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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 11, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALU) RATION STAMPS Sugar IO - Dec. 16-Jan. 31 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee 28 - - - Jan. l-Feb. 7 (Each stamp, One pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS \ ALII) RATION STAMPS Gas No. 3 - * - Dec. I-Jan.21 < Each stamp. Four gallons) Fuel Oil 2 - - - I’ntil Jan. 26 (Each stamp, IO gallons) VOL. EXXI, No. 8MONDAY, J \N. ll, 19Ll MT. PLEASANT, IOWA News, V. Behind^. the News? Uy Paul Mal i.on V<: ^ (Distributed by Kin?? Features Syndicate, inc, Reproduction in Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited,) President Presents I OO Billion Flynn Named I Iv President They'll Do It Every Time - - - Personal Ambassador Australia To The '3uy who’s out op the SHOP And HA LE-WAY home LEPORE the 5 O'CLOCK WHISTLE STO10 HM_OWiN<3 — WASHINGTON — SPI: AK KB BAYHI UN’S ump ii. eel lead* t J lip of a. democratic campaign to clean the administration of bureaucrats may have ‘•winded like a political wonder ct Washington, I) C UNS Preside ii wonders But rot t anyone who ha* Roosevelt today nominated Ward J heard what hts Texas constituent J Flynn, retired chairman of the demc-lrive bien telling hun in private' and J era lie national committee as his per-pufclic lately J son ai ambassador and minister to Since the moment la d se*.-ion when ] Australia — a selection which la certie came out in favor of congress pass-I tain to cause fireworks In the senate, my a single resolution gi anting lull J where the appointment must be con-war jjowers to the president (which [ firmed was not done» Mr Rayburn has been In a letter addressed to “Dear Eddie cut steadily with increasing criticism | Mr Roosevelt wrote Flynn, that in ad-from the folk ' hack home - dltion t naming nim minister to Aus- All democrats have but particular- tralla he was appointing him my Iv those from til*- southwest Texas personal representative with th*- rank and Ok) dvana where the astounding! of ambassador because of ‘ the very defeat of Josh Le* ha- made all cur- | large area of the southwest Pacific I rent rout: r.v< stern legislators lager for J want to fee! free to a-, ail myself of a new deal i your services in various other forma of The reformation of the administra- activity lion. therefore is certainly to be sin-1 Thus, the White House cinfirmed < rarely pursued, bu’ how far it will iii (lf tad Flynn own announcement go — and hew soon are ethel mat- in New York that he would be given JOW \ \j\\j IO HIGH COURT ™pe," . ,UJ^? lo Establish New Record Wiley Rutledge Is Appointed Supreme Court Justice ALWAYS EXPECTS EYEQV60DV EL=>E TD NORK OME RT; ME EDR. HIM — PREE T*4AMX T_> KHE.0A Is.c Hv Cc Ac* 3 v PA i. .1 - — 3t? “ Y/; • - / WHAT DVA tv EAM QoiTTiSia V. ( Time ? CMON- JUST OME MORE J v DANCE- just ONE' GEE.VOO guys get away with y r&\ -r-Mt M Washington. D. c. iIN3>-President Roosevelt * day nominated Wiley Rutledge, 48. judge cf the circuit court for the Dis rid of Columbia to be an associate justice of the United States Wa&hingtc supreme court. »total w ar cc Rutledge takes the place on the SU- i ident Roc*-? pre me court bench vaca ed by James j brr ath-takh War Costs Limited Only By Ability To Produce F, Byrl e economic fall A cl eft ii D. C IN3•—Bringing to $331 .(*10,059,000 Pres. It today 1 narrated a $103,003,017,923 “war bo icoigned. to become [budget" to the new 18th congress anc; ibilization director last asked for enactment of what he called J j I* ,i “ii rsh" a refrain ' o r, sr $16' 00,- . he was named to mc I OOO.WK) more a year rn revenues circuit ecuit for the DisLic of Co-;through taxation, forced savings —* or lumina by President Roosevelt, the , beth. ne rn. nation receiving senate confirma- J $ IOO ,000,000 OOO c f the all time rec-* ion In April 1939, j Ord budget, which is for the fiscal The dis. JU! was Dean of the •form >f cont issues I mess j iinmow nich Wi MB. ROOSEVELT, conciliatory opening r gress, went to the length of avoiding nu •* ersial legislation or r< though the pure M of is to present legislate lions H* just used oil** im extending social seem hardly noticeable Iii' purpose wa, to establish agree- ± able auspices for the opening if) republicans and other critics J in the advisal)!