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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 17, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 31 (Each Stamp, Five pounds.) Gasoline 5 Expire May 21 Fuel Oil 5.....I "til Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS r’offee 23 - Espies Moy "0. F, F, (I, II, red stamps expire May 31 I red stamp May 23 to May 31. ti - II - ,1 blue stamps expire May 31 VOL. I,XXI, No. ll IMONDAY. MAY 17, 1913 Heavy Air Attacks in Italy, Germany THE By Paul Mallon 3^ HIGH WATER IN ILLINOIS (Distributed by King Feature* Hyn I dilate, In* , Reproduction In Full of I,ands til Part Strictly Prohibited > i Inundated By Floods of Years Worst WASHINGTON WALUK LIPP MANN, an eider Tate >mun ol column- J Beardstown, Illinois UNS) — The i.,ts, has whacked the administration collen Mississippi. Illinois and San-I oi failing to came out in defense and ga mon rivers, led for more than a pear that ti the better. The food secret price lot It, I he subsidy ct nam kind ter. Mr. Jesse pioct ssors o packers, the men—a eel money for manufacture wick by the flooded tributaries today swept ovtr more than 107,000 acres of Illinois low'lands. The Illinois beat against Beards-ying towns big sea wall at near a five-year record crest. Pike county with the Illinois on its ..st and the Mississippi on its west endpoint, it would ap- experienced its worst flood in years ■Aith an estimated loo,OOO acres inunoat cd by the Mississippi. The steadily rising waters of the II-11nots overflowed more than 5,000 acres explanation ol its loon subsidy program. With enthusiasm, Mr. Lippmann has defended the policy of paying vast government mms in subsidies, it is necessary to avoid inflation. The administration seems unlikely to foliuw Mr, JLippmann’s counsel as, from I he less said on the subject SUDS!' Inert in reality, is a You will pay nit you will not know about it. of Cass and Mason county farm lands and th** muddy flood of both the Illinois and Sangamon rivers rolled a foot d« (p over 2,000 acres of W heatland in the Sangamon valley district near the confluence of the two streams. Farmers for miles around prepared to move th* ir stock out of the low’ is to apply thus far to s of meats, coffee and but- Jone.i, RFC. is to pay the t these products—the meat coffee grinders, and dairy lain amount of federal each pound or The process) ton they lying area.'; will get They’ll Do It Every Time - - - i’m afraid vou DON’T HAVE JUST WHAT I WANTED-ILL STOP IN AGAIN SOMETIME -^yyr; WAIT I’M LIA8LE TO be shot at sunrise FOR THIS***BUT HERE’S a NUMBER the BOSS PUT ASIDE FOR HIMSELF. I’M GOING TO LET YOU HAVE IT HELL SQUAWK ALL OVER THE PLACE,BUT I M HERE TO SELL GOODS- TFC BOSS HAS BEEN PUTTING } i i HE OUGHT TO SEE THE BOSS-HE WEARS I A BONUS TO THE SHILL J ^ BROWN SHOES WITH THAT A&I^ AS A TOTAL > LOSS Since 1937 THERE’S > THAT GETS Rid OF IT • ( HIS TUXEDO /k7 rn THEY NEVER GET OUT OF THE ’STORE ON WAX IE HED PROMISE ‘EM A POUND OF COFFEE, AND A SPARE MAKE / SALE that’s a REAL VICTORY SUIT* ALL THE COLORS OF THE UNITED nations and you GOTTA HAVE MORE] NERVE THAN A COMMANDO TD WEAR IT- TA..*/ Jhr ■y -TFI AL ■ ' v——' —EJKJ!LX> The boss seems to HAVE MORE SUITS PUT ASIDE THAN A JEEP HAS JOLTS THAW* to cal DURKIN, FT WORTH,TEXAS- First Drowning of Year at Burlington Canoe Overturns Near .MacArthur Bridge Blast Dams On Rivers Burlington. Iowa (INS) — David P Kennedy, 22. of Rockford. Illinois, to-day was Burlington's first drowning victim of the year. He lost his life Sunday when a canoe it which Iv* and R. H. Barr of Burling - j ton were riding overturned near the MacArthur bridge on the Mississippi river. Both men reportedly retrieved their paddles and swam about 40 feet to a neat dock on the Iowa shore. • Witnesses said Kennedy .started to climb onto the raft but apparently col-iapscd and slid back into the water and disappeared. Dragging had failed to locate the body this morning. Blaze Is Fatal To 3 of Family Bombers Also Hit Port Near Home lotnmitu * udy progt h:.» check free, without doing anything to carn or reserve it. in .somewhat the same maimer as the AAA sent check, around