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The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Guilty Conscience
Leads To SIS Fine

A guilty conscience proved ex-
pensive to a weekend visitor here
from Phoenix.
The visitor and a companion.
who admitted to officers later that
they had perhaps imbibed beyond
the point of discretion, were cool
ing off Sunday by a drive in the
night air when the visitor spied
he highway patrolmans car and
took it for granted its driver was
after him.
Immediately. he switched off the
headlights of his car and turned
into side street. The highway
patrolman followed
Alarmed, the yis itee and his com
panion abandoned the car and
fled.
Patrolman Gates got all the in
formation he needed from the reg
istration card on the steering
wheel. plus the cars license mum
ber and left word at the house be-
fore which the car was parked
that its owner was wanted for
driving without lights.
Tuesday morning the visitor ap-
peared at the justic Office and gave
himself up.
He was fined $25.00-the cost
of a guilty conscience-and paid
IL
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Huge | Parade
Will Feature
Celebration

A huge parade depicting
the progress of Coolidge
and Casa Grande valley
will feature the Water Ap-
preciation celebration in
Coolidge April 10Th according to
John d. Gorree and Clifford Gle
ments, charged by Coolidge cham
ber of commerce with RESPONSE
b,.ity for the parade and attend
ant displays.
In addition to the parade
vast tent will be erected in the
city to house general displays of
industrial and retail interest to
valley residents.
Included in the parade will be
floats of merchants Of Coolidge,
civic, service and fraternal or
ganizations, together with mobile
agricultural implements, tractors,
trucks and automobiles.
Every merchant in the city as
Florence and Eloy are included
well as those of Casa Grande
in the general invitation to parti-
cipate in the parade.
A special parade feature will be
the inclusion of saddle and driv-
ing horses and horsedrawn ve-
hicles of all description.
Following the parade, which will
begin at noon there will be
short speaking program when
pioneer and present farm and
civic leaders will be introduced.
Arrangements have been made to
broadcast the program over Phoe
nix radio station K.O.Y. between
1870 and pm.
During the afternoon there will
be a nine-inning baseball game
between Coolidge and Florence
high schools with an as yet un-
announced special program on the
ball field just preceding the
game.
Coolidge and Florence high
school bands will provide music
throughout the day and an out
door dance will top off the day
for celebrants.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Plan Huge 4-H
PinaI County Fair
AT KeniIWorth

Plans are being formulated and
will soon be complete, to make
the Eighth Annual Pinal County
All club fair, scheduled for April
Is and 10Th, at the Kenilworth
school, the best fair ever held in
Pinal county. The Water Ap-
probation celebration sponsored
by the Coolidge Chamber of Com
merce, will be held in Coolidge
on the 10Th of April in cOnjunc-
ton with the All club fair and
the largest crowd in history is ex-
pected at the fair.
1t has just been announced that
many special awards will be
given this year in recognition OF
outstanding individual club work
by the club members. Among
these awards are the following:
Dress Revue-1st high indivl-
dual, gold plate All charm.
Record Contest-1st high entry
BOYS club, All eversharp pencil.
1st high enry-girls club, Ali
eversharp pencil.
Secretary book contest-lst high
enry-boys club, All eversharp
pencil. 1st high entry-girls CLUB,
All eversharp pencil.
Boys livestock judging contest
list high individual, gold plate
All key. End high individual
silver plate All key.
Girls judging contest-lst hlgh
individual, gold plate All charm
2nd high individual, silver plate
All charm. ,,
Shownmanship contest-1st hlgh
individual, gold plate Snowman
ship medal.
Boys demonstration team con-
test-1st high team, two golu
plate All medal.
Girls demonstration team con
test-1st high team, two gold
plate Al medals.
Best complete exhiblt-flo"er
department, gold plate key.
Best complete exhibit-Hanol-
craft department, gold plate key.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
HanseI-GreteI
Grade School
0peretta Tonife

