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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 22, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch* lfi-May .11 (Each stamp, Five pounds) .Coffee 25 - Feb. 8-Mar. 21 (Each stamp, 1 pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 1 - - - Until Mar. 2« Fuel Oil 5 • • - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, li gallons) Gasoline No. I-.Ian. 21-Mar.21 \ OL. LXXI No. 58MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1913 News ^r.iJJLLL^S THE ny Bwi Mahon ^ <lh tributed by King Features Syn-lU tte, In< Reproduction In Full or n Part Strirtly Prohibited.) American Troops r t i 1 p loward oea W tSIIlNCiTON — VH1 PRESI-OKNi v\ il.l.Af I., ju t before he left slipped a fast ball past those who have bet n c hnilengii.g the extra-noble eeononnc planning his board of < cotiomic a,u fare ha been doing for post Aar. Tlv challengers In the senate finance committee decided the senate hould e tabled a committee of its own to a oik on economic post-war problems A’ their instigation, Senator George wrote a resolution calling for such an inquiry and it was passed by th< The miltec ! O W w a n te if. senate. mderstanding inside the cornin'- tiiat George was to submit ace the uam* s of men he appointed by th< vice presl-the committee Unless the of the committeemen was satin th<* challengers, the*, did c end the head men who 1 .vith the in-■ satisfactory.” reld their owff Fire Destroys Home, Contents Blaze Spreads Quickly Thru House They’ll Do It Every Time - - - mm Georg e fail* ■u P t> contact W,*l-id thfpres idem appointed new d *al c ommittee of hisowd The d* m< jcrate he choseBar kb y. 11 ayde n O Ma Lw dta i *v . ith George man Fire starting evidently from the chimney destroyed a house and the contents in Highland additions block west of the west entrance to McMillan park this afternoon The four room house belonged to Henry Alter and was occupied by the Leo Sanderson family. Breaking out in the upper part of the house, the flames spread quickly and soon the whole upper part of the house was blazing furiously Mrs. Sanderson discovered the fire and got her three children to safety The alarm was turned in from the Melvin Johnson place, a block south of the burning house. The Sanderson's lost nearly ail of their household goods and clothing while only parts of the walls of the house were left standing. They carried no insurance on the household goods. Mr Sanderon is employed as a trucker by C. M Weir, Firemen had to attach their hose on a hydrant at the northwest corner of McMillan park, two block from the _ tm and A pouring a . on the “( jjjzens' Ticket” and “People’s Glanzman vs. Lyon Trial Opens Some Changes Necessary Reblaze quickly but the fire had .spread t May Take Two More Years -- Churchill Urgbs Steps Toward Post-War Organization Lordcn. England I row Minister Wn (on Churchill v/urned his people Sunday night in a sober but confident peeth that it might take two more years tc crush Hitler. Then in a dramatic closing he an-m jrrrd that the British 8th Army, had opened its awaited offensive in Tunisia. Churchill departed from his prepared text, and said simply that he had just received a message from Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery that (he 8th Army was “on the move.” and th t Montgomery war: “satisfied with the progress.” Japan Next In a war report by turns grave and < I timi tic, Churchill asserted that af-iter Hitler is beaten the Allio WOULD (TURN IMMEDIATELY to "purii h the guedy, cruel empire oi Japan," pro-i p ed post-war councils of the United I Nations to ensure peace, and sketched Nazis Trying To Escape I From Pincers Americans Take 1400 Prisoners In Attack Ail ed Headquarters in North Africa <INS>—Headed by one of the heaviest aerial offensives of the war, American troops in Tunisia surged eastward today toward the sea as Eield-marsha! Erwm Rommel strove desperately to escape fatal entrapment in a gigantic allied pincers attack. Coincident with an offensive by General Sir Bernard L Montgomery’s ti iumph British 8th army against, northern outposts of the Mareth line. American forces attacked in three columns from the town of Gafsa. With the offensive only 36 hours old. the America