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The Coolidge examiner., 1942-05-22

Mrs. II. b. Steward was Initial
ed into the mysteries OF the Star
Chapter Wednesday night Worthy
Patron Harry Martin and wife OF
Casa Grande and Mrs. Sylvester
and Mrs. Westerman OF Florence
were the guests present The con
ductress, Mrs. AL Christensen,
was absent and her station was
filled by Mrs. westerman during
the evening. This was the first
initiation work done by the new
officers this year and their duties
were efficiently executed. Refresh
ments were served by a commit
tee comprisd of Mrs. r. ]. Jones
and Mrs. Odom.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-05-22

Mrs. J. ]. Butterfield enter
tanned Wednesday at bridge honor
ing Mrs. S. A. Burt who Is leav-
ing soon TO spend the summer
with her parents in Colorado. A
beautiful cookie far was presented
to her. Guests were Mrs. Tom
Rogers OF Phoenix, and Mesdames
Esters. Askew. Weaver. Burt. Pal
mer. Moxley. Nassau, Hooper.
Shelter, Skousen, Short, G. w.
Ware, Luthy. Clark. Hanks. Pra-
ther and Jackson. Prizes were
awarded TO Mrs. Skousen. Mrs
Jackson and Mrs. Shelter.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-05-22

A. L. Bartlett of Florence was
a Coolidge visitor Wednesday af-
ternoon meeting old friends and
informing them that he was a
Democratic candidate for the Of
flee of county treasurer at the
September primaries. Mr.. Bart
lett is well and favorably known
throughout Pinal county and will
undoubtedly receive a good vote.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-05-22

Mr.. and Mrs. James Luthy were
visiting friends in Gloe and Miami
Sunday. also with c. X. Luthy in
Claypool.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-05-22

Placing prices under ceilings is difficult task for
of complications. But it can and will be done
This we pledge ourselves to do to the utm ost Of
You can do your shopping at this store, in the futu
in the integrity of wartime standards
As basic materials become converted more and n
with new and difficult questions with every passing
be mastered by the of ingenuity by the emplo
enviabe position this store enjoys through its yeal
consumer alike.
We hope to prove to you in your future shopping
tial worth of our merchandise have not been chanj
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-05-22

The May bridge party of the
Woman's Club viii be held this
Friday evening with hostesses as
follows: Mrs ]. c. Jayne. Mrs.
r. ]. Jones. Mrs. c. r Cohen and
Miss Elizabeth Jones.
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Havoc In M0VIELAND

interludeS OF night-club work and
modelling during the hard winters.
After four years she got a part in the
road company Of The Women"
1t lasted 10 weeks.
She went to her sister, who worked
under the name of Gypsy Rose Lee,
and told her she was going back to
summer stock and modelling. Gypsy
Rose, six years her senior. shook her
head. NO" she said. Either aim
high, now, or get out of show busi-
ness entirely"
June looked up the most promis-
ing play then being cast. 1t was
pal Joey" With all to gain and
nothing to lose, she demanded test
for a leading part. She got it.
The show was big success, and so
was June Havoc. In fact, she ran
away with the play.
Hollywood was a cinch to crash,
after that.
THlS D1DCGS US back to the
projection room, where we left Miss
Havoc weeping unaccustomed tears.
She sat there alone for a while, then
went to the director of the picture.
Il want to do that scene over"
she said firmly
The director wasn't sure it could
be arranged. "You said yesterday"
he laughed, that you had made us
sit up and take notice in that scene"
81 was wrong" June said. IL
have other information now.
Anyway, I've been an idiot. Pal
Joey gave me the big-head. Now
I'm ready to start working. I've
done it before"
They made the scene over. The
lady did much better. Then she put
into effect a program of study and
practice and violent rehearsal which
could be heard and felt, on clear
day, far out at sea. "I'm no good"
she told everybody, but I'm getting
better"
She was. She did very we'll in
Sing Your Worries Away: was
cast with Victor McLaglen in Pow
der Town." did good job in that.
The word around Hollywood now is
that the Havoc is in.
went to see her on the set
when she was just finishing Powder
Town" How are you doing" l
asked. (She had told me, some time
before, about that first experience)
"Oh, she said, with her smile, "I'm
making them sit up and -" She
stopped and looked at me through
narrowed eyes. Never mind" she
said. I'm not being caught on that
one any more. Any other questions?"
i shook my head. That was all l
wanted to know.
DONALD H0UGH
Evening star., 1942-05-17
Crash Hollywood? Easy!
Sure, June - but look
what happens next!

