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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 12, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 30 (Each Stamp, live pounds.) Gasoline 5 Expire May 21 Fuel Oil 5.....Until Sept. SO rill] I7« Inn PLEASANT NEWS VOL. LXXI, noWEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1913 MT. PLK VS ANT, IOWA THE By Paul Mallon 'Distributed by King Features Bynin *ti lur Reproduction In Full or ti Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — TURKE INVASION POINTS i ! Eur pf now logically pr< sent themselves, No one of them should tx tried alone To concentrate on one point would enable the Ct rman.s to shift their in-hrior and disposed air force into a concentration of their maximum pc#-rHole effort against us. But if we could organize a successful parachute troop invasion of No:-way s armit anemi'dy with a blew thiough the mid-Mediterranean, Hitler w< uId have to fight us on two sides farthest from his »- urce.s of production and Hi the ame time continue his offensive struggle in Russia. What the situation needs, therefore, is not i second front, but a second and third fronts simultaneously imposed. lf air bases could be gained In Norway od Italy, every inch of German tijTitory could be opened to cur bom ta rs end lo those of the Reds How a considerable portion of German territory i out of our b< mbs rig reach, and Hitler no d ubt Ila-, moved much of his mast vital production into then immune areas The >outhern half of such • pincer invasion could go through Sicily into I*aly and then eventually up into Au'Ilia. thr ugh the comparatively level route of the I‘onza river in north! i tern Italy ( Where the Italian: ran fastest in the last war.) Churchill and Roosevelt Map War Plans Advantages In Air Listed Allies Build Up Air Power; Axis Power Down Allied Headquarters in North Africa <INS) Air chiefs reviewing the results of the six montlis campaign in Ncrth Africa today found the allies now holding three great advantages over the axis in the Mediterranean war theater, I Wh*le the allies were rushing f lanes to North Africa, building up enormous air power there, they were able simultaneously to whittle away »t Hie enemas length until his Mediterranean air power was cut to a hadow of what it was in November. 2. En* my shipping resources have been seriously drained by .-.mashing air and ubmarine attacks 3 The United Nations new have unquestioned air superiority in this theater for the next phase of the war Name Committees For Memorial Day They’ll Do It Every Time - - - ff TUM SALESMAN! rpQM THE SMOOT leo C-1A1Q.CO «s STILL WALTI NJ (3 TC SEE VOO MES REEN HEPE SINCE Eleven OC LOC K me stalls MIM until just about And TMEN TNE Gov MAS TO TA CE MIM OUT AND Buy MIM A LUNCH SOME8OPVS EXPENSE ACCOUNT IS GOING TO <3Et An Awful k)0<in<3 AQChJND - MES GOT that filet mignon OWEN GETS FOUR YEARS Sentenced To Federal Prison After Guilty Plea Meet Again In Washington Lor Conference Des Moines, Iowa (INS) Five Jehovah witnesses and one other man today were under four-year prison sen- j truces after pleading guilty to gelee* 1 five Service act violations yesterday afternoon before federal judge Charles A Dewey in Des Moines. Fines of Washington. D $100 each aDo were imposed. j jty of a major a The non-witness is Andrew Edward Burma late this Tichy, 24 of Marshalltown. The Je hovah witnesses are Ralph William Owen, L3, of MI. ’Pleasant; Rot:rf W vne Sheeder, 21, of Des Moines; Melvin Logan Emmons. 33, of What Cheer; Lincoln Raymond Davis. 26, of Woodburn and Richard Oral DL key, 22, cf Adair. 1 the first big victory conference of the - 1 war, President Roosevelt and Prime Pri ent at the time of the plea and Minister Winston Churchill today sentence were Owen’s parents, Mr. and started mapping out the next major Mr: Ralph Owen. Frank Abraham, move against the axis, h irman of the Henry county gelee- Genial consensus in Washington five Service board, and Mrs. Harold Ls that the president and Mr. Churchill Spray, secretary to the board, were are now meeting to make the vital Churchill Comes To U. S, After Tunisian Victory C. <IN3; Povssibil-led move to retake mimer and dealing a staggering i low to Japan was seen today as President Roc eveit. and British Prime Minister Winston Church'll held »hr i fifth war! ference in Washington. ime