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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 25, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaNI V ALID RATION STAMPS Sugar IO - Dec. 16-Jan. 31 (Each .stamp, Three pounds) Coffee (I ll).) - Jan. Ll cb. 7 Gasoline No. 1-Jan. 21-Mar.21 THE MT PLEASANT VALID RATION STAMPS Pue I Oil 2 - - - Until Jan. 26 < Bach stamp, IO gallons) Fuel Oil 3 * - « Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) VOL. LXXI, No. 20 MONDAY, JAN. 25, 1013 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA rn THE by PaulMali.on UJistrmuted by King Features Syndicate, Inc Reproduction In Full or in Par* Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — A ( HANCK cl government ra’ioning tone toward bus:ness representatives here has become evident the past two weeks. A friendlier and more cooperative greeting has been encountered by most businessmen rn approaching OPA, WPP., arui the ther non-military administrations. In < ceral cases WRB has recovered somehow scarce raw war materials which could not be used and • urned these back to industry to keep them going on civilian goods. This is a tar cr. from the earlier days when all business was kicked from dc or to door it. Wishing n with the shout "don t you know there J a war on,” which was used to cover al; manner of injustices and mistakes All that a businessman has to do now in dealing with the bureaucrats is to threaten to take his case to the senate's small busine* Red ArmyT rying toT rap300,000Nazis AAA To Start Production Drive They’ll Do It Every l ime 8,000 Committeemen To Iowa Farmers \ isnt OPEN Them UR \ : MARGE-WE ANO TPE > Bovs all CHIPPED . / IN To GE"" SOU ANO f SARLEY SOMETHING/ Des Moines, low'.i —( INS Eight thousand AAA committeemen are going out this week to “marshal total farm forces of Iowa in the food production drive A J Level md, state AAA chairman, said today Every farmer in Iowa will be visited an', asked to sign up in th* 1943 AAA program this week "fie announced. penalty restrictions for over planting corn allotments have been lilted. Loveland explained “Instead, crop payments will made tmh if farmers meet 9C' ■ of war produc’um goal set (cr them Vocational ‘As’ Teachers Meet LOOK DEAR WHAT " "'HEV GAVE US'Si* PAtRS OF NYLONS- \ three slips, panties PE RFUME-ARE N T you Thrilled ? I LIRE ^hat us STUFF HE DsDn’T En/en get a Th EV FI OU RE When a ouV G married as long \ AS S APL EY HE x shoulont expect a Would Exempt REA From Property Tax Introduced To Exemption ( ontinue A bill to C >opera-. tax was awa senate today Viba, democrat of veral republican senators, gislature approved legis- ire I of I 41 and * rune I roman flee or the Truman committee, and Immediately bureaucratic coldness warms. But the change is only of ton** no) Of tho heart, Tile bureaucrat! just seared, not converted Then been little change in person®! tile bureau." tho. fat On Iv hen there, underlines of an auloi temperament have been replace'! New OPA director Prent ha*' indicated he will war a we two before doing anything obol regime he inherited fr »m fiend The struggle within for cont the wa nous set-ups. is thus un mg iii a levs spirited manner, various cliques of the Frankfurt* esther schools vying to maintain th* sr ybs in the face of congressional w rath. <M»d Production District I- Topic Meet Brow! ti *s vocational train-productlon workers, WI til and TO IMPROVE negro seems to IHI MOV ERI I NI the war lot of the tx* drifting into radical hand: two reputable negro advisors war and navy depa: Orients h lenity resigned. The common inn- ‘.arctation their moves were intended a-test against cancellation of a uhd hearing before Mr fair play beard, at which t were to air more complaint A district meeting < ricuHure teachers was r ic ult are room of 11 high school Friday < 22 M M Docker .supervisee of low nit' for rural was led a discussion of the major problems confronted by the group. Food product ’.on was the main subject with ■ labor, farm machinery, transnortalion, future farmer, farm accidents and moral problems tx*mc thoroughly aired i In emphasizing the importance of winning tin war first, Dockendorlf jsaid All efforts and programs should S contribute to the war effort or it