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PFC. MARY E. MOUNT, sta
toned at Mariana Army Air Field,
is on furlough visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Glenn Wood and family in
Akron, Ohio.
DAN PALMER, sP (A) 2/c,
phoned his mother, Mrs. Pierce
Vensel, Sunday from Boca Chica,
Florida, to tell her that he was
leaving the following day for Cuba
to play football in an Army-Navy
game. He will play halfback, the
same position he used to play in
high school.
CPL. REGAIN Lacy is here on
30 day furlough from the Aleutian
Islands after serving there 16
months. He is visiting his mother,
Mrs. H. H. Lacy. Cpl. Lacy has
two brothers in the service, Bill and
Hilary. Both are overseas.
JOHN ROCHE, ANN SIC, left
Monday to report for duty at re-
distribution center in San Diego,
California, at the conclusion of a
80 day leave spent visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Roche.
He recently returned to the United
States after IS months service in
the South Pacific.
S/sGT. ARIE C. BURT and Mrs.
Burt arrived here Tuesday from
Pensacola, Florida, on 20 day fur
Tough to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. j. Boss and other Coolidge
relatives.
PVT. DONALD MILLIGAN, hus-
band of Mrs. Donald Milligan of
373 Byrd Ave, Coolidge, has won
the right to wear wings and
Boots" of the United States Army
Paratroops. He has completed four
weeks of jump training at Ft. Ben
ming, Ca, during which time he
made five jumps, the last a tactical
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jump at night involving a combat
problem on landing. Jumping at
The Parachute School has been
steadily developed to a recognized
war science. American Paratroop-
ers have been recognized through
out the world for their meritor-
ious actions against the enemy.
SGT. LESLIE ELMER TIFFANY,
U. S. Marine Corps, and Mrs. Tiff
fany arrived here Saturday from
Hawthorne, Nevada, to visit his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Y. Tiffany
and family. The sergeant will leave
tomorrow to report for duty. An
other brother, M/Sgt. Lawrence L.
Tiffany, and his wife are expected
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-15
News Exchange Column For
Coolidge Men In The Armed Forces

EUGENE D. PREUITT, GIN 2/c
is back in the states after two
years service on a supply tanker
in the South Pacific He and Mrs
Preuitt, who makes her home in
California, were recently here to
visit his parents, the ]. T. Preuitts,
and his brother, GHbsrt Preuitt
and family. in Casa Grande.
Preuitt's duty began in the Aleu-
tian Islands, from where he later
covered the South Pacific, crossed
through Panama Canal and re-
turned home by way of the Allan
tic, landing in New York. He came
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from FIT. Kelso, Kentucky, in time
to spend Christmas holidays with
his parents. Both Leslie and Law
renee have served overseas.
PVT. FRANK A. LYNCH. re-
Gently transferred from San -Ber-
nardino, California, to Nashville.
Tennessee, and has again been
transferred to Fairfax Field, Kan
sas City, Kansas, where l hope l
stay awhile" he writes. Lynch is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tad Lynch.
He is serving in the Air Transport
Command.
PFC. LEE FREELAND has been
honorably discharged from the army
and arrived home this week from
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Cigarettes are hard to get where
he is and he asks his wife to send
him carton, if she can get hold
| of one. They don't hear any news
at all now, Graham says, and he'd
surely like to know what's going
on. He asks to be remembered to
his Coolidge friends.
EDWARD M. LILLE, r. M. v.
SIC, is stationed at naval air sta
ton in Hawaii and writes If any
of the Coolidge boys are stationed
there, or stop over, he would like
to see them. He is a graduate of
CUHS class of '43 and joined the
navy October 13 of the same year.
Lille is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Lille. Sr.
PVT. WAYNE RAY writes from
the front lines in Germany to let
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Ray, know that he is all right. ut
is very hard to find a place and
time to write YOU" he tells them.
