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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 8, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa THE MT PLEASA NT NEWS VOL. LXXI, No. <i FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1913MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News; - BEHINDJ-; V y the News : by Paul Mai, ion .u (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, In . Reproduction In Full oi in Part 8tru tlv Prohibited J Sea And Air Battle Rages V\ \Slf INC. I ON — -Olll) I I I 1.1ST Untold I ekes announced everyone riiould convert to coai even though ilu-re is a minor .hortuge in Nev. England Peopole are just refusing to do so because n is in “inconvenience." he said Well, Washington is not N* w England, so I decided tc try it again Six months ago no Liman*4 or vrates were available. Today in', oil dealer, who al<> handle-. cnal and furnaces I .si id “Fine vou It will Now $‘300 $200 HARDEN’S PLANE FELL IN LAKE Former Iowa Wesleyan Student W n> Piloting Horn be r They’ll Do It Every Time — om i that first Rdfield, Hirevei. Tt. La come word j Lt Doyce D Harden, 23, ot | Li . me* death when the1 Obi THE WAV IN, mom AND POP CAN EASE Little iodine under A SUBWAY TURNSTILE rA'ST^P than OQEA3 ED uOh^n nG . rzr T-771 f tiuRRv, DEAR, y, 1 DUCK UNDER Ac ( While nOBOOVS/G / LOOKING ha piloting plunged > bomber which he w*u Into Cros lak<- early Wednesday The Baik:.dale field public relation.1 Flight an mu to the incon •h mi I'enie »! deuverie goverrimen touslv ) nlei: uate on ii\ announce f oil is avail I had shortly 1 night to the fc air and pairman This 11 a minor man wa for help the h'.ni 1). fin-ill iftei m Ttw urner tl I had 1 it se If 1 mconv s so flo an w ei om O lit « h n nit last afice identified the co-pilot Officer Jm-.<• E O’Connor, 21, Well -burg. VV Va Tne be die--, of Harden and O’Conner and a third man v hose identity had not been determined Thursday, were recovered Search for the bodies of two other believed in the .ship w -s in progress Harden known a. Bill while an low.1 Wi :.l( van student, was graduated in It* 10 If'* was a member of Lambda Chi A :„1 .1 and was a prominent ath- Republicans Elect McNarv Leader But on the wav out thev hold up the WORKS WHILE IODINE gets a chance to test her muscle. / push hard, DEAR VO'I RE A piCs G'RL NOW - /// vou CAM L>Q IT-NKE VOUR. TiW RV IT AGAIN ' Hostess Home F rom Alaska Mi Mi ,j 1K ; pf nd Mr. m t a t icr Y, M. and is m ike which frt Ml W G< C. A ho.-.n enroute to irrangemcnt with the a : en t to di ive e back to forTh: 2 unit will ,, 1 ter. ; 111 all caz n< I*s. and at! oth. er .u icles. Ifsi t will bf? tin d fi: ia w Alcan I ill,■ he first wcai warty armed m tesday m sming to with her parents. •• Men/ic:. She is borage, Alaska a. i under the USO. New York City to for a mobi! unit, d&tance of a man : her, she expects to \nchorage by Feb. I ontain a movie promt <\ n, books, m iga-ic equipment, besides f her phi re w ork out, r • w oinan to go over ishxiiv Rhf1 u iv n iso Allies Fighting Convoy on Way to New Guinea Estimate Two Transports Already Sunk; Another Damaged Ui United Nation tralia *INS' One 01 the and air battles recorded u western Pacific art a u is ni' h' a ~ llied air ! orc<■ Major General George Service Men’s Scrap Book 4% uurt-TC tL A walter: WtULlSTOJ L Tive first o jt'crap Bucks h H J. 'Mug *n j London where j request to thi Ellison Add it 1 l the Service MenY ave been placed in the Public library at New thev may be seen by librarian, Mrs Bette 01V, will bi made to the I> Sena I lefi in half a day and doe ery day But I finally got ag dn today and w dealer abou* conv« 2200 gallons of oil to pay up for oil winter, the same h tz m** under the ei of Mr L* on Hendeisor. bui men. who uroved themsel such damned fools that ?h* only the floor space of even stead of the cubic footage as the rejrair-h similar calls . telephone off f necessity for k ret»ail*rl' C ) INS Oregon was el ctod of the senate today GOP members, who w*as dripping witn Exhaust Supply Panthers To Play of Auto Stickers Here Tonight Deeds Recorded At Courthouse books lrom time ;o time, and other books