Cedar Rapids Navy Day Speaker to Talk on Modern Warfare
Capt Gebhard USN will speak at Navy Day ceremonies in Cedar Rapids at 5 p m Wednesday in the W F W hall on modern warfare and preparedness. The V F W band will perform and a new Cedar Rapids Naval Reserve aviation unit will be activated. Open house at the Organized Reserve unit runs 10 a m to 4 p m Wednesday at the naval armory Memorial Coliseum. Secretary Sullivan asks all naval personnel to wear uniforms on Navy Day.
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Capt. Gebhard
Cedar Rapids
Navy
Continental Congress
W.F.W. Hall
Second Avenue
J. C. Gebhard
USN
Ninth Naval District
James Franken
Cedar Rapids Navy League
V.F.W
Franken
Navy Mothers Club
Organized Reserve
Naval Armory
Memorial Coliseum
Secretary of the Navy
John L. Sullivan
Cambridge Platform To Be Cited This Week
Descendants of New England Puritans gather in Cambridge to mark the 1648 Cambridge platform of Church Discipline. Historians credit its town meeting roots with sparking local self-government and later U S democratic ideas. Speakers include Harvard president Conant and Yale president Seymour.
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Cambridge
Mass
New England
Congregationalism
Frederick L. Fagley
New York
Harvard
James Bryant Conant
Charles Seymour
Yale
Nebraska City News Press Stands as Nebraska's Oldest Paper
The Nebraska City News Press, based in Nebraska City, marks 93 years of operation as the oldest newspaper in Nebraska. This milestone highlights the paper's long local service and its role in the community’s civic life.
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Nebraska
Nebraska City News- Press
High Schools Exhibit National High School Photo Contest Winners
An exhibit of 65 prize winning photos from the 1948 National High School Photographic contest will be shown at Wilson Franklin McKinley and Roosevelt high schools and the public library this week and next month. Winners include a $5 prize to Roger Jennison of Seventh Avenue SE for a picture of two boys with a kite.
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Bailey Donnally, Jr
Alabama
Donnally
Eastman Kodak Company
Cedar Rapids
Roger Jennison
Seventh Avenue SE
McKinley
Roger
Wilson High School
Public
Franklin
Roosevelt
Handicapped Australian Becomes Air Force Ace
Sydney AP reports Steve Stephens of Perth lost a leg in early childhood yet joined the Royal Australian Air Force, served in the UK as a bomber rear gunner, and now excels in sport. His wooden leg is carved with airmen’s names and initials, and he has cleared 4 ft 9 in high jump and runs 100 yards in 17 seconds. He cycles a mile in three minutes and travels 60 miles for training. His leg is likely to be exhibited at Canberra's War Memorial.
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Sydney
Canberra
Steve Stephens
Perth
Stephens
Royal Australian Air Force
United Kingdom
Western Australia
Northam
Conflict hinges on two factors says Paris dispatch
Western statesmen say the risk of war with Russia in the next year depends on two questions. First if the Kremlin realizes that immediate US use of the atom bomb would devastate Soviet industry. Second if the Politburo understands that American bombs are far more destructive than those used on Japan.
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Paris
INS
Russia
Kremlin
United States
Soviet Politburo
America
Japan
Joseph Stalin
Politburo
Moscow
Europe
Western
Leningrad
United Nations General Assembly
Andrei Vishinsky
Kiwanis Speaker to address Cedar Rapids clubs at noon
Arthur J. Morris originator of the Morris plan system of industrial banking will address Cedar Rapids Kiwanis and other service clubs at noon Wednesday in the Roosevelt hotel. The event is sponsored by the Kiwanis club and reflects local interest in economic and wartime policy issues as discussed by Western statesmen and military leaders.
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Arthur J. Morris
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Mr. Morris
Kiwanis Club
Gillette to Speak at Joint Club Meeting
Former Senator Guy M. Gillette will speak at a joint meeting of the Canopus and Optimist clubs Tuesday at noon in the Roosevelt hotel and again Tuesday evening as the Democratic candidate for the U S Senate.
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Guy M. Gillette
Roosevelt Hotel
Canopus
Optimist Clubs
Gillette
U. S
Retired South Orange Man Enrolls at Bergen Junior College
Louis Rich, 85, a retired businessman from South Orange, attends Bergen Junior College in Teaneck, saying the move helps him keep up with the atomic age.
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Teaneck
N. J
Louis Rich
South Orange
Bergen Junior College
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Brice
Swatosh Insurance
Third St
Smith-Corona
Underwood Royal
Schmidt Typewriter Exchange
Typewriter
Schmidt Typewriter
Second Ave
Cedar Rapids, Is
Ace
Tee
Guaranty
Fone Home
Hoover
James Canes
Joey Ie
Kingsbury Smith
Kiwanis
Thomas E. Dewey
Vishinsky
U.N
Senate
Z.C
Emmy
Killian
Ne Appointmen
Killian Company
Iowa
Al’s
Boys Town
Collisium
Al’s Furniture
First Street
N.E
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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