Safety Month Parade and Circus to Open in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids hosts a large civic parade next Saturday at 2 p.m. to launch Safety Month in Linn County followed by a 2:45 p.m. Safety circus on Third Avenue bridge and the island in front of the courthouse. Gov. George Wilson’s Safety Month decree is cited as officials promote the campaign with bumper stickers and demonstrations featuring Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder in a comic role and Scouts burlesquing a jaywalker.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Third Avenue Bridge
Municipal Island
George Wilson
B. B. Hickenlooper
F. K Hahn
Wes Benesh
Hickenlooper
Prizes For Cedar Rapids Safety Parade Cyclists
Prizes will be awarded to youths ages 9 to 15 for best decorated bicycle with an original safety slogan at Saturday's Cedar Rapids parade. A $3 first prize and a $2 second prize will be given. Entrants must place slogans visibly on bikes. Assemble at the police station grounds at Second Avenue and Third Street SW at 1:30 PM Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue
Third Street
Parade and Circus Promote Highway Safety in Linn County
Sheriff Jim Smith Highway Patrol Sergeant Clarence B Day and Police Traffic Captain Gordon Hughes plan an evening parade and circus in towns around Cedar Rapids during the latter half of June to boost public interest in highway and traffic safety.
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Cedar Rapids
Jim Smith
Clarence B. Day
Harlan Snyder
Ozzie
A. H. Hallgren
Gordon Hughes
James Clapp
Linn County
Oklahoma Senator Calls US to Take Over Mexico
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma said if Germany drives Britain to Canada and war reaches the western hemisphere the United States should seize Mexico and possibly Panama for self defense. He urged action in a Saturday statement.
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Mexico
Oklahoma City
Thomas
Okla
Germany
Canada
Hemisphere
United States
Panama
Vacation School At First Reformed Church
A daily vacation Bible school will run for two weeks at the First Reformed church starting Monday. Sessions are weekday mornings 9 to 11 55 with sixteen staff. Five departments serve ages 3 to 15 and include devotional music memory play Bible pupil interest and worship. Bible slides and moving pictures are featured. Free will offerings fund the school. Two new Bible school book volumes boost the library to 14 volumes for teachers. Awards honor regular attendance and faithful work. a school picture will be taken. Young calves are described.
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First Reformed Church
Crippled 77-year-old hitchhikes to sick friend
Carrie Yates of Corsicana Texas, crippled from birth, travels on crutches toward Lansing Michigan to reach a dying friend. She started three weeks ago, aided by motorists and occasional bus trips funded by selling pencils, with Travelers' Aid society assisting in St Louis.
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Springfield
Ins
Carrie Yates
Corsicana
Tex
Lansing
Mich
Travelers’ Aid Society
St. Louis
Custody Sought as Girl Rebels Against Father Who Dismissed
Shirley Ann Adamson, 11, declares she prefers to stay with her grandparents after learning her father R Holton Adamson was once her older brother in a family masquerade. District Judge Willis G Sears hears the custody dispute filed by Adamson and supported by his parents. The judge took the case under advisement after the girl expressed happiness with her current guardians.
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Omaha
Neb
Shirley Ann Adamson
Holt
Willis G. Sears
R. Holton Adamson
Holton N. Adamson
Shirley Ann
Sears
Peace Is Theme Of Grinnell Institute Of Intl Relations
Grinnell Institute of International Relations will run June 13 to 22 on the Grinnell campus under the American Friends Service Committee and the Congregational Christian Council for Social Action with Grinnell College. Noted leaders from the US and abroad will lecture on permanent peace, democracy, religion and politics, and organizing for peace action.
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America
Grinnell Institute of International Relations
Grinnell
American Friends Service Committee
Congregational Christian Council For Social Action
Grinnell College
United States
M. Louis Taber
Whittier
Europe
Americas
Orient
Japan
The
Friends Society
Samuel Guy Inman
Mexico
People's Institute
Columbia
Hull
Buenos Aires
CBS
Lima
Clarence K. Streit
Union Now
New York Times
League of Nations
Geneva
Max Burke
Institute
Two Ex Governors Meet In Raleigh
Former North Carolina Governor C Max Gardner hosts a discussion with ex Governor J C Ehringhaus in Gardner law office. The exchange centers on a legal case with Gardner noting details and Ehringhaus replying that he represents the opposing side.
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Carolina
Raleigh, NC
J.C . Ehringhaus
C. Max Gardner
Gardner
Ehringhaus
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Third
Seventh Streets
First Street
Third Avenue
Fifth Street
First Avenue E
First Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
Second
Third Streets
Roosevelt High Band
Highway Patrol
M. C. A. Drum Corps
Order of Ahepa
Cedar Rapids Motorcycle Club, Inc
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club and
Musketeers Drum and Bugle Corps
Fred C Henson
American Legion Cooperation
H. C. Ring
Safety Circus
Fred Henson
Thompson
Casalles
First Reformed
Grinnell Institute of Intl
Harold E. Fey
Christian Century Magazine
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Russia
Hans Simons
German League of Nations Union
Versailles
Berlin Academy of Political Science
Hitler
New School For Social Research
New York
Bruening
Social Justice Committee of
Arthur C. Bunce
Iowa State College
England
Korea
P. W. Martin
International Labor Office
London
Otto Klineberg
National Research Council
France
Italy
E. Raymond Wilson
American Friends Service
Nwo
Alan
Sam
Smulekoff
PRI
Itglais Et Netenna Oor
Chromium
West Side
Smalerofes
Iowa
P-R-I-N
W. T. Sandl
ING CO
Second ST. NE
DIAL
P'S
Lows
Out-of-Cedar Rapide
Smalekofes
Bridge
High Kent
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