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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 1, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION SI AMPfi Fuel Oil I ...... t'ntil Jan. 3 Sugar—29 (Book 4) 5 His. Shoes—Airplane I (Bk 3) Indefly Shoes— 1H I Book I)—Indeftnitelfy VOL. LXXI, No. 256 THE MT PLEASANT NEWSMONDAY, NOV. I, 1913 CANNED GOODS A. B. C. ('rem 'Bk 4) expire Dec. 31 X, Y, Z Blu- (Bk. Z) f vp re $iov. 23 Meats, Butler. Lard, etc. G, ll Brown (Bk. 3) expire Oft. 4 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA THEUNE By Paul Mallon (Distributee! by Kin* Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction in Puli or to Phi t Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — THIS COAL SI KIHL MI ODLE—foremost in the labor picture vhieh ha.> become the worst economic muddle of the war—is a pure and educational phenomenon of American bureaucracy and labor tactic lls intertwining undercurrents are now, for instance, heading back into a cross conflict between tile war labor board and .olid fuelist Ickes, with John Lewis, fairly far in the background. It started when Mr. Ickes find control of the mines, much to the dis-comfort of the WLB Ickes at least, was getting prod action 'hen. but boardman tripped around to the white house threatening to resign unless its control was restored. Well, it i re tored, and ir»’k at the .situation around 50,000 mines out, romeAn Alabama for 19 days, and no satisfactor y sol id ion accomplished yet. Once a contract, had been signed for $1 a da> iller* ase; now ot Uement is difficult a* nearly 32 Four Nations Agree To Crush Axis Guy Wasson Dies at Home Sunday They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Well Known Resident, Had Been ill Several Months He brought mome a PEW samples op a mew * DOG FOOD. the POOCH WENT VOQ IT UKE IT WAS A FILET MIGNON LOOK! HE LOVES (7 I GUESS TUPS SOLVES f GOOD vOU BET TER , I GET PlENTV CF it A V BERDQE THEM P JT ) 5 J A PHtOUTV OU IT \ I OR SOMETHING V Guy Wass-ti passed away at Ilia. home in Plea aru Grove Sunday morn- J tag at 4:20 o’clock after an liln ss oi j several years. Guy Frederick, son of J-*<ph an*1 Nancy Jane (Jennings) Wa.on, was bom Jan 13. im, at Pleasant Grove, j Iowa. He was married at Pleas* oil j Grove to Nett. e Ma-ga: et Toft on Jar. I 18, 1911. The}’ were the parer s oi six children: Kenneth D., cf Mt pleasant, Albert P. o! New London Lloyd R of Burlington, Pvt Alva D.j somewhere in Sicily. Gladys V, cf New London and Lois V. at home . He Is aho Mirvived by throe grailj children and toe following brother: and sis: r.s Wm. Wasson. Washington' Mrs, Cia: a Th in pron, Burlington, J John Elmer Wasson Pleasant Or Mrs. Etta May Tucker, Rm J seph, Mrs. Ma rya; et Kuhlenbeck. and Ra.ph Hugh Warson cl New Louden , The body is at. ! iu* Elliott chap* I iii New London and will be return*. 1 to the home in Pleasant Grove Tuesday fc ivices will a*- held Tur - VG itmikM&t! \ U# v eat IT1 O’va J r , HEAR ME ’ I \ ‘ GOT TWO DAYS' ) WAGES TIED y UP in THAT ) t BARREL! J QQ u >v>—— _ ITC 4f- United States, Great Britain, Russia. China to Forrn League Unconditional Surrender of All Axis Nations Is Goal of Moscow Conference Washington — The united State* Or* a* Britain. Ru-;a and Ch.na were officially revealed today to have agreed to the un conditional surrender of Germany and the establishment of a new league of nations to maintain Tutu * world peace The ag cements which formed the basis of the meeting at Moscow were made known simultaneously in Washington. London and Moscow. These agreements called for: I. The unconditional surrender of 3. the Fifth Artily we e revealed today to rave seized Teano, junction of four trategic roads 12 miles northwest of the sea anchor base for the nazis a* .Mondragone. Tne town 13 miles northwest of Capua was occupied by American .cops which consolidated positions Aithin eight miles of the road to Venafro, island anchorage of the enemies* western sector. Tire new gain threatened to roil the nazi flank eastward from the sea. all the Axis powers including Germany. 