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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 16, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa* VALID 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 f\ V, VV Blue stamps expire Ort. 20 ('. D, E Broun Stamps expire O* t. 30 Gasoline A So. 8 expires Nov. 21 VOL. LXXI, No. 212SATURDAY, OUT. 16, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, inc, Reproduction In Full or <n Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON—IT BECOMING more and more difficult to report accurately on the substance behind the current British- American discussions. A cloud of political dust is being swept higher and higher to obscure popular vision Owlish Mr Churchill, for example, has characterized the plea of the five American senators for equal trade opportunities and defensive island bases as American “fighting*' among politic u. | Hi British press, however, has taken up the British cudgel, of which his pale words cast only a shadow The British papers say their nation Is upset seriously alarmed, feels “a body blo a to Anglo-U S collaboration," .‘res “an Isolationist uprising*’ in the United State-. This attitude u corno,arable only to that of tile elder spinster relative in many a family. If y< u cierge her with having taken some pennies from sonny's bank for ice cream or any other minor Infraction, she pleads personal upset Old ladies have for many years smothered all criticism by becoming Ila rated at it If the spinsters: i Brrr ti HK Pi ess were really alarmed about the .state of Anglo-American relations, they would answed the five senators directly Gov. Speaks At Wesleyan Homecoming District Retreat At They’ll Do It Every Time — Methodist Church Dr. Shipley And Dr. Goff Will Speak MAYBE WE ' TEP Ct LL TVE I lf EI WO! LD SAY. lr in tan that the Brnn labels were put on American canned good? to Turkey and elsewhere through ovff*-ewberanee of trad* in tinct which hereafter will tx* corrected Or they would ay the large accum nation of Brinish oil were due to over-planning and that these now WHI be released. Such response really would promote good will and cement Anglo-American relations Instead, the irony of the British position was painfully evident rn the simultaneou London announcement of their acquisition of invaluable Portu-gu*- ** ba. < at fhe Azores which they said they would let us use. A Burlington district retreat an' conference will b** held n*x* Monday at the First Methodist church in Mi Pleasant, beginning at 2:30 p rn. Two cai>able speakers are on the program. They are worthy of the largest jv* ible hearing Dr Shipley i is a member of the California Con-ferer.ee and As-ocia e Profe -.or in the *t University of Iowa Dr G-cff is a member of the Rock River Conference and Minister of the Chicago Tempi*, in the loop section of Chicago. Dr Guff con-1 ducted a series of meetings bere s* v- ' eral years ago and will be rememb red ! by mar.y Methodists. The program: In Fellowship Hall. 2 30 p rn. Roll Call of the pastors { charge. 2:40 p rn. Til* Service of Worship. J Th** Reverend Fled C Miller, Wa-h-1 i rig ton 3 OO p rn Address followed by Disco Ion Prof** s'r David C. Ship!* . I*h D The School of Religion. University of Iowa 4 OO p m Business Session, Dr. L L. Wets, District Superintendent, Presiding. 4 45 p rn Addr* followed by Di -cu.vslon. Til* Reverend Chara s Rav G-*ff, Minister, * ne Chicago Temple I Chicago, In the Dining Hall. 6:15 p rn. The Fellowship Supper. In the sanctuary 7 30 p rn Hymn and Prayer Address I>r. David C Shipley 8 15 p. rn Special Musi:*. Address Dr. Charles Ray Goff A ’ANY REPAIRMAN. ) EQ all. TidESE /COLL machines ace LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM A TYPEWRITER: I GUESS — * I THi'Mk MXI GOT THIS PACT ) ' W T^T MACHIN*. - jL / L ^ C ; BACtcWAGDS*-*6iVE ME J THOUSAND Boc ,<.o ■ Bu V.- t’ll \ V TILL THOSE EAjACI1 fHi-' Oz-T \ TIT. Zr^r^lKu. OUGH VATH ,T f , . Jap Submarine Here jWarns Of Today; Many View It Some Dancer In Education ( we GGT TO Fly IT \ OUIC^ OC. THE. /■ / O EC HIS ' *A>1’T t J BL * '.v Z OUT- , they ■ —(j DON’T kftJOW I / HOW TO WIND A VEATCH-BUT THEY’D ) TAkE A POWER.