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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 24, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 31 (Each Stamp, Five pounds.) Gasoline No. 6 Expires July 21 Fuel Oil 5.....Until Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS '"o'fee 23 - Expires \1»v 7,0. E. F, G, II. red stamps expire May 31 J red Eamp to June 30, G-H-J blue stamps expire June 7 VOL. LXXL No. 120MONDAY, MAY 21, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA the By Paul Mallon yx (Distributed by King Feature* flyn dilate, Inc., Reproduction In Pull oi tn Part Strictly Prohibited » Second Jap Bombing Attack At Attu Eighth Grade Exercises Here On Thursday They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Class of 53 To Get Diplomas This Year WASHINGTON.— THE DEVIOUS Mr. John L Lew In figured out a smooth one when he filed application to re tarn to the American Federation of Lab' r Just a: this time. His role ( _ wax far float ’hat of a penitent ie-1 Graduation exercises for the rural turtling to the fold. I eighth glade class will be held at the In hi Ugh* against the government, I high school auditorium here on Thurs- hf ha- ufTe: od from the lack of ovhei .pay afternoon of this week, labor nop .ti. Both AFL and CIO J Rev. George G Hunt will give the we," again.1 him. because he brok« address and public school pupils will tic non- t ike pa dc in a challenging {participate in the program. Miss E. manta r\ flouted tile a r labor board . Mae Grau, county superintendent, will on which they it, and indulged in un present the diplomas insul t (ct ion formulas an one here we himself. against, war wage-price I policies. That left no king for Lewis, except OBVIOUSLY, TIII TIMING of ; proposal to make up with the AF!, was designed to relax Jabot pressure against cut through it tem po- and be friend ’he unanimfHi him. or at lea Tardy. Bid will it public 6 it appet what fi Mr R netiver, hi we rkmg executive committw it work? The restrained int of developments make i it the aa pices are sorne-*ble but. on the Inside, stu.ctly not. veil was upset by the ma* wcrking man on the AFL J hr r ural class this year is some-what .smaller titan iii the past several years. Tile fifty-three members of the class and their home townships.* Baltimore Kenneth Calhoun Juanita Gill Shirley Hagenteier Lloyd Harris Roslyn Zaehmeyer Canaan --Ruth Anderson Roger Luke Hazel Mowrey Center I>ori Lee Donald Smith Clarence Trueblood Machinists Vote To Leave A. F. of L. * ny (rives 600,000 Men; Green Is Notified Washington. D. C— »INS>—Six hun dred thousand machinists have voted I to quit th- American Federation of | Labor on June I it w*as learned today j as (lie AP’ cf L considered J hn Ll Lewis1 anolication for readmission of his 540,000 United Min" Workers. The executive council of the Intel-national Association of Machinists ll. S. Fliers Drive Jap Planes Away Heavy Bombing Attack In Europe Green of the union’s intention. Taylor Buys Local Building Third Relative Killed Daniel J. Tobin Jacksorv __ r -he W.iiu* House Gordon Pfeiffer after the proposal Trenton-executive council Ina Crije hot-footed it down not orc** but twier cam* up iii a sea rn" ring last Monday, and before the committee acted “sympathetically” on Wednesday. MR. TOBIN I> .upp- 'd to have palp teal control of the executive council. His teamsters are the key union in it, and th-u affiliates to the building trades, etc, give him. the friend of the president a probable majority Jefferson—-vote in mo ? ma*.' irs Lloyd Hinkle Mr. Teton I di tinct iv against Lew- Joyce Hirschy is. will ne doubt be- for a fourth term. While Mr Lewis will no doubt be re- Dorothy Hepker K iri Messer Marjorie Messer Rob* rt McTee Merna Rich Donald Scarf! Mary Thornburg Allen Wagler LeRoy Kaufman Rex Roth Word received hen Sunday morning st?ted that Guy Monroe, officer in ( U. S.. Army and nephew cf Mrs. Ed- --j ward L. Jeambey, was recently killed n . r .