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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 20, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sunar 12 - Mch. 16-May 31 (Bach .stamp, Five pounds) Coffee 25 - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 (Each stamp, I pound) VOL. EXXI, No, 67 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS SAH KOAY, MAK. 20. 1013 VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil I - - - Until Mar. 26 Fuel Oil 5 - - - I nti! Sept. 30 (Each stamp, I i gallons) Gasoline No. I-Jan. 21-Mar.2l MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Teaching Staff Is Reelected One Teacher Named lo Fill Vacancy I in* I * «cltint: ' fT of Die Mt Plea:. ai.I public .choule wa reelected for the < '.in.im year, with a couple of excep-'iorr>, a* the recent meet mg of Uh .♦chirt)! bo ir'■. In these two exceptions, one in the kind* i eat ten and Uh* ether in Uh Kinde: at Junior high the teachers. M. In*/ IIJI?'a and Mi- W.ntfred I * mon have other plans, A acc or ’o Mi. Ellison ha- been > < rd Mi nudie Harris of Mvsti I*.*clH-r of the fit ’ and second grade:, at Mt Union, has been named as th' ne.*, km berg a:ten 'cache? She re- c * Ives I)! ak* pig ( an 'x A I mate] teach mer* ferric teach Th* centi*. rgarten training at and has had teach-which she ha- jnade her kind IJ rh vet i y rrerlence lr client record. *'al salary increase of approxl re*m Aes granted the ie local .school system, the riding upon the leng h of and the salary which the already was receiving, ompkte staff with th** two ex- fi in t hep* Mib* ; Walk! rBein toe Huff maLull.* ti BarrFie. ] Ek.st ratalC (» Bf tit t el’Cli*/ tor MortarCh ic * At wax idMae Bitchefde?Alice M"I>.u a* IGeor ge MartinGuy Ie McLeanAmericans Go Ahead In Tunisian Rain Nutrition ( lasses Are Concluded They’ll Do It Every Time - - Group Complete# leu Weeks Course; May Start New ( lasses sever a1 ma Ic mr derm n. March * anilin House Turns Down Federal Child Aid \ oles I to State To Give Assistance The Salary Increases w Made bv Council FARM BU REAL HEAD COMING in ll»Bh I • R Hollo Ie Tumey ie Lyon ut Clover flamier * Bal owed Junior go fctaniev K na k iwards Olsen a ret G«r h braiks Junior RauK-her totie Davis Grove < McNeal * I Mtchener Hunt Boddick'-r High GI* r Luci lim Ever Mrs lf el* (ii* Hen .'-'lr i Mas B>ii dirt Mrs Edith Alice Bern! Anna Bchnurr (lr jutes sounders Mr Eva Hills Velma Thomson Wilma Mill* r Mary Ross Deeds Recorded At Courthouse The Red Clo s Nutriticn classes which have b"en In progress the last his week: we ie completed last Monday night. There were two classes, one taught by Mrs, Howard Hills and me by Mr-. Floyd Gooder. All of the following women completed the final examination satisfactorily and will receive certificates from the Red Cross. Mesdames L W Cross, Sherman Mills, William Eber*. M. L Dickson, L, Es-tle, W. J. Bell, Lloyd Estes, Glen Edger. Z Gartenkraut, L. P. Ri-stine, Harold Mf Loran. Helen Nelson, Betty Hatfield, Myrta Gilfillan, W L. Sternberg. E. C McCoid. C F Hayes, Wm. Rowe, Glenn Hoffman. These women are now entitled to take the Red Cross Canteen Course if a teacher can be found with Dietetics training The course was supplemented by demonstrations — a bread-demonstration, a meat-cutting ration, and this Monday night, 22. at 7:30 there is to be a demonstration to which anyone interested may come It is lo be at the High School, in charge of Miss Lillian Peckham. the county home economist. An interesting project which the groups started and was later organ-| wed by the city nutrition committee, ! was a hot lunch project at the Junior j I High scho< {wa? item ti nice some thirty-seven wages of city imp.oyes, the Mi Pleas j pupils ate regularly at a cost of Sc a ant city council this week voted In- j dish The food was prepared outside creases to administrtatiVe officials and ? land served by interested mothers of police officers. These increases, part of j this community. 