Conditions have been such that he
has not been able to bathe for a
month "and l smell just like the
man next to me-" The snow is
six inches deep on the ground, but
recently he has been sleeping in
hay loft and it hasn't been SO
bad, Ray says. He asks about the
farm and labor conditions. Per-
haps he will send back few more
German prisoners to help with the
cotton picking, he says. Il Will
sure be glad when l can be home
with all of you again"
ALFRED (FREDDIE) RAMIREZ,
ANN 3/c, was In San Diego for a
single day when he phoned his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fernando
M. Ramirez, on Monday to let
them know he was all right after IA
months sea duty and recent acci-
dent in which he gashed his head
while swimming, causing a wound
that necessitated three weeks in an
overseas hospital. Ramirez has
lived in Coolidge eight years. He
Is a CUHS student and entered
service two years ago. He was
born on December pearl Har-
Dor Day. 1928.
GORDON LANGFoRD, MON nc,
was married last week to South
Dakota girl in Los Angeles. He
has had many months overseas duty
and is stationed at present In San
Francisco. His mother, Mrs. ]. G..
Langford, and sister, Mrs. Maurine
Skrla, were in Los Angeles at the
time of his marriage.
ALFRED &. CARTER, serving in
France, has been promoted from
private to sergeant. according to
word received this week by his
mother, Mrs. Esther Carter. An
other son, Glenn Carter, serving
in England, has recently been pro-
noted from sergeant to staff ser
geant.
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Louisville, Kentucky, where he has
been for some time in a military
hospital due to injuries received in
an accident at FIT. Knox. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Freeland,
Sr., and has lived in Coolidge since
he was five.
PVT. GEORGE FRARY wrote
from France after receiving an Ex-
aminer recently TO say that it was
the first mail to have reached him
in over two months, and was it
welcomei He could certainly use
a little Arizona sunshine where he
Is, Frary says. He asks to be re-
membered to all his Coolidge
friends.
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to Coolidge in 1924, attended Flor
ence High School before there was
a high school here, and later went
to work in California. where he
was married and from where he
entered service.
PVT. FRANK GRAHAM writes
his wife, Inez, from France to let
her know he is o. k. I'm lying
here in my pup tent writing this,
with the wind blowing a gale" He
hasn't been receiving mail lately
and surely hopes there will be
some for him soon, Graham says.
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Husband of Lady Astor"

Gray haired, dignified he has half as
many press clippings as his wife, but
twice as much space in who's Who"
He has done much public work, but
says of his wife:
II think can say that I am help
to her in her constituency. Sometimes
I'm introduced as the husband of Lady
Aston; and personally, I'm such an ad-
mirer of her work that I would be
quite satisfied with that"
But before his reluctant succession to
his fathers title, Lord Aston had
promising Commons career. He was
successfully parliamentary secretary to
Lloyd George, to the Ministry of Food
and to the Ministry of Health. He was
a delegate to the League of Nations, is
chairman of numerous hospitals and
the Institute of International Affairs,
and is owner of the Observer, a leading
Sunday newspaper.
Thousands Of pounds given by Amer
lea to Plymouth during the blitz are in
a trust fund from which Lord Aston
draws for his many schemes for helping
his beleaguered city with nursery
schools, hostels and clothing.
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and had quite large garden with some
fine old trees growing on it," one of
which, q beautiful ash, was sold to
Samuel Kirby when the grounds were
being cleared. Being a cabinetmaker,
Mr. Kirby made the wood into furniture.
But the modern building erected on
this site was not owned by the ''Y," but
by joint stock company, and, I'M
fortunately, in April, 1880, serious trou-
BILE arose which could only be settled
by the courts, and It's decision left no
alternative for the association but to
move, which it did, to quarters at 804
E street, where 1t remained until Sep
TENDER 1882, when it moved to the
building which had formerly been
Chamberlin's Clubhouse, at 1409 to 1411
New York avenue
Chamberlain Club
The Chamberlain Club building, So
called because it was operated by John
Chamberlain was originally a private
residence, with ample grounds about it,
extending on the west side nearly to
the corner of Fifteenth street and New
York avenue. Early in the 7Os, when
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Rhees. Of the former, the writer knows
little, but the latter he knew personally
for many years and came in contact
with him almost daily from 1884 until
his death.
