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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 9, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Fuel OU I (new) until Jan. 3 Sugar 14 - Through October 31 Shoe Stamp 18 good indefinitely THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS ( . V. VV Blue stamps expire Oct- 20 C, D Brown Stamps expire Ort. 30 I Gasoline A No. 8 expires Nos’. 21 VOL. LXXI, No. 237 SA I I ROW, IR I , ‘I, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA TWN By Paul Mallon Soviet Armies Beat Down Nazi Attacks (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate. Inc., Reproduction In Pull or (n Part Strictly Prohibited.) Muskies Slap I Panthers 19-7 They’ll Do It Every Time — WASHINGTON — THE BERLIN PROPAGANDISTS he aided he landing of their parachutists on Kus Is ' land as a great offensive through I which their bombers eventually might range to Cairo and cut our Suez trade ! canal route. The fact lh shat the nazis, have insufficient bombers to cut anything anywhere. They cannot even make a showing in their British night raid* 'Hi** battle cf the little islands oft Turkey is only a s ramble for control of guard posts of th*- C*nral Agean Sea If we wanted > send in a argo terce, we could easily clean out any German occupations, but it hardly is worth that much trouble. The British and American fleets control all the water around tile inlands, so they will be prac‘;cally useless to th*' Germans for any purpose, even if several are occupied. (HiMer picked out the e fly specks as Objectives solely for horn* propaganda effect Tile attack merely measure the extf*n’ of Ce: man desperation in .search for some victory to feed the home people. Til** condition of the German an force likewise is growing desperate A significant veld is evident in the communiques from the Italian Iron' M**n- Locals Score First; Relax Momentarily tion of any German air force activity counter. The Mt Pleasant Panthers lost their Little Six game at Muscatine Friday evening by a 19 to 7 score after starting off with a powerful offensive. In the opening minutes of the game,; the Mt, Pleasant bove had the Muskies back on their heels and It looked like a Mt. Pleasant victory would be easy The fighting Panthers relaxed from fighting after those first minutes and joined everyone else but the Muskies in thinking th** up-river team wa conquered Thus came the downfall of the locals At the outset, the Panthers took th* kick off and by the aid of ground J gain. by Anderson and Clawson nd a pass from Shook to Cottrell, scored without losing the ball. They made the * xtra point That powerful drive looked bad for Muscatine The Muskies were undaunted, however. and started putting in some lick.-for themselves and before the Panthers had recovered Muscatine hadj rolled over three touchdowns Long runs, passes md consistent short gains were put together to make the Grain Dealer (liven Parole Beat Down Nazi Attacks Sentenced On Each ('mints of Seven Russians Advance On Wide Front can seldom be found. SIMILARLY, IMERI! AN BOMB ERS ow: t ,*• Rhineland claimed to have shot down around 75 nazi planes in a single iecent night. Plainly through th* se facts can be •♦■* n Hitler's concentration o! his last air strength a* home, and the fact tha it is taking a terrific mauling there. Uast acceptable figures here count Hitlers pre*ent plane production a; about I 200 a month (somewhat over the 1 000 figure generally u *d> But his losses have been more than hat All that happened in the early part of the first half Til** scoring ended and both teams fought a stubborn battle the rest of the way. Coach Ekstrand used his regular lineup in the fray. Car Crashes Into MISS virginia jay Bridge On 218 and ft. jay MOOREHEAD ---MARRIED FRIDAY Three Boys Escape Injury In _ Accident , yjif wedding of Ms Virginia Jay, --I daughter of Harold J*v and Pvt. Jay _ , , , _ ... , iM. Moorhead, son of Mrs Mary Moore- Three local boy Bobby William „ .head was solemnized at the First Bap- en|tist church. Friday niuht at 8 o'clock The bride was given away by Combines Operating In Soybean Fields ; Des Moines, Iow*a (INS)—Ed Gret-J tenfcerg, Dawson, Iowa, griin dealer, J today was placed on a three year na-* Moscow, Russia (INSf—Samlet anomie after receiving sentences of a year ies surged heavily forward today along and one day each on seven counts