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The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
First Arctic Explorer

y ENJAMIN FRANKLIN is famous
- for a long list of achievements
but one more should be added to the
list-that of patron of the first Amer
lean voyage of Arctic exploration.
Early in the Eighteenth century
the English parliament offered a re-
ward of 20. 600 pounds to anyone who
proved the existence of the tabled
Northwest Passage to Asia. A Brit
ish expedition set out in l746 and
was gone for year and half but
failed to find it.
Then Franklin became interested
in the project. He helped outfit the
Cotton schooner, Argo. which set
forth in 1853 under the command of
Capt. Charles SWaine. Sailing in
March, the Argo encountered ice off
Cape Farewell, but finally succeed
ed in entering Hudson'S strait in the
latter part Of June.
Here the ice packs were so high
that Swaine was forced to give up
the attempt to penetrate further
westward and to turn back to the
open sea again. He then carefully
examined the coast of Labrador be-
fore returning to Philadelphia where
he arrived in November.
The next year he made second
voyage of discovery in the same
vessel. Again he was unsuccessful
loss of three men, who were killed
on the Labrador coast. But even
though he had failed, he had won the
right to the title of First American
! Arctic Explorer and, as Carl Van
Doren, Franklin's latest biographer,
says: Here were the beginnings of
a long chapter in the history of
| American adventure"
Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
U. S. Colleges Revive Traditions
AS Alumni Return to Campus

May and June are
commencement months
on euery u. 5. college
cam pus, a period ,Uhen
alumni return to their
form er sta M ping
ground and endeared
traditions are revived.
One typical tradition
is illustrated at the
right ,oh ere H ellen
Deer and NJ AKIN e
Laughlin smoke the
pipe OF peace at the
University OF Kansas
commencement. ECeTy
member OF the gradu-
ating class does ii,
sending up in smoke all
grievances students
M ay have nurtured
during college days.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
First in Yellowstone Park

WHAT an adventure it must
w have been for the first person
who saw the Yellowstone! John Col
ter, who for three years had served
in the famous Lewis and Clark ex-
pedition, was the lucky man. He
had just left the party and estab-
lished himself with the expedition
of Manuel Lisa from st. Louis who
Travelled up the Missouri river to
trade with the Indians.
A fort was established at the Big
Horn and John Golfer was sent
ahead to notify the red men. With
courage typical of that period, he
began his lone expedition into terri
tory never before trod by even the
most courageous trappers and pi
oneers of the time.
Informed by the Indians that
ahead lay territory that was be-
deviled and that they would not pen
citrate it, his curiosity and his adj
venturous spirit impelled him to ex-
plOL IL. ne was WGll IGWdI QGu lOI
records show that, in 1903, he went
through and then completely encir-
cled what is now Yellowstone ma
tional park.
Alone, he saw before any other
person. the boiling springs, towering
geysers and strange mineral depos-
its. Not only was he a pioneer
among white men, but more adven-
turous than even the red men, being
years ahead of them in risking ex-
istence in a land where the earth
trembled and groaned, spouted fire
and Kissed steam.
When Golfer returned, he told
such an amazing story of smoking
pits and the smell of birthstone that
the men of the fort laughed at him
and told others what they thought
were ridiculous stories of Golfers
He'll" 1t was several years before
anyone else had the courage to veri-
fly his discovery.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott W aison
Long-Haired 81 riff

