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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
5
A garbled passage discusses Luzon, president homecoming, and wartime diplomacy with references to Stalin and Nagetler. The text is fragmented, unclear, and mixes names, places, and events, yielding no coherent report or verifiable details.
A fragmentary report references a powerful foreign relations committee and a famous comedian involved in entertaining servicemen. The text hints at government considerations and cabinet changes related to welfare and state matters, but specifics are unclear due to damaged OCR.
President Truman appears ready to nominate James Byrnes former senator and former justice and war secretary as secretary of state to replace Dean A Stettinius Jr. The move signals a wide cabinet reshuffle with possible staff changes and a debate in the Senate over Byrnes labor records and political stature. If approved Byrnes would be next in the line of succession pending a potential change to the succession statute.
General Douglas MacArthur announced the Luzon operation in the Philippines is concluded with the northern Luzon campaign ending in the Cagayan valley. He cited heavy Allied and Japanese losses, the recapture of Manila, and the broader Pacific stage now shifting to other fronts.
Fragmentary OCR traces recount a World War II air raid on Wiesbaden with a Luftwaffe low approach at sunset. It mentions a 6896 pound weapon and casualties but details are obscured and unreliable.
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with scattered showers possible in the northeast. Temperatures will dip, and winds may shift as a frontal boundary moves through the area.
Texas Senator Connally outlines a United Nations security council plan in San Francisco as part of the wartime charter. Senator O'Daniel announces full support and vows to expedite ratification. The document aims to unite Allied nations and prepare for future security challenges.
Basil Grosenickle Avon Lake constable said he asked County Attorney Francis Kuble for personal attention to the cases after leading raids Friday night on Des Moines night clubs Mainlines and Pastime. Three arrests followed. dice tables and liquor seized as Rand Knoter and Al De Carlo faced five liquor and gambling counts. Bonds were set at $500 with hearing scheduled for tomorrow.
Rome reports the arrest of Joseph Darand secretary of interior in the Vichy regime as one of the most wanted French figures by Allied intelligence. Also noted is Pvt. Dallas Wells of Company K Atlantic returning on a 67 day furlough to his mother Mrs. Cassie Knight after being captured in North Africa in February 1943.
Audubon Implement Company of Audubon Iowa paid 3784.54 dollars treble the amount asked by the OPA in a settling action dated June 28. The case reflects price control enforcement and recovery of overcharges.
Adair native JOAN MARSH 82 dies in Madeira Minnesota after a paralytic stroke. Born Feb 16 1868 in Quincy Illinois he moved to Audubon county in 1878 and later to St James Minnesota. Survived by widow and many children with one son Roy deceased. Funeral in Minnesota. burial planned there.
Mrs. Anna Margret Eilis dies at 2 56 AM at her son and daughter in law's home in Walnut street two daughters Helen Steffens Atlantic and John Rathman Anita three sons Herman Eilte Atlantic Johannes and Bernhard Kitts Wiota 33 grandchildren 48 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild survived funeral Saturday at 2 30 PM Peace Evangelical and Reformed Church Rev George Fuchs officiating interment Atlantic cemetery remains at Roland Peacock Baxter funeral home until service time Also Dr B D Golden to take vacation leaving office closed until July 2
Engineer Paul M. Van Ackeren recommends postwar improvements to Atlantic’s municipal light and water plant. Proposed upgrades include coal handling, storage, new filtration and distribution changes, and a shift to higher efficiency equipment to meet rising demand. The report notes a ten percent output increase last year and outlines safety and service benefits as finances allow.
Representative Anderson of New Mexico says he will conduct an immediate War Food Administration check up and remedy if needed after a house subcommittee accused WFA of food losses and warehousing faults. The panel criticized records as inadequate and officials for false information, urging periodic remedial reports.
Lookouts kept an all night vigil from ridges above a 50 acre brush patch for a mystery sniper who reportedly fired on three people in a thickly wooded southwest Iowa area. Sheriff Robert Moore of Mills county said no further shots were reported. The victims were Roy Vore of Glenwood and his 16 year old son Duane, and James Endicott of Council Bluffs.
In Des Moines Dr. Rudolph Ganz told Drake University music conference attendees that talent is a gift not a personal achievement. He urged musicians and others to avoid pride, stressing they had little to do with their abilities.
Chief of Detectives Paul Castelline stated a third man in Des Moines is tied to a regional burglary and car theft ring reaching Iowa and Nebraska. Two men, Thomas Young and LaVern Long, confessed to robberies in Council Bluffs and Omaha, while a Lamberty station break in and safe theft near Wiota tied to the same group, with stolen $350 and papers recovered.
Norfolk Va June 28 The War Food administration abandons further potato shipments to Europe due to shipping shortages and spoilage risk.
Cuam June 28. American Negro troops landed on six small Mariana islands Anatahan Saligan Alamagan Agrihan Ascension and Maug and brought them under U S control with a single pistol shot. Reconnoitering units, guided by natives and Japanese captives, left no holding force and damaged only a lone pistol cartridge fired by a guide who refused surrender.
Production will stop at the Des Moines ordnance plant manufacturing .30 and .50 caliber machine gun bullets on July 31, with about 10,800 workers released. Machinery will be kept greased and power kept intact to resume if war needs arise. The government plant near Ankeny was built starting Aug. 1, 1941 and operated by United States Rubber Co.
New York June 28 The Associated Press board of directors announced a petition for rehearing of the federal antitrust case against AP will be filed with the Supreme Court on or before September 1 following the high court’s recent decision upholding a lower court verdict.
The Jonathan Elmer, a Liberty ship carrying 390 soldiers from the 65th and 66th Lingrea infantry divisions, the 101st airborne, and the Fourth armored division, docked in New York after weathering a 70 mph hurricane that tilted the vessel up to 40 degrees.
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