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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 13, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALU) RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 30 (Each Stamp, Five pounds.) Gasoline 5 Expire May 21 Fuel Oil S.....Until Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS '"’o'f**** 23 - ExplTes M ’y To. r and F red stamps e spire May 31 r» red stamp May 9 to May 31. G-H-*J blue stamps expire May 31 VOL. I,XXI, NO. IllTHIRSDAY, MAY 13, 1943 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA News THE By Paul Mallon JI Report Heaviest Air Raid in History Seniors To Present I May Friday Night They’ll Do It Every Time - - - (Distributed by King Feature* Hvn dies to in Reproduction lr. Fun o»j “Seven Keys To Baldpate” Will in Fait Strictly Prohibited i Be Given Vt UMIINGI ON exhaustion. i ‘i) rides in Rut,-na. Yet I? is only a until tin it* their i f sped east»th fron - VI UU, mo:*' than holding back both cent firm allot of Jun The Ii lier cast of has su campaii ret nevi fro obi once ai The afford for arr a matter of ('ays now. M i Nazi' w ll b’ at threat ariin on the The ground on tbin I and northern fronts general!5 ufflcientfy lor mi lit at y oper-by tin end cl May or the first i.'.aithe:.1 -ti]) bridgehead which ha persistently maintained f the Kerch Straits obviously igyf ' r! in' pring or ?iimntvi ign would be diiected toward us ell. but perhaps tried for that oil A lew week ahead ”hf ule, Iii' 1943 high 'in- pre renting thor cia K* vs to Baldpate, st 8:15. The p’av if the usual •hool seniors play, “Seven tomorrow evening one which thea- AWD NCW FOR. TNE ©-DOLLAR QUESTION WHO WAS PRESIDENT, OF THE UNITED STATES, DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ?j \ LOOK at who's prompting ! V HE KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT J HISTORV AS I DO ABOUT V SPLITTING THE ATOM f P S S ST * LINCOLN f P-3SST-ABRAHAM LINCOLN \ he knows all the Answers now-but when HE WAS UP THERE HE COULDN’T EVEN V REMEMBER HIS \ right name Cai ir Iv. br-dgi un poi at lier bulk eau uoer iv ant military blow in that of his invar con t actually advantage din ct intl. in1; troops I the land HU bar s»rive direct I; get I a slaw e prest I g Soviet The head a ta i tied time r par ncre to d •withe rn fr< re v the K-to divert . tune and concer t ratlin me' - his ext Tile -outh distances a I md Mo vn smaller conc en' I is ihat linier will knock-out blow et* If h< could f M »■ec-.v, for in-> civ i < trie vc l< at th'- heart of ’ and the bridge-th could be main* tlre Russia JLS from prevent them from i their stieng'h to below in the north front involves great blow at Leningrad lid requite a much tion of force, Ire-goers have ‘hrilled at for a general Ins rru'io .ramatic mystery was written and staged by Hie great showman George M Cohan, in 1913. The local cast is a.s strong as any ct • en*, years Alan MeCoid, who play, the leading role, has in the past three cran established Ids reputation! on the high sch'K)! stage He is sup-po'tf J by nim boys who, for the most: part. have had considerable expender-. ared four girls who have also made former appearances. The play i packed with vigorous action through cut The complex ca. t and production -tafY follows; i Quimby B ii Wright Quimby ........ Pauline Kerr el Hallowell Magee .. Alan McCoid Bland Norton .,. Rhodes ... JS) I IF HE HAD TO PAV FOR THE ONES HE GETS WRONG ME D OWE THE STUDIO ABOUT $3,000 I VE HEARD HIM ON THE AIR BEFORE THAT FOGHORN WHISPER COMES OVER STRONGER THAN THE SPONSORS. COMMERCIAL '( lass Exercises Held at Mt. Union f IM Flija Mrs Wm. Johr Man Mrs. p. ter* .......... Myra Thornhill Loa Max ....... Jim Carg. fi .... Themas Hayden Jtggs Kennedy . The Owner of B Cop ........... rn *F*m> A 13 The HUMAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISINFORMATION. THERE S ONEATEVfcey QUIZ BROADCAST. TA^v^TS O JOMW L LONERGAN, Buffalo, n y. President Stanley B. Niles Gives The Address RAF Drops Tons of Bombs On Dillsburg Mt Union, Iowa — Commencement exercises were held here Wednesday evening for the high school graduating class with President Stanley B. Oles rf Ic wa Wesleyan giving * the address. The pro/rim: Pioccssional Miss Stephens invocation..... Rev. Banghart ‘Oh Press Thy Cheek”. .Girls Sextette ‘The L ss With the Delicate Air” Valuta tor san Address .. Arthur Canby Valedictorian Address .............. ................ Katherine Carlsoi. Address, “Outliving the Dictators” Vast Areas Are Laid Waste In Attack Kenneth Owens .. Marcella Tewail ........ Loin Egli Eugene Smith Beth Rochefort Joe Messer .. Childes Haviland Bdl Kmbill ...... Jim Linder pate jim Green Pacific War many types of duty No Frost Damage Council ( ailed enlisted waves Reported Last Nigh! _ | Women often ask—“What will I do in the WAVES?” Hme are a few of Indicates New Attention to rar the ,obs l0 bc mef Eastern Theater I Aerographer1--work V itll weather _ I n truments and charts, tak* observa- Washingtcn. D C. <IN'S ~ Indicat-•ns-ing the mw attention being paid to work in met- I ompters. Dorothy Mi Koan Lights ........ -.ound, Bill Taekenberg Properties ............. Kenneth Kilby Ralph DodLs Betty Melton Aviation Mechanh and en ii im-tai.is, ervice and re- Bil! Tackenb**r George Mart^i jng the mw attention being paid to* Aviation Mc ta Ism! ti rhomas. Harriet far eastern theater of war. Pre si-; 1 ! -P' c- I dent Roo-Of eld to ay summoned a meeting of the Pacific war council. I Pa:-r pi*nc A the Anglo-American high com- I ( ha plains a ss fieight clerks, information girls, inter int chauffeurs. May Be Colder Tonight; Farm Work Resumed i Allied Headquarters in North Africa — 'INS)- Axis troops th Toughly beaten by the allied armies and forced to lit.rn niter on all Tunisia unconditional!:, today were herded in droves to { nsi n camps as British, American and French tercels mopped up the tattle area . I As the l ist of the enemy pockets of .............Dr. Niles rf/'ir. ta nee were bein’ subdued, allied , a1 Solo .......... Miss Stephens naval forces patrolled up and down Acc mpanist—Mrs. Loper ‘ the coacts if the Cap Bon peninsula to Presentation of Class Supt. Loper prevent any escape by sea of the com- Fresentation of Diplcmas .......... putatively few axis troops still at ............... Mi. Clifford Carlsoi. large. Benediction ...... Rev. Banghart A weak attempt at a parting retal- Clas.-, Roll: Gerald W Anderson, latory blow was made when enemy Verona Elaine Behew, Arthur Ja> planes last irght tried to attack the Canby, Katherine Carlson. Edward Algiers area. Fountain, Doris Ann Hartman, Vir- The hostile craft were diven off by g ilia E. Helphrey, Shirley Colleen anti-air craft fire and allied nigtn Knox, Norma Jean McKim, Gloria fighter planes destroyed at least three J Anne Wick, Duane Wilkerson. cf the leaders in combat. mand. THI COMMON USM MPTION that Franco wa speaking for Hitler in pleading for peace is not necessarily so Hitler knows very well he could rot get any acceptable terms from anyone under existing condition*, and is hardly so t lipid as to ask. Bu? peace is e. entlal to Franco. Unless he t n get one based on something like the existing status quo in Europe, he is ming to have a nice, little revolution on his hands And he will not get any help this time, at lea st not on th* .scale he obtained formerly from Hitler, a Der Fuhrer will need everything he has and more, to meet his own forthcoming military obligations. Franco, therefore. was probably .‘peaking for himself—and not very confidently. including Prime Minister Win- 11' urI cierK* Make rp, Patti Wt a, Martha Wright st0n churchill of England was Wlev-1 national business machine operators, Curtain .............. Ralph Dodds ^ to be drafting a plan for new blows 11 br aria rn. mail room clerks, messes -------■ — — against Japan, the president prepared j icrs* °^tce clerks, parachute iiggeis. to go " o c / Ter/.- w th. the dipio- repair and {ark parachutes, photo-matic representatives of the Pacific j graphers. d°veloping, printing, turn* allies ming, sorting, etc. stewards, telephone Among those scheduled to attend J operators and teletype operators, townie White House conference were |er waters, control towers in ais sta-Australian foreign minister Herbert V tto*s, hospital corpsmen, yoemen, typ- OFFICER EXPRESSES APPRECIATION OF HELP IN SEARCH FOR ALLISON Editor, Mi. Pleasant News. Mf. Pleasant, Iowa Dear Editor: Evatt and Chine V. Boong. foreign minister T. I would appreciate it if you would T* F«rm IWwoHq publish this letter so that I I vt ll I Cli 111 I’v I Un Are Recorded Here pie can reach all the people who were o helpful tc us during the time we WI re trying to recover the body of J ■-............