He was for many years member of
the Board of Trustees of our public
schools and the chief clerk of the
Smithsonian Institution. He was the
writer's cherished friend, and he has
his own words for it, for in November,
1901, in presenting copy of his "Docu-
mentary History of the Smithsonian
Institution" he penned on the fiyleaf:
Mr. John c. Proctor, from his friend,
William j. Rhees"
At the recent old-timers' dinner when
William Montgomery presided there
was present DR.. Benjamin r. Rhees of
East Orange, N. j., son of William
Jones Rhees; William j. Rhees, ID, of
Alexandria, Va. and Rhees Burket of
Silver Spring, Md, grandsons of the
founder, and Rhees Burket, jr., great
grandson.
AS to William G. Langdon, he after
ward became widely known as an Epis-
copal rector and secretary of the Inter
national Sunday School Lesson Com
mittee. But his labors for the YMCA
were not confined to the District of
Columbia, and he early conceived the
idea of federating the associations, and
in this connection he addressed 80 as
sociations, and calling convention,
which assembled in Buffalo June I, 1854,
the first International conference of
the association ever held, and the first
conference of the associations of any
kind held in the English-speaking
world. 1t was held precisely 10 years
and one day from the organization of
the London Association. Nineteen as
sociations were represented by 81 dele
gates. The convention provided for a
stated convention and a central COM
mittee of five members.
On February 20, 1s55,sMr. Langdon
issued circular stating that the requi-
site ratification had been secured, and
thereby the North American Confeder-
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the Washington Club was organized by
a number of representative men Of
the country, the old residence was en-
larged and remodeled at cost, 1t is said,
of $75 900 and was given the appearance
which 1t had up to the time OF its pur-
chase by the YMCA.
On September IL, 1882, this property
was turned over to the association. the
purchase price being $4,000, of which
$4,000 was secured and paid down.
However, money was as scarce then,
or ct least the "Y" found 1t hard to get,
and, added to this, the membership had
dropped down to nearly 100 members.
1t was, indeed, the associations darkest
days
1t is said that trouble never comes
single handed, and this surely proved to
be the case with those good people,
pledged as they were and are to do a
work that means SO much for the better
ment of the community and the country.
And so we find it next-on July "a, 1895
being visited by fire, with the destruc-
ton of its building and all its contents,
William ]. Rhees
OF the prime movers in forming this
association In Washington two men in
particular are given credit by Mr.. Smith
for working out the details incidental to
it's establishment-Messrs. Langdon and
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World Wide Photo.
American diplomat who became a Brit
lsh subject, and whose mother came
from Philadelphia, was born in the
United States cas- far as I know, in
New York" he says. He was educated
at Eaton and oxford, and is a famous
sportsman with a fine stable He was
member of Parliament for Plymouth
until he succeeded to his fathers Wis
countcy, and his wife took on his con-
stituency.
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Rebuilding Plymouth

An ardent teetotaller like his wife, he
has worked with her to set up soft
drink canteens and entertainment for
the troops.
building Plymouth.
Lady Aston has bullied her beer
drinking fellow-members of Parliament:
has treated the ''old fogies" on the city
council like naughty children; has Of
Tended almost everybody; pricked the
Continued on Page C-5)
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How the Battle of Midway Was Won

the weather was exceptionally clear and
visibility was irreproachable
An unimpeded view on all sides left
no doubt. as the bombers neared the
calculated point OF contact shortly after
IL o'clock, that something had gone
seriously wrong. From height of 1900
feet, McClusky swept the horizon with
his binoculars in every direction. The
sea lay empty. Not Japanese vessel
was in sight.
What had happened? Two answers
were possible. Perhaps there had been
an error in plotting time and space
Perhaps the invasion feet had already
passed inside the predicted intersection
line and was now between the air group
and Midway. This solution was go
plausible that 1T was adopted some min
utes later by flyers from the Hornet
They turned southeast and searched the
supposed track of the Japanese xhins
until shortage of gasoline forced some
down at sea, while others landed on
Midway.
