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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 15, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 14 - Through October 31 Gasoline No. 7 Expires Sept. ZI Fuel Oil 5 * - Until Sept. 30 Fuel OII I (new) until Jan. 3 THE PLEASANT NEWS \ vi lli RATION STAMPS R, S, T Blue Stamps expire Sept. 20 V, V. Vt Blue stamps expire Ort. 20 X. Y. Z red stamps expire Oct. 2 Shoe Stamp 18 expires Ort. 31 VOL. LXXI No. 216WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1943 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Bloody Battle Continues At Salerno By Paul Mallon Sjr (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate, inc, Reproduction in Pull or rn Part Strictly Prohibited.) 125 Enrolled at Iowa Wesleyan They’ll Do It Every Time - - - SYK UTSI, V Y — 111 RE ARF SOME ex - pt-thout t lr' sn a ’ak I made t d »y to the New York Suite Newspaper Puhi shers’ contention* We art !> rd with world tcvolut’on as well as a world WEI. It will not be over when the war is over, Wf mu-' plan our way. I is not a new revolution not alone a political revolutrn, but a revolution of ethics and culture. It started unnoticeably back in the revolutionary philosophies of Nietzsche arid Pseud, as well sa Marx. While Marx is the glorified prophet of the anti-democrat ic societies which have sprung into oeing in ever-widening cosh- .since the last war. nietzsche and Fr' I ire the non-political re-soclah/ers whose ment lurtd great rn way from their ethics and social ways J ok* and plunged them mo tins dazzling1U materialistic era rn which we are now groping our way toward ye indiscernible .solutions, The Soviets first brought these revolutionary theories into practice in a way which aims at every foundation of our historic democratic way of life no* abolition of capital-ot:ng of our conc us ■ ice which w ten commandment things. Regular Courses And Activities Except Football —. the theatre is \ ONLV FOUR BLOCKS j OVER “-ANO it’s J such anise ni6ht-ShAll WE WALK ? KILLING I can’t walk another step? , please-lets V TAKE A tax: n< only towai ism, bu- the up lion? of moral founded on th< and Cl..*istian t* Classes* begall last wk k at Iowa We leyan college with an enrollment of 125, of which 75 are Lexhmen. Thir y of this numb r are boys, or 24'-. win seas in normal years the men usually fosm 60*; of WrS evan's enrollment. j All departments of the college are open and all regular courses and ac- I ivities will be available except frxit- | bail. Absence of football is being com- I pc mated by increased emphasis on basketball 8nd swimming and an expanded Intra-mural program. New member- of the Iowa Wesleyan faculty are: Dr. Bela Roast, a graduate of the Juilliard School cf Music ani J o-called enlighten- j the State University of Iowa. Dr. Emma lasses of people a- j Curtiss Tucker,, a graduate o! Mt Holy- I College and Yale Univt r-.it;,; Mi . P. Rusting, a g'wduate of Bradley College and the S ate University of Iowa; Mrs Waldo Braden, a graduate of Whitman College; Mrs. Niche a-1 Cuthbert a graduate cf Iowa Wesleyan college; Mrs Robert She pp, a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan college; and Rev. C. C Strohl. a graduate of Southwestern University and the Hi s School of The-p. ’ology. - I re i --- a FRANKFORTER, NEW VORK N.y. Over Half Million To Go In Bond Sales County Just Started In September Drive The WE HURRY we \ TAN DO All THE j 3H0PS ON EL0O ST, BEFORE WE GO TOTME HAT a ____________________________ .................. On 1ATE NIGHTS W'STERf \ CALLS A CAB TO CROSS THE STREET. HER TOOTSIES can’t take it—- 54% of Iowa ( orn Bond Premiere Fire Destroys Small Safe From Frost rp___Building at Salem Bond Sales are p ck ng up rapidly in Henry countv. However, we have made only a good start on the Bonds that we an and must buy during September Many people are buying the limit that they can. Unfortunately some people who hav* ample fund.s available t,re buy Bg on’y a le’.atlvely .'mall a-mount for their own individual condition. Up t Sat' relay nigh- September ll, total Bond Sales in Henry county on the Third War Loan Drive amounted to $la2,188.50. This means that we still have considerably over a half million bv Bonds to buy in Henry county during September. We have many times that amount of money on deposit In our bark*. Hi is is only a fraction of the wraith rf Henry county We have over fine thousand residents of Henry cowry in the Armed Forces of the Government scattered throughout the World. They are .acrificing their enure future. We must back the attack on all fionts now Nazis Abandon Claims Of Allied Defeat Yanks Yield Some Ground; Get Reinforcements I Aided