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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 19, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID 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 PHEASANT NEWS VAUD 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. Ii>7MONDAY, JI LY 19, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA fi By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.^ Bomb Military Objedives — Bond Sales Total $5050 Saturday Night They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Note: Aith ugh announcement had _ been made that Mallon column for july ie would be the i t until after Many Purchases; Sales Con- his vacation, lie has written columns for Monday, July 19 arid Tuesday,' July 20! before starting vacation He will resume on Monday, Aug. 2 with column for Wednesday, Aug. 4 I CUJrS I ^ HOPED TO“*AV5 Born «3fc*E3AL. -MEO/XlCHEST AND THk POOP MAPX BOOT ME RS OM THE PS06PAM TONIGHT- BUT-ER-StMCE THEV CANNOT-UH.-BE HERE, WE ARE r'' rnV fortunate in hav.no with yM/ | US THAT YOU NO RADIO ,«s BUCKTOOTH NEPHEW AGA.N 1 ijOOR AT THE NOTICE HE SENT OUT-"MONSTER ENTERTAIN- ]A\ ME NT- FAMOUS MOVIE J ' STARS-RENOWNED GUEST SPEARER" I SHOULDA KNOWN PCjNSTea is RK9HT! 1*D RATHER STAN I k>ir. And FIGHT YI TH MV WIFE. THAM USTEM TO THAT KIO CHIN HIS SQUEAK- . BOX* y/, tinue at Booths; Free Tickets To Airevue V\ \SIIINGTON—HARDLY A NEWSPAPER edition ii a.1 gone to press within the last IO davs without containing an announcement by .someone de-noun* lng or belittling the recent congressional session. Some charge nothing was done, others say the legislature was fascistic. But uh* ti you look for the sources of these statements, you Und the-, come largely from the environ.- of the white h~u . and the CIO. Obviously Mr Roosevelt did not like th*- session, which did not go his way, and the CIO apparently believes, or Is trying to make everyone else believe. the anti-strike wartime emergent v measure was the doom of democracy. A sir light non-politic*I glance at the record of the congress would not develop any such clear-cut conclu- Bond and stamp sales at the booths en the square shot up to $5050 making the greatest total of any single evening to date m the Mi Pleasant merchant's Julj sale. While the merchants are backing the sale, all persons are eligible to buy at the booths and receive free tickets to The Airevue, which wall be given by soldiers ol the air detachment at Iowa Wesleyan on the night of July 30 .Sal*- of the bond'- and stamps from the booths will continue each Wednesday and Saturday evening until the show b held. The following were in charge of the booths Saturday night: Lola Drewer Edith Martin. Russell Weir. J P Budde, O B. Taylor and Gilbert Cantwell. Several girls assisted. Purchasers Included: J T. McConnaughey, Mrs Alice Hollingsworth, Mr Mabel Nau Gabeline, MKs Bemadine Panther M. Dorothy (roW(j With County Men And Women In The Service Rome Rail Center Is Target of Allied Attack Sam Wiley was recently promoted to lieutenant j. g. and is at present #n a battleship of the Pacific fleet E. W'. wellington, s i, (rom Mt. pleasant is Leaflets Dropped Over City on the same shin. nnth nf (hem *»*•<» rr j Both of them are in the same guennery division, Sam being divisional officer. Prior To Raid Describe Hanging Heirs Win; of RussianQuisliiiKs ^ N M()nev sions. It trimmed the Roosevelt bud get $1,100,000,000, which is something, jmne wittmer Miss Margaret Snyder, Dwight Kfnnedy. Miss Dorothy Mene- but hardly enough to establish a record of outstanding economy. It abolished the national youth administration. and made a start toward eliminating unneeded bureaus, but only a start. It did not Interfere with the military in any way, fumbled all service funds asked, conducted .some excellent, constructive investigations (Truman, Bvrd. Kilgore committees', which brought improvements in the war effort It fail'd to do anything constructive about prices, passed a pay-as-you-go tax plan on Its own initiative. It had the courage to adopt the an-tt-strike bill over a veto, when no else would assume the responsibility for stopping war-time strikes, neither the labor union chiefs nor the president. Greatest congressional contribution, however, was none of these steps, but the constructive pressure exerted upon the president which caused the several reorganisations of hh, poorly functioning bureaus—Institution