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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 24, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Furl Oil 5 Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 Sugar 14 - Through October 31 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS C, V. W Blue stamps expire Ort. 20 X. V. 7 rid stamps expire Oct. 2 A, B. Brown Stamps expire Oct. 2 Shoe Stamp 18 expire* Oct. 31 VOL. LXXI. No. IFRIDAY. SEPT. 21. 1913 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA Russian Forces Sweep Ahead Rapidly Auction Sells Many Bonds THE lYLsg. By Paul Mallon_____ (Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate. Inc., Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.)_ WASHINTON _ THI -rnx„v Washington Sale^Successful; relentlev Rn nan pressure ha been | Totals $ I 16,500 lately Inching It* way lorward 'to j ♦ -. ... 4U/. />v i.aM o/l rinnm in ti’in tor ( - Yesterday’s threaten the expected German winter I line, at least on the southern tip. There at the vital saai-heid railroad rui ning through Me.itopol into the t Crimea, tho nazis had prepared to make a de ;* raie stand In no other way could they hold their Black Sea Island fortress, as the railroad is the only means of transportation except by boat with which to supply the Crimea ' Blit th.s is the extent of the threat, so far, to break through what popularly, but not very accurately, has been call' d the Dnieper river line < Actually, the curving Dnieper river runs cor.sid-erably behind the Melitopol line, and, of course, the river does not extend anywhere n* ar the Baltic in the north.) But if the Russians are able to force j, withdrawal from the entire Crimea I hey v.;ll have won an exac ted victory, although the Germans may still be in front of the Dnieper river at that point. They’ll Do It Every Time--- ^HENRY-GlV'E ME 25 DOLLARS •* I SIMPLY MOST TAKE IODINE DOWNTOWN AND BUV HER SOME NEW CLOTHES! SHE’S GROWN OUT CP EVE CV- _ , THING She OWNS - im \ ASHAMED TO HAVF HER / GO To SCHOOL, LOOK- . < a , iNu THE WAV SHE ISy| y* ^ I NOH IC IAI. GUESSES have been current in Washington lately that the Reds might be exjK-cted to crack through the prepared Dnieper portion at Kiev or elsewhere generally and bring .iii early cond UL* ion to the war on that front Ai.'.'ire » guess on that to b< as good as another s. No re, or anywhere else, has been ood a' Judging the real extent ,ian prospects in .advance, absence of any mention of pr*.--being taken on either side in the Washington, Iowa war bond auction was a complete success, realizing to total of $116,500 in war bonds, the highest bids on about 200 articles totaling that sum in war* bonds. The actual amount paid for these bonds would be approximately I three-fourths of that figure, for most of them were of Series E, w'hich sell for 75 percent of their maturity value. S46.(MXt for a Pig A feature of the auction was the .sale of a Purebred Duroe gilt donated by Knotek Bros , which sold for $30,000, bid ir. by C. R McCutchen. who then turned the animal back for re-sale.' and it went for *16,000 more to C. R Wilson, representing the J. c. Penney company and Robert Davis of Crawfordsville. A Hampshire pig donated by Don! Radda was sold four times, with Harry Die and Henry Berdo being the suc- bidh'*r anc; tie pig brougnt a ^ MCTCV IMclllO But iodine WILLSE LUCKY TO GET A NEW HAIR RIBBON-thevLl DO IT EVERY TIME. $23 98? I SUPPOSE I) SHOULDN’T- BUT ITS SOCH A baqgAin-and I can make some of iodine’s things Drying Days Aid Corn and Soybeans Crops Making Headway In Race Against Frost Cross Upper Reaches Of Dnieper River total of $9,100. bought a John $7,000 in bonds. Mr. Berdo earlier Stewart turkey for With Iowa Baby DEATH TAKES Answers Demands DEAN TAYLOR of Farmers Union Drying fall days this week were on ■he hie of the Henry count, farmer J, Within A Few Mile* Of in the race of corn and soybeans a-1 cli gainst frost uITIoIensk Each day ol drying weather is meaning much in the maturing of the two crops. The earlier planted corn, most Moscow, Russia —<INS)— Russian of wh.ch is in ‘he north part of the forces sweeping ahead with electrifying county, is mostly past the frost danger speed on the central front today were s age, but much cf the later corn needs reported to have crossed the upper more time before me maturing is stop- reaches of the Dnieper river east of ped. While ’he late corn, with the ex- Smolensk. copt ion of a comparatively few fields Battlefront dispatches indicated that would make a fair crop now. the ears Soviet troops which forded the Dniep-would be oft. er were within a few miles of Smo- Es ti mutes of farmers a.