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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 31, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowarn I VALU) RATION STAMPS Suuar IO - Dec. 10-Jan. 31 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee (I lb.) - Jan. 4-1*cb. 7 Gasoline No. 1-Jan. 21-Mar.21 YOU CXM, No. 25 THE IHT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 2 - - - Until Jan. 26 (Each stamp, IO gallons) Fuel Oil 3 - - - Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) SATURDAY, JAN. 30, IO 13 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Farm Woman Found Dead Blast Berlin As Goering Tries To Speak Miss Sadie Courtney Probably Died Early In Week Miss Sadie Courtney, who lived alone on her farm northeast ol Mi PJeaasnt was found dead in her home Friday evening by neighbors and officers, She had been dead several clays, probably since Monday. January 25. Mrs Robert White a neighbor wen* to the Courtney home in the afternoon and not getting any response returned home and told Mr While Lat-<*r in th** afternoon hi and John KOPP went to the home, and unable to got in without bi caking the lock, called Sheriff Manning Cline who, with Deputy Warren Allen, went out and opened the house. Miss Courtney was found lying on the thor near the kitchen range She w as heavily clothed and a comfort was in a chair nearby The door to the stove was open She probably had arisen from ti:'* chair to add fuel to the fire and was stricken by a heart attack. Coroner D L. Cookes was called but no inquest is considered necessary as death no doubt was from natural causes Neighbors recall that they saw smoke front the cnimney early in the week probably Monday She had not taken in any mail since Monday, and one day this week, after the mail box bemail was taken to the behind the screen, it i for lier to a HH Carloads of Soy Meal Allotted They’ll Do It Every Time — Shipping Soybeans Front ( ounty and Shipping Meal Back Th*- Commodity Credit Corp. has allotted 88 carloads of soybean meal for distribution to Iowa fainter in February to relieve the livestock feed situation. A. J Loveland, chairman of the state agricultural war board, said Fr id a v Tin- meal will be shipped from .southern processing mills It will be available to farmers in limited quantities Those who want the meal should apply to local war board offices While tin- allotment will help, there i’, ti', immediate .solution in sight for tile protein supplement shortage,” Loveland lid. Meanwhile soybeans are being ship- came filled, Undoer and placet was not anus un •lit- HVT ain mail in Hie box several days at a tuneand no sj»**< la! si mn fica nee was attach-cd to her failure to tak* it in thisI ill IV, Mm Court.*;* Y had mane prepara-lions for extent ied periods of coldweather by hay mg large quantities ofcoal and kind mg materials placedabout her in the rooms m ar the stove.The funeral will be held Sundayafternoon at 3 • KT at th* Cookes Faueral home Bu na I will be rn Fore,'Home cemetery Groups Combine ToHear Hog Specialist(hhmIcII and (lover CombineMeeting" for Wednesdayout of Henry county and o counties to southern processing a policy which is receiving some ism in view of the crowded rail lion. W’h> *-hould Hie beans t be shipped to the distant ira I the meal hipped back ri he question asked in view of reports hat midwest processors do not have allicient beans to run through the ummer. Several thousand bushels ,<tve b en chipped out of Henry coun-v the last few da-. - 20 Volunteers For Rescue W ork Opportunity To Win Prizes In Contest I Soys and Girls Will Find Easy To Compete It B it al girls of this county, be-- ween the ages of 14 and 21, are eligible to compete for $600 in cash or war bend prizes in th - Na'tonal Youth Safety contest, plus county cash prizes totalling $84 to be awarded by the H my t:.un‘y Mutual Insurance Association and he O. T. Wilson insurance agency. “The contest ss easy.” Mr. O. T. Wilson declared. "The only requirements are that they secure an official Bombers In Anniversary Daylight Raid Goering Warns England After Russians Are Defeated london. England tINS)— Royal Air Force bombers attacked Berlin in broad daylight for the first time today and interrupted for more than an hour a bombastic speech bv Marshal Herman Wilhelm Goering rommcmor-cntiy blank at this office and then in- ating the tenth anniversary of Adolph peel wo s ts of farm buildings, re- Hitler’s rise to power. pert the fire hazards found and cor- Goering’s long sp--.ch announcing reded, An es ay, not exceeding 1.000 complete mobilization of the entire word- is also required. physical and material resources of ev- "The National Youth Safety contest cry man woman and child in Germany is in complete accord with he walt to continue prosecution of the war work in this community,” Mr Wilson completely ruled out any negotiated continued. -The world dt pends on us peace with the ‘Bolsheviks.’ Local Youth In Plane Crash Three Ships Sunk From Under New Londoner; He s Home for food, and L*s> oI buildings, livestock cr crops through fire is utter j waste. The logan of this contes* is •Farm Fires Ar** Food Sabotage’, and it is well for all to remember this.” The contest is also open to boys Goering’s hopes to alter the course of the war received an appropriate answer when the squadron of mosquito bombers bogan their bombing of Berlin. * Perhaps, extemporaneously, he warn- Cecil Hamilton In Accident In New Mexico Mountains Group Taking Civilian Defense Instruction The hr.' lor rest ue ian Meeting Our War Assignment of Hags” will be Ute topic to be discussed by E. L. Quarte animal husbandry swill specialist of the Iowa eaten- ■ Mon service, at a meeting in the Mt Pleasant high school Wednesday evening. Februiry 3 Emphasis is to be plated upon re-arr aging swine projects on the tai in to make best use o! feed equipment, and labor Floyd Goodell. Henry county extension director and Everett dover, agriculture evening school teacher, are combining their meetings for this event at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening ana expect a large crowd present. GAIL CRAWFORD MARRIED JAN. 24 IN SOUTH CAROLINA meeting cf the volunteers frvicc, a part of the civil-efense organization, was held in Use agriculture room of the high school, Thursday evening January 28. Twenty young men hive offered their services for this work which presses extricating persons trapped under debris. It is the primary duty j of this rescue squad to save trapped well as the liv- A Mt Pleasant youth taking training in the air corps escaped serious ■ injury in a plane crash in he moun-j taints of New Mexico this week. Aside from ^omc CUL and bruises I Cecil Hamilton, -on of M. and Mrs. C H Hamilton, is none the wor.se for the episode and charges it up to ex-! perience j He and a Cap’, Brown, the latter piloting the plane, were taking part in a search for a missing plane in the mountains near Roswell, New ; last Monday afternoon. a cove where he captain thought ne suddenly found themselves in difficulty Mexico. J ratiic Turning into' New London, la Mr. and Mrs. | Roth mer A. Sett art enjoying a visit ' from their .son, Edward Scott of the j U. S. navy who arrived here from { California, Wednesday Scott who was ' reported missing for several weeks, has ! had many narrow escapes and has tak- j I en part in nearly all of the major bat- j | ties cf the Pacific. He graduated from Lamoni high school two years ago last pring and a few weeks later, shortly after his 17th birthday he went to Des Moines and enlisted in the navy. He was sen' to the Great Lakes naval training station and after 6 weeks training, went to join the fleet. His work is in communications person the dead a** ’ spotted the missing plane, they Ing, when it can be done without fur- ■ her ri le or lite. In performing then ^ b)y w mecl,anlcal trouWe duties the rescue squad may ce con- \ cerned with first aid. incendiary bomb control, decontamination, electric wires and gas and water mains. Everett Clover, a local first aid instructor, has charge of this service and is training the volunteers who include: j Jim Under, Bob King. Jim Green, Kenneth Owens. Charles Swailes. Dave Foster. Glen Conal d, Joe Messer, Vt* rn.plane mlght ignite It did not. how-| in the leathern Pacific. Later he was brought ti San Francisco, where he arrived December 5th. 194 2 His ship participated in battles when the Hornet. Yorktown and Wasp were destroyed. He has seldom been on land, as bombardment is done from about 6L> or 7 miles distant. Thinks Jap, Well Equipped It is his opinion that loss of life en our side has r filar.vcly squall However he does think that the war will be long and hard and he says th. it the Japs are well equipped, and well trained. He has seen very few prisoners and has talked to none. He states that few prisoners are taken as the Japs will fight to id girls in any grad* between the ed England cf aerial destruction once the Russians are defeated. ‘‘I shall not forget what the Royal Air Force has done to Germany.” It was 3gainst a background of utmost confusion, .shouted orders and explosions heard on the radio, that seven’ll and twelfth. Separate prizes are awarded to the winners in the boys and the girl.