Iowa Couple Shot To Death At Home SOVIET PLANES JAP AIR FIGHT
A chaotic dispatch from Tokyo describes a Russo Japanese aerial crisis with 160 Soviet planes crossing the Manchukuo border and 49 downed by Japanese fighters. Reports note intensified Soviet activity near Lake Buir and broader European war preparations by Germany.
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Iowa
Tokyo
Manchukuo
Europe
Aeee
Hainking
Manchu
Outer Mongolia
Lake Buie
Kwansong
Hsinking
Domei
Lake Buir
Benny to Adopt Another Child in Waukegan
Jack Benny and wife Mary Livingston announce plans to adopt a second child from the same New York foundling home that provided Joan, now five. Benny says they would be happy with either a boy or girl and hope to add another child soon.
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Waukegan, Ill
Jack Benny
Mary Livingston
New York
Joan
Benny
Weather Outlook For Iowa and Nebraska This Weekend
Iowa fair and warmer tonight with Saturday partly cloudy and local showers, cooler in the extreme west. Nebraska increasing cloudiness with local showers Saturday and tonight, warmer tonight and cooler Saturday.
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Iowa
Nebraska
Roosevelt Poised for Third Term With Key State Pledges
I N reports indicate F D R would reach about 267 votes toward a 1940 Democratic nomination with New York 94 Illinois 58 and pledges from Pennsylvania New Jersey Indiana totaling more than enough if he seeks renomination. Guffey Smathers McNutt Minton pledge support. Farley backs the president from his New York chair.
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Washington
I. N
New York
Illinois
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Indiana
Guffey
Smathers
Paul W. McNutt
Sherman Minton
James A. Farley
Mr. Roosevelt
White House
Change in closing date for soil building work
Cass county reports a new closing date of September 30 for soil building under the 1989 AAA program, replacing October 31. The shift aims to speed early payments, with post deadline work credited to the 1940 program. Farmers with oats barley or rye should clip soon to use nurse crops and avoid depletion.
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Cass County
AAA
Klein
Driver Fined For Stopping Violation
Jens Christensen of Wiota was fined five dollars in justice of the peace court today for failing to stop at a highway stop sign. He was arrested by Patrolman King of Adair.
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Jens Christensen
Wiota
Justice of the Peace Court
Christensen
King
Adair
Germany rushes preparations for war on giant scale
Paris reports Germany moving troops along the Siegfried Line and borders with France Belgium the Netherlands and Poland in a total mobilization effort. Workers in the Saarland and neighboring areas toil long hours as women serve as postal carriers. Authorities anticipate a July move while Moscow rejects Anglo French tri pact talks and observers warn of peace or war consequences.
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Germany
Danzig
London
Halifax
Shigemitusu
Tientsin
Chamberlain
Britain
Hong Kong
Swatow
South China
Singapore
Long Kong
Tientein
Washington
France
United States
Japan
China
Paris
Parte
Siegfried (Limes
Reich
Saarland
Prence
Gerreany
Munich
Moscow
Kremlin
Georges Bonnet
Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Commission
Siegfried Line
Maginot Line
Mrs. Emma Hosford Dies in Minnesota
Mrs. Fred Blattmer of 1109 Poplar Street reports the death of her aunt Mrs. Emma Hosford in Alden Minnesota after an illness. Surviving relatives include daughter Verda Hosford of Albert Lea Minnesota and brothers Jack Gillett of Sligo Colorado Will and Henry Gillett of Atlantic. Mrs. Hosford was a former Atlantic resident.
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Fred Blattmer
Poplar Street
Emma Hosford
Alden
Minn
Verda Hosford
Albert Lea
Jack Gillett
Sligo
Colo
Will
Henry Gillett
Atlantic
Heaford
Arsonists Set Off Fireworks In Chicago Suburbs
Three arsonists abducted a watchman then detonated fireworks worth 30000 dollars at the Acme Fireworks Corp warehouse. The blast shook Chicago's western suburbs, sent rockets and torpedoes into the air for nearly an hour, and left the sheet metal warehouse in ruins.
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Chicago
Acme Fireworks Corporation
Corn parity payments delayed to late July in Cass county
Cass county farmers expect first corn parity payments under the 1939 soil conservation plan to arrive late July or early August. The parity portion is 6 cents per bushel on a farm's eligible corn acreage, contingent on meeting allotments and after preliminary checks post planting. AAA inspectors have reviewed 1,200 of 2,200 reports. forms in Des Moines unlikely before July.
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Cass County
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
AAA
Des Moines
Two Killed at Vinton Today
In Vinton Iowa on June 23 Joe E Bodicker 57 and Victor Brichschink 36 both of Norway were killed when their car left the road and hit a telephone pole near Shellsburg Ed Byers also from Norway suffered a broken thigh and was taken to a Vinton hospital The men were returning to Norway from Vinton when the accident happened.
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Vinton
I. N
Joe E. Bodicker
Victor Brichschink
Norway
Shellsburg
Ed. Byers
Summer heat wave returns to Atlantic
The Atlantic area saw temperatures rise after reaching 85 degrees at noon with yesterday's high at 81. Statewide highs topped 82 in Council Bluffs Sioux City and Inwood while lows dipped to 52 at Marshalltown. Davenport logged the heaviest rain with 0.65 inches and Des Moines Cedar Rapids Marshalltown and Iowa City recorded about 0.25 inch.