The quaint, old-world operetta
Hansel and Gretel' will be pre-
sented by the music department
of South grammar school, under
the direction of Miss Patricia
Tweed, at eight o'clock tonight in
South grammar school.
Scenery for the production was
made by the Boys Manual Train
ing department under John Rocker.
Sign painting and art work was
done under the direction of Miss
Marv Bramhall, art teacher in the
South school.
Those taking part in the operet-
ia are: Hansel-James Alexander;
Gretel-Mary 10 Bates; The
mother-Nedra Jean Ray; the
father-Ray Hanks; the witch
Rosemary Davidson; sandman =
Jackie lies; dew man-Bobby Joe
Taylor.
Cookie children: Tommy Clark,
Alice Loucks, Doris Gomez, Buddy
Sanderson, Richard Helms, Larry
Sanderson, Elizabeth Minton, La
wanda wilkins, Rhoma Sturgeon,
Boyd Clements, Robert Mech and
Esperans Daw.
Witches: Della Lou Wofford,
Helen Marie NARROW, Leola Bar
rington and Viola Brock.
Angels: Bennie Boone, Iris Gas
KILL Opal Davis, Celia Zahalsky,
Margaret Worley, Meloa Lee Ak
ers, Helen Hardaway, Pauline Ap-
pei, Jatsy Johnson, Gloria Ken
worthy, Nadine McClury, Mary Ap-
pei, Goldie Belle Davis and Anne
Jellison.
Ticket sales have been handled
by Coolidge Parent Teachers AS
sociation. Admission is as follows:
adults, twenty-five cents; high
school students, fifteen cents; and
grammar school children, ten cents.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
AIertness Of Nightwatchman Leads
To Arrest OF -Four Counterfeifers
Track Thieves Who Rob Bowling Alley
And Confess to Counterfeiting Activities
Near Tucson ;. D.. Believe Attempt to
Pillage Jewelry Store Foiled

Alertness of Asa Gardner, Coo
lidge nightwatchman, cary Monday
morning led to the discovery OF
complete counterfeiting outfit and
the arrest of four men believed re-
sponsible for numerous recent
thefts and rObberies both in Coo
lidge and Casa Grande.
The men were Leon Morgan. ex-
convict. Don Morgan, Jack Snow
and one Williams, all of Casa
Grande.
They were brought to Coolidge
Justice office where they confess
ed TO the robbery of approximately
$500 from the Bowling Alley on
West Central Avenue just before
Gardner saw them, and it is be-
lieved by officers that his timely
arrival prevented a robbery at
Shelters Jewelry Store.
Further questioning brought to
light the fact that the four are
the same who passed counterfeit
money in Tucson Saturday.
They gave officers the location
of their moulds, which were found
in the hills five miles this side of
Tucson. together with 40 fifty
cent pieces. The prisoners said
fiet money and hiding it at want
age points in the mountains all the
way from Tucson to Glendale.
Officers believe these men may
be responsible for further crimes
to which they have not yet con-
fessed.
The prisoners have been turned
over to Federal officers.
Gardner was driving south on
Main street shortly after 4:3O
Monday morning when he saw the
four men back away from the
curb in front of Shelters jewelry
store and speed south turning
west on Coolidge aveone. head
lights dark.
Gardner followed, turned west on
Coolidge Avenue and pursued the
speeding car across the highway
to the desert wash at Borree's
corner two miles west of Coolidge,
where the men abandoned it and
fled under cover of darkness into
the protecting brush of Mcclellan
wash.
Gardner crippled the car by
jerking loose its wire and sped
back to town, where he reused
Deputy Sheriff John Haywood,
Clyde Penix and Constable Ed
Strringer.
Gardner phoned the state peni-
tentiary at Florence and requested
blood hounds be sent here. When
they arrived officers started hunt
that led through Mcclellan wash
and west across the desert toward
the mountains.
Gardner, Haywood, Penix and
Jack Morrison of Florence follow
ed an old road that was little bet
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
High School Has
Radio Defense
Preparation Club

