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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 12, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 10 - Dec. 10-.Ian. 31 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee (1 lb.) - Jan. I-Feb. 7 Gasoline No. 3 - Dec. 1-Jan. 21 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 2 - - - I mil Jan. 26 (Each stamp, 10 gallons) Fuel Oil 3 - - - 1 ntil Feb. 20 (Each -damp, 11 gallons) VOL. LXXI, No. 9TUESDAY, JAN. 12, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA = News Behind ( r a.M.trsrr -TffiTfTFrn :WS| Uy Paul Nai.lon ix (Distributed by Kin# Features 8yn- dteflte. Inc., Reproduction in Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.) Corn Price Frozen At Monday’s High Lost Carrier Was Hornet They’ll Do It Every Time - - - WASHINGTON — II IS TIME w<* faced the full facts ol what has hap-jx*ned to us in Tunisia. Two months ago (November 8> wr went in with a light force The si/,< of our force how we expected a quick and easy wctcry A Nazi delaying action w is ill we had cause to anticiimte But Hit 1 ei elected make a legist lor Africa He withdrew crack vet-• ran Ir ens and his plan* from m u* important places, even Russia, in order to make a stand He stopped us While mud and ton-' comrmmicntioi lines are given as the ofticial reason? for our lack of immediate sucee . and wen* mentioned bv the president, the.se < in fiirt*j h only secondary excu.se:>. Identity of Lost Cruisers And Destroyers Given Washington, D C The navy Mon- j day announced that the 2C.000-ton i Hornet was the American aircraft.) causer hiink in the battle of the San- * ( hev, chum - c mon, wanna ■" WRASSLE ? LETS ROLL UD THE RUSS THROW ME An Win A BiG CiOAR CMON. I WANNA SHOW YOU MV BACK SCISSOR C3RIP, KlDDO' T WON T HURT YA ' GO AHEAD ' LETS HAVE \ y'z/ Oh OH' I KNEW ;f WE SHOULDNT HAVE INVITED HIM ' HE EVERY PARTY 7ILE SCOURoeL Cr THE TlA-PARTV CIRCUIT* , GET READY TO ITEM -JZE THE BREAKAGE POLKS ' Y HE 3 NOT GO 20N0 ,N Ho OWN OO'NT HlS WIFE DOES “HE HEAVY WORK' yy 1 'K VI Our generals knew in advance lainy season was at hand. The l fact t.* we wrtie unexpectedly sto by sujx i sot Nazi concentration Tins rainy season will continue the last of January or the first of February if it follows the no leather line The promised big -efitfd fey the p 1 »k before then every reason ilain mai of- to expect, nnlete the Hith si 9-nave m/| t-annot come There is liowevtr, tl vieton wluc statt He h id ab it 40.00( bla and another 60$ army down in Tripoli w accurate estimate was ob dais back He will have by the end of January But we should have enough by then to avert IPs plane concentratioi have so far counted no 200 to 250 moat of whit ers C• anting all he has in Sardinia, Sicily and a few more he has lately rushed to Rommel, or whoever is now in charge of the N «zi army tn Tripoli he has no mor* than 600 in all that area. We can top that Perhaps we have d me so already ps in Tun-i Romm el s j ?n a 1 airly! ined a few i f*w* more I cvuxnulated supeno rity in Tunisia iigher than are fight- ta Cruz i land.-, last Oct. 26. i At the same time, it identified t three cruisers and seven destroyers! which had heretofore been reported1 nit! k tut not identified, The Other versel,s named as lost, Bill in battle, in the Salomons islands I are t t the south Pacific ar* Tie* Northampton, heavy ember. J The Juneau, 6.000-ton light Cruiser. The Atlanta. 600-ton sister ship of the Juneau. The Monrsen. 1,030-ton destroyer. The Cushing 1,165-ton destroyer. The Benhaiii l.-r00-ton destroyer. The Preston I 480-tnn destroyer. The Walke. 1.750-ton destroyer The Barton, 1,700-ton desire yer. The Laffey 1 700-ton destroyer The navy announcement ol the loss of the Hornet was made in a communique which said that the names of that and the other ships had been withheld I for rea ons of military '-cunt y and * to avoid causing needless anxiety on i the part f relative' and fn mis of the jjjj, personnel who survived these actions ", Notified Reporta of casualties have since | been received, ,<nd the next of k;n of all personnel killed, wounded or missing m these actions have now been notified The navy said that Rear Admiral Charles P Mason of Pensacola. Fla., was commando: A the Hornet and that he is safe County Men In The Service a ** ■ Tin new address 21.' I Bomb Wings. / Ufia Kans.i He \ fened from a camp of IVarren Lane * ,rmy Air Base. Sa-v.t.s recently trans-,a