ns had taken 1,100 prisoners and seized the town of Bou Hamram, 8 miles east of El Guettar on the Tickets Designated Jury Selected School Achievement For City Election In Damage Case j Day Next Month | a hopeful picture of social and econom-! cn the road leading to Malm Sic advancements for Britons in the; sea. J years of peace. \ The j rime minister urj [ The Americans threatened to cut d general elf Rommel from behind as he sought ut nr rmai from other any hop*- tf niiii'f (ltive out of the li of the ahead to col-mainly But lo th; the itarrh George is gom viaff and intend on on the subjec enate committ< it a real economic plan, > ) Wallace's, might come j . • - ' igation has been lost, | of post-war controversy ( imbedded in congress • [inning to apjx*ar almost develop an agreeable > in the economic or the »1 the future world ) ieeply on both sides . lonal political strife o rapidly -aved. that iittle of value was Ticket On Hallot Today ‘Peculiar’ Speech By Adolph Hitler The “Citizens Ticket” and the' A jury was selected this morning to ;*‘l%oples Ticket' .ire the names of the | hear the trial of A. F. Glanzman cause of Rationing steps immediately by the United Nations towards a post-war world organization— possibly embracing "a council of Europe and a council of Asia”— which tould “prevent renewed aggression and preparation of future wars.” desperately to counter the British Mareth line attack, Yankee foot soldiers with gleaming bayonets thrust down several main road; to the sea. They pressed along the southern highway from Galsa toward Gabex. the center road from El from ballot a; he city Monday and from ! choose their election here next j damages which Glanzman claims was wdiich voters willt incurred in a collision be ween one of and the Lyon f ar. The ac ne representatives on the I his truck! London. England INS* - Adolph ' council and will elect a mayor, city i cident occurred at the Boylston bridge Hitler today had set to rest all rum-j treasurer and city assessor. j on June 4. 1942. Leo Sanderson was crs that he was dead, but his speech The Peoples Ticket includes all of1 driving the truck. on Germany x heroe> day evoked from the presen office holders; Mayor H L. I Members of the jury art Leah Beery, BrVish obe* rvers suoh comment at £ hook; Councilmen I D. Conover. I Lela Heiphrev. Vivian Zehr, Glenn pt - uiiai life « and “strangely Linn V. Case, Ora Smith. G. E. King,IKjrrker, Lulu Strack. Loren Preuss. unlikf* any previou speeches," j Wilbur Mai lams and Charles Tonkin- j Dal Crawford, Vera Baums. Mrs. Lu- Germany. Hitler declared in a 15 son; Treasurer, C Van Brussel and . cilie Lessenger, Ellen Jerrel, Rev. Alton m whi< h tin matter w ill be fought out bitterl Wti* a route ol hr- f (mm on hi m inter the minute broadcast, has lx*come a “war zone as the result of the destruction wrought by constant British and Atn-encan bombings. But, he asserted, the crisis on the j Russian lront has been overcome and unavoidable. tat or Ball was working i >enate preparing the draft j rational police force reso- j impossibility of finding a round became evident. Even i side of the fence, he found | h» much variance in opinions, the resolution had to be changed constant- _ . high Nazi officials, armv officers; and in the end. no one seemed | 1 Koch and Ovidu Doan F. S. Finley is the Assessor William Rukgaber. The Citizens ticket offers candidates j F S. Finley is the attorney for for all of the council positions, but Glanzman and MeCoid and McCoid none for mayor, assessor or treasurer. The council candidates are James O’Connor. Robert Potter, John Wilson, the German nation is moving toward, G. >w ly, and, in the end, no one to agree with all of it. But on the other side, hard and powerful antagonists wfas developed immediately The so-called isolationist said flatly tn the cloakrooms and to newspapermen, off the record, j that the resolution would “stir up the league of nations fight ail over again.” What may become the most historic political struggle in all history seems developing inevitably. McLean. F. C. Ackerman success until final victory." 