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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 7, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVAMO RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 38 (Eac h Stamp, Five pounds.) Gasoline 5 Expire May 21 Fuel Oil 5.....I nill Se pt. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Co'fee 23 - Expires M \v T:>>. E and F red stain re. expire May 31 G red stamp May 9 to May SI. G-H-J blue stamps expi r May 31 NOL. LXXI, No. I OI) FRIDAY MAV 7 1913MT. FLE NS A NT, IOWA THE.., By Paul Mallon (DisirlbiitMi oy King Feature** Byn dilate, Inc, Reproduction in Pull <>.-in Part Strictly Prohibited.) Allied Armies Enter Bizerte and Turns Suggest Lewis Submit Demands to War Labor Board They’ll Do It Every Time - - - WASHINGTON — IHI GIG VI PEACE winch fill' d the public tate-1 merits of warring executive officials! caused none a1 those involved to file j Oil their finger nails, They are all i anil ready tor scratching, t Th * j>< ace treaty ellected between ] t rubber-maker Jefiers and war-make* Patterson is attributed significantly enough to Ferdinand Eber.xtadt. the ( Mea Yorker who left the war produc- ' troll bein rn in the Nelson row and then v a unable to get his promised jxisi- I lion rn the army. Senator i trave direct info: oration that Fbf iliadt brought Jefiers ana Patterson toother at luncheon and. IV,i■ him??on. D C INS) ineir a agreed t ti v to tor mac arnica bl; Tin % maker Mr, Ne variety mal do ancient enema benign auspices, both threw us around each other and take a trip around the coun-■ if ?hcir conflicting claims i#!TS could not be worked out I'owiur cumin, mediately the! Whiteside as of civilian n Mr Nelson was trimming tire newspaper not without ■auge identity ot the peace-man who had been fired by on has encouraged a wide speculation The most nat-rction was that Mr. NeLson’s I were again on the i speculation was in led when Nelson ton** A sug- i gi ;t ion by a i epretentative of coal czar Harold L I kc.s. that John L. Lewis make a iadio address outlining • hts wage controversy with the nation's J coal operators ani ’hen agree for the ake of national unity to submit his remand to the War Labor Board | va being earned to the Un.ted Mine i Workers president today. J This development carne as a three-man panel of the WLB began the second day of its hearings into the dispute with Lewis shunning the meet-i ings, I Whether the Ickes representative was acting with or without the consent of the interior secretary was not known however. 'he suggestion was ' made to a p* r on who can reach Lewis' ear md ii was beme: submitted. Lee Vinton Entry Dies at Winfield ~T-------y | wMEN PROM'Si MG / you BET I CAN OIE A CUSTOMER AN / GROSS OF LEFT-HANDED ORDER,ME USES \ OORKSCREWS? HA-HA - SO MANY " TS" / r!uS 1 ^ -K J't I WILL SEND EM OUT TODAY I'LL ATTEND , TO IT PERSONALLY I ( APPRECIATE YOUR I ORDER-I’LL ME \ I'M I ETC ETC But comes it in his lingo you’d think HE OWNED THE FIRM. /WHAT ? YOU MEAN ^ A rntACH A,MT. I 70 SAV THEY HAVENT ^Si TuATt / DELIVERED THOSE BOTTLE Oh BOY THATS / NIPPLES VET?THEY'LL A PRONOUN OF \ HEAR PROM ME ABOUT ( HAVE HAD THEM ■ there yesterday/ FISH FRY PLANNED A . . . ai ihe golf club Axis Line f & * Falls Back Under Fire Hourly G if Club Ii. Ii fry will be held at | the flub house. FT day evening. May 14, for members. thNr wives or lady friends. Meal served at 7 p. rn. FINE 109 ACRE FARM | IN CENTER SOLD I Onslaught Gains Momentum _ P J Hurley Sc Son today report the j ^ale of the tine modern improved IOO j acre farm Ideated just west of the | college aid kn wn as th“ Spahr firm] but now owned by Mr. c, J. Ives cf J Ab ninon. 111. and was sold to Mr and I Mrs. Fred Feldman of New London, j This is one of the choice* modern, im-Froved farms Iii the county Mr. Feldman gets possession of this nice home farm M : h I it. 1944. Mr. Feldman purchased this farm f:r a home. Aided Headquarters in North Africa (IN£)- A lightning offem ve with I few parallels in history carried troops J of tJie British first army into the ouf-I skirts of Tunis this afternoon, j Hardly more than 24 hours after General S r Harold R. L. G, Alexander (or:'errd an at’ack which he promised ! would “drive the enemy into the sea,” I advance armored spearheads of the I first army cracked the last defenses of Tunis and .smashed into the cap-j ital’s outer limits. j latest word from International a . . ,__News Service correspondents with the Supt. John Qaid, who i first armv said that a violent battle SALEM SUPERINTENDENT TO DANVILLE POSITION raft r apl: 11 rec