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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
4
Assistant Atty. Gen. Jen Grothe said the case centers on accusations tied to a draft of the Yellow Sheets campaign. The probe follows the defeat of a gubernatorial candidate by Gov. George A. Wilson, with details emerging from the attorney general's office after years of circulation.
Urgent messages from ambassadors to Great Britain and France request speedier U S shipments to allies. Joseph Kennedy and William Bullitt telephoned their requests to President Roosevelt, a Paris Matin report quotes. White House confirms receipt but no details given.
Laura Lenora Lynch Clawson 73 a native of Cass County Iowa and former Atlantic resident died at her Council Bluffs home Tuesday after eight years of ill health and a December pelvic fracture. She taught in Cass and Audubon counties and was a charter member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Atlantic with decades of activity.
Fragmentary text lists relatives and a funeral plan with errors. Mentions include Mrs Mo G2 Mitchell and George Heath among kin, with burial at Mental Par cemetery and a funeral home service scheduled, but many names and places are garbled.
Sir Robert Foeller of Green Bay Wisconsin wins the Ryerson European traveling fellowship in landscape architecture for 1940. The $1 200 award covers travel and study in Europe but current war conditions make the trip impossible. A survey suggests he might study in South America instead.
Albany June 6 Gov Herbert H Lehman moved to shield New York City from air attack. He formally asked the War Department in Washington to convert two elite New York City infantry regiments into anti aircraft regiments and to authorize forming another anti aircraft unit in the western part of the state.
Miatt Mrs Walter Drenner of Mondanin formerly of Cumberland are parents of a 10 pound son born January Richard Calvin named the child.
Mr and Mrs Ray Worth and son of Chicago visit relatives in Atlantic. Miss Phyllis Otto leaves for St Louis to compete in the Trans Miss Golf tournament after winning last year’s consolation at Minneapolis. Deborah Franklin chapter places bronze marker on Harriet Abbey Curry grave in Atlantic cemetery. Opal Rothe returns from Hubbard weekend visit with Krueger family and Mary Rothe.
Casey Louisiana June 6 A 7 pounds daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Melvin Benton on Monday. The child is the family’s third and has been named Joyce Carol.
The following couples obtained marriage licenses at the office of Clerk of Court C. M. Skipton: Llosa Wolf 25 of Exira and Elsie Irene Andersen 17 of Atlantic. Clarence Huffman 23 of Chicago and Roberta Newcomb for Fort Dodge. Robert L. Wise 22 and M. Kathryn Botkin 39 of Des Moines. Charlie Sorensen 28 of Adair and Thelma Petersen 18 of Anita. Wendell G. Domine 25 of Sioux City and Helen Wissler 20 of Atlantic.
Mrs. F. Lawler 87 longtime Casey resident died at her son 8 T Lawler Casey banker after weeks of illness. Her husband died 11 years ago. Surviving is one son. Funeral services Saturday at 8 30 AM at Casey Catholic church with Rev C J Mackin officiating. Burial in Casey Catholic cemetery.
D. W. Bates as state superintendent of banking asks Cass county district court to appoint a receiver for remaining assets of the depositors’ Whitney Loan & Trust Co. trust fund. Trusts formed after 1933 bank reorganization to liquidate assets. trustees report filed with request. Harry B. Swan is local counsel for the state.
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