for the vast Russian front and b**at down , OPA grain ceiling violations. Federal repre ited nazi attacks to widen newlv-i District Judge, Charles A. Dewey, be-' won bridge heads on the west bank fore "Whom Guttenberg had pleided of the strategic Dnieper river. ' guilty last month said in pronouncing t The Soviet high command reported ‘sentences that they were “to serve more than 6,000 Ge.mans were slain 'as an example rather than as a pun-jin battle action extending from the Lhment ’ J reaches of the central fiont to the At the same time. District OPA Taman Peninsula in the west Caucas-i I 'Council Donald Holdoegel said the us. ;OPA will bring civil action against An unsubstantiated report from j Guttenberg, seeking triple damages as Stockholm said that the .spearhead of I provided in ceiling regulations on the the Russian army driving westward amounts of overcharges. , from the Velikie Luki area was now 1 H oldoegel declared that oveicharges within ten miles of the former Latvian I to the amount of $11,200.00. have been border. ! shown and that the civil action he1 ---------— * plar against Grettenberg would be for (herman Cities 5133 60000 RI t JI DAC I He said 1,000 bushels of corn were blasted DV A Ar involved in 1,000 alleged illegal sales,* London, England (INS)—Berlin, Bre-|and he charged hat 929 fa..->e entries men anc] Hanover, targets in the inhere made in Guttenberg* books. . d us trial Buhr valley were blasted by Guttenberg'S attorney contended; Royal Air Form night in the advised” by dealers I that he was “ill . who contended 'were illegal. that grain ceilings Beans and Corn Drying Re-1 markably Fast Revise Burlington Combines are in cperai.on in many j fields harvesting th** soybean crop j her which has matured remarkably fast j J Army Proceeded In Movie Work With Precision Tommy McCabe and John Scarff escaped serious injury Friday night wh the Williams car crashed toto a steel bridge on highway 218 south of the Ainsworth totersectlon The car whirled around facing north and turne dover on the side. The ma-, . , ,. . m „ . . , „ I the bridegroom waa—best man. Joan While low reports have been re- chnw* was badly damaged, but the boys ’ I * * Moorehead ups ring bearer, Roberta ceived on yields because very few Area Employment Stabilization Plan I father. Miss Bertha Kelley was brides- the last two or three weeks. Mote*tire {maid and Miss Ruth Kelley, matron of content of beans tested is running i honor B th are cousins of the bride- from IO to 12 percent winch is con- I groom. George Moorehead, brother of adored quite low at harvest time. Wh. who were returning from ‘he Muscatine game were only .scratched and bruised.1 The heavy steel bannisters kept the car from rolling into the ravine below Others from Mt attended the game soon arrived n the U. S army gees into the for the p<st two or three months. Not mo'ion pictui** business it moves on since soring, ha he b*en abl* to main- Hollywood with the same precision lain an appreciable balance in a1:- that marked operations in North Al- the an(j assisted the boy craft production over Jesses. nca and the Solomons 1 _ Flying fortresses counted for 200 First full-scaie Hollywood troop ships in September thunderbolts and movement by the arm’, was an en-marauders for 200 more. British and velcpmg strategy by Serv ee of Sup-Ruasian figures are not available, but ply unit. DEML Irving Berlin’s “This 'hey no doubt got a somewhat smaller is The Army” Detachment. This task amount. force of 350 men marched on War- The rest of his Ion es are attributable ner Bros. Studio w’here ‘This Is the and Ramona Moorehead were flower fields are completed, the first infor-girls. Ail are nieces of the bridegroom.! mation indica es yields cf around 30 The wedding march was played by bushels to the acre. in Revision of the Burlington area employment stabilization plan to conform to t e new mandatory regulations issued August 16 in Washington by the War Manpower Commission was announced today by George D. Haskell, Stat* War M inpower Diiector The revised plan retains all the im- ( p r air provisions of the program mounting battle of Germany, the air ministry said today. The raids marked the second successful night in which three or more cities in the Reich were blasted by the R A F and followed onlv a short rim? after a blistering twin assault on Bremen and nearby Vegesark by American flying fortresvses and liberator bombers. Hanover, manufacturing center in northeast Germany, bore the brunt of the mammoth British bombardment. A smaller force than that which plastered Hanover attacked the seared port of Bremen which still was aflame from the daylight assault by the U. S. 8th air force yesterday. I Mrs. Cathey. “Ah, Sweet Mistery of Meanwhile corn is getting in con-Pea. ant .ho and ..j Love you Truly.. were aition lapMly tor cribbing. The bnl. | Previously adopted for this area, with } -ant. by Mrs. Maude Wiggins and Mrs. ham sunshine and the winds of tee ' f major changes. 