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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1944
Page
4
Ruth Ronan, a screen starlet style figure, showcases a towel turban as a fashion accent. Army corporal James Slaton, a 15th division rifleman from Gulfport Mississippi, is slated to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for aiding in wiping out three Nazi machine gun nests. Slaton, a former taxi driver and father of four, is pictured poolside.
Des Moines June 6 internal report notes backslapping among factions over governor and lieutenant governor races. Mentions Lieut. Gov. Robert D. Blue and Hugh W. Lundy and Bowles Iowa visit to ease farm-state tensions. Describes OPA staff humor and questions about future races and Dewey bandwagon dynamics with Bricker and Keshlear active in campaign efforts.
Griswold reports the daily Vacation Bible School starting today and running through the week with Miss Minnie Bruner of Council Bluffs as superintendent and assistants Phyllis Crum Mrs. Monte Hemphill Mabel Mueller and Beatrice Shel berg. Next Friday a children’s program and demonstration of the work will be held. A separate report notes a truck car crash at 5:30 Saturday afternoon at a downtown intersection involving a truck driven by Charles Croghan and a car driven by George Schuler. both drivers escaped injury but vehicles sustained damage.
Washington reports Leo T. Crowley, foreign economic administrator, will leave soon for Italy to personally inspect relief problems under Allied occupation of Rome. He will file a report to President Roosevelt, amid emphasis on relief needs and the broader test for UN relief after Western Europe invasion.
The Vanguard Community Guild presented the first entertainment at Kimballton town hall under town council auspices. Holger J. Koch led operations with an orchestra and three vocal trio numbers by Mesdames Vernon Laveen Nela Overgaard and Elmer Esbeck accompanying.
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