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The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
Valley National Bank
Declares Dividends

At an adjourned meeting Of the
Board of Directors of the Valley
National Bank, held Tuesday, Jan.
2, 1910, the Directors authorized
payment as of January 2 Of 25c
per share regular divident and a
25c per share special divident to.
stockholders of record of Decem-
ber 81.
The combined divident payment,
amounting to s60,000.00, is the
second of the same amount paid
this year to the holders of Valley
National Bank common stock.
Total payments for the year
amount to s12O, 100000, or s1.OO per
share on the 10000 shares out
standing.
Directors aso authorized the
following promotions in the Off
cial staff: H. L. Dunham, Cashier,
promoted to vice-president. Carl A.
Bimson, assistant vice-president,
promoted to vice-president. Eugene
E. Lee, assistant vice-president
promoted to vice-president. w. R.
Montgomery, assistant vice-presi-
dent, promoted to cashier. L. w.
Fletcher and r. G. Zepeda, assist
ant cashiers, promoted to assist
ant vice-presidents. 10 Abbot of
the Phoenix office, and Mundey
Johnson and H. e. Harrington of
tn Tucson office, promoted to as
sistant cashiers.
Salary increases for employees,
amounting to s3O,OO0.O0, were ap-
proved at the Board Of Directors
meeting. This amount represents
approximately 5 per cent OF the
total payroll.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
Few Changes Seen In
1910 Range Program

Evidence of the fact that the
Triple-A Range Program has been
accepted generally throughout the
Western Region is seen in the
slight alteration in the 1910 Triple
A Range Program.
The main change occurs in the
practice which deals with natural
reseeding by deferred grazing.
In the 1889 program the period of
deferred grazing was 120 days
from June Is to October Is and
was designated by the State Com
mittee. The 1910 program stipu-
lates that the deferred period shall
rot be less than 80 consecutive
days and set by the county COM
mittee not later than Is days prior
to the beginning of such period.
In successfully completing the
deferred grazing practice t h e
rancher earned 60 percent of his
range-building allowance in 1888.
For 1910 the operator will earn rs
per cent of his range-building al
lowance as the payment for practic
ing deferred grazing provided he
spends back this money on his
range as a form of supplemental
practices. The payment an opera
tor receives from deferred grazing
shall not exceed the value of the
supplemental practices.
The other change is in the rate
of payment for contour listing,
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04

"The administrations apologists
always says the budget cannot be
balanced. There is only one con-
clusion found to that argument.
That conclusion is national bank
ruptcy and initiation, the destruc-
ton Of the American system of
private enterprise, and probably
the destruction of democracy it.
self 1t is an unthinkable al
ternative.''
Senator Taft has referred the
country to the Presidents budget
balancing promises of 1882 as
strong argument for a return to
sanity in the management of the
peoples money.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
Woodmen of the
World To Organize

WOodmen of the World will or
ganize in Coolidge Monday Janu-
ary Sth at 1880 p. m. in the
Masonic Hall.
Fifteen new members will be
initiated. A degree team from
Phoenix will be present to put in
the work.
Visitors are expected from Casa
Grande, Florence, Chandler and
Phoenix. J. E. Barnes and H. I.
Shochley of Chandler are organiz-
ers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
Florence Junior
Rodeo Success

The Florence Junior Rodeo en-
tertained an enthusiastic crowd of
more than 1000 spectators on the
rodeo grounds on Sunday and
Monday. The big parade was led
by the Florence Union High
School band. The performers were
Is years or under and the many
exhibitions were exciting and
clever, many prizes were awarded.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
A. A. A. Announces
Acreage Goals, Pay
ment Rates For 1910