New Mexico. Ceiling To Stop Quick Price Rise Nstlun Weis, .on cl Nil auu M L L. Weis, is now an ensign in the Seabres, ccn. (ruction branch of the navy. Nathan is a graduate in engineering at Iowa St Be college. County employes * tpca board of supervisors have jxhnted for the coming ye and includes ecurthou pices at the* c have not vet be 1 cf depute, ipi.t ininc'nt >unty home, n determined i.v ui - n re ip-The list in the of cm-Salaries [ha J her 11 ;s r If Mo.4 He is If ticaI COl 1* ■,n, red o B a king w'ork THANX. TO F. KILKENNY - OMAHA. NEA - Officers Reelected by County Mutual Increase In Amount of Insurance In Force Finger Crushed In Car Door Mystery Deaths In Tourist Cabin Mrs. P.f word fron recently 1 B irracks, * Dakota ing in Teacher: address i *: Pfc. Robert C. Jewett C Army Administ a Branch No. 3. Brookings ta U. S. Anny Air Fort has received Kvbeit Jewett l' mi ,I(tferssn poking*. S ith advanced train -at thf S'ate Brookings. Hi. Corn Market Was Going Up Rapidly The freezing oi ler in corn caused considerable comment among local farmei today The local lop in Monday — the freezing date — was about XX cents. Catie feeders and were pndYting that i sc Id at the figure for tioning :f corn oLvii problem, All bidd m Lid the celling \ rioe to divide lh<- corn a there wen < nogh I id< Corn demand had daily. Feeders were ler farmei ;rn wchld fc ome time Auc iously becomf-s no doubt won1 and might h u i bushel each lid'. been imr.nasing beginning to bid il 17169927, Co i:n School S ath Doko- up for it as corn owners refused to self. T in* < vcrtiinent acuon stops •\hat might ha\!' developed into a sky-r 'kfiing <if prices un $1.50 a bu h- ei. or even Cne rtpur 8.000 bu«heh had recently i 00 W 3 S ol c old f '.■cental today that n near Ainsworth 96 cents a bu; hel R' me.- Mrs. Willis Anderson suffered a painful injury* recently when he index finger of her left hand was citr hed in the door of a car. Extend Time of | Tirelnsnection! Couple Identified At Iowa City Autopsy Performed A Cards 1)ISP\T( HI 5 1(1 1 I K t e ! . ..at mg line in Tunisia There is no line The British advanced along ave:. lleavy Damage roads on the coast and cur armies Japanese, on the other hand, wrent forward on the few usable liijzlv- | suffered two aircraft carriers heavily ways in the interior Fighting 11 , damaged, a battleship damaged and t>een confined largely to clashes wbere damage also to five ciulsers. we tx»th encountered the Germans! cru^sers Juenau and Atlanta, I on the. e roads which were practically new ships, hav- J Unfortunately at the -rt H. <•* lng tieen ccmmissioned in 1942 and’ seiaad Uie two tx t airfields in *11 respectively, wer^ lest during the} Africa, at Bizerte and I unis. Bodi ,rreat jmd-november battle of Guadal-1 arc very large and have long, paved ) canal In which the Japanese were de- j runways. We lead t: construct pruc- {(atetj extremely heavy losses. All of the present officers wer** re-, elected at the annual meeting o( the Henry County Mutual Insurance as so- j ciation on Saturday. Reports shewed the company had J enjoyed a substantial gain in business the past year. The amount of insur- i ance in force increased a net of $423,- j _ The report said nothing .bout losses . 099. Total business in force is $1.-1 of men but earlier storle- said the | 147.257. The year was closed with a j Washington. D. C «INS) 'Ihe Oi- crew was removed b 'fore the* carrier ; surplus of $24,781.71, fioe of .Price Adminb?ration ann.-ui.ccd went down I A plait has been adopted to pi*ovide an extension of time today to mini- The Hornet normally carried 2.170; a fire extinguisher to all holders cf men, including fivers Siie <ouid car- , policies of $1,500 or m re on :,irm ry up to 35 ])lan* i buildings. The articles of incorpora- The battle in winch the Hornet was tlon were brought up to date and It t was a coetly one Hr the Japan- | changed so that every kind of proper-e,M\ The only other American ship last ty coverage can be given. The asso-In the action was the‘dei'trover Por*or. j ciation also can take care ol insurance on club calves. Iowa City. Iowa < INS»- Auth:rm»-today were investigating the mystery death in a tourist cabir. of a couple _ identified as Chris Hansen, 26. Dav ! enport. University of Iowa medical Have Until End of March On (student, and Mi Darleen De Meul eare. Brooklyn, Iowa. Mercy hospital mize public inconvenience in connection with the tire inspection program giving