—■ Pvt, Ned Allison, drowned in the Two eighty-acre tracts were trans-Skunk river as the result of an air* J ferred by deed today according to plan* accident. [records at the courthouse. The farms I want to convey the thanks of the are among better Henry county eigh- cntire Detachment to the Sheriff s i ties. Department, the Fire Department, One deed is from Dora Hobbs to various individuals who supplied boats Albert Woline and wife and is for and grappling equipment and who eighty acres in section 4 of Marion contributed so much of their time; to township; the other is from Walter the townspeople of Lowell and Augusta Totemeier and others to P. J. Hurley mans and Italians urre ride red or met jor tjinr generosity in furnishing f:r an eighty in .section 4 of Canaan food and drink to the men who were township, assigned lo duty along the river. I ------ I, was . trying .rn and the gen- SCH00L SUPERINTENDENT * rous response of the citizens to our, call for help was everything that could j ELECTED AT SALEM i «J » ii on.* if “Tlionl/ ! THE NAZI northern Tunisia army m rendered 25,000 men to us. About 80.000 more were bottled on the Cap Bon peninsula. Around 110.000 Ger- dofvh Pitter Room I-Ifs retreat from Tripoli up to the final stages of the drive. So Hitler can be said to have abandon* d a tremendous army of 200.000 cr more men. leaving them virtually ^ expected. All we can say is “Thank jou” ftr a job wed done. ists and bookkeepers, store keepers, radio operators and many others. women are sent to training si'hocls tor most of the above j:bs from 12 to 21 wee k s Luring recruit training a WAVE is given tests of aptitude and skill and w hen interviewed bv the sele* (ion staff an effort is made to jdace the light gill in the right job and to take Into account the girLs own choice, both of duty and the location where this duty will be performed. The final decisicn however rests with the detailing agencies. For further information and appli-caticn forms contact the U. ,S. Navy recruiting officer any Thursday at the U. S. Postoffice. Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. While many persons covered garden plants last night in anticipation of a frost, the bf low-freezing temperature failed to extend this far southward. Tonight, however, the forecasters say that frost may be expected in southeastern Iowa While chilly winds gave evidence of a drop in temperature, the mercury wdll have to -skid seme 25 degrees during the afternoon and night to get into the freezing area. Drying weather today w ll make it possible for farmers to resume their field work soon, if they have not already done so. Corn planting was delayed this week because of the rains, but there were no ccmplaints. Residents of this territory considered therrijlvVs ;?irtunate to tv gfetthg water while many areas are experiencing unusually dry weather. Eighth Grade Graduation was held on Tuesday evening. The program follows: Invocation ......... Rev. Banghart Valedictory .... Geraldine Fountain Solo ................ Beverly Lauer Class Poem ......... Don Helphrey Class Will .......... Raymond Pollock i Class History .......... Richard Fye I '™tor vehicles, deputy prim. minister Class Prophecy ........ Fred Breuer Class Song .............. 8th Grade Presentation of Class .. Miss Lutjens Heaviest Raid Presentaticn of Certificates ....... Get Much Axis Equipment In Tunisia London. England (INS'—The allied haul cf axis military equipment; in Tunisia includes more than 1.000 guns. 250 tanks and many thousands of Clement R. Attlee said today. ....................... Supt Loper Class Roll: Fred Breuer, Claude Coho r iv. Geraldine Fountain, Richard Fye, Don Helphrey. Bever!* Laupr, Raymond Pollock. Ralph Venghaus, Ronald Wilkerson. U. S. Gives Away Peas and Beans To Institutions without hope cr air cover, to die or .surtf,nder without tv en making a bid to save them, although a continuing opportunity existed for weeks at and i tier Tripoli, It is clear Hitler left this army CLARE J. HERBERT, Captain. Air Corps Commanding. ADMIRAL CONFERS Salem —V D. Collins, who has been with the Atlanta, Mo., schools the past year, was elected by the Salem board of education as superintendent in the Salem schools fop the coming year Other teachers elected at this time are Mrs. Ruth McDowell, principal of the grammar school and teacher of To Take Applications For Canning Sugar Will Start Saturday; 25 Pounds Per Person Limit to pet Lh obviously in order to buy linrv Th*' desperate price he paid is WITH GEN. MAC ARTHUR I :* of enough of the urgency of his - need to perfect his defenses in Eu-1 ASouthPaeificBa.se (INS)—An im- the upper grades, Miss Faience Collop*' against a second front. ! pending concerted allied blew