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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 2, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar VA - Through Aug. 15. Gasoline No. 6 Expires July 21 Fuel OII 5.....I ntil Sept. 30 Coff? 21 - Valid through July 21 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS N. P. Q Hue stamps expire Aug. 7 P red 'tamp Ju'v I - July 31 P red stamps expire July 31 Shoe Stamp 18 expires Ort. 31 VOL. I,XXI, No. 151FRIDAY, .ILLY 2, 1915 MT. PL E AS ANT, IOWA THE By Paul MALLON (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Pull or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — NO ONE wa really surprised at the Wa Hare-Jones cut brr ik except President Roosevelt (he said), even though it was in violation of Mr. Roosevelt's own edict (last August 21/ banning official scrapping in public. It is an old private feud. The secret behind it is that ’.ice president Wallace has a blank check on Jesse Jon* s' RFG to draw any amount he wants for practically any purchase of ••strategic** materials — unless Mr Jones can llnd . ome defect ip the requisition. On of Mr Wallace’s associates has testified he expects to, buy $2 OOO .Oho, OOO worth cf items in the next yeai, and already he has paid out $1,600,000,-C90, so he is doing a very big bus!- President Vetoes Anti - Subsidy Bill Tuition Paid F or 2 Students They’ll Do It Every Time County H. S. Graduates May Compete For Scholarships His sweetie is A HARD-W0RKIN6 (Birl, but he DOESN’T mind 'keeping her up Till All hours look-tmev re closing UP-WILL VOD TAKE ME V HOME mow? IT'S APTER I THREE AMD I WAVE TiWE LL GO TO THE j DE ON THE JOB AS /' ll CASSABANANA C?L 7 Jl.TTh:______ I I is c*l J IR - TMP v CP usual tomorrow J CLUB- TMEy’RE I still open AW, TAKE IT EASV THE EVENING’S A PUP vet-c'mon-THE OVER 500 SCOUTS WILL ATTEND CAMP Two Henry county high school graduates have opportunity to enter Iowa Wesleyan college this Jail without paying any tuition lor the year. The Mt Pleasant News Is giving two scholarships which will take care of the tuition costs and there Is still opportunity for prospective students to compete for these scholar:,;ups. Ail that is necessary to compete la to fill in the application form published in the News and mall it now You, should not delay, but .should get. in Abe request for the application at once. Tuition cost at Iowa Wesleyan for the year (tiro semesters/ is $186. For eatn f two students this amount will ness, all in secret with only Ragmen- I tarv report and under an authority be taken care of without cost to the which was given to him originally by an executive order from FDR, not by act of congress student through the arrangement made by the News with Iowa Wesleyan authorities. _ I There are no strings attached. Sim- Ij| inf. BEGINNING, oy law of ply fill in the request blank and mail cong re , J one: was dong th* purcha - lit to the News today. Late th” month, ing on recommendations from Mr j the applications will be studied by Walla ' , bureau of economic warfare, three impartial judges who will se- but Wallace lipped down to the white t lect the two winner*. house and got an executive order re- E. H Hrrtzler. Camping Activities "hah man rf the Southeast Icwa Council. announce^ today that over 500 Scouts have mad'* reservations to spend a week a Camp Eastman this summer Troop 28 Mt. Pleasant will attend the first period starting Sunday, July 4 Gives Reasons For Objections To Measure Declares Some Provisions Are Not Understandable Special Fourth of July Service at Methodist Church Washington, D. C. »INS/— Declaring that the measure would compel every housewife in the nation to pay 5c a pound more for butter. President Roosevelt, today vetoed the bill outlawing the administration subsidy program because he said, It “blacks out on the piogram to reduce the cest ct When the Fourth of July falls Sunday during war year's it become a living day of deeper significance, and the Mj Roosevelt in a long veto mess F'rst Methodl-'t Church will ob erve it ate to congress -the second one in a quiring Jones, for more ’ban a year now to give him any money he wants This little private economic warfare that Mr Wallace has been conducting largely through hi - a.vUsfant Mil' Perkin> really represents th* extreme left new deal element In action, wink Jones and the RPC st ana on th* opposite new deal