is I questionable if such efforts and pro-I grams are advisable I re-direct mg present I vising objectives cf (cation he stated that, “training for I occupational effic iency on the job is as important for food producing for-as for military forces and for pro- * st reamlined industry 'The public ohed-{nas confidence in our vocational pro Soviet Forces Go Forward In Caucasus Only One Avenue of Escape Left Germans the REA property tax '.id years and the bill a would continue I would exempt nm* companies lot operated for in furnishing elec-. churches, schools, tinder 600 popula- Two Home Dames Scheduled This Week Iowa’s Ration Calendar F inspection ML Pleasant To Play Tuesday And Friday Evenings Tin OI ass A nation: dad line—March 31. Class B C or bulk coupon Rations: First Inspection deadline—Feb. 28 Boy Stout Circus Planned In County Commercial -adline—Feb. inspection Mt Plea. .int hic Ii * I loo I players will play two home week and Mi. Pleasant fan1 ful that the showing in the M :amrs this arr hopers! half of ,f A” book • aril) ex pi n “Ii the F’airfield game is an indication oi j peilc d 2 what may br1 expected in the remain- J pjrf, Jan. 26 ing games this season. New London will play here on Tues - ] 0f day evening and Washington will play J talking pi warns and re-1 here Friday evening The Of the ave sirs that bicultural edu- ' Iowa Wesleyan will leave on a day trip this week with games hree hedged on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday evenings against Central. Simpson and Penn. The latter will tx* played at Eddyville The games are the first of the new semester and Roosevelt Mgram and has *iven the schools this have been grouped In order to save h- negroes L,, training program." Dockendorff, on transportation. s I said challenging the teachers. UC ThC)<r present were Joe Wright. Guy A Stockdale, West Lib- » no j Winfield ’ -r of I i»rrv • o H Evans Columbus Junction Agitation is being taken up by radicals as A Philip Randolph calls himself “National Director m , em the tylarch on Washington movement,”! j> j Heppner. Denmark; Ben Coxen. and is threatening to start a campaign (Yarmouth; Benj. Sehroeder. Donnell-of civil disobedience . nd noncoopoi First Defense Witness For Flynn vehicles 28. Gasoline coupons No March 21 Fuel Oil upons <IO gal Zone B Period 3 coupons 'll gal pin* Feb. 20. Z' ne B Pf : iOd 4 coupons 'll valid Jan. 31 until April lf Coffee Coupon No. 28 <1 lb.i expin Sugar Coupon No. IO <3 lbs.) expires Jan. 31. Coupon No ll <3 lbs.) valid Feb. I, expires March 15. Registration Date ol registration for War Ration Book Two wall be announced soon! Two Showings Scheduled For February Moscow, Russia. (INS)—Red army fcr.es in the north Caucasus surged forward today a distance of 25 mile*, in a sp edy drive designed to cu* off 300.000 Nazi troops from escape While one column of Soviet troops moved north and wes above the Caucasus foothills another struck southwest along the Stalingrad-Krasnodar railway in an apparent drive to the Black Sea The latter column gradually was throwing an arc to the south of Rostov which would sever all communications b - ween the Nazis in the Caucasus gateway city and those faced with entrapment in the south. The only avenue cf escape for the Nazi' below Rostov would be across Oil At Least to Eugene, th< Kerch peninsula to the Crimea and even this exit may be blocked if the Soviets can penetrate to the Black Sea coast before the Germans begin a general exodus. Dozens of additional localities were recaptured by the Russians as they swept through the north Caucasus, the Soviet, high command declared at noon. Believe Killer Staved On Train After Slaying 4 f4 gals. each* ex- each) cx- jals. each) Zone B Feb. 7, Arrangements are nearly completed for two presentations of the Henry county district Boy Scorn circus in the county next month. On Tuesday evening. Feb 9. of National Boy Scout Week, the Circus will be held at New London and on Thursday evening Feb. ll in Mt. Pleasant at the Iowa Wesleyan gym Boys are working on the acts of the circus together w ith advancement pro- L vv’cinrick of Linn county jects for which awards will be made at the circus. Mt. Pleasant Cub packs. Scout troop and Sea Scouts will assist at New , London