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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 16, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 13 - Through Aug. 15. Gasoline No. 6 Expires July 21 Fuel OII 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 expires Ort. 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 165FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA THE By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc, Reproduction in Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited,) Allies Call For Capitulation Of Italians Heavy Rainfall Soaks Henry County Over Inch Falls During Electrical Storm An Vt ASHINGTON—FROM A DEARTH, we seem about to hop in o an over-a bundu nee of meat on butchers’ hooks. Tile first arrivals of large quantities of beef cattle* at Chicago and St. Louis this week heralds a period of Heavy rainfall early this morning gave Henry coun y fields a good soaking—the kind that is needed for the corn as well as for soybeans, gardens and pastures. In Mt. Pleasant the rain- They’ll Do It Every Time--- WELL WF IL' CWiSTpp. rqoOT tD SEE VOO’ROVA VOU’OE LOOK IM 1 <3t9 WW! 2 Kin VOO''A- GROWN A ROOT • I FMr ME swell -sn noww \ v •/dor hat ..mow heavy farm marketing of beef similar fall was I’* inches on the gauge kept lo that which has developed in hogs— by Prof. G, E. Kin:;. and for the same reason. When a .^teer lamb, or hog becomes fat, here Is only one place for him. the market, With more livestock in the country today than ever before and feed at a premium it is evident that before September I, the market must be Hooded w.th all kinds of mea*. This super-abundance is almost as bad as too little. It means that much of the cattle ar ri flogs whi ll ordinarily would be k» pt for the coming winter supply win be used now to toe disadvantage of ail concerned. Curing of the meat shortage in this way, therefore, will only quiet for a tim** the popularly recognized necessity of again reorganizing the administration's food program. Since the caustic congress left town Food Administrator Marvin Jone has A sharp electrical storm accomany-ing the rain, which occurred about five o'clock, did little damage as far as could be learned. At the Max Bates farm a horse was killed, bu* no other report, were received today. With County Men And Women In The Service Corp. laster Holiday has been promoted to Sergeant His address is S«* Lester Holiday, 1905 Ord Co. A AB 'AVN ) Santa Maria, Calif. p I New Address: Jess** Carroll Finch, S 2 c. Hospital Corps, School, Farra- ANP TELL US ALL ABOUT TDE OLP V ARMS/ (5AME .. f DO I LOOK < AT EASE * TeM-^HUW’ NEV. CHET noFS SOME TIJMRlE TMEVGlV/E CHET - THEM NFL/EC? EVEN KjCTiCEP HIM when me WAS (APPICE-BHV ME£E I Think THE BIO RECENT (OM 'S JUST ANOTHER WAV TO KILL TIME > thev Didn’t EVEN COME TO CHFT'5 FAREWELL DACTV; DID THEV ? EciO-MEAD vyON’1 BE SO ANXIOUS TO TOV ON AC MV I CAPS, IF THEV EVER OET AROUND TC) DCAFTING^IIM^^ M<1W TO SPOIL A RjRlOoGm - LET them two LlkjS tell VOCI HOW THEV'D WIN TNE WAR tit i j? Van Allen Appointed War Fund Chairman 'I '•ttSV Combines 16 War Relief Appeals - Including USO George Van Allen of Mf. Pleasant I has b' n appointed chairman for Hen rv county {or the 1943 campaign for j the National War Fund, which com- j bines 16 war relief appeals including the USO. into a Single national drive for 1125,000,000 to meet the 1944 needs I of these agencies. Iowa’s share of the n v o». ti goal will be approximately i $2,275,000 which will be divided on a I quota basis among the 99 counties of ! the state. Warning From Leaders To Italian Peonle Broacasts Made To Italy; Pamphlets Dropped Washington, D C, —(ENS)— Presider Roosevelt and Prone Minister Winston Churchill in a joint statement called for the ‘‘honorable capsulation” of the Balian people to the military forces of the United Nations. At the same tune. Roosevel* and Mr. Van Allen was appointed by Carl Churchill warned that unless the Ital- MB OFFICE CrLAD-HANDECS with a (SOOD EXCUSE BOR ducking work — T4W.^TC--the Pests’ pillow t mplovee : f»*tfrpALO, N y Week of Des Moines, president of Iowa War Chest, Inc., at the suggestion of Gov. B B Hickcnlooper. hon- san people disavow their own ‘false and corrupt” leader and Nazi Germany that they “must suffer the con orary president of the state chest. The sequences. Iowa War Chest will coord mate all ecuiry solicitations for the 16 agencies in the Na'ional War Fund. The Na’ional War Fund through its Iowa tffihate. the Iowa War Chest, will coordinate all fund raising activities for the various war relief appeals. The statement was released simultaneously in Washington. London, and Algiers. If was immediately broadcast by shortwave radio to the Italian people and American and British planes dropped copies of the document in pamphlet form on the Italian main- :ic prophesy that he gur, Idaho. put out an optimist! will expand all food acreage near.y one -third n' xt year This matte.