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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 1, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa VALID RATION STAMPS VALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - El pin* May 30 (lath Stamp, Five pounds.) Coffee 23 * Expires May 30. VOL. LXXL No. IDI THE MT PINKAS ANT NEWSSA 11 BDAY, M \Y, I, 1943 Gasoline 5 Expire M»v ?! » lie! Oil 5.....Until S pt. 30 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA ‘Good Time Was Had By All’ At Play Melodrama Presented By I.W.C. PlayersiVliners Walk Out Of Nation’s Coal Flelds May Tire Quotas Slashed In Iowa There wa,' Dirty Work a? the Crossroads” Friday night. but the evil villain finally icceived his just dessert* Playing bel on: a well-filled auditorium, the Iowa Wesleyan players presented a classic example ol old iash-ioned melodrama. Comedy, pathos, arid romance were blended in a play and the audience loved it. » With th* spectator.? in tho front Des Moines, la May tire quotas row throwing popcorn and peanuts on for the Des Moines district have been the stage to be swept up by the mus- sharply reduced They’ll Do It Every Time - - - B or C Ration ( ard Holders Eligible lor tirade I He was all pepped up- HE WENT ALL- cular janitor (Howard Ferre!) with his derby hat. red flannels, and huge stogie, ann everyone I rom main floor to bali ny hissing and booing the mustachioed villain, the evening wits ipent in true "Gay Nineties" style The ca ,t is as follow ; ftfunro< Mugatroyd the villain .................... Dick Buxton Nelie Lorelace, the heroine...... , Janice Grover Office of Price Adel ficia Is here revealed Widow Lovelace Adam ©akheart* Little Nellie ... Mooka Mrs. A mrbUt Le .nu- A tos blit Fleureto ....... Jane Graham the her®, Jack Ham ....... Dora me Oldt .... Gordon Rhodes .. Mary Ray Wells Jane Maxwell ........ Doris Ward Ida FU.rn* gold, queen of the New Haven campus .... Dorothy Venell Between acts a quartet including Dick Buxton, Gordon Rhodes, Joseph of th< lorn* turn of also Joined of the best ‘Gay Nine- McCoy, and Jack Ham. i the tunes populai before the century- The audicnc in group singing of s' na remembered songs of the tics.” The j-,Jay is to be pre M.'id again this evenpig .it the college chapel One large section of the auditorium will be reserved for civilians .md the rent will be open for the Wesleyan military unit Anyone Aho missed eelng tills show last riignt may mc it tonight Responding To t all For Bond Purchases Henry county re-idmte are re ponding to the call for more bind purchase, in an effort to reach the quota in the war bond drive, but purchase must be heavy if the county if to meet the $57f OOO goal A typographical error occurred in the number of purchasers reported Friday Tile number up rn April 26 was 743 which is less thin four poi cent of the po (Hi la lion of Henry county. Simpson Wins Quadrangular Meet Indianola, Iowa Simpson college today held a victory In a quadrangular track meet after trimming; Central Parsons and Penn by easy margins y esterday. Simpson counted 84.7 points while Central got 41.7, Parsons 21.2, and Penn 14 4 PRAISES WORK OF MT. PLEASANT BOYS IN NAVAL EXAMINATIONS ministration today. The new quotas as received from Washington headquarters are 2.870 ’ire under th* April total the Des Moines OPA said. Largest cut is iii Grade I 'new) tires, which show a slash of 1,891. Grade J <used or recapped) tire were reduced 1,426. A 447 increase was allotted in truck tires, however, while the quota for I a riff* Implement tires was unchanged from the April figure of 3,029 May quota will j>ermit the issuance of purchase certificates fo; 9 315 Grade I tires as compared to 11,206 in April. The April quota represented a combination of Grade I and Grade 2 tire The May allotment for Grad'* 3 tire j lf) Oh) a compared to 11,445 in April Truck tires for May number 5.678 The April quota was 5.231 Effective today, car owners possess-mg <i currently valid B or C mileage ration an- eligible for Grade I tires provided their local boards have sufficient quota to issue necessary certif i-ca’» The OPA ha- eliminated quotas for Grade 2 tires, and combined this classification with Grade I. Under the same ruling, persons who now hold purchase certificates