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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1944
Page
5
British report Jap defenses on Saipan shift from beaches to inland pockets as heavy fighting continues. Americans press through mountain slopes and villages with improved armor and roads, while Jap caves and snipers slow progress in a widening assault.
Washington views the new Far Eastern Air Force as a key step in the Allied drive toward the Philippines. Gen Douglas MacArthur announced the demotion of the new air army, merging the Fifth Air Force and the Thirteenth from the Solomons, with Lieut Gen George C. Kenney named to lead. Kenney’s past successes include the destruction of a Japanese fleet in the Bismarck Sea and pivotal air victories in the Southwest Pacific.
The town expects partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Winds will be strong tonight but diminish later.
Governor Thomas F. Dewey plans to fly from Albany to Chicago to accept the Republican presidential nomination in person at the 23rd GOP convention. Delegates lean toward a Dewey Warren ticket as former President Hoover touts the platform, while Willkie critics spar over world peace by organized international cooperation.
Triumphant Soviet armored forces push along a 200 mile front after capturing Vitebsk and Zhlobin, threatening Mogilev Bobruisk Orsha and Polotsk rail centers guarding Minsk. Over 6 000 German dead and 1 000+ captured at Vitebsk as encirclement tightens. Finnish cabinet vows to stay in war with Germany despite limited aid. Von Ribbentrop's Helsinki visit noted.
Ringsted Iowa farmer couple Mr and Mrs Henry E Myers learned from the war department their son Pfc William David Myers 29 was killed in action June 8 He enlisted February 3 1941 He and their two other sons are stationed in New Guinea
Three army airmen parachuted from a disabled B 24 eight days ago and are stranded atop a Grand Canyon plateau ten miles from the Lodge on the south rim. 2nd Lt. Charles Goldblum, Flight Officer Maurice J. Cruickshank Jr., and Corp. Roy W. Embanks were found yesterday after reporting they were unharmed. The bomber suffered engine trouble at 12 000 feet and the crew landed safely at Kingman Arizona.
John R. Eilts aged 87, a former Cass County farmer, died Monday morning at his daughter’s home near Pleasantdale Nebraska after a month long illness of pneumonia. Born February 6 1857 in Hohenkirchen Germany he immigrated to the United States in 1880 and again in 1883 settled southeast of Wiota. He leaves a daughter Marie Plautz Seward Neb two sons Henry and Adolph Eilis Wiota and several stepchildren. funeral set for Thursday at Zion Lutheran church with burial in Franklin township Lutheran cemetery.
In Chicago on June 27 the second of six treason trials connected to Nazi saboteur Herbert Haupt was scheduled for Sept 25. Mrs. Erna Haupt is expected to be first on the stand. All six defendants were previously convicted. sentences included death for the men and 25 years and a $10,000 fine for the wives. Max Haupt recently received a life sentence after a second trial. Remaining defendants include Walter and Lucille Froehling, Herbert’s uncle and aunt.
Allied forces in Italy push more than ten miles north of Piombino as the Fifth Army drives toward Perugia and Chiusi falls to the Eighth Army. American First Armored divisions support the advance with heavy air and ground actions in the Po valley corridor.
Frank M. Beymer a long time Avoca publisher withdraws as democratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh Iowa district. G. G. Bert Jeck Atlantic democratic leader says the party will likely call a district convention to fill the vacancy. Beymer was unopposed in the June primary and Rep Ben Jensen seeks reelection. Cass county democratic convention will be at Hotel Whitney Friday morning not Legion Memorial building. Republicans meet at city hall auditorium. Pfc Howard Rudolph and his family visited from Minneapolis. Rudolph returned to Omaha.
Otto and Kate Wergin are identified as friends of the Haupt family in the social notes. The brief mentions their connection within a local network of families and friends.
Cass county is halfway to its $1 029 000 quota in the fifth war loan drive with $511 905 65 in bonds sold by Saturday night. Of this total 207 705 25 counts as 34 percent of the issued quota. The state committee reports school child and teacher purchases totaling 34 199 45, with significant contributions from Atlantic Cumberland Lewis and local schools.
In Dubuque on June 27 Michael Kane eighteen son of Mr and Mrs Bart Kane received a severe scalp wound after a freak swimming accident at the Dubuque Golf Club pool. He and Donald Pins fifteen bumped heads when Pins dived from the high board and Kane required nine stitches to close the wound.
Allied forces press a renewed offensive from the Caen area toward the Cherbourg sector as heavy rains limit air support. British Canadian units push toward a newly breached front with mobile forces, while Cherbourg falls to U S Seventh Corps and port repairs begin for a four track link to Paris.
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