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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 6, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 13 - Through Aug. 15. Gasoline No. 6 Expires July 21 Fuel Oil 5.....Until Sept. 30 Coiffe 21 - Valid through July 21. THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMP8 N. P. Q Mu* stamps expire Aug. 7 K, L, M blue stamps expire July 7 P, Q red stamps expire July 31 Shoe Stamp 18 expires Ort. 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 156TUESDAY, .ILLY 6. 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA THE By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) Fierce»Battle Ra ges On Russian Front Honor Roll Is Dedicated They’ll Do It Every Time - - - WASHINGTON — FATHERS hav been fed almost daily confusing an I conflicting statements by government officials as to when and if they will b** drafted. The la * auhori'ativc word Ls that ” 'Capt. Miles Speaks; Large Crowd Present Despite the heavy shower earlier in the evening, a large number of Henry county residents gathered in Mi. tiny will bo taken in October, but. only) Pleasant Sunday evening for the dedi- he names of the Henry county men and would be drafted in July I women in the service. Representatives Negotiations are afoot whereby they wer(, presf.nt from most of the towns may not be taken a- all goal ha but cor un authorities, including tile! Iowa Legionnaire and new connected chairman of the house military' affairs Committee, Andrew May, haw discovered that fighting efficiency might be a few weeks ago, the equally autl»ori- J cation of the Honor Roll listing t tativ' cffical prediction was that they names of the Henry county men a; taken a a1; The official and townships of the county, if not all. been an 8,OOO,OOO-man army,I Capt. Frank Miles, editor of the sharply increased if the goal is trimmed to perhaps 5 (JOO.OOO. Tile (qu pment for raining, feeding, shipping abroad, and supplying 8.000 -OOO men is obviously limited The available facilities would triable the training and supplying of a 5.000,000-man force to a tar gr* ater degree of efficiency than th* currently announced program would permit. Al.v) lately the military' men have com** to place greater reliance on air power, since the air events of the final portion., of the north African carn -paign army authorities have come to bel.eve 'hat bombing may do more of the job ahead of tis than they expected. a job for which they formerly anticipat'd Hie need of foot soldiers A curtailment of 3,000,000 likewise would meet the manpower situs ion. as Mr. McNutt ha. announced exactly 3 300,(JOO persons must be added to the labor force. Sign, are plentiful that the directing officials already are moving toward curtailment A senator has received info; mat im hat he draft quota for Augu » has been cut from 238 000 men to 150.000 Official announcements also have been made that the army is releasing the hotels it seized for training purpose at Miami, Atlantic City, Chicago, and elsewhere. with the Iowa Selective Service, gave a splendid address and received much applause from the audience most of , whom were seated in cars because of I the wet condition in the park At the start of his address he said that he and Mrs Mile happened to drive by the Honor Roll a1 they arriver; in Mt. Pleasant and that lie was impressed by the beauty of the Roll “I have yet to see a more beautiful Roll than the cne you have constructed here,” he said Capt Mites has seen some 40 or 50 such Rolls in the state. He was introduced by Frank Abraham, prominent In Iowa Legion drek and chairman of the Henry Coun- I coop 28 (»oe> To ( amp Last- ( ty Selective Service board. j man This Week Supt C. A Cottrell awarded medals j to ihree women, who have About 4o calls to MAkfE BEFORE LUNCH AND 39 OP THEM WILL DGIT EV/ERV TIME-~tkr john c <30ERTZ PASADENA, calif Quiet Holiday Period in County Com para t ie ly Few Cars On The Highways First Hours Costly For Nazi Army Scouts Experience Senate Adopts RamAt (amp prke Subsidy Three Drownings Over The Fourth C.A.P. Members Have Busy Week four or more .sons in the service and who have net previously received medals. These included Mr'* Edward Lanferman, who has five sons in the .service and who spoke briefly and urged that we at home be willing to sacrifice anything we have that might ly- a help to our boys over there Mis. Harry Hayward and Mrs Bert WelLs, both of whom have four sons in the service Jack Burns. Paul St illman Richard Burns and a cub scout Dan Burns No