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Show Plans Set For Annual Poppy Day Campaign Poppy Day will be observed. !n C i:lar Clly and inroughout the Untied States on Saturday, May 23. Alene Leigh, President of the C.1-dar C.1-dar City unit of the American L g-lon g-lon Auxiliary, has announced. Memorial popples to be worn In honor of the dead of both world wars will b distributed on the streets throughout the day by volunteer vol-unteer workers from the Auxiliaries of the Am rlcan Legion and Veterans Veter-ans of Foreign Wars. Contributions Contribu-tions received In exchange for the flowirs will be used In relief and rehabilitation work for disabled veterans, their families and the amllles of the dead. Extensive preparations for Poppy Day are being made by the L gun Auxillaiy and the Veterans of foreign W.irs units under the dlrec tlon of Mrs. Blanche Dotson. and Mrs. Kdu Fife, Poppy chairmen. The volunteer workers are being organized organ-ized in fi teams and assigned to locations lo-cations in the downtown area. R m-denee m-denee areas also will be covered to give evcriime un opportunity to pay tribute to the war dead by Acurlng a memorial flower. Tlie popples have been ordered from the state Department where th'y are being made by disabled .eterans of both wars, working un-ler un-ler the direction of the Veterans' Administration Hospitals, D part-ment part-ment of the American Legion Auxiliary Aux-iliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars, riiey tin crepe replicas of the urocan wild poppy which bloomed bloom-ed on the battlefields of France nnd Belgium In both wars and which has b come a world-w!d' ymbol of remembrance of America's Ameri-ca's battle dead. |