COMMODORE PERRY OWENS,
~ born in Tennessee in 1852. went
to Texas in the early seventies and
spent IL years there as a cowboy
before becoming foreman of a cow
outfit in New Mexico. He wore his
hair long-almost to his waist-and
carried his six-shooter on his left
side, the butt pointing forward. Old
timers in the Southwest were doubt
full whether such a "show-off' had
"real sand"
They found out he did have when,
singlehanded, he killed three Navajo
Indian cattle thieves. Then the peo-
pie of northern Arizona decided he
was the man to clean up the out
laws in their section and elected him
sheriff of Apache county in 1887.
He broke up a band of 16 cattle
rustlers after killing Ike Clanton of
Tombstone fame and two others and
capturing his brother, Finn Clanton,
leader of the gang.
But his greatest feat was his sim
gle-handed fight with four members
of the Blevans gang. one of the fac
tions in the famous Pleasant Valley
war. In this fight, which took place
in Holbrook, Perry killed three of
the four, including Andy Cooper, one
of Arizona's most dangerous gun
fighters. 1t was one of the most
desperate encounters at close quar-
ters in the history of the state, not
even excepting the famous fight at
the o. K corral in Tombstone.
Refusing reelection as sheriff,
Perry became a special agent for
the Santa Fe railroad, later express
messenger for Wells-Fargo and then
a United States marshal. He gave
up his man-hunting work in 1900
and became business man in Sell
igman where he died in 1919.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
How Women
i'm Their 4O'S
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for a woman during her
change usually from 38 to So, who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, hrs. sleep and If you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
especially for ,oomen. 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Biblical illusions to shekels and
half-shekels are numerous. but
much remains to be learned regard
ing these ancient examples of The
die cutters art. Bronze shekels were
first coined at Jerusalem about 1872
B. c.. while later issues were OF
gold. silver, copper and potion, a
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Bronze Shekels First Coined in Jerusalem

low grade copper washed with sill
yer, notes Detroit Coin club au.
thority The famous silver shekels
of Israel showed a jeweled chalice,
a Towering lily and Hebrew charac-
ters meaning Jerusalem the Holy"
Portraits of men or animals are
never found on these coins.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
The Clear Kind

"Isn't it wonderful the things
that can be made from ordinary
beef bones - piano keys, teeth,
knife and fork handles, and so
on!"
yes; and my landlady thinks
that they make soup, ALSO"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Nothing Doing

"Brown is a rotten sort of chap.
I asked him to lend me two dol
lars for a few days and he ab-
solutely refused"
"My dear fellow, this clubs full
of men like that. I'm another Of
them"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Stynied

Husband CARRYING home late)-
Can't you guess where I've been?
Wife-I can, but tell me your
story!
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Reminder

Reminder
"What's that piece of string tied
round your finger for, Bill?"
'That's knot. Forget-me-not
is a flower. With flour you make
bread, and with bread you have
cheese. This is to remind me to
get some picked onions" =
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

he being along fleeing
running board get better shot at his quarry As Emmett
Now Al could that they gaining the crooks The small
riding Al continued fire until his revolver
Ars Car Nosed Alongside the Thieves.
The big had almost caught the little Bit by bit
they gained until at last AIS car was non up beside the one in which
the two thieves were riding They were running almost hood to hood
suddenly the front turned sharply.
the crooks swervhg toward them but before he had
swiped hem knocking them to the side of the street
There another crash the uched into telephone
POLE but AL
together he caught between them and knocked down
the running board
away again, right leg
pnched between its fender and the bumper He felt tug
h e aens b1 m s s e es then ne was beng
the trying
keep going straight but shot the curb the other
of the street crossed the sidewalk plunged stretch
of bare, water-soaked prairie.
Dragged along behind it, Al felt terrific bump his body
was pulled over the curb There was terrible pain in his inn
back and sides were being bruised and lacerated.
a prairie and by
that time Al numb from pain and shock. Then the
begged down in the mud and a stop. Aps clothes
had been literally from his then still
cuched tightly in his hand
He Struggled to Get His Leg Out of the Trap.
There chance it, he but the
to halt began struggling to get leg out of its trap The
driver jumped out and north the prairie
AT last got leg loose and cawled from under the
hamer In the excitement had forgotten that emped the
leaped
to And then Al made the pinch of his life Helpless and unable to
walk much less after the fleeing
threw the empty gun after him.
gun en- straight to the caught the
and h orwar on
the street He grabbed the
o a a block away
he called the sonhuse They took Al to the Peoples hospital and
tire had ground ridge right into the flesh the dragged
he 14-year
down by Engewood policeman three days latern another
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Whenever a new engineer is as
signed to the Charlie Mccarthy pro-
gram he's initiated with the same
gag. Don Ameche and Edgar Ber-
gen pulled it on the latest recruit.
They stood in front of a micrOphOne,
moving their lips but not uttering a
sound, while the engineer nearly
went wild trying to find the trouble.
ODDS AND ENDS-The CHS Hit
Parade no,o enjoys the highest rating
in its history, and Mark WarnOtO's con-
tract has been renetOed-frSt time a
bandleader has been retained on that
program for 20 consecutive t0eeks .
Walt Disney toanted the film rights for
Maeterlinck's "Bluebird," but 10th Cen
mry-Fox got them; Shirley Temple
wiH be starred in the picture :. Pat
O'Brien is readying radio shotO that
UiU be some1Chat like the current pro-
gram OF Edioard G. Robinson -. When
Hedy Lamar and Robert Taylor fin
ish "Lady of the Tropics" they'll start
"CunS and Riddles" - they seem to
make an excellent cO-starring team
Robert Montgomery leaues soon for
England, to make t,VO pictures.
Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Of course, this matter of being
movie star isn't half so much fun
for a child as other children are
likely to think it is. Irene Dare,
(another siX-year-ol6 who is work.
ing in Everything on Ice" can tes-
tify to that. She rises at $3.50 every
morning, practices skating until
eleven, then has ballet lesson for
an hour. After lunch she has a
dramatic lesson, then another hour
of skating practice, although she is
an accomplished skater. Her spare
time is filed with fittings for cos
tunes and tests for hairdressing and
makeup.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Equally Guilty