- to the lensk itself. The city which formerly amount of corn that would be damaged served as headquarters of Adolph Hit-by fro • now vary Some believe 75 ler Ls regarded as the key to the enter cent is dry enough to show very tire central front. little damage while others estimate other front line reports said that between 50 and 60 per cent would be Russian soldiers had reached the unharmed. Dnieper river in force at several ! While soybeans have been maturing points. 1 rapidly 'ne last week. most fields need Earlier the Soviet high command an-more t me for maturity. Each day of nounced that Russian tank and indrying weather is aiding the crop fantry forces had battered their way greatly seems one ht very g of Ru-The oner: Free Admission At Theaters Monday PENNEY STORES BEAT BOND QUOTA BY 400 ' Must Buy A Bond At Theatre To Get Free Ticket Ambulance And Mortorcycle Was Fairfield Editor; Trustee Governor Has Received No Ma- _ Escort Heady of Iowa Wesleyan Aerial Evidence of Irregularities g*cretary of the Treasury Henry J. _ i - - Morgenthau has just telegraphed the Governor J. c. Penney Company congratulations answered en the magnificent job of Bend selling Farmers’ which the Company’s 1610 s'ores tum- Fairfield, Iowa 'INS —Funeral serv- Des Moines. Iowa Island <'INSi anxious:-, ook- lces *€re ^ing planned today for B. B. Hickenlooper a me rev plan. Dean T. Taylor, editor of the Fairfield j the demands cf the Helen * Ledger for 37 years, who died Beverly communique ha, inspired om< inter* persons who buy War Bonds at the predation that tile RUS*lasts are cutting local theatres, The Temple and The the Germans to pieces, and those who colonial, on Monday, September 27th, hold that view expect an early con- wljj ge* even more than the usual k>ar- j equipmeiat awane clu: ion. But the lac k of prisoners may be due to the fact that the nazi have not been trapped in large quantities gain according to M L Dickson, owner .by Civilian Air patrol plane from of the theatre. In addition lo get- Buffalo, New York, where the, spent ting a share in Freedom w hich will j hight Providence, Rhode State airport official ed skyward today fa carrying 13-day old Primus of Des Moines, Iowa, whose _ life is imperiled by an up-side-down IHe was 64 years md. stomach, An ambulance containing oxygen Dor treatment and underwent a sur- the party’s ammi | 6i?al cineration two weeks ago. A native of Warren, Ohio, he was a member of a “newspaper fam- .ly” that had owned the Warren (INS' today Iowa iastl Union for an investigation of the Iowa ed in during the month of July j.(. 'night in a Rochester, Minn., hospital. Mr. Tailor had been in Rochester inside the inner defense ranks of Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, principal nazi-held bastions on the Dnieper river front. Thunderous artillery duels on the outskirts of both cities marked the opening phase of the battle for the two enemy strongholds. • The Berlin radi i announced that nazi forces in the Kuban region of the Caucasus were engaged in “systematic evacuation." The Germans admitted, however, that their retreating forces were under Motorcycle police u*:e to speed the I Chronical since 181B ta bl bsh any forward movement of their own which would enable them to take Russians. Neither * ide has signed th- Geneva vested, the bond-buyer will be given ambulance on fro- admission to the theatre s regular Pa.I performances that day. Monday, September 27th. h where Dx Peen ternationally fa mon. State College situation with the state- Last July, the Penney Company sold ment he had received “no material g _, million dollars in War Stamps and evidence of any irregularities. Bonds to set a high record for the chai0 incessant Soviet tank and infantry at- “If there be specific items of evi- and department store business. Tins tacks.) dence substantially indicating any jear. in an attempt to surpass the 1942 ----------- stifling of the province of the insti- figures, a quota of ten million dollai.; tution a., such, I shall be glad to have was se* The complete report for July, U. O. ruth Army the details and will follow through which was forwarded to the Secretary Launches Offensive with definite inquiries," Hick- nlooper of the Treasury last week, announced , Allied Headquarters in North Africa said. the amazing total* of $42,335,816.85, or —< INS>—‘The United States 5th army Donald VanVleet, president of the four times the quota set for the cam- iauncped