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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 21, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID KATKIN STAMPS Su^ar IO - Dec. 16-Jan. 31 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Toffee (I lb.) - Jan. I-Feb. T Gasoline No. 3 - Dec. I-Jan. 21 THE PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 2 - - * Until Jan. 26 (Each stamp, IO gallons) Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) News r TA >. KU#o\ - •***.* ~ ' - i Behind the Nr ; Dr Paul Mallon ; Nation sWorst Aviation Disaster Kills 35 <Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or rn earl Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — SIGNS OI a great derma a fixation iii the (Icmum inn’ an becoming apparent all along Du Russian front There is just a chance, 'bout a on* • o live vi igei -make ll no larger than that yet- that Hitler will have to dr tv hi.5 armies all the wav back into the Ukraine and perhaps out of Russia Tile story behind the lifting of the .siege of Leningrad is the same at that of Stalingrad ann th*- South C Predicts Fall Of Tripoli In Few Hours Over-All Picture of War Is Bright They’ll Do It Every Time After breaking YOUR BA^K, SHOWING a customer en/ery- casus. It is a tale o an army trying tc winter In a strange able ccid, snow, anc lent less fo* able to conditions lei rifyuifj The Reds launcher to relieve Leningrad they tried again la **d f r weeks, 'rile it ocularly rn a in th chanical deploy men current one succes-except the grew th w th* German tinny This ‘•im*- Affkn* eons ;%• rn own, in the f revo and K vine role Ma us art u.illy claim* the Don et j, river ext * Hem defer Nee and the line on whi< nosed V make his he Russians e the west bailli win have ti for ai •se sig pint I • Jo Don. No < Vi nether th »ii and acc piete the coda] ance. Too mot kna% lh* h nip -I1 of a-nu a Jan k* unb* ii ing a anlage Wi ingle a, D. C. < INS»—Unde. --HK ary of War Robert Patterson tori av declared that the fall of axis held Tripoli is only a matter of a few us he reported that the over-all of the United Na’ions’ global linst CHrmany, Japan and Italy *■ lcdiy blight.” u ii der-secretary in making a oi the war’s progress hastened . however, tha’ he wa.- no pre- u pie ti war Tile review to add fall w as rf excellent att last summer The* nothing * strategy or ti- to make ful in seven < e< ike ne ti morn mg ten u birt sari ic where I to h "hat i Germ; i Httlt the It t Nazis them The mg s but ie* ultan-M alit us-tossed Is an a. uuon a sup- ?lv- Gui Mi an early end to the conifkt. t . is biller fighting ahead," m warned at a press confcr-Ihe countrv must b*- prepared rsev and ii* aw casualties." in also reported that Ame ii -I Australian troofps under Douglas MacArhtir. rn the t Pacific had ’’iitterly anilide 15.000 Jap troops or. New He ui.serosed also that large u inure ments had b**en moved Guadalcanal under command of : Gen* i ai Ah xand-r Patch Last ( hance To Use Gas Coupon No. 3 Worthless Friday; No. I Coupon Good Then Novelist, FBI Men, Officials M ere Aboard I . UA cc upon.*-, wort blet geed for Today’s your last chance tho f No. 3 ga-cline ration Ail* r midnight, ti an* are and No. 4 (swoons become 4 .Hoi. each. Many mclorists line! th*":’ have t. us* ti all their coupon -’, nor have mon in their gasoline tank for any mort pas. Wrath* r unfavorabh for nj ~r~ ating a car may cecum in p2rt tor Die accumulation of the coupons. Other car drivers have been unable J t,' keen their car going on their allot- j ment, the weather conditions working j exactly opposite for them. The snow , and cold weather get very low mileage and cs a their gasoline has disappeared quicker than they anticipated. One local driver, and pro!, bi’ o,h-* rs. who had plans lor an tx tend co I trip at the end of the period on accumulated coupons, cave up the mi’ because of the* weather conditions. Plane Fall* In Dutch Guiana January 13 Washington. D. C. (WH*—The wmr department announces tod v tha! 35 perscns, including the famous novelist Erie Knight, two of. idols of the stat" department and two FBI executives, were killed when a huge 4-engined airplane crashed in the jungles cf Dutch Guiana en January' 15th, the nations worst aviation disaster. Major General Harold L. George, ve cauked them to chief of the army air transport com- Find Two Bodies In HAS MANY NAMES; Burlington Debris SAYS “CALL ME J0E Army Troops Aid Marines on Island Rubio Man Is Killed Bv Train other gi wa air. i angel c ie cam ciaeku lerate s st a bilsh them i iii any force, the o look iar behind xxi stopping place the German fight* j at last may be jus over-inteipreta -safely guess yet tg monde will wid-►ufficiently to ccm-of Rommel s Bantered Troops Flee From Tripoli Cairo. Fgyp ‘INS'* -U Field-ma i ti VPU Afn m Tripoli Search Continues For Two Oth ers Relieved Killed lac German relist-depencs on the un-Russian offensive G.ncvi mi '.'s b wait! f rh Fig of I he Hr :n> •IIVI Q Tmh miles : €5 milt till bv of Nazi I Erwin Rom-Korps As d west-lay as the Brit-army pressed on the heels xis force.- after overrunning id Tarhuna in a two-prong*o the berob blasted Libyan port. Inlar. I r* ad junction 46 ith ast cf Tripoli, and Horns, cast ors the coastal road. were ha acing British X>WAT. But ill t-yt th** r hen ack is evident now are glued on it ana VI I V Kit I POINT whtie the British expected Rommel to make a stand, he has deployed his troop*, as if to fijht strongly, and then sneaked away a. soon as the Bnf.sh moved un th* sr heavy force- for the assault This he did at El Agheilu the Wadi-Zemzem ravine and now at Mismate Tile expectation hen is that he will < > ta bilsh himself on the lim of Horns where a mountain range runs back from the sea in a southwesterly direction, protecting Tri ooh. But that mountain range is steepest on the side toward Tricpii. Th** approaches I rom the British side are gradual and. therefore, the range is not as good a defense po; nion as some that Rommel already has passed. But if he does not put up a real fight for Ti inch and attempts to escape along the coast into Tunisia, h*‘ will have given us the b<‘.st prize of the African front since Bengasi. Tripoli is an excellent port. It van be swiftly cleaned of wreckage, and the British can u*v it as well as the several superior airfields surrounding it, for the mull closing in on the asb forces in Tunisia. a puny c< !unins yesterday. A communique from the middle-east h* Aquarter- af General Sir Harold R L. G. Alexander announcing the . cc .pall* n * I Horns end Tarhuna said that advanced units of the 8th arni", wwre in dose contact with Rommel* force* beating a retreat to the west. Burlington, Iowa * INS'—Two bodle recoveree! from debris of the Union railroad station fire w* re identified to- I dav as those of W. C. P.unkitt, Eagle Grove, Iowa, telegraph operator, an*! P. F Carlin. CG Burlington. a i *0-1 road conductor. j Seat eh for the Bodies ;f two others-believed trapoed and killed continued today. | Des Moines cc ant coroner Rob rt O. Giles, said both bodies, burned badly. Were found clos- together in the middle of the station wTeckage. MISS FLOSSIE McCABE AND MILTON H0ELZEN , ARE MARRIED SUNDAY Des Moines. la. 'INS1 Joseph Patrick Kelly Paul Vincent Galvin was in Uncle Sun - navy today. He explained to Des Moines navy recruiting officers that he had been named after two patron saints and his mother's maiden name, with the last two being supplied by a doting aunt Young Galvin, the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Galvin of Ames. la., played tackle for two years on the Ames high school football team. Says J. P. K P. V. Galvin: “Just call me Joe.” Most of Guadalcanal Removed Marines J Washington, D C. 'INS'—United (states army troop,- under command of Major General Alexander M. Patch. I have relieved the battle worn marines j on Guadalcanal, the navy announced Washington, low Borsdorf, 22. Rube I. jured when struck br bee freight Wert in sola Charles Joseph was fatally in- a fast MiIwflu-af ter neon en ; raihoad biidge between RU o an* Richland, la. Borsdorf. member of an exti * io-pair crew, employed bv the Larsen j today in a communique w hich also dis- Bridge & cinstruction Co., apparent! County Men In The Service I closed that American fliers have cam-aged another Japanese de?trover and downed eight enemy planes. The navy announced today most of [the United States marines, who spear- ^ ta*en bv a iatPr oassehger train ' headed the American advance into the southeastern Solomons last August. I have been withdrawn and have been did not hear the approachin g ti ain The train crew apparently was not aware cf the accident as the ti in enc not stop. Borsdorf, his head crushed *.a ' replaced by army detachments, I All the American ground forces on j Guadalcanal, presently