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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 4, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa VUU) RATION STAMPS VALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 30 (I.arb Stamp, Ute pounds.) Gasoline .5 Expire May 21 Furl oil 5.....I nill Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS Coffer 23 - I spin \1 »y I and I red Starr,", expire May 31 G red stamp May 9 to May 31. CM!-J blur s'amp expire May 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 10311 ES I) AY, 51 W I, 1913 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA News Lewis Gives Terms Union I Would Demand * *jc\ THE by Paul Mallon —TTT-1" Ullin ill' ll or'rn I (Distributed by King Feature* 83m-! db ate, ire Reproduction In Full or bi Part Strictly Prohibited.) Asks For A Wartime Labor Tribunal U S. T coops They’ll Do It Every lime - - - In On Bizerte WASHINGTON — ONI \ \ PAL- TRT pm agr.ph or two heralded the new that business ha.*, changed its polic\ and no* favor the Hull reciprocal trade program At lei* t, that portion OI business as repi( * nteu by the national association of manufacturers and the United Stat* , chamber f commerro. made such att announcement through rep- appearing before the rid means committee appear .rif f of the NAM board privately policy of three little dissent of re elitist ive house way The public wa*' made after its agreed to reverse it) years alto with very m< mbers. The; bu mess experts did not say so, but apparently they figured world trade must be different after the war. Our manufacturing production capacity has ta' en greatly expanded b*. the armaments program. The machines now used for weapons <an be changed back to peacetime products mu' ta easier than they were changed to war Replacements of on» or two ; arts ann tools are a1! that v. ll be necessary in many instances, th*-v say ;»nd a better in << bine tool n • ry ex 1st t do the job. The extra production win have to be old either in a greatly expanded Amen'- ; 1 n uke* mote people able to have 1 adi s. bathtubs refrigerator*, etc 1 or in a larger foreign market. J he world will have little gold or good with which to bu*. Our surplus manulart ming production. IT MOI IJH III VERY I GOLISH of u to “sell** these extensively on credit through any of the old or new-lv suggested device-' Actually, all we would be doing under such arrangements is to give our products away at the expense of oui people as a whole. As bing as w* exp.rt more than we import we will naturally aocumu late wi rid debts which cannot be New York. Jfew York (IN8> John I. I -Ai president of the United Mine Workers of America, stipulated the terms t* day tin ut ion would demand in a contract covering wages and working conditions in ’he government muzed coal mines Lewis outlined the union’s position as the nation’s coal diggers returned to the pits to resum* production under c» 15-ciay truce arranged between Lews'. and fuel administrator Harold IL. Ickes. ‘Labor agreed to refrain ir rn calling st) ikes and engaging in work toppagcs. ’ L*wis said, “provided the administration would set up a wartime lalxir tribunal that would judicially review and determine wage controversies and shop practices running th* whole gauntlets of industrial relations." [" AND-UH-THIS IS THE EJECTOR-f YOU SEE-UH-VOU PRESS THE ) middle valve down and it comes V OUT HERE. NOW THIS IS A k,UT-x THIS IS A 30LT-THIS IS ASPRING I THIS IS A MOTOR.. hkDW MOTORS I ARE KinDA COMPLICATED "• V MAYBE I BETTER TAKE IT ^ APART AND SHOW VOO HOW IT WORKS New York N'*w York 'INS)- John L Ll ais, United Mine Workers president, was reported today to have told anthracite mine operators that his "21 demands" for settlement of the wage and contract dispute still stand. IS RUEBER NOSE CONN* STAND THERE DROOL I NO OVER THAT BABE ALL DAY ? I COOLDA EXPLAINED THE EINSTEIN THEORY BY THIS, TIME- YEH-WHEN I CAME HERE HE JUST POINTED TO THE MACHINE AND SAlO^ET Got NO, LUG! " BETTER. LOOK OR SOMEBODY 'LL TAKE HIS MOTOR APART 3RCHT-EVES HAS A SIX* FOOT HUSBAND ON THE HOIST CANC' r vf rf, C'W NO WONDER. HES BEEN WEARING A NECKTIE LATELY" AND TODAY I THINK / HES OOT SOME OP VTtaAT COIOCNEVON^ I ii-1 IV lf 0 I IMI JI K n| hitM Seems like the old MAHARAJAH OF THE MACHINE SHOP TAKES A UTT LONGER TIME To Explain things noW-a-davs— TWAVX TO TWOS SCAWOUCRA, CORONA, L I. Orders Coal Mines On Six-Day Week Applier To Coal Mines Seized By Government Washington, D. C UNS (—Secretary f Interim Ickes today ordered all controlled coal mines to go on a six # y vv* k immediately to increase ,reded cc I production. The Ickes order applies