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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 27, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Furl OII I ............ Until Jan. 3 Gasoline No. 9 Expires Jan ZI Sugar—29 (Rook 4) expires Jan 15 Shoes—18 and Airplane I (Bk. 3) THE PLEASANT NEWS CANNED GOODS A, B, C. Green 'Bk 4) expire Dec. 20 Mea's. Butter, L^rri, etc. G. If, J, K Brown (Bk 3) expi.’t Dec. 4 L 14 own (Bk 3) Expires Jan. I VOL. LXXI, No. 278Saturday, November 27, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA THE* i110. By Paul Mallon R.A.F. Bombers Batter Berlin • Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate. Inc., Reproduction In Full or hi Part Strictly Prohibited • AAA Elects Officers And Committees They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Campbell Reelected at County Meeting WASHINGTON. — BERNARD HA Ki t ll s DENIAL that the peacetime business conversi rn pol.cy. which he i devising will provide for supervision bv WPS, trace ba k to a private meeting he had here with representatives of _ the steel industry. AAA yopresentalives from the townie was supposed to b" a very secret si ups of th*- county reelect* d Glenn P. meeting, but some ct the steel j> ople Campbell a.-> chairman ol the county (DOOD OLD BUTCH (NOU KNOW BUTCH ) LAST NIGHT IN PRACTICE HE PUT ZZ PLACEMENTS IN SUCCESSION RIGHT SMACK BETWEEN THE GOAL POSTS Tty Jack forepaw, Oklahoma city, qki a M " I x DEATH TAKES AGED WOMAN .Mrs. N. P. Johnson Was Nearing 100th Birthday M N P Jo men, pre ba bl Herr’ j county's Olde t resident, died at tin heme of her daughtei Mrs Anna O t-berg, at Old early this morning. Mrs. Johnson wo uld have m en 1(X) years old 'n her next birthday in June. She wa, born in Sweden and came ta the United States ‘in 1866 <• tattling a’ Lockrid2f She moved to Old-. 40 years Stuttgart Is Included In New Raids Soviets P^nort New Gains On That Front neglected to keep it that way. and their mfe interpretation of Baruch remarks reached certain business trade papers The wording of the Ba rue.> denial made it appear that he story came from some of Donald Ne! ems pool ic. tv men. but there I*- no indication that Nelson wants to talte over the conver-e ion job * London. E g 'INS* R val Air Firm comber., operating in very great trength, battered the Reich again last AAA, Max Kauffman as vice chairman and Fred Old! us the regular member at the meeting ’.iii:- morning Floyd Beery was reelected first alternate and F ritz G Mayer was elected second alternate, the only change In the county setup Mayer .succeeds Harry O. La lifer at Mt Union Miss H* den Fitzpatrick w its reelected secretary-treasuief. Campbell’s sugges'ion that he not be reelected because of the pressure of his 1 own farm work and also because of his ervice was overruled The ta k will b~ as difficult as the conversion of industrial plants to war The problem oi every individu ti plant many /ears of will differ in some respect Be. t pie- by ti;* group, ture of the situation has been pre ent- Township commit ee ed by Chryslers president, K T. K* ler Bot TODA'T IN THE 5>iG GAME WHERE EVER/ POINT COUNTED, WHAT DID WE do? we're ashing you WHAT DID HE DO ? “TS I Bt \ ^ GOOD OL’ BUTCH Oh-h-h-hm ago Mr^ Johnson had been totally nigh* and left stared and bomb-«.-arr-■d He sir wed the George commute' that C. rj ier has converted 18 000 of it. 20000 tools to war work and today ha* 1922" tools owned by the government. These government tool will have to b* cleared from the plant before Chrysler can start to make automobiles again the tools? differ little from last year following the elections j of Friday evening. Those named are listed in the following order: delegate alternate delegate, chairman, vice chairman, third member, first alter-1 nato second alternate: blind 'he pa t eight years. Cf V e five children, only M-s. Cst-berg survives There are IO grand- Berlm writhing under the impac* *f add! icnal hundreds of tens of explosives, the air mini try announced to- children, 13 great grandchildren and day two great-great grandchildren. The body will remain at the Crane The railway hub of Stuttgart in southwest Germany offered heavily Funeral Home until the funeral ar- from rangements are made. weighty a: ault by another cf Briti-h fcur-mcturea County Alen And Women In The Service Mrs. D. IL Coffman LOSSES HEAVY Youth Sentenced; Taken Bv Death AT TARAWA Resists Officers PBS Baltimore: William H Parsons, Corliss F Williams William H. Parsons Johnnie L. Lyon, Corliss F Williams Then what to do about Henry Pr< hm Herbert Beyer. < anaan: Fritz: G Mayer. Harry O A/C Harold R. McDowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDowell of Salem, has *ommenced the Army's Primary Flight training course at Thunderbird - * 777 7 j . TTT ... .. Field No. I. Glendale, Arizona, and Had Keen III The Last Several es at Ta*.