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VOL. LXXI, No. 121TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1913
MT. PLEASANT, IOWA
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By Paul Mallon
Bombings Continue on European Fronts
Use Stamp 15, IB For Canning Sugar
(Distributed by King Feature* 8yn- -
db ate. rue. Reproduction In FulJ or Then Additional Sugar May He
In Part Strictly Prohibited >
Obtained If Needed
WASHINGTON— THE LIBERAL*
may bi' awakening from their dreaming. on* of their lea rubbing the mists of
ful-visioning
fiom h.s eye that her ca ft* and post-wai on truth ami In an art! Bitte, power Biiven.
and publicly suggesting they revise their war progiam to base them ealism. in the we he new Republic, hun its foremost editor, Brute for* brightly indicts himself and
Final details on how consumers will at least, is obtain sugar for home canning under a simplified plan were Issued today by th* Office of Price Administration. Arco: ding to the revised program imps numbered 15 and 16 in War
Raton B ;R On* will each be good for
iv Liberal five pounds of sugar for home can-
no I* . a ninConsumers will obtain this
mgar by taking their ration books to etailers rather than applying to locai
Utica I
iomnambulism.
I did not feelI had
to ask him for
permission toquote ii
* rn his article, b*
‘cause the sub-Ha nee column
sounds as if it c
ame from thisIN S
POTH, it reads
almost phrasefor phr
age along the fir
ie® of free ad-vice to
Liberals offeree
i by me sinceth** wai
started, urging
til* rn to awaken and
*’«■ Britain' RU*
en and Chinaas they
are, not as
Vice PresidentWaila"*
and the new'
Republic hadview***!
th* rn; and coun
soling them torenoun*
e their antiqua
ted Liberalismwhich
< |x>used Iota
itariamsm inDemoc:
atic, Socialist, *
*r Communistforms
iii favor of a tn
fly liberal doc-many comr - of po- briards for sugar coupons as was an-
Persons who require less than ten pour. of sugar, but an amount other •hari five pounds, will apply to their local boards for the exact amount ne* ded.
No chang** ha, been, mode in the rat** at which sugar for canning will ne made available, one pound for each four quarts, or eight pounds, of finished frui* and five pounds per person for making jams and jellies, with a total not to exceed 25 pounds
lf More In Needed.
In exceptional cases where consumers require more than the ten I
They’ll Do It Every Time - - -
7.
THANKS FOR AVERY NICE RIDE, JEEVES -HEH, HEH — YOU MAV HAVE THE CAR FOR THE REST OF THE DAY* HEH-HEH’" I'M GOING TO TELL ALL MV FRIENDS TO GIVE YOU THEIR ELEVATOR BUSINESS', HEH-HEH'
DONT THAT PEST EVER QUIT PULLING GORNY GAGS NOW HELL PARR HERE FOR AN HOUR AND DRIVE MV CUSTOMERS AWAY,
he's SHOWING OFF in FRONT i OF THE LITTLE BLONDE- I NOT THAT HE NEEDS ANY ^ INCENTIVE-THAT WOULD-BE HAM WOULD PERFORM Alone in a closet
HES SUPPOSED TO \$hxE>( WORK in our OFFICE, “b-tYj \) BUT THE WORK HE DOES WOULDN'T - \ KEEP A FLEA BUSY,
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Listening to the same old routine OF THE OFFICE WIT WHO NEVER LETS Up
"Thank to Al HANNON,
SHREVEPORT LA
WU] Denies Lewis Demand
Washington, I). C. (Special to the News) — (INS) The War I abor Board today denied the demand of John L. Lewis for a $2 a day wage increase for 450,-
000 United mine workers but the board endorsed “genuine”
1 ortal-to-portal payments of the miners.
Allied Planes Streak Over Dover Straits
Sardinia Gets The Heaviest Pounding
More Destruction In Mid-West Floods
London, England—(INS*—A strong foimation of allied air craft streaked out across the Dover Straits at high altitude today toward the continent, carnal observers reported.