holders of A gasoline ration cards until the eno of March for their given until toxicologists submits a re nurse. The bodies were found late Monday afternoon. The two had come to the cabin, two miles southwest of Iowa City, at 1:00 a. m. Sunday, the proprietor said. Autopsy w*as performed* Monday night, but no coroner's verdict will be Mr. and Mrs. Harry* Recce received a telephone call Sunday ircm their n William Reece, m Caliiorai t tl'.a he has been released from the army because cf his age. He is now employed in defense work at Fin Du go He was among the fii t world war I soldiers to be called from Henry county for service in world war II Worci has been rt caved tha' the boys of the general hospital unit No. 13. who left recently for Ft Leavenworth, KatG. are now statign^cl af Camp Joseph T. Rihinson. Ark n.sas. They are Bussell Wittmcr, Thomas Roberts, Royee Chambers, Hall Weir William Van Brussel, Tom Hudsonpil-lar and Ma\ Beavers oi We i Point IK>rt. Dr. Frank Lcve. coroner said Myers Decorated For Air Attack Tix>k I’art In Wake tack Island At- mitial tire check Originally the deadline for the first examination was January 31st Rr all rit. passenger car owners. OPA extended the deadline for mo- j lorLsts with B and C supplementary J gasoline ration books until the end ot I February At the same time, OPA announced that subsequent examinations will be less frequent, since inspections so far - have disclosed that a larger propor- j The program for Rotary Monday tion oi car owners already are taking night was a talk by Mrs. Leo F. Flick- Talk on Red Cross Given at Rotary Mrs. Flickinger Tells of Volume of Work Here Iowa House Passes Its First Bill Des Monies, Iowa -INS'-- The hou e passed its first bill of the 50th gen oral Icvva assembly at 10:45 a. m. today. It was one oi the “elficiency committee” bills extending tune of filing applications for soldiers tax exemptions irom June tc July to coincide with the homestead exemption filings. The vote was 104 ayes, no naves with four members absent and not Wa hingtcn. D C. (IN8»—The Office cf Price Admini; tration froze corn prices on all exchanges and in every cash and lccal market throughout th** nation at the highe t level at which sales were made or. Monday, Januarv 11th. The move was design* ii to halt further sharp advances in the price ot corn — America's largest farm crop. OPA c action on corn, previously uncontrolled at all levels of distrbuticn, wa' made upon instructions from economic stabilization director Jamrs F. Bv rnes. The move also was aoproved bv Secretary of Agriculture Claude R Wickard. The OPA announced that price ceilings on com will be established by means of a temporary CO day "freeze” regulation, effective January 12th. Prices on corn further eontrants and prices f;r cash corn in the re cognized cash market were frozen at the highest level on prices prevailing during the period. Jan jury 8th to January 12th. Soviets Advance Mile An Hour tleally all our fields, and photographs recently arrived tier working up to their on these fields i show our men < knees in mud, Destrovers. Robert A Myers former Iowa Wes- the toys better care of their rires than ever be- • mger on the Reel Cross. She started voting fore. 'with the origin of Red Cra\s in 1863 ^’he house immediately took up cop- Alter the initial inspection, A book; when it was first organized in Geneva, rider at.on ol a ! :1s f authorize imat-holders will be required to have tlielr1 Switzerland, by Henri Dumont and ma t of permanent -'Chool funds in tires examined only once in each s-ix | carried it through to the present time. United States bonds. t ieyan student, was among The seven destroyers also were lost { who were decorated on New Year s day in that furious night engagement. j for their part in the attack on Wake Robert is months period, against the former re-j it was first organiezd in the United House tempo was stepped up u j The Northampton was sunk by one-; Lriand on Christmas eve Naturally, there could not be muc h^inv ac!lon Staring an engagement north j in the anny air corps quirement of every four months. activity either in the air or with arm ored and motorized vehicles on the ground at any poJiLs except upon the very few paved highways during the rainy season. We fcunci no gas there when we arrived. Most of it had to be shipped 5,000 mil<l or more from the United States. While some of our original supplies came from Britain and a few are