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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 15, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Smear 12 - Expires May 30 (Each Stamp. Five pounds.) Gasoline 5 Expire May 21 Fuel Oil 5.....I'nill Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS roofer 23 - Expires Stay no. II and F red stamps expire May 31 G red stamp May 9 to May 31. G*f!*I blue stamps expire May 31 VOL. [.XXI, No. HS SAH KOAY, MAY 15, 1943 Senior ('lass Play Pleases Audience “Seven Keys to Baldpate” Presented Friday EveningItalian Ports Blasted By Allied Bombers Diam-* ic sit nations, dim lights, the crack of gums and not the least, good pf t.iig, gave Uh largi audience which saw the s niOff class play at Mt, Pleasant high school Friday evening many tense moments The audience liked the melodramatic my tery farce, "Seven Keys to Baldpate" arri certainly not pas^ Italy Warns of Gravity of Situation They’ll Do It Every Time - Stale That Nation Soon Might Be Knocked Out of War the cast did London, England 'INS) — Italy apili) the opportunity to turn peared today to be preparing her peo- pie for an < ventuality even to the extent of giving warning that the nation soon might be knocked out of the war by a swift allied invasion. The Rome radio reported, according to the Exchange Telegraph company, that during an urgent six hour session of the Italian senate yesterday, the under-secretaries of air, war and the navy warned of the gravity of Italy’s position. Premier Mussolini, himself, holds the air, war and navy portfolios and his under-secretaries apparently acted I as spokesman at the meeting. "We do not have at our disposal naval fore-as such as w’ould seem de- Playitig opposite each other on the stage Friday evening wasn’t new to Marcella Tewalt and Allan McCord. They began doing that in kindergarten days. The playlet then wa.;, "My Dolly's Got the Flu." In other plays together since then. they concluded their high school play production in the Scads of "Seven Keys to Baldpate.** in a good performance. From Allan MoCoid on whom the heavy responsibility of making the play a success or a failure, rested, and Marcella Tewalt, who had the oilier lead in the production through the entire cast, the sirable for repulsing an invasion/* the acting wa praiseworthy. navy .secretary. Admiral Dom in leo Cav Where all hose keys came from and agmari was quoted as stating. how much trouble Mt^Z“id had in ........ w riting int 25.000 word novel cm a bet and how* those would-be crooks be came involved in such complications, kept the audience mystified, amused and alert. Bill Wright and Pauline Ferrel operated the hotel. Kenneth Ow* as wa • after the $200,000 for somebody, Loss Egll, dbdllusioned, tried to get the money too, Eugene Smith aroused the audience as the hermit. Peters, Beth Rochefort was helping to get the money, Joe Messer was after it t*x>, and Charles Haviland was a crooked mayor, who also wanted to get th:’ money Bill Krabill wa after the money. Bill Tackcub* rg was a cop. Jim Cir*‘ii owned th* h<*'<!, ai\ J I Linder was the cop who couldn't spell Montreal. Not really! Georg* Martin oB the high school speech dr ixirtment Dorothy Thomas. Kenneth Kilby, Bill Tackettberg Oliver Named To High School Position Former Student Here To Teach Science ‘Forts And Other Allied Bombers Used Vdmlt'feH'Io' Probate I)ama£ed ( ar B,ocks Here’s Senate Farmer To Consume Admitted to I robatc Raiiroad Track Tax pjan Meat “Ration Free” Election of Roy Oliver, who is I known to several local residents, as a j science and mathematics teacher in J the Mt. Pleasant high school, was an-j pounced today by Supt. C. A Cottrell * Oliver has had several years teaching experience and also has had coach-1 >ig experience. He formerly taught at j Hartsburg, 111., and taught ten years at; Fxira. la. He has taught the last two veals at Eldon While he will teach sci* nee and mathematics he may also a; \ t wifh the junior physical training program. Hr is a graduate of Albia high school. of Iowa We leyan, and has attended summer school at Nebraska State Teachers co lege. His father resides with him and will accompany him to Mt., Pleasant. Blackout During Class Exercises Score Several Hits On Ships In Harbor Allied Headquarters in North Africa (INS! Flying Fortress and other allied bombers today extended