To learn the principles of short
wave communication for personal
enjoyment. and defense preparation
is the purpose of the Radio club,
recently organized for interested
students of the high school,
Equipment for code learning has
been provided, and considerable
time is spent during the week
studying the code. Fundamentals
of radio communication are dis
cussed at weekly meetings on
Wednesday night in the laboratory
of the high school.
Members of the club are Edgar
Bollin, president of the club. Will
lam Pearce, secretary and treasur-
er, Paul Hanna, Reed Chesley,
John Dye, Bill Merrill, Warren Bar
rinton, ]. R. Armstead, Jim Elklns,
and Carl Slater.
Lorenzo Libsonbee, who has
held an amateur operators license
for several years, is sponsor of the
club.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Photograph Trips
Check Artist AS
He Trys Hines Again

Leo Clark, alias Sanders, doesn't
urday charged wit attempting the
know when enough is enough!
Wanted for passing a worthless
check at Hines Drug Company
Wednesday. he was arrested Sat
same thing in Hines Drug Comp
any at Florence.
The arrest was due to Jimmy
Hines quick thinking, suspicion,
and hobby for photography, that
caused him through clever ruse
unsuspected by Clark, to snap his
picture with speed camera"
while he was in the drug store
here.
Pete King, manager of Hines
Drug Company at Florence, had
seen the picture and recognized
Clark, whose most prominent
feature was his nose, Immediately.
Clark at first denied he was the
same man. but when taken to the
sheriff's office and confronted with
an exact likeness of himself it
was too apparent to deny.
do you really think that's me?"
he asked, looking at the picture.
Officers assured him that they did.
We'll" he admitted; "it is"
Clark is now in the county Jail
in Florence and the story of jim
my Hines quick wittedness and its
result has attained state wide
publicity.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Healthmobile To
Be Here Next Week

The American Legion Health
mobile, in Coolidge yesterday TAX
ing X-rays and skin tests in an
anti-tuberculosis campaign among
school children will return to
Coolidge Monday morning and
stay in the city as long as is
necessary to complete the work.
Every adult interested in hav-
ing their children tested is urged
to communicate with Miss Myrtle
Yohn, school nurse. No charge is
made for the service other than
a nominal charge of about 70
cents for film when X-ray pic
lures are indicated.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Truck Smashes
Into Hines Drug
Front Saturday

A pickup truck driven by Jim
Garcia smashed into the front of
Hines Drug Company Saturday,
shattering the heavy glass base
below the show window. The acci-
dent occurred, according to wit
nesses, because Garcia's brakes
froZe.
Nobody was hurt, but replace
ment of the black glass, in which
the drug company's name had been
sand blasted. will approximate fifty
dollars. Garcia said he would stand
good the the loss, according to
j. NJ. Hines.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Pigeon Carries
Greeting From
City To Tucson

Greeting from Matt Dodge.
president of Coolidge Rotary club
to Stanley Kit. president, Tue
son Rotary club were dispatched
by homing pigeon Immediately fol-
lowing the weekly club luncheon
yesterday noon. The bird made
the trip in almost exactly one
hour according to to telegram re-
ceived in reply from Mr.. Kit by
Mr.. Dodge.
The bird was released by L. F.
Moore, Tucson pigeon fancier,
who was the Rotary speaker for
the day and who discussed his
hobby of pigeon raising and rae
ing.
Club members enjoyed a pleas
ant interlude during the luncheon
hour with two songs from a trio
composed of the Misses Myrtle
Yohn. Patricia Tweed and Nancy
Baker of Coolidge school faculty.
Visitors at the luncheon includ-
ed Pete King. Maurice Mann,
Richard Fulton, Tex Hancock and
Earl Ward of Florence, Russell
Mann of Coolidge and Joe La
Verne of Santa Fe. New Mexico.
Junior Rotarians Charles Cad
bois and Arthur Irvine were in
reduced to the club.
President Matt Dodge announc-
ed a Farmers Day program for
May 8th to which each club mem
Der will invite a valley farmer as
his guest to hear l.. d. Klein
mendson. vocational department,
state department of education,
widely known agricultural authori-
ty.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Evening Class Begins
Farm Credit Study