are m the making Anyone having material for the books is asked to leave same with Mrs. Rollie Gill or Mrs, C D. Rawhcust. Besides the books placed m the library two have been .started bin are not hr showing 1 j) SO 1.! As inatc h< nif spite Oi ngth m of t ' aga thi: - 01 f into c: fcol fill . ew C Headquarters in Aus-reatert .sea the south-raging tore rr nmi mder ge 0, Kenney reserves of empt to smash ire :u h itinui tom b*‘en pro: ■ w'it'nout et ti ed Opened by Big Plane 4 I i! 1 nd US': )ther. ev - the furnace going ] ent in to »ce the j ion carrying my I coupons with n»e used so far this j • % mg been allotted j n. pi it form :'a [ : young i to be figured mse in-heattng talk.1* ( commit e eonfe mmitu rnmi'i of After exhausting the 0 ply of 1 000 stickers, to b « over such import- auto license fees is a' those of lor- Q0unty Treasurer J P Br finance laded away | receipts and will rr uanimousiy approv- . stickers when they arrive, urnents Diepared b\ | rea{jy issued 600 receipts which is printing the stickers evidently is considerably behind sched- , ,i Cellar Teams Will Compete This Evening* w n is issu- I til out tire I ah already As th*' thi Eh m the ia ignment a ratio ( publican- pubUcam eh ommittees ie republican gan ticn. the republican as- ’ jn furnishing the stickers were increased generally to |__ f three dcmirorat.s to two re-On 20-man committees, 1 be* 12 democrats and 8 re- Record Number of Car Accidents Deeds recorded at the ccurthous include the following: Elsie Mae Golli-.av to James H Pit/ j er, Jr.. outlot 59. in Mt. Pleasant. Charley Haight tc Alta Haight, ai He has al- The Mt Pleasant Panthers will b< j undivided half interest in 80 acres Tn- firm 1 host to the It. Madi on BlocKlntunas . section 13. Stocjit township, also tonight in what will be the deciding J acres m tjle same section and also game of w no remains in the Little Six 1 winfielci lot cellar and who gets out. j ------- Neither team has on a La* «Vp(>cket battleship Secretary To Chief Clerk nave and P-38 ir. d( was m bra: v heavily . nd P-40 space to the ceilings) in making allocations THE 1)1 %L» R took if m co 1175 to be exact, saying I hi used them so far this winte winter has hardly begun in tion, I could see I can’t ge on oil So I decided to suffer the $200 inconvenience. on fAr I ekes advice, and t fd the dealer I would order the furnace. He said Well $200 is the price without me mallution. and I can t tell you when I could get It Installed becam e we have no help. I asked “But if I once get it installed can I get all the coal I want?’ ',No,“ he replied you see tne coal! miners are still working a five-day week, seven hours <1 day, 35 hours a week. I have more than 100 orders right here <and he showed them* for nut coal “They say the miners are gcing to add seven more hours a week making 42 in the anthracite mini *his week, but that won’t fill my orders and I can’t make any promises." I immediately asked why in the name-of-bureaucracy should anyone then convert to coal “That's what I say,'* broke m a nearby army officer just back from abroad “Those blankety blank government officials -ever there 'and he pointed in the general direction of ( OPA and Mr. Ickesi cut me 50 per- BAIL OUT OF PLANE AT 10,000 FEET IX*. Moines. Iowa <INS>—Tao army fliers narrowly escaped death early today when they tailed out of their army observation type plane at 10.000 feet and landed in an Iowa corn field! n rth cl Des Moines while on a rou-(tsne training flight I Occupants of the plane were Major J H Fiost of Pasadena California and Sgt Arthur A Foote, of Denver, Colorado. Their plane crashed into a grove of trees. MUSICAL PROGRAM AT SCHOOL APPRECIATED contest as yet although the Panthers have showed more ability in their re-, ! cent games thrm in a long w hile and if they plav ball against the Bio'd-hounds for four quarters like they did Loose In Arctic London. Eng. < INS> — Disclosure Nineteen car <>nd truck accidents n. against the Muskie- for two, they have that one of Germany's formidabl Mt Pleasant during December wert a good chance of chalking up their pocket battleship> is on thi loase in rejx>rted to the city police to set a i first victory. ! Arctic waters was made by lie Brit record for a single month in town.