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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1944
Page
7
Colin Rae uncovers a secret map in Dr Benedicts attic linking a hidden air reconnaissance flight south of Hudson Bay to Jonathan Dove. Blair, Nate, and others fear a perilous move as Rae vows to intercept on a treacherous trek with sled dogs and a toboggan approach.
The Green River widow Mrs. Caroline Gottsche dies May 22 and her June 2 filed will in Sweetwater county probate earmarks about 250000 to create an infantile paralysis foundation at Thermopolis Wyoming. It also leaves roughly 80000 to relatives churches lodges and institutions and directs the residue to form the William H and Carrie Gottsche foundation at Warm Springs Georgia. Mrs Gottsche 83 was widow of William H Gottsche a noted Wyoming landowner and former state senator.
Rev. C. J. Henderson pastor of Marne Monroe and Buck Creek Methodist churches asks transfer at the annual Des Moines conference next week. He and his wife will attend the convention Tuesday. A basket dinner was held Sunday at the church parlors in his honor.
A special Washington Workers 4-H club meeting was held Wednesday at Winona Knop's home with all members present. Plans for rally day were discussed and campaign leaflets were prepared for club candidates Marilyn Roberts for historian and Norma Jean Hansen for president.
Io Marie Beck expresses gratitude for cards notes flowers and remembrances during illness. The notice also mentions War Savings Stamps available for purchase at The Atlantic News Telegraph.
Sixty-five attendees gathered at Peace Evangelical Church for a mother-daughter luncheon hosted by the Women's Guild at 1 30 yesterday. Betty Henningsen led the program from This is the Victory by Weatherhead, while Mrs. Fred Kuhr and Mrs. Will Grulke organized the event.
Sunday 2 ball foursome at Atlantic Country Club at 4 PM with meat sandwiches provided. Memorial service for Lotus Rebekah Judge 8&7 at 1:30 PM at I C O F hall. Women's Society meets 2:30 PM at First Presbyterian church with round table on Maintaining Christian Homes in Wartime led by Mrs. Borchardt. Priscilla club breakfast at Sunnyside Park attended by sixteen members with committee named.
Mrs H J Fitzgerald entertained in Adair on Monday for Jane Fitzgeralds eleventh birthday with five guests and games. The Dinner Bridge club met at Paul Kelloways with Mrs Clayton Roberts high for women and Howard Pitagerald high for men. The Supper Bridge club was hosted by Mr and Mrs Bruce Morse with Me John ow and Ted Arnold high score winners. Guests included Karl Correll George Harry and Ted Arnold. Maine WSCS met in church parlors with Mrs George Christensen William Young Jr and Herbert Johnson on serving committee. Mrs C R Ayers hosted Home makers club with remarks on Behind the Steel Wall and current events. Junior boys Sunday school class picnic was held near town with Everett Meyers. Maurice Bender honored before moving to Red Oak. WSCS quilted at church Thursday. Mrs Oscar Franson hosted Pleasant Valley club Wednesday. The Thimble club met at Mrs Everett Meyers. East Side Bible study group met with Mrs Frank Kenworthy. Delores Orstad hosted Sunday dinner for Miss Delores Jurchen off to Drake University. Happy Hour club met at Mrs Alvin Pelser with guests.
Des Moines reports a statewide Miss Iowa war bond contest will select four winners to promote the fifth war loan drive opening June 12. County winners advance to Des Moines for a Miss Town queen party with the top winner sent to Hollywood alongside the court of official maids of honor.
Max Ross of Highland addition was admitted to Atlantic hospital for medical treatment. W. Logue of Cumberland was discharged today. Earl Guttenfelder Jr of Atlantic is undergoing treatment at Jennie Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs for an ear ailment.
Wiota ball player Jack McDermott suffers a carbuncle on his right knee cap and is under a physician's care.
A son weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces was born at 11 36 at Atlantic hospital to Mr and Mrs Bill Bross of 105 West Sixth Street. The couple's first child. Also Adair Mr and Mrs Oscar Ernst welcome a 9 pound boy born Wednesday at Adair hospital. Mrs Ernst, formerly Margaret Clark of Adair.
Carroll V. Colebank of Tigard Oregon was arrested by Iowa highway patrol and held in Cass county jail for investigation. He admitted stealing gasoline from trucks during a trip from Oregon to Jaws as officers probe draft registration and IDs found on him. His car was towed from the Fowler hatchery after a cream can and siphon were found in the rear.
Miss Ramona Murray, O'Brien county social welfare director, has been appointed to Cass county by the Cass board and approved by the board of supervisors. She will assume the Cass post June 16, succeeding Ruth Schults, with Gladys Cole temporarily in charge. Murray trained at the University of Iowa and has worked in recreational programs in Kansas City and as a junior welfare worker in Clark and Harrison counties. For three years she led O'Brien county welfare efforts, most recently as social welfare director after consolidation.
Emergency facilities across Lansing hospitals were taxed as 47 workers at the Olds Mobile Forge project were seized by food poisoning after lunch. Ten or more patients were saved by blood plasma. four others who ate the same sandwiches at a downtown drug store also collapsed.
War Department reports Hartley native Staff Sgt. Ernest Nonneman missing in action over Germany since May 12. He went overseas last April, serving in England before the bombing raid.
Funeral services are held in Des Moines for George Ploghoft 61 former Atlantic man who died at Iowa Methodist hospital after a several year illness caused by a throat tumor. He was born February 22 1883 in Atlantic the son of William and Hattie Ploghoft and married Mim Bertie Pace of Macena. Surviving widow a son Merle in Africa three brothers Grover Atlantic Hal Elliott Charles Minneapolis and three sisters Cora Redding Fremont Neb Belle O Connor Forney Ida and O N Smith Griswold. Three brothers preceded him in death. Mr and Mrs Grover Ploghoft attended the Des Moines rites.
Woodrow Wilson Smith, 30, of Poteau Oklahoma, arrested in Salt Lake City on a charge of forging an endorsement to a government check. He forged his wife Bertha Wise of Cedar Rapids Iowa maiden name on the check for 2250 dollars, payment for bonds she had cashed.
Gen. O. R. Gellette 99 the last surviving commissioned Confederate officer died in Shreveport Louisiana He collapsed of a heart attack while talking with friends in an American Legion service office Born in Mississippi he enlisted in a Mississippi regiment in 1861 was a prisoner from 1865 and released at war’s end He fought at Bull Run Gettysburg and served under Gen Robert E Lee at Washington College He is survived by one son First Lt Chandler Gellette Camp Blanding Florida.
Casey Miss Violet Wilson and sister LaVerne depart Thursday for Phoenix to stay in the Harold Wilson home. They will also visit Ivan Lewis stationed at Amarillo, Texas. Mrs Grace Butler and son Grove arrive from Harlan to spend the summer in the BR Griffith home.
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