1 I. The period dur.ng which an es- Charles Hampton Taken by Death Charles Hamp- j Texas. J Georgia Scarff. Also the Cathey sis- last few' weeks have converted what Iters r<nd Jane Maquinan sang a song might have been soft corn from a I composed py Mrs. Cathey. I frost three weeks ago into hard dry Pvt. and Mrs. Moorehead will be at corn fully matured. J the home of his mother on North -The favorable fall drying conditions j Jackson St. until Wed., Oct. 13th have mean’ thousands of dollars to j when he will return to Camp Barkeley, Henry county farmers. He expects to be transferred --- PRESBYTERIAN CHOIR DOES SPLENDID WORK JEFFERSON STREET PROPERTY IS SOLD New London, Iowa to increased accidents in internal use. Army" was filmed in Technicolor for 80. passed away this morning at j to California very soon. Mrs. Moore From this unreported front comes Army Emergency Relief and occupied 2 45 at tile Memorial hospital a<. Mt. head will join h.m there. trustworthy word that his air force is the objective immediately. j Pleasant after suffeung a stroke IO - unable to get spare parts for replace- Here is a typical report from the days ago. He had been in failing men- in sufficient quantity to main- front for one day: {health the past three years. j tain former efficiency. From the time the mer^ reported at Joseph Chanes Hampton, son of \ These matters have caused air of- 6:30 in the morning until that same Hannah Yotaw and Elwood Hampton,! __ fleers to become more enthusiastic In hour in the early evening, grinding was born in Lee county* Iowa. Januaiy^ The presbyterian choir expectation of an early Gentian break- cameras, tapping feet, singing voices 1863 On December lo .^1886. at j direction of Mrs. Lue Nevers has been Mj*s Harry R. Smith of this city. Thef lington Area D,.ef,!or declared Fifth Army Smashes Ahead Allied Heidquarters in North Africa - INS'—Patrols of the 5th army in Italy today smashed their way across the Volturno river to press the allied stabilization plan is increased from 30 I drive on Rome. to 60 days. i Headquarters of General Dwight D. ^ent.al worker mu.-t remain idle o qualify as a free agent and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the Hild Real Estate reports the sale of the nice modern bungalow located on South Jefferson Street and owned by under the Mr. ancj Mrs. Roy Ferrel, to Mr. and I 2. Workers who are employed at a sub-standard wage are entitled to re lease from their present employment, end :hus a*e eligible to transfer to other essential work. 3. H ring controls regulating the employment of wakers a e fixed for Des Moines county, with separate rules Eisenhower announced that units of the wing of the front manned by the 5th army had effected the crossing. Anniversary Event ! For Rev. J. J. Welsh December lo. down. Ther data .-hows Hitler has and emoting actors were the order of Salem, he married Ida May Davidson, doing some splendid work lately. For smiths are buying this property for j r} been unable to move his mast import- the day. From the reveille forma- They had lived on a farm near West j sjv yearS) Mrs. Nevers ant war industries from the vulner- ation at Camp TITA — a mile from Point for many years and retired ^Farmington, ^jce a week to able Ruhr and Rhine valleys Heavy the studio — the men marched in make their home in New London five J group of singers in the First Presby- ton, la., where Mr. Ferrel is employed industries have had to remain there ranks to their respective alignment.