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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 10, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil I ............ Until Jan. 3 Sugar—23 (B*x>k 4) ........5 lbs. Shoes—Airplane I (Bk 3) Indefly Sh ae?-.—IK (Bor*’c I)-—I nde Pl nj telly THE MT PLEASANT NEWS A, B, C, Careen (Bk 4) expire Der. 20 X, Y. Z Blue (Bk. 2) exp re Nov. 20 Meats, Butter, Le rd. etc. G. If, J Brown (Bk. 3) expire Dec. t V OL. IAX I, No. 2ti I\ EIJNKSDAY, NOV. IO, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Navy Reports Loss Of Three Destroyers THE. By-Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features 8yn- lica.e, Inc , Reproduction In Full or n Part Strictly Prohibited.) With County Men And Women In The Service They’ll Do It Every Time- WASHINGTON — STALIN'S VICTORY SPEEt ll gave people here a bet- has enrolled cr undemanding of the Hull-Stalin- school for Women Reservist yeomen on lltler, L. Risker, daughtet (if Mr and Mrs. L W Kerlccr Mt. Union, Iowa, in the Naval Training Edtn declaratioas than the generalize.!, ext cf those documents. He mv lamented them, clearly, calm-y. t onfidently The Impending victory, he said, had reed Russia, and he forecast freedom r conquered and occupied nations of lur ope under governments to be chosen .y then own people which would be his inception of democracy. But h( attributed vie tory primarily to ii-, own collectivixt-socialist system He i id the collectivism of Russian farms n. d pre. cd to bt- a superior system, be-ni it had furnished the necessary f J. This collectivism Is a pooling of d, implements, labor and harvest, a - communism. ,r industry, he said his socialist sys-equalh had prover lt.s .superiority c- ive ; traducing the weapons of war in its clays t transition from peace to war, its oval of vast factories beyond the h OI Nazi invaders alin left no vagueness as to what x* lie vc* in. .saying directly the so-st state has been shown by this w to be the form of organization*’ It )(th peace and war Vhat kind of freedon and democracy h will advocate for other nations, ti e el ore ls made clearer than in the N ;scow declarations His . people ill ti os< countries will advocate collectivism for farms, socialism for industry. The is natural, represents no change j st like us he think his .system is the u t in the world. the campus of the Iowa State Teachers college. Cedar balks Iowa where Tie is preparing to take over the important duties cf a shore-stationed male yeoman. Keith Bender B gip, 17 ear- id on of Mr and Mrs Lawrence B glr 6 )2 E Monroe M Pica. ant. wa- recently an* listed by the Naval Aflat;sn Cad -: Selective Beard of St Louis under its ta -i program for ’he procurement xff 17->ear-old' He will be 18 Nev 19. 2nd Lt Norton W 0.< md Mi O.-e are here for a short vin: with Mr Elma Op- L Og> w • ju t graduated from the aviation .school at Craig F.». ii. S ima. Ala. and h.j; reef).eel hi w’.ng- He expects to r* -his new assignment in a few Two Lost In Pacific, One In Atlantic After Sub Battle Girls Interested In Wacs? Here’s Your (hance Alined Drive To Sweep Japs From Solomons Continues Thank JO CHARLES F KRAFT, MAJOR, USA The Army Air Forces have announced a new rroaram which provides for the enlistment of women directly into the Washington, D. C. < INS)—The loss of two American destroyers in the South Fee.fie and a th.rd in the Atlantic Army Air Cu FUT NOT HALF AS TOUCH AS TRYING TO FIND THE GUV WHO PLACED THE CALL AFTER YOU VE MADE THE CONNECTION / ready with tour call ( TO JOE BLOW AT )DENVER GO AHEAD I MR BIG. NOW I IWL. f WHO big? Va ; NOPE, HE X'A I vt. Ralph Carnahan of Ft St lilt . M;nn . -put. the week end her* a .til Mrs Cima; in GENERAL DEVERS WARNS AGAINST UNDUE OPTIMISM where they will be was announced today .y the Navy, jiven a vide variety cf operaticnal and These lost in action in the South Pa-admlmstialive duties. WACS are a1- were the 1500-ton Henley and the ;eady being trained as radio operators, 21CC-ton Chevalier while the 1100-tcn radio median ch control tower opera- *®cl *e was sur‘k in the Atlantic alter tors, weather observers, photographic ‘Wing two Axis submarines, te:h melons, airplane mechan.cs. Link Mo# dramatic of the three was the trainer instructors, crytcgraphic clerks 1°£S °f Hie Boric which sank a Nazi ana for many other Air Force dune.,. U-boat with depth bombs and then was Since a very high percentage of these damaged fatally while ramming and dillies are duplicated in civil av.ation. slaking a second German U-boat. Cas- it is believed that a g: eat many WACS uo Ii tee en the . iuee vessels we