The 1910 program sets national
soil-depleting crop goal of between
270,0O0,000 and 2S5,000,00O acres,
which is the same as the 1899
goal. This acreage at normal
yields will provide ample supplies
for all domestic needs, for export
requirements, and for an adequate
reserve. The total soikdepleting
crop goal for Arizona has been set
at 42S,372 acres.
The 1910 goal compares with an
average of 3OS 100000 acres In
soil-depleting crops for 192S-32 and
about 275,OOO,00O acres in 1899.
Payments on the normal yields
of allotted acreages Of corn, cot
ton, rice, tobacco, wheat, peanuts,
potatoes, and commercial vege-
tables will again be made to CO.
operating farmers.
The 1910 n tt n a acre
age goal for cotton Is between 27,-
100000 and 100000 acres, and
wheat has been set between co.
100000 and 65,O00,O0O acres. The
cotton acreage goal for Arizona
has been set at 1861 acres. and
wheat acreage allotment for Ari-
zona has been set at 1854.
The rates at which conservation
payments will be made to pro-
ducers Of crops for which farm
allotments apply have been re-
duced due to the increased parti-
cipation in the program without
proportionate increase in the $500,
100000 annual appropriation upon
which the present rates are con-
tingent.
The conservation payment on
cotton this year has been set at
1.6 cents per pound; two-thirds of
a cent less than 1899. The pay
ment on wheat has been reduced
from II cents to 9 cents per bushel
The payments for wheat, corn,
cotton, tobacco, and rice will be
supplemented by parity payments
from a separate appropriation of
1925, 100000, If the 1889 season
average price is less than rs per
cent of parity.
In addition to the rates for
special crops, farmers can earn
payments computed on the follow
ing rates per acre:
(a) General depicting and non
depicting acreage, Areas B and c
10 cents per acre.
(b) Commercial vegetables-70
cents per acre.
(c) Commercial orchards-$2 per
acre.
(d) Restoration land-45 cents
per acre.
(e- The non-crop pasture rates
vary among farms and areas and
are similar to 1889.
These rates will apply in COM
putting the maximum payment
which may be earned by each
participating farm for carrying out
approved soil-building practices.
The amount will be increased on
small farms so that the conserva-
ton payment and the payment for
special crop acreage allotments to-
gether will be at least 500.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
Woman's Club Meet
January 18th

The Coolidge Woman's Club will
meet in the recreational rooms of
the Community Church January
II at 2:15 p. m. Mrs. Arthur
Wynne, program chairman, will
talk on the History of Poetry. The
hostesses for the afternoon will be
Mrs. Asa Gardner and Mrs. John
Frances. The Woman's Club house
has again been let to the schools
for several weeks until the new
building can take care of the
overflow attendance of new pupils
that usually occurs at this time of
the year.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04


claredentering the First Officers
Training Camp at Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,, on May s, 1917. There he was
recommended for commission,
but suffered an injury which caus-
ed his discharge from the service
on a surgeons certificate of dis
ability. He Immediately entered a
hospital, underwent an operation,
and as soon as he recovered he
enlisted as private in the field
artillery. After serving with Head
quarters Battery of the 323 Field
Artillary at Camp Sherman, Ohio,
as a sergeant, and attending the
Third Officers Training Camp
there, he was sent to the field
artillery replacement depot at
Camp Jackson, South Carolina,
whence he was sent into overseas
duty at once. After serving a year
in France, Mr.. Kelly was commits
stoned second lieutenant of Field
Artillery at Samur, France, and
later was assigned to the 62nd
Coast Artillery. He was the COM
manding officer of Battery F of
that regiment at the time of de-
mobilization. Mr. Kelly has been
active in the Officers Reserve
Corps and is at present major of
Coast Artillery assigned to the
536th Coast Artillery IAnti-Air-
craft) Regiment.
Upon his return to civilian life,
Mr.. Kelly resumed practice of law
in Detroit and became active in
the American Legion. He served
as commander of Pittenger Post
No. 119 in Detroit for two years,
was commander of the Wayne
County Council for one year, de-
partment executive committeeman
for one year, department vice com
mander for two years and depart
ment commander in 1929 and 1880
In 1881 he was elected National
Elective Committeeman r m
Michigan for two-year term, and
in 1888 was appointed to the Ma
tional Legislative Committee, serv-
ing as chairman that year.
The year preceding his election
as department commander of
Michigan, he served as member
ship chairman and increased the
department enrolment substantial
ly over the records of the preced-
ing six years. He Increased the
membership again as department
commander. firmly established the
Children's Billet as a Michigan
institution, organized Minute
M a n Committee of 60 active
Legionaires throughout the state
for legislative action, and travelled
more than $4,000 miles, delivering
approximately 125 speeches in be-
half of the American Legion pro-
gram.
Mr.. Kelly was chairman of the
reunion committee and successful
ly arranged for the meeting of 62
! outfits at the national convention
held in Detroit in 1881. A total of
more than 10000 Legionnaires
registered with their various or
ganizations for these reunions.
Mr.. Kelly has been a delegate to
13 national conventions of The
American Legion and has twice
served as chairman of the Michi-
gan delegation, in Boston and in
Chicago. During the year he was
,, chairman of the National Legisla-
tive Committee, the Legion was
successful in obtaining legislation
J from Congress to restore the bene-
! fit taken from the disabled veteran
by the Economy Act
Born near Otsego, Michigan, Mr..
! Kelly is married and is the father
of six children, three boys and
three girls. His only hobbies out
side of his work are his home and
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04