tor of qui: colent indignant Mr. Jeff cr » tho list if ited Arthur for* no new office dale h i O’, et J denied he but most of hi otherwise, and it ion. as While Winfield— Lee Vinton Entry, 59. died at his home in Winfield at 4 p rn. Thursday, following a short illness He if lf: eri a hear* attack, Monday a bile working at the Lons-chery, but apparently was rebind wa-, able to be up a while y forenoon. While sleeping he afternoon he died. Wl™ WI ,N ™E Allison’s Body Found In River By Far met SERVICE Mg S. Sgt. Lf dru I). Kerr who na be* n home on a furlough for eleven days left Tuesday lor Foster Field, lex s. Thu r sd: lain in Funeral service will be held Sunday Pie. Dalle n T 'nrr ha ompined hi schooling in the engine course st the Southwestern Technical school of side wan a everything Therefor* was seen si constantly shoulder lo pparently given control of in rubber except production. while the dove of peace i the headlines. H»- ha been afternoon, the hour no announce at Aeronautics at Weatherford, Okla.. and the funeral home at Richland. Inter- fe from shoulder to Arts* her:, as he goes. merit will be in at Richland. Lee Vinton Emry Duke) Einr he Friends cemetery son wa of Eli and born March graduated from the same on April 24 H* is new stationed at Stinson F-eld, San Antonio, Texas. The body of Ned Ail: n. 19 army air unit, student at Iowa Wesleyan, was found this morning in Skunk river. about one-fourth mde below the scene of the training plane crash, by Jack McNeeley, 24, while the latter wa * plowing in a field adjacent to the • river. * McNeeley, who had teen watching Ralph O. ?l!* riv,! hrm Um*‘ tr turn- as he got Sa Ism. Iowa has tx "ti in charge of the Salem schools for the oast year has accepted the position of superintendent of the Danville, Iowa, schools for the coming year. FORMER RESIDENT IN COUNTY DIES The new address of Mc n I VG a* Richland, Iowa. Keokuk Long is STAR S.. 3803 Louisiana out near the river bark with his trac-• '•■in’ ll* wa a member of the Meth State University, Baton Bong?. La. tor aud plow, saw Allison's b-dy longed is rapid The location where the body was found is about one and one-fourth miles above Lowed. | Allison and Instructor Porter Alley of Shenandoah were trapped by the water when their Monthei flying service plane crashed into the river after the nnchine struck an electric high line across the river en the evening of April 28. Alley succeeded in swimming cut, but Allison, who was just learning to Salem. Iowa Relatives have re ceived word of the death of Carrie-B( ll Parsons, whose parents formerly rf sided in Salem. Mrs. Parsons was torn in Mf. Pleasant. Iowa, May IO. 18C8 and died at Whittier, Calif. April LO. 1943. She was a d nighter of Mrs Emma McMillan Bell, the latter after her second marriage, to George Cramer, will be remembered by many cl the rifler residents of Salem. Mrs Pal sens is survived by one sister. Mrs. Anna B ll Judy of Whittier. was raging inside the city. New York, New York —UNSi— Advance elements of the second corps of the American armv now are in Bizerte, allied headquarters in North J Africa announced today in a specie -hort wave broadcast heard by NBC I The broadcast which told also cf J the slashing advance f the British first army into the outskirts of Tunis 'aid that allied planes completely dominated the Tunisian skies and are launching fierce attacks on enemy transportation columns clogging the roads." IIH. ROBI KT HON-FOR VNO pc* a -you-go- tax plan parsed the House a a compromise. and on the surface it was on* Mr Robed on is a Virginia democrat, more democratic than a "■ N* w De alish- Mr. Forand is a Rhode Island New loyaler, and strictly labor Their bill. which the Hou.se passed, is about seven-tenths of the Rum! II would lift $7,000,000,000 of Adrian Henry . i church Or; March 20. 1909. he Ralph was transferred from Camp against some underbrush at the edge swim. could nor make it Ironical was married Mollie Oswalt To this union Clalboume Alexandria, La. of the water abou’ 8.45 this morning the fact that the plane drifted to near ~ ' five children were born. Wayne of Ft j pm He went to the home of his parents, the shore after they had left it. 1,655 ENEMY PLANES Colin. C : Mi Patrick Henry, Mt Mi Helen Fenton ha received word Mr and Mrs John McNeeley. nd the Allison s home was at Little Rock. i ARF SHOT DOWN of Bra’bt on, and Elon* tha? her son, Edwin Fenton has been ] word that the body had been found j Ark. The parents formerly resided in a: home, He wa piece bd in death by sent to Florida where he will take af was telephoned to Mi. Pleasant en hi parents a daughter Lolo Frances, four months course in a cooks and, Search carried on from boats the February 21, 1927 at the age of eight- bakers school. Edwins address is Ed-j last several days since the plane crash- month' and a grandson. Keith win Fenton 8 2c; Box 28. U S N A. S. j < d on Wednesday evening. April 28. n of Mr. and Mrs. Jacksonville, Florida j had been difficult because cf the high the $10000,000,000 burden from 1942 Patrick Henry of MI Pleasant, who' » • J water. While the water level has fal- atid put a died Apr:. 