2. A joist four-power decoration.R„ j Move Within Nine Henry County Men enerftl increase I tnormng. . I day afternose* at 2 o'clock from th- • a n m P9 . I WLB ,,icundKri^w^t-^n cho jjave Paid Supreme Sacriiice Rev, P. F. Meador, pa- tor of the church. v. ill bt* in charge Bivial will be in Pleasant Grove cemetery. the Illinois miners Monday through his executive conned, he will have to re-open negotiation, on the same basis, with all other operators everywhere. I ” ~~~~ It is po b Lew; n a ept or ]{()y Af t€F else may try to throw th* situation ^ back into Ickes hands f*>r government operation, a step the WLB has long but hesitatingly been threatening to suggest to the president The dewjus wa s of conflict mg bureaucracy obvioiualy have succeeded pledge of the United States, Great Bri-j fain, Russia and China to: (a > Constitute their united action after the war for the maintenance of peace and security; db) Pledge that those of them with a common enemy will act together in all matters relating to the surrender and disarmament cf that enemy: <ci Pledging that they all will take measures deemed by them to be neces- - ! sary to provide against any violation Fairfiem will be host to the sou*a- 0f terms imposed upon the enemy; LOCAL BPWC MEMBERS WILL PRESIDE AT DISTRICT MEETING ea t Iowa Burliness and Professional Mercy Flight m i(d) That they recognize the necessity Surrounding Counties Also List Many Men Killed In Action Federated Women’s Clubs a* * one- . establishing ai the earliest prae- a r\* J I r„ron day convention Sunday October t:, aJ date a general international or- P 31 Headquarter., will be th*- Elizabeth ganiZation based on the principle of McElhifiney House. Mr Helen Virden s0^§fejgn equality of all peace-loving of M* Pleasant, cl: riel director will grates and the right of cath t<^ mem- Nine men from Henry couny. have mg accident, been killed in action, killed rn acci- Lee County preside and Mrs Lola Drewer, M ]>ersh p by all states large and small Fairfield F meral service was being r;f*nt- or died during the ore: * rn war Jeff Brown. Keokuk, killed in action. Pleasant will aecompanv her here a.-, jor the maintenance of international arranged today for 5-year-old Rob*-r* according to a lit rd!« ;«--d ve ,f,rday Robert Goodwin. Fort Madison, kid- district secretary. ' peace* and security <a veritable league Hi* ken bottom who died yesterday af- by the Iowa Stat*1 Historical .society, cd in a ton. Other distinguished firsts to I. Qf nations*. ter a Washington, D C. physician Many others from southeast Iowa up- Frank Manley Holler, Fort Madison, in attendance ate Miss Be:tha Zuch.-- only (ar in making a .eftaem mat- , ^ m, ,ilcine whed by air- ,Wil, on lhe u t kill' cl In action. • Des Moines lawyer and state parlia- ter practically impossible. t But not the least phenom.nal aspect liner and highway patrol arrived t'*o t*Wo men from Henry county. Don John A. McAndrew. Keokuk, natural mentarian, Mrs. W. G. Vanderburg late to be of help American Troops Make Boyden, stafe publicity director; and Progress In Italy „ _ . w w wa The child, ill since g. Mil Loa ugh and Donald Tade. who causes, was presented when Mr. Lewis, the ^ ^ & ^ dlsease were Jn accidentSi did not ap- Walter Nye, Keokuk, accident .at Mrs E R. Zike, Fairfield, state mem- supposed iv beloved and iron-willed die- hTmnhaH;, ;_ar 1Ut aa ,f.lpa,, d The fol- home). bership chairman. Miss Zuch will give Max Vesta. Peter'. Keokuk, killed in the address of the morning session 3 Miles of Perekop Moscow. Russia GNS) -»Soviet tanks md motorized infantry plunged northward across the Nogaik Steppes today .reaching a point within three miles cf Perekop where half a million German and Rumanian troops were trapped In the Crimea. Russian artillery unlimbered a full bombardment of the railway line to nip off any enemy detachments seeking to make a last minute getaway. The Soviets swept on beyond the 'own of Gigorievska while in the north sectors other Russian ’roops reached a joint 20 miles south of Nikopol. U. S. Fliers Smash 45 More Jap Planes Allied Headquarters in the South Pacific -Another sci .es of smashing new raids on the important Japanese airbase at Rabul, New Britain, in which at least 45 enemy aircraft w*ere destroyed was announced today by Alg;* : . <INS) — Amuican troops of General Douglas McArthur lymphatic leukemia ' pear on the list as released. The fol- tator o! the miners, p ea e me cc- * Washington physician, Dr. lowing were listed as from southeast lively with his men to go bac tower Gwr?c Kereies, came by comm* rcial jowa. Names of men listed as missing action. For da}^ anc days. they ignore urn I a rUne plane lo DeS Moines at night or prisoners were not included lh, « MI* .lost **-iand ^ uke„ bv a n.ghww palrol- trol <X the miner.? Not in the^slight- ■ ^ ^ Knoxvl)|e whe„ members OI eft. WiK-ii :.