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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 10, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar ll - Feb. 1-Mar. 15 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee 25 - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 (Each stamp, I pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAM. Fuel Oil 4 - - - Until Mar. 2b Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 I Each stamp, ll gallons) Gasoline No. 1-Jan. 2l-Mar.21 VOL. EXXI, No. 58 WEDNESDAY, MARCH IO, 1943 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA rn x I V ' Local Man Fatally-Wounded in Africa THEr by Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction in Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — THE OPA has solved the pioblem of getting around its nun unfair fuel oil rationing formula Without admitting or correcting its mi.stke it adopted the policy of the thrifty Finnish housewife in an old v. rid fairy tale When she discovered that the blanket she had bought to keep her husband warm covered him only down to hi knees, she immediately decided to cut a two-foot strip from the top ot the blanket and sew It to the bottom •That, she aid “will mike it longer" The college men who devised the fue*j j rm ha. soon found it was inadequate to heat the nation through the winter, so they moved up. from time to each of Two Post-War Social Plans Are Submitted Thev’ll Do It Every Time - - - Congress Gets Social Documents From President one-four th they ad -; the last 8. and ll. j Dos Monies. Iowa (INS(—Ralph O. Brown of Hoytville, Ohio, today head-i cd a new farm organization, National I Agricultural Mobilization Committee", oft * da' dwmcry. h<- O j {omjed Moines yesterday at a time, the date of viridity the five coupons On March 3 with nearly of the heating season lei valved the date frr use coup n, No 5, fo March 7 in the various zone- Thiv was the coupon which was supposed to be used Horn mid-April to text «*ntember 30 largely for hot water heating. Their device has aciuauy increased the formula allotments for the winter about one-fifth in general, but they have now reached the end of the blanket No rn "-re coupons are left to run until Sept 30 Public discovery of the error is at hand. To wa has now come forward with an announcement D1*1 n Intends to be more generous Not by a single phase admitting it made an error it now invites * householders who face hardship to get more coupons from their local rationing boards In an entirety different tone than hist December when it was cracking down on the nation, the OPA now promises wide d I sc re ton to heal board-Its f ennui a which refused to let the local boards allow for heating servants’ quarters, or for hot water, and which did liOt take into consideration the cubic heating footage or the wide varier of efficiency in heating systems-. is apparenty to be forgotten — at long last. You can get more oil if you prove Washington, D C. —(INS)—In the most far reaching social document ever drafted by the U S government. President Roosevelt today submitted to congress two plans for the post war economy calling for jobs "at decent pay' to all who are able to work and outlining an American Beveridge program covering "freedom from want* from the cradle to the grave. The two documents covering years of work by the national resources planning board were sent to congress by President Roosevelt with the declaration that "we need to lock forward to the accomplishment of these objectives—world peace, democratic society and a dynamic economy.” Present Officials Seek Reelection File Nomination Papers City Clerk With Other County Men “Missing In Action’ Mayor H. L. Shook and the present j members of the city council, the city Raymond Tulk Victim of treasurer and the city assessor have CL 17 Aff lr filed nominate papers with the city reb. I / Attack i clerk, J. P Budde. in order that their I names will anpear on the ballot for I the city election late this month. Members of the council are I. D. Conover and L V Case, councilmen at large; Ora Smith, Ward I; G. E King, Ward 2; Wilbur Madams. Ward 3; and C E. Tonkmson. Ward 4. C. Van Brussel has filed for reelection for city treasurer and William Rukgaber for city assessor. Leader Named By Farm (iroup Sees Armed Force GROF PS AID , ’ of 15 Million