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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 1, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 14 - Through October 31 Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. 21 Fuel Oil 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel OII I (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VAl.ID RATION STAMPS R, S. T Blue Stamps expire Sept. 20 T.F.V.W Red Stamps expire Aug. 31 X, Y, red slams expire Ort. 2 Shoe Stamp IX expires Ort. 31 \ OL. OXX I, No. 201WEDNESDAY, SEPT. I, 1943 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA THE By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.) W A S ll I N G T O N — THE TIME STOLEN from us by thf hesitancy of Kin,: Victor Emmanuel and Badoglio at the LUI of Mussolini has enabled the GCI mans to prepare a strong fight for the entire Italian peninsula-but particularly for the northern third. Hitler has moved enough divisions and gun1 into that front for stub- German Forces Face Disaster In Russia Rationers At Vinton Refuse To Resign They'll Do It Every Time — Say They’ll Keep On Giving Gas To Service Men Vinton, Iowa —GNS)—Two Behton count', rationing board members whose* born fighting thereby raising the re* agnations were asked by the* Des question of how fa t and furiously we Moines district OPA office said today want to gel into that area which we* arc* non blacken,rig from the* skies as promised bv Churchill. Some authorities now believe that if we* pursue the v would ref use to resign and denied they had been accused of having “gone* fishing” on “business gasoline The rn*a:** Clark Jack, Vinton re I cur course there ardently, we will not e'tate man and board chairman, and be abl*' to Occupy ai. Italy before the Dodd Smalley Mt, Auburn farmer and end of th** year. (head of the* board’s gasoline rationing The final outcome i, in no doubt panel, whatever a* we incontestably have They said they obtained supplement-suprernae y of the ski*' and of tilt al gasoline* to make a trip to S‘ Pan seas en both sides ol the narrow and Minneapolis to buy cattle and mainland Vet the situation may call Jack left Vinton today saying he was for reconsideration of strategy and returning »o Minnesota to complete perhaps lam.ch ug of invasion on the tho trans iction. northwest European coast while Hit- They declared investigators who vinier ha weakened I.:- numerical H-d Vinton yesterday had not accused strength in order to fight a stronger them of using business gasoline on a With County Men And Women In The Service Red Army Goes Ahead In Wide Area Breaks Through Heavy German Defenses delaying action in Ital] fishing trip but had protested allowing more than five gallons of gasoline* to soldiers home on furlough. Jack said that he had replied that New London School Opens With 432 Two Are Fined h* would 'keep on giving more paso- Mt. Pleasant Woman Added lo ‘“1 line to aerv ice men a, long as OPA in- Teaching Staff Owens a'so paid vestigators and farmers' sons get all they want to run around the country ”, In De Moines OPA director R. E ! New London, Iowa — New London Walters aid he was demanding resit;- Consolidated schools opened Monday spurred battens of the two board nu inliers and morning. A last minute change oc- TIIE DANISH and Bulgarian outbreak., signify that nearly everyone now knows Hitler is beaten, except Hiller Th Danish revolt sprang from two developments The nazis were drawing ever tighter and tighter the economic yoke on the Danes at a time when allied successes had th.- f«u*toi v workers to a realization !**a' th* did not resign un- curred to the teat bing staff when Vera that the * cast was not lost Their rxieciiafcely he would “take other ac- Moon, who had accepted a contract resi tame brought on the German ultimatum and the revolt Previously, the Danes had accepted nazi rule reluctantly but without sabotage. It will have some military and much political effect. The Germans relied on the Danes for much food, and will ~ now get less., but the number of sold- chailes Hummell, 72 years old, died iers and materiel coming from that at h;s home n(>ar patter's bridge country to the nazis was comparative- southwest of Mi Pleasant early thi,, Wal cr Lyons was fined five dollar:; and costs in the court of Mayor H L. Shook this week on an intoxication Labor Day Picnic Committees Named a fine cf five dollars and costs in mayor’s court, me charge against Owtns being failure to stop at a stop sign. Ha by Show Will He One Feature