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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 13, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Su«ar ll - Feb. 1-Mar. 15 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee 25 - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 (Each stamp, I pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS V M ID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil I - - - I mil Mar. 28 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Lanoline No. 1-Jan. 2l-Mar.21 VOI.. EXXI, No. OISATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1013 MT. PUE VS A NT, IOWA Burlington Will Flay Ottumwa drey hounds In Finals After Defeating Winfield Burlington and Ottumwa will pl©’* ii nitwit f >r the district basketball cfi mpion; hip a1 Ottumwa and the null! lo pl *\ iii ’Ii*1 ’tate tournament next week end Burlington, winner ever Winfield Thursday evening, de-t ca ted Williamson. 3C to 23. in the Friday evening game Ottumwa clowned Seymour, 36 to 30 Box score in the Burlfngten-Winfield game: Burlington—SO G Fr FMurphy, f ...6 I 2Bergman, f4 0 0Ii*reeker, c ....1 0 2Brock*©y c ...0 0 2Soh Weiser, g ..2 2 2Platt, if .......0 0 I8* ss ions. g ...4 0 3McGhee gI Q ISoman gI I 0Waugh g3 I 0Wischm r. g.0 I 0Totals ....2 6 13Winfield—31 Mason, f4 3 3R V an V rai.ke ll f , .0 0 3Rani rf k c ...0 0 2Sh non, c 0 0Haight, g7 3 2L. Van Vr-tnk* n. g ...... 0 3 ILinder, g ......0 0 2Heme k, g0 0 0Haines g ........... . .0 0 0Totals ...I 9 13Rommel’s Army Completely Repulsed Four Nations Should Cooperate To Have Lasting Peace - Eden Washington. D C. <INS*—Coojiera-Hon between the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia and China, is pretty well indispensible if the world s to have lasting peace after this war. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said today In emphasizing an understanding between the four major powers.” Eden said "tile important thing, it seems to me is that we've got to take precautionary measures this time to make sure that Germany and Japan are never able to start another war. ‘ It means we cannot adopt the '-ame kind of attitude we did last time Take Germany, for example, we don’t want a government set un there and then merely trust to luck." They’ll Do It Every Time - - - YOU OU6HT TO MEAR HIM SOUND OPP AT HOME. ABOUT NEATNESS AND ORDER. / J JST LOO* AT ALL '/ ( VOUK. TOYS STREWN ( around were. I've I TOLD YOU A MUNCHED ( TIMES-‘A PLACE FOR V everything and I EVERYTHING IN half Burlington 19. Win- 18 Deeds For Town And City Properties Man' On Record Here Few Days Last Deeds rec- refed „t the couthou.se rr-c* tit Iv include the following: Matilda Bloom to ViturU Courter, Winfield property. Oorisiri* ration is given as $ff>0. A J Wright to Frank T Collins. 65.86 acres in section 29 of Salem town hip Consideration $2,200. Isaac Van Tuvl, guardian for George S a: borough to Fr*d and Annie WL son, 80 acres in section 36 of Center township Consideration $4,400. Z Oa ienkraut and others, executor' to Everett Wright, property on 12. Washington. Consideration $2,700. Anna Laura Pettis to Mr and Mrs. M A Goody 74 acres in Baltimore township. Francis Lee and Keith Steinbeck to Allen R Meyer, farm in Jefferson and Henry counties Consideration $8,300. Vale Dunn to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dunn. undivided one-half interest In UNIVERSALIST WOMEN ATTEND MEETING Th* regular business meeting ol the Association of Universalist Women was held at the home of Mrs Elwood Williams Thursday afternoon. Plans were mad* for opening the church for service the coming Sunday Refreshments were served. MISSIONARY SOCIETY IS ENTERTAINED Tire Evening Missionary society of tile First Baptist church me* at the horn* of Myrtle Hobson Friday evening at 7:30. The meeting was railed to order by the president, who welcomed the group. The minuter of last meeting were read and approved Devotions were given by Basel Neff and were followed by the reading of a pr *yer by Mrs. Verle Sammons, Mrs Heil ti Donald review ed another chapter from the study book which very interesting Mrs. Lula Car-stersen then gave a short sketch from til** life of Milton S. Hershey. There w,c’ a very good attendance and five guests were present. Refreshments in keeping with St Patrick> were served by the committee in charge, Mrs. Elma