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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 29, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowat • VALID RATION STAMP8 Fuel OII 5 - - Until Wept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 SUKar ll - Through October 31 Shoe Staino 18 good Indefinitely THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VAMO RATION STAMPS II. V, VV Blue ‘.tamps expire Oct. 20 X. V. Z rid stamps expire Oct. 2 A. B, Brown Stamps expire Oct. 2 C Brown Stamp exp.res October 30 VOL. LXXI, No. 228WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 29, 1913 MT. PLEASANT. IOWA THE By Paul Mallon < Distributed by King Feature* Syndicate. Inc, Reproduction In Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.) Yanks Break Through German Lines Dairy Farmers Must Keep Records Will Ile Required To Receive Payments They’ll Do It Every Time - - VV ASH! N G TON — MR. ROOSEVELT’S choice of iii lenci-lea.se administrator. Edward Stettinius, cx-big busine s man. to the post of under secretary of alate has been commonly interpreted as another surprising evidence of Mr Roosevelt’s swing to conservatism in preparation for the] coining election. It looks more like Mr. Roosevelt, and especially state secretary. Hull, are getting ready for a big world-wide trade development program after the war as perhaps the main theme of peace. Mr. Hull’s pet policy throughout his career has been inte trade H« ne* dud and wanted a man payments will not be made with bu inc ex rn* ranee to help along ! unh. ,s r,.cords ^ a» sale*, are kept by The following telegram has been re-M'.',ed from Washington: ''Instruct county officers to inform each producer to keep records of sales of whole milk and butterfat. Dairy feed price adjustment payments will be based upon sales made from Oeto-{ber I through December 31 inclusive I ! Detailed Instructions being presented ”: GRANT G. THOMPSON I In view of the above information county extension director suggests that all farmers keep records of sales of Hey mruugnuui j wboje and butterfat sold by them ! •manorial free It ^ understandlng that price ad-. “little Did tureenA Know WHEN SHE SPILLED SOUP ON MALCOLM TENT IN HER LITTLE TEA ROOM THAT IT WAS THE RRST COURSE OF THEIR MARRIAGE -TO-BE —* DONT TAKE THAT* THIS ONES BETTER-THE A CIRL HAS SIX MET IN J: LOVE WITH HER.-0UT h’mmm And WAT I GOOD BOOK- JAOKETS \ a WHO SAID SOU % LAT ELV ? THOSE TWO / hale digested All 'n OF THEM in THE /^JOtNT^ CAN'T TELL A BOOK BV HS Va GCX/ER ? THEV DO OK. WX / DON’T DlTTX'^ / EASY CHAIRS IN M HERE OR. THOSE \ TWO WOULD L NEVER.TAKE A BOOK OUT St The .'.cope of coming ;>olicv j^e ind)Vidual producer from October has not yet been a.- j through December 31, inclusive. Detailed procedure relative to price adjustment payments to individual farmers will be publicized soon. Keep dairy production to a maximum — food demands from Army. Navy, Allies and our own civilian population make maximum dairy production necessary. that line in this respect v ulged. Further mort. Stettinius is about as clo e to the Ru mns as anyone in this go, ernnicnf having been in charge of all lend-It ase arrangements with them. Soon of the liberal groups have been complaining that insufficient a Hen Hem has b* * :i paid Russia lately. Stettinius gets along well with the Russians* without having been con-verted to their ideology. A-, a busine* rn ui, lend-leasor and Russian friend, he fills three practical require- ’ men ta. J, These arc .sufficient basic reasons for the surprise beyond the adver-ti.sed political implications. Trial °n Poultry stream {)ut Association Note j t>>i • Onto Plain Near Naples Test Suit of Interest To Henry! Countv Farmers Several Henry csunty fa*ruers who signed notes in connection with the lows? Poultry Producers Market ng association a1 Ottumwa a f*w years agr will be interested in the outcome of a suit on one of the notes now in progress a* Ottumwa. A july trial of the te i caie will ce-t ermine ‘he lability of revel a1 thousand s'U heastern Iowa farmers who sigred the prtm’ssory rotes. Judge E. L. Simmons is presiding. Specifically named in the cas° brought by the Omaha Bink for Cooperatives Federal association, is E. E Snyder, Tama county farmer who Germany’s Defense Around City Fails To Hold Allied Headquarters in North Africa — (INS)—Desperate German attempts to defend the city of Naples from direct allied attack failed today w’hen troops of the United States 5th army crashed through nazi strongholds and streamed out into the Naples plain. After six days of savage fighting the Germany, acknowledged their oattle