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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 10, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALI!) RATION STAMPS Sunar 12 - Expire* May 30 (Each Stamp, Five pound*,) Gasoline 5 Expire May ZI Fuel Oil 5.....I util Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VMJI) RATION STAMPS ro'ffe 23 - Expire* M *y Id. E and Y red stamp** expire May 31 O red stamp May 0 to May 31. ti-II-1 blue stamps expire May 31 VOL. IAX I, No. 108MOM)AY, MAY IO, 1943 MT. PLK VS A NT, IOWA THE/11 LAW pi; By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.) Battle For Africa Is Virtually Over Varied Demands Are Made on CofC In Recent Months They’ll Do It Every Time — I The Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Com-WASHINGTON—ME, ROOSEVELT mcf(, ls a cifMring hou.se for many SAH), after hi outhern camp * activities In years psst certain pro- ptctlon trip, he thought it might be' tions were developed by Die local ■ good idea for every young man t J ’ Chamber of Commerce to be carried give a year of Ins life to the service of ’ ( n Pacd[ yPar. However, changing cooth** state after the war, i ditions have brought new demands up* Mon of his hearers concluded that j on th(, kK aj office It has been the he had 11. maid something like the«duty of the ir>cal Chamber of Com-variou European system* of military m,.rCf. *0 participate in the bond training. I drives, salvage drives and rationing In mo • r< rnocracl* before the pr .ram and each week we receive war. youth were required to serve a r)0sters and pamphlet ma'erial to be year in the army. This w »s done, not distributed to merchant* in support of because it improved the young manjthe different drives, but bl cause the nations could not | since the construction of the Iowa ctherwLsf muster formidable military ordnance Plant, this office has taken forces from their mall populations. J on the rf semblance of a real estate Couipul ory military training often office as far as th* rental of housing ha been discussed in the United facilities is concerned. A? one time the cr trave ti* larg* army. The Ne a Dealer never attempted. We nev-lought we needed such a round the Presi- dei.t, ho A* was widel not beli' v * r. think his terse remark bousing f *ciiiti< misunderstood They do he hat any idea of forced office had a large number cf bouses and apartment* Us ted for rent. For the past several months the office has had a large list of families awaiting The office has bi en meeting place of landlords and ten-id sud ,1 great amount of time has Husband Missing Trapped Axis In North Atrial 1 forces I ry Lieut. Thomas II. Marnette * Missing Since March 30 To F .scant* Mrs Kathryn Marnette. a local es;dfnt, ha> received no further word from her husband, since receiving a tcpert from the war depar'men* on j April 22 tha* he was missing in action] in thp Tunisian fighting of March 30 I cut. Thomas H. Marnette. son-in-law of Mr. D. R Therme, assistant busine* manager at the state hospital lo re ar I Mrs. Therme went into the service in 1941 from Charles City. He was an army reservist and his home otigir ally was in Des Moines. Tile Marnette- havr* a baby born March ll and an attempt was made to get a mf -sage to Lieut. Marnette a* tha* time Whether he received the message is not known. The Thermes came here from Keo-auqua on December I when Mr. Therm* succeeded Raymond A.Hughes Hs assistant business manager at the hospital. Mrs. Marnette resides with them. Allied Planes Blast Craft Carrying Germans mi n.irv t:.hill!s' but thinking p«-en j,. in the la f <*v* • a1 months \ CrOCKCT along th* ime old lines he ha* fol- ln trying to locate available housing * Taken By Death lowed o Tis** c Youth J State apiin re by the Vie ic William J >:i Hi idea w youth He ti if an outlet pug nae so if a phy for inst i th* rn A* De al phi subject ii *x N* w D< th*- pa: I textbo uok on Youth Training bv the •usiv i an * ay on Peace arian Harvard philosopher, .as fo inject Pacifism int*# lough t w *r could be ended could be lound for the exuberance of youth and ii substitute in farming, f, could be* developed in >t this is the way th*' New ohers tea it. \ Misfit EXPERIMENT along that line wa*- tried in 1941 under g vern-m* nt auspice? Some Harvard arid Dar*m**u‘h gi *dua?