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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 7, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar lf - Through October 31 Gasoline No. 7 Expire* Sept. 21 Fuel OII 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VAMI) RATION STAMPS R, S. T Blue Stamps expire Sept. 20 ti, V. VV Blue stamps expire Ort. 20 X. Y. Z red stamps expire Ort. 2 Shoe Stamp 18 expires Ort. 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 209TUESDAY, SEPT. 7, 191.*] MT. PLEASANT, IOWA THE By Paul Malion (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — BRITISH INFORMATION Minister Bracken is being quoted as believing Italy will be the only axis nation to I all belore Christina; This forecast represents average military viewpoint since the Quebec conlerence sessions. The general military gun here is that Germany will be able to crawl through the winter. June is the month general!, .vet as the date beyond which the war in Europe Is unlikely to go. These opinions are founded quite clearly on the suppo Ilion that Hitler will not fall of hi own weight in tile me anime cut that we will have to go in and get him Presumably they retie t Anglo-American military plans. A confident inofficial expectation exists, nevertheless, that Hitler soon wlli bt killed by some ol his, own people, probably the military, acting because it cannot longer stand the gradual destruction of the country. Most Germ, n authorities also feel confident Huh r will never sue for peace and that discouraged German. will get him and his high associates before we do. Fire And Train Wreek Take Toil Of I 49 Persons Die In Fire In Houston They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Pop works all PAN IN A CANNOY FACTORY HE MAKES MORE NOISE THAN TEN TANKS PLAYING TAO Worst Holocaust In History City's Houston, Texas—(INS)—Forty-nine i>ersons were killed and scores of others injured today in a fire which razed the Uyee-Mory Gulf hotel building in downtown Houston. Firemen described it as the worst hole aunt in the city's history. All available firemen and equipment fought the flames for more than two hours before they finally were brought under control about 3 OO a. rn. Many bodies were charred beyond recognition while other victims were killed when the-, leaped from a crowded fire escape to the street. • Among the victims wTere many elderly men, some defense workers and wounded war veteran.' Witnesses said they saw the fire-escape choked and blocked by men in uniform, some on crutches and a few with only one leg or arm. But-at home it's WORTH NOUR LIFE IF YOU EVEN SIGH OUT LOUD"' TAo^vx. Tex WQS TED MATIKA, INGLEWOOD, CAUF. FOR THE love of ■ MIKE' STOP RAT TUNG THEM DISHES! TURN DOWN THAT / INFERNAL RADIO I DUY that kid a „ PAIR OF SHOES * THAT DON'T SQUEAK! A MAN CAN'T HEAR ti Radio To Feature Bond Campaign ‘Cavalcade For Victory* to Clone W ith President’s Talk Final arrangements have been completed for a four nUw’ork radio broadcast, 8 to 9 p. rn., Cf ntral War Time. Sep’ember 8. to launch the Thi d War Loan Campaign from Haywood. Th" broaden* w ll pre ent 45 minutes of f nteriainment Wed “Civalcade for Victory." It will feature such stars as Gary Cooper. Bing Crosby. Burns and Allen, Dinah Shor *, Humphrey Bogart Jimmy Durante. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Charks Boyer, Ronald Colman, Ak rn Tamiioff. Kay Fe ver and Orchestra, The P;o idf-nt cf the United S ates will utilize the last 15 minutes of th" Train Wreck In Philadelphia Takes 65 Crack Congressional Limited Leaves Tracks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (INS)— One of the worst disasters in United States' railway history today listed a toll of 65 known dead in the crash of the Pennsylvania railroad's cra:k Congressional Limited. Of the dead, 46 bodies have been recovered, and rescue workers have counted eight more trapped in the twisted wreckage of tile holiday pack- • Off Ida.