Sun-Advertiser (Newspaper) - June 1, 1950, Yuma, Arizona Highest last hours 103 Lovtt-ot last 24 hours 79 Average high this date Average low this date 61 Relative humidity at 11 SUCCESSOR TO THE YUMA WEEKLY SUN AND THE YUMA EXAMINER Forecast to Friday able high cloudiness this after- tonight and Friday ly wanner this afternoon VOLUME 46 Telephone 688 or 689 YUMA ARIZONA THURSDAY JUNE I Five Cents a Copy 22 Legalized Petitions Arc Being June petitions to authorize state of gambling were being throughout Arizona day I I chairman of group circulating thc petitions said legalized gambling would produce to annually in taxes and would at- I ti net tourists who now go Reports of thc Initiative varied comments from Chief Karl and several gubernatorial candidates 1 am against said My opinion is that the element thai would follow gambling would create an un- healthy in Arizona Jim Smith candidate for governor said he was unalterably opposed to the move now afoot which proposes legalized gambling in Arizona If a thing in he added legalizing it does not make it right Republican gubernatorial date J Howard said he was violently against gambling Ana another candidate for governor said il wouldn't be up to me to make any statement on the issue That's up to the people of zona I have only my one she added Ralph Walking Buckeye also a said com- ments hy gubernatorial aspirants would only confuse the voters The right to pass on measures is a righl of individual a part owner of thi hil lune If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a said the proposed would not allow open gambling casinos like those operating in Nevada currently the only stole in the union which has legalized Bumbling A provision of the hill would liar gambling in the basement or first flour of any building within the limits of an incorporated community At least signatures are needed on thc petitions before July 6 in order to place the proposal on tile state election ballot Sept 32 If approved by the voters at the general election the measure would become law without action by the stale Gwirtz said a private survey showed at least 340 ment where gambling is carried in d is r c g a r d of the anti- gambling laws now on the state We know we will have lo this measure unless il is thoroughly he said I have to erous clergymen who said they would favor legalized gambling in preference to gambling carried on in defiance of the law NKA DEFY EGYPTIAN dispute in which they defied the wrath of King of Princess far right and her commoner husband Ghali are shown after they were wed In a Moslem ceremony In San Francisco With the couple is Queen Mother They were wed in a civil ceremony some time ngo and the King has been applying royal pressure to prevent the Moslem wedding Summer Program at City Playgrounds Is Announced through Friday and t h e r e be a special event at each Play time Is here and Yuma city playgrounds promise fun for all during the summer months declares Wayne Cunningham city recreation director The summer playground gram will consist of arts and craft music and dancing play and games story telling mid cial events Playground hours will be from 9 to 12 noon day will playground once each week in the evening Cunningham said The events are uled as Week of June 5 Pel show June 12 Doll show June 19 Children's Flower show June Talent show July 3 On Wheels show July 10 Special Dance program July 17 Craft and Hobby show July 24 cial closing event for grounds Register Tomo row Tomorrow Friday June 2 will be registration day at Mesa school playground Mrs Delia Jerez director Rudy Jerez 2nd Avenue school Miss Lily Gleeson director Bob assistant Carver school Edith Mao ferson director Theresa Hassell assistant Johnson Asks Extension of Draft Act Necessity Cited By Army Chiefs WASHINGTON June 1 UR Defense Secretary Johnson today asked Congress for a three-year extension of the Draft Act with no strings attached Johnson told the Senate Armed Services committee that he and President Truman and the joint chiefs of staff object to a House provision to bar inductions unless gives n go-ahead The House would extend the draft now scheduled to expire June 24 for only two years son asked the Senate committee to make it three years He said the United States must hang on to the draft to Russia that we propose to ourselves strong and to our allies that we mean to stand by their side intermitted Ills pre- pared testimony to say ministration Hauls no on the induction powers That's an unequivocal he said Gen Omar N Bradley chairman of the joint chiefs told the com- that the United States must keep the draft to support its commitments under the North At- Pact If the draft lapses Gunman Terrorizes Train Passengers Near Yuma under 5 years of age Bradley said the collective de- should nui attend summer measures now In the rounds accompanied by the parent or teen age brother or sister Registration and playground are free to all except where special crafts call for ex- pensive materials in which case children will he asked to furnish own materials Due lo the large ex- parents who can holp out a