for Grade 2 tires may buy Grade I tires with them. These outstanding certificates will not be deducted from the new May quota for Grade I tires. Although the April tire quota was larger than the new Mav allotment, it was sufficient only to take care of - pout 60 ja r cent of the eligible application-. OPA officials poufed out Fourteen Youths Register in April Fourteen Henry county young men reached their 18th birthday in April rd with the Selective Seethe courthouse. Of the Lewis Lets Strike Occur As Scheduled Defies Ultimatum by dent Roosevelt Presi- V. IL Directs Sec, lek es To Take Charge Troop Protection Directed by President Also W shngton, DC. (INS'— Members* Washington. D C 'I f John L. Lewis’ United Mine Work-rs union, 540,000 strong, .staged a general walkout in the nation’s vital cal fields today with only the prospect cf an anticipated personal con-irrer.ee between President Roosevelt and Lewis, pr noising hope of a quick settlement or truce. Risking immediate declaration of martial law and use of army troops, Lewis without so much as raising his , re, let the strike occur in defiance of a ultimatum bi President Room* .elt that all mines must be operating at IO o'clock this morning. Sr- President Roosevelt today directed Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes to take over an J operate coal mines which have a strike or are threatened with a strike and directed the secretary of war to provide troop protection for mine.-, and miners who want to work. A t ng two hours after his 10:00 A M deadline had passed, the president instructed Ickes to “mak" employment available and provide protection to all employees desiring work," I Mr. Roosevelt’s action came in an executive order in which the secretary ! of war instructed upon the direction of ‘Sign of Disunity’ Tokyo. Japan GNS) 'Axis propaganda) —■ The Nipponese Timers today pointed to the American coal strike as a sign of disunity within th** United States and such actions would be “inconceivable in Japan. Women Receive Red Cross Pins Stalin Praises Allied Attacks Have 250 Hours of Work Red Cross Those women who have completed at least 250 hours of Red Cross service and air eligible for the service pin as announc' d in Around Town and Countryside in this issue are: Mt pleasant Stella McKibbin. Lou-n*- Horn. Elizabeth McCcid. Suzanne Dickson. Ruth B Crane. Ebba Kor-meen Miriam Moore, Ida Fraser, Ger trude F’hckinger. Anna Van Tuyi. Beu-Haves. Emma Worcestei Martha london. England ('< Rifer'Josef Stalin ii: a cf tile da\ declared th* blow by the American the west foreshadowed a second front in Euro culed any Hitler peace H- rul« d out comp: ' aum: the words oi Pie and Prime Minister C tog for the "unconditi of Hitlerite German’, ur< — Pre- May day Ord el d shattering air and British in the opening of ae. and he ridi-talk. ►mise by reiter* I ident Roosevelt lurchill in call-onal surrender" I. onlv the utter Conclude Conference Sioux Citv, Iowa ' INS) — The conference of tho Evangelical Lutheran Augustan®, Synod, today concluded its 75th annual convention after electing the Rev. A. D. Freden of Burlington as president of the Iowa conference brotherhood. Local Runners Score Points In Meet gn new contracts. Kelav Teams Place Third Fort Madison At The un'on’s conn act covering 450,- | It kes. "to take such action, if any, as ' PO s ft coal miners and some 90,000, he may deem necessary or desirable to workers in the anthracite pits. expired j provide protection to all such persons at midnight and the UMW “boss” per-1 and mines." mif'ed the general walkout to go on, Ickes, who is director of solid fuels because coal operators had refused to I was instructed to take over and oper- 1 ate the mines together with “any and all real and personal property, franchises, rights, facilities, funds and I i other assets,” used in the mining of coal. He was instructed to “operate or arrange for operation” of mines which have struck or are threatened with work stoppages. President Roosevelt in his executive' Ride* did not differentiate between oft and hard coal mines and it was apparent that his executive order was directed to both divisions of the incut I V VT WORK IN IOWA Albia, la. GNS!