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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 29, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch. Ifi-May 31 (Each stamp, Five pounds) Coffee 2(> - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stamp, 1 pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS f uel Oil 1 - - - I ntil Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, 11 gallons) Gasoline 5 - Mar. 22-May 21 VOL. LXXI. No. 71MONDAY, MAR. 20, 1943 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA B5SH- News i % Behind THE: By PaulMallon (Distributed by King Feature* 8yn ji< ate, Ii. Reproduction In Full oi n Fart Strictly Prohibited .) \\ \ SUING'I ON BRITISH got at mound lie tl Hi M Dj Teb ga ftont line po he could anr E hinr Gate and Mares, and possibly Sou The Brit l-h-Am ed out to be me c \\ II I N T II I armored column uth flank o! trie into the heigh* s of >r. Thursday. Rommel’s ition was denied unless ihiiate the column, ion of that line would t#r »• treat northward, not only to hut at least to Sfax. ucan strategy turn-enclrcleniant with- in The mnou but lr clement. British Genera e td publicly ah»* uld flank t Montgomery of time that ic Mareth ime on » if from the rt ar, ed his main the line hen a' armored C rn tip to c force and ilumn 3 the 1ft :ht-< n in sev- ite ppat -fusion as , Jet the th* rear, ugh right Rommel’s Army Flees To Northward Limited Meat Supply At Local Stores Shoppers To Be Able To Get More Later In Week They’ll Do It Every Time - - - LOOK AT THIS f I CANT pass m it's a sloppy PIECE OF WOftK! NO GOOD !j THIS IS A GOVERNMENT ORDER I THIS IS WAR f I DON’T KKOW WHAT GUVS LIKE HIM WOULD DO, IF THEy DIDN’T HAVE THE NIGHT MAN TO BLAME THINGS ON THAT NIGHT MAN MUST Work 48 hours a DAV TO DO All THE STUFF HE GETS X TAGGED FOR. v meat te The i * this m< rntnaoi Hamm Mc*a Fr* net do-All Hamm >f El Hou -i wive . or husband: who do the shopping, carried with them ration IJ books today to buy meat, butter, cnee e and similar rationed items as well as to buy he canned fruits and vegetables which went under rationing a few weeks ago. riiO.se who went to the meat markets in ML Pleasant today wdth the hope of taking home a nice juicy beef .‘teak in exchange for some prized red ■tamps were disappointed in most instances The meat refrigerators and r'P’a) casts were abou- at barren of ay a they were all last week, was a little pork available ning and more expected this aiLrnoon. In a day or two some beef v ill be available and before the week ♦-:.d the dealers are expecting sufficient quantities of meat to take care of tin itmand. They anticipate curiomers may have to use more pork and less beef unul adjus merits are made. Point Valuer Change nwhik* customers were buying canned vegetables and fruits on point basis, points were revised) Over 800 persons have ve tin morning for several com- training in Red Cress First Aid class-Blue ramps for March not es held throughout Henry Countv in X KNOW IT ! DON’T LOOK AT ME THE NIGHT MAN DID THAT ONE IT WAS ON THE PILE WHEN I CAME IN HERE THIS MORNING f THE ONLV RAP HE'D TAKE WOULD BE ATFHS mother-in-law ! JDH.VEAH*/ WELL HAVE TO STAMP OOR. NAMES ON OUR work like thev' DO IN A BABY HOSPITALr =a T . 51 fapi 114 * K mm feature* S|Q<L » The boners age ALWAYS PULLED 8v THE LITTLE MAN VAIO ISNT THECE T-Ka>w*z. To los angeles, calif Announce Top Prices For Kjrgs Schedule For Stale on Grade Basis Report Nazis Plowing Up Gabes Airfield I.". Moines. Iowa (INS*-The Iowa' Office f Price Administration today mnounced the schedule of miximum j prices which may be charged by re-j • ilc is for fresh shell eggs of various grades and sizes. The price schedule for Des Moines • • i/i vicinity for shell eggs in cartons ! follows: ‘'Large Grade A, 50,04c per dozen; large Grade B 47.7c per dozen; as-orted eggs, 44.2c per dozen; medium Giade A. 46.04c per dozen; medium Grade B. 43.7c per dozen; medium Grade C. 40.2c pe: dozen. The regulation allowvs for a small variance in prices at ether points In the sta^ of low i, but OPA emphasized that at ro place in the state can a consumer lawlully be charged more than lc a dozen above the Des Moines price schedule. Americans Make Gains One Area In Allied Headquarters in North Africa (INS'—The port of Gabes. main sup-rh, end communicat ons center for Field-marshal Erwin Rommel’s army n the Tunisian east coast