The Mount Pleasant News from Mount Pleasant, Iowa • 1

WEATHER FORECAST If Ton Hu Tour Nows Call 218 Green Between 6:30 and 7 THB MTPJLEASAM' MEW Partly Cloudy By nutter ZSc per By Men SOM per yen Vol 71 No 173 BIT PLEASANT IOWA MONDAY EVENING JULY 25 1949 THESE DAYS George Sokolsky Woroillimari rape BRITAIN'S KEY PROBLEM WHEN THE BRITISH say that VAUGHAN ADDS A Girders Bent Rent Control Law Held Invalid By Chicago Judge Dr Ristine Accepts New Position Truman Asks Fund For A Defense they are short of dollars they mean that they are unable to sell enough goods In dollar markets Their hope Is that the United States will make up the lac as a gift Why are they unable to sell enough goods in dollar markets? Because they have outpriced themselves As competition Is being restored to world trade the British find that they have priced their in beyond the willingness of customers to buy particularly ns the customers can get goqds of tlie same or better quality at cheaper prices OPERATION UNION STATION JULY 6 i 1949 MAJOEN HARRY VAUGHAN USA frm President Harry Truman rd rev Judge Shaw said the local option section of the act is a part of the whole act and could not be ruled Washington (INSi Triunan declared In language President unmistakable -milled touay nenr States will resist with power" any aggression against ths peoples of western Europe The chief executive asked congress to speedily enact a $1450400-000 arms aid program for friendly nations so thaL in the event of attack these nations can resist until own power can be brought to bear" Mr Truman gave assurance tbe United States win not share Its atomic secrets under the program In outlining the United States position under the Atlantic PacL the president declared: the present time the military power which is the greatest deterrent against aggression Is centered in the United States three thousand miles away from Europe 'It must be made dear that tbe United States has no intention In the event of aggression of allowing the peoples of western Europe to be overrun before its own power can be brought to bear program of military assistance now proposed is tangible assurance of our purpose in this Warning For Russia He directly Implied tint his warning was aimed directly at the Soviet Union and declared that the military aid program has been made necessary by the of fear end danger? created fay Russia A draft of the proposed leglsla- BRAND NEW which he la unlikely to display with his other decorations on his Is added to the collection of President Truman's military aide MaJ Gen Harry Vaughan The president himself presented the mock medal Union Station" to Vaughan In recognition of your courage and Intrepidity over and beyond tbe call of duty" to commemorate the aide's brush with newsmen at the Washington railroad station recently Reporters had asked him who had paid the expenses of the vacation trip from which he was returning (International Soundphoto) On River Bridge Crane On Truck Hits Bridge Steel A Fatton Construction Co truck of Keokuk tangled with the Skunk River bodge six miles south of ML 7:30 rirasunt on highway 318 at Monday morning and three girders sere bent wltii tlie truck receiving only small damage Sheriff John Dugglns who Investigated the occidenL said the truck which was driven by Harold Wliapch was carrying a crane and it honked the top of tlie bridge damaging the girders Pickled Track At 3 a Saturday a Central aty Pickle Co scmi-trallcr broke down on highway 218 about nine miles north of ML PlcasanL Tlie driver left the truck on the side of tlie road and got some other men to help him move 1L They got it back on tlie road and the frame slipped down on the tires Since the highway was blocked the sheriff was called to direct traffic until the truck could be repaired A welding unit from Washington was sent to tlie scene and the truck was on Its way by 8 Saturday Six or seven vinegar barrels were spilled providing an unpleasant odor for jiasser-bys Economy Needed In Government Says Beardsley Davenport la Gov William Beardsley today called for "logical and sensible" consolidation of government for economy reasons Presenting the opening address of the Midwest Conference of State Governments UT Davenport the governor warned that If such steps are not taken the country face a breaking down of the system of free enterprise" Beardsley said 25 to 30 percent of the nation's Income now goes for the cost of govemmenL He asserted that If the figure reaches 35 percent the system of free enterprise will be stopped Hie also urged uniformity of state laws such as traffic and highways In a roundtable discussion Rands Cliase of the University of Chicago's department of education said tire top control of a state's board of education should be made up of laymen Instead of educators and also asked for more local control of education President Signs Atlantic