a full-scale offensive north Iowa Farme.d Union, in a letter sent paign, and very'nearly five times the of gaierno today to clear the way for of tat,, and havr not boon able to es- return four dollars for every three in-, ------- . ^ ^ _ Truesdale’ After receiving a Doctor of Philoso- River. Massachusetts.1 PhV degree from Mt. Union College Phil' mon E Truesdale in- In 1902 he attended Harvard Univer- lecialist in dia-jsity for a year and then entered news-j to the governor yesterday demanded figure of the preceding year. In this hernia on*rat ms aw«it- paper work being employed at Warren, j “thorough investigation of charges one month. Penney stores sold 25“' convention on the tie antient o pms designated nationally a* MOVIE DA • - ‘ . Loraine, and Alliance, Ohio, and in J that academic freedom is suppressed more in Bonds and Scamps than in oners, and thus neither has given any {or the THIRD WAR LOAN and more ea the un> parent. gu»nm«* that th, muter proodtw th,n 16.000 theatre*, including °ver ”^Ld ‘thw had word I in the Elyria. Ohm. Reporter. I policy at the school.' I of in a reuniting them wil. be followed f0ur hundred in Iowa will give free party arrival .a.. .......... _ —I — -....... With County Men And Women In The Service in preference to the merciless method admission to all patrons who buy from the babi s physician that she had of showing no quarter. bonds at a theater on that date, spent a comfortable night. - Theater men in Iowa expect sales of j — THE GERMANS HAVE COMPLAIN- nearly $1.000 000 for the day ED In quently about “Russian barbar- All that is required is thai the bond i&nism and savagery” and this has led purchaser buy his bond at one of the some interpreters to believe the nazi.- theatres on Sept. 27th. Mr. Dickson might well prefer to welcome the Brit- has made arrangements for bonds to ish and American armies into Berlin he issued in the lobby of the theatre before the Russians. But it is also immediately upon payment. In other true that nazi methods are closer to words, you can pay your monei anc. the Russian methods than to those of take your bond with you. the democracies, and their customary —--- game is to play enemies against each TRANSIENT BECOMES other. In Hie end, of course, wisdom should cause them to seek peace with us first, for the protection of their people. But they know we have a treaty with Rus awaiting 19°5 and 1906 owned a half interest and that pressure group.- dictate the merchandise. j policy at the school.” To Fairfield VanVleet had asked for an impar- MA lim 7 ANC 1906 and I tial committee to make the investiga- CARDEN NAMED ZUNE He came to Fairfield in with his father bought the Daily tion Journal which consolidated with the , Ledger in 1921. He served as Fair-j field postmaster for eight years. I Mr. Taylor was active in national J affairs of the Methodist church and j was a delegate to the past four gen-j a drive on Naples. A spokesman for general Dwight D Eisenhower made known that the 5th army is on the move “in strength" but is encountering savage resistance. 'Editor’s Note: A CBS report from Algiers said the American thrust had caught the Germans "off balance ”) i _ | Fighting in front of blazing Naples I Winfield, Iowa — Carl Carden, past ; whose pall of smoke was visible from ' president of the Winfield Lions club,' the American lines, the Germans threw LEARN ART OF JUDO was named zone chairman of this in extensive artillery, mortars and ma- _ I zone of district 9B of Lions Interna-1 chine guns in their grim struggle to tional bv District Governor Al Stevens stem the American advance. CHAIRMAN IN LIONS WOMEN IN ARMY Fort D°s Moines. la, —'INS'— Mill eral conferences and had been named ^ary policewomen of the women’s army of Ottumwa at the local club meeting The battle mounted in intensity by 'as a delegate to the 1944 conference. I corpS at Fort Des Moines today were at the school lunch room Thursday the hour. Reinforcements have been Word has b'en .ere.leo t t ye wa§ autjjor of articles written ^01 j learning such arts as judo, by which evening. Carlson is somewhere in Australia. He Methodist church As the zone chairman, Mr. pouring into both the German and Nazi . V -sd ~ publications and »,, unarmed person brings under cen- Carden will be on the district gover- allied lines during the past week. r stated ..... th s a. >n ai ; also had written pamphlet s on hisDTQp, ]aI ger ard stronger apponents. ' nor's st a ff, and will have certain du- field-marshal Albert Kesselring s bat- md it is spr.ng there now. Ll. Sam Wiley and Mrs Wi ey A transient, who leptic fit at Broadw sis which promises that none of the streets in MI. Pleasant this morning. caused some excitement in th* vicin- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buck. I family geneology. J ^ special two-weeks course of train- ties and responsibilities over several tered forces were reformed and re- A hobby was compiling data from ^or women -MPs" began this Lions clubs in this area. Among the grouped to meet the onslaught. It "!