against lins and Mis. Winnifred Cowell will THI ENTHUSIASM of most mili- Japan was indicated tcday in an offtc- ')e in chaige of the lower glad**, taffy men at our great victory is. there-iud announcement that Admiral WiL lore, tempered by the knowledge that ham P. Halsey, commander-:n*chief SEASON TO OPEN ON Hitler, in defeat, won a badly needed!in the South Pacific, has conferred re: pile tor the next stage of the fight, ‘with General Douglas MacArthur, PIKE NEXT SATURDAY Estimates as to hew long it will supreme commander in the southwest } - take us to clean up the Mediterranean pacific on coordination of the two • Corsica. Sardinia, Sicily and Crete) {commands. I MoIne8- Ia 'INSi-James R. run anywhere hon. weeks to months. Admira| „,lsev. who directed the Harlan. Iowa stat- conservation com-Some commentators are .von saving' fight which ousted the Japs en Quad- mtEalon ""blicity director, reminded that Hitler's last aland in Arnica de-'atonal has just returned from an in- l3wa a"Slors f3”' that “>e sf'ason layed the ImrituUon of a second mal conference with General MacAr- “i" «*n Eatuulay on perch, walleyed Announcement is made by the local latening office that canning sugar ipplications will be taken starting I ext Saturday. May 15. A.s previously announced, the amount I sugar granted for canning shall lot exceed 25 pounds per person for he season. Application must be made on form Des Moines. Iowa — While Iowa Victory gardeners are straining their galluses to avoid any shortage in peas, carrots and green beans the federal government apparently is forced to give similar vegetables away. The Iowa state board of control institutions piobably \ .*.1 profit to the extent of a carload of each as a result of what appears to be a contradictory situation in vegetable supply. The state office of the federal food distribution administration recentlj inquired of th*' Iowa institutions whether they could use a quantity of the vegetables which. Washington said, are now or will be available. The institutions, thus assured a supply with only Inca! handling cosu, agreed of course. George B Sheehe, state supervisor of the federal food distribution adminstration, explained Wednesday that the government apparently had obtained the vegetables from California Thirteen Named OPA Commissioners Judge Paul IL McCoid Among Those Designated Des Moines, Iowa * INS1—Thirteen additional district court judges in Iowa have been named commissioners for the Des Mcir.es district office of price administration. Donald Holdoe-2el, chief counsel, announced today. Those mined included Paul H McCoid cf Mt. Pleasant and James P. Gaffnel of Marengo. The commissioners will hear evidence on rationing violations in their Realities and as judges of fact will make recommendations to the OPA on whether licenses of offenders to deal in rationed commodities should be -uspended, Holdoegel said. In History London. England fINS)—The heaviest assault in history was carried out against Germany last night when RAF bombers Is id waste vast areas of the industrial city of Duisburg, the air ministry announced today. Duisburg, center of German industry at the junction of the Rhine and Rhur rivers was smashed by a forceful armada of Britain's biggest bombers estimated to total more than 700 It %as believed that the city's transportation and communication systems were completely disrupted and that possibly as much as 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped. The understanding is that last night's raid was the heaviest ever in tonnage and bombs droppe*d but not necessarily in the number of planes employed. Engage Germans In New Clashes Editors note: The local rationing board has no information regarding the appointments. Since Henry county is now in the Moline, 111 . district and not in the Des Moines district, the an-noune* ment frcm Des Moines is confusing. JUNIOR HIGH P.T.A. WILL MEET TUESDAY 13 and war ration book No. I must j hrough one of it programs to encour-13 presented with the application. front by six months to-a year. Such conelu: ions are not accurate. The size cf the force we landed In Africa list November 8 thur. and northern pike and yellow, striped and silver bass. the coal strike situation friends who Closed until June 15 will be the sea was only have bern around him during the ne- ~on on “nesting" fish, including large County Baseball Results enough to overcome expected vigorous gotiations in New York have reported mcu h and smallmouth