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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 30, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVAMO RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil 5 - - Until Sept. 30 Fuel Oil I (new) until Jan. 3 Sutter It - Through October 31 Shoe Stanin IS good indefinitely THE VOL. IAX I, No. 229 PLEASANT NEWS VAI.lt) RATION STAMPS IJ, V. w Blue stamps expire Ort. 20 X. V. /. rid stamps expire Oct. 2 A. B, Brown Stamps expire Ort. 2 C Brown Stamp expires October 30 I HI KS!)AY, SEPT. 30, 1913 MT. PLEASANT, IOWA Nazi Broken Along Dnieper City Bond Drive Goes Over Ton Mt. Pleasant Pledges 30 ° Over the City Quota THE* i, La By Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Fe&turea Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction in Full or In Part Strictly Prohibited.)_ WASHINGTON — THIS IS the most unusual war ol history as far as pro-paganda Is concerned. If you take the official statements of our side for instance, you will believe Japan cannot be conquered for j The MI. Pleasant citv war bond six year$. The admirals say so. The drive has gone over the top with the navy i < ret*: > Mr. Knox, holds pres announcement by Ben A Galer, City corih r* n at which such views are' chairman, that signed pledges for jdvertl < d. $267.056 00 In War Bonds have been The aim. officials give out state- turned in. This is more than 30"; m^nt that tile second front cannot above the city’s quota of $205,000 00. be launched for a long time, and that J This patriotic achievement was made it will be a long, hard war This possible by the many indiv.dual sacri-themc is pursued by Elmer I>avi.s’ of- flees and by the untiring effort of fie* of war information, which seems those w>irking to secure the pledges. to be determined to kill any optimism The city war bond committee express- In all previous wars that I ever es its appreciation to those working heard of Ult* off lei I propaganda idea on the committees, and to the serv-was to keep everyone optimistic. In ice clubs which provided solicitors for j the Wo: iii War the Civil War, and the business and residential groups. even back beyond, the official inspir- a special note of appreciation is also a turn alw vs wa;- to encourage people given to the M? Pleasant News for to victory and urg* them on to tigir the considerable amount of publicity labor Only in this one have the and information carried in tv cry is- They’ll Do It Every Time - - - government philosophers practiced dr couragement as an incentive. THM Si MI TO MUNK 'hat such tactics will inspire greater energy among the people to do their war work, but I wonder if these tactics are success ul It would seem to me that iT the admirals think Japan cannot be conquered for six years, in view of the superior position which we hold, we need some new admirals, I may b** wrong, but it occurs to me secretary Knox .houid bring .Mo his office for pre conferences those naval authorities who believe Jajxan can be era..lied. What I would like to read in some official pronouncement from the navy saying that 'his war tan be won last if the energy of the people L devoted swiftly to the task. At least, that would inspire me more than these constant ta lenient > tim' things look bad. that our trill- and tribulations are to be extended indefinitely. I wonder where the government philosophers gut the idea that people can be pressed to work only by discouraging official statements. It seem.-, to me Un; notion traces right back to Hitler im I' sounds to me Uke the Go* bde is technique As far as I know, it was the nazis who first developed the policy of miking their people work harder by adopting a long, official face. They had a struggle on their hadns to arise from the subservient jrosition in which their nation was thought they managed to get the utmost energy (rom their people by im-pre- ing upon them constantly the discout aging aspects of their position. The same publicity propaganda aas practi cd .n England where Dunkirk and the blitz bombing raids naturally caused Mr. Churchill to Uke that tone. sue of the paper this month. The following is a report bv committees of tile amount of pledges and the original quota assigned to each: No Pushover At t» j Pnr„oc Bloomfield this Week r unf . — Entrenched on River Bank Bloomfield Maroons Whipped Centerville, 25-0 Kiev Menaced By A New Upward Advance Committee Institution*— Corpor a nous Investor.. % Special group. Bus pie Residential . Quota Pledges Men Leave For Active Service More Donation s Made For Saturda v Bond Auction Mt. pc sam h gh school football men wi!l fae ano her tough opponent this week when they go to Bloomfield to pl iy the Bloomfield Maroons Friday evening. ( Boom..c d served no’ice last FTI-', Moscow-, Russia < INS)—Bed army day night that the 1943 team wouto forces already solidly entrenched along not be a pushover bv trouncing Cent- three