™. .Delayed.-Bloody, ban- Four Assist In <iui«tinK Myers madc hls flm wl0 night ,he Months ciaged heroes of the United States matin1 . have broken t e back of this .:zard-shaped Japanese Gibraltar of ev- the Gilber i.-lands after 60 hours of In Court past week. Enlisting in Des Moines, March strong force bombers Fires s”ll bl zed in Berlin, en which the mam asm. ult was centered, as the British airmen swept in over th" Nazi capital to punch it one step nearer prostration. , The new' bombing of Berlin, the fifth con ccutive night blow, was well concentrated and re* uming fliers said the attack wa; “most effective” The raid was the sixth in nine nights. Planes cf the bomber command also placed mines in nazi-controlled water, while Intruders carried out widespread raids against nazi airfields. The large-scale operation, cest the THEY CANNOT ALL bf auto use but iv aid Chrysler would buy some, and the government may will to use others in arsenals. Ob-rieuriy. the government is gung to be- j{a; come involved in me greatest secondhand industrial junk business of all time. Certainly, this situationi calls for a deer. immediate declaration of policy and the beginning of tremendous detail work of handling individual plant prt blends While WTB has experts with better knowledge of conditions than anyone Mrs D B Coffman, ill the la t ev- the Gilbert Islands after 60 hours of A routine court procedure tack a Lauer Fritz G Ma er Ham O Laucr 'raJ mor;t : ‘- d.‘*d at 8:30 this morning the TOUGHEST FIGHTING IN THE sudden exciting turn this morning at Burlington h p.tai where ■ he had CENTURY-AND-A-HALF HISTORY when the youth wh: had ju t been sen-been a patient the la t six weeks. She OF THE CORPS. tenced put on an exhibition that wen - became ill last May and was a patient in a four-hour push supported by ually involved four officers—two from at the Memorial hospital here a few naval gunfire, strafing and dive- the county, a state agent and a citv weeks. bombing, the marines cleared the vital officer. She is survived by th re- daugh et . air "trip and confined the Jap defend- Denn Myers. 17, re ident on East Mr.- Don 8*rack Burlington; Mrs. era, —Tcjo’s corp-, the Imperial marines Washington, Mt. Pleasant, sentenced to Margaret Fett, Donnellson and Mr —to the islands tapering tail and to the state training school at Eldora by Lyon Fred -I Stuekerjuergen Ralph ; Mildred Ney wander. Des Moille-. H»-i a small blcck-house pocket on the north Judge Paul H MoCoid suddenly an- A Myers, Marvin D. Hunting Jefferson: Max L Kauffman, Allen 27, 1943. he was sent to Omaha, Nebr, . , ’ a ’ : brmber command thirty-two craft, and then to Santa Ana, Calif., for his pre- flight work. one Intruder plane wa, lost. PS Neil C Rasmus. Albert L Wick, James ^inverted to w Helphrey Center: Otho L Joe. James H Monger James H Monger. Lester D. Selmer man. Marvin N Cornick * Chester C, Merton W Wright. Jackson: Jesse E Frary, Marvin D Hunting. Jesse E. Frary. Wilbur H R Meyer Max L Kauffman. Allen R Meyer, Clark Everts Sam J. Elder, David F Meyer. Marion: Arthur H Anderson. Wil liam J Baker, Arthur H Anderson husband preceded her rn death .several coast, years ago The body Is at the Cooke* Funeral home and the funeral will be held on Monday morning at 10:30 at the Methodist church. Mt Plea .int Burial will be at South English. corp. Charier. Thompson and wire Report Disorganized visited this week with relatives and « .. in I* fri nos in Salem Charles, who has strike In D6riin been with the army in Italy, was re- New ^ or*c- N.Y. < INS)—The repeat- cently returned to the United States ec* Allied bombings of Berlin have re- and has been in a hospital in Memphis. suLed in a huge disorganized strike in Tenn., for trouble with his back. At German capital, the British radio present he has a thirty day leave. declared today. • Heavy penalties have been threat- Pvt. Robert Graves, who has been London said, in a broadcast heard Large Attendance At Aviation Meeting else. much better than the army and William J Baker. Robert L. Young navy for instance. Mr. Baruch probably will recommend creation of an Gilbert D. Lauer. Leo F McCormick. New London: John J Fitzpatrick, De Moines.