Landing Beaches Cleared
Invasion highlights show beaches cleared with units advancing. Reports describe progress across coastlines and follow up actions securing shoreline objectives and establishing beachhead positions.
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1944
Page
5
No Clemency for Draft Policy Stated by Official
San Francisco reports Colonel Edward Shattuck general counsel for selective service says the postwar plan will pursue draft dodgers. He cites a change from World War I when prosecutions were dropped after the armistice and notes cooperation with state officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
INS
Edward 8. Shattuck
Washington
Shattuck
Japanese retreat from Kohima area as Allies push east and north
Allied forces press the Kohima frontier as Japanese troops retreat rapidly in the Kohima area of eastern India. Lord Mountbatten announced Allied moves to pursue the withdrawal while London sources said the Japanese flight was so rapid that Allied forces struggled to keep pace in some sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wandy
Ceylon
INS
Kohima
India
Lord Gowls Mountbatten
London
Roester
Ereters
Weather Outlook for Fair Town Through Thursday
Fair today and tonight with scattered thunderstorms north and east. Thursday shows similar showers with warmer temperatures. Extreme west tonight and east Thursday may see stronger storms.
Allies widen arc above Rome as advance continues
Allied Fifth army troops moved 10 miles north of Rome with light German resistance, capturing Balsorano and increasing German prisoners to over 16,000. Eighth army pressed north through the mountains, while Mediterranean air forces bombed German routes and rail hubs from Italy to the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
INS
Fifth Army
Rome
Patrese
Lake Brecchiane
Civiltaneeschia
Eighth Army
Balsorano
Liri
Viterbo
Radio
Algiers
Florence
Mmy
Tiber
Tivoli
Sabie
Italy
Balkans
Ploeati
Romania
Brasov and
Pitesti
Two Iowans Die In Plane Crash In Louisiana
A twin engine bomber from Ellington Field collided with another ship over Louisiana swamplands killing Lt. Chester T. Pickering of Town City Iowa. Four other men remain missing as search continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
INS
South Louisiana
Ellington Field
Houston
Tex
Chester T. Pickering
Town City
Opening Concert of Season by Atlante Band at City Park
The Atlante Concert band opens its season at the city park Thursday under Roy E. Dougan Cres ton high school music instructor who has led Creston high for eleven years Dougan studied at Ellsworth College American Conservatory of Music and the University of Iowa He will conduct a program including Stout Hearted Men United Nations and Washington Post marches and George M Cohan pieces plus the Canadian National Anthem and God of Our Fathers From Michigan Master Sergeant Howard L Nelson son of local residents has returned from North Africa and is stationed at Romulus army air field Michigan
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy E. Dougan
Creston
Dougan
Ellsworth College Conservatory of Music
American Conservatory of Music
Chicago
University of Iowa
Victor Herbert
Atlantic High School Boys
Washington Post
Sousa
Panis Angelicua
Franck
Romberg
Heart of
Texas
Eet Swander & Hershey
God of Our Fathers
Bump “National Guard
McCaughey
Michigan
Howard L Nelson
Arthur Nelson
North of Atlantic
North Africa
Romulus Army Air Field
Romulus
Mich
Air Bases Under Construction on European Shores
British radio reports Allied air support building on the occupied continent. Beechhead supplies move to northern France as airfields are prepared for growing Allied air power. 13,000 sorties from dawn to dusk on D Day operations. 22,600 tons of bomb weight dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leaden
INS
British Radio Today
United Kingdom
Europe
France
Eoon
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Rhineland
Ludwigshafen
R.A.F
Channel
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Eighth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
London
CBS
Aged Anita Man Pettit Found Dead at Home
Anita-William Pettit, 81, was found dead in his room at the Andrew Nelson home at 8 20 this morning. Mrs. Nelson smelled burning toast and- upon investigation- found him lying across his bed. A doctor said he probably died about 20 minutes earlier. He had lived at the Nelson home for years and likely suffered a heart attack while preparing breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita—William Pettit
Andrew Nelson
PORTUGAL HALTS WOLFRAM SUPPLY TO GERMANY
