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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1945
Page
4
Unclear text notes four accidents and a July 4 traffic advisory. It mentions B 29s bombing oil targets and lists a collision at a crossing with minor injuries. Names or dates are incomplete, but references Joy 16 Bere Chet A. Knee and a 100 years ago event.
A severe hailstorm hit Adel causing extensive damage to crops and property. The Dallas county storehouse roof tiles shattered and several windows broken with skylights damaged, letting hail and rain into interiors.
Supreme headquarters announced final agreement on German occupation zones. Readjustment by Russian and Allied forces begins tomorrow with Russian troops moving into the British and American sector as withdraws proceed.
A Moscow radio indie today quoted Sweden as having decided to recognize the new Polish provisional government. The broadcast frames this as recognition of an evolving political authority in Poland and highlights international acknowledgment.
Considerable cloudiness tonight and Sunday with thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Occasional thundershowers Sunday. Little change in temperatures.
Chinese forces retook Liuchow at midnight after heavy fighting, ending Japanese control of the Liuchow airfield and signaling a shift in the eastern theater. The recapture follows the prior fall of nearby bases including Kwangsi junction city, with Liuchow’s center in flames for over a week. The action follows air force losses and hints at further Chinese advances toward Kweilin as Japan consolidates positions along the Hunan Kwangsi line and the Hongkong Kowloon corridor.
An explosion in the magnesium room of the Aluminum Company of America plant in Bridgeport Connecticut at 12 20 p m sent at least one worker to hospital and injured eight others. Emergency services were dispatched including fire police and hospital staff.
An Iowa filing to the Washington commerce board seeks 2,200 army trucks for farmers. A. J. Loveland chairs the agriculture committee. Trucks would come from federal assets board and be allocated to five state regions. Central northern eastern western regions request 390 medium light and 160 light trucks. south central seeks 200 medium light and 100 light.
Washington reports a Navy case where a 19 year old unnamed sailor burned across 83 percent of his body survived after extensive therapy. Treatments included plasma for shock penicillin for infection and blood transfusions. Skin grafts followed healing, and he returned to duty after several months.
In Jackson Michigan two people were killed and at least twenty five injured when a New York Central passenger train collided head on with a freight train near Eaton Rapids twenty miles northwest of Jackson. The dead were crewmen of the freight David Greer engineer and R O Rhoades brakeman both of Grand Rapids.
Kansas City reports Kansas Governor Landon meeting with President Truman to discuss foreign policy, flood control, and the farm crisis. Landon endorses Truman’s nonpartisan approach and notes farmers suffer from freight car shortages and farm machinery black markets while praising the president's flood control program.
Southern senators end their filibuster on the fair employment practice committee and expect to block the FRPC amendment. Senator Bilbo ridicules compromise while planning against Monday cloture roll call requiring two thirds to invoke the procedure.
In New Canaan Connecticut Imogene Stevens 24 wife of an army major pleaded innocent to manslaughter in the killing of 10 year old sailor Albert Kovacs and was bound over to the superior court in 50000 bail after a court session of under five minutes.
The House Food Committee proposed a wartime style mobilization for farming with all agencies, including the army, guaranteed to buy the food produced. It urged early egg price support to prevent shortages, warned fats and vegetable oils would tighten, and sought US Argentina fats exchanges. It also recommended travel priorities to move farm labor to harvest areas.
London reports Britain plans to cover Poland's foreign army expenses for now to avoid penalizing troops who fought with the Allies. The future of the troops will be discussed with the Polish exile government and later with the government Britain is about to recognize.
A tornado in Prophetstown on Wednesday night destroyed Claude Newtons home and filling station. Police in Dixon, fifty miles away, said a woman found Newtons $25 war bond on Dixon street and notified authorities.
In Hollandia on June 29 a WAC and two airmen were rescued from a 10,000 foot valley after 47 days. A glider and tow plane flew them to safety in 86 minutes. They were aided by an army captain, a movie cameraman and eight Filipino troopers who parachuted in to help build the airstrip used for the rescue.
Mrs. Robert Hoover was elected chair of the Cass County Service Center formed to aid the Omaha service center canteen at Union Station. Officers include Mrs. Homer Rice co chairwoman and F P Daly treasurer. Forty three attended the meeting with civic church representatives. The Atlantic Methodist church women will supply 600 sandwiches forty cakes and fruit cash July 30 and the Cass county club will serve the second of each month.
Washington reports the OPA has extended the registration deadline for farm slaughterers in the meat control program to October 14. The extension allows farmers who do not begin slaughtering until fall to register.
Allied war reporting notes Japan faces a growing threat from B 29 bombardment and secret weapons, while Japan's defense uses crisis tactics. The piece highlights German rocket program history and Allied air campaigns including strikes on Honshu refineries and oil storage, plus Allied advances from Mindanao to Borneo and Okinawa.
Three Russians killed themselves during a riot at a World War II prisoner of war compound at Fort Dix New Jersey. Seven more Russians were wounded by gunfire as American troops used sub machine guns carbines and tear gas to quell the disturbance. The protest involved Russian born prisoners opposing repatriation under the Yalta exchange agreement.
Six persons including four children died when a flash fire swept a one and a half story frame house in Augusta Missouri during early hours. Fire officials say the blaze likely started in the dwelling causing fatal burns to all occupants.
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