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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 9, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS I uel Oil I ........... Until Jan. 3 f ugar—20 iBiKik 4) .5 lbs. Shews—Airplane I I Bk 3) Indef iv Shf.es—18 (IWxh I)—Indefinite!!? THE MT PT .FEASANT NEWS CANNED GOODS A, B. C, Green (Bk 4) expire Dec. 23 X, Y, Z Blue * Bk. 2) exp re Nov. 20 Meat s. Butter, Lr rd, etc. G, II, J Brown (Bk. 3) expire Dec. I VOL, IAX J, No. 263Tuesday, now 9,ms MT. PLEASANT. IOWA 63 Jap Planes Downed In South Pacific THE By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Feature* 8yn acate, Inc., Reproduction In Pull or n Part Strictly Prohibited ) WASHINGTON — I ASKED A KI N It ( Kl FRIEND ol mine who !-> til'* CC I nos lble authority on the people ii not the politics of the state, for an explanation of the astonishing success cl a Republican gubernatorial candidate in that utmost stronghold of the administration since the beginning o: he New Deal, th* .state which has two Democratic senators, one the administration leader In the senate. He re-£\ eel: I ne people are changing over. Jim I 1« \ had it about right in his com- i * nt on the defeat of his Democratic andidale in New York when he said the people were tired and dissatisfied * h what they hate teen getting.” Fhe country, too, is changing over. T. e local results everywhere cannot be a l. fa torii? explained in any other A . ‘ ’he successful Kentucky Republican, ■>. reoil 8 Willis, st what is known in . t it irs as ‘a good man.” He is the I lerly Kentucky gentleman type, a former judge honest, friendly, in the past, the far distant past, when the Re nub beans wanted to win hat border state, they had to put in pl -nty of money Willis had no money. it least not of that size The big mone;, people did not shell out for him, probity were hot asked to, Mr Willis just ambled around the tate seeing people Ax they say in the ncuntalns he let tho people "get the lee! of him,” They got to know him With County Men And Women In The Service They ll Do It Every Time - - - a** Pvt. John VV. Jones 37G701 »I quarters Co. I D. C. Camp Texas. Head* Hood, HEAVENS, NO! TAKE THOSE SCISSORS AWAY I I DON T WANT IT CUT! IT TOOK ME OVER A YEAR rO GET IT THIS A LONG! I..'* following is th* across of IM. Glenn Dean Conrad, Br? r\ A 55th A A Training Bn , Camp Calh n. San Di'-go 14 Calif. Glenn D»-an’. brother, Pvt. I. c. Roger Conrad, w > : ‘ t- i toned near Waco, Tex., has just been i»warded the go: conduct medal for n :e than a year of continued service Roger and his wife, who is also in I xa , reside at dig Washington ave., Waco. Texas. OH(NO-NO'NO! NCT CUT? I JUST TPlM IT? NOT MORE THAN ONE TINY QUARTER OE THE INCH TO SHAPE UP THE EDGES. JUST A TE ENE/- WE ENE V TRIM THAT I all * aw, we, Now wearing the blue and .silver wing of a future Army Avia Don Cadet Joseph Wa\ ne Rich, ay* IT . > successfully qualified for enlistment in the reserve corps of the Army Air Force according to an announcement from the Des Motiles Aviation Cadet Examining Boa rd . He i the son of Mr and Mrs Jo * ph M Rich, of Noble Iowa, and is a .senior at Wayland high .school He will not be called to active duty until becoming 18, and if in school at that time. will be permitted to complete the term providing it ends within xix months after his reaching age 18. Jap Cruiser, Two Destroyers and Five Cargo Vessels Hit Civilian Instructors Are Heroes Without Medals Jap Claim Allied Ship Hit In Solomons -r K i f \ \jz ~&r-' VZ x Raymond Fitzpatrick W ins $50 War Bond Iowa Mines to Reopen W ednesday ( pl. Anna Mari*- Merten*, who s • r the w*«k end with lur parents, Mr . xvi Mrs. El Merten . south of Mi Pleasant, left Monday after tis n to return o Memphis, Term Cpl Merlins Is a m tub*r of the WACS. Mrs. A. 0. Kinney Winner of Second Prize; Second Period Closes Dec. 24 THI ADMINISTRATION Kl SHLD every one of I ta national powers from K nlucky into the threatened final bi *a h Senate leader Barkley and the re en th- cantankerous Happy Chandler s; -nt the last three weeks before eiec-ti n on th* formerly dark and bloody .. cond Some Kentuckian think this w it a mistake too. .lr Roo * veil once p ke in Kentucky a un t Chandler in the early New D aling da vs when Happy wax trying to cr - h the gate of big league politics and et abush the gubernatorial machine he h s enjoyed up until last Tuesday The Democratic candidate was a Chandler it ii.. J Lyter Donaldson. Chandler 1.x one ol the senators who ret®n*»d from a world tour recently with advice for changes in administration world policy which were sharply and publicly rejected by the White House When he and Ba: kiev rushed bar k to K* ntuckv to get into bed together with Donaldson and call for upholding the president .apparently they did not appear to a majority of the voters to be very harmonious bedfellows, but rather just tentatively congenial. Donaldson has been described as an ordinary gubernatorial candidate. In view of this background, the ex-r'anatu tx of democratic national ehair-nan