of Methodist Gathering More Distrubances j The committee*' for the Annual i Labor Day Picnic of the First Meth-i odist church, at McMillan park have i been appointed and an at work. The Second Lieutenant Gordon Douglas ( arstwnser., USMCR . of Mt. Pleasant, was graduat' d from the U. S. Marine Corps Officer’s Cindicate School at Quantico, Virginia, on Augus 25t,h, an i was comm ssnned a Second Lieutenant. Lieut. Carsten en has been assignee to the Reserve Officers School at Quantico, and will undergo three rn nths cf intensive training in combat tactics before being assigned to a combat unit. rn Mr. and Mrs. C. O Burris have word from their son, Lloyd Burris, that he has been promoted to private first class. He is looking forward to a furlough soon. His address Is Pfc Lloyd Burns. 459 Army Air Base Squadron, Palm Springs. Calif. PU ( apt. Laverne Li* her, formerly at Wichita Falls, Tex., has reported to New Orleans. Mrs. Eicher and son. j Tommy, have gone to the parental Miller home in Milwaukee, Wis, for the duration. PU James Kauffman, stationed at the , Naval B e, Farragut Idaho, came Bombard Mainland Monday for a 15-day furlough with Allied Headquarters in North Africa heme folks. Mr. and Mrs. Edd Kauff- -—(INB)—British battleships backed by man. supporting squadrons of allied naval P i vessels and firing salvos from 16 inch Ensign Jay Lessened* is expected guns bombarded the Italian mainland to arrive at New* London Thursday/anew during the last 24 hours, allied coming by plane from Memphis, Tenn., headquarters announced today. en a IO day leave. This will be his The bombardment was dealt out first visit home in over a year. simultaneously with a new aerial of- * Tensive which served vital supply and Lt. Wayne Ritchey, expected at New communication lines, gutted axis air- Moscow, Russia —(INS)—* German armies in Russia faced disaster today following unprecedented Soviet Arteries in which the red ai my smashed nazi defenses along a 600 mile front and liberated 370 towns abri villages. Northwest of Moscow, Russian columns broke through a strongly fortified 32 mile German defense line and i drove to within 42 miles of Smoleask. number on? nazi bastion of the entire | eastern front. | 200 miles to the south the Russians 'poured into the northern Ukraine in a 65 mile break through southwest of Sevsk enveloping 200 communities and bringing new pressure to bear on the vital Kharkov-Konotop-Kiev railroad. British Ships turn.' Charles Hummell Taken Bv Death t leaders or two reoresentatives from III ( openhagen each Circle o: the Womans socierv Loudon later, surprised his parents, Mr. fields and reduced to rubble key sup- • and two each horn he Wesleyan Set v - ancj jgfg Ray Ritchey, when he call- ply depots along the battered main General Strike Spreads, Unrest Mounts 'ice Guild and the World Service Coun- ed them Saturday night saying he had land. cil constitute the dinner committee arrived in Burlington and asking them Highlighting the a.r assault was a to teach 2nd grade, resigned to accept a position with the schools at Peoria. 111. Mrs Coriene Hill of Mt. Pleasant was hired for this gride, j On the opening day there was a total registration of 432. Of these 151 j are in the high school and 281 in the 'grad* sa' follow Fir 3H Second 40- Stockholm, Sweden (INS)— Serious | W1“ *u*'uibii«i uj u ic wmaus w- He gracjUated as a bombardier Aug. shot down. 32; Fifth, 32: disturbance1, were renorted today to ", T.1(> ,. 1? wailt c°Uee f,r othei 26, from the Navigation Air School at Each family is asked to bring a well- tQ come there for him. Ll. Ritchey 1,006 mile round-trip Flying Fortress J filled basket including fried chicken macje the trip home from San Marcos, attack upon the rail junction town of • if !>»ss3blo. Ice cream and iced tea Tex , by plane, train and bus. Pisa in which six enemy planes were I will be furnished bv the Woman’s So- Third, 2S4; Fourth, Sixth. 