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The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Lois Webb, 18,
T aiken BY Death
On Friday Night

Lois Gertrude Webb, Is, passed
away at Pinal County Hospital
Friday night as the result OF a
heart attack. She was born April
4. 1927, in Oklahoma. Funeral
services were held from Cole and
Maud Chapel Monday afternoon
The Rev. Leslie J. Ross officlated.
Mrs. Mary Gardner Miller was
soloist.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, r. G.. Webb. She had
been a resident of this community
for eight years.
Pail bearers were c. A. McKen-
zie, ]. w. Large, Clarence Large
Weldon Woodrum, Ernest Stewart
and Eric Bias.
Interment was in Valley Memor-
ial Park.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Crippled Children
May Enjoy Camp
Life This Year
Arizona's handicapped chill
dren have chance to live
outdoors in Prescott en-
campment this summer.

Announcement of 1945 camping
plans for crippled children both
boys and girls was made today by
Rev. Charles Franklin Parker, pre-
sident of the Arizona Society for
Crippled Children. Seventy Grip
pied children throughout Arizona
will be given an opportunity to
enjoy camping near Prescott.
The Is chapters of the Arizona
Society for Crippled Children pay
the expenses of the handicapped
child and assist with clothing and
other camp equipment. According
to Mrs. Stanley r. Matthews, coun-
ty chapter chairman, the sale of
Easter seals will make possible
the attendance of handicapped
children in the county who meet
the camping requirements. Chill
dren participating must be able
to walk about with the aid of
crutches or braces and must be
able to care for themselves. Chill
dren requiring special diets or
treatments obviously could not be
accepted. The program Is for
physically handicapped girls from
7-1S years of age and boys from
9-12 years of age. The camps for
girls open June Is and the camp
for boys on June II.
Mrs. James Diffin, county chap
ter treasurer, stated that Easter
seal sale returns are stiil coming
in. This money will not only be
used to send crippled children to
camp, but will help in furnishing
transportation and securing other
types of aid.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Womans Club To Be
Teen Age Hostess
For Tonight's arty

Tonight's teen age party Will De
sponsored by members of Coolidge
Womans Club. Mrs. Chet Ken
worthy is general chairman OF ar
rangements. She will be assisted
by Mrs. Robert Cannon, Mrs.
William Jackson, and Mrs. A. M.
Clark. The latter, although not a
member of the club, volunteered
her services as one OF the mothers,
according to Mrs. Charles Reed
permanent teen age chairman, VINO
wishes to take this opportunity TO
thank the mothers who have assist
ed club members in their teen age
work.
Mrs. H. A Unger was general
chairman for last weeks teen age
party. She was assisted by Mrs.
S. C. Mcfarland, Mrs. Paul Han
nah and Mrs. William Kemper, the
latter a volunteer worker from the
mother group.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04

Buy that war Bond NOWI
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04

VIM. c. Mcconnell; oenediction,
Rev. ]. Carl Fritz; recessional,
March Militaire," Schubert.
Graduates-Chestine Lee Carter,
Forrest Eugene Edge, Nina Glen
dene Stages, Ina Mae Moore, Ethan
Allen Wing, Dorothy Mae Sipes,
Wanda Necia Yoakum, Billie Verne
Hadaway, Patsy Charlyne Smith,
Pauline Charlotte Brewer, Bobby
Gene Morrow, Eileen Rae McAdoo,
Geraldine Doris Harmon, Anita
Mae Westfall, Florence Vernele
Johnson, Marie Sue England and
Everett Dale Ufford.
Seventh grade girls will serve a
ushers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Reeds Are Hosts
Saturday Evening

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Reed were
hosts for dinner at their home Sat
urday evening, after which the
group went to the Officers Club at
Coolidge Army Air Field for dane
ing.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
NOVEL;, Judge and Mrs. w. G.. Tru
man of Florence, Mrs. Margaret
Johnson, Mrs. Norman Freeman.
Captain Taminich and Lieutenant
Saunders, both of Coolidge base
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04
Sgt. Wallace Home
After 81 Months In
Southwest Pacific

