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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 22, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID KATION STAMPS Furl OII 5 • - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 Sugar 14 - Through October 31 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VAMO RATION STAMP9 V, V, W Blue stamps expire Ort. 20 X. V. 7. nd stamps expire Ort. 2 A, B, Drown Stamps expire Ort. 2 Shoe Stamp IU expires Ort. 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 222WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1913 Of Story Of THE; By Paul Mallon • Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate. Inc., Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited ) Germans Set Fire To Old City of Naples They’ll Do It Every Time - - - WASHINGTON — AN I X POSE of how things are done In Washington, intimate in i*s frankne wa? received Beautiful by a busine s man in hi" mail one morning, paper-clipped to the back bt a letter fiom the office of Milo pork-) Ins, the ex-genius who functioned as a guiding Jar for Vice President Wallace bef' ie th. elimination of 'he Wallace Ancient Flames City Allied Headquarters in North- Africa —(INSi—In an act of wanton destruction without parallel since the days of control over the bureau of* economic Genghis Khan, the Germans put the warfare torch to Naples today It alone might hey*1 furnished the While British and American forces I( ason for the transfer of that bureau pounded northward .-cozing four im-had it been paper-clipped to any letter portant (owns on the mayi roads to received at the White Bouse from that Naples, allied reconnai. ance fliers re-clrectu n ported the beautiful ancient city over- Priinarily, it tells bow the :,beri.» looking the Tyrrhenian Sea engulfed (me ming everyone who agrees with the m m0ke and flames. Naples First Example It appeared that Naples had been mr their way—or cb(JM.u as the first major example of >r, or. as the memo jaje decreed upon Italy b. Adolph He promised years ago that if author alout what should be done) should bu.Id a fire under Mr. Roosevelt to sweat him the way of the aut stated, ‘to counter the sewer gas that Hitler now annoy his olfactory tradt, and down in defeat he would drag caused hun to abandon liberalism— continent with him in a holocaust meaning the author of destruction. — The pall of smoke covering Napi* AT M O'" Ell I Kl of wa. o thick that allied reconnaissance flier; could not distinguish one No Prosecution For Tom Runyon “Had Nothing To Lose,” Officials Agree MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Told Hitler Sent Him To Offer Peace Plan Churchill Had To Get Out of The Way Fort Madison. Iowa -(INS)- Officials agree with penitentiary lifer, Tom Runyon’s view that “he had nothing to Ic e’’ in his escape attempt last w ek and th're will be no prosecution, Lee county attorney Robert Johnson I said today. j London, Engl md (INS)—The British He pointed out that Runyon already government lifted one corner of ’he is under two life sentences and that Rudolph Hess mystery today with an-prosecution of Lee county cases of es- nouncement he came to Britain wdh cape and kidnapping could result only orders from Adolph Hitler to toss in an “on paper” additional sentence prime Minister Winston Church.ll out of ten years. j of office. Runyon is under the Iowa life se*- j An official statement made public tence for the slaying of James Zrost- for the first time disclosed that H^n ilk, Britt farmer and also under life flew to Scotland from Augsburg wi’h sentence for bank robbing in Minnesota. Loan Associations To Hold Meetings fire from another, No allied bombing planes have attal ken n pie recently and not a Will Convene September 21 In single alkali has been hurled into the city by allied land or naval artillery well Mt. Pleasant within range, set On Fire Noires of a pccial meeting on En- Thus it is obvious that in an an- day afternoon, September 24. have mpation of abandoning the city or been sent to a1! stockholder mc rn x vs, where bonds may be purchased the nazi of the Lockridge Lee-Henry and J are Southeastern Iowa National Farm with “THE DEI IM I I conservatism has been in large measure create^ and it is the only air Mr Roosevelt is breath*ng and the only tun he hears,” The Perkins memo declared concerning its top Washington boss ‘ Not only to offset but overcome the propaganda on the other side so that the