- NE morning last year, so
early that the sun still lay
~ behind the walled-in bastion
of the RKO studios in Hollywood.
sleepy girl approached the main
entrance and showed her brand-new
pass to the studio cop on guard
there.
There's no calls this early, Miss
Havoc" he said. reading the name
on the pass.
I've come early to see a rush OF
sequence from Sing Your Worries
Away" she said. The scene where
l try to persuade Bert Lahr to kill
himself"
Projection Room No. g." the
officer said. You just come from
Broadway. didn't your Pal Joey ?"
Miss Havoc nodded. "How do you
like working in pictures?" he asked.
"In this scene I'm going to see
now" she said confidently. 81 think
made them sit up and take notice.
Twas swell. That's why | want to be
there when they see it,
She was Just beginning to wake
up when she arrived at the pro-
lection room. But. early as she
was, she still was little late and the
screening of her scene with Lair was
just over as she entered the darkened
room. The lights came on as she sat
down - directly behind group of
studio executives who also had got
up early to see the rushes showing
the new actress in action.
"Well," one of the big shots
yawnesi, "she certainly fell fiat
on her face in that one"
"Some acting," another said
bitterly.
As they got up to leave, third
said, Poor Lahr. When he sees that,
he'll really 90 out and kill himself"
Miss Havoc was left alone in the
projection room. There was only one
thing for her to do. and she did it.
She wept.
IT LOOKED like a tough break
all right. June Havoc had spent 20
years trying to get to Hollywood by
way of Broadway and the stage. Or
rather, trying to get back, for she
had scored minor success as
movie comedienne when she was
three years old. Billed as Baby
June, the Darling of Vaudeville"
she spent the rest of her childhood
on the stage. She crept up on Broad
way by way of summer stock, with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

Her brother was Raymond Smith, as, a
sheep rancher The dead woman was Cen
evieve Smith, 49, at one time actress.
Smith told the police that she lived with
him. had been ill., and in fits Of rebellion at
il had threatened TO end her life.
At the inquest it was brought out that
among other things Genevieve Smith believed
in spiritualsm and was told by medium, she
reported, to kill her brother. The diagnosis
of the doctors was that she was suffering from
"dementia praecox of paranoid type due pos
sibly TO some of the hard falls and injuries she
had when doing dangerous pictures in Holly
wood. The coroner's verdict was suicide.
Then two weeks later when Banks was
making his rounds again he startled to
see fire mushroom up where the Smith house
stood. He ran to it and saw it being con-
sumed the ribs showing then collapsng as
the flames finished 1t.
Smith was watching the fire in way that
prompted Banks to tell the police about it.
They asked Smith how it happened.
He told a straightforward story of acct
dent in a manner that was anything but
straightforward. The police bored in with
questions. Smith grew angry contradcted
himself, became abusive.
Then the questioning became hot and heavy
and Smiths nerves gave.
I'm not interested in the house he said.
Il hate it. My sister hated it, We've had
nothing but trouble in it, It's haunted hexed,
it's been hell. II made even Curly nervous"
Curly was the dog whose barking brought
Banks to the oil sump
Smith was arrested on the charge of ar
son and the police became interested again
in Geneveve's death. They dug back into
the lives OF the brother and sister and the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05
Raymond Smith, Genevieve's
Brother, Facing an Arson
Charge in Connection With
the Burning of His Home.

more they learned the more complications they
found
Bluntly they asked Smith. What did you
have 10 do with your sisters DEATH"
He glared at them. then averted his eyes.
Il had nothing to do with it,
Are you sure it was suicde?"
Yes" he said.
But now the police were curious enough to
pursue the investigation further
They found a large third figure in the
current relations between the brother and sis
ter, Rosenda Manciet, of 900 Rosecrans Boule-
ward Norwalk. a Mexican. six feet tall weigh
ing $50 pounds The police were told that
Smith was very much in love with Rosenda-
even blindly infatuated with her
And the brothers love for Rosenda was
reported to have led to a conflict with
Genevieve Smith. Raymond was known to be
short of cash yet he was said TO have spent
much as $3.50 a week on jewelry and other
presents for Rosenda.
At one time the drain on his finances be-
cause of Rosenda was said TO have caused him
to mortgage his sheep. Then he sold some Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