Headquarters in No; h /f ii I—(INSi— Troops of the u. S fifth army held doggedly to n-w po .it .on, at Salerno and lashed cut in furious I land aiwr air attacks after yielding two towns in the face of terrific German onslaughts. Allied Headquarters in North Africa — <INS>—Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower today announced the loss of additional ground by American troops fighting a bloody battle at S3lerno but told cf the arrival of vast allied reenforcements and terrific air and naval attacks against the enemy. Another version of Gen. Eisenhower’s communique slid that American forces counterattacked after the ground was yielded and offset their losses by I ay tbs as pine oat discard boti v p are to where we truth is th* ttoned- or censorship? >w wit ..it •nUcism, but inc; t ti of fact, Lr we mu*' I urn arid prejudice if j where we are now, ort going Today, weighed | Weest article vet unra-1 With County Men And Women In The Service Frost Predicted For Lowlands Tonight has it b* en rationed bv I IIF ( OM MI MST ha- row drifted into . sui. but. on Ute way, IX PFK IM FN I* aal ism in Rus-i* nu pil ed such CK count* :g imitating o: I Farragut Idah B< ginning *ran-ing al the U S. Naval Training Sta-i lion is /ion Thomas Messer, n of Mrs Vio'.e- Victoria Miller, 300 South Locust tneel, Mt Pleasant, Iowa. I For the next .several weeks he will undergo a thorough training program that will build him into a valuable Des Moines, Iowa 'INS) Fifty-four percent of Iowa's corn cron was ale from a moderate frost by last Sundae, the Des Moines weather bureau observer, Chan* I J. Reed, said toe y in hi.' weekly report This, he said, is nine percent than the longtime average on at Temple Admission To “Destroyer” Will Be By Bonds House Endangered; Washing Machine and Two Stoves Ruined As a part of ti.' Third War Loan Campaign Mr. M. L Dickson announ-j ces a Bond Premiere at the Temple more I Theatre, September 22. Through the S"pt, courtesy of Columbia Picture, the 12. He commented that corn in the face of adverse weather made movie better tile war progress than seems possible. However, crop is no’ safe from he ) vy I Sing!* -head*d materia i rn as fascism member of the U. S. fleet During this jrost antj there are large areas m the in Italy and Fascism os ou* or chase? nazi rn in Germany. period he will become accustomed to nazism will be stamped the various methods of Naval proced-underground as a hunted ure. latest tactical information on navel .southern hall of the state where practically none I- safe from a moderate frost, his report said. ‘Destroyer” will be shown for >nd drive Edw. G. Robinson is coe of the outstanding actors in motion pictures and is starred in this picture. Admission will be by purchase of war bonds. Tickets will be given with the nurchase of a twenty-five dol- Dwayne Huston of the Air Corps left Friday f r Jefferson Barrack . Mo. INFANTILE PARALYSIS FATAL TO CHILD Court of Honor Thursday Evening minority. But Russia Is apt to come warfare a- well as receiving a corn- cut of this war the dominant na’ion of plete physical hardening program. Eur pc md Asia, and, in my opn.i n. At the conclusion of his training, he much of lhe slal(, tonight in the following years, she is apt to will be* given an opportunity to qualify _________ become the greatest nation on earth, for a specialized course in :ne of the RU'Sia would be the las' nation on Nrvy’s many service schools, earth to be swayed in her policies by emotionalism, so we must lock at these things as coldly and as straight as she does. And we must get our people to look at them the same way. This is the greatest revolution in the history of the world and its philosophies have encroached upon this hemisphere into your mind and mine. We have burr w d great y from the totalitarian i rn ta is revolution preaches as its first commandment. We have Inched our democratic way closer and cic er toward centralize I fed* i a1 govt*, ament controls in variant" ways, even toward socialism a little, an I certainly we—by our new laws and federal actions—are far down the road Meanwhile a spec. I weather bureau lar bond or with bond? of larger debunk in, predicted fro t in -lowlands of > nomination at any of the five stations ’where bonds are regularly sold: The | Postoffice. Henry County Savings Bank J The Federal Loan Office, The Build-I mg and Loan Association and the Pro- Sahm — Ti.e Roy Nau home was threatfned by’fire. Tuesday afternoon when their summer kitchen became a-J fire, supposedly by an ex pin ion of ant oil stove, on which the family was ca :- I ring tomatoes. Consider ab e bania e was done and had it net been for the 1 splendid help of high .school aid