e no* serving in the Army Air Corps will find disclosed by the Navy but it was undercut]; Iv,yment in the air transportation stood that man: we:e saved. Each Warfield after the war. Lt. C. R. McLaughlin cf the Annual Kiwanis Auction Sale To Be Held Saturday County Roads Not as Smooth As Usual Air Force Detachment at Iowa Wesleyan college has bi en appointed AIR-WAC " recruiting officer for Henry county. Info: mation may be secured at his office in Heishey Barracks, at the County Welfare Office, at the Mt. Pleasant Public Library or hem Mr W, S. Walters at Spurgeon’s department store. ship carried a nounal crew of about 200. The Henley was sunk as a fesu of an enemy torpedo explosion son time in October at aa and sclosed s in the South Pacific. London, Frig (INS' A warning that excessive optimism might prolong the war wa- vo.ted \ Lieutenant Gem rai Jacob L Devers, commanding genera! of the European theater of Gyrations, iii a luncheon add ess to the Anglo-Arn* Dean Press Anociation in London Many Articles Being Listed For Sale; Money To Go To Charity and us still supervised by a Kiwanis Those who u-e the count; roads have Tut committee, headed by Warner A noticed lately that -here has been Somers ssefl and ass stance given by other what of a lag in the number of time-, ervice ^ u tilizations. the county maintainers get around to Considerable work has been done to smooth up your roads, help underprivileged and neglected These lemarks are not in the nature '•id en a ire glasses and needed den- cl an excuse but we do wish to cai. Scrap the Jap Drive In County Nov. 18 Thursday, Nov. 18, is going tai and medical care also to see that attent .on to some ta ts which we be- ‘Scrap the Jap" day in Mt. Pleasant anese landing from 31 barges under -urn children have -ufficient milk and dave shcu.d be taken into consideration, according to James O'Connor, head of cover 0f darkness was reported today lo d for u.fir health Kiwanians be- Fu we paused a resolution to blade the salvage effort in Henry County. at Atsinima bav north of the America:# lieve that service of this kind builds up lear; where pcrp-rty owners wished stores will close in Mt Pleasant on held base at Bougainville. to be INTERESTING PROGRAM AT SAUNDERS P.T.A. Th*1 Saunders P T A. met Tuesday thf same to us as afternoon with an especialy large at-We must not fool- tendance After the business meeting, Mrs. Kenneth Nelson presented the proaiam eon Lsting of entertainment by the pupils of Mrs. Miller’s second grade class They first sang two songs: "The Gingerbread Song ’ and "Choo-Choo". #nrif* A havf >l>po ! ' 1 1 * ■ e' -u The I., ti rurt.c jroo 28 Cub Pack 28 and until dis-i disc, children's good used clothing and be but it certainly does not help things address of the owner of the scrap and Foolish; ’ I ...... from our standpoint Bt T IKL BOIN I uh oui people trust understand thoroughly in reading the International news, speeches and declarations is that the words being used d‘» not meal they do to Stalin ishlv de cive out selves. To tis. lr edeni means the freedom of the individual, not collectivism To us, democracy rn* ans capitalism, the t o party »\tein. not one party con -t ii, not 'Ocialism Thus, the I exiffinn- in Russia and the United States Ne one will or can question this sim-j e truth, but some of our people ap-I ate fitly want to pretend, temporarily at least, that it is not so. They say t ley fear offending Russ.a. or of injur-lug the war effort, but Stalin obviously c. -es not think so, because he has stated i s position without pretense, and with factual truths as he sees them. Our people also think our system bas proved itself by this war to be su-1 crier to any othe:. including the col- --- . tivi •:- • >ef .i.. • t tem J though (An RELATIVE DIES leader.' have not stressed the point as much as Stalin emphasized his. The annual Kiwanis Auction Sale, scheduled for Saturday, N. v. 13, will begin a: 1:30 p. rn,, it was announced today bv Leo Kennedy committee chairman. The sale will be held at the PepN-Cola Bottling Plant at th* south*’ better c■immunities. to buy and pay for lock up to 500 CU. j that afternoon and the business men west cornel of the square A special survey by the underpriv- yds. per mile We have used some of and their employees will man the This is the thirl anmia auction lie llegcd child commit* ee last spring the machines for that and thought it trucks and ye out after the scrap which of the Mt Pleasant Kl warn clu being nought to light a surprising number of was gcod business where the individu- a. going to br needed in that last push foi the nurpcse