-, said the blaze apparently | darted on the second floor rn ar the Mount batten drift! office but that its exact cause wa not determined. The extent of the death toll was attributed to the building s crowded condition. Spare cobs were in every room Estes Wins Golf Meet MORE MEN IN CLASS I-A Allied Armies Score Advance ed train. The 16 car express was car-program but it is not yet Renown from I r>’in8 541 passengers from the nation's just wha’ point he w ill speak. James I capital to New York Cagnay. President of Screen Actors Guild, will present ti Secretly Morc-enthau on behalf of the mot on picture industry the Hollywood Bond Cavalcade and coope-akon of the industry m the Third War Loan In turn. Secretary Morgenthau wi I int o duce Presi-r ent Roosevelt. TIO I SAY tin to clear ’he Burma Hoard into China ' immediately is due to strike in October. This Is not military information. It is founded on tile w< a thor. Cool, rainless Gains Permanent Possession of Trophy season generally se of October and last until February. (The rains are on now » Tie Pig question, however, is the amassing of planes, ships, and men for the tri-phibian attack Unit ss we H«rted long before Lord Mountbat-J ten wa appointed to collect the ships th* in a: the end ‘ and in the hallways and those trying to escaped found virtually every exist jammed. The building was an old one and its tinder dry wood blazed up like a bonfire once the flames got underway. Many roomers fled to safety down fire-escape before it became particularly. October is too soon. (jammed. Ih' Burma drU< virtually is the, - only offensive In this war which was # announc'd in advai. * but. obviou Iv jVldnDCl ISI I lCIHC the Quebec spokesmen did not intend that , . I,' ..OUM '.ad :om.a and | \\ JJS SUCCCSSlUl walt. for Hie news to break. I / The annual Lab'.: I.'ay golf tournament was held Sun the Mt. Pleasant club VI th Lloyd Fist Hawkins for the cli W F. Thompson runnerup contest over Eddie Deving( Flight No. I wa aon by Sam Ewart j Add ii ona I men have been cVsfi d in 1-A under the Seiec ive Service. They include: Lorra.n Destain Charles Bieber Donald C. Byers Tm^e classified in l-A, the phy -and Munday at leal exam nat on having been wa md ,t aini Country because cf their di lance now from the deft..-til. g Harold local ex am in nr boaid. They are: ipionship. Riley Metcalf is winner in the j Gayle Huston ‘king the f ight* Charles McDorman , Ferdinand G. Metzger Loren E dridge John Remien Hi rbeit Jackson Delbert Lamm Raymond Hite Billy McCabe Move Forward Five Miles In Italy War Prisoners Hunted In Iowa defeating FYed Ta; ar. Taylor with I comparative little I actice was a sur-I prise in the tournament, having defeated M. L. Lines rn a previous con-I test: Flight No. 2 v s won by Stanley j :--- Fir. t; Looker defeating : .rold Lamm: j sue- Flight No. 3 w.. be completed by Children Start on tended by James 1 In addition to the dead. 92 peisons. men, women and children were hospitalized, and 24 others discharged after being treated for painful but not serious injuries. Of those still in hospitals many are so critically injured that little hope was held for their recovery. The w'reek, which occurred at Frankford Junction, unlike most major train disasters, was not the result of a collision. Official descriptions agreed that an _ 'overheated journal box burned out Iowa agents of the federal bureau of causing the axle of one of the cars investigation <F B I.) Monday joined to drop and derail it and eight other following cars. An estimated 250 persons were in the car which left the track. All the dead, so far accounted for, were in the 7th and 8th coaches, rail- 45 way officials said. The express split in two, going miles an hour rounding a curve. One of the coaches was cut in two » The Labor Day picnic of the CHOK K of -bi* valiant Lo«i Mount- Methodist church was its usual batten to head this military expedi- cess The long tables in the Shelter play this evening Hon is explained here generally as House were filled for the chicken din- O'Connor and political Th' British administrative nor Th*- afternoon amusement pro- Fai.khauser hat: situation being what it is in the Far gram provided two hours of fun with and O'Connor. I Ea ? the name of the royal house the group manifesting eagerness to Flight No. 4 -member is exacted to carry great participate in the game- and contests who look the e-. ii by defeating M. L. local weight. Hi experience has been Tile tug of war team captlined by Dickson: largely naval, and actual operations Melvin Talbott won over the team of Flight No 5 as awarded to Allan will b*- directed by experts under him. Ray Vandenburg 'harles Fankhauser. iefeated P. C. Brau Caldwell, won by Jim Sodini, Enrollment New School Year ; ethers in middlewestern stiles in the ________ ; search for Erb Horst and Karl Gallwitz, former lieutenants in the German A.nod Headquari rs in North Afrit a finny, who escaped from an inteni-'INS) Allied armies in Southern ment camp at Trinidad, Colo., between Italy scoring a five mile northward 5 p m Saturday and I a. rn. Sunday, adv a nee fri-n Bagnara on the west, Asklng that all person be on the coast of the Calabrian peninsula haV?