con* Washington, D. C. < INS’—1 Holding Mf. Pleasant Still Good Trading Center Blackout Rules and Regulations called to Des Moines to present records in the case. Judge D’ wey said the fines were to tepay the government for having im-p anekd jurors and witnesses. The strategic plans for an allied invasion cf the European continent this summer, Happv over the allied trumph in Tunisia, the two leaders of the Unit- (»roups Ta Plan Services Observance For Committee-s from the patriotic organizations met at the Legion hall Stores Have Large Stocks of Many Lines What to do and what not to do in tho surprise blackout test - Six men had pleaded innocent, to'ed Nations were together at the White coming this week: grand jury indictments charging draft House for their fifth wartime confer- 1. At tho first long blast of the city sirens* turn off all light- evasion and the government was pre- once. iii homes and buildings. Dim car lights if on the .streets or high- paring for trial when the pleas were I ways. Pedestrians should get to cover. { changed. I 9 At the second siren signal, several minutes later, a series MOI N I AINS protect asian on an Italian *r quarters except the scout could repel a Ort liner or Simplon IM PASSABLE Hitler from im front m ail oth< I: Oma A ooy chvi ion iii the [ an es An alternative Aft lea into the b* found if v,e first take the Island of Sardinia and then Cor ira. A third H,logically dc arable in-va ion point lies in Thrace above Turkey. Now that Tunisia has fallen, a proper time has arrived for Turkey to jump in on our side southern louie (rom south cf Mt. Pleas ut continues as one of the 0f ^h0rt blasts, cars and trucks riff the highways. Pedestrians off Monday evening to select committees best trading centers of outhc* tern ! (Jjg streets. for the Memorial Day services. Iowa A v)slt to most of Mt Pleas- > 3 the third siren signal, cars and trucks may resume Mer*on Wright, commander of the ants store* reveals an amazing travel with lights dimmed. Lights are still off in homes and Legion and Anna Millen!* rger, secre- amount of merchandise on hand ready I buildings. tory of the American Legion Auxiliary for distribution to the residents of the; \ Lights may Ik* turned on in homes and buildings when wete elected officers in charge of the Mt Pleasant trade territory. | street lights are turned on. T here will be no siren signal to turn meeting. j Despite the limitations on many J on lights. The following committees were JJnes and the complete elimination of, In other words, lights in homes and buildings are to be turn- MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR ANNUAL POPPY DAY Churchill arrived in Washington J late yesterday accompanied by a staff I of high ranking military and naval I experts. He was greeted bj President 1 Roosevelt on his arrival and will be ( a White House guest for the duration ! of his visit. Run Out of Targets al :f Hitler’ drive for Ukrainian oil In view of the bombed condition of much of German industry a shortage of Nazi lubricating oils, spare parts arid raw materials, if is hardly i>os-ible for him to organize a new Ukrainian campaign effective that they can still supply Visiting Team Confers Degree Prance can named: Program—Paul O’Connor, Ira Jones. Paul Smith. Mrs. C. E Hunt, Mis. Ka’e lodes, Mrs. Otto Wilson, Mrs. Lottie Smith . Mrs, Lillian Smouse, Mrs, Kathryn Duttwciler, Mrs. Aletha Ccrnick Flowers; T. R Taylor, Win Ruk- t It is known we have strong forces gaber, Frank Werner, Lots Mills, Miss customers with needed merchandise. in Pe; la ready to aid the Russians Louise Spahr? Mrs Nora Bishop, Mrs. Mt. Pleasant is still a good place in against any spring or summer renew- Add ie Hoxste, Mrs. Margaret Lindsay, *hich to buy and se!1- Mrs Anna Dinner, Carol Craig a 11 Scout Troops 27 and 28. Speaker—Merton Wngh*. r.noch Sanders, Ira Jones. Flag Com—George Koch Arrangements of flowers and children—Mrs, Lottie Jeffrey, Mrs. Ida The Turks, therefore, should feel at Attender, Mrs. Kathryn Duttweiler, last entirely free to act We .should Mrs. James Moore, Mrs. Anna Carna- offer them something to act. Such han a new front in that quarter, however, Car Committee— Merton Wright, is obviously not so inviting to us as Paul Schmidt, Herb Heaton, the Norway-Italian pincer, because it Butler, Mrs. Carnahan r far from our best avenues of sup- Marshal of the Day—Frank Abra- piies ham. A fourth protract ive front, of course, is the nearest Britain one across th*, North Sea to Holland and Belgium, aimed directly at. Germany. Hitler ( is taking apparent precautions there by his declaration of martial law in Holland, and he is fortified there as well as anywhere along the wnoie of captured soldiers from Germany’s front I Afrika korpF 'todays alleady are in WPre served in the dining room. others for the duration, store.