amongst tin* farmers for not growing anything. No one knows what it will cost. The government, winch is always coneen alive in such estimates, if in no other way, says the bill will run $300,-000,000 to $>00,000,000. presumably for a year although no definite time wa. stated In the announcements. THE EX-PRK ii » I XFH, Leon Henderson, once testified ta Sore a senate tiiat a complete food sub-im «uc 11 as ne had in mind would cost Sc000.000,000, presumably for a year, Whatever ury pays i whole people, will pay it in taxation eventually pius interest on the debt until you do. Mr. Lippmann and other advocates of Ult* policy no doubt appreciate these undeniable tacts, but justify the Ml policy nevertheless, on the grounds that it bs an antt-inflationary measure. In truth, it si f ms to bt Hie opposite. It has a dim The mon< be raised by . elling bonds to bankers. All the banking journals and financial authorities, even some in the treasury, already are loudly bemoaning the inflationary implication of the Staeblers Observe 55th Anniversary Change In Flan For Canning Sugar 15 Pounds on Application; IO on Stamps After Courthouse Underwent Changes london F.ng! nd I IU)— A new ta tic in RAF bombing cf Germany--dcva Cation bv flood we revealed to-iay in official announcement that hit'-sh plants last night in i shed the walls of th Moline and Eder dams two of the greatest water barriers in the Reich, coincident with a new attack upon Berlin. Water pouring through the shattered blasted works des* ended into th*1 Ruhr and Eder valleys in “great waves,” secretary of the state for air, Sir Archibald Sincl dr announced. The Moline dam nfrhaps the largest in the Ruhr, contained 131.000,000 tons cf water. The Eder d m held in checx 202.000,000 tons. Attacks against these huge concrete structures which play a major part in the .vator n wet- used for Germany's war industry were ordered specifically bv RAF officials. More than fifty friends called at the home of Rev and Mrs. D. S. Staebler ^ Sunday afternoon and evening to greet them and help them ceb'bratc their Local rationing board officials , rift v-fifth wedding anniversary. What ' stressed today that canning sugar will: made the day especially a happy one be Issued on eligible applications J wa tile surprise arrival of their through'ut the summer. Persons aret d nighter, Miss Lorena Staebler of Oak urged not to rush to the rationing | Park. IU. | office This afternoon some 50 persons j Mr and Mr; Staebler were the re- were waiting for the lationing office to c ipic lits of many flowers including open in order to apply for their can- ! {Kitted plants bouquets of roses and ning sugar. tulip and a huge backet of cut flowers agent can make application for but must bring the Keokuk. Iowa — Mrs Virgil Russell. 31, is the ione survivor of a family of four trapped by flames in their farm home near Wihamstown, Mo., 25 miles southwest of here Saturda Heavy Attack night. v p Mrs Russell said their home was en- iVOme vc loped in flames after lightning' AIliPd Headquarter,, in North Africa struck it. that her 36-year-old husband I —'INS)- The environs cf Rome rock-fcelptd her to safety but perished when | fd to explosions ani fires today in the he went back for their children, Pauline. 9. and Robert. 7. j Mrs. Russell is being treated here for burns and shock. The bodies had not yet been removed from the smoul-| dering debris late Sunday. Dr. J. L : McCampbell. Clark county coroner. ■said no inquest would be held. iobis. tne I** ral t. a. {[(jjjj ’heir children and grandchildren, another person win'a means vou, wilt* 0|1 Carlton Staebler, of Grand applicant's sugar rationing book Rapids, Mich, sent his greetings by _ telegram, I OPA officials in Washington have Tea. coffee and canape were served announced a change in the original by Mi..s Staebler. assisted by Mrs. Geo. p]an for distribution of sugar for can-McKibbin. Miss Stella Hartquist and ning purposes. Tile new plan went in-Mabel Walker The canapes were to effect last Saturday as local ration-brought from Chicago by Miss Stae- jng boards began the granting of candler. , ning sugar applications, I _ j under