26. 1943 I Pvt- Elbert larng cf Camp Phillips, | leu several feet, ’here is still much m operation Surviving are his wife, their four near Salina. Kansas is enjoying a ten j water in the river and the current children, four brothers. Blaine and day furlough at the home of his par-j_ But c entially in basic theory, it Hugh Emry of Fairfield. Otto of Rich- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Long and ' the CIO way of doing the job. It land. Harlan of Kenosha. Wis.. three family. Robertson angry to say sisters. Mrs. A. B Clevenger of Ollie. PW plan. personal income taxi pay-as-you-go system after July I. Nebraska. The body will be shipped to Gering. Allied Headquarter in North Africa ‘INS* The northwest African force* Nfbi , where ii w I! be taken to Proles today announced that 1.655 enemy mortuary. The remains will be iccom- J j. janes were shot down between Novem-paried by Pvt Willis Carney. Allison’s ker 8 anfj ^lay o parents. Maj r Ned Allison and Mrs Allison, of Little Rock. Ark., are leaving there for Gering, to meet the remains. Allied air Josses during the period were 631. same Staff Sergeant Lee Mod-on of Camp arklev, Texas, arrive a twelve day furlough Bb makes M so 'but not Mr. Forand*. Mr H C. Buckles of Kansas City. ria original theory of a 19 percent end Mrs H. T. Inghram of Detroit, Barkley, Texas, arrived Wednesday on wihtholding tax (now made ‘20 per- Mich cent) was proposed by democratic The Emry family made their home Senator Bennett Clark* of Missouri* in the Brighton and W a sh mg t n com-i Corp Harry Gartnoe of Camp Hood. and the CTO took it up along with a mumties until about a year ago when Xexas is enjoying a fifteen day fur-1 demand for discrimination in relieving Mr. and Mrs Emry and EloLse moved l ugh with his father Mr Harlan the bur den on various incomes. Ail to Winfield to live. . Garmoe and other relatives in the I are not treated alike. Tile CTO no — — community doubt will hail the result as a victory. Ifj QlllwiHv A G The republican.^ put it through when ▼ It VV OUU9IUJ rkn they were unable ta get their Ruml Indicates Miners Cannot Strike Again plan. In doing so, they merely cornered a strategic error committed two months ago. They could have done the same thing then, but chose to send the proposal back to the House ways Only The Way To “Hold The Line IN Washington, D C.—<INS>—-President Roosevelt indicated strongly to-< ay that the nation’s coal miners (could not strike auain when the prri-enl 15 day truce in the coal fields ex-| pires because they now are employees of the United Stans government. -(INS)—Admin- Mr and Mrs. F. J. McCormick received a telegram today from their son. Paul McCormick, who is in the U. S. Navy stating he is in New York | City after a several weeks absence. I bu » PLEASANT LAWN SCHOOL TO CLOSE MAY 14 Washington. D. C. ( and iS{ration quarters today viewed an all- Word has been received by Mrs. El- mean: committee, hoping the Ruml out federal subsidy program--pcrhaps ma Oge from her son. Norton W. Oge, plan would finally emerge. Their idea involving a $2,000,000,000 annual out- who has been in glider pilot training, now is that the senate will have a iay__as the only method of fulfilling stating that he has been accepted Commencement Week for the Pleasant Lawn Schools will begin with the Baccalaureate Sermon which will be delivered by Rev. J. E. M. Chamber.' at Wesley Chapel on Sunday Evening. May 9. MAY CIRCLE ENTERTAINS WSCS JOHN BAKER PLEDGED BY ENGINEERING FRAT London. England —(INS)-— Captain Ludwig Sertorious, foremost Nazi military commentator admitted today that French native troop.