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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 13, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 14 - Through October 31 Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. 21 Fuel Oil 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil 1 (new) until Jan. 3 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS R. S, T Blue Stamps expire Sept. 20 IJ, V. VV Blue stamps expire Oct. 20 X. Y. Z red stamps expire Oct. 2 Shoe Stamp 18 expires Oct. 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 21 1MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Americans In Stiff>|Battle Near Naples By Paul Wallon 18 BOMBERS RAID JAPANESE ISLAND Attack Kurile Lroup, Northern Stepping Stone tbi.iirmuted by King Feature# Syndicate. Inc.. Reproduction In Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.)__ WASHINGTON — AS AMERICANS In t .‘urged ashore at Naples, a bet- j _ ter-than-usual military count showld! London, England --(INS)—Eighteen 13 Germ n divisions then entrenched5American bombers were reported today in northern Italv, and four or five in ', to have raided the Japanese Kurile i.s-thi south (around 250.000 men in blip j lands, home of the big T'ararnushira This force was greater than any- naval base in the third Surprise attack thing the United Nations had publicly’of the war on northern stepping stones shown in action in Sicily or southern I to Nippon. Italy. j Domei, Japanese propaganda agency, Announcements have mentioned only {1 astened to pu forth its version of the five American divisions in action in assault while official allied quarters They’ll Do It Every Time - - - //r AR.cn ER-MR BLUFFER you KNOW I WAS MARRIED LAST YEAR-AND-UH — NOW WE ARE EXPECTING A NEW MEiR— I-UW / THOUGHT MAYBE YOU COULD GIVE \ me A LITTLE MORE V SALARY-, - ABSOLUTELY '^/y/y NOT' AFTER all Rut FOOT, THE ONLV REASON WE ) KEEP YOU ON THE PAYROLL IS BECAUSE YOU’RE A MARRIED MAN r THERE ARE DOZENS OF MEN And THEN HIS DRAFT BOARD 5ENT RUTFOOT A LITTLE LOVE NOTE. MV-MV-HOW HE HAS IMPROVED — ....... you’re ruining ) mv business'vou re drafting All my , BEST MEN! AND NOW TO TOP IT OFF YOU WANT TO TAkE RUT-, FOOT' WHY HE’S MY / ( MOST VALUABLE ' V EMPLOYEE! HE-ME^ Greer, Escaped Convict, Captured Taken Into ( ustodv by Police At Burlington Clash With German Units In Italy maintained silence. The nipponese agency acknowledging that damage was inflicted asserted the a ault was carried out Sunday a utilized for its Sicily, and have suggested the presence of about an equal number of British and Canadians, in action at any rate (reserves not disclosed.) Moreover, an excellent defensive day the axis long ha position was available to the nazis in I thrust. th< Apennine line on the Adriatic. The I ----- few' main highways approach this line through mountain parses and the railroads run through tunnels. Seriously Hurt In Motorcycle Accident THE GERMANS could constantl, augment and supply a force there from rear lines running back into three d.r-ec ions to southern France. Austria, and Trieste (the Balkans>. Furthermore, it would be Just like the Germans to plan their last big fight on Italian soil, and thus cause destruction of Italian cities and civil-.an.% rather than their own Indeed, if they live up to their historic customs, they will surrender before w<- or the Rux urns can get to their border -.. Consequently, every detailed development in Italy has been read with eagerness born of uncertainty here It was. clear to all that even after our successful landings on Italian shores, everything would have to be I organized all over again for a cam-pjign againi t a strong nazi defense on the Apennine Line, or even the weaker Poland and final Alpine Lines behind it. This was true in TunVia and in Sicily where we had to stop to reorganize after victories in order to men a tie* and different situation. As a result, the men who know m. i-tary affairs here have been less enthusiastic than the general public m expectation of a swift conclusion in Italy. Harley McCall injured in a motor-t cycle accident near New London Sat-1 urday night at 10:30 was brought to the Memorial hospital by ambulance ' and Sunday was t <ken by ambulance to Peoria, III. HLs condition is quite critical. A woman riding with McCall i was hurt but her condition was not eriou - 'I •- motoi \ci* left the highway or. Nazi Radio (aptializes (in 1 he* Nazis Holding Well-Placed Positions Burlington. Icwa (INS)—An escaped j convict, Dale Greer, 30, was back in Ft. M .dison prison