Washington reports Portugal suspends wolfram production within its borders. United States acting secretary of state Edward R. Stettinius Jr says talks with Portugal, aided by Britain and Brazil, on June 5 led to the decision. He says the move should shorten the war by depriving Germany of an essential war material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Germany
Portugal
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
United States
Great Britain
Brazil
Erickson 59 Dies After Four Years Ill Health
Eric William Erickson 59 a Bear Grove township resident died at Atlantic hospital after four years of ill health He was born in Sweden January 29 1885 came to the US at ten married Effie Sams in Sundance 1909 She died in 1940 He later lived with his brother in law Kenneth Sams near Fletcher Chapel He leaves three brothers August Sundance Louis California Oscar Oregon Funeral service set for Thursday at 1 30 p m at Shelby Methodist Church with Rev Mrs L B Ripley officiating Interment Shelby cemetery body to lie at Roland Peacock Baxter funeral home until service
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric William Erickson
Bear Grove Township
Atlantic Hospital
Mr. Erickson
Sweden
Sundance
Wyo
Effie May Sams
Kenneth Sams
Fletcher Chapel
Sundance Methodist Church
August Erickson
Louis
California
Oscar
Oregon
Shelby Methodist Church
L. B. Ripley
Omaha Hog Market Overcrowded As Arrivals Hit 12000
Omaha reports 12 000 hogs arriving today with 13 500 carried over from yesterday. Market congestion prompts E A Kelloway of the hog marketing committee to urge producers to hold back hogs for the rest of the week to avoid extra costs shrinkage and possible death loss. Slaughter capacity is described as over taxed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
E. A. Kelloway
Suspended sentence for Elma farmer in manslaughter case
Virgil Hidding a 32 year old Elma Iowa farmer under supervision of the Iowa parole board after a suspension of an indeterminate term not to exceed eight years at Fort Madison penitentiary He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was paroled on a $750 fine payment The death victim Ronald Dean Eschweiler is the 12 month old son of Roy and Mrs Eschweiler neighboring farmers last Friday in Howard county district court
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cresco
INS
Virgil Hidding
Elma
Iowa Parole Board
Fort Madison
Howard County
Hiding
Ronald Dean Eschweiler
Roy Eschweiler
Allied forces breach French coast in broad invasion advance
News from Supreme Headquarters reports beachheads along Normandy widened inland with bridgehead formation from Valognes to Tourville. Allied air and sea forces link beachheads while heavy German counterattacks around Caen are repulsed. Dover reports German long range guns firing as air bombardment continues. a major battle for France may be underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied Expeditionary Perce
Junie Tm
INS
Fiame
Europe
Dwight D. Eieenhow
French
Normandy
Valognes
Cherbourg
Tourville
Seine
Eisenhower
Dover
Eng
Nasi
France
Pas Des Calais
Folkestone
Dover-Folkstone
Calais
Fkircé
United Nations
Germams
West Wall
Corresponements
Allied forces halt Nazi tank counter thrust near Caen
Expeditionary forces beat back a German counterattack with tanks, pushing as far as the Caen area. The action centers on the Caen Cherbourg railway link, 65 miles from Cherbourg and 30 miles from Le Havre, amid the Allied Normandy invasion. General Omar N. Bradley commands U S ground forces in Europe, previously led from the USS Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aled Ferses
Caen
Cherbourg
le Havre
Normandy
Mayor Orders curb parking for Chestnut street packing
Mayor Joseph Burnea ordered cars parked along the curb in the business district to aid packing of the new black top surface on Chestnut streets. Vehicles must be parked at a 45 degree angle from First to Sixth streets until the surface is firmly packed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Burnea
Chestnut Streets
Sixth Street
Discreet Talk Breaks Off Officer Invasion Revelation
Maj. Gen. Henry J. F. Miller commanding general of the Ninth Air Force Service Command is identified as the high ranking officer demoted and sent home for hinting at invasion timing. He is a West Point graduate from Salem county New Jersey. Eisenhower reprimanded him. others are also sent home or court-martialed in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Henry J. F. Miller
Ninth Air Force Service Command
War Department
Miller
Salem County
N. J
West Point
London
Dwight Eisenhower
England
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Old Case County Fair Grounds
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