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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
5
Rep. Theo dore Burton of Ohio announced his candidacy for the Senate vacancy caused by Frank B. Willis's death. He tied his bid to the Hoover presidential drive, indicating a strong partisan alignment.
John W. Stratton of Creston to lead Iowa department of the Grand Army veterans next year. Veterans also chose Watson Risdon senior vice commander J B Carman junior vice commander J L Eene at Branch medical director Wie non Waperley at Fort Dodge noted for next convention 1929. Return home ongoing for Pond and daughter.
Seven thousand Pullman porters and maids plan a Friday noon strike over a $140 month scale and a 240 hour working month. A vote among 7,000 yielded 1,018 in favor. Mediation efforts with the United States board were sought after Pullman officials refused conference. Former Gov Edwit P. Morrow led a preliminary examination for mediation.
Charles Fader, 20, paroled after a burglary sentence, is wanted by police in Council Bluffs and Omaha after he struck and dragged four year old Shirley Whitbuck Tuesday night. Witness reports say the dress caught in the car wheel and the driver fled the scene. Shirley was taken to Mercy Hospital with a broken leg, hip injury, and skull fracture. condition listed as favorable. Ted Mayers, later arrested, was an occupant of the car. Police say Fader may have feared return to the institution and that the crime may not have occurred if fleeing was unintended.
The Cedar Falls branch summer school of Iowa State College opened yesterday with enrollment already meeting the needs of the session. Prof Fuller reported 245 students enrolled up to noon today as the director outlined preparations for the program’s real work.
Des Moines Iowa June 7 two large columns of briefs were filed with the Iowa railroad commission in the proposed merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads. The commission is resisting the merger and set July 4 for briefs and Aug 4 for replies. An interstate hearing with full ICC membership in Washington is expected in September. Net Garrett assistant attorney general led the case.
Patrick Barrett 42 died this morning at his sister Miss Margaret Barrett’s home 208 Birch Street at 9 o'clock after a three month illness from complications. He was born April 15 1886 on a Walnut farm and moved to Atlantic in 1906 later living in Council Bluffs before returning to Atlantic. Survived by three sisters Miss Margaret Mrs Dan Maher and Mrs Delia Paulson. Funeral Saturday at 9 from St Peter and Paul Church with burial in Walnut Catholic Cemetery. The body was at the Maher home 300 Birch Street until the service.
Vinton Iowa June 7—Solving the $49,000 Vinton Farmers Bank holdup of last August appears near. Sheriff R L Whelan state agents and bank officials say five bandits will be brought to justice. Two suspects held. Udka Kiashtorni alias Louis Klass in Preston Minnesota jail, charged in a Spring Valley Minnesota May 7 bank robbery. Harry E F Brooks held at Sioux City, Iowa. Klass admits selling $10,000 in stolen bonds to a Chicago bank, claims receipts from a St Paul bonding house. He is identified as one of the Spring Valley robbers.
A hailstorm swept Audubon County at noon today. Reports say no considerable damage is believed from the storm, which included hail and walnuts? wind and other debris. local observers note limited impact across the territory.
International News Service reports a three woman air race from Roosevelt Field to Rome with stops at Trepassay Bay and Old Orchard. Amelia Earhart and Miss Mabe Bell are aboard the Friendship and Columbia is crewed by another woman. Fraulein Rasche plans a separate hop from Long Island, potentially sparking a three way competition over the Atlantic.
Court opened today for the June term with Judge H J Mantz presiding over a widow's allowance petition by Mrs. George L Edwards in the estate of her late Civil War veteran husband. The prenuptial contract had avoided any share for Mrs. Edwards, but she now seeks a widow's allowance as hearings continue.
Des Moines on January 7 reports town broadcasters were to confer with B. O. Sykes and Ian Pickard, federal ratio commissioners. The meeting described as a round table discussion rather than a formal hearing, aiming to discuss broadcasting matters in the area.
English sailor Masten Webb awaits a Colombo date as the Calcutta sweepstakes payout nears. Felstead is the claimed winner with a prize near 1.25 million dollars. Webb may learn his fate once the time expires.
