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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 5, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVAI.ID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 30 (Each Stamp, Five pounds.) Gasoline 5 Expire May 21 I ueI Oil 5.....I rail s< pl. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Toffee 23 - Expires May 30. I and F red stands expire M.*y 31 jr red stomp May 9 to May 31. ti- lf -J blur stamps expire May 31 VOL. EXXI, No. UMWEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Heaviest Air Raid Against Germany THE By Paul Mallon JJS* (Distributed by King Feature# 8yn-lirate. Inc . Reproduction In Phil! or ii Part Strictly Prohibited.) I Mane Deaths Cast Gloom Gen. Andrews and Bishop are Among Victims WASHINGTON — IN THE COAL I »{< I BLE, John Lewi; has appeared by his ct orts to be an Incomprehen- _ n.,!(, rampant agitator. Tie news of event ha* pictured London, England (INS) The trag-h.rn a a violent breeds of the ne- 1 Lieut. General Frank cl i ’ * rifer .Glo defied the government Maxwell Andrews, commander of the tut wa finally put in his place by Aire lie n armed forces in Europe in M Room velt ;,n Iceland air crash, cast a pall of There may tx some valid spot# in today over his headquarters, this picture, but that is n ? the way it happened TO xii Bisie! has been ai was in contr* fr< rn the od he belibel ate] to takf- the • th*- 11bor movement, it parent that Mr Lewis i of the whoi' ituation inning By ho actions . forced the government ops that were taken— General Andrea and Bishop Adna Wr ght Leonard of the Methodist Episcopal church in America, died on Monday when their plane fell in a i'-mote section of Iceland They’ll Do It Every Time — th ske I CWI him. He tillr t gov • I bu lr Icko rn ai • rn c he wanted the government to IP even for red Mr. Roo >velt Rf < vet the mums. Instead of I <>p bein it was ually Price# I ii commis' old Im- gr Bishop Leonard ia.st month began i tour of American bases as repre-er it a t ive of 31 American protestant denominations. Numer us rumors current In London xay other prominent military leaders weir- rn th*- Andrew's plane, bul headquarters of the European theater u lt ins. any- of operation refused to comment un-because the yj fuller details of the air crash be-ntrol* their ,ame available. And™ ^ath part.cutori, M.ock, f’jrst Aid Teaching punishment to Iv contrived by Acts To Enlarge Greater Than Icma Drat t Hoards i „ On Cologne, Reports Slate Would Increase Personnel From ’Three To Five | < INS* — Iowa 1 lirector Charles to lighten the burden of local draft boards by en- J the personnel from three to Des Moines. Iowa — fafe .selective service c H. G ahi moved today Believe More Bombs Struck Their Mark (( 2 tv. five. Brigadier General Grahl explained ie mine •ut increasing ? over ament wold* lr re fixed bv Mr ion No wage Hinted bv the own-name coly) wsth-piVres and the lave to do that The operators antee him a s a yi r They X ing what th“ir months r a war he could not even guar- Hi new- men. Virtbally his last act before leaving London was lo stage an informal reception f r war oorre-pondents in his command Friday night at 1* officers’ club. Bishop Leonard who had been In Course Planned Former Winfield Resident Victim of Plane Crash I ondr n, I ne I and -(INS) RAF (hat *he larger boards would make bombers jerked the Nazi coal and iron i possible “a more (quitable distribution mining port of Dortmund during the ‘of the duties and will further permit night in what was described by an the occasional absence from local air force commentator today as the board meetings of one or two mein- heaviest raid ever conducted against I bt re. the Reich. I Tho s ate - rector lauded the woik Even the devastation reked on Coof the local board members and point- logne in its 1,000 plane attack was heed out that their duties have been ard- lieveri eclipsed in last night’s assault ; uous, in as much as a larger number of And then, he warned: heavier type planes was involved The “The toughest pari of the job lies Cologne mark of 1.500 rims of ex-ahead. Almost every case from now plosivi h was “nearly approxtmu'Aed” on will present a real problem.” in the attack on Dortmund. However, --even more bombs were believed to College Air Unit ,ound ttelr n,ark ,ha,: at