Almost from the day Genevieve could walk
she rode horses. In a short while she rode
as recklessly as a fool but she no fool.
She all skill.
The ranch hands marveled at what the
child considered play Anyone else would
have broken her neck a dozen times over or
would have persisted in some other way be-
cause of her passion for gambling with almost
any kind Of danger.
On one occasion she built a pile Of brush
wood, set fire to it and throwing herself on
her sorrel mare charged through the flames.
She climbed rocky heights in a way that
made men dizzy to watch. She tried to make
her brother share her passion for living dan
gerousy, but he was a shut-in creature who
wanted only his sister for companion.
AS they grew to adolescence their mother
became uneasy at her children's too great de-
votion to each other and she sent Genevieve
away.
BY this time the girl was superb athlete
and a raving beauty. In addition she had an
emotional intensity and dramatic flair that
made Hollywood the logical place for her to
choose.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

IT proved so.-Atthat time Pearl White
was having enormous success in the motion
picture serials, The Perils of Pauline" The
Exploits of Elaine" and others. Each install
ment ended with the heroine in some physical
danger and the action was such that it could
not be easily faxed.
But Pearl White became too valuable
theatrical property to have her life and limb
rsked.
Whereupon Genevieve Smith found her ca
reer in doubling" for Pearl White. She
charged at full gallop through really burning
forests She took heavy falls from rocky
lodges She jumped out of upper story win
dows
AS recklessly as she performed for the
screen Geneveve also played dramas in real
life. Men flocked about her all kinds of men,
She chose dangerous kinds Adventures
looking for Hollywood money. other men
whose good looks it was not safe to mistake
for effeminacy, hard-riding horsemen turned
actors, stunt men who made livelihood by
risking their lives
Genevieve became the center of many an
emotional storm, between man and man. be-
tween men and herself She tired Of men
sooner than they liked. and many of them
were not the kind to be thrown over lightly
Then her mother died, and Genevieve left
Hollywood to live with her brother on his small
sheep ranch at Santa Fe Springs. But some
men in Hollywood apparently were not easy
to discard, for strangers appeared at the
Smith ranch and raised rows. Genevieve COM
planned that Others mysterious men," were
pursuing and prosecuting her.
To what extent this was true it Is hard
to tell. for she began to drink, grew highly
emotional and more than once over the
border of sanity spending several periods in
sanitarums.
Then Raymond who had gone till middle
life without looking at any woman but his sis
ter met Rosenda Manciet, of the ponderous
body His infatuation for her shut Genevieve
out but she would not stand for it. The over
excitable actress and the large, inscrutable
Mexican woman FLASHED Raymond made
up, and clashed again.
When Genevieve died the police asked Ro-
senda what she knew about her death.
"On March 90" Rosenda said II had a
quarrel with Raymond during the afternoon
but that night l went to his home. Neither
he nor Genevieve there, so l went to a
hotel. At o'clock that morning Raymond
came and awakened me. saying his sister had
been found floating in an oil sump"
The police asked the psychatrists who
treated Genevieve in her periods of breakdown
what they thought was the manner of her
death
Her Hollywood career brought her many
a shock physical and nervous" was their
answer There is no doubt that she had hal
lucnations, and the mysterious men who
haunted her may have existed only in her
fevered mind"
But the police knew mysterious strangers
did follow her out Of her stormy past in Hol-
lywood. The clashes between Genevieve and
her brother and Genevieve and Rosenda were
also real.
The police theory is that the actress who
once made danger her profession really wanted
to put an end to herself and devised dra-
matte final curtain TO the drama Of her life
in such way as to embarrass her faithful
brother and sweetheart.
THE AAIEnIGAN N,ERKMX Y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

The face covered by an oily film glistened
in the moonlight and the eyes were only slight
~ open The nose and mouth were partly
clogged with OIL so that breathing was diff
fcult
Banks did what he could to make her
breathing easier, then laid her out some
nearby grass.
The nearest house was a frame cottage
200 yards away light showing.
Banks ran TO il and hammered at the door
II was minutes before it opened and mid
die aged man in a leather windbreaker showed
his face. 1t was face that made Banks feel
it somehow belonged with his grim find in
the oil pool He had lean, hard-bitten lines
and looked as if he lived too much on his
nerves
Banks said, Il fished a woman out of the
stump. Come and help me-"
The man followed Banks with a heaviness,
as if he was anticipating personal tragedy.
Which was what happened, for when he saw
the woman he said:
IT'S my sister"
Banks had to rouse him to action so
with rusty old car.
The woman was still alive and her lips
were moving, trying to say something.
They took her to the Murphy Memorial
Hospital.
When the doctors washed the oily film
from the woman's face they were startled by
the beauty that emerged wildly modelled
features, black arching brows, a shapely
mouth wide and sensuous, the eyes large
black and it was clear that normally they
were luminous
She died while the doctors were working
over her.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

his sheep and got into
a disagreement with
his creditors.
Up to the time that
Rosenda came into
their lives the brother
and sister seemed to
have found each other
absorbing enough to
shut out the rest Of
the world.
1t was a relation Of
such intensity and long
standing that the po-
lice investigated it as
far back as their child
hood, in the hope Of
finding an answer to
the mystery of Gene
vieve's death.
The Smiths spent
their childhood on a
cattle ranch near
Phoebe. Nevada. The
mother, who was re-
membered as a beauty
whom Genevieve re-
sembled strongly, had
lost her husband TO
another woman, and
thereafter she concen-
trated her powerfully
emotional nature on
her children. Few out
siders were allowed TO
share the family life
on the ranch.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