was subjected to heavy naval bombardment by British fleet units tonight. M< somi a new effecti' moditi alread1 Over 800 Have Recei ved Red Cross Hillsboro Doubles First Aid Training In County J Red Cross Quota ?lb K Anvric Amtf <i at ended to rth tow a r< Objective t; Ell Hamma ement d haw <:■ still ting ii •hreatei ;ui el amp> w ireat pent may br used at the new | the past 12 months In addition many * u “ and tlie April blue others have studied the same courses i will be spent today ob- as part ot their training work at the m the new point jowa Ordnance plant received h< id one evening a week for a two ' hour period. Under this arrangement the course is completed in ten weeks, requiring 20 hours of training. -o d First Aid is one angement of the courses studied by the United A class is Advanced First Aid for those who have completed the Standard Course can be arranged if ten or rte the bit !hat Romm e i r c i left troun n-t her tow ai d t* d any an i vi m rn i ve is desperateiv December prt spring army men to save other one oi attack He m INDH V IES Hit er ing to fulfill his of raising a fresh of 1.500,000 to 2,000.000 himself in Russia b\ an-I his -brilliant” counter-1 ay, or hr may not be able j Some of he principal changes in the States Army Air Force cadet s stationpoint values were as follows: ed at Iowa Wesleyan college.New Old The courses taught have been giv! Size Pts. Pts. en at Mt. Pleasant. New London. .Sa* A; pb. auce »•«. * No. 2 14 10 lem Olds. Wayland, Trenton and WinFruit saLad or 5 field At varicus times four coursescotktail ..... No. 2 16 14 have been taught; the Junior for thosePeaches ........ . No. 2>, 24 21 12 to 16 years inclusive, the StandardPineapple ...... . NO. 2!2 28 24 Course for those seventeen years or!Grape juice ... j Pint 4 8 over. The Advanced Course for thoseJ Grapefruit juice No 2 5 10 who have completed the StandardjGrapefrui juice . 46 oz. y 23 course, and the Instructor's CoursePineapple juice I . 46 oz. ,f2 32 which requires completion of the; Other fruit juice 1 42 oz. 9 23 Standard and Advanced Courses.j Canned dry beans Classes in the Standard First AidI 'bak'd beans. pork Course can be arranged wheneverto accotr difficulti* evident f But tl tsh his purjx): with which he is 1 m the extent to which he a gone to meet tlmm in his public nnouncements. ind bean.- ____ No. 2 mu to caLsup and hid auce ... 14 oz j(> j Tomato juice ____ 46 oz. Dried soups ..... 2!* oz. Apple juice was opened Reports $413; Quota For Town Was $200 14 is a ten hour course using the same text b:ok studied in the Standard Course and is for those wanting more instruction and practice in practical problems, and for those ^who took the Standard Course sometune previously and desire to bring their knowledge up to date. It is also the next step toward becoming an in.‘JMu<*tort A rur.se for those wishing to become lay First Aid instructors will be held this spring if plans now under way can be completed. Anyone interested in enrolling in First Aid classes should get in touch more than ten persons wish to havq I with A M. Wettach. Henry County Hill'boro.—Major J E. Hague Red Cross War Fund chairman, announces that a total of $41315 has been rais" I in the War Fund drive here Adci -tional contributions have been made since the entertainment was held last TAKING QUALIFIED MEN IN NAVY’S SEABEES; MAKE INQUIRY TUESDAY Allied Headquarters in North Africa —(INS)—Hurled out of the Mareth line by the indomitable British 8th army , Field-marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps fled to the north in confusion today. As reports from Cairo said that; German forces were ploughing up the landing grounds at Gabes in preparation for evacuation, an official communique from General Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the great victory lor Bri Lsh forces under General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The entire Mareth line has now been - over run, 6,000 axis prisoners are In It has just been announced that en- British hands, and Rommel faces the listment in the Seabees, Construction likelihood of being trapped and an-Batt&lion of the U. S. Navy are now nihilated as American forces under open to all qualified men in Construe- Lieut. General George S. Patton, Jr., tion work. Men between the ages of advanced steadily toward the coas'al 17 and 50!