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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1928
Page
5
Latest By Wire reports two bandits robbed two officers of On Fround Baking in St Louis and fled with 2958. A separate wreck near Lund caused a fatal train disaster with many dead and multiple injuries as a Stockholm express derailed on a side track.
Buffalo N Y June 22 The Sinai outcome of the negotiations for merging the Pierce Arrow Motor Car company with the Studebaker corporation will be determined at a meeting of directors of the latter company at week. To formulate plans for urging the two companies will be presented for approval at that time. It became known today.
Minneapolis June 22 Dallas Texas was chosen as the 1928 convention city of International Rotary at the closing session of its nineteenth annual convention Election of officers to the board of directors was announced Almon E Roth Palo Alto John S Carlson Kansas City W H Campbell Rochester GL Hill Columbia S Wade Marr Raleigh T C Stephenson Edinburgh Joseph Caulder Regina A member from South America two from Europe and three vice presidents will be elected by this board later today
Soldiers at Agram Zagreb restored order after an outbreak of political rioting following the assassination of two Croatian peasant deputies in Belgrade. Four people were killed and forty three seriously wounded. Bodies of the slain deputies arrived at Agram and were met by a large crowd. The city remained blocked and tensions rose as authorities prepared burial plans amid allegations of conspiracy by a corrupt clique.
In Maynard Ta Webster City, a vigilante guarding Maynard Hardware Store shot and killed a would‑be robber as he attempted to open the safe. Beale, 40, was hit by buckshot and died almost instantly. A woman near the scene was arrested. Police and coroner investigations follow.
Bartlett of Oltumws and Me Kee of Gand View, both noted golf champions, tied after 18 holes in the semifinals at Hyperion Club Course Des Moines. The event, labeled by I. N. S. as June 22, 4, marks a poised plate in the state tourney with both players showing strong form.
General Anberto Nobile and his crew marooned on an ice floe north of Northeast Land were sighted by Italian flyers who dropped food and supplies. Major Maddalena and Major Prazo advised using land planes with skis for a safer return, while Russian icebreakers may break through to rescue. The Amundsen and other missing explorers prompted a Norwegian torpedo boat search. relief efforts race thick Arctic fogs.
A sensational sex story titled Her Unborn Child will headline Billie Angelo's big tent theater tonight. Presented under American Legion drum and bugle corps auspices, the tale centers on birth control and social anxieties, framed amid jazz, petting parties, and the misfortunes of a young woman.
Amelia Earhart and Wilmer Stetson attended the Cenotaph ceremony in London to honor Britain’s war dead. A wreath from the Friendship, the transatlantic airship, was laid as a crowd watched the tribute.
Miss Ameliano Bates Hart of Boston, a social figure, is described as a second cousin of M. George Davis of Hamlin. Davis’ father C. T. Barhart, an Audubon resident, was a first cousin of Miss Earhart’s father. Mrs. Davis recalls little of the transatlantic flyer but believes the family may have lived in Des Moines when Earhart’s relatives stayed at the Earhart home.
Contracts for 40 000 cubic yards of earth excavation 26 culverts and extensions and 3 bridges are to be let at the Cass County supervisors meeting next Tuesday at 2 oclock. Objections to the proposed setting will be heard at 10 oclock prior to the meeting. Excavation will be on county roads north of Virta south of Massena and south of Anita Iowa 140 by 16 foot high transfers will span the drainage ditch near Hapley farm south of the city and another similar span will cross the ditch at A J Ollem farm southwest of here A 2 by 20 foot Teheant span will be built south of Griswold Iowa.
Local observer T H Whitney records rainfall just over half an inch today and wind gusts. The early morning rain yesterday reached around fourteen tenths of an inch with nine strong wind, causing scattered limb damage but no further property loss reported.
Funeral rites mark the burial of Abe Biggs in Anita with distant relatives and neighbors in attendance. Born in Ohio in 184 and the fourth of eleven, he served in the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and endured Andersonville imprisonment before returning to Cass County. He married Caroline Bucher in 1868, raised a family including five children, and helped establish the Lincoln Center Methodist church before moving to Anita in 1880 where he remained active in farming and community duties.
Claude G Burnham president of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad died at his Kenilworth home. He was in railroad service since age seven and served as president for fifteen years. He is survived by a widow and three sons. Ill health and sinus troubles contributed to his death.
A garbled film of the national golf meet shows Philadelphia contenders in the lead as play advances this afternoon. Bobby Jones, Jack Burke, and Willie MacFurlam appear among early leaders with subpar holes and notable putts while other competitors struggle for rhythm on the stretch.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a world council and an order related to AGM and company numbered 127. Details are unclear, but suggests a formal entity or decree within a governance or corporate context. No clear persons, places, dates, or organizations are readable.
Mrs P P Perry a well known local lady died early today in Gait after a month of illness. Born in the county September 16, she married in 1908 and lived in this city. Survived by her husband a daughter Pauline and her father Thomas We Perry. Funeral arrangements follow local church rites with burial at the Atlantic cemetery.
Mlorence Avix June 22 Four members of no Chinese tong were executed at the state prison for the murder of Pom King proprietor. The killing occurred at Kingman Avia October 1820 during a tong war between Hop Sing and Bing Kong organizations. Washington June 22 Three men were hanged in the district jail today for the shooting death of Patrolman Leo W Busch. Accused were Nicholas Leo Eagles 82 Samuel Moreno 20 and John D Proctor 19.
Houston June 22 The prohibition debate looms over early arriving delegates to the Democratic National Convention as leaders and rivals clash over Smith Read and the party platform. Governors and national committeemen press for wet or dry positions while party elders warn that enforcing Prohibition or amending the Volstead act will shape the 1920 platform. Harrison Morrison and other Southern leaders urge lawful enforcement, while dry forces threaten added planks in the platform. (Continued on Page 2)
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