YMCA Week Notes Highlight Community Activities
The Lorden music shop hosted music lessons in the community room drawing children from across the trade area. The Y sees high use of swimming and showers due to heat with about 200 towels used weekly. Dr. C A Boice tests the water weekly ensuring proper condition. Rotary presented English War pictures at Monday noon meeting. Church groups used the community room Monday evening with about 30 attending from local churches. The county U S G committee met Monday evening outlining plans for county towns. The Y M C A boys work committee met Tuesday to plan a model airplane show for late summer. Bill Shannon elected president of the Y's Men’s club Tuesday. City U S O organization met Wednesday with good turnout and enthusiasm. The preliminary U S O report shows a strong start.
Washington YMCA Receives Strong Support from Ministers
The Washington Y M C A has benefited from broad cooperation by the city ministerial association. Rev R C Keagy pastor of the Methodist church and president of the association has consistently supported the YMCA and its efforts.
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Washington Y.M.C.A
City Ministerial Association
R. C. Keagy
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Methodist Church
Washington Ministerial Association
Dr Keagy Advocates Y M C A Link To Church Work
Dr Keagy argues the Y M C A can extend church efforts to boys and young men. He serves on the Y educational committee and promotes informed discussion groups. The Y is funded by Washington donations and local memberships with annual fund campaigns. Keagy reported full pledge collection in the last drive. Community life grows through cooperative church and Y efforts.
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Keagy
Washington
Dr. Keagy
Hackney’s Origin Traced To French Riding-Horse History
An etymology note explains hack as an abbreviation of hackney, derived from the French haquenée meaning an ambling horse. The term reflects a riding-horse lineage once common for Isdies to ride.
Blood and Sand and Rookies On Parade At State and Fox
A 1941 cinema column highlights Blood and Sand starring Tyrone Power Linda Darnell and Rita Hayworth in Technicolor at the State from Sunday to Wednesday and notes Rouben Mamoulian’s direction. It also previews Rookies On Parade at the Fox theatre with Bob Crosby Ruth Terry and Eddy Foy Jr. due Sunday to Tuesday.
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Tyrone Power
Linda Darnell
Rita Hayworth
Darryl F. Zanuck
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Juan Gallardo
Spain
Juan
Siren
Hollywood
Rouben Mamoulian
Mexico City
Bob Crosby
Eddie Foy Jr
Ruth Terry
Marie Wilson
Gertrude Nelson
Cliff Nazarro
Sidney Blackmer
William Wright
Fox Theatre
Crosby
Eddy Foy, Jr
Ruth
Foy
Wright
Blood and Sand Captures Spanish Passion in Colorful Epic
An immersive Technicolor production presents a matador's sweeping rise and fall in Spain. The film blends grand visuals with a tragic love story, featuring Crosby, Ruth, Wright, and Miay Terry in a bustling cast of extras and top stars.
White Wings origins linked to 1895 New York cleaners
The term White Wings traces to street cleaners organized in 1895 by Col. George Edwin Waring to tidy New York City's streets.
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Col
George Edwin Waring
New York City
Velocity and piercing power in tornado debris explained
The text explains that small objects like straw driven at high velocity can penetrate harder materials before crushing. It notes energy of impact determines piercing power and mentions witnesses near Clarksville seeing wild deer possibly part of Cedar Falls area herds.
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Clarksville
Cedar Falls
Roosevelts Return From Global Survey Trip
Captain James Roosevelt eldest son of the president appears with his wife Romelle Schneider in a photo marking his world tour. Reports say Roosevelt may be named an aide to Col. William J. Donovan, recently commissioned as major general to oversee U S military intelligence.
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James Roosevelt
Romelle Schneider
Roosevelt
William J. Donovan
U. S. Army
Women proved better mixers in social tests
Dr A Moss of George Washington University, creator of the social intelligence test, reports that women show greater diplomacy in conversation and better sense of propriety across social settings. The finding acknowledges women's superior social ease, even as men swallow pride.
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A. Moss
George Washington University
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Bill Shannon
Y’s Men’s Club
U.S.O
Zenith
Mangold
North Low
Gruen
Westphal the Jeweler
Naatan
W. Livingston
Kansas City
Margaret
Scripps College
Pomona
Calif
Rou Ae Alli
Mera
Ava
Miay Terry
Joe Palooka
Oy Ham Fisher
Khim the
Iowa
William Kleinschmidt
Clarence Wilken
Legion Meeting
Jimmy
Mrs. Roosevelt
Berlin
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