- pleasant newspaper reading, especially over an emptv plate, but only for persons with short memories. Two Prisoners Make Daring Escape The following i th*- address of Pvt Glen W. Payne, HQ Co 60th Big Bn Fort Lewie. Washington Pi Slut? A Raker And Stuff Him In liven stroup-westfall County Men Are wedding AT canton, mo. Classified In I - A George Kepper ha b»*en transferred Chicago Illinois lNSV 1 His SAMI ADMINISTRATION expected a large increase it. food pro-du'tion th year, insisting upon its optimistic figures before congress, a.s late as January Now it concedes production will be less than last year Any impressive hopes for expansion wiU await a definite program curing the causes of decreasing production farm labor fears, prices and disorderly marketing fears, and farm machinery f CRTS Beidnd all the forth and back publicity, he .situation -still obviously calls for a strong non political, mathematical single head at the top here One fooi director, empowered to dine, production, marketing and price fixing, could, if able to handle figures Two Cook from Georgia to Camp MacKall. North county prisoners ma"» a daring escaroles. He is in the hospital w.th an cape from the Bridewell Penal hospital infected foot, was Aviation ( adet Robert Ranshaw cam'' home Monday for a five-day leave with his mother, Mrs Myrtle Ranshaw at Winfield He »*xp<*cts *o be sent to Pensacola, Fla from Olathe, Kan , where he has b**en stationed since completing his pre-flight training at Iowa City. in Chicago Dday after .slugging a baker and .stuffing his unconscious body into a heated oven. The men were Thurman Green, 22 of Seattle, serving nine months for assault and George Mueller, 37, serving a year for taking money under false pretenses. ; James Boldrlch, the baker, was not ! seriously injured. Office Winfield—Leslie d Westfai: son of jjs( Posted At Selective Service Mr and Mrs. Herman Westfail of Winfield and Lucy Stroup, daughter of Mr. md Mrs. Wm. ®.roup of Morning Sun were married at Canton, Mo., on June 30. The campaign will be held from Oct. I land. to Nov. 20. No other campaign for any ’ The sole hope for Italy’s survival of the included agencies will be held bes *n honorable capitulation to the prior to October, 1944. and the funds overwhelming power of the military raised will provide for the entire needs forces of the United Nations,” the two of the 16 agencies for their 1944 activ- leaders declared. i if., it is stated by President Weeks The satement. another move in the Agencies included in the National psychological warfare being waged at War Fund are as follows: United Ber- the axis came approximately one week A group cf Henry county men have!vice Organizations (VSO), War Prison- after American. British and Canadian The bride is a graduate of the Morning Sun high school in 1940. and the groom ; a graduate of Wapello high school. He is in the navy. being a machinists mate, third class, and until re cen Iv located at Fort Lauderdale, Fla, He has been transit md to San Fran-( co and left for there Monday even-i! g titer .pending a nine-day leave rn this vicinity. been classified in 1-A by the local Se-j' = Aid. Ru tan War Relief, United lective Service board. The list post-; China Relief, Dutch War Relief, Bruted includes the following: and people call in the farmers, packers and OPA price experts and work ou‘ a definite, complete program so tha* domT1 tbe h*re< everyone involved would know precise- NEW LONDON GIVES $300 FOR SCOUT BUILDING BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST -I PICTURES IN PARK New London Journal — Til ere is no ( ________ doubt in the minds of the Boy Scout; regular Saturday evening service committee and the boys that the com- will uke place in Central Park on munity is backing them in pioviding saturday, at which lime pictures on a bunning for their iL-e Dr C I) Raw- pajj Ancient Babylon and the houser and W. II Schrupp starte< Feast Belshazzar will be shown. last week with a pap* r This ^ one 0j lbe {amous Bible stories soliciting funds for the Boy Scout shows what often spells the ly what is expected of him and what buildlng fundi in three hour- they had downfall of nations. he is to do collected almost $300, both men declai-( gunday njght the regular out Until this is done. no confident sol- ^ a job of that kind is generally dQor church\>ervlce mll v* held and ut ion oms po 'ib.f* Tin <t rn. .