to all coal nines r zed by the government last a ek, both bituminous and anthracic rn I which, he said, “have received maximum price increases to permit cp-rations on a six day week.” The fuel administrator emphasized th t he will recommend that the office of price administration cancel these maximum price increases at any Go Forward After Capture of Mateur American Torts’ Unlash Heavy Bombardment mine which day week. fails to go on the six New London Sends Hones To War Washington, D C ‘INS* Coal czar Haiold L lek* s said today that the j c* a1 wage crisis must be subjected to1 War Labor Boards jurisdiction and dined that any “bargain promise or pledge” had been mad** with John L. J Lewis to obtain th*- 15 day truce fori resumption of coal production. Miners Return To Their Jobs EAST HENRY STREET PROPERTY SOLD Capture Daughter of Nazi Commisar Box Received By OC’I); Discloses Skeleton Have a New Boss; Mine Coal Keen To * . Es J. Hurley Ar Son today report the of tim Lewis Martin property on lh my Street to Mr. and Mrs. , He ary Burk* y of Tre; *011. Mr. Barkey Netherlands Patriots Hold As Hostage Her Farm House And Contents Hest roved F ire On Carnahan I arni Highway 31 On The .'mall bouse on the C. E. Carrat! *n farm occupied by the Ernest Calhoun family w < destroyed by fire thou' eleven o'clock this morning. Pittsburgh. Peni.svivama INS*-- A great coal strike settled, jubilant min-! prs returned IOO', fo their jota- in the pits today, smilingly saying “well we have got a new boss—Uncle Sam.” Thee all felt all right about the job J their leader John L Lewis had done j They were u.** * ra; e u t in Lu Organ offing and that th*- situation now was J under control. They were keen to | mine coal. Their attitude was likewise geed.* Their work stoppage in the western Pennsylvania bituminous fields had gets possession 15th. of th) property May 1 London. England (INS)—Netherlands I patriots have captured the daughter of , Arthur Sevss-Inquart, Nazi c:mmissar j for occupied Holland and are holding •her as a hostsge, a Reuter's report * quoted by the Dutch news service, I Aneta, said today. I ^ Topp ' Gestapo agents were said rn be .combing the country for the girl and I her abductors, but thus far without , - I SUCCeSf; Kiwanian' he-ard an interesting talk j The report of the seizure of the J;ime Topp. organ builder, who . daughter of the highest German of- I‘raises New Organ At Iowa Wesleyan Builder James Speaks* at Kiwanis cost an estimated $15,000,000 paid. or gold which i of doubtful val- girting from a kerosene stove, the production and $ 4. (X if OGO in Ire ady hav*- too mucii of f!rP spread quickly to other parts of ; but they didnt seem to mind the .structure and destroyed all of the -- Calhouns household goods as well as Illustrated Talk in lost wages. ue. Wt both ll we ejfaoli h the Keynes or White systems of international payment. we will merely accumulate all the new international currency, “Unites' or “Bancor.** which, apparently, is to have only the value which our government underwrites for it In turns of international bankruptcy — and post-war conditions will approximate that the cnly way for us to get paid for our products is by importation of goods. This line of reasoning ha> brought the business people here around to tin idea th** 50 percent reductions I installing and combining the organ , fjCjaj jn the country came as a climax elven to Iowa Weslevan by Albert I j ^ more than a week of steady increasing tension which started with an announcement by Nazi air general Friedrich Christiansen, German military with the f rmer Wesleyan the house A wood house also burned. Mt Pleasant firemen took one of the trucks out, but the fire was so far .civ .need when they arrived that they could give no assistance. The only clothing saved by th* parents and children was that they were wearing. Some insurance was carried Th* Calhouns had lived on the farm ! ning While the pictures g ive explan fcr more than a jear. Mr. Calhoun atory descriptions, this was supple- At Rotary Meeting An illustrated talk on the weather J and atmosphere was bivon bv Principal L. W Cross of the high school j at the Rotary meeting Monday eve- mented by descriptions by Mr. Cr'ss which altogether made a very interest - is employed as trucker from the Bur lington freight house. Located at the top of the bluff at mg program ’he edge of Big Creek on the south I The 1943 conference of the 132nd of our tariffs, as provided in the Hull sld,, 0f highway 34. the house always district of Rotary was held at Cedar attracted the interest of persons pass- ; Rapids Sunday and Monday. The ing because of the view down into the local club was represented by Harold Big Cleek valley. WILL INVESTIGATE SHIP SINKINGS prog I tm. may help our selling. The cid fear of cheap foreign labor and foreign under-Belling appears to have diminished. And, inasmuch as labor has joined in approval through A. F. of L.'s Bill Green, it looks like Mr Hull has gathered unexpected support. I - _ I Washington, D. C — (INS* — Rep. NEBRASKA’S NEW Republican Vinson, Georgia democrat, chairman of .Senator Wherry was just about right the bouse naval affair^ committee, an-j when he .