*- were brought. under Hi* Uadersivip of Professor Rosery to-k-Hu* sv, into experimental fanning work at Camp William James, Sharon Vermont, There w »s much political ado 'boid the matter when representative Engel ^Republican-ICF bigam dug out of Who's Who the fact that Professor Rosens took - Huessv was no* then (19411 an American citizen and had Institute*! the Gorman labor camps from 1925 to 1933. The especially enthusiastic column-i ? Dorothy Thompson was identified with the experiment, which apparently is still going on in some trivial aftermath A* leas’., Dr. Rosens took*-Huessy is till around and interested, and s me Harvard men are supposed to be working on several farms in New Hampshire or Vermont The experiment, however, was never satisfactory to anyone involved, and publicity about it has vanished as well as t>ny known government connection with it. But Mr Roosevelt is supposed to have been a cl se follower of James, who was very popular with students around the time of Mr. Roosevelt’s graduation trom Harvard in 1904. So many students attended James’ lec- »ng f aedilic1 due to the many new families coming to tilts community Later Demands With the coming of the boys in training at Iowa Wmleyan college new demands hav*- been placed upon the! local office to try to find housing fac- J iii?us for the new instructors as well! as the wives of some of the boys in training wh desire to move to Mt Pl* a ant during their period of train-, ing. With the coming of this group of boys there developed new demands on the local office t*. make arrangements for wive , parents, and friends who de- j dre to com* to Mt Pica: ant., for the week ends to visit th* boys in traip-; mg Letters arrive daily asking about ■ local rooming facilitie and transport <*; ion facilities to and from Mt Pleasant Da-Iv Information The local Chamber of Commerce citric1 a membership in the Na Chamber cf Commerce and receives * information daily from Washington, D. C on new developments. Through this membership th** local Chamber of Commerce l furnished complete inc Was Farmer In Mt. Vicinity (Ilion kills one POSSUM; Former Millfield really got a dozen | \jan (;e(s Degree In Guadalcanal Mt. Union John Alvin Crocker, 75. passel away at his home in Mt {Union, Saturday at 10 30 P M. after § a long illness He was born a* I ddi I I town, Sept. IO, 1867. the .son of Cha G. and Sarah Snyder Crocker. OI March 17, 1897, at M**iiapolis he married Mary Herman, Who passed away tin May. 1898. They were the parents (of a son. In March of 1903, at Bur-i lington. he married Matilda Herman Who died Dec. 18, 1939. They were the patents of a daughter. Mr. Crocker was a prosperous farmer and .spent his entire l.fe in the Mt When U. F. Cram residing on Winfield avenue killed a ’possum which evidently w is after the Ct ain chickens this morning, he was amazid to learn that actually h** had captured a dozen ’possums instead of just one. Tucked away in ih° pouch of the possum were eleven little 'possums, all about the size of a big mou e. Farley Warns. of ‘Alien Spirit* CHASE AFTER BALL FATAL TO KEOKUK BOY Washington, D C. —Lieut. Herbert I sing Merillat. native :f Winfield, la., ! probably is the only marine who ever I opened his mail on Guadalcanal and I found in it a notification that Oxford j university had conferred on him a tmater of arts degree Keokuk Iowa— Dashing out into th* street for his ball, Ritchie Mark Hemming, 6, son of J C. Hemming of Keo kuk. was struck and fatally injured by a taxi Sunday afternoon. Th* tragedy happened near Ritchie' home at Fourth and Morgan streets. The lad, a first grader at Garfield Not that the degree was unexpected,! s,'hc01 ■ d‘«1 ln an ambulance just as for the lieutenant had climaxed his « reached a hospital. I student years ar Monmouth, the Uni- Driver ol the taxi was Edward Ko"- ber. Washington, D. C—James A. Farley, former Democratic national chairman. declared Sunday that alien phil-Union vicinity with the excep’ion ol oeoptiies at home are threatening two years when be served a a guard frPPdoms for which American soldiers t ion a1 the **tate P^utentlnry at Ft Madi- ; are fighUng oversea- son. He was a member of the Mt. i Asserting that the “concept of tho j elude by blue-penciling his own copy Union Methodist church and served Pme growing,” Farley told (;n the board of trustees horn which |§other’s Day gathering at tile tomb he resigned because of illness. unknown Soldier “there are I Surviving are one son, Charles, of verity of Arizona, and a graduate 1 Mr. and Mrs James Young of Keokuk. who happened to be driving by the accident site at tire time, told I officers Ritchie ran into the path of Rot her s taxi and tiiat the accident I year at Yale with three more years in 1 Merton college