Those who consent to the act
and those who do it shall be pun
ished equally.-Coke.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Peggy Ann Garner, a six-year-old
native of Los Angeles, won out over
100 other children in tests to find
just the right child to play the part
of Carole Lombard's daughter in
Memory of Love-" She is mex
perienced but she has charm and
her tests were good, so she was
signed up to appear with Miss Lom-
bard, Helen Vinson and Katherine
Alexander, starting, perhaps, on the
road to fame.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Hopes Blasted

"Jack, DEAR" she murmured.
II hardly know how to tell you,
t-soon-soon-th will be a
third sharing our little love-nest."
"My darling" he cried, "are
you certain?"'
Positive" she replied. 81 had
a letter from Mother this after
noon saying she's coming to live
with us next week"
The tough said: eff your wife
wasn't here I'd knock your block
off," With that his wife left the
room. A sporting gesture?
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

4 boue: Supre m e
Court Justice Stanley
Reed third from. LETT
joins Yale alumni in
singing "Boola Boola"
at the annual barn party
,Chere, each commence
nlent time, a diStin'
guiShed alumni is pre-
Sented Nth the Mont
clair Yale borUl SYM
bolic Of outstanding
achievement. Left: Vel
lesley colleges cap and
gOtCn procession be-
tioeen ro,US Of alumni,
perhaps the most uni
uerSaHy Observed Amer-
ican commencement ira
dition.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Another radio serial will reach
the screen before so very long. 1t is
Hometown" heard over WIS,
which stars Lulu Belle and Skyland
Scotty, and will be filmed by Re-
public Productions.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

rehearsing for two weeks, so that
the American Negro spiritual mu-
sic will have the true beauty and
charm of the Deep South.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
THAT'LL Do

"And what is a seasoned trOOp?'
Zone that has pep and ginger
in it / guess"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Remember Aileen Pringle, you
folks who went to the movies in the
days of silent pictures? You'll see
her again in Girl From Nowhere"
with Anne Nagel and Warren Hull.
Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way
flier, won't make another picture
after all, at least not for RKO. And
Eddie Cantor is not to make ''The
Flying Yorkshireman" for that firm,
after all. Both plans were just
cases of misplaced enthusiasm, ap-
parently.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

Phil Baker is probably one of the
most spoiled husbands in the world.
When he and his wife travel in Eu-
rope she takes along a supply Of
American groceries, because he
doesn't like continental food.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
At the Public Library

