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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 6, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa THE MT PLEASANT NEWS \ OL. LXXL No. IWEDNESDAY, I \N. 6, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News I r A ( /j*It I * tA BeHINDji^, v T itiHirpTrn THE Ne ' ny Paul Mallon >. All Pleasure Driving In East Banned (Dl*wiuut< ct by King Features Syndicate, inc Reproduction In Full or tti dirt Strictly Prohibited.)_ washington __ the sot th would |o republican loci a. ii the republican party offered an alternative to the existing national democratic I* .idei ' hip I trave found, in a trip through live s' ut hem .st a Us irrefutable evidence that all the south and bordel states with the possible exception of Florida, arc jn an extreme conn it ion of pay choir x* teal political revolution, I think P is a revolt against tlie use of to talitarian melder ingtou g vermin This has non war cause Ever the ‘Hies danger are sci True lei in. lf is man I which I ba go’, em 1 * J f jOUt g I ous •ut inn centralized Wa in a democi a to do with wants to win ■ is helping which have b condition, it racial and sr U. S. Warships They’ll Do It Every I line - - - Fire on M linda In Solomons -- j j Warships Invading “Enemy Waters” j?OP R~M.LV WENT A OUT the Little. BLO’-.DE in “HE ALL-OUT DRESS AT THE OFFICE party last week / IS HE 60NNA \ ( dance with her J Y^Ali, n GMT ♦** y j — -—X J theyo pinch A her for wear- I INC* "HAT OUTFi T ibm to of D C (INS)—Powerful j Unit* d states navy war- ; successfully bombarded'' 1 i air base at Munda, on I Iii net. the navv re- V gin hips have **! the Japanese New Georgia p< rt< d today indicating that units of I tie South Pacific fleet have launched ! an offer i\< to drive the Nipponese J from the Solomons. 1 'ITu navy's announcement revealed ‘ that Yankee warships have invaded waif i in the Sol mons ire a which! dor** had been under almost! etc control of the enemy, the saint time American planes I (i2 ( ar Accidents Reported To Sheriff Room Redecorated; Yarn and Sewing Supplies Available Bot when ma via got a NEW COWN NOT ONE-THIRD as reveal no - WOW 1 VOD SHOULD HAVE S, HEARD HIM 1 /VOO h I von DO* T J , REAlLV xs ( LIKE IT >) ~~ /y/( L KE T? _,KE IT? TAKE iTOFF'^f vie An \ I OO UP AND GET DRESSED I <V/. , T I \ OCC7K=.C “Ti ^ ewe Cecil U/lTU SS,'* I I refuse to se Seen with you ) \ IM -hat-that SARONG' . - WHERES tour modesty ? ft TS a D SORACE G hei < com At from Qua im cl dii sunk oi ( and tram The nav shin well a lea ng im ii ort did ■arried out a ser-whlch may have i Japanese cruiser od! i rom with i vi; non real ca >|o rn.,* s< inch- | omen l l im urn- J control ie e that I the Unit ti ut lose how main j *e in the I.) k force but the* American surface units were in the waters off the S I* iuds which hitherto had been I bv Die J a os indicated that A rejjort [rom the office of Sheriff Manning Cline on aute accidents discloses the follow ing informat on There were a total of G2 automobile accidents reported to the Sheriffs office in the year 11)42 There were five deaths in tv Ii cm sutcmobile aecia* sit as compared to six in 1941. victims were: Mi Wayne K chinson. Kans.; William Fairfield and Mrs. Ph«-Ips, Rome. Mike Haymaker at Win J. O. DeGroat ct Cedar Rapid on 218. There were forty-f< ut-compared to thirty-! hna Total property damage 1942 amounted to appro! Oil Quotas For Business Will Be Cut toim-for 1942 The 1942 ;g.s, Hut-Ci .VV Ct ali near livid and on th Police May Seize Gasoline Ration Rcoka Washington lice (: Price banned all pl Has I cm states lumbia. 'i he action D. C, INS* The Of- Admim ti,.t en to; ty as ore onv.n; ixi fie ii and the District of Co mpiled es for 1941 for the veal I matelv 510.