- J / -AMD TUEVILEXPECT THE REPAIRMAN to Put it All TOGETHER. IM Sub ( apttired Following Attack on Pearl Harbor; HI-Ft. (raft Mounted on Truck The two-man Japan* e submarine, raptured following the attack on Pear. Harbor on December 7, 1941 was on display in Mr Pleasant today although the city was not a scheduled stop Th** 81 foot craft mounted on a Address Is Highlight Wesleyan Events Of Iowa’s governor, B B Hickenlooper, warned a large gathering of Iowa Wesleyan students, faculty md friends truck came in from the north about Frir)ay evening of th** dangers of xegi-noon and was parked just west of the mentation cf education. Court House for something over an hour w'hile 'he truck crew and ac** companying state patrolmen had their lunch. Speaking at the Iowa Wesleyan homecoming banquet, the governor rave an appropriate address in which he referred to sinister developments in Trojans Win League Game MARY WRIGHT Nazi Retreat —NG Mav Be Rout The sui had glass windows at the tbe fjeid 0f education against which side through which it was possible -<> Anterin must continually be on guard, i view the rows ct catteries and in he jje spoke forcefully and convincingly conning tower a waxed Lgure ot a abcut low a’s standing in the field of Japanese ot fleer was to be seen. education and oraised Iowa Wesleyan During the hour the craft was here for the splenr1id part it is paving hundreds of people saw the enemy yes- The dining room was filled to cap- sel. It was enroute to Burlington arity for the dinner served by the where it was scheduled to be on dis- wesley Chapel women. Included were play this afternoon. many of the local persons closely con nected with the Republican party organization. Many persons were unable to get tickets because of the capacity of the dining room. Piesident Stanley B Niles presided. Irving Berlin Makes Debut In Picture Good Sale of Tickets For Army Henefit; Seats Still Available Defeat Mt. Pleasant Eleven 20 to 6 Winkle Outlines His Program Mt Pleasant high s reorganized football team was turned bark by a slightly* mon* powerful and morr- effect vc Fairfield eleven in a Li".*' Six game in the Fairfield stadium Friday evening. Tile score was 20 to 6. The first quarter was .scoreless. Th* A crowded Chap* cheered wildly la * night a Mary W igh*, Mt Pleaser Sophomore, was presented as 1943 H rn coming Queen bv Dr Grube. Blue K‘ y aHlvi ir, a* ‘he culmination of the Bo*m Night stunt showy Mines Planted To Delay Advancing Allied Forces Irving Berlin makes his picture debut in “This Is The Ai my,” singing his famed lament, “Oh, How I Hate to Get and introduced the governor and at the close commented regarding the possibility of having Mr. Hickenlooper back "when he is United States senator.’* Dean R K Ellis spoke with emphasis on “Keeping the Home Fires picture at the Temple theater next Algiers, Africa —(INS'— The orderly German retreat northward from Attendants to the Queen were Jan the Voltumo river threatened to turn tuesday evening Business and Professional Women's club members report a good sale of tickets for the Army Emergency Relief r *.n (hr cam,rn-, all members having tag up to seven mite un the flaming ben(,m by( stu, s„mng jn Up in the Morning," a., he did rn the Burning" the homecoming theme. Miss stage vi r mn in the premiere of (he Im°8ene Batet spoke r°r the 5tudentk Ol iver. Senior from California, and into a row today w hen American an I (can Ogrrn. Indiana junior. British forces seized six strategic owns In iv absence of a Blue Key chap- and scored new territorial gains rar.g- ente:<?d the armed services, the selec- front.. M* Pleasan* boys w re scrapping hard ti n na; made this year by the Army Both the United Bt ates fifth arm*-’ and were plugging th** hole As th** /.ir Force unit stationed at Iowa Wes- and the British eighth army pushed _ game progressed, however. 'hey sui- leyan College. forward with ever increasing speed. Bt Louis Mo Wendell L Winkle fered two or three lapses the let the Miss Wright, a Pi Phi, is a blue- For the presen* the nazi ref:-at con- entered the lion’s den of hi* Missouri Fairfielders get away for I ng gains, eyed blonde. Her major work is in tinues to be orderly with mines planter rich Fndav and hiring his own hall, °ne of them accounting for some 30 English. She has bren popular on the ed everywhere and extensive new demet their challenge with" a speech out- yards. campus since she entered college a molitions carried out. The German The Trojans u ed a pas combination year ago She was selected for Pep airforce also put in an appearance