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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
6
Mr and Mrs Lake Bear and son and Mr and Mrs A R Robinson and Billy Millhollin enjoy a fishing trip in Minnesota. Mrs Bert Ramos visiting relatives and friends at Decorah.
Ladies circles at courthouse and Maya Rainbow Girls inducted at Mason temple. Fletcher Chapel Ladies Aid sews and hosts. E T C club plans Sunnyside park picnic. Past Noble Grand circle displays quilts. Buck Creek Service class hosts dinner and talks. Walnut bride Lois Madsen marries Wendell Leenan in Omaha with midweek showers and out of town guests.
The clipping lists deadlines for club calendars and records a Social meeting of the VFW and auxiliary at the dugout. It notes wedding attire, a groom employed by Olsen Chevrolet in Avoca, and a Walnut residence with relatives in San Francisco. It also covers dinners, club entertainments, picnics, and a 1936 Lewis High School class shower with a basket dinner.
President Roosevelt signed three major bills totaling over 3.9 billion dollars to bolster national defense and relief. The military measure funds 3000 aircraft, expands the army to 375,000, and begins 68 naval ships. The relief bill supports WPA with 975.65 million and aids Europe’s refugees with 50 million. A separate 998 million federal social security and labor bill was also enacted.
Washington reports Floyd Rharamanthus Dean of Atlantic has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the army reserve and assigned to the infantry by the war department.
Mrs. Olivia Froah, 58, was killed near her daughter’s residence in Des Moines when struck by a Rock Island passenger train. A deaf mute, she reportedly did not hear the locomotive as she walked the tracks daily. she died at a hospital. Survived by husband, daughter, and two sons.
William H. Berg president of Standard Oil California died at his Hillsborough estate aged 58 after a heart attack two weeks earlier. A native of Tripoli Indiana he joined Standard Oil in 1902 advancing to general manager of foreign crude production by 1921 pioneering foreign fields.
Soviet demands trigger a royal council session after German and Italian ministers meet with King Carol. Britain engages in air raids on Ruhr while France completes occupation of the French west coast. Japan encircles Hongkong as Tokyo asserts a Far East Monroe Doctrine and denies warships near South America. Pedestrian safety reminder ends the report.
Ruth Gornek 15, missing from a junior high in University City, was found murdered in a ravine near a park. She was strangled with her own skirt and struck with a cobblestone. her 2-year-old brother Gus discovered the body as part of the search party.
Special services were held at the Catholic cemetery in Wiota at 10:20 am for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Schaaf. The child, stillborn at Atlantic hospital, while the mother remains in critical condition. Rev. M J O Connor conducted the graveside rites. Surviving are the parents, an sister Tylene, two brothers Lyle and Male, maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gundy, and paternal grandfather Hans J. Schaaf.
Des Moines June 27 Leslie M Carl senior agricultural statistician for the Iowa crop and livestock reporting service estimated Iowa spring 1940 pig crop at 10 050 000 pigs a decline of about 6 percent from the spring 1939 crop which was estimated at 10 700 000 pigs
The text reports a spring sow count of 10,648,000 with 1,653,000 sows farrowing and notes piglet saves per litter are up slightly from last year. It includes a notice urging readers to secure extra copies of The News Telegraph by notifying the office in advance to avoid supply exhaustion.
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