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The Coolidge examiner., 1940-06-20
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FOR RENT-Houses, apartments,
and rooms. Right locality, right
condition. right prices. Sea Lane
Hotel.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Loucks
made an extensive trip through
Nevada and the West coast, visit
ing the San Francisco Fair and
also visiting the Preece family at
Reno, residents of Coolidge many
years and their many friends were
pleased to hear of their welfare
In their new home Mr.. and Mrs.
Loucks returned home Friday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-06-20

Mrs. Paul Loucks is leaving
Saturday by train for Columbia
University, New York, where she
will resume her studies, she ex.
poets TO visit her old home in
Illinois, enroute, before beginning
her work at the university.
Coolidge has big stop" paint
ed on the pavement at the inter
section of Main and Central
streets. which is disregarded by
some drivers who seem to be un-
aware of committing an indiscreet
offense to Highway laws which
are made for protection of hu-
manity.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-06-20

Miss Betty Louise Boone from
Lindsay. Oklahoma, arrived last
week to spend several weeks at
the home of her aunt and uncle
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Boone. She will
be remembered by the younger
people of Coolidge who were her
friends when she lived here as a
little girl; she enters the Uni
versity OF Oklahoma this fall.
Miss Frances Short had an at
tack of appendicitis on her camp
ing trip near Flagstaff and her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Short
drove up to bring her home, re-
turning Monday. Frances is re-
covering from h alarming
symptoms without an operation,
which at first was thought neces-
sary.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-06-20

CALL FOR FREE demonstration
on Electrolux Cleaner Air Puri-
fier. Coolidge 112, Mrs. Geo. w.
MUIR, District Representative.
The Coolidge examiner., 1940-06-20

HOUSE FOR RENT 3rd and Ken
nedy in North Coolidge. D. d.
Stone. 1t
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Mount Vernon Seminary
Council Is Assembling

Delegates from nine State chap
ters of the Mount Vernon Seminary
Council will gather on the seminary
campus today for a four-day con-
ference.
First event on the program will
be a reception at 8 pm. by Presi-
dent and Mrs. George w. Lloyd,
followed by a program Of music by
the students.
Tomorrow a cap and gown cere-
mony will be held at 8:15 am. and
after a chapel service at $3.50 am.
there will be visiting of classes dur
ing the morning. After a luncheon
dance recital will be given at 3
pm. in the gym, following which
the home economics classes will give
tea.
The business meeting of the coun-
Gil will be Friday at Q am, followed
by an address by DR.. Christopher
Browne Garnet. jr., of George WASH
ington University. Joseph Battista
pianist, will give a recital at 4 pm.
in the chapel.
Final meeting Of the council will
be Saturday at $50 am, with q
meeting OF the alumnae associat ton
scheduled for 10 am. Mrs. Will
loughby Chesley Of Washington is
president of the council and Mrs.
Richard w. Hynson is. president ,of
the alumnae.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
German Invasion
Recalls Warninu
By Gen. Marshall
Chief Of Stuff Comments
On Testimony Before
House Committee
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Gen. George G. Marshall, Army
chief Of staff, said today that Ger
many's invasion of Scandinavia zap
pears at the moment" to be the type
Of development to which he referred
when he warned Congress that IF
Europe blazes" in the late spring,
extra precautions should be taken in
this country.
'Testifying before a House COM
mittee recently on the War Depart
ment's $784 900 ,o94 appropriation
bill, the chief Of staff had declared:
IT Europe blazes in the late spring
Or summer, we must put our house
In order before the sparks reach the
Western Hemisphere" ...-
While Gen. Marshal limited him.
self to comment on the significance
OF the German move for this coun-
try's military policy, other experts
here studied the Scandinavian ac-
ton for an understanding of Ger
man strategy.
These inclined to the view that
the Nazis would find it difficult to
realize Immediately important mill
tary advantages from the march
into Denmark and Norway.
For the moment, the action was
viewed as more important from
the diplomatic and economic stand
points.
One future possibility. envisioned
was that Russia might attempt to
occupy Northern Norway and even
Northern Sweden-with or without
an understanding with Berlin-in
the same manner that Eastern
Poland was taken over In Sep
tember.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Journalist Here
Got Tipoff on
|Nuzi Thrust