bass, calico French resistance. It war not larg* on their return here.) bass, warmouth bars, rock bass, sun- enouuh to conquer Tunisia in a bur- He is pleased with himself, expect:; fish and bluegills, ry if the Germans determined to make to com*3 cut on top. did not ‘ object any show of resistance—and they did,;to the government taking the mines— to the utmost. ' indeed, mav have Mr. Roosevelt and What happened, therefore, was as Irkes keep them for the duration, much as we had reason to expect. If he decides to resist any WLB _ derbion. it will obviously be to his JOHN h. LEWIS, far frcm boing a advantage to keep working for the chastened young errant is chuckling gcverrmerit rather than t ke an unum! chortling to himself about the acceptable agreement with the oper- Iowa Coal Miners, Will Join Strike Albia, Iowa —(INS)—Iowa’s United Mine Workers president, Charles Montgomery, said today that Iowa -*>al miners will join others of the nation if there Is a walk-out at midnight Tuesday when the 15-day truce trdrred by John L. Lewis will ex-pire. He said notice had been given Iowa ge food production. Under teis program the government (glees to make a minimum bid for future produce, thus making it safe for the fanner to plant without lear of tumbling prices. With this encouragement California had a bumper crop of vegetables and . jn tbp {all the federal government ended up with ■ part of it. No longer having a pro- ' gram for distributing surplus commodities through the grocery stores to persons on relief, the government offered to give the vegetables to government charitable agencies. The Junior high P. T. A. will have their regular meeting at 3:00 o’clock n May 18th. A business meeting will be held followed by a program, the main part f which will be given by the Kindergarten and First grade. A May tea will be served honoring the I • wly installed officers and the mothers of children entering school Howard Hills Elected Vice President of Group Moscow, Russia (INS)—While the Soviet air force was reported continuing its smashing attacks aga*nst principal Nazi held rail centers on the Russian front, Red army ground forces today engaged the Germans in bitter new clashes in the western Caucasus and in the Donetz river basin. Northeast of Novorossisk, Black Sea naval base toward which the Red irmy is driving to oust the Nazis from their last Caucasian bridgehead. Soviet troops wiped out a company of German infantry when they surpassed a series of counter attacks. •Russian forces, according tc the Nazi controlled Vichy radio, attempted landings on the shore of the Sea of Az:v at the north end of the Kuban bridgehead held by the Germans.) IMPROVE APPEARANCE OF I W.C. BARRACKS predicament into which he h s forced atrrs. At Winfield SEMIFINAL ItOUND oi-s 13 New London 9. Letts 8. Winfield 7. FINAL ROUND Letts ll. Olds 9. aperators of the union's intentions to' supply might have gone to the army cancel: the agreement under which | if its canning facilities were not altho Icwa mjpner# have been working j ready overloaded. I since April 1st. which provides for1 It will not be surprising, he raid. I retroactive pay adjustments after new if there may develop surpluses oi i miter, are established. I some things at various points in th( * The temporary agreement has a j United States and under supt Iv in cl us/ providing that either party may others, shipping problems being wha' cancel it unpen five days notice. they are. Howard Hills of the Central States Mutual Insurance association here was Sheehe said he assumed that the I elected vice president of the Iowa 1752 club in Des Moines recently. James T Sharp cf Des Moines was elected president The Iowa 1752 club (the number be- Appearance of the barracks moved to Iowa Wesleyan from New London is being improved with paint W rk on the barracks ii; nearing completion and now they are being painted a light color. Those member s of the air detchment housed in the Iowa Wesleyan gym until the barrack? were completed are now in their new quarters. METHODIST MINISTERS ATTEND CONFERENCE Methodist ministers of the Burling- ing the date Benjamin Franklin j ton district gathered here today for a founded a mutual insurance associa- , conference. The meeting was called tion, which is still in existence) is by Dr L. L. Weis, superintendent of composed of field men and claim men the district, who presided at the se?>-cf Iowa insurance associations. sions.

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