Members of the agricultural
night school classes. under the
direction of R. M. Springfield, met
at the high school last night for
a discussion of some of the phases
of Farm Credit Subsequent meet
ings will take up new phases in
connection with this general sub
ject.
Members who attended last
night were as follows:
Jack Rowe, Bill Bergum, Jim
Pew, Wilbur Wuertz, John Sellers.
Horace Fennell. Mckinley Mag
ness, Bob Magness, D. }. Shoe
maker, Dick Preston, Herman
Libkind.
DR.. R. w. Cline, in charge of
the vocational educational depart
ment at the University of Arizona,
and ]. r. Cullison, assistant pro-
fessor in the department, drove
from Tucson to attend the meet
ing and aid in the discussion.
Mr.. l. M. Phillips, agricultural
instructor of Florence Union high
school, was also a visitor at the
meeting.
These meetings are open to the
public and anyone may attend who
is interested in doing so. The time
is at 1880 on Tuesday evenings.
After the meeting, a basket ball
practice is held in the gymnasium
for those who wish to play.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Coolidge Dam
Is Now More
Than Half Full

Stored water, available for irri-
cation of Casa. Grande valley pro-
ject lands passed the halfway
mark Monday night and was well
started toward the next 100000
acre feet.
Available water behind Coolidge
Dam totaled 6O9,114 acre feet at
am. yesterday morning or
nearly 10000 acre feet more than
half of the 100000 acre foot
capacity of the huge reservoir
which is San Carlos LAX.
Daily flow during the past few
weeks has averaged about 1000
acre feet.
Daily averages for the week
were:
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Resigns Position

Kye McMullen, Coolidge night
watchman, has announced he will
resign his post Tuesday, April 1st,
after several years of service to
take over management of the Como
co Service Station at Main Street
and Coolidge avenue.
The station was formerly operat-
ed by Troy Trash, who was called
to the service of Uncle Sam March
goth.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Coolidge Future
Farmers Place High
In Fair Exhibits

Coolidge Future Farmers have
about three dozen new premium rib
bons to add to their respective col
lection of premiums received on
stock exhibited at various Future
Farmer fairs.
The boys are mighty proud of
the predominance of blue and pur-
pie ribbons in the collection-blue
indicating a placing of first in the
class and purple indicating a cham
pionship of all classes.
The newest group of ribbons
was won at the fair held in Chand-
Ter last Friday and Saturday by
members of the South Salt River
Valley Federation. This federation
is composed of the Future Farmer
chapters of Gilbert, Mesa, Chand-
Ter, Florence and Coolidge.
Due to the difficulty of trans
portation only limited number of
Coolidge Future Farmers were able
to exhibit stock. Exhibits were as
follows:
SWINE ENTERPRISES
Verne Wuertz-1st place, senior
champion, and grand champion on
his Duroc Jersey SOW. 1st place
and junior champion on Duroc
Jersey gilt. 1st place on Duroc
Jersey boar.
Howard Wuertz-3rd place on G
months old Duroc Jersey gilt.
Robert Cockrill senior and
grand championships on Hamp
shire SOW. This SOW also has the
distinction of being rated as the
best hog including all breeds, ex
hibited at the fair.
DAIRY ENTERPRISES
Billy Wynn-1st place on Jersey
heifer. 1918 months old class.
Jack Sturgeon-junior and grant
championships on Guernsey heifer
1918 months old class.
Ross Watson-junior and grant
championship on young Jersey
bull. This fine bull also received
the rank of best dairy animal il
the show, all breeds included
Howard Wuertz-grand champ
ion on Holstein bull, 1-6 months
class
We're Wuertz-second place or
Hoistein heifer, 1-6 months class
George Knox-1st place, junior
and grand championship on Jer
sey heifer. 1st place on senior
champion on 3 year old Jersey
COW.
FARM SHOP EXHIBIT
Cold chisels-Howard Wuertz
1st; Joe Harmon, End, Mack Dick
erson, 3rd.
Hay Hooks-Verne Wuertz, End
Nail boxes-Mack Dickerson
1st; Ethan Reed, End; Basil Wof
ford, 3rd.
Judges for the various exhibits
were DR.. R. w. Riddell, dairy
stock; Dr. E. o. Bell, livestock
and ]. R. Cullison, shop exhibits
All three judges are from the Uni
versity of Arizona.
Saturday afternoon at the fail
was given over to various rodeo
events under the direction of the
Coolidge and Florence chapters
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Tempe Lions Are
Coolidge Guests

