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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1938
Page
22
Scotty McLeod recounts a twenty four hour rookie stint with local firefighters. He details hose sizes and pressures, ladder drills, nap ban, meals, and pranks as the Secret Six meets him, ending with no fires but plenty of fireworks.
Norman Winston Wharton, 28, confessed slayer of A C Latting in Colorado Springs, is suspected of possibly masterminding the killings of Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her daughter Nancy in the Texas desert last April. Investigators in Washington and El Paso compare Wharton’s gun and clothing to evidence, while Colorado Springs police gather links.
The king's cup fastest night aviation trophy, awarded annually for the fastest night flight around England, was won at Natfield by Pilot A. Henshaw in a Percival Mew Gull. Henshaw’s average speed was 236 miles an hour.
Pulitzer fellow Richard Baker and his wife Marjorie Coleman resume their Mount Vernon visit with Mrs. Coleman's mother. They spent nine months touring 32 Asian and European countries interviewing leaders including Gandhi Tagore Nehru Kagawa and Mussolini, and observed European fascism and rising tensions in the Pacific. Baker warned that aggression may yield short wins but cannot endure, noting Japan's imperial errors and Europe’s fragile peace amid war talk.
Delays caused by the circus moved the all city jackstones and checkers finals to Tuesday at Riverside. West side tournaments were held Friday as scheduled. Winners include Betty Bissell junior girls jackstones Jean Jungjohann senior girls jackstones Helen Calahan junior girls checkers Dorothy Basemann senior girls checkers John Dochterman junior boys checkers Louis Millvell senior boys checkers.
Attendance for the first week across thirteen local playgrounds reached 11 718 as activities expand. The coming week features community nights at Whitlam Lincoln Bever Kenwood, with all playgrounds closed July 4 and finals in checkers and jackstones at Riverside Tuesday.
Secretary of State Hull on Saturday reiterated that the United States remains eager to advance world disarmament. He said no conflict exists between lifting battleship tonnage limits and the U S commitment to disarmament.
Mrs. George Newell of Wichita Kansas is appointed hostess and supervisor of dormitory life for Coe College Greene Hall by President Marty M. Gage. She will relocate to Greene Hall in September with a background in religious and collegiate work and is widow of Rev. Dr. George Newell.
Health Campers plan quiet Fourth of July activities at Camp Good Health run by Public Health Nursing for handicapped children. Games include bingo for nine players, multiplication challenges and checkers to suit the summer program.
The article notes strong boys and girls have longer rest hours and scientifically planned meals to build up undernourished bodies. The Camp Good Health Fund, maintained solely by contributions acknowledged through The Gazelle, seeks additional donations beyond the minimum goal sent to The Gazette Cedar Rapids Ia.
Chicago doctors completed a delicate operation to remove an open safety pin from 21 month old Joe Clark’s right lung. The infant was rushed by train from Meeker Colorado to Illinois Research Hospital with funds from charity.
Approximately 2800 will be raised from the Jaloppy derby sponsored June 12 by the young men's bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Proceeds will be turned over to the Cedar Rapids swimming pool fund. The bureau's annual outdoor meeting follows at Ellis park with a Roosevelt hotel buffet. Prizes will be awarded in golf tennis horseshoes and softball.
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