Club last year, and has been active striking at temporary* bridges. --- la! nomination can be built. b>' the Panthers. With the passing Miss Grover. Alpha XI Delta, is a implicit an wee to a question- and 801116 go'd ground work, the Fair- leader in drama* ic s. choir and radio I bree More Jap lining a program in both the domestic and foreign fields on which his whole with Norman receiving over the mid MR HHHmtm HANDLING of “mpaien for the Republican president- die of the line Utat could not be stop. in social affairs an effort to fill the house for the one showing of the picture that evening. Also included in the cast, for purpose^, of a .slight tory content, are George Murphy. Joan Leslie, Lieutenant Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Charles Butterwort^ Una Merkel and Sgt. Joe Louis. In addition, it is in ard told the difference between this homecoming and those cf the oast. For those Wesleyan friends, men and women in war work a1 a distance, she said that the home fires are burning and that a welcome awaits all on their return. Dr. Bela Rozsa presented his octet in a number at the close of the program. A large crowd attended the stunt prog: am and bonfire at the college fellowing the banquet. Gov. Hickenlooper who had spent . _ ., . „ 0 ... the afternoon here visiting the bar- This Is the Army that Kale Smith 6 racks and attending retreat. w*as ex- In an the fame matter was a bit different. While laughing at the five senators as fellow travellers (presumably of Isolationists), his Mr. Ickes annotine** »», PipRsunt rallied in the fourth first jzrouu of Dledzes in Qui Est of « , f principle of an exclusive alliance with Fieass rn r, .ir. . group oz pledges w r,.v, pacific —(INS)— Three more Japan- ed a reorg rn I tation oI the foreign on _ .. . ond scored the lone Pan her counter which she is now an active member. na ire from the Missouri delegates to Held boys went over for two touch- work. She is a member of the band. th** 1940 convention. Winkle rejected the downs in the third quarter. Last spring she became one of the Airdromes Bombed Allied Headquarters in the South makes her first screen appearance in ten years and new Berlin songs are sung by Frances Langford and Gertrude Niesen. cused immediately after his address so that he might get an earlier start on the return trip to Des Moines. the old game of power politics, he expressed his hope that Great distribution bureau apparently to correct on*- phase of their complaint. Behind Mr. Roosevelts assumed attitude evidently is the fear that the senators’ report will be used against him politically, will furnish republican propaganda. Hts men on Capitol Hill worked a counc.i OI United Nation. ardently on the committeemen following their return. Senator Mead, clos- POSSIBLE CURTAILMENT , to the White House, cam, at Qp WAR WORK LOOMS least half-way around and seemed to apologize for the committee, but mad** Great Britain. .. , . He unposed America's entrance mw 'n '»'»*■ (**<*>• c)awson sklrted an e,ld M:'s 0»*en. Pi Beta Phi. ta also ac- and ^ore for Pleasant. tive in dramatics and radio work. Sh“ Tile Panther line plax ese airdromes on New Britain Island, whose major base of Rabaul suffered the war’s most telling a'tack on Tues- lT1 *"t*‘ Is the newly elected leader of the Pep staggered today under heavy al- 3apt. Marsh- club and also one of the first group of ]iefi a,r ^saults Britain, the United States. Russia and t0 lack:e was top*0' c China will make a joint "declaration •« held dp good a! center, a new Pos- pledges in Qui Est. at intention as a preliminary to tom- iUon » be .selected group from wmch the commenting on the game today sain Queen and attendan*s were chosen in- he was well satisfied with the way the eluded also Charlaine Austin. Meda team played although he of coir. v and Roberta Hauen-ein. Jane Maxwell. was not pleased with th score. Ttv Louise Schuerman. Doris Ward, Suz- men worked hard and considering the anne Ward, Helen Simmons, Koy Ol- shifLs necessary this week he had no son year’s Queen, DaLoris Nihart comolaint. The starting lineup was and gida Gabeline. Roth Sides Claim Victory On Federal Subsidy For Schools Washington, D. C. —(INS)— Tire Hill-Thomas bill providing a $300,000.