was a losing one. They abandoned their strategic high I points in the mountains that stand ^^ching The Girls CATCH UP ON THEIR. READING IN THE 2><t-A-DAy LIBRARV- r ^ MARGERY THOMA LOS AN6B.ES, CAUP signed a $75 note. I , v * .u. before Naples and fell back in the Nearly 4.700 of the notes within the i 1 marketing association, a co-operative project, were purchased by the Omaha bank t f nan*’*1 -he $600010 poultry co-operative, attorneys said. In 1935 the Cf sociatlofl was o’ganiz-ed under the plan bv wdiich many! farmers agreed to market the.r chickens and cag ’ through the as ociation. Tile plant n w is defunct. S. I). Garretson Taken by Death Canned Ration Gilt, War Bonds; Many Other Debt Forgiven New Offerings For Auction To Double Output Heart Disease Fatal To Farmer and Real Estate Dealer IT is TULL the entire series of re-1 Sumner D. Garretson, 61 yr a s Did, cent pr< id< ntial appointments ha- fol- djP(j a* the Memorial hospi ai at 12 30 lowed thi more conservative trend this morning Death of Mr. Garrets n, which Mr Roosevelt es ta btl bed back prominent fanner and real estate deal when he dropped Leon Henderson as fT wa« from heart disease. OPA ad ti; nu traitor Since men, he He became ill ten months ago and has set up the judicial front composed began receiving treatment at that of Bvrne- Vinson and Jones (with time Lam.- he wen; to California for Bernard Baruch as official adviser) in a two months rest, but his condition charge of practically nil domestic gradually declined until two weeks planning. ago when he began to fail rapidly. He t a.led in the Ww m.xm ex-bank* Mr. Garretson spent m'st of his er Leo Crowley, already idling two pfe 0n th« f.nm souther: of Salem important government j>osts. to take where he was bofn. In addition to over in addition the Wallace-Milo farming, he found time for a her ac-Perkins economic sideshow and* turn titties, especially as an appraiser of No Coupons Taken From New , A purebred Duroc gilt, war bonds, Books a $50 scholarship to the Pioneer col- _ liege of bu. .ness at Iowa Wesleyan, anc! ,, . i many items cf interest to farmers were If you still have any pre-rat;on can- j 7 . among the new listings today for the ned goods in your basement, the fed- . , . ' „ ! war bond auction to be held at McMillan pa:k here Saturday. erat government apparently has decided to overlook it. | I The issuance of Ration Book No 3 did not include The removal of 8-point. Farmers have askfd what tney might contribute that ail! sn;. Dome of Farm Mahinery it over to a business functioning basis reaj estate. He served as inhei hance a Pers0!* without all the animal act- and re- taX appraiser, as an Iowa Federal Some Pe*sons aad more exce forming ballyhoo. Now he has boost- Housing Administration appraiser and „ bf the suggestions made today are: stamps for excess pre-raucn canned ^ ,,TJA chicken, turkey, appl*-, duck, goose, goods. Des Moines district OPA of-* . . , . , , pig, oats, beans, corn, potatoes, htney, ficials say they know of no plans forL^5’ . WW1. . ’mal! tool , sweetcorn, ana rabbits, the removal of coupons in this or iat- 1 The bond auction, which will include er book- because of possession of sud; I » scores of offerings, will start immedi goods , ’ . , . ^ , ately after the review by the army air I You mav remember that when you i ' „„ , cups detachment at Iowa Wesleyan. were issued Ration Book No. 2, you , . . , , , v , , a. , Lunch will be provided on the gorunds declared the number of Has of can- K . so that persons mar see the drills ned goods in your butment. The ra- ;' . which start a IO o clock, be present non board took an 8-point stamp out , for the auction at ll and remain un-of the bock for each can above five ^ til all articles and livestock are sold tins I on hand than there were 8-point j Some Mt. Pleasant stores have volunteered to close from JO a rn., un.ii business—Iowa Wesleyan college. Half les and heels-—Fritz's Shoe - Repair j Washington, D. C. (INS 1— War Food $5 defense stamp—Cookes Funeral Administration moved tod av towards Horne. increasing the nation’s food supply by Five gallon of ice cream—Fankhaus- granting loo*, increase in farm ma-er Dairy I chinery oroduction for 1944, and a let- $3 worth of cleaning—Mt. Pleasant up in rationing control on agricultural Cleaners. .implements. 