*- temporary trur smoot bing over their ccm mon • framing entirely In effecting truce b> example. the me-sage < lished a new plane of strong agreeable, .sensible leadership But the game of democrat- working on the job in congress is a little different. as witness the above belated predicament of Mr Rayburn Tiny are truing to absolve Mi Room veil. f re rn responsibility and take leadership in their housecleaning aw,'' from Ute republicans who have come here thinking they were elected »o do it he high onfirmec Nelson J< rah,. J ff(j ti KA While J ie sen i no i lunation nation of i, eciuila tc uplomuiic po •a Flynn, if j i?y the senate will succeed I mon. as minister t a Aux-J risen already has anno’in- | he is retiring administration spokesmen in j ie maintained that there would ; question ' about F.ynn’s conli. others held that the nom-the democratic leaner will such a -iorm ’hat the ap- Sen. Brown To Two Additional Local Man In Head OPA MenAcceptecT Nav;l| Batt|e College ct Law at Iowa State University when the president appointed him to the federal judiciary. Prior to that Rutledge had served on ’Iv law school faculties a’ ’he University of Colorado. frcm 1924 to I92G; Washington University, St. Louis. Mo. from 1926 1935. filled ta-1 lea:; five year; at Iowa. of which Named to Succeed Chief Leon Henderson Ten of Recent Group Are j ect et! Re pined ‘fp by >r re-this •stab- tment may not be approved Maurice O’Connor Taken Bv Death t Washington, D C 'INS*- President j Roosevelt today nominated former | Senator Prentiss M Brown. di m .( rat of Michigan, to be price anminutr.. -j tor succeeding Leon Henderson whose resignation was announced month ago. The appointment of the Michigan senator to succeed Henderscn was not unexpected. For sometime before the OPA chieftain submitted his resignation, it was well understood at Wash-j mgton that Brown, an administration Two additional men cf the group going from here las: week were ac cepted for induction into tire army. They are Max Sohuerman and Joe Eshelman. Schuerman aid not return home for a week s furlough, but began his service immediately. Eshei-ban returned home for the week {Richard Kephart Had Share In Winning Legislature Opens This Morning D< elect Moines. low B B. Hickei < ins*—Governor -)oper as presiding objective, war-winning p0„u* almost a Maurice O'Connor died at the Memorial hopi ta I Sunday (veiling about ll o'clock He had been ill since Christmas when he was stricken with pneumonia but was thought to be improving until Saturday He was taken to the hospital Sunday morning i Mr O'Connor - sister preceded him j .spokesman who has long been interin death only three weeks ago A I ested in economics, would succeed the , brother Michael survives. j stormy petrel of the OPA when he ( _ , Tlu funeral will be held at nine o'- ’stepped cut I Recommended clock at the St Alphonsin? Catholic • Browm was defeated for re-election j church. Rosary will bf recited tonight j last November by Senator Homer Fer-1 at eight ac! k at the Crane FuneralJ guson, a Michigan Jurist The ten men rejet ed were Robert Duncan. Lester Bird Paul L'.we, Alexander Dorsch, Warren Stiefel, William McKasson. Rex Swan Waldo Cox, Tom Freeman and Aaron Stroup. VV omen Complete Nutrition Course To Receive Red Cross Certificate Richard Kephart. whose third anniversary of enli-tment iii the navy was Sunday, was aboard the San Fi n-cisco when she took pan in the now j famous battle of the Solomons on November 13 and c. me out vicarious His brother. Harry, who is expected here on the 18th or 19th cf this month also was aboard the ship Richard, water tender second class had a post at a steam contr:I valve, during the battle. His regular work I while not in battle is in the bcilcr-room “We knew the Japanese were in the vicinity on November 13.