Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - August 24, 1939, Yuma, Arizona THE 1 Wrt Bulb 78 6 p m 37 73 6 a m 71 77 Noon 25 Mostly fair night and Friday temperatures about the same THE YUMA DAILY SUN And THE YUMA ARIZONA SENTINEL Temp at p m today last 24 houn Lowest last 24 bourn It this daU Average low thla date n Rainfall last 24 hours 0 Rainfall for month 0.13 Rainfall January lit of pow M VOLUME YUMA AUGUST 24 1939 THE YUMA gf WAR PERIL NEAR CHAMBERLAIN WARNS POLES CHARGE INVASION OF NAZIS IN OFFICIAL PROTEST EUROPE ARMIES MOBILIZING BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign news Editor Great Britain herself for the imminent peril of war night after Adolf Hitler had en Europe's war of nerves to a momentous climax Two grave charges of violations DANZIG FUEHRER Be On Nazi Side If War Declared ROMK Aug 24 will be on the side of Germany of the Polish frontier were made in any wal over because by the Polish government in official protest to Berlin The Italys are Vlr Poles rapidly mobilizing full war j authoritative and charged that Gel man Fascist Editor said fired on j the today i Placing responsibility for war or peace on Britain and France Gayda said that Italy's interests were involved in the dispute over Danzig because the free city was HITLER RETURNS BERLIN Aug Fuehrer Adolf Hitler by airplane late today from his summer mountain retreat at Bavaria bands in Silesia buildings Armies Mobilizing Everywhere Europe armies were mobilizing foreigners were hurrying home governments svere bending every effort toward i problem part the greater European the ultimate in for any eventuality So grave were the British fears that a permanent blackout ui London starting tonight was dered as against The new European war being prepared by the challenging mongers in Paris and would result in a conflict between j forces one of which would be at- j tempting to Impose a new and POLAND PROTESTS WARSAW Aug Poland rapidly completing very far reaching military tonight ed to Germany two alleged violations of the Polish ier by armed bands of mans A n official communique said that the Polish ador at Berlin had protested to the German government against violations of the ier In the Silesia sector last night tin helmet perched over the an umbrella in one hand and a gas musk In the other Asked If he was pre- paring for a call to the ice he Oh no this Is just about like we have it at home Albert Forater Nazi party er in Danzig above Was day appointed by the senate as bead of the Danzig state Hti Is reportedly that ef tor JEWISH GETS ARIZONA U SCHOLARSHIP TUCSON Ariz Aug 24 University Arizona today forwarded the first award of its new International scholarship to Curt a Jewish refugee now living in Yonkers N Y Alfred Atkinson president of the university said the ship entitled to a er of all entrance fees The award was established as an annual grant to aid students who have been deprived of advantages because of special conditions in their own countries prise air raids i morc Versailles treaty In the midst of Europe's whereby Germany was mutilated for war Pope Pius and Italy left without colonies and CasP to the world an appeal for peace urging the rulers and Of the great powers to recognize the world's desire for bread and work not and war He urged all men to sify their prayers for pence in this grave hour In a tense united session of parliament British Prime ister Neville Chamberlain lold the world that his government ly feared destruction of the ciples In which rest ity of peace and security NEW YORK Aug 24 Ready to Fight The three major broadcasting And he told Adolf Hitler j companies today scheduled the ly that Great Britain was j following broadcasts on the Eu- ed ready and determined to fight ropean situation All times are the other aspiring to a revision of Europe in the name of justice and a balance of power which would mean a real he said ON EUROPE CRISIS SLATED TODAY Phoenix Chosen Site Of Police Convention Pa Aug 24 Henry B of Fairmont Va today headed the nal Order of the al Conference of the organization free hand in demand for a i Pacific standard Eastern Europe NEWSMEN LEAVE BERLIN Aug 24 last members of the British corps in Berlin are leaving night on instructions of UK British embassy SPEECH IMPORTANT BERLIN Aug 24 Nazi officials tonight ed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech as un- questionably of tremendous portance The speech was ed at once and copies handed to chief Nazi officials who be- gan studying it textual translation PREPARES BUCHAREST Rumania AtiK 21 In- creased her defenses on the Hungarian and frontiers today after the was reported to have advised Poland It re- main neutral In event of a conflict over Danzig AT HONG KONG HONG KONG Aug 24 government spokesman today broadcast a warning to women and children to ate while the going Is good He said that Hong Kong win being made a fortress and Unit the presence of ants a hindrance and would be un obstacle ill cent of a new threat of war by power Even as Chamberlain spoke and leaders of British opposition ies shouted their support of the government policy Hitler drove the European svar of nerves swiftly toward its momentous max In Rome it was disclosed that i President had made a m CBS Mutual and by Pope Plus XII Vatican p Red and Blue CBS and Mutual fax speech to the British people London I I Bess FRANCE MOBILIZING PARIS Aug 24 More reservists were ordered ed up today at such a rapid pace that many believed the p DeMaree magazine correspondent p John direct appeal to Italy's King cunther newspaper tor Emmanuel to exert all ible influence in behalf of peace This was confirmed later by the Department of State in ton ForMer Named Head In the free city of Danzig the Nazi party leader Albert Forster declared the supreme head of the sort of a move that Poles de- ent and author Riga Latvia p Lord Snell opposition leader in the house of lords London p Yvon Delbos former French foreign minister Paris p Roundup