„* years of age may now ap- road from central Tunisia, the much-ply vaunted Mareth line went under in lev.-, A Construction Officer will be in t me than it took for Montgomery to Burlington. Iowa, at the Burlington smash the Nazi defenses at El Ala-Navy Recruiting Station. Post office mein last autumn, building cn Tuesday, March 30th from While the general offensive which 8:30 a. m until 4:00 p. m. t; assign reached its climax with British occu-ratings and handle interviews to men pa ion of the Mareth positions began Thursday evening, March 25. The peo- information. It is desired on March 20th, the actual attack was pie have given generously making ovei that, if possible to do so. men bring launched in lull force last Friday after- 200% of the quota of $200 set for this | at least three tetters of work reference neon, community. Sam Downs, fanner, acted as auctioneer for a However, i! is planned riia , sale giving his service in that capacity strucMon Officer will visit this Navy Maretti line while an armored column Recruiting Station once every two which outflanked the fortifications prominent Harrisburg so that ratings rau be determined Under the efficient sustaining aerial while the Construction Officer is hne. s tack of the Nor h Africa war. the the Con- British slammed frontally against the 10 22 1 a class. In the past, classes have been | First Aid Chairman. 8 52 2 4 to unre quited >ale along wdth raisins, prunes and other dried fruits. Light Vote In City Election He did manage to get together about 350.000 men for the recent counter-attack in southern Russia, and for the re-taking of Kharkov, but that was another proposition. He could shift them from other quieter sections of the front, and he knew mud would soon release them for shifting to other sections of the front — and has. j In other words, that operation was I merely a shifting frcm one point on that vast, long Russion front, to another. But to get together a new spring army oi 1500000 lo 2.000.000 men. he ">»■ oflernoon. As the polls will be bar been forced to do more than shift, jopoo until 8 o'clock lie ban cut down the number o( re- ™<my more votes »U1 tail establishments to dram men from;™™ so. the total vote will likely be them, and even from his key war in dustrles he has called men. while Receives Message From Edward Beach, Prisoner of War In Tunisia free of charge as well as making a substantial contribution. Others who worked hard to make the drive a success were the committee in charge of the program headed by Mrs. E. N. He- RACHMANINOFF DIES Simone, the High School Glee Club j members, those persons who went over ; town collecting Red Cross member-1 ships, etc., the ladies who had charge of the lunch counter, as well as many others here. weeks as men are ui gently needed now* for SEABEE duty IN CALIFORNIA Afternoon Mr and Mrs. John Beach have re- age was one of several which had just reived word from their son. Edward been brought to Berlin by plane, the Beach, reported missing in action in shortwave broadcast stated. Tunisia a few weeks ago, that he is a , Mrs Beach, while still concerned prisoner of war and is being trans- about her son as a prisoner of war, ferred to Germany. j w as greatly pleased to hear that he The message from him was broadcast | was not injured. HI oie \r r> .a. J over 8 Berlin’ Germany, short wave „j hopr every mother who has a Unly Jib Vot6S Last At Mid station last Thursday night and stat- SO{| missing will receive a similar ed: j message,” she told a News reporter “I am a prisoner in Tunisia. Do not, today worry. I was not hurt. I expect to j treasures the letters and cards write you later. Your loving son, Ed- j hjgiljy an(j was appreciative of the ward.” ; thoughtfulness of the broadcast list- Seventeen Reports j eners in sending the communications The message was picked up by sev- j tQ her ghe ^ope* now that she can eral shortwave radio listeners in the send her 9Qn a message through the United States and already Mrs. j Cross telling him she has heard Beach has received 17 communications | frQ{Q him from persons hearing the broadcast i inters and cards came from Most of these were located in cities in Qjjarlofctesvilte, Va.. Salem. Mass., , the eastern United States although one Erooklyn N Y.. Tampa. Fla.. Phila-icame from nearby Pekin. Illinois. delphia, Penn.. Roanoke. Va., three | The listeners sent cards or letters from New york city pekm. 111., Flush-; telling zl hearing the broadcast. The j ,ng N y Boston> Mass., Fall River, i one quoted above was from Oberlin, I Mass Greenville. Miss., tw'o from A very light vote had been cast in the city election here up until 3:15 this evening, be cast, but . j much lighter than in a general state electi ti or in some of the city elections of the past. The vote by wards this afternoon was: Ward 1, 71; Ward 2. 