today after Burlington police, acting on a tip, arrested: him in a Burlington tavern. j Burlington police said Greer escaped frcm the prison farm where he was a Allied Headquarters in North Africa , trusty last June 20. They said he was j-~i INS)- The American fifth army commit'ed from Mt Pleasant, la., and w s locked in grim combat in the Naha d 18 months remaining to serve on pies area with powerful German units a ten year term for breaking and en- j holding well-nlaced positions. Although tering. , details were meager, it was officially disclosed one of the severest struggles of the war was being fought. Laughable Report About Mussolini mt. union u.s.o. packs Group of Men Christmas boxes; Accepted For Navy Mt. Union, Iowa — The United Serv MISS LUCY ANN DEESZ BECOMES BRIDE OF ^ Area FRED DUNCAN HUEBNER Under British Control - | Allied Headquarters in North Africa Candlelight Ceremony At First —(INS)—The entire under side of the Methodist Church j Italian toe. vital air base and harbor * region fell under allied control as Brit- --, ish eighth army troops stormed into The marriage ot Miss Lucy Ann I (h(, cUjl q[ Cotronc D.( z, daughter of Mrs. John Weir ofj At ,he ^ Ume tr00ps Pueblo. Colo, and Chief Petty Officer edged inland from their steadily wid-Fred Duncan Huebncr. U S. N.. son ening bridgehead in the Salerno region of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Huebner of,scuth of Naples on Kest CMSt m Des Moines, look place at the First | the fJCC of ,he mo,t de5perate reslst. Methodist church Sunday afternoon «t ance yet offered by the hard.pressPd a curve, according led here. the report receiv- PLOT TO OVERTHROW MEXICAN GOVERNMENT Storv : ce Womens Unit of Mt. Union met Were In Recent Group (ioing I p »two o’clock i Nuptial music preceding the cere- London. England formed circles voice skeptism ■ at the schoolhouse Friday afternoon | fo; their regular meeting. Christmas I boxes were packed for the boys over-i seas. Plans were made to sell Forget-in L-uidon continued to, Me-Nots on Saturday, September 25— I or Induction mony included a hall hour of pipe nazi defenders. British tommies striking eastward fiom Cantar.zaro which they occupied INS)—While in- NIPPED; 7 ARRESTED A in German hand Bo n r - _ t <lk> voi'-eci the claim that the fallen Mexico City — A plot to '-wrthrdi' . dictator was absolutely safe and prom- today that Mussolini j FCrget-Me-Not Day, This is for the| the Avila Camacho governmen was said by the press to have been discovered by police and military authorities. Jose A. Inclan, asserted leader of the movement, and six other woi*d-be revolutionaries weie arrested. * The conspirators are said to have admitted under questioning by the federal general attorney that they were part of a small group winch had ramifications in some states and that orders already had been given to start the re- Disabled Veterans. The following teachers spent the. week end at their respective homes: | ised to make known the details cf hi* Mi s Pauline Kongable in Winfield; I reiCue- j Miss Norma Davis in Wyman; Miss --: Belt;. Mark in Sperry; Miss Marie London, England UNS>~ Adolph Hit-iRcse 111 Crawford,vfllc and Mlss Evelyn volt on Sept. 16, when Mexico celebrates Till MILITARY RESULTS of the thf‘ 133:d anniversary ol her independ- Badog.io Armistice were likewise rt - jler’s unconfirmed assertion that Benito I Mussc ;ir.i had been liberated was called laughable in London circles today, j Mussolini never had been in allied .hands, one official said. Nothing is even known in London of Mussolini's j whereabouts another well informed source commented. ! Rukgaber in Mt Pleasant. SICILY CELEBRATES ITALY’S CAPITULATION Of the group of local mf n who went recently to Camp Dodge for their final physical examination, the following were among these accepted for the navy. Max Darrel Gorham Lester Leland Cook Merle Guy Ball Robert Edward Thornton Richard Elven Palm Wayne Eugene Dohrman Orval Eugene Zickefoose Harold Dale Kerr Keith Darrel Grinstead Earl Clifford Morrow Robert John Kobs Paul Edward He iter Eugene Vincent Rrdruck Orval Dale Dickey organ select,out played by Mrs Leon- Saturday fought thelr lnto Cotrcne ard P. RLstlne and a group of song:. a(tfr an advance of 30 m|Ie8 lnst by Misses Suzanne Ward, Margaret Bentzinger, and Helen Simons, frater- was said to be a ence. stricted. Probably the main result was °ne of the leader the undetectable effect It had on the seU-appou.ted general called Magda-Oernim people and their conquered Contreras. *ho aas kUlwl a tear