-, division. Miss Dorothy Ann Lukes ol Calmar. Iowa Winneshiek county, won both the state and national prizes in the Girls- Division la using part of the nance her education at Iowa Stat college. FIRE DESTROYS IOWA HOSPITAL Infant Dies; Fourteen Patient Forced Out year and is now* Goering deputized fcr Hitler. prize money to fi- - Berlin, Germany (INS'-- Adolph Hitler declared today in i proclamation that there are only two alternatives for Germanj - - victory for Germany and her allies or destruction and enslavement for everybody by bolshevism. ‘‘Germany must fight on doggedly." Hitler continued 'until the whole continent is saved.” Mfksec, Wm.! Tackenburg. Bob Tackenburg, Dean Rich Walt Conner, Keith Bogle. War-ren Anderson, Louis White. Richard Nib.art Wayne Klopfeuslein, Donald Thornes* Leon Marshall, Scott Smith. Seeing that they were going to crash, ’.he pilot gave the motor all it would take, in an attempt to level off They were up about 200 feet when the plane star * J to drop. I he' plane hit the tops of trees, did off and .skidded and bounced to a stop. Hamilton and Brown scrambled out as quickly as possible fearing the At Pearl Harbor i He was on th* Oklahoma, on its * second deck when it was struck about I 8 a. rn. December 7th, at Pearl Har-1 ber. He with others got aboard an-■ other ship alongside the Oklahoma , before *it went down, but had only {got aboard when the second ship was I sunk After this the men were tak-]evei | en to the beach where they remained for some time. For almost a year he next was on the Northampton, when it t o was sunk in the battle of the Solomons. He was thrown into the Nevada, la. UNS)— A $100,000 blaze today swept throuh the Iowa sanitar-death rather j ium and hospital here, causing the than surrender, and also, they are so death of a two weeks old infant in an tricky that the Americans are always incubator and drove 14 patients out indoubtful of their intentions. J l0 the chilly winter weather. Meets Friend | The fire, believed to have started I the two years of his service he from defective wiring in the base-has met one boy who was in high ment. completely destroyed the 40-with him. and several cider room, blick construction Allied Planes Hit Seven Axis Ships school men that he knew building Allied Headquarters in North Africa. • INS' —Allied planes yesterday hit seven axis ship', three in convoy and four at Bizerte. an official communique said today. One of the convoy vessels was described as a cargo liner. The raid on Bizerte w*as carried out ever. After looking over the situ- ed' and a half before being rescued. In Several ^tattles Mr and Mrs Elsa Crawford, Olds. announce the marriage of their son, Gail Crawford to Miss Eileen Nich L. New York City. The wedding n-ok place Jan. 24 at Columbia. S. Carolina where Mr. Crawford is stationed with the 100th Infantry division at Fort Jackson. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Clarence A. G. Nichols ol water and swam about for an hour ation, they left the plane and start walking. That was in the late after-^ ; He took part in the battles of Marin altitude of about shall and Gilbert. Wake. Coral Sea - - far above and Midway. When his ship was the snow line. They tore up their struck in the batt.e of Midway he parachutes and wrapped themselves went over the side and was rescued by To Meet Tuesday m the pieces to keep warm the nigh- they starte* to warm up and the next morning arrived along a highway in connection with the bombing of the in Lamoni. He which was located on a high hill south ^ fteid The convoy was south of the city Wildlife Group noon. They were at 9,500 feet at the time During a destroyer and taken to a U. S. base the night they started fires from tim «——— urges the home iieople to keep up en me city. The structure was owned their good work of buying war stamps bv the Iowa Seventh Day Adventists and bonds and especially complimented Association. the New