Raymond ]. Kelly, of Detroit,
Michigan, National Commander of
the American Legion, will be a
guest at the William David Hood
Post No. 81, next Wednesday morn
ing. January 10, at 10:45 o'clock
Mr.. Kelly, who is visiting several
of the small posts in Arizona, will
be in Coolidge for ten minutes. He
will be accompanied on his visit
by Bill Bourden, Department Com
mander; E. P. Mcdowell, Depart
ment Adjutant and Martin Talla.
Department Vice Commander. A
committee of welcome will greet
Mr.. Kelly at the high school, then
q short parade through town will
follow The party will proceed
down the Phoenix-Tucson Highway
to The Hub, thence east to Main
Street. up Main Street to the site
where the American Legion Hall
stood. There Mr.. Kelly will turn
the first shovel of dirt and dedi-
cate the site for the construction
of the new Legion Hall.
As the local post was so success
full with their days of '49" cele-
bration and as they made their
membership quota by December 81,
1889, through the efforts of De-
partment Commander, Bill Bour-
den. they were able to get Com
mander Kelly to detour via Coo
lidge and Florence. on his way
from Glendale to Stafford. (Then,
too, Coolidge Is also the home OF
the Department Vice Commander.
Martin Talla). This will be the
first time a national commander
has visited Coolidge therefore all
citizens. as well as members of
the American Legion, are urged
to turn out and make his short
visit a rousing one which will be
remembered.
Commander Kelly will come to
Coolidge by car after visiting
Glendale, Tempe, Mesa, and Chan
dler. From Coolidge he will go to
Florence. then Superior, Miami and
Globe, where a luncheon is plan
ned in his honor. A big mass
meeting is planned in Stafford for
Wednesday night, where he will be
q guest of honor. His address will
be carried over the air by remote
control through the facilities of
KTAR.
The life story of Commander
Kelly reads like a Horatio Alger
book. He walked six miles to
school each day to get his educa-
ton. After finishing high school
he worked his way through the
University of Notre Dame and the
University of Detroit, graduating
from law school in 1915 at the age
OF 20, the youngest man in his
class. He started the practice OF
law in Detroit in 1915, and when
elected Commander, he was serv
ing his seventh year as corpora
ton counsel of the City of De
troit, the fourth largest city in the
United States; is past president
of the Michigan Association OF
City Attorneys, and past presi
dent of the Institute of Municipal
Law Officers, the national organi
zation of city attorneys. He also
had the distinction of serving as
president of the Detroit Lawyers
Club, of being the secretary of the
Detroit Bar Association for severa
terms, and he is a member of the
bar of the United States Supreme
Court In 1880 he was appointed
general counsel of the Detroit
Street Railways, municipal!
owned utility, serving three years
He has been head of the legal de
partment of the City of Detroi
sine 1888.
Kelly answered his country
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04

Senator Robert A Taft next week
will answer the Presidents budget
challenge with plan to stop
Federal deficits, it was announc-
ed here today.
Under the title "Mr. President,
Here's How to Balance the Budget"
the Ohio Senator will speak be-
fore the Chicago Bar Association
in Chicago on Friday, January 5.
His speech will be heard over the
Blue Network OF the National
Broadcasting Company, $50 to 10
p M, Eastern Standard time.
The Senator's recent statements
and the Presidents reply have
brought the issue of government
spending more forcefully before
the public than at any time since
the New Deal took office. After
Senator Taft, during his recent
trip through New England, de-
clared that deficit spending can
and must be stopped, President
Roosevelt told news men on. De-
cember IL that he would like to
be shown way to balance the
budget. He added that he would
offer a Every handsome prize" If
the Senator would tell him how.
Senator Taft's answer will come
at a time when interest in Fed
eral spending plans will be keen,
since the official budget estimates
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1941, will jnst be going to Con-
gress.
Washington reports, since the
beginning of the controversy be-
tween Senator Taft and the Presi-
dent, indicate that the new budget
will show smaller deficit than
that for the current fiscal year.
1t has been anticipated that cuts
in various bureaus will more off
set the increase to be recommend
ed for national defense.
With public sentiment over
whelmingly behind Senator Taft
in his belief that deficits can be
stopped, New Deal spokesman
bave been silent as to their former
claims that a steadily, increasing
public debt is the route to pros
perity. A year ago, this doctrine
was being proclaimed as a build
up for the big budget for the pres
snt fiscal year. Now, with an
election year ahead, it is evident
that fiscal sails are being trim
med.
But a substantial deficit Is still
expected in the budget estimate
next week. Usually the actual ex-
penditure for a given year are
much in excess Of the January
figure. The cut in the deficit, 1t
is indicated, will be due in a
large part to better prospects for
Federal revenue because of the
wartime upturn in business; also
to a tapering off of public works
and other programs from past high
levels. Thus, the real job of budget
balancing, by cutting non-es-
sentials and retaining essential
relief and public services, remains
to be done.
In Boston on December IL, few
hours after the Presidents press
conference, Senator Taft said:
"Of course the budget should be
balanced, and by the reduction of
government expense. We cannot
go on with deficit and debt. E.
A careful study of the budget in
dicates that it could be balanced
in about two years at figure Of
approximately seven billion dollars.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04
Blue and White
License Plates