at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He also had been a tax publicity ex pert with the treasure before going in- to the marines as a combat corres- | aPP<*ar«* *° "’em ta be unavoidable pendent. In this last job. he battled j ’ mosquitoes and Japs and then came b'ck to type out his reports and con abroad within our midst, groups and formation on the rationing program Df>nVCr' CoI° one daUghU?J °>thia< individuals who conspire for the suc-anri other rules and regulation- which at home and lwo sislers' Gera‘gf cess of their peculiar brands of phil- effect the local merchants, and it is 8bort of Mt’_. Union .. ,Mlc ^ 1' osophy which would make a mockery of the values upon which we have been bred.” , “There seems to be a spirit grow-Mcl>inald Funeral ing among sonje in this country that home this afternoon. Funeral services placed at their disposal. In recent months, with the short- jg c d ren aze of help becoming more acute, the office ha1- been called upon to find dif-i Herman of Streator. 111. Also The body will be returned to the, home from the ferent types ol labor. Housewives are afternoon. Funera. seiviccoj^ alien to our Institutions,” he said, seeking domestic help, farmers desire 'A'iU be held Tuesda> *f ter noon at 2:30 1.^ havp an unea,y feeling that the farm labor and towny demands are lrom the Mcthodlst chl^ch t in Mt’J belief is spreading ‘hat the people are coming in for other types of employ,Union’ iRev; W',,E ”not capable of governing themselves, ees. Summary t Some attempt has been made in the office to keep a record of the duties1 carried on Though many items have REPAIR APPLICATIONS not been recorded due to the press-; ing demands at the time, a conserv-1 ative figure shows that over 15 calls ] a week are made at the office for housing facilities at the present time. s of the church will officiate. Burial will be in the Trinity cemetery', south of Mt. Union. AFTER STORM SHOULD BE MADE IMMEDIATELY The Iowa War Production Board lures ti sat they packed out through the Thl'‘has decreased from an average has had many requests for information of approximately 20 a week several!00 repairing storm damage as a ie doors into the hallway. IT IS THI BEFORE LIKELY that the line of couth service to be pro months ago. Until recent weeks practically all tenants were furnished a> suit of winds which have struck in some parts of the state. WPB rules re- I posed here rn pcst-war may run into vai)able> ^ quarters In the pa5t quire that applications tor repair work a yet unsuspected direction. It Is more mcmh over 25q vUttort have callpcl al‘be made within two weeks of the likely to seek to utilise th, facilities ^ ottlcc xhp office issucd 450 storm, and that the estimated cost ct the federal coverr.ment to give non-' of mail dl|r|ng thp month of* shalt be less than $5,000 military training, from which the physical benefits of the James Philosophy may be derived. Anv columnist will certainly be over his depth wading into such unmeasured and bottomless ideals. But anyone April and 350 pieces of mail were re- Farmers who have suffered dam- that the problems of today are so complex that the cit .zen at large must of necessity be detached from his own difficulties.’*1 Class Division Assailed. Farley referred to a recent unidentified book in which he said the author expressed belief mankind should be divided Into a small class of the “ruler type" and a large class of the “ruled type." Negro Held In Dining (ar Death Des Moines, Iowa. (INS)— Dove Smith, 32 year old Negro dining car waiter today was held by Des Moine Windsors Arrive In N. Y.; ‘Haven’t Many Dollars* as censor. Now he is back in Washington, writing the official history of the Guadalcanal campaign in the Marine Corps press section. Reports of victory gardens planted. by the marines on the island may be slightly exaggerated, he thinks, but it* was true that some of the men planted , beans on top of their dugouts. He and his colleagues lived on the edge cf Henderson field, where the noise of battle was so constant that it was difficult to get men into the dugouts during air raids. A nearby, DepJo RomrHerl stream provided both water for drink-: ixcluiucu ing and bathing facilities, when the Deeds recorded at the courthouse Japs permitted. include the following: (By Katherine Macy in Des Moines I E J. Maxwell and others to Glenn Sunday Register) _ W. Maxwell, 40.2 acres in section 31 of --'Center township. Consideration was WITH OUR BOYS IN THE ,7 , n CCDUirc Gloyd anc! Olive Byrum to O. T. Wil- f NLKVILt# I