Pact Washington (INS) President Triunan today formally effected United States participation In the North Atlantic PacL The president signed the Instru ment of ratification of the treaty in a ceremony In the cabinet room of the White House at a France and the Netherlands still must ratify the pact before It comes into force Grouped around him were the leaders of congress members of the caldneL Including the secretary of state and secretary of defense high state department officials and General George Marshall the former secretary of state In signing the pacL the president hailed it as historic step toward a world of peace a free world free from fear but it is only one step" He said: have malice toward none we must keep ourselves morally and materially strong We must play our part In helping to strengthen freedom everywhere" SLIGHT DAMAGE IN TWO FIRES WEIR chairman of the National Steel Corporation Just returning from a visit' to England reports: high-priced English goods can not compete in the export market the labor-socialist plan Is not to make the goods genuinely competitive but to eliminate the competition For this they have two devices The first is bilateral agreements between England and other countries which will exclude competitors Such agreements will be largely at the expense of the United States The second device Is the now-famlUar one of hums or gifts from the United States the proceeds of which can be used In part to absorb any loss-selling necessary to achieve the export of English goods This of course will be entirely at the expense oT the United States further grants from the United States to England will have the same effect as tliosc already made They will simply serve to sustain artificially for a while longer a situation which is Intrinsically wrong and a drag on the economy of the entire western world After the war we gave England $3750-000000 In a lump sum which was expected to finance the country over Its reconstruction period The labor-socialist government used up this entire amount in a little over one year's time Then the so-called Marshall plan arrived Its purpose was to give England and other European countries sufficient financial aid to take care of them land offset 1 their shortages of dollars through 1053 by which time they were expected to achieve a self-sup- porting basis England has been the principal beneficiary of this plan Despite tills tremendous outpouring of United States wealth plus income from exports and other sources plus huge and mounUAg taxation of her own people England In the 15 months of the Marshall plan has depleted her gold and dollar reserves by more tiian 35 per cent And the United States Is being asked to make up tills deficiency" ENGLAND'S REAL DIFFICULTY Is that her leaden are attempting to operate partial Socialism without Imposing the political limitations upon the Individual which Russia has proved Is essential for Socialism In any form In a word a mixed economy doe not work even with American subsidies and Socialism Itr any form or degree will not work without slavery Mr Weir also makes tills comment: 1MB cash disbursements to Great Brtllnn against grants and credits from the United States amounted to $1110000000 or 36 per cent of total foreign aid Great Britain spends on her elaborate welfare program approximately 900-000000 pounds per year which Is more than three times the amount of aid received from the United States In 1MB when It is considered that these welfare cxpcndl-tuies equal 35 per cent of tlie British government's total expenditures it Is obvious that in this item alone there must be room for reduction that would permit Britain to lessen substantially tlie weight or her burden on tlie United States" Dr Ristine superintendent of the state hospital here has accepted a position as superintendent of the Topeka state hospital Topeka Kan and will take up duties there August 2 he said lien Dr Ristine Monday His resignation at Uie ML Pleasant state hospital Is effective July 31 Dr Ristine came to the hospital here In 1936 os superintendent and held that position until tlie present time with the exception of tlie war years when he served os an officer In the army Before coming here he liad served as superintendent of the Cherokee state hospital for four years He was medical supervisor of the physical education at the University of Iowa three years prior to thnL He obtained his doctor of medicine degrees at tlie University of Iowa In ilp there Kansas Is placing emphasis on personnel training and Dr Ristine will have opportunity to supervise this work Nearly a lialf million dollars has been appropriated there few the training program which Is for the benefit of those Specializing In various phases of tlie care of the mentally UL Tlie Topeka hospital is about the same sue os the one here Death Takes Mrs Wade McBeth Local'Woman Critically