} The Panthers still show the lack of ish admiralty tonight in a communi- improve to have in A uicture vis in the Wednesday is-in sut c! the De-. M ines Tr bune show-40 ing A. F Gustafson, who for yean a has been chief clerk of the House oi Representatives and h.s secretary Mrs. Vera Bradshaw wh . was assisting him in looking over the new house roll call Mrs. Bradshaw is well known in Salem where she received her early education and in Mt. Pleasant where she was employed in the office of Mc-Coid and McC id. Reducing Rents very type of medium irdirent units in this supported by deadly ghters. res of separate sorties have been against the convoy since it first sighted yesterday afternoon Preliminary reports released b; communiques e.st.mated ti.at two .big transports definitely have been stink and another serious4, damaged First spotted by Lieut. Jclm Arrant of VVinnemucca, Nevada, the convoy was steadily bombed throughout yes-tcra y and last night as the attack was resumed in full strength this morning. shut Down IX 1 ight'-r> Nearly two score Japam* e Zf*i'0 type fighters provided a sky cover for the ships, and of this numb* r 13 definitely have been shot down* Icy condition^ prevailing much of the | sj5eed and until they can month are believed responsible. j their speed they are going Personal injuries were reported in trouble, two of the accidents. Mrs. Ross Hines ' The starting five for tonight’s game | was hurt when a car driven by her i will probably be the ame as last week. I husband and an ether machine collided. * Jim Green and Dean Rich at forwards, Joe Graber received slight injuries in * Bill Krabill at center, Joe Messer and the accident in which his truck was Keith Bogle at guards. A possible hit by two trams at a local crossing, 1 change in the line up would be How- ---- i ai*o Cottrell starting it center in place TWO CARS INTO DITCH 1 of Krabill who would be moved to the J ' forward position replacing Green. AT THE SAME PLACE The first team game will start at! que announcing the loss of the 1,350 ton destroyer, Achates, in a naval engagement. Although the “greatly superior Repi e.sentatives from the rent con- Allied pilots reported that anli-air trol office in Burlington have been craft from tire escorting ships was one working in Mt. pleasant recently with of the heaviest ever encountered as enemy forces were the result tha1 rents have been forced they waded throuch a veritable hell the announcement down on several house- and apart- of fire to loose many thousands of said, the German attack upon convoy to Russia escorted bv Achates and o!her destroyers characterized as unsuccessful. the mem-. The rent the clamping down on rents for house, was completed since Jan. 1. 1941. and on houses and apartments remodeled since that date. SUIT FOR DIVORCE FILED WITH CLERK Enters Air Corps control office is pound* of bombs >gainxt the convoy. Flying with Lieutenant Ray HTsey of Oklahoma. Captain Harold “Ace' Hastings oi Denison. Tex <i.S HI id Los Angeles, was credited with direct 500 pound bum. hits against a big enemy transport this afternoon. 7:30. A rather small crowd was present for the program offered by the high school glee clubs, mixed chorus and individuals at the high school auditor-l^UjnninK ! ium Thursday evening The audience was pleased with the piogram which was directed by G. E McLean H< -aid he could probably always dig up some kind of coal if the army officer and I wculd come to get it, that he was unable to promise deliveries because his men were quitting daily or laying oil every few days. But bureaucrats did not allow us enough gasoline to get our own coai. Ice on the pavement was blamed for | freak car accidents on the curve at ... iie county line east of New London i\ UtritlOH \ IciSS^S Wednesday. One car went into the ditch at the scene and a few minutes later a Mt. Pleasant car took to the ditch at the same place and miked with the first machine. Both were eas bound. Will Be Started Escoe Messer has filed a suit for d*-vcrce from Bessie Messer with the 'clerk