the campaign to immobilize axis Mediterranean bases by striking at an Italian mainland port north of Rome and the upper reaches of Sardinia. With Sicily thoroughly battered and the tiny island of Pantellaria off the Tunisian coast made virtually useless, allied planes lunged at the important Italian mainland port of Cita Vecchia. American Flying Fortresses carried out this raid and scored direct hits on several ships in the harbor. Hammer Nazi Supply Line The Albert Oornick will was admi *ed o p- >bat< at the clerk' office at Burlington Trains Routed Over Wa hin the cen:thou e bete today. j rn Lur Truth provision After listing th*’ farms which had uiner iraih been given the five children by deed with certain restriction®, the will set ou* further in detail regarding the damaged freight car, train* With the south track bl* ked by a of the! on. D C Here are major >f the modified Ruml “skip- ; a-sear" bdl for the current collection1 of income taxes, passed by the senate ! Friday night and sent bick to the! house: , ay Acquire Meat from Custom Slaughterer Washington. D. C (INS*—Cpinci dent with a move to hold chain store codings were interrupted bv the wall farms giving each respectively to the Burlington line were routed over the j \batem nt—Taxpavei (ability e- ; meat prices at preset lewis, the OPA Qf the children of Clara E. McCabe. Albert north track between Mt. Pleasant and i j m n,lted rn the ies,s, r of either 1942 , today amended its rationing regula- R Cornick, Park*1 F Cornick, Ellis J. j New London today. j r,r jgfj inc'Ute. , (ions to allow farm families to con- A fast eastbound freight was forced j withholding —Employers required to 'ume home-produced meat withhold tax of 20 per cent <17 per free." Moscow, Russia—INS*—The Soviet _ t airforce hammered heavily today at Washington. la.-Never was there a Nazi supply and rail centers on the high school or junior college com- central front in a growing campaign to rn* ncement in Washington like that destroy Geiman war material before it of Thursday night. It will not be can be brought up to the fighting easily forgotten by members of the fr:nt. two graduating classes or by anyone { — who was present. IT Was a typical wartime event. Midway of the program the pro- Cnrnick and of the daughter, Grace. and there should to s'op between Mi. Pleasant and ii should main Newr London this morning after a car b«- children. If any child should die without issue, the share goes equally!had burned out a journal, among his ;-urviving brothers and Sidell rec ted the play, tera Harriet McKean. To ?he wife, Irma B. hi all the rest rent income. 3 per cent vic!ory*. above* Under* the original regulations a Blast Ferry Terminal Of Messina Cairo, Egypt—<INS* Heavy bomb-iren and in compliance with jers ^ BAI' today blasted the blackout regulations all the light.-, in I ferry terminal of Messina Sicily in a the Methodist church were extinguish- j new allied assault to knock out that ‘ration the only illumination being the I dim light of two or three small can axis base opposite the to*1 of the Italian mainland, the middle-east high The portion of the train the car went on eastward and the I a life interest * back section was pulled back to Mt. of the estate w*as Pleasant by an engine brought in for Ralph OUM . Batty Melton. MIU *■*«>. Provision w« made that UU. that P***^ share should be placed in charge of j fne damaged car naa , ex* mptions, ahead o» . grips h*>c?inr placed on wages and sal- J farmer who brought his own cattle to aries beginning July I to enforce cur-la Weir, Martha Wright were on the production (aff , Ft. Madison First In Track Meet Ft Madison took first place In the Little Six track meet held there Friday afternoon and evening, scoring about 87 points. Of the 16 Mt. Plea ant men who entered, only Walt Conner was .successful in scoring points, ll* placed third in the mile run, Smith, who would have had a good chance of winning the event, was unable to compete because of a carbuncle. Junior Arbuckle ran live 220 and Warren Anderson, the IOO yard dash. Local relay teams also competed. Grace Cornick as trustee inasmuch as Mrs. Cornick is of mature years and has not had experience in handling of pioperty. * Mr Corniest expressed the desire ’hat the remainder of the real estate turned over to hiv wife be not dis- j po-ed of until IO year- after his death I and in no case until after the death ’ of his wife. Albert. Parke and Ellis Cornick were named executors of the will which was made in August. 