the revised plan, a maximum ii ilia Iona: i * ‘ D m U CT A MD MAW of only 15 pounds per person, instead' paul out b the RIC wui RED H STAMP NUW 0, 2, pomi(ls can £ alloued bv local VALID rUK MLA I boards, after proper showing has been _ made by applicants on the basis of one : Red H stamps for the purchase of pound of sugar for every four quarts rationed meats, cheese, fats, and can- 0f fruit to be canned. „ iud fish became valid Sunday and will Later on the OPA has announced it increase in the public uebt if id by remaln with the E. F. and G plans to designate an unused stamp stamps, thru May 31. in War Ration Book No. I as good for Blue G, H and J stamps for process- jq additional pounds of canning sugar. I ed fruits and vegetables also remain Housewives who only need a small I i\1iss Bettv Rauscher Accepted By WAVES M s Betty Rauscher. fifth and sixth I grade geography teacher in the Mt. Pleasant public school-., has been acct pted for enlistment in the WAVES and has been sworn in. She has returned here and will conclude her school work before being called for ' training. Miss Rauscher has taught in the Ic cai school tho la J year. Arrangements are being made now for the filling of th*1 ..vacancy. bank They rightly say' this exerts a pressure for financial inflation. But tile subsidy is directly Inflation- HUSBAND OF FORMER IOWAN FATALLY SHOT ary in another way. I he processors vaj|^ through May 31, as well as the am0unt of sugar for canning purposes No. 12 sugar coupon get this bounty irom the government without performing any work fox it, ^ 23 expires May 30. and thins their incomes are enlarged ^ Th(i Nq 5 gasoline The theory of the tiling is that they they pav for cows and hogs. milk, butter. and coffee (?) (wherever the coffee farmers are). Coffee stamp couid then obtain a sufficient amount without applying to the ration board, rationing A OPA said persons buying on this * . stamps become invalid after 12 o clock pian would oniy be required to make a 1 will pas . some of this government gift Friday nigbt, and the No. 6 A stamps, declaration to their grocer that the i I nrrjo on to the farmers in increased price* f0Ur gallons, may be used start- jq pounds of sugar was to be used for , ing Saturday morning. Stamp 17 in canning purposes. ration book I, for one pair of shoes, Families who need large quantities must be used by June 15. i0f sugar for canning would thus be Henry county’s courthouse remod riel while it was be ng repaired during the winter and spring months, presents a much different appearance , than in its previous 30 years To eliminate the leaks which had caused dam- _______ agt to the terra cotta blocks of the upper portion, a new top section of lime- Ottumwa, Iowa — Worth Bagley, stone it placed the up| r portion. The streamlining has met with public husband of the former Marion Peppers favor. Upper view shows the remodel! I building and the lower view, the of Ottumwa, was shot and killed at his building as it appeared since the construction in 1912. I ranch home. 150 miles east of Los A11- - -___ „_____ _________ geies, Cal., last Tuesday, it has been learned here. wake of a terrific assault by British Wellington bombers on the seaplane base of Lidodiroma only 15 miles southwest f Premier Mussolini';! war-weary capital. Taking advantage of full bright moonlight, hard hitting British bombers of the 1 or thv. . st African air forces carried out a concentrated full scale attack which caused great devastation at the base and then reared over Rome in a spectacular air parade of allied might. No bombs were dropped on Rome itself and ne anti-air craft or fighter plane opposition was encountered. Another Blow At Enemy Supply Lines Washington. D. C. (INS —While American invasion forces continued to battle the Japs on At til Island, the navy announced that United States submarines have shuck another heavy blow at enemy supply lines, sinking six Nipponese ships and damaged another. Listed as sunk were one destroyer, one escort vessel, two cargo ships, one transport and a passenger freighter. MUSIC DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT STUDENTS Nothing in the