*- are *»d off when tho first .signal is given and the street lights are adapting themselves to the changes. I turned off; and may be turned on when the street lights are turn-are handling substitutes (many of ed on. which are just a.s desirable as th* J If you see a light in your neighbor’s house after the first original) are handling other lines and ’ blast, go over and tell him. Don’t use the telephone as the tele in some cases had such a large re-1 phone service will be needed for official purposes. serve before the limitations became I This month of memories finds its climax in the distribution of veteran- .Allied Air ForCCS made memorial American Legion and i Auxiliary poppies and special memorial tributes on Memorial Day. bringing closer the memory of the sacrifices of our many honored dead of in,my wars, who sleep beneath the '.tars and stripes everywhere. With the shadow of a new World War falling across America, the me- Many Masonic Lodges Represented Here Tuesday Evening Masons of many neighboring lodges Herb as well as the Mt. Pleasant lodge were present for the conferring of third degree on Ray Asnei at the Masonic Temple here Tuesday evening by the West Burlington shops team. Proficient and exemplary in their work, the visiting team was praised for the way in which the degree was conferred. The delegation from Burling* - ton included a lull team and several Washington, D C. <INS’— Hundreds additional representatives. After the egree woik. refreshments Local Trio In Police Court At Burlington Burlington, Iowa — An expectant mother who was arrested driving an mortal Peppy has a new significance Allied Headquarters in North Africa — (INS' Allied air forces ran out of targets on Cape Bon peninsula today a.s the Tunisian campaign neared a close and troops of the British 1st army threw' a ring around the entire peninsula of land after occupying Cape tor we are honoring the dead of two world wars—we are serving the living of two world wars. Veterans of not only World War I, Captured Soldiers Brought To U. S. Furthermore .this route would leave American prison camps and thousands Lodge interest has been increasing him closest to his own lines of sup- j other German and Italian captives recent months. AT the meeting pin* Also, the area is generally j ate expected to i>e brought soon to Tuesday evening. Wayland announced cloned to military operations by mud along about November 15. so time is short for bringing an operation there to a successful conclusion. Any of these suggested obvious actions will require a tremendous organization of shipping and plane*s in addition to the ground invasion force. No one here is prophesying an end of Gel many this year. BEHIND THE RUML-CARL.SON TAX appeasement program has arisen the hottest internal partisan political contest of many a year. The merits and demerits of this and various ether substitute proposals almost have been lost to sight in the jockeying of democrats to break up the republican campaign for the Ruml solution. The only wav the democratic house ^ concentration centers in this country. ^e conferring of a degree next Mon-Informed sources said that almost day nlghtj Ml pleasant will confer a all the mon, more than 25,000 officers degree on Fiiday evening of this week, and men seiz’ d by American troops at and Burlington announced the con-Bizerte and Cap Bon probably will be fc,ring of degrees there this evening transferred to this country aboard Hie Lodges represented were: Burling^ very ships that took United States soldiers overseas to crush them. TWO MORE ACCEPTED FOR ARMED FORCES ton, New* London, Aurora, Crawfordsville, Toledo, Ohio, Salem, Berkeley, Calif,. Ollie. Owane Co.. IIL, Rippey, St. Louis, Baltimore, Mi,, and Mt, Pleasant. shopping. Reported From Bridge Policemen Jack Martindale and Ar-thus Wachutka arrested