few hours each as judges in the evening or story teller game leaders or craft assistants in the are urged to their services to the ground director of their ground Know Your Nearest Fire Alarm Box Urges Fire Chief What people don't see can bother them plenty as far as fire alarm boxes are concerned So says Fire Chief Claude Joyner of Yuma who reports that many people don't know where Parents are urged by their nearest fire alarm boxes arc to the The boxes are painted ham to send their eh playgrounds where they will not only be able to take part in many worthwhile activities but will so be safer than in the streets ICC Examiners Okay il Express Rate Boost on Fruits Congress Accepts I Statue of Mormon v J B Young WASHINGTON June 1 Sen Thomas D Ulah day described Mormon leader Young as a man of re- ligion founder of a state and a nation builder Thomas spoke on the an- of Young's birth al ceremonies lhc tion lo Congress of a statue of tlie western pioneer Utah is aling seven-foot Carrara Thc placing of his in lhc nation's Thomas said is acknowledgment of his bulion in building of lion Young whose religion condoned polygamy is to have had Hi wives and 56 children Thomas said thr number of his ants who have served U S armed forces is honor almost beyond comparison for one man Sirs Red C Cordery and children Don and Shirley Miss Marion ler and Pal Gayle spent Memorial Day In San Diego has ed home from Teachers col- lege She was ied by Miss Wilson who is her Miss Wilson is visiting lo her home in Eugene Oregon WASHINGTON June Two Interstate Commerce Com- mission examiners today approved a proposed increase of nine cents per hundred pounds in Railway Express rates on carload ments of western fruits and tables The Railway Express Agency asked for the increase to apply to shipments of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables including celery and tomalo plants from Arizona California Colorado vada New Mexico and Utah lo tJ S destinations and from the general Pacific Area to Canada If the full ICC approves the hike Railway Express also plans lo apply the same increase to shipments from the Pacific Northwest to U S destinations and from the Mississippi Valley The increase averaging per carload already has been for shipments of berries ml vegetables from Florida and Texas Examiners Otto A Hanson and M J Walsh said increase warranted out thai i is the same as the general in crease in Hits I'm railroad freight rates on commodities Last week the ICC pending hearings pi way Express rate h a shipments the same commodities for wide application i lia luted vibrant red and are usually laced on prominent corner lo- so they may be seen they're overlooked even by those who may pass the ency signal stations day afler day for years According lo Chief Joyner a re- now cent survey shows that six cess of development may suffer severe psychological blow Gen J Lawton Collins Army chief of slaff said postwar service hns shown Russia and the world thai although we were desirous of peace we were prepared for war The expiring act Johnson said was one of lhc decisive factors in stopping the spread of com in Europe Japan Willing to Sign Separate Peace Treaties TOKYO June anese Government declared today that it would be willing to sign separate peace treaties with the Western Allies leaving Russia out Thc unprecedented ment was made in a issued by the Japanese foreign ministry The ministry is in charge of Premier Shigeru Yo- shida who Is foreign minister well Observers considered it mosl likely thai Gen Douglas thur's headquarters approved thc statement before it was made public Thc statement traced the history of the Allied tion praised thc progress under MacArthur's tion and said thai Japan through American loans and assistance has been able to reach a of so-called de peace len people queried have no dea where to ring in an alarm n case of fire He urged every family lo make t its business today lo find closest located fire signal box Fire spreads so chief declares time wasted turning in an alarm can result in tragedy In a mailer of a few TUCSON June 1 S At- a small fire mushrooms General J Howard SO limes as big Your best Ule University of Retain Individuality J A Class Urged By Gen McGrath is lo turn in a fire alarm a at thc nearest box It is on Democracy in conveniently for thc erc lasl er and use by the public Phone wl rulos conduct to in thc preservation of freedom Retain your own individuality urged the and do not become mimics of messages often are garbled directed or delayed The ency signal flashed by the alarm box is automatic and lually foolproof When you turn i others to a Nine Killed In Crash of Navy Plane At East Coast Naval Air Station QUONSET POINT R I June 1 Navy patrol plane crashed mill burned in an emergency Ing at this base today killing nine of the 11 Navy personnel aboard Only the pilot and co-pilot caped death and they were both injured severely All names were hy the Navy pending notification of kin The crash occurred In dense fog The plane a patrol craft developed engine trouble and came In for an emergency landing H landed