bondon schools for their large Parents of the infant lost rn the .blaze are Mr. and Mrs. Chiton Doo-purchases. I With his mother, he left Friday eve-, little of Nevada. _ fling for Lamoni to visit his grand-J parents. His sister, Mrs. Willard All I i i Will Heatherington of Beloit. Wis., was to 1/131ICCS VT I I meet them there for the week end. They plan to return home Sunday evening. He will leave for New’ York -- Des Moines la. (INS)—Lieut. Col bound between Sicily and Tunisia and was heavily escorted. Attack Sub Base Again Go To Camp Dodge London, Eng 'INS* R A F bombers roaring acrose the channel last, night, attacked tho submarine base at Lorrien: on the French coast, the British air ministry announced today. to time A meeting of the Henry county Wildlife association will be held at where they were p^ed up by a school the Braselton hotel here on Tuesday ^us They estimated they had wame« evening of next week at eight o clock about 25 miles. Election of officers will take place. They were taken by ambulance to I Max Collins will show pictures of their headquarters and were hospital-wildlife taken locally and pabably Mr. ^or twQ days injuries suffered Aitken, superintendent of the state ^y captain Brown, a resident of an-fish hatchery at Lake Wapello, will ^er state, were about the same as be present to sneak. He has appeared .hose of Hamilton with the exception here before and is an excellent speak- - a more severe leg injury. cr, ' Ct cfi, former Mt. Pleasant high Hot dogs, coffee and pictures will ^ool athlete, wrote his parents of Mr. Crawford was an outstanding j free, L. C Mlltenberger, who it the incident and Friday night tele young author, many of his stories be- I head man fcr the meeting, announces phoned them reassuring them that he these lessens are I* irned and applied mg published in national magazine. I ------ was all right and ready to Av again., unquestionably will go far toward de At Camp Jackson he is an editor of HARRIET BROCKERT Albany. N. Y She graduated from th* St. Peter s Training School for Nur-m s In New oYrk City in 1938. Before entering the army in Decent bel City, February 7th. and has been or-, -...... - o * a * tiered to report for duty aboard ship Or en B. P tier-, commanding officer Russian Armies on February loth. cf Camp Dodge induction center, said J Ahead . today all draftees from Iowa county , boards will be inducted at Camp Moscow. Russia. (INS) Russian •Yroerican 1 TOOPS Ovorcomo D~dg* regardless cf the branch of sh-- armies surged ahead along the whole ' . , . rr, » - r|1, vice they are to enter. front from Leningrad to the Caucasus, Problems As I hey Meet I hem Th,, draft TS. col. powers said. nil the soviet noon communique said to- have no assurance as to what branch day. of the service they will be assigned. 1 At the same time Brig. Gen. Chaa. H Or ah I. Selective Service director. At the Front in Tunisia, Jan. 29— point — and need no urging to dig *INS>—Scores cl new lessens have themselves in. been learned in the grim school of* At present, when a new position is combat by American ground forces occupied, the system is to dig fighting beside the British and French ! trenches first against the Germans in Tunisia. j vidual has some pr How well and sp* tidily these lessons' are dug and when they are completed learned is literally of vital im- the slit trenches are is to dig slit As soon as each bidi- announced thai the March call for •otectio.1, fox h Irs Iowa had been sharply reduced from the average monthly quo'as of lait RUSH TO GET CAR LICENSE STICKERS is are porta nee. for this war to a .soldier a matter of life or death. Furthermore, the speed with which the weekly newspaper and also coil" tributes a feature column. appears without SHOES; FINED $10 BEGINS WAAC TRAINING BIG BUS UPSETS Fort Des Moines. Iowa —Auxiliary INJURING 40 PERSONS Harriet Bernadine Ifo* kcrt of 209 - Garfield. Mf. Pleasant,. Iowa, ha> be- chicago, 111. (INS' — A double deck gun training in the Womens Amay dus swerving sharply to avoid hitting Auxiliary Corps. another vehicle, Cedar Rapids The dignity of police court was bent if not broken here Friday when Francis J. Brick appeared before the bench in his bare feet. "Young man. where are your shoes? Judge Harry S. Johnson asked "I’m darned if I know. I wish you’d help me find them.” Brick replied. He was-fined $10 and casts en an] intoxication charge. Police