-aid at Pittsburgh that Mr nounced today that he would appoint a Washington Roosevelt is already nominated for the .sub-group to investigate ship sinkings Henry A fourth term Lamm, president-elect, and Lambert Estle. D D Knight t former member was a visitor. WALLACE IN FAVOR OF GILLETTE IDEA D. C. — Vice President Wallace, one of the chief He is nominated as far by enemy submarines, termed by the exponents of ' blobal thinking,” heart- Lodwick organ. Mr. Topp. who has been here many weeks on the project, stated that the j Iowa Wesleyan organ will be a magnificent one when completed. It will have up-to-date features—the chimes and th*- harp and will have an echo organ. Few persons in this vicinity have had opportunity to hear an echo organ. He panted ut how it would be jiossible to amplify the chimes and haip and the echo organ so they could be heard over mast of Mt. Pleasant with a very beautiful effect. Tracing the origin of the organ, on which there have been very few inventions but rather the organ is an Jcumufation of ideas the ugh the years, Mr. Topp a native of England, told about the construction and the principles involved. He told also about some of the large organs of the world stating the one in Atltantic City hall is the largest. Iowa Wesleyan officials had expect-ri that the new combined organ would be completed by the dedication on February 17. but the work has gone on for several weeks and they are now anticipating that it may be done in time for the high school graduation exercises on May 26, Chicago, Illinois—-The other boys of the Newr Lindon, la., lodge No.56, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, mailed a box to Chicago. It held a human skeleton. To the (H D j The boys, sacrificing their lodge initiation mascot, mailed him to the divide n of salvage of the Chicago office of civilian defense. They had heard that the division was peering into closets for skeletons to b** used for instruction at small army base hospitals. I The supply of skeletons since war br. gan. has been small. Most of the first quality bones were imported from Poland. Some were obtained from India. but they weren’t the best. Formerly about IOO kele’ons were impoi ted every year by the Denoyei Geppert Co., a Chicago biological supply house. Last year none could be bought. $120 a Set In normal years the average market price for first quality skeletons was about $120. That included all 206 bones of the human body, wired and mounted on an upright stand. But the supply has diminished while the demand has increased. Army medical officers, faced with the task of teaching anatomy to medical service troops, need all the skeletons they can get. Washington. D. C. <INS>—The sen- . . .. . . . e I The salvage division received a letter ate todav prepared to rush the Con- ! _ T . , , . .. „ T , , 1 * from Lieut Mitchell E. Langnau* of the .wily anti-strike amt plant sem.ro bill ^ slKna] tkm baUal)on, Camp to passage as speedily as possible, but M ,Ca|n_ Mlss |eadi leaders freely predicted that no fi- ____,, , , , . * * j A skeleton would be a godsend in nal action could be had in time to help- u m ,, . . . , . j that it would be of t remendous aid in the present coal situation. . . . ., , , . teaching essential anatomy to those “The bill already carries many , ... , . , . , who will seme dav take care of their amendments,” said majority lender . comrades. Barkeley. “What foim it will be in , . , So the brother - of New London, for When it finally passes no one knows.' . , „ 1 the duration, will rely on goats alone Neither can we tell what will happen . * for their initiations, j to it in the house. I doubt if any- , __ thing can be done in time for it to have important effect on the coal strike situation.” Allied Headquarters in North Africa — (INS)—United States troops today closed in on the axis-held Tunisian naval base bf Bizerte in a ' ontinued advance from captured Mateur while American Flying Fortresses uni ashed a heavy bombardment against the port installations. The forward driving Ameiicans of the second United States army corps also