Reserve Officers Endorse Preparedness Amid Peace Hopes
Cedar Rapids reserve officers, from professors to doctors, affirm patriotism and leadership training while wishing to avoid war. They train year round, study maps, and cut waistlines as they prepare for possible conflict, emphasizing defense and readiness over combat. A conference features Dr Horace Whitehouse and other Chicago experts, with lectures on organ stops and registration. A $5 course fee covers lectures and a Friday banquet.
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Amy
America
Linn County
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Assn Sale Notice
The Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Association transfers to R M Threlkeld a cemetery plot lot 3063 at Acacia Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery with a $400 transaction acknowledged on date 48-39.
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Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
R. M. Threlkeld
School for Church Worship Begins at Coe College
Prof. Paul S. Ray heads a Coe college music department summer school for church music on campus from Monday morning to Friday evening. Registration opens at 9 am in the music conservatory, with classes starting at 1 20 pm after a Voorhees hall lunch. Attendees include ministers church musicians and lay leaders from Cedar Rapids area and towns like Tipton Belle Plaine Muscatine Marion Anamosa.
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C. W. Perkins
Coe College
Bever Park
Perkins
Paul S. Ray
Music Conservatory
Voorhees Hall
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Tipton
Belle Plaine
Muscatine
Marion
Anamosa
Coe
David
Camp Wapsie Y opens first week with 80 boys and 20 leaders
Fighty boy campers led by Rich ard Hart and Swede Nelson depart from YMCA at 6am to reach Camp Wapsie Y for beds and cabins before 10:30 swim. Parents invited to inspect the new sanitation plant and equipment as the season begins with meals, showers, and a full camp program led by qualified staff.
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Richard Hart
Nelson
Wapsie
YMCA
Emma Forrestal
McKinley High School
Paul Parks
Verdun the Ancient and Battle-Weary City
Verdun, the ancient fortified city in France, endured siege in 1870 and brutal World War I fighting. It withstood German assaults, with hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides, while its modest population and local industries persisted amid history’s bloodiest conflicts.
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Fress
Verdun
France
Marne
Pershing
Saint Mihiel
Admits Theft But Escapes Charges
In Oklahoma City a 24 year old former inmate was arrested by deputy sheriffs after admitting to stealing a radio and an electric fan from a truck near a traveling show. No owner could be identified and no reports of theft existed, so prosecutors could not prove the items belonged to anyone.
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Oklahoma City
Count De Chambrun Guest Of Roosevelt On Weekend Cruise
Count Rene de Chambrun of France visits the United States and will be Roosevelt’s guest for a weekend Potomac River cruise. The French Army captain is to share experiences from Belgium fighting with President Roosevelt and other officials. He is a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette and holds honorary American citizenship through that lineage.
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Count de Chambrun
Roosevelt
Washington
INS
Rene de Chambrun
France
United States
Potomac River
White House
Vivors
Flanders
Belgium
Marquis de Lafayette
Nicholas Longworth
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Carl Dueser
I. ‘Berger
Horace Whitehouse
Northwestern University
Chicago
Don Malin
Ray Saturday
Eleanor Taylor
American Guild of Organists
Whitehouse
Chiefs of Staff
Command and General Staff School
John T. Wurster
Harold A. Lockhart
C. S. Myers
Infantry
Cedar Rapids Military District
Dobbin
Walter H. Proescheldt
Center Point
Geo
Preston Millsap Motor Co
Earl Lanning
Studebaker
Lishen Mechanicaville Marien
Kadlec Brothers
Zimmer Motor Co
McCaslin Service
Jean Connally Bros
16Th Ave
Keiper Motor Co
Tumilty
Hampton Motor Co
Ingwerson Motor Co
Elbert Beaver
John Gallagher
Bobby Williams
Tommy Williams
Fred Nassif
Raymond Nassif
Lester Nassif
Donald Purtee
Theodore Raftis
Clayton Markham
Bob Palmer
Robert Fowler
Bobby Curry
Richard Hinds
Paul Minieci
Jim Burke
Richard Kenny
Francis O’connor
Paul Brundige
Albert Stewart
Irwin Wood
Herbert Horacek
Larry Horacek
Peter Chiafos
Eddie McCleod
Fred McCreod
Buddy Hollander
Duncan Ross
John Halverson
Lester Dvorak
Stanley Dvorak
Don Sheronick
Ed David
Don David
Dick Willenberg
Ed Willenberg
Robert Willenberg
Albert Hutchins
Lloyd Slaman
Eugene Slaman
Elton Brooks
Eddie Smothers
Gerald Conroy
Kenneth Kennedy
Robert Wiley
Don Westrom
David Fluegel
Demmy Baitin
Karl Collins
Bill Buse
Theodore Nolfal
Harry Nofal
Jerry Mollman
Wilbur Mollman
Gordon Mollman
Eugene Martinek
Donald Myers
Kenneth Myers
Dick Bushnell
Billy Mullin
Gilbert Stevens
Killian
Warren
Lucerxe
Jallery
Killia
Delsey
Alumesh Bags
Nags
Killian Company
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