Oge, Mrytie Hobson and Louise Messer. Corn Ceiling Made Permanent See Road Surplus Men Leave To of Five Million Report For Duty Might Drop To $3,605,000 In The local group of men who reported a week age for induction and were I accepted left this mommg about one - | o'clock by bus for Camp Dodge to re- Des Moines. la. (INS) The state pcrt for .iCtIve dutv The Brazelton highway commission report submitted hoteJ was crowded with relatives and today by Chief engineer Frank R friends to see the large group of men White to Gov B B Hickenlooper an- ieave ticipates a surplus of approximately ^ - five million dollars in state primary road funds at the end of 1943 The report stated that the primary road fund income from present sources for the year 1943 will be sufficient to meet all 1943 obligations including ducted into the army recently. Del- principal on primary road bonds and Eleven Registered During February Youths Became 18 Years Old In The Month WITH COUNTY MEN IN THE SERVICE wa rn mm For the third time since being in* interest due this year, leaving a balance of ever five million. A drop of 20 per cent in income in 1944 would leave a balance of $3,605 -GOO. with obligations more than income for 1945 if the war is still in progress mer Barton’s address has been changed, and the latest address received by his parents. Mr and Mrs. Rex Billon is Pvt Delmar O Barton, Flight Nb. 357; 612 T. G., A. A. F. T. T. C.. Clearwater, Florida. CRYSTAL REBEKAH LODGE MEETS The regular meeting of Crystal Re-bekah lodge was held Thursday even- Funeral Services For Warren Long I David Edgar Wilson C. M 2c left I for Port Hueneme, California, Thurs-| day Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wilson and David spent Tuesday at the Clyde Wilson home. .south of New London. His address is: David Edgar Wilson, C. M. 2 c, 62nd Batt. Co. D„ Plat 3. Port Hueneme, A Eleven Henry county boys beearn-18 year-, old in February and registered wi h the Selective Service. They are: Orin Kenneth K pper, Winfield Robt Charles Tribby, Mi. Pleasant William D. Tribby, MI. Pleasant Clyde Cammack, Iowa City and Salem i Figure Left I he Same As On January ll Washington. D. C, The of I ice of rice administration late Friday placed pc* rn I anent price ceilings over corn at the same level as the ceiling t^mpor-ari.v clamped on coin en Jan. ll. The ceding is $102 at 56-pcund bushel (I No. 2 yellow corn at Chicago. Inis ih the same as the temporary Incite price. While the perm neat c ding ordei docs net rare coir. prices, it does iron .ut inequalities between the various basing points markets which were frozen by the Jan. ll order. IC'! Per Cent I he permanent ceiling cider, ac- i cording to the OPA .-Jatenrent ar com- * paining it, reflects a IOO per cent ol J panty price to the producer when AAA benefit i arc taken into consul • at ion.1 The ceiling thu moves squarely in the face of the bill recently passed with but two dissenting votes in the senate requiring the price clministrator not t: tyke benefit payments to farmers into consideration in fix.i.g faun crop ceilings. The new order, at feeling; a crop which accounts for 18 per cent cf the fanners’ irccme, provides ceilings at which trading may take place :n future markets and covers corn transactions however handled, It fixes comparable ceilings for other grades of yell w corn and a special preferential schedv* for all grad* cl white corn. Split The country is split into IO z* nee for pm noses of price regulation, the zones being determined by present relationships to basing point markets. With the announcement ut permanent ceilings on corn, the OPA acted t I relieve the squeeze on processors of Nazis Suffer Heavy Losses rn/ In Equipment • * Retreating Enemy Force? Closely Pursued London, England *INS> The Algiers radio reported tcdav th t a new attack bv Field Marshal Eli’win Rommel’s army had b* en completely repulsed. Numer us tanks and artillery, a large numb. r cf troops and ci J ve bombers were u.ed in the thrust. Allied Headquarters in North Africa (INS*—Nazi G**n. Erwin Rommel has I J acknowledged defeat and withdrawn I from battle w ith the British eighth jarmy in southern Tunisia, dispatches • from that tattle front indicated today. j Rommel .suffered heavy lost'! in equpipment in the battle 50 miles west * f the southern anchor of the Mareth line. With Gen. Sir