100; Ward, 3, 88; Ward 4. 57. Regardless of which candidates or candidate you favor, an opportunity to vote is vours and you should vote. Lorn the wes' drove savagely against the Germans south of El Hamma. Fierce fighting continued; through Mai oh 27th with the British 8th pushing steadily ahead. Occupation of !he towns of Mare’h Toujane and Matmata was affected yesterday. Meanwhile, American troops under General Patton progressed several miles east cf El Guettar toward Gabes against s rong German opposition. Local Actions Along Russian Front Mcscow, Russia (INS)—Soviet armies on the central front today recap- „ . . ... . . . cl°Sf> cropped giav haii and doui turefj f0ur localities while Red anny This bottle “ma‘ns nitroglycerin. | vls0KC ha5 been a famlUar figure on anJts in |hc south successfuUy check_ I don t care whether I live or die. Gi*e tfig Anwrican concert stage for 35 ed German attempt-to advance in thg men $1,000. Im desperatf. I years ani as a pianist was second in n . i n j non«, u ««.. ■ uonets region. I dont have $1,000. said Ms.s the public mini only to Paderewski Woodrow Atkinson, a teller ;n prjme ^ member of the land* ‘•Then gimme what you got.” owning cla^ in Czarist Russia, he She shoved out a handful of bill' ^acj macje his home in America since He grabbed them and fled. 1917. He and hi. wife. Natlie, became A checkup showed the loot totaled American citizens Feb. 1 m a New- 53.135. York federal court. BANDIT DEMANDS $1000; GETS $3,135 FOR PAINS Fort Worth, Tex. — The man waved a bottle and handed Morris Plan bank employes this note: I I os Angeles. Calif. -Sergei Rachmaninoff. master of the piano, died I Sunday in his home at Beve rly Hills, succumbing to an attack of pm u-monia and pluerisy with which he was stricken while on tour a few days after his appearance in Chicago Feb with the Chicago Symphony or-che-tra. He was 69 years old. j The tall Russian virtuoso, with his hair tr unmg ubstitutes who are not suitable f:r fighting. He has gone into Belgium and France again lately for workers, and most ol his substitutes in the key industries and elsewhere have come irom the latter country. Men have been taken out of desk jobs and sent) to the factories. NOW HE CANNOT TRAIN these men in a few months for the expert job that fighting is ill this war, even Chungking, China — Generalissimo if he gets the 1.500.000 to 2.COO.OOO men chiang Kai-shek returned to the cap-fcr it. The trainees, however, will be • ftaj today after a 12 day absence. The Farmers May Be Shying Away From Canning Products EATING PLACES ALSO RATIONED Chiang Back In Chunking After 12-Day Absence Penn., and was received Saturday. Camcjen ^ j anq oberlin, Penn. Others received today bore about the same information. One said Beach j The Beachs live on the Seeley farm was being transferred from Tunisia to a short distance west of the Mt. a new camp in Germany. The mess- Pleasant city limits. sent L garrisons and better trained sc Idlers would be sent to the front. Consequently, the Idea that he has no chance of presenting a loimidable op-pc ition in Russia in the spring is debatable. Certainly, the task, while difficult, is not impossible. The degree to which he succeeds may be the important point which will settle the duration j Chinese central news agency said the , get ei ali imo visited Kweiyang and other district > in Kweichow province ; •nd was Impressed with the general; improvement of conditions, particularly reconstruction projects and suppression of opium traffic. Firemen Called DR. BALLINGER SPEAKS AT 10WA WESLEYAN ! Dr. H. D. Bollinger of Nashville, Tenn., national head ol Wesley Foundation, w*as the speaker at the first meeting of the religious emphasis week program at the 11 o’clock chapel hour i at Iowa Wesleyan college this morning. Dr. Bollinger’s topic was "Stu- of the war. I Firemen made a run to the Septet dents in crisis.” Certainly also, even it he gets all I house near the Mills garage on Hos-j t , ,._r-------- I