president, the country, and congress will haw bcf re til em strong I tatements in the press, radio, and the fighting for its posi^'ssion, mag ay n»** setting forth the liberal have se? Naples on lire. If they evacuate Die citv inf act LdWl Association, it wa, nno.m" i to viewpoint, should we not again adon* going to evacuate me city, “ this technique,” .having a new Char- is one of sheer wantonness or re-j day bv L °'c‘ir Cha mian secretary ley Michelson prepare tatements and venge If they are going to fight lur, treasurer * speeches for members of the house and it the fires may represent demolitions headquarters a? ut. Pleasant, senate and officials in a campaign carried out to clear the way for siree* J pitch) fortifications “I understand Lyndon Johns:n. Tex as repre of the Congressional Campaign com mittee. He would be a useful man to nothing but the work of pyromaniacs, wo; k through He mig kit bo .adored to May Become Battleground arrar g ior tile d.-m'cratic national German army activity at the ap- ccmmittee to end a good man to the preaches to the city Indicates an in -South to loc us: opposition to the Farm tcntion to carry the bailie uito Naples Bureau in the south and make it vocal.” gutted streets and houses foreshadow -The few remaining liberal “-pots- in mg the possibility of another Stalin-some departments, it listed as "justice, grad, in the cobbled thoroughfares a metropolis that was when Christianity was born Stiffened enemy resistance was encountered in the continued allied drive BOND PREMIERE; TWO SHOWS TONIGHT County Falling Down In Drive With County Men And Women In The Service ire New add (ss T-5 Harry Davidson 3743547 I. Baty C. 491, Arm'd F A. Bn this arrogant proposition leader of the German Reich. from the There will be tw; shows of the Bond Premiere movie “Destroyer" at the Temple Theater tonight at 7:15 anc! 0:15 There has been a fine response to th* sale of war bonds and the request for ti ket to this show. A booth will be ' in "Hitler wants a permanent understanding with Britain but will negotiate with no government headed by Winston Churchill." Publication of this disclosure finally explained in full measure why the Hess mission wound up as the most Ignominoui failure in history, with Hitler’* deputy packed off to state imprisonment and now according to re-t TJ S A:A. P O 261, Gimp Barkley, b3ble reports a mental case with dis- Only lf)0?, of Quota Has Been Reached Henry county is falling down s^rious-the foyer of the theater tonight jy in its responsibility to 'ie boys on Idaho. Texas. ire Seaman Roger Thornton, son of Mr and Mrs. Jesse Thornton, arrived heme en Sunday for a furlough having fill* ished his boot training at Fariagut. Stalin Praises Aid of U. S. The meeting la being called. Chall- ( , man said, to review action taken by, ' I" »»' «*•> —1 "" I statement Made In Form Of native, will be the new head allied headquarters pointed out that j approving constUdation of the three extent of tim smoke pall could mean National farm lean associations into; ‘ one, and to consider other phases of, the Federal Land bank’s plan of reorganization. The meetings will be held at M* ; the firing lines in Italy and in the ( » ! South Pacific as evidence:! by figures Tech. Sgt. Warren E. Lane has re ; released here this week rn the pro- turned to camp after -pending a few gress of the Third War Loan Campaign. aays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I The county quota is $705,001, and John Lane. His address is: Tech. Sgt. ’ Federal Reserve Bank figures as of Warren E. Lane, 2nd D. F. Sqdn., A. A. I Monday reveal that only 46ri of th** b. Topeka, Kans. quota has been reached and of this a * 'mount, actual sales of Series “IT bonds Robert W. Mr Rim S-2c is spending are at a shamefully low figure. a IO day leave with his parents, Mr. “Something is seriously wrong In this and Mrs. Milo W McKim of Mt. Union campaign.’’ E. A. Hayes, county War He is stationed at Camp Peary’, Va Finance commit’ee chairman, -aid p>- His twin brother, Pvt. Richard F. M*'- destroy Britain utterly and when the cay. "Our bank deposits show that lit Him is in the Transportation Corps at war was over to keep the nation in a Washington, D. C. (INS*—Premier the past 18 months the increase has the New Orleans Staging Area, New state of permanent subjection. Jo of Stalin of Russia today publicly been $1,669,000. This money should be orleans. La. ; ----------------- right now, and ' V C Norton w. Oge has recently Interesting I aiKS Bond Message solutions of grandeur. The formula for peace was brought by Hess when he parachuted out of his specially made Messerschmidt on the estate of a Scottish Duke to he taken into custody bv him, armed only with a pitchfork. It was a six-point plan carefully framed at Berchtesgand in the doubledealing months when Hitler was planning his invasion of Russia and featured the following: 1. Hitler was desirous of a permanent understanding with Great Britain 2. If achieved the British empire would be "permitted” to remain intact. 3. If the Hess offer were rejected Hitler would consider it his "duty" to At P.T.A. Meeting agriculture, board of econ rn ic warfare, civilian supply, interior and manpower ” "If we could do this in some manner, the aroma of liberalism might again to the north reach the nostrils of FDR and lie perhaps w’ould br* better prepared to re-.* st the pressure < f the Jpnesh the National Manufacturers association, the O’Neals, and the rest.” Tile technique suggested by the . memo is, of course, customary here. Announcement h«s been made of th but it is not often that anyone com'." marriage cf Frances Maxine Aspel right ct t and says so has mi taken!? iuluded such a memo Aspelmeier of Winfield, to Virgil James in a letter to a republican busine* man. Pleasant in the following order: Lock- acknowledged the great aid that the go.ng info war bond- ridge members. 1:45 p. rn. at the As- united States is giving the Soviet na- if it doesn't go into bonds, this county sociation office; Lee-Henry members, t on in its fight to crush the Germans, will be chalked up as being a sad fail- transferred from Greenville. of 2:00 d. rn. at American Legion Hall and The unprecedented statement wa<\ tire in giving support financially to m.ss., to Craig Field. Selma. Albania, already *>ld Southeastern Iowa member-. 3:00 p. rn. mode in the form cf a message urging the war effort when “backing the at- for tbe last phase of his pilot’s train- ‘ at American Legion Hall. the American people to buy more tack ’ is so necessary to the success of ing upon successful completion of hts ----- bonds. the war.” training at this base he will graduate a large number of mothers attended It was the first time that the Rus- The county chairman further urged and be commissioned a second lieuten- the first meeting of the Jun;or High sian leader has publicly thanked the that people draw their savings and ant and wm receive his wings. Word p T. A. Tuesday afternoon at the Jun- Iow a Corn Escapes ASPELMEIER AND MEYER VOWS EXCHANGED IN MOLINE SATURDAY Damjurp united States for its lend-iease to his other acc,'mutated fund" from the receiVed by his mother today, Mrs. El- ior high sshool. In the absence of the r mal Umlldkw nation. banks to purchase bonis ma Qge stated that he had been made p -- Stalin said that "pianos, tanks, guns "Money in the banks at this critical cadet lieutenant of his section. Des Moines. Iowa (INS)—Des Moines and other mullions and equipment stage of the game is no good to any- ■ weather bureau meteorologist. Char- which are received from the allied body," he said. "No man with huge pvt George Kepper returned president, Mrs. Lewis Chapman. Mrs. Stanley B Niles presided. The meeting opened with the Pledge of Alleg-to lance and the singing of America. les D Reed, declared today that Iowa united tSates and Great Britain." are -urns of money in the bank when this Qamp crowder, Mo. after spending his {Supt. C. A. Cottrell gave an instruc- corn again escaped damage last week aiding the Russians in their struggle bond drive is over will be able to look fUr)0Ugb here with his parents. Mr. five and enlightening talk on what the despite frosts or freezing temperatures to beat Hie “hated enemy from those boys in the eyes when they re- and Mrg Sam Kepper, and with othei p. t. A. can do in the school program ‘ Aroast noTne terTfMr and Mrs Elmer that hil most of northern and Soviet soil.’’ turn. Your support to the war effort relatives' A tUTkey supper in his hon. and to aid school problems . , J ^ ___Iowa on two nights. The Soviet leader thanked "our will be measured on just how much of Reed said 70'- cf Iowa c in w s American friends" who are "rendering your money went into war bonds. "The record of this county is poor Mover son of Mrs. Minnie Christian, 1410 Audubon St. Sac City, la., which *af0 from_ fr^ injl1^ §reat ruPcort mthe flght a8a;nst