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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 15, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa> VALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 13 - Through Aug. 15. Gasoline No. 6 Expires July 21 Fuel Oil 5.....Until Sept. 30 Coffee 21 - Valid through July 21. THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS N, P, Q blue stamps expire Aug. 7 P, Q, R red stamps expire July 31 shoe Stamp 18 exp.ves Oct. 31 VOL. I,XXI, No. 164THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Allied Forces At Gateway To Catania ■HP* THB By PaULMaLLON (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate. Inc.. Reproduction In Puli or tn Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — THE IMPRESSION is established among congressmen trorn what they hear inside— that the B v r ne - Vinson -Jones regime is largely a front lor an in visible cabinet which really plans the domestic tconotny. Mr Roosevelt s e pou.sd of the subsidy plan has been attributed lor instance, to this cabinet The congressmen have heard ol a meeting at the whit< house, attended by the leading exe< utive officials of the administration, at which administration policy on this subject wa> to be determined The nomtn 1 leaders, the men whose names are in the newspapers every day were not strng for white hou^e espousal of the subsidy doctrine. The president sided again it them, however, and m lavor of a quintet of officials whose names seldom reach the public eye Brown Denies Maxon Charges Claims Politics Behind Attack On OPA They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Vester.qav, MOM MADE A SHIkJIMG EXAMPLE 01= 71-4E KID NEXT DOOR /, AW, GEE, MOM YOU KMOW I DON’ LIKE CARQOTS AMD STRIMO-BEAMS* I HATE ’em I Washington, D C. <INS) Price administrate r Prentiss Brown today made a vigorous and categorical denial of the blazing charges made attain^ the OPA by his former deputy, Lou R. Maxon. and claimed that politics were behind the attacks on his agency. In hi. broad denial of Maxcn’s accusations which were the severest indictment tin* OPA has yet faced. Brown stated that th«re were no "theorists'* in his organization who were attempting to "make over the American economy in wartime.” The administrator made plain at a news conference that he ha* no intention of resigning his position. Max n. Detroit advertising executive, quit his position as deputy administrator yesterday. THESE FIVE, now frequentlj re-ferred to as the Quiz Kids”, included Harr*. Hopkins, Ben Cohen. Judge Roseman Edward Pritchard and Richard Gilbert. To establish further the omnipotent* of thi invisible five, a democrats leader in congress confided to his a.vociat.es, that Ben Cohen (who is Mr. Bryne legal advisor) wrote the fust draft f FDR's veto ol the commodity credit bill and its anti-subsi-dav provi r n. Then h even more direct evidence The meat industry, including lives lock men. drew up a plan which it* lexers believed would help solve the situation Among other tilings, they wanted government purchase of 40 to 45 percent of all meat as a means of stabilizing prices and keeping them down. They first received the approval of Chester Davis, then food administrate r, and from him went to see economy * b.hzer Fred Vinson H" passed them on to war mobilizer Byrnes, who said the idea *.>ounded good ” but he was operating under direr' ives B\rnes suggested they see the president. With County Men And Women In The Service Garden Problems Avic Mnhilp r\* l l i7 a iVAlIj l"IUI/IIv Discussed bv hxpert AralleryL orced To Withdraw Dr. Grove Visits Several I^ocal Gardens Allied Sea Fire Used Against Railway Guns Dr L C Grove, horticulture expert of the extension service of Iowa State University visited several groups of townspeople in Mt. pleasant Wednesday afternoon and evening, giving advice to local gardeners who have had - problems with their plants. Stopping Washington, D. C. —(INS) -Acting at the John Moore home on N. Lin- secretary of war Robert Patterson to-eoln street, the Bonser residence on day sa|d ttiat the conquest of Sicily N Saunders, and the Thoma.s McQuay jS proceeding ‘far more rapidly thfM home near Saunders park, he answered any Cf ^ dared hope” and predicted questions and gave demonstrations of complete success but warned that hard garden technique. fighting still faced the allied forces. Dr Gr ve praised especially, in his An Advanced Allied command Base talk at the Moore home, the