Sgt. Thurston Wallace arrived
home Sunday to visit his father,
William r. Wallace, and other
Coolidge relatives after serving
81 months in the Southwest Paci-
fic theater of operations.
The sergeant will spend ten days
here, after which he plans to go
to California to visit his two sisters
and brother. Pfc. Thurman Wal
lace. his twin brother, also recently
returned from overseas, will meet
Sgt. Wallace at the home of their
sister.
At the conclusion of his furlough
Sgt. Wallace will report to Santa
Barbara, California, for reassign-
ment.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-05-04

in the Pacific. He entered service
in September of 1889, trained in
Hawaii and was sent to the South
Pacific after Pearl Harbor. This
is the first time he has been home
since his enlistment. He has four
brothers in the service.
Evening star., 1945-09-03
Only Temporary
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal
Mr.. Truman had no alternative to
prompt cancellation of the lease-lend
program. He was personally pledged to
take that step. Mr.. Roosevelt long since
had emphasized that the program was
only for the duration of actual hostilities.
And Congress had made clear that this
special form of assistance to our Allies
must end promptly when the fighting
stopped. There is no reason, however,
to believe that we are dropping any
part Of our responsibility to help the
embarrassed nations. But our first
obligation is to our own taxpayers. What
ever further aid we may furnish must
be In the form of repayable credits
Sometime ago our Government COM
pleted arrangements with France and
smaller countries to place postwar 1nan-
clal assistance on a credit basis That
rule naturally must be applicable to all.
Although the sudden loss of lease-lend
aid naturally causes considerable fiscal
discomfort, it is but a temporary en-
barrassment. 1t can hardly be compared
to the much more severe financial
difficulties that would have had to be
borne by the recipient governments II
the Japanese war, with all of its
tremendous expense, had continued into
next year or beyond
Evening star., 1945-09-03
Christianity in JuDun

one OF the questions about the
occupation of Japan which neces-
sarily must be of interest to thou
SANDS OF Americans and Europeans
Is that of the resumption of Chris
tian missionary activity. In Rome
the Congregation for the Propaea-
ton OF the Faith already has indi-
Gated a desire for starting its work
at Tokyo anew. Similar intentions
undoubtedly are entertained bv
members of the Franciscan. Bene-
dictine and Salesian orders as well
as by representatives of other re-
religious groups which had been ac-
tive among the japanese from 1858
until the beginning of hostilities on
December Z, 1941.
Protestant churches also long have
been concerned for the Christian
ization of Japan. The Methodists
especially have maintained mission
aries in the islands for generations.
Meanwhile, Episcopal, Presbyterian,
Cengregationalist, Baptist, Lutheran
and Church of Christ churches,
schools, hospitals and social settle
ments In considerable numbers were
built and possibly have survived in
Evening star., 1945-09-03

the areas not bombed. The Greek
Church particularly may have
emerged from the conflict unim-
paired. 1t was served exclusively by
clergy of native japanese birth and
allegedly had 10000 adherents be-
fore Pearl Harbor. The Roman
Catholic community had for it's
leader Archbishop Pietro Tatsuo Dol,
a japanese In nationality. If he
still is alive, he will be a natural
contact for mission personnel arriv-
ing in Japan after the articles of
capitulation have been signed.
There is, as it happens, ample
precedent for rebirth of Christian
idealism among the Japanese. Saint
Francis Xavier and two Portuguese
priests landed at Kagoshima in 1549
and from that date onward, de-
spite incredible difficulties, the light
of the teaching of Jesus never COM
pletely has been extinguished in
Japan. Thousands of believers were
massacred in the early part of the
seventeenth century. Under the So
called exclusion policy" the very
mention of Christianity was forbid
den. Yet soon after Commodore
Perry appeared at Yedo in 1853 it
was discovered that Christian ritual
and liturgy still were known to
whole neighborhoods of people who
had been driven underground" but
who never had ceased I'd worship in
accord with Christian formulas and
customs.
Evening star., 1945-09-03
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