hard turned over find hurst into flames Scene of the accident was on the main runway of Point Naval Air Officials said the plane was not attached to this stalion however Thc Navy Neptune bomber had taken off from Quonset for Ar- Newfoundland Il was in tile air minutes before the emergency landing was attempted because one of the engines had caught fire The plane apparently tried to land in a tipped over on its buck and burst into flames The pilot and co-pilot were cued and are expected to live The wreckage was too hot to search for bodies The accident occured about 10 m League to Aid Voters With Data About Candidates Service to voters in thc ing primary and general tions will be the first project to be undertaken by the newly elected board pf directors of the League of Women Voters of Arizona Believing in the im- portance of not only laws but th people who are elected to maki and administer them the Voters Service section of thc stall league under the of Miss Bertha Kirkland Phoc nix will immediately set abou obtaining information on candi dates for public office and mak this available to its members anc to the general public Being a stale league it will concern ilsel with thc congressional candidate candidates on a stale level The board of directors also dis cussed plans to supplement th secretary of on the pros and cons of the in and referendum measure by speakers available fo an impartial presentation of tl subjects to interested groups The board of directors meeting followed close of the first stale held in Phoenix The attended by gates from Phoenix Yuma Globe and Tucson as well as interested observers from Casa Grande drew up a permanent stale organization adopted I j c i hen LO an all location of fire lhc Chief Claude Joyner strongly i would be to attack the existence advises that each member of of the Author of liberty know the location of the jer be ashamed to be or fire alarm box Those not man of great quite sure where it is arc invited to get the location al fire quarters For Fire Phone GB Cily Hall Mesa Fire Stalion Phone SINATRA MISSES Ava Gardner left and er Frank Sinatra talk with Mrs Prank Grant wife of Romulus film representative in Tossa Del Mnr Spain Sinatra left for Paris a short while later missing by minutes a meeting with hli rumored rival bulll tenter Mario Cabre Plan ances to Raise Hinds for Paint The state legislature indirectly sponsoring three dances by the Yuma unit of the ona National Guard Captain Cox commander if the Yuma company explained hat legislature cut off for company funds This meant thul the individual companies have to dig up their own money for miscellaneous ex- such -as stationery and is interested In money now fur to provide paint for the inside of the new National Guard ory near the city hall So company has scheduled three dances to build up a com- fund Ail set to be held in he new armory they are this Saturday night June 3 June 17 and June All are 0 begin at 9 p.m Al Mendivil and his Music Makers provide the music said that the public is invited with ladies admitted free of charge Cost to men is one lar Chamber Directors Meet Friday Noon Members of the board nf of Yuma county chain of commerce meet tomorrow Friday I noon in Valley Pain President Norman Hindi members today The due to hear a re on an investigation of thc government's move to re nove the len levee railroad The commute the is com of Ted McDaniel Henr Frauenfelder and Parcel Forman Red Youths End Defiance of German Police BERLIN June 1 Communist youths who de fied West German border polici for 24 hours gave in early and agreed lo registration and medical examinations so could cross border and go home Dejected and with banners U.S Airman Is Freed By China Reds HONG KONG June 1 James McGovera ah man who was forced down in Com munist territory during N retreat from the mail land sai lhat six month in Chinese Communist hands pretty although was nol McGovern of Elizabeth N he attorney general said the world is to take your measure as e lusts Yuma County C suspended j n I i I- I Kore on I -7 Air Reservists Will Meet Tonight Flight D IVAR ing Squadron at old Yuma Project quarters building North Second avenue Capt L M will give lecture on m U and sixty-five j of cough were view in Yuma ing the first four months hour il was revealed today by pose the Arizona State Department of Health Thc published the Arizona Public Health New s in in a summary of counties a man nt a lime when th of man lo invite the lards of the pagan and the of thc beast Degrees were conferred on graduate students and 1017 un- by Dr 1 Hymn Cormick university president An honorary doctor of laws degrees was presented to Sen of Arizona In a the ceremony Mid the present re- doing a the proposed serve no useful said ScJ lio McCarthy's charges communists in state have done a great deal of laws received a from the League of Women Voters of lhc United Stales and a board of directors to serve for the next two years Officers to office Mrs II Mis Winslow T Uins drooping the border youths in tile way back from the 1st vi Miss 2nd Mrs Joseph Bakor Mrs fnr Thorny Phoenix