The Daily Nonpareil from Council Bluffs, Iowa • Page 2

PAGE TWO. COUNCIL BLUFFS UP.WA) NONPAREILS-JUNE I 1945. City of Osaka Left in! Ruins by Superforts (Continued From Page 1.) mammoths had wiped out all the targets they set for themselves in Tokyo. Photographs disclosed that i almost half of Tokyo was in ruins. I Osaka is located centrally on Honshu.

It a population of 3,232,340 and was among Japan's moit populated cities, with an average of 45,000 persons per square mile. Fi'vt Divisions Ring Ground ShurJ By Leonard Mllllman. Associated Press War Editor. Five American divsions closed a double ring around Shuri, last remnant of the enemy's defense line on Okinawa, where 81,519 Japanese have been killed in the two- month old campaign. Between 20,000 and 25,000 surviving Japanese were pressed so hard through rain and lightning storms were unable to establish a second defense line.

Small, but vicious Japanese counter attacks were beaten back by advancing Filipino guerrillas, American infantrymen and Australians in the Philippines and on New Guinea. Chinese closed to within 11 miles of Shaoyang (Paoching), Japan's key west China base, and drove in two directions to widen the recently opened gap in the enemy's corridor through south China to Lido- China. Lightning and rain kept them away from Okinawa Thursday as V. S. ground forces made breakthroughs ranging up to 1,200 yards which Adm.

Nimitz said threatened the "enemy's whole central island position." The double Arrferican ring was drawn around Shuri town, into which strong forces of the 1st marine divisions poured from captured Shuri castle. The infantry reached the northeastern of the town after a half mile advance. And the 96th division drove 800 to 1,200 yards to seize hilts less than half a mile south of the town. The second cordon was being closed to the south by the 6th marine division pushing in from the west and the 7th infantry from the east, both less than two miles below the town. Strongest resistance was encountered by the 7th on the southern side of a sack-like bulge it is expanding to the center of the Island.

Against total Japanese losses on Okinawa of 61,519 killed and 1,353 taken prisoner, most recent S. figures, including naval losses, were 9,602 killed and missing, and 25,514 wounded. Savs Paper Atlantic Selectees Assigned to Army Special to The Nonpareil. STANTON--Fifteen Cass selec- tees reporting last Friday at Fort Leavcnworth. for induction and assigned to the army included Eddie Mullins, Kenneth Hoegh, DarreH E.

Eikelkamp, Jack Nygaard, Arlo M. Murray and Tom Magill, Atlantic high school athletes; Don C. Sorensen, Ray W. Kitson, Gene Trailer, Paul M. Williamson ad Harry A.

Travis of Atlantic; Richard F. Wohlcnhaus of Elliott, Richard L. Bernhardt and Gene C. Kluevcr of Massena, Floyd E. Pearce of Marne.

Suvc Waste Paper The office of malaria control has protected approximately 1,800 war establishments in 250 areas in the United States. SET IOWA RECORD OPA Uncovers Big Racket in Canning Sugar (Continued From Page 1.) MINTS MADE WffH Vff0MK8 OILS PAINT PROTECTION Ot HOMI1. MIMS, fACIOUIf AND Now that new construt- tion is not possible, just plain sense to use product! which will make your paint job last long possible. Phil Hoffman. work shoulder to shoulder for 60 years.

if Oskaloosa Men to Celebrate Next Wednesday Special to The Nonpareil. OSKALOOSA, --'A record in Iowa journalism, and probably a national one, will have been made when C. S. Walling, publisher', and Phil Hoffman, editor, celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of their entry into the newspaper field on Wednesday, June 6. Long careers have been frequent in the Iowa publishing business, but it is doubtful if another instance can be found of two men spending 60 years together on the same newspaper.

Both had had contracts with the Herald during' school days, and it was only natural that, following graduation in 18S5, they should become identified with the paper, Thil as a cub reporter, and C. as a printer's apprentice. In observance of that event, the Herald will go to press early in the afternoon and devote the hours from 3 p. m. to 5 p.

m. to an "open house" in the Herald plant. A dinner to be attended by company employes and families is planned for 8 o'clock. ----Save Waslo Paper To Receive Bids on County Jobs. The Iowa state highway commission at Ames will receive 12 for maintenance cover grcgate for several roads in Iowa, I according to the commission's, weekly letting report.

