Six Risk sisters share looks and talents at Sixth Street home
The six Risk sisters aged 13 to 26 live at 706 Sixth Street SE and study at McKinley High. They perform tap and modernistic dance, design costumes, and pursue singing, acting, cello, and art. Brother Michael, 20, jokes about their father Wolf’s grocery store as they manage school and family life since their mother’s death ten years ago.
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Sixth Street
McKinley High School
Michael
Mike
Wolf Risk
Seventh Avenue
Four Sisters Study Dancing Then Dream of Singing Group
The older sisters help rear younger siblings. The Thelma Mary Rose Victoria and Thelma sisters pursued tap oriental dance lessons and perform in recitals. They share similar height and features with outfits often swapped leading to light quarrels. They plan to choreograph routines and hope to appear together as a singing sextet someday.
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Emaleen
Victoria
Martha
Mildred Sadie
Mary Rose
Thelma Ann
Thelma
Branding Suspect Admits Self Branding After Hoax
Salem gardener Fred Siles, 61, told police he was abducted and branded but later admitted he branded himself. He faced no charges for the hoax that sparked a multi state search for supposed kidnappers.
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Salem
Mass
Fred Siles
Stiles
Vermont
His Professor Act In Cashing Checks Lands Him In Pen
Howard Anderson, 24, duped merchants in Sioux Falls with a professor act and was sentenced to one year in the South Dakota penitentiary on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He admitted issuing $72 in worthless checks at nine places while posing as a college student.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Howard Anderson
South Dakota
Anderson
Professor Says Okay on Check Before Final Verdict
A professor tending the examination process gave an “Okay” on the final check, moving the assessment toward closure. The action signals progress in the grading sequence and hints at an upcoming formal verdict.
Woman Gains 120 Pounds In Two Months
Mrs. Charles Moyer of Fort Lamarie Wyoming was rushed to a Scottsbluff hospital in serious condition after rapidly gaining 120 pounds in two months. Doctors described her illness as a combination of kidney heart and glandular disturbances. She now weighs 300 pounds.
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Scottsbluff, Neb
Ins
Charles Moyer
Fort Laramie
Wyo
Scottsbluff Hospital
Moyer
Hoover launches US local spy fight coordination conferences
J Edgar Hoover announces conferences with state and city police to coordinate federal enforcement against spies saboteurs and fifth columnists. New Jersey officials join Hoover in Washington as part of Roosevelt’s plan to centralize espionage and neutrality act violations reporting. FCC issues third strict order warning ship radio operators and shore stations against unnecessary communications.
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Washington
INS
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New Jersey
Hoover
Roosevelt
FBI
Central “Clearing House
Federal Communications Commission
U. S
FCC
Evacuation Ordered 6000 from Alexandria in War Prep
Egypt's government sent 6000 children and aged residents from Alexandria to interior areas by special trains after dawn. Soldiers and police ordered evacuations from hundreds of homes. In parallel, 10,000,000 food ration cards were printed and petroleum rationing was announced as war plans advance.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Northwestern U Man Stands On Staff Of Coe Church Music Course
Dr. Horace Whitehouse, organist and conductor from Northwestern University, joins the instructional staff for the Coe church music and worship course June 17-21. The program includes worship art talks, organ registration, choir literature, piano music for church, and demonstrations led by Coe and Northwestern faculty and guest experts.
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Northwestern
U. Man
COE
Horace Whitehouse
Northwestern University
Coe Music and Bible
Whitehouse
New England Conservatory of Music
England
France
Washburn College
Topeka
Kan
Evanston, Il
David J. Berger
Coe Bible Department
Don Malin
Chicago
Max Dahhler
Joseph Kitchin
Eleanor Taylor
Paul S. Ray
Two Million Belgians Displaced By War Banner
Two million Belgian civilians have been uprooted by the German invasion and battles on Belgian soil. Homes and businesses were destroyed as the upheaval worsened. U.S. Ambassador John Cudahy has met German authorities but details of talks remain undisclosed while food shipments from the United States are sought without interference. Belgium's wheat needs rely on imports for two thirds of its supply.
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Berlin
United States
John Cudahy
Cudahy
Belgium
New Traffic Arrest Tickets Carry Safety Message
Cedar Rapids police distribute updated traffic arrest tickets highlighting a ban on turning left from alleys. The notice urges safe street use and reports stricter enforcement, including bicycle sidewalk bans starting Monday. May auto accidents show decline but remain higher than last year.
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Gordon Hughes
Cedar Rapids
Hughes
Fifth Avenue
Third Avenues
St Pauls Vacation Bible School Announced
St Pauls Methodist church will run a two week vacation Bible school starting tomorrow at 9 am with four departments led by trained instructors. The program includes a world friendship feature, Red Cross project, recreation, registration, and crafts under director Miss Bertha Pownall and staff.
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St Paul's Methodist Church
Red Cross
Philip Shive
Robert Armstrong
Hazel Cook
Jean Bailey
Irma Kubik
Lucille Hamlin
Janis Owens
Lustin Mae Smith
Lucy Siver
Maxine Shipton
C J Bready
Zona Hill
Mise Gladys Linge
Gail Niesz
Bertha Pownall
St. Paul's
Five Living Former Presidents Span 1861 to 1862 Deaths
From March 4, 1861, to John Tyler’s death on January 18, 1862, there were five living former Presidents of the United States. The group included figures who governed earlier in American history, reflecting the transition era of the early Civil War period.
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John Tyler
United States
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Bob Estabrook
Hubbard Ice and Fuel CO
First Street
DIAL
Windsor
Revion
the Killian Company
Killian
Killian Company
Louis P. Lochner
St. Paul’s
Dad
Father
Arrow
Hickok
B.V.D
Esquire
Sheeffer
Killian’s
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