- ARGENTINA MAY BREAK WITH AXIS POWERS Washington. D. C <INS)—Hope was grow.aq in official Washington circles today that Argentina soon may break diplomatic relations with the Axi spew ers. This hope was strengthened by swift Birmingham, Ala —(INS)— A posit clear at the same time that, while Mble cunaiIment of ship bullding in that announced this week in tire New they had found many good factor! gulf coast yards j -omed nearer today Lindsay and Voorhies. backs wet abroad, they had found more atua- ag aU coal mines except two in the among the standouts for Fairfield, lions which wen* displeasing and un- are remaining idle. More “ * satisfactory. than 18 qoq miners continued their • rT) ll 4 \ At any rate. the three democrats walkout despite pleas of the war labor ( (>111111110 I HlKS UH among the five senators, have been ^ return to work as insistent in their views as the re- A UMW spokesman declared the publicans, and all a:e unanimous up- g,nke ^ tbe jesuit 0f a iack of a con-on the basic points—namely, that we ^ Deeds Recorded At Courthouse Thomas Stafford, 73, Ti) lf ATI hv I1a{| ti) "n0 a ',ar *eriera* subsidy foi pubir- developments in Argentina, as pre.i- 1 arvt ll UY J/cam schools moved toward a showdown dent RMSevelt strongly rejected that battle in the senate today with both country.s mllltarv government for sus- pending publication of Jewish newspapers. Quick withdrawal of the anti-sem-itc measure and the appointment of more liberal pro-American elements to the Argentina cabinet were seen as promising signs. I. S. C. Situation courthouse must not let the British put it over on us in reselling our goods, that we must look out for trade, air and military bases around tire w( war. rorld for post SCHOLARSHIP TROPHIES AWARDED AT IWC THE DISPUTED RUSSIAN BASE phase Is another matter. Only Republican Senator Lodge estimated 1.000,-000 American lives would be saved if Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma' Phi y at board plans a Ames. la. —(INS)— Iowa Stat* board of education members today continued what chairman Henry C. Sc,rn of Sioux City termed pi aminary ^ discussion,-, of the Iowa S a* college _ _ situation Deeds recorded at the include the following: Sarah L. Sprott Robinson and husband to James S. Feehan and wife, tract in outlot 15, Mt. Pleasant. Eugene D. Patterson and wife to Morgan E. Williams and wife, Win- Thomas Stafford. 73. died at the sides claiming victory. Arthur Nursing home on South Locust As a safety measure, however, op-street this morning at 9:20. He had portents were talking of a motion to been in failing health the last six send the bill back to a commit*ee on montjis. education and labor if they find their Surviving are three sons. Ray. Clar- strength waning when the senate re- ence and Glen Stafford, all of Mt. convenes Monday. Pleasant. His wife preceded him in "I don t have any doubt that we death six weeks ago. can pass the bill some time next week,’’ Funeral service will be held at the Sen. Hill, Alabama democrat, one of Cookes funeral home at IO 30 a. rn. the sponsors said. Monday. Interment will b** in Burge ”1 think we can beat the bill bv cemetery near New London. about IO votes.’’ said Sen. Taft, Ohio republican, who is battling the bill on the ground it would lead to federal domination of schools. , .. Robin Bon.rr and wife to Paul and w'i'h indications that toe , Gladvs Beach, 160 acres in Baltimore thorough inquiry into - and New London townships. IO Plane Crashes W ith Ten Aboard condition of Bagley, college policy and charges by critics. Six of the board's nine members held a lengthy session yesterday afternoon with College president Charles E. Friley with them much of the time. The board chairman said final action Anna Withrow* to R S. Galer, foot strip on east edge of the Withrow property on East Washington. Epsilon won the scholarship cups Iowa Wesleyan for the last year, G. E. King, registrar, announced today. Phi Mu was second in the sorority Russia would give us air bases to at- and Lambda Chi Alpha second in the tack Jauan. The Russian position is fraternities. generally appreciated and understood;-^ ^ ^ ^ ^ „e taken before th, nex' Moat authorities expect Russia will hands of isolationists and republicans. meeita* Ncvmber 5 and 6 at hat-lure war on Jimn as soon as the by making an issue out of what could iowa City* and that decisions would be wai ■ • wise recom- made only with the full board present, farm to Mr. E. F Lange of Burlington, were from the midwest.) is