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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 18, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa VALID RATION STAMPS VALID RATION BTAMP8 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 Sugar 14 - Through October 31 Shoe Stamp IM good indefinitely VOL. LXXI, No. 213 THE MT PT.FEASANT NEWS CJ, V'. VV Blue stamps expire Oct. 20 C, D, E Brown Stamps expire Ort. 30 Gasoline A No. 8 expires Nov. 21 MONDAY, OCTOKER IS. 1913. MT. PLEASANT. IOWA THE/ IV Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features 8yn-dlcate, Inc.. Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited ' WASHINGTON — THE SATISFAC -TORY .Sen,ito S ;b-C rnmltte Coni promise on a p si war resolution e-volverl from an entirely different one which was carried around by foreign i*bi!Son> Chairman Connally rn his inside pocket for the past two weeks The t* x? of that original resolution was no made public, but it was supposed to represent what State Secretary of State Hull has in mind. Basically, it proposed an interna'ion-al orga.ni/.ation along the lines, of the League of nations empowered to im-po-e what diplomatic phraseology ti call “ec'.nemic and military sanctions'* en non-conformist nations or aggressors "Sanctions' is a word dripping with honey but. it means the use of force Economic sane'ion* would be embargo* against wrms f'od. or O'her products to offender* Military sanctions means armed invasion This would be a League of Nations with teeth in it, using bayonets for teeth There are men inside the senate who suspect Connelly of craftily sounding out each individual senator for the admi ids’ration en this proposition I Orations which has been .seldom mentioned in public discussion. Mr Hull, for instance, has only gory in his peeches as far, as saying osne sort of power mwst be used to k»** p the peace. Report Over IOO Jap Planes Down Will Register This Week For Ration Rook 4 They’ll Do It Every Time - - Registration At Schoolhouses In County YUP, L ADVWjrr OKIE T; M &. , v0u Rjoft < I WAS WORTH A t-tALP J J via Na'LIFE HAS , million BUCKS, owned i TWO VAScL NE MINES. MV BRUDDEH." IN - LAWtt. LIT OUT WITH THE FUNDS-THE MINES WENT DRV-ITE MORTGAGE fore- i CLOSED ITSELF AND MV WIFE BEAT IT ARTIST Hen: y county res dents will go to , the’r school houses his week to reft i-tcr for ration book No, 4. Reg! t’a-tion w:T take p'a e on Thursday and Friday at mcst cf the schools. In Mt. flea.* int arr an ^ernen are made for reg stt&tinn on Saturday also and rn the rural -'hools announcement is being made by the respective schools of the exact time of registra- j tion and the hours the schools will be J clcsed in order to accommodate the resident* of that vicinity. TIK* Mt Plea ant schedule is at follows : Thurs fay I to 6 p. rn Pi hi av 9 a rn. to 6 p. rn. Balu day, I to 6 p. rn At Mt. I'mon A* Mt Union, the schedule is: Thursday, 8 30 a. rn. o 9 p rn. Friday. 8 30 a rn to 5 p m Fchool will bf* dismissed for the rrr- 0EEN SO CRUEL HJ TG VLXJ HE'^E, TAKE This MOI EV. AND HAVE A t FEW OF MV That 6-anvbodv 01JT her HUSBAND-ME NEEDS AT LEAST Six witnesses to PQJVE ANVTHINlS HE TELLS HER. f OH, VEA H ? WORKING / JVERTIM&? Till WHEN? J WHY didn’t you GALL I \ UP? WHERE WERE'/OU WHEN I ’PHONED AT 6.30? I SUPPOSE that blonde CASHIER WORKED,TOO! WHERE World’s Fair In Iowa Suggested f j Proposal For 1946 Observance In State Heavy Loss of Enemy Planes In Pacific j Fairfield, la. 'INB*— Iowa nu. -Imatic society heads were en ie o I today w'th the proposal a world's fair be held in Iowa in 1916 The Iowa ccitt collectors at the closing se.ssion of a two day sess on yesterday urged that a Hawkeye state ‘May Have Destroyed As Many As 147 Fortresses Drop BLAZE CLAIMS I. S. Propaganda THIRD VICTIM Will Propose 10% Sales Tax IHI -AI 1^1 \< rORY ( OM PROMISE • ' /ion do* not ! How those lines but neither does it conflict w rh them I tx careful words say only that th United States should act "through Conctituti< rial |:roc«M»e«;” to join “free and ‘overeign Hath-nu” in an in erna-tional authority with power to pre rent aggression and preserve the peace *’ Tile "cor. tituiionai proc es s presumably means '.hat whatever Messrs. Roosevel* »wi Hull negotiate with the other nation® must be confirmed by the Senate, as