5 gallons Surp c f Best grade House) Farm machinery production for 1944 paint - (value $15.45> —Laustr's Paint * IU be 80'. of that in 1940, WSA said Sc Wallpaper Store. , as compared to 40*; in 1943. Steel hog trough--Hallowell Imple-j - men . Peed chair—Furniture Mart Imperial wardrobe and khaki army With County Men And Women In The Service ed Mr. Crowley a notch higher, cie- as appraiser fqr the Federal Land ^ dI1*l>s ln lhe ' Consequently they owed additional ; two p. rn. The committee hopes that Hayes Co vating him to control of relief and Bank let seven years, rehabilitation since Governor Lehman ^ few years ago he moved to Mt is preparing to take the bigger inter- pleasant and had operated a real es national role in that line. (Lehman business here. He had been on ration points, the amount of the debt being entered by the ration board at the end of the book. It was presumed board the deductions would be continued In, a her stores will do likewise. • The new donations include the following: Puiebred Duroc gilt—Everett Scarf! future ration books until the "debt"; and Ned Rasmus. $50 scholarship to Pioneer college of blank t*—Spu: genus. Three rolls green :-iate rocfing-Axthur Monson. $25 bond—Hunt’s Florist. $25 war bond-Dr. W. A. Sternberg ; Frnl and wife w, Mon- S25 war bond Dr. J, S Jackson. I dav aftern00n for Camp Wallace. Tex . Sack of cement Clay Weir. !afl„r vlsiting here with Mrs. Meyer's mother. Mrs. Harry Hayward, and Mrs. Loretta Hayward and Mrs Catherine I AriTIV Hayward 1 Two 50 lb. bags dog chow—A. D. face of an onslaught by 5th army forces. (Editor’s Noe: A London report said the American.> h id surged into th# ruins of ancient Pompeii on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius at the southeastern I fringe of Naples.) The nazi forces of General Field Marshal Albert Kesselring weie described officially as in “general retreat” toward Naples. Both north and west of Salerno the American army scored a breakthrough forcing the Germans into withdrawal. Lieut. General Mark W. Clark’s troops surged on toward the southern foothill-, of Mt. Vesuv us In pursuit of the retreating nazis. Tanks and other irmcred units of the 5th army plunged into Naples’ outskirts and there was every indication at the headquarters of General Dwight D. Eisenhower that the city itself might be taken without the major battle anticipated. It was generally believed that Field Marshal Kesselring had decided to abandon the city now that everything of military value has been destroyed by his incendiarist^. Authentic quarters pointed out that the main German defense ring about Italy’s chief port on the Tyrrhenian Sea had been pierced the moment American troops broke through the mountain passes and spread into the wide plain before Naples. But ration book No. 3 has been issued without the removal of any more SENATE committee Suit For Divorce to DRAFT OWN plan piled With Clerk alo being a New York banker.) he Henry county Rationing All these appointees may be con- Since it started in January, 1942 He sedative as the liberals rate them, had been inactive the last two months was Paid in fu; but more important than that, they because of failing health, seem to represent an effort to do a He is survived by his wife and by practical job here rather than a polit- fj\e children: Wayne, who resides on ® P0-**- stamp, or t is Ua50 * .... „, • n Because it was issued by mail the - leal job. the home farm, Mrs. Craig Wilme h, I To NIV that Mr. Roosevelt has gone Loren of Okla., Dor.-?, student at Iowa deduction of the s amp*. I- ->a *. j Washington, D. C. (INS)—A senate conservative, however, would be com- state Teachers college, and Keith, would have been a difficult proee.^ foreign relations sub-committee today ing too far, as he still has all his florin high school He was the old- The fact that a tot iA :it" canned. tos.ed overboard the house-approved j old most intimate new deal assoc!- est of six br: there, three of whom sui- goocls owned before Mar. I ra‘| Ful bright resolution and decided to ates around, Messrs. Hopkins, Frank* vtVe. They are Owen Alvin Garretson tioning date, probably has been us**u, draft Us own expression of America's furler. Rosenman. Cohen, etc., and, In of Lr,s Angeles, Calif.. Herman of up mwy be anothe: re .son for the al - attitude in post war affairs. Senator most government agencies, you will pasadena. Calif., and Dr. J. H Gar- ure ^ continue the deduction, dis ne Tom connallv, Texas democrat, made still find new dealers hidden away in retson of Mi Pleasant. The other two OPA officials suggested. i*the announcement following a two key spots. To me. it seems the prest- bro*hers were Dr. Wendell T., who For these who do have some tun- hQur subcommittee meeting. dent has not gone anywhere politic- died in 1927 and Gilbert I., who died ncci g0ods lcft vvhlt 1 c> v 1 - ally only a few years ago. *<* Mar. I it is the same thing as a, bonus in ration points, and the more two o'clock at the the' have the bigger the bonus. Sack Green top M.nera!izr,d Tank age—Farmers Union Shipping Associ- j a lion. j 50 lb. suck Victor flour and bag Vie tor hog builder—Scarff Produce and Fuel. -\-S Glenn E. Scarff - 17111709. 