—“You've got to do you" over-all body rather ti van designation Hatton Lynn, John J Fitzpatrick Balei any .specific government bureau jston Lynn. Clarence D Pennebaker This also seems to be the prevailing Edward C Coe, Joe VV. Edgar purpose1 in Senator Georges committee Salem: Floyd R Beery. How ai a S where a statement cf policy will be* turkey. Floyd R Beery. Howard S the form of a law and Burkey, Harry T. Cooper. Roy A White. George Dewey Hobson, Scott: Plinnie A. Lyman. Fred A. Farm Gasoline Allowance Proposed man_°f th? civil aeronautics board, to id Warren AUen and city Officer Jame nounced he w.uld not go to the training school. As Myers clenched hill h mc: _ a ._ .. . i.,, visiting wtih his wife. Mrs. Betty ™ L fists Sheriff Manning Cline locked his w -pw, Graves at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Prary, has returned to his*camp at Fort Dix, Va. Lt A. L. Carlson ha" received his assignment as an instructor in a motor HL- address is Ll. A L. C&rlson O 1183479. Btry. i "A” 33rd Bn 8th Tug Regt. F A arms around Myers to hold him. wejut down on the floor and Myers, a hU"ky with Golden Gloves boxing tournament experience, began wriggling and squirming to get away. War production and transportation were believed to be effected. Judge McCoid, who was just leaving h tt F ob., thinking frash in the new air ag-.’* L his chaiji &aw the situation, hurried1 batter> Welch Po**. Washington. D C„ chair- fiwn.talre and Mnt up Deputy Sheriff written in the form oi a recommended for passage to congress. Only extremely generalized rules can be laid down, however, in view of the Lauer. Plinnie A Lyman Fred A variety of conflicting "ituations in Lauer, Ka^l W. Kneen, Fred E. Klop-plants If the problem is messed up by fenstein. Wm. N Ringland bad management, it will dangerously Tippecanoe: Fred E Beck. Fred L accentuate unemployment difficulties, Oldt, Edward W. Breazeale, Ray H force continued rationing and delay our. Dean Clarence S. Peterson, Fred L return to normal. i Oldt. Sidney Smith. the first Iowa aviation conference Fri-- day at H tel Fort Des Moines. Seven gallons of gasoline for corn Those cf us who do not set out land” kx gallons for soybeans, three thinking to the forces which will bo gallons for small grain were the tenta- brought into play by ij” Pogue. 44 I live standard" for farm “off the high- -corn at Grant, la., said, “will be left I way" gasoline allowances agreed upon, behind in the march of progress. They were set in a conference be- -cities which do not plan in step tween Rae E Walters, office of price With postwar air transportation will ■ administration <OPA> chief for the become literal ghost cities State; and Des Moines district and A J. Loveland, nations will draw their future commer-"tate AAA chairman. rial strength from this new transporta- Jamison. who were rn the building In that brief time. Sheriff Cline realizing that Myers was about to get away, called to State Agent Sam Kelly, who was outside in the corridor Kelly rushed in and gave a helping hand and Repl. Tug. Center Ti, Sill, Okla. «» Clarence C. Unkrich, son of Mr. and Mrs Harold Unkrich. was sworn in at the U. S. naval reserve Midshipmen'-school. New York on Tuesday Th^ , , . ceremony took place at the Cathedral . . . . . . , Allen and Jamison arrived seconds later . _ . _ . .. TT - . . tsh las. night , _ . oi Saint John the Divine. Unkrich. a ic- help out also Myers was handcuffed w n Ment was one of taken back to the fan and was to be | [5 selected ^ parR M. ,lava. Berlin Residents Camping In Woods Stockholm Sweden <INSi— Thousands of bombed-out residents of Berlin now are camping in woods surrounding the Nazi capital, travelers from Germany reported today. Undoubtedly the exodus from the city, a quarter of which already lies in mins, was accelerated by the newest bombardment carried out by the Brit- taken to Eldora this afternoon. He had been arrested Thursday in connection with the theft of money ."Chool. to go to New York for the examination and wa" the only one to Soviets Near Vital Rail Junction Mosccwv Ru"-;:a (INS)-—The van- is used in tractors. Walters explained ing wlth the physical changes already *77*“ “7 tTtPmen-T-7t"he h id dress is' Mldshipman