Co' Til Rril*)Hrt)ttl ' Dr,™undwa rocked by a -atura-I" Ut tlcil.lvdSl . (ion a.sault during which great - I weights of explosives, were loased -day work-week for northern Ireland recently, originally \> no wav of kti 'W- was scheduled to return to London. busine will br :ix yp- apparently seized the opportunity Will Be (liven Instruction Here Mav IO to 15 I III ONLY WAI U f I had to get what he wanted wa it- a *■ r**! strike and fore* nmient to become Lbs new with whom he could deal ore J a vol able auspices, this ut ion desiring alw ays to do olfend labor a got a prom) e ft1 rn Mr. in ti if Sunday night white land I III H. a (hance to port ( t he gove < mployc r. under tn gdministr ri'thing ? He eve Roosevelt hou a . ins new employer, would ca ail phases of his existing contract— bn ply tag that Die government, this idly impatient and great mill- (f> d Production As part of a general program to to accompany General Andrews sr he build Red Cross services in Henry (Quid vi it American forces ,n Ice- County to a wartime peak an in ten- Loveland Lists Production Plans De Mo:m la May 5 'INS* sive course in first aid teaching techniques will be given carefully-selected qualified persons May 10-15 by Wheeler Van fiteinburg of St. Loud. first aid f.elcj represent a ti vc rf the National Red Cress in collabf rat on with D: Stewart Jackson, it wa announc'd tori c v by Warner A Ross* ll chairman of the Henry County Chapter of the Winfield, Iowa Mr and Mrs. Hny Reccf receded word last week ii the death of their grandson. First I iou tenant Leslie Finest Reece. He wa killed in an airplane crash on April 23 in the Latin American area. H* v.a the pilot of the plane and it not Rn wn if ii of his crew member:. ut re also killed. I rnie. as he was known, was torn rn Winfield on April 18. 1920 and was thi son of William Reece of Waterways. Canada and Mrs. Ingrid Reece if Minn* I polis. Minnesota. Besides his patents he is survived by his wife, Mis. Nedra R»ece. whom he married upp fhof State AAA Chairman A J Loveland organization raf.io talk lift’ tin government, i t a.,.,,« , n hr'iihpf t-tpI? in m *?*— ny out ted todav that only the hurdle Those successfully compte' mg the 15- 1 - A,l*'u ’ a Dromer’ JacK- m m r of weather now stands between the hour course will be recognized by tin' ,ne device ,n Hawaii, and a sister. Iowa Dimes and an all-time record Rrd Cross as lay instructors and will -vl! HI** n P*’(-tson (.• Minn* ap*-.s be authorized to organize and conduct He att* tided college at Minneapolis and then went to Fairbanks, Alaska, to study mining engineering at the college there. He returned home whrn called to the service in December. 19ii He received his training in Texas arid Florid.! and received his wings last August. Reece chose the namp for hi plane and named it Denalis Cheechaka, an Alaskan name m'anng “the mighty one s adventures.” Reece and his crew left the United States, April 17, lor an unannounced dfstinatior His wife has been with him at Tampa, Florida. buf a few days before he left she went to Minneapolis to make her home for the duration. Solos, Chorus, Novelty Orches- against key objectives in t .short turn I overwhelming greater defenses. Ira On Air Thursday UAtr j An RAF commentator aft* r po nting --I out that a large number of big bomb The Thursday afternoon Iowa Wes- * load -carrying planes participated, re- leyan College radio program over sta • J ferred to the raid as 'the heaviest t.on W. 3. U. I. at Iowa City a? 5:15 : undertaken against Germany.” P M will feature the men from the J ________ 82nd College Training Detachment. It under the chee His objective t ions out of the hand1 In an a ddress prepared for delivery classes in Standard and Advanced First FirG |]VIillGrS R-GlGCt In Des Moines Labor Board De Moines. Iowa -INS* Des M'in aid to all civilian defense workers. j office, shop and warehouse building intention “While bombs may not fall in this ir. an attempt to keep the blaze from* tent power of all the po pie. would , . .. . , ,, . fnr him before a mass meeting of farmers at Aid. under the supervision of the local actu TIV collect Lewd one. lor nim ° k _(iU svstPn Hamp* in let t night Loveland citea Red Ocss chapter, Russell said. s are to get ragotia- Hgun drawn from a study of “in- A sufficient numbe* of we ll-trained of the unfar- tention