pole. One of Mr. Jones* associates ha te tilled that neither Wallace Perkins go to the trouble of signing the requisitions any more, but that The prospective student .should be a re d< nt of Henry counts and at- WAACs Are WACs And In The Army Beef To Cost I Point More with a -pedal patriotic service at 10:45 week—also declared that the measure A male chorus composed of townsmen Would force housewives to pay higher and ptr-flight boys will sing a patriotic prices “for every pork chop, ounce of number. Herschel Proctor. pnMlight ceef every slice or ham or bacon iden* a* Wesleyan, will sing: “Thy wh|ch goes to feed her family." \Ah\ O Lord, by Ashford Mr Joseph listed three major objections to MrCov will direct the music and Mrs. bm in present form. They are L. P. Ristlne will preside at the organ. in parf The pastor of the church, the Rev. j „The biU completely outlaws re-Oeorge G Hunt, will preach the ser- cent reductions in the nriee of meat Washington. D C. —‘INS/ Tile WAACs are WACs now and officially terming college for the first time this in fall. It Fill in the blank new and mail DENIES BIG LAYOFF AT BURLINGTON PLANT armv. President Roosevelt today signed a bill establishing the Women’s Army Corps until now the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps So the status cf the girls in khaki now is cnanged from that of an auxiliary to a regular and they are part Seventeen Changes In Points On Canned Goods Two Divorce Suits m0n America * Following Lie and butter which we instituted in or- , war. , * r’mon thf‘ contrrega'lon wiU stand ln der to help get the cost of living back riled W lth ( leek V,ient prayer f°r °Ur country and our down from the highest to which it sons serving in the armed forces and has risen in recent months.’ th* n sing “God Bless Our Service Men” 2. “This measure will make it vir- Graves and Miller Actions Are T;ght more names llave b<‘t'n added tuaiiy impossible to institute any adiate* ana Miner Att.ons art ,o the Hom>r Rq11 o( church wh,ch ^ ^ ^ ^ riled brings the number of names on,the Roll to seventy-six. All are invited to observe lie Roll before leaving the /Point tables are published elsewhere ' in this issue.! Barbara Graves 1>Simone is plant iff in a divorce suit against E N. De- relatives of the men and women whose Simone, one of two divorce actions living or even to hold the line.’’ 3. “The bill denies to the executive any nower to purchase farm products church The parents, wives, arf other (0, resale at a loss ,r t0 mak„ laMn. tive payments to obtain increased pro names appear on the Roll are given a cf fed ct,,ft* „ .td,,* rd . ,u cf fee ec.^f tcriiiv duction of Iood stuffs without the ap filed with .he clerk of f oe com t todas special invitation to attend the service w,no„cc . Cruel and inhuman treatment is charg- gurK}ay morning ingress. ______The OPA today announced a one- Burlington. la Reports that 4,- and parcel of the army, just as much point increase in th« ration values of Tile couple was manioc! in Chicago Due to the seriousness of the times nor *0C0 employees were being dropped from as any four-star general. cups f0r july, disclosing that pork j on May 17. 1941. and lived together un- more people all over America will a'- tn* Iow% ordnance plant payroll here were branded as gross exaggeration rista ut. from K Morris en thai' Rosenthal. assistant. or even these drafts come from Pct kins as- Thursday by Lieut Col. W P. Rawles, th/ plant's commanding officer A readjustment of production sched-The un-advert Used Wallace- Perkins- uje jias resulted in the release of some Rf enthal economic war lately has been subjected to inquiries from the Mr. Roosevelt also signed a bill ap- wl|j compromise more than 50” of J til December 25, 1942 She asks 520 a tend church on the Fourth of July. It propriating $71,000,000,000 to operate tpe cjVjj meat supply this month while j month alimony for the dura ion of the jS expected that the churches of Mt. the army for the comme year Most ^e amount of beef available will be war and six months thereafter A prop- pleasant wdl! be well filled. A large of the fund going to the air corps. | the smallest since rationing began. ert>* settlement bas been made In the other action, Harold Millpr comjng feel that, our na'tonal holi- ddittonal personnel, colonel Rawles aid He denied, however, that any members of the .senate banking com- drastic