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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1939
Page
4
A state WPA report shows 139 workers in Shelby County on 11 projects as of May 16 1939. Five construction projects employ 122 men while six non construction efforts provide for 10 women and seven men.
The report details ongoing WPA work including a county wide road project started August 15 1938 employing 60 men a modern city pool in Harlan started March 3 1939 with WPA 31290 and city 15040 funding and 15 men on land corner restoration in Shelby county. Eight men work on Elkhorn street improvements begun March 29 1939 with 8979 WPA and 2750 city funds. Five men in Defiance sanitation project and a Harlan street project paused last April to reallocate labor. Shelby town adds 10368 square feet new sidewalks and four of six non construction projects employ two women two men one woman and one man respectively.
Tony Galento signed to fight Joe Louis for the heavyweight title at Yankee Stadium on June 28 after a stormy New York Boxing Commission session. Louis did not attend. his manager Julian Black signed for him. A license dispute over Joe Jacobs nearly forced the bout to move.
Hollywood report states doctor advised Sally Haines to seek divorce from film comedian Bert Wheeler. She testified that insomnia appetite loss and nervous strain followed his absence seeking his own pleasures and a separate life. A provisional decree was granted and a property settlement of 50,000 plus community property was agreed.
Four Chicago men identified as hijackers were chased by state police near Chesterton Indiana. Ted Harris 22 was killed after refusing to stop when their car crashed. Captured were Eddie Satchell 21 George Mitchell 47 and Robert Carlton 22. A stolen merchandise worth 1000 dollars was found in the auto.
William Woodward's great colt Johnstown won the 71st Belmont Stakes worth $50 000 at Belmont Park New York on June 3 Delay finished second for A C Bostwick and Gilded Knight trailed third for Mrs H C Phipps in the finish order
A brief note notes notary services offered by The News Telegraph at twenty five cents per act. The item highlights accessible official paperwork support by the paper.
A west bound Texas & Pacific passenger train derailed at Moss curve near Ranger Texas killing engineer FE L Mann 65 and fireman Ernest Preston 46 both of Fort Worth. Ten injured include two mail clerks W O Love and W M Adama. 25 passengers aboard. cause undetermined until wrecking team rights the locomotive.
A series of social and civic items note residents visiting relatives and attending events. Mr and Mrs Jacob Fender and daughter Lorene reside northwest of Cumberland were in Atlantic today. Oscar Otto travels to Des Moines for a state bankers meeting with Mrs Otto and daughter Phyllis. Dr and Mrs Floyd W Smith bring daughter Mary Ellen home from Buena Vista College. Subsoil moisture concerns voiced by Frank C Pellett a noted naturalist. Father Flanagan's Home for Boys will host Boystown commencement with Charles B Driscoll as speaker.
Ruth Gladson of Grove township led Cass county rural eighth graders with a 96 percent average for the past year. Frances Bailey, also of Grove township, followed with 95.7 percent. Ruth Dallinger taught at Grove No 1 school.
Rother and Opal Rothe of this city also attended. Joins Staff Robert Sherwood returns to Atlantic to join the News Telegraph staff after previously serving as telegraph editor. Moving in The Capadele apartments at Sixth and Walnut will house four families next week with residents from East Sixth Linn Chestnut and other streets.
Five hundred federal troops occupied Vera Cruz and posted at strategic points in Orizaba county to avert labor riots tied to a strike by 6,000 textile workers seeking a 45 percent raise from a base wage of two pesos eighty centavos per day. The English owned and five French mills refused increases, and 1,000 workers did not join the strike, raising fears of clashes.
Carol Ann Petersen four and Jack Mewhirter two, both surgical patients, were dismissed from the Atlantic this morning. Rex Rathman and I. R. Thomas also discharged after minor operations and medical care at local facilities. Arthur Wylie of Bridgewater was released from the Jones hospital where he had surgery.
Lewis Beattie of Casey was admitted to Jones Hospital yesterday with a broken collar bone after a runaway accident at his home.
Avoca Iowa reports measles cases with Dorothy Lippold among the first. She expects release from confinement next Thursday as health officials monitor the outbreak.
In Griswold and Casey areas on June 2 and 3 reports detail a Mayo Clinic patient returning for a minor operation in Des Moines, a baby Marjorie Fox seriously ill with pneumonia in Greenfield, and Mrs. Charles Rommel bedridden with a sprained knee. Other notes include Jack Payne’s foot infection, Hattie Telicamp’s broken upper arm from a stairs fall, Sidney Slater’s fork wound healing, Mary Ann Cruise’s Mayo Clinic foot operation and recovery, plus critical condition of W. C. McCurdy after a paralytic stroke and Adelia Sullivan’s ongoing heart ailment locally.
Havana reports Santo Domingo government seeks to admit 907 German Jewish outcasts aboard the St. Louis by waiving the $500 bond per refugee. Lawrence Berenson states the consul asked the National Court of Bail Bond Committee to present a lump sum guarantee as the sole entry requirement. Senor Nestor Pou confirms Santo Domingo’s anxious offer and awaiting New York reply.
Seven year old Preston Raub Jr. who had been missing since Tuesday was found dead in a cellar icebox at his East Brunswick residence. State police say the lid slipped shut while he played inside, causing suffocation. The box measures about three by four feet and locks automatically on closure.
An Englishman on his first visit drives past a large highway sign reading Drive slow. This means you. He stops in surprise and exclaims My word. How did they know I was here.
A boy’s body was discovered by his grandfather, ending a search for the child. Law enforcement did not release further details pending investigation.
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More than a thousand applications for new drivers licenses were filed Thursday and Friday, sheriff P P Edwards said. On Wednesday and Thursday his staff collected 600 at Griewold and 456 more at Anita on Friday. More filings expected next week in Cumberland Massena Marne Lewis and Wiota with Sunday morning filings at the Atlantic courthouse.
Boone Iowa officials press on with plans for a new $159000 city hall as ceremonies were rained out twice. A third attempt is set for next Thursday with Lieutenant Governor B Hickenlooper as principal speaker. A Massachusetts graveyard memorial notes a dentist who filled his last cavity.
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