Although no official announcement was forthcoming, immediately from
ii I, rr „ i 1 the air ministry, the sudden -.ilencinc*
Heavy Damage To I rop Land In
Illinois
just before midnight of numerous Nazi controlled radios indicated that the RAF had .struck again during the night to obliterate axis war indue,triers.
The enemy transmitters shut down were these along the southern reaches
Relatives Turn I p After Six Years
rn for : man.
Exempt From Their Exams
Announce Program For Memorial Day
w*
there to Ll more there is profess* thought mark* d
an Who Died at Hosital
Rev. Jeambey Will Live Address at Legion Home
Th** following high school pupils are {exempt irom their examinations this I
<Ev International News Service)
Flood swollen rivers carved a wider path cf vast destruction in six midwest tate® today giving rise to new J of occupied western Europe leading to fears that the bread-basket of the (the belief that either southern Ger-nati .n would not be able to meet its many or northern Italy might be unwar-time crop goals. der attack.
In Illinois alone where new high > -
waters danger points were opened up t
along the Mi slssippi and Illinois rivers Sardinia Given
a total of i.25o.(ioo acres of crop land Heaviest Pounding
has been flooded j Allied Headquarters in North Africa
D“lays in planting and pasturing _(INg)_The bomb-battered Italian cattle, vast damage* o tiuck, fruit and Mediterranean Inland of Sardinia was
field crops and tfie retarding of poll- *
given its heaviest pounding of the war
wetg
the individual with sugar stamps in war ration book’ _
on** applications for additional allot- Seek to Reopen Estate of Worn-leaping part of it is all ment.s may be at local ration boards.
advice from Mr. Biiven Application to the boards must be
id his position may carry in writing one application per family ( „ ^ ^ ____ ______ ______ __________
Hi words al o sugge st unit and may b«* mailed or presented j An e},?atP closed lune in lf)37 al ■* i j week a.> hey have rn* he grade and R0Unce(j f0r sunday afternoon will inois. Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Okla-J the jsjancj< General Dwight D. Eisen
anc© that th* * ~ *“
^nation were reported throughout the.yesterday when 300 American bombers The local rmmoria’ program an- six st re flood stricken areas of IU- laid waste nine important areas on
anc
may be turn
! course of orthodox liberal away from its any
heirs were not located will be reopened! attendance requirements
a person. Each application must be (•ccmpartied by ration book one for '1* tlle petition of four persons who i Freshman beys: Melvin Bird, Harold person for whom application Ls,c,alm to *** hflrs is erantpd I Bittie. Paul E. Clawson. Edgar Conner.
feature an address by Rev. E. L. Jeam- boma and Arkansas.
hower's headquarters announced to-
n.irian and narrow new* made
and
will be Governors and commissioners of ag-t{)av
... . Sunday riculture in the six states are to con-, The raids were carried out by Ma-
•herald, In addition, pro- Irene Peers, who died a’ the state Richey Dickson. Bill Ebert, Kenner afternoon at | 45 All local patriotic fer in St. .Louis. Missouri, tomorrow j j r General james H Doolittle’s stra*
bey. The memorial services held at the Legion Homo
Deal iii charnu-
rd modernized.
boards with the following rnfor- iMJsplta1, left $1,583 which was turned Ensminger. Clarence F.i*,, Dick Hill. organk5ations have participated in to formulate a program to speed up j tegic air force
THE VI ABM winch 1 * * ms to have awakened Mr Biiven <he implies* was Mr. Stalin’* announcement that the Russians have not abandoned their historic desire for a piece of a “strong" Poland Says Mr. Biiven: “Men like Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek keep silent during the war, for diplomatic reasons, about those of their opinion.-, and policies which may strike a disagreeable note among the populations of allied countries; but they don’t abandon these beliefs and policies."
Britain, ii* finds. Mill wants the empire d< spite the offer of Mr. Biiven arui associates to free India, Egypt and -erne other places.
But you will hold your hats when vou hear him saying “I am aware of no evidence that Stalin has altered his ideology a particle raider the pressure of war "
HE EVEN MIM IONS a few ba i things, along with the good, about Russia, the bad including "merciless wholesale executions of political opponents. universal spying, the ruthless carrying out of economic plans."