charge was contemplated “The fluidity of war frequently nee- ASK A. F. of L. TO BAR RETURN BY LEWIS i At the same time 17 changes were ‘ announced in the July rationing point tables for canned goods 12 upward and 5 downward. Davenport. Iowa A resolution The fourth official meat-fats point cavitates changes in requirements both cajnng upon the executive board of table placed the ration costs of most mitten* the I3yrd committee and some others No funds for which Wallace has asked have be* n h* id ap Sonru f ag qU54ntity and type of materials the American Federation of Labor to preferred cuts of beef at from 9 to ! ‘ • *1'! : had merer. be«un a k.ne #nd ordnance department at all reject the application of John L. Lewis 13 noints per pcund and boosted a few times must be prenared to adjust to^as a member of the parent body was cuts of veal, lamb and mutton I to 2 I adopted by local union No. 629, In er- 1 points. The changes are eifective from July questions, mostly in executive session. a. to what Wallace was doing production demands, " he explained, with all those billions. do not oe- lieve that congress has had an opportunity to know or to consider how sr j iously it may cripple our entire food program.” Mr. Roosevelt declared that some previsions of the bill were not undernumber of thoughtful Americans are stancj . je seeks a divorce from Violet Miller, aiso davs are times to pray rather than on the grounds of cruel and inhuman pjay treatment. They were married at Wash _ ing ton on October 15, 1939 and lived together until March 15. 194J DAVEY AND SHAW INDUSTRY ENCAMPMENT INSTALLS OFFICERS THIS GROWING INTEREST of the sen /tors apparently was attributed by the vice president to Ins ancient ad-versary, Mr. Jones, whom he suspects of trying to regain control cf his bureau. Pf rsonally, I do not doubt that Mr Jones could have primed some sen at* TS about the way Wallace has been running his lease end of the war. but as far as the public record shows, there is nothing to prove it. Jones comment before the Byrd committee several weeks ./go was only mildly disapproving. CALL FOR BIDS ON OAKLAND SURFACING cannot believe “that Mr. Lewis desire. national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers. t The resolution stated that the union e d t0 Au8ust 1 OPA’s action followed an announce-| unity in the labor movemen- in spite ment bv the American meat institute Ames. Iowa 1 INS*—The Iowa high- of all his protestations.’ ! jn chicago that cattle shipments to way commission announced today that J The resolution also stated that the livestock markets in June were the bid- will be received July 13th on pri- union believes Mr. Lewis is not a fit lowest in ll years despite the fact that been made of the marriage of Helen Davey, daughter of Mrs Frank Davey of New London and Bpel Shaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shaw of Lancas ter. Mo., which was solemnized at the Methodist parsonage at Kahoka, Mo.. . . May 29th at 2 p. rn. The Rev. Monroe, mary highway resurfacing projects, in- person to become a member of the A. there are more meat animals on farms pastor of the church read the service eluding the following: ,F. of L. because he has repu^ia:ed la- and ranChes than ever before in his- ! The coupie visited in the Shaw home Henry county: 3 8 miles on Iowa 133 ( bor s no-strike pledge” j tory. J and about two weeks ago Shaw went ;rom Mt Pleasant t Oakland Mills t I Farmers have been holding live- to Faith. South Dakota where he has and 5 4 mjles on Iowa .8 fioni Louisa FUNERAL HELD FOR ! -trek off the rn irket, the agriculture county to Iowa 249 j . ___ _ ___ department revealed, because of un- I.ou 1 sa . 1.(8 miles on Iowa 99 from MARGARET DICUS LYON 1 certainty of future price polices and Wapello to Des Moines county and -- I the {at0 of the subsidy roll-backs At the regular meeting in Odd Fel- WEDDING ANNOUNCED low’s hall the incoming officers were __installed by D D. G. P, Geo. Pero and Z M Livix. Harold Davis, Henry New London— Announcement has Traut and Walter Bryant as deputies. The following officers were installed: "I have tried to analyze this section ta section setting up a formula for fixing maximum farm prices/ and to translate it into common sense English." President Roosevelt stated at one point. ' Frankly I do not know what it means." six miles on Iowa 78 from Morning Furthermore, the latest interest <n „u Byrd committee in Wallace was Sun ta Henry county started by Senator Scrugham, of Ne vada, who did not like the way Wal- since been employed and Mrs. Shaw lias been he.