the trio at Main and Washington after bridge tut many disabled veterans of World tolltakers warned a car containing War II have worked to make the people who appeared intoxicated had .mall memorial flower which patriotic just come across the river. I Americans will be asked to buy on the Police Chief Fred Machholz s»id the street of every American town and woman gave officers considerable city on May 29th. automobile in which two allegedly in- trouble and refused to go upstairs to This year our response to thus sale the matrons quarters. County At- should be even greater than in pre-torney Conn was called to the station vious years as our responsibility to and the chief talked with the woman’s disabled of two World Wars rests on physician by telephone. The doctor 'he success of this annual Poppy Sale, she would be better off in the Keep this in mind — poppy funds matron’s quarters than to start home this year serve additional purposes— by car in her condition, the chief said Ur responsibilities have never been so today. Fitch, a cripple, tried to shoulder the entire blame. Because Mrs. Arm-| strong had no driver s license, Fitch, owner of the car, w*as charged with permitting an unauthorized person to operate his auto, but he liras found not guilty when the wcman testified Lauren Frank Paisley and Harold Stoner of the recent grcgip of men going to Camp Dodge for final physical examinations were accepted in addition to those previously listed. Paisley went into the army and Stoner into the navy. Cathryn Pickle Taken By Death Salem—Cathryn Pickle. 85. died at the heme of her son, Lee pickle, in Baltimore township, near Lowell, at 12 noon, Tuesday. The remains were leaders were able to beal the Ruml 'good tax abatement will be a great tHkPn to the Stevens undertaking par idea by four votes <206 to 202, with political victory fcr them. and the lors in Salem 27 absentees! was by organizing a trlephone-telegraph pressure program to get their democrats to return to Washington. Speaker Rayburn, dom-'to beat the idea erratic leader McCormack, and whip aces in the hole. democrats must agree with that supposition, if you judge from the efforts they have been putting in They have two The house confer- Funeral service will be held at the Pickle church near Lowell at 2 p. rn., Thursday. Interment Vin be in the Pickle cemetery? indicated men were passengers was fined $55 in police court Tuesday on ' charge of reckless driving. Tile woman, who has three small children, gave her name and address as Jaqueline Armstrong, 27, of 706 S. White street. Mt. Pleasant. Oral Fitch, r>5. of 704 S. White street, Mt. Pleasant, and Erwin B. Hill, 40, also of Mt. Pleasant, were the two men. The three were arrested just after driving here from Gulfport. Filch was fined $55 on a charge of intoxication, while Hill, released early Tuesday on a $10 bond after being charged w*ith intoxication, forfeited he bond by failing to appear. Husband Present Mrs. Armstrong, whose husband sat beside her in the court room, cried as County Attorney Blythe Conn said he did not file a drunken driving charge against her because of her children and ‘^because you would have to go to jail three months if the fine were not paid. . . ’You have no more regard for your children or yourself than to go on a drinking spree and I want to say that had it not been for your condition you w uld have been charged with driving while intoxicated,” Conn continued. “—Not Your Condition “It is not because of your condition alone, but because of your children that I did not file the drunken driving charge.” Mrs. Armstrong, a small, pretty brunet, cried during most of the court j preceeding^ She came here to pur- | chase some things for her children and said she does ‘‘not do things like this—I never did anything like this before in my life.” She said the only reason she drove was because Fitch and Hill ‘‘passed out across the river and I wanted to get home.” It was testified she and Filch did some drinking Monday morning at her home. It was then that he offered to t a deed to drive her to Burlington. They spent great as this year—PROVE CARE-DO YOUR SHARE. YOUR INVITED TO ATTEND STATE BOND MEETING Mrs. w J Grimmer of Winfield, he was asleep and knew nothing about county w*ar bond chairman for women, her taking the wheel. [has been invited to