elections results did not involve nation-j ’ issues and haa no national signifi-«nce, wax somewhat lacking, if not r ad. Ration Board to Issue No More Books. I and I! Ne m< re copies of War Ration Books One or Two air* to be .sxued bv th* Raymond J. Fitzpatrick cf 407 South Jackson street, Mt. Pleasant, wa awarded the SJO War Bond for having the largest number of votes in the War Bond Club sponsored by the Mi. Pleasant News at the end of the first six weeks period which closed November 6th. e orc a War Bond than to enter the fresent Wir Bond club. A little effort can easily bung an award. It casts nothing to enter and no expense is re-! quired during the seven weeks Just a I lirle wo: k by yours* lf and friends. Pre. J pare to enter the second and last per-1 iod at once. An entry blank will anp^ar in Thurs-I day's News an I all contestants who en-l ( i by close cf business November 20. wi.I fc* (riven a 'bonus of 1.000 votes. W a' ii lor the entry blank on November ll. Governor Asks O.P.A. To Adjust Coal Prices Re- Mrs. A O. Kinney for any purpose u hauvievver, W. pleasari, was de,.:a„(t K Rogers, chairman of the henry Count , War Price and Ration Board announced today. All stamps in the two books have new exulted except stamp 18 in War Ration Book One. used In buying shoes, and blue sumps X. Y and Z in Book Two, which are valid for buving rationed processed foods. 'These stamps should b£ safe- Route 4, Mi. winner of the second prize, which is a $23 War bond. Jean Jeambev, t.04 East Madison, Mc. Plea ant and MarJvn Jean Adam o: 3OC East Warren St. Mi. Pleasant, were tied as winners of third prize cl $12.50 j it; War Savings Stamps Panthers Practice For Armistice I)av Game The New: ate pr.zts will and guarded against less because local Jeambey and Mi n;:eioi * v ill gi 5 Adam: award nup.i re beth Mix War Saving Sr. >w and cold wil l* d i not hxm-per th* M‘ Pleasant High School Pan-?ht: - Mont ay mg tit as they went thru a spirit - Worton ‘ at McMillan pa k rn prepai att on for the annual Washing t. n-Ml Pleasant Armistice Day f> itfca!! game which this vear will be d pi M M dan park on Thursday j v,;ych wil ten boards arc no longer authorized to re- Stamps in the amount or $12.50 each, place them if lost, stolen or destroyed. The News wish* to th ink the other The shoe stamp will be valid until fur- contestants for their efforts and wishes ‘her notice. If it ever becomes nece>- them success in the new seven weeks sary to set an expiration date 30 days contest which wall continue until De- nctiee will be given to holders for their cern ber 24. guidance. The blue stamps X. Y and Winners in the first period may ccm-Z may be used to buy processed foods pete again but it should be clearly un-through November 20 Blown stamps derstocd that new entry blank rn us G and H in War Book Three are be- be filed in order to be a contestant in ing used this week for the purchase of the second period. No votes counted in items rationed under the rqeat-fats or- the first period will be counted. In o'hider. Green stamps A. B and C .n War er words all contestants start anew and the five man line. Book Four are being used in buying a brand new con test aul ha* just asj \ special feat (ira of the Thursday 7 777 7 pi©cessed foods. good a chance to win the S’O War bond -.ime will be t ,e 'Cid' ” cf the mem- , Frank Walker, that the scattered H I , *. , In response to inquiries as to whether as a participant in th* first period con- bers of the team being t ated on the fielders should continue to keep War test. j 50 yard lino. The Mt. Pleasant High Bocks One and Two in their possession, The News knows of no ea- for way to Soh ol band will maneuver ai half Mr. Rogers said that these covers will - - - f* — * • ‘yle arid first skull well i at two o’clock. • first eleven spent much time ing tgaii t a five man fine. th*' of deft n o used by Washington set up by the second team. Tile par f '.he practice was spent in practice during which tune de-ve lr rn v ? outlined as as change: assignor nt> against L Moines, la. INS' Governor B J h Hickenkx-pcr announ 1 today '-hat ii - tnbe - of Iowa Coal Operators As-f cation have agr" cd to rte pen their . e min as tomorrow m orn .mg. The govevrnor's announcement was made after a conference at his office attended by \ en members of the association. Hicften looper said i agreed to make every effort to induce the OPA to readjust coal price ceilings to meet the I wa situation. H.ckrn]ccp:r la cr announced he had talked by telephone with OPA Ch c. C - r Bow . in Washington and had explained the si nation in the Iowa mines. The governor quoted B. wles as saying he would make a preliminary report by tomorrow morning but that a final decision on OPA ceilings would not be available at that time. George Heaps. Jr.. executive seere -italy of the operri ors’ giuup, said 1.500 j miners a e employed in the mines reopen in- full conformance terms of th: Lewis-lckes with the agreement The chief executive sar: he a1- ) was attempting to arrange a conference with the Appanoose county operator** assoc’atitR