Men RED CROSS Organization VS ill Serve Pressure Group New Appropriation Bill For Schools Will Outproduce Rest World-Downey of The WITH KITBAGS Collins Raymond Tulk. 33, died of wounds received in action in the Tunisian sector in North Africa, a telegram received here today informed his sister. Mrs. Ella B Hummell, 410 North Van Buren street. Tulk bs: omes the first Henry county man reported to have lost his life in the fighting on the North African front. He evidently was fatally wounded in the fighting of February 17, during the thrust of Gen. Erwin Rommel which drove the American forces back. _ Mrs. Hummel had received a tele- Indianola. Iowa t INS,—Accused of' 8™m Tuesday evening Iron, Waah'ng-corn thefts totalling 8.000 bushels, ten. D. C. stating that her brother had How rd Maxwell 22. Hartford, la.. ***>> Ashily wounded. Th ta menage truck d: lver, today was in Warren «* Mow* bv s»'01t»’ a!ter- ccunty jail awaiting grand jury action. nton tw,aJ' telling oi his dean. I Most of the allegedly stolen corn was First Telegram owned by the Commodity Credit Corp- rj~de teiegram Tuesday evening read: oration and was taken from storage j Deeply regret to inform you your tins at Hartford. Sheriff Lewis John- brother, pvt. Collins R Tulk. was son said. The sheriff estimated the ^jiggly wounded in ac ion in the market value of that amount of corn African area Feb. 17. Period ACCUSED OF STEALING 8930 BUSHELS OF CORN Washington, D. C —(INS Downey, Democrat of California, told meeting of 44 midwesterners, mostly the senate military affairs committee farmers today that the United States will have Purpose of the group. James G Pat- approximately 15.000.000 men In the ton of Denver, Colo, national Farm- armed forces at the end of this \ear en Union president, and one of the and wgj outproduce the rest of th# meeting sponsors, said if to pro-. Kic a world combined in food and war im-potenitai "area of agreement" through which farm bu me-, and consumer. -we arc talking of approximately organization representatives may join H.OOO.OOO men in the armed forces," in advocating economic and social leg- sen. Downey said. "but the figure will is. fi mn for the common good. de nearer to 15,000,000 ” It will, he acknowledged, be a pres-. Downeys statement came as tile ad- ! ministration sought to compromise I with the senate farm bloc for leglsla-! Hon for mass deferment of farmers, I but the move appeared doomed Downey painted a dark picture of the civilian economy which would fol-. low this drain uoon the nation's man- I F it teen organizations and individu-j ai have to date made contributions gf,n I to the kitbag fund of the Henry County Red Cross chapter Material for Increase Amount For Hoard Of Education Institutions at $6,800. Des Moines, Iowa (INB)—The senate appropriation committee of the Iowa HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI TEAM WINS 33-31 The high school alumni earn defeated the high school team, 33 to 31, in a post-season game at the high school Tuesday evening. The alumni team was made up of such former stars as Conn, Jeambey, Speaker and ethers. reports will be forwarded when re- : ceived." i Tulk was inducted into the army under the Selective Service on May 22. 1942. He went to Ireland and remained there until November. He spent Thanksgiving d:y aboard a British ship enroute to North Africa, a letter from h:m to Mrs. Hummel had stated. I Tulk’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Tulk. died when he was a boy. i He was reared by his sister and attended the local schools going to high school two years. Before going into Devastating Raid Against Buna , . . Washington. D C. (INS)—One of the service he had been employed by -lire group. Harmison Loses Gasoline Coupons ( George Harmison recently fined on a po*er predicting a breakdown in food j by the Red Cross and actual packing ‘ would be by ticket only and that what von have . ms a!‘learnt ana charg(, of speeding. al.->o has lost his produCH0n and transportation facil-j dene in the rooms in the library that he would appoint a committee of gasoline coupons for the period of mes j building. Each person or organization t^ree from the senate to handle the March 15 to May 15. j — j contributing to the fund signs a greet arrangements. Information was filed against Har- n j jtig card which is placed in a kitbag ------------ to show the receiver who was respcn making the kitbag, is furnished by the Jegislature today reported out a $7,648.