nations. The news could not be con- cealed that our breath was now hot near Chinameca. State of Morelos. Con on 'he nazi back. It should be the final succeeded German discouragement. So conclusive was the action in this respect that you would expect the German army immediately to shoot Hitlec* G©< ring, Goebbels, et al, and a terms. But the Prussian military system is just as near the gallows now as t is Hitler. The German army will be finance the rte e. ion. gone < the officers will all lose their jobs) as soon as they surrender. As.de from the controlling nazi and the army groups, there is no political organization available in Germany except the under-ground communists Woline Car Stolen Late Saturday In a Sicilian Town—(Delayed)—Si-I cilians. facile at the production of the J The nazi-controllr-d radio in Holland j proper emotion for any occasion, today! said the fallen duce s .son, Vittorio, had ‘ riotously celeft.£*ated the capitulation arrived in Germanv The broadcast of Italy. heard by U. S, government monitors in j This little tow n’s inhabitants cheered New' York credited the story of Vittor- and shouted, the kids climbed towers days ago m a fight with federal troopsiios arrival froni a reP°rt 10 Berlin. The'and rang bells wildly. The girls poked monitors said the German propagan- their heads ou* of balcony windows and a car belonging to Albert Woline by Inclan who da rna< mne continued to capitalize on made eyes at the soldier boys. Bands' was stolen from near the Glen Donas- umec title of ‘ President of the M. x-:the repcrted llberati0» Mu*soiim. ’ played in the street. , aid oil station Saturday evening about ican forces of liberty and of the na-;but falled to state hLs w^reaboute. j Even the mayor came up with a has- ten o’clock. ttonalistic party.” This group, led bv ^ | piepaied speecn and others fath- j The car. a Chevrolet sport sedan Contreras orgai.i/ad a highway r'tbbery RdtCrtltCS I eied lne Sicilian, American and Ital- , license No 44-1508. had been left at k for f.n August 15. when they held up about nity sisters of the bride. Rev. Morrell C. Rubey performed j minor opposition from Germans who relied only on large scale demolitior^o check the opponent’s forward thrust. In the Salerno region, however nazi the imptessive single ring ceremony j trooua Iought ^ wlm stub|wn 0 before the altar, a oeautiful setung 3ltlon t0 ch#ck ,he advanclng battllng ^ grimly yielded soil. Unofficial reports declared the Americans drove a steel wedge six miles inland, but there was no Immediate confirmation at allied headquarters. with baskets of white gladioli, ferns and many lighted white tapers. The bridegroom was attired in his dress uniform and was attended by fraternity brother, Seaman Don Hoffman. The ushers were Richard Baxter, Midshipman Al Bridger, Earl Van-dagnff, Jr., John Elgar and Edmund Krieger. All were college friends of Mr. Huebner. The bride, lovely in her gown of ivory faille fashioned with an eyelet] ^ac^*c ’*^*3 lace trimmed bodice and court train with long veil of rare Spanish lace!atlon 20.000 Japanese troof# held in place with a tiara of pearls. • after seizure the huge Salamaua Huge Salamaua Airdrome Captured Allied Headquarters in the Southwest )—American and Australian fighters waged a war of decim- 50 autoists between Cuernavaca and CuauMa to obtain money with which to ‘Gestapo' Charge M s Ian flag> and placed them side by side. Among the happiest kids in this amp were seven Italian prisoners, j kitchen heljiers. who jumped and Radio | shouted c.t the prospect of a quick re- the station for a grease job. Later Mr. Donald parked the car on the east side of the station In the sedan w'ere groceries and Mr. Woline’s gas ration book. was given in marriage by Mr. Warren K. Rogers. Her shower bouquet of baby asters, gladioli and dainty rose buds was exquisite in detail. The bride w'as attended by Y/-s Paul C. Desenberg as matron-of-honor. She wore a pale pink gown of gorgette with lame’ bodice. She wore a tiara of gladioli and carried a bouquet of gladioli and blue tulle. The brides- j maids. Miss Meda Hauenstein and Miss airdrome. Capture of the great airdrome announced today bv Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur s headquarters spelled the doom of the town of Salamaua and the companion headquarters base at Lae, 18 miles up the coast. Climaxing a steam roller offensive launched June 30. the allied troops swarmed uo the airfield from the south after wiping out the last de- Myrll Jean Stuart wore identical dress- \ position on the Francisco