Around the Town Notes Cedar Rapids Parade Bumper Incident
In Cedar Rapids a damaged bumper was found on the Third Avenue bridge and tossed into the river by a man named Turner after a recent Barber Shop Parade. The Turners later received a police notice about their car being struck and were asked to visit the police station.
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Third Avenue Bridge
Mr. Turner
David Turners
Mrs. Turner
Cedar Rapids
Santa Claus
Fairbanks
Alaska
Pan American World Airways
North Pole
St. Nick
North Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
Santa
Gazette
North Western
Madison Street
Margaret Truman
Washington
Helen Traubel
Miss Truman
Miss Traubel
Sidney Dietch
Leonard Warren
Metropolitan Opera
Sidney
Ditch
Mercy Auxiliary Reaches 800 Volunteer Hours in 1950
Mercy hospital auxiliary reports 800 hours donated by 65 hostesses from February through December as part of two new projects. The group emphasizes ongoing need for volunteers and invites calls to join.
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Mercy Auxiliary
Mercy Hospital Auxiliary
J. A. Maquin
C. S. Dorman
Rhoda Mason
B P W Club Yule Party Tuesday At Roosevelt Hotel
The annual Christmas party of the Business and Professional Women's club will be held Tuesday evening at the Roosevelt hotel with dinner at 6 30 by candlelight. Co chairmen are Helen Zila and Ella Campbell. Eleanor Morden reviews The Drum Goes Dead by Bess Streeter Aldrich. The B P W chorus directed by Zoa Pearl Parks will sing carols with Thelma Hoover as accompanist.
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Business and Professional Women's Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Helen Zila
Ella Campbell
Eleanor Morden
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Rose Marek
Fay Ortscheid
Ethel Pirie
Louise Samuelson
Leone Schwirtz
Emma Svoboda
Betsy Tait
Grace van Winkle
Agnes White
Y W C A Plans Women Health Club At Association Building
The YWCA plans a women’s health club after the first of the year offering massage steam cabinet ultraviolet lamps roller massages and other fitness devices. Interested women should call 8169. The issue notes several club meetings including Ashley chapter D A R and Chi Omega alumnae with potlucks and gift exchanges. Christmas party events are listed with dates and hostesses.
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The
Young Women’s Christian Association
Association
Y.W.C.A
Norma Idelhinie To Become Bride
Engagement announced for Miss Norma Jean Johnson of Cedar Rapids to Robert H. Russell of Fort Worth Texas. Wedding planned at Westminster Presbyterian Church December 30. Johnson daughter of Mrs C W Bennett and M L Johnson Cedar Rapids. Russell son of Mrs Ray Russell Fort Worth. Miss Johnson a University of Iowa alumna and Alpha Chi Omega member. Russell attended Texas Christian University and works for Rowan Oil and Drilling Co. Fort Worth.
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Norma Jean Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Robert H. Russell
Fort Worth
Texas
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Miss Johnson
C. W. Bennett
M. L. Johnson
Mr. Russell
Ray Russell
University of Iowa
Alpha Chi Omega Sorority
Russell
Texas Christian University
Rowan Oil and Drilling Company of
Cicero the Spy and Moyzisch Memoir Review
Moyzisch’s Boox Talk discusses ICERO the elusive spy linked to the British embassy in Turkey and the Nazi German Information Service. The book reveals Moyzisch’s wartime ties to Von Papen and Kaltenbrunner, and recounts a midnight 1943 offer to sell secret British papers through a figure named Pierre.
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L. C. Moyzisch
Ankara
Herr Moyzisch
von Papen
German Information Service
Kaltenbrunner
Nuremburg
Moyzisch
Pierre
Operation Cicero: The Most Perfect Spy Program in History
A leaked narrative recounts the Cicero operation, a year of covert espionage where a German agent fed British secrets to a wary Berlin leadership. Moyzisch, Cicero, and others maneuvered through Berlin intrigues while Allied conferences teased hidden motives and German officials failed to act on the intelligence. The tale ends with Cicero's disappearance after a desertion that shifted the balance of the espionage game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
von Papen
Cicero
Moyzisch
Kaltenbrunner
Ribbentrop
Teheran
Cairo
Woman speaker at Linn County G O P club event
Mrs Willard Ingalls of Monmouth Iowa will address the Linn County Republican Women's club Tuesday. She was among 14 Iowa women at the Coun try Women of the World conference in Copenhagen in September. The event includes a Dutch treat lunch, Christmas caroling, and a drive to donate food for a needy family.