<• '■***.( , o e a t Hickenbottom (amiIv met him. - .^j in actlML tao. striker*, (or instance, urging; had ^ ;a!p d,. them to co back, the men simp,, re- comliuom. fused to believe the telegrams were Henry (minty James Francis Burk . Mt. Pleasant, Keller, Mt. Pleasant, un- Roosevelt Demands That Subsidy Payments Re Continued au,h nt,c _ : WALKER 80 ACRES TWO HOT LEWIS WIRFS got no- SOLD TO NEWMAN Where So Mr. Lewis dispatched per-, * _ tonal emissaries to the fields and told | wayne T. Garretson of the read es- M* Pleasant, air Julius known. Edward I. Lang transport accident. Floyd McKenzie. Mt. Pleasant killed in action. I Don E. Millspaugh, Mt. Pleasant B the men the signature.- were valid and tale nrm 0j oarretsan and Garretson ^ ln ac Ujt n Ore. Dale H Pitzer. Mt. Pleasant, Route and Mrs. Vanderburg, the afternoon I Ralph Rogers, Wever, killed in ac- address. . lion. S Invitations have gone out to all the Paul Bernard Schneider, Fort Madi- clubs in the district that include: Ft. ’son, unknown. Madison, Keokuk, Burlington, Mt. 1 John D. Shumaker, Fort Madison, Pleasant, Bloomfield. Keosauqua, and killed in action. Ottumwa. Reservations have been Harry D. Symmonds, Keokuk, killed made for a party of five from Burhng- j ,n action. ton and two carloads from Mt, Pleas- Richard J. Watson, Denmark, killed ant. Around a hundred, including of- in action. ricers and members of the Fairfield ! Walter Wellman, West Point, acci- club are expected. I The order of the day is as follows: congress today demaavding that his. Tile President's message was spnt to I ouiva County ' Registration—IO a rn price control subsidy payments be con-j the House bank and curiency commit- Arihood. Grandview, killed Flag Salute and Star Spangled Ban- Unuei so th®, Chief Executive Says Food Production Must Increase To Win War; Warns War Is Not Won _ Washington. D. C. <INS>—Pres’dent guard against price collapse when the Roosevelt threw’ down the gauntlet to war ends. dent. John J. in action. Lovell Parker McKeown, RFD Letts. causes. without a contras because he had so, Newman wUi take possession March 1st , in often warned them such a practice d 0perate farm in connection ona ‘ * - ------- ------Iu 1 cident, Camp Livingston, La. the nation’s farmers j tee which has voted to outlaw all ner can produce food necessary to win the price control subsidy payments after Accordion Solo—Miss Leotta Grit- ^ar- December 31. 1943. In a 10,000-word message to Cong- in the message Mr. Roost-veil re- less - - the longest since he entered vealed that American and Canadian they should return to work. I report the sale of the Mr. and Mrs. The men then said Lewis was being q walker 80 acres 4’. miles intimidated by WLB or the president, j nulhmBt ot Mt pleasant, to D. W. *. air u*mlU8 ac"lfen„; . that he would never ask them to work J N(,wman of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Mr. ° n uss€ * ' £,'u (killed in action. fiths, Fairfield. ..I Richard Thornton. Oakville, natural Business Session. I Reports. Instrumental music arni community CIarKl that "f00d » as toPO*“nt «« any other weapon rn successful pares® -IlITIPIinn 111 HELiilli. I dlllKUm. j in action. Des Moines County I Van Buren County CHICAGO BLOW Milton a Maul. Burlington, air Bruce Anthony, Farmington, killed Miss Bel tim Zuch. Dc.' Moines food played a vital role in keeping England in the w’ar. He disclosed that by the fourth year the White Holts1? - - Mr, Roosevelt decauses. r ........ would involve them in trespassing uponjwith lhe other land he is now fa,TO'; Pleasant killed* William Robert Williams, Columbus company property. . ing i ° ' Junction, killed in action. I singing. Here you have again growing anorn- inaction. , , | v.n Buren County I Address -Parliamentary Procedure’’ cutlo:‘ of the war’ Ou immg plans of Wcrki War II -our iced production on. „f nm in.ion leading one wav the' . «« n, Alir I)es Moines County I van uuren county , , _ - rv.c UAin« for the greatest food production in. had incieased more titan twice as aly of the unum leading rum AM DI HU/ I A Blau} Burtington# a:r Bruce Anthony, Farmington, killed .