The Germans Scandinavian thrust
surprised neither the British nor
the French, It was indicated here to-
day. The State Department was
told Sunday by a journalist whose
information is supplied completely
by French and British sources that
the German military machine was
organizing for the northern opera
ton.
This fact was regarded as proof
that the British and the French were
aware Of German plans some time
before the journalist got wind Of
them. The intensity of the British
violation of the Norwegian neutral
ity, q step aimed both at thwarting
German action in the north and at
preparing the allies to cope with
northern action, grewsswiftly during
the few days preceding the German
Scandinavian invasion. " 70 ss
Evening star., 1940-04-09
German Envoy Sees
Il Duce as hazis
Push Into NORWAY
ltuIiun Press Account
B'omes Allies for
Violating NeutroIs
~ the Associated Press.

~ tne ASeoclateo FfeSS.
ROME, April 9.-German Am
bassador Count Hans Georg Viktor
Won Mackensen today visited Pre-
mier Mussolini after an earlier call
on Foreign Minister Count Gale
azzo Ciano.
The purpose Of Won Mackensen's 8
visit with II Duce was not divulged,
but informed foreign quarters pre-
sumed he informed Mussolini of
Germany's action in Scandinavia
and consulted him on the war out
look, including Italy's position.
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish
diplomats in Rome said they had
heard nothing from their govern
ments.
An indication Of the official Ital-
ian attitude was given by the au-
thoritative writer, Virginio Gayda,
who said in II Giornale d'Italia that
the allies had committed a grave
political error In taking the initia-
tive in violating the neutrality Of
the small countries in whose name
they pretend to be fighting"
Every one knew, Gayda said, that
mining Norway's territorial waters
was "only a cover for the landing
Of British and French troops on the
Norwegian and Danish coasts to
carry the military and economic Of
fensive directly to German terri
tory and to force Germany to come
out from her gigantic intrenched
camp"
Gayda termed Norway's resist
ance "only q formal gesture"
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Three Killed 13 Hurt
In $500,0OO Gas Blast
BY the Associated Press.

BRAINTREE, Mass, April o.
Three men were killed and at least l;
persons injured seriously today in
terrific explosion at the Old Colony
Gas Co. plant In East Braintree
Company officials estimated the loss
ut $500 900.
A brick compressor house was
blown to bits, the contents of a
huge gas holder were consumed, an
ofilce building and several other
structures on the property were
badly damaged and windows in
homes for miles around were shat
tered,
The roar of the blast was SO severe
several Office girls suffered bleeding
ears. Carl H. Burnett, So, gas
litter, was crushed to death under
the bricks of the compressor house
James w. Plunkett, 40, and Tony
Orlando, SIS, died shortly after ad-
mission to a hospital.
Despite persistent reports that
three or four persons were missing,
company officials said all employees
had been accounted for. Firemen
still searched the ruins, however,
after extinguishing the flames In
the tank.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Trains, Ships and Ferries Sped
Nuzi Occupation Of Denmark

hagen at dawn. The citadel and
radio stations were occupied. Since
8 an. the entire city has been in
the hands Of Germans"
The German operations thus
were concentrated on the Baltic
side of Denmark out Of range of
the British feet If its units had
reached the west coast.
German air force units have been
active since early morning hours
along the west coasts of Norway
and Denmark, the official German
News agency, DNB, reported. It
said larger units" consisting part
ly Of the newest Messerschmidt
war planes were cooperating.
Sweeping reconnaissance flights
over the North Sea and continuous
pursuit patrol over Helgoland Blight
ito blockade the air before the
Danish coast" were reported as part
of their major contribution.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Senators Express Concern
Over Alaskan Defenses
By the Associated Press,

~ eAS <aceOS1dlcu FTcSS.
Several Senators expressed con-
Germ yesterday over Alaskan defenses
IN the light OF reported fortiflcation
construction on Soviet islands in the
North Pacific.
At the same time, Senator Reyn-
olds, Democrat, of North Carolina
proposed at State Department in
vestigation to determine whether the
United States may legally take SOW
ereignty over Wrangell Island, lying
between Alaska and Russia.
Asserting that in Is years Wran-
gel Island would become lone of the
most important bases in all the
world" for both Russia and the
United States, Senator Reynolds ex-
pressed the opinion that this Ma
ton could establish ownership of
the island despite Russian claims
based on recent limited occupation
AS an alternative, he suggested
that the United States might agree
to accept the island in liquidation
Of Soviet debts to this country.
The Alaskan discussion was
touched of by Senator. Schwellen-
bach, Democrat, of Washington,
who told his colleagues that he
would seek restoration to the War
Department appropriation bill Of q
$12, zoo, 900 item for an air base at
Anchorage, Alaska. Senator Schwel-
lenbach said he thought the House
had cut out the allowance through
"misapprehension." as
He asserted that base at that
point was vital because of the prox-
unity of the Aleutian Island chain
to both Japan and Russia. The
islands, he said, extended to point
within sight of islands repeatedly
being fortified by Russia and were
within two hours of Japan by air.
Evening star., 1940-04-09