found Brick in a car that had crashed into a curbing. Its driver, Hilbert Schwarting, 23, Marengo. la., was charged with driving while intox- skidded on a south She was immediately assigned to a sjde street today and toppled over on Receiving Center company for a ^ts side, injuring an estimated 40 pas-week’s elementary military training, fingers. Here she is issued clothing and equip- - men\ instructed in rudiment* of drill, NO MARRIAGE LICENSES filled in. Fox holes are required to be two feet by four feet, at least four feet deep and well camouflaged. Must lie Deep Another point is that silt trenches ter mining the outcome of the campaign should be deep enough for men to be aud certainly the speed with which it safe at the bottom if attacked bv is brought to a successful end. ‘ tanks. Otherwise they run the risk of One of the great* of all problems being crushed by tanks passing ovei for troops at the front is that of pro- thp trenches. tection against enemy high-level and Proper concealment is of particular dive-bombing attacks as well as against artillery, mortar and machine gun fire. Slit Trenches I For this reason commanding officers ; in Tunisia today are stressing and re year. 104 ACRE FARM NEAR MT. PLEASANT SOLD importance in an area Uke Tunis: where enemy aircraft are extremal', active. Units are now being tclri not , to dig trenches in regular formations. which are easily discernible from the The Gillis and Garretson Real Estate agencies report the sale of he 104 acre Hickcnbottom farm, adjoining MI Pleasant on th** northwest, to D. C. Ross of Winfield. Mr. Ross is buying “his place for a home and gets possession March first. ACCUSED OF MURDER; DECLARED INSANE and given Army classification tests. These tests will help determine the j job she will fill in the WAAC. For the following four weeks. air ! Cherokee. la. <INS*—Robert Perrin, The Germans in Tunisia have proved 34, charged with the slaying of his themselves artists at camouflage mother, today was to be commit'ed to Count v residents who had not bought their car license stickers, mach a las- minute lush today to avoid the penalty which becomes effective Feb-mary I. I ‘r.rs extending into the lobby farmed at the county treasurer’s office during the afternoon as persons waited heir turn, PELAX REQUIREMENTS ON MEN OVER 38 I Washington, DC. GNS)—Tile war department today relaxed requirements for the discharge from service of men over 38 years of age Under the new rules, a trained soldier need no longer ie avai’able W> take the place of the * ver-age man. t stressing the necessity of digging slit SO FAR THIS MONTH trenches the moment a position, biv- OW nu* ling mvn,“,ouac or assembly area has been occu- They are especially adept at conceal-[the wart! I r criminally Insane .it the The month of January will close pied, will be assigned to a basic company without a marriage license being is-' On the basis of experience g fined in Hens. A practice that the courthouse here during the campaign so far, orders have been beneficial to them mo - unless someone should issued that trenches must be dug im- American and British forces arc now dash in this afternoon- UP until 1:30 ahoulc, he racover Iron, .he mental iii- Cane Funeral home and the burial hull down” post -1 ness. Perrin must .stand trial on a first lock place sue 'for more detailed training, preparing sued at her to replace a man in a non-combat the month Army job. Infant Dies ing their weapons in defiladed pus,- Anamosa reformatory after a dis erie t Janet Bae. the baby daughter born has proved I court jury yesterday found him in- to Mw wad Mrs. Raymond Oissei'. Fri- than ouch (sane. day rn ma g at the Memorial ho>- Judge Hassell Rodman in ordering pita!, died about ll o’clock Friday Perrin to the insane ward. added that ever inc. The body was aken to the She is the daughter of Charles M. no licenses had been issued this month be. to acrid was charged with driving while imox- one i. wkluau* pleasant which sets a record for a long period Troops that have been through a few and also tanks in louted, arraigned in district court, and Brocket of 209 Ca,field. Mt. Pleasant wnicn^ ^ ^ dive-tmmbin, attacks readily see the Mon given until Tuesday to plead. Iowa. dive-bombing attacks readily see the tion. degree murder charge. this afternoon o'clock at Forest Home at foul

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