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The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Local Golf Club
Planning Another
Active Season

During the past two weeks con-
siderable work has been done on
the Coolidge golf course and it Is
now in excellent condition The
benches, bag racks and markers
have been painted and the fair
ways have been scraped clean of
weeds and widened. The recent
rains have packed them making
them firm and dustless. The sand
green's have been loosened and
fresh oiled-sand added to each one
of them and the tees have been
built up and oiled.
c. ]. Moody, playing with Clark
Wells, shot fine 80 the other
day and is improving so fast that
some of the boys are beginning to
worry And last Sunday, George
Hayduke came in with 33, two
under par After shooting an
eagle" on No. 1 and ''birdies'
on and Z, he came up to the last
hole 4 under par, but got on
9 when he hit into trouble in the
rough.
Maurice Zahalsky, erstwhile
golfer par excellence, was heard
to remark the other day that he
was glad a certain counsellor had
recently moved into town. Just
like wish" And John Goree has
been threatening to even things
up this year by "scalping" a local
young M. D. Otis Sasser and Nick
Hayduke are about to begin their
annual golf feud.
All golfers and would-be golfers
are urged to play golf and to take
advantage of the golf course while
it is in such good shape and this
fine weather we are now having
School teachers are especially wei
come to play and to learn the
game. 1t is a good exercise Of
you need it, and a lot of fun, even
if you play in the rough most OF
the time.
Season membership cards (Sept
1910 to Sept. 194D are now avail
able from ]. Phil Claridge, secre'
tary-treasurer. Rates are $500 per
year with a special rate of $3.oo
per year for school teachers.
A club meeting will be held soon
for election of new off1cers
Several local tournaments are
scheduled for the near future
among them being the mixed two
ball foursome, mems handicap
ladies' handicap, mems champion
ship. ladies' championship, and, OF
course, the Coolidge fourth annual
invitational golf tournament.
The Boyd Cup tournament fol
the Pinal county club championship
will also be held here. The Coo
lidge team comprised of George
Hayduke, Mike Hayduke, NICK
Hayduke and Otis Sasser won the
championship last year.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Local Boosters
SoftbaII Team
Given Banquet
Guests of Chamber Of
Commerce Monday
Evening

AS compliment to the Coolidge
Boosters softball team which last
month climaXed its season with a
successful tour in southern Cali
fornia, the Coolidge Chamber of
Commerce entertained members of
the ball team and others at a
banquet in the Community church
basement Monday evening.
HonOred as members of the
championship softballers were
Louie Gastellum, Bob Simmons,
Pitcher David Davis Capt Dale
GLADDEN., Bill Wilcox, Cecil Will
bourn, Bill Keith and Paul Smith.
Other guests included Herman
Libkind, mathematics instructor,
and Arnold Kelm, social science
and band instructor, both of the
Coolidge Union high school; A. G..
Wren, past president of the Flor
ence Chamber of Commerce; his
son, Harold Wren, of the maya
zine, Arizona Highways; and
Francis l. Coffey of The Exam
iner.
AS guest speaker of the eve
ming, Mr.. Harold Wren showed
movies of the Grand Canyon,
Boulder dam, Lake Mead, and of
the Southwestern National Monu-
ments. These films were supple
mented by one taken by r. J,
Jones at the Indian pow-wow in
Flagstaff.
Introduced as the successful
manager of the softball team, Ray
Lindemann presented Louie Gas
tellum who in turn introduced the
other members of the team and
gave a brief history of the Coo
lidge Boosters.
Mr.. Guastellum stated that the
club, organized in 1891 won the
Tempe Southside tournament that
year and repeated again in 1888.
In 1899 the club decided to try for
the state championship which it
won in class B, emitting the boys
to a trip to San Francisco. Due to
the fact that it was late in the
season, the Boosters decided to
wait until this year when they
made their trip to Callfornla.
While there they played six games
with top-notch teams in Ell Centro,
Indio, Riverside, San Jacinto and
Cotton, and came through with
an even break.
During the business meeting,
conducted by r. ]. Jones, reports
were given by the various com
mittees. the one of most interest
being the house numbering pro
ject by A. P Whitehead.
Members present were Phil
Neece, C. A. Anderson, DR.. K. v
Campbell, J. G. Jayne, Nose Coop
er, r. E. Webb, R. w. Chadborn
Earl Hicks, r. ]. Jones, Paul w
Loucks, James Luthy, Kenyon Har-
ris, C. J. Moody, Coy Hamilton
Waldo Slack and Sam Langford.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10