Arizona automobiles In 1910 will
carry white license plates with
blue numerals, they, will be IL
inches long and 6A inches wide.
This color combination Is expect
ed to result in greater legibility.
The prefix letter for Pinal County
will be G.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-01-04

furrowing, or subsoiling. The rate
of payment for 1899 was SO cents
per acre. The 1910 program stipu-
lates that the rate of payment
shall be 21a cents per linear feet.
Evening star., 1940-06-07

Cocoanut Oil for oily hair :.
Taroleum for dry hair. Take
advantage of this bargain price.
Evening star., 1940-06-07

Its penetrating foam gets into
hidden crevices removes
decaying food particles that
cause most bad breath. Makes
teeth sparkle!
Evening star., 1940-06-07
Pound Box

Cr spy, old-fash-
ioned brittle, cooked
to a delicious golden
brown and chock-
full of freshly roasted
peanuts. Everybody
likes this delightful
candy!
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Soviet Army Occupies
All Large Towns in
Three Baltic States
Stations and Bridges
Guarded os PorIeys
Open on New Rule
BY the Associated Press


STOCKHOLM, June 19.-Soviet
Russian artillery, infantry and
cavalry units escorted by numerous
squadrons Of bombing planes and
reinforced by tank and armored
car detachments were reported to-
day to have occupied all large towns
In Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
The Red Army also posted guards
at railway stations and bridges while
negotiations continued for estab-
lishment of pro-Soviet governments
IN the three little Baltic states with
whom the Soviet Union is strongly
"implementing" her mutual assist
ance pacts of last fall.
These reports came from cor.
respondents of the Stockholm news
papers Aftonbladet and Tidningen
in Riga, Latvia and Kaunas. Litha-
anla. There were also rumors of
German troop movements in East
Prussia, facing expanding Baltic
footholds, but they could not be
substantiated.
Reliable diplomatic circles, how
ever, say the Germans have been
transporting new forces to Nor
way. One Interpretation of this
could be a plan of attack on the
British Isles.
The first indications of possible
German intentions to make Nor
way into protectorate were seen
IN presumably inspired editorials
IN Oslo newspapers which criticized
KING Haakon and Crown Prince
Olaf for leaving Norway.
The editorials said Norway now
must work out her own government.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Party Urges Occupation Of French Indo- China
Paris Struggles to Restore
Normal Life Under Nozi Rule
Postal Service Resumed, Telephones
Functioning, Stores to Reopen
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 18 DelayeO by
courier to Aachen and telephone to
Berlin).-Paris is beginning a new
life under German occupation as
public services resume operation
and some phases of the fallen capi-
tails daily activity return to nor
NAL.
Current opinion, as expressed pub
licly, is strongly Rightist, and bitter
against former Premier Paul Rey-
maud, who resigned Sunday as the
government prepared to seek a
peace, and against Edouard Dala-
dler, who was Premier when France
declared war against Germany.
The two principal organs of opin-
ion allowed to resume publication
are the Righist newspaper LIE Ma
tin and the semi-Fascist Victoire.
Three German officials, who knew
Paris before the war, are now in
important posts of the occupying
forces. They are Capt. Nikolaus
Won Grote, who was Paris director
of DNB, the German news serv-
ice; Otto Abetz, husband of a
French woman, who was expelled
as Nazi agent by the French June
29, 1899. and DR.. Achenbach, Sec
retary of the German Embassy in
Paris.
Postal Service Resumed.
Capt. Won Grote now is in charge
OF governmental bureaus, and Abetz
and Achenbach are associated with
him. The military forces in Paris
are commanded by Gen. Won Stud
nitz.
Postal services were restored today
in the Paris department of Seine
and 1t was announced the Comedie
Francaise the famous state theater.
will resume Saturday.
Uniformed postmen delivered the
first mail Parisians have received in
many days. Outgoing mail services
were again functioning and the local
telephone never was interrupted by
the occupation.
Telegraph facilities, at least within
the area occupied by Germany, were
expected to reopen shortly.
The return of mail service was a
welcome thing to French families,
Evening star., 1940-06-19
700 Poles Think Again,
Decide Not to Give Up