-Miss BelrihaiZach. Dee Moines. hist£)ry ^ 1944 . . an increase of | much as it did in the same period of workers striking another—and all in ^ the midst of a war for survival of their way of life. The railroad situation is no less in- AT GAMBLING training accident in action. j Luncheon—I p. rn. Leo Buescher. Burlington, accident Ado H. Blown, Stockport, killed in' Music Fan.it.d B. I. \\ Chorus acres over this year - - the the lac war.” Chicago, 111.—One of the most sweep- tat home). t Marvin Romaine Collins. Burlington. action. Miss Ariel Leach, director, Mrs. E. G. Loren Joe Barker, Keosauqua, killed Limier, pianmst. Miss Wanda Utter- I back, violin obligato. valved, if momentarily less in the / mg gambling investigations in Chica headlines. Brotherhood leaders. Har- go's history was completed Saturday killed in action. mon. Robinson, and Whitney, have when a county grand jury indicted 38 Edward Hancock, Burlington, kin forcefully told the administration the I pei sonSt including high ranking police in action. four cents an hour wage increase and ' officials, gamblers apd former bench- Albert Hartman, Buil.n0t I Forrest W Gibson Douds killed ini Question Box and Open* Discussion in action. * * chief executive said that food “Will shorten t-lie war and w’in a lasting peace.’’ The message also asked for continu- m action. Bryce M. Cain. Keosauqua, unknown.' Address The World In Which W Qt^ cj r}ie Oommodity CredV Coiiior- them.” James K. Campbell, Birmingham,'Llve —Mrs. W. G. Vanderburg. Boy- i den. The President warned that "the var is by no means won," and said that "we must not cn’y continue our shipments over seas but actually increase ution and declared that subsidy will Robert G. Hensley, West Burlington, action. Adjournment. back pay to April I granted by stabil- men of Scarface Al Capone. lzer Vinson after WLB had recoin- I The grand jury's month-long invest!- J Claice A. Osweiler, Bonaparte, killed‘ An inovation will be the Fairfield mended eight cents, could not possibly, gaUon already had resulted in the killed in a . I B p w chorus made up of 16 voices * accepted J sn,pension of (ne poiice caplaina anc, ’ \vaSh,nS,„„ Coiini, from the ices: Cub who wit ap-1 They implied they would lose their five detectives. I on- Kni a a , Barden Washington auto pearing in public for the first time. JOU. as heads of the unions if they, Among the 38 persons named were Ray Frank Lmdbeg, Danville, killed Edwin G. Barden, Washington, auto I .. _______ tried to accent it If they are correct, .police CaDt Frank Malone and Hugh in action. 1 20 < 4,1 mm iv 1 Robert Louts M'Mickle, Burlington, J. Ammon Miller, Kalona, train ac- Arthur Monson Purchases cident in Latin America. Robert Russell, Burlington, killed in Claude Joseph Sender, IN THE END, the government may ■ a,'tif'n klUed m actlon- Mrs. Mabel Mitch; ti leonard Peterson Dies at Burlington taken by death the current union vote, will go against McCarthy, chief of the county highway the government settlement. j police, and Theodore Svoboda, police air training accident. - . chief of the suburb Cicero. | ___ action. Wellman, I John J. Seerley, Burlington, accident Robert H. Shannon, Washington. tin England. Plane crash in Iceland. Father In Death Kenneth L. Shamway. Burlington, ------- be forced to give in tor 5 or 6 cents p|Jer SQn Follows in accordance with the apparent polit} . of negotiating for the best possible j • settlement in each case. In this case,; Vinson rather than WLB. is being Fort Madison. Ia.-John Judy. Jr.. blamed lor the critical, unsettled mess, whose rieathHast Thursday in an army (killed in action. But the steel workers, auto workers. J airplane crash was announced Satin- j Delbert W. Webster. Burlington, and others already have notified the day. was in Fort Madison six weeks nilled in action. „ .. ,irhU. Leonard Peter on, 60, *>f Sw d:s:u~g, Mr.-,. Mabel Mitchell, of South White w . , , „ . died at. (ha Memorial hospital at noon street. Mt. Pleasant, died at the home ; „ of her daughter. Mrs C. A Pratt. 