hundred miles of the Dnieper erville, 25 to 0. The Blo infield team river's east bank today successfully knocked Centerville around rather made “major break-throughs at severing rclk ss.y. Punching across wo a1 points on the German's vital Dniep-touchdowns in the opening quarter, er defense lines.” the Maroons added a third counter in Soviet capture of Kremenchug* thread -the second and then more or less cned to cut off large numbers of nazi (' isteel to victory', takirg a fourth forces in the south. Kiev w is menaced trip across the Big Red goal in the by a new' upward advance on the city final qua; ter. , from the east and the capture of Bier infield, how ever, was defeated Rudaya placed the Soviets within the previous week by Washington, 6 forty miles of Vitebsk to 0 and reports from Centerville indl- —■---- cate that the Big Reds are not as yanks Nearer strong as usual this year. The Mt Pleasant men who looked like they have pos abilities, even in the defeat by Ottumwa las* Friday Port of Naples SH ) .(XX) OO 75.000 OO 7.500 OO 20,000.00 40.000 OO $155,012 OO 60,087 oo Go To ( amp Dodge To Receive ii.090.00 Assignments Many more articles to be sold at the 12.683 00 ” bond auc im at M.Mihan pa:k Sa - 30,784 - OO ' lard ay wire listed today. Included is a A list of the pledges made by insti-1 The grourj of Henry County num. turkey, seed corn, oats, apples, pullets, t ut ions and corporations Is as followswbo were accepted for ‘he armed war b’ nds a> d Hume rems other things, Board of Supervisors for forces three weeks ago, ltft by bus Henry County ...... $37,200.00 this morning to report at Camp Dodge one and receive their assignments. The all cf which will be valuable to some- for C*tv of City Council Mt Pleasant ......... Central Stabs Mutual Insurance Association ...... Insurance Plan Savings ,>nd Loan .................. International Harvester Mobi lf as .. 5,000 OO Iowa Southern Utilities ..... 2,000 OO J A D Hayes Company 10,000.00 22,500 OO 20.000.00 * 5.000 OO | 10.000 OO 500.00 C, B. & Q Railroad ____ Methodist church ....... Presbyterian Church ........ 337 OO j Hoagliris Inc. .............2.000.00; J C Penney Co ......... 2,000 OOj Spurgeons .....- 500.00 National Farm Loan Association .................. 2,000.00, Production Credit Association 1.600 OO S. E Iowa Cooperative ......1,000.00, Benteco .................... 375.00 Mt. Pleasant Telephone Company ................. I .OOO OO A report for the special groups and placed*'and they business and residential committees will be published later. 30,000 OO mf,n have been at home on furlough. They are: John O Kephart Harold L. Wagne: William Alvine Raymond L Bonar Melbourne Conn Elbert Cornick Lorrain Des pa in Darrel Donnolly # j Austin Heaton Robert D. Lee Dick W Lauer Paul W. Lowe John A. Perrenoud Milton Roederer Harold Schubert Robert Tri bb y William Tribby Robert R. Wilson Herbert D Mallory Wayne Moore Louis H Long Max Arbogast will go in a few dsys. Farmer who wan’ to donate something may list it with the News, a' •*.e RFA office or at he Farm Bureau office, or may bring the donation directly to the audion at McMillan park. New listings today include: Six White Rock pullets— W W. Dmsmore. Bushel hand lucked apples—Ralph Bunker. Hilt bu-hel hybrid seed com—H S. Burkey. Three boxes drug. One-man .aw—Manley Frazer. IOO lb. sack Acme feed—Andy Glanz-man. Two cans Cash* -Tonkinson Auto parts. Hotwater car h lier—Univer.Jtl Motors Co. Scoop shovel- Taft Tin Shop. One gallon out ide white paint—Mt. Pleasant Lumber Co. *.moiiery jericho .Jones Program Gaining Support HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSE REVENUE UP Hunting and fishing licenses during April and May, 1943, decreased more Turkey and .sack cf hog feed-Jamcs',han $30 MO in ™miwnson to a like Rahe. A MESSAGE TO YOU Bond Auction Information The figures on the third war loan drive are good. But this drive is an ~ k. ,, absolute failure for one who hau> not THE FACTS of th* situation to- ,here near bought extra war bonds. The third war loan is as personal to us as is a Nazi cr Jaoanese bullet is to our son , lri and neighbor’s son. conditions of Germany or Britain in their .-Iluggies. day. as I read the*I. are now comparable to either of these previ ous conditions, that is the previous Place—McMillan Park Time—Saturday, Get. 2 EVENTS 9:30—Concert in Central Park trie Bushel pfu-ter Seed Corn—A. Anderson. Two bushels oats—H V. Baker. Cheviot lamb—Basil Hasten. $25 war bond—Dr. F. V Coles, Dr. F. M Edwards. Dr. M W Manger. 23 piece hand painted dish set and folding deck chair—J. C Penney Co. Chicken wa'erer—Crane Hardware. Sack of flour—National Tea store. 