* o* n *IJ* | in action in Australia One other Gets Entire Business Building, nepheu. and a cou in of Mr Jeambey on South Side were previously reported lost in action I in the Pacific. publican, a last time ann would Ilk- Marion to carry the AFL that way Allen Canby If the annotine < cl * sympathy” of the James Gill council las* Wednesday had been full- John Ned hearted, it would have brought Mi New London— Lewis in rsuht then In lead, it di- Dwight Bail sect *'d th a* a comm;'.! >e De appointed Melva Lange <no’ nam i • Hat el v) to consider all trie Salem details of Mr. Lewis* restoration. Tile detail will include disposition of the Lewis catch-all union number 50. The AFL no doub*. will Insist that it bf* trimmed down to cover workers in industries closely allied to coal. Mr. Lewis will no doubt try to get. in return, a control of the AFL. progressive miners union. There will bo no trouble about money Mr. Lewis will pay the AFL I1 cents a .head for the first 300,000 of his workers, and one cent for the other;- - - a co-t of about $60,000 a year. This is less than he paid the CIO where the levy was 5 cents a head. THE*!-: TANGIBLE DETAILS could conceivably be resolved. The intangible ones are more difficult. If Mr. Tobin controls the executive council, Lewis also will have to do something about his government policies on WLB and wages-prices. The AFL's stand on these matters was adopted by the council under Tobin’s ^ pro-Roosevelt leadership. Therefore, it seems unlikely that Mr. Lewis’ return will become actual before hr gets straightened out with Mr. Roosevelt on the coal mine strike issue Eugene Gill Wanita Gill Clara Ellen Pidgeon Leonard White Tippecanoe— James Bowling Fern Freeman Luther French Glenn Glover Betty Lingenfelter Helen Lingenfelter Donald Mickey Joan Nau Harry Satchell Helen Scott Vivian Thomas Betty Wehrle George White Wayne— Everett Hauenstein Mary Johnson Evelyn Roth Max Roth Willard Widmer James Wyse Garret on and Garretson, local A PTY IM UONHP HF estate broker*,. tocriv mnouncu the r/\I\ I I 111 UT sale of the Roy Fieenor building on the south side of the square to Edward Taylor of the Taylor Motors. The building, one of the newest and best in the business district, includes the room formerly occupied bv the bowl- TEACHER MARRIED LAST FEBRUARY 13 Mrs. Lf star Giaber entertained at a miscellaneous shower complimentary tog alleys 'for many years the post ’ to Mr s Velma Thompson, third grade office location* and the space occupied by the A and P store at the present Saunders school, at her time The transfer includes all of the business block west cf the Standard Oil station to the alley. On the second floor are numerous fine office locations as well as apart- teacher a home. Miss Thompson, whose home lh at What Cheer, and Lowell Silk of Gibson. Iowa, were married at Chillicothe, Mo , Feb. 13, 1943. In the bridge games played at four tables, prizes were won' by Mrs. Art ments for private individuals. Mr. | Monson and Miss Margaret Gerth Fieenor has made numerous improve- Light refreshments were served. Th" ments in the structure since he bought it eleven years ago. Mr. Taylor, who has developed one cf Mc. Pleasant’s leading automobile dealerships and repair businesses in the last several months, will convert the west room into a garage and will move to the building from his present, location just west of the square on W. Washington. The deal is the largest transaction involving a single Mt. Pleasant business block in many years, Mr. Wayne Garretson of the Garretson firm said today. guest of honor received many lovely gifts. Mrs. Silk will join her husband, who is in the U. S. service, at Marsha, Texas, at the close of the school year. Two Boys Accused of Entering Caboose More Rain Delays Planting Plans Nearly a third of an inch of ram disrupted plans of farmers of the immediate territory around Mt. Pleasant to start corn planting this morning. Skies cleared after the shower, however, and many planters w ill be in the fields the remainder of the week - - - - -if the weather permits. Alumni Banquet Saturday Evening Lieut. Myers Gets Awards Receives Oak Leaf Cluster and Air Medal Lieut. Robert A. Myers of Mt. Pleasant was one of those to receive medals for heroism in air fighting in the Pacific. dispatches from that war theater announced