engaged in bit-| ter fighting with the Japanese west and southwest of Henderson airfield under the com- to Washington, where he died. Son oi John Henry Borsdorf. Madison, Kan., he also is survived by ho wife and 5-month-old s n. living in Rubio; three sisters anc! two brothers. result mand, said the passengers aboard th*' big ship were enroute "over seas’* some :f them to North Africa. Knight, a major in the air corps and one of the victims of the tragedy, was th* author of the best seller ‘‘This Above All.” Be ides Knight, those killed included p. E. Foxworth, head of the New York office of the FBI, who directed the hunt for the German saboteurs after they were bladed in this country by Nazi submarine* (ast June. H. D. Haberfield. another official cf the FBI. also perished. The two state dc pertinent men who lost their lives were O. E Henry son. end William Hobson. New York welfare commissioner. No details were revealed boul the crash. O. E. Hemyson. listen by the v. ir department today, as among the 35 persona killed, when the plane crashed in the Dutch Guiana jungles, is a f:rmer Iowan. A native of Story- City. Iowa, he had been a clerk in the state department at Washington, D. C.. for IO vears. and recently was assigned to foreign service. He was 36 years old and unmarried. * Miss Flossie L Tse McCabe, d.iuglified Armies Near tor of Mr. and Mrs. William McCab Cl Rail lnnrtinn of Mb Pleasant, became Hie bride of Strategic Ka annfc Corporal Milton Earl Horton USA. on ZZ:SSS.Mg inc Sunday, January 17. 1943. The cero-^Imxred-Kra-iiodar railway stream- mony was performed at toe Clinton “5L the Manycb river in force HUI Baptist church. Newark. New Jet- today and struck to within a Ensign Austin J. Evans, left Friday j for cape M tv. N. J., where he is now; hove been replaced . . ..inland of General Patch. stationed, after a very pleasant visit with Ins father. W. H. Evans, and other members of his family. Deeds Recorded At Courthouse Complete Session’s First Legislation few sey, by the pastor. Vemer I. Olsen. A . . rail i m wit on at dinner followed at Ute Hotel New mile of the strategic ran juncuu. .1 ri Rr^tnv Yorker. New \crk Lity. Salsk, IOO nu es sou 1;orthwest The matron cf honor was Mrs. A rail an* ta c ^ - ^ ^ ^ ^ Henry Lingerman. nee Helen Hoelzen. ' ' t ward formerly of Burlington. Henry Linger- Kex King, stationed with the marines at San Diego. Calif., called his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Marion King. Sunday. Rex, who has been in the • pas6eci away this morning at one marines for the past five weeks has| o'clock at Memorial hospital, after a been given the rank of a corporal ^w0 %eeks illness. Theodore Lite Taken By Death New London— Theodore Lite. 90 from Salsk to Rostov. Nazi armies in the Caucasus, moving from which the Russians are* three directions. The Soviets simultaneously made headway in an enveloping move en the steel center of Kharhov in a twopronged drive from below Voronezh and the middle Don area. The Russians are already within tit) miles of Ro*Lev along th** lower Don river but there is no direct rail line from here to their objective. On the ( north they are within 85 miles along j the Mo cow-Rostov railway. Inventor oi ‘Lewisite’ Deadly Gas, Dies Evanston. Illinois <INS> dav lost one of its noted figures in the death oi Pref. Winford Lee Lewis. inventor (.lf bewhite" described by authorities as the deadliest of SOM I AMATEUR stkvhckin think Rommel may cut straight w’est through Tunisia and attempt to fail on our flank and rear. Military men discount the p:sxibilitv as Rommel, in such a .suicidal undertaking, would have the British eighth arrov in his ma, v rear, constantly harassing bis line of ap w8r gases, supplies Lewis, < Another current idea is that the jroin injuries Americans might organize an expedi- m a fall at his Evanston home. Hon to occupy Bieilv and cia off the fjc was 8 colonel in the German, line of supplies, instead cf warfare service in the first World War fighting in Tunisia, but this would and had perfected his invention oi hardly work, as lone as the Nazis Lewisite toward the end of that conium* airfields in Tunisia, Italy and nicl_ ___ Sardinia which could maintain an ail supremacy over our landing parties. So it 1-oks like the expected close-grip tussle for Tunisia must be followed through on orthodox lines. mar. of Irvington. New Jersey, was best man. The