-1 ll $11.000.00 j 1941. j vc. mobile reports he!if!' office in Shortage of Meat In Local Stores a b • wa: ted States was attempting to ti Jap t». t • in th* South Pa-Lhev could push farther north - IIH It HOLI POFIX AR POSITION >1 die gone have not been suffice Washington. Up to now the g< been inclined to in k Muon a' a t faction.u • IU moral crusade The attributed its troubles business and sometime lime n hi cpi resistance to idministration > the rich to to the news- Allkf ■INS* faut: v 1st ai JOI CCS west c < ratio! man i a H* .idqiiarters in A six hour scales attacks by units * my brigade have from strongly d North Africa of armed inti me British driven Nazi el ended hills Markets Have Small Supplies No Allotments For Three Closed Markets Named County Attorney 1 Burlington. la. — Blythe C. Conn, Burlington attorney, was appointed I Des Moines county attorney Tuesday ! to serve in the absence of C. T. Cline. who was granted a leave of absence to enter the armed forces following his election in November GOC OC as c mpared wi property damage for the Seventy-three were hanoi1 cl bv t 1941. There were 34 accidents from 6 rn. to 6 p. rn. and 28 accidents kom p. rn. to ii a. rn Big Increase In Number ol Divorces Legislators Start Arriving In Capita! .Marriage License Demand In The County Declines is appui The to holders cf A B’ and "C" passenger ear gasoline rations as of noon tomorrow. At tie' same time OPA disclosed that the fuel iii heating rations ct all j structures ether than those used for j residential purposes in the last will 1 be cut ‘substantially’ within the next 24 flours Price Administrator Leoti Henderson called upon all s,ate, county ana municipal police to report violations of the ban on pleasure driving. In cases of obvi us rn is-use of the gasoline, he sud. such as the presence cf a car at a race track cr theater. local police may immediately seize the driver's gasoline rat en bock. BooRs so impounded well be for-w ai ceti to I ice ration board that issei d them f:r sue ii actions us may be required. Arrive In Time For Funeral Ma tour, w ith mopping up op continuing an allied spokes flounced today papers and the republican: There is now' no organized polit ica opposition. Business it coopera tim with the government or under it The rich no longer exist a- an entit oi a p we: I bt v km>w t. at then \ riches either have already or soon will • anisil under existing taxation. The press, as a whcie, shows no evidence of political campaigning except for the war cause, and the republican J party aa an organized force of opposition. is nowhere in evidence on a scale commensurate with the .size of this new popular sentiment — certainly not in the south The adminstration cannot blame these old fcrees now The opposition this time is unor-mized and unstirred by any ot th normally functioning political spoons It seems to be solely a spontaneous attitude reaching down through the middle classes of this middle class country, I think it is the result cf the personal experience of the vast masse, j NKW CONGRESS OPENS AT NOON Mi. Pleasant is feeling the pinch of j the meat shortage this week more than, at any time since the short af es be- < - gan to be publicized j Mrs. Loma Fry and brother. Paul _ I Meat markets report that their sup-} Haight, arrivec: at Winfield Sunday. ^ ply is very limited They have been j from El Paso', Texas, in. ame to a-tend} ae, 'Ve‘i‘ vS ot , 0 ,unable to meet the demand for beef the funeral of their grandfather, and have only limited supplies of < cha.-. Haight They had gone to! Members Predict Congress Recapture Some Power To of j ch as perk. However, mist of the orders for I Texas to bring back the Fly family pork cuts have been filled. car and per.-onal belongings as Lieut. Three factors hair affected the lo-j Fry will be transfer.ed and Mrs. Fry c l meat situation to make the short j and twin daughters will reside here age more acute. A- in most towns of wit la her parents. Mr. and Mrs, C W this section, the allotment to local Haight for the duration. Enroute hei dealers from packers has been low for1 they stopped to visit Mr and Mrs. the last several weeks In addition j David Etcher at Springdale, Ark., there evidently has been no increase their uncle and aunt, and learned of in the allotment to local stores to off-I the death of ‘heir grandfather I Marriage difficulties were numerous * in Henry county the past year. Mean-; while few’er couples were getting married ii the rectrds at the courthouse here are conclusive evidence. The number of divorces granted in 31 which was j probably an all time high. In the preceding year. 22 divorces were gr nt-i ed in the local court and 14 were granted in 19*10. Marriage licenses showed a decline of 30. which wras nearly 30 percent Pre-Session Caucus Scheduled County Men For Salurdu, ||( geryjce B lungs General hi sen, Ind. spital. Fort Harri- Wa.’Stoingt ii D C INS) -Tile 78th congress opened at noon today