- months ago. He had a birthright j tertan church of this city. The per- by a Railway Co. in spi e of ihe bombings because of on the lot. One group went to Stage membership in the Friends church ^.sonnet,of the choir has changed from ---- affecting the itinerant Louisa and Henry. Ralph H Klinestiver, counties of Acting Bur- that A large number of visit/rig clergy are expected here next Mondav when , the Rev. J. J, Welsh, pastor of St. x j the 60-day “lay-off period" ruling was Mnhonsus Catholic church will cele- drove from „ home and get posse*:* soon. Th* _ade I Mrv to mb a tendon!, on'! . J.1 I .VT u _ H.vplnri , .. , imac10 nf e san to cmb a tendency on brate his 25th sacerdotal jubilee. develop a Ferrel family moved recent y to Chn- fh r f . f travel un tt •„ u , u I * j__i _ „ , , . j pa.t ci .ome wo xeis to aavei to jje be the celebrant at a mass the proximity of coal and the avail- g to rehearse the ' Navy" number with Salem. i year to year because of young people ability of labor. it., tricky routines, another platoon Besides his widow he is survived bv i graduating from high school and col- Former iowa Wesleyan Man To move that arca back into tem- m a re bed to Stage 7 to record the 3 children: Mrs. Libertine Foster andjlege The last year h,us taken some u JI rairmaicm . i _________P’impr Clinton HamDton. both of West! of t einrrovi thn nomfi no f TTnola * ® safety in Czechoslovakia for * Havy" song, a third unit reported to Elmer Clinton Hampton, both of West |singers jnt0 the service of Uncle pocary instance would take time and require stage 22 to continue shooting a dance Point, and Mrs. Mildred Jennings of continuous long hauls of coal, with sequence, a fourth to Stage 12-A to New London. One daughter Mi>. Veta railroad facilities already disrupted by appear in a scene under director Mike Young preceded him in death. He also bombing. Curtiz and a fifth to Stage 16 to re- leaves eight grand-children and lout — hearse a number that was to be shot great-grand-children. in a week or so. Everywhere work J de body will be returned to the THE THEME of a post war peace based on neighborly negotiation without much trust in Utopian formulas Is Sam. In spite of these disadvantages the choir continues to do a splendid work. Recently the Nevers family moved to Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. Nev- The announcement that the name of Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and now a lieutenant commander in the navy, would be MS is taking advanced work at Iowa- in ,he NebrMku presidential / rican self interest and was going on at a confusing but en- Hampton residence Monday morning. too urelv controlled pace. This was a job Services will be held Monday afternoon to be done and the soldiers were do- from the Elliott Chapel in Nt w Lon on SS.S.V-.. ----- — - . nu irk iv and aith amazine effi- &nd burial will be in Burge cemetary. developing fast. Another globe-trotter, mg it quickly and witn amazing em ____ President Johnston of the United ciency. States Chamber of Commerce, has re- — - — turned with a speech today advocat- Funeral Held For ing just such a course. Mr. Johns'on wants recognition of F^l^OCl SuG3T6r “cur immense stake in law' and order, in decency and prosperity all over the planet- but not on the basis of dis- Funeral service for Fred Shearer arming alliances, or tailor-made plans 63. who died at the Memo.;,I hospital la Scott 160 for tiew world orders. He says a strong, at 2 p. rn. Wednesday, following a southwest, of short illness with pneumonia, was held get possession March I. He has been Wesleyan college, and continues to direct this group. As a feature of to- primary was made by John Quinn, a former Iowa Wesleyan student. Quinn morrows service, Mr. Loyd Estes will saW h0 wi„ handle ,he campaign fo? FARM And TOWN PROPERTIES SOLD New London. la. — The sale of the' following properties is reported: J sing the solo part of the beautiful anthem: “I am He that Live th" by Caleb Simper. Sta - sen and announced his resignation as deputy secretary of state. Enter the Merchants’ Bond dub Contest READ THIS AND BE A WINNER Punter this contest todav. Read the rules on the Bond Page Frank Richenberger bought the El-t*11 Thursda> S paper. It is such an easy way to get a war bond, greener pastures’ in search ot work at, eleven o'clock which will be attend-at higher wages. (ecj by Bishop Henry Rphlman of Dav- Hiri’ g cont ohs applicable in Henry enport and a number of other clergy-and Louisa counties permit workers men. to be hired in essential activities ii This service will be followed bv a they present either a statement cf a- dinner at 1:30 served to visiting clergy vai