China, lie now sees truly as being "very far from being a political democracy on the western model But
VK
maHon—
I. Th*- number of quart* (or pounds* of processed food-, the applicant and members of his family unit have* pro-duced since March I of this vear with
over to the school fund after no Heirs Harvey Jeffrey. Reed H Jones. Lloyd prpparation of the program
were found. Now cranes four persons Lee, Richard McBeth, John McCoid, residing in ether .states signifying they Phillip Niles, John Roche. Merritt
for d production in the flood areas.
Frank Abraham will be marshal of
the day and Merton Wright, Com-
Doolittle Fliers
are relatives and heirs and asking thai ; Scarf!. Robert Scam. Oren White. mandPr ot B(b Trjbby post. master of JH|)S I tied To (let the estate be reopened. Judge Paul Daniel Winter, Robert Tweedy. ceremonies I
ugar already obtained for home can- McCord has set Die case for hearing Freshman girts: Sarah Bacin**. Phyl-j plowing is the program which will I
on June I. | lls Barnum. Madeline Bencke, Aurelie ^ presented-
Very few cases of this type hic on Blocker, Joan Btau, Marvolene Bunk-; America—by the audience, accom-1 St. Louis, Mo. (INS*—Major General; ported by the Soviet high command
panied by Miss Jane Graham. Jimmie Doolittle and his fliers who today, which said all of the German
Invocation iwere forced down in unoccupied China attacks were repulsed.
mug, either with stamps in war ration book on*, or by previous application.
2. Tile amount of sugar on hand for home canning,
3 The amount of sugar that has been obtained for making jams and jellies.
4 A statement that all sugar ob-!
Three Thrusts By Nazis Repulsed
Moscow, Russia -(INS)—Three Nazi thrusts into Soviet defense positions ion widely separated fronts were re-
accom-
record in the county, lr*cal persons er, Helen Decker, Evelyn Edward.,. state. Under the law-, per: erns have j Esther Giaber, Phyilis Haviland. Bar-
ten years in which ’o file to have an bara Higgins. Jean Hopson, Elnoia- Musjc qUartet—Sam Ewart, Harold I fo’lowing the heroic bombing of Tokyo, The unsuccessful German drives in
estate reopened in an attempt to es-j Myers. Martha Nihart. Dorothy Phelps, - McLeran> Lvle shellabarger. Ben A. a year ago narrowly escaped retalia- 1 the Donets basin west cf Rostov and
tahlish Dteir rig!;' as heirs. J Betty Pobanz, Eloise Rich, Rosemary Galer. Accompanied by Miss Jane I tory action by the Nippone.se who laid ’ in the Sevsk area of the southern
Irene Peers was admitted at the.ficiUly. Virginia Mae Smith, Macil hftm (waste vast areas of Kiangsi province I lront were made in an apparent effort
•me canning will be used ho8Pital as a state-at-large patient. No Willey. J Reading of General John A. Logan':- jn their anger. J to find a possible weak spot and re-
>se, and at the prescribed rclatives co®,d tounfi at the timp. Sophomore boys: Ted Stuh. Ha:old * orcjers by Mrs prank Jones. Only 40 minutes after the intrepid 1 sumption of offensive operations.
tamed for home _____ w _
for this purpose, and at the prescribed rc*at*ves f;ou!ri founfJ at rtifi tun*1. Sophomore boys: Ted Stull, HaK)lri J orders by Mrs. Frank Jones rate, an average of one pound for four she was a(lmlttet1, accCl<Jing to leports, Watts, Bob Wettach, Ma iv in Doan. | Gettysberg Address, Mis. Laura Kit-quarts. <or eight pounds* of finished ^ere- I Alanson F.lgai. Aubrey Gaimoe. B*'b c^en
fruit and toe pound* per person fori The net amount of the estate, if it' Hill. Kenneth Kilby. Dale Knight. Muslc by quartet j* Hies and jams is reoPenet1' wil1 probably be consider- ( Dale Prickett, Lawren
Sophomore girls: Barbara Aumann,
Will Pledge Faith
is reopened, will probably be consider- ■ Dale Prickett, Lawrence Roche.
ably less than $1,583 as some taxes are involved.