—United Mine workers secretary. Carl Johnson, said today that any Iowa coal miners who had not already put in their five days this week, were at work beday and that there apparently will be no interruption of operations in the Hawkeye st cie He explained that the Iowa miners are at work under an agreement that the new wage scale when established will be retroactive to April 1st. The Iowa agreement differs from that of the eastern fields which was for 30 days and expired last night, not having no termination date set and register ice board at pew registrants, ten addresses indicating farm youths and ma deferment Up to May I, a total of 3.211 registered in Henry Clure. Lillian Smouse ! Corinne Hill. have rural route , lab that they are Hayes. Edna Fankhauser, Martha See be eligible for lev, Geraldine “It is now clear thi routing <>f the Hitle^e armies and the - unconditional .surrender of Hitlerite ; Mf Pleasant runners wen 16 points Germany can bring peace to Europe,” * jn the track meet at Ft. Madison Frl- Stalin said ‘day in the competition with some of * H« praised the Allied air blows tpr best track men rf this territory j against Germany and Italy in the I The local 440 yard relay team and ILLINOIS JOINS .w* st. and the Allied ground gains in I th* medb v relay tram each won thirds Springfield. Illinois GNS* — Illinoi Africa, and said those factors com-J while the fieshmen team alw placed miners with scattered exceptions join-1 otic Americans" j Pined With the Red army’s winter sue- ‘ third, running behind Hor ice Mann ed coal diggers of the nation today in | ;nan;u,(n.s for the government. I cesses had placed Germany in a crit- j and Oak Street of Burlington. Junior I Arbuckle placed third in the IOO yard out ICKES TAKES OVER Washington. DC. < INS*— Fuel ad-ministY trr Harold L. Ickes today no-tilkd 3.400 bituminous coal companies that he is taking over their mines in the name of the United States and called upon them as “loyal and patri-to serve as cperating the long threatened war-time walk- Ristine. Mary Ewart, • Rose Taylor. Anna Ruth Shot!-,. Ada men, Nix.son. Edith Whiting. Fauction Mc- 45, had Pleasant Wayland The Mt Pleasant .school emphasis on training in mathematics and the sciences, wrhile some schools were plac- 18 to county. Tile new registrants: Carroll Vernon Parks, Sal* rn Charles Thomas King, Salem Zion Thomas Messer, M Willard Dean Conrad Eugene Richard Thielbert. New London, Samuel Lyle Royer. Winfield i Llovd Calvin Barnes. Mt. Pleasant ! Marvin L>le Raines, New London Melvin Wayne Scarf! ,M t. Pleasant Kenneth Rex Hall, Mt. Pleasant Jacob Louis Stauffer, Wayland Harold Lloyd Schubert, Hillsboro Donald Emmett McCormick. Pleasant. Duane Dean Witt mer. Wayland, ical position. 'digging coal virtually as one man. ai- j ga^es ^{) the state conventical Begins New Work Mt. Vera Wilson. Lenoir Weir. Elsie Schuerman, Martha McCullough. Rose McGrfw. Louie Smith. Nev, London. Mary Rauscher. Hillsboro: Jessie Courter Barnett. Daisy Miller. Ethyl Feree. Le;ta Geese. Salem: Florence Lee. Eva Barton, j Lect® Hallowell. Mrs. Clyde Bunker. ! Susie Beery, Lizzie Barney. Ethel Ens-jminger. Mrs. Chas. Hallowell, Gretta I Gray. 1 Winfield: Helen Barton, Bernice Van Vranken. Cora Smiley. Mrs. E.V. Chance, Bernice Green, Anna Wheeler, Ava Bates. Clark Rodruck. Wayland: Sadie Henss, Emma Se- vert, Mabel Wittrig, Clara Hebei, Grace Hebei, Mrs. Ro bt. Mathews, Cl ira Wenger. Eva Allen. tog empha ^ in other lines, is showing DpPflS results in the examinations which local OC VCI Cal young men are taking to get into the naval aviation cadet program. Ensign Loren Hickerson, naval recruiter, interviewing students for the] Deeds V-5 program here Thursday, made the today included; following statement: If I recall correctly, not a single Mt. the former pleasant high school senior has failed Jay street. Louisa W. Orr and others have given Are Recorded New Head of Girls’ School Named The United Mine workers suspended Although a state wide convention yes-1 terday voted to continue work, sever- ! a1 locals including the union’s largest | i .a j r» No I at Gillespey, Illinois with a > team included Breazeale, 1 up.. membership of over 2.000 men. voted j shortly before midnight to keep off j the coal company property pending | dash and Keith Smith was fifth in the open mile. The 440 yard