CQMCT "HOW he can po; iblv h pe to get or b ‘S j pital avenue shortly before noon to-1 Joe McCoy sang. ‘ How Lovely are promised, it can be plainly seen from j day when a fire broke out in the the Dwellings.” Miss Esther Haight this set of facts that “brilliant” j shingles on the house. Quick work was the accompanist, counter-action of the old scale, as with buckets of water extinguished the Dr. Bollinger will be on the campus practiced in Poland and earlier in flames before the firemen Russia, is out of the question. Damage was negligible. arrived. Monday through Wednesday of this week. GARBAGE COLLECTION TO START ON APRIL 1 Washington, D C. Hotel*, restaurants and other institutional users of meat were warned by the office of Planting price administration Saturday that The high c mmand in its noon communique said the action along th? entire lror.t were of only “local significance.” One locality was seized from the Nazis in an assault with bayonets and hand grenades in which 170 Germans were killed, it was said. The high command aid that a German unit had counter attacked south of Byeli. above Smolensk, in an at-‘einpt to retake lost positions. The ' ssaull was repulsen and 156 of the nemv slam Allied Fighter Pilots Knock Out Jap Planes United Nations Headquarters in Australia (INS)—Allied fighter pilots knocked out 25 Japanese war planes from a formation of 40 bombers and Garbage collection will start in Mt Pleasant on April 1 and will continue during tire summer months. Persons having garbage to be collected should place it in proper containers and accessible for the collector. Tinley Improves Council Bluffs. Iowa (INS'—The condition of Dr. Mathew A. Tinley was reported today at a Council BlufJ* h-cspital as “somewhat better.” Dr. Des Moines, Iowa 'INS) intentions on Iowa’s major war time they c innot buy meat, butter or allied focd goals indicate farmers will meet products beginning Monday without their 1943 assignments, but some ap- mt n points, the same as household-prehension is felt among canning plant ers. operators that farmers are shying ORA said it found considerable away from canning peas, tomatoes, misapprehension among restaurants beans, and sweet corn in favor of oil who thought they had another tw*o PurT1ProUiS fighters that attacked al- crops and other war crops. A. J. Love, weeks before rationing had applied to !if(j Upping jn or Bay on New land. Iowa USDA w*ar board chair- them man, said today. Restaurants must apply to their “An abundant productt n of ;oy local rationing bends for special al-beans, flax and other war crops is ab- letnunts cl points to buy the e newly solutely essential,” Loveland empha- rationed item sized, “but we must not over look the importance of canning crops in oidei §jg|jS q( IutTCiiScd Sea Activity Wad*tr;gton, D. C. (IN©) -An “im-por ant” conference among American army and navy chief of staffs and representatives of the United Slates battle to contribute our maximum war effort.” to the Guinea’s eastern coast, it was announced today. American P-40 Warhawks and P-38 Lockheed Lightnings rose to intercept the mid-day raiders, destroying 11 35crq lightets and two Japanese dive Lcmbtrs and shooting 12 other planes out of action. American Forces Drive Axis Army Back With Advanced American F rces on ____ commanders in tlie pacific war zonb the Tunisian Front 'INS' Staging a Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Be’tzel of thr was announced today by the w ar de- surprise thru. < against the holy city Sudan interior mission WILL SHOW PICTURES AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH in West Af- partmeiv amidst signs of increasing |cf Kaircum, in conjunction with the rica will show a scries of pictures on sea activity from th» Aleutians to Au. -: Brit sh 8th it my offensive against Tinley, a Lieutenant general, retired, j Africa, in the basement of the pro -. tralh. d < v! 1 ’ \> iia: infantry of the Iowa National Guard, was tak-1 byterian church Tuesday afternoon, The meetings, which have just beet. ay no.. ;r-b; forces back to l > n~ cn to the hospital Friday suffering! beginning at one o’clock All children concluded in Washington, were des- d tuk in n Proao sweep through the from a streptococcus infection. ; of the community are inivted. cribed officially as important. \alle- nor*he .si o! Sben.a.

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