- had penetrated the inner forMfications of Bizerte His '‘atfinent wjas contained in a broadcast over the Berlin radio heard by Reuters news agency. Ames. Iowa (INS*—T<u Beta Pi. na-The May Circle of the W. S. C. S Tonal honorary engineering fraternity entertained the Woman’s Society of'.today announced the pledging of 13 Christian Service, Thursday afternoon iowa state College engineers. Inst the Methodist Church. The devo-1 eluded in the list was John Baker of lions were in charge of Mrs. C- O. Mt. Pleasant. Sharer. She had for her theme “Litany ------ of Children." Mrs. I C Shellabarcer, CI JIT POR DIVORCF president, presided over the business session during which reports w’ere given by the chairman of the several committees. FILED WITH CLERK chance to iron the matter out and it present Roosevelt’s order to “hold- for aviation cadet training since the I On Tuesday evening the Senior i glider training has been abandoned, j Play - ‘ Mc and My Shadow" - is to be will. the-line’ on th£ cost of living. The Robertson-Forand plan, how- ( ^he tremendous pressure on the He was formerly stationed in Stuttgart, ever* is indisputably the most compd- price structure wa- * significantly Arkansas, but a telegram Thursday c ited tax sugestion ever enacted by .~f.moastrated by OPA's action, with stated he was leaving Nashville. Tenn. a congress. Most taxpayers will re- {he concurrence 0f economic czar, where he had been taking his final quire a lawyer to find ou' to what James F gymes in raising bread tests, to begin his primary training they are entitled. prices in the state of Utah, in Fargo, at Lafayette, Louisiana. While in * -North Dakota and Moorhead, Minne- ( Stuttgart he saw Bill Allison, a former GROWING LOSSES suffered our Flying Fortresses in daylight bombings on Germany are .proof was marked given at the Pleasant Lawn high school auditorium The week's festivities will come to a close on Friday when a picnic dinner will be served by the ladies of the community in the Playground Park. by sota j resident here and who will be remem- 1 A relatively small case, the* incident bered by many people. His address admission is; Lieut. William J. Allison. 476th Service Sqdn,, Stuttgart Air Base. by Brynes’ enough that the Nazis have developed that the price increase was “permiss-; service sqnn.. stuuga new methods of defending themselves able” under the president's order to Stuttgart, Arkansas, against our best weapon. J prevent closure of bakeries in the af- The developments are in tactics feet od areas and a consequent bread rather than in counter weapons, Thej shortage. martial group o! six or seven attack-(------ — „r----- DAVIES ON SPECIAL MISSION TO MOSCOW LEGION TO MEET IN OMAHA IN SEPTEMBER j Indianapolis. Indiana <INS»- The I national executive council of the Am- Washington. D C .—(INS)—President Roosevelt announced today tha ire is sending former ambassador Joseph E. Davies on a special mission to Moscow. Davies will carry a sealed letter to the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, possibly an invitation for a meeting between the president and Stalin. ors against outside planes in our for- the Dortmund attack, the loss of 30 oration and also look sharply for strag- planes would not be extraordinarily glers. significant. Some of the growth of losses on the - last few raids can be attributed to the THE BON PENINSULA to which the erican Legion today voted to hold the facts that our formations were not Nazis might choose to retire from legicn’s 1943 national convention in closely maintained. tunis, is somewhat like Britain, moun- . Omaha, Nebraska. September 21, 22 It was too much to assume off-hand, tainous, with good beaches, and no, arni 23, therefore, that these losses will cause ports. But there is one exception—no us to drop daylight raiding, as the corregidor Fortress to back it up. Hit- British did or that even the loss of p>r’S do-or-die hordes might choose to 30 RAF bombers in the Dortmund there, raid means diminution of our main current attack on Germany. sooner than at Bataan, and betting is mortal hospital this afternoon. The The British rate of losses in night heavy here that the Tunisian situs- Sadlers have three other children—all E. Griffith have enlisted in the army raids has lately run about one in tion will be cleaned up within a month boys. Mr. Sadler is employed here as truck driver and receiving and 20, and if 600 planes were involved in at most. 1 the R-E.A. shipping clerk respectively. I Twin Boys Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sadler are the But certainly the end should come parents of twin boys born at the Me- Writing Examinations Rural seventh and eighth grade pupils were writing examinations today. Enlisted In Army Eugene R. Thielbert and William I Patrick Henry Finnegan has filed I a suit for divorce from Rita Finnegan The District met r ing will be held in wilh thr. clerk of the court here. The Winfield, Wednesday, May 19th. a* couple was married at Canton, IIL, noon there will be a sack lunch Tile pPb. 12. 