from European capitals p Columbia cor- respondents William T Shirer and POLES DANZIG Aug 24 morning bathers ed today that Polish guns hail fired shots at a Danzig sports airplane mill that shell fragments fell in the streets nl in free city tory The German Lufthansa com- pany abandoned direct plane service across the I nrze area of Poland j mg Germany proper from East Prussia and Danzig Planes were detoured over the Baltic M the result of cried as a violation of the Thomas Grandin Paris and zig statute and feared as the p m NBC Blue Sen I Gerald P Nye speaking on The j Crisis and Neutrality d- with general tion as far as It WHS ible with transport facilities It was pointed out that a ge neral order mobilizing France's trained men would create an unbearable traffic problem SAYS PACT ANNULLED LONDON Aug 2 Ail exchange telegraph Lisbon dispatch reported today that Gen Francisco Franco ish nationalist leader ered that the signature of the pact annulled the ment The dispatch which unconfirmed said that Spain reassumes full liberty of tion in foreign policy F R Appeals To Italian King To Work For Peace BY GRATTON McGROARTY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Aug 24 President Roosevelt today ed to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy to use his good offices to avert war Mr Roosevelt said that this tion accepts as a fact that all tions have an absolute right to maintain their national dence if they so desire If that be sound doctrine then it must apply to the weaker tions as well as to the I he said Announced by State new effort to preserve world peace was ced by the state department as the president himself sped back to Washington by special train to take personal command of this nation's activities in the crisis The appeal was made through U S Ambassador to Italy William Phillips It went to no other try Idea Means Peace Mr Roosevelt said that if the j idea of the independence of all nations is accepted this means because fear of aggression ends The which means of necessity efforts by the strong to dominate the weak will lead future years of oppression on the part of the victors and to lion on the part of the he said The president asked the King to have the Italian government formulate proposals for a ful BRITISH PREMIER'S STAND APPROVED BY PARLIAMENT DRASTIC POWERS PLANNED HOUSE OF COMMONS had demanded a free hand In Aug Brit- ain li in imminent peril of Prime Minister Neville lain twisting his hands and ing in a strained voice told an emergency session of the house of commons today He revealed that Adolf Hitler Polish planes firing on German HITLER VICTORY O E N I G S B E R G East Prussia Aug eign minister Joachim Von declared In a brief speech today that Adolf ler will master be present European crisis as be has previous ones Ribbentrop flying back from paused here briefly en route o Berlin to report on the treaty step toward return of Danzig to the Reich German soldiers also were re- ported in unconfirmed dispatches from Warsaw to have crossed the Polish frontier from East Prussia and penetrated almost a mile in- to Poland Everywhere troops were being mobilized on a gigantic scale with France calling up reserves so j ed Rock 111 London Blackout Order Received concluded its convention idly that experts said she was i Phoenix Ariz was chosen as approaching a state of general the 1940 convention city mobilization as fast as transport Lea Hornbeck Phoenix was facilities would permit France's elected a trustee CONTINUED ON PAGE FRENCH BRITISH MISSIONS EXPECTED TO LEAVE MOSCOW AS PACT OF IS SIGNED MOSCOW Aug 24 British and French missions ing to conclude a mutual aid pact with Soviet Russia prepared to leave for home tonight without concluding an alliance The decision of the two military missions was after Russia had signed a pact with Germany which the Soviet press hailed as establishing close and friendly relations and which barred both parties from joining a hostile combination against the other Expected to While the official Communist party newspaper Pravda hailed the pact with Germany as fore- shadowing close and flourishing friendship between the two powers diplomatic observers said that in vie.w of the temper of the British sian pact as made public by the Soviet government The government of the Union Soviet Republics and the government of Germany led by a desire to consolidate the cause of peace between the U S R ing the treaty on neutrality concluded between the U S R and many in April 1926 arrived at the following Clause two contracting LONDON Aug 24 lice today circulated an order throughout London providing for i a permanent blackout All lights must be blacked out or ex- every night as soon as darkness falls The order for the blackout was j transmitted to the United Press late this afternoon by the agement of the News of World Building which houses the U P Bureau The order was described as in- tended to eliminate the necessity for special notice in order to black special notice in order to black out London from possible enemy air raiders BELIEVE DESERT and Germany and j UI AC from the basic provisions of parties undertake to refrain from V scl oia on a mKe over any violence and from anv hot desert tnat in his RIVERSIDE Aug 24 investigation showed day that D C Putnam of cott Ariz apparently was alone when he set out on a hike over rom any ag action and any attack against each other either or jointly with other ers Clause the event thai either of the contracting parties It would not be surprising If Great should be subject to military military mission departed tkm on the part of a third power the other contracting party will No official comment was not lend that power support in able however any form Text of Pact The text of the governments of CONTINUED ON TWO It had been feared that Putnam had companions who might still be wandering over the sand es but records of the State der Patrol station at Blythe ed entered California from zona alone Deputy Coroner