Ameiican airmen left a Catholic mis-
ion WI * re they had been fed a form- r* 1 . • r* »• ___
a*ion of Jap planes struck in a vain A J ^ Continues
attempt to blast the Yankees, it was Un AttU Island
Washington. D. C. —-(INS)— Secre*
Anew Poppy Day |Van Vleet Renews
Feud With Iowa
Address, Rev. E. L. Jeambey ' J God Bless America—by audience. ' disclosed today. j
I Twila May Burky. Betty Lou Foike-,, Benediction j The Rev. Father George Yager of, tary of the Navy Frank Knox report-
I Betty Griest, Martha Hatch, Carol. March t0 the cemetery led by Frank K'xkuk, iowa, a Vincentian missionary j ed today that American forces on Attu
Hayes, Barbara Hedlund. Martha J01'1 Abraham, marshal of the day. j who w*ith two other priests and six ( Island have "corralled" the Japs on
rel, Ruth Kelley, Eva Koch. Hazel J ceremony, honoring unknown dead. American nuns recently returned from , a peninsula as he revealed that fight -Martin, Dorothy Ann Nelson. Patricia C0n{jUCted by representatives of the Kiangsi province to the United States ling on tile Aleutians outpost is con-
Faith in America with those who have died in the nation’s service will again be pledged anew- on Poppy Day, May 29.
The wearing of the poppy Is a per-
Farm Bureau Head
smith, Doris Thomas, Elva Wiggins, pa(-rj0yc organizations
j Geraldine Bartow.
Prayer and Benediction.
told how the desperate Japs launched an offensive in an unsuccessful at-
1 Junior boys: Raymond Breazeale,. saiute> Firing Squad from the Pre- tempt to capture General Doolittle’s
{Howard Cottrell, Frederick Crane, school. band.
Taps.
Failing in this, Father Yager said.
tinuing.
At the same time. Knox declared that he assumed that the Yanks en Attu will complete the airfield .started by the Japs, possibly for further thrusts
the Nipponese devastated huge areas j against the enemy not only on nearby
Des Moines, Iowa. (INS*—Iowa {Jimmie Felgar, Keith Garretson,! son a I pledge that we will not ‘break farmers union president. Donald W.! Charles Hanna. Glen Hueholt, Fieder-i jowa Wesleyan band Will play
faith’ with those who died but will Van Vleet, today renewed his "infla- j lek Klopfenstein, Kenneth Myers, for the march t0 the cemetery. Boy of china, and savagely tortured and Kiska but against important Japanese lie is rougher with Mi. Roos*\<! ^ an carry on to the achievement of the Don feud ' with Iowa farm bureau fed- Allan Shook, Richard Wilson. ! Scouts, Sea Scouts, children from the slaughtered the inhabitants in retalia-j b ses in the North Pacific.
Junior girls: Darlene Adams, Ardyth pubiic and Parochial schools and tjon for aid given the Americans.
Allen. Bonnie. Bergdahl, Virginia mfmbers Cf ap patriotic groups will — -
Campbell, Frances Cathey, GeoI =ia i take part in the parade. U/Aiiflint*
Del Claik. Carol Ciaig, Leis Duson-1 Members of all patriotic groups are I? LttlHvi o
bery, virginia Ebert, Ada English. | asicecj to attend the service and march
-o carry on to the achievement 01 uie icuu uun.au
I have ever been, contending, appar- thmgs fQr which they gave their lives.’Aration president Francis Johnson by ently, that the president is not strictly MilU(m8 of Americans will wear the taking a hand in the Iowa State Col-
a New Deal leader.:
"Mr. Roosevelt became a New Dealer after he got into office and, on an ad hoc. day-to-day basis. He surrounded himself with an unusual group of men and women with a progressive outlook and, item by item, they sold him the various parts of the New- Deal program.