1938. and was wltnes.-ed by F. S. Finley and Mildred Shively. be jacked up and repaired at the site where the damage was discovered before the track could be cleared. laughter plant for slaughtering aim rent collections. Exemptions are $624 j fessing, had to surrender red point yearly for single person, $1,248 for [stamps for the resulting meat while if rn ■'tried, plus $312 for each depend *nt. NS withholding on “pay of mem-' self on the farm, no points were lost. hers of armed forces, ministers, farm ( OPA eliminated this paradox. A workers, domestic servants, casual j farmer now may acquire meat from a dies placed in front of — ,—^... t Under such circumstances the grad- j nation program could not go on and for 45 minutes until the all-clear I whistle the large audience spent the j he killed and dressed the animal him- time in singing, under the direction of the pulpit. * command announced today Destroyer And Other Craft Sunk WLB Orders Lew is To Call Off His Coal Strike Tuesday w irkers. foreign services or services by non-resident aliens. Current collection custom slaughterer without surrend- Al’ied Headquarters in North Africa (INS) —Destruction of an Italian destroyer, four enemy merchant ships, three small tramp steamers, one transport barge, a small fishing vessel and Boyd White. Most of the old and new favorites made the rafters ring as everyone joined in zestfully. And then when the blackout period fling ration points if he certifies !haf was over the graduation program was J numerous row-boats and small craft Required gener- the meat is primarily for food for the resumed and completed, having lo;-: ' none of its effectiveness because of .the than 1 stock rased on the farm. interruption (on which tax is Two Divorce Suits Filed With Clerk Washington. D. C — (INS*—‘The War Labor Board flatly ordered United Mine Workers president. John L. Lewis to call off his threatened nationwide coal strike next Tuesday. This action increased the potentiality of a general walkout unless there was an unwritten “deal" in the making. Spectacular Turn In Drive Against Meat Black Market Badly Shaken In Auto Collision Washington. D. C.— <INS)—It Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Vera Wright escaped serious Two divorce suits filed with the clerk of tile court today charge cruel learned in Washington today and inhuman treatment. (John L. Lewis, president of Mvron Fricke is plaintiff in a suit united Mine Workers, already against Fem Fricke. They were mar-1 taken steps to avert a new nation-lied Jan. I, 1939, in Mi. Pleasant, and wide coal strike next Tuesday. was that the has ally from ail persons. Those with $100 j family and was produced from live annual incomes from other w*ages and salaries w ithheld * required to estimate year's | liability by Sept. 14 and pay on it , quarterly. Wage and salary earners with mere than $2,700 annual income and married persons with mote than $3,500 required to estimate their liability above withholding level and quarterly. Six per cent interest penalty applied if estimate is more than 20 per cent (33 1-3 lier cent in case of farmers* under actual income. Farmers have till Dec 15 to estimate year s earnings. Adjustments -First two installments of 1942 tax must have been paid as usual by June 15. They are transferred tc a poly on 1943 tax liability, bringing t *xpayers to current basis. Final re- INVASION OF AHU ON “MARCH TO TOKYO" Washington. D. C. (INS)—Senator A. B Chandler. Kentucky democrat. attempting to evacuate the axis from North Africa was announced by the naval command today. A total cf 490 troops including a general, were taken prisoners after the shins were sunk, the announcement said. black market tacular turn New York. New York—(INS)—The drive to stamp out the nationwide in meat took a spec-today when detectives acting at the request cf the OPA raided a midtown hotel room and seized Edward J. Byrne, 40 of Brooklyn, on charges of violating the maximum price regulation. Byrne later taken to police head- chairman of a committee that military affairs sub-has long advocated Japanese ouster from the Aleutians, declared today that invasion to Attu Islands heralds the beginning of the “march to Tokyo.” "I