“ | original sources on Lincoln and he week Other subjects of study include clubs Mr. Carden will serve, besides was evident the enemy had concen- Burlington, trated every spare man in establish -I ment of an iron ring around Naples. ILL ON LOCAL STREET suffered an epi- bab' baie^ arrived h.re fiom Calif mm b , was widely known among collectors first aid, patrolling, jurisdiction, mili- the Winfield club, are ,*ay and Second lor a v5slk *11 _ , ^ >)d * .Lincoln biographies. tary courtesy, investigations, traffic Fort Madison and Keokuk allies will make a separate peace. The theory of an early collapse on tty When he was first seen lying Pvt. Max Bain, stationed in Louisi- I. W. Ck Trustee fcon'rol and court martial procedure. He was a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan; Director of the school fe a veteran ..... f College since 1934 and was active in police officer, Lieut. Alice Parrish, who ... --- • on the narking nearby residents feared ana' S." °* * «ain .civic ana home front affairs during before becoming a woman army officer the Russian front has even spread in on the parking, nearby r _ iough wrh -he Dale and Ralph Bain , ^ ^ and present world wars. : was for IO years a member of the Wash- j He was a member of Fairfield Lions ington, d. C.. police department. club, Masonic Lod|e. Order of Eastern - TRENTON U. S. W. NEEDS MATERIALS FOR SEWING The immediate objective of the American attack is a string of heights north of Salerno. ess where a high military official he might have been hit bv a car. families. Officer James Jamison investigated congre testified that the Germans “are retir- less behind the Dnieper and found the man was ill. He re-; Mr and Mrg H K McElroy have apparently had in covered at the city hall and was received word that their son, Joe Mc- ing more or line." What he Star and Walton club. He also was; active in political affairs and several SWAN 120 ACRES Allied Forces Near Finschhafen • Allie Heaquarters in the Southwest mind was the break on the Melitopol ‘eased at Elroy, pharmacist mate second class.'of ^ .cscnted the county al state -......-...... »""M A t0rmer m*1“* “ ' jthe U. S. Navy, is expected to arrive republjcan convcnt]0ns and served .si railroad front which would threaten the Crimea. SOLD TO LESSENGER lion in the east, the *.6-1 ear old man, dere gatm-day on furlough ___who gave hts name as John Arthur, p AN OBSTACLE to the Russian ad- Wampler, had a note on his suitcase pfc Lee c Hollingsworth who has Vance is the rainy season now starting, stating: I have fits. If I become i *. stationed at Camp Berkeley, A slushy period, difficult for full scale leave me alone. ' Texas, for the last eighteen months, . has been given an honorable disability I discharge and has returned to his OPEN STAGE MAIL ROUTE TO ALASKA home. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Hollingsworth of Winfield, Dawson Creek, British Columbia — Iowa* U. S. army trucks Thursday opened, what is described as the longest stage rapt. mail route in the world—the 1.000-mile ircm Ogden Ail William II. Megcrden writes SELLS HEIFERS AT Depot, Hill Field, overland route from Dawson Creek to Utah. .hat work continues about as action, will precede the freeze. No symptoms of utter demoralization have been apparent in nazi retreat. A very strong action was fought by the Germans in retiring from Kharkov toward the Dnieper, even at Kiev. In the north around Smolensk, thei have been holding strong. Some of our people have been impressed bv the ext rem e~y ou th of the yukon'territory,’along th* usual there and that he is still teach nazi.