provided in the constitution , The “free and sovereign nations” phrase could restrict the L* ague con- A member of the farm? or agent may register hr the entire fam.ly. Ration b'ok III must be p-e-ented and the blank* on the front page must be filled out. giv ng name address etc. A’so a sta ement must be made stating that rat'on books I. 2 and 3 have be* n turned in for any member of the , t and for £anda literature which is being dropped by Flying Fortresses on Nazi Children Die London—A wf-eklv four page nnnia- \lr>. Chester Hornick and Two lure newsoaper written in French, printed in the French-American tricolors of red. white, and blue and entitled "L Amerique en Guerre” • America at Wan. L, the main projectile in a constant barrage of American propa- Washing’on, D. C. — Despite stiong adm munition and CIO opposition, Rep A Willis Robertson <D.. Va.) announced today he would propose to congress a IO per cent national retah family in the armed force; any person in the family who has died sin e re n rg he book". If the bo k • have not b**en turned in. Ibis must bt-dope whore the new bo k is Issued. Trial For Oakes Murder Starts occupied territories Allied Headquarters in Southwest Pacific —(INS)— A J panese attempt | world's fair be held in a resoluticn of- to r gi n sup emacy in the .‘kris had fen d by Ted Hammer cf Burlington, been crushed by Gen. MacAtthur’s ai The resolution directed that the p force. The allied forces had de st rn eel pcsal be placed before stat! officials at least 104 and perhaps 147 enemy and Iowa members of congress plane'. The proposal has already been out- j -- lined in a letter to Gov. B B Hicken-I london, Fng and —GNS’— The looper The suggestion Is conditional J parese high command in i‘s Erst on the end of the war early in 1918 mertcn cf s*u*hwe;l Pacific a r bat- - Its in which MacArthur^ forces de- Des Moines, la. —<INS>— Gov. B st oyed at Ie3st 104 planes today ad-B. Hickenlooper said today he had re- mitted loss of 15 Nipponese aircraft. ceived a suggestion that the Iowa Ceti- - tennial to mark the IOO veils of low Wa hjngton. D. C. — GNS)— Gen. history be expanded to a world’s fair Henry H. Arnold, chief of the U. S stain®. air forces, told a news conference to Proponents po uted oir that agr:- day it is po> rible to defeat Germany culture will favor heav’Jy in the cen- by aeiial bombing c upied wi‘h suc-tennial observance and that Iowa is ce sis be ng scored bv Russian forces. the center of agriculture. i ------- I Tho chief executive -aid he had ponied out tha- deeding the feasi- Clark s Fifth Army bility of such a projec* would require Forward extensive study. - A’giers. Ncrh Africa —(INS' — - Lieut. Gen Maik Clark's fifth army. victorious in the battle of the Voltur- no, plunged forward along the read to Rome today after seizing three mo~e Italian towns in mopping up operations in the Volturno valley. The enemy is fighting hard and several coun er attacks have been beaten Church off , Program Announced For Henry County S. S. Convention The program for County Fairfield. la — Mrs. Chester Hornick 30, died in Jefferson county hospital sales tax linked with repeal of the 5 Sunday afternoon, the third victim or per cent victory tax. a fire which took the lives of her two a member of the tax drafting house daughters. Verna. 3. and Ava. 9. ways and means committee, Robert- The fire, blamed on a faulty oil gaj^ pig sales levy proposal would The capture of the Foggia airdrome stove* occurred Saturday afternoon in exempt all g vernment pure ha es and School Convention of Christian Educa- - ... Ith v 0I1 0r: \ *as rf ported to rhe ’*•" mail c r> n occuInpd b>’ thfl Rom' all purchases for production purposes, tion will be held in Mi. Pleasant Pres- RefJ Army Smashes French n 'he Oct 4 i -ne omplete lck Family in the Fairfield cabin camp ‘including, of course, machinery, ter- byterian Church on October 23. Theme, p . i * with colored maps .showing how mu h ^ Re 0UrCef ! Moscow. Russia -GNS) of Nazidom would be brought within range of aerial attack. Other items in the campaign are small 16 page bookets on special topics. a1! single paso- leaflets rushed out for ex- Na san. Bahaima* —GNS)— A male jury was chosen in 50 minutes traordinary developments - one of oday to try Count deMarigny for the which was reported to have "scooped ’ bludgeon-fire murder of his multi- *6e R. A. F. bv heralding its des.i u^-millicnaire father-in-law. Sir Harry tton of the Mohne dam-and small re Oakes, at ll 20 a m productions of posters the Amer.can Less than |n hour after the trial arm. puts up as it advances, sider ably if a literal interjjretatlon of openecj \2 "good men and true” were The literature bears the imprint of "freedom" is followed (Is Russia free? selected to determine whether deMar- the office of war information. Canada? India?