which rep: serfs another mine owners group also with idle mil:: s. me and will have special drills fitting Washington will and has reserved grandstand. bring their bani a section in the THI Kl PUBLICANS HAM. won bere recently in New Yolk. New Jersey, hiladelphia, but not by majorities of st Tuesday. The results indisputably jnify that the republican trend start. in the losing Willkie race and two ars later turned into nearly a Repub-an capture of the house, has new- exuded even wider, continuing in the me direction. What was discernible elsewhere can ow be said to be true—even of Ken-ucky. The farm vote seems gone, la-or split, and radicals 'New York City, Detroit) have lost tneir vote-pulling lower. That leaves little to work on. Republican National Chairman Spangle s comment that thi.> means a republican president next year may not be used again for rationing purpose and, when the stamps contained in them expire, they will cease to have any rat oning value for the owner. HOLLINGSWORTH BUYS MONSON PROPERTY RUMANIA FACES POSSIBLE SOVIET ATTACK BY SEA ITH Real EP ate reports tile sale of the all modem hr me of Mr. and Mn. A. R Monson located on South Jeffer->on siree!. to Mr. and M s. A. B Hollingsworth cf near Mt. Pirana' P -session Is to be given March 1st. lost. whatever prestige Mr. Roosevelt but this now has gone pretty far. I would sav the scattered local election results have an unexpected and the deepest possible significance. They seem to cautious observers to be some- j suggest to my mind for the first time what premature, that Mr. Roosevelt may not run fcr a Yet the Republcans now have 26 j fourth term. There is no better po i- state governors in office. The electoral tician than Mr. Roosevelt. The reason vote of these 28 states amounts to 342. he ran for the third term was because which is 76 more than the 266 electoral i he thought he could win without as majority needed to win the next elec- much opposition as he got. tjon I doubt that he would choose to Thus the Republicans do not need to blotch his record or make a useless gain in order to win. They can even martyr of himself in a losing chance, sacrifice a few republican gubernatorial but might prefer, perhaps, to head “an states and still win. international organization” described _ in the Moscow agreements as a hope WHETHER THE PRESIDENT’S per- and expectation of the Big Four na-scnality and unrivaled ingenuity can tions. change this. I do not know. I always That seems to be the real possibility thr ush* war victory would restore; now. The heal hies Ii a gr<. -lying story cf how our Army Air Forces are ripping the Axis apart. There is another part of the story, also gratifying, but not told in the headlines. Its setting is on the other end of the airlines I i,Ute f*> B rim and or Tokyo. The heroes of this story wear no .n dais and get precious little public recognition. But without them our aerial offensive would have been delayed many months—meaning the loss of thousands of American and Allied I iv s before were were in a position to giv ■ more punishment than we were receiving. These heroes are the hundreds of Civilian instructors in the primary flying sc hoofs of the A AF Training Command The primary schools, in which aviation cadets first learn to get airplanes off the ground., are run by civilians on contract with the government. The civilian operators retain and pay instructors, who are also civilians. Not until they get into the more ‘‘military’’ type of flying in the basic, or secondary, stage or training do the cadets receive instruction from Army pilots. Civilian instructors have suffered a number of major and minor annoyances becau : they were not technical-y “in the army,” Many a local draft joartl has apparently been puzzled by his phase Often an instructor was forced to leave his duties and travel hundreds of miles to explain that even bough he wao not “in the Army” he t as doing a job for which the Army— and the country—could never really repay him. Finally, this difficulty was -olved by placing the instructors in the nlisted reserve corps where they are icruiily members of an Army component but not on active Army duty. Counties- times an instructor has existed the urge to choke an old 'nend who asked, “Aren't you a flier? ,Vhy aren't you in the Army?" Civilian instructors have taken a tremendous load off the Army instructs. Most of them have had little or to Army Dying training. But thej .enow Ute fundamentals of flying as well as the "hottest” AAP pilots, anc. cadets must It arn those f undamental;-before they take on the chandelles and figure eights or any complicates ni. it ary meneuvers. Eo the civilians have assumed the 11-important chore of introducing the unpen to the air. AAF pilots are frte to concentrate on the advanced phases. As with practically all fliers, these civilians would rather be in combat than in teaching. But they are needed where they are. Each one can tun. cut scores of new pilots—on the fighting front, he would be only one man. The primary instructors' job is probably