bride was attired in a white gabardine sui’ with brown accessories. Her corsage was of green orchids. Mrs. Lingerman wore an aqua wool dress and brown accessories with a corsage of Talisman roses. Miss Edith Hoel-z*n, of cl fica go. the bridegroom^ sister. accompanied Miss McCabe on her trip east. Mr. Harry Arnold, the baritone soloist cf Hit church, sang “At Dawning.” Corporal Hocker,, sen of Mr. ami Mrs. William Hoelzen, cf 108 Highland avenue. Burlington, is a graduate oi Icwa Wesleyan where he was a mem- ar.d is wearing the two stripes Bl l»fc. Dale I argus, left Wednesday to return to hic- station, with the U. S. army air corps at Santa Ana. C-lif. Funeral .services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the McDonald Funeral Home. Rev. C. C. St rob I, pastor of the Methodist church, will officiate and burial will be in the Lowell cemetery. r ! and Mrs. H. W. Pleasant. Tvt. Dwight I« French > address is: C-.. C.. ©8th U. S. Army Med. Tag- Bm, Camp Barkley. Texas. 3rd Platoon. He is the son of Mr. French, west of Mi !*. I Mr. and Mrs L. It.'Carter of Hillsboro hive received word that their sot'.. I*vt. John William Carter, who was inducted into the U 150 Present For Masonic Meeting Science to-| ber of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. ’ Immediately upon graduation he was appoint*! executive secretary of the Chamber oi Commerce at Mt. Pleasant. Aft.r a short stay at the Hotel Corn died in Evanston hospital I modorr, Nev York. Corporal and Mrs. he suffered last Monday Kenton win visit Mr. and Mrs. Linger- man a’ I-vington, New Jersey. They will make their home in Aberdeen, Maryland, where Corporal Hoelzen is stationed at the Ground. Cli is. Canby, master of Mt. Pleasant lodge of Masons, welcomed about 150 men Wednesday evening at th” Temple to enjoy th* annual Open F<1-S. Army at I low ship meeting. Allan MeCoid again Terra Haute. Ind.. last Dec. 23 h-s j demonstrated his oratorical ability as been stationed at Fort McClellan, Aim. I he gave his contest oration for 1943. * j Dr. S. B. Niles suoke and the addr ss J cf the evening was given by the Rev. George Hunt. Mr. Hunt suoke on tho .purpose and aims :f the (Ider and J explained many things of great inter-1 est to the assembly. The meeting was | felt to be mo5t successful. Addn s cf I*vt. Max I Mail; Murray and Margaret Murraj have giv n a deed to Marshall J. On and Louisa W O.r for a New London property, recons at the courthouf* shew. Consideration was $1,450. C her deeds recorded include: Emil WUk*‘ and Marie Wilke to Marshal; On\ New London property. Consider, a Hon as $2,400. Julia Wind to the New London consolidated school, tract at New London. The deed was given in 1940. Lillian Crab Kuna th to Walter C Johnson, property in New London township. Consideration was $800. Jennie Pet zinger to Estella Petzing-or, an undivided one-third interest in property in New London township and also in Des Moines ounty. M bel Waller to the Now London *•*.■11 se] Mu ted school, tract at New Lon- Two Corrective Kills Passed; New Kills Introduced don. Consideration in the deed, which war given in 1940. wa* $200. chemical Verne A. l’eterswi 3. 2 c gets hi mall in care cf the postmaster. New I York, N. Y. He is the son of Mr. and j Mrs! I sh r P> ors on cf Winfield- rn s* brot'‘(nan is: Co. A. 7,>7 M. P. Bn. Camp George! West. Golden, Colo, Heavy Wind Damage At Colorado Springs Cdorad- Springs, Cr lo. * IN S» -Rushing on the city with an ominous roar '.hat could be heard several minute bef cr* it s ruck a terrific wind Des Moines, Iowa 'INS'—The 50th Iowa general assemble today completed its first legislation by passing in the .senate two minor corrective bills which earlier had beer. approved by the lower chamber. The bills, w’hich will new* go to the governor for his signature, correct un improper reference in the present statute relating to licensing of golf and country clubs to sell beer, and permit the tax commission to tak*1 action to prevent loss of retail sales tax where fraud or evasion is believed in precess. The senate also passed three other bills including one which would permit the board of na role to recommend to the governor the pardon of a pa-roiled prisoner who entered the mii-tirv service and received an honorable discharge. The lr. use yesterday passed a similar bill which would eliminate the governor’s issuing a pardon at the time the panelled