threatened a compile severance of communications between ax;s forces defending Bizerte and the capital of Tunis, to the southeast. •During last night, the Algiers radio aid, the Americans gained new ground fr rn the south and east of Mateur to-ward th* plains before Tunis. Thj axis was said to be moving back toward interior defenses and ports in j the northeast corner of Turn. la, foliar the, lowing loss of Mateur a Charity1 The continued advance by the Americans, wiio smashed the northern | flank in conjunction with French for- Peek ices, was ann unced from headquarters of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Americans Occupy Russell Islands comminder in the Netherlands, that-all former members of the Netherlands army would be interned in concentration camps. Prepare To Rush Anti-Strike Bill as common interpretation in Wash- committee Ington is concerned. facing the nation today.' The generally accepted belief in all --- politico d camps here is that the wrar j Estate Left To Wife probably will be on at that time md J nenry a Wahlborg left his estate renomination will be arranged as a tQ h!£ wlfe AiiCC f0r her life use as matter of course. j 5hf> ^ fit and at her death the es- Just new. the government officials tflte g;es to their daughter, Mrs. like OWL. Elmer Davis arc maying that th)' fourth term is “hot air"] while the party wheel-horses, like Sen- 1 ator Gulley and Governor Neeley are out making speeches presenting thy fourth term notion as “natural and inevitable.” The pattern of the fourth term campaign is, therefore, little different than the third, “except in one particular. Tile exigencies of war seem to have led Mr. Roosevelt's personal officials (Ickes, et alt to refrain from participating openly in what the wheel-h rs*:. (Walker, et a1) are openly promoting. the most critical problem jiv congiatulated Senator Guy M j Gillette (Dem . la.) Monday for pro-! posing abolition of the constitutional ; provision requiring a two-thirds vote of the senate to ratify treaties. Wallace left his chair to shake Gillette's hand after Gillette had finished speaking. Gillette told the senate it was constitutionally and mathematically possible, although improbable, that a [treaty could be rejected by 17 mem-I hers of the senate Taxing Religious Literature Invalid Asks Funds For 11,000 Landing Boats TWO IOWA CONVICTS CAPTURED AT LEON Wahlborg was named executrix. F. S. Finley and Miriam Siberts were witnesses to the will which was drawn May 29, 1940. But this does not settle all the basic rne-twelfth of the population, principles or difficulties of the feder- t That could erme about, he said, if a1 seizure by presidential order. {only 49 senators were present during a Th*’ county government will lose votP on a treaty and the 17 dissenters eke;;’ to $20,000 a year in taxes as a werP froni thr least populous states. result cf the president’s action. Ap-; Proximately .OO men have pone (rom C0UNTy MINISTERS that region to (.eh, .he aar^.r thete ^ ^ Washington, D. C.—(INS)-—Forecasting an invasion of Europe. Senator Walsh, Massachusetts democrat, chair man of the senate naval affairs committee today introduced a bill for acquisition. conversion and construction representing only [of I .OOO.OOO tons of landing craft foi amphibian operations. Senator Walsh sal i the bill was introduced at the request of the navy. The program estimated to cost $t,422,-000 OOO would provide 14.000 landing boats. that region homes, only to find now homes are to he available only for an J. SEEKING HEIRS OF JOHN ANDREW ACKERMAN Symcblism” was the topic of An inquiry has been received regarding heirs of John Andrew’ Ackerman, born at Mt. Pleasant, on August 3, 1879, son of Frederick Ackerman. Any heirs in this locality are asked to ministerial association, presented Rev.! comae* W. C. Cox and Company, 208 Jackson Hole may be a monument William Lasley, who led in devotions South LaSalle Street. Chicago, 111.. life, bv executive decree. It now develops Luther that two illustrated talk presented by Rev congressional committer.*, refused to W Potter at a meeting of Henry runlet the government setae the area be-! ty ministers Monday at the First fore Mr. Roosevelt chose to do it by Methodist church. Rev. J. J. Britell fiat. As one citizen of the region hasjof New London, vice president ot the INTI RIOU SECRETARY IC KES h p decided not to make too much of a monument out of the Jackson Hole country, even with his presidential decree He has announced grazing can written: be continued and those who have Is rn es in the region may keep them for to Mr. Ickes, but ifs only a tombstone I preceding the talk. life under th** benevolent phtlan- to me”—and to everyone else who lives thropy of the new federal landlord, j there. Leon, la.