Bernard L Montg m-ery’s forces maintaining their foothold on the flank of the strongly fortified Mareth line. the axi> po J* ion was under serious menace. Rommel suffered a decisive defeat and his beaten patrols retiring northward were said to be under close pursuit of allied forces. American and British air squadrons attached to the eighth army harassed the retreating foe. Front Hue dispatches raid th*1 fighting French army of Gen. Jacques Le Olerc had fought beside the British in the Ksarkhilane engagemen*. Bitter Fighting At Kharkov Moscow, Kits. e INAP Bitter Funeral services were held Friday morning for Warren Curtis Long, at mg. The business session was in IO o’clock at the Cookes Funeral Home b. D., California chai we of the Noble Grand, Mrs Vera ! at Mt. Pleasant, and at the Reynolds; Sn at 2:00 U. S. Naval Air Station. Job At this time the charter was Funeral Home at Sigourney Lambert Harold Duayne Olson. Winfield Lester Romauld Nichting, Salem (dry com products, whose ceilings have lighting raged within the outer limits Marlyn Eugene Westerbeck, New teen b*red on 90 per cent corn. It o{ Kharkov t day a*, a strongly reen- Xx»ndon , wa- announced a similar order for wet frrcf fj German ai my strove desperate- Donald Bruce Huffman. Mt. Pleas- ‘j corn products ss being drawn. ty to recapture the strategic capital of alll The corn ceiling order provides L r th{? ukraine Warren Henry Meyer. Mt. Union one cent a month increase in futures oificial Soviet circles admitted tha’ Dean Robert Anderson. Winfield prices applied one-half cent at a Line Russian forces ut Khaikov are hard William Dale Garmoe, Mt. Pleasant on the first and 15th cf each month pressed. Garmoe, who has served in the navy On S**pt. 30. considered the opening Berlin radio reports tin*' Kharkov over a year and only recently was of the new crop .reason, the ceilings had been recaptured lacked confirma- given an honorable discharge, because are to be moved back to the May 31 tion in Motcow Bitter fighting raged of a head injury, which incapiated level, which, according to the pea- in outskirts of the city and the him for further service, enlisted when : aal schedule, will be $1.04 for Nunn- R(.d army faced tremendous odds. So- he was 17. Now that he is 18 he reg- ber 2 yellow, at Chic go. vlet dispatches admitted, but Kharkov istered with the Selective Service. J Exempted from the order are seed t0^,y uas . aid l( still be in Russian ----------cern. popcorn, grain sorghums, sweet ilands I corn, broom corn, ground corn, cracked ---------- _ torn and corn used lor canning pur- Naval Aviation draped for Mrs. Caroline Darby, late o'clock Rev. Edward L. Jeambey. pas- j F (eld, St. Lour-. Mo 7”'......n pr Hon v af Cert*- to WTI president of the Rebekah Assembly of tor cf the Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Cadet Everett Lyle Telemeter sen of 140 acre, rn section 36 of Center .own ^ ^ ^ >way recenUy Mrs. I church officiated a. both services. Glenn Toemeler. of MI. Union, has Darby is well know-n in the lodge cir-1 Burial was near Sigourney. transferred to the Naval An Mr and Mrs. Richard Dunn to Vale Dunn, undivided one-fifth interest in 126 acres in sections 17 and 18 of Baltimore township. Mr. and Mrs Albert Cornick to Albert Raymond Cornick, 101 acres in section 20 of New' London township. The grantors retain an income of $400 a year from the farm through their lifeline. John F. Elgar to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Boce, 20 acres in section 20 of Jefferson township. Consideration $900. DEATH TAKES NOTED BANKER cie here, having visited the lodge at Warren Curtis Long was bern in the different times. j Sigourney community on December 26. In recognition of our boys in the 1878. and passed away very suddenly armed *forces the lodge has purchased March IO, 1943, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. a selection of cards suitable for the* Mr..Long after farming most of his occasion and members are asked to ob-! earlier years, came to Mt. Pleasant to tain them at the lodge meeting and live about 3 years ago. rend them to the boys as a courtesy J He was married to Mrytie Gilliland from the lodge. It Is not necessary in 1900, and to this union 9 children that they be from Rebekah families. Tile lodge also will send five kitbag.