of raising fund lur the ‘ (ase;-, cf unhealthy child conditions, and als gave the public that much. For this against Hitler and Hi. chi to. and (iris and underpriv.legeu the fact that tin- need is as great today we take the responsibility. Heavy scrap is especially needed. DRIVE AHEAD IN SOLOMONS Washington. D. C. (INS/—The A lie . drive to sweep the Japanese out cf the Solomons and New Guinea areas gained momentum a.s developments left no doubt the enemy was suffering another series cf major sea-air defeats. With American forces pushing on Bouga.nviile Island the Jananese are determined, however, to retrin their last stronghold in the Solomons A Jap- U. S. Troops Beat Off Attacks, British Advance fcoy ^ € , child work of th chili All the money in our own community as it ever ha' £ cond, many farmer have had the Automobile motors, old farm machinery, raised is -pent ip thn crmmunity by j been. experience of trying to get parts for stoves and any heavy scrap will be us- the Kiwanis toys and gi.ls and under-; Merchants, professional men. towns- their machinery. County equipment apie privileged child commute* s headed by j j et pie and fanners in the Mt. Pleasant breaks down too and yet farm equ.p- ii you know where scrap is av O B Taylor and John At:, h un. c nim ani tv are asked to help in this ment has a higher priority than county phone the Chamber of Commerce of- The club has sponsored Boy Scout'worthy cause by contributing merchan- road machinery Ibis is a' it should :;ce ohone 432, and give the name and *‘Mv Goldfish* and The Mouse" were given by van as groups. Several pupils took part in a reading Ie son followed by Two folk dance--Mis. R. S Gaier spoke to the mothers on 'he Child of Today in a Po?’-Wai World.” "War means a broken family iif<she said, "and no nation can ever be restoied until the mothers of that nation cai. again establish a Christian family life. The only solution in this .hactic world is to have the parenthood full of divine strength." banded by the war. a Sea Scout troop. I overshoes, baked goods and other ar-The furnishing of milk tc the school tides which will be sold next Saturday children of the lox cr grades was started at the auc'.ion. OVER 233 ATTEND FALL FELLOWSHIP AT METHODIST CHURCH AT BURLINGTON Mrs Dan Coin: received ward Sunday of the death of her uncle, Pres^ Argel, of Burlington. He iv survived by his wife .md two brothers, George Angel cl Galesburg and Babe Angel of Burlington; also an unci . Charles A COMPARISON OF THE WAGES and hours of our workers with those of Russia, especially a> truly expressed in rms of liv.ng such as automobiles, lephones, home electricities, bath-t ms, roads, would show the point leady, although such Statistics are not vaffable from the Russia side due to# .,eir collectivist censorship system. A comparison of the lot of our inde- ndent farmer with the Russian col- Russia was not able to produce enough ctivist peasant in terms of The Fail Fellowship dinner at the First Methodist church Tuesday evening was attended by over two hollered per ans. The program, in charge o. Mis. L C. Shailabarger. presider of the W S C S., who sponsored th dinner, was built on the t erne “The Price of an Enduting Peace." There was alsc a Aeicome talk by the pastor. Rev. George G Hunt. The three speakers of tile evening were Mrs. J I Nelson, Mi-. Will Mi* Claran and Mrs. H M Higby Dr L L W is had charge (f lh 1 ai us k l. in Congressman Abuses Bowles of Bringing Pressure where it mar be picked up. Alsc we are having our troubles rn jt is pointed cut by Mr. O'Connor ecuring man power. One of our main, that this scrap must be gathered up tamer min has just entered the armed and chipped out before wanter snows cervine and other county employees are covet it up. to follow. Let's back up the boys with every The men running the machines want pound of scrap available in Henry to work and they aie anxious to please, county. If they don’t get everything done which ___ it seems they should, remember they. tee, are having difficulties. • Signed* The Beard of Supervisors. Bee,'-on, of M* Pleasant and several nice- and nephews. Funeral service question relating to "Peace," wa' held in Burlington thi- afternoon. which a gr£al many took part Rev. J L Ward gave the benediction. Dr. E. Wayne Hilmer introduced the living aims or food to supply any outside na- new members of t e college faculty. nditions and ownership also would ticns, or even to sustain hoi sell as she cf *hich there is a large number, new atter Stalin’s patriotic argument for would wish. Her fighting task was teachers in the public che:'- anc! n