BY JOSEPH GOILOMB
GUST before midnight recently. Tom Banks Waterman
4 making his oil field Santa Fe Springs,
~ California, heard a dog in trouble.
dogs and the frantic barking, alternating
with despair being needed told him IL
physical pain agatng that dog somewhere in
among the oil dercks sihouetted the light
O a full
Banks trouble locating the dog which itself seemed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

Was 1t a Dark Sfrang-
er Out Of Her Adven-
furious Past. Or Some
Even Darker Phantom
Of The Mind That Drove
Pearl Whites Double
to The Edge of That
Oily Pool o+Midnighf--
and Forced Her In?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

TO De trying 10 ililu soiile-
one. but finally his flash
ligth spotted a curly
haired mongrel, quivering
with tension. The dog
was so nervous that when
Banks advanced it re-
treated.
But when the watch
man in disgust turne- 10
go. the dog again Sc up
it's howl OF appeal FL
nally, it overcame its
nervousness enough TO
lead Banks TO the edge
Of "A deep pool Of oil.
Peering through the
dark he made out what
troubled the dog, the half
submerged figure of a
woman, struggling feebly
in the oil stump, about six
feet from the trampled
edge of the pool. Banks
hurriedly cast about with
his flashlight, found a long
pole and managed 10 drag
the heavy. half-floating
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
CANNING CONTEST
CREATES

An canning is a No. l war pro-
iect this year promising 10 exceed
last years pack of II 100000 Jars Of
all kinds of foods by 250,0 900 All
club girls. Such a total assures ample
supplies for home use and the re-
lease Of other essential FOODS re-
quired by the Is million or more peo-
pie among our allies and N the armed
Forces.
In view Of this situation more i'm
pOrtancs than ever attaches to the
national All canning contest offering
cCNnty, state and rational award
valued in eXces of $4,000, all pro-
Vided l'y Mrs. Ruth Kerr. glass jar
executive for the l4th season. It
viii be conducted by the extension
service in North Carolina this year
and leaders and members are urged
20 secure particulars at once from
their county agent or club leader.
Gold medals will be given county
winners at the close of the season,
trips Will be awarded state VictOrS
to the National Al Club Congress
in Chicago IN December, and five 500
college scholarships 60 to national
winners.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
HoFor Roll
"a.
Names a

The Senior honor roll of Hen
ders0n high sch0ol for 1912, an
nounced recently by W. ID.
Payne. principal, lists ~ scno-
lastic leaders CT the no candi-
dates for diplomas at Com
management exercise, next Week
IT Ne nigh sclocl.
The honor roll, listed alphebe-
ticailN, i%icIu.fs:
Maxine EA--t., Preston Allie
Blue. Eugene Burroughs Basket,
Mary Ann Daniel, Mile Jean
Dixon, Thomas Furman Faux
ner, Richard Dalton Harper,
James Epra lIite, Viola Mae
Hoyle, Josephine May Jackson,
JANIS Archer Johnson, Rather
inc Louisa Legs. Randolph Den
mis- Willis, Annice Blaine Mitchell,
Nable Clayton Oakley, Ann
Hunt Rowland. Doris Nray
Thai rington. Clyde Lee ThOrne.
Mae Garland Tolson, Margaret
Ernestine Smith. Arthur Gilbert
Webb, NJ. W. Wester. Jr., Esther
Rogers Wood and Vivian Japan
It's.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
Motor Traffic
Drops Sharply


Raleigh, May l6.-Traftic on
North Carolina highways hi a de-
crease long before gasoline ranonln9
went into effect. according to Statls-
tics complied by the State Highway
and Pubic Works CommlsSloN
through the aid OF "maglc-eye'
counters placed on ~ strategic nigh
WAYS throughout the state,
According to he counters. trait
tlc for the month OF April is off on
the average Of 2o6 per cent oVer the
same month IN 1911. Hardest INT are
the tourist routeS. According to A
counter gust north OF Raleigh, on u,
S, !. travel during April shows a 81
per cent decrease over the same
month last year ON the same section
of road. EaSt-WeSt traffic IS also de
clinlng as shown by a 80 per cent
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
10 Seniors
Are Seeking
Diplomas
Class is One Of Largest
in History of Local
High School; Gradual
lion Exercises A r e
Wednesday Night.