Ciarence c Unk" gUard 1 a R?ci Army columa mafh' Trenton: Clifford H Wilson, Peter! addiUonal allowance-, would b- here - i,an> aid gau a .uu.un, u. . rich. U. S. N. R. Midshipman’s School, mg northwest through White Russia H MilLspaugh. Clifford H. Wilson Pet-' granted for engines used in feed grind- Attendance astounded those who Ho 'John JaV Ha:i- BlIlel New Y-rk- ffom ,CaptUred Gomel was rep:rt^ to- Most “off the highway farm gasoline tion. We must catch up in our think- ^rojr T Honrv county Supply com" §ain admi*ssion the ac1* ticoH -in t roofnrc WuHurc PYlllflinpH :__J.. ^ ...... . _ astounded those who THU DEMOCRAT IC ongrfwsion* er h Mlllspaugh. How ard P Watts. lng *ater pumping, washing machines piallnK| the meeting. Among the 400 rebuke of the treasury and the ad- Everett Scarff. John 8. Wagler. : and the like. who came were 29 airport manage!-. 25 ministration in the new tax bi., is not j Wayne: Victor L. Olson. Carl R OPA officials frequently have said members of airport committees, 46 difficult to explain Carlson. Carl R Carlson, Y ictor L. ~ j farm gasoline allowances during the members of the civil air patrol, 14 Cost of government, estimated iii goo, Ed E. Miller. Raymond G. Baker. J pas^ growing and harve ting season the budget for this fiscal year, wa james F. Hawbaker I1C6.000.000.000, but expenditures have been running so far only at a rate of $90,000,000,000 Tile treasury has revised its own estimate of tax receipts up to $45.000.000 COO. TODAY’S MARKETS ( ll IC AGO LIVESTOCK Chicago IU. 'INS)—Hogs. 8,000 So tile administration goal of raising market steady; top 13.75; bulk 13.00 to were excessive in some instances. Local AAA committees will make gamine allotments beginning Dec I Walters emphasised that the allowance standards "are not rigid.’’ of the civil air patrol, newspaper editors. 33 chamber of commerce secretarie-. 31 other chamber officials. 22 mayors, 25 other city officials. 33 college presidents and high school superintendents, eight pilots and ing in juvenile court, he wa- .-entenced to the state reformatory until he Is 21 j ears of age, or until such time as h is paroled. 27, New York 27 Persons Hurt In Train ( rash Extend Quail Season 15 Days: half of the war costs through taxation 1375; heavy weights 13 60 to 13.To; KflV Ts already is being realized even without medium weights 13.75; light weights! J J this additional S2.140.COO.OOO bill Ob-,12.75; packing sows 12.50 to 13.00; pigs Infill tiff III K'lplfl Mously. there is no need for ti)" 7 qq ^ 110o. I UU1IU 111 $10,500,000,000 tax increase which Mr. cattle, 500; market steady; calves j Morgenthau and his experts demanded l00; market steady: beef steers good of congress. For this reason, the bill will go skimming through tile senate as well as the he use. The Prr.ident no doubt will sign it, as a veto would be useless. THE HOUSE BAN on the administration food subsidy plan probably will Davenport, la. * INS)—An Investiga-ahd choice 15.00 to 16.75; common and j tion was under way today in the death medium 14.00 to 15.00; yearlings 12.00 j of twelve-year-old Rodney Allen York. three members cf postwar planning committees. Keep your thinking cap on" wa> th" informal theme ot the entire meeting.1 Speaker after speaker empha.-ized the necessity of keeping in step and at the -ame time counseled against overbuilding, going into debt, and expecting every citizen of Iowa to have an airplane. Des Moines. la. 'INS)—The Ic Wa Conservation commission announce. , today extension of the quail sea on for I day in front line dispatches to have truck Within fifteen miles cf Zhlobin, vita! rail junction of the Gomel-Minsk line. The Russian.", smashing forward swiftly v on the h"ei.> of Nazi forces thrown bick in fu’l retreat from Gomel sought to cut off the enemy route of escape in a pincers movement. San Bernardino. Ca!. (INS)—'Twenty- j fifteen days, carrying the si.: on thru Describe Capture seven persons were injured today, five Dec 15, in the thirty five counties cri? to 16.25. Sheep, 8,000: market steady; medium and choice lambs 14.00 to 15.00; culls son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Y ak of Bettendorf The body cf the boy was found in a of them critically, when a helper engine of the Santa Fe main line plowed into the Union Pacific Chicago-bound Challenger at Cajon Pa.'S, ten miles north of San Bernardino. Two coaches arui two dining cars of the eighteen-car train