Members of Tempe Lions club
were guests of Coolidge Lions
club at a dinner meeting held in
Community church Wednesday.
Plans were discussed for the
Lions club district convention to
be held in Tempe April 18th, 18th
and 10Th.
L. E. Moore of Tucson was a
special guest.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Monday Last Day
For Registration

The last day for National De
fense Emergency Registration is
Monday, March 31st.
All American Legion Auxiliary
members are urged by their Of
ficers to register without fail. Mrs.
Don Paul is receiving registra-
tiOnS
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28

ter than a trail, while Stringer
and Sam Mckinney, the latter
deputized at the Mac Rae ranch
drove in semi-circle to head
the men Off"
Four men were sighted shortly
before IL o'clock and made a
futile attempt to scatter, but at
terse command to halt, given
across pistol barrels they obeyed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28
Weather Report

Maximum and minimum dial
tamneratures from the U. >.
Weather bureau record at Casa
Grande Ruins.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28

. Mr.. and Mrs. George Lockhart
of Miami arrived Wednesday for
a visit with their daughter and
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-03-28

Other day when teacher asked
Willie Hanks what a surplus was.
he said, "Well. Pas always teIlin
US a surplus is what happens when
he raises cotton to make money for
the rest of the family Ia spend
o. cotton substitutes at the store.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-02
Time Payments Fixed
GOVERNMENT RULES RESTRICTING
INSTALLMENT BUYING
EFFECTIVE TODAY

delayed the full effect of the
order until today.
How much the rules may cur
tail business, no one in WASH
instop would guess. However,
Federal Reserve officials indi-
Gated that they look for no
great dislocation, because they
believed the regulations to be
mild.
What the board did was to
fix minimum down payments
and maximum time to pay the
balance on q selected list q
consumer articles, Improvement
loans a real estate and cash
loans under 1000 also are linn
tied.
On each of the specified con-
sumner articles and the small
cash loahs, the time limit on re-
payments will be 10 months.
The down payment minimums
follow:
Thirty-three and one-third per
cent on automobiles, airplanes,
power boats, boat motors, motor
cycles; 20 per cent on mechani-
cal refrigerators, washing ma
chimes, ironers. suction cleaners,
cooking stoves and ranges, heat
ing stoves and space heaters,
See PAYMENTS-Page 8
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-02
Mabel Crull
is Teachers
President

O"Great activity throughout the
county resulting from the de-
Tense program Is creating prob
lens in the school system which
rural teachers have not met be-
FORE" County School Commits
sioner Will L. Lee told 800 men,
bers of the Macomb County Ruf-
al Teachers Association meeting
today in the county building.
Lee welcomed the teachers
and pledged anew the assistance
of his office to the educators.
In the annual election of off,
GERS, Mabel Cruil was elected
to the office of president, de-
feating Ruth Phillips. Ruth
Sharland defeated Floyd Ebelina
in the race for first vice-presi-
dent, and Harold Chamberlain
won the second vice-presidency
over Janet Socia. Winnie Dooley
defeated Mary Cook for the Of
flee of recording secretary, and
Ivadell Foster was elected cor
responding secretary over Luz
ellie Stevens. Mrs. Marian Trask
was elected treasurer, defeating
Mrs. Houghton and Victor Mar
lowe. ~
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-02
Lions Festival
Proves Success
1000. Attend
Gola Event