of the court Cruel and inhuman treatment is charged The couple Cans enlisted several weeks ago and William Cati-. son ct Mr. nd Mi Merle Caris, left Mnday to enter the naval air corns at Monmouth, 111. FISHER 80 ACRES WEST OF SALEM IS SOLD was married Dec 24. together until September, 1942 with the exception of three months in I93’i They are the parents of six children from 1G to 9 years. home 8 to 10. Mrs. Floyd Goode 11 will be in , ancj LS ^auking at the Iowa Ordnance 1TV. and lived Prelimihary trainin' Monmouth. at Red Cross Nutrition classes will be started al t.he Senio. High school next I yartgfng m age week. Monday evening, Jan. 11, from Thp defendant abandoned th< Will Admitted To Probate Martha J Oswalt left her estate to randdaughter, Anna Farmer, by tlit* Oswalt will admitted to charge and Mrs. Howard Hiils will ^ pjant, the petition states. Messer now terms of the have a class Tuesday afternoon from a rpsident of Henry countv, resided in proba:r at the courthouse here txfav 2 to 4. beginning Jan. 12th, also at-. jcffprsDn ccunty 25 years. The will made Julv 31 192-’. was wit- cent from last ye>ar's mild winter for j The officer and I decided the deal-the hardest winter yet. ter v as just trying to sell us a new "I have got to go away again to ^ $200 furnace, md, apparently, he con-fjgllt this war and leave an 86-year- , sidercd we were in luek because he eld mothcr-m-law' and tw^o children had a couple with my wife to struggle through this The OPA. an equal branch ot gcv-winter fuel mess. ernment with Mr. Ickes. has just an- • The government is just putting out nounced the people had better locate propaganda cn this stuff, and it is a coal furnace before deciding to con-the worst kind of propaganda from vert. I might add they should also ■ see if they can get it installed, at how S, D Garret.-on and Wayne T Gar-retson, real estate brokers, announce the sale of the unimproved 80 acres belonging to Mrs. J. Belie Fisher oi Salem to Ruth and Wayne Haushahn ’ * 1 also of Salem. This farm is on the rock i;oad west of Salem and is almost level, j land. the Senior high school. These classes will meet each week for t< n weeks. A 35 cent text book and a five cent text book are the only FR NOT PREDICTING VICTORY IN 1944 nessrd Gisser. by J. V Gray and lMcn F Washington, D. C. <INS> -.President Roosevelt told the pres* conference All homemakers are urged to attend. These classes are open to anyone in- 1 v.i , r ( ter*-ted. With food rationing at hand | i.., nroHi/- It is a desirable tract of farm today that he did not m an to prenu it is well to know vhica 0 k 00 , victory for the Ltnited Nation.- by the 11 vailabh give the must vitamins min J end 0f 1^44 iP nat*ssage to con- crals, etc., which are essential to health. Those who finished the nutrition course in December may get their soybean bulletins at the Farm Bureau tudents have 0ffjCP FOUR IWC STUDENTS IN COLLEGE WHO’S WHO >ugo gress yesterday He said that he rather expressed the hope that the war would end by that time. the standpoint of domestic morale. It makes me boiling mad. but I much cost, and whether they can gt* can’t even get in to see the ration coal after they have the furnaces, board to get enough coupons and now THESE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES ! I can’t get tile cil for the coupons I have convinced me, just as they must have, and. on my pay. I would be a have convinced every citizen encount- fool to convert to coal, especially , ering such average conditions every- ! rxioc/nxit’ixiiTf n D when I can’t get coal either ' ! where in Rhe e untry. that none of WUULU UioLUlN IIIVUC. K.K. WHILE THE BUREAUCRATS here these Washington officials know the Four Iowa Wesleyan been ^elected for lis-.ing in the Who's Who Among Students In American j Universities and Colleges. The Wes-, students chosen are Richard Baxter. Molly Taylor. John Ham and; Mabelle McCullough. SIMON T0TEME1ER DIES IN ILLINOIS FORMER TEACHER DiES IN CALIFORNIA Dies In California Word has bt'ui received here of the death of Joseph Knight Huston of P.nadena. Calif,, on Dec. 29. He was the hwband of Lena Williams Huston. an aunt’ of Mrs. C. Van Brussel and Mrs. J. E VandugrifT Lund * at Foreign Port Li**ut Dorothy W Hits ha.