wT*** banging ol gavels in the senate and set the loss of allotments previously j hi use as influential members predict- received bv three markets which have ted mat it will make history bv recap- closed. I luring some of the vast grant* of pow- firmed the president, will take « direct Bennett's have gone out of business Scotty's market ha- dhcon-fresh meats. Andersens and No Water Main There One of the amusing incidents rn 1 ne! ii the war orogi im and cuib Customers cf these markets have gone | connection with a recent air raid pre- to other store , but.no additional meal caution test occurred at the control 2^(^(|()()| ^tUuClltS Sam Rayburn, re-elected speaker.' Is being received told the wildh cheering house that the ( stores. on. , wry to keep the peace" is to dis- J Tile third factor is the increase in The incidents included such things as j arm'' thew vandals and keep them dis- population in Mt. Pleasant and sur-, bombing which burst — *-* Des Mu;. -. I wa GNS -A tew cl (.orp t.#f|es % Wagiers address i the advanced guard cf the 108 state p|ajoon q jt *j* g representatives and 50 senators who will convene Monday as low a’s 50th general assembly, were beginning to * arrive in D* Moines today for pre- .\ letter written by Francis Burp* in session conferences. November relived before Christmas. High spot politically on this weeks Burns is with the U. S. torce> in Al- program will be the pre-session eau- geria, cub Saturday afternoon, at which * repubi'cuns in l<|p-sidcd centi cl of C hris Reinhart, Jr.. who has been under 1941 and less than half as many bouses, will pick the house speak- Stationed in Ireland for many months. as pi 1940 Only <8 licenses were is- eJ. and o;iate preMdent pro tem to be writes that he now located in Eng- sued in 1942 compared with 108 in cfllcial!, ^ected at the organization I ad. He believe-, he is going to like meeting .Monday. his new location even better than the Tile republican caucus selectees are former one in Ireland, assured election by the party s 98 to f* IO margin in the house and 4b to 5 majority in the senate. Tile sessions will be Iowa's first re'I war time assembly since the Civil War. The 27th assembly, in 1898 adjourned three weeks before war was declared 1941 and 163 in 1940. The Henry county figures on marriage licenses may not be a true indication of the j marriage trend, however, for the num-i ber cf Henry county couple.- married outside the state may have increased Figures are not available, however, to show the number who went elsewhere. Rf. ber I Lamm wiit.es that he is quid busy with his work in north Ireland. He rn kes frequent trips to Belfast getting film for entertainment for th*' U. S. boys and also supplies for the in teen. He had i^een especially by the remaining center. Imaginary incidents had beer. prepared and given to block wardens. To Present Program armed Appointed At Mt. Union Mi Fred S.verJy has accepted a position > .secretary for the Farmers j Lier dor company at Mt. Union, benim o u Tuesday, Jan. 5th. Mrs. Hai - water mains, j hounding territory in the last two j fires and tire bkt into the control' ' years. During that time, no addition- 1 center came a rei>ort of an imagin- I ! a1 markets were opened nd while the ary bombing and broken w iter main 'markets already established may have at a specific location * had more meat for a time, their allot- What equipment do you want to. Glee Clubs and Mixed Chorus To Sint; on Spain. In 1917 the session lasted busy the day he wrote getting equip* only a week atter the United Slate* men* together for the entertainment, entered the World War. «*■ is still hopeful that he will be sent Many at the state house expect * tack to the states tor oflicer's train- brief session — some predict an e‘- ing He wa.* chosen sane mouths ago fort to defer virtually all matters ex- {0 return to take the training, but has cept appropriation bills to keep state yet to receive the actual orders direlt-governmental functions operating ana mg him to return home leu Isla Hon essential to the war effort. Musical organizations and inai- ments new generally are on a basis ot send to that incident?-’ City Manager | \ iduals from Mt. Pleasant high school Lee Speaker at the control table was j will present a concert Thursday even- asked. 