cur THE RECENT INNER ATTITUDE of the stab department toward senators has led to the supposition that the hot issues in conflict on post war may be worked out on a more friendly basis. Assistant S'ate Secretary Francis Sayre, it now develops, flew out to see Senator Vandenberg in Michigan about the United Nations Food convention agreements to which he was opposed as a member of a subcommittee. Earlier, stat,* Secretary Hull had displayed a somewhat combative attitude on the same subject before the foreign relations committee. Ceria in iv he did not fly half-way across the country to see any member of the opposition. This change of tactics is substantiated somewhat by other similar little incidents, and may mean the state department finally realizes it must deal with the senate in the war settlement. Ii it doe*, the Fght now brewing may be avoided. this week. He cited reports from common enemy. ' observers who mentioned effects of the ___ frost which they said killed leaves and Army Plane Deeds Recorded At Courthouse Deeds recorded at the < courthouse in- tock place at the chapel cf the First Methods church in Moline, 111., Saturday Sept. ll. Rev. Ray Honeywell. pastor of the First Methodist church £taCks fcut did nc: injur( officiated using the double ring ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Meritt Jamison, 134>.j . 35th St., Moline, IU., were attendants. The bride wore a wheat tan brushed wool suit and turf tan accessories. Mr. Meyer wore a brown pencil striped suit. The bride’s attendant was attire ! clude thc following: in a black" dress with black accessories. Mr Jamison wore a black pin-striped Johnson and wife. property suit Flowers were corsages of peach Jackson street. colored gladioli worn by the women and gardenias for the men s lapels. 1 The bride is a graduate of the Consideration was $800. high school at Columbus Junction, Ta.: end is employed at the Internatonal Harvester Co., East Moline Mr. Meyer is a graduate of the ” ' ' high school at L.ke View, la., and is GLEN MILLIMAN employed by Deere and Co., in Molin HOUSE IS SOLD They will make their home at 1014-5th Ave,, in Moline, 111. despite the fact that the money is here —right in the banks and in the pock- Hits Building and put the money on the barrel head right now so that our county can be recorded as ene*of the leaders in Iowa ----in support of the w’ar effort and the Omaha, Nebraska —(INS)—An army Third War L°an. Theres no time to plane crashed into a building at the jose gUy those bonds before Thursday Martin-Nebraska bomber plant south 30th. of Omaha today. --- HIH and wife to Victor A. Army officers at the plant said an lI7Lpp|p|i rJLv 4 J,. on South investigation was being made and that TV HCvILl IU xxii the number and identity of those E. G. Johnson and wife to John and killed w’ould be announced later. Marie Talnudge, Hillsboro property. Clouds of smoke rose from the building after the crash and several Omaha Washington. D. C. * INS)—Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Montana democrat, Maude Melton Noal and others to fire ccmpanies were sent to the scene announced today that hP will takr his a A Sh'un"* nronerty on South White of the accident. or was given at the Kepper home on The speaker for the afternoon wras Sunday evening. Mrs. R. S. Galer who inspired her * audience With her talk on the post Pfc. Jack llndson left today to re- war problems in relation to school chillum to Bainbridge Army Airfield, dren. She enlarged 011 four main poinN ets of the people living here. Its up to gajnbrjdge Ga where he is stationed, of her lecture which were, the influ- the people of tile county to dig deep ajter baVjng spent a 15 day furlough ence on school children of hate, secur- here with his mother. Esther Hodson. ity of home, facing the race problem ■ . and the need for religion. All present Pvt. Wayne HHH*ill left Tuesday appreciated this very fine talk given for Camp Ord, Calif- after a furlough by Mrs. Galer. and visit with home folks. He was re- The largest percentage of attendance cen I Iv transferred from Ft Sill. Okla. went to the first grade mothers. Re- Mrs. Hilliwill accompanied her hus- freshmen ta of popcorn ani f:uit were band to California served by the officers, Mesdames N. V. _ Rich. C. A. Cottrell. Harold Carroll. New address: Al’ Jack E. McCorm- Stanley B Niles, and Lewis Chapman. i< k A. S. N 17152264. Class 43 - 17 Ba,'---— ra ks T - 131, Cadet Detachment. A