% will her mother. She expects to leave to join her husband. Sunday and they will take a wedding J trip to Billings. Mont., to visit relatives. They plan to return about the middle of Augus' and make their home at De-s Moines Funeral services for Margare Discus1 *hich congres§ killed. Lyon (1858 - 1943) were held at the Thus the total July meat supply is Des Moines: 2.1 miles on Iowa 16jCrane pune^i Home, Monday, June! expected to be 8” under June. Other Ircm Burlington to Ordnance Plani ng The Rev George Hunt conducted I changes were: lace was Accumulating stockpiles of and 6.9 miles on Iowa 99 from Kings- |^be gei-vjccs, \ trj0 composed of Lioyd I Canned fish-raised to 12 points per1 Tuesday evening Mrs. Jack Wick. metals all around the world, not be- ton to Lnuisa county. j Estes, Sam Ewart and Mrs. Lou Nevers! pcund an increase of 4 points; can- Mrs. Cleo Darbyshire and Mrs. Her- ___ cause the materials were needed, but * | furnished music. Burial was at the | ned oysters—listed at 5 points per bert Fye entertained 23 guests at a p A TR I OX! I* PIPTIIRF to keep them out of the hands of the FEW VOTES CAST IN I Richwood cemetery. I pound, un 2 points; margin? and lard miscellaneous shower at the Fye home T A IMI/I IL ITV I UMI. Axis or for diplomatic favor in such m r«/^'T*irvxr —TTI—TT ---—reduced I point to 4 points per pond; in their honor. SATURDAY LVLNING "proc/ ss" butter — cut from 8 to 4 — - Raymond Wolf. C. P. B F Collins, H. P Bruce Young. S W. Tom Young. J. W. Ursa McCoy. Guide H. Traut, 1-W. Z. M. Livix, 2-W. D. W Snyder, 3-W Howard Wilt, 4-W. Robt. Cookes, I. S Wm. McCabe, O. S 1 A H. Anderson. G-T. Alvin Bonser, G-T. Hold over officers: Nelson Pero, F S. V. D. Morris. R S. W Bryant, Treas Trustees: Z. M Livix, Ursa McCoy, ai d Harold Davis. • PIGEON SETS RECORD OF 44 MILES AN HOUR Moline. Illinois—A pigeon owned by Charles Bomelyn of Rock Island. Ill . this week won the Moline Pigeon club’s 500-mile race from Pratt, Kan., and established a record for the flight. The bird covered the distance at an average speed of 44 miles an hour. DRIVERS’ LICENSE OFFICE OPEN SATURDAY EVENING The drivers’ license office at 'he com thouse will be open on Saturday evening, the last opportunity to get a license without taking an examina^on. HOPE OF RECESS IS VIRTUALLY ABANDONED places a.> Spain, where the pricb is reported to have been fixed by Spain at a figure designed to curry the favor of the Spanish government SPECIAL ELECTION FLAG MADE OF WAR STAMPS ON DISPLAY New London—The election Wednesday on the question of the city's ac- points a pound. Regular butter remains unchanged at 8 points. Cream, neufchatel and creamed cot On Saturday night the service in Washington. D. C. UNS Hope of patty leaders for a congr* clonal recess tomorrow was virtual” shattered today as house and senate pi >ved unable to break a deadlock over 1943- Central Park will be id a patriot!/ na- appropriations for three cabinet ________ ceptance of the budding given them" A Hag ma.e of war stamps is at _____________________________ THE WALLACE-JONES 'WAR is by the government from the abandoned trac illg intcrcst m a Henry County rheese _ reduced from 3 to 2 likely therefore, to be a long one, and C. C. C. camp and the authority to JI*16!,* « - points per pound; swiss and brick Corp. is producing tanks, planes, guns, J rather than “What s Wrong with Am- pUNERAI Pl \NNED FOR War Output of CMC Ai I A mif*11* A w *.... r a-.piupriaiJous lo: uuet* laumr At IU million A 1/ay tine. Patriot'? nictures will bt .'■hown departments and numerous govern - jand Rev. Jeamb°y will discuss with ment agencies Detroit. Mich. — General Motors them “What’s Right with America," an indecisive one unless congress levy a tax for its maintenance, was a aLsp aN’ e made by Georgo munster cheese should decide to take the whole mat- quiet one, only 70 votes being cast. Of Hochetort and his Universal M°^rs ( p0mts ter cut of Mr. Wallace’s hands and these 57 were in favor of the accept- helpers has a total of $190 worth of j Canned vegPtabies return it to Mr. Jones, who incident- ance and 13 against. stamps n it. adv did not do so wed at it when ne had it before. | technique of long standing seems to MISSING NEW LONDON cut from 6 to 5 j trucks and more than 2,000 other items j er e ?’ Neither this nor any ct Hie other 'i-quhe that when ever the president recently raging official controversies gets in a tight place publicly, he tries to push the trouble off upon the news- WOMAN AT CHARITON was zither inspired or promoted by newspapers,, as the president implied. No newsman asked either Wallace or Jones for a statement. They volunteered their views of each othei. likewise, when secretary Ickes, 01 un - 'on W’ednesdav nicht m* Thiirvisv and For- like circumference was drawn by the on wednesday nignt 01 Thuisday. resignation and the papers, not on any specific newspa- 1 M ss Anna Shields missing from New per or columnist, but just "the news- London since Sunday afternoon has ,1Qr^rc» gone to Chariton to visit her aunt, ac- j)dJ.* lo. His spot this time is as tight ay cor^ing to wold received a; the shcr- he has ever occupied, but 1^6 pin- office here. She arrived a? Calan der pen t aries Patterson Davis restal denounced rubber czar Jeffers Chester ---- y . n . __ or other government officials in othei over-riding of his Smith-Conically Library Board Meets popular sized cans of French shelled beans reduced from 19 to ll points; green beans cut from 14 to ll: tomato puree down from IO points to 4; tomato sauce dow n I rom IO to 4. tun service will be omitted this week for the armed forces at a rate J Because cf the dedication service more than IO millier, dollars a day, Sunday night the regular Bible pic-according to C E. Wilson, preside of the corporation. The huge program is being carried out, he said Thursday, with the aid of 1 early 19.000 different sub-contractors and suppliers. BOY KILLED IN FALL Receives Commission government departments, they submitted their announcements in open press conferences. All have been only too happy to ex labor bill veto by congress, neither of which was ordered by newspapers or The regular meeting of the Library columnists. * | beard was held in the library Thurs- The trouble lies so clearly in high day evening. press n. nubile — even if in violation administrative confusions and con-' In the absence of F. s. Finley, C. W. of the president's order against pub- filets, it is hardly necessity tor pith* Cruikshank presided. The regulai lie controversies. er the newspapers or the columnists business was transacted and a yearly _to defend themselves against a blow estimate of expenses was prepared for A WELL RECOGNIZED white house so wide of the mark submission to the city council. REQl'EST FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION BLANK To: The Mt. Pleasant News Scholarship C hairman Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Please send me one of the application forms for the scholarship award to Iowa Wesleyan college. I intend to compete for this award. I am a graduate of ________ _______________high .school with the class of ______— Name_____________________________________________ Address________________________________ De* M ines. Iowa — UNS' -Funeral r~rvices w*ere being arranged today rot 13 Year old John Mills, fatally injured _ by electric shock and a fall from a Craig Field, Selma. Ala. - The right *r‘e late yesterdaf afternoon. lo wear a naif of coveted "Silver The boy climbed a tree with two Wings" and flv one of Uncle Sam’s companions, supped and came Into swift rid deadly fighter planes against f°ntact high voltage electric our Axe enemies has been won by *ires ant* then tumbled to the pace-Dc ald Ernest Chrissingrr, son of Mr. mcnt 3’ feet below nd Mrs. Erne” G. Chrissinger, 1301 E. Washington, who was c'mmission-^ eri a second lieutenant at spec’al out-d* 01 exercises this week at Craig Field ~ picturesque Pecan Grove The awarding of the wings and He died shortly afterward in a hospital of sh'ck and of a fractured skull. Two Held on Charges Two I. O P. wolfers, a man named commission came after the new flying Maginri- and Doyle C Alf Hill w’ere o:ficer had completed his advanced taken into custom today by highway flight tr ining at the Advanced Fly- patrolmen, ne on a charge of reckless ting school in Selma. Alabama. driving and the other on an intoxs- j Lieut. Chrissinger is spending a cation charet Their hearings were to furlough at the home of his parents, b this afternoon.

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