25 lbs. of sugar- -Benteco. Enlargement—C. Harbert Dyall. F’ashlight—C. H. Cordes. Kent ccffee maker—McLerans mus-( ic store. ’ i the Baptist church of Mt. Pleasant, j Half soles, heeds and shine—Rich- next Monday, October 4. at 12:30 neon ard’s shoe repair. for a covered dish luncheon and pro- | $5 in merchandise or labor—CL C. gram. This is the first monthly meet- Masters. j ing of the fall season and all are urg- 1 $3 worth of light bulbs—Pero Elec- 1 ed to attend and participate in the ! fellowship and the program following period during 1942. Figures including sales up to September I 1943. show tha* -ome of the ground lost early in the year has been recovered. The total to this date for 1942 was $248,536.50. in 1943 $225,926.00, leaving this fund $22,610.30 less than a year aga, when license sales reached an all-time high. MINISTERS AND WIVES TO MEET MONDAY Allied Headquarters in North Africa 'INS)— The American 5th army have pent a busy week getting ready ^ored smashing new gains in an ef-lor Friday nigh s game. Li’tie change fr0C fbn important Italian port in the lineup fr rn a week ago is an- Qf Nanles from the axis aggressors ticipa‘eel. today which was expected momen tarily. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters reported that troops of both American 5th and British 8th armies .scored fresh gains on both eastern and western coasts of the Italian peninsula. Reported officially that the allies had occupied the historic town of Pompeii, near Naples headquarters, and that the British 8th Army occupied Washington. D. C. (INS)—The pro- Manfredcnia, on the east coast twenty-posed “price support’’ program for agr!- two miles north of Foggia. culture sponsored by war food admin- in the west, the Americans also took istrator Marvin Jones appeared to be San Severino Rota, twenty-two miles gaining headway in congress today. 1 southeast of Naples. Farm bloc leaders gave notice, how- j —---- ever, tha' they intend to restrict it. >JaD Munitions As the house banking committee be- _ ^ gan its second day of hearings on the LlCpOt nit subsidy issue there were growing in- Allied Headquarters In 'he Southwest dications that the administration is Pacific <INS» The chief Japanese row veering away from its original munitions depot in New Guinea lay in chaired ruins today in the wake of Veering Away From Original Subsidv Plan roll back or subsidy plan. __I the second furious allied assault in two days on the enemies stronghold at Wewak The biggest explosion the fliers have ever seen in the southwest Pacific was set off by escorting heavy bombers - which dumped one-hupdred-forty-flve Cedar Rapids, Iowa —.INS'— Ceti- tons of bombs on main supply dumps ar Rapids American Legion members and installations of the Wewak area. Bond Auction Sales - $313,259 The ministers of Henry county with their wives and husbands will meet at bv Iowa Wesleyan air corps Shave and hair cut—Braselton bar- the luncheon. Tile subject will be: “My What excuse can we possibly give to , one of Mark Clark’s 5th army bows in 11:00 We are bound to win, and we know UM U1 ^ we art owuua ^ ■ helping him by buying a t rannot see why we do not proud- ^ 6 * it. I cannot set w y r an extra war bond or two today? iv d rod aim the fact and din it into the ear, of our enemies every second Wl!' 11 ' nii UP- cf the dav I think that would en- You say you haven't the money or courage people more, and discourage J™ h«en t been asked* If we are detachment band. , 10:00—Review by air corps detachment at McMillan park. Bond auction starts and continues until all articles are sold. 11:30—Lunch served on grounds by American Legion. HOW TO BUY ber shop. Carton cigarette.1—Brazelton hotel. Manicure raveling kit Potter drug. Vaca ion ani How I Spent It '* Each cne who took any kind of a vacation at all will be expected to report on it. stated today that a refrigerator was - sold for upwards of 5 of a million ftuhr Industrial dollars in war bond purchases a: an p. « , , •auction*. They started yesterday af- Lily DOmDeCl ternoon to promote Den dsales. It brought $226,500.00 in four “sales.” The final buyer was Karl Kre*s, Cedar Rapids florist, who received f$ on his “bid” of $11.500 00 in bond purchases as three local farmers had “bought” it and returned it to the Legion for re-sale. The auction ne* ted for bond stamp sales $313,259.00. NOT TOO LATE TO ENTER MERCHANTS’ BONI) (LUB New London Beats Bond Quota London, England 'INS*—The Ruhr indu.'trial city of Bochum, was blasted during the night by the Royal Air Force, the air ministry announced today. Bochum is situated midway between Essen, and the city of Dortmund to the east. The attack was carried out after a an<j one night respite granted the German.'