313 ‘College Training Detachment. Eqdn. C. Flight 33. University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. Plunges West Moscow, Russia (INS*—The red army plunged west in White Russia today in drives seriously menacing Vitebsk Orsha and Gomel, vital junctions on I the last major north-south railroad in Union still in Germafi Couple Married Since 1922; Order of Attachment Issued THE WEIRD ACTIVITIES of agents f ay afternoon at of Vice President Wallace’s former bu- gltiem Methodist church reau of economic warfare in their - The funeral likely will be held Frl- conus rn f»uW ... —iMay Cut Value of Canned Goods On Gas Coupons Again Washington, D. C (INS)—A group search for strategic materials, are ti!! DEEDS RECORDED lirl_. , 4 being related. Many of his men went GAI TD TU HI IQC VV hlf*h ( IIMIIO'OS AVV , AT LOURIHUUjL TtIIIVU V nances ‘lit cf midwestern congressmen were told —r~~“ IVfsiHp In Pointe Ilod iy that the office of price admin" l-il A j istration is preparing to cut midwest ern "A” gasoline coupon values from into the Amazon jungle area, inhabited chiefly <by Indians, who do not Deeds recorded at the courthouse Yet man J. Wendell Douglas has re- the Soviet turned to ins base at San Francisco, hands. Calif., after a furlough and visit witn j To the south the battles of the his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Dong- < Dnieper raged with unabated fury par- ias on South Jackson street. 1 ticularly north of Kiev after Russian » J forces overran 30 communities on the Pvt James L. Emerson of .he 7th west bank of the mighty river rn a Aimed Division, Ft. Benning. Ga., is sweeping drive to encircle the Ukraine spending his fifteen day furlough with capital. — XT, 11 his mother. Mrs. Charles Berry Millie J. Walker filed a suit for di- ^ vorce f*om James G. Walker with the) clerk of the court here Tuesday ch arg- j N Car„ af_ ■ bclnp evacuated (rom Kiev. cruel and inhuman treatment. She j „ . , , . _... _ . . . ____ (A British radio broidcast heard in New York quoted report* from Stock-S. SgL Albert Schmidt left last Wed-J holm that German war matetial is even wear a sarong, or at least only in its most abbreviated form. An eft today included the following: fort was made to induce them to Warren Holland and wife, Rata | some persons haw asked JuM wha „ three to two gallons .effectiveOctober gather rubber Jones and husband. Helen Holland, A canned goods have increased point! j Before the project really got under W. and Ada Holland to Earl M. cook, values and what ones have decreases.) The information according to Repreway a government shipment of 1,500 proper*y on East Webster street, Mt The values change October 3. I sentative Brown, Ohio republican, sewing machines arrived in the jungle Pleasant. j Following are the increases in the ehajrman 0f the informal group was) may direct and the order was carried for distribution to the Indians as an Mrs. C. B. Schmoker to William L point values of the canned goods, cal-J tj3Sec| on a “rather well established re- out today by Sheriff Manning J. Cline inducement to make them work. Just Cecil, Winfield property. Consideration alated for the No. 2 sine can. which port .. who sent them, or why. was not ap- was $2,600 I, over I pound and 2 ounces to and| - poem lo those in charge on the A. E. Church and wife to Harry W. including I pound and 6 ounces: ound. They were not used and were Daby D^Church lSJ acres rn Red sour cherna_ran,d Estimate 82% ©f a ^ , . , , , , I ter spending his furlough with rela charges that he Struck and abused her ® .. tives here and in Des Moines. A din- and made o her accusations in the petition. The coup’e was married at Burlington. Feb. 12, 1922 and have been residents of Trenton township since March 2, 1941, according to the petition. She claims she has put $4,000 of her own mcney into the farm and other property and states that he ha^ been disnosing of items without making an accounting. Attachment is a-ked in the petition on the property. Judge E. O. Newell issued an attachment order in the sum of $5,000 on property as the plaintiff sent"b«k jnciricntally the Indians section 28 of Tippecanoe township. of that area would not do the work uinnirn any way and natives had to be im- 2 MILLION MARRIED ported from another district. 