'rh** project receiv- which are set in ordinances and part led financial aid Horn the Rotary club, by resolution, will become effective at j the improvement League, 'West Side the atari of the \ear when officials and Mc.ther's club and an anonymous per- officer* take their positions followinu von It* is the plan to serve hot the election to be held late this month I lunches at the high school either this j The new salary softie will be as fol-i spring rn next tali, -*» that more pH- .tows: Mayor H L. Shook. $150 00 a pUs can be served. !month: City Manager Le* Speaker,I On** jihase of the study was on milk $225.00 a mon h; City Cleik J P. Bud-: and condition of its source It was joe. $75.00 a month; City Attorney E. I noted by the mend*-! that our town C. McCoid $75 OO a month; City rreas-i {ha: no milk inspection a situation urer C. Van Brussel, $300 OO a year- (which was a surprise to all. It was Chief of police James Jamison $135 OO • learned tha* there is a milk ordinance a month; Officers VV* bb Yocum, Pet * j _ I that it enforced would give a measure Shouse and Ray Kinney, $125.00 a mon . 'of protection ’ ^ ^ch; Cemetery Sexton Will Fenton 1 Des Moines. Iowa <INS> — A two per- ’ Other nutrition classes will be start- $120.00 a month; City Hall Custodian cent Iowa crop acreage during 1943 led now if there are a sufficient Hum-I Paul Welcher. $110 OO a month; Book-; was predicted today by Leslie M Carl. ber who desire it. You may call Mrs. keeper Lillian Mauch. $110.00 a month . director of the Iowa cooperative crop •A M Wettach if you are interested, and City Weighmaster Nils Pero.$40.OO and livestock reporting service, j lf none enroll now there will be classes a month. I Carl said the two percent boost Gains Slowed bv Heavy Rain Two-Pronged Drive Headed For Eastern Coast General Increases and Equalization of Amounts Francis Johnson, president of the Iowa Pal in Bureau Federat ion will be in Mt. Pleasant on Monday evening, __March 29, the date selected for the . , , » victory meeting of the organization en tiro jet i at in** quinin i A a part *>f the general uitrea.-* and - p J J , u drive fee 1943 Farm Bureau members. A great deal of interest equalization being made in .Planes and ” the I*arm Bureau office announced to day. TIh* county organization committee, consisting of Emery Eighth chairman; Ralph Myers, organization director, and H S. Burkey, county president, are directing plans for a varied program. Salem Over Top By 50 Per Cent County Red C ross Drive Goes Forward Wpm u ng a gov-I SI ,5< 'UMM) a year. heum* of representatives Fried a bill granting a d to needy but decisively shut the door a1 participation, ill passed bv the house, catan annual app;** tiation A* >0. calls hi on the counties to I ut up $2 for ev*Iy $1 provide Iy the state. The sen ti* pre v in ti-.1} pas a d a bill, rallying an annual appropriation of $750,000. calling uoon the state to supply $1 and tile count ie- $i for every $2 allotted by the federal governin'nt through the so-ial security program. Rejects Federal Aid Tin hon e rejected the opportunity _o? federal participation, 60 to 35, insisting that Iowa remain with the state of Nevada as the two states in the net on net participating in the federal prog lam for aid to dependent children The ileus*- action wa , completed after about two horns of the strongest debate heard in the lower chamber for a long tune The advocates of federal participation chanted: “You ne Willing tr take federal money for your hogs but not for the lives and souls of our children.” The adherents to the state-county fond ll, lug IIN.' '•batete fcv the Bra sh einmv from positions i M reth line, accord ih* A bayonet • liny drove the orig part of tile to Reuters. Alii*cl Headquarters in North Alii*’ ) * INS) - American armored columns sloshed along the re ins*, aked desert road of central Tunisia In relent’ess I \ iii suit of enemy forces. [ A two-prongrd drive was headed for * th** eastern coa.si to cu’ off the main bcdy of Marshal Erwin Rommel’:, Af-rika Korps which is nchored on the Ma reth line 125 miles to the south nervously awaiting an attack bv the British eighth army One American column was pushing to the southwest from Oaf.sa towards the port of Gabes. Late dispatches from North Africa said the ar k spe rhead was beyond Guettar. 12 miles from Oaf sa. A second column of American armored forces reenforced by French troops was pushing east from Oaten toward Sfax and was reported to be nearing tile desert oasis of Sened, 30 miles beyond Gafsa The heavy rain flowed down the progress of the allied forces. 