-. following Monday night’s triple assault on Hanover, Brunswick, and , Emden. The attack was described as heavy. Eight bombers were reported missing. Salerno w'as strewn with American (By Frank E. Tripp, Chairman. Allied New’spaoer Council) W. KUHLENBECK IS MISSING spending our time thinking up excuses Bid in terms ot bonds you * !: ('nu[licisu r i'RRFNT ms for not buYin8 extra bonds, we don't will buy Saturday, lop bidden TIIKRh is MIMI deMrve the sacrifices being made for gets article free. CUSHION about how tough congress . ______ - ------- is going to ne with Mr. Roosevelt and *■ of the bureaucrats. Hie truth Is con- and the Pacific. cress cannot do much about either. u, « a nf his bodies. Not excuses Mr. Roosevelt obtained most of ms ^ ^ powers immediately after the war started, and they are to extend legally ___ until a short time after it ends wnr k cera im v The annual appropriation bills will NEW TYPE OF ASSEMBLY not come up until January, and the xj- IQW^ WESLEYAN agenda of congress is light. The tax bill seems to be the major item for ^ neW type of asscmbiy, a student his wife, the former Delores and some authorities consist rg rf Mela Huienstein. now in Des Moines. No further par- It is n<>t too late to enter the Merchants’ War Bond Club, hill out these blanks and jfet 1,000 VOTES - FREE! Mail or bring this Entry to this easy contest to the Mt. Pleasant News Office. Get your friends to help you. Read the rules and note the prizes on the War Bond Club page "f this paper. - - DON’T DELAY! j New' London Journal — With three days to go. New London has exceeded I its 3rd War Bond quota bv over 23 WISE HEADS TWO TEACHERS’ GROUPS New London — Machinist Mate Wendell Kuhlenbetk. youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kuhlenbeck. has been reported missing according to w'crd relayed to his parents from Reed. consideration, doubt that anything will be done even Waunita Hobbi0> im0gene Bates and ticulars have reached his family. on that subject. Morell Ruby, was presented In the col in fact, the leaders already are talking about adjournment, although they have not agreed on a date. The main power of congress probably lege chapel this morning. The tope under cli <ucs'on wen “Can the United States Coe pc rate With Russia?” Miss Hauenstein aud Miss Batea Flam Appointed At New London ENTRY BLANK Please enter my name in MERCHANTS* WAR BOND CLUB Name Address ________________________________________ Mail or Bring to the Mt. Pleasant News office New London — Mr. Wise and Mr. percent. The September drive has been Witham attended a meeting of the extended by the government until mid- Henry County Schoolmasters club rhght, Saturday n’ght instead of Sop- which was held last Wednesday a' tha tember 30 which may boost he local Yellow Lantern Tearoom in Mt. Plea3-salrs several thousand more. ant. Chairman St re hi checked the salec All town schools in the coun'y were Wednesday noon and reported pur- represented except Salem and Hills-chases totalling $56,482.25 or $11,482.23 bore. over our September quota of $45,000 Rout ne business was taken rue «n New* London has exceeded its quota in and also election cf officers for th? every bond drive during the present coming year. They are as follows war. I Pres..................Roy W W*se E. A. Hayes, county board chairman Vice Pres....... G G Bellamy and a’so district chairman for six Sec.-Treas. ........Chester Morgan counties, said Tuesday, “New London -------------- is one of ‘he best towns we have in the district, the bond drive is receiving excellent support, wish we more like it.” will continue to be exerted in a nega- wepe of 0p<nicn that cooperation tive way by investigations of various -s p0SSjb]e an(j ^ ss Hobble and Mr. government activities. BUBBLE-DANCER - is U. S. war slang describing a dish washer. Even a dish washer has wartime duties. Yours is to work and bitv more War Bonds in the 3rd War Loan. New London — President Roosevelt Rubey wesre on 'he negative. After has appointed Wilbur Flam pcstmas-each had presen’ed his ideas, the stu-ttpr and irs name went to the senate dent body participated by asking ques- the first of the week for confirmation, tions a d nr king comments. ‘it generally requires a week to get .Singing was directed by Helen O’- through the se”ate. H * will surf'd Dean with Jane Graham at the con- Mrs. Estella Chichester, who resigned j sole of the organ. • early in the summer. 1,000 FREE VOTES If Your Entry Blank Is Received by The Mt. Pleasant News by SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1943 The Henry County Council of Teachers met at the Mt Pleasant high had school last Wednesday evening at 9 30. This council is compo cd f nine rn m-Henry county was $130 000 short of ber>. three of which are eachers from its goal Saturday night but should the Mt. Plearant school system, th*** climb over the top by this Saturday from Rural Teacher s Association, am evening. three from the Henry Countv School- While New London has already ex- masters Club, reeled its quo a the drive will con- At this meeting election rf offices ti IHM) with continued vim and effort for the ensuing year was and wind up Saturday night in th' Chairman ...........Roy W WI? ctv park where a public auction will Vice-Pres. ........Catherine La tare be held. Sec.-Treas ..... ... Mabel Walker

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