b* lif’ve the army and navy moved with such Skin and speed that the f Japanese were caught completely by ' surprise,” Chandler said. 1942. That w’as the reason for Lewis’® livid together until November, TI I petition charges the plaintiff was hitherto unexplained visit to the cap- injury in an automobile collision near guilty 0f misconduct which amounted; ital earlier in the week. Before the West Burlington Thursday afternoon, 1q cruej and inhuman treatment, j UMW boss returned to New York, he bul the Lynn Wright car was bad Ii' There are no children. (made the physical arrangements nec- damaged. Maxine Wilson is seeking a divorce essary to keep the miners digging A car coming in from a sideroad jrom Robert wilson, whose residence j coal even after the present 15 day one-fourth mile east of West Burling- ^ Henry county and has been most truce expires at midnight on Tuesday, ton collided with the Wright car with ^ time except wrhen moving,These arrangements were made at great force. The Wrights were badly around in a house trailer. They were ; conferences with his lieutenants, shaken up and Mr. and Mrs. Vein married at Kahoka, Mo., on April 16.1 while Lewis did not say directly „ .quarters lineup is said to have ldenti-turns for year to bo I lied next Mar. lo,\ . .,, , , ! fled himself as a salesman for the adjustments “ — - - Wright were taken to a Burlington hospital for treatment. They were later dismissed. when adjustments will be made for difference between liability or income actually received and estimates or the amount withheld. Windfalls—Where 1942 income is larger than 1943, the 1943 income is a-bated and taxpayer pays on 1942. * Does not apply to persons who entered the armed services in taxable years 1942 or 1943, up to the amount of $14.-000 earned income.) Special rule ap-income is $10,000 higher than the highest ho received in any of the “nor- 1939, and lived together until Marcn. that there would be no strike, his maj» years 1938, 1939 or 1940. In this Liebman Packing Co., Inc., of Green Bay, Wis., one of seven firms indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark last month. A bag containing $38,000 in cash was ss id by police to have been found in Byrne's hotel room In the lineup. Byrne said the money represented a week's collection from clients CALDWELL FARM SOLD TO WASSON Wright only a badly smashed. few weeks ago, was thp 943. She asks custody of the baby. | lieutenants left the meeting with the w hich was born Oct. 18* 1942. and I distinct understanding that the miners were not to stop work unless ordered to do so. The Lynn Wright car bought by Mr. seeks aijmony and an allowance for Mrs. Purdy, 77 Dies at Salem Salem—Mrs. Laura Seward Purdy, METHODS OF CANNING, FREEZING TO BE SHOWN Santa Fe Passenger Train Uses Dayman Y For Turn , „ In the letter to Lt. Col. W. P. R iwies. Methods of canning and freezing be shown at Commanding Officer, the C. B. <fc Q Railroad company has expressed its 1 vegetables and fruits will 77, died at the home cf her daughter,^cmonstrations to be-held Monday and . . . .. . . . „ ^ 4. n 1 e (use mnminp , ,„ , i0 t (v,0 A/toihn I appreciation for being allowed to turn Mrs. R. W. Foss at 7:15 this morning. Tuesday, May 17 and 18 at the Metho- \ ^ • iv Turrc , . , . t fii<an the Santa Fe passenger tram El Cap- Survlving are three daughters. Mis church basement by Miss Lillian ^ ^ t__M nA R. W. Foss, Mrs. Frank Wallis of Ft. peckham. County Home Economist. j Madison and Mrs. Otto Waisath of Because it will be necessary for ail Keokuk. She was preceded in death homemakers to can this year four • case, the tax liability for the ‘'normal'' year’s income plus $10,000 is compared with the abated year’s liability and the excess in tax is added, payable in four annual installments. Armed forces—Special exemptions for military personnel increased by excluding first $1,500 of ‘basic government pay from income tax liability, making exemptions $2,000 for single, $2,700 for married persons, plus $350 for each dependent. Revenue—Senate bill estimated to produce $15,256,400,000 in 1943. compared with $14,715,700,000 under pre- TWO BOMBERS COLLIDE; 15 DEAD S. D Garretson and Wayne T. Garretson real estate brokers report the sale of the Ernest Caldwell 81 acres * ne and one half miles east of Mt. Pleasant to Kenner Ii D. Wasson. Mr. Wasson is a son-in-law* of Manning •T. CTne, Sheriff of Henry County. The Caldwell farm is one of the top farms in this area, highly productive, well improved, thoroughly tiled, w'ater - j under pressure, pined to all main El Paso. Tex.