relay team was composed pf Breazeale. Anderson, O'Connor. and Junior Arbuckle, whil^ the medley relay Linder. Arbuckle and Walt Conner ■a’t Urge Settlement Lake City. Utah—GNS) —Dele- of the U'ah congress of industrial organizations today urged John L. Lewis to settle the coal strike controversy through “established government channels." recorded at the courthouse Mary G Brown to Doss Van Winkle, Frank Farr property on to pass his aptitude tests for naval aviation in St. Louis and I don’t believe any other town in the St. Louis board’s Iowa territory—a* large or larger than Mt. pleasant can boast that record. The boys seem to have excellent train-tog in mathematics, physics, and all the] other sciences. And these subjects play a big p * rt in developing a fell. w’s abli ' ities along lines that are required by the armed forces. a deed to Herman A. Prehm tor 120 acres in New London township. Elmer E. Westfall to C. Herbert and 1 Ruth Margaret Dyall, property on East j Monroe street. J. E. Hague to Lawrence T Mae Harlan. Hillsboro property Davenport. la.—Ophelia S. T Carr, head of Stuart hall, an Episcopal school for girls at Staunton, Va., has accepted the headship of St. Katherine’s school at Davenport. The announcement was made by the Rt. Rev. Harry S. Longley, bishop cf the Episcopal diocese of Iowa and and Eva ■ president of the board of trustees. Miss Carr will succeed the Sisters of Mrs. Ray Baxter Is New Burlington Postmistress Little Damage From Low Temperature Burlington. Iowa GNS'—The Bur- While some freezing was damage from the cold snap Fridav night was likely very slight. The low lington post office is to have its first temperature at the state hospital on postmistress in more than a century, the federal weather bureau thermome-it was revealed today. ter was 33 degrees, which of course is Mrs. Ray W. Baxter, wife of the one degree above freezing. Some ice postmaster who has been granted a was frozen in some localities, however St. Mary in the management of the school which will remain under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Iowa of the Episcopal church. The Sisters of St. Mary. who have supervised the school for 41 of its 58 , ! years, will concentrate their efforts on repor Maiy’s school at Peekskill. N. Y., leave of absence to enter the federal according to reports, rehabilitation and relief service, has Tomato and cabbage plants been appointed postmistress during those most likely to be damaged, ap her husband’s absence, it was Kemper Hall at Kenosha, Mis., will work in Chicago. 111., Evergreen, Colo., and in the mountains of the south. Miss Carr, who will arrive here early in June, was far five years dean and aodemic head of Chatham Hall. Chat- The Rev. Harold Bremer, above, recently of Yellow Springs. Ohio, has irrived in Nashville, Tenn., to establish his official residence as secretary of the National Conterence of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. The National Conference of the Methodist Youth Fellowship is composed of the presidents of the annual conference Methodist Youth Fellowships, presidents of state or regional units of the Methodist Student Movement, plus certain additional youths. Mr. Bremer is 29 years old, a native of Iowa. He did his college work at Iowa Wesleyan. Mt. Pleasant. Iowiy Garrett Biblical Seminary, Evanston, 111,; holds tile M. A. degree from Northwestern University and did graduate study at Ohio State University. For three years he was Director of Wesley Foundation. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. His experience in youth work dates back to Ep-and worth League days when he served in his local League and as district president. He comes *o his new post from the pastorate of the Methodist Church at Yellow Springs. Ohio, seat of Antioch College. Mrs, Bremer, is the former Miss Leona Kirkpatrick, of Kinross. Iowa. They have two chil- Largest Christmas Buying In History Des Moines—Iowa's Christmas buying last year was the largest in the history of the state retail sales tax, imposed in 1934. This was revealed Friday when the state tax commission reported $5,185,-^ 334.78 sales tax revenue during the three bion th s ending Dec 31. 