*--•* dreaded, but thLs time it aas a plea- Bib|e picturer shown. In event of bad Hon undoubK diy will get around to it surp tbo people responded willingly and eventually but probably not un .1 fore- generousjyt many who were not solid* - the pre . are of event- yet to ^ but knew what they were doing, weather these program.-poned one week. will be post ed by come. Tin: I < < -COX dispute ha developed into a straight-out liberal-conservative fight, as doc- practically everything here sooner of la ter.In the poi-1‘ical argument, the merit of facts on either side, as usual .has become lost. Coli i font iv. the news Accounts ca.ry, walked up and gave them a check or cash . Movers have arrived and will move the Scout cabin today. They will then move the community building. Only a Bandits Get $9,000 Head of Economic Warface Named President Rebukes Wallace And Jesse Jones Milton Roederer Abraham Ruben Charles Shaffner Estel Tompkins Homer Weis Darrel Donnelly Lester Cook Ward Bonser Grval Zickefoose Robert Tribby William iTioby Louis Long Zion Messer Marvin Raines Melvin Scarff Harold Shubert Billy Wellington ish War Relief. Greek War Relief Association, Polish War Relief, United Seaman’ Service. French War Relief, forces invaded the Italian Island of Sicily which at one point is only from two to five miles from the Italian mainland itself. The president and the British FTime United Jugoslav Relief Fund, Belgian Minister warned tha* every moment of War Relief Society. United Ctzechos- resistance by the Italian people would Iovak Relief Fund, Norwegian Relief serve only to give Mussolini and Hitler Refugees Relief Trustees and the U. S. “a little more time” to escape ultimate Committee for the Care of European defeat. Children. WASSON RETURNS AS NEW LONDON MARSHAL Washington, D. C. —(INS)— Leo T. j Crowley today headed the new office of economic warfare set up by President Roosevelt after he stripped both vice-president Henry A Wallace and secretary of commerce Jesse Jones of all their authority in foreign economic matters. Stepping in to put an end to the heated quarrel between the two high administration officials over stock-piling of stra egic war materials, Mr. Roosevelt harshly rebuked his vicepresident and cabinet officer by cre- Building New Wall New London Journal — At a special meeting of the town council Friday evening Forrest Joy resigned as city marshal and Ralph Wasson was ap-* pointed to commence serving July 15. j Mr. Wasson served before in the _ Isame capacity, resigned and left for A new brick wall is being built at j Colorado at which time Mr. Joy was the McLeran Music Store on West appointed Monroe. The condition of the former wall had made necessary the installation which will also add to the appearance of the building, Accepted In Army Working Waynettes Meet '“Every moment that you resist the combined forces of 'he United Nations —every drop of blood that you sacrifice—this serves only one purpose to give the fascists and Nazi leaders a little more time to escape from the inevitable consequences of their own crimes.” Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill said. Prepare For All-Out Major Battle y ‘ ^ An Advanced Aided Command Base — 'INS)— Rapidly-advancing allied invasion troops supported by newly-landed parachute units girded themselves today for an all-out major battle with the main axis garrison defending Uttering Sicily as enemy resistance be- The Working Waynettes held a meet- gan to stiffen, ing July IO. Roll call was answered by A late official announcement dis- each telling her favorite color. The closed the number of prisoners held by Chicago. Illinois -' INS)—- Two ban- Roosevelt harshly rebuked his vice- John Virgil Morris has been accepted main topic of the morning was mak- the allies has reached the 18.000 mark. hits today robbed the Ravenswood Cur- president and cabinet officer by ere- for service in the army. The remaining ing plans for local Achievement Day to Axis commanders mustered all availer ncy Exchange m Chicago and es-J ating a new super agency to carry out four of the local Selectees who report- be held August 13. rble strength for the defense of the short time ago practical^ caped with $9,000 in cash. ' foreign economic affairs. ed recently were rejected._A potluck lunch was held at noon, port of Catania toward which Bri ish the same people contributed over $600 to a communis- building, this was done for instance, an inference suggesting ;n aim0st as short a time by George Chairman Cox, of the House Invest!