III1 2 y2 Weeks Mrs Wade McBeth 55 who liad lived Iter entire life In Henry county passed away at 11:25 a Monday at the Memorial hospital alter being critically ill or the past two and one half weeks She liad been In IQ health for the past ten years-Bertha Scarff McBeth is survived by her husband Wade McBeth a ML Pleasant real estate dealer She was bom on a farm near Rome la November 10 1893 thq daughter of Lulu Messer Scarff and John IL Scarff Beside Mr McBctli she leaves a daughter Miss Erma Mc-Beth and a son Melvin McBith both of ML Pleasant and one grandchild Timothy For the past 13 years Uie McBcths have been ML Pleasant residents where Mrs Me Beth had attended the Methodist church when her health permitted She belonged to Uie Green Mound churdi Ollier survivors are the brothris of the deceased and their families: Leslie Homer Harry and Larry Scarff of ML PlcasanL Edam Scarff of Burlington and Maurice Scarff of Monrovia Calif Hie remains acre taken to Uie Cookes Funeral Home wlicrc arrangements for the funeral are awaiting word from tlie brotiicr in California i Chicago (INS Federal Judge Elwyn SI uw today declared the en tire rrnt control act of 1949 un- constitutional and void because of local option provisions which ncr-mlt state and local areas to end rent control Judge SI law declared the local option provisions were an unauthorized delegation of the powers of congress The Judge said: 1 must find tlie entire act invalid and being Invalid this court has no Jurisdiction and the Judgement of the cause Is dismissed for want of Jurisdiction" Ills decision resulted from a cult brought by the Chicago area rent office against tlie Shoreline Cooperative Apartments (Iowa Gov William Beardsley last week gave Ids approval to a petition from tlie Lone Tree city council to decontrol rents in that Johnson county town It was the first town to have rents decontrol! cd Council Bluffs also has sent a petition to the governor requesting rent controls there be removed) Petitions Seek Rent Decontrol In ML Pleasant Petitions are being circulated locally for presentation to the city council asking that body to hold a public hearing on the question of rent control The petition reads: undersigned all landlords renting residence property In the city of ML Pleasant Iowa hereby petition the are Council to hold a Public Hraring provided by law for the purpose of adjudicating the question pf rent control In the City of ML PlcasanL undersigned request I UIC HUHCmtiKU rCtUEab that rent control be abolished Jn the City of ML PleasonL at the earliest possible date" One landlord said that the purpose of the effort Is in keeping with President Truman's "Fair Deal" slogan that la to get a "Fair Deal" for the landlord Any landlord who wishes to sign tlie petition may do so at the Herbert Dyall studio Washington Federal rent control officials said today that the present rent control act will be enforced pending a supreme court ruling on on appeal from a Chicago Judge's decision that the law Is unconstitutional The Washington officials said that tlie government plans an Immediate appeal from the decision of Federal Judge Elwyn Shaw who ruled that the rent law is void Samuel Ogg Claimed by Death Funeral services were held at the Cookes Funeral Home this afternoon (Monday) nt 3:30 for Samuel Ogg retired farmer of Salem community Short services were held at Salem preceding those at ML PlcasanL Survivors besides the widow are his daughter kin Miles Rukgaber Jr of ML Pleasant a son Owen at home and daughters In each of the following places Wisconsin Cleveland Ohio and Burlington Burial will be at Forest Home SWIM IN POOL AT BURLINGTON Edwin Kajlhlro one of the Life Guards at the Iowa Wesleyan College swimming pool rccmtly organized a dub Saturday Mix Gln Donald Mrs Albert Leather by and Mrs Buddy Wallers took three carloads of "water sprites" to swim in the Burlington pool The young arc: Jean Ann Walters Joan Donald Janet Molandcr Marjorie Bauer Dee Smith of Burlington house guest of Joan Donald Phyllis Cochran Darrell Ellis Howard Rowe Ronnie Greer Duane King Johnny Leath er by and Kenneth Ellis Does it make sense? (CopyrighL 1949 King Syndicate IncJ Features on separately For that reason he ruled the entire act Is void housing expediter had sought an injunction seeking to re-1 strain the Shoreline Apartments fiom evicting 16 tenants because corporation had not proved 65 per cent of the owners were residents as provided under the law" Davenport la Atty Gen Robert Larson said the rent decontrol law on a local option still Is legal in Iowa until ruled otherwise by the Supreme Court La non who Is in Davenport attending the Midwest Conference of the Council of State Governments said the situation could be changed liowever If the federal housing expediter decided to Immediately follow Federal Judge Elwyn Shaw ruling that the entire