— Two convicts who escaped from the prison farm at Fort Madison. la . Apr. 25. were captured Monday afternoon by Patrolman J. D Dixon, one mile east of Osceola, la , on Highway 34. Th men were identified as Tony Zibold, 37. cf Sioux City. la. and Clarence Leroy Taylor, 2L of Muses-tine, la. Officers said the two admitted they abandoned a pick-up car or truck they stoic at Bethany, Mo., one mil" we I of Leon Saturday night. They confessed they broke into a house at Osceola Saturday night and ob tamed some clothing to repi ce their prison garb. Dixon said. The men had served two and * half years of a 10-year sentence for breaking and entering when they escaped. PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS JUNE 14 AS FLAG DAY Washington. D. C. — In a far-reaching opinion, the supreme cour* Monday reversed ifs previous stand and declared municipal license taxes on the si Ie of religious literature viola^ constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press, speed! and religion. The court’s 5 to 4: opinion, written bv Justice Harlan F. Stone, upset a dec sa n of last June 8, in which the tribunal had unheid the validity of municipal ordinances which imposed the taxes in Opelika. Ala ; Fort Smith. Ark,, and Casa Grande. Ariz Challengers The clima noes were challenged bv Jehovah'^ Witnesses, who were sup-: parted in briefs filed bv the American •Newspapei publishers’ association, the American Civil Liberties union and Iii*’ General Conference of Seventh-D.n Adventists. Continue Watch For Allison Body Washingtor. D C. * INS)—'The navy today disclosed that American forces have occupied the Russell Islands, 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. C pture of these islands provides a 'buffer" between United States and Japane se held bases in the Solomons. The navy said occupation was made without opposition sometime last Feb-tuary after American f roes crushed all Japanese resistance en Guadalcanal. The move placed Yankee forces within IOO mile' of Japanese advance bases at Munda and Rekata Bay in r h* central Solomons. Heavy Opposition By Enemy Planes New York. New Yolk 'INS*—An air miniftry report today disclosed that British bombers and tighter pilots who raided targets in Holland and northern France yesterday encountered heavy opposition by enemy fighter planes. Th*’ British I st ll bombers md two fighters. Numerous dogfights occurred during the day s sweeps. Three enemy fighters wer> shot down over Holland and two more over northern France. Battles Rage On Five Fronts Moscow, Russia- f ENR' - Battle - ray ed today on five fronts of the long Russian fighting line with tile heaviest action continuing in th** Kuban valley area of the wed Caucasus where the third army is striking to regain control of the Novorossi.-k Black Sea naval base. The Soviet high command reported the annihilation of SOO officers and men, destruction of tank units and crumbling of Nazi1 defenses in a bitter engagement on one sector of the Kuban front. (“The great Kuban battle us continuing, said the Nazi controlled Vichy radio. All neutral observers stress the intensity of the fighting,” the broadcast said s . Washington, D. C— (INR)- Warning that "only by teamwork can we win giving a short statement of their fam- the war and **stablish a lasting peace. A covered dish luncheon preceded ily history and relationship to John President Roosevelt t • lay proclaimed J wa Lu gets . w>: toe dn.gg.ng < the meeting. Thirty were present. Andrew Ackerman. June 14th as Flag Day. German Naval Squadron Leaves Base (London. England—(IN3)—The main naval battle squadron * f Germany tat left its base at Trondheim. Norway, to engage in attempts to halt allied convoys to Russia, a Stockholm dispatch to the Daily Telegraph reported today. The dispatch on the movement of tile German battlewagon®, unconfirmed officially, said that the warship.. would take over the task of intercepting allied shipping from the German air force. The super battleship, Tirphz. offic While persons continued to watch ially listed as a 35,000 ton vesssel. bur the water at the Skunk river bridge a* believed to displace 49.000 or more tons, Lowell and at other points, dragging; \rnturetl forth under destroyer escort of the river for the body of Red Allison [from the Norway fjords three time.-* virtually had been abandoned. As the ’ last year and on ca' h adventure was turned back by damaging blow.' of al-y may be increased. lied forces. i

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