lies have agreed to exchange from their
zones Is per cent of existing machinery
against deliveries of food, etc., from
the Russian zone, and deliver 10 per
cent outright, subject only to Judgment
of what is necessary to maintain sub
sistence living standard.
This will inevitably mean the ac-
celerated disintegration Of the entire
European economy with serious roper
cussions upon our own. 1t also will have
radical social results.
Payments in kind we're successfully
collected from the defeated nations
after the last war. But they were as
sessed against the enemy states, which
devised their oy cans of compen-
sating for and de ng them.
Stripping German industries by the
present method does not collect repara-
tions from the German state or people.
1t amounts to the forcible expropria-
ton of a certain class
cannot understand the mentality
of the Churchill or Attlee governments,
or our own, in agreeing to what is,
actually, a form or degree of bolshe-
vization by the military. Mr. Attlees
Britain favors the socialiZation of Brit
ish basic industries with compensation
to the owners in due process of law. I
would not attack such a development
in Germany were the impetus to come
from the German people. But We are
establishing the principle that victor
has the right of appropriation of pri-
vate enterprises and property without
adjustment, and this principle is not
halting in application with German
frontiers.
Though Austria has been promised
freedom and independence in the
Russian zone she is being Systematically
looted of verything-machines, cattle
jewelry and household furniture-and
again it is not the Austrian state which
is paying reparations within taxation
scheme, but individuals, arbitrarily Sc
lected for appropriation
The same is happening everywhere
east of the Oder, and suddenly the VIC
tors are embarrassed when it is applied
to the properties of their own nation
als-General Motors, Ford, l. T. & T.,
or, in Yugoslavia, the copper mines of
Bor, formerly owned by French stock
holders. But what. principle is operat-
ing that would not apply to all indus
tries that contributed to the Axis war
effort?
Evening star., 1945-09-03

slider in the interest of peace in Europe.
The question of the Italian navy was
unoffcially settled some time ago. The
Russian government at one time de-
manded the major part of what was
left of Mussolini's fleet. The uproar
caused by the revelation that the Big
Three had agreed to this at Teheran
caused America and Britain to change
their point of view, and Premier Stain
was offered some obsolete American and
British battleships and cruisers. The
Russians were not enthusiastic over
this change and eventually decided to
build their own modern navy rather
than have secondhand ships.
The British government now is said
to favor letting Italy maintain navy,
and the American Government is re-
ported to be in agreement, particularly
in view of the fact that the Italian
men of war did some good work be-
tween the time Italy surrendered and
We and VI days
The question of Trieste and Venezia
Giulia also will have to be taken under
consideration and may have to be re-
vised. According to some who claim
to have seen the armistice terms. this
area had been earmarked by the Allies
to be surrendered to Yugoslavia. This
agreement Is believed to date back to
1941-before we entered the war-and
was supposed to have been a gift of
Prime Minister Churchill to King
Peters government after it joined the
Allies against the Axis
The United States had nothing def
mite to say but it Endorsed Mr.. Church
ills policies after we became involved
in the European war. The armistice
terms with Italy were revised some
time in 1914 and the promise to sur
render those sections of Italy to Yugo-
slavia became less definite Under the
new terms the matter was left to the
discretion of the Allies.
The British government is now in a
position to be able to say that terri
torial concessions were made to the
government of King Peter and not to
the new Yugoslav government, which
will not enjoy full and complete rec
ognition of London and Washington
unless it holds free elections as pro-
vided for in the Yalta agreement.
Since it is unlikely that Marshal Tito
will agree to comply with this provi-
sion in the near future, it is probable
that at least Venezia Giulia will be
kept by the Italians
In order to clear up at least one
phase of the complete European po-
litical picture, the American and Brit
ish governments are said to have agreed
that Italy is entitled to a regular peace
treaty with her former enemies and
thus join the World Security Organiza-
ton as a full-fedged member
Evening star., 1945-09-03
This Changing World
By Constantine Broy