ability (release) or a referral cars ancj relatives, ‘.rom the U. S Employment Service to / A reception will be held by the par-their prospective employer. However, ish sunday evening in the St. Alphon-workers in critical occupat ors, anti ' sus church hall workers who have not lived or worked _____ in the locality of their new emp’oy-ment for the preceding 30 days, may only be hired up~n referral by the U. 3. Emp’ovment Service. Five gloups of workers are not ur,drr jurisdiction of the stabil zarion plan. They are: I. Agricultural workers, who are under the r county extenson direztors (These agricu’tural w'oik rs may be referred by the U. S. Emp’o' ment Service to temporary work in other essential activity provided they secure Two Returning From Marne Are Killed acre New' London can prosperous, self-reliant America „rve as a mighty bulwark of world at Washington Friday afternoon peace and progress—and he could have said the mightiest. The plan which will be adopted he rightly predicts will come fully, and on a basis of evolution in Ind. collaboration among the nations. MV own guess U the main inspiration of such an evolution w'ill be a gigantic Hull trade program. farm miles an^ 80 ^ew people have signified thilt they are trying You have min an excellent chance to be a winner. Let’s have more action on this. Pay un your old accounts and get double and treble the ... . . f - fnr votes, and s4^ (he sales slips on your everyday purchases, made renting the farm and bought for, t ^ Bo|)d (.,ub gtores Have your friends help you with the Mr. Shearer was a cook rn local a home. ! sales slips of their purchases. Send or bring your Entry Blank restaurants for several years. Taylor Asher sold 93 acres five miles News office the approval of their county extension director and local draft board.) 2. Domestic help. 3 School teachers. ' Webster City. Iowa —(INS*—Donna Jean Phillips, 19 and Delores Ann Ul-stad, 18. both of Ft. Dodge, were killed early today in a head-on mtomo-bile collision which occurred east of Webster City, while they were returning with two youths, from a football game at Waterloo In 1-A Surviving are his wife and two sis- southwest of New London to Charles slowly, pain- ters. Tile sisters live in Green Castle. Hines, who will get possession March I. The Ashers are now living on the farm. Mr. Hines will live on and op- Hand Injured In Saw erat€ the farm H Eichenberger of north of Rome Mr* and Mrs* Russell Latimer sold sawing wood at the home of Roy Mills- their home on East Cleveland street pa ugh got his first finger on the left to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Brown who hand caught in the saw this morning, will get possession in 20 days and He received medical attention in ML make it then home. , H. C. Moehlman of Middletown been cla^si- Pleasant. , , Mrs. Frank Morrow was called to bought th** Fled Feldman home thou* this week by the ill- for an investment and will get poss-r.ess and death of her father. es-ion in 30 days. ENTER N O W ENTRY BLANK Please enter my name in MERCHANTS’ WAR BOND CLUB FYedericksberg, Iowa —(INS*—Mrs. Derwood Costello. 25 of Ionia, was fatally injured today when an automobile 4. Casual woikeis hue*! for le-s than driven by her husband collided headon with another machine four mile* west of Fredericksburg, She died en- county, Name Walter T. Howe, ha tied in 1-A under the Selective Service, according to announcement post- Valparaiso, Inri ed at the Selective Service office. Address _______________________________________ Mail or Bring to the* Mt. Pleasant News oil ice seven days 5. Employees of a foreign )r municipal government. These route to a hoSpiUll. groups, however, may c'^me under pro- _____ ‘ecticn of the p’an if hey signify the r desire to do so. Goes To Camp Dodge WINGS TAKE OVER ROEDERER BAKERY Announcement is made in his, te-Paul Arbuckle. Jr.. a nigh school sue of the taking over of the Rcederer student, left Friday night to go to bakery by Mr. and Mrs M A Wing 'Camp Dodge tor his final physical Mir Wing is an experienced baker, 'examination for entering the armed having served in that capacity for forces. Arbuckle was sent to fill the several years with B -hop s cafeteria call for one colored man from Henry in Des Moines Mr- Wing Ls a sister of county this month. Mrs. Leo Kennedy of this city

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