Christmas Babies and New Year’s Girls Tell All on First Birthdays
The Cedar Rapids feature interviews last year’s Christmas and New Year’s infants. Bruce Block born December 25 1938 speaks of double anniversaries and holiday changes. Joyce Darlene Reed and Leta Elaine Blood born 1939 share a playful exchange about outfits and rattles.
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Joyce Reed
Leta Blood
Bruce Block
Earl Block
Ellis Boulevard
Brucie
Mr. Big
Joyce Darlene
W. E. Reed
Eighth Street NW
Leta Elaine Blood
L. A. Blood
Twelfth Street NW
Leta Elaine
Coe Faculty and Students to Attend Science Convention
Three Coe College faculty members plus seven students are set to travel to Columbus Ohio for the 105th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr Karl A Stiles will present a paper with Paul Dougan assisting, and Dr Warren Keck and Prof LeRoy Coffin will also attend.
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Coe College
Columbus
Ohio
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Coe
Karl A. Stiles
Division of Natural Science
Phi Kappa Phi, Na
Stiles
Paul Dougan
Warren Keck
LeRoy Coffin
Robert Kosanke
Agnes Johnston
Phyllis Oetjen
Chicago
Avalonne Cross
Waterloo
Sam Patterson
Marion
Charles Kos
Arnold Brokaw
Cedar Rapids
It Happened Last Week by Bob Estabrook
The piece reflects on Christmas amid global conflict. It contrasts celebrations in America with wartime realities in Britain France and other nations. It notes governments restricting festivities in Germany Russia Italy and Japan and refugees facing no Christmas.
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Morrow
America
Santa Claus
Britain
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
Japan
Finland
China
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Helsinki
Europe War Reverberations Reach Western Hemisphere
Recurring effects of Europe’s conflict spill into the Americas as the U.S. coordinates with allies to threaten internment penalties for belligerents. The German freighter Arauca sits in U S custody in Port Everglades after being chased by a British cruiser Orion. In Montevideo the Graf Spee was scuttled with crew saved and later captured, while Captain Langsdorff died in Buenos Aires. The Columbus was sunk off Cape Henry, rescued by the Tuscaloosa and brought to New York. Domestic politics heat up with Garner’s presidential bid, calls for liberal coalitions, and shifts in party leadership. Roosevelt’s 1941 budget targets a large deficit.
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Europe
Western Hemisphere
Americas
United States
Ger
Everglades
Fla
Orion
U. S
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Adolf Hitler
Rio de la Plata
Argentina
Hans Langsdorff
Buenos Aires
Cape Henry
Tuscaloosa
New York
John N. Garner
Interior
Ickes
Murphy
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
National Labor Relations Board
Salt Lake City
Roosevelt
Congress
Hitler
Italy
France
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Ethiopia
Rome
Ciano
Mussolini
North Sea
Germany
Tyrol
Uphold Laborer's Right To Refuse To Join A Union
Indiana supreme court rules laborers may refuse to join unions. Unions cannot compel employers to force workers to join via picketing. Peaceful picketing is allowed but not used to achieve illegal acts. Case concerns Aaron Roth in Lake county where his store faced AFL affiliated Retail Clerks union picketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
INL
Indiana State Supreme Court
Curtis Shake
Lake County
Aaron Roth
Retail Clerks’ Union
AFL
Roth
Cop Saves 15 Children After Ice Breaks at Wares Pond
Marblehead Mass Special Police Officer William Chapman leapt into frozen waters to rescue 15 children aged 8 to 15 who broke through the ice at Wares pond. Thirty others reached shore unaided as Chapman pulled the trapped youngsters to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marblehead
Mass
William Chapman
Wares Pond
Chapman
Milk used to make buttons from hornlike substance
Chemists surprised by the large milk waste after cream removal. They experimented and succeeded in producing a horn like material from skimmed milk used in button manufacture.
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Scotty McLeod
Bruce Block, Christmas Baby
Science Convention
Bob Estabrook
Cuba
U.S
Augusto 8
Boyd
Panama
Juan D. Arosemena
Best
Bezdek’s
Johnson
Lyman’s Cafe
D.o. Auc
Third Avenue
Sears, Roebuck
Merry
SEARS
3Rd Ave
DIAL
Cedar Rapids, Ia
Merry Christmas
Third Street
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Twelfth Avenue
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ganization
Ant
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
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