gra^e school boys and the Salem file depart- | ment, both house and .summer kitchen would have been destroyed. The kitchen was about ten feet from the house. Furniture was carried cu j of the hou e, arid fr m the burning ; bi biding. A nearly new washing ma-1 chine and two stoves were ruined. Tile blaze in two tons cf coal stared in the building was extinguished. The fire was discovered about four o'clock just as the schoc I children were on their way h me. insurance is carrieJ.i . n ____* moving into new positions. You individually must invent in War * ~ • Th® German radio abandoned a1 Bonds to the limit during September claims of an allied defeat at Salernc We are expecting cur soldiers, sailers * .. ’A report from allied headquarters de , and marines to carry the attack for- K M ward on a large scale. We must do our share financially. Surely no one in Henry ccunty wants to feel that they were in any way responsible for an- i c/her Bataan when -va had men bu- coa*t representing a 25 mile gain from amt sufficient supplies. Buy your limit raptured Coner*. This places the scribed the situation at Salerno as 'slightly better than*yes'erday. TTie British eight army meanwhile 1 reached Belvedere on the Italian west British approximately 25 miles from in Bonds today. Some Not Yet Seen Chairman Ben A. Galer of the city committee said that any who have not been seen may let either him opponents >’icklcd the new around at ; Chairman E. A. Hayes know and they * nightfall will see that someone calls. Some have undoubtedly been missed. in the canvass because they were not!Pres«« land operations are be lat home When the solicitor called or I in* «•*«! under the greatest aerial Im some cases because the worker* 'OW ot the entire Meditenunean have not vet been able to complete I campaign. t While German troops are being re- the Salerno battlefront. Gen. Eisenhower’s statement said the U. S. Fifth army and its British com-ielded th yesterday. The move was taken in the face of savage attacks to straighten the allied lines. The their rounds. V. L. Clark of Des Moines, state war: enforced. Gen. Eisenhower's eommun- | finance* chairman, commenting on the ique made it clear that the American campaign in Iowa to date, said; •‘If we do not approach our total <lv a*s0 quota within the next week, we will a ask the oeople of Iowa to come through again and ‘back the attack Cedar Rapids, Iowa (INS*— Cedar Rapids today listed Its first infantile paralysis victim in three years, year old Kenneth Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs Let Moore, died late yesterday He had been placed in an iron lung last Saturday. Troop 27 and 28 Boy Scouts America will hold a Court of Thursday evening, Sept. 16. at 8 o'clock in Saunders nark, just west of the tool house. All friends : nd relatives of Scouts and Scouters are cordially invited. three They suggest you bring old cushions or blankets to sit on. place this summer. duction Credit Office. These tickets are available now. I There will also be a booth for the__ of purchase of bonds in the foyer of the J Honor.' Temple Theatre the night of the Bond MISS GEMA SKINNER I Mr. and Mrs. Nau just purchased the more in keeping with the demand, Premiere. Remember admission will be by third war loan tickets exclusive- New London ('. (', Inventory of Men Now Under Way AND CPL. ROBERT MAPES MARRIED SEPT. 4 he army is being strengthened constant-While the Salerno battle is bitterly contested see-saw conflict, in other area> allied gains were piling up steadily. Capri was captured by British forces and immediately handed back to the Italians after the German control was taken care of. added “If the figures indicate we may fall short we will call upon our minutemen and minute women and OCD j Italians Battle workers and ask that they conduct a I Gcrman Troops recanvass of pledges that seem to ce J r merely token pledges in their counties.} London, England - “This is so important that we must not pass up a single prospect, If nec-essary we will go back to each pres to taxation. No other wealth 90 ubject r. r>tnrino im ii vt Hp*. tVlP New London — The first meeting int the new community ouildinc was Monday evening when the Chamber o! Commerce held a dinner mee ing there. Merle Jennings and his commit*ce were some kind of a new social ecurity and iaboi union leader is a problem to war- resp0ns|^,je |:r tpe f;*iner officer- for labor union democracy for post-a a;. iant the alien ion of all, including ti.e coming year were elected. They are: - union man. THE CI RE for unemployment is em- There mad be a new binh o. libm- insi!ranee. The cure for alison, founded on Justice in ~oi em inent for free average (middle