attend a meeting _____.... j in Des Moines on May 19 to hear Miss I Harriet Elliott, national chairman of 'the women’s division of the war savings staff. She will consult with the I ’ v omen’s chairmen of the state in re- Injunction Obtained On Pipe Removal pard to future activities women's division In Iowa. of the BAND TO BROADCAST ON WESLEYAN PROGRAM Z. Gartenkraut and EH th Garten* kraut obtained a temporary injunction in court he.j*e tdday against E G. Ohrissinger stopping him from dig-' ging up a IOO foot water line at the property on East Washington near the] The I wi Wesleyan broadcast ovei east entrance to the state hospital t it ion WSUI on Thursday afternoon grounds. Ohrissinger claims the pipe * " lr* v ll feature the Iowa Wesleyan is his and the Gartenkrauts are ob- band. The band will play Victory Bon itself The troops of Lieut General Ken r.eth A. N. Anderson’s Dunkirk army transformed themselves into military police as their jobs turned from fighting to herding axis prisoners by the thousands into prison camps. Allied aerial activity over the peninsula came to an end at last, when no more axis targets worthy of attack were to i>e found. The only battle ground in all Tunisia was an area 80 miles square west of Bou Ficha and north of En fid a Ville, where troops of the British 8th army. first army troops and French units unwished a final assault to force submission of axis units still holding their ground. Famed empire troops which at present cannot be identified, are holding tile northwest part of the allied ring some IO miles east of Zaghouan where the village of Marie Du Zit and its import mt airport have been occupied. jecting to the digging up of the ground. Ohrissinger is moving from the location, according to Hie petition Nazi Commander Reported Captured London, England (INS) A Reuter’s dispatch from Algiers today reported capture of Col. General Dset-loff von Arnim, Nazi commander in northern Tunisia. Ramspeck made a really super-hu- erees who will work out the final form Deed Given man effort in this respect ‘‘to beat cf the legislation with the senate will W. S. Collins has given Joe Martin.” the republican leader, be heavily stacked against Ruml. Also, Velma R. Wagner for a New London] only 40 or 45 minutes in Gulfport, she as they put it. they have in their sleeve the possi- property, according to records at the said, stating she did no drinking over The republicans .surmise that any bilify of a presidential veto. courthouse. there. She did not get to do any Benes In Washington Washington, D C. (INS)—The White House announced today that Eduarc Bent's, president of Czechoslovakia would arrive in Washington late the afternoon. cituu based on Be -tnoven s eau 3; nr honv; Sousa’s Stars and Stripe: '•"orever. and El Capitan; Bogar’s Fantasy nd Standard Overture from th” Bo hemian Girl. Other numbers will be included or ho program. Wright Gets Commission Keokuk, Iowa — J. C. Wright, superintendent of the Keokuk public schools for the last three years, has received a commission as lieutenant in fhe naval reserve. He will report May 28 to the indoctrination school at Fort Schuyler, New York. Harry R. McPhail, principal of the elementary schools Army and Navy Bombers In New Raid Washington, D. C. INS)—The navy announced today that army and navy bombers carried out new raids on Jap positions in the north and central Solomons, bombing Kahili. Shortland Isl * nd and Rekata Bay in:;tallatr ns. Red Army Forces Make An Advance Moscow'. Russia ‘INS*— Red army tank and infantry forces after overrunning a center of German resistance on the lower reaches of the Kuban river today forged forward in the western Caucasus toward the Blick Sea naval base of Novorossisk Big batteries of I* viet artillery along w'ith Russian Stormcvik dive bombers smashed repeatedly at Nazi fortifications in advance of the onrushing troops and knocked out numerous enemy firing points TRENTON HONOR ROLL WILL BE DEDICATED Trent cr Iowa — Dedica'icn ot honor roll for Trenton Township and community will be held at the church, Sunday, May 16th at ll a. rn. The parents of the boys are especially xe-has been named quested to be present, but everyone Is acting superintendent during Wright’s welcome. Over 60 names are on the Absence. honor roll.

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