and has been at home here awaiting her call. FARMERS MUST GET PERMITS TO BUTCHER Open To Soldiers Methodist men meeting at the Washing Ion. D. C—Two emergency measures will undertaken in the I next several days to break up the wave of meat bootlegging which has upset the federal food program. All farmers, no matter how small. w ill be required to ob ain p°rmits on all animals killed for their own use. Dollars and cents ceilings will be im- apprtached the German rail in the are i of the Mareth line bringing closer the time for a major allied "squeeze play” against the enemy. All sections of America are represented in this huge allied drive at Kasser-ine which turned a sharp set-back into what now appears to be a major victory in the making Lads from farms and city streets have joined together in this great push which has shown the mettle of American fighting men. while going to school. He listed the broad opportunities open to youth in he aviation field. The speaker then reviewed the rec- # Fred Begolty I’aken by Death | church for the Brotherhood supper and P0^ °n all cuts of pork, thus abolish-I program Wednesday evening, heard a *ng the store-by-store price ceilings Wesleyan campus he will take over several of the j - college classes in place of the regular ! , professors and will have many -ppor- j Dies at Memorial Hospital After program splendid address by Dr. L. L. Weis, superintendent of the Burlington district of the Methodist church. Similar more-uniform price ceilings are under consideration for beef cuts. Together with more forceful en- Successful Night slaughter Attack on Wilhelmshaven except London, England (INS;—KAE combers carried out .*uccessful night attacks on the northern German port of Wilhelmshaven and ether industrial targets in western Germany, - the air ministry announced today. All British planes returned safely. urds mad, by th. bombes in combat tunlties ,or vWts 4i,h ,h' students. Sunday morning he will de- Brief Illness performances against great “VCT the «rm,,n al lhc Flfsl Mflh' odist church. In the evening he will and presented numerous instances of amazing odds. I "Late last month. B-35' participated address Wesleyan students ani thin operations over the European contl- armY pre-flight cadets of the newly nent." FV>*hergill continued, "and thus established unit at Iowa Wesleyan. | became the first airplane to fight on all war fronts. Previously they had proved their prowess in the Middle East, in the Philippines, over Japan. in Tunisia. North Africa. New* Guinea. I he Aleutian Islands, Burma. China Hear Witnesses In Child Custody Case Fred Begolty. heal barber for many y ar.', died at the Memorial hospital , this morning about :en o’clock. He : had been ill since Monday afternoon ! and underwent an operation at the I Memorial hospital Tuesday afternoon. | Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. j Delbert Davey of Mt. Pleasant and : Mrs. Marvin Linn of Long Beach, ' Miss. Also two brothers and one sis- Despite the desperate situation to- fcrcement of the price limits and day, I think I see more hope for the rationing of beef, expected to begin British Commandos Raid Burma Coast London, England — tINS> British world than I did a year ago, Dr. Weis about April I. the depar ment of agritold the men He looked forward also culture and the office of price adminis-to that joyful day "When the lights tration hope the additional measures commandoes raided the Japanese oc-go on again all over the world.” | wil1 break up the black market in cupied coast of Burma south of Akyab His talk was filled with statements meat and caused extensive damage among that might well serve as proverbs, that Special sump enemy installations, the exchange tele- should be pas od along. Among them Perm* are being prepared in the de- graph company retorted today. he said: "We do not need go-getters in partment of agriculture for the a dispatch dated "army headquarters world nearly as much as we need slaughter permits farmers will be re- ters in Arakan,” northwest Burma, go-givers - - men who will give the quired to obtain The carcasses, under said sea-boume assaut troops suc-best in them" | this system, rn us bear a special stamp cessfully raided Myebon, 47 miles In introducing Dr. Wets, the Rev. to show that they were slaughtered south of the port of Akyab on Sunday George Hunt said Mt. Pleasant is for-(under permit. night. tunate in having Dr. Weis a resident 'I’be purpose of this is to bring ____ Witnesses w ere being heard today in j ter, Will of Chicago. Herbert of Des J of Mt. Pleasant during his tenure a* | contro1; New Break surd RiIlssIb I , ( • In lea 'than one year the B-2J the trtal ,or the cuatody ct the chil- Moines, and Mrs. Ella Dyson of Des| district superintendent. bombers have participated in 27 me- dren °f «*yU blender and Loc,Ile Al-1'Moines .notable attacks against the Artis. ‘™der Johnson. Mrs. Johnson has ask., The daughter. Mrs. Linn. and her Heading theTbt of'deadly'activities ed for a modification from their or- j byhand are enroute here was fie .