'John Myers. I Speaking in the Berlin Zeughaus on j — enter den Unden. «. a Wthertng ^ ^0111311 Killed III f i uuiwiai- ai 1*1 j viiivvio auu wounded war veterans. Hitler an nounced that 542.000 Germans had been killed in the war so far and that the front was being strengthened by millions of fresh troops. and are representing Lyon. Thousands Homeless In Flooded Areas MUSIC TEACHER AT PARSONS COLLEGE DIES Fall From Hotel; Plan An Inquest Hitfh Waters Force 3,000 Leave One Section To Details will be announced at a later date. Mrs. Frank Bonar Taken by Death berg, attractive 48 year old Evansville, Ind., widow who was killed yesterday in a plunge from her room on the Fairfield. la—Prof. James P Moor- Mh f]oor g Sprlngf.pld hotel head. 65. head of th,- Parsons college Mrs Lindberg., bcdy ,lruck the r00, .department of music since 1932, died , .. , . . . ,. I - . . „ . , , of the hotel sun parlor, extending from the third floor Springfield, Illinois < INS)—An inquest was planned for today into the death ot Mis. Kathryn Schultz Lind- driven from their lowland homes bv Atlanta. Georgia iINS>—Thousands of persons in southeastern states were temporarily homeless today as they were MuXKTlllK'S AIR GENERAI KENNY brought to Washington the i at Jefferson hospital here Sunday fol-estounding suggestions that the Japs lowing an illness of a few hours, inve more planes than we have in the | professor Moorhead was graduated South Pacific war theatre. \ from Parsons with the class of 1897 Our successes there have been ac- j and continued his studies in music at, complished only because we have su- i the New England Conservatory of Mu- j perior pilots, better planes, and bet-| sic in 1902. and in Leipzig, Germany, ter tactics. But if the Japs secure re-j in 1903 and 1904. inforccment.s, they may be able to j He was music instructor at Parsons cause us some trouble. j from 1905 until 1919, when h( lesign- _ |%iirr,u UIAIIQF DACQFQ Mac Arthur naturally would like to Jed to give private music instruction. LUW LK MUUdL r AoDLD take offensive action, but his General l In 1932 he returned to the college fac- I APPROPRIATIONS BILL „---- ..... iin his j ulty as head of the music department.! _____ his Assistant state’s attorney Thomas Hoopes questioned William Doonar^i 50 year old Chicago insurance appraiser. who submitted voluntarily to a lie detector test. Hoopes exnre.ssed the belief the woman had committed suicide. flooded rivers and creeks. Mass exacuation of approximately 3,000 persons was underway north of Hattiesburg. Mississippi, as the rampaging Leaf and Bouie rivers spread over the lowlands. With Red Cross workers hastily setting up provisions to care for the homeless, army engineers from Camp Shelby helped evacuate the maroon'd with a pontoon bridge in one section near Hattiesburg. Traffic north of Hattiesburg was at at a standstill, while highway was halted, m several districts, from Montgomery, Alabama. School Achievement Day, an annual event for the schools of Henry county, Churchill admonished Uiose who Guettar and another artery has been set for Wednesday, April 28. jumped to the condus on that the ; fc’ened station toward Makna sv where The program will be changed some- v.ar will soon be ever ’ because of the Rommel may attempt a stand, what this year because of rationing. * recent war front developments, anti; The allied air offensive, one ol tbS but a series of events are being plan- urged Britons “to concentrate more 4 greatest mounted since the war ix’- ned. j zealot; ly upon the war effort and il £an- was on a round the clock basis. One change that will be noticed will possible not to take your eye oil the st l!1t;g si dawn last Iriday. Since be the absence of the hot dog lunch p .p even foi a moment." , then. American and British planes at noon. Free shows, a s-peaker of in- -------- have attacked enemy concentrations ■crest and school exhibits will be feat- MJCC EDNA RESCHLY AND un< a' ns!v- '!l u)m’ th( vva,v for !hi: ur pH as will also a large Da rad e In greater advance order to conserve materials, ther I:*,!!| RAY ROTH MARRIED I I drcmtly heavy lighting, on the be no float contest. AT RESCHLY HOME ground and in the air. raged around __ the Mareth line positions. A ccm- Olds, Iowa - The home cf Mr. and ‘ mm.ique give no details, saying mere-Mrs. Win. Rcschley at Olds was the ^ tiiat opeiatiopp scene of a pretty wedding, Sunday.' satisfactoi \. March 14, when their daughter. EkinaJ became the bride of Roy Roth, son o' Mr. and Mrs. Joe J. Roth. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Simon Gingerich at 5:30 p. m. in the presence of 65 guests. Miss Al-dine Eicheiberger was bridesmaid, and Mr. Marlyn Wvsc attended the groom as best man. A quartet composed of Alice Eicheiberger. Irene Resehly, Allen Roth and Clayton Widmer sang, *o Perfect , , ,, . loss of Belgorod, important railroad Love, preceding the ceremony and * . . “Jesus Rose of Sharon” following the service. The bride was attired in a street length dress of Royal Blue transparent velvet with a shoulder corsage 0f,capture lasl Frida>* l ink rosebuds. MLss Eicheiberger wore a dress of light rose and a corsage of white gladioli. The groom were a soldier blue suit. Both wore bus soldier blue suit. Following the ceremony a tw'o course dinner was served. The dinner was, of 34 for the day. In the;r advance tn the central front, thf Russian repulsed a German counter attack with heavy losses to the enemy. New London. Iowa — Funeral service for Mrs. Frank Bor.ar who died Sunday at 2:15 at the Memorial hospital, Mt. Pleasant, where she had been the past month suffering from a heart ailment, will be held at the Presbyterian church in New London. Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock The Rev. James J. Britell. pastor of the church will officiate. Burial will be in Burge cemetery. The body will be at the McDonald funeral home until Tuesday forenoon when it will be taken to the Raymond Bonar residence and will remain there until time for the service. Kenny ran into difficulties mission h«'re. Simultaneously, a de- Surviving are wife and three Des Moines, Iowa (INS)—The iower mand came from the British for more j daughters, Mrs. Mary Watson of Des house of the Iowa legislature today bombers needed to expand the attacks. Moines. Mrs. Lancelot Eller and Mar- passed the departmental appropria-These will be fur-jgaret, bo'h of Fairfield. j tions bill after rejecting raises for i t employees getting $2,500 a year. You may. therefore, look for con-{ has both momentum and power, and ^ Those reductions made a com para- tant expansion of the already unprc-action below Lake Ilmen is likely tOjtively slight change in the $5,300,000 on the continent. nlshed. Burlington Man Shoots Himself redented scope of air-raiding on the European front, but how much Mac-Art hur will get is questionable. relieve Leningrad. j budget. But the HOPES FOR SWIFT CONCLUSION of the war have been dimmed somewhat by Hitler counter-attacks in Russia The regained Nazi ground te not particularly Important, but the fact that lie was able to muster about 300.000 troops for the drives is significant. At least a temporary balance was established on that front by the capture of Kharkov. The absence of action m the south Is due to mud caused by spring thaws. Ut> to now, the ground has been frozen in the Kharkov area, but thawing will start in a few more days. The Russians, however, are mak’ng picves in the north, which should be; But the situation on the front, as amendment to the printing appropria a whole, is not subject to decisive in-; tion bill that may have far reaching ferpretations. The capturing and re-1 effects in printing costs, capturing of various localities really ^ The amendment, introduced by Rep. only reflects the fact that both sides Earl Fishbaugh, Jr., Shenandoah, have substantial quantities of troops would provide that the state printer in reserve, and, by switching themjniay not print or distribute publication! point to point, can gain super- tions, pamphlets or re|x)rt.s except a iority as practically any place of their j provided by law. choosing. j --- Burlington, Iowa —(INS)—Funeral services wercj being arranged today ror Waiter Feight. 