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Atlantic
Mercury
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Inwood
Marshalltown
Davenport
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Roosevelt faces questions on imminent war amid neutrality row
Washington reports mounting opposition to the administration's neutrality policy as Rep Edith Nourse Rogers urges the president to inform Congress on whether actual war with European nations is imminent. Democratic resistance grows to repeal of arms embargo provisions, with party leaders delaying debate and summoning a steering committee.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Europe
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rogers
United States
Hull
New York City
Auxiliary Head Elected For Casa County Legion Auxiliary
Mrs Peter Scott of Cumberland was elected chairman at the annual meeting in the court house assembly room. She succeeds Mrs Clarence Vetter named vice president. Frank Pop of Cumberland was chosen secretary treasurer. Attendance included delegates from Atlantic Anita Cumberland and Griswold with district officers Kathleen Laird and Rena Heft present. The group planned its annual party for disabled veterans at Clarinda hospital on July 11.
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Peter Scott
Cumberland
Casa County American Legion Auxiliary
Scott
Clarence Vetter
Frank Pop
Atlantic
Anita
Griswold
Kathleen Laird
Sidney
Rena Heft
Woodbine
Clarinda Hospital
Outing at Brewster Brings Cass County 4-H Girls to Camp
Twenty two 4-H club girls from Cass county will attend Camp Brewster near Omaha for a southwestern Iowa 4-H outing starting Wednesday June 28. Two representatives from each of 11 clubs will participate with all clubs represented. Activities include swimming nature study hikes and camp routines. They travel by bus and return Saturday July 1 with Misa Evelyn Hollen Cass and Adair county home demonstration agent as chaperone.
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Cass County
Camp Brewster
Omaha
Iowa
Misa
Evelyn Hollen
Cass
Adair County
Panama Woman Reported Missing
Harlan Iowa Mrs Joe Thielen 55 wife of a farmer three miles west of Panama has been missing since Monday evening Sheriff Grover Philson said today The husband knew of no reason for her disappearance The couple's son Joe Jr and his wife live on the same farm A woman answering her description was believed to have spent Monday night at a Woodbine hotel A Panama resident said he thought he saw her in Denis on Tuesday
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Harlan
Joe Thielen
Panama
Grover Philson
Philson
Joe, Jr
Thielen
Woodbine
Denis
Superintendent's Wife Mistaken for Queen in Audubon
Audubon Iowa June 23. Mrs. R H Chisholm wife of the Gray superintendent of schools was mistaken for the Queen of England in a captioned photo printed by the Atlantic News Telegraph. An Audubon woman misread the caption and assumed the picture showed Mrs. Chisholm. The superintendent, a keen photographer, reportedly caused a playful near mishap as the royal procession passed.
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Audubon
R. H. Chisholm
Gray Superintendent of Schools
England
Atlantic News Telegraph
Chisholm
United States and Britain Strike Cotton Rubber Exchange
The United States and Great Britain reach a wartime agreement to swap 600000 bales of U S cotton valued at about 26600000 dollars for rubber valued at roughly 175000000 pounds. The deal activates after Senate ratification and presidential approval, with storage and release rules to be set by Congress. The rubber amount equals about 16 to 20 percent of U S normal annual consumption.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Senate
State Department
War and Navy Department
Congress
Workmen Surf ace Test Block On Third Street
City workmen finish a test block of asphalt paving on East Third Street between Elm and Maple. The rough street receives Flint fault asphalt from Carter Waters of Kansas City. If the test is satisfactory, the council plans further resurfacing city streets. The block may open to traffic tomorrow.
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East Third Street
Carter Waters Company
Kansas City
Exiled King Zeg and Queen Geraldine to Visit U S
Exiled King Zeg of Albania and Queen Geraldine will arrive in the United States within weeks for an extended visit, announced by Baroness Suzanne de Strasser.
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Zeg
U. S
New York
Albania
Geraldine
United States
Suzanne de Strasser
Early Ball Scores In American League Action
In the American League Cleveland and Philadelphia were tied 2 to 2 in the fifth inning while Detroit trailed Washington 1 to 0 in the second. St Louis at New York postponed as a rainout to be made up as a doubleheader Sunday. In the National League New York led Cincinnati 4 to 0 in the third, Brooklyn trailed Pittsburgh 2 to 0 in the seventh, Philadelphia led Chicago 2 to 0 in the fourth.
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Cleveland
Philadelphia
Feller
Hemsley
Beckman
Brucker
Detroit
Washington
Benton
Tebbets
Leonard
Ferrer
St. Louis
New York
Cincinnati
Lehrman
Danning
Derringer
Hershberger
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Hamlin
Tamulis
Phelps
Bauers
Mueller
Chicago
Butcher
Cable
Lee
Hartnett
Double Murder Suspect in Iowa Linked to Hoovers Deaths
Harry Aches, 80, of Mechanicsville, is charged with murder in connection with the deaths of Clyde and Mrs. Hoover in Lisbon Iowa. Achey was found with a bullet wound and held in Cedar Rapids hospital after a gun was found near him. Mary and Barbara Boyd, Hoover granddaughters, reported hearing shots and seeing Achey leave in a car.
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Cedar Rapids
Harry Aches
Mechanicsville
Clyds O. Meerer
Heever
Lichon
Achey
Clyde D. Hoover
Lisbon
Harry Achey
Hoover
Hoovers
Shere
R. E. Munden
Mary Boyd
Harry
Restaurant owner Harold Boyd killed in Percival crash
Harold Boyd 23 of Percival Iowa was killed when his automobile overturned four times on a gravel Percival road one mile north of Highway 8. He was found about 18 feet from the car. Survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Larsh Boyd and two brothers and a sister.
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Sidney
Harold Boyd
Percival
Larsh Boyd
Percival Road
Boyd
Peanut Causes Death Of Tama Boy
Six year old Dean Ziegler son of Mr and Mrs George Ziegler Tama died after swallowing a peanut. A Tama doctor failed to remove the nut and the child died while being transported to a Marshalltown hospital.
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Tama
Dean Ziegler
George Ziegler
Marshalltown
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