Bombers, pursuit planes, scouting
craft, seaplanes, transatlantic
transports, aircraft of peace and war
are in the headlines of today. With
land and sea explored and charted,
it is little wonder that young people
turn to the air to satisfy the youth
full desire for adventure. More than
10000 students will be taught the
intricacies of flight this year and
countless other thousands will read
the thrilling accounts of past per-
formances of young men and women
who have heard the wind whistling
through the struts. The Public Ii
brary, Eighth and K streets NV,
and its branches have a large COL
lection of books dealing with aero
nautics, almost all of which are Of
special interest to young people.
Among these are the experiences
of famous pilots during the World
War. Cecil Lewis, in his "Sagit-
tarius Rising" tells the story of his
life through four years in the Royal
Air Force. Charles Nordhoff and
James Hall fictionalize their en-
gagements over the lines in a fine
book, Falcons of France
In the more peaceful fields of ex-
ploration and civilian endeavor two
of the best books are by Anne Lind
bergh, North to the Orient" and
Listen, the Wind" each of which
describes phase in the develop
ment of trans oceanic aviation, both
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Best Sellers in Principal Cities
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
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Steinbeck Tradition Frances Parkinson Keyes
The Nazarene' Shoem Asch.
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Rauschnng; of H. G. Wells Inside
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Ficton-Pau Square" Kent; kitty Foyle,"
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Days of Our Years." Pierre van Paassen
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Evening star., 1939-11-19

exciting accounts of pioneer ex-
ploration. A young Frenchman,
Antoine de st. Exupery, has recently
published his account of aviation
pioneering in Africa and South
America under the title Wind, Sand
and Stars" This work and his
novel Might Flight" present vivid
story of hardship and daring in the
still young field of flying.
There are a number of excellent
biographies of pilots, both young
men and young women. Amelia
Earhart wrote two before her un-
timely death, "The Fun of 1t" and
Last Flight" James Collins gives
an introduction to an entirely differ
ent side of aviation in his TEST
Pilot" In Il Wanted Wings Beirne
Lay tells of his experiences in be-
coming a United State Army pilot
Nor should the first great individual
achievement in flying be forgotten
as recounted in Charles A. Lind
bergh's I'VE"
Young people are interested not
only in reading about these pioneer
adventurers of the air, but in find
ing out how they themselves may
find opportunity in aviation. For
them. the best and most complete
book is one by Carl Norcross, Get
ting Job in Aviation" and for
those who desire to know the his
tory of mans attempts to fly, there
is Chelsea Frasers Story of Avia-
ton"
Evening star., 1939-11-19
In Stains Secret Service

By W. G. Kriuitsky Neo York: Harper Brothers,
Some of this work seiazed
Post The publishers however that there considerable
material in the volume The author the chief the Soviet
Service for Europe and what he telling us here the way
Stains dealing neighbo
these last several 1t is not pretty story
According Stains diplomatic the last
has alliance with proetarian
dictator Hitler
Hers The demoac seemed the head
of the Sovets dspcab When Stain
England himself where
would KrvtSky
idea length.
played aid" in
author precisely
radicals of Spain bring the Com
complete
this instituted
supposedly
crippled defense which
murderous intrigue When
enthusiastic Spaniard their
this peculiarly sickenng
Other the book discuss the organization of the Ogpu
Bolshevk interesting that there
certain false front through which says
the Communist party He names giving this kind OF ccomnoda
Labor Defense the International Workers Aid the Friends the Soviet
of funds Communist
Side Russia from the and diplomatic
traditional immunity from the great instrument
of transport this NC r.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
probably typical of the small-city,
upper middle class family.

probably typical of the small-city
upper middle class family.
However, this book would gain in
force and artistic status were some
of the characters little more mixed
Had the author remembered that
there is some good in the worst
of us and some bad in the best of
us, were Sam a little less of tin
angel and Donald and Tony just
grayish devils instead of deep, dark,
black ones, the reader might be will
ing to concede more to the verisim-
ilitude of the rest of the volume.
AS said before, Gentle Wife, is
on the whole. fairly true to life
The ending, however, is utterly false
The last-minute oil gusher and re-
conciliation are extremely improb-
able. Nor do they answer the prob
lem or even attempt to settle the
question for either the characters
in the book or humanity R. r. T.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Casey Jones
By Fred J. Lee. Kingsport::
Southern Publishers, Inc.