would be hazardous to crowds
meeting in the county building,
and that a lot for the Justice of
the peace building was bought for
that purpose and onthing else.
Other advocates propose that
the firehouse be built in the coun-
ty park west of the Community
church where it would be cen
trally located, citing that it would
involve no additional lot purchase
il the Board of Supervisors APP
proves and would be looking to
the future of Coolidge.
However, it is pointed out, this
is practically out of the question
as Roland Ellis deputy county at
torney, has ruled the park cannot
be used without the consent Of
every property owner.
The Volunteer Fire company
would like to locate their new
home on a separate lot of their
own and are trying to cope with
the same to that end with their
limited finances. If such plan
could be worked out it would prob
ably be the most feasible, many
observers point out.
At any rate, the final decision
rests with the Coolidge Volunteer
Fire department, and the truck is
remaining comfortably situated at
the Arizona Edison CO. plant as
its temporary headquarters.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
GROWING TOWN IN WEST
HAS FIRETRUCK WITH NO HOME.

Coolidge gained some national
publicity in August when it bought
a new fire truck which was
transported all the way from Col
umbus. Ohio, bearing the sign:
This Seagraves truck is going to
Coolidge, AriZona-the fastest
growing town west of the Rock
les"
Yes, Coolidge Is a fast growing
town-at least from a standpoint
of housing the new vehicle-for
differing opinion has arisen as to
where and what type of home
should be built for the fire en-
CINE, some believing that contin-
ued growth calls for changing
original plans.
Original plans were to erect a
fire station adjacent to the coun-
ty building in which are located
the justice Of the peace, deputy
sheriff and constable offices.
Advocates of this move point
out that it would be economical
in that someone is usually there to
take care of fire emergencies and
that the budget set up for fire de-
partment finance requires this
economy.
Opponents to erecting the house
in connection with the county
building say that such a struc-
ture would cut OF ventilation and
light from the present building.
that firehouse located there
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Candidates For State Offices
Speak at Democratic Ralley

A democratic rally was held
Tuesday evening at the Justice OF
of Peace office.
The following candidates gave
short speeches: Joe Conway, nom
inee for attorney general; Ed
Ring, nominee for state superin-
tendent of public instruction;
Warren Peterson. nominee for
state tax commissioner; Joe Hunt,
nominee for state treasurer; Har-
rv Moore, nominee for state secre-
tary; Judge E. w. Mcfarland,
candidate for United States sena-
tor.
Another rally was held later in
the evening at Florence.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Coolidge Boys Sail
For Philippine Islands

Sailing for Philippine Islands,
Tuesday. Oct. s, were two Coolidge
boys, John Alton Squires, son or
Mr.. and Mrs. Aleck Squires, and
Lawdell Pates, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. A. Yates.
The two boys are enlisted in
the costal department of the army
corps. Since leaving Coolidge a
month ago the boys have been
stationed at FIT. Mcdowell on
Angel Island, near San Francisco.
They both have enlisted for two
years. Mr.. Yates has been trans
ferred from Fort Bliss. where he
served a year in the army unit.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Field Appraiser Visits
In Coolidge Tuesday

E. o. Lusby, field appraiser for
the Federal Land bank of Berkel-
ey, was in Coolidge Tuesday af-
ternoon in connection with new
loans on farms in this vicinity.
A L. Bartlett manager of the
local Farm Credit office, reports
an increasing interest in these Fed
eral Land bank loans and that he
has recently received several ap-
plications from prospective bor-
rowers who wish to take advant-
age of the long term and low in
terest rate now being offered.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Ordinance At The
Community Church

The ordinance for the deacons
and elders was held during a
special community church service
last Sunday night, and the follow
ing were installed: Elders:
Messrs. Ralph Sewell, and j. }.
Jones, n d Mesdames James
Luthy. C. ]. Moody, R. w. Taylor,
and Matt N. Dodge. Deacons are;
R. w. Taylor, Gene Stonehocker,
Mrs. ]. ]. Jones, George Trultt,
Harry Culbert and Miss Gladys
Roche.
The following united with the
church: Mesdames Carl McFar-
land, Lora Ballard, and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. w. Taylor.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Home Economics Club
Elects Its Officers

