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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
4
17-year-old Clifford R. Wherley, a decorated veteran of 21 combat missions as a turret gunner, enlists in the Navy in Peoria Illinois on June 2. He fears the war ending before he might face the Nazis again.
8 26 Martin maurauder bomber, a sturdy lad from Elmwood NL, enlisted in the army at 14 and later served in combat flights over Tunia Gabes Sfax Kasserine Pass Sardinia Sicily and Pantelleria. He downed a German ME 109 and earned the air medal with three oak leaf clusters. He plans to join navy aviation cadets but remains hopeful for aerial duty recognition after 100 hours of combat flying.
War Savings Stamps may be purchased at The Atlantic News Telegraph, offering readers a simple way to support wartime financing through local sales channels.
Local items note visits and travels among Sioux City residents and relatives in Nebraska and other states. Includes plans for visiting sons,帰 consignments of families, and movements to Des Moines and Medicine Lake for conventions. A truck speeding fine and Red Cross radio program announce community happenings.
The Red Cross event will feature local and national figures in music drama and variety with wartime nutrition solutions. Steam and heat persist with 94 degrees at Burlington and 61 at Decorah. cooler in northwest Iowa tomorrow. Rev Edwin Wiebel to lead Holy Cross Lutheran Anita mid July replacing Rev Belsheim now in Kansas. Mrs P I Appleman and Miss Emma Jean Preston travel to Annapolis for grandson Billy Williams graduation from the Naval Academy on June 7. Williams to Florida for training then to Atlantic for summer duties.
In Cass County Iowa Probate No 5265 Effie B Hancox has been appointed Administratrix of John A Hancox deceased. Creditors must present claims and debtors pay the estate as required by law. Dated June 1 1944. Attorney Tom C Whitmore represents the estate.
A Fort Knox board of inquiry investigates an explosion during training that killed six soldiers and injured many more. The blast involved materials used to simulate battlefield conditions. Maj. Gen. Charles L. Scott ordered the inquiry as officials withheld victim names pending next of kin notification.
Sioux City residents have pledged two thirds of their $9,701,000 fifth war loan quota with $6,110,818 raised. Col. George A. Blakey hosted a buffalo barbecue for bond buyers including many combat flyers, noting the amount could buy 24 Flying Fortresses and leave $100,000 for gasoline. Officials predict reaching the quota before the drive officially opens.
Norma Jean Goettsch of the Washington Worker club was re elected president of the 421 girls' club in Casa county at the annual rally held at the Jackson school. Ruth Gladson of the Glad Girls of Grove club was named vice-president, Lois Hebbourg of Eldeen club became secretary-treasurer, and Mary Lou Kirk of the Grove club was named reporter-historian. Lois Helbourg won the better-groomed girl contest with 16 entrants, 106 enrolled in the rally, and a skit titled Living the 4-H Pledge of 1944 was presented with Ruth Gladson and Greta Ohms as readers.
Des Moines republican gubernatorial candidate Henry W. Burma today endorsed Thomas E. Dewey for the Republican presidential nomination.
Allied daylight raids plus night bombing target French invasion coast rail yards near Saumur and other rail centers. RAF crews strike Hungary near Ssolnok with Italian-based aircraft, while missions focus on military objectives along the French coast and occupied Europe.
Santa Fe police hunt for two life term inmates after they scaled the penitentiary walls with a truck ladder and escaped with a taxi, threatening the cab driver. James Ernest Ray 27 and Robert Mc Eachern 23 were at large days after the breakout from the New Mexico state penitentiary. Ray was convicted of a Las Cruces bar holdup murder and Mc Eachern under habitual criminal law for an armed Carlsbad robbery.
Brief item notes that a person with hand made knives has disappeared in the city, raising a local missing persons concern and prompting police inquiry.
Casey E Peterson and Marvin Rochhols will report for pre induction physical examinations on June 10. Casey is the son of Mrs. Auguste Peterson and Marvin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rochhols.
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