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Linn County Republican Women’s Club
Willard Ingalls
Monmouth
Ingalls
Iowa
Copenhagen
Denmark
Europe
U. S
Colt of Destiny and Door To the North reviewed
Two juvenile novels from John C. Winston Company are reviewed. Colt of Destiny by Alicia Markus features Wild horses Indian conflicts and a West Coast settler Jaime Otero in a mission era setting with illustrations by Manning De V. Lee. Door To the North by Elizabeth Coatsworth consults American and Norse history as a companion to Colt of Destiny.
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Alicia Markus
John C. Winston
Elizabeth Coatsworth
John J. Winston
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Dick Jones
Ellis Park Golf Course
City Hall
Jones
Fort Madison
New York
Lee Ferrero
Korea
Rutledge
INS
Atlanta Journal
Dixie
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Luxembourg
Perle Harbor
Madame Mesta
Y.M.C.A
Marilu Stimson Brunson
Y.M.C.A. Little Theater
Lorraine Franklin
Douglas Lint
Jeff Strain
Nora Downer
Floyd Schooley
Lois Frutchey
Tom Stelzer
Sandra Lundquist
Dick Mills
Carol Goebel
Richard Zimmerman
Clarence Serbousek
Arlene Smythe
Jim Krach
Barbara Dunlap
Roy Smythe
Barbara Melichar
John McKim
J. L. Cornell
Janice Hennings
Diane Dunlap
Ramon Trachta
Jeanette Reth
Kay Bruzek
Dale White
Lois Hall
Rose Walkner
Evelyn Walkner
Carol Hutton
Gerald Gudenhauf
Jean Magirl
Dorothy Procek
Bonnie Wayman
Barbara Myers
Ruth Lebeda
Judy Ernst
Dolores Klouda
Johanna Sivertson
Lois Wilson
Grande Avenue SE
Lawrence E. McGrath
Frank Sivertson
L. A. Wilson
Mark Cox
Claude McCalley
Margaret McAughan
Margaret Custer
Jeanne Hofford
Mary Curry
Barbara Bode
Mary Ann Walsh
Mary Catherine Prout
Joan Oswald
Women’s Roundtable Organization
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
M. G. Hardesty
Frank Baldwin
Linn County
Katherine Oujiri
Gladys Swangler
B.P.W. Club
Ashley
Ashley Chapter
Eugene F. Challed
Twentieth Street
Kenneth E. Heck
James L. Smith
cOo Chi Omega
Chi Omega
William P. Whipple
Bever Avenue SE
M. N. Zuidema
Janet Feuling
Joan Brandt
Doris Bridge
Shakespeare
Shakespeare’ Club
M. Darwin Sandy
Fourth Avenue SE
Anthony and Cleopatra
Isabella
Daughters of
K. C
John Kenney
Etta Kitch
Anna Koutnik
Ed Koob
Montrose Hotel
Norma Idelhinie
Mrs. Mitchell
Cultus Club
L. T. Mitchell
Nineteenth Street
Mmes
FE. D. Hardwick
E. S. Cobb
W. B. Smith
Mies
E. B. Kearns
R. R. Mayberry
T. B. Yuill
Friendly Club
Fred Thompson
Ninth Avenue
Thompson
Earl Waln
Oscar Brown
Coward McCann
Icero
Turkey
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Moyrzisch
Elizabeth North Hoyt
G.O.P
Thor Heyerdahl
Pacific
Menaboni
Lincoln
Allan Nevins
Harte
Rowe
Jesus
Edgar Goodspeed
Will Durant
Mahatma
Louis Fischer
John Adams
Catherine Bowen
Fulton Oursler
America
John Bakeless
John Dos Passos
Ernest S. Bates
Belles
Gilbreth
Carey
Cornelia Otis Skinner
James Thurber
Smith
Dartmouth Bible
Chamberlain
Feldman
Auden and Pearson
Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
Eric Possed
H. Allen Smith
Innocents
Indiana
Emily Kimbrough
ST. Nicholas Anthology
Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Eastern
Central North America
Donald Culross Peattie
the Arts
Emily Post
Erwin Christiansen
Hammond Library World Atlas
Replogle Handy World Atlas
Victoria
Frances Lichten
NEW Winston
Virgil Barker
ART News
G. Ernest Thomas
Fulton Sheen
Norman V. Peale
Wisdom OF the
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
YALE
the Family Book OF Favorite Hymns
JOY Street
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Ernest Hemingway
Miki Waltari
Owen Glen
Ben Ames Williams
the Far Lands
James Norman
A. J.cronin
Travel
Neck OF the Woods
Louise Rich
Vatican
Ann Carnahan
Penguins
Charles Lee
Grand Canyon
Joyce
Josef Muench
Florida
Nova Scotia
Hey Vows
Fauiat, Piowar
Mason
Mesrigrand
Hamlin
Tae
Mason & Hamlin
Micruunner's
Irs ’ Musk Timp
First Street
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