1 mg at 8:00 o'clock at the high school with government xu tin- war Multi-; J u; ^ • u““ "None." replied Sp-aker, who knows ' auditorium under the direction of G. id mon- rt dilutions md uxt of cern - ; ‘ Co!"ud ha' r,‘sl:''m'(! CRAWFORD SHIFTED Mt. Pleasant’s water mains. “Thert J E. McLean, music director in the ralized Wa-hmgton eoveinmem v* Inch • ---- FROM BURLINGTON I',a t a Uil’l'r man. a! that location (schools. Among selection.* to be pre- i Those who prepare the incidents, sented will be America My Own." de- ' will be more careful in selecting loca- j elated by many to be the best patriotic i number to date of the present war. ... , . ______ There is no admission charge Iowa ordnance plant, will leave in a week or io days for the New York port Gen. Arnold Featured of embarkation at Brooklyn, where he! * - will in charge cf the ordnance sec- I Those who thrilled to the lion Lieut. Cd. William P Rawles. Gen H H. Arnold here at the Iowa) Red Gross Rooms Open Again Burlington, la. Col J mrs b. formerly hit the rich or business, have. meritable for all concerned, lor the past year, been hitting every j But my point is that even this mob- individual “ m te * ujJ' | 1; ^ j c^wJWi ofn«r‘Tt the) «*»■» in the £u,llre LACI! MAN HAS LOI NII a new With domestic help high w.i-us. liquor.I political doctrine from this personal * and. therefore, beyond argument. i experience. He has not merely devel- ( it seems tome the only way the gov- J ojx'd irritations, but he has come Internment can reach and cure this, as j contact with centralized controls, re-1 weli a*s Die cleeper problem, is b> a forms, •new' ways,” and he has de-, careful government reorganization and veloped a revulsion against centralized; a Washington reformation, government as an efficient way of ; OTR MAIN IRGI BLES certainly running his democracy. He has learn- j will be ameliorated if changes in the cd the inefficiencies and inequalities , the cabinet and in administration buhl st hand rems bring a more benevolent and The administration has Indicated efficient direction in regulating, ra- _ 26.000 sneakers may be sent cut to tinning, dratting, taring. I ^ Anderson, chairman fOi explain away this trend. It wfft do First there must come , change ot ^ ^ ^ Scals am: no uood. You cannot explain away atutuca.. Ila j.obit rn is u. 1 ti. ^ 5angjeS( announces the proceeds in the by words something a man already has ira ted bv Leon Henderson s Sunday aR follow* decided from pertrnal experience night statement, still maintaining that Junlor High—$15 97 The weight of the press, the radio the pee pie had not felt the ‘‘real j guunGcrs—-S10.4! and the movies em have but tittle pinch, t war. "had felt no pain. ^ Scouts—$10.21 ({feet one way cr another. If all worn "had more money. etc. In this. he Total—$36.59 abolished today, cr had been abolish- assumed, a* always, that the govern-, sina Olson was in chargt, Death: In County l‘M2 Du rill; The program: A Spring Song CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE IN SCHOOLS The Red Cm-s mom in the public library, lower floe" is again open for Pinsiiti-Nevin work after being red coraled during I A Four-Leaf Clover ........ Browns!! Dre holidays Tile rooms will be open v 1 0 • Girls Glee Club Wednesday and Saturday afternoons Smiling Through ............. Penn lo give cut materials. There is a new Frances ca'hey rid in ut cl army and navy yarns to i A Winter Song ............ Bullard be di tributei. avo sewing suppli Water Boy .............. Robinson are on hand. Those who kin', and *J,C-U*V w* ; Boys Glee Club ow ii iii i call - I t he. ma- c-ci with the article which gives many ,n „ ia,. executive officer at the plant, will take Wesleyan commencement will be in- over command. tcrested in a lengthy article in the --------- January 9 Colliers Magazine. A full page picture of Gen. Arnold is inelud- The following is the new* address of Corp. Wayne I). Tompkins; 37424099 199th Med. Co < Spec la ii t Pooh Filz-mmcns General hospital. Denver, C lo. <U. S Army * Si.ill Sgt. Norton W Gge, who ten’ the last couple days visiting at the hon)' ol his mother Mr*. Elma Og<-. lid! Tuesday aHerno-m to return to Stuttgart, Ai kansas, w here he is iii glider pilot training Officers Installed By Henry Lodge interesting characteristics about General and praises him highly. the Bonnie Bemdahl Friends are Invited to call and di ct Henry I ig< No. IO. installed Monday eve-Di.