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
Awards Kept
In Secrecy
Public Must Wait Un-
til Tuesday Night to
Learn Winners Of High
School Honors.

With the exception Of a few awards
which h2N- been announced in re-
cent weeks. the public must wait
until Tuesday, School and Award
Night Of Commencement Week at
Henderson high school, to learn the
winners Of numerous honors which
will be conferred upon memb-rs Of
the Senior class and of the student
body Of the high school.
Principal w. d. Payne has said
that a practice of long standing will
be changed with this years gradual
ton program and that public an
nouncement of students to receive
awards Will not be made until the
time of presentation at ceremonies
starting at 7:45 o'clock Tuesday
NIGHT in the high school auditorium.
Honors which have already been
announced include: the Mrs. j. W.
Jenkins Medal for best all around
Senior girl, to Katherine Legg; the
!, T. Alderman Medal for best all
around Senior boy, TO James john
son: the T. p. Gholson defamation
medal, to George OLary: the Mayors
Medal for best high school recitation,
20 Gloria VanDyke.
Other medals and awards to be
ny sented I the First Year Tipping
Award. Second Year Tipping Award,
r. P. Gholson Physical Education
Award, Loughlin-G oodwyn Athletic
Award. p. H. Rose Scholarship
Awards. D, A. r. History Award,
Dausch and Lomb Science Award,
and scholastic letters and awards.
A musical program will precede
the presentation Of awards. with
numbers including: Prelude. high
school band: "Scotch Poem" (Mc-
DoWelD, Frances Hight: Spring
Time (MiIdenberg, and "a Bird in
Hand" (Roeckel), girls glee club;
and Who Is Sylvia?" shakespeare
and Schubert), Laura Jane Crabtree.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
MQrshQLs
Lead Glasses

Commencement a 7 n a Is,
chosen from among members OF
the eishtil, ninth and tenth
grades Of Henderson high school
OH an exclusive basis of sCho-
it%tic Standing, inctIde:
IA 88%Wvii. ch.ef marshal;
Billy Daniel, s,radN Tharring-
ton, Peggy Parker, Ann Nichols.
!.ula stanley, terence Glenn,
;.liLa sIarte ana EEelyn Hughes,
i,um the teI.ta erada;
Janie, IolsGH, john Baity,
OyeiGa Wills. Mabel Butts, Billy
Mitchell, ticcrGe O'L&ry, Edna
+. aemal, steve Higs4ns ana
Crensh4N Thlnp5Un. ircm the
ninth Grade: aud
Barbara Brake, Gloria Van
Dyke, Katherine Hawkins,
eddy, SatlcrNIit2 and Bertha
Wilson, from The eighth grade.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16

First row: Edward Iamm, Dorothy
White, Roy AdcoN. Maxine Baker,
Jack Nlnson. Vivian Zapantis,
Thomas Faulkner, Clyde Lee Thorne,
DurWood liedgepeth, Margaret
Briggs.
Second roW: Edith Bobbitt, r. A..
Harris, Jean Gambler, Billy N. Slack,
Vesta We ter, Billie Plitchard. An
nice Mitchell, Preston Blue, Mary
Sue Smith, Cheatkam Lamb, Mary
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16

dividual in the state, Applications
for membership may be made to
Lieutenant Nicely, Navy recruiting
station, Raleigh.
Although civic clubs and other or
eanized groups will be asked 10
spsarhead the VNRC in their own
communities, any other individual Is
eligible to volunteer as a member,
Each person volunteering for serv-
ICE in the Volunteer Corps will be
issued an honorary Navy reCruiter
Certificate.
ORGANIZATIONS and individuals join
ing the corps will contact young men
in their localities and send those eli
eible iGr enlistment to the nearest
Of the seven Navy recruiting sta
tions in North Carolina.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-05-16
CIVILIANS TO AID
NAVY RECRUITING

Raleigh, May reformation of a
Volunteer Navy Recruiting Corps
among civic clubs and other local
ORGANIZATIONS. throughout North
Carolina was announced today by
Lieutenant Charles B. Nicely, officer
in charge Of Navy recruiting for the
state.
Designed to bring to public atten-
ton the complete voluntary enlist
ment program of the Navy, the Vol
unteer Navy Recruiting Corps will
be open to any organization or IN