were hurled from the track but did not overturn. inally opened on Not, I of Tarawa Pearl Harbor (INS'— The invasion and subsequent capture of Tarawa iii the Gilberts was described today as a SCHOOL FUND CASE strictly ‘blood and guts operation’’ by _ Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson, marine raider officers of Guadalcanal fame. ACQUITTED IN KEOKUK and common 13.00 to 14.00; yearlings I field north of Bettendorf last night 11.00 to 12.50; common and choice 'after 'he lad failed to return from a ewes 5.00 to 6.75; feeder lambs 11.00 to j hunting trip with three other youths 12.00. Income Tax Representative j Coming Here Next Week SHOWER FOR -I MISS MARY COMSTOCK Keokuk. la. (INS)^—Anna Cavanagh, former teller at the State Central Lank of Keokuk, stood acquitted today of an embezzlement and false entry charge in connection with the Keokuk public school savings account. 1 A federal jury returned a verdict las;, COLUMBIA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY A bullet w'ound was found in the stom- A reoresentativp of th" ccll'ctar cl Miss Mary Comstock was honored at a . a repiest mal ive 01 in c.u cur rn . . , ., ; night of not guilty after five hours de- New York revenue office in Des Moines will be at bridal shower Fnday evening at the 1... not necessarily kill H(>& MARKET ,Kre, station, I ach and believed to have caused the — ^ ^ jn m on ^ Comslock nome with Misses Veda Egli liberation. Market steady; tcp $13 35; 160 to 180 j death. 14 votes I J**- $U 50 t0 $12 50; 190 10 330 lbs - $12.70 to $13 35; packing sows $11.70 to doxical though this seem. The house majority was higher than the two-thirds necessary to over-ride a presidential veto. But j $12.00 when the White House turns pressure5 <plra e 0411 en the Democrat* to sustain the Presi- t0 lhe mai et) dent in the end. they may be able to win over 14 or more. They usually can get the votes when the issue is that close. Ti e senate majority may not run as high as the house, and the prospects1 ii a fwc-thirds majority there are even! slimmer. The odds therefore favor the President in the final analysis. * before bringing youi LOCAL MARKETS Eggs—40c. Sweet Cream—52c. No. I cream—51c. No. 2 cream—50c. Heavy Hens—21c. Leghorn Hens— I9c Heavy springs—23c Leghorn springs—20c Cox—16c. ASKS FOR GUARANTEE AGAINST BOMBING 2 and 3 to confer with interested per- j and Dorothy Comstock acting as host sons regarding their 1943 income tax j esses filing. Brother Killed In Italy Games were enjoyed and a mock wedding was performed. N. Y (IP®)—Columbia today declared war on Germany be-e .esc of “repeated sinkings” of Columbian vps:els by Nazi U-b'iats the radio Santiago de Chile announced. The Washington, D. C. (INS)—It was learned authoritatively today that Pope Pius XII has asked the Unifed States. Great Britain and Germany for definite guarantees that the Vatican will not be bombed again by the air forces oi any of the warring powers. This move followed the bombing oi the Vatican by an unidentifed plane on the night of November 5. Important Notice For VHC)—U. S. O. Hostesses, Jr. & Sr. VHAT—A Meeting with Captain Cowan, WHEN—Monday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. WHERE — U.S. O. Central States Bldg. Wayne Haushalin of Salem, has re- broadcast wa- heard by the FCC Mrs. Isaac Van Tuyl poured at the ceived word of the death of his half Columbia is the twenty-r.ir.r c it. tea table which w'as decorated in blue brother. St, Sgt. Leland McDonald tr> t0 deciare war against Nazi Ger many. and the third Sauth American 4 Staff Sgt. McDonald is survived by ^public. Brazil and Bolivia haring pre- ceded her. Marriage License Issued bride-to-be. The honored guest received many his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John lip-lovely gifts. Twenty guests were pres- Donald, Eldon, la., one sister, Mrs. ’ ent to enjoy the occasion. Berlin Johnson of Ottumwa; two half- Miss Comstock will leave here Dc- sisters, Mrs, Earl Bennett, Marshall- __ cember 25th for Santa Ana. California town, la, Mrs. Lewis Lash, Min neap- j a marriage been • ’.as 1. ue1 a* where she will become the bride of ohs, Minn, two half brothers, Roscoe courthouse today to Raj burn Dane Tames C Stillwell during the holiday Haushahn. Peoria, 111, and Wayne p?ge. 35. Milan. Mo and Ethel BUza- eason. Haushahn of Salem, la. beth Beerier, 25 Mt. Pleasant,

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