An early peace treaty with Italy will
be among the main topics to be taken
up by the Allied Council of Foreign
Ministers, which will meet in London
soon after September 10. when Secre-
tary of State Byrnes Is expected to ar
rive in the British capital
At present the Allies are still in the
"armistice stage" with Italy. The terms
of the armistice, which have never been
revealed officially, are now being termed
by Secretary Byrnes as obsolete.
Between September, 1943. and the
summer of this year there has been a
drastic change of heart in British gov
ernment circles.
While two years ago the terms i'm
posed on Marshal Badoglio were harsh
and provided that Italy should play a
minor role in the Mediterranean, the
British government is now said to feel
that Italy should be given a chance
to become Mediterranean power.
According to what is known about the
armistice, Italy was to surrender all her
African empire to her erstwhile foes,
place some of the important islands in
the Mediterranean under the tutelage
Of her conquerors and surrender her
navy anu llGICild llccG W tlle hlllcS.
n II
The British government was most in
sistent at the time of the armistice
to include such punitive" terms on
the Italians.
The political developments in Europe,
and particularly in the Eastern Medi-
terranean basin, have caused the Brit
ish government to revise its original
ideas The United States has no par
ticular interest in that area, except
that it wishes to see it reconstructed
on truly democratic basis and is will
ing to join in any action aimed at
achieving this aim.
According to available information,
the British government intends to leave
in Italy's hands some portions of the
territories in North Africa which Italy
obtained from the Turks in 1911. The
separatist movement in Sicily, which is
said to have been encouraged by Brit
ish political agents in 1943 and 1914, is
rapidly dying down. Britain has de-
cided that 1t would be to its advantage
as well as Italy's If Sicily and Sardinia
stripped of all military installations
remained under Italy's control.
The question of the Dodecanese Is
lands, which were regarded by the gen.
eral staffs in Europe as strategic pos
sessions to allow Italy to challenge Brit
ain, is still not clear. Turkey and
Greece claim rights on those islands,
which at one time were under Turkeys
sovereignty and have a large Greek
population. Whether Italy will be per-
mitted to keep some of them depends
on what the four foreign ministers con-
Evening star., 1945-09-03
The Gold Dust Bowl
From the Topeka Capital.

From the Topeka Capital.
With as neat a parry as you'll ever
hope to encounter, Secretary of Agricul-
ture j. c. Mohler has turned aside an
eplthet directed at Kansas several years
ago and has flung it back into the teeth
OF all who would disparage this state.
Remember Rex Tugwen and the Dust
BOWL days, when some of the planners
wanted to abandon this entire section Of
the country?
Dust Bowl, my eye!" MohIer retorts.
Its the Gold Dust BOWL"
From the wheat fields of 81 West
ern Kansas counties this year, he
explains, were cleaned the equivalent of
Sl36,000,000 on the basis of estimated
yields and prevailing prices an average
OF $4,000 for each of the 81 $3.50 farms
reported for that area by the latest
United States census. Wheat produc-
tion of the counties. aggregated more
than 100000 bushels, or As per cent
of the total yield for the State.
Their productions" Mohler says Of
the 81 counties, latest the fertil-
ity of soil, which yields prodigiously
under moisture conditions so favorable
as during this season. Their aggregate
yield of wheat this year falls slightly
short of the 1943 record, but the esti.
mated value established an all-time high
Tor the area. 1t is, indeed, the Gold
Dust Bowl"
Evening star., 1945-09-03
Marshall Critics Called Unjust
By Mai. George FieIdinp EHol

The ingratitude of republics to their
faithful servants, and the stupid glee
of the little man in seeing mud flung
upon the reputation of the great, are
so well known as to have passed into
the proverbs of our race.
But usually a little time elapses be-
tween the accomplishments which have
Justly earned the recognition of the
people and the moment of their fading
from the public memory.
Such has not been the fortune Of
General of the Army George c. Mar
shall. In the very moment of victories
which he has done more than any
other living American to win, he finds
himself attacked-even villified-for his
part in the tragic disaster at Pearl
Harbor on December 7, 1941.
I do not for moment contend that
the facts about Pearl Harbor should
not be published. I am not attempting
to assess the truth or error of the
structures passed upon Gen. Marshall
by the Army's Court of Inquiry. My
quarrel is with the press and radio
comment, the headlines: Marshall Ac-
cused of Pearl Harbor Guilt" And the
almost total lack of voices raised to
point out the tremendous services that
George c. Marshall has subsequently
rendered to the people of the United
States.
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All generals, said Napoleon, make
mistakes; victory goes to him who
makes the fewest.
Judged by that standard, Gen. Mar
shall ranks high among the generals of
all time, certainly very high among
those of America.
He had first to create, train and or
ganize the greatest army that this
country ever set in the field. Then he
had to participate in the decisions as
to how that army should be used as
to how, indeed, all the armed forces of
the United States and the British Com
monwealth should be used to reach
across the seas and bring down In ruin
the mighty military machines OF Ger-
many and Japan.
It would be untrue, and unfair to
Evening star., 1945-09-03
Germuny's Future