nRichmond's habitual calm and
tranquility were shattered Mon
day (by tl1k invasion ~Qf some
1000 visitors to the second m
nuA Labor Day Celebration
staged by the Lions club of Rich
mond.
Sportsmen's park was the
scene of the festivities, and full
day of every kind of entertain
ment greeted the visitors. Fea-
lures of the day ranged from .
horse-pulling contest to a bath
ing beauty parade, and the prin-
cipal addresses were given by
Jesse p. Wolcott, congressman
from this district, and Harry F.
Kelly, secretary of state.
Mary Lynch, aged II, was
chosen the most beautiful of the
entrants to the beauty contest
and was crowned Miss Rich
mond, 1941."
A full program OF amateur
and professional vaudeville acts
entertained the audience all day,
as we'll as baseball games and
horse-pulling contests.
First place honors in the
heavyweight class were taken
by q team entered by Don Arm
old of Plainwell. Second place
went to r. Hunter o Grindstone
City, and third to Clarence Bur-
CESS of Goodrich. A team entered
in the name of c. Roehl and son
of Richmond won first in the
lightweight class. Don Arnold
of Plainwell took second place,
and Joe Vossen of st. Clair,
third.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-02

oJERSEY CITY, N. j., Sept. 2
-(R-A bizarre tale Of Is nom
descript trucks which wander
ed through Europe for nearly
six weeks carrying $4,000 900
in gold-virtually all Of Po-
lands gold reserve-was told
today by Ignacy Matuczewski,
former Polish Minister OF
Finance.
Matuczewski, who arrived on
the American Export Liner Ex-
cambion, said through m In
terpreter that he decided to try
to save the gold when the Ger
man armies were literally
battering the gates Of Warsaw
In September, 1899.
The golden treasure, weigh
ing about IS tons in bullion and
coins, finally was turned over
to the Polish government-in-
exile, then situated at Anoers,
France. but not before anxious
days and nights had passed ~
The strange caravan followed The
refugee trail south.
laatuc1ews1ki and HENRIK
Tloyar Taeohnan. Ne lGiniBter
Of Industry and Conn0eeeo--
who also was aboard tl,s Ezon-
bion-loaded the gold Into -
old trucks and with q group q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-02
U.S.. Officer, Engineer
Lost on Ferry Trip
EIGHT OTHERS GIVEN UP FOR
LOST BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT

London and son law of James
Clement DuEii, political advisor
to u. S. Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull.
Count Guy had been in Wash
ington on q mission as a member
of the staff CT the Minister Of
Colonies Of the Emigre Belgian
Government. His father is still
in Belgium.
:. The Americans were Capt. S.
PickipRof tire U. s. My, pas
stnger, and flight engineer
Charles AIvan Spence, of Little
Neck, L. i, N. Y, member Of
the crew.
The plane left North America
presumably Canada) yesterday
for England. In announcing that
the craft was missing today the
Air Ministry said that the next
of kin of those aboard had been
informed.
One of the passengers on the
missing plane was DR.. Mark
Benjamin, of Wembly, Eng, of
the Central Scientific office in
Washington.
LIST OF MISSING: y
Count Henri De Ballet La
tour, assistant military attache,
Belgian Embassy, London, and
president Of the international
Olympic Congress.
Prof. r. MOwat, Bristol, Brit
ish Library of Information.
E. Taylor, Farnborough,
Hampshire, Eng, Principal
Technical Officer, British Air
Ministry.
Capt. S. Picking, U. s. NJ,
Captain Of United States Navy.
Col. l.. H. Wrangham, lmper-
ial Army.
DR.. Mark BENJAMIN, Wembly,
Middlesex, Eng, Central Scien.
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