work of jn sjCily (INS)—American, Canadian E. R. Getchell of Mt Pleasant, who and British troops advancing steadily demonstrated in his garden the cor- on ajj sectors of Sicily with no in- rect method of handling a strawberry bed after the season is over. Mr. 6etchell mowed the foliage from the strawberry bed, removed the waste and burned it. To overturn the old crease in their astonishing small casualty list, swept to the gateway of Catania today. Fall of that great city where a population of 252.000 awaits liberation Shortage of Rural Teachers In County Woman Killed SU58 More Bonds In IOP Blast And S,amps Sold ( pi. Harry f.armor who has been ill Need a? the station hospital at Camp Hood, Texas, cf ptomjine poison is improving and hopes to be out the latter t part of this week Fourteen .More Vacancies To Fill With school opening dates only a little over six week- way. a shortage ol several rural teachers is reported by Miss F. Mae Grau. conn y superintendent. Fourteen rural schools out of the 60 to 70 in the county are without teachers at the present time and there are very few avail? f persons to take even part of these schools. Jus‘ what will be Pfr. Warren Hayes has been trans- done if teacher.- <ne not found by late ferred from Sheppard Field, Texas, to next month has not been decided, radio meehanie.s school at Sioux Falls, The pupils might either be trans- f pi. Edward Hayes, headquarter*- office, 36 General hospital. Camp Car-.son, Colo arrived home this morning to visit hi> parents Mr and Mrs. C. F Hayes. He is on furlough for fifteen days. Pi South Dakota. • Pvt. Kenneth Milks of Ft Knox Kv . and Mrs Milks have arrived here for a furlough and visit with Mrs Milk s parents. Mr and Mrs. Pearl Thome.s and cither relatives: Mrs. Milks was formerly Miss Evelvn Thornes. ported to a town school or go to a nearby rural school which has a Muscatine Worker Was Alone In Loading Room Burlington. Iowa <INS>A woman worker. Mrs Virginia Harriet Johns-; : ton. 27. of Muscatine was killed today ! in a blast at the Iowa Ordnance plant. A statement issued by the plant public relations office said Mrs. Johnston was working alone in a barricaded loading room in the plant's "percussion element line.’’ Primer mix apparently detonated while she was reloading a hopper, the office reported. The force of the explosion coming through a small door in the machine feci wide at Intervals of two feet, so that next year, he will be able to spade the opposite strip and reset. Dr. Grove advised this method to any local gardener with the same problem. At the demonstration at the resi-j dence of Mrs. Bon.ser, the problem of old potato -,eed with virus disease which destroys the remaining potato crop was dealt with by digging the old crop immediately and planting carrots and beets. Sale of bonds and stanms at the j Thomas McQuay’s garden was of inbooths in the Mt. Pleasant business terest to the group because of his Sates Continue Twice Weekly; Free Tickets To The Airevue roots, he spaded strips of garden two from their fascist over?lords. became imminent when British forces captured Mellili a strategic road point In the interior of Sicily making possible a flanking movement against Catania, coincident with a coastal drive. (Editor's Note: An NBC correspondent aboard a BritLh cruiser in the Ioivfn Sea reported allied caoture of Lentini and Carlentini on the road to Catania and also told of the first heavy naval bombardment of Catania itself by an allied squadron. Defenders of the town attempted to swing a gigantic train of railway guns into district Wednesday evening totalled crop cf burley tobacco, somewhat of action but the mobile artillery was $3.158 30, which was even more than a rarity in gardea* here. Mr. Mc-the total of the first merchant-spon- Quay is not growing the tobacco for sored sale of July on last Saturday his cwn consumption, he said, but to teacher, but the limited traasportation ; struck her in the chest and death vll WHEN THEY DUE the president sent them back to Byrnes. Even then. Brynes would only say: to administer the C^mp Grant, 111., has been transferred *o Camp Ellis, near Macomb, 111. Joe Blair, who has berm stationed a' facilities make this unlikely. Short aee.of tires and gascline causes residents to hestitate about offering to transport the pupils. They may have to resort to the methods of pioneer days; that is either walk or go by horseback. "It is my duty program given to me." The meat men thereupon had to