* lookout for men answering these des-captured the port of Palmi, General cription& the F B I. said hey were D*.gh. D. Eisenhower s headquarters last seen going north from the cam© The sides and top torn off and the announced today. and that beth speak good English: * Occupation of Delian nova aho wasj Horst: 23 years old, height five feet, edge of an embankment, reported as British and Canadian eight and one-half inches; 158 pounds, Two others jack-knifed troops pushed deeper into the central brown hair and eyes, fair complexion; portion of the peninsula while allied serial number 7WG37132. air craft blasted important objectives Gallwitz: 24 years old, height five feet in support of the advancing ground'eight and one-half inches; 158 pounds; forces. brown hair and gray eyes, fair com- --plexion. German Bastion i Both were wearing regulation army car tore over rough ground to the Expected To Smaller This Year Be MoCoid by del : with Mountbatten furnishing the driving force. Many congressmen were silently but frankly sorry General MacArthur did not get this job, although they appreciate the necessities of the British political situation in India when the expedition must be launched. Av rage expert guess here is that RECOVER BODY OF DROWNING VICTIM players. Mr. Esto Mr caline, iowa — The body of Rob-er Maxwell, 75, ret.red farmer of the Conesville, la., area was recovered from Cone lake late Sunday, according to siivei cuP> the main drive on Japan itself wiu be Coroner C. P. Phillips who said Max- News launched down through the Aleutians, suffered a heart attack while fish- kbillty as instead of from bases in China as pre- and apparently fell into the !ak“ *or L’-i viously expected. Services villi be at 2:30 p. rn. today i Monday - He Is survived by his wife and two gathered . Mt Pleasant streets were enlivened (this morning by toe appearance of Twenty -se, -:. players participated in hundreds of sc ho I children on ‘heir the tourname: and a large ciowu of way j.-r the opening of classes, cr for interested sp- ators followed the re,-strat'on championshij ii.gilt which was an in-j They were busy getting as ignments, teresting cen due to the strong ve- -hen buying books and making pi epa r-lccity of the wad which affected the. ^j 0, s ge^ down to bus ness tcmor- ; row-. , become.' owner of the J Total enrollment was expect d to be : ed by the Mt. Pleas-, be 0,x year. A dr* p in the number n years ago, due to his enrolled in scho Is, o pe dally :n high school is reported by most schools cf Is Imperiled Moscow, Russia (INS)—Stall no, chief German bastion in the Donets basin cotton shorts and shirts, large olive drab, wide brim, Boy Scout type hat" and ankle-length regulation army into a V spreading across the tracks and knocking down a tower carrying high tension lines. In several instances doctors unable to reach trapped sufferers administered soothing morphine through windows and gaping holes in the cars. shoes, when they escaped, was gravely imperiled today as an ad- _____ vancing column of the red army bat- frvi ADC PRFCFNTFH tied against furious Nazi resistance V'ULUKd riULOE.il IE.U west of Makeyvka captured suburb TO V.F.W. PU JI seven and one-half miles east of the — — Ve'erans of Fore gh Wars Post 2561 held their monthly business meeting Sunday evening Stp embcr 5. There lifer, winning the cup ime. ening a large number he club when a basket this territory. Students were coming in for the reg-istration at Iowa Wesleyan. Many city. Northward other Soviet forces battled steadily forward toward the nazi , „....... held Dnieper river stronghold of Kiev wore eighteen members present at t s R.epp and Asjjer attended a Ma-after seizing Konotop, vital rail center rather important meeting at w ic Comrades F E. Werner and Ralph LOCAL HAPPENINGS Lieut. John Whitney, recently com-missicned as a navigator at Selma Field, La . spent Labor Day with hi? grandparents, Mr. and Mis. J. L. "Whitney. He left this afternoon for De? Moines where he will spend a w*eek with his father. E. J. Peterson, Verle Sammons. D D. Polfinba ger, Dwight Mi ler. Al 127 miles northeast of Kiev sonic initiation ceremony at Danville at 4:30 Monday morning, an annual Seizure of Makeyvka large steel presented the Pos, vita their Labor Day evem of thp DanviIle bxige. nter and Konotop were highlighted new National and Pos co ors w *c. 3reakfast was ;;erved following the