The Home Economics club,
directed by Mrs. Viola Loucks,
has elected the following to serve
during the year: Helen Sellers,
president; Mary Briton, vice-presl-
dent; Vida Stubblefield, secre-
tary; Tressia Akers, treasurer;
and Natallee Dodge and Gloria
Appel, scrapbook editors.
This year the members of the
club consist of 60 high school girls,
the largest number in the history
Of the club. Initiation was held
recently for 27 girls.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Rural Route Will
Be Extended Soon

Postmaster ]. B. Boone OF the
local postoffice announces a four
mile extension of the rural route
from Coolidge which will now in
clude the Rancho Iona Verde, 10
miles southwest Of town. The ex-
tension will start next Wednesday.
The route, carried by r. E.
Cosgrove, will measure slightly
more than so miles.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Draft Registration Is
Holiday Next Wednesday

All the men and boys in town
are looking forward to Registra-
ton day, which has been proclaim
ed by Governor Jones as a hol1-
day. Oct. 16. School will close in
Pinal county.
The Coolidge Examiner will go
to press, as usual, Wednesday
evening and would appreciate all
news being brought in on Tues
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Dust Storm Visits
Coolidge Friday

A terrific dust storm visited
Coolidge Friday afternoon about
2 o'clock, lasting for nearly 30
minutes. The storm was followed
by several hard showers in the
early part of the evening, causing
the weather temperature to fall
several degrees.
Some old-timers claim it the
worst storm In the history of Coo
lidge.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Local Woman's Club To
Meet This Afternoon

The Coolidge Woman's club will
hold It's first meeting Of the year
at the club house this afternoon
from to 5. The meeting will be
the annual tea for the ladies and
their guests. Mrs. r. w. Taylor
will be in charge of the affair and
will be assisted by a social COM
mittee of the following ladies':
Mesdames Ronald Elsberry. Fred
Jamison, w. R. Elliot. w. D.
Johnson, Clark Wells. Clifford
Clements.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Conuty Al Team Wins

Awards Of special gold medals
have been approved for the coun-
ty winning All team in the ma
tional dairy production demonstra-
ton, contest. according to word
received at the county extension
agents office
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Mrs. King New Operator
At Effie's Beauty Shoppe

Mrs. King, formerly of Kingman,
is the new operator at Effle'S
Beauty Shoppe. She is replacing
Miss Bernice Patterson, who has
gone to Bisbee.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Building At Oldberg
Damaged In Storm

During a hard wind storm Fri
day afternoon, a large cement
building belonging to the U. 5.
Indian irrigation service, at Old
berg was badly damaged.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Lions Hears Speeches
By Toastmasters Club

The Toastmasters club of Phoe-
nix were the honored guests and
principal speakers at a dinner
given by the Lions club at the
Community church recreational
room last evening.
The program was in charge Of
DR.. r. V. Campbell, program
chairman.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
ON BUYING TRIP

Mrs. Iva Haynes OF the Coo
lidge Rummage is in Los Angeles
this week on a buying trip.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10
Plays at Picacho

Ray Lindemann and his Or
chestra played for a dance at Pi-
cacho Tavern last night.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10

The Examiner specializes in
commercial job printing.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-10-10

First subscriber On my list from
Tucson is Howard A. Reynolds of
the Pima Printing Co., for whom
/ have worked the past year. A
close second Is Joe WI Hop"
Hopkins of the Acme Printing Co.
who is well known to many Coo
lidge people for his advanced
work in the Masonic lodge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25
ITALIANS BLAST
CHURCHILL TALK
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In a blast Of sarcasm and indig.
nation sharply contrasting with
his regular drawing broadcasts
to the armed forces, Ansaldo de-
nounced ChurchilTs attempt to
subvert Italians, declaring that
Ealy's two war aims were:
First, ito keep our word of
honor with our Germany a n d
second, ito shake off the humilia-
ton Of always being threatened
by England, bottled up in the
Mediterranean and stopped"
Ansaldo, whose newspaper is
owned by II Duce's son-in-law,
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano, recalled the economic sane
tons against Italy during her cam
paign in Ethiopia and vexations
which, he said Italy has suffered
from the British contraband con-
troll during her acknowledgement
period in the present war.
1T is fine for him to talk of
sympathy for the Italian people,"
Ansaldo said of Churchill, but
added that Italians have not for
gotten that England tried to
strange us and starve u.s."
It is the old English game of
trying to separate the church from
the people, Ansaldo asserted. He
added that they tried it with
Napoleon and Wilhelm II land
now are trying it with Italy,"
"But Italy is not allowing her.
self to be fooled" he went on.
"She knows too well her fate if
the maneuvers succeeded. S h e
would be reduced to the state of
a massed colony"
Taking his cue for the govern
ment's earlier statement t h a t
Churchill made his appeal "at the
height Of the struggle" Ansaldo
said 1--WE Italians are not entirely
without ability to observe it is
very significant that Churchill
found it necessary to make such
an appeal now"
h e newspaper II Giornale
d'Italian reported, meanwhile, that
80 German pilots visited II Duce's
birthplace. at ,Forli in passing
through that town, but it failed
to say where they were headed.
Forli is in northeast Italy, near
the Adriatic coast opposite Yugo-
~slavia,
Gan informed, Rome source said
last Friday that German trans
port planes wer being used to
ferry fascist troops across the
Adriatic to the Albanian front and
that German Stuka dive-bombers,
operated by Italian pilots, were
serving with Mussolini's forces in
Albania.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25
OFFICIALS PAY
SAWYER TRIBUTE
Hundreds Gather At Columbia
To Honor Late Road
Commissioner

