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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
1
A severe hailstorm struck Fort Dodge and nearby areas early today, damaging a greenhouse valued at $2,500 and causing additional destruction to city houses. A second incident in Des Moines involved Manuel Carrasco, 46, who suffered the loss of his right hand after being struck by a Great Western switch engine.
Washington reports President Truman in constant contact with Churchill over the French Levant crisis. Truman says he fully approved dispatch of British troops into Syria as tensions threaten regional upheaval and calls for safeguards on Pacific routes linger in the debate.
The two week assault on Okinawa has cost Japan heavy losses as U S forces advance. The Naha Shuri Yonabaru line resisted with fierce resistance from the Okinawa garrison while Allied casualties and captured troops rise. The total Allied strength surpasses 85 000 with the U S push continuing across the island.
A farmer living south of Atlantic was struck by a bolt of lightning that followed a telephone line into his home early Sunday. He was stunned on the porch with throat and hearing affected but not knocked unconscious. Alfred Brehmer of the Ames Cappel implement store was in Ames on business.
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight through Saturday with fresh northwesterly winds. The forecast calls for a sharp drop in temperatures and brisk conditions into the weekend.
Des Moines reports from the state division of safety education show a 14 year gap without a traffic fatality in Indianola as of April 20. Anamosa Carroll Estherville Newton Ames Cedar Falls Centerville Cherokee and others also posted stretches of one year or more without a motor vehicle death on their streets. Clinton neared a full year without a traffic fatality at the April 20 close.
President Truman announced Claude Wickard will end his tenure as secretary of agriculture on June 80, even if the Senate rejects his nomination as Rural Electrification administrator. He spoke after a reporter asked Wickard’s status if the REA post faces a Senate vote.
Council Bluffs officials and Creston member warn Atlantic civic leaders that a proposed national superhighway plan could cost 250 million dollars per state capital share. The meeting, called by local business and farm groups, showed southern Iowa opposition to routes that would hamper rural highway improvements. A top option discussed is a single superhighway spanning the state in each direction, with adjustments to favored routes under consideration.
Mr and Mrs E C Range visited Omaha this week to see their grandson Donald Berg graduate from South High in a Monday commencement. They stayed with Mr and Mrs Ralph Berg, the couple’s son in law and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sandhorst of Omaha depart tonight for a vacation trip to Denver. They have been visiting his parents Mr and Mrs G H Sandhorst at 503 Elm Street. Their daughter Barbara will stay with her grandparents.
Cass county reports subscribe 9 624 982 of 1 187 000 while Atlantic nears 40 060 0 short of its 200 448 quota. County chairman Helten notes 260 006 75 of the total comes from E bond purchases, with a 70 percent Cass quota.
The Army Air Forces will present an aircraft equipment exhibit at Atlantic high school next Monday at 1 PM for southwest Iowa schools. Seven officers and enlisted men will bring mobile gear, mockups, photos, and diagrams to aid aeronautics instruction and Major Thomas M. Clark will lead the demonstration. All secondary schools and higher education institutions are invited to attend.
The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society reports that 11 missionaries and 9-year-old boy were executed by Japanese forces on Panay Island Philippines in December 1943. They had fled to a mountain refuge named Hopewell to continue preaching teaching and healing.
President Truman outlined a plan to double the U S army in the Pacific and deploy every fit American soldier overseas once trained. He praised the navy for winning land invasions and noted Japan’s surface fleet has diminished to a fraction of its former strength.
United States may suspend oil supplies with a tentative allocation plan. A Food Administration source says the third party recipient list is under review and could shift to the United Nations Relief and Mobilization administration for foreign relief. The proposed figure targets about 8 billion dressed weight for American civilians in the posing, versus 786 million pounds for the current quarter.
The Japanese army is organized into 100 combat divisions and its air force fields about 8,000 combat planes, reflecting a large wartime force.
Principal Vin Wise confronts a consolidation crisis as the school navigates leadership changes and budget pressures amid uncertain fiscal plans and community response.
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