class) Elects Officers ,v ery Registered Man's Record _I Is Being Reviewed On Saturday, Sept 4 at Kahoka, Mo. occurred the marriage of M ss Cleona j pact again with a request to buy mote Skinner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ea'ljbonds. Sk/tier to Corporal RSber Mapes, son j *-- of Mrs. Louis Mapes ot Buriirg.on. Al Jn IT Q XU \ 4^0 The marriage took place at the Meth- vJIU^ U vt • • GNS)— F ghting betw een Gel man and Italian troops still continues in Turin and northwest of Milan in northern Italy, the Palermo ladio reported today according to Reuters. toward establishing that the state is possibly can spring up under the no longer the creature of man, but the percent excess profits tax. man is the creature of the state. I am not afraid of what th:.** wealth T meet this re'oluticn, the govern- will do to the churches, but what it ment seems to have primarily nr min*.! will do to the force and power of the odist parsonage w ith Rev. J. M. Mon-1 roe reading the double ring ceremony, j They were attended by her sister, Miss! ployment—not old age need is a good wage and a which savings are) man, and an international liberalism The inventory of ieeiive Service roils der way at the courthouse with the file of each man who has registered coming under the scrutiny of the Selective Service board to make certain no eligible and qualified man who should j be in the service has been overlooked. I very man’s record will be reviewed etui tref. men on the Se- j Virginia Skinner. M ss Gladys Miller here is now un- aIIcl Glenn Nau of Danville. stable country- in . „ w ^ , , . protected—not a tax collection scheme founded on the same principles o which drains money out of pockets in Christian and democratic justice. a volatile economy where inflation and The old prolessicnal liberals have Earl Petzinger. president; Mark Orn-dorff, vice president; Donald Bell reelected secretary; Dr. C. D. Raw hour cr, treasurer; J. O. Hell, Lister Hixson. Elmer I n inventory which is a part of the national effort to make sure all single men and post-Pearl Harbor Rcbert Gray, Ed Weasel and Leedham, retiring president, Board of oirectors. Elmer Leedham has been! ............ .......... named chairman of the group in charge ( married men who should be in the rising or falling prices make social sec- gone over to totalitarianism. They Ii e building and arrangements lor|armed forces under the rules of Se- The bii’e was lovely in an E g'i-h blue suit, with navy blue accessories. The brides ccm wore his uniform. Mr. Mapes will leave for Waco, Tex.. where he is stationed in camp this week. Mrs. Mapes will teach school the coming year. The young couple have lived here a number of veals and have* a wide circ’e of friends, who ex'end their best wishes for a happy future. its use are to be made with him. lective Service are there before the drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers gets in full swing. As the inventory* task means that regular business routine in the office will be eliminated for the last half of uritv insecure. subjection of man to the state, just as Tile fundamentals of security are not long as they can run the state. | -------- in government tax re emirs, but in The New Deal is burrowing its lien MORF WA VPS economic stability which protects em- in the slums and its hand rn the beret HtfcU mUKfi WAVL3 ployment wages price, leisure, prlv- box toward continuous re-elections. IN I HL U.S. NAVY ate insurance. • Where then is leadership for liberal- -- This is a middle class country, un- ism to spring, if not from the press.* with many new ships going down I the month, the public is urged to co- like Kure/ mid A-a where \ 'ere are You know your communities as per- tbe ways, the navy today needs several1 operate and not disturb the board un-c-nly two classes, the very rich and th® haps no other citizen knows them. You thousand inc re WAV.*S to replace men j less absolute!; necessary. masses of very poor. In this nation, deal with the public, with all business. on shore station?. Thousands of men' ---------- our superior democratic way of life has with the workers, the politicians, the with previous sea duty are tied down 4Dr,r r» ac TI IDT lifted the average s’andard of living churches, the bankers. with detail work which may well be LARGE PASTURE so that our average middle class per- Your business peculiarly fits you to handled by WAVES, son has an automobile, a radio, electric understand the difference between a The Navy now ha? many WAVES comforts, a 'home. etc. beyond the state-made man. You have only to 0n duty. Women who in their desire to hopes of the average European or Asi- compare your own newspaper wi h serve