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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1944
Page
4
General Welfe endorses strategic bombing as potentially effective against Japan. He notes the need for a long range, high payload aircraft and substantial fuel capacity. The report describes the logistical challenges of finding suitable fuel and aircraft to sustain round trips and massive tonnage.
American troops pull back a short distance on Saipan amid later counter-attacks to reclaim ground. A communique highlights careful high command planning as bombardments pound positions near Charan-Kanoa and a town on the southwest coast falls in fierce street fighting. General MacArthur’s headquarters notes Japanese counter-attacks repelled as veterans advance toward Bonokoe airfield.
London reports Allied air power attacked a Nazi winged bomb launching site. German efforts to raid southern England were disrupted by recent bomber missions in Pas de Calais. Observers note robots followed varied courses from inland bases as planes observed their progress.
Residents across northwest Iowa and South Dakota cleaned debris after tornadoes destroyed buildings on more than 50 farms. Damage was estimated at over $200,000 with severe hits near Alton Hospers Ireton and Sioux Center Granville.
Major Joe Foss, marine corps ace, welcomed a 7-pound daughter yesterday at Cottage Hospital Santa Barbara. Foss had returned to the South Pacific weeks ago after fighting near Mokmer Airdrome where American forces repelled a Japanese thrust with heavy rocket and mortar fire. Two Japanese jeeps were destroyed.
Approximately 20 000 over the road truckers in the Midwest and Chicago plan a strike on June 30 to protest the 12 percent wage increase order from the Wage Stabilization Board. Dexter L Lewis cites 40 000 members across 12 states and warns of expansion to other states if orders remain unenforced.
Shenandoah and Orange City families received war department notices that Capt Willard W Millikan of Shenandoah and S Sgt James Mulder of Orange City are missing in action over Europe. Millikan credited with 15 enemy planes served with RAF, wife and infant daughter in London. Mulder a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress on his 12th bombing mission, air medal recipient.
Misa Eloise Ingram, beauty operator at the Vought shop, leaves tomorrow for Washington, D. C., to spend several weeks with Miss Juenita Crouse formerly of Creston who is employed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the national capital.
Atlantic Chamber of Commerce collects petitions from east Chestnut street businesses seeking angle parking with the curb. West side petitions are pending. Chamber urges city council to enforce parking rules, curb a double parking ban, and keep alleys clear for traffic. It also proposes widening Second to Fifth Streets and reducing sidewalks to allow curbside angle parking on both sides.
Mrs. Paul Marshall of 606 Maple Street returned Tuesday from Camp Lee Virginia where she spent two weeks with her husband who is assigned to a geerd detachment in charge of ggboners of war.
June 17 report says Soviet forces breached the Mannerheim line reaching first outposts and capturing 106 inhabited localities including four key rail hubs. Stockholm sources warn Finland’s position may collapse as Rugians near Viipuri. Russia hints at favorable peace terms. Soviet air and naval actions claim Finnish and German assets destroyed. a rifleman downed a German plane.
Ottumwa IA police report Paul Melton shot his wife in the head with a rifle then killed himself in their Ottumwa apartment. A radio blaring masked the shots as the couple’s vehicle accident last year is noted.
Michael Adesso 27, AWOL two years, confessed to stabbing Ada May Amore 40 to death after an apartment Tuesday night. He stuffed the body into a laundry sack and threw it from a five-story roof, as children found the nude corpse in an East Side lot. Her husband, a shipyard worker, said she had been missing since Monday night.
Allied forces pressed north through Italy toward Florence Pisa Bologna as Elba landings aimed at cutting German sea routes. Fifth and Eighth armies seized Grosseto while advancing within 70 miles of Florence. air forces flew 2900 sorties hitting oil centers and bridges.
Gen. Omar Bradley announced 15,883 American casualties from D-Day actions through last midnight, including 3,283 dead and 12,600 wounded, praising paratroops, Navy fire, and air support while saluting Eisenhower's invasion planning after Normandy trip. Wording notes local mention of W. C. Barnd, Manchester Iowa, among king’s guard ships.
A fire at the Detroit race track early today killed one man and injured five with several others missing. The blaze destroyed 82 horses and two barns within 45 minutes, causing an estimated total damage of 226000 dollars. Horse losses were about 200000 and barns plus equipment valued at 25000.
In harsh battle lines the Allies press forward as German forces retreat toward Cherbourg. American and British troops advance to Barville and Barneville while German units blow up coastal installations and pull back, aiming to block the invasion and prevent encirclement.
The forecast calls for scattered thin showers across Iowa with little temperature change tonight through Sunday.
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