* lie stated. "We went out on patrol and intercepted them about 1:30 a. rn.” ♦One eight inch shell exploded about twenty-feet from where I w s in a strong way No one ha- knuckled down to the details yet, the details which will mean everything or nothing How much reforming cf the reformers is to be done therefore, will await negotiation over each detail between the scared democratic legislators, the Mrs. Perry Madams Dies at Oskaloosa Speedy confirmation of the Brown I Mrs. Howard Hills and Mrs Floyd appointment is expected in the sen- Goodell announce that the fellowing officer of the senate, pounded the gavel in the upper house, nri Representative Ted Slcane. republican of De- Moines, called for order in the house of representatives ted iv as Iowa's 50th general assembly got under way The house named J H Hall republican cf Milks county, - temporary speaker, and re-elected A, C Gustafson as house clerk Act To Avoid Tax Increases Des Moines. Iowa 'INS* Gavels tell in both houses to open the low i 50th general assembly at 10:01 a. rn. today and there was an immediate move in the imper chamber to eliminate many measures that would increase municipal* county cr state taxes. A resolution introduced by the eigh Address Highlights Washington. D. C. (INS)—Here are the highlights of President Roosevelt's budget message .it a glance: 1. Caked tor war appropriations' totalling $ I COX 30,GOC.OOO, 2. Asked congress for $16,000,000.-000 nice in federal taxes and 'farced savings," 3 Explained that war appropriations would be limited only by the nation's ability to produce more goods 4. Asserted that United State;, war production during the calendar year would be sufficient to train and equip the 9.000,CHK) men —plus. 5. Reduced non*?.ar icderal spending from SU.>10.000,000 in 1939 to $4 124,000.000 in 1944. year starting Julv 1st, will be expended directly on the war. Mr Roosevelt promised. With the expended bal incus of money already appiopriaUd, the United States then will have callable for war purposes $270,000,000,000. Counting money already spent, the war bill nuw stands at $331,600,000,000. It may even go beyond that figure, as the only limit, the president made' clear, will be America's capacity t3 produce guns and planes and tanks and ships and ammunition. women have .satisfactorily completed odt various government regulations. Word has been received of the death I Mrs Perry Madams of Fremont, firebreathing, earnest republicans and t which occurred this morning She had the conciliatory Mr Roosevelt I been iii with heart discase and in a umii mr n I --; hospital at Oskaloosa the last few ' VV ill L Tg6 IvCpCUl HF PUBLICAN JOI MARTIN is co- , week Prior to moving to Fremont J /» » qn J nu to be a different kind cf a leader the Madams family lived on a farm i OI InCOlTIO I HX L&W in the house this year H<- lias been southeast of Mi Pleasant Mrs. Mal-' _ ate where his ex-colleagues have a high regard for the Michigan legislator Henderson. lather of w u-time ra-1 cates: Miss Lillian Barr Honing, has long been underfire from Braden, Mrs Irene Bucher, Mrs. C congress and his methods in carrying stationed. I could hear the explosion and the shrapnel spread cut. It was] in another compartment and I wra> un- members ot 'he republican pa troll age the Red Cross Nutrition course and | ilurt. we were firing so fast thai it committee and Senator E. K. Beltman v ........ ’ of Ottumwa shortly after the sessions hit." Tile San Francisco, it will be recall- 2 Gaines Scheduled Here This Week J have been recommended for certifi- • was hard to tell when our . hip wa* Mrs. Waldo handicapped previously by being also jams was Miss Lyda Burk before her | chairman of the republican national marriage. committee and always trying to sat- j ghC 1<S survived bv her husband and i five children, three boys and two girls. WILL VOTE ON UNION AT ORDNANCE PLANT isfy two or more opposing party groups. His one great remaining disability (not uncommon in this congress) is that he represents a mixed district on both labor and foreign affairs sentiment. i - Behind him in the house, however.) Burlington, la. GNS*—^Machinists this time will be tile dozens of n< w and painters at the Iowa Ordnance republicans with pitchforks who are plant will vote Thursday on what bent on tossing the hay around in the union, if any, they prefer for their col-administration stable. I lective bargaining agent, it was an- __• pounced today. MR. ROOSEVELT, in his message '• did not expect the end cf the war Des Moines. la. * INS'—Rep. W A. Yager, democrat. Spirit Lake, one of the ten democrats in the Iowa house. II. Cordes, Mrs. C. C. Cottrell. Mrs. R-J ed. was credited with seriously tiam-K Ellis Mrs. Wilson Ervin. Mrs. Har- aging a Japanese battleship and -ink-ry Rigby. Mrs Lloyd Hill, Mrs Lottie ] jng a cruiser and a destroyer in this Jeffery, Mrs. W K. Rogers. Mrs. j pattie of the Solomons area. Tile Sail Francisco was hit and it was on this ship that Admiral Daniel J. Callahan and Captain Cassin