A F B. S., Midland. Texas Views on Drafting street. Consideration was $1,250. WM Cheries W. Sandcll of the U. S fight to block the immediate drafting Naval Training Station at LWreive, SAYS LABOR RESENTS SLURS HEAPED UPON IT THE MYSTERY cf the escape of the Japs from KLska is explained by congoes men returning from Alaska as a rather neat trick. Tile Japs left one anti-aircraft battery strategically placed to keep up a fire at American bombers after the army had announced Burlington Woman Takes Own Life Mt. Flcasant. Burlington, Iowa <INS*— Des Moines county coroner R. O. Giles today call- Mrs. Newton will move to their new rd a suicide the death yesterday of hor* soon and mike their home in Mrs. Let 1 Smith. 40, Burlington house-hourly bombardments would be made wife found dead in their gas-filled by us. While this was being done, the home late yesterday by her husband, Japs apparently slipped into a trans- Howard, when he returned Lorn work. burners were($opon every available doctor and ambulance to the p’ant indicating that numbers of civilian employees may have been injured. - Later unofficial reports were that Garretson and Garretson and Robt. only the men in the plane had been Hannah, house salesman, report the rd and that few plant employees sale of the Glen Milkman house on a ] teen injured. East Monroe street to Mr. and Mrs. An undisrio'-'ed number of the in-Gene Newton of New London. Mr. jured was taken to the army hospital and Mrs. Milliman are moving to New ac nea;by Fo:t Crook. Mexico in the near future. Mr. and Reelected To Board Omaha police were requested to send fathers to the people of the nation Kans., is here spending a few days fur- in a radio broadcast Friday night. lough with relatives and friends. The senator slid that he would Charles is being transferred to Detroit, speak over the national broadcasting Mich, system on a coast-to-coast hook-up \ m" from 9:30 to 9:45 CWT. j Texas Navigation Schools — From ________ _ H ookies to highly skilled aerial nav igators in 18 weeks is the proud boast of bund 1 eds of youthful Americans fin- SON, GRANDDAUGHTER felling their training this week at the _ 1 huge sister navigation sen c’s at Hondo Elizabeth Chark left her estate to arfcd San Marc^. Army Airfields in LEAVES ESTATE TO Omaha. Nebraska — < INS I— William Green, the generally mild spoken president cf the American Federation of Labor, told the 25th national convention of the American Legion in blunt language today that labor resented the slurs and denunciations heaped upon V by "even spokesmen for the American Legion." Green, speaking at the second day of the conventi n aho denialed that the “first objective" of post-war penners" must be to keep America free " Yarn Shipment Received a granddaughter and to a son, Carl C. Texas. Among them was 2nd Ll. Ward Clark of Tujung), Calif., by the terms l. Miner, "On of Mr. and Mrs. T Ft , of her will admitted to probate to- Miner, Mt. Pleasant, la. -- H. V. Baker, secretavy cf the S. E. day. She left $500 to the grnnddaugh-. During theii training they fly some ordng (USjng charts and instruments); Iowa Cnope'alive Electric association, tor. Alice Clark Sanders, and the re- 15,000 miles, spending ar. hour in the radlo ,nairu the team); and celest a: (employing heavenly bodies as sign- was re-elected ti the state board for maunder to the son. The will wa" air for every five in ground classrooms a three year term at the recent state made in November, 1942, and named A The acid test is the *Tlnal examin- Women interested in knitting for the meeting. Attending from Mt. Pleasant M. Van Al’en or George O Vin Allen "on, the long-distar.ee flight Just b< - rort, leaded 3.8C0 soldiers, and disap- Kitchen stove _ _ „ . . .. and the house doors locked, Dr. Giles Red Cross may now get yarn at the were Pirke F. Cornick. president, Be”, as executor. A M. Van Allen and fore gracuation. rn w .chal tour rn Surviving besides the husband Red Cross room at the Library. A ship- A. Galer, attorney and W. A, Russell, Margaret Fe d were witnesses to tm s : navigator are required pilor- peared in a fog. The ship’s motors were not recorded in our detector de- said. vices. are a sen. IO, and a daughter, 13. ment has just been received. .superintendent. •>nature. age (observing landmarks); dead le.k* posts >. ire Hugh Doyle. Ph M 2-e. left last Thursday for Summon. New York where he is stationed.

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