-national organization, but the con en s ^ appropriation bill for state board must be furnished by the local chapter. ^ education incitation* which was an in order that a larger number might ^ ^ be filled, other groups have been asked ^ ^ legj5lature had appropriate co-operate in this project ^ $6,822,800 per year. The amount Thos' who have responded include: recommended by the committee was Rotary Club; Business and Profession- $225,000 more Der year than Gov. B. a1 Womens club; Century Chapter b Hickenlooper had recommended. ________ World Service, Philathea Sunday This resulted from including specific- thp mogt devastating raids of the Sol- C. M. Weir as a trucker ani! as an School Class of ’he Methodist church, ally $347,000 for salary increases and omons campaign against Bunda was assistant in other woik with the Weir Fcur-corners Sunday School Class of $70,000 for research work at Iowa State di0closed today by the navy in a com- firm. 4 Winfield- W R C.; D. M C; Mrs. college. I munique which stated a large force -Missing in Action' telegrams which i Eleanor Almond Mrs C S Rogers; P Lieut. Gov. Robert D. Blue announ- cf v s dive and torpedo bombers have been arriving rn many Iowa i E O’ T T T D. A. R ; Ncrthside ced receipt of a telegram from former started fires on supply dumps and anti homes the last few days brought axi- Mothers club; the Eastside Mothers’ President Herbert Hoover accepting an aircraft positions. *ty *> Henry club and the Mentor club. invitation to appear before a joint sea- \ sion of the Iowa legislature on March R.A.F. Bombs The contents are bought at wholesale ^ stated admission to (bd that you are otherwise unable to mee your problem. No effort is to be made to recapture til from many who received roo much under the unfair formula, but a benign policy I'- promised. An order | shenfl on highway 34. Withdrawal of has even been issued all wing adtll_ J gsusojine rationing coupons comes as a jesuit of violating the federal 35 mile alison for speeding by Sheriff Manning Day of Prayer Cline after Harm son had passed the „ A1 i To Be Observed Hon <1 couDOns for the ill and Infirm without getting certificates of approval from Their plumbers -were required up to March 5 which an hour speed limit. THE BEST OF ALL war news has been lost in the shuffle of more dramatic announcements from the battlefronts We are now turning out more planes a month than Hitler has altogether spread around all the theatres of war in Europe. War Under-Secretary Patterson announced that we produced 5.000 planes in January, for which 65 i>ercent were fighting planes, and he moved the figures up to 5,500 for February. This means we produced 3,575 combat planes last month. No current official estimate has placed Hitler’s total air strength high- 193 Votes Cast At New London Service Friday at Presbyterian Church Munich Area London, England (INS)--Royal Air Force bombers heavily attacked industrial areas cf Munich during the night in the 12th bombardment of Germany within 14 days, the air ministry announced today. The official announcement that a heavy assault had been made indicated I that Munich, headquarters of Hitler s 1 Nazi party, had been given the same who have assisted in packing Include: . Salaries; Change ‘ devastating bombing with _ - , i -v I____x a r\ *•£• Va n Pu rrAl I VI PfJ Iii* sible for the gift. Assembly line methods are used in packing the kitbags with Junior Red „4 o.qn I* M Cross members doing the work. Girls ai a-.OO I . ATI. I . , ____ New Arrangement With City Employes county homes Tuesday afternoon. The missing include Edward Beach, John Francis Burns and Joe Carson, The Henry county men evidently were part of the unit which was tiapped by Gen. Erwin Rommel’s forces in a surprise thrust in North Africa about February 17. While the announcements from the war department stated that furthe: word would be sent la’er, news reports have indicated that a large portion of the men in the trapped unit were On Friday afternoon at 2:30 in the First Presbyterian church, the Day of Prayer will be observed by the various 193 votes wert) churches. The Christian people of Mt Martha Hayes. Marsha Carroll. Virginia Smith. Virginia Garmoe. Marie Mitts Jessica