COLUMBIA, S. c., Des. 24.-R
ranking state and military
officials joined hundreds Of other
persons here today to pay final
tribute to Lieut.. Col. Ben M. Saw
yere, chief highway commissioner,
who died Sunday.
Sawyer, So years old, and for
the last IA years executive head
of the highway department, was
credited with developing the South
Carolina highway system from a
few hundred miles of paved roads
in 1926 to a network of more than
6, 900 miles of first class highways.
|. In the years he served as chief
commissioner, Sawyer was a po-
litical storm center, especially in
the administration Of Governor
Olin D. Johnston.
Gov. Johnston sought to remove
Sawyer from office and when
Sawyer refused to resign, Johns
ton called out the malta and
forced him from office together
with other members Of the com
mission.
After a long legal battle, the
courts held that Johnston had ex'
ceeded his authority and Sawyer
was restored to office.
Throughout his career, Sawyer
worked constantly for t h e ex.
pansion of the states highwa,
system and against diversion O.
funds ear-marked for the depart
ment.
The Shandon Baptist church
was filled to capacity for the fun
eral services and hundreds O.
other friends and admirers Of the
chief commissioner gathered out
side the church.
Sawyer died of accidental as
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25
NEGRO IS HELD
ON ASSAUlTC COUNT
Is Charged With Ravish-
ing Greenwich Society
4. Matr0n

- GREENWICH, Conn.,, Dec. d.
R-A physician, describing MS
first conversation with Mrs. Elean'
or strubing, comely Greenwich So
cietv matron, testified today She
told him that her negro butler
cave 70 my bedroom with a knife
and raped me-"
DR. Francis G. Reir Of White
plains. N. Y, under cross-exami'
nation in town court, swore the
92.vear-old Mrs. strubing said:
"My house man must have gone
berserk. He came to my bedroom
door with a knife and raped me.
Pm awful1y glad to be alive.
7 don't think I could have stood
il much longer"
The butler, Joseph Spell, 81,
pleaded innocent to a charge OF
rape and sat Internationally
through the three hour hearing in
which he was ordered bound over
to the next term Of the superior
court under 5000 bail.
DR.. Zeier said Mrs. Strubing,
wife of John K. Strubing, Jr., had
"a look of horror and fright on
her face" when she was brought
to his office on Dec. II after a
truck driver found her climbing
from a reservoir into which she
alleges the butler hurled her.
She talked in a high pitched
voice and seemed to be fleeing
from something or someone" de-
clared the physician. He said her
clothes were disheveled and she
was bruised.
No member of the Strubing fami-
ly was present and spectators
were barred from the hearing.
Spell, said by Assistant Prose-
cutor Archibald H. Tunic to have
confessed Is hours after the al
legged assault, was represented by
counsel for the National associa-
ton for the advancement of color
ed people.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25

could determine whether it could
lend its efforts toward ending the
war.
II do not speak Of a peace Of
appeasement," Tydings told re-
porters, but a peace Of justice"
Such a peace, he said, would
have to be accompanied by a
measure of actual, as well as
promised, disarmament. His own
opinion of AUST peace" he said,
would involve the restoration of the
political sovereignty of Norway,
Denmark, The Netherlands, Bel
GUM and Frence, and the possible
creation Of Polish and Czechoslo-
vakian states.
In emphasizing the ship problem,
Purvis raised again a question
which is under exhaustive study
by various governmental agencies.
Whether any plan had been
worked out for supplying immed-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25