w .realer, but not her production. members of the church. HENRY COUNTY HOME HOLSTEINS HAVE HIGH RECORD Sec. Hull Returns To Washington Algiers. Africa (INS)—British Eighth army closed in on the Nazi operational base of Agnone todav in the drive northward through eastern Italy while 'affable the AnSlo-American Fifth a-rmy beat down a series of German counter-attacks in the west. The Eighth siezed a number cf strategic points in their uninterrupted advance en Castiglione, 23 miles southwest of Vasto, an important Nazi defense point. Allied bombers and fighters attacked Nazi motor transports, gun positions, and other targets in the battle area. The Nazi-held Albanian town of Dur-azzc came in for a new bomber assault. Ranging far to tile north, Flying Fortresses blasted steel-works at Genoa while Liberators hit a ball-bearing plant. wi iii ii n. d c. ‘INS. —secretary Russians Take 89 Towns of Stat, Cordel! Hull’s re.urn to Wash- In ForwarJ Surge Washington. D C. (INS* — Price Administrator Bowies’ warning that retail prices will start to climb January 1st if the administration is forced to -crap its subsidy program was dismissed today as part of the pressure played against Congress. Representative WTol-cctt, Michigan republican, spearheading the Ccngiessicnal drive to end consum- **1 cUb riles as of Decern'er 31 declared of Heai>' County Heme. Mt. Pleasant, the long awaited dramatic meeting withes miles of the important railway june- that elimination of the program would hav8 recently completed official produc- Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Min- tion of Korosten advanced still closer tan records of more than 400 pounds ister Churchill will take place in the to the Polish bo der today, butterfat, the Hoistein-Friesian Asse- rear future ington tpte this afternoon following his tr.umphant success in the Moscow con. Moscow', Russia (INS* — Russian Brattle crc Vt—Two legisterea Hoi- fcience is expected to bring President forces which surged through 80 addi-stein-Friesian co.vs in the dairy herd Roo evelt’s positive word on whether tdonai north Ukraman towns ic within elation of America announces. iffect only the price cl three commod-itie§—meat, butter and milk. ‘‘Mr Be ivies cant clai mthat the cost of liv- ... ing is going up January I except on»_ l U ^higher produce, of the two wa. ENTERTAIN FOR SON, those three commodities,’’ said Wolcott. "That nrobablv would increase the front was a proposed new world order of Jag the the DON’T COUNT ON NEW TIRES FOR 6 TO 9 MONTHS I own system. Tis system did rather well in the Cur way of freedom and democracy Table decora ions were flabs r jar better than expected, and far reduced not only for ourselves bi\i for allied n t en . At ut than in the peace, primarily be- Britain, Russia. China and aff the ic- chung room ase invasion by the Nazi hordes uni- si ting woild. d his country for the first time. Russia pioduced only for her army Jp to that unification in defense of tut we built a five ocean navy, the me. neither the farm collectivist sys. greatest in the history of the world, al- n nor the socialist factory system so the largest merchant marine in all ked very good in the evidence of history, and we did it fast, despite dif- ----- dotage (for which the death penalty Acuities and strikes (none were allowed washington, D. C (INS* — Rubber id to be invoked), in the famines, the in Russia, you may be sure, as a strike ectcr Dewey disclosed today that aiding of cattle, the constant purges there wound draw the death penalty.) though synthetic production is progrcs-nd liquidations. It was not only not Our production is manifestly so far sing rapjdiy tire supplies for civilian Opener, it was not even good. ahead of Russia's as to belittle unfairly motarists Will continue at a low ebb In my on nion. the points in which Stalin's great effort by comparison, a1- ^or al jpast g;x tQ ujne months. In the fourth report from the rubber ivit.g costs for the average family 30 per cent a week at the outset. "This is just part of the pressure they’re bringing on Congress but they’re ret chancing anvbody’s m nd." DISLOYAL JAPS ATTEMPT LITTLE PEARL HARBOR SGI. ORVILLE BOM. M and Mr- C F. Eoal entertained Lady Bess Fayne Piebe with a recon; of 52 3 pounds of butteifat and 15,695 pounds of milk. This is nearly three times the production of the average dairy tow in this nation. The record was made in 323 days en twice a day milking and at the age of 4 years, 9 months. “ The other high producer was Miss ENTERTAIN FOR lies Tritomia De Kol with 195 pounds NEWLY-WEDS of butterfat and 15,211 pounds cf