Highway Fatalities Reported In Iowa Washington, D. C. fINS>—By a vote of 32 to 31 the .senate today author- ized a $700,000,000 annual price sub- j - idy program by adopting a ccmpro- j Des Moines, Iowa —(INS)— Iowans mise amendment to the Commodity were back at work today after an In-rode their bicycles o Camp Eastman j Credit Corporation bill. dependence Day week-end holiday that The Taft amendment authorizes the apparently was comparatively free of R( (obstruction Finance Corporation to highway tragedy and other violent pay out $350 000.000 to support the deaths. meat and butter or other rcll-back However, while highway accidents subsidies to January' 1st and author- took no reported death toll, the s ate izes Commodity Credit Corporation had at least three drownings. Sunday via Keokuk winch is 52 miles There arr* 26 Boy Scouts of troop 28 at camp this week It began to rain just after we got the first tent set up Everybody got wet. We all had a river' running through our ten s. No damage j was done bv the rain but it hurt our the award, but wa1 to receive it Monday from Mr. Cottrell, feelings. The first night we were late Mrs. Wells was pot present to receive jy„ yupppr We have the Heron.-: Ne-i to ourselves. The Heron's Nest is located George Rochefort of the committee winch had charge of the erection of the Honor Roll eave IU history ««i,.hew „ p,enty of „ rifle badges some of the —*-•*-*— A- construction. south of the lodge and north of the rifle range. Boy, the food is good and facts pertaining to its1 John Van Osdol of the are cloth this year instead of metal Manly Frazer is staying with us. JIM PETRILLO, ’he musicians un- navy recruiting office at Burlington Most of the sUff ls the same> Mr ion s fuehrer called in reporters a few sang "When the Lights Go On Again cleveanes who was swimming instruct- days back to laugh publicly at John Lewis and the coal strike and to say: "When I call a strike, I call a strike " Hp certainly does Petrillo has conducted the longest strike of the war. Since last August I nearly a year ago, he has caused his musicians to strike gram any radio transcriptions of aga ms music Over the World” with his daughter. fjr M yeaf wag here ?oday for a whiIe Miss Doris, playing the piano accom- He ^ WQrking in a defense plant in payment. The Rev. c O Strohl of ~ Peoria. New London gave the invocation. ,__ The Mt. Pleasant band played preceding and at the close of the pro- WESELY AND SHANNON E A Sanders, presided at the} program, which was sponsored by the WEDDING IN WASHINGTON County Legion. TUE si ('CESSPIT. AM ERH AN landings in New Georgia and the vaguely defined MacArthur moves in New Guinea were planned as the first steps in a real pincers move to entrap the big Jap base at Rabaul- The base ordir. K, L, M Stamps To Expire Wednesday subsidies totalling $350,000,000. With County Men And Women In The Service Yesterday afternoon. Russell L. Duff, 40, Des Moines barber, was drowned in the Des Moines river w’hen he was thrown from a boat mat struck a log On Sunday there had been at least •wo drownings. Eighteen year old Frank Howell, Jr . of Keokuk was drowned in Lake Keokuk and at Osage, * , Leonard Kobliska, 26 year old Elma. Word has been received that John Iowa, farmer lost his life when a boat Herbert Bwrs. A O M 3c. was recent- on which he and two companions we;* ly graduated from the Naval Air Tech-1 fishing on the Cedar river overturned. meal Tng. Center. Memphis, Tenn.,* The Iowa state p-iice radio station reported that it had no reports of highway fatalities over the week-end. and a similar report came from Des Moines city police headquarters. and is now stationed at Norfolk. Va. James Joseph Shannon, son of Mrs Elizabeth josephine Clark and the late ’james Preston Shannon of Washington. D. C., and Miss Bertha Olive Wesley, ’ haugh'er of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Joseph Blue stamps K. L. and M, good for Wesley of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, were Pvt. James E. Myers returned Sunday to Ft. Crook, Nebraska after spending a three day leave here with his wife, mother and relatives. rn it. Ruth Wright, A. N. C., has been! transferred from Palm Springs, Calif,j to Temple, Texas. * i t Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shepp received) J word from their .mn. Cpl. Robert Shepp1 of Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Maryland, that he will arrive at midnight tonight for a 14 day furlough at Mt. Pleasant. Beneficial Rains Over the Week End Rainfall Since