Bids will be sought for work on: Iowa 83 from Avoca to Cass county: on U. S. 59 from Oaklair.l to Avoca; on Iowa 168 from Shelby to Iowa 64; on Iowa 100 in Treynor; on Iowa 192 from Coun-1 cil Bluffs to Lake Manawa. project involved 2,910 cubic yards of material. Save Paper Plan More Victory Gardening Still A regional meeting to consider how home gardening and canning can be increased despite lateness of the season will be held at the Hotel Paxton, Omaha, Monday at 10 a.

m. Called by Paul C. Stark, director of home food supply, it will be attended by Washington officials, state defense councils, state Victory garden committees, city Victory garden directors and members of the agricultural extension sen-ices. Save Waste Taper---- Pbghoft-Mitchell Wedding Announced Special lo The N'onpureil. ATLANTIC--Mr.

and Mrs. Ormand Mitchell of Tarkio, announce the marriage of their daughter, Zella to Ernest Ploghott of Clarinda, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C.

Ploghoft of Atlantic. The wedding took place at Troy, on May 22. The couple will reside in Clarinda where Jlr. Ploghoft is employed as sports editor of the CJarinda Herald-Journal. tigators to undertake a "vigorous campaign" against the diversion of home canning sugar into bootleg liquor or illicit bottling.

"I deeply regret the necessity for this-drastic program," Bowles said. "I particularly regret the nuisance bother that it will create fop legitimate home canners, but, ai the only means by which this sugar racket can be stopped, I am confident that It will have the full support of every honest, patriotic citizen of this country." The home canning sugar ration has been reduced from a maximum of 25 pounds a person last year to 15 pounds this year. In addition, however, each local board has been directed to keep its allotments to within 70 per cent of last year's; This means that many boards will have a maximum far below the 15-pound individual limit. Situation in Iowa Critical DES MOINES, issuance of canning sugar in Iowa had been stopped temporarily while OPA officials determined how much sugar had been issued to date. Walter D.

Kline, district OPA director, said he had received an order to suspend issuing of sugai in his 64-county district from the OPA regional office at Chicago, Regional OPA Director Rac Walters, who has jurisdiction of seven states including Iowa, declared at Chicago Thursday that the emergency suspension was necessary "because of the limited supply of 600,000 tons of sugar, only 70 per cent of last year's issuance." He said canning sugar applications in this region had run higher than last year and some local boards already had applications in excess of their quotas. "The canning sugar situation is critical," he declared. At Des Moines Kline said he believed that most of the 17,918,716 pounds of canning sugar allotted to the district had been issued already, and should be "adequate to fill the district's canning needs." Waste Piper The greater relative contribution to farm financing needs made by the life insurance companies today, as compared with 25 years ago, is reflected in the fact that the life companies now write nearly 20 per cent of total farm mortgages, with 8 to 14 pei cent in the years 1914 to 1918, Waste Paper Cantaloupe is a good source of vitamin C. STILL AT WORK W. A.

ataurer. 96 years old Friday. Maurer, Still at Work Spends Port of Each Day at Office "I'm an old man," said a gentleman one day last week'as he sought a chair to sit out his wife's shopping tour. The man who provided the seat inquired: "How old are you?" "Seventy," was the reply. "Hell, man, I'm old enough to be your' father." And the man who made that last statement made it in truth.

He was W. A. Maurer, 831 Second avenue, president of the Omaha Crockery company who Friday is observing his ninetieth birthday anniversary. Sixty-five of those 90 years have been spent in Council Bluffs. Friday was just another day in Mr.

Maurer's life--though he admits a bit of pride in reaching his ninetieth birthday. He took his morning walk, as usual, and after lunch planned to leave for his Omaha office to spend as "much time as needed." Sharp tongued, but not caustic, 90 years have served to impress upon Mr. Maurer that the world would be a lot better if its affairs were handled by businessmen stead of dreamy politicians. Politically he has some ver; definite ideas. At the moment he finds it impossible to reconcile Washington's ideas on proposed tariff reductions.