sen, property in Jone,-. addition to M* Pvt. Clifford lira cli ii of Springfield, pleasant. Consideration was $1,000. Mo. arrived here Friday for a furlough writh his parents, Mr. and Mrs. New York —Gov. Byward Wined sol of the Bahamas and his wife slippeo into town today almost unnoticed Ne rxtra policemen were on hand wher J. A. M Marjorlbaks. British vice con sui, met them at the station. Windsor said he was here on official busi-] I ess. When his wife said, "I want ‘o see what’s in the stores,” he commented; “The trouble with that is, wt haven't many dollars.” Allied Headquarters n North Africa 'INS*—Photographic assessment of and air craf* turned a German evacuation attempt from Cap Bon peninsula into a blazing pyre of destruction today following complete collap-e of axis forces in northeastern Tunisia. With enemy casualties in Adolf Hitler’s ill-starred North Airican campaign now placed at more than 100-f-Ofl de ad. wounded and taken pi isonei, British forces advancing upon Tunis grapple d fiercely at Hamman Lif with remnants of the crack Herman Deering division. At the same time, naval and air forces of the allies took a terrific toll of axis forces trying desperately to escape across the Sic.lian Straits using .‘mall barges along the 50 mile coastal strips on both sides of the Cap Bon promontory. Allied Headquarters in North Africa -TNSi—The trapped German forces on the Cap Bon peninsula today bemail to undergo a minor Dunkirk in reverse following collapse of all axis resistance in northeastern Tunisia. Thr axis forces tried desperately to scape across the Sicilian Straits using ■’mall barges along the 50 mile ,,oastal strips on both sides of the oromontcry. Scores of American ’and British fmhters and bombers swept down from the skies to blast innumerable bobbing raft loaded with men and prevented other craft from landing or taking off Trom the beaches. There was a noticeable lack of axis air power. The once mighty Luft-valfe appeared to have been shot out of the ■-kies. No planes gave battle to he allied air craft and from indic-1 lions the Luftwalfe had abandoned the remaining axis forces to their fate There were no massed evacuation attempts, mUitary observers said. Ail of the attempts to escape were made by small parties. The whole Cap Bon peninsula is dose Iv blockaded, although full reports still are lacking fr m many ships at sea. Numerous incidents involving small evacuation craft are known to have taken place. The main organized death stand of the axis forces seemed concentrated today at Hamman Lif and southward to Creteville. center of a strong mountain range. ceived by the office. The past month a^e to buildings apply to their county ^ shows over 480 incoming and outgoing agricultural war board for authoriz- police after the death on a Rock Is j phone calls. ation to make repairs; city residents whose homes have been damaged ; make application to the Federal Housing Administration, and owners of land railroad train yesterday of a Negro cook. Edward Morgan, about 40 years old Police said Morgan died of razor wounds. They quoted Smith as say can Kin the argument as apparently yanks jn Tunisja Sen(J many people already have. PI T RI lr damaged commercial and industrial The importance of the James ideal Tor Income lax blanks property apply to the War Production mg there had bein a dispute over aclu the })0,st-war world would seem to “ ^ ^ 'Board in Des Moines. counts and* that Morgan had attacked me to rest entirely upon the question Washington. D. C.—Soldiers of the Emergency repairs, such as making ( him. The Des Moines officers said of whether Mr. Stalin. Generalissimo 34th division fighting in Tunisia wand r structure weather tight or bracing Morgan was wounded as the train Chia ny Kai-Shek. Mr. Churchill and to pay their income taxes for 1942, weakened waUg etc can ^ made at others would inject their youth with the *'ar department reported today. A Qnce vlithout securing authorization the same anti-toxin serum. Tts success letter from Bt. Col. John H Hougen, governmental agency in bringing peace to the future world Ft aff Judge advocate of the division. y g_________J ‘ would depend rn re on what other requested 10,000 income tax blanks for 1MIIJDIPC PAJAL TO nations did than w'hat we do. mcn r^e 34fh. who arp desirous of Indeed the idea might itself lead filing and paying their fedeial inconm Inevitably to war ag Tri if wfe practiced taxes f°r 1942, even though not To rn ared Carlisle in Warren county and died in Polk county between Carlisle and Des