Weis. Lenora Marshall. Doris Swailes, Donna Nichols, Kay Cottrell. Beverly Nihart and Marilyn Cruik-shank. To Monthly Basis Some changes in two and taken prisoners by the axis forces four ton bombs given the historic city • Beach and Burns Together of Nuremberg on Monday night. I Mr. and Mrs. John Beach, who re- _i The Nazis themselves admitted that side on the B E. Seeley farm just west the arrangements heavy explosives and incendiary bombs cf Mt. Pleasant, received the telegram with city employes and increases in salaries have been made by the city New London, Iowa _____ cast In the school election here Mon- Pleasant should take seriously he, The kitbags are given the men as council after several council meetings day and of these 9 were spoiled. Wil- need of prayer in these difficult days. ( they teave the united States for some and QOnferenCes with the employes Us Hanks i term elected 97 and Oran Toft 92. Toft’s name am muuary ana spnutmi . comfori not appear en the ballots and stickers country. Because of the anticipated j ernment_a tolai of 21 items in all. were used to elect him Two other crowd at this program of intercession. --- candidates »ere Walter Elliott. T9 and the main auditorium of the church I ,,,,,, Jack Harper. 88. The new board will will be used. Every family in M , A ( ( L J* | ED 4 OR meet for organization Monday evening Pleasant should have a repr-.senta.ive I at the high school. lf -The American people want God oui -——--—- their side, therefore, the American , * ) had been showered down on the city, s’a ing that their son was rmssmg large railway center and site of huge since February 17 in North Africa. ail plane plants. I Miss Florence Bums received the Munich in south central Germany word regarding her brother. Francis waters. foreman. have been designated. General increases in salaries have been granted # The three men named and heads ot RuSSlcHI rOTCCS departments and the light plant fire* er than 5,000 planes, and his produc- jt lion rate is known to be declining, piece out of the center and tacking peop!e should volunteer to be on God’s He passed the peak last year. Our s is I on the sides. ^ , ■Irihi'ii!)r-hintr J Evidence dug up by congiessionai peacp &nd enduring satisfaction to <l lf we cannot win the war swiftly I committees indicates 75 percent of the with such air superiority, there will1 men who have left the farms have --- be something radically wrong with gone into high salaried war defense QR f) f) BOLLINGER TO other parts of our effort. , _ __ r * IXIXTI^C men have been transferred 10 a month" NAV I , MARUN EIO Iv salary basis from an hourly wage system. The engineers were already on the monthly basis. Other perman- Battle Counterattacks Jill the army. Burns was last heard I (rem two weeks ago when a lette’ written on January 25 was received. First at New London ! New London: A message was le the ceived by Mr and Mrs. Will Carson, Moscow, Russia ■ INS'—Russian forces sweeping southwestward across the ^ ^ thelr son, Joe centi al front today gained control of . midway rmssing 111 the the rail town of Tumanovo, side. This alone will bring abldni"j ^r(>up Rejected At Induction ent employes will be on an hourly basis 'twe?n captured Gzhaesk and e After employment of a year, the ; Nazi.deld city of Vyazma, while on the Center Also Listed A FINNISH BLANKET POLIC Y also seems to have been adopted by the industry. A check made upon one Texas project shows that cf the 5.000 men, mostly farmers, employed in camp con- war manpower commission. Its dr has taken the middle-aged . their farms when the job was ovei taste of high salar- ' In artjiliou t0 lccal selectecs in the case of the firemen at the light SPEND 3 DAYS AT 1.W.C.I who were accepted into the army last plant a special arrangement was ef- * - t week end, the following were accepted fectpd jn which the firemen receive The religious emphasis program at lbe NaVy at the Induction Center: days vacation a month with pay. 111611 arc granted a weeks vacation and j front the Red army batten d after five years, two weeks. °Iie j bitterly against strong German coun-w^ek’s sick leave will be granted to all. terattacks. I nr ™ hart to Icll»luuo ^ ill r»av., lwo nays VBVawviii « - aft I struct ion. on y . iowa Wesleyan college this year will charles W Ehrhart, Charles Wayne jn deu 0f a two weeks vacation bureau males of !