42; Seventh, 29; Eighth, 39; The Danish army morning. He had been ill the last two J hourly. * Gestapo agents --Despite increased German vigilance mg ai ranged. A leading feature will S. D Gar; et son and Wayne T. Gar-1 along the Danish coast refugees con- be a baby show for children eighteen Jetson, real »*st» e broker.1 reported to (tinued to arrive in Sweden, the News today that thev had sold the; A Danish submarine which fled Sun ly insignificant numbered 1500 Germany will now months. have to police Denmark more heavily, Besides his wife. he is survived by Smouldering Bulgar .a on the other <.ev( n children George H , Joules C„ axis hand. is the* key transportation Harold. Carroll, Mrs Harvey Long, joule to Go re* and the n.izi citadel Vera md Richard Wayne Tw*o broth-of the* Balkans King Boris may or €n George of southwest cf Mi. Pieas- ma> not have be er. killed by n »zi anc and isaac Hummell of Stockport, sympathizers for failure to please Hit- and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Hockett, also ler. or by Russians. The assassination survive. Is less important than the ensuing The funeral will be held Friday demonstrations that the people are afternoon at 2:30 at the Crane Funeral incr* a ingly pro-Russian. They never home. wanted to get in the war anyway. - The only soldiers Hitler drained from Rumania tor us, outside, .ere Soviet Government 'City. Iowa Th..- : urn is all in one un *,| mr JTP I and is probably one **f the finest pro- fVcpl iniormea cueing grass farms in Henry county. ______ ,300 tens of lime hare been spread as ! Washington. D C — * INS)— The well as hundreds of pounds of super] ‘ More ’th^f 20SItalian divisions still state deportment tor,ay issued a (or- phosphate Mi Meade if a breeder of, - arc In th, Balkans in such work. They moi statement emphasizing that the Pto-ebrec, Angus Ca.t.e and aal mote Habeas Corpus Action Filed Bv have broken out again in Copenhagen hcl dnnk wl11 I)rovide their own | San M trees. After a week’s visit he. Freshmen. 31; S pnom r* . 40; Jun-, last night as a general strike spread The entertainment committee is is t0 be iSent 10 Cowen Air Field at Berlin KOCKS lots 38; Senior 4J ! through Denmark and unrest mounted composed of George Rochefort. Mrs Bolse- Idaho. Under New Raid Melvin McBeth. Helen Hallowell, War-and storm troops ner Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jerry McKinnon, with 1 London. England —(INS)—On the the navy. f0Urth anniversary of the day Adolph 500 Acre Farm In Tinneranoe Sold nazi artillerv units were P°sted in the A variety of amusement for persons turning to his duties at Northwestern blazed todav uncjer the impact of the j streets. from five to ninety years of age is be- University, Chicago, Sunday. I heaviest raid yet staged upon the Ger- j were said to have occupied all cf the Gocdell, A. M Wettach. Hubert Dutt- Paid an over ni&ht visit to his parents. Hitler sent his armies reeling across ! Danish capital's police stations while welter, Ray Vandenberg. Olan Ruble. Mr and ^Ir"* f^lph McKinnon, re- tbe Pch„b border, Berlin rocked and months of age or younger. Three substantial cash prizes will be given: <L) 500 acre farm wned by the Davenport day returned at night to a Danish baby with biggest smile; (2) baby with *e?d Company of Davenport, Iowa, port, took IO Danes aboard and the prettiest eyes; <$) baby with the ms Wendell Ball, a recent inductee, will celebrate his birthday, September 8th. Friends may address him Pvt. Wen-A Ball. 37672633, Bty lith Reg. Field Artillery, Re and located about 2 miles we-’ of Oak- brought them to an undisclosed har- most hair. A large number of entries land Mills ; * Ralph Meade of Iowa bor in .southern Sweden. the oohce force employed in part of Greece. As Balkan unret grows, he may have to find other military jxj-lice. not only for Bulgaria but for ali Seeks Release of Son Bv Doans is solicited. Rene Clifton. Bn. placement Training Center, * Camp Roberts, Calif. Harold Carroll and staged upon man capital by the RAF. All reliable indications were that a big force of bombers which assaulted B the city during the night dropped a record weight of bombs in fitting observance of the day chosen by Hitler four years ago to plunge Europe ana the world into war. The official announcement said “a __________ The Des Moines Army Aviation Ca lion arri Hills constitute the refresh- det Examining Board today announced beav-v attack wms cai lied out on * * vt i> z . ^ . . ,0 Berlin last night. A great weight of ment stand committee. Mrs, Glen Ni- 'that Raymond L. Griest, age 18, son ® But they are of less and less value * . , » v«»,,rrv hATYio Soviet government has been kept fully bis stock to me farm upon taking pas-i could not tiei out to return nome as 1:7 r f I , , ic wiTi crvittvi informed bv the United States and session March 1st. 1944. Hie farm is oni Badoglio planned when Mussolini fell. ------ _ _ _ a„ as. a gravel road and has electricity in all1 Vera Yollmer hart and Mrs. Will McClaran serve o: of Mr. and Mrs Ernest Griest of 207 the transportation committee. Those South Harrison