deal requires the j processors to give- the producers any- ( tiling, but the producers will no doubt get some of it. When and if they do, their incomes will be increased. Thu* inflationary pressure is promoted by the sub illy rather than being mitigat-eu by it. BIT MR. LIPPMANN, and other Shier advocates, say that the government was faced with the demand by the farmers for increased prices on the one hand and by a necessity of holding or rolling back prices of foods on the other, to avoid another general labor wage increase. The price of the subsidy, bad as it is, they seem to think, is less deplorable than the inflationary price evil. That argument confesses the government has not done well its job of holding prices down, and seems to confess furthermore that it will not be able to hold them down in the future, but must fool us into thinking NEWS Want Ad Sells Refrigerator Quickly able to secure the 25 pound maximum originally set by OPA. Sugar used for putting up jams, jellies and preserves is included in the 25 pound limit. You have something to sell, some- pppoPMTC pl AQQ thing that you can convert into cash, rKLoLIvlD LLADO but need a buyer. That was the situ-^ anon with Mrs. Robert Pfeiffer. She, advertised an electric refrigerator for 1 sale, price $50, in the New’s, and soon j had the cash. . She reports 21 telephone calls about at that Washington street Saturday after of Defying The U. S. Government Former Local Man Killed IN PIANO RECITAL Miss Blanche Thorson presented a Washington. D. C. 'INS) — The War Labor Board in Washington today accused the United Mine Workers' president, John L. Lewis, of defying the United States government as the threat of a new nation-wide coal strike at midnight tomorrow became already more serious. The board alter an hour long ses- the refrigerator and believes ie inquirers would bought it, if she hadn't sold to one of the first prospects. Rabbit Trapping Approved To Protect War Gardens Payne, group of pupils from her piano clas* I ^ cq_u operators unanimously a recital In her studio on ! ]s.U(:d a statement which said; , “in demanding a wage increase and most of the inquirers would have noon. Tile Dithers and tother friends,^ ^ same time refusing to seek the were guests and thoroughly enjoyed , approyal of the War Labor Board, Mr. the program given by the following ,g deying the established pro children; Delorls Sammons, Nondace c(dure£ of the government of the Unit-Anderson, B* jy Jean Anderson, Ruth ^ gtates» Ann Sponberg, Billy Cordes, Marilyn, LewJs had again defied the War La-Arnold Blunk, Dean Van!bor Board by refusing to appear at th*1 Held on a murder charge in conin rtion with the fatal shooting is Bill Keyes, desert prospector and cattle 1 anither. Keyes surrendered after the shooting which climaxed a five-year feud over a road which Bagley stated was private property, Keyes told au thorities. Mrs. Bagley is a daughter of Mrs. Carolyn Peppers. Ottumwa police ma-tron. Word has been received of tile death --:- if Clinton Mullenix, former Iowa Wes- INDUCTEES WILL HAVE leyan student and former resident here, in an explosion at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. I Mullenix and his mother lived here ,M n going into the armed forces for a time coming from What Cheer. win have a two weeks furlough after Clinton Mullenix Attended Iowa Wesleyan LONGER FURLOUGH Trump, Marilyn Sammons, Miriam ; hearing. The board said iii a strong-Madison, Wis. — Rabbits which Lamm, Mary Brown, Mildred Talbott, j ly worded statement that Lewis’ denning on vegetables in victory gar- Ellen Cochran, Phyllis Cochran, Leo- j fiance both '‘challenges the sovereign- dens may be trapped without special iora Marshall, Ruth Ann Cottrell. I (y of the united States at a time of prices are being held down by ’ permission, the Wisconsin oonserva- Jean Jeambey, Nancy Rogers, Marilyn j and gives air and comfort to our subsidies or the difference. I tim commission has decided. Protec- Vancp, Nancy Jane Wintei, Eugene enemies." Certainly if Mr. Lippmann is rif?ht ' lion acc0rded rabbit* between hunting Blunk. Barbara Van Trump. Yvonnej Tlle board's statement came