2% Increase In Iowa t rop Acreage Would Add 600,000 Slate Acres In Russians Fall Back On Donets River Line fc’alcm’s Red Cross drive report* I over the top several days ago, has ex- principle retorted: ceeded the quota by more than 50, “Let’s call a halt to control by New percent, Harry G. Stevens has report- Deal bureaucracy!” j _ , . .. . . *K_ . „ „ Moscow. Russia —(IHS)-— Russian ed. Salem s quota was $.100. Ihe re- Undei the (joust bill, a dependent cent report bv Mr. Stevens l«wrt child living with his parents or close ,|ele"(,"rs «“ •»'“*«• rlv"r "*<« te" relatives ct,uld receive state-county aul •»<* ai ««»t>elmmg Nazi tank and * motorized units battered their at the courthouse Decs recorded i*Gently include: Ha I (lh M Mill* I and wife to Spa ha and Rose Lumber co., Olds property. fquit tbie Life Assurance Society of I7. S to Jacob T. Wenger, 150 acres In j section I of Wayne township. Con-1 initiation was $16,390. Ewa Wesleyan college to Katherine E. Pip* r, north 50 feet bf lot I, block I, College second addition to Mt., Pleasant. Property is vacant lot at i Broadway and Vine streets. C. J. Shepherd and wife to H. M. Hi d and wife, property at East Mon-ice and Walnut streets. ' offered in the fall. Washington 'INS*—A new OPA regulation placing sugar for home canning under the point rationing system was held up today for the per- I Those list* d it will be noted arc the would add 600,000 acres to Iowa's pro-■ persons now serving and the amounts daction program this year. Farmers 'listed are the amounts to be received report, he declared, that acreage inter the respective offices after the el- (creases are planned for corn, soybeans, jcctlon regardless of who is elected or ll.x and potatoes, while possible de-j appointed. \ cr asps are to be expected in pasture I and minor crops. Carl listed the prospective Iowa 1943 acreage as 10.739.000 acres or ten per-i cent, over the acreage last year and j 7 percent above the goal for 1943. that $460 had been contributed. Meanwhile the drive continues in'up to $15 a month most towns and* townships of the county in the effort to raise Henry county's quota of $8,500. Some of the workers report, persons are giving more liberally as fuller explanation is made that it is necessary to raise the larger'amount for the war fund drive. Give two to five times as much this year and Henry county will have no trouble in meeting the war fund quota. Youth Accused In Local Car Case Charles R. Horn Taken By Death Young Man Just Graduated From Medical School Lawrence Logan, I‘J, Is Held To (irand Jury Expect Brown To Rejet Suggestion On (inning Sugai ^ j0 jnsure Gas For Farmers Washington. D C. — Two federal ♦ onal* scrutiny of Price Administration ' war agencies moved Friday to assure Prentiss M Brown. j midwest farmers of ample gasoline An aide of the former Michigan \ for operation of both farm machin-1 gr nator. who has been in the midwest jfry and laim trucks. Ross S. Wright to George Wright. ^ ^ ^ several days, indicated I Price Administrator small tract tow nship. in .section I of Jackson ( that Brown probably would — ,_ . . - . thumbs down on the proposal Emma Luchty and husband to Leon ard I eichty, three acres in section I of Jefferson township. I J R. Leiehty and wife to Simon Leichty, 30 acres in .section 26 of Jef-l* ison township. * i in The regulation, drafted by some of CPAs ration experts, would require housewives to surrender an eight point blue stamp from war ration book Prentiss M. turn ; Brown streamlined procedure for supplying gasoline for tractors, engines and other gasoline consuming equipment used on the farm. Director Joseph B. Eastman of the office of defense transportation clear Livestock Council Opposes Ceiling on Live Meat Animals Lawrence Logan. 19, was held to the grand jury here under $500 bond when arraigned befort* Justice of the Peacr James T. Whiting Friday on a charge of taking a car without the owners consent. Logan was taken into custody Thursday afternoon at Fairfield at the request of local officers who suspected, him of taking the Cyril Thomas car from here Wednesday night. City of-j fleers had seen a man drive away in i ‘the car and believed he might be Logan. Later the car was found in Fairfield and Logan also was located there Sheriff Manning Cline and Officer Chilies R Horn, 23, son of Mrs. Louise Horn ol this city, passed away I* iaday at th* Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Death came just twenty-four hours after he entered J the hospital for a minor operation. Horn, a graduate of the Mt. Pleasant high school and Iowa Wesleyan collar.