*8 to 44 back into threaten- The others had a tas e o ig a hpafl of the Wesiey foundation. Dr. j Waseca; Minn.. Board, ing classifications, for the professed ies and mainly soug e u/hnsc headquarters are at ! The following were bring Dr. H D. Bollinger, national - gandell, Lawrence Gordon Wright. Thp council als0 arranged for a grievance committee to be composed. purpose of inspiring them to go to work on the farms, and that very same day. the army divulged plans to release 546,000 of this same over-age class for reasons of physical unfitness. The government thus is at one time releasing an over-age group for physical unfitness, and threatening to take in more of the same physically unfit class in an effort to force them to go nut and do work which calls for even greater physical fitness than the Birny —farming. coast in ah plane factories. Bollinger, whose headquarters are at! The following were accepted in the (hr€e city employes who may take , ,md in the Donets basin has been action in North Africa since seme time during the month of February. The message stated that more nforma ion would follow soon. This is the first such message t-o be received here in this war, altho Rcbt, Inghiam, reported missing and later Soviet troops forged forward across t0 be a prisoner of the Ger- the central front and in the St a ray 0 mans> was a high school graduate here Russ r and Lake Ilmen ai ca in t c and £pent many years in New Lon- northwest. but in the southeast they ^ carson was the first local boy to were forced to combat heavy assaults ^ abroad, going to Ireland with by reenforced Nazi tank and infantry ^ group scnt there in 1941. He divisions in the direction of Kharkov bpen writing his parents from FINANCIAL OFFICERS here are Nashville, Tenn., will spend three days Marines at the Induction Center; L^ compiajn(S ^ suggestions directly to on the Wesleyan campus, March 29 , 30 Burdette Honts, Walter Rex Billings- ^ council. Africa for several months. < lev Robert Dean Billingsley. The new arrangement received the looking skeptical y a - Dr Boinnger conducted a similar; Those rejected at the induction cen- al o[ nearlv all of the city implies cf war bon s . program on the Wesleyan campus ap- ; ter were: William Calvin Vaughn. ^ Wftg agreed upon with the workers who My y proximately six years ago and was ac* i Harley Ralph Neihart, Jack William u a satisfactory solution to to meet their March IS Income tax ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ thejBlyth(, Leo„ard Hedlinger, Lloyd Bd- di[(lcmties payments. *“ - - The treasury makes no money and best liked religious counselor to visit!ward Sempf. Ralph Donald Swailes, than Wesleyan Irwin Harold Garrets, Lorrain De- the war effort is hurt rather ^ nationally recognized leader in Spain. James Brandt Magdefrau. Chas. Bollinger attended Nelson Schubert. Kenneth helped when a citizen must cash a _ , , „ thp youth work, Dr treasury bond to pay a tax to mc Semlnary at the same time as Randall Meyer, George Robert Swear Holmen. Marriage License Issued A marriage license was issued at the court house todav to Fay J Roth. 22 CHAPEL SERVICE ----' Onrrptt Semmaiv ai int* t-cuuc wine a.-, rwiiiuiiii mcju, ■, ! treasury with its own monejh Any ^ 8U|))ey B Ntles and Dean !ngen, Aifre<j james WI-1mm. Elmer MI. P-easant and Edna M . This looks like ai effort to enlarge taxpayer who wants to help win the the man-power olanket by cutting a war will pay from his own cash. E. Wayne Hilmer. Christner. 20. Olds. A N szi military spokesman was quoted by the German radio as saying the UNIT ATTENDS Russians had launched new drives in . Alii UIlI I * IE.IWO the Staraya-Russa area and also in the, bend of the Lovat river, extending: - their thrust to the shore of Lake Ilipen.I The air unit at low* weslevan at The German radio admitted tvacu- j .feuded chapel .services at the college ation according to plan of Beyeli, 55 (Tuesday morning for the first time miles southwest of Rzhev on the cent- Miss Either Haight played a piano tai front while the Nazi controlled 1 solo, Dr. Walter Klass gave the invo-Vichy radio said or the southern front J cation and Dr Charles Kennedy spoke Germans had struck to within nine to the group on the Elemen s, of a miles of Kharkov. Just and Lasting Peace ’

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