and Ute New London troop j will come here. Fifteen acts, work in I Scouting and the like are being pre- Eugene, Oregon < INS*- tate police today were convinced that the mysterious killer who cut the throat of a pretty navy pilot's bride rn Lower 13 aboard a Southern P citic Limited lust i Saturday lode on at least to Eugene and left the train without arousing ,* uspicion I The minute invesi igation est* bl rill-- rd that no person left, the train at I the scene of the murder, wile re pretty j Martha James, I aa de of a navy ensign j was slam in her berth. Meanwhile Los Angeles authority held Robert Folkes, 21 year old negro diner cook as a material witness, en the order of district atorney Harlow Axis Forces Flee From Small Port pared. ation. Randolph apparently wants to have negroes violate enmasse the laws to which thee are opposed m the manner of Gandhists in India. Tins would be a campaign cf violence under the name of non-violence. The Indian with whom Gandhi deals has probably the most phlegmatic, immovable personality of any nationality in the world, and even so, bloodshed son- C Philip Camp. New London; H.! Las Angeles. Calif ’™s,~ Errol r Storey Fairfield; Marion Hun and Flynn today placed hrs hist defense ,, . ,( u? w witness on the stand to dispute the r c Mu* ooh. Mediapolis; W. W i iTi nroit charge of Peggy LaRue Salter lee. 16- \fnleberrv Mont rase; and Everett ‘ * - * j year-old Hollywood show girl that she Clover, . t. ear j was twice attacked during a cruise on MT. pleasant high Sammons Writes enters speech meet From North Africa County Men In The Service rn Bvt. L< rraJite E. Talbert ha linlsh-ed baric military oolice training Ft. Riley. Kans. and has been transferred to the first school of this kind in the U S. Investigators Co.. Oc- Sir Bernard L. cupational Police class No. I. P. M. G che I, 'Ft. Custer, Michigan. Machinery Repair Cedar Rapids la.—Coe college will * ^ letter written by Pfc. Oral Sam- spcnsor its seven Ii annual High j m0ns was received a few days age by a School Speeech Art' tournament here j friend on February ll. 12 and 13. with J.; jt was dated Nov. 19, 1942 from Dale Welseh. profe-sot of speech and ' Northern Africa. It read: director of forensic."- at Coe. in charge. [ j have traveled some distance since has generally followed Gandhis cam- j The new O. S Y A. course in Faun v, ^a paigns. | Machinery w ill open at the McCormick We in this country back and white. , .store in Mi. Pleasant on Mon- lose our tempers much easier than J day evening with I. T. Nelson, the in- the screen star’s yacht in August, 1941. ! Hubert Oliver, now an army corporal. testified he was a deck hand on (burse To Start the yacht during the cruise and that IIH. Salters gave no lotion °‘| tcurnament ^lui( wilson. Roosevelt reallv hel, time during thai ^ McKinlc ^ m Cedar Rapids Cairo. Egypt * INS)—The axis fled today trorn tire small wort of Zuira. 65 miles west Of captured Tripoli, under a hail of allied bombs and machine gun fire as Britain s victoi i us 8th arniv continued to move westward in swift pursuit of Nazi general Field-marshal Erwin Rommel’s columns retreating into Tunis! i. Rommel was reported abandoning and plowing up tile few- remaining airfields in Tripolitania as he retreated. Squadrons of allied fighter-bombers t lashed out repeatedly at axis shipping attempting to put out t sea from Zuara as advanced units of General Montgomery's mechanized spearhead was reported nearing the port, only 35 miles from the Tunisian frontier. Gulfport Field. Miss.- Pvt, WUU*rn ii. Hayward, formerly of 308 E. Clay street. Mt. Pleasant. Iowa, has been graduated from this big army air forces technical training command school for airplane mechanics and is ready to Kokumbona Village On Guadalcanal Captured Washington, D. C. (INS)—Capture of the Kokumbcna village on Gaudal- To date 16 Iowa high schools have sig- . j have written to you. I’m in Africajtake his place on the farflung serene . , .rnimH Jrnons ll nave wn ' lineg of this glcbal war wherever the canal by Unred States ground ti oops nified their intents ti of entering the j now close to a town called Algiers, tournament. jThis is a nice place. Wouldn’t think Schools which hav£ entered the I tbe country would be much, but