Saturday Totals 134 Inches observance of the Fourth of July, Russians Report 800 German and the fifth, was exceptionally quiet t I I in Henry conn v. Fewer cars were on I 8I1KS LOSI the highways than on any Independ-ence Day holiday in the last decade, according to observers. Moscow, Russia 1 INS)—The first 24 Family gatherings and the celebra- hours of Nazi Germany's offensive in tion at the Golf Club were the chief lhe Orel-Belgorod sector has cost the events of interest locally Most persons enemy mere than 800 tanks destroy**! remained at home and observe \the las or damaged, the greatest single day's by some slight variation in he usual ]os-s of the entire Russo-German war, schedule, or by writing to loved ones in an official announcement disclosed the service. Flags were en display at Ibis afternoon. many horn*s. More than 10,000 German dead al- Firecra kens and fireworks, outlawed ready are piled un on the battle front in Iowa except at clubs and gatherings chosen by Adolph Hitler for his long where permits are issued, were notice- awaited summer offensive, the an-ably missing. Only two or three "ex- nouncement .'aid. plosions" were heard rn Mt. Pleasant (In New York. CBS recorded a Monday, evidently from imported o; broadcast by its Moscow' correspondent, left-over fireworks. Bdl Downs, in which he declared that --Soviet planes, tanks and infantry are courter attacking strong Nazi arm-i red forces after successfully turning back tank units spearheading the German thrust. (Downs declared that the Nazis are throwing men and equipment into the drive ‘‘in an attempt to gain an initial break-through” but so far have had no success. - 1 (He added, “there is little doubt tha' Concluding their week s activities by Hitler meant business. ) attending the Recruiting Day and de- During the first 24 hours of offen- dieation of the new squadron airplane 9ve drive said Red 8far. official organ at Iowa City, the local Civil Air Pa- of the Soviet army, the Germans have trol has been active in promoting their made practically no progress, work here this pa^t week. Bercesl battling since the Red More than 500 members from neigh- a,my crushed the Nazis at Stalingrad boring towns, including the Mt. Pleas- ar,d drove Hitlers legions westward ant group spent Sunday in Iowa City horn the Caucasus raged along a ligand heard Major Don Johnston, com- mile line on the Orel-Kursk-Belgorod mander of the C. A P. in the city, lront as Soviet forces repeatedly parried icate the new airplane given the strong thrusts by German mech-group by the towm civic organizations. anizcd units. The address of the day was given by * Lieut. Gov Robert Blue. A parade of London. England <INSi ‘Axis pro- C. A. P.’s, competitive contests, and Pa8anda> — The Nazi controlled Vichy tides with the American Beauty shows radlo reviewing repcrts of the Nazi completed the day's entertainment, offensive on the southern front in Some of the members flew to Iowa Russia Staten today that Berlin conicity in their private planes. ment* that it is an operation strictly Other recent activities of the local local in character. squadron include the lecture given last ---- Tuesday evening bv C. A Cottrell, ex- Air War History plaining the methods of protection Qv Sirilv Qffairist nsiicnn era rpq ’Thursday PVfi- + Conclude Activities by Attending Iowa C ity Event arily has 45 to 75 ships at anchorage canned goods, vegetables and fruits, united in marriage at 10 00 o clock a. every day, and is the second largest wm expire at midnight Wednesday m* Monday, June 7. 1043, at a Nuptial Jap base (next to Truk> in all the night: While there will be some in- Mass in St. Gabriels Chuich of Wash- South Pacific. It is the core of Sou h creases in purchases as customers rush ington, D. C. Pacific Japanese power, has three air- to spend their remaining stamps be- The Rpv* William J. Swcentry read, ^ ^ caDtain's Office, fields, and is the re-shipping poitv f0re they become void, grocers are not tbe double ring ceremony in the p.e- feeding all the ^mailer stronghold*. t expecting the rush that has been ex- sence °f about fifty gues s. Tin couple Tile immediate MacArthur objective perienced in the past at the close cf wa* attended by John James Ray aiu w as the New Guinea peninsula jutting ^ ^he periods. Most persons have used Miss Betty Mac Coles, out intb the sea north of Lae and Sala-j ^ -june-’ points it is believed, maua, closest New guinea point to Ra- The bride wore a powder blue dress with white shoes and dus'y pink hat baul The immediate