Young were killed in battle. The San Italicise: which had an Raymond Kinney. Mr*. Alex Melko. Mrs. John Metcalf. Mrs. Paul McCoid. Mrs C. O. sharer. Mrs. Lloyd Welch. Mrs A. M. Wettach Two women unable to attend to take opened called for adoption of a policy to enact r.o legislative tax measures for any purposes not necessary to the nation I defense program. At the same time, five s nails introduced another resolution which Winfield and Simpson Will Appear on Local C ourts Mi. field Iowa their final examination w ill be grant- j important part in winning tile batad their certificate as soon as they t {jc )iap driven off a * torpedo bomber Pleasant High will play Wia-ere on Tuesday evening and W.sieyan will meet Simpson would freeze the $2,645,000 appropri- here on Friday evening in games of ated for capital improvement by the primary' interest to local basketball last legislature. fans. The Winfield game will be o; The funds, under the resolution interest for it will give some indica-would be invested in w ar bonds tion of what may be expt cted in the Bon-partisan savor was glum the county basketball tournament today said he would urge repeal of the! have made un this vork with the in-«attack in the afternoon Some 21 organization procedure when members of tie Simpson present entire income tax section of the three ] j?oint state tax law. Yager urged that a non-partisan commute** be set up immeditely to work out a plan of revenue diversions structors: Mrs H this year. He did hint at a hope of the end next year when he said this it was stated might handle the — Tile election will* be under national labor relations board supervision. About 350 workers are eligible to vote, W Kephart and ; japanese planes with three or lorn i seconds to presiding officer nom urn- Miss Bessie Parker. I fighters as an escort attacked the ship, lien- of the republican caucus. Other members of the class who | Nearly all of the enemy planes, if I Rep Henry W Burma. *.7. cl Anils ave missed more than this may earn j not all. were shot down. The San j son will serve as sneaker of the house recommendation for certificates by at- j Francisco accounted for a large share with Rep. A. H, Avery cf Spencer, a strong team democratic minority joined in again this year. but the Rodmen can ie beaten as evidenced by a defeat at the hands ot St Ambrose last week. M Pleasants Ll tie Six game this week is .it Keokuk on Friday evening. to replace from other sources what is» tending the sessions of the new courses 0f them and land based planes t ok i speaker pro tem and Rep. Albert Sh in needed from homestead credit. 'The state tax credit law can be held intact by strict economy in state departments," Yager explained. just starting on the topics they missed, j care 0f the remainder. -------- I The Kepharts took purl REKER AND SEDGWICK (battles in the South Pard: in ben Uher! cr. of Ames, as majority floor lear!- Crawls On Ice To Rescue Boy ENGAGEMENT DISCLOSED tut the one of Nov. 13 topped all others. Richard was assigned to the Sen Francisco when he requested that he two-year congress peace With a .seven-mill 1011-man army and Will Observe Anniversary Rev. and Mrs. B. G Hankins will tremendous plane and tank produc- observe their 56th wedding anniver-tion aceumul Red. and offensives start. 1 at their home on Tuesday, ing in Africa anet the Far East, you may , Mrs Harry Kiger, a patient at wonder win the piesident puts the Rochester. Minn., remains critical!) id | to rescue tile youngster from the MI conclusion so far in the future. Her c ndition was reported as worse issippj nver yesterday Clinton, Iowa * INS)—Six-year-old Edward Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs. j Lewis Reed, of Clinton, was alive to- J day thanks to Philip Sosbe. who' An engagement <: interest to people be placed with his brother at the , in Ibis locality is that of Dolores Re-‘time of his enlistment. He will leave leer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M tonight and ((ill reooit ii. C-uufoinia , Reker of Sidney. Nebr.. to Richard by Friday morning Sedgwick, son of Mrs. Maye Sedgwick of Mt. Pleasant. Miss Reker is employed in the office _ I of the personnel manager of the Sioux |crawled 35 or 40 feet cut on the ic*4 ordnance plant. Mr. Sedgwick was DEEDS RECORDED FOR TOWN PROPERTIES Senator Frank Byers f Cedar Rapids will serve as president pro tem and S°n dor