ifs being upset at any Thee raise about the same thin: the Indians In war-time, therefore, I slructor There are twenty farmers Randolph's plan, which he promises to j enro!letj who will learn general oper-take up in a May meeting of his foi- i ;t:on. care, and repair of machinery "Did you hear any disturbance on the boat?” chief defense counsel Jerry Giesler asked. biggest American planes are based, at wa., announced today by the navy in home or abroad. a communique which also revealed j* 3 that American planes and warships Am a r ill Army Air Field—Bvt. John have blasted Japanese shipping and W. Lie, son cf Mrs. W A. Thompson, bases in the Solomons, damaging one 309 E. M idiron. Mt. Pleasant. Iowa larga Nipponese destroyer and a cargo lowing, may assume a very insurrectionist legal complication war time. s erK us in and will have opportunity to repair their own implements and ti actors. The course is cpen to persons 17 years “No 'ii.” “Did you hear Miss Satterlee call out at any time?” “No sir." Traer, Maquoketa, Ft. Dodge. Ottum- j here ^ in the southern states. wa. Mi. Pleasant. Newton. Elkader.) T have seen action of bomb raiding,, .... , ,,, ■. * - | Uqc Kf-eun an intensive* course of study ship and vitally wiping out one stiong East and West Waterloo, Burlington.,^ have been lucky. Got Germany;nas begun ‘ I Manchester, Davenport and Iowa City.*, on the jump now and they don’t knew -- I what will come off next That s the UNAWARE OF INJURY, GOES HOME ON BUS The promising meeting of negro | old or over and out of school and waters in North Carolina last Noveni- j runs for 36 hours—3 hours each Moniker has unfortunately come forward J day and Tuesday evening for six with nothing, and the moderates on j weeks, both sides, who might have developed | _ * nrlnpotirrnal turn- ! DIM-OUT OF ALL MAIN STREETS IS PLANNED BY WPB W00LLC0TT HAD I Washington. D C. — WFB’S power division is considering an order to dim VERSATILE CAREER the bright lights of America's main streets, a spokesman said, but no dt» The versatile Alex- cision has been leached. a sound, practical educational »pro gram, arc finding their voices drown . ed out by the self-seeking politicians j who are continuing to promote bit- j _ tCfli®ss. . ' Now york, N. Y - ' andor Wooliest, 56. wh died Satin-1 Such an order, curran* THE new YORK ECONOMIST, da night lived a happy, crowded life mg of store windows and theatci nun-Waller Spa hr, has definitely caught j as'a liewHpaper rn *n. actor, playwright, quoes. would be aimed at saving tie the treasury and federal reserve board I author raconteur and radio commen- coal required in most sections to proin issuing $660,000,000 of greenbacks.»tator duce electric power. There is no gen- This pile of notes was printed about whi,{1 h(> was Cognized as one of era! shortage ot power at present, a IO years ag . but never issued, as con- ' lh(> most ^cerning critics of the mod- WRB spokesman said. gress repealed the law under which ;cjn (hPatcri he always insisted that Some sections of the country issuance was contemplated. * |ds inost important job was that -f ‘cady iiaat dim outs, but tlus( Apparently, the treasury and board I a gCGd new sp aer re agreed in December to issue llie.se j ^ proved to be notes now merely to save tile cost of ^ giving and interesting reporters printing normal currency, in the be- , hJs time ELEVEN KILLED lief that $660.000 000 is a small amount. | Collapsed BOMBER CRASH these days, and no one would raise a) Woollcott collapsed while appear-, fuss. I ing as a guest en a Columbia network The treasury deposited the notes in. broadcasl here Saturday night He Ottumwa. la.