* Tile rest of it could Jgny JS innocent or must die for one The R. A F. has been dropping leaf- mean what Mr Hull has in mind. of the most brutal crimes in modern lets since the war’s beginning, but little Actually, it means no’bing specific history Til- only real excuse for passing such a generalized resolution is that the ad ministration wanted something on record from congress to prove to the Eritish. Russians, and other nations, that congress this une would not be DR. GOFF MINISTER OF “CHICAGO TEMPLE” Dr Charles Ray Goff, who will isolationist as the senate was after the speak at the Methodist district meet-last war. mg here tonight is a minister of the A" Republicans and Democrats are famed "Chicago Temple" or First joining in its broad statement, it may Methodist Church, a "skyscraper" serve that purpose. But i' does not church which draws large congrega-assure senate approval of any detailed tions to this downtown center. Born post-war peace program henceforth. in iowa. Doctor Goff spent his college You will recall the last post-war .-en- days at Northvue; em University and has been disclosed about its activity except last winter when the British Broadcasting corocration warned the French that a counterfeit R A. F leaflet. written by the Nazis and printed by Pierre Laval's Clermont-Ferrand newspapeis, was being distributed. Condition Critical duct:on of a farm crop , Morning Session A neighbor Mrs H. R. Bamesberger, Fieist Way to Share Burden 9:30. Registration—Dorothy M Pick- assisting Mrs Ro mick with some can- "The repeal of h? 5 per cent victory aid. County Secretary. ring, was burned eriously, and is in tax will be definitely linked with the 9:45. Worship Service—Rev. M C. critical condition at the hospital. proposed sales tax,” Robertson said. Carstensen. Mrs RD&iick is survived by her bus- »jt, will require approximately one- io:00 Sharing our resources of the band and two son- Earl. 12, and Al- half of the IO per cent retail sales tax paSf year. vin. ll. The condition of Alvin, also offset the revenue loss occasioned i. statement by the County Presi seriously burned in the accident, re- by the repeal of the victory tax and. dent. mained unchanged, hospital doctors jn my opinion, hat will be the most 2 A One Minute sharing of the out-said. . equitable and feasible manner of re- standingly successful project of each Services for Mrs. Romick and her distributing the burden ’’ church School represented in the con- two daughters were at I p. rn. today -pbe administration, which wants an vention. in a funeral home here. A sceond additional IO1, billion dollars in war io:20. Panel Discussion: "Resources service will be held Tuesday afternoon tjme revenue raised through increases 0f 'Togetherness." in Pleasant Hill Methodist church, in incomp taxes on Individuals and ^ On the State Program Level—Rev. near Prairie City. la., with burial in corporations and higher excise levies. Griffith cemetery. contends that a IO per cent sales tax An inquest into the deaths will be wou]d crack the economic “hold the held early this week. line” policy and open he way for wild —--inflation. The German d~fenders of the Dneiper winter I ne faced a defeat comparable to Stalingrad today affer red army force.-, smashed two huge gaps in tottering nazi defenses at both ends of the line. The Moscow radio declared that Gigantic masses of soviet troops are pouring into the western Ukraine. In the north other red army shock troops effected another crossing of the Dneiper 35 miles below Gomel and ripped open he German’s White Russian defenses to a width of 12% miles. -Rev. M W. Greece Ripped By Dissension London, England —(INS)— Strife- Coal Strike May Spread In Nation Washington, D. C. —GNS)— The Believe Defeat of i --- Japs at Midway thorough preparation H AIDS U. S. FLIERS; MAY ENLIST HERE Averted Invasion Washington, D C. —GNS* navv department said today - The in its ate overwhelmingly favored a league received his seminary training at Gar- wage disputes in Alabama and In 1- first ccmplete combat report in this m lhe variOUS theaters of war is due Dish Lunch). Raoul Calkins. 