purpose at the fighter planes have been recalled from and accessories- Hoi corsage was of other side of the pincers in New Geor- ' Russia smce expansion of the British white rose buds The groom wore a gia was to eradicate the substantial and American air attacks on German grav suit witb shoes, t fnrt'p in the Central Solo-, onntrre i Miss Coles wore a white cycle Japanese force in the Central Solo- j industrial centers. I Miss Coles wore a white eyelet dre.v mons, estimated as high as 30.000 men. J The two prev}ous Nazi offensives in with white accessories and a corsage of In addition, the Japs are supposed to;Ru&.ja were instituted in June, which Y®li°W rose buds. Due to illness in the was too late in the year to allow for family the brides mother was unable full development of the action before *° attend. winter I Following the ceremony a breakfas took place at the home of the groom’s have 8.000 to 12.000 in the northern ls-landvS, a total of possibly 50.000 in all the Solomons area. While these are hardly sensational objectives, if they were to be won with- THE RUSSIANS have likewise shown mother, and later in the evening a re- The addres> of Nancy I^ankford, Y. U. S. N. Air Station. Ottumwa, Iowa. In a recent letter Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith received from Carl L. Craft, he said he was well and had received another rating, that of Corporal Si Richard R. Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick F Hall, Mt. Pleasant, has been promoted from staff to technical sergeant at the Blytheville Army Air Field where he is a clerk in the flight operations department. Sergeant Hall entered the service June 23. 1942 and has been stationed at Blytheville since July. against poison gases. Thursday evening, the Burlington squaditm met Allied Headquarters in North Africa with the Mt Pleasant group and con- —(INS)—The blazing guns of 30 Am-ducted a program of military exercises, erican Filing Fortresses were reveal-including a movie of the actual bom- ed today to have made air war his-bardmcnt of Germany bv the R A F. tory in the skies over Gerbini. Sicily, The C. A. P. is a vcluntary home when within the brief span cf 15 min-deiense organization under the super- utes they shot down out of the clouds vision of the Army Air Force. Its at least 30 of IOO axis interceptors, members wear the regulation army The raging battle which took place uniform with the C. A P. insignia de- yesterday saw the enemy planes drop signaled in red. The Mt. Pleasant blazing to earth at the rate of two Heavy showers ove: the week-end j group meets twice a week to study every minute while only three forgave dry top soil some needed moisture : navigation, meteorology, radio code rcsses were lost. and improved the pasture and crop and other military subjects, preparing in all. the enemy lost 42 planes as outlook in Henry county. | for duty in the armed forces if they the allies hammered the additional In Mt. Pleasant the rainfall for the are called. ejectives in Sardinia and Sicily, con- week-end period totalled 174 inches,1 The local squadron is eager to re- centrating on airdromes. and coming at scattered periods, most crUft new' members, and invites any- ------— of the water soaked into the ground. one interested in the organization to |)amag IJ C Corn, soybeans, late tardens and pas-! altend the Tuesday or Thursday night .. f V D I tures. while not suffering from a lack meeting helds in the Tovera building Vessels III Ddttlc of moisture, were ready for rain. | Qn North Main , A;q>__Tndirj»tin* Wind blew down a tree in Central! ___ J Washington, D C INS Indicating that American Pacific units have won park in Mt Pleasant Saturday night. The tree, rotten at the roots, was up- CUT IN NEWSPRINT turned rather easily by the wind which was not especially strong. Fa Mary E. Wittmer. A. S., has the following address: U. S. C. G T. S., Co. R I, Pl - 4, Room 720, Palm Beach, Fla FOR THIRD QUARTER in a rea>onable time, the vital Rabaul (jn maneuvers no threat of ception wras held at the home of Mi J Farragut, Idaho — Wendell Wayne w as doomed. HITLER LATELY has been moving directly away from his promised offensive in Russia. From London comes reports that the Fuehrer has withdrawn several divisions from the Eastern front. Tile Russians hastened to %my this, obviously bent on dispelling any allied relaxation of interest or pres- ion at Italy Greece and sure on their front, and probably they f|cantiy of late — through Turkey into Woodsman. 