the most difficult and nerve-wracking in all of flying training. No-i 'ody knows what a young student will !o the first few times in the air. The ivi’ian teacher must be constantly n the Mort for any sudden error on are part of his student. He assumes he tremendous responsibility of determining whether the cadet can or -mnot become a pilot; for more candidate^ lacking the peculiar combina-fon of qualities of a flier must be 'erdcd out in primary than in any thor phase of flying training. And tile work is deadly monotonous Many of these instructors have thou-mds of fT ing hours behind them, all have hundreds But they must go over and over the simplest fundament-,e pke Ph D’s called upon to teach hiMren their first lessons in read-ng and writing. Innumerable letters from pilots tell ‘hp primary insructors of gratitude for lessons well taught. Every flier mm relates their importance The dx re ■ p "unsung heroes" is a little rit*'. but “unsung heroes” they are. All ed Head juar..e:s ir. the Southwest Pac if c *INS)—The Allied campaign to thwart Jaoanc;,e effotts to reinforce battered southwest Pacific ba ex continued relentlessly today and a heavy new tell was added to the enemys mounting losses Gf-neral Douglas MacArthur announced destruction of 63 more Jap aircraft and attacks on a heavy cruiser and two destroyers in addition to the sinking of five cargo vessels, a corvette, and two barges. JAPS CLAIM ll. S. SHIPS DAMAGED Londcn. Eny. <INS*—The axis propaganda station. Radio Tokyo today broadcast a communique from Imperial headquarters that a score of Alhet; battleships, cruisers, destroyers and transports had been sunk or damaged in a battle in progress south of Bougainville Island in the Solomons since Monday morning. There was absolutely no substantiation of the enemy’s claims which have heretofore been grossly exaggerated. British Eighth Army Moves Ahead In Italy Algiers. Africa (INSi—British Eighth army forces moving up the Adriatic coast to Italy advanced another five miles today to reach the vicinity of the Sangro river Limited advances were scored by the Fifth army in the west, which was impeded by heavy rains. The Eighth army advanced along the entire front in eastern Italy. Among the localities captured were Torino Tag-lieta, six miles from the coast, and Torrey una, 24 miles inland. Knox Says Japan On Brink of Disaster Washington. D C., (INS*—Secretary of the Navy Knox asserted today that the Japanese are in a more critical position than they have eve: ueen previously in the south and southwest Pacific battle area. He intimated that the enemy may be facing another military disaster. "A conservative survev permits us to say that the Japanese ale in a more critical position than they ever have been before in that area, Knox said.’" "Now it is no longer a case cf hoid.ng their positions but one of actual survival in the soutli and southwest Pacific battle zones " Churchill Predicts Germany’s Collapse in 1944 London, Eng. (INS)-—Nazi Germany may crumble under the Russian offensive and Allied air attacks, tut England still faces the threat of all-out assault or even attempted invasion before the “climax” of the Euiopean war in 1914, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today. Speaking as honor guest at the annual Lord Mayor’s banquet in the Mansion House. Churchill extolled the Russian onslaught which for Hitlerism a id Prussian military might ma well prove mortal." His speech bristled with confidence— not only in eventual victory but in Britain’s physical and spiritual ability to sustain whatever staggering reprisals Adolph Hitler may be planning SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FOR SERVICE MEN HILLSBORO TO OBSERVE ARMISTICE DAY DISASTER IS NEARING for the Nazi satellite states of Rumania and Bulgaria as the Red Army plunges headlong ’toward the border of Rumania. 150 miles away, after capturing Kiev. This map show's how the two countries may be attacked by both land and sea, as Black sea ports are opened ag an to the -P.U3..an fleet so that it can co-ordinate attacks with the rapidly moving Army. (International) Hillsboro. Iowa, Nov. 8—An Armistice program will be presented at the • yni on Thursday. Nov. ll, by the Hills-re school in cooperation with the Antc'ic" n Lor ion. Tho public is inv.ted. The United Service W men : I tho auxiliary of the V F. W are collecting scissors, tweezers, pocket mirrors and such items as can be used in equipping kits for men in th** aimed forces. All articles will be reconditioned. Anyone having donations plea * lea' ^ nm*’ with Mrs. Anna McCabe at Spurgeon* store. Mrs. J bn Lawson o* I iwson > plumbing shop Or at he Re Cress looms. The B P. VV club ;s colic ting c -tume jewelry, stub as clip*, pins. et:., these too, will be reconditioned and sent to the bey u service be used in bartering with rive nanves fcr fool or other articles, when ; hey land on foreign soil. Leave d 'n;-* tic na w. i Mrs. Iva G. Holland rn the social welfare office at ‘ne courthouse

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