prisoner is inducted. Five new bills were dumped into the em; o ', hopper including one fugued by 17 senators which would make the commerce commissioners appointive CASUALTY LIST TO BE GIVEN DAILY It obi, R- Me< ‘are, P tty Officer, Bkr. ! Aberdeen Proving 3 o cf the U. S. Navy is visiting his par*Ute. Mr, and Mrs. Ralph McClure,, --and otiler relatives. He expects leave Fiilay for Fanagut. Idaho. Vernus L. Trout Wounded In Action Venus L. T’aut. 24. was woun::* to I in adion Dec. 23th in the southwest I Pacific war area, according to official Strengthen Mfifeth lie left the stand, he went J Washington. D. C. The naw an- I larry Kcpltart (f the U S. Navy and Mrs Kt plant, arrived iii Mf. Pleasant Monday from the west coast. should be even if it isn’t. When Brigadier General Somervell, chief of army supply and the father of mail ‘ fog a communist for indiscriminately feeding loafers at government expense, and made General Somervell so angry lat ' ha rd w ?re~ store ~ and bought a I pounced Wednesday that effective im- Mr Kepharf, who has been on the U ....... —- **■*- Fan Francisco is here on a nine *li with his family. Mrs. and their sons have been Uv- tlie congressman wan »» —• .......'7;;”. *____T*"’""".. L. last. to a hardwire store airn w u5*»v - ,.......... — *----- - , nut whlch he carefully; mediately all casualties of the navy, s. s Fan F M Y INFORM ANTS swear tins is • v Ckage and mailed to marine corps and coast guard would day furlong rue. and I will retell it. because it «rupp _ announced Iii a daily list instead k< phart ant , ,, . the congressman wun ms *hiu. « w'ord received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. Lyle Trout, of Salem. Presents Altar and Drapes To Salem Church hit Colorado Springs late last nigh’ the bv the governor, with approval of a tw .-thirds vote of the senate, instead oi dective. Among the senators signing the bill weic Senator Bred Cromwell, republican of Burlington. Senator Harlan C. Foster, republican oi Mi. Pleasant. Senator John ll. Battery, republican cf Nev . da. Senator Sanford Zeigler, republican of Fairf'tld, and Senator Jchn Bert', republican ti Cedar Falls. causing wide-spread damage' in city and at two nearby army camps, it "fis i t ported today. Police said the damage was impossible to estimate at this time, but it was exp* cted hat it would run'closr to a half-million dollai- Line In Tunisia Allied Headquarters in North Africa ♦ INS)—German troops rn Tunisia are t erg heiling the Mon th line. the sling cf fort]ficatjcns extending 75 nr Ii , scu h I rem Mvdenina on tile Turhsdut ct ast, it was announced to- ENGLISH MARRIAGE IN GEORGIA HELD VALID The other day. General Somervell’s put aloed a'package returning toforc. a letter from of In periodical accumulations as here* ince June ling in Mt. Pinal;ant -yiie ha« !>e< n in California since Mr. j , t with a letter from | The first daily list, cont ani ag the Kephurt’s ie! urn to Hic United States the lavish $70,000,000 palace oi the war which is supposed names of 14 men killed. 15 wounded a few weeks agog have long pre- department across the Potomac river, the congressman. and 43 missing, was made public on WU public works administrator In New • to J ^ (lnv trantiinif Wednesday. Hic navy will continue to Y-.rk. he was called before , congress- ' vom. tulMing am, , think these fellow the policy of notifying next of Kiter «•. ional committee. * . ^ to you ” ' before making the names public. Fresno, Caln A congressman accused him of be- ^ould he returned to you. } The following is the address of Pvt. t solo. The Lord, Pi ay Peterson, 1035 Ti’ Street. Mbs Sinrm os. of leva lege. Salem. Iowa — The Rev. M. C Ru-bey. uastor of the Salem Me th* list church presented tin eliurch with an night, altar and lovely drapes in a Candle | Military c ua rveis Mght service at the morning worship ( ic d that Field-mai shal Erwui Rom hour Sunday. Special music was a md might at empt to “hold up” in r- V!v, i , th's siting rf fortifications and pill eel b v s. tunic rn, > known as the lim..' Mag ii un line. van 'nre marriage of Morea Agues Mos.re and Clarence English at Waycross, Ga . on Get. IU. 1942. was declared valid by Judg*' Ihiul in a decree signed tins week Me: -a I nghoh had asked the court to annul the marriage claiming that die vvis not of legal ave when the nirrrirae tovk place.

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