Display Artists Pledge Help in Red Cross Drive
Cedar Rapids window display artists have pledged to prepare Red Cross displays for the annual drive. More than 20 artists will create window decorations in stores during the march 3 to march 10 Cedar Rapids drive. Stickers posters and thermometers will track progress toward the $46700 goal with rural Linn county starting February 15.
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Gazette-Johnston
Plan Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
American Red Cross
Wayne Schneringer
Helen Hardin
John N. Cleator
Joseph Hadish
S. Berenstein
Walter N. Peterson
M. H. Luber
W. L. Cuhel
Cleator
Red Cross
Y.M.C.A
Orville Rennie
Ministerial Association To Hear Greek Pastor
The Rev. George Hadjis of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church will address the Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association on The Church in the Orthodox Denomination of Greece How It Worked and What It Offered in the Years 1940 to 1944. Hadjis arrived from Cozani Greece four months ago and a University of Iowa student will interpret.
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George Hadjis
St. John the Baptist
Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association
Greece
Hadjis
United States
Cozani
University of Iowa
Two Men Charged In Theft Of Log Barn Near Deadwood
Police say two men dismantled a log barn near Deadwood South Dakota one log at a time and sold the pieces as fence posts, the housing shortage not linked to the theft.
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Deadwood
S. D
Three-County Scouting Show Opens Friday at Memorial Coliseum
More than 50 Boy Scout units from Linn, Jones and Benton counties prepare 65 booths for a two day Waubeek area council exposition at the Memorial Coliseum. The event features 75 demonstrations including air scouting archery cooking first aid leathercraft photography and Sea Scout display with color films and a safety highway test. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children.
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Memorial Coliseum
Linn
Jones
Benton Counties
Waubeek
Fire disrupts Everett Legion installation ceremony
During the installation of James J. Evans as commander of the Everett American Legion post a fire broke out. Firefighters delayed the ceremony to extinguish the blaze and remained on site for the remainder of the installation.
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Everett, Mass
Everett
American Legion Post
James J. Evans
Marshall aims at long range planning and a new intelligence division
Washington reports indicate Secretary Marshall plans two major changes in State Department staffing. One is strategic planning to guide policy, the other a broader intelligence division to gather and correlate information, with tighter checks between channels and broader, tougher assessments of political climates and rising figures.
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Washington
Marshall
Department
Central Intelligence
Shipping Volume Reaches 70 Million Gross Tons in 1939
The report places total world shipping at about 70 million gross tons for the year 1939, reflecting a broad measure of maritime activity. It notes the scale of global tonnage and implies continued maritime commerce and capability during the period.
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Arrow
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Russia
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New York
Churchill OverWeard
Gravesend
England
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Admiral King
Ernest J. King
Roosevelt
Churchill
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the Killian Co
Teele
Super Service Oil Company
DIAL
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Our Children's Department
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Baby
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Geo
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