river. At Lae, however, the Japanese TAKES $14 RIDE IN TAXI TO WAR JOB (Washington, D. C. —<INS> commentator and columnist Drew Pear-1 lease and return home. Probably the' __ son today reiterated his charge hat anlcnly unhappy lad wa,-, a German pris- it i • administration -gestapo” is tapping his oner who e house in Nuremberg was 1180811 KGSlgllS - I telephone lines He ascribed the activ- clown up by an allied bombing raid1 O Radford, Va. — Albert J. Burton was ity to the state department and Sec- m Maj and whose father, a German I At I 011110%' otOEO in Bluefield, W. Va., his work was in retary Hull army captain, may now be in Italy. ___ who are not strong enough to force the Radford ordnance works, 70 miles Pearson made hLs original charge on j «<This is what Ive fighting for,! La Verne Harlan resigned ithe radio on his regular broadcast Sun- ; for two years,” he said bitterly gun internal German affairs to the point. This peculiar situation is apparently sway. The taxi fare was $14. Fellow workers day evening, asked why he didn't telephone instead his pos- But ■ ition as assistant manager of the J. C (the Italians seemed unconcerned over i Penny company store here last Satur- Guernsey Writes the only thing that ha^ kept Germany &nd advise the p]ant that he had miss in the war in the face of an obviously ed his ride lost cause. ..j get to work, he said. ‘ You ITtvtm l^FlCfkn The only direct military effect of s£?e rvf gm a son with the army in 1 T 111111 rilMJIl Vvdllip Italian surrender wa^ to give us air NortJl Africa.” - bases closer to Germany, and estab- The action by Burtcn brought a le'-j Mrs- Myrtle Guerseny of near Salem lish a position whereby we may cross ter Qf communication from Col. L. D. has received a card from her son. Pvt. j the terms of peace as long as the de | sired result was achieved doubtedly was the fact.” SHOOT SQUIRRELS OUT OF SEASON; TWO FINED day night. He will move to a farm which un- |north of Fairfield this week. Mr. Harlan has served as assistant manager of the local store he last several years and he and Mrs. Harlan have ' many friends here. es of blue frosted organdie, fashioned < They wore launched a weak counter attack against and carried a bridgehead. with bodice and fuU skirt gaidenias in their hair bouquet*, of gladioli and pink tulle. J The attendants were all fraternity sis- r*i • a ‘L’l »• ters ol the bride. jLla'm Annihilation The bride's mother wore a street 01 Soviet Troops length dress of powder blue crepc, Berlin, Germany (INS)— (Axis pro-with a hat of cherry plum and wore paganda)—The nazi high command to-a corsage of roses. The bridegroom's1 day claimed “annihilation of further” mother wore a black ensemble with groups of Soviet troops who landed coisage of gladioli and gardenas. near the German held naval base of Both Mr. and Mrs. Huebner are Novorossisk in southern Russia, Sev-graduates of Iowa Wesleyan, and are1 eral hundred Russians allegedly were well known in town and college circles, taken prisoners. The communique ad-Mrs. Huebner is a member of Pi Beta'mitted heavy fighting on the southern the Adriatic and take the Balkans. Booth, commanding officer. Gecrge W. Guernsey, who is in Philippine military prison camp No. 2. recently The card reads as follows: Max Wilson and Walter Lyons were j each fined $25 and costs for violation I am interned at Philippine Military 01 the state conservation laws when Prison Camo No. 2. My health is ex- -inaigned before Justice of the Peace THE MYSTERIOUS DELAY of five p/~vi ipr TCI I U1M days in announcing and enforcing the rl/LILE. ILL.L. ntlW Italian Armistice is easily explained, t $1000 IS HIS It was worked thftv way in an effort - 'cellent. I am not under treatment. I James T. Whiting. The men were to trap the four or five German div- Oakland, California — E B. Rut- am well Please see that a return let- accused of shooting squirrels out of Bions in southern Italy. The agreed ledge paid for a hotel rocm with a $1.- ter through Red Cross is taken care season Sunday by Game Warden Lloyd time for its disclosure was the mo- 000 bill that he thought was only $10. 