sects” of farmers and pre- first aiders has been made imperative oral* IU) him, war labor board, and <«««1 <»“* (°wa agriculture this year with the outbreak of war Russell de- . . , .... will -make a remarkable record In dared, pointing out that the Red Cross, es f.remen thl- afternoon were bat- jnt a fnf* na nos I .sum" dniiTiai/it . lit’ciai like Mr Ickes And lie had production of livestock and livestock has the responsibility of teaching first(fling a fire that was destroying an reason to exoect from the government products th six-dav work week guarantee, He saW a stud>’ o{ the —r -------- I ,. nu rt' tsii miners’ sDects- from 88 per cent of Iowa’s area or sabotage occur,’’ he said, “we spreading to nearby warehouse build)- Ahu I is a wiyo ne - , farm# shows the following planned must be prepaid.” With moi-* than 30'ings. p':' /JI',1,!, hTve Toed many oper- increases: years experience in first aid teaching.I The building reportedly housed a ... . „ Corn IO lier cent- .soybeans, 22 per the Red Cross has increased the tempo c: us.derat Ie stock of rubber tires. The a,or, have been ^hwmfn*^ pay the J J I* ^ ^ ^ p,.ogram [t> Mp mak„ roof the twQ.story brick aiding. .;'"h *d"-. "because, it represented a t es. 28 per cent Amene, reed, for any wartime emergence increa.se and greatly Increased The acreage cuts, he said, will come ency. Ftnt aid la an integral part of ’ , But Madam Perkins, the labor on wheat, oats, rye, barley, sorghums our nation's war program, no! only , , , . . ... flnd hav from the standpoint of civilian defense «eel(tary, publicly suggested this solu- ana na>- . lien. She did not propose that the' In production of meat, poultry and but also in prepartng Americans to be th-t cf the Rock Island Motor Transit Company, collapsed before firemen could get the blaze under control. The structure adjoins the Rock Island railroad yards. guarantee be lur a year. but Lewis dairy products, the planned schedules able to render efficient, rapid emcr- a.niched that period of time to lf. of Iowa farmers fir exeeed the huge gcncy treatment in industrial and m a JJ aCkOUtS Appirentiv. the government, or goals which were set up for the state," home accident,. JCO* Perkins at least, takes the novel post- Loveland declared. # ti n that such a wage increase would | "Pork product ic ms expected to stir- \\\ir\\ SCuOOl •Farmers increased spring farrow - j -MlISIC GrrOlipS T O ings 37 per cent and plan to boost j fall farrowings 52 per cent.” | not be inflationary, because the min- pass the expectations of even the ors would be doing added work for the most optimistic farm leaders. increased remuneration. Therefore, Mr. Lewis, instead of being a whipped and punished errant, is still politically in control of the situation and seems likely to put the government into a very bad hole. Anything granted to him by the government as an employer will be demanded by all labor. Bill Green and Phil Murray are not going to let Lewis get anything that is also not later granted to them. THERE IS .IFST ONE ELEMENT in the situation working against Mr. Lewis get ring what he wants and the administration stretching its own price-wage freezing schedules and making the public pay for it in in creased prices cf coal. Mr. Roosevelt w'ould personally like to choke him with his bare hands Their animosity is real, and was not Present Concert In Six Counties Surprise Fest Held In Eastern Iowa will br dedicated to the Chamber of Conima!ce and the city of Mt, Pleasant. The program will open with the “Aimy Air Corps March” sung by members of the unit. Richard R 'tcu'fcr of Champaign. Illinois, will play piano solos 'Polichinelle" by Rachmaninoff and ‘ Polonnaise in A Mm*o " by Chopin. Richard L. Robideau of Minneapolis, M rn ta, will pla\ “Corifessin’ " and “I Had the Craziest Dream” on the i.ump i a.companied by John Joseph on the piano. Sergeant Richard P. Grutzmacher of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Burns Eastman of Pmsadena, California, will p.ay a harmonica duet, "Sweet Sue." John Joseph of St. Louis, Missouri, will play Sophisticated Lady." “These Foolish Thing-v’ and “For Me and My Gal” on the piano. n • , iii** i t n , A men’s chorus will sing “Sailing Reject Ultimatum lo Present Heme - Interpolations from Dvoraks Case To WLB Symphony No. 5. i Edmund C- LaFrank of San Jose, -...............