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Show Spurns German Made Poppies Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "Toppies made in Germany are not fit to honor hon-or our boys who perished on Flanders fields," said the women of the American Ameri-can Legion auxiliary at a hastily called meeting here Monday when they voted to bum 10.000 cloth poppies pop-pies in a public bonfire on the municipal mun-icipal island. The poppies had been purchased to sell on Toppy day, which falls. When It was discovered they were German made the auxiliary auxil-iary women voiced a vehement protest pro-test and voted almost unanimously to burn them In public. |