late assistance, however, was I'm
determined.
A British suggestion tina: ''ene-
my" ships tied up in American
ports might offer a partial solution
has brought a warning from Ber-
lin and Rome that a move to turn
these over to Britain would be a
''warlike. act"
The warnings have brought nc
formal reaction from government
officials. Secretary Of State Hull
twice has said, in reply to ques.
tons, that he had no comment.
In addition to u Italian and 2
German ships now idle in Amer,'
can ports, there are 81 Danish yes.
sells. % French, and IL Latvian OF
Estonian.
Seizure Of the French ships and
their release to the British prob
ably would strain American rela'
tons with the Vichy government
at a time when efforts apparently
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25

are being made to strenuu
them to offset Axis pressure sa
Chief of State Petain. W
Such a move against the Esto,
ian and Latvian ships would WV
ably prove harmful to the c,,r,s '''
efforts to improve relations
Soviet Russia. WIN
Officials have indicated that ~.
gressional action would be- na con
airy for requisitioning anv fns' 'es'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25
SHIPS AND WAR
MATERIALS ARE
BIG PROBLEM
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.oe,oent as a move to speed up
the output of war supplies.
Purvis would not discuss the
Presidents new plan for leasing
or lending war materials to the
British as a means Of solving the
nroblem of financial assistance.
Puryis' views on the Importance
of speeding up wal supplies during
the next so or 80 days conceded
with the opinion, held in high ad-
ministration quarters, that a seri-
Gus British emergency might arise
in that period from an intensified
German effort to 'knock out the
British Isles. d.
Purvis explained that he was not
implying that the British feared
military peril soon but asserted
that IF you understand that the
strategy of this var depends on
the dominant supply of weapons,
you will realize the importance Of
the next few weeks"
When asked whether there was
any danger of a British collapse
he said:
1.-The word isn't even in our die
%tionary."
Meanwhile, a proposal came
from Senator Tydings (D-Mo), tina
the United States seek statements
from Britain and the Axis power.
on their conditions for a negotiated
peace. From such statements, he
said, the American government
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25
WARNS
ON 'DEFEATISM'
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to have the tree and the spectators
inside the White House grounds
next year and to deliver his ad-
dress from the White House porch,
IF we are all here" The qualifica-
ton recalled his remark upon leav-
ing Warm Springs recently, when
he expressed a hope to return in
March IF the world survives"
The ceremony this year took
place, as usual, in a park known
as the E1lipse between the White
House and the Washington monu.
ment, where a living cedar had
been decked with ornaments and
lights which sprang to vari-colored
life when the President pressed a
button.
Declaring it "unintelligent" to
be defeatist, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
"crisis may beget crisis, but the
progress underneath does n I
WIDELY halt 1t does 60 forward"
He saw "a definite betterment'
for the human race compared with
the days when Charles Dickens
wrote the christmas Carol
which Mr.. Roosevelt reads to his
family every Christmas Eve, but
he said there still was "much-oh
so much-to do"
'Most of all we ask a chance
to do it yes, a peaceful chance te
do it," he continued.
I'VE want to do it the voluntary
way-and most human beings in
all the world want to do it the
voluntary way. We do not want tc
have the way imposed on the world
by the conquest of the world by
the sword"
He intimated there was no isola'
ton for anyone from wars, re-
marking: =.
mankind is all one-and what
happens in distant lands tomorrow
will leave its mark on the happi'
ness of our Christmases to come
The President drove to the cere'
mony with his wife and mother;
his sister.in-law, Mrs. ]. r. Roose'
welt; MI. and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr.; Harry L. Hopkins,
iformer Commerce secretary, and
the latterI's eight-year-old daugh'
ter, Diana. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-25
Christmas Nearness
Saves Lad From Loss

DETROIT, Dec. pa Up "A Is
year-old delivery boy saved IS cents
for his Christmas tonight because
a robbery occurred &c close to the
holiday.
Clarence Brandenberg was present
today when two gunner took $275
from Edward Cross, a grocer. 'sThey
asked me how much I had" Clar-
ence told police, land when I told
them 95 cents in Christmas tips
they said .oh well, we won't take
that away from you"