street, Mt. Pleasant, who do not have means of transporta- Iowa, has successfully qualified for , tion to the park will be accommo- training as an aviation cadet in the , dated if they call a member of the Army Air Forces. Great Britain in regard _ committee. C. F. Hayes and a group * peds” of the Anglo-American military U-16 buildings as well as water under Habeas coipu1 proceedings have been assistants will see there are an R< bert a. McBeth, younger son of j brought, by Vera Vcllmer, next friend abundance of tables and chairs, and Mr. and Mrs. Ira McBeth, has been high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped in 45 minutes. “Airfields and other targets in France and the low countries also were altared during the night. Forty-seven bombers and one fighter are missing.” to Hit.) I. marv situation as it has developed in con- pressure. These developments, therefore, mark * . f w „ ..vineal necticn with operations against Italy *• the involvement of Hitler in a critical . ® , , , . .___„ and other phases of -he European war. struggle to hold his home front, a ____ Preached at Kilbourne 57 struggle winch will be continuous and iv A Dx TL with allied mn i a very cAx/rxnc I Years Ago J Returns I here {and mother of Kenneth L. Doan a- tbe Bov Scouts under the leadership commissioned a lieu enant in the U U. S Forces Launch gainst Lee Doan, Victoria Doan and of Manly Frazer will assist with the S. Marines. He is located ^omewherr ^ew Offensive In Pacific Washington, D. C. TNS>—The navy glow in severity apace successes. He cannot afford to lose it HULL ALSO FAVORS TRI-PARTITE MEETING Winfield. Iowa left immediately Mary A. Dean seeking Irs release by parking of cars, the distribution of in the Southwest Pacific. Their other them. I program sheets and in other useful sen. is mrs. is also in the marines an i announced today that Unlu,d states The petition charges that he is be- ways. is located at Santa Ana. Ca.if. Their Dr. J W. Potter in& res’rained of his liberty. He wen* naval forces have launched a new of-lather. Ira MrBeth, it will be recalled (ensjye ,n thf North !>aclflc and pre. after the morning the Doan home for a visit this sum- NAZI WITHDRAWAL from Fagan ... ^ _ .T1kTO, e service at the Methodist church Sun- mer as provided in the divorce decree r„s .held for the past two winters. Washington. D. C -(INB)- Soc- »nd« the. Me odr church un .1, generally advertised as a surprize, tetary of Stele CorteU Hull today join- tor ^«;aft<r the death of Mrs. VollmerX d- r» limn PH Primp XyTlni.^tpr WiiKtrn CnUrcn HOIDC COIxilIiL lfl€ie wUcic ne but it was forecast in this column ed British FTime Minister Winston church home-coming .T1jrK Lilt ll was HHtva afternoon address Dr Pot- vorced husband. Lloyd D an. At thaf August 25. The plunging red drive Churchill rn urging the need for a the afternoon address. Dr. Pot • Kt>hneth who had been in southwest of Kharkov even then, tri-partite conference amoral repre- tor preached his fps, sermon, aftei j ; , Seek Permit To Operate Bus Line is seaman first class in the navy and sumafeIy are attacking Marcus Island is stationed at the Armed Guird School, (Ships Co.,) Gulfport, Miss. Warren Hayes, stationed at Sioux Falls, S. Oak., Ls expected home Thurs .........mt -------- - ith- pust*odv rf the father wag n'aee l ' The Sparrow T.ansit Linos of Lomax, day night for a furlough with his par made it necessary for the nazis to sentatives of the United States, Great he received his license, at,this church ■ “■ . ’ ' 1 Iii., has filed a request with the state (nts, Mr. and Mrs. C. F Hayes. draw back the long arm they had Britain and Russia. 57 years ago. One man, Gus Minear,«m the cu"tod-' mothe.. stretched into the Ukraine along the In response to a question a; his news who attended the .service 57 years ago, Sea of Azov. conference Hull said he felt a meeting was present at the homecoming Sun-Their plan no doubt is to draw back of himself and the foreign ministers of day. to the line of Melitopol, and thus hold Britain and Russia would be highly de- ------ their bridge-head in the Crimea. But sirable. I FriON ATIYIIIARY this movement no doubt simultaneous- ---- ULUS LLVjUJH /\UAIL.miVI Iv will require them to evacuate the J)*jjj*yjnen Vote To Recognize REPORTS ON BOND SALES Kuban river-head they have held in the Ukraine in favor of a firmer position on the Crimean mainland. The winter Russian line they seem After he went to the Doan home for a vis't, Mrs. V*>;'m‘r charges that ho commerce com miss on for permission -----— to operate a bus line between Iowa FROM TRUCK , . ' . , . . , City and Ft. Madison through Mt. is being illegally detained and that the Pleasant and West Point. Hearing date Deans, Mary. Kenneth’s grandmother. Victor inc, hh aunt, and Lee, his uncle on the application has been set' for late 1,100 miles southwest of Tokyo. A navy spokesman said . A carrier* t usk force raid planned for September 1st presumably is in progress at Marcus Island. The United States task force should have arrived on scheduled time. •However, no report has been received from the raiding force and it AT NAVY BASE FATAL is presumed that there will be none __until need for radio silence ceases to Ottumwa, Iowa —GNS)— Officials exist.” Increase In Butterfat Price the child from the faim and fo bid i her trespassing. Tile Doans claim that J the petitioner has no authority for the Olds, Iowa - Olds American Lesion | care and custody of the 13 year old Auxiliary sold $2,100 in war bonds on J according to the best information 5‘ Molly Pitcher day and $158 75 in J 0j (be petitioner, the petition states Norwalk, California —'INS) intent on holding runs from the Cri- °Pen defiance of the office of^ price ttampg# The auxiliary has also pur-' judge*Paul H. McCoid has set Sent mea northward through Melitopol to administration, mole than 7. o Los chased anothcr bono. I 3 1943 as thc date for hearing the the bend of the Dneiper, and then fol- Angeles county dairymen Tuesday vol- carpet rags will be sewed at the case. * lows the westward winding banks of cd overwhelmingly to recognize the nexl meeyn? which will be at the* that stream through central Russia. statc-apprcved 13 per cent pound in- home Cf m1s Bernice Anderson on _____ crease in the price of butterfat In . . c - - direct violation of the OPA ceiling. Pleasant Point Picnic oept. 11 The action was taken at a mass T'Afniip fa Tipftnit vv Vfiiiinpr to isirp St ptenib r. Announcement was made a few* days a^ the United States naval air station I he action at Marcus Island repre- ago of the application of the Bee line at Ottumwa said today that 22-yoai sentmg the second attack on enemy company to operate between Ainsworth ®*d Darwin Guy Vest, aviation ma bases there by American forces since Junction and Ft. Madison through Mt. chinist mate 2-c of Idaho Falls, Idaho, the beginning of the war was fir.»t re- Pleasant and West point. was killed yesterday in a fall from a veiled bv the Jap radio. _ truck while on duty at the station. j Jap imperial headquarters said that TRI TOWNSHIP BOND body will be sent to Long B ich i trotu force of United States planes MEETING TONIGHT Tuesday, Sept. 7. Serving committee: Mrs. Fern Roush and Mrs. Ida Grim. The annual Pleasant Point (Buss- meeting in the Norwalk theater in the , _ u Ville) picnic dinner will be held at face of a strong warning by the OPA KlWaiUS IO Meet at Church school Calif. He was the son cf Mr. and Mrs. and surface vessels attacked Marcus At Ardy Vest of Idaho Falls. dawn today. ................—............ i The Japs warned that American i A meeting of Scott. Canaan and Boston —(INS-— Have you any old firers operating so close to Tokyo Suit On Account Wayne townshio representatives will be umbrella ? They are worth money were in a position to strike directly The A. Y. McDonald Manufacturing held at Winfield this evening to or- Wa;-time scarcity of steel is respons- at the Jap mainland if they desire. company has filed suit on account ganize for the September bond drive, ible Stores are buying the steel stele- --- against Victor L. Collins and the E. A. Hayes, county chairman, will be tons. providing the libs are not bein WHO WANTS A GRANDSTAND? Morning Sun Hardware company seek- present to assist. Mr. Hayes, also n. broken. OPA ceiling prices set for In F member at Sheldon, the city Pleasant Point (BussviUe)j* school that such action might be deemed a The Kiwanis club will meet at the ing $211.66 which it is claimed is due district chairman, attended a state New England's old umbrella frarru s park commission is going to attempt house, Sent. 12. All old friends and conspiracy against the government — Methodist church dining room next on an account of $511.66 for mer- bond drive meeting in Des Moines on are 25 cents for 16-rib frames and 19 the sale at auction of the old grand- neighbors are invited. a felony. Tuesday evening at 6:30. chmdise bought- in 1938. Tuesday. cents for IO ribs. st md on the former lair grounds > I

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