in center in a Soviet communique announcing liberation of more than IOO inhabited places in the Donets area and another working ICO in the Konotop area and 90 south of Bryansk. MURMURINGS have been heard chlldren Mrs P.ank Westlake of Nich- dinner wa against the Roosevelt-Churchill terms Q]s l8f and Forest Maxwell, Conesville ; their ****>: of "unconditional surrender’' on the ground they are too harsh. The im- erved to members and ^freshmen came into Mr. Pl “aaa at M~n-and guests. ; day for ^he preliminaries at the ccl- The conin Hee in charge: Mr. and ;e.jC< Mrs. Parke Gornick, Mr. and Mrs. J.t ------ plication is their harshness is delay- age. alter our first bombing raid, when c mcCoig lr. and Mrs. E. E. Smith,j Tj4 mg peace. ihc Rome radio announced simply Mr. and M Roy Ward, Mr. and Mrs. la Si dpPS Predicted Frost mg peace What we want to offer them obvi- that the capital of Italy was an open v D Mor . Mrs k. W. Nelson, Miss ou. ly is military occupation until they city. No details were given as to the Florence B idde, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle can set up a free democratic govern- removal of military objectives. Only shellabarjcr, ment. It might serve a good propa- a simple statement of fact was offer-,-- ganda purpose among their people to ed. .______MIRIAM LAMM circulate a definite proposal to that (By International News Rewire) Reporting that the state escaped the light frost threatened last night in north portion*, the Iowa weather Miriam Lamm celebrated her ninth I bureau a new warning for lemon ow morrf g "Light frost may occur in extreme In Seize Landing Field Near Lae Allied Headquarters west Pacific (INS) in had arrived the past week. The post had been wishing for and towards these two flags for the last IO years but had been unable to obtain them until this summer. Th" Post heard a letter of appreciation from Father Flannagan of Boys Town as the Post had voted the Home $10.09 last month. the South-1 The Post also voted to send $25 00 in illation. RATIONING CAUSES THE DISCARD OF $1.0'I® Pocatello, Idaho — Restaurant operator Jimmie McNichols said he was thinking of ration problems when he left an envelope on a bank desk here Capt. Edward H Lindhall of the Pocatello army air base picked up the he found over to the American nara- cigarettes to the boys oveiseas an i a , , . , , ■ . . American para r f discarded envelope, looked inside—and chute troops dropped in a surprise as- carton of cigarettes to each e . . ----- sault behind Japanese lines in the Lac- the Post now in the service. The Pos* Salamaua area of northwest New derided to have a social meeting on Guinea have seized the Nipponese the 3rd Sunday evening of each month landing field near Lac. a spokesman to which the Aux I ary is espec lady in turned $1,000 cashier. northwest and north central portion of Iowa Wednesday morning.’’ Last night the mercury slid down to 43 at Decorah, Forest City and Mason City. STREAMLINED TRAIN WRECKED IN NEW YORK C mast')’a. New York —'INS*—The streamlined Twentieth Century limited was wrecked today outside Canastota when the boiler of the locomotive of the crack New York central train exploded. Three members of the train crew' were killed and at least seven passengers wrere injured. for General Douglas MacArthur announced today. The spectacular parachute troop assault led personally ‘by General MacArthur who watched from a Flying Fortress while his men alighted trapped 20,000 Jap troops on the Lae-Sal-amaua front. The parachutists dropped to the ground from the largest armada oi allied air transports ever employed in the southwest Pacific while squadrons of bombers and fighters heaped) destruction upon Jap defense positions in an unmerciful bombardment. I was under the impression then „ DIDTUn A V eilect. but certainly no terms of sur- that military custom required a neu- UouLK \ LmJ DlKiHL/Ai render on that basis could be negoti- tral observer to inspect the city to ated with Hitler. • verify the contention of the enemy birthday Saturday, however, her birth Neither the German nor Italian that its military significance had been day was not until Monday, Sept. 6. people can deal with us. Their gov- wholly cleared. Then, I assumed it honor of he occasion her mother, Mrs. eminent* now stand in the way. could not be bombed. I was wrong. Harold Lamm, entertained nineteen The only way any effective move Apparently, there is no accepted mil- little fronds at a theatre party, toward peace on that basis could be nary law