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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1926
Page
5
Construction starts soon on a new country club building at Willwood Park with an English style clubhouse planned to open around August 1. Officials expect the project to boost local recreation and community activity.
Public invited to hear returns at City Hall Auditorium via News Telegraph and Associated Press. Evening telephones enable home observers to receive updates. full report to appear in tomorrow's edition. Special counting boards in precincts aim to speed results with early figures from county and nearby areas.
A seven year old boy, Viegle Garis Boulsen, dies after darting into Fifth Street traffic near Chestnut in Brute Towns. Mrs Townsend, driving slowly with a baby in the back seat, cannot avoid the child as he runs onto the road. The boy is fatally injured, dies at Atlantic Hospital. Coroner Burdette L. Roland will hold an inquest if necessary. The child, born in Council Bluffs, lived with Ed L. Poulsen and wife at 2 Locust Street and attended the local public schools. He left three sisters and his parents, with maternal grandfather Louis Scherrinsky and paternal grandparents nearby.
Five men, fleeing in two cars, raided a craps game in Falls City Nebraska, escaping with about $3000 after shooting and mortally wounding Burt Raseme of Forrest City Missouri. Police tracked reports to Horton and Ban area as they searched for the suspects heading toward Kansas City. A 15 year old victim was wounded amid about sixty patrons in the game.
Early counts from the Third Ward show Cummins ahead with more votes than both opponents Clare and Brook. Clark and Vedune trail, with Jones also noted, as polls in the city begin opening at seven this morning and will stay open until eight this evening.
A public meeting of the American Legion and Auxiliary is set for Thursday evening, June 10, at 8 o clock in the Atlantic Legion hall. Frank Miles, editor of the Iowa Legionary, and Mrs Donald Macrae of Council Bluffs, prominent auxiliary worker, will speak to attendees.
The Strand screens a western epic in its first local showing, featuring Yakima Canute and Gladys McMontel as leads. Based on a frontier tale of Dave Garson and the Spotted Horse Indians, the long awaited film has drawn favorable reviews from critics in Chicago and beyond.
A Senate Judiciary Committee report says President Coolidge’s so called order on prohibition enforcement was a mere declaration of policy with no constitutional authority. It notes the president cannot appoint officers to enforce federal laws and that the order itself does not alter enforcement tools or appointive power. The committee will reconvene Wednesday to continue inquiry and further discussion.
Philadelphia June 7 Vigorous opposition to a proposal to merge Lutheran Augustana educational institutions under a joint Board of education is expected to develop as the synod convention opens. Secret colleges named include Gustavia Adolphus St Peter Mian Up East Orange Ni Arthany Org Kay Mins Ann Athen.
George R. Holmes reports from Warthon on Iowa’s senatorial primary pitting Albert B. Cummins against Smith W. Brookhart. The race is framed as a test of administration versus anti administration with Brookhart’s insurgent campaign threatening Coolidge’s allies and potentially shaping the 1928 presidential outlook.
Le Mars man McCarthy, 38, died by suicide in the city jail after neighbors reported his erratic behavior. He reportedly believed townspeople were against him and severed his jugular vein with a knife during the night.
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