2. On the County Level-Lemon. ridden Greece today was reported rip- 3. On the Community Level Rev. d.ssension as patriot banus Albert C. Tinberg. fought among themselves and the en 11:20. Appointment of Convention ^re cabmet-in-exiLe resigned in pro-Committee—Wm. Calden. County Pres- tes^ over tbe acceptance of Italy as a ident. co-belligerent of the allies. 11:25. Address: "The Eternal in a in a dispatch from Cairo the Lon-Changing Pattern.”—Rev. E. L Jeam- don Evening Standard asserted tha bey. Greek feeling suddenly has a-.oUmeJ - 11:45. Worship service—Dorothy M mo:e serious proportions. Tne prime The high percentage of victories pickard. minister was said to have been handed scored by United States Army flyers 12:00. Recess for Lunch (Covered simultaneous resignal ons of hia entiie cabinet which he declined to accept. neither to luck or sheer courage—but Afternoon Session but broke un over details cf its auth- rett Biblical Institute. The former in- ana which led more than 20.000 mine; :, v ar that crushing defeat of the Jap oritv. The greatest detail issue being stitution honored him with an Alumni to walk out I rom their jobs thre retie : anes6 at Midway Island probably save! rathpr t0 thorough preparation for 1 ;30. Report of Committee and Elec- ---------- economic and military sam- \fent Award (a recognition for dis- today to exp,ode into a nationwide the United Sta'es from invasion. such a,r battles. Lt. C. R McLaughlin tion of Officers. IT U , f At that same time. Sen. Wile\. mein- asserted oday in his office at 82nd 1.45. Worship Service—Rev. Morell 1 UUl vdio J.II anguished service) in 1935 and the coal strike Mix On Highway the use of 1 preceding* year. Garrett Biblical in- The only development .hat would bpr of the naval affairs committee College Trng. Detachment. Mt. Pleas- Rube, - itute conferred upon Dr. Goff the prevent complete paralysis of the na- charged that the pre-Pearl Harbor ant> Ia 2:00 AddreSi,_Laura B. Galer THI UNITY which the action be honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity tkm’s coal industry, observers belike, fleet was inadequately armed He also Ag Aviation cadets in the Army Ai" 2:20. Group Conferences: 1 ______ 'neaks therefore may possibly have Dr. Goff ha* attained prominence as was a dedsi:n by the war labor oara charged that "JFVlqg. Gen Short ann our fljw» receive the best | Resources for helping youth-Rev. -fh Machines Damaged uSdwneath no a leader in civic and ecclesiastical af- giving the disgruntled coal miners two RPar Admiral Kimmei wert asleep at lrainlng ln the world. Lt. C. ,R Mc- Banghart. ' rinp to have given ground, cer- fairs, is a member of the Professional dollars a day ftic re a t 01 it,, qa.va.cn hP switch in Hawaii. Laughlin pointed out. On the ground 2. Resources for helping men and ZI’thetdmtototr.ttcn and pro- Mens Porum, a nation* director or John L. lewis declared Referring to Midway and the threat anf) the alr they learn all thwe although the American Interprofessional Instit- WLB promised to hdt:d dosn ..s ..e- 0j invasion, the report stated Aft* is ,0 know about their planes and any the battle of the Coral sea between No One Injured sumably not the isolationists. —...... Hurinc the nresent week some of their ex’rome members are Ute. and a< member c, the Personnel cis,on c.u g P likely to right against even this unde- Committee of the Methodist Church. f-ned promise of sympathetic cons id- The public is invited to the service \*nDL IM FN IN elation for whatever Messrs. Reese- at 7:30 p rn. Dr. David Shipley will MU A Hi . IJT-. " velt and Hull devise. -speak at that hour and Dr. Coff at ( LASS I"A Tile resoluticn is like, more than 8:15. anything else, a plank in a party piat*« form, presented in round and glossy SEVERAL NATIONS « phrases, the tru^ meaning of which, can only rest in the interpretation! which the presidential candidate gives * it later in specific statement. Platforms' Washington generally are forgotten as soon as women—Rev. Hobson. 