-- srnvrd in a foreign pert, a lei tor received today bv her mother. Mrs. Ednh Williti. indicated. The port was n t disclosed. Soviet Units Separated Only 43 Miles Moscow. Run ia «INS' -Kuvlet tro p: driving southward from the Stalingrad legion through the Kalmuck steppes and Red arm.v units pressing northward through the Caucasus in an effort to trap Nazi forces were reported 'in fieid di?patches todav to be separated by a distance of only 40 miles. The suearheauH of these two columns piessecl closer a other Red army columns flashing their wav toward the if\ of Rostov, gateway to the On Ufa-u.* Itu, lan e;ii)turcd e\ era| inhabited localities and Na/ s from an importa I he Soviet high ctmma at noon dodged the st ronghold. aim' unced Offensive Against Japs Continues Wa hiogton, i ed 1 ! o>r. iv com ituwd red navv 11 ported I) (riessdi !•■«■ sh have been daily announcing that deal-1 individual human problem of ration-trs in this locality all have .sufficient inc in which they are supposed to cil, my dealer told me he has been j be leading us. out of oil more than he has been in j They do not understand. They since last October 1. | deal only in generalized statistics 01 Word was i-ec wed here today by (friends of the death of Mrs. Mabel _ j Todd Jackson, which occurred at Los • Angeles, Cali! . on Dec 30. New London. Iowa Simon Tote- ■ Sjie was on jan g 1857. and meier passed away on Thursday mcm ; Wili be remembered here as a teacher AGENT AT BIRMINGHAM ing at the home of his daughter m j for ,nuny year* m the public h -ol Dundee, Illinois. The body will ar-1-- Des Moines. Iowa (INS)—Hearing on rive in New* London Saturday morn*' SUIT ON ACCOUNT a proposal of the Burlington rallrcad mg and will b<* taken to the McDon- j _ _ r’fkj TpTUni KF aid Funeral home where it veill re-; rlLtU A I tUUK I t. In Class 1-A Mil!■ n Allen Jeie has b“e fied m 1-A, the local y^'j ice of tice reixirtod today classn S'TV r yams Man If •-morel res The that c (’at r N ; ponese bases ir.d area as well Wi at her ri evenl s 1 Amei:“ t s the Japanese 0/ y. as the mbmg Corays in the Aleu-as in the Soi t d obs<: vation Amei if 'mnuruqiie stated 1 force of Libbers blasted Nip-tions on the en-I 1 Hid of Kiska Clouds urevent- M s; Margaret. Ct instock has rein. :d to CLuton, where she is a *tu-!en nurse a* St. Just-ph’s Mercy hos- m to discontinue an agent at Birming D zens of his customers were worn- | supplies and transportation in the j ham, Iowa will be held at 9:30 a. m. main until time for the services which , Wednesday. February 17th, at Fair-1 will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 ignorance every-) field, the Iowa state commerce ccm- o’clock from the Presbyterian church, suit against Gilbert Nlhart for $173 49 r■ parent Mr. and Mr.- j F en and children whose men are away j nation as a whole to war. some oi whom went without j They shew their heat for five days when the tempera-j time they open their mouths on the 1 mission announced today. j Rev. James J. BrittiTi. pastor ot the; which it is claimt d 1- dm on ture was down to zero. Thev sat ii. front pages because every newspaper I The proposal would substitute a cus- church will officiate and burial will be The company furnished N - r‘ the kitchen huddled around their elec- reader know twin-engined M Lagomardno Grupn Co, ha- filed a 1 r after p 'aim: Hu* holiday.- with trs pounded tin Thev sat in front pages because everj* newspaper _ different and can prove 1 todian for the station rather than a in Sheridan cemetery west of Mt. Un- merchandise end that am m trie stoves. it from his own experience. full time agent. ion. mams unpaio. istvck. cn North Jefferson strt it la J Paul M Dewey of Mansfield, re-‘ is spending his vacation at tht C ms ock home, Com- Olilo, J. F nunique stated that 1 :.q ; *< run of speedy tin Marauder bomb-encmy airfield and ■' 1 "loi ns at Munda on New Guinea Island onlv 180 iiviutical miles ncrth-west of the United. States airfield on Ou aial anal. Results were not reported

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