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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1941
Page
1
Notice to subscribers explains evening delivery option for Atlantic readers who do not receive the paper on schedule. Calls before 7 to 585 M arrange delivery. changes of address or service must be reported to the office, not the carrier.
The state senate backs a new office building with a projected final cost above $2.1 million. Construction would occur before tearing down the old capital and rebuilding a new one, sparking talk of future capital relocation. Gus Kuester recently voiced support, countering prior opposition to immediate work amid the employment boom.
The column notes the diplomatic mismatch between Hitler and Matsuoka and observes Italian threats to Yugoslavia. It critiques war photography, rumor spread after a Seventh and Walnut accident, and British actions in North and East Africa. It questions French support for the U S and warns against U S entry into war due to volatile European politics.
Washington dispatch details Hitler reacting to Yugoslav pivot after agreeing to an Axis coup. Hitler scrambles Balkan attack plans toward Salonika, Mussolini slated to lead Greeks strike, Italian fleet crippled. Yugoslavs seek US and British arms, while Allies exert morale and manpower dominance amid tense diplomacy.
The article details how the United States had not supplied Greece by March 20 while Britain would manage arms purchases and allocate captured North African munitions. It notes Yugoslav and Greek appeals to Britain and Eden's concerns, plus Greece, Yugoslavia, and Australia facing a clash of morale versus mechanization as Nazi pressure grows in the Balkans.
A quiz asks ten questions on topics from geography and history to language and games. Readers are invited to attempt before checking answers on page seven, covering capitals, alloys, inaugurations, literature, coral formations, conductors, seas, French terms, caves, and poker runtimes.
Ames Iowa April 5 The federal agricultural by products laboratory at Iowa State College is being consolidated with the new regional agricultural laboratory at Peoria DL All projects and personnel of the Ames laboratory will be transferred to Peoria with the consolidation to be completed by June 30 The Ames laboratory building will be used for other engineering studies on crop residues says T R Agg director of the engineering experiment station
The note explains that anger can be directed toward a person using with and toward a thing using at, with examples of correct preposition use. It clarifies typical error patterns and offers guidance for choosing the proper preposition in expressing anger.
A reader reviews Thorndike Century Senior Dictionary as practical for daily use and pronunciation questions. The column includes examples on habitat objectives and the word agenda, plus a taxi-driver anecdote about avaricious clarifying a domestic dispute.
Fred Rowley represented Atlantic in district and state declamatory contests. Home Oil Company opened a new station under Wood Goff. State university visitors included Gladys Trailer Leon Pine Howard Rudolph Robert Dalton Robert Day and Robert Janss. August Sien nominated for postmaster at Sarah. Junior class performed Seven Keys to Baldpate with a large cast. Esther Gaylord of Des Moines visited. Howard Hupp edited Frivol at the state university. Emmet Butler was in Atlantic on business and Purity company resumed ice cream manufacture.
Iowa history notes recreation from 1838 pioneer theater by the Iowa Thespians in Dubuque to later professional touring and Chautauquas. It cites Dr Ruth A Gallaher in This Iowa and The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, noting movies expanded access to drama and culture across outlying communities with film transfers replacing costly star tours. State parks number seventy four with extensive recreational sites.
A sweeping portrait notes that over two million people visit more than twenty thousand acres annually. Corn Belt culture features corn husking contests drawing up to a hundred thousand spectators, with golf tennis picnics and travel common. Iowans explore both coasts and regions, while others know less about the Middle West.
Mrs. Wilkins overhears Connie and Penny in playful talk about pity while Connie learns the meaning. Dickie Carver and Ronnie Rich elope on a hunting romp ending with three dead cats a pig and a dead rabbit found. parents and police intervene. A roadside eatery slots machine story unfolds with two men called state agents entering as the proprietor hides the machine. Mrs. Roy Hedges offers a used bird cage after her new one recalls a bird’s ascent to bird heaven.
Officials from the Commodity Credit Corporation and USDA joined with Midwest universities at Iowa State College to discuss protecting long term stored corn and wheat under the agricultural adjustment act. William MacArthur, head of CCC grain division, led the meeting.
Delphin M. Delmas, attorney for Harry K. Thaw, is credited as the originator of the terms brainstorm and de mentia Americana. He first used the words during the Thaw trial at the turn of the century.
Edgar A Guest reflects on why grandparents view their grandchildren as sweeter wiser and more delightful than their own children once they became parents. The verse questions if bias or shared joy fuels the belief that the next generation outshines the previous one.
At a Thursday board meeting Avoca teachers were re-elected for the next year. Supt. O H Ruttenbeck continues under a three year contract. Re-elected were R L Reynolds high school principal Ferne Marah Leroy Dick Gayle Junkin Lucy Heppinger Maury Stewart Hazel Whetstone Robert DeFore Sue Eckhardt Mayra West Mabel Obel and Ruth Johnson. Three faculty members were not candidates.
Red Oak man Vernon Sandquist was bound over to the grand jury and held on a $100 bond after his car struck 10 year old George Maher’s bicycle Friday night in Red Oak, seriously injuring the boy.
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