1938, and they are the parents drink a ill be furnished Anyone wish- 0f one child. The plaintiff has been transportation or anyone who can a resident of Canaan township since take a car. notify Mrs. L C. Sheila- May 20, 1941. Cruel and inhuman barger. , treatment is charged. Mi A. M. Wettach. chairman /-ARIF IN the circle presented the follow ng most LL/A5\I\ U/4DL.C llx interesting program. Mrs. Inez Elli- RAID ON ANTWERP son Barry’s kindergarten pupils de- _ lighted the audience with three pa trio- London. England (INS)—Film idol tic variety numbers. Alter which th*1 dark Gable, now a captain in the guest speaker, Mrs. Blythe Conn. Soc- united States air force, was revealed a1 Welfare Worker of Burlington fcr t,0 have participated in the re several years, gave a meat informs- cent heavy American raid on factory ’ive talk on the “War Problems Ai- areas {f Nazi-held Antwerp. Belgium feeling Our Children.’ Mrs. Conn is tj1(. disclosure came from crew employed by the Social Security of members of a Flying Fortress named Burlington and is well informed on Tight Bail" and aboard which Gable her subject as she has made a special r0CjR to the attack, study of it for years. Following her The fortress crew, now on leave in talk, an open forum was most in- Lond n, said that Gable “guest man stiuctive to all. ned" a gun position in the radio com The Circle served spiced tea. -rn bl* payment and tired numerous rounds cakes and nuts from a beautifully ap- at attacking German plane.,, pointed table, the center piece being . — __ an unusually attractive May Pole Mt Corp. Lee Cookes spent a twenty W. F. Kopp and Mr* J. E Metcalf four hour furlough at the home of poured. Tile members of this Circle bis i iran?s. Mr. and Mrs. D. L are: Leaders—Mesdames A M Wet- Cookes, this week, tach, R L. Jones. Members: Mesdames Lorraine Pitzer Crane and Vivian John G. Abraham. Laura Baker. Mar Kerr l ave accepted positions as cash Baumgarten, Ross Boyd, Walter Boyd. iers at the Benteco store recently. Mrs. Will Campbell, O. L. Cann ng. M C Clone vas formerly employed at the Caris. Sumner Garretson R F Han- Ben Franklin stere and Miss Kerr in nah, Harold Hollingsworth. Ola Jeri- the office oj Dr. J W Laird cho. W. F. Kopp. H. E. Kraraw. Law------------ Allied Headquarters in North Africa —(INS)—An allied triumph which will cleanse North Africa of the axis began to take sol’d f:?m and hape today as American and British troops hurled the enemy back to the gates f Tunis and Bizerte. The relentless allied onslaught gav" the axis no respite and gained momentum bv the hour. Battle front dispatches disclosed that forces of Great Britain’s hardened first army and American troops of the second army corps adapted as their battle cry: "Tunis and Bizerte next stop." Unable to cope with the terrine artillery and aerial assaults unlashed by the allies, the axis line reeled, taggered and fell back By dawn today United States second army corps troops under Lieut. Geoige S. Patton. Jr., had driven tho Germans back along the south shore of Lake Aehkel to within 4 j miles of Perryville. At the same time, this important garrison defending Bizerte was therat-ened by other American tr ops streaking across the Tunisian plains from Mateur. Russians Beat Down German Counter-Attack Moscow. Russia 'INS*—Beating down bitter German counter attacks in the Kuban valley of the western Caucasus, Red army tank and infantry units surged forward today lo reap new gains in the drive to recapture the Black Sea naval base of Novorossisk. A number of caunter blows were struck against the Red army northeast of Novorossisk but all were repelled with heavy losses to the Germans. the high command said. The battling often developed into hand to hand engagements as the Russians and Germans came to close grips and furious fighting developed between artillery and armored unit:, Aerial Blows On Italian Harbor Cario, Egypt (INS)—Tremendous aerial blows have been un!ashed bv American and British heavy bombers against the harbor of Reggio di Calabria at the toe of the Italian boo?, middle-east headquarters announced today. Deed Given rence Lampe. Charles Lowe. Fanchon Sno^’gra ,. Oiivr Tackenborg. C L j rf J. G dei rn.th and wife have giv- MeClure, J. E Metcali. Raymond Tnrk,r,fin. Ralph Ward. Misses Mar- *** a d- >*d to Mrs Marx GU pi tor a Payne, Nannie Pidgeon. J, W PT’ :, jorie Baumgarteii, Joe Green, Fran- Wayland property Consideration is Emmett Ross, C. O. Sharer, John cts Lampe, Rota Snodgrass. g,v n is $1,250

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