603 Division street. Mt Pleasant. la., arrived at this second largest U. S. Naval Training Station this week to begin his recruit training. Force launching a big offensive. The right and Mrs. George Goodman of 4429 3: j Woodsman, son of Mr and Mrs. C time for Stalin to strike would be when Street N. W.. Washington, D. C. t our Invasion is underway. Few mili-! Mrs. Shannon, a native of Iowa, tary men expect anything big out of graduated from the Keosauqua high Russia until we have started. school in 1935, and is also a graduate The game the allies are playing is of Irish's Business College of Iowa City, clear. We are constantly threatening Iowa. In 1941 she went to Washington, new points of invasion in the East, D. C. to accept a position with the feinting with our publicity or air act- Treasury Department where she will most signi- continue to work for the present. Mr. Shannon, a native of Washing the first round of the new Solomons sea battle, the navy today announced some damage” to United States vessels but emphasized that "considerable damage was inflicted on the enemy." At the same time, the navy announced that the 2,100 ton United States destroyer, Strong, was sunk by enemy torpedoes during the warship bombardment on Japanese positions in Kula British. Nevertheless, undeniable informa ion is available that Hitler has augmented his force recently in both Fiance and know more about the subject than the the Ba]kans, our concentrations in ton, D. C.. graduated from the Roose Syria have given Hitler full notice of veil high school in 1938. after wihich h< danger in that quarter, although it has secured a position with the Standard been little noticed in that country. Oil Company of New Jersey and later Til us we have caused HiTer to spread was employed in the General Account-in Italy These may have been reserves thinly hjs dwindling power. Faced with ing Office of Washington, D. C. taken from Germany rather than the threats au fronts, he must spread The couple will be at home at 4429 eastern front, but they would hardly his mfn and planes around in the com- 3rd Street N. W.. Washington, ll. D. C have been withdrawn had an anti- plet0 circie nf his vaunted fortress, --- Russian offensive been contemplated. preVenting concentration of his full Mrs. Wm. Ferguson is expected home Furthermore, it has been definitely es- on any front, this is an indis- this week from Cincinnati w'here she tablished that a number of German pensable preparation for invasion. has been visiting her brother. REQUEST FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION BLANK To: The Mt. Pleasant News Scholarship Chairman 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---------------------------------------- Washington. D. C. (INS)—Cuts in ; newsprint up to 5% for the third ! quarter of the year were announced | today bv the War Production Board. Pvt. Daryl J. Wittmer A. S. N 3767235. The 5'7 reduction affects newspa- T. G. 301, Barrack 311, Sheppard Field, ppr publishers who consume more ... „ » „ „ . , . . . .. Gulf preceding the naval engagement Wichita Falls, Texas. U. S Air Force. than 500 tons of newsprint in the I* three months period from July Pvt. Duane D. Wittmer: Training through September, the WPB said. Group 611. 34th Wing. Flight 39, Lin- Til? percentage cut in newsprint coin Air Base. Lincoln, Nebr, U. S. Air consumption is scaled downward and publishers using 25 tons or less during the the third quarter will suffer no reduction in newsprint allotted. in that area. Referring to the naval engagement the navy said that in the early morning of July 6th, an American task terce engaged Japanese heavy units in Kula Gulf off New Georgia Island MRS. SAID FARM SOLD TO HARRY, PAUL SMITH London, England (INS) — 1 Axis Propaganda'-The Japanese imperial high command claimed today that the Nipponese “army, navy and air force" had attacked an American covoy in Ren-dova harbor in the Solomons Sunday and sank five transports and more than IO barge lli Class 1-A Garretson and Garretson real estate brokers report the sale cf the Cora Said 195 acres 3ti miles southwest of Mt. Pleasant to Harry and Paul Smith, who own farms adjacent to the Said farm. Mr Paul Smith purchased all Chester A Morgan, high school the land west of the road comprising teacher and band director, has been 05 acres and Harry Smith puichased classified in 1-A. according to a state-all cast of the road where the build- men* posted at the Selective Service .ngs are located totalling HO acres. office.

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