25 points; all other cherries except maraschino, raised from 14 to 23 joints; apricots, from ‘23 to 30; figs.! from IO to 18; grapefruit, from IO to, 18; asparagus, from 14 to 18; mush* Iowa Corn Safe REFERS VAN VLEET TO EDUCATION BOARD ‘Berlin reports reaching Madrid sav that the German high command has ordered Kiev razed to the ground," BBC added.) A Soviet communique announced a new Russian advance to the east bank of the Dnieper near Kremenchug, down river from Kiev. Most seriously threatened of the naz. bastions in W’hite Russia was Gomel. 150 miles above Kiev. Russian ad- THE INTERNATIONALIST GROUP in the senate hears Mr. Roosevelt is still for the international police force. One of their number came back from the White House with that story. But from past statements of White House jsosition coming out from call- MEN MAY BE DRAFTED 18. asparagus, firm 14 to 18; mush* Des Moines. Iowa (INS)—About 82': Washington, D. C. (INS)—Senator rooms {rom 14 t0 23, and grape juice, of Iowa’s corn was safe from frost last Sheridan Downey, California democrat, frQm 3 tQ & Sunday, Iowa Weather Bureau Crop declared today that high military auth- The'canned foods for which point Observer Charles D. Reed said today orities expect that an additional two vajues were decreased were green or in his weekly crop summary. He said million married men ultimately will.be wax beans> cut from 10 t0 8 points for that another IO', might mature before drafted into the army. a 2 size can. and cern, cut from 16 it is hit by frost hard enough to dam- —-- to 13 points for all types except vacu- age it. Marriage License Issued urn packed whole kernel com, which The remainder he said, either already Des Moines. Iowa < INS) —Governor B B Hickenlooner tod y put the ‘“Iowa State situation” into the hands of the State Board of Education. The governor announced he was referring his correspondence wuth Donald VanVleet. president of the Iowa Farmers’ Union, to the state board for ner in his honor was held a week ago Sunday at the George Schmidt home. Pl Chief Radio Man Otho II Cook who has been with the navy for 19 years. ll of them on a submarine, with his son, De Way ne, of Burlington spent two days at New London with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H Cook ’ vanees in the last 24 hours which gob-He came here from Panama, en route ^ bjPd up 200 towns and villages placed to New London, Conn., and expects to soviet spearhead * within ll miles of be sent from there soon to the South Gomel. Pacific. He also visited with his chil- j ------- d’en rn Burlington and with his broth- j G|BBS AND HERRON er . ! WEDDING AT IOWA CITY Pvt. Anna K. Koch A 702659. Co 12,» ________ 1st Reg , Array Post Branch. Fort Des I Winfield. Iowa — Announcement is Moines. Ta. made of the marriage of Miss Eleanor im Gibbjs. Blair town, daughter of Mi s. Joe Mc Eire v Ph. M. 2-c, has been Jean Gibbs of Cedar Rapids, to Hilton Terrcd from Pearl Harbor T II ben O. Herron, Seaman 1-c, son of to Annapolis, Md., where he will take Mr. and Mis. H O Herron, now of a four year coin se at the U. S. Naval Moline, IU., but formerly of Woman. Academy. Jfe will take his furlough The ceremony took place in ‘he Lit- at a later date. tie Chapel of the Congregational » * church .it Iowa Chn Tuesda;. Sep- Sergeant Lee R. Cookes was pro- tember 14 meted from corporal to sergeant on Attending the couple were Miss Hei-September 24, by the Military Police en Dvorak of Cedar Rapid.- and Bre e " not safe to bet much money on A marriage license has been issued was rut from 20 to 18 pointe. has been damaged so that it wfl dry this one The caller also went to the at the courthouse to Oil Kermit Dried peas and lentils, which lorn,- out light and chatty, or ut in belated tate department, but go! nothing Greig. 33. Fort Madison, and Gerald- erty had values cf one point per noun 1 Southern Iowa from Hull for or against. toe Gertrude Chesnut. 24. Weaver. were removed from the ration tat. chance of matin _ , “information and whatever action1 Detachment of District No. 5. Seventh Hiscock of Iowa City Mrs. Herron will members deem it advisable to take.” ! Service Command. Omaha. Nebraska, continue her w* rk at the Cleona VanVleet had written to the chief * Beauty salem at Iowa City f,kr executive twice demanding jirobe of Ssjt. Wayne McXeeley returned to present. academic freedom at Iowa State fol- camp in Alabama after a furlough Mr. Herron is statior ed with V 8 sections and has no lowing the resignation of Dr. T. W. with relatives Mrs M ‘Neeley returned coast Guard at Smith’s Point. Bell- ls [schultz. to her school near Wayland. port Ling Island, New York rn

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