3 05 Re-assemble. ' Four ML Pleasant cars figured in a 3:10. Closing Moments—Rev. Raoul mixup and three of them were damaged Calkins. Friday night on highway 34 three miles _ east of Fairfield. As the result of the mix. Bertram Puckett pleaded guilt', to illegal parking along a highway and was fined $5 --and costs at Fairfield He uas taken London. England —(INS)— The into custody heie Saturday evening possible weaknesses in the enemy’s May 4 and 8 (1942) the Japanese with- aircraft drew their floating forces frcm tin ^en 17 years of age can take ad-SOU hwest Pacific towards Japan but vantage 0f this opportunity of ser’iir-judging from reports of allied recon- ^ finest aviation training ever nuisance planes and submarines, the 0ffered b they have not yet reached their 18th birthday and are not en- _ withdrawal was for the purpose of Additional Henry County men classi- getting reorganized for another at- gaged in agriculture or an essenrial PROVIDING FOOD D. S. —(INS)— Vice President Henry A Wallace said today that the’British Commonwealth 'Nether is this declaration of the nations. Argentina. Africa and the congress as a whole New i, can never I United States win supply the major be ha.. The senate crowd thought So! part of the food for ravaged country Blocm. the House Foreign Affairs Chairman, had usurped their ex iled in I-A are: Clarence Sammons Joe Reinhardt Earl Barry Ralph L. Sc hut* Frank Wiggins Harold Long Howard C. Skinner Paul E. Aldrich tack against allied forces. Where the j^b They may volunteer for fu attack would come could only be guess ed.” ARRIVE AT TEHERAN ON MOSCOW TRIP AUXILIARY DISTRICT 1 CONFERENCE THURSDAY in the post war world. I-- A- soon as the shipping lanes open BOUNDED IN DECEMBER; The local American Legion Auxiliary will be represented at the district fall conference at Iowa City on Thursday, German DNB agency reported today about five o'clock bv Sheriff Manning ture training as Aviation Cadets. If that U. S Secretary of State C.rdel cline at the request of Fa.rfield offi- they are accepted, they will begin wear- Huh, British Secretary Anthony Eden ccrs and posted a $100 bond at that mg their silver wings as members of and W. Averill Harriman. U. S. am- time pald the fine at Fairfield the Air Coips Enlisted Reserve im- bassador to the soviet, have arrived today. mediately. in Teheran. Iran, enroute to Moscow Three carload., of high school boys and girls returning Lorn the F*airfiel i game figured in the accident Betty Folker aid her iliad came suddenly upon the Puckett car and stopped just before hitting the machine, according Marriage Licenses Issued Doran Again Missing Marriage licenses were issued at the Muscatine. la —GUS*— M s. Am I-* up chin- nvwnvui/ , 0ri. 21 courthouse here Friday and Saturday ta Doran of Muscatine, said today sh- elusive perogatives as a treaty counsel-jup. vast amouli s < ■ > PIIRPI F HF ART Mrs Frank Abraham department re- to the following- had b-en notified her son. Tech Sgt. to the report Tommy McCabe and his Z agent of the Present by getting,ped t«m Can«da "-Argent^ GETS PURPLE HEAR I lh, Edwm Ray Changer. 4,. and Mid- George F D ran. once res ued fro,: load we.e tottcw no a short d^anc, the republicans In on the Fulbrtght New Zealand a . | . aftemoon session and Mrs. Parke Cor- am Ruth Stberts. ST, both of Mt. Pleas- batad German Une*. ta again missing behind the Folkw . ai and .-ti lick h, resolution which was a Joint region sa^ ^ , the in nu, herpha, chatrman. Mi —t. an, ^ “ sr v :;rrr- - ..ms beef. Africa will be able to provide cording to word received by his pa- state and district officer, will assemble Joseph I rn,.ii.. .aaa 6fi and Mis. r« memb. s n0* ^ ■) WhUe iii cf the car were damaged. which large supplies of vegetable oil while ents. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Traut of near for a luncheon at noon and a banquet Nettie T.mmerman, 68. both of - Canada and Argentina will add wheat. Salem will be held at seven o’clock. Feasant. to be passed by both houses They thro’tied Bloom (and incidentally made him very angry) by Ignot- this simply senate resolution will never go to thp House. bomber. the occupants were unhurt.

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