milk, made in 325 days on twice a day milking and at the age of 7 years. relatives and friends at dinner Sunda; in h nor of their son. S;t. OiVille D Bool, woo i heme on a fifteen da\ iurlcugh from Camp Stewart Ga. The Soviet drive fanning out westward from the recently liberated Ukranian capital t f Kiev freed the district center and ra la av station of Borcdyanko 23 miles northwest of the vital Dnieper city. Southwest of Kiev other Russian troops occupied Germanovka where they continued to light fierce enga e-ments. Tule Like. calif. (INS* — Length ta which 16.000 disloyal Japanese went to tho Russians proved superior in the though figures are not available war wert in their bottomless supply Of superior production is winning tills wat, djrector’s office. Dewey told auto dnv-manpowrr and their wilingness to burr\ no le'S than Stalin’s fighting so far. ers they must continue to conserve tire.- anri destroy their own property and Russia is no longer a weak, backward Jn spite of thc fact that ^ree million ;( cl the true situation foi fear that once lives (because none was privately owned nation, but already the third great pow- synthetics will be built next year I ke ours.) create their own little Pearl Harbor on Mechanic Art- in cooperation with the the mainland were disclosed as reports Hoistein-Friesian Association of Amer-i'ouied cut for investigators of the Tule ica. Lake Segregation Center. -------— Former and piesent War Relocation VARIETY HOUR WILL Authorities, aftei telating hitheito m. rvr,r\i/^ t tp » »?r\ xii TR/sT>r!r> disclosed incidents at the camp. DEDICATE BAND NUMBER prompted an amazed Congressman to TO KEITH JEAMBEY accuse WRA officials of having becloud- _ Mr and Mrs. Paul Jericho entertained al dinner Sunday the lollowjh" guests: Mr. and Mrs. Edw in John on Testing .at *ipre»ised by the lo.a of Burlingtcn. Mrs. M.UhilcU Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. Roy Maxwell and Car ! THIRD DEGREE CONFER TED ON LARGE CL/ IS State College of Agriculture and Henry Lodae conferred t ird d r ce on the following candidates j.: ti I. OOF hall Mend iv ever. rf. I Ann cf Ft. Madison. W Ii. Jericho L Bryant. George D utile rf., W R. and Lee Jericho The occasion 'as ’n Hinea Raymond Gis-^r. Basti fftetv rs, honor of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, wh El vin Cormck. Fail Barnes, John N r-were recently married. M s. Johns n row and Carroll Padkv was formerly Miss Georgia Maxwell. Mystic Lodge conferred tie third ---- degree en one candida: D B Th am- CHII D CONSERVATION *\ ^lowing theJde!:"? * rk * mnch r \ n yr yrCTC including creamed chicken, w as served LEAGUE MEE lo tc the largo number cf memb;?rs a". 1 me did Conservation League met cut of town visitor> pre ent. For di- Featured en the Iowa Wesleyan the Ai my took over they would lose "Variety Hour" p; gram over sutim Ft iday. November 5 at the home of Mrs. version games were played. er left en earth. If we try to use pre-Their production only recently came tense, we wilt not deal amicably with e ^ | yyj|| £|ose __*.. tVio Aovmon Vapv Afternoon of Nov. 11 Karl Ellis. Mrs. VV. J. Beil was assist ing superiority after the German her. drives had teen worn down by human Our leaders must stand up for our sacrifice and by Anglo-American bomb- superiority of production and our way ------ in?s of the Reich. cf life, especial y our interpretation of The Mt. Pleasant high s lr. ! _what is freedom and democracy, like grade schools will cLse Thursday f- TIIKN THERE is LEND-LEASE. Stalin does for his. ernocn in cb? nance cf A misfire Day the.:-jobs." Rep esentative Clair Engle. w.LI at 5:15 p. rn. Thursday, Novena-California democrat, declared that ber ll. will b^ a Land number entitle ; ant hostess. WRA officials were trying "to perpetu- -The United Nation' March " Tin Dr. Be I gave a talk on psychology in ate themselves in office." popular ecmpOfi on by Carl K.na. an pc I.tics. Mrs C E. Smith reviewed | Eagle advocated permanent Army Iowa composer, will be dedica: d t th Farents Magaz.ne for November a* d ccntiol cf Tule Lake and the di.-enfran- Keith Jcambcy, by VV F. 3mrth, and membe s did Red Cross sewing l< hi-cment of all Ame icar.-born Jap? oruaniz r. as a t ken of apprcciatire. i vihg til" ;i'o?ram. Refreshments .ho have pofessed loyalty to Japan. cf his w rk in the band. , i c > r ld b the hostesses. Marriage License Issued A marriage license was is tied at t.v clerk's office a: ; rn ocurthcu * h > afternoon to Edwm Olen R vcu n, ' 3 and Wanda Ada Marguerite Huffman, 18. both cl Mourn ruth 111. %

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