- Lonen McCormick, ll. packing house employe, was in a fair condition in a haspital Sunday after suffering a pelvis fracture in ani accident late Saturday. McCormick said he twisted his body but was un-1 aware of the injury until after he had ridden home on a bus _____ I BURLINGTON MAN DIES IN HIS STORE news I can gather here. The people here speak the French language. Sure can't under md them. TWO-WEEKS INTENSIVE WORK ON SURGICAL DRESSINGS STARTS in aviation mechanics af this army air enemy position field, one of the newest schools in the mon", army air forces technical train hr command in the central Solo- Thr fell . wing is tin McBfith, V 8 S. F C School, Ships Co., B-Miss. address of Ira Armed Guard 89E. Gulfport. Ngl. I.ermine Wnloott left la ‘ The -da\ to return t* Ct imp Hood after spend na a 14 day f uric ag n with his caren s, Mr and R S. Phllpott, al- are eporter. And principally fcr defense rather than one of the most ob- conservation of power. of ------ Burlington. Iowa —'INS) Funeral services will be held Tuesday for August Chiuamonta. well-kn wn Bulling-ton confectioner, who died in his store Saturday night. He suffered a cere-brial hemorrhage. County Coroner R. O. Giles said. His vile and daughter survive. 122 PRACTICE BLACKOUTS HELD IN OMAHA AREA federal reserve banks and issued ; d1ed g few hours later, checks to pay war bills, although mey were not added to the debt cr Columbus, Ohio (INS) were reported killed and one critical ly injured today when a huge army The Surgical Dressings group f>, ti a Henry county chapter of til R Cross are beginning a tv -wet peri- j od of intensive work. So far t it response by the women of Henry coun ty has been splendid. A group of bt -tween twenty and forty u nion i — been coming to the rooms each session and a remarkably large number dressings have been made and r *■ k* Bul now it is necessary to st'*p u; production in order to make the qtr ta assigned to us. So for Hie next I a weeks the work room in the city hall will be onen every afternoon except Saturday from cue to five o’clocx. All those who have been conli tx regularly are urged to corm an e . Tht ret) I new address I mr j 8hi I Staff S*t. on VV ir- \. A V. Herington Field, H"’r ngtei*. Kama" He was iever,;ly transferred from an rmv air ba e near Salina. Kin as. Battle reports indicated furious ac-rion by American forces on land, sea and in the air throughout the Solomons. while the Nipponese re alia'wl with a minor night air raid against the United States positions on Guadalcanal. Capture of the coa-’ai village of Kokumbcna was preceded by an American ground offensive in which Fix important elevations west of Henderson airfield were captured and HO Japanese were k.iled. LO "AL RED TROSS SWEATERS APPRECIATED 16 WA AC OFFICERS TO ENTER SCHOOL Eleven men’ Omaha. Nebraska (INS)—Seventh time. Those who have not yet u nu defense region headquarters m Omaha the group are invited to do so durn ractice black- this two week pored begrim..a uptowns, and day, January 25th. Please count-! amount issued but the issuance of un- bomber crashed near New Albany, 14 outs were held in cities u , • # „nH mr relic v certainly is evidence miles northeast of Columbus. .counties of the region during Decern * ta th. monetary beekm* o. go.d , ^ gov„t- Ev„ ^tnesees said that they count- ber is not in any way a threat officials reg.rd the goW. silver and cd U bodies. One flier was removed These were to the standing of currency in the bend requirements of sound money. | to a C I urn bps hospital. revealed today that 122 pn bring clean wash dress or smcvk and kerchief or hairnet to cow r the in addition to the reg- Wont you make an effort and to help Henry county teach its quat The local Red Cross chapter h is received the following communication: Thought you might like to know that several of the boys In my outfit ar° now wearing sweaters made by your chapter The temper? Hire this moi nil 'i was 5 degrees F. sc it u redly needless to cay how very wel-, -me thee **•*•> w-ihe we aren't the Bov" Over There' ye*, rest assured lienal blackout of December 14th. For* Des Moire", la. (INS) —Sixteen Women’s Army Auxiliarly C'rps officers will enter the United States anay command and general staff school at For L< avenwor h Fob, 8, it was announced today at F rt Des Moines, WAAG training station. I* will be the first time in th** na- they mean as much, to us here ?s thej tion’s his ory that women have been| will w hen they ic wun us elsewhere admitted to the commander and gen-. Thanking you m eral staff training. Die 16 officers will take a ten week course in the service of supply dr I visions of the general staff school, i was announced. st sincerely for us all, I am, Sgt. James, B. Elder. Artillery Ba:cry. Demonstration Regiment, Fort Knox. K;>

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