Mrs L Karl Mrs Holey Mrs Finley er Dunne Mrs J o h n H Haugh Tucson Mrs Hubert named of com- mit The formation nf UIP stale j league the local in th has to individual cities civic With the now of state-wide issues lions in columns of 500 gave their names and addresses submitted lo a perfunctory medical ation then boarded special trains and buses for their West German homes The youths were stopped at tip Soviel border at near area on their big Communist rally in Berlin last weekend insisted they submit t health examinations because nf typhoid ami smallpox in i tenl cities they occupied L the weekend demonstration Licensed foWed I censed In wed lh of the superior court hero verc Wilbur year old laborer and loan 6 of Yum i Also Chester Is car nld truck driver Uavis 10 both of Yuma T arrived in Hong Kong afler a week's journey from Man ning in province whet he was released and undi guard to Canlon He lold h story lo the press McGovern was forced down DC I while flying n cargo of tin 01 of China in n plane of Ma Gen Clair Air Transport Line Captured by Communists he was turned to the Chinese ai held for lhc major part of his ir in a hotel in Manning 150 miles north of the Indo- Chinese border McGovern said he was not treated during his captivity but thai life was pretty miserable For the first four months he said he had nothing to cat but lefl s Arrested Officers At Phoenix Sailor Annoyed by Baby Puds GM PHOENIX June 1 merchant sailor a gun In a crowded Pacific railroad early oday and held the terrified engers at buy for more than an our before he was taken off the ain City and d the gunman Identified M H Huff MlH off Uw in at Union and ailed him on suspicion of ith a deadly weapon Capl Charles Smith aid no shots were fired u paced the Sunset Limited while the train aped across he desert between here and Yu- m About 25 persona wen In ar Smith wld Huff a gum from his who be be- wiinn hy ing ordered the ther til It A few minutes later he ned passengers in the car a porter started to turn out he lights Smith quoted the nan as saying the porter and con- ductor were ganging up on him and intended to kill him with an e pick Thc gunman ordered the porter and conductor from the car while he train was traveling between Yuma and Hyder He also ordered the baby's mother to the and allowed two other women to to another coach when they became cal detectives said At Hytler a small station on the desert east of Yuma trainmen dropped a message and police were waiting for the train when it ed into Phoenix Special Detective A C Burns and a group of etty jumped aboard the train here found Huff cowering two The suspect offered no aacc when officers approached him and ordered him to drop his gun He was handcuffed and led from the train Two passengers in the car said Huff fired a shot after he pulled the gun hut unable to substantiate the claim Railroad detectives said Huff boarded the train in Los Angeles al 5 p m His ticket was good only far as Dallas Tex they overs from the table of totalitarianism Pres Truman Asks Billion in Foreign Military Aid in 51 WASHINGTON June President Truman asked Congress today for in foreign military aid next year because he paid peace depends on the whole free world's ability to stem those forces which seek to cloak the whole earth with the mantle of tonight diseases reported by incidence was highest of all Mr Mrs Daniel daughter Ann of caville Calif have arrived here lo S Foreign Policy Howar spend summer months wilh Beckett will present a her mother Mrs Viola Earp while Captain Crosland is on d month tour of tion A Trip lo the Moon Col William urges Reserve members who points for keeping their reserve stains Mrs tames Clint left for to take advantage of the Angeles to be with her mother j opportunity afforded by there Yuma reported 61 of which ed it third among the M counties was first i with SI and Pima was second i with j Other communicable diseases reported fur the four months of the year 1 21 to United States prestige accountant cmpluvcd by i1 lo i jury is material ncss neu t h Fire Ss Quickly Extinguished at Packing Shed A at lay am inning he done flames started from jnb mi dcr n waxing machine The Yu ma firn wag sum but thr fire was mil 01 isl who lived at the hotel file treason trial t oil a y part in a plot to an in a S ambassador anil brother nf played leading The third I tily Vi lair A ambassador I thr btr leaders of I In- plot The president's request for the second year of the military aid program was in first on lhc mutual defense assistance program en- last year He said the program musl con- lo be an part of total foreign policy of United States Mr Truman's for Fiscal 1051 was slightly or than thc voted by Congress for the current fiscal i year which ends June 30 SCOUTS AMERICA HONORS BOY the el will Valley Pa on Sd day national Miv Jn 3 nik stamp on silc it i- than will camp You now have only 57 days left to is August 7 It is your duly to your in if you are qualified: 1 U S Citizen 2 At 21 S nf Arizona year prior to Nov 7 of precinct 30 prior to Nov 7 5 Bo Mr to read and write in English Is Make j -I