-sensational raid over Tokyo temal divorce decree which gave hei by Maj. Gen. James Doolittle and his the daughter and left the son with daring airmen Mr Attender. She now seeks the son "This durable plane, comprising a*so while Mr. Allender has filed a peed, maneuverability and firing pow Mr. Begolty had been associated 1 with local barber shops for many years and in recent years had the first chair at the Lamm Barber shop. In conver- countcr request asking custcday of the I sation a few weeks ago, he estimated er, helped chase Rommel and hLs corps daughter and the retaining ot custody I? may prove true that Rommel has J frotn Egypt. Adding to its laurels, the 0* the son. attempted more than a local diver- J bomber has been praised for faultless Witnesses today Included four resistor! thrust and is bent on annihila- J .service by Soviet officers in more than dents of Lockridge where the son has turn of our forces in all Tunisia. be-jgQ flights.’ fore he turns to meet the British on the Mareth line He has possibly a week cr more left in which to try this The British have just arrived at the line and are several weeks away from us by any yardstick Such a desperate, unorthodox strategy could logically be expected of a trapped and crafty Nazi general. Also, Hitler might well attempt a simultaneous march down through Spain to Gibraltar where he could cut our best sea line of supplies. Certain little unmentionable developments within Spain might possibly be interpreted in furtherance of this belief BUT NO ONE HERE has been able to read such ominous interpretations into the troop movements they are able to see. Hitler practically denuded the Russian front of planes for this campaign. but no ret vert suggests he has withdrawn any substantial number of fighting men or quantity of other ma teriel. If he has no more than 250,000 men in North Africa, he certainly has not switched his war emphasis from the Russian front. Less than 150 Nazi tanks appeared in the whole first week of the southern Tunisia operations NEW LONDON WILL GET NEW POSTMASTER resided with his grandfather. SAYS HORSES AND MULES BELOW PARITY he had given at least 100.000 hair cuts. The body is at ’he Cookes Funeral home pending funeral arrangements. j Packers’ representatives have reported Rev. Hunt also announced that the that there is a widespread practice of If! German Defense* policy committee of the church ha-.; slaughtering meat outside federal in- Moscow. Russia (INS)—A new break taken action to have the church re- spec* ion areas and selling it to retail- through the German front line defenses creation room and fellowship hall open cts at high prices. west of Kharkov was scored by the on Saturday afternoons and evenings I Some retailers, in turn, pass this Red army today. to the pre-flight cadets who will be at meat on to the public at higher than The Communist party newspaper FIND TWO NOT GUILTY OF PASSING FAULTY AMMUNITION AT PLANT - j Des Moines, iowa (INS)—Horses and New London, la. Mrs. Estella Chi- muies al*e ^w0 commodities that are i chester, who has been acting pest rn Is- #no^ pushing above, or even approachless since August I, 1942, announces their "parity price," Cecil F. that‘she cannot be a candidate for jtooks, field man fcr the Iowa horse postmaster and theieloie the appoint- ancj muje breeders association, said, ment is open for civil service examin- sa^ average mule prices on Jan. ation. 15 stood at 44 percent of parity, and Persons wishing to take the exam- horse prices at 3g p€rcent. ination must have their application Rooks said the average Jan 15 horse filed at Washington, D. C., March 12 prfCe was $81.70, compared to a parity alter that date the government w..l $215.83. and the mule price $108.10. set place and date to take the exam- conipared to a parity figure of $243.16. ination.___Rooks called a price rise in horse and mule prices "over due." Iowa Wesleyan. Captain Herbert introduced the officers and men present for the dinner. Marian Aumann gave a reading ana Frederick Crane played trombone solos FRIEDA VAN HORN AND with Mrs. L. P. Ristine playing the accompaniment. Ben A. Galer led the singing with Mrs. Galer accompanying. Chester Morgan, president, presided at the meeting. ceiling prices, or represent it as being Pravda declared that "the last expul-of a higher grade han it actually is sion of the enemy from Soviet terri- so that higher prices may be charged. CADET HOMER LOWRY MARRIED FEBRUARY 19 CEILING PRICE ON LETTUCE, SPINACH On January 21, this column, dated the previous day, said: "Some amateur strategists Hunk Rommel may cut straight west through Tunisia and attempt to fall on our - flank and rear.” ! Washington. D. C.-The office of Military men said our line had an price administra ion Wednesday es-anchor. If so, it was an invisible one tablished emergency price ceilings on Des Moines, Iowa —(INS)—Robert Mercer, 25, and John Henry Replogle, 26. Des Moines Ordnance plant inspectors, today were found not guilty by a federal district court jury that heard evidence in the trial in which they were accused of passing faculty ammunition. The verdict was reached at 9 30 a. rn. ted y when federal judge Charles A. Dewey opened a sealed envelope wrhich Inspectors See Plane Wreckage Nutritionist To Prepare Alternates Meat resting on topography, because Nazis lettuce and spinach, were beyond our flank. Apparently, Effective Thursday, no retail, whole-military men just trusted that Rom- salers, terminal market receivers, or mel’s armv was too weak after its country shippers may charge more for The whole series of North African I lone fight to turn on us, or for other fresh lettuce or spinach than ho battles has been unorthodox. Nothing reasons did not reinforce the southern theta* ave