rent control act of 1949 Is unconstitutional and void Instead of awaiting further court action Start Work On Line Extensions Construction work on 2595 miles of electric line to serve 556 members of the Southeastern Iowa Electric Cooperative association has been started by the Hoak Couture-lion company of Des Moines Work started In vicinity near Eldon The Hoak company bid for the work was $8490295 EIGHTiNEW POLIO CASES' Iowa City la Eight new polio cases were admitted (o the University' Hospital' at Iowa City over the week end hospital officials said The new patients are Jane Uthe 15 months and her 8-year-old brother Eldon Beverly Fluty 18 months: and James Lakeman 5 an of Dubuque Ruth Paulsen 2 and Win Smith IB both of Iowa Falls John Christensen 5 Mason aty and George Smith 13 of Peosta RIMS MISSING FROM HIS CAR Eugene House reported to police Saturday that someone had taken the rims off his 1MI Pontiac early Saturday morning It was parked behind Van'S restaurant on East Washington strecL Stace Crawl reported that Lloyd Smith backed Into his 1M0 Bulck on the west side of tlie square Saturday afternoon damaging the right front fender MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Sunday: Mrs Paul Welcher of ML Pleas-nnL Raymond Garmoe of Burlington Dismissed Saturday: Carl Boyd of ML PlcasanL Mrs Melvin Bergstrom and baby girl of Winfield Dismissed Monday: Mrs Elmer Fleagle and baby girl of Danville Clifford Chambers of ML Pleas-anL Births: Dr and bin Norman Bakins of Winfield are the parents of a baby boy bom Sunday HONOR ROLL MATERIAL FOR SALE TO HIGHEST BIDDER It has now become necessary to remove the Henry county Honor Roll from the courthouse grounds The entire structure must be removed including any posts and cement columns extending Into the ground but does not Include the landscaping shrubbery nor gravel walks Bids may be submitted to the Committee" in care of the ML Pleasant News The right to reject any or all bids Is understood Signed VirgU Campbell General Chairman lion sent to the capital with President Truman'S message specifies that "nothing-In-this act shall al ter amend revoke repeal or otherwise affect the provisions of the atomic energy act of Mr Truman In his Atlantic Pact arms Implementation message made It clear that the United States has no Intention of sharing Its atomic weapons with treaty nations He said: military assistance which we propose for these countries will be limited to that which Is necessary to help them create mobile defensive Three Types The president called for assist- i ance of three types "First a limited amount of dollar aid to enable them to Increase their own production of military items without Impairing their efforts for economic recovery the direct transfer of certain essential Items of military cquipmcnL the assistance of experts In the production and use of military equipment and the training of personnel" The Breakdown 1 The state department made public the following breakdown of the administration's arms program: 1 Equipment and technical aid to the North Atlantic Pact countries $938450400 2 Assistance to stimulate Increased military production fay the North Atlantic powers $155400400 3 Equipment and technical aid to Greece Turkey Iran Korea and the Philippines $3005Wyinn 4 Presidential emergency fund $45400400 5 Administration cost $10970-000 The state department declared In documents made public simultaneously with the president's message to congress that the arms program is necessary because of and Insecurity in the world" stemming from Russian aggression and the 'malignant growth of International Communism" Mr TTuman charged that the So- Scouts Conclude Week ait Camp Tlie following Henry county boy scouts finished a week of camping at Gamp Eastman Saturday tiro end of the fourth period: Hoop 28 ML Pleasantr-Ronald Smith Rank Conner Abut Caldwell Orlan Ervin Jake Ilea Gregg Richard Kenneth Hillman and Phil Devin Troop 32 Olds Walter Mullln Miles Shelman Richard Huston Edward Evans Merle Unkrlch Jerry Hawbaker Brant Abrahamson Richard Peterson' DeYarman Tommy De-Yartnan1 Larry Harquist and Del-mar Ross Troop 30 Williams Burns Donald Scott Ed Felgar Thurman Hughes and Laverne Hue-holt Leaden of the respective troops were with them and Include: Ru dolph Eckey Lawrence Barquist and Harold Hueholt Ross Walker Dies In California A Walker received a telegram telling of the death of his brother Ross Walker former ML Pleasant banker at his home in Glendale Calif Saturday Mr Walker had not been 111 over an extended period After undergoing a majer operation a year ago he had recovered and returned to his work The last month however he had complained of being unusually tired relatives said He served as cashier of the New London National bank and later was cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Saving bank In ML Pleasant Twcnty-reven