—The public relations buildings, and it has a fine location, office of Biggs field, army airbase Mr. Wasson takes possession of this near here, Friday announced 15 men I farm next year. were killed Thursday night in the col--- lision of two army bombers. One man parachuted safely. The announcement said one plane had been cleared by the field and the ether ship was coming in to a landing when the ccli’sion occurred. Names of the casualties will not be announced until the next of kin have been notified. Maintain Intensified Aerial Assaults London, England—'INS* — Spee*J British mosquito and typhoon bombers during the night maintained the intensified allied aerial assaults against western Europe by blasting Nazi controlled communication lines , the air ministry announe-.f today. The bombers accomptnied bv intruder planes also struck at enemy airfields to carry on the British and * American bombardment which in the previous 48 hours set new records for the quantity of bombs dropped on Germany and the occupied continent. Among the targets blasted was a i allway yard near Mons in France, and a 2,000 ten ship was damaged off the French coast. FEARS BLACK MARKET IN TRUCKS IF TOP PRICE IS SET London. England— (INS) — British and United States forces since the start of the war have captured a total of 111 German and Italian generals, an authoritative source disclosed today. ON LINCOLN SOLD >ale of itan on the Dayman Y April 24 The El Capitan was detoured on the sent Jaw-that date due to an acci* ^ w o ... in xjToAHno-c dent which blocked the tracks^between > McGOHAN ACREAGE bv her husbands, Mr. Seward and Mr. demonstrations will toe held. Meetings , ifitviv/iirm civil. , iMrs „ t , „ n m aftpr- Galesburg and Fort Madison. It was* Purdy and cne son. Ray Seward. Mrs. wijl begin at 2.00 p. rn. each anet « Purdy spent most or her lite in Lee n00n-and at 7:30 p. rn. each evening, j necessary to head the train into the county, but the past winter has lived The evening demonstrations are I O P railroad yard in order to make, mid Real Estate reports th, with her daughter Mrs. Foss. Dlanned especially tor those who are'1*1*1 turn a* Dayman 1 Funeral service will be held at the irking outside the home so that they' This was the first time a passenger, north end of Lincoln street to Stanley . announced Friday by S G Stein. Mas Evangelical clun ch at Primrose at 2 may attend. !tr»in ,h,s ™'"fd "» 1 ° P * McBeth. manager Tuesday The Rev. A. E. Bergey Every woman in the community is rfllciab said. The train was well store. Mr. McBeth gets urged to attend one of’ the sessions. guarded as it turned. —lop News possession of this property MUSCATINE TO GET A SOYBEAN FACTORY R1 ureat-ne. Iowa—A covbean precessing plant will be added to the fist the McGohan acreage located at the1 of Muscatine industries soon, it was De - Moines. Iowa—A stagnant mar-i ket and a black market in used cars ! will rf 'Ult if a price ceiling is put up-: n used cars, Ray Chnmberlain of Washington, D. C., said here Thursday. Hp is executive vice president of the National Automobile Dealers association. Printing to black markets in used ‘t ticks that have sprung up London, England * INS I—1The to11 of Tunis has been deposed by General Henri Hcnore Giraud. high commissioner for French North Africa for “endangering the security of Tunisia," the Algiers radio said today, according to Reuter’s. Heavy Showers In The County p. rn. of Primrose will officiate. of the Cash Feed catine. business man, Stein and G A. McBeth gets immediate Kent, also of Muscatine, are incorporators of the Muscatine Processing Co. Henry county was visited by more heavy showers Friday night and Saturday - - showers that are beneficial to hay and pastures, but which are lyw beginning to cause fanners a Jittle concern While the delay in since * corn planting is not alarming as yet, tilings were put on trucks. Chamber-1 farmers are eager to get at the work lain said a simihr black market is in- again and hope that they can get th™ “citable in the used car business if corn in the ground in the coming fi inves arc established. week.

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