of the Byrnes mobilization, creation of the food ad-mini (ration elimination of Leon Henderson in OPA Nearly everyone now recognizes these actions were good, although perhaps not good enough. ' So the question of whether or not congress was satisfactory really gets d wn to the question of whether you liked the anti-strike bill — and the president and union leaders did not. of 30,000 Sees Hanging Public Riverside Banker And Washington Girl Drown Sunday fee, Mrs Pearl S Hilmer, Dale H Haz-R. Munger, Mrs. Clara B. Jaques, en. Miss June c M linger, Corliss J *ques, Harry E. Jaques, Larry Leroy Thomas, Ralph B Morris, Melvin HL Jennings. H Lawrence Hunting, Arnold F Timmerman. John Lane, Arthur R Monson, Verne P Wright, Vierl D. M rrts, James R. Weir, William Ruk-gabcr. Mrs Dorothy Raid, Donald E. Whaley, Robert S Wettach, Mrs. Macel Crenshaw, Otho L. Job. Miss Louise H. Hazen, miss Darlene Lois Adams, Miss Hazel I Neff. Mrs Lucille M Graben Miss Florence M O’Connor, Orval Ne>bttt, Mn Velia M Taylor, Chester C. Hanna, Arthur B Hollingsworth, Mrs Henrietta B. Edwards, Miss Edna M Michener, Frank Barr, Ralph K. Crane, J M Burd David L. Caldwell, B E Seeley Phi Delta Theta. Moscow, Russia — (INS* — Th*- hanging of eight Russian “quislings' before a crowd of 30 000 in the public square of Kransnodar, liberated city in the Russian Cauca us was described today by the Moscow radio. The hanging, first in Soviet history, followed the firs? mass treason trial in Russia since th* German invasion at which three others were sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. All had been convicted of helping the Germans “in the perpetration of atrocities." State Claim Absorbs All Of Fund In Closed Estate SHOES WILL FOLLOW YANKS INTO SICILY Washington. D C — Most of the shoes for which Americans won't .^pend Saturday. Five heirs of the late Irene Peers, patient at the state hospital a few years ago won a 'hollow vie ory’ in district court here. They filed claims a few weeks ago in the case after the i estate had been Closed .several years and asked for the distribution of the money, which amounted to $15-98. a-mong them. As no heirs had been found after the death of Irene Peers in 1937, the es-i ate was closed and the money trans-j ferred to the school fund in February, , 1939. ! Judge Paul H McCoid. who heard I the evidence, held in his recent decision I that the heirship of the claimants was established. Thus they were entitled to Washington, Icwa — William O -Laughlin. Riverside, I*, banker, and Edith Godwin, about 15 years old, of Washington drowned in the Iowa river about five miles east of Riverside Sunday afternoon. Three others who had been riding Washington, D. C. —(INS) — For the New address: Pvt. Junior J. Leydens. time rn World War II military od Co. K 2nd Bn , First P. T. R., Fort Jectives in historic Rome, capital of Benning. Ga Italy- were Probed today by allied • heavy and mec;um bombers of the Howard Ferrrl Jr., reported for nav- Mediterranean air lonimand. a1 officers' training July 1st His ad- ^iC d!amauc announcement of the dress is: Howard Ferrel Jr.. A-S, Birch ;aKl *Aas made by the war department Hall - Co, 5 - Platoon 2 Naval Train- at 6:27 A M- cwr< presumably a ing School - V 12, Iowa State College, short t;me af er the event actually oo Ames, Iowa. curred The railroad center in Rome, • known as the marshalling yard was Seaman 2-c Robert Moyle, who has pimcipal faiget the communique finished his boot training In the navy Sftl i at Farragut, Idaho, is spending a fur- I? ** tbe greatest importance *o lough with his parents, Mr and Mrs. fbe axis war e}f°rt aud in particular Noah Moyie at Hillsboro. Miss Audrey *or ‘af* movement of German *roops, Batey of Salem Is visiting at the Moyle the announcement said home this week. Leaflets Dropped » I Warning leaflets were dropped ovei M. Sgt. Marvin Vollmer and wife tbr prior to the raid, and child of Carlsbad. N Mexico, are "Pilots and bombardiers employed in spending a furlough at the home of t!ps mission were particularly lnstruct-M Sgt Vollmer’s parents, Mr, and ** to avoi^ damaging religious and Mrs Charles Vollmer, near Hillsboro. ruIt lira I monuments, the war departs ment added. David E. Wilson, C M 2-c 62nd U. The raid came only a few days after S N. C B , Co. D, Plat. 3, FPO, San President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Francisco, Calif. Winston Churchill issued an