0f. Don't worry—not injured. I pray Huff, who heard the shooting and said ment our troops landed at Naples. Police Lt. L. M. Carroll said the ho- and i10pe to see you all soon. Lots of Le walked to within a few feet of They took longer at sea than expected tel manager discovered the error. Next ]ove please give my best regards to them before he was seen. In fact, he and the news was broken a few hours day, Rutledge again registered at the ap folks and friends. earlier, but the arrangement and its hotel, and was brought to police head- ----- purpose remained the same. quarters to be given his $990 change. pRiy^JE SERVICE If the news had been announced at “It's not mine,” re insisted. “Sure, once the nazis would have been free had a $1,000 bill, but it’s in my trunk. It wasn't. "All right.” Rutkdge acknowledged “I guess it’s nrne.” to withdraw the southern troopv destroying cities, railroads and airfields on their way back. FOR HARRY SPAHR reported one of the squirrels fell near him. The squirrel season opens September! 15. The men would have made good wages tc have waited four days. C apture German Who Sank Ship Washington. D C. —(INS)—' The navy announced today :he capture of the German U boat commander who is credited with sinking the British air craft carrier, Ark Royal. The capture followed a running battle between a naval plain1 and the U boat off the coast of Brazil. The nazi officer is Kap ain Leuten-ant Friederich Guggenberger, one of ’he mast famcus of all the nazi U boat commanders, the navv said. Phi w’hile Mr. Huebner is a member of front presumably the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Mr ! - Huebner is in the U. S. Navy and for # the present they expect to make their Russian Capture home near the Great Lakes Training q| Bryansk Near Moscow, Russia west of Stalino. station. RABBITS WON’T DO San Juan. Puerto Rico -The U. S. Army laboratory (INS) at Fort IRAN HUNTS NAZIS Teheran. Iran —(INS)— The Iranian Government has offered a reward Private funeral service for Harry Spahr, w’ho died Friday night, was held at the Crane funeral home Sunday. Rev. E. L. Jeambey officiated. WILL LEAVES ESTATE TO THREE SONS Readv To Go On Roll Back Plan Buchanan today offered 50 cents for c* 5-000 tomans for the appiehension Congress Reconvenes Washington. D. C. —1 INS)— Con- Alma E. Mathews left her property to her three sons, Guy, Perry and Milo (INS)— Russian The wedding reception was held at capture of Bryansk appeared immi- the home ot Mi. and Mrs. W. K nent today as the Russian spearhead Rogers. The four tiered, daintily dec- battlfd wlthin n m}les cf tha. cente>r orated wedding cake, emphasizing the The British radio reported a blg bat_ coiois ol pink and blue, was cut bj raging in the immediate vicinity r| the bride. Assisting at the reception Bryansk. An even greater German dis-were Mis. B. E. Seeley. Mrs. M. L as»er approached quickly aleng the Dickson, Mis. Mai\ Firebaugh, Mis. S0llthern end of a flaming 600 mile Sam Baxter. Those who served were front as other armies, pushed within Mrs. Kendig Rogers, Jean Ogien, Ro- striking dis'ance of other centers, kev berta Hauenstein, Dorrame Oldt, Shir- junction on the Kharkov-Ciimea rai!-ley Wilson; Miss Nancy Rogers was in road threatening entrapment of lar?" charge of the guest book. German forces in the Crimea and west- The bride chose blue velvet with ern causasus. which she wore blue accessories for capture of Belava-Bereza. a d- zen her going away costume. miles from Bryansk on the railroad The brides bouquet was caught by fr0m Orel and the increased threat tn Miss Marguerite Morgan. the German lifeline from tlie Crimea. Out-of-town guests included: Mrs. John Weir. Pueblo, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. were announced. Washington. D. C. —(INS)— Chf" _________ , ^ . . Mathews, who were named executors ter Bowles, general manager cf OPA,|Fred Huebner. Mr. and Mrs. Warren of Carroll, Iowa: Mr and Mrs. Homer every live Mongoose delivered to it. The of anY German found living in ran grcss reconvenes tomorrow faced with according to her will probated Satur- announced today that the government. Huebner, Jack Huebner, Mrs. Bess Weis of Winfield; Miss Janice Santee laboratory wants the animals to in- without permission. It is known a few thp problems relating to the draft of day. The will was signed Sept. 27. is * ready to go” on a $100,000,090 pro- Barnes, Miss Hazel Boswell, of Des of Ottumwa; M.ss Mary Lee Burrow! vestigate a type of pneumonia for Germans in the south have been ac - fat.}!ers> increased taxation and foreign 1039, and was witnessed by Harold Me- gram to roll back the ccst of living tc Moines; Miss Lillian Huebner of Bur- of Burlington. Mr art Mrs Bridger which they act as good hosts. . tiv® among tribesmen. policy. Leran and Gladys Spray. levels of Sept. 1942. lingtcn; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wegner, cf Rlchland. 1 j

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