their country in the uniform of atjc Pravda or the Voe’kis Cher-B obachter the, Service have asked for leaves of This, I think, is the fundamental or the Pop'lo Komana. absence from many excellent nones- thing wrong in Washington. They have TRUCK PURCHASERS WILL FILL OUT TRANSFER FORM FARM IS SOLD All purchasers ct used trucks aftei September 15th will be required to fill out a certificate of transfer to be flied at their local War Price and Rationing Boards. R( heil M. Harper, Quad-Cities OPA director announced today Tills certificate signed bv both the seller and the buyer is a safeguard against price ceiling violations. On Hild Real Estate reports the sale of the 304 acre tract of unimproved land located 4 miles northwest of Mf. Good leadership can not be conserv- sential jobs and are now doing the work Pleasant and owned bv Mr. Carl Hertz forgotten or abused the great middle &tive or reactionary, or, in fact, bound of a man who probably is aiding the of Nevada. la., to Messrs. Henry Woer- C]ass by any labels in this revolution. It naval ac’ivity in the Mediterranean or deman and Raymond Vandenberg _should be sympathetic to the interests South Pacific. this city. it both Individuals signify the compli-j ance of the sale with the Maximum j Price Regulation on used Commercial Motor Vehicles set by toe Office of price Administration, Harper said. ! A copy of Retailers Bulletin No. 44 of j covering this regulation is being maii-- 1 cd to all used truck dealers in the Sell Forget-Me-Nots Olds — On Saturday, Sept. 25th a ccmmittee of the local unit of the U. S. W. of America, with Mrs. Hobson a.** chairman, will contact the citizens of thif community in behalf of the Iowa Dept. Disabled American veterans and offer to the public the little blue flower known as the for-get-me-not Tin chive will serve a double purpose: that of making funds available to the State Hospital Committee of the U. S W A as well as raising funds f:r the continuation of the Dep'. of Iowa D. A V Rehabilitation Service. It is the duty of every citizen of this community to wear a for-get-me-no Saturday in honor of the boys who arc returning with maimed and brr ken bodies from ba fie fields upon which they have fought for democracy and ideals. Bv wearing the for-get-me-no* you will be a part-sponsor cf the services rendered by both of these organizations. Y' ur generous contribution and Uh forget-me-not which you will wear Saturday. will be a silent reminder of the disabled veterans of all wars, the people of this community have not fot - Mrs. Dan Desh Taken by Death Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Dan Desh, which occurred in Los Angeles. Calif.. Monday, Sept. 13. after a long illness. The Desh family formerly lived in Mt. Pleasant. They lived at 402 N. Main st . where the J. L. Whitneys now live. Mr Desh operated a harness shop here for many years. THERE at ions of this war-churches. ARE ONEY TWO organiz- of all groups, analytical of the pvopa- a navy recruiter is in Mt P easant This is recognized as one of the, district. i Dealers who have not recciv- gotten the sacrifice made in their behalf. HOMECOMING AT Sunday, September ID will be held the annual Home Coming at Beulah R N.A. PARTY AT HOME OF MRS. HONTS The Royal Neighbors business meeting and party was held at the home of Mr*- Guy Honts Tuesday evening. Mrs. Paul Glanzman assisted as hostess. After the business meeting bunco was played at three table - Prices were won as follows: traveling, by Mls:> Cecil Willey; high score. Mrs Francis Glanzman: low score, Mrs Clarence Faulkner. Refreshments <„' ck* mod chicken and hot biscuits and coffee were served. people getting rich out cf ganda causes cf all ana strive only to each Thursday from 10:00 a. rn. to 3:00 best large tracts of bluegrass pasture , ed this Bulletin may apply to their Basket dinner at noon. Program to fol -the labor unions and the be just and sound in the in’trest alone p rn. at the U. S. Postoffice. Don’t de- in routhea t Iowa, with living springs local War Frice and Rationing Bourd low. —The “Gay Nineties,” their chii-This Ii became neither is of the great mass aveiage. toy. Enlist today. ( nd co ,o go acres of level tillable land, for a copy. dr en and all newcomers arc invited * Deeds Recorded Deeds recorded at the courthouse include the following: George F Berry and Bessie Berry to M. J McGhghy and Ferry Esther Mc-Ghghv. New London property. BEULAH SUNDAY! Morgan E Williams and wife to J O. Hall. Winfield property J. M. Schultz in dwife to V W and Perl R. Cochran, property on Eas' Madison. Mt Pie ant, between Walnut and Pine streets. Consideration wa? $2,250.

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