ultimatum FA calling on the Italian people to caplt- Oliver K. Taylor, Naval Training uiate or suffer tho consequences. Unit V-12, Company 2. Platoon I. St. Only Washington Untouched Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa. I Pome and Washing on were the only Fa important capital cities that had not Any friends wanting Lieut. Ardith felt tile crash of bombs so far in the A READER has written to me asking what the homdfolks should tell their congressmen, now that the legislators are back home looking for fresh advice from their people. I would tell my congressman one thing only: “You know what should be done in these various matters of the day, as any sensible person does. Just have the courage to stand up for what you Patient Returned To State Hospital Irvin William Thornburg, patient atj the state hospital, was found of un-1 • share in the estate, but there was an-scund mind and ordered returned to. 'Cher angle in the case which cornule hospital at a habeas corpus hear-! / , . ^ pletely wiped out the money left by the lng before Judge P^ul H McCoid here * . . , , , . deceased woman. -------- _ orn urg a me c was ^ ^ was disclosed at the hearing that ration stamps are to follow the Yanks sane ar)d s ou ^ reica-e rom t eitbe cost f)^ tbe care at hOS, institution. He was represented by I „ , , . pital had not been paid. A state claim ________ At,orne>- F 8 F**y D*- Adolph, ,as Jlled Thls was allowed b Jui spokesman reported *>***■ --uperintendent of the hospn.1.. ^ M , dalm % ,he ehtatJ . by County Attorney Ben A. Gaier. I , . . . .. . . broadside or- | and more than absorbed the balance turned over to the .>chool fund. Thus no money remained for the relatives. An interesting point is involved in the grar/ing of the claim of the state for the care at the hospital—that is whether the state can file a claim for such care after the estate has been closed. Heirs can come in and establish their claim for a period of ten into Sicily as they did into Africa. Herbert Lehmans foreign relief administration, a Sunday, has sent out a der to buy up all the “distressed stocks' of shoes in the country in order to provide a supply for destitute civilians liberated by the Allied armies, wherever they go. in OLaughlin's motorboat escaped drowning by clinging to a tree or the Wilson's address may get it by calling w*ar London and Berlin have suffered boat when the boat upset after its her mother, Mrs. Stace Carper. heavy* damage in exchange of aerial FA blows. Tokyo was hit April 18. 1942 * The present address of Ll. Robert O. when 16 twin-engined army bombers Wilson is: Hq. Det.. 14th M T B, M. took off from the air craft carrier R T. a, Camp Pickett, Virginia. Hornet and blasted military objectives ■-<* birt spared the imperial city. Dolly Bennett, suoerintendent of the' Richard Howe. of the U. S. Navy, The communique on the Rome Washington county hospital- Virginia who has been visiting his parents, Mr. bombing merely said that “military ob-nimmprintr rtanffhter of Mr and Mrs an{* Mrs Frank Howe and other rela- jectives in Rome and vicinity had been ^ ^ Wa" aves the last ten days, .eft th* morn- bombed.-lace, laboratory technician at the hos- for Des Moines. Fiom there he pital, for a boat ride before noon. j a plane California. After the motor died the boat drift-1 ., ® Ensign motor had stalled. All were members of a party of IO being entertained at OLaughlin's shack on the river bank. The banker took the girl and Miss I New address: Everett L. Tntemeier, U. S N. A B., J I 145, Melbourne, Florida. Fa New- address: Pvt. George O Q . R B. Cole- Anita, Calif ROBERT LAUER IS MARRIED IN ENGLAND Wedding In Late Summer Mrs Margaret R Swaim of Ottumwa, la., announce^ the engagement of her daughter, Bettijane Carroll, and Lieut. Carl L. Obermann of Sacramento, Cal., son of Mr and Mrs Henry Obermann of Mount Pleasant. The ed on the swollen river nearly two miles. Finally it struck a tree on the bank and was overturned, throwing the banker and the girl into the stream. None of those in the boat could swim Miss Bennett and Miss Simmering clung to the tree for three hours be-j New address: Pvt. Charles E. Messer, fore they were rescued. Virginia Wal- Pittsburg Personnel Repl. Depot, lace clung to the capsized boat and Pittsburg. Calif, drifted an estimated two miles until t«) it beached itself on a sandbar. j Pvt. Melvin E. Thornburg and Mrs. The three were taken to the