- J California, will play a saxophone sole, New York. New York —(INS)—The "Moonglow," accompanied by John Jo- United Mine Workers union s policy reph on the piano, committee today refused to take any The Jive Bombers,” the barracks | action in submitting their controvesiai novelty orchestra, will play "The wage demand to the War Labor Board Shiek and “Honey.-'Uckle Ftose.’ in Washington. j The program will be concluded by Meeting for slightly more than a’the “Army Air Corps March." half hour, the committee headed by ----------- John L Lewis, president of the UMW, NntlFP Til thus again rejected what amounts to iiUUvC Xii a flat ultimatum that they present their case to the War Labor Board. No official announcement was forth- * - coming following the adjournment but Miss Moyie To Leave Soon; New spokesmen for the union said committee members w?cre going home. This was taken to mean that the New Attacks In The Pacific Washington, D. C. (INS*— Ninp new air attacks on Jap-held Kiska and five against enemy outposts in the central Solomons were reported today by the navy as American planes continued their dovafttating (f.Dnsive to level the enemy’s front line bases in the Pacific. The attacks iii the south Pacific were aimed at the Japanese bases on Kolombangara and Santa Isabel Islands which are within 120 miles cf America's newly disclosed outpost* in the Russell Islands off Guadalcanal. Jap Air Base Left In Ruins Report for Training Secretary Named United Nations Headquarters in Australia — (INS)—Much of the Japanese air base at Baho. Dutch N(wr Guinea, lies in fire blackened ruins today as a result of a heavy raid by a flight of allied heavy bombers. Flying through bad weather which has hampered air operations north of Australia for two weeks, the allied pilots yesterday apparently caught the Japs by surprise. Besides kindling large fires amid airport buildings, they destroyed a number of enemy planes on the ground. Car Rolls Over On Wayland Road The vocal and instrumental music for men at the expense of government, groups of the Junior High school will or public, or anyone else. These present their annual Spring Concert seeming incomprehensive events on Thursday night, May 6th in the that, flow from him are carefully con- High school auditorium at 8:00. No trived by him for his purpose. admission will be charged. Guy E. Impartial authorities who have in- McLean will rib eel the Junior high ve.stigated thoroughly his claims fcr girls’ and boys’ glee clubs, while C. A. a wage increase say they lack con- Morgan will conduct the Junior high vincing basis. band. This whole affair is a plain man!- Several members of the band will s „f „,e sta((, Sc|by said festation of the new kind of govern- play solos to make up some of the ment which has developed from a extra features of the concert* Jerry labor era. an era in which ruthless Linder will present a tap dance act militant leaders of small organized and Waneta Smufz will give a baton groups of citizens are able by strong twirling demonstration during the flection to become more powerful in na! band selection. Those who will working out their pay and privileges play instrumental solos are Martha Des Moines. Iowa- ‘INS*—Rodney Q. Selby, Iowa industrial and <^efenne committee director, today wjas awaiting reports on results of a surprise tpst bla"k out in six counties that he touched off at 9:10 P. M. last Hight. Counties blacked out were Scott. Du-biidue. Clinton, Muscatine, Jackson and Cedar. It was the first of a series of surprise black outs to be staged through the committe (300 string) would leave New York City where negotiations have been underway for a new coal Miss Betty Moyle, secretary in the office of the superintendent of schools n Mt. Pleasant. C. A Cottrell, has homes. wage contract to go to their various 1 ocelvecf notice to report at Hornet college, New York City, for training it. the WAVES en May 17 She will conclude her work here within a few days and will make preparations to Ie vc for New York. Miss Moyle was accepted recently when she made application at Des Moines. Supt. Cottrell has named Miss Eve- ( rippling Blows To German Morale London, England <INB)—The allied Scarf*, a rural school teacher, as air offensive against Germany has the office secretary. Miss Searff is a • .............................