Japs in Retreat
The alternative guess was that the
Jap fleet had suddenly reversed its
course and turned back TO the west. In
view Of the enemy's great strength and
known pertinacity, the supposition AZ
first glance appeared absurd, on the In
formation at McClusxy's disposal. With
profound anxiety, he pored over chart
and Instruments, verifying his own
course. Rapidly he made a calculation
Of the speed of the japanese armada
and the direction and velocity of the
wind. When he raised his head again,
he was fundamentally certain Of q
grand historical revolution of events
namely. that the enemy f1otilla had
ceased its advance and begun q retreat.
This, it proved, was exactly what had
occurred. He did not know it, but at
dawn on June 4 several groups of Army
heavy and medium bombers, together
with Marine Corps dive bombers and
torpedo planes, had take off from Mid
way for determined frontal attack on
the main Jap fleet. They suffered heavy
losses. but inflicted serious damage,
making numerous hits and leaving ons
battleship smoking and listing
AS result of the attack, the enemy
force began retirement to the north
west between $50 and $50 am. The
maneuver took place after the American
aircraft had returned to Midway to
refuel and rebomb and passed unob-
served because the island had thrown
every plane it had into the onslaught,
with none left over for reconnaissance.
Unaware of this development, McClusky
checked his gasoline and made a de-
cision. 1t was to fly IS miles to the
west and then turn northwest, in the
precise reverse of the original Japanese
course
AT 1l:55 he spied a lone Japanese
cruiser which was scurrying under full
draft to the northeast. Concluding that
it was speeding to join up with the
other ships, he altered his course to that
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riers. Two of the latter, Of capital size,
proved to be the Akagi and Kaga. The
others were the medium carriers Hiru
and Soryu, known to American flyers
by the nicknames of "Hear-you" and
"Sawr-you." The Jap carrier group,
speeding southwestward, was reported
ESQ miles OF Midway. The two fleets
together numbered 80 vessels. They are
believed to have constituted the largest
naval force ever sent to sea by the
Mikado's empire.
The message received at $40 was the
last word McClusky had of the carrier
groups whereabouts until he sighted
1t with his own eyes about four hours
later. At $50 pilots and gunners were
ordered to man their planes but not
to launch them. There was another
wait of 80 minutes At 9 o'clock the
bomber group began taking off, with
McClusky In command His specialty
was that of fighter pilot, but under
the Nays an-around training he could
take in his stride patrol plane or a
dive bomber.
His ships were circling in the air above
the carrier when they received signal
to proceed on the mission assigned"
This meant that for some reason the
Enterprises fighter and torpedo planes
were being held back and that his group
would go into action without fighter
protection This was q serious matter.
The Dauntless is two-man plane On
account Of its slow speed 1t was OBJ
solescent at Pearl Harbor.
Climbing to gain altitude, the group
steered into a southwesterly course.
which, about two hours later, If calcula-
tions were correct, would intersect the
invasion fleets path. From here on, be-
cause Of radio silence, the destiny OF the
Enterprise dive bombers passed COM
pletely and solely into McClusky's hands.
Outside of occasional banks of cumulus,
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Bv John Clagett Proctor.


When the old Timers" of the Young
Mems Christian Association of this city
held their reunion recently, there, was
much said of the century of progress
Of this truly great and well-known in
ternational organization, founded in
London on June g. 1914, by George Will
Hams From there it soon spread to
and today in the United States it has
over 100000 members and partici-
pants, divided among more than 1900
American communities.
George Williams, the originator Of
the idea of forming this association,
was born in 1921 and died in 1905, and,
rs a world organization for good. its
cause had long since been fully estab-
lisned. Williams, a clerk in a London
mercantile house, and number of
other young men similarly employed,
began by holding meetings throughout
the British metropolis.
The scope of its activities being wide
and constructive, it mainly concentrates
its efforts upon young men, yet from
the beginning its aim has also been to
reach out for boys and men of all ages
Indeed, it helps the peasant boy of 8
or in India or China and the down.
town newsboys in our own American
cities. 1t emphasizes dependable COM
panionship and the development of
sound character. 1t organizes camping,
helps the Boy Scouts, establishes night
schools r,iopeers IN, yonot jo,,ol o,,idopce
and trade schools 1t promotes physi-
cal education and sports, fosters the
father-and-son movement, which it es-
tablished; develops thrift and empha-
sizes the value of the practice of the
principles of christianity and of the
development of genuine religious faith
as the foundation of character.