* were born. Three preceded him in Station. Pensacola, Fla., after successful completion of the primary flight training at the Naval Air Station, Lambert Field. St Louis, Mo. Everett Totemeier started his naval career by attending the naval pre-flight school at Iowa City. Iowa. He was transferred to this station en November 5, 1942. After three months intermediate Observe Their 58th Anniversary p SCS. Salem Is Backing Fires Blaze Again In Essen Mr. and Mrs. Ed Conover. 807 Norm Main street, quietly observed their TPhp CVim^ 58th wedding anniversary on March A lit: IVcll YjI Boo 12th. They received callers in the - Lond'.n. England 'INS*—Fires visible hundreds cf miles away blazed today in the great German industrial city of Essen following violent new night attacks by th© Royal Air Force death: Aletha. Melba and Gene. The I fl‘Bht training at Pensacola, ria.. Totemeier will pin on his wings as a naval aviator and oe commissioned an New York. New York «INS*— Stricken with a heart attack on Feb. 25 as he arrived in Boca Grande, Fla., on a vacation trip, J P. Morgan, international banker, died at 3:15 a. in. today. through the Red Cross to soldier boys Sjx surviving children of this union are leaving the United States. | as follows: Virgil and Paul of Web- At the next meeting a class of eight ster Dorothy Kirkpatrick of North will b? presented for initiation. A English, Cecil, now serving overseas; number of petitions was also received Curtis of Washington. Iowa, and Berat his meeting. ! nadine of Columbus Junction, Iowa. A committee composed of the men | There are also thirteen surviving of the lodge served the refreshments grandchildren. which were nie and coffee. The deco- j He was married again in 1942 to Nel-rations in the dining room were pink lie sponberg. who also survives him, and green, the colors of the lodge, and tcgether with two step-daughters, Mrs. the serving was very efficiently done. Bernice Wolfe, and Lucile Grecian. -- ; tQth Qf Washington, Iowa. Mr. Long Announcement of the famed finan _ Cifr's passing; was made officially by (STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, left many distant relatives and many the New York company which he nice AC HEART ATTACK frlendS DuHng WS brief ye"r5 M‘‘ headed. At the financiers bedside ,,NSl-Stephen vincent «““nt community, he acquired many when he passed away was his son. 44 world famous poet and nov-jne'* *r*tnf*s w 0 niourn tis pass ng. Lieut. Com Henry F. Morgan and Mrs. Paul G. Pennover. The death of the aged financier brings to a close his career as head of the famous banking house of Morgan and company which began in 1913. when J P. Morgan succeeded his father. the late J. Pierpont Morgan on the latter*® death. elist, died of a hear attack in his New ™ * * York city home today after a short $54,557 lax Lem ensign in the Naval Reserve or a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve. f The title, lieutenant’, was inadvertently omitted from Ted F. Huene's name in Friday’s News. His address is Ll. Ted* F. Huene, 435th Engr.. Depot Co., 3rd Provisional Br.. Camp Claiborne, La. SI? Forrest Dale McCullough, grandson of Mrs. Martha McCullough, has been promoted to an aviation machinist's mate, first class. He was recognized for outstanding performance and devotion to duty in action in the Pacific. afternoon and enjoyed the cards and Salem. Iowa — H. G. Steven®, against this main center of Adolph phone calls from friends and relative.-, chairman for Salem Township Red Hillers war production. at a distance. They also received cress, states the drive in this part Twenty-three planes failed to return several nice gifts. win go way ahead of our quota of $300. This was the heaviest loss yet suffered Announcement cf the amount given by the RAF since its concentrated aswail not be available for a few days, sault against the*backbone cf the He stated that most person are eag- reich began two weeks ag cr to helo on this drive and are giv-, Conservative estimate- indicated at ing double what was given the past least 5C9 bombers particpiated. It was vear just one week ago that Essen was at- Those who have been working on t eked and reconnaissance photo- several days, died at the Memorial J ,)10ject were. H. G. Stevens, Glen graphs showed momentous damage vt -hospital Friday evening at seven ^ Xw*>ilf .Harry Crop*!’