after in this respect, he is wrong in his geasons was jjfted because of numer- Myers, Viola Sanders, Arlene King, (Lewis refused to allow the board to notion that the government should requests for permits to extermi- Marvolene Bunker, Marilyn Cruik- arrange for renewal of wage nego- sav nothing more about the policy them. but the method was limit- shank and Martha Jcml. [nations brtwjeen I^ewis and soft coal chan is absolutely necessary. pd tQ liye trapping because of nfunici- 'mine owners. —-------- pal ordinances forbidding use nf flr*' Goes To Alaska j — DR. STODDARD LANE arms. The commission said the trap- Rogs ghajer left Sunda/ to go to; Suit On Notes Ar nee MfllNFQ HIES PinB must be done by the 8aiiene,s- Alaska where he will be employed as' Or DLo ^ stud- ------------ ----- a machine operator on the Alcan high- C. J. Williams filed suit with the He wrote sports, while at Iowa Wesleyan and was employed in the J. M. Burd Shoe store. While with his wife here on a visit a few weeks ago, Mullenix said he wa;; testing unexploded bombs in an effort to find out why they had not exploded. His death occurred in an explosion, according to reports here. His mother resides at Ottumwa. Norman Simms Taken Bv Death induction, instead of the one week now granted, starting immediately. A der S' plumber I. the plan calls for granting of a three weeks furlough between the t me of induction and that of actually entering into active duty. DATING BOOTHS PLANNED FOR CAPITAL GIRLS The Music department of Iowa Wesleyan college will present a number of it: piano students in a recital on Tuesday evening, May 18 at 8 p. rn. Those participating are Geraldine Barton. Virginia Ebert. Suzanne Ward. Jayne Staebler, Danny Winter and Betty Wittmer. Tile recital will be held in he college chapel. WILSON ERVIN BUYS GARAGE BUILDING Hill Real Estate rep its the sale of the Linch and Lessenger building on Wes’ Washington street, to Mr When Ervin of this city. This building is located adjacent to he Ervin Motors Garage now owned md operated bv the purchaser. ) FEAR TWO SMALL BOYS ATE TOADSTOOLS Wa hi*-Jon. D. C. —The govern-ment is going to provide places for ids to entertain the’r “dates"—if he: can sr ’ date.- .11 tin.-- citv o» mony women and fewer single men. Flans for the newest cf residence PIL , for WI men who work in govern- Norman Simms, 46. died at the Mi - morial hospital Saturday evening a few hours after he had been admitted for an emergency appendectomy. He Zenobia moot jcb'-, call for construction of De Moines. Iowa. (INS) „ Yparhook KeadV w>’a snarer until recently nan Dees mix - dard Lane. pas 01 > Drs Moines The 1943 Target, high school year- employed as salesman with the Ervin pert J. Auinann and Mrs R J. Au- Congregat’.onal ’mmnilled and was Motors and previously was employed in maim seeking $407.57 which it is and prominent Iona it lginus . 00 , s h high a similar capacity with the Eppers claimed due on 12 notes of $25 each dud today at his home after an ill- ready for distribution at the high glven at pt. Madison in 1934. ness of four montes. school today. and Mrs. Simms, formerly Helm, resided at the William Burna ugh place and Mr. Simms was employed at the Iowa Ordnance plant The )ody Was taken to Fulton, Mo. his form°r home today and the funeral is to be held there on Tuesday. dating booth; The bortto to be arranged about a Mr. and Mrs. Harold Church of I ockrldge brought their two sc us, W 'Iter, 1! years, and Dean. 3 years, to the Memorial hosnital Sunday, fearing that the boys h id eaten toadstools. The t\\£> small boys had been playing with the toadstools and part of them were mi;.- ng. agy Id en til suffering no ill effects, the boys were dismissed today. Cannot Defer Drafting of Fathers Beyond August Washington. General Lew!. D C (INS)- -Major B. Hershey*, national tonre fleer, will resemble those tound draft director, told toe sena'e military in drug si orcs. said the national hous- affairs committee today that selective .ng a rn nisttation, which prepared gnv ce officials cannot defer the draftily plans. ing of fathers beyond August.

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