Albert L Byler, Reading railway foreman, picked up an SOS claiming to be from General Nobile of the Italia dirigible. The message urged immediate help and gave coordinates 84 15 10 north, 15 20 40 east, about 300 miles north of Spitzbergen in the Arctic.
Hollywood June 7 Charlie Chaplin and a party of screen stars escaped unharmed when a mysterious explosion wrecked the Russian Eagle cafe. Ten others including seven firemen were injured by the blast following an undetermined origin fire. Theo dore Lodiginsky reported critical. Ersicdes Chapin warned to safety. The list of saved included Gloria Swanson’s husband Marquis de Falais Jack Dempsey Estelle Taylor John MacCormick Colleen Moore and Renee Adoree.
Audubon Indiana June 7 special Fourteen of the nineteen graduates of Audubon high school in 1908 are in town for their twentieth anniversary reunion this week. The gathering opened with a banquet led by Miss Augusta G Hecker county superintendent of schools and toastmistress. Banquet was at the Menowal building dining room. Plans for today include an all day picnic and theater party this evening. Frank Mantz Strawberry Point editor was anbec intendent of schools here in 1908.
Memorial services announced by the Modern Woodmen and the nearby neighbors to be held in a body at 1 P.M. on Sunday. Members are urged to attend and participate in the arrangements.
Cheyenne Wy June Rogers humorist escaped serious harm after two plane incidents fled from Los Angeles to Kansas City. One craft hit a gopher hole on landing at Cherokee and another plane carrying him rolled near Las Vegas Nevada. Hammond, foe of the Volstead act, returned home in Albany N Y denouncing the law as a failure and crime of the twentieth century. He cited legal changes and current home drinking as proof of efficacy, while noting enforcement issues.
A thief stole a clothing bag from a street department at Atlantic city, taking a complete change of clean clothes and leaving the old garments behind. The bag contained a pocketbook and a note directing the finder to take it to the police. The thief abandoned the bag north of the Rock Island depot, where the grip was later recovered and returned to Gene Daughenaugh who works on the Hannah Bopp farm.
Council Bluffs Iowa June 7 The Walnut Grove Improvement Club petitions the board of education to dismiss Agnes Mackin a Omaha teacher at Walnut Grove school for allegedly whipping pupil Kenneth York 9 on May 28 The petition accuses Mackin of ungovernable temper and states York was pulled from his seat forced to the desk and beaten with yardsticks leaving marks for more than a week.
Des Moines June 7 John Simpson 53 president of World Amusement Co Chicago and long time Iowa state fair secretary died here after visiting relatives He had previously served as secretary of the Minnesota state fair in St Paul and later at the Springfield Mass fair Funeral arrangements to be announced locally
National League score digest shows Philadelphia leading Chicago 8 to 0 in the fifth, with Boston at 4 Pittsburgh in the sixth. The fragmentary lines mention New York and Chicago games in progress during the third inning, reflecting an incomplete box score update.
A New York mother, Mrs Delia Budd, received a death threat today regarding her kidnapped daughter Grace a 10 year old from tenement districts. Police traced hints leading to Chicago while a citywide hunt extended into New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Detectives refused to reveal details of the letter as investigators traced anonymous calls from North Olds county while the kidnapper Frank Howard of Farmingdale LI remained a suspect.
In Fiji on June 8, the trimotored Fokker awaiting takeoff at Nuaului beach for a 1700 mile overwater hop to Brisbane. Crew Capt Charles Kingsford Smith T P Ulm Harry Lyon and James Warner faced refuelling delays and easterly winds. The plane had flown from Adbert Park to Nagelai beach, with tow tide and weather dictating the moment for departure. The piece also notes a Presbyterian youth conference in Bellevue Nebraska from June 18 to 24 led by Rev William Mack on Christian Character.
Kansas City June 7 ant i Hoover allies race to form a cohesive group to block the cabinet candidate. Lowden Dawes Watson and Curtis factions join a belated effort amid scattered meetings and lapsed organization. Hoover machine gains momentum as 65 of 71 Republican committee cases favor Hoover, leaving unaligned delegates unsettled and the rival coalition scrambling for Foch like unity before balloting.
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