county Thornburg arrived home Sunday noon, hospital, where it was said Sunday Pvt. Thornburg, who is stationed night their condition was not serious. Camp Roberts. Calif, has a fifteen Deputy sheriffs were dragging the day furlough. Mrs. Thornburg was the stream to recover the bories of O’- fornier Betty Darnell. Laughlin and the Godwin girl. The raid indicated allied determination to crush the fighting spirit of fascist I* aly at all costs— Full Notice Italy has had full notice that the United Nations would bomb Rome Both Prime Moister Winston Churchill and foreign secretary Anth-man. jr.. co. C., Hq Bn., Camp Santa Eden have dec,ared that ^ ian capital would be attacked “rf the course of the war should render such action convenient and helpful.” Italy has been urged to declare Rome an open city by evacuating military headquarters and military objectives in order to spare the city’s historic monuments. Allied air circles have pointed ou* that because of the development of high altitude precision bombing Rome’> wedding is planned for the late sum- i years afterwards, but the right of the Announcement is made of the mar- mer in Los Angeles. riage of Robert L.iuer of the U. S. __ army signal corps to Marie Ann Ballard of Bristol, England. The wedding Victim of Hit-Run Driver took place in England on June 23. J - Lauer, sen of Mr. and Mrs. C. M Centerville, Iowa —(INS)— Coy A. believe, regardless of pressure or pol- Lauer left thiS country in February, siUff, 30 of Cincinnati, Iowa, died in itics. The best politics is always the least politics.” The DoGaulle-Giraud debate is on the way to being ended.. The liberals seem to be getting off the General DeGaulle fence, t£e current issue of “The New Republic," always a champion of DeGaulle against Giraud, carries this: 1942, spent some time in Ireland and a hospital of injuries he suffered Sat- in urday night when he was struck on a j highway north of Centerville by an automobile which did not stop. has been stationed “somewhere England" for about a year. GIRLS GO TO CAMP NEAR INDIANOLA state to do so was a point of argument. As tar as has been learned there is no precedent in Iowa distric- courts or the supreme court of Iowa. Heirs in the case have appealed to the supreme court. At the hearing in the local court the state was represented by Coun y Attorney Ben A Galer and by Floyd Philbrick. assistant attorney general. The heirs were represented by Attorney George O. Van Allen and Mrs. Imo-gene Emery, attorney of Cedar Rapids. Accepted For Army The following girls went to Indianola Virgil George Farr and Freddie La- ^ v-u « rw^Mi Sunday where they will spend thc Verne Page have been accepted by the The New Republic is n a week at the Methodist camp for girls army. They were induced recently un- list organ, neither is it G»audi Qn ^ Ahquabi; virginia der the Selective Service as transfers is pro France, by which we a ^ Garmoe smiles, Lenora Marsh- from the local board. democratic France. We are in T or of whatever will mast quickly set »«• Key Cottrell. Jet- France free,” etc. Tills new liberal doctrine comes sica Weis, Roberta Logsdon, Beverly Nihart, Marsha Carroll and Virginia Deed Given around coyly, and at long last, to the policy of Mr. Roosevelt, who even played with the hated Darlan for a time, “in order to most quickly set France free.” Injured In Swing Smith. The girls were taken by truck and trailer with Mr. B. E. Seeley driving. RESIDENT AT ROME LOSES SIGHT IN EYE Hazel N and John H. Cochran have given a deed to Will Dunn and wife for a tract of 8 82 acres i nsection 27 of New London towmship. Russell Peck, 29, Dies In New Mexico Soviets Nearing German Supply Route Moscow, Russia —GNS)—Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s Red a mr- tank and infantry forces threatened to sev- Off Sicily er the main German supply route to Orel today after scoring gains up to four miles in their triple pronged drive on the big enemy held base 200 miles south of Moscow. <The Soviets were reported to be within ten miles of the vital Bryansk-Orel railroad along which supplies and reinforcements for Gorman armies on the Orel front must travel and within 15 miles of Orel itself. • rn:litary objectives could be bombed New address: Harold D. Sammons successfully without endangering (Fe 37672627. Co. B. 8th Batn., Fort Mc- Vatican. I The bombing ended a three-vear controversy In London for and against propriety of the act. j London. England GNS)—Scanty information reaching London today mdi- Clellan, Alabama, U. S. Army. Describe Battle Rome, Italy (INS) —'Axis Propaganda >_A battle between Italian torpedo boats and allied small naval craft protecting a shipping convoy off the ea^t coast of Sicily was described in a high command communique today which claimed the sinking of a 10.000 ton allied steamer. Spotted by axis planes, the commun. cated that allied bombers in addition to attacking the Rome railroad marshalling yard.