agents that German troops for some
time had engaged in embarkation
and debarkation drills at Baltic
ports.
Mystery Transport Sunk.
3. The torpedoing and sinking by
a British submarine of German
mystery" transport-the 526l-ton
Rio de Janeiro-4 miles of the
southeast coast Of Norway with the
loss of 300 of 500 German infantry
men, cavalrymen and airmen who
were aboard.
4. Unconfrmed reports that two
German submarines had attacked
an armed British vessel in the same
general region, and that one sub
marine and the British vessel had
been sent to the bottom.
5. A Reuters dispatch that Dos
sibly 200 men were lost and SO saved
in a violent explosion which sank
an unidentified ship of the south
coast Of Norway.
q. All Norwegian lighthouses
blacked out and radio stations shut
down.
7. Four German warships SUD-
ported by planes attempted to force
their way through Oslo Fjord, en-
trance to the Norwegian capital, but
were repellel by shore batteries early
today.
8. Oslo under an air raid alarm
throughout the early hours of to-
day, cut of communication except
for state calls"
9. Copenhagen, Denmark's CAP
ital. was occupied by German troops.
10. Norway declared war on Ger
many.
Scapa Flow Raided.
The unfolding of the Scandinavian
drama brought girding of British
air defenses at home.
A spectacular air battle developed
last night over the Orkney Islands
on the northern coast of Scotland
as German warplanes, roaring across
the North Sea under cover of dark
ness, struck at Britains Scapa Flow
naval base for the third time in a
week.
Although the Nazi raiders loosed
a rain of incendiary and high ex-
plosive bombs, the Air Ministry as
serted today that they had caused
no damage to naval vessels or mer-
chant shipping.
British Royal Air Force fighters
were onicially reported to have
downed two of the German planes
A third was seen to dive toward the
sea and was believed to have
crashed, the Air Ministry said.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Scandinavia
Continued From First Page.l

Ministers to Norway, the reasons
for this not being made clear.
Germany announced she had
mined all the coastal waters, In
cluding ports Of Sweden.
Some circles suggested the crews
OF German freighters awaiting ore
cargoes there might have been re-
sponsible for seizure Of Narvik.
Norwegian circles in London said
the Germans had seized the port of
Egersund, the ocean cable head.
Foreign Office Statement.
The authoritative British Press
Association said the British Foreign
ONCE promise to fight for Norway
did not mention Denmark because
1t was impossible at the moment to
evaluate the situation in that
country.
The text of the Foreign Office
statement, broadcast shortly after
noon, follows:
The German government has is
sued a statement saying they have
Evening star., 1940-04-09