39. whose body was house passed an | round by his w ife in a garage at the rear of their Burlington home Sunday Coroner Robert O. Giles said that Feight, an Iowa Ordnance plant la :or pool employee, fired a 12 guage shotgun into ins head. Surviving are his widow and two -ions. TWO KILLED IN THE .STORY, has been circulated, AITTft TD AIM CD A CU that Hitler got most of his new troops AU I U-I KAIW LKAjH for the Kharkov drive from Fance. It - is true the number of Nazi troops sta- Des Moines, Iowa (INS)—Dan Con-tioned in France has declined some- kd 55. a Polk county farmer, was what in the last six weeks. killed outright and his daughter, Mrs. But these were not shipped to the Lavonne Brown, died shortly after Russian front. The troous used at their automobile and a north bound Kharkov came mainly from the Bal- Rock Island passenger train collided Eden Resumes His Conferences Washington. D. C. —(INS) British foreign secretary Anthony Eden resumed his conferences with Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the state department today. Indication that problems relating to the Soviet Union w-ere being discussed was seen in the fart that Eden was accompanied by William Strang, th< British government's leading expert on Russia. are continuiiu Russians Occupy Central Front Points Moscow, Russia <INS>—Russian forces advancing on the central front have occupied a number of inhabited j points including the railroad station at Durovo, the Soviet high command ; announced today. I Earlier, the Russians admitted the station 48 miles north of Kharkov on the southern front. Belgorod was taken by the Russians on February (nth. Iht Germans had claimed its An indication of stepped-up fighting on the northern front ‘was given in the announcement that Russian pilots in the Leningrad area had destroyed 22 German planes m the air and on the ground, while anti-air craft bat-t ft lies downed 12 more for a total bag WAYNE TOWNSHIP 4-H GIRLS MEET prepared by Mrs. Harold Bonti\*gcr and Mrs. Arch Huston and was served by Irene Resehly. Lucille Bocse, Or-val Miller, LaVerne Bt sser and Orville Roth. The newlywed;- will n, - * 1: ‘ theii home on the Wa viand. J. J. R' tit farm east of Bailer Jay Airdrome In Central Burma JAY STREET PROPERTY SALE REPORTED New Delhi, India c INS>—Giant American built I iterator bombers of the _ I RAF last night battered the Jap air- Ildd real estate lepurts the s<lr «f‘cbomr at Toungoo, in central Burma’s E. (*. Bucher propelt\ located on nd region, he Rush For Butter Here Late Sunday carried on successfully in the next two ‘ kans and other sections of the Rus- near Elkhart, Iowa weeks. Their drive toward Smolensk sian front. j day. Reports of butter and lard frcezinz Sunday afternoon resulted in a buying rush at the local stores open on Sunday afternoons. One store sold 90 pounds of butter in less than two hours, and had doz-8:40 a. m. *o- »rns (f calls after that. Other stores i also sold out quickly. The Working Waynettes Held an all day meeting at Phyllis Olson’s <t March 13. A pot-luck lunch was held at noon. A courtesy demonstration, How to Handle Dishes and Silver When Eating, was given by Lois Barquist and Ruth Johnson gave a talk on the “Care of the Hair.’’ In the afternoon Miss Peckham. county home economist, was present and showed a very interesting moving picture of Venzuela. For their sewing boxes, the girl made needle and thimble holders an wrist pin cushions. Two new me ml: rs. N ms J an ai j Mai y Ailene Eub nk were present. India command an- North Jay stieet, to Kenton Y. Housli {nounced today. )l this city. Mr. Bucher is employed in a defense Uni;otl Nati(ms Headquarters in Aus- dant near Macomb. 111., and has Pur-' trah;l ,nfS)-£feneral Douglas Mac-ha. cn property there. The Buchers ■ Arth^s airmen mined bombs on two Japanese destroyers and six merchant- v i 11 move M tv ! ,1. their new location about Marriage License Issued A marriage license w:as issued here] S ’tur lay to Robert Kmneth Cooj *r, i9, and Rover June Stovall, 19, both of Wichita. Kansas. Deed Recorded men in offensive sweeps ranging from the Kai Islands in the west part of the sprawling southwest Pacific comma; d to the Solomon Sea in the east.) CADET M4RR1ED HERE SATURDAY EVENING A deed transferring about 77 acres n section 15 of Jefferson township tom P. F. Alter and other to Lloyd nd" Mat’ic Peterson was recorded at he courthouse today. Robert Kenneth Cooper an i Reva June S ovall w t re married ^Saturday evening at the home of Dr Stanley B Niles, who offi iated at the ceremony. Mr. Cooper is a cadet in the army detachment at Iowa Wesleyan He and his bride are from Wichra. Kan.

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