Southern Publishers, Inc.
Believe it or not, Fred j. Lee, who
wrote this book, was conductor on
the train in which Casey Jones had
the wreck which has immortalized
him. The reviewer, somehow, al
ways thought of Casey's famous
smash as taking place out in
legendary limbo; it never occurred
to her that it was a real event. But
here is Mr.. Lee, bringing the ballad
right into the moment and bringing
with him also a considerable fund
of picturesque railroad history,
slang and characters. His book is
well worth the reading.
The story of Casey is a touching
one. His name was John Luther
Jones and he was only Is when he
decided (on first seeing train
that he was going to be an engineer.
Large for his age, he succeeded in
getting railroad employment when
he was only II, and from that time
on he apparently never thought of
or desired any other kind of life.
The history given here tells of his
successive jobs, of the men he met,
OF his courtship and marriage and of
various adventures which took place
under his eyes when, an inexperi-
enced country boy, he was brought
by his job into contact with the
life along the city tracks. Only the
last chapter deals with the wreck,
which was, in many ways, different
from the description given in the
ballad. Casey, it seems, was obliged
to make long run in which he was
expected to catch UP lost time, just
after he had completed his regular
run, thus doubling his job on one
allowance of sleep. NotwithStand-
ing exhaustion, he made up most of
the lost minutes. according to this
author, who, surely, ought to know.
The wreck, it appears, was not due
to Caseys WEAKNESS, though it
might we'll have been. 1t was due
to disabled air brake which made
it impossible to move a freight off
a switch which Casey supposed to
be clear. The wreck killed no one
but himself and injured only a few.
The author of the ballad, says Mr..
Lee, was one Wallace Stevens, an
illiterate Negro boy who hung
around the yards and conceived an
admiration for the big engineer.
He gives the original version as Wal
lace composed it; like the true story
of the wreck, it is different in many
respects from the one popularly ac-
cepted.
NJ .C .
Evening star., 1939-11-19
The New Democracy and the New Despotism
By Charles E. Merriam NeU York: Whittlesey House

In scholarly study that probes beneath
current conflict between democracy depotm
te assumptions upon which democracy has been built and the
which those assumptions validated
Vast have technology
for the future The problem
social that Will provide jobs security adequate standard
living for all Essential
democracy work including development and planning
OF national Also world
II necessary, which outawed
Equally important faith in demoacy political ideals
ties of the Of abundance.
The book by outstanding authority the field political
a
mntals of democracy
democracy must succeed. CBF
Evening star., 1939-11-19
The Day Before
yeU York: G. P. Putndm's Sons.

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has to write Of being upon
pass billboard done hrsate miniature artist fondy
living. Further
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OF physical realities is might almost his familiar ground he
sight into the supernatural His rather aspects
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rates among the immortal annals Of mans wandering
When he making novels at his best he simply sticks an arbitrary
worst he description arbitrary
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clerk who reos against the dull business M being shipping clerk CLERK
ping off Whether
be pretty sure however that wanted
which he makes his heroes repeat that maneuver indicates long, deep
the eongenisl whom he has always
becomes the conversation Of the characters carried against back
ground of wonder with somewhere ship sinking This formula
his book starts he determined let mi repeat eat
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@ M
1s silent and pss e
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and run In
young man falls love And the S end since Mr. romnon Ton m must must
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real None of is more more than Mr. Tms0n talking to himself
man and 6 K chesterton
in their dreams of another era ohesterton was medeast &
people fiction cheeon bright fantasies compounded
like to believe that once steamship sight
drop her tunnels prout sails and set out for Ell Dorado @
faint ghost Neither can conviction in writ writing GO Of love Both
hopees who combines these attributes
recognizable shade of yet both Of them have written great
school