decided to take over protection OF
Denmark and Norway.
1T adds that the action is in
reply to the laying Of minefields in
Norwegian territorial waters by
Great Britain and France.
Information is now reaching His
Majesty's government to the effect
that the German Minister at Oslo
has demanded the surrender of
Norway to Germany and that in
event Of a refusal all resistance will
be crushed.
"The demand was. of course, i'm
mediately refused by the Norwegian
government. Information has been
received that German troops al
ready have occupied Norwegian ter
ritory.
THE German statement that
their action is in reply to steps
taken by the British and French
governments will deceive nobody.
Planned in Advance.
80 elaborate an operation, in
volving simultaneous landings at a
number OF Norwegian ports by
troops accompanied by naval forces
must have been planned long in ad-
vance. 1t is not surprising that the
Norwegian government decided to
resist the latest exhibition of Ger
man aggression.
His masjesty's government and
the French government have at once
assured the Norwegian government
that in view Of the German inva-
sion of their country that they have
decided forthwith to extend their
full aid to Norway and have init
mated that they will fight the war
in full association with them.
The necessary naval and military
steps accordingly are being taken in
conjunction with the French"
Cabinets in Session.
All Danish ferry service to Sweden
was stopped.
German authorities announced
over the Danish radio that they had
occupied number of points of
military importance and said that
as telephone and telegraph COM
munications in Denmark are un-
reliable, the newspapers published
this afternoon will only carry news
supplied by the Ritzau Agency"
Radio listeners were directed to
stay turned in all day to get "a num-
Der of practical announcements"
In London and Paris there were
diplomatic and cabinet sessions
Touched on by Mine-Laying.
The immediate sequence OF graphic
developments was touched OF in the
chill dawn Of Norway's rugged coast
line Monday when British NINE
layers moved into territorial waters
and sowed three mine fields to block
the path of German freighters car
rying Scandinavian ore to Ger
many's iron smelters.
Germany bristled and limited
darkly at tremendous" and far
reaching" consequences which en-
sued swiftly. Norway protested
against the minelaying as a breach
Of her neutrality.
Within a few hours of the allied
minelaying, and while British naval
forces hovered in strength along
nearly the entire length of Norway,s
coast, there came this sequence Of
events and reported events, piling
one on the other in sensational style:
l. Reports that German naval
force of 125 armed ships. including
pocket battleships, heavy cruisers
and destroyers, had moved out of the
Baltic Sea into the Great Belt, a
passageway to the Kattegat and
Skagerrak, channels which link the
Baltic with the North Sea.
2. Reports of French intelligence
Evening star., 1940-04-09
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN, April 9.-The German
high command described today how
ferries, armored trains and naval
vessels were used In occupying Dem
mark.
TN the gray Of morning, German
troops landed at Middelfart on the
Small Belt and occupied bridges
there" . communique said.
German sea forces entered the
Great Belt and landed troops at
Korsoer and Nyborg 0erry points
connecting with Seeland Island on
which Copenhagen is'situated nearer
the mainland portion Of Denmark
Coming from Warnemuende,
troops and an armored train, travel
ing by ferry, landed at Gjedser and
from there started q march north.
At the same time. bridges at Vord-
ingborg in the south and the Island
Of Seeland were occupied.
German troops occupied Copen-
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Senate Committee !
Cuts $55,00o,000 of
Waterways Funds
$l5,N0, 900 Item for
Punumo CunuI Lock
Project Is Accepted
BY the Associated Press,

6y tne Associated Press.
The Senate Appropriations Com.
mittee today reversed the action Of
its subcommittee and sliced 55,000,-
900 for proposed waterway projects
of the War Department civil func-
tions bill.
Holding its approval Of total ex-
penditures to 1928 1852 SIT, the full
committee struck out $50, ,0OO, 900 for
flood-control projects and $25,O00,-
600 for rivers and harbors work in
serted in the appropriations meas
ure by the subcommittee. It &C.
cepted $15,0O0,00O item the SUBJ
committee put in the bill to start
a third set of Panama Canal locks.
AS approved by the committee,
the bill carried an increase Of.
SIG ,889 $50 In appropriations above
the total previously voted by the
House. The Senate committee fig
ure was $2,069,917 above budget
estimates, but $8l l,762, 1857 below the
amount made available for the cur
rent year.
In approving the Panama Canal
appropriation, the committee wrote
in a clause which would restrict
Government employment in the
Canal Zone after May /, 1941, to
citizens of the United States and
OF the Republic of Panama.
The committee allowed $5,739, $50
more than the House for waterways
and engineering projects. This in
cluded 81 ,287 900 for rivers and har.
bors maintenance, $2,6OO,000 for
construction of power unit at the
Bonneville Dam on the Columbia
River, S642,0 for flood control on
the Sacramento River in California
and sl,210,35o for a Typographical
survey of strategic areas on the
West Coast.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
At Least Two U. S. Ships
In New War Zone
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 9.-At least two
American ships are in the Scandi-
navian war zone. 49,
They are the new $4,000 900 Flying
Fish, built by the United States
Maritime Commission for the Moore
Mccormack Line, now at Bergen on
her maiden voyage, and the same
company's Mormacsea, 4,955-ton
freighter.
The Mormacsea and her crew of
about 43 arrived at Trondheim Sat-
urdAy and is scheduled to leave
tomorrow for Philadelphia. Both
ships loaded at New York.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Text of German Notes
Action Of Allies Given as Reason
For invading Norway and Denmark