Millions of Americans poppy this year as a tribute to the lege "oleo book" controversy, dead cf both World Wars and a markj VanVIeet issued a prepared stafce-of their determination to conclude this ment attacking Johnson s stand in the
war with complete' victory. The flower pamphlet quarrel as having a connec- : Margaret Gillaspey, Virginia Hatch, j ^ cemet,ery it will be greatly is the symbol of life given in service , lion with the inflation issue on w'hich Helen Ro e Hemming^, Jean <JaQues* ’ appreciated if parents will urge their
for America. The wearer makes an un- the union has assailed the bureau in spoken pledge to the nation’s heroic the past dead that he will live as they died, ser-1 Tile union leader charged that jSmutz, Patricia Weir, Betty Wittmer.
I Johnson "is availing himself of a! Senior boys: Ralph Dodds, Fred
Donna Johnson, Miriam Oldt, "Willa- ^ cliilcireii to mardi in the parade, dean Pickard. Cecilia Smith, Wynona
Farm Help Demand
Des Moines, Iowa- <INS*—Wet wea-
Most Stores Will ( lose on Monday
ving America.
They were htlped in doing so by me ^ price will be asked for the flow- chance to get £ven with Dr. Albert G. J Finite, (Economics, An. Hush.. Manual
fact that, year altar year, the depression continued to be so serious that
ers, the pennies of children being just Hart (co-author of the pamphlet) woo IT.*, Kenneth Graben Robert Ham,
as welcome as the dollars cf the had the courage to criticize the farm J William Krabill, Gilbert Lenning. Jim
almost ary experiment-seemed better wr „thy A poppy over every heart „ bloc. | Linder, Lotto Long. Allan, McCoid.
than just to let matters drift. I ^ ^QaJ j--*---| Lloyd Myers, (Farm Management),
Contributions given to the Auxilr WILEY POST WAS I Robert O'Connor, (typing, economics.
HE CONCEDES he and associates have exa;t‘rated the . "altruism" of the American people by hoping they would give away much more after this war than they will, and directly confess e • :
“Some American liberals have delusions of grandeur as to the extent of cur influence upon the allies," in writing the peace and now. "It is better
iary's volunteer poppy workers will fo in their entirety to tile rehabilitation and child welfare funds of the American Legion and Auxiliary, where they will help support the Legion’s and Auxiliary's efforts for the
COUSIN OF SOLDIER AT IOWA WESLEYAN
{Latin), Edward Bim kin. Eugene Smith. {Scott Smith (Soc. Hist., Econ.), Louis J White, Riel 1 a rd Wilson.
Senior girls* Betty Allen. Addle Brooks. Betty Bulky. «Soc\). June Canby (typing*. Lois Egli. Mary M.
The name of Wiley Post means more disabled than “couiageous flyer" to one of th0 fighting men cf both wars, and for soldiers with the air detachment at' Everts, Lila Jeam Godwin
the children of the dead and disabled. Iowa Wesleyan. He is Aylmer B. j Ruth Grafter, Kathryn Hemming®, Le-
------Post, a cousin of Wiley Post, of near ‘ Ola Hummel! (typing, Economics,
to be grim and correct than to take* a Biiven! 'Shreveport, La., studying and taking Bkkg>, Alice Johnson (Arith.), Evelyn
rosy view that turns out to be wrong. The Libs could have gotten it all preliminary training in the field in j Boche. Beth Rochefort, Helen Scarf!,
he rightly adds. from this spot in the past three years which his cousin became famous a ' Betty Smith. Joyce Stuart, (Steno),
Reluctantly, he is even prepared to for three cents Instead of paying 15 fFW years ago. I Marcella Tewalt. La Faune Vander-| is senior assistant administrator of the
The committee in charge extends a thee that retarded farm operations cordial invitation to all to join in the last week, and the ending of the memorial sservice. Sunday. May 30 at schorl year w*ere factors easing the 1:45 p. rn., at the Legion Hall. demand for farm labor last week, the
— — — weekly report of the office of the Un-
COOPERATION OF COUNTY lted States employment service showed