jears ago he moved to Glendale Calif where he had been hr banking and automobile Insurance business Mr Walker is survived by his wife Mae a daughter Virginia three brothers A Walker cf ML Pleasant Wesley Walker Seattle Wash who I spending the summer at the A Walker home here: Hirlcy Walker cf Medlapolis and one sister Stella Conkllng Ua Angeles Calif CREDIT BUYING IS ON INCREASE Washington (INS)-Oovemment figures indicate today that a pre- war American credit buying on the increase The federal reserve board said In a summary of the buying situation In 1918 that cash purchases are giving way to greater charge account and Installment credit sales Last year 71 cents of each dollar spent In retail stores was In cash while 29 cents Involved crcdlL A war time peak in cash payments was reached In 1945 when 80 cents out of every dollar spent represented a cash purchase Slnce Davis Accuses Lewis Of Complete Contempt of Law Washington A leading coal producer today accused John Lewis of contempt'' for law and of dictating mine wage contracts manufactured crises" Harry-M Moses head of 1 inn i Steel's coal subsidiaries told a sen ate committee Investigating "labor monopoliesMthat 'tthe United llfne Workers" 'union has elL fJl If- an arbitrary abuse of Its economic power Moses declared: UUrhkf -NplMUUHyic slirdl rdlll The wage agreements which have been brought about In the bituminous cool Industry during and since the recent war were not negotiated agreements were the result of ultimatums that were enforced under manufactured crisis by the force of the economic power wielded by the union UMW has evidenced a complete contempt of laws which were Intended to bring a restraint to such power" Moses testified after Sen Robertson (D) Va assailed the three-day work week In the soft coal mines as a overt act" by Lewis to control cool production and prices to the detriment of consumers The steel executive said the UMW action eventually will bring higher coal prices and place the use of coal mining facilities at Uie of the union VOTE COMPROMISE SCHOOL HEALTH BILL Washington (INS) A house commerce subcommittee today ap proved a compromise school health bill which may pave the way for action on the controversial federal-ald-to-educatlon bill The 35- million- dollar health measure sponsored by Rep Priest ID) Tenn would permit the allocation of federal funds to Catholic and private as well ns to public schools POPE TELLS WOMEN TO DEFEND FAITH Vatican aty rope Plus XII has called on Catholic women throughout the world abandon the reserve and scml-hldiug of domestic Me entering into public life and participating in the duties and obligations formerly exclusively man's" The Pope told a rally of 10400 Italian women and 1400 foreign women delegates to a Catholic action congress in SL Peter's basilica yesterday that they must make a defense of faith" against enemies of God and the church Vanilla In Its natural states is long green bean THE QUESTION NATURALLY ARISES: how much longer can the United States go on giving to Great Britain and what win happen to that country If we should stop aiding her? The obvious answer is too tragic Britain's only answer Is to reduce buying in the United States and to ask her dominions to reduce their purchases here That has the same effect as erecting a tariff wall against the United States And at that point what becomes of the reciprocal trade agreements? If Great Britain can knock down the reciprocal trade agreements at will why should the United States continue them? In a word British Socialism attacks the United States economically while almost demanding that we subsidize the attacks vtet Union "has done Its utmost to prevent European recovery" CELEBRATES HER 102nd BIRTHDAY Chllllcothe Mo (INS) Mrs Lira McKenzie of Chllllcothe Mo today observed her 102nd birthday Mrs McKenzie attributes her longevity to wearing a suntan net whenever she gets In the sun A1 few days ago she canned three bushels of peaches and put up 31 qusrts of green beans Firemen wrre called out twice over the weekend to extinguish fires resulting In slight damage to a car and a garage At 3:30 Saturday afternoon they Los Angeles A went to the Eldon Bergstrom and punch" fight aboard Standard the Nelson Brooks residence at 603 airlines C-46 which crashed July 12 East Henry street where a garage In the Santa Susana hills with a'was on fire It was quickly put out loss of 38 lives was listed as a con-' and' the damage was small The tributlng cause by both survivors property Is owned by Henry Fitch and Investigators today At 7 Sunday they were call- Low flying and fog were also cd to extinguish a car fire one mile cited as causes at a civil aeronautics' north on 218 The car had a Dea board hearing Into the tragedy Moines county license FIGHT LISTED AS FACTOR IN CRASH then the figure has been declining feel right sprite" she safaL.