still toeing sent in from that source, the expedition is based on this country. oi Guadal* anal on the night of Nov. | He is the son cf Mr. and Mrs A. L. 30-Dec. I. Some other American ships'Myers of southeast of Mt. Pleasant were damaged, but the Northampton; He attended Iowa Wesleyan, was a was the only one reported sunk. The Japanese lost, in that engage- JStates in 1881 as the American Red general this morning by the filing o Cross. She also brought out the fact 15 bills by the efficiency committee men! two large destroyers or cruiser*, four destroyers, two troop transports and one cargo ship — ALL SUNK. Three Left ' The loss of the Hornet reduces the grcup of seven aircraft carriers with which the United States started the 1 war on Dec. 7, 1941, to three ships still star football player and entered the service in the middle of the football season in 1941, it will be recalled. MEN LISTED IN CLASS 1-A‘s Hitler has had enough planes to afjoat damage and sink some cf our ships as Tlie 0nier craft lost were the Lex-they neared our Mediterranean coast- jngtcm jn pattle of the Coral Sea, al ports, and at the unloading docks. yorktown at Midway, and the The only safe port we have is at Casablanca on the Atlantic coast. Hitler has bombed this twice, but Ills bombers came 900 miles from southern France and were unable to carry enough of a load to do much damage. Several landed in Spain and were interned. I The inferior railroad from Casa- i blanca. a thousand miles up to the front, offers Mich difficulties, how-1 ever, that it is better for us to try; I Wasp in the Solomons campaign, • The three remaining ships of the original seven are the Enterprise, the Saratoga and the Ranger. The Hornet, like most of the ether carriers the navy has lest in action, did not go down immediately, but was only severely damaged w*hile in contact with the enemy. She sank subsequent to the actual attack by enemy planes. The communique issued Oct. 31, which merely reported the sinking ot Five Iowa Brothers Missing In Action Waterloo, la. (INS)—Five Waterloo, Iowa, brothers, all sailors, are "mis ing in action" it was learned today by their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan. ,j The five sons, who enlisted in the navy in December, 1941. were aboard the U S. S. Juneau and were reported lost in the Solomon Islands war th liter sometime last November. Missing were Joseph, 23, Albert, 20 Madison, 22. George. 29. and Francis 26. J.C.C. NAMES NEW COMMISSION CHAIRMAN Selective Service Office New Group that the general impression has always been that the Red Cross ha^ been woman’s organization. From the time of ids beginning up to the present time, it has been controlled b' Lists i men executives, w ith the Pre ident *>: The senate held a brief session, lasting less than an hour, during which teven bills ware dumped into tlx* hopper and a permanent staff ol employees was sworn in. M st important of the new bills w is the United States being President ol one which would trim the number ol the American Red Cross today. She democrats on the retrenchment and '.told of the set up whereby a key man reform committees from two in each Lhe following men have ba n clussi- j every* community is ready at al1 house to cne in each house, fled in 1-A and are subject to ca*i j times to convey to headquarters, ln-for military service in the near ^u~ t formation all along the line of Reel ture, the Selective Service office an-l^ activities, notmeed today: to get ships in directly when we can.» n unidentified carrier, said that the Thus, "the appalling mud and very j vessej was twice attacked by enemy1 limited communications, ni,ullon( fj bombers and torpedo planes near the, by Mr. Roosevelt, have annoyed t^jSnnta Cruz Elands j in the accumulation of superior light ing power, which we lacked when Hitler first decided to make his stand. GENERAL ALEXANDER’S British army, cutting in from Libya, has not been able to accomplish his expectations either. He thought he had the Rommel army trapped two weeks ago west of El Agheila. and the headlines were high expressing these hopes , ced (Continued on page tw-o) Des Moines, Iowa iINS> The Iowa commerce commission today named Carl w. Reed. Crescc. chairman to succeed the retiring commissioner Bur; j Keshlear of Shenandc \ h. j The commission approved a six j months lease by the Chicago Burling' | ton & Qunicy railroad of the establish- t ed Foster line, a passenger bus service \ _ I between St. Louts, Missouri and Cedar Mt Pleasant Panthers will play Win- Rapids. The line which has been onfield at Winfield tonight and not cn erated by M. C. Foster of Trey, Mis-the local court as previously announ- souri. operates through Keokuk. F »*t The Panthers will not have a Madison, Burlington. Muscatine. West game her** this week. Liberty. Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Game at Winfield This Evening Gerald Howard Wilt Elmer Christner Donald Ralph S’1.ailes Bert Thames Walter Edward Louthan James William Dunn, Jr. Lloyd Edwurd Sempf Dale Vern Prott-man Drnalri William Wick Dale Owen Pickard George Eugene Kepper George Robert Swearingen Richard Edward Breazeale Wilbur Cline Cooper Ervin Wenger Stauffer H Hand Clme Corniik Charles N Schubert Robert Wm. Gorham Miles Jr. Rukgaber Melvin Earnest Davis Clifford L. Olsen Sanford L. Flickinger Joe Franklin Welcher Elvin Raymond Dickey Robert Max Bates Glen Leroy Rogers Roger W. Wyse i4-E< Charles Alfred McTee Kenneth Holden Gerald Fancis Monahan I She amazed many when she told of i the activities and the volume of wn:k , accomplished by the women’s chapta -of th" local organization in M’. Pleasant. It was an extremely interesting ] land enlightening program. Mt. Pleas- | ant has the distinction oi having (three representatives in tie R-U (’infield work, D. D. Knight, Eldon Parkier. and John Whiting, formerly of Mt ’ Pleasant. I The speaker was introduced by C F. Hayes of the program coram* ta. ! Mt. Soucek of Iowa City, and a brother of Dr. Adolph Soucek, wa^ a guest. McCABE AND HOELZEN WEDDING JANUARY 17 Maurice O'C onnor Funeral Is Held Funeral services for Maurice O'Connor was held at the St. Alphotusus Catholic ehuivh th: monrog at oil < clock with ihe Rev. Wagner ot Wort Point, oi Delating in the absence oi the Rev. J J. Wei h, who w. s t ut of t wn. Burial was at St Alphcnsu; c me* ta\ Pall.bearers were James Bresnn-han. Edward Maiia Frank Panther L. W. Keeley, Joe Hurley and John J. Fitzpatrick. Jr. Truck Driver Diesal Wheel Miss Flossie McCabe, daughter of Burling!* 11, Iowa <INS* • Hen C< o! Mr and Mrs, Will McCabe cf ML »ey. 67. truck dri\er for a WP \ rail re-Pleasant, was hon rect at a party and moval proji'ct, in dov nt wn Hu ng-showef at the home of Miss Harrie. j ton. died at the wlvel ol Janes in Burlington Tuesrl iv evenin'* jtaxlay. The ma lain*' in hts truck was driving mashed into Miss McCabe and Milton Hoelzen will ^ went out ut eon i i a d b<‘ married in Newark, N. J.. on Sun-j a Burltngtnr < u day, Jan. 17. Mr. Hoelzen vas ) Coroner !l« '»< rt O Giles -aid death retary of the Chamber of Commerce Injwis due to a heart <tta k c • ley i Mt Pleasant until he joined the army survived by his wic w Near Another Important K. K. (’enter M'sccw. Russia. (INS1— Crashing their wav forward through the lower Don area at the rate of one mile an hour despite strong German resist ance. R td anny tank forces today struck to wuthin 32 miles cf he im-pr”‘°nt rail hmaion of SaBk. Capture of Salsk would provide the PUistnns with a direct rail artery* to P stov 100 miles u> thr northwest. Field dispatch*\s said that Som*'! forces which occupy the rail station of Kuberle, 20 miles below Zitnovniki on the Stalingract-Krjsnodar railway, fcueht their w®v *• 21 miles in 21 hours. Russslan ln- fan rytnat wen- preceded by .**.*«: columns advancing on b Th flanks. Russian troops driving northwestward through the Caucasus toward RostcY, scored a i2 mile advance above the captured railway center of Mhvalync Vodi. In their drive through th* Caucasus :Tong a 100 mil* front, the Soviets advanced more than 190 notes in nine days. it. was disclosed A ('.'iiiiHim <|Ue di -' lo-ma 'ia.iiis ot lhe action at Mtneralyne Vodi, said that two’German military* trams loaded with troops and ma'erial. were preparing to leave the tail stations when the Soviets .-mashed their way into the tewn. All cf the German troops w* re killed and .he train,- were captured j SAYS MUSICIANS DON'T WANT TO MAKE BULLETS Wa hingion. 1). C (IN3) James C' Pclri’le, short, stalky, czar of the American Federation of Musician*, 'o-■ dav told United Sta *-s setyatitrs iu-ivesLga'ing his ban on making record* [for radio r: potations and "juke" toox-I. - that union mu u*:an> forced out of :work by so-call d “canned mu-ic'' I " vant js bs m war plants. , “They are mu.-iclanti." P* ti dlo m-sis ed.

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