Moines. LOCAL HAPPENINGS Mrs. Rex Calloway and baby, Nancy WOMAN AT FAIRFIELD Mrs Frank E. JAIL USED AGAIN AFTER MANY WEEKS I Dick Archibald and Ralph ©wades. Conn 62, of Route 4. Fairfield, died , arrested by Sheriff Manning J Cline Sunday at the Jefferson county hos- J a, thr Archibald apartment Sunday. Clyde Hoaglin. to* Corp. Orville I). Boa! of Mt. Pl^a -ant, is at present attending the Anti- Lou se, of Harvard, Ncbr., are visiting aircraft Artillery School. Camp Davis here at the home of Mrs. Calloway s North Carolina. I parent . Mr. and Mrs Frank Lankin fo ci. The other Calloway children re- Mr. and Mrs. W C. Strohman re- [pained in Nebraska, ceived a wire this morning from their j son. C orporal Kus,ell Strohman, saying ^ t* leg!am Horn Mr. Fred Buck he will arrive in Mt. Pleasant Wednes- Gem san Antonio, Calif to Mr Buck day for a short furlough. Jthjs morning announced the birth of a babv daughter to Ensign and Mrs Second Lieut. Paul S. Rasmus ha 5; muel Wiley. Mrs Wiley was Evelyn ti \ following addrej in Florida 479th riuck Hie babv has been named Bombardier Squadron. Avon Park. Linda She weighed 8 pounds and 4 Bombing Range, Avon Park. Fla. ounces. Ensign Wiley Is .stationed at Seattle. Harry Davidson of Camp Polk. La . M and Mrs. J. L. Bis*, Mrs. Jack lrc?h and baby. Kathleen, of Water- i" -n * M:s. Suzanne Loesh Noble and bb*. D okie Joe, of Kansas City, Max Schnerman, whi has been r ’i! ;h* week end with Mrs. Kist’s stationed at Laramie, Wyo., lias ar- toot her, Mrs, J. H. L#e • liger, at the rived to spend a furlough with hi; M. S. Miller home, parents, Mr. and Mi-. Lester Schue: - man. Gen Krause Accepts Terms An American Division Headquarters rn the Tunisian Front (INS*—-The battle for Africa is virtually over A -eries of German capitulations began yesterday when Major General Fritz Krause accepted unconditional surrender terms offered by Major General Finest Harmon, commander of th° American first armored division. The surrender of Krause was radioed from the command post rn ar Djebel El Saour on the peninsula east of Bizerte by Harmon’s chief of staff. A few minutes before noon Krause personally continued his surrender by radio. Germans Fail To Break Siege Arc is spending a furlough here with Mi Davidson and wdth his mother. Mi Anna Davidson. peace and others did not. because the quired to under existing laws an i ^ Fairfield. military weakness of our ideals would regulations, due to our location. Invite a challenge by whoever wanted ——-- to conquer us. we studied ways of appeasement and pltal of injuries suffered Saturday ' were fjned $i0 and costs each on in- Wars do rot soring from the pug- peace. when thP C3r driven by her husband toxication charges when they were na* iou exuberance of youth as Mr. Mr James did not have the advant- and a R°ck Island freight train col- arraigned before Justice of Toe Peace J mrs supposed. Certainly this one age of knowing the ways of fascism a* a crossing here. James T. Whiting this morning. did not. I! sprang from a challenge and communism. In my opinion, he Funeral services are to be at What Archibald and ©Wailea, who spent I Lewis. Wash.. ress, wol,id have written a very different Cheer, Ta. Mr. Conn escaped with rn th- the night in the county jail, were the visiting here with Mrs. Hunsaker and ’RI Maurice Scarff, who has been stationed in California, arrived home late last week to spend a furlough here with relatives. Stanley Hunsaker, stationed at Ft is on fur lough and is Mr MO RIAL HOSPITAL NOTES M John ratter on and baby boy cf Wnif-.'cld were dismissed Saturday M*o. Lawrence Downey was admitted “'atip day. N7 ow, Ru sa * INS1 Frantr German efforts to break the Soviet siege arc before the vital Nazi naval base of Novorcssisk were crushed today as the Russians hurled back repeated enemy counter attacks northeast of the Black Sea port Serious losses w?ere inflicted on the N izis a> they tried d**.- peratelv to maintain control of the r last remaining bridgehead in the western Caucasus The Soviet noon communique announced that two c mpannp of German infantry were wiped out within to our civilization by ruthless aggri ors who stole th** march on us while essay en peace today I or injuries. first occupants there in forty days. baby. Mrs Harry MoeUei ani baby girl of [the past 12 hours In addition pix en-were dir,missed Sunday ' * my artillery' ami mortar batterie.-. 21 Md: G. A. Shaw was admitted to- machine gun nests and eight blocker, houses were smashed

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