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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1944
Page
5
Army notice lists officers and graduates with Iowa ties and Des Moines links. Names include Col. George A. Blakey assignment, Antone T hes e, and Iowa State College naval trainees among graduates from Ames and Des Moines area.
In Omaha last night the former auctioneer Maashel returned to his old role as auctioneer during the fifth war loan drive. More than 10,000 downtown residents participated as efforts aimed to raise funds for a baby flatbed truck and other war needs. A small truck owned by Leo Hoffman was badly burned while parked at 711 Elm Street. fire units extinguished the blaze after a silent alarm. The cause remains under investigation.
Partly cloudy and continued warm conditions give way to scattered thundershowers this afternoon. Wednesday will be partly cloudy and cooler across the region.
Allied forces push toward Orvieto and south of Terni as Fifth Army advances from Orbetello toward San Stefano and the Rieti system. British troops move along the Adriatic. German resistance remains strong around key rail and road junctions while air forces hit lines of communication and oil targets in the Balkans.
A fire at Brayton destroyed forty new tires and a stock of batteries greases oils and equipment at the Weir Petersen oil station. The blaze threatened Mrs Ferguson’s cafe nearby but was contained by Atlantic and Audubon fire departments. Firefighters suspect a rear motor fuel explosion started the fire. The frame building on U S 71 was owned by Chris Petersen.
A large U S task force attacked Saipan Tinian Rota and Guam with carrier aircraft for a second straight day. Long range Liberators pressed Palau and several base sites while bombers targeted Truk Ponape Nauru and other Marshalls strongholds, per Admiral Nimitz.
Burlington Iowa June 13 police held 81 year old Stanley L Stratton after he admitted fatally stabbing his brother in law Walter Owen 41 a tavern worker following an argument over auto repairs. John McCarty 46 suffered minor injuries trying to intervene. his wife is a material witness. Owen's widow is Stratton's sister and mother of two. Stratton works as an assistant foreman at J I Case Company and has four children.
Des Moines June 19 Judge H J Mantz of Audubon will become chief justice July 1 succeeding Judge W A Smith of Dubuque. Mantz will mark his first term as chief justice. He joined the court in 1948 after 17 years in the 15th judicial district. The court rotates chief justice every six months.
James Stier died last evening at Atlantic Hospital at 11 59 after a three and a half week stay. Born August 12, 1866 in Maisville Iowa he moved to Pleasant township then Atlantic and joined his grandfather L H Moeller in the Stier Martin Dunn Grocery. He retired in 1938 after a long career in the family business. He had suffered ill health for more than nine years. He served as a member of the city council and was a longtime local merchant.
Ronald Smith aged 16 weds Mary Alice Breun a 37 year old widow in Vancouver Washington. He says they knew each other nine years since he was seven and hello love at first sight. He married with two young stepchildren in attendance and plans to live on a farm owned by Mrs Smith near Siletz Oregon.
A courthouse debate over a three foot grade on Olive Street West toward the Atlantic Rendering Works road, a mile north of Atlanticia, was discussed before the board of supervisors. Bert Jeck, George Hastings, and Frank Auerbach led local farmers seeking removal or lowering of the grade.
Des Moines reports indicate the Glenwood state guard headquarters unit is dispatched to Pacific Junction to aid flood control. Sheriff Mills County requests assistance as Des Moines River rises, with forecasts of further rainfall and crest levels around 18 to 20 feet downstream. Several highways remain closed to traffic and Red Cross mobilizes cots and blankets for evacuated families.
Allied forces have a firm foothold around Montebourg and Cherbourg as gains push toward Le Havre and Brest. Cherbourg retains a deep harbor capable of handling most ships, aiding plans to widen a corridor from Le Havre toward Paris while Eisenhower reports 250,000 Allied troops in France as St Lo gains press forward from Carentan.
Allied air fleets pound targets across France and Italy as British and American bombers strike Munich Innsbruck and Venice areas. In Normandy intense fighting rages at Tilly sur Seulles Caen front as Allied troops push toward embattled Caen with prisoners rising past ten thousand. Rommel rumored to be dismissed as German anti invasion chief reported by Evening Standard.
A four year old, Kenneth Ray Walling, was backed over by a car at the Walling home in Council Bluffs. The vehicle, driven by his father, David H. Walling, passed over the boy’s abdomen, leaving him with serious injuries and hospitalized.
Clerk C M Skipton issued a marriage license yesterday to Charles D. Andrews 26 and Norma Jean Ray 19 both of Atlantic.
The Belgian government in exile says it has confirmed a report that King Leopold of the Belgians was sent to Germany on June 7. The announcement was made in London and details the purported transfer during wartime events.
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