- captured in Italy and Sicily, at - Afeska ^jg^way The 72-hour trip in- ing first aid on the side. Enclosed cepting that as an indication that Hit- ^ m0untain ranges. *tth Ute letter was $75 for an extra ler is dipping into his last store of _____ war bond to be credited to Henry manpower. True, the prisoners haye a WD CNTF TO county. beer. youths, but no official authority HUN LA VV KLNGC. here is counting on Germany collapsing BUILD NEW HOUSE SUPPE;R HONORING this winter, either on the Russian fiont -- TDD QTFRMRFR^ or in western Europe, although they I nnn T^r»nM is makine nrepara- W AL I raix I LlxlNDLiYVj will be glad to hear any convincing evi- •jptinty central committee chairman 1 from 1918 to 1921. i He set up the first organization in the county for the gaining of woman suffrage. Surviving are his wife, two sons, Ben J. Taylor of the Ledger advertising department and James, in the , armed forces. i S. D. Garretson and Wavnr T. Gar-! retson, real estate brokers, report the sale of the Oscar Swan 120 acres located #», miles north west of Mt. • Pleasant to Carrol Lessenger, who now lives 8 miles south east of Mt. Pleasant in Jackson township. The Swan farm has good buildings, gravel road, electricity past the farm, a school The U. S. W. of Trenton will meet at the brick hall. Tuesday evening. Sept. \ 28. to make pillow tops and handkerchiefs and quilt pieces. Donations of pacific »INS)— Allied ground forces soft, white worn men’s shirts or nice advanced today to within two miles white feed sacks, feathers. Cretonne or of the Japanese base of Finchhafen on prints will be appreciated. The ladies the coast of northeast New Guinea in will use them to make things for the the rapidly expanding offensive to soldiers hospitals. drive the Nipponese from the south- --j west Pacific. TAI I INT FOR ™nn I The advance of the ground forces MORE I0P WORKERS - j A fierce dogfight with Japanese Burlington, Iowa (INS' — Call for fighters over Finschhafen resulted in 3.000 additional workers for the TOP {he destruction o* at least 4C Japanese house close by, and is a mast desirable at Burlington was announced today by TOP FOR CLASS far this ession March 1st. planes. Chicago. 111. — Henry county cattle were among the high sellers of the midweek trade at the Chicago stock yards, j Lloyd Swartzepdruber. well known stockman of this county, was represented on Wednesday’s market by a i'm unit. Mr. Lessenger purchased , plant personnel director. Carl Fischer j is farm for a home and takes pOSS-jwbo said crews must be expanded to » «. I meet increased production schedules. Crushing Assaults - — united states employment service On Production Centers MRS. ROOSEVELT VISITS J managers of ten districts of the serv-, London, England 'INS)—The twinge will meet in Burlington Monday German war production cen.ens of to discuss the problem of providing Mannheim and Ludwig'hafen on the IN SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco tENIS) M s Eleanor Roosevelt, who arrived in San Fran- the additional man-power needed. dence or news to that effect. Free Dance and Party Don Lawrence is making preparations to build a new house on his farm on highway 34 west of Mt. Pleasant. L. Sternberg. S 2-c. who is home on Material from the cid house on the leave from naval training at Farra-farm will be utilized as far as possi- gut. Idaho, with a picnic supper at ble in the construction of the new the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Dutton, Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. drove of prime Hereford heifers that cUc0 Thursday by army transport plan-sold straight at $16.00 per cwt., a high Deeds Recorded Rhine river and the Industrial important German citie.- of Darmstadt and Aachen underwent crushing assault-by the RAF dunng the night, the air ___ __________ from Hawaii ai cr a 38,14a—mile ti p ' a'lnoipurd todair A group of friends honored Walter sale for cattle of this class. They av- ^ southwest Pacific, said she would' Deeds recorded at the courthouse, eraged 930 pounds each. Property Sold visit briefly in San Francisco before include the following, leaving for New York. . « Helen Myers to Teresa Simon, un- Glad in a Rrd C.:ss uniform, the divided half interest in a Mt. Pleasant President's Wife was gay and vivacious property. Consideration is given Fined Sale of the late as pearl Lee paid a fine of five dollars * and casts on an intoxication charge Heater when arraigned before Mayor H L. ... . ... Wt.nmntr IMP*. mutDuaj ^viut.8. o. oaie ut u.c >.K Andrew Rinner and repor ed "a wonderful trip." $1,650. A free dance aru, party WI e permission must be obtained Albert Rowland of the IOP area were property in Noble to Mr. and Mrs. "But I'm glad to be back in San Mrs Lune Heat to an a, the Mt. Pleasant GOH and Country m„«, , ut-of-town anesis. Henry Yoder is reported. Francisco," she added. to J O Hall. WmfMd property. , Sh, ok early hts week club Saturday night for members. to build ana me cast is (

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