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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1945
Page
4
U S 442nd Infantry officers establish a replacement plan aiding Nisei veterans returning from Italy and France. A three officer committee will provide each returning soldier with contacts in America to help him find housing and work in his chosen location and field.
Hood River Oregon resident Sagie Nishioka of the 442nd receives letters of reference from company battalion and regimental leaders confirming his membership in a famed unit. He has endured 15 blood transfusions and five operations after a mortar shell hit during the Ligurian coast drive. He served over three years in the army and previously supported his family on their Hood River farm before relocation. A friend warns him not to return home soon as tensions run high.
A collection of brief Atlantic news items including a car fire at Ninth and Hesel streets with minor wiring damage, homecomings and travels of locals, livestock market results in Omaha, family visits, a burglary at a Victa car, Rotary Club activities aiding war victims, funeral attendance notices, district youth meetings, a divorce decree, travel plans for military spouses, a navy discharge story, and a weather outlook for Iowa with mild, uneventful patterns.
Officials from town and rural schools gather at a regional meeting led by R A Griffin to discuss farm labor recruitment. Other items note visits by Mrs Dudley, Sgt Jack Moore's furlough, Norman and Melvin Norman family visits, a partition suit in district court, and local road planning discussions plus hospitalizations from a U S 6 crash.
Grand jury this morning charged Boewell with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and he was released on a 500 dollar bond. He was arrested after his car allegedly crashed into the car driven by Mrs. Elmer Watson and the John Hoffman car last evening. The Watson car was struck at Seventh and Chestnut as Mrs. Watson stopped for the boulevard and the Hoffman car was hit between Sixth and Seventh on Poplar. Fender damage occurred on the involved vehicles.
The White House hosted a dinner for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman amid a city parade and joint congressional reception. Eisenhower received a second oak leaf cluster on his medal and urged peace, while warning Germany must be crushed to prevent future war. He advised treating returning veterans with support and not stigmatizing them.
S G Hunter former Atlantic businessman died yesterday at the Masonic Home in Boone where he had resided. He headed Hunter Iron Works with plants in Omaha Red Oak Kansas City Sioux Falls and Portland manufacturing steel bridges. Surviving are two sisters Mrs H M Wallace and Mrs Emma Parry of Atlantic. Funeral services will be held in Boone Thursday afternoon.
Deputy Coroner C D Winder prepared to hold an inquest Tuesday on the drowning death of Arthur Puls 47 Traer Iowa whose body was found washed ashore on a Cedar River island four miles east of Waterloo The Puls family identified the body in Waterloo at Kearns Garden chapel and said he left his wife and four children to seek work in Waterloo reporting they had heard nothing since.
Chicago reports 5000 soldiers in the city with authorities moving seized trucks. Stranded cargoes remained tangled as the army pushes to restore normal traffic while a labor dispute persists and troops continue to support police efforts to break the strike.
Card of Thanks notes appreciation for flowers and kindness after the bereavement. William F. Raber, 78, who had worked with a utility company in Ottumwa Iowa and retired president of the San Diego Gas and Electric Company, died yesterday.
General Douglas MacArthur rejected Columniat Drew Pearson's claim of friction during the Tydings commission's Philippines visit. Senator Tydings labeled Pearson's column a tissue of lies and said MacArthur cooperated and welcomed the inquiry.
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed Webster City judge and ordered J A Robinson enjoined from practicing medicine without a license. Robinson admitted no license but claimed healing power from God and testified his “light touch” therapy began about 1931 amid witnesses describing his treatment.
A preliminary hearing into the case of two Omaha men charged with selling ration points was continued until tomorrow after attorneys for the government and defense clashed over session conduct. Albert F. Sulley, cashier at the Omaha National Bank in charge of ration currency, and Odis J. Ray, a local barber, debated defense segregation of OPA witnesses and access to government memoranda.
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