or custom established on After the show the children went to made is for some regime to arise in the subject. I the Lamm heme where a lovely birth- the $ixis nations, sympathetic to that The next development came when day cake, ice cream and lemonade attitude we bombed Rome a second time. Af- wrere served. After which Miriam open-! Any move that would have more ter wa rd, the Rome radio again pro- ed her many nice gifts, than a propaganda significance along claimed its city open, and this time Those present were: Delbert and this line would therefore have to offered some testimony (not otherwise Beverly Foss, Mildred Talbott, Aletha come from the enemy. verified) that it had demilitarized its Rukgaber, Shirley Campbell, Don ____ beloved capital and the seat of so Ward, Mary Arden Smith, Joan Don- A major perplexity of this war has many Christian and artistic shrines ald, Miriam Carroll, Jane Eland, Carol been furnished by the sporadic con- and antiquities, including tVie Vatican. Joy Niles, Nancy Rogeis, Charlo* Case, fusing news from Europe as to wheth- This brought only a rejoinder from Jr.. Mary Ellen Ratliff. Doris Johnson, er Rome is, has been, or can be made an anonymous British .spokesman, as Dor.s Ekstrand, Connie Pei.Held, Silvan open city to save it from air at- far as I saw. He claimed he was sus- ie Lamm and the guest of honer. Mir- tack ' picious of the radio report and that lam Lamm. Others invited but un- The authorities here and in Sicily the italian plea would not be accepted, able to be present wrere Verlee Shaw, habitually have covered the problem No one offered any neutral confirm- Dean Whaley and Enola Bainter. with an over-all silence in the face of ation of the facts but we stopped ---- appeals and critical blasts from the bombing it. There, apparently, the New York —(INS) Rome radio. problem was left in nebulous silent 17,000 men join the armed services vision forces to Africa were British.’on at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon with 'instead or The situation developed a few weeks confusion. every day. recruiting offices report. official sources revealed today. I interment at Aspen Grove cemetery ade'. ’ - viteri for an informal get-toge‘her and better work of the future needs. W.R.C. MEETING AT COURTHOUSE The w. R. C s met at the courthouse Monday afternoon with a good at'Adance of the members The r< /va r bus -ness was held with the president in Sun ch>rg\ At this t me one appli ation for membership was read ani a1 o a t.ne this time it was voted to pur i ase a B nd. On Monday, £ep‘, 13. tue e will be a crlld me ting -'n t’e evening to-pra t co for impaction. GERMANS’ HOME FRONT MORALE ‘ WEAKENING’ Baltimore. Md. — The Baltimoie redried Monday in a special dispatch from Stockholm. Sweden, that German home front now is in complete lWentv’"1 e dollar War moral dissolution. This year is showing the same develcprremts as 1918" Alfred Oeste, special Sun co respondent declared that his report was “not _ Wishful thinking; it is cod fart." ad - TWO HONORED BY ing that he had talked with “ho ke^n C. S. EMPLOYES and reliable observers who have bern Mr5 Kenl,g Ro,er>> a r,ce t brid9 living in Ge: many for decades and who c„d ^ Ma caret gnvder> who roJ - did not conceal for a single moment hpf pos,ti,n §t the Cent al A. G. Bristow, 49. general agent for .hat the war wend be lost to the Netts Ptats pff cr wp p hfnV pfl by ^ pfr_ the Sinclair Refining Co, in the east- jn a few months in spite of the fart poye;s rf the Cfnt al g a es m^ Henry em half of Iowa died suddenly at his that the soldiers’ morale still seems to Cn,.ntv ^utu j Ilv rPn e ompani-., home in Cedar Rapids. Sunday nign be rather good.’ F; id»y aftemcon at he cif ces when Oil Company Official Dies London COOPERATION — (INS)—Two-thirds of the) following a heart att ck. Surviving are his wife, Wilma, • his mother. Mrs. Eva Bristow. and The dispatch added that this turn rejre, dments of ice cream sod is wers “the retreat is on Hie eas ctn Lo. brought in for t'~e ©’fasten. A'ter *n- <rather than the western) and the ,0yjrg |be refreshments Mr. O. T. Wil- Funeral services will be held from home front is staggering because of ?on present'd each with a g ft fr rn the Approximately ships which carried the American in-J the Prugh funeral home in Burling- the heavy blows by the r yal a r force pro-p Mrs. E ire > was g.v* n a pm- and Miss Snyder an ’he Wo;Id War I bleck e ,ird throw* rue e ear c lamp. *

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