- also -truck at airfields 8*2 miles southeast of the center of the capital Warning Issued In Leaflets Allied T# adt^iyr'crs in North Africa — (INS)— The Fascists themselves mar Word has been received of the death of Russell Peck. 29 at Albuquerque, ique said, the convoy protecting craft 1A Moscow dispatch to the London *0IIght t0 nrevrtat a flotilla nf tor' arrange to have bombs dropped on Evening News said one Soviet column ppri: boals from approaching but two Rcme-S cultural monuments or Vati-had reached a point 12 miles southeast of Orel.) Capture 35,000 Axis Prisoners Allied Headquarters in North Africa - (INS)—While allied bombers struj* Hammer at Japs ran the blockade and discharged all cf their torpedoes at the cargo boat as it tried to make port at Augusta. Lass of all but two of the torpedo fats was acknowledged. at the Italian capitol today the Sicilian »» J land advances continued with Amen- mUnda can city in order to conv nee the rai-i&ns of a1! cd designs on the city's historical ani religious works, the Italian capital’s populace was warned todav in leaflets dropped by ailed bombers The leaflets warned Rome’s rest# ~*ents to beware of the move bv Benito Mussolini's governmen' or bv *he Germans to portray today's allied attack New Mexico, Friday at 9:30 a. rn. Be-, can troops seizing the town of rd- United Nations Headquarters in AUS- as an at|etT1[), «to destroy Its cultural train GNS)—American invasion forc- works which are the glorv not only of Rome, la. — Willis Anderson suf-Rome, Iowa — Ellen Smith, seven fers a painful and serious injury to his years old, received a bad bruise and right eye Friday evening when cut on her uoper lip, Saturday, when pocketknife he was using to open a about September I He will be employ- of Albuquerque cause of ill health. Mr. Peck went to tanissetta, 35 miles inland from Agr! New Mexico from Mi. Pleasant over gento. es hammered at the main perimeter Rrmp but of thp C2Vili^<?d world a year ago. His death, however, wasj Main British forces fought their way of Japanese defenses less than a mile ,.Wp hayp dcc arrri and we repeat,” sudden due to a hemorrhage of the to within three miles of Catania. An from the New Georgia air base at thp circuiar said rba. WP shau be lungs. I official announcement disclosed that Munda r>da\ as allied wai planes and at military objectives.” Surviving are his wife and two sons,! axis prisoners taken on Sicily now to- naval vessels were revealed to have ___ __ Larry, 7. and Denis. 4. Denis is here tai 35,000 of whom 23,000 were captured sunk or damaged nine more enemy with relatives. Also his parents, Mr. by American troops and 12,000 by the vessels. t Dr. W K. Gebbie, dentist at Stuart, and Mrs. W. B. Peck, and two sisters, British . American unships clashing in a In Surrender the la., has written that he will come here Frances of Bonaparte. Iowa, and Ruby _______ night engagement with three enemy • Allied troons in Sicily are now int destroyers scared hits on all three ene- Dentist For Hospital Ren^rt Italian Units she fell out of a swing and was hit by bottle can slipped and struck him in rd as dentist a* the state hospital, a The body, accompanied by Mrs. Peck, the immediate vicinity of Ramacca. my warships and were believed to have the swing board. She is the daughter the eye. It is hoped that the eyeball position which #has been vacant since Larry and W. B Peck, is expected to key {joint five miles south of Gerbini. sunk one. In a second action six de- of Mr. and Mrs, Leslie Smith, can be saved but the sight is gone. Dr. D. Q. Storie left. arrive in Mt. Pleasant Tuesday th£ Algiers radio said tonight. I strove is were attacked. New York New York (INS)—Italian unit- on the island cf Sicilv arc coming over enbloc in clearly organized curter der" a RBC broadcast from Algers reported today according to CBS

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