- Em„tt. gation committee, accepted a $2,500 fee Through the efforts of Congressman from a local radio station in hts dis- Thomas E, Martin, the Boy Scouts and I,jct for appearing before he FCC in lhe city each received CCC camp it behalf. This would be a violation bUiidmgs It requires considerable mon-of federal law. ey to move the buildings and place If true, Mr. Cox should have been them in condition for use. The Scou* indicted and tried long ago, as the bunding will be moved to the Countin’ charge is nearly a year old. The con- dub grounds where a foundation has gressman s explanation (which is not a}ready been constructed. The cominun-verv clear and is seldom published a- ,ty building foundation is also ready, long ride the charge) is that he took] ---- the amount iii stoic and turned ‘ i JAMAICA SHAKEN Among First Pictures of Allied Landing Operations on Sicily turned over to a charity, and that the pat- -ment was not tor legal services for a government department anyway. What to more Important than cr her !damage ^ churches and hoUse. in the I the charge or tne explana ion s ,uml astricts was inflicted today when BY SEVERE QUAKE Kingston. Jamaica -(INS)— Severe the Justice Department (completely controlled by Liberals) never has made to indict Cox. The defending the worst earthquake since the 1907 disaster shook the island of Jamaica. No loss of life was reported in early carriers, large numbers of which have been sunk. Our authorities were as'oni.shed. a move N~- De-" >'»eri‘Ls *etm comen’ 10 'V ^patches.' iterate it day after dav. to muss up and embarrass the house investigation of FCC. The investigation seems to have a fairly good case against that frequently' however, when most of it lay huddled hot-headed agency, but 'he case is at spesia in the Italian boot, only a likely to be smothered by the embar- few miies away from Sicily, during the rasping presence of Cox at the head ot initial stages of our sea borne invasion. the investigating committee and by the They knew it would have to come ou‘ cloak of war secrecy with which Mr. sooner or later, or scuttle itself, bu’ Roosevelt has protected the commis- apparently, the Italian admirals were Bion files. too afraid of our superior air power to — move. THE SIZE of *hc Italian fleet, as Nothing could be a better harbinger detected by our spotters at the outset 0f success for our campaign. of the Sicilian invasion, was 5 battle- (NOTE- Paul Mallon will be on va- ships and 9 or IO cruisers. This rather cation for two weeks. He will resume formidable feet was unbalanced and column with release of Monday. August deficient in destroyers and aircraft 2.) I and American troop,-; were racing a* fop speed while enr#nv artillery batteries unleashed a sudden barrage a-gainst doughboys pushing forward in the Agrigento region of the south coast. Russians Getting Near Orel Moscow. Russia —'INS)— Russian troops driving on Orel from the east have reached points 15 miles from the city a special announcement said tonight. Elected to State R.E.A. Safety Post I At a state R. E. A. meeting held at Ames on Thursday July 15, Warner A Russell, Superintendent of the S. E. low* Cooperative Electric Association was elected Secrets ry-Treasurer of th# (!3tate Fafe'y and Job Training Pro-am. Three superintendents and three linemen constitute the State Committee and this group, through the cooperation of Iowa State College and 'he Department of Agriculture, direct a statewide safety program j In sp;te of the numerous hazards involved in the operation of electrical i distributions, the state of Iowa rankv 9 r’l Fem the standpoint of safety. I Mr Ivan Trottmin. superintendent ! of the R E A cooperative at Vinton. ;Icwa, was elected chairman of the six-man board. . m 11.i^] vt. H v Faker secretary of ’he Here Is one of the fiist pictures of the actual landing operations on the Italian Island of Sicily by the Allied Forces. I ho U. S. Army Signal Corps local R. E A. cooperative attended the radio telephoto was radioed from North Africa. It shows U. S troops moving along a landing craft ramp onto Si llian shores. isM,t nlt ^ie aix0‘

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