BONCOURT, On the Franco-Swiss
Frontier, June 10 LP)-Of all the
strange stories Of refugees in Europe,
where millions have marched in the
last year. one of the strangest was
the story Of 1000 Spaniards and TOO
Poles who came to the Swiss border
last night.
The Swiss. playing their tradi-
tional neutral part in this war as
host and as Red Cross sanctuary
for the wounded and refugees, ad-
mitted tens of thousands of French
non-combatants.
Their crack citizen soldiers first
disarmed and then admitted under
guard thousands of French and
Belgian soldiers. Their volunteer
Red Cross nurses and doctors at
tended to hundreds of French
wounded who had suffered the shock
of long days and nights of travelling
seeking rest before the swiftly
changing backgrounds.
Sitting by Fires, Waiting.
Across on the French side of this
frontier last night 1000 Spaniards
sit by camp fires in the Jura Noun
tains singing Republican Spanish
songs, and wondering about their
strange fate.
Two years ago these men were
sitting around campfires in the
Pyrenees Mountains, singing the
same songs. Then they were wait
ing for French troops patrolling the
border with rifles and machine guns
!. to let them in. Last night they were
waiting for Swiss troops patrolling
the border with rifles and machine
guns to let them in.
Then they were fleeing Gen.
Frances armies and the German
Army's Candor legions. Last night
they were fleeing the Germans.
Then they were soldiers of the de-
feated Republican army. Now they
are munitions workers without a
country who fled unarmed from the
French Peugeot works between Bel
fort and Hericourt.
The Poles Reconsider.
Just before sundown TOO Polish
artillerymen dashed up to the Swiss
frontier with four batteries of 75s
and several large truckloads of am
munition.
The excited Polish officer COM
manding them rushed up to calm the
Swiss frontier commander, and
learned that they must abandon all
artillery and ammunition if they
were to cross the frontier.
/ The Poles then engaged in a dis
cussion ending in streams of explo-
sive Polish exclamations. Others
rushed back and turned the whole
outfit-guns, ammunition and trucks
around again while the command
ing colonel explained to the Swiss {:
I'VE are going back to give the
Germans the rest of oul ammunition.
See you again when it's gone"
They vanished back into France
along the refugee road
Evening star., 1940-06-19

many Of whom have been scattered
throughout France by refugee move
ments or by retreat before the
enemy.
The Pasteur Institute has func-
toned through the occupation as
have government and private hos
pitals.
The Chamber of Commerce called
on all merchants to reopen their
stores and restaurants and officials
told the public that food supplies
were assured.
The 1ntellectualas Club announc-
ed that its premises and restaurants
were open for all writer's and artists
Some schools already were reopened
and the unemployed were invited to
register at unemployment centers.
There were assertions here that
the government of Premier Henri
Philippe Petain would be only tenn
porary. regardless of what comes OF
his bid for a peace with Germany
His advanced age-84Eand his re-
tention of some cabinet ministers
from the Reynaud government were
cited as reasons for this.
Reynaud Denounced.
M. Reynaud himself is widely re-
ported to have left France for Por-
tugal on his way to the United States
(This report was circulated in both
Italy and Germany. Paris is out
OF touch with Southern FranceD
Victoire published an editorial
denouncing M. Reynaud for carry
ing on the war against the will OF
the country" and without caring
for the lives of our soldiers
When mistake is made of kill
ing uselessly so many people," said
the paper, there is only one way
to make up for it; to die. If he still
dares to live after the actions we
have just seen. history can find only
one word for Paul Reynaud:
Cowardice"