1942. Sales tax revenue for the 1942 Christmas quarter was $118,296 larger than the $5,067,038.81 collected in the same quarter of 1941. The increased sales tax revenue came in despite inability of purchasers to buy many articles off the market due to the war, and in spite of the re- some agreement. Last Day Rush At Local Stores Purchasers I se Their Friday Points Work In Kentucky Harlan, Kentucky—GNS*—No mines in Harlan county were idle today, the first day of a strike by Uni tod Mine workers of America While 18.000 follow ers of John L. J lewis remained away from their work, I approximately 12.000 other miners who are members of the Progressive Mine]rush of buying Fridav as point holdeis Workers of America were in the pits. j made purchases to use up their points In Rocky Mountain Area which expired Friday night Denver, Colorado—' INS*—No strike Lerai stores experienced a last day was in progress today in the coal fields cf the Rocky Mountain area. 7.000 miners in Utah and Wyoming were ordered to stay on the job despite a general strike in the East, It was pointed out that a walk-out must be a duct ion in the number of retailers. The preceded by a five-day notice in t ase kinds of purchases which contributed districts and no such notice had been to the all-time record sales tax revenue given in Billings. Montana. United be tabulated for Mine workers said they expected no walk-out in Montana mines. pioduction wall not some time. Almost 12.500 retail sales tax permits have been surrendered in the last 17 months, the tax commission reported. Tile tax commission keeps no record of type of retailers, but it knows that a large number of surrendered permits were given up by filling stations, and that smaller retailers of all kinds are in the group surrendering permits. HUNT GOES ON FOR ALLISON Minv persons had bo’h red and blue stamps to “spend" wrhile others were long on one or the other and were storying th* advertisllnents and the Display shelves to make the most desireable purchases. The buying also becomes a game as purchasers speculate on what commodities may change in point value next month. The effort obviously is to buy those commodities which may have a higher point value next month, or at least not buy those which will be lower Next Monday th” purchasers will know whether they guessed right or not. C oast Guard From Burlinton To Help Today USES 3010 PENNIES TO BUY WAR BONDS an- parently were unharmed in Mt. Pleas nounced. ant. two of 1 ham* Va ’ als0 an EPisc,°Pal school. i She Is a former.member of the fac- dren, Cvntbia Ann, two and one-half I ulty of „ Hamilton college, Lexington, years old, and Harold Ernest Jr., six Kentucky. months. Hillsboro, la.—Mrs. O. C. Newbold, farm woman near hen. decided on Monday that it was time to use her 3010 pennies which she has been saving for several year to buy a war bond and stamps tfl aid in the second w r fund drive. Some of the pennies were veri o’d. many being f the Indian head type Mrs Newbold saved penna > before the last World War bought bonds with them then Search for the boriv of Ned Allison. 19. student in the Iowa We, Ie van air unit missing since Wednesday evening, continued today. I The coast guard from Burlington I was expecter' to have two boats in operation on the river today assisting with the parch. The vast amount of j w ater to be covered and the difficulties of dragging the river-bottom foot by foot make the task a big one and it is (entirely possible that the body will not Fleenor Farm (In Highway ill Sold Wayne T. Garretson and S D Garretson. real estate brokers, report the sale of 224 acres of the Roy fleenor f irm three miles west of Mt Pleasant on highway 34. This farm was purchased by Adolph I aruoe nf Houghton. Iowa Mr. Lamp-’ is a br ther-in-law of Herbert Mueller who recent Iv purchased the E P Smith farm west of Mt. Pleasant B-uh of these young couples will take po ession of their respective farms next year and will bp a line addition to Henry county. and be found for several days. ! —-------- An inspector has been here relative, Miss Lou Wright expects to leave to the air crash, to get information as Monday for Savannah. Mo.. where she to the cause and other routine infoi*m- will enter the Nicholas sanitarium for a hon as mbled when a plane falls. treatment.

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