"How they expect American labor to compete with 20-cent a day foreign labor--and still maintain our Jiving standards--is something I can't understand. Tariff made this country great." Came From Alabama. Mr. Maurer is a native of Ohio, but came to Council Bluffs in 1880 front Alabama, where he had bten employed In a china store. "When I got off Oie train at the transfer, and came Sip town, I wondered if Council had anything but sunflowers," he recalls.

"They lined the Whole area from the transfer to.Broadway." Council Bluffs was then a city of 12,000 to 14,000. Here he purchased the ohint store of Vt. L. Whitney, 540 West Broadway, and remained until 1924 --when the building was sold. Under his guidance, the firm became the largest distributor of white china in the United Statei, selling merchandise from coast to coait.

Much of the merchandise was then imported from Japan and Bavaria. He still likes to tell of an exhibit held many years ago at Syracuse, N. where his entry of Council Bluffs "Klondike gold" won top honors, A stockholder in the Omaha Crockery company, Mr. Maurer transferred his business interesti to that firm in 1924. Another firm, W.

A. Maurer company of Chicago, is now considered one of the largest distributors of white china in the United States. Mr. Maurer was one of the three founders of the Council Bluffs club in the late 1880's, and was one of the aix to form the Council Bluffs Boat club--now the country club. To get a twinkle in his eye, talk his grandchildren, of he has two! His grandchildren are Mrs.

Charles Buchanan, San Francisco, and Mrs. Cal Taylor, Oma- he. His daughter-in-law is Mrs, H. Maurer of Council Bluffs. Waste Brother of Omaha Mayor Is Dead J.

M. Leeman, brother ot the new mayor of Omaha, Neb. Charles Leeman, died Wednesday night after a two weeks' illness. Leeman was a traveling representative of a Kansas City wholesale drug company and a veteran of the first world war. A private plane flew to Wichita, Thursday morning to meet Mayor Leeman, who was reported en route.by air.

He, had not arrived Thursday afternoon. In more than three-fourths of the states of the United States, there ii an organized bureau of child welfare, and In moit ot the states there it some provision for the payment of widows' pensions or mothers' allowances. -Save Paper Mississippi is called "The Magnolia State." Newfoundland, an island of 42.734 square miles at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, is part the British empire, but is not part of Canada. Seeks Judgment Special to.

The ATLANTIC--Maude Dewey, ad- ministratrix of the. estate of the late Thomas Montague, has filed suit'in district court here against Lu and Gladys Kennedy, asking judgment for $6,538.63, interest and costs in a note. According to the petition, the defendants executed a note for June 2B, 1933 payable to the late Thomas Montague, See SWANSOWS for BEDDING BUYS SIMMONS FOLDAWAY BEDS size, all steel springs including striped mattrcw. Rolls away into closet space. and up All steel coil construction and covered in smart fabrics, can be used either as a comfortable sofa or a double bed.

SWANSON 342-44 West Broadway FURNITURE GO. Phone S-lfcl! SINUS, CATARRH SUFFERERS OARD AND PAINT STORI I HHt 350) Iliffi, Iowa MISKY PUI TO NASAL CONGHTIOK Sufferers Rejoice Belief fit last from tha torture of KHU.I t-oablf. eftUrrh. hay -tver due to niul ciofesticm 13 itea today in reports of :c.ec« wttK a formula which hu POWM to itubl conftatkn. Mea -wvmtn who lUiterni with iffaauiaf tinia clojnrsd nostrils, riaiint earache.

hfcwkinr and misery now ttll relief after ixinr it KLOIOXUL co5ts hut considering cnced bj- users, is act Md nmour.t* to only pfr.niea per KLOROXOL onlj- is with strict ruann'M br STORE SM Broadway. a FilleC and honor the man This tiny gold button, you'll see in more and more lapels these it the returned serviceman's badge of honor. II it presented to him with his Honorable Discharge as a symbol of gratitude for having served his country faithfully and wefl. viteran who wtan this emblem has earned the admiration and grati- tude of aH of us. he has.