Reports from Berlin indicate that
the economic situation in Germany
is rapidly moving to a point where
it is going to be most painful for the
German people. A "rip-roaring in
fation" is said to be unavoidable,
vast unemployment is expected. and
certain unnamed British and Amer
lean technical advisers to the Allied
Control Council are quoted gloomily
to the effect that the Potsdam eco
nomic principles, though "a short
range political necessity" simply
will not work as long-term policy.
It is inevitable, Of course, that the
Evening star., 1945-09-03


winter. RE. 0979.
The clever and courteous expert at the
desk guided in choosing the proper
classification. When it appeared, my
phraseology had been improved And,
before The Star was well on the streets,
calls began to come in from Arlington,
Silver Spring, Takoma Park and other
sections Of the city and suburbs.
Within "a hours was offered several
coats, a dress, suit and many useful
articles of clothing.
But, this was not all. A fine WASH
ington couple is interested in bringing
the child up here to now lonely home
and sending her to school and rearing
her in the Capitals fine surroundings.
And, most beautiful of all, sweet
voiced girl called and said, II am colored,
but have many nice things people have
given me, and I want to share them with
you"
1t is encouraging to find such response
among so many people-of course, with
The sStar to serve as the medium of
contact between need and desire and
willingness to help where help will do
real and lasting good.
NORMAN SANDRIDGE,
Evening star., 1945-09-03
Coming Home

He 1Dalks along a ,pindy deck tonight:
Westward he looks, across the hills
OF sea.
His eyes gaze at the moons gold path
OF light
Upon the aoater, but beyond this he
Visions a far-of cottage garden tohere
A girl is standing by phite rose bush
In the cool fragrance OF the eDening air.
Gathering roses in the t,oilght hush,
The girl, hunnling rhythmic sea-
born tune, s-
Thinks OF green breakers and OF gulls
In motion,
And in her thoughts the great round
rising moon
Becomes distant ship In midnight
ocean.
High, high among the moons cobioebbv
strednlers
The dreams meet, al unguessed-of
By the drenn,ers.
PRUDENCE x. GEAREY.
Evening star., 1945-09-03

other distinguished officers to say that
Gen. Marshall dominated the agency
set up for this purpose-the combined
chiefs OF staff. But no one who knows
anything Of how that agency operated
could choose any other name than Gen.
Marshalls If asked who was the most
influential member.
Patiently, firmly, with wisdom a
courage and a clear vision and purpose
which has rarely been combined in a
single man, Gen. Marshall pursued the
task set for him by his country. Per-
haps his greatest gift was his ability
to win the confidence of all who came
in contact with him. To command the
respect OF his superiors and the undying
loyalty of his subordinates. He is a
just man, who plays no favorites. He is
Selhess beyond the common run Of
great soldiers, thinking never of him
self, always of his duty. His choice of
leaders for the American Army in this
war has sometimes been ruthless, but
it has given us the best commanded
army we have ever had and has saved
countless American lives.
WHICH, t1lC Va biAc wal COlliCS
to be written after the passage of time
enables that task to be undertaken OBJ
jectively and in the clear light of truth
revealed. the impartial historians must
say that of all those who have worn
the uniform of the United States 1t
was George c. Marshall who made the
greatest contribution to our present
victory. Whether in the field of or
ganization, of strategic decision, of firm
ness under adversity or of relentless
pressure in the hour Of success, whether
in the conviction which his words car
ried to his political superiors or in the
welding through the power of great
and unselflsh personality of conglo-
merate mass of 100000 civilians into
the greatest army of air tiime-regard
him as you may, Gen. Marshall is the
chief architect Of victory.
Must 1t be ever true that republics
are ungrateful?
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