. Ber! Wolf, suiting from that raid, o'clock ; wm. P (igeon, Edna Hartley. David — — Bert Messer Taken By Death Bort Messer, 64, critically ill the las' Here Cancelled He is survived by his wife and three Savagp Maynard Barber. Fern Bar-children, also by several brothers and t:n j0hn Moxley, Helen Barton. Leal1. sisters. I Berry and J. T Ourd. The body was taken to the Cookes | Funeral Home and will remain there otir a ii pc piRCT TA until the funeral hour which will be af AILM NWI IV two o'clock Monday afternoon at the I ENLIST UNDER NEW Rome Baptist church. NAVAL PROGRAM Army Enlisted Reserves At University Called Charles W Swedes n of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D Swailcs. 709 Broadway, was the first Mt Pleasant youth to Over 400 Attend ; Band Program | ever four hurdled neople attended the band variety program at the high reheel Friday evening presented under the diucticn cf Mr C. A Morgan. Tire program was enjoyed and praised by ti. s attending. illness. Benet whose ‘ John Brown’s Body"' won the Pulitzer prize for verse in 1928. i I had ceased writing in the past year to devote all his time to war work. Born in Bethlehem, Penn., July 2, 1898. bacco Products Corporation of New j Emerson is Battery A.. 440 Arm’d Field Benet spent his youth around army JerRey was ordered cancelled today by Artillery Bn., APO 257, % P. M„ Los - • Testing Station. Solomons, Maryland. A tax lien for $54,557.92 against1 Walter T. Shriller, transferee of To- The new address of Pvt. James L. listed reserve corps The new address"^ Vernon J. Lerper j University of Iowa have been oils T. M. 3 c U.S. Naval Mine Warfare. | dered to report at Camp Dodge. Ma-. 8. IO. ll. 12. 13 and 14. it was ann mired todiy by university officials. Those to report include three modi- low* Cliv, lowTflNS, SOO army en. ™'-*' War.* Av,...nm Cad... Will Observe xx* students al th. Weak* Boart of St Loun for Naval Av) tion training under its new 17- He 66th Anniversary LILY OF INDIA H. H. McV*y has on display in hi* store window in Tama a sacred lily of India that is now blooming. The lily itself is 4 feet IO inches high and measures 12 inches in diameter. Tile fcur-year-old, dark-wine lily is blossoming for the first time and many residents of Tama are seeing for the J post* and was graduated from Yale in E R BlrmiRgham o! the offlCe of the Angeles. Calif 1919 All his work, even the earliest, po- collector of internal revenue and was Mc. 'lid Mr observe their J, T, Cl ain will quietly Ixtv-sixth wedding au ca I students, it was stated Pl Z. M first time such a flower. Service office has announced. ing Group. Jefferson Barracks, Mo. EASTBOUND BUS GOES INTO DITCH An eastbound Trailways bus left th* pavement about three miles cast of M' ^an,I Pleasant Friday evening and went into \eu-old procurement program coli ted March 6. just three days be-fore he1 would have become 18 and ineligible for enlistment. Swages is a senior at the Mount liiversary Monday. March 15, at the Pleasant high srh:ol where he won Spearman home on West Monroe one letter iii football .street- where 5he> hav° llved for sev’ Enlisted as apprentice seamen <V-5) (eral vears-in the United States Naval Reserve.: each 17-year-old rn n must complete j his high school work and graduate ? (if he has not already graduated), and await his 18th birthday before he isi John Jericho's b crocuses on the marked “abated as erroneous,” J Mr. and Mrs Z. M. Livix received etically extolled the deeper unities of The tax Uen which stated it Waf> | wc*d this week that their son. Harold. American life and tradition. relative to income tax. was filed with!had been promoted to the rank of Cor- --— county recorder on Febt 13, 1942. pcral. His address is Cpl. Harold S. flaSAlfipf] In 1-A - j Livix, A .SN 3711 6006. 47th .--------- _ , George Joseph Partington has been The following is the addrress of Pyt. 313th Troop Carnet* Group, Bks. 2020, i the ditch on the south side of the road.[eligible tot ***** J* h*s active I has'Lriv""00* I classified in 1-A, the local Selective Wallace C. Riepe: Sqd. B. 36th Train- Army Air Base. Maxton. North Cars- Fortunately the bus did not cv rf rn J ~o* o re * _ ig • • lina Sand damage was comparatively slight, duty na' I aviation Laming J I Crocus In Bloom Mr. Je cus in bloom today ' meter of Spring out ii side of his id av that Spring ic ho found a cjo-

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