— — struck crippling blows agiinst Ger- graduate of Mt. P.easant high school All Stats M’rch ............ Band man morale and has appreciably low- ,,lld taken a commercial couise at “Medley of Familiar Songs’’ .. Band erec} the fighting spirit of Nazi troops Gem City Business college. She will Farmer And The Mif,e“ ...... Band home on leave, the air ministry stated , r”-111 *u‘! ^ on ^une L “French Gavotte" .............. Band today. : * improved when Lewis announced a than the government itself. They Hayes, Marsh! Carrol, Virginia Smith, can push tho government around. Marilvn Cruikshank, Donald Gissell, Completely lost, pitiful and power- Ramona Sodini and Ann Cottrell will less, are the coal operators, the own- play a bell lyre duet, ers of the mines, who simply have no Following is the complete program v:ice in the matter at all, unable to for Thursday night: fix their own prices or wages—or even America,’ march ............ Band to keep their mines. Presumably, the “GKriana," waltz ............ Band non srnsical strikes and getting him- profits of government operation, if “Take Off.” march ............ Band self into trouble, Mr Lewis is still the any, will be turned over to them, but Faxaphone solo .. Martha Hayes -martest man in the labor movement, even before Lewis forced federal Clarinet solo ..... Virginia Smith craftily and cunningly carrying out a seizure of their properties, they ob- Flute solo ... Marilyn Cruikshank planned campaign to wring out con- viously had lest control over their Bell liyre duet .................. staidly improved conditions and pay own business to him. j •• Ramona Sodini, Anna Cottrell truce 20 minutes before the president went on the air in an effort to kill the president’s speech, or force him to rewrite it. Personally, Mr. Roose-\ cit is inclined to give Lewis nothing. But far from being a power-drunken labor leader, mischieviously calling Band the ministry said in a review of April Band aerial operations. Clarinet solo .... Marsha Carrol Flue solo ....... Donald Gissell Tap Dance Act .... Jerry Linder “Flagship March" ........... The Merry Widcw Waltz” . "March On." march ......... Batfd Baton Twirling Stunts. .Waneta Smutz America the Beautiful* Report Bill Authorizing .................. Girls’ Glee Club “Four Leaf Clover" .. Girls’ Glee club “W’e Two” .......... Boys' Glee club “A Russ'an Folk Song" ............ .................. Boys' Glee club “The Big Brown Bear” ............ ......................................Girls' Glee club ‘Tile Glow Worm” .. Girls' Glee club Shocked at conditions in the,, fndUCt Fathers homes, the German soldiers arc rn re prone to criticize the regime openly,” J To Reach Goal Washington, D. C. *INSi— Major Wayland. Iowa A car belonging o Sam Wyse and driven by his neper, went out t control one mile east of town and turned over thr*^* times near the Finery Eigsti pDce on Monday afternoon. Anither high school lad. Harold Graber, riding in the car received painful although not serious cuts and aside from broken glass, and one d'xrr off the car. ii was another of those “lucky accidents.” LOCAL GROCERS MEET THIS EVENING A meeting of Mt Pleasant grocers vin be held at (he Chamber of C:m-nerce off.ee this evening at 7:30 for he purpose of discussing closing a half day a week. Cedar Rapids Awaited Blackout: Didn’t Come General Lewis B Hershey, national draft director, today informed the sen-i ate military affairs committee that | plans for armed forces of 10.800.000 Landing Craft Construction ! cannot be carried out without inducting fathers. Washington. D. C. 'INS* The house naval affairs committee tori iv unanimously reported a bill authorizing the construction of I.OOO,OOO additional tons of amphibian landing craft. He joined the war department in ppaging a bill by Senator Wheeler. Montana, democrat, which would deer fathers from military service until January I. 1944. Cedar Rapids. Iowa <INS» Cedar Rapids Tuesday night awaited a “surprise black out alarm” that never came, it was revealed today The county OCD office sud that an unidentified army lieutenant warned of a test black out in the district. Auxiliary police stood by. a few residents were instructed to turn off lights. But the official “warning” never came

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