317 ,0df » had m 111 ltfalth •» Masters Building cuiran street. Burhngton. at 11:30 to- paf' 8 , ye . ,, , Surviving are his w.fe, Mae L’nde I - dav, following an illness of one week , . , . . B Peterson, two ,'ons ani a ^aught?” Announcement has ^en made of She is aurvived by one daughter ^ the gale of the Masters Building loo«t- Mrs Pratt a„d a half-brother. Virgil STO,esbu HUd In „ < killed in action. ! Richard Wayne Seuscns. Burlington. Veterans of Foreign Wars ed one block west of the northwest Hobson of Mt Pleasant. ' corner of the square bv G. C. Masters The was brought to I I to Mr. Arthur Monson who will get funerai home this afternoon Buy Bresnahan Building p~ “tr,tly modern ana • The building on the south side of the Davenport; also wo brothers arri two I sisters. Ed of Olds aud Al red of Mt. Pleasant, Mi's Nellie Randolph of Rock Island. 111., and Mrs Josephine houses the Production Credit Associ- RED cross ship Ration, the S. E. Iowa National Farm government that if Lewis and the Bro-j ago to attend funeral services for his j charles R. Bookwalter, Burlington, square and occupied by the Hi-Hat;Loan Association and the Master the: hoods break the Little Steel for-j father, Lee county treasurer, who died killed in action. Cafe, has been sold by James Bresna- j plumbmg Company. The upper floor Jefferson County ban, who has owned the building for I ^ made int0 apartment:-. J. Bean, Fairfield, natural some years to Jacob lies, Agent, whOj it is understood was acting for the SINKS; CARRIED PRISONER MAIL Johnson of Minneapolis, Minn. A brother, Ernest, of Jacksonville. Fla., preceded him in death a week ago. Funerai service will be held at the Luthera n church at Swede-burg at 2 30 p m. Wednesday prec d°d by short services at th*- Peterson resident? The 1,080-ton at 2 o’clock. Lisbcn, Portugal ____ Portugese freighter Padua, under charter to the international Red Cross and the Swiss delegate of the Red Cross. The Veterans of Foreign Wars now; Ottumwa, la.—A 14-year-old boy reported carrying 11.000 bags of mail -Aere reported to have been landed mula (as they already have done in I unexpectedly of a heart attack, effect) the government will be pre-! Second Lieutenant Judy and a eap-' Hairy sented’ with similar demands from’tain from Montana were killed when causey them for increases. I their plane crashed west of Victoria/ George McClain. Fairfield killed in veterans cf Foreign Wars. The consid- Runs Down Girl, Worst of all. no one in the adminis-'I Tex. ! action. eration was reported to have been' Youth To Eldora ration or outside seems to have an ... 1 Done** knu-d in I answer to the problem. My guess is'uni0n movement against a sympathy- action there is no answer, matters having ic government during a desparate Jesse Albert Hyman, Fairfield, killed are maintaining a club room in the was sentenced to Eldora State Training ic Allied war prisoners in Germany, safely ut Marseille cone this far. I world war to protect the bargaining in action. building recently purchased by Mr. cshool by District Judge E. L. Haugh- Saturday was reported sunk by a float- The Padua, which -Ailed f cm Lis- ” The condition must be accepted as freedom of labor and the individual. Albert W. Samuejson. Fairfield, killed wilson Ervin just west of the south- erty here Saturday. A juvenile rtelin- i. . mine off Marseille, France, last bon Oct 12, was making t -Menan eve-opening example of the deli-1 if it does not make sense, it at least in action. vest corner of the square. It is under- quency charge was filed after a car Weckesday. teen th trij^ through th* Mediterranean deucies cf managed economy, the in-' makes America the haven of confused Russell Otto Seaman, Fairfield, killed stood that the upper floor of the re- the boy drove struck a two-year-old Three officers and three men on for the Red Cross and was the fit it efficiency of bureaucracy, and the dif- economic and political currents it is in action. cent!}’ purchased building will be re- child. He stopped but made no effort hut; in the engine room were reported vessel chartered to the Red eros.-, b** fieulties presented by a revolutionary today. ; Harold D. Snider, Fairfield, air train- modeled into club rooms. to take the child to a hospital I: lek Si:.’ n other persons, including sunk in th! war

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