over th" week end. Myers received the Oak Leaf cluster , Washington. D. C. (INS)—For the I second time within 24 hours, 'he navy j today rcj>orted a wave of Japanese t bombe rs ov* r the Aleutians but adJed vot'd unanimously to get cut of AF of t {hat Un,t^ nghfPr planes L a'tor a five year controversy with ’ drove ofr th„ mdlAr(m shooting down the body ever a jurisdiction'I dispute fm. of fhr lg enemv pianes with the carpenter’s union. J __ ____ Harvey W. Brown, president of the t IDV II machinist . called the council together Continue IO mop Up Saturday night and immediately ser- Japs On Attu vc cl notice on AF of L Chrif William | Washington, D. C.— <IHG*— Ameri-j can forces on Attu today continued to »m A 4.1 A Ii. mop up Japanese stragglers despite the Mrs. Atlee Alton enemy's de perate attempt to dirupt rp | -j —.- j the United States offensive by send- 1 liken 15Y Dentil in£ bombers into the North Pacific _J fray. New London—Alf'I - an illness of The n3vvs latp*st front linp reP°^ nearly two weeks, Mrs. Atlee Alton sad that 15 twin ***«* Japane.se passed away Situ rd av afternoon at I b-mbers unsuccessfully attacked two Bur; -ton hospital where sri wus American surface vessels in the west-taken Thursday i ern Aleutians Funeral services are being he’d this’ Concerning ground activity on A'tu. afternoon at the Church of Christ in 'Pp navy salc* fil"re was no change in chatge of McDonald’s Funeral Home j fhp £pnrral situation, indicating that Rev. Frank W. Sutton officiates and . American forces still were mopping up interment is in Burge cemetery. i ttlp rf>mnanfs of Japanese troops on She was born December I, 1909 atfhp island. Monmouth, 111., the daughter of Clar- j ence Howe and Mildred Hibbard. ( On March 6th. 1925 at Rockford. Ill, she married Atlee Alton. The family | came to New London from Rock Is-J land, IIL. in 1929, She had been em- 1 Italian Island Pounded By Allies Allied Headquarter:- a: ITorth Africa .(INS*—Day and night attacks bv for the Air Medal and also the Air! pk)ypdt up to thP time of hPr illness at American and British war planes on the Case Co., in Burlington. j (he Italian island of Pantelleria. 35 She leaves her husband, two sons, miles from Cape Bon tip were an-Robert 16 and Atlee Jr., 13. her mo- t ounced today by Gen. Dwight D. (her, Mrs. Mildred Howe, 2 brothers. Eisenhower. Albert Howe of Monmouth, 111., and American bombers escorted by fight- Medal Persons meriting the same army decoration more than once are awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster for each subsequent act. Myers, who redded southeast of Mt Pleasant and is the son cf Mr and H roW* with the u s- Army in Eng- er danes scored hits on five axis ves- Mrs. A. L. Myers, had participated in *anc* the first bombing of Wake Island a1 few months ago and presumably has LoCcil taken part in several other daring bombing raids on Japanese bases in the Gilbert Islands. Myers attended Iowa Wesleyan where he was prominent in athletics.' ^ie condition of the Rev Alexander Bombs He and Bob Kiser were honored at McFerran of Whitewright, Texas, criti- D..L Vail the closing football game in which I «Uy in a Sheman, Texas, hospital, On IVUnr Valley Pastor Is 111 sels in the harbor and Mole installations and peppered island airdromes. Giant British bombers returned last night for a new assault on the harbor and air drome igniting a vast fire in the installations. Climb In Through Cupola; Take Mall Applications For Book 3 June I The Iowa Wesleyan alumni banquet will be served by women of the Methodist church in the church dining room next Saturday evening at 6:30. Tile price will be a dollar a plate and itseivations should be telephoned to the Iowa Wesleyan business office by Thursday night. Miles T. Babb, president of the alumni association, will preside at the banquet and also at the alumni business meeting which will follow. Changing of the business session from Saturday morning to Saturday evening is a new arrangement. they took part before entering the ser- J was sa^d t0 Pp improved rally last vice in the fall of 1941 ;w*eek. according to word received here. Rev McFerran. former pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian church, became ill at his home on May 12 and was unable to summon aid as his telephone was out of order. Friends | who missed seeing him about town in-Wanello vesUgatee! two days later and found him unconscious. He wad taken immediately to a Probe Death of Iowan At Ottumwa Ottumwa. Iowa—'INS1 county officials today were investigating. the fatal automobile accident that London, England—(INS)—A mighty British ari friet rained more than 2,000 tens of bombs last night en Dortmund and other vital industrial centers in the Ruhr valley cf Western Germany in the greatest air attack of the war, the air ministry announced today. Observers declared that last night’;. attar ks were “considerably heavier than any delivered previously againsv brought death yesterday to Charles W. w 11 ‘man hospital where he undeiwent Qermany an appendectomy, but the appendix was said to have burst 48 hours pre viously. A native of Ireland, the Rev. Mc- _ Ferran was associated with the old uav in an uttuiiiwa insoul i ai. * I ■ J U J ___ I He apparently hart been struck by Iowa Presbyteryjor 30 Sears prior fled htailip J Shepherd at Lynnville, la. Shepherd was found injured near h’s automobile along a highway north of Ottumwa early Saturday and died yesterday in an Ottumwa hospital. Weather was good and the planes roared to their targets in great strength, air circles said. another machine which did not step while doing repair work on his car. authorities said. His wife and three daughters survive. to going to Texas several years ( ago. He was pastor of the Celina j Presbyterian church for two years! before accepting the pastorate of the Whitewright church, where he was to- Good In June Washington. D. C.— Red stamp “J.” stalled April 28 in an impressive cere- t worth 16 points of rationed meat and mony. Get Faith In Some Profound Things, 1943 Class Is Told EXPECT “BROWNOUT at least. the lewis smoothness, there- Several Articles fore, seems to have been ruffled and __ partly upset by the president as far Tw0 y0ung boys are accused of, ... as bringing the AFL to the help of breaking into a caboose of a work i Lewis in !he current strike or general train on the siding in Mt. Pleasant1 T,lp application forms for Ratter political situations. Saturday evening and a short time Book No. 3 are to be mailed between Unquestionably, the AFL wants jatPr fDund themselves headed into JunP 1 an^ OPA officials have Lewis in. For the long range pull, his ,uvenjle c0urt. .again emphasized. While the applica- rejoining would give the AFL 7.000,000 After climbing in through the cup-lti<>n‘s have been distributed, oi will b" members with which to combat CIO. ola window of the caboose, part of the th(s wePk- thp returning of them is and bring it also to terms. work train housing men working near nnt 10 takp place untl1 flrst of Lewis has a strong following in the pjome boys scattered papers, time month. CIO, for instance in the United Au'o ^^pts, etc., searched suitcases and! Workers where a comparatively right- }eft wifh flashlights, pocketknife and up. n fix! Drplfl TCC wing regime is now* in control (at other small items in their possession. .nLLl/ Un IlEiHVLEidd least, it is not communist.) A recent Thp bcys pne n and the other 8 New York meeting of UAW practically wpre ordpred to take the articles back endorsed the whole Lewis position. when relatives discovered them. En- j All tho CIO seems to be having route back to the car, the youths were Delbert Hemmie at rested at New DRIVING CHARGE “I would challenge you to get faith in some profound things and write vour biography in it.” the Rev. George G. Hunt of tile Methodist church told the 1943 graduating class of the Mi. pleasant high school in the baccalaur-ate service at the church Sunday evening. He pointed to (he attainments of many of rur great men because the> had frith in something profound. Ambition and hard work will be required. but he called upon the class to become the leaders of tomorrow. Cc me. class of 1943, lead our world cut of its wairing madness, lead out in th" clearing cf conditions found in the slums, in