OFFICIALS PRAISED
“Deficit" of farm workers as shown by applications and calls on file was Omaha. Nebraska—(INS)— County piace<| a| 592 about 300 below tile fig-officiais throughout the United States ure Qf the pmedmu week
have given the office of pike admin- Rf peris from branch cf flees iud ud-istration “splendid cooperation." .•
I hat was the essence *>1 a speech de- Fairfield: Condition.^ in general, imitated » efcre th- "th anmia! -otrfer-1 proyeci no crltical situation exist*
(Arith), ence of Hie national association of raJng h;ue sJovud Wurk county officials in Omaha today bv) ■ _
tonner Senator Clvde L Herring, 01 L'rvniyirn pCCinFNT
Iowa. Herring, a new deal democrat, rUIVlVir.IV cVE.oIisE.lv I
v.ho was ch teated last year by rcpuu- | NEAR WINFIELD DIES
i>nr> 'sena’e*” fj*or?e a Wiirn, ti**v, I ___
Winfield
Most Mt. Pleasant stores will close on Monday of next we* k which is being observed as the Memorial holiday. The Chamber of Commerce contacted a number of representative stores and found that it was the general plan to close for the day.
Fairfield and Washington are closing on Monday also. word from those neighboring towms indicated,
VETERANS CLUB LEASES ROOM OVER GARAGE
Tile Veterans dub. recently organized and incorporated, has leased th* second floor over tile building occupied by the Taylor Motors on West Washington and recency purchased by Wilson Ervin.
accept a post-war plan "based on ar- cents for it now. I would like to think While Aylmer Post, striking young snick. Marilyn
rangemen's that are as much to the that, I helped to cause or inspire this soldier and speaking with a very' defin *; Watts.
benefit cf this country as anyone else.' revolutionaiy change. Unfortunately, jte southern accent, never saw Wiley | _____
He suggests Liberals should go that 1 cannot. ’Post, he recalls vividly his parents’! jyj u jy
Wand ling. Mariam
OPA.
RIFLE BULLET STRIKES
BOY IN ABDOMEN
Davenport, Iowa—(INS*— Thirteen vear old Claren*’e Hines was in Mercy
far too, although this requires quite a There is no copyright on truth. It discussions of the famous flyer and of
drop from their world visioning. cannot become a private possesion, the plane accident which took the lives Mrs. Adam Einn. 79, mother of Mrs.
TO THE CONFUSED and disheart- When the other fellow comes upon it. of Wiley Post and Will Rogers at Fair- Mable Manning of Wayland and Mrs.
flied "Liberal" he offers a new goal; we mar think he took something from banks, Alaska, in 1935. Gertrude Bain of Mt. Pleasant, died hospital today with a bullet wound in
"A conception of the dignity of the us whereas he really only opened his' The local soldier recalls the visit of at the Jefferson county hospital Mon- his abdomen after accidental discharge individual, or freedom and fairness for eyes. Will Rogers to Fort Worth. Texas, and day morning. She suffered a stroke of a .22 caliber rifle in the hands of a
all,” There may be unity in this country how popular he was with the Fort last Friday. Rolla Norton of East j lay mate late yesterday. Th? boy's
Why that would be democracy, Mr. yet. Worth crowd. Pleasant Plain was a son. condition was called critical.
Miss Eva Freeman received word last week of the death of ; her brother-in-law', Charles Miller of ! near Santa Ana, California. He passed away Thursday after being in ill health for ten years. He is survived by hu wife, Elizabeth Freeman Miller, one daughter. Mrs. Lucille Martin, two granddaughters, and one sister, Mrs. Flora Swearingen. A daughter preceded him in death.
Guardian Asked
Anna Rudat ha,> filed a pc tit ion with the clerk of the court a king for the appointment of a guardian for Elsie Brodthage.
Deed Given
J. E Vincent and wife have given
The Miller a deed to Velma J. Garmoe for a
family are former Winfield residents property in Highland addition, Mt.
and lived on a farm northeast of town. Pleasant.