Palmer exactly like them can be found any-|Passes-where in history. Our line actually hung in the air Stonewall Jackson defeated two arni on Its southern extremity for several - ies hy keeping them apart and attack Three inspector. front Des Moines and one from Denver. Colo., came here contained the finding that the jurors I Tuesday to look over the wreckage of had agieed upon last night after less! the plane which made a forced landman four hours deliberation | n°r'h 0( R°m<> Mo"rta>' evenln,f The verdict cleared the two defend-1 In addition to studying .he plane, the ants on all counts against them. I men Questioned residents of White Oak A number of persons, including rela- vicinity about their dtaervation* relative* o' the defendants were in the tivp ,0 the clash. courtroom when the verdict was read. I The plane was removed .from the El- gar farm Wednesday afternoon and presumably was taken back to Galesburg. tory has begun" while the Soviet high command announced that its armies were pressing steadily westward through the Ukraine after breaking the Nazi defenses. "For the past three months the Red ---- army has been laying the foundation Winfield.—Mrs. Frank Van Horn of stones for victory." Pravda said. Winfield announces the marriage of The neon communique of the high iller daughter, Frieda, to Aviation Ca* command said that another important J det Homer Lowry, of Lancaster, Calif., locality west of Kharkov had been which took place Friday, Feb. 19, 1943 seized when the Soviets crashed at the Baptist church* at Princeton, through the German front line They I Mc. Rev. Earl Dale, a close friend of killed 200 Nazis, captured numerous * the bridegroom officiated. Mrs. Dale others and seized quantities of war and her sis’er furnished the nuptial material. music The couple was attended by Several localities were reclaimed .the bridegroom’s twin sisters, Lois and north of Kursk as Red armv columns Thelma Lowry, of Washington. intensified their drive on Orel, last The bride wore a navy blup crepe Nazi bastion on tire shattered 1941 dress with white accessories. The winter defense line, grcrm wore his uniform. In the area cf Malo-Arkangelsk. 40 Mrs. Lowry r turned to Melcher Sat- miles smith of Orel, considerable war urday where she is music supervisor in material and food stores were captured, the school, Mr. Lowry, whose furlough the communique said, expired Tuesday, lef* the same day for --------- California. GIRLS WILL MOVE; COLLEGE BOYS TO HELP Last Week For B and C Holders To Gel Inspections ThLs is the last week for B and C WOMAN DIES FROM gasoline rationing book holders to have j FUMIGATION GAS their tires inspected. The rules call for j the inspection before March I. HALLOWELL MOVES TO NEW LOCATION many amateur military observers (including this columnist) jittery in expectation of just such an attack. It seemed unwarranted to expect Rommel to w?ait to be overwhelmed. ever- await imminent developments. j Des Moines. Iowa i INS*—Gas fumes gently vacated by the Bennett grocery I from hydrocyanic acid, used in the jr. expects to have his moving com-prices were effected directly. j Sister Fatally Hurt I fumigation of her home. today caused j plated wl'hin a few days. There was a famous occasion when The action followed a similal j - r>,f death of Mis l,ouisf Boofter 50. “freeze" Tuesday of tho prices of* Mrs. Grace Adams of Los Angeles, {cf Des Moines, it was announced fresh cabbage, carrots, snap beans. | sister of Den B. Thomas, recently was ( Polk county coroner A M Shaw. j struck by an automobile while she was! Mrs. Boofter, the mother of two sons ing one at a time, early in the Civil Pe*s and tomatoes. months in such a way as to make mg^a^ had" not* retreated L*500 OPA Wednesday also gave its local! attempting to take a street car and | one in service "apparently disregarded m^es offices authority to increase the ceiling was fatally injured. * the fumigation company's inst airt Arts Sound interpretations, as well as the prices of these vegetables and lettuce She was taken to the general hospit- and went into the clos I house at 7^30 placing of responsibility, must, how- an<* spinach as well, wherever neces- a1 in Los Angeles where she died to- , o’clock last night, ct ret: ?ary, to remedy any local inequities. day. I Shaw to Dr I Friday will be moving dav for the _ girls residing at Hershey Hall. Iowa G. A. Hallowell is moving from his Wesleyan dormitory. They have been present location at North Main and busy most cf this week packing and Henry Street* where he has been in even spending some hours talking about busines the last seven years, to the their new quarters in the Harlan hotel Bergdahl building on North Main re- and the coming of the soldiers to the Wesleyan campus. # Classes will be dismissed Friday and the college boys are supposed to help the girls move. Vans will be available 1 to haul the trunks and other baggage ' to the Harlan. Robert and Ann Pickett have bought! Meanwhile vacant portions of the a house from Mr. and Mrs. Clarence j hall were getting a thorough house-Houston on the farm in Marion town- : cleaning in preparation for the com-ship and will move the building from I in? of the pre-flight cadets As the the farm Consideration for the house I ■- iris move out the remainder of the is lepcrted es $303. bull ing will be gene over. Buy House \

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