c nclude that the policy-makers of the government were not those whose nanus are on top, but no doubt the “Quiz Kids” of the invisible cabinet. The public thus ha.' a wholly wrong impression of the Washington domestic war set-up Many millions of words have been wasted in comment (some in this column) about the various changes made or still required at the top of various agencies, whereas the real makers of policy never had been changed and will never be. This invisible cabinet, in the main, has been working behind Mr. Roose- Mr. and Mrs H A Kester of Salem have received word of the safe arrival of their son Pvt. Walter llarold Kester, in Africa The letter dated June 28 and received by his parents July 9. stated the trip was without much excitement, only when someone though- he saw a submarine, which was found to be a w-hale. w* PRIZE-WINNING WILSON PONY DIES virtually mstanteous the statement said. The machine and roof of the loading room were damaged but the rest of the building of which the room was a Dart was unaffected. evening. The bonds and stamps will be sold again cn Saturday evening an<J oa Wednesday and Saturday evpnings the remainder of the month. Free tickets are given with the purchase of bonds and stamps to the The Airevue which will be staged by the army air detachment at Iowa Wesleyan on the evening of July 30. Purchasers of bonds Wednesday evening were William M. Hoaglin. Lawrence V Scarff. Harry D. Noel. H. L. Shook, Miss Juanita White, Miss Harriett McKean. Edward Endicott, Mrs. Marguerite R Hobbs, Francis W. obtain nicotine dust for insect control. Following his talks here, Dr. Grove went to Burlington, where he will conduct similar demonstrations. Rules on REA Taxation Plan Opinion Is Rebuke Legislature To The Des Moines, Iowa — District Judge Loy Ladd, in an opinion which re- A. Shaw, Harold L. ing the buck ’ to the courts, ruled It was explained that explosive , ~ , ~ , i ^ Hobbs. Mrs. Nina Traut, Anna Evelyn buked the state legislature for "pass- rooms are segregated and barricaded t ____ ^ A 0]_____ T » , . as a means of preventing additional j casualties and damage in event of an i explosion. A pony owned by O. T. Wilson and known to many horse and pony en-thusiast§ in Henry county died at the Wilson stables this morning The pony was Real Delight of Lin-wood, one of a pai.- of blacks driven at local horse and pony shows as well as district and state shows by Mrs. Wilson Shown at the state fair, *‘he pony had New address: Pvt. Marvin I). Rich, Battery C.. 6 C. A„ Ft Fun.,ton. San n('vrr (»>'«! t0 *in first in the ladies' Francisco, Calif. Mrs. Johnston, a native of Emerson, Nebr, and former resident of Letts, Iowa, is survived bv her husband. Harlan and three children and step-children, i She had been an employe of Day| & Zimmerman, firm operating the plant, since March 30, 1942. Coroner R O. Giles said there would te no inquest. class. ^ j The pony had not been well recently The present address of Richard and finally succumbed from pneu-Doherty. former student a*' Iowa Wes- monia. velt for many years. Mr. Cohen was leyan college, is: A-S J R Doherty, - in NR A, Honkins in WPA. and Rosen- Copley Thaw Barracks, Parkville, Mo. DIVORCE GRANTED Odd Lot Shoe Sale Without Stamps Hanna. Gerald Carroll, Fred E Beck, Maurice Crowl, Wednesday on the controversial sub-T Orval Thorson, Andrew F. Glanz- ject of how rural electrification adman, Perl R Van Svoc, Mrs Ruth V. ministration (REA) transmission lines Heyde, Victor M. Hutchinson, George should be assessed for taxation pur-B. Rochefort, Raymond Vandenberg, poses. twQj Amon A. Jones, Everett Grubb. Her- judge Ladd held that the lines ; man L. Martin, Henry County Mutual should be assessed locally as personal Insurance ass’n and Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars. Those working at the booths Wednesday night were. Edna Miehener, E. | A Hayes, John Budde, Gilbert Cantwell, Louise Messer4 Olive Bates, Jean Moore, Truth Lamont, Marsha Carroll, Mary K Cottrell. Lenore NPar-shall and Jessica Weis. forced to withdraw by allied sea fire > Latest official word said the main British thrusts along the east coast in which American units are now revealed to be participating had reached a point four miles beyond Augusta. The spearhead thrust into the town of Bruso in what General Dwight D. Eisenhower termed advances of “considerable extent.” German forces at dawn attacked an isolated British brigade holding part of Augusta yesterday but