, proclaimed the extension Of war to
these territories as basic concepts OF
strategy of their warfare.
The Russian-FinniSh conflict Of
fered the first opportunity in this
direction. The English and French
governments have said quite pub
licly that they were willing to take
part with military forces in the con-
f1ict between the Soviet Union and
Finland and to use the territory OF
northern states as the base of their
operations.
The quick conclusion of peace in
the north alone, which came con-
trary to their desires and expecta-
tions, hindered them at that time In
carrying through their decisions.
It was q gross falsehood of Eng
lish and French statesmen to declare
afterward that they wanted to make
the execution of action dependent
on approval of the northern states
involved.
The Reichs government has docu-
mentary proof in its hands that Eng
land and France had mutually
agreed to carry out action through
the territory of northern states II
necessary, even against their will.
The deciding factor, however, is
the following: From the point of
view adopted by the French and
English governments before and
after the Russian Finnish peace
conclusion and from documents in
the hands of the Reichs government
1t is clearly discernible that the de-
cision to aid Finland against Rus
sia was to serve still further their
purposes.
Allies Declared Seeking
Military Bases.
The aim pursued in Scandinavia
by England and France did and still
does involve much more:
Firstly, to cut Germany of from
her northern ore imports through
occupation of Narvik Northern Nor
wegian port), secondly, to establish
a new front in Scandinavia through
the landing Of English and French
armed forces and thus attack Ger
many on the flank from the north.
Thus the countries of the North
were to serve English and French
troops as a battlefield while the
scandinavian peoples, true to old
English tradition, were intended to
assume the role Of auxiliary and
mercenary troops.
When, for the time being, this plan
was shattered by the Russian Fin
nish peace. the German government
received even clearer information
that England and France were un-
dertaking definite steps to realize
their intentions at the soonest in
another form.
In the constant effort to prepare
Intervention in the North, the Eng
nsh and French governments during
the past weeks openly proclaimed
the thesis that there must be no neu-
Evening star., 1940-04-09
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 9.-Text of tn,
German memoranda to Norway ant
Denmark, identically except for tn
names Of the countries, giving he
reasons for military occupation O
those countries, follows:
Contrary to the upright desire O.
the German people and its govern
ment to live in peace and friendship
with the English and French
peoples, and despite the absence O.
any reasonable grounds for conflict
those in control in London and Pari.
declared war on the German people
With the unleashing Of thi.
long-prepared aggressive war aimee
at the existence of the German
Reich and the German people, Eng
land and France also opened ses
warfare against the neutral world
AS they attempted at first, in com.
plete disregard of the most elemen.
tary rules of international law, t<
establish hunger blockade against
German women, children and aged
they also subh&ed1 neutral State.
under their reckless blockad,
measures. y: ss
The immediate consequence O.
these methods of warfare introduced
by England and France contrary tt
international law was the mos
severe damage to neutral shipping
and neutral trade. Germany had t<
meet these with her own defensive
measures.
Move Declared Disregard
For Neutrality.
Beyond this, however, the English
measures constitute q destructive
blow at the conception of neutrality
Germany, on her part, has during
the same time aimed at respecting
neutral rights to the extent that she
has sought to limit sea warfare to
the seas lying between Germany and
her opponent. England, however
while intending to ward of danger
from her own isles and at the same
time trying to interrupt Germany's
trade with the neutral world, has
more and more aimed at carving
sea warfare into neutral waters.
In the course of this typically
British warfare, England, in con-
stantly increasing measure and In
fragrant breach of international law,
has committed belligerent acts on
the sea and in the air, in the ter
ritorial waters and regions of Dem
mark and Norway.
Germany from the beginning of
war anticipated this development.
Through her domestic and external
economic policy she knew how to
prevent the British attempt Of a
hunger blockade against the Ger
man people and the cutting off Of
German trade with neutral states.
These measures during past
months have showed in ever bright
er clarity the complete collapse of
the British blockade policy. This
development as well as the hopeless
ness of direct attack on the German
western Notifications and the stead
lily growing anxiety in France and
England of successful German
counter-attacks on the sea and in
the air recently led both countries
IN increasing measure to attempt
with all means the changing of the
battlefields to the neutral mainlands
IN and outside Of Europe,
Declared True
To English Tradition.
That England and France in this
connection and in the first place cast
eyes toward the territories of small
European states is self-evident and
corresponds with English tradition
English and French statesmen,
during past months quite openly