reported. I ---—- Other Notes nTf*Jlin \n/| No doubt Mr. Roosevelt will make ------ 7“°”' "."7 . • Mrs. L R Carter entertained th** AI alii /VUU Ol.l» REMAINS UNCHANGED Miner Rescued After 26 Hours Collinsville, 111. —(INS*— John Millett, 62. a mine examiner who was lost for twenty-six hours in the. underground tunnels of Bunker Hill Coal Mines was found alive today by res cuers who had searched for him since 8:00 a. rn. Friday. EYRE FARM NEAR HILLSBORO SOLD Hillsboro—Sale of the H H. Nashville, Tenn. —(INS)— An American Airline plane nursing on a flight fr m Nashville to Memphis, Tenn. carrying four crew members and six passengers has been found critically 111 in the iowa Methodist DINERS RETURN TO WORK Des Moines. Iowa (INS)—Condition of State Treasurer W G. C. Bagley. JOHN L. LEWIS DEMANDS passengers crashed and burned near Centerville, Tenn . American Airlines annouced today. It was believed all persons aboard Eyre were dead. (None cf lie passenger:, Hospital was reported unchanged today. Germans are beaten. The Russians have been accepted as a are natural enemies of the Japs, and mcndation for an alteration in Amen will want expansion of Russian com-j can policy munist influence in Asia. ^Al-so, Democratic? Senator Chandler is alone among the five in his demand that our war emphasis be shifted immediately to the Pacific. We are so deeply committed in Europe the change of policy anyway. He sometimes likes to follow* critical advice even while spoofing it. Allow More Sugar For Cafes And Asylums j Washington. D. C. In any event, neither these leaders price administration (OPA) Friday an- R. N. A. at her home here on Tuesday. Mrs. Lilly Haight cf Winfield w!as a The office of guest from out of town. Mrs. Florence Bellile and her moth- ( rash Kills Six Ti acy, Calif. —(INS1— The death Washington, D C —'INS' - John L lewis, president of the United Min*4 LETTER FROM Workers called upon thousands of JOHN F. BURNS striking miners in Indiana and Ala- ' * bania t«da\ to “immediately return to Word was received here this week w0lk " to Prevent damage to the war from John Francis Burns, prisoner of effort, war in Germany. The letter was written May 30. He states he was well and FORTY LEGIONNAIRES was working every day. j AT COUNTY MEETING Censor Tells A Secret Forty Leg ion n :.* were pre. cut for that i nor the British Press is likely to make nounced November-Decembcr sugar a1- cr, Mrs. Alta Howe, left en Tuesday toll in the crash of a speeding passeu- ^ • nv headway against the senate on lowance increases for institutional us- tor Excelsior Springs, Mo., where Mrs. ger train and a Greyhound bus near withdrawal now would be dangerou , ( _ t ill.chosen -round Sena- ers normally doing their own baking. Howe will undergo medical treatment. Tracy mounted to six today with the New York. N Y. -- A New York the county meeting held Tuesday eve- and most military men expect we can. * is formlng* for Ameri- Commercial eating places such as -Mrs. B. M. Clark entertained the report another victim had died in a woman received a letter from "Some- rung at the L ..ion hall Sneakers clean up Japan swiftly if the Britisn acpuIsllion ()f bases and protec- restaurants and hotels will get five w. C. T. U. at her home here on Wed- .Stockton. Calif., hospital. Thirty per- where Overseas.’’ which closed, "And I were Ben Nichols of Nichols and Roy tion of American lend-lease interests, instead of four pounds for every IOO per- nesday afternoon in the regular sons were reported injured in n love you. our baby and the cen sol Burge cl Within “on D C Johnny N matter how mirh dust flies this sons and asylums will be increased monthly meeting. Mrs. Allen Witt had crash which occurred when the train Then was a postscript in the censor-. L'ndcll. Va:.: e rn*lr fielder, arrived --‘ll 'iB.Mn.Y not like Iv to be dis- Bom .03 to .04 oounds per person serv- the devotions and Mrs. H. H Eyre was hurtled into the rear of the bus which bluo-j ..moiled writing: “Because he in rime n sluk* h lid* Mi. t •*■ men THE CHURCHILL AND ROOSE- determination is not likely to ms * . ^ i e ingrain leader. had stalled an the track. loves me too. HI tell you he* in India.’’ rh next me,’mg wit: b at Oat the VELT handling of the senatorial com- turbed. > and Russians join us in that endeavor when Germany is beaten.

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