** had just been graduated from the Harvard Medical School on March lr and had expected to visit here soon with his mother and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H Cunningham, later returning to begin his interneship at the same hospital in Which he passed away. In addition to haying graduated from Iowa Wesleyan and Harvard. Horn had spent two years at the University of Iowa. Funeral services have as yet brei. arranged. Mr. C. W. Horn of Los Angelet, Calif., father of Charles. way ; into two towns, front line dispatches rep*ated early today. I The captured towns were not iden-!ifl*’d but they were believed to b° in the area 20 miles southeast of Kharkov. The Germans have massed overpowering tank forces en thb sector. Soviet dispatches said the Germans were paying a disastrous prier for the Donets gain and were suffering heavy losses or. other fronts. Red armies surged ahead on the Smolensk frort and on strongly fortified towns on the south shore of Lake Ilmen. Germany Claims 32 Ships Sunk Berlin, Germany (INS*—1Th** German high command issued an an-ncuncement today claiming 32 allied ships totalling 340.OC9 tons hive been "urk In a heavy U-boat battle against an Atlantic convoy. (Editor’s nota: In freqment broad- not cas*-s si!ice yesterday, the Germans bate been claiming success in a U-bcat attack of major proportions. t, now enroute irom the we.st coast There has been no confirmation from to Boston and will accompany the #nv reiiable two for each pound cf sugar used injed the way for farmers to obtain a1! A. A. Jackson and wife to J. J. Roth, Wayland property. Consideia-tion was $3.<H)0. H E Elgar and wife to Sam S. and Anim PaUisier. Winfield property. Consideration was $650 the gasoline farm trucks. they need for running The CPA move permits farmers to ■ reed the hog production quotas asked apply for a six months gasoline cou- j by Cemetary Of Agriculture Wick-pon supply either through applications I aid. but. ainee their pork production mailed to war price and rationing J plans were made. various threats and beards or through county agricultural j promises have emanated from the wo,- Krtarrie OPA in Washington, the council’s an- coupons for I nouneement said. war boards It also sanctions mon of their six > home canning. It will like’F meet with Brown's I disapproval, one official said, because of his determination to keep the “bugs” out of OPA rationing measures . and to make them as practical and ,, , , « , acceptable to the public as possible. Mvi Ie Boyd Madams and husband , , . , The official, instrumental in defer- t.j Walter N. Boyd. 64 acres in Center J m , ring Issuance of the new regulation, !unship. - ‘ ;v P. ted thai it wauld provoke a storm : farmers whose estimates Frank Knutson and wa e to nm : ^ , roU,st {,,nong the country’s 35.000,-; months needs are low. and who find F. Timmerman and wife. ann in • - • hmjsev jves a{ a time when the (they need more gasoline during the ton I'1 l(TTnTw’ife to E C government is urging intensive home | crowing season. William McC abe and wife to a, O. »• section 23 of calming to supplement Urii&*d quan-l _ I fillies *! rationed foods. LQif*ffplf| ll «| n _ . , J Crit cal of the proposal, he also call- * * ICICI IU cill Delilah Eva Kcmpf to Lloyd KrmpL. M \ _ . 10 r u/ovimi town et! attention to another OPA regulars acres In sect 1*ti 18 of Wayne town- ... , *. i Hon which pi* hibits the transfer Irom hip. C onside rajaon was given as . . ,, ___________ $10,200. De Moines. la 'INS1 -The Iowa Livestock council announced today that it had gone on record with a icsolution in opposition to any price ceiling on live meat animals. 'Ihe council pointed out surveys show Iowa farmers are putting fortli every effort to reach and even ex body here for interment. Charles Horn was one of the mast outstanding young men ever to go out fmm Mt. Pleasant and his passing will James Jamison went to Fairfield j ip^ve an irreplaceable vacancy not or Iv in his home but in the commun- Thursday afternoon and brought Logan back here. Soldier Sought In Shooting Is Held ity. CHICAGO GANGSTER DIES THE WAY HE LIVED -The last gaim Sorority Working Weekly On Red Cross Bandages In order to do their .