by mid-day the situation had been restored. Despite difficult mountainous territory the whole British line moved forward some 6 or 7 miles while American units operating northwest of Ragusa captured valuable ground and another important airfield, one cf 7 more air ba. es scooped up within the last 24 hours by the allies. Bombers Go Deep Into Axis Europe London. England (INS)—RAF fight- axis held Europe last night and early property of the individual members, of er and flghter.bomberl ,wept deep into co-operatives owning the transmission today smashin8 the enemv communl. ! cation lines in continuation cf the allied non-stop aerial offensive. man at the president's elbow in the earliest stages of the new deal. ws William Stoner, who has been in the U S Na f stationed at F'arragut, Idaho, arrived here yesterday for a fur- BARBARA De SIMONE atives in Mt. pleasant and Olds, Iowa, by Judge E O. Newell in court here Wednesday. The couple was married TWO NEW HOUSES csa’ovc March 17. 1941. Cruel and inhuman Foundations have been poured for treatment was charged in the divorce PRITCHARD is only another name ho. arrived nere yesieruay iw « xui- Barbara Grave. DeSimone was for Felix Frankfurter, inasmuch as lough with Mrs. Stoner and other rel- granted a divorce from E. N. DeSimone he w is a former secretary to the supreme court justice and a representative of that school of thought. Gilbert, special assistant to OPA’s Pren- „ , . . . . _ . f th.a two new houses on East Washington petition, ti Brown, is one of the old Hender- v , W Veyrie just east of the Peggy Burge property, fon crowd, a Now York lawyer who J dabbled in economics. Apparently, whenever the Knudsons and Nelsons are dropped or sidetracked CADMAM IC in favor of the Bvrnes and Vinsons, it PAUL L. r ARMAN 15 SLOWLY IMPROVING OPA Amendment Permits Sale of Limited Stock CALLS UPON GILLETTE i TO SEEK PRESIDENCY Enjoins State The ruling enjoined the state tax commissYn from assessing the cooperatives on a system basis. The test case was brought by the Greene Ccunty Rural Electric Co-operative and the Hardin County Rural Electric Co-operative. Two other associations, the Winnebago County Elec- A flight of Mosquito bombers blasted rolling stock south of Strasbourg at the eastern-mo't top of northern France on the German frontier damaging at least one locomotive. «The Nazi propaganda agency, DNB. asserted that a “few” British planes made “nuisance raids” on Germany Shoe retailers all over the country are preparing to get rid of their odds and ends of broken stock and obsolete odd-lot shoes under the OFAs so-called “Grab Bag Amendment" between -i lly 19 and July 31 A I.mited amount of dealers shoe only means a change cf the figures in the show window, whereas the window dressers always remain the same. The president no doubt feels they represent what he wants in the way of economics with the piquant flavoring of reform politics. MAY ABANDON COFFEE Washington, D. C. E D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, S. C. democrat. dean of the upper house, tociay called upon his colleague, Senator Guy M. Gillette, Iowa democrat, to become the Democratic standard bearer in the 1944 presidential race. Earlier this week Senator George D. trie Co-operative and the Eastern itself, last night > (INS)—-Senator Iowa Pcwer & Li8ht association, inter- __ vened in the case. 23.621 Miles The test suit results may be applied to 23,621 miles of REA lines in Iowa which serve 52,098 farm homes. _ The lines were exempt from real es- H E Cook, Farm Bureau organiz-tate taxation for the two years pre- ation director, formerly of Mt Pie is- New Organization Director Named IN THIS INSTANCE, of course, the subsidy was backed—among all the pressure groups of political and economic influence—only by the CIO. The farmers did not want it. The packers did not want it. The consumers did not want it. According to an agreement approved C. K Schantz begun the preliminary by the court, the plaintiff is to re-, st0C*CR t0 ^ ^us disposel of will be work on these proper ies sometime ago, Ceive alimony of $20 a month for the 0 ’!l° Put>i!C a reduced price duration of 'the war and six months without payment of a ration stamp, thereafter The minimum percentage allowed re-1 tailers for the number of shoes released from rationing during the period j must be based on the number or ra- SUBSIDY ROLL BACK . tionable shoes in stock as of April 10 __, | minus certain types such as baseball Washington. D