the sharecropper situation, lead us out of national strife, racial prejudice, hatred of one another, lead our world out of its gambling mania, out of its liquor menace and numerous other difficulties that beset troubles with its left-wing extremists, faken into custody by Constable Will- London eailj Sunday morning b\ high judging from its own statements. Phil lam Brown who took them to the city way patrolmen was brought to the Murray recenly told the press, up hall . , Henry county jail for the remainder Commie cr Socialist group was going They are to appear in juvenile court of the niSht and was taken to New | the nation, the Rev. Hunt pleaded in to dictate CIO policies, and Waiter belore Judge Paul H. McCoid. I London Sunday to answer to a reek-j his splendid address, Reuther of UAW has publicly denoune- less driving charge. J His topic was 1 Doing Somethin? ed, the Communist Earl Browder, recognizing fire behind the smoke. t Hemmie w*as reported driving reek-1 With Life.” We can do something When they get to the point of mak- Lewis and the CIO will be back in lessly in the New London business and with life. he said. tog such public statements, they are the AFL some day, but not now.. residential districts. j “As a matter oi fact, life never has I been easy.....We mav as well set-I i tie down to combat those clrcumstan-: - ces'vvhich we are to meet.’’ he pointed iowa City, Iowa—(INS*—A “Brownout. “Of course w*e had better accept out,” defined as the elimination of all ourselves just as we are and then unnecessary lights, may be instituted start at that point doing something jn this area at any time. Commander about life.” i Rollin Perkins of the Johnson County “Life Is an incessant struggle; put citizens Defense Corps, said today, your best into it and it will be a joy- Neon signs and display windows and ful struggle,” he said. j other similar light- would be exting- Mrs. L P. Ristine was at the org^n, tushed during a “brownout.’’ he said, playing “Prelude” and then “Pomp Emphasis also would be olaced on and Circumstance1* as the graduating turning off lights in all unused rooms class wearing the maroon and gold I and buildings. caps and gowns marched into the re- a “brawnout” may be ordered by served section of the auditorium Mem- military authorities for any indefinite hers of the high school faculty, and period, or even for the duration of the their wives or husbands also were war, Perkins declared seated in the reserved section. Rev. M. C. Carsterisen of the Bap- TRUE MELTING POT list church gave the prayer, Re j New Cumberland, Pa.,— (INS)—The Laura B. Galer read the scripture and | Amene n Army is trulv the “melting Rev. E. L. Jeambey gave the benami pct" of the western world A recent fats, will be good throughout June instead of expiring May 31. The office of price administration said it took that action to avoid a rush on retailers on the Saturday pre- IN IOWA CITY AREA ceding Memorial day. OPA also announced that four new* series of red stamps ta total of 64 points) will become valid at weekly intervals beginning May 30 and will be good for meats-fats purchases through June 30. The extension of the validity of stamp “J” leaves stamps “E." “F, ’ * G” and "H” expiring May 31 Stamp "J” becomes valid today The .schedule of validity dates of the new red stamps each good for 16 points and all expiring June 30, follows: K" May 30; “L” June 6; “M” June 13 and ’’N’' June 2G. diction. Mrs. Ristine played the recessional “Grand Choeur " The church auditorium and Sun lay CHILDREN ARE NOT TO VISIT HOSPITAL All children under 16 will net be admitted as visitor:, at the Memorial hospital for the next few weeks. Miss survey of one month’s induction records at the New* Cumberland Army J Dorothy Menefee supermtendent an- Reception Center dmcl»:sed the ad- ; Bounced today. The many cases of School rooms were completely filled mission of selectees born in England, communicable discases among the with relatives and friends of the class)China, Rn ria, Canada, Norway and children of the community make this members, Foiand. action advisable.

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