-t. Dt’puty Grand Peru and staff. Tho Viking Song . . On the Road to Mandalay' Mixed Chorus Berceuse ............. Coleridge-Taylur ?P'C the room an i no e how cit an Fiieaks and cheery it is with its light brown oread! colored v all.* aud newly int LADDER FALLS; INJURIES ARE FATAL cd since the start of the war, the dis- meat w s doing its part, but the peo-1 satisfaction would be much more wide- I pie were having it easy. spread than it is. j The pac pie do not look at it that; Such new uolitical sentiments a1- ■ way. and no amount of speeches or ways seek a dramatized outlet of ex-1 organized publicity will make them press I oi us such as the racial problem I abandon a conviction founded ~n theii in the south (it takes other forms in j personal experience ct direct contact the east or west* or jokes about Mrs. j aa it hi centralized government, Roosevelt and such comparatively less! Unless a mutual condition of con-consequential forms. of sales at Junior High. Mrs. H. H. Hills at Saunder*. and th,* Scouts were from Troop No. 28 Helping Meat Shortage Air Raid Siren Problem .................. Chopin varnished woodwork Mt. Pleasant air raid authorities are Dan Winter 1 perplexed by one problem — that of "Wasn't that a Wide River?" Cain I a signal system to reach all residents, a Love Dream ........... Liz*: 'Hie fire alarm heard distinctly in the America My Own....... Ca:.. country four and live miles from Mt. Girls Glee Club Pleasant and even out as far as New Lcnd:n seems to direct the sound over Mt. Pleasant so that many persons within two oi- three blocks of the siren do not hear it. especially it in the * tm " uumn^ house with doors closed and the radio -- turned on. . Washington, D. C <INS)—The na. In case of actual air raid or a sui- ticn's capital today underwent lo Surprise Air Raid Test In Washington Fish were stranded in large numbers along a creek southeast of Mt. Pleas- prise blackout, the siren will sound, minute surprise air raid test which i fidence between government and peo- ant last week after the high water.; whistles will blew and church bells emptied the busy street* and sen: pVr- It has been suggested also sons *curryiru> to shelter Clinton, Iowa (INS1 (.'hri-u a* Keller. 25, died carle today in a Clinton hO'pital of injuries *uffered yest rd ay when a ladder on w hich he was trim-ird* ; a tree at hr* home at Chadwick. Illinois, si oped and fell Keile was fractured. lh- is surviver w I dew The (Urie! I. O O. F. w en ring. Jan. 4. by Master. George fHic is were: N. c - Ed R key Sec.- / M LIV »\ T * N. V WK ITM r Chaplain D. W. Snyder V Arden Philip Ke; m .en C nductor P arl M Cia:an R. S. S Rf'ben Hills L S S.— W rn. M Ca he R. S. N G J E Mitchell JSN G E. G But It et I G.~ Ma hic n Tracy O. G.- A E. Hatch Russell Van Tin I. the Vice Grand installed a* a later date True, the race problem L* critical. j pie is established bv the government j residents along the creek report. Not w ll ring A spark mav touch *t off The south I taking the first step now «the appoint-1 wanting to see the firsh die, persons that some sound that can be carried The alarm sounded w ithout any ad is prepared and will handle the prob- I merit of Henderson’s successor is an ex-, gathered them into sacks and relieved over the amplifier in the band stand Vance notice at 10:29 a rn. The clear of J lem in its own Way. regardless cf ad \ celient opportunity), the mutually un- < the meat shortage for a few days. Ice could be heard over a wide area also was given at 10:44. All ti ffic was Jersey, which c curred N>« Y‘‘ar Io ' c ty e vice of interference from other sec-' .satisfactory condition will continue into' was oiled in arear Quantities along and might reach oer*ons in tho skin immediatelv stained and the .*■ r <t morning H* was the ha- -.uw > ; ria , a o it a i •; k ii will bt hi* Elected Kiwanis Official Iowa Csty. Iowa —GNS) —Professor Wa lter F I .-ceilwing of the University of low i ' in' d* *■: iimoi'; tociav v js Word hasbeen receiver! ot the death governor of the I * i-Nc raka til* t- hn Fish of near Camden, New riel cf Kiv iris club’ , and John Fish Dies s: or* si* follow ng tams, although the results may be la- serious consequences. I the creek. ; one of the siren. cleared. former Miss Ell * Sweet. \e*:trdav in Iowa City

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