C. (INS)—Price-ad- shoes, evening slippers and such which Alaska, and who was critically injured ministrator Prentiss Brown today an- were released from rationing on July 7. a few weeks ago, saying that he is nounced that the OPA may abandon’ Dealers selling odd-lot rhoes ra'ion-slowly improving. He has been in its proposed coffee subsidy roll back free will not be en'itled to any addi-service over thirteen months. The and use funds earmarked for this pur- tional shoe ration currency to compen-Farman’s other son, Clarence, in the pose to cut back the prices of canned sate them for these sales This amend- Aiken, Vt„ republican, suggested that ceding last Jan 1, 1943 legislature. ant< has resigned his position and is the Iowa democrat should be the republican nominee for president in 1944. Mr and Mrs. John Farman received word Wednesday from their son. Paul L Farman, who is at Dutch Harbor, Cars Damaged U. S. service also, is overseas where. some- goods. months. The change of Davis for Jones, for instance, brought no change But the invisible cabinet thought it in the position of Pritchard, who was was a good idea and they seem to special assistant to both Two More Accepted know year in and year out what the president will always take. Betting here is that food administrator Marvin Jones will not last any lenger than his predecessor, Chester Harlan Jerrel ard Herman Lampe. 1 wo of those reporting ac Camp Dodge The only change here that would for final exam nations under the S:’ make any real difference now cr here- ective Service recently, have been ac- after would be in the invisible cabi- cepted by the army The Selective Ser- net. There is no liklihood of that be- vice c'fre has net vet :?i ved a fore Mr. Roosevelt himself ment does net affect the sale of new-modern regular line shoes which will continue to be sold only upon ’he surrender of the current stamp No. 18 in War Ration Book One. Cars driven by E. G. Chrifsinger and Mrs. Nannie Pidgeon were damaged in a collision near the Hall A Weir lumber yard Wednesday afternoon. Both cars w-ere southbound. Mrs. Pidgeon had stopped to let Mrs Phil Kermeen out of the car and Chrissinger was passing as Mr-Pidgeon started to drive away. The however, did not re-enact the exemp- now fie’d man for the Iowa Farm Ser- tion statute. * um Company. His position as organ- The tax commission sought to assess Nation director of 18 counties has been the lines on the same basis as those taken over by Lcren Aiiv Both Mr. operated by privately-cwned utilities. Cook and Mr. Airy were callers at the Appeal Expected Farm Bureau office in Mt. Pleasant Jens Grothe, assistant attorney gen- Wednesday, eral assigned to the tax commission. ----------- said he expected in appeal to the HARRY CRAIG ESTATE state supreme court would be filed because the commission will want to know* where it stands on this question.” The suit grew out of letters sent by the tax commission to the co-opera-fives asking the mto forward valua- PROPERTY IS SOLD Hild Real Estate reports the sale of the Harry Craig estate property located at Lee and Oak streets to Mrs Mafcle Menke of this city. Thi- property is being purchased as an investment ind will be tenanted bv the Fer-r> family. \ Deed Given A deed from Chris and Blanch Len-ning *o Edith B. Jillson has been recorded at the courthouse. Consideration change* po’t on four of these going w*th *hp for the property located on East Wash- Davls. Most officials give him a few or is changed. recent group. ir.gt n is given as $2,100. bumper on the Pidgeon car caugh’ in m,os asking them to forward valua-a fender on the Chrissinger machine t0Ujd made The commission act-with some damage resulting pd aj{er receiving an opinion from the — --attorney general holding that the as- Under New Regulations eolations’ orgperty should be assessed the consensus that the lin* s would Aviation students ol the 82nd De- by the state tax agency on a per-mile- have been assessed at 60 ppr cent of tachment at Iowa Wesleyan college f-1 nes basis. $703 to $1,300 per mile, minus any de- are under regulations, effective begin-i 69 Percent j-reciation accumulated since they ning this week. Some cf their former While no official figures could have weie built. weekday privileges have been removed, been arrived at until after an assess- REA users average between two and and other rules have been modified ment was made, Orothe said it ww three to the mile

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