The Local Organization
AS to the local branch of the YMCA,
the first reference the writer has been
able to find regarding it is contained
in brief item printed in the National
Inteligencer of June 9, 1852, which
follows:
"NOTICE-The young men of the diff
ferent Protestant denominations in this
city, and all others interested in the
object proposed are most earnestly re-
quested to meet at the Masonic Hall,
corner of z and Tenth streets, this eve
ming, 9th instant, at o'clock, to take
into consideration plan for organizing
Young Mems Christian Association"
That the meeting was held as an
rounced we find by the same paper,
two days later, which gives rather
complete account of what took place,
but not quite full enough to satisfy the
members of this organization today.
since many OF its earliest records were
destroyed by fire and entirely lost.
However, the write-up in 1852 said:
Pursuant to call given through the
various pulpits of the city and the
public press meeting of the young
men of the different Protestant denorni-
nations, and others interested in the
organization of Washington Young
Mems Christian Association, was held
at the Masonic hall, corner of E and
Tenth streets on Wednesday evening
the 9th instant, at O'Clock, and Or
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Reviewing the YMCA's
Century of Progress

William Jones Rhees. c.. w. Schreiner,
A. B. johnson and William Flye
The first regular officers. elected July
9, were Mr.. Lawrence. president: Mr..
Rhees, recording secretary; Mr. Lang
don, corresponding secretary, and
Mitchell H. Miller. treasurer. On De-
cember IA, 1852, zalmon Richards was
made president, DR.. James S. MCKEE,
DR.. Richard H. Coolidge, william B.
Waugh and William @. Force vice
presidents, and A. L. Edwards librarian;
Messrs. Rhees, Langdon and Miller be-
ing reelected.
For a few months the association
met where it was organized, and then,
on october 7, moved into the Fowler
Building, on the east side of Seventh
street, next to Odd Fellows Hall, the
building most likely having been over
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ganized by the election of Judge T. j.
Johnston as chairman, and w. C. Lang
don as secretary"
Laying the Plans
In this connection and of much
interest is the account given in after
years by w. H. H Smith regarding
the beginning of the Washington "Y,"
in which he says
In April, 1852, Rev. Clement M.
Butler, rector of Trinity Episcopal
Church of this city, placed a copy of
the constitution in the hands of William
Chauncey Langdon and Thomas Duncan,
young teachers in his Sunday school. to
consider whether such an organization
might not be effected here. These two
young men discussed the matter with
their mutual friend, William j. Rhees
Of the Baptist Church, who lived in
the same house with Mr.. Duncan, and
he entered into the plan with great
enthusiasm These three men, only
about 81 years old and employed in
the governmental service, met in Mr..
RheeS' room on F street between Twelfth
and Thirteenth and there made ar
rangements for a public call to pro-
pose a definite organization.
1T seems that Mr.. Duncan had previ-
ously been considering the idea of at
tempting such an organization here,
and credit is to be given him for taking
the first steps for the formation of
the Washington association. He, how
ever left the city in October, 1852, and
. the details of establishing the associa-
ton devolVed upon MeSsrs. Langdon and
Rhees, ably assisted by Messrs. z. Rich
ards and NJ. H Miller"
Early Membership
MI. Smith further tells US that at
the preliminary meeting of June 8, so
persons were in attendance In the room
occupied by the Central Academy of
Rev. James Nourse,' and that IS or
40 persons came forward and enrolled
as members, the number being increased
to 80 members within a week or so
thereafter"
Also, from Mr. Smith We find that
the first II members who signed the
constitution did so in the following
order: Thomas Duncan, William Chaun-
cey Langdon, John c. Whitewell, j. r.
Cochran. A. @. Carothers Zalmon Rich
ARDS Thomas Brooks. A, II. Lawrence,