-hare in helping to win the war. Alpha Xi Delta active members and alumnae are meeting at the Rri Cross rooms every Wednesday evening to roll bandages. Alpha Xi Delta is proving that a sorority is of use in war time Sev-* ial cf th* ac ive> are members of the Burlington, la. — * INS) Hobson. 22, soldier sought Leona rd for ques- Cotter. 155 Here Ceritei township. in wife, Wayland .property. Consider:* , one individual to another of more than quarts of home canned foods. Some people seem to be afraid that Atma Etcher tai Charlet. Ballard and, Sd <l"»tts °f hoine canned foods' J OUlll* JJA' lr*. > VV. -VV ----------- , I little “black markets” will develop, but killed Thursday night in a crash of west Pacific include: lion was $1,000. ■ - r"r ' ' Is Plane Victim Ottumwa, In. (INS*—Private Harold Strder. a native of Fairfield, la., was Iowans Included In Casualty List Washington, D. C. — GNS' The i ones of 300 army officers and men wounded ill action were announced today bv the war department. The casualties <-< urine In the North African, Facific. South Pa cl fie, and Sou th- Chicago, 111 'INS) _ , ster executive order of Frank “The Civil an Defense Corps. The alumnae .Enforcer" NU ti. 57 year eld heir to h ive been busily engaged in various Honing' ll. connection with the shoot-! the Capone syndicate of extortion anti other forms of wa, work such as the tog and wounding ol two Burlington I murder, has tern can ted out sucre,ti- Victory Book ( ampaian. Bun lea or men at Gulfport. 111. I. teing held by fully. »»'• •»*«'* ^- cf ,he Red anthol Hies at Camp McCoy. Wis.. “The Enforce I decreed and iierstti- ally to it that Frank Nitti died the way he had lived—by the gun. shot iff George Voorhees of Henderson County, IIL said today. The shooting took place in front ofjNitti killer! himself a tavern at Gulfport on Feb. 21. Albert Cor nick and w.fe to Clara E.rthat sounds like nonsense to nae. he McCabe, 1111, ae.res. known as the s'11*' 'II a fa,m J1 *' 0',."tother Green I e. farm In New London town- wants to ran a Hundred quarts lot her ship The grantor reserves an in- daughter In the city cr for a neighbor come cf $4110 a year from the farm in a war plant, she should be permit-during their lifetime. te<1 t0 do S0- on army Diane at Centerville, Ala., it was revealed today by his wife. Lucille Snider of Ottumwa Snider, formerly employed by John North African area; Lieut. Col. Dewey H. Bear wife. Mrs. Ann* A. Bear, 627 Park Ave . Centerville. Pvt. First Class Irving McKee Morrell & Company, is the son of sister, Mrs. Jessie G. Older, o>2 Avo Mr. end Mrs. J. C. Snider of Fairfield. G., Ft. Madison. MARCH DANCE AT COIF CLUB WEDNESDAY Will Kipp's seven piece oldie ira will play for the March dance at O if and Country club on Wednesday even ing of next week. The committer in charge of the plans and ticket sale is composed Mr. and Mrs. B. E.-Seelcy, Mr air’ Mrs Dick Lane. Mr and Mrs. Amen Jones 'Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wnerdeman, Mr 'and Mrs. James O'Conner and Mr. and Mi-s. Richard Leyes. By his suicide Nitti quashed the in-dirtment which had been returned she hours earlier Friday by a New York gland jury naming him and six other Chicago hoodlums in fraud and conspiracy charges. TRIED EXTORTION; HELD TO FEDERAL JURY Hollywood, Calif. (INB* Arrested in a vain attempt to extort $30,000 *rnni I ’node Betty arable., Russell Alexanrtrrson, 18. of Opiaha, today was held in $5 006 bail for federal grand jury act:on. PLEA TO S I AMP OUT IOWA BI ACK MARKET Des Moines. la »INS> A plea to cm. artic! '. blite hers ani meat slaughterers lo coop* ate in stamping out black matk**f through observation of new federal regulations was issued today by Russell Mather, midwest ad-mjni-ttator of the food distribution administration. Eight Injured In Fire St louis, Mo, 'INS* Fire Chief Joseph W Morgan of St. L* ids was killed atd ♦"ven firemen were injured when a five story building collapsed during a fire.

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