G. W Hunt of Guttenberg will be the majority leader in the upper house. U. S. TREATY WITH CHINA County Men In The Service The new address ut Hamilton is 43-C-8-3. It w( ll New Mexico. I!" va need flying lessons at AC C<all ll. A. F. S.. RO IS taking ad-this c a u p. courthouse The only available explanation is thif. week end that such great distances and so many Four children were playing on the ice at the foot of Maine Avenue when •boffin fvnntc arp invnlvcri that action ‘ dom from want must be provided in* battle fronts arr involved inn adion , the ice broke, plunging Edward into' hi.,h „nnoriln,, ,,.ut twice as lone as ain- America and he built that non-contro- , , I Anun generally take twice as long as ain , lv water He h ld on t0 the mnnth one expects : vers-a I lr ne up high. But, at the end * I raontn, There is another angle The presi- j h" mentioned in an clfiuuui way. that dent would hardly express hi! maxi- I prosperity hue will depend upon pr-s-mum hope in view of the necessity for j perity throughout the world cautious leadership. j Thus. he assumed American resoon- _ ! ,'ibdity for prosperity in the pest war Wal- ftlsc employed at the Nebraska Ord-'. Deeds recorded at the nance plant until recently, when he include the following: returned to Mi. Pleasant to await hi- Mrs. Anna Berry to Ro na’cl Metz- Wish call to the Navy Air Corps Reserves, gee. Olds property. Consideration wa* cf b t l irsi Concrete Step Toward End of Imperialism he expects to receive thi> ice while the other children ran for I help. j ADVERTISING PAYS Sosbe is manager cf a bowling alley I Pittsburgh, Pa. - Miss Lucille T. in Clinton. Ranney. who admits she is "over 40" "$3l aud other valuable cons id era ti ti." States AvO. Hayes! Co. to Scvb -in Inc., tin* j Chin former canning plant location OI Aile ii. North Lincoln. p a ’n ing ii;, D. C. 'INS' In a move alc importance, tin United today signed a treaty with for the relinquishment of all in exua enitorial and sjxicial is in the Chinese r:public. ~ “ .flippantly advertised in a newspaper: Former Resident Dies l“If voure looking tor a young Holly- Mrs. Florence MeK bbin received a I wold tlutf to decorate your office un-message Sunday telling of the death der the title of secretary, you don I E. A, Hayes and wife to Pl- asant Rcpte-enting the first concrete step B. Homes. Inc., iiroperty on Nnrth A rn jt v ire! tile end of imperialism in on which a new home ii bein! ( n-jCPuue the treaty was signed in th- Kenneth Gate belt, a ruiiio opeiator in the V. S ann.', h now in North Africa according to a letter received tv his part nu, Mr. and Mrs. E. R C’eu hell. He had Thanksgiving dinner rn N rth Africa. He i id teen st tuned in Ireland tor a few months before the transfer KU The new' address ct I’vt. I Ow in Train is ;;725HUL Cc L.. 405th Int. APD No. 1U2, c nip Maw. I ex as. lh • The foil Wing i' the new address of I’vt. Ji*tues V\, I iud »>. 27■ ilUJG. Btr1 loth Ft A Camp Fe-.iest, Tenn. struct cd. Harold King, who rosined o ll DO NOT FALE Into the error of I world, which is Hie basis oi Mr believing, however, that Mr. Roosevelt i lace s more detailed expressions is thinking in any narrower terms of ’ His sneech will in no way be restric- than Vice Presi-1 five of future white house moves in on January' IO of Mrs. J. L. Ball. for- want me. You won't need to apologize Memorial hospital after iee-.;verinj I the way Mr. Wallace has been work- merly Kate Allen of Mt. Pleasant, at for h iving me around—but I’m no trom an operation is now Suffern With slightly decreasing objec- Seattle. Wash. The funeral will be Lana Turner." She starts a new job from a blood clot He is improvim tile post-war world dent Wallace. Mr. Roosevelt merely out it in an mg. other and softer way. He said free- fives, however.) held on Tuesday. as secretary Monday. satisfactorily Is ate t!t part men!, this morning by k : t irv ot State .Cordell Hull and ii) \Vo Tao-Ming, the Chinese un i ti; i ss ador. ) Great Britain p understood t'1 be ' is gnmg a. similar treaty with the Chinese envty in London today. ( VI; ' TOI t \ til I It I CO) I KT 1) WI MI »t EXTRA GAI LONS GAS Af Hi town. N J Fred P Ell ok -hilt i i "ne gallon of ga■■ > • ii J' • 111 hts (iowa s tole a Mon *aj police feco vert el it. allen * of the preei- •ii ait ne gallon < I Ie when it But when ak held 15 5 air.

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