Seymer Cash expressed belief Putnam's auto- mobile broke down and he was walking for help when overcome by the desert heat MOVES RATIFIED PARIS Aug 2t council of ministers today un- ratified the ment's extraordinary military preparations and considered recalling the mission ating vainly in Moscow for a military ance with Soviet Russia CHARGE DANZIG Aug 24 official German news agency tonight reported a Polish di- vision at war strength had surrounded Danzig ing the danger of an nent coup against the free city SAILS FOR HOME LE HAVRE France Aug 24 James velt mother of the president sailed for the United today the liner ington Mrs Roosevelt ted she was really home because of the tion She said she also ed to be near the president who has lots of work worry BRITISH PREPAREDNESS LONDON Aug 24 Strollers in Chelsea were startled and then amused day to see a nonchalant mnn In a Bowler hat with a new HELD FOR TRIAL IN PHOENIX SHOOTING PHOENIX Aug 24 Herschel John old ice cream peddler was held here day to face trial for his ed shooting and killing of Percy Johnson 35 a ranch worker A jury decided that Johnson died bullet wounds in the head and chest in- Inflicted by the dler Johns previously told ties he shot Johnson in self de- fense when the victim threatened to beat him The peddler said Johnson accused him of being with Mrs Johnson Witness at the hearing tiated John's story of self defense saying Johnson struck the peddler before the shooting occurred Poland Calls More Reserves Expects To Have Total Force of 6 Millions WARSAW Aug 24 with Paris and Poland today called more to the colors under a inet order reliably described as providing for very far reaching defense preparations Although no general tion was announced reservists were being called up in all dis- of Poland after a cabinet meeting that surveyed the entire defense situation Poland already had around men under arms Large numbers of motor cars were requisitioned by military authorities to transport troops Col Josef Beck the foreign minister was In com- don The foreign office denied mors abroad that he was enroute to Berchtesgaden to see Adolf ler message was a surprise peal in that It appeared to sume that the Italian government was not a direct party to the de- was crisis tern Europe and had warned that Britain or any other country which intervened there would be responsible for the ensuing con- Germany he said was ready for war introduced aa emergency giving the almost dictatorial powers to run the country If war came Today's was the most tous session of commons since the night of Aug 3 1914 when the catastrophic World War was un- leashed As Chamberlain spoke nations mobilized their aimed forces all over Europe The Issue of peace or war does not rest with the aged prime minister said x x x God knows I have done all possible in our efforts for peace No Hint of Despair There was no hint of despair or fear in the prime minister's words His statement was grim and the members of parliament seemed to share his determination to fight if Germany invaded Poland EUROPEAN SITUATION BY UNITED PRESS The war crisis in meets in fateful session King holds privy council on war stock exchange raises bank rate as war tion and suspends trading in gilt edge securities PARIS France pours troops nto Maginot line as country for war foreign minister him von Ribbentrop declares pact I Great Britain he has laid firm and immovable said are united in their dation for close co-operation be- tween the two countries official agency dispatch from Moscow says WARSAW Poland mobilizes troops Geman bomber fired on WASHINGTON President rushes back from fishing cruise to survey possibility of exerting American influence in crisis faces question of calling congress and DANZIG tier reported closed Poles ted to have fired on Danzig sports plane with shell fragments I ing into Danzig territory J Moscow Official newspaper Pravda says friendship will ish between Russia and Germany CITY Pope to broadcast message to the worlo today an urgent peal for peace Von Papen German ambassador reported carrying personal message from Adolf Hitler to President Ismet Inonu BRUSSELS Broadcast by King interpreted as gestion by neutral powers tor world peace conference SHANGHAI Japanese dis- mayed by pact reported moderating anti-British ROME Newspapers indicate Italy fears no war but warn Brit- ain and France that issue would be Danzig rights TOKYO Official sources be- lieve Japan now must depend on herself in view of the Russian treaty will aid Poland The house heard the prime ister with strained grave tion showing every evidence of complete solidarity in this hour of crisis The prime minister's vibrant re- iteration of Britain's firm to adhere to her pledges to Poland and other countries met with a deep-throated cheers dissent Japs Reported Planning Foreign Policy Revamping TOKYO Aug 24 eror Hirohito intends to summon an imperial council meeting to consider Japan's foreign policy in of a diplomatic precipitated by Germany's pact with Russia it was reported day For the moment preponderant government opinion was that an should seek improved relations with the United States and Britain because they considered Germany had forfeited their con- It was learned that the emperor was shortening his stay at ama his summer residence and returning to Tokyo To Summon Council It was believed that upon ar- rival here he would summon a meeting of his imperial council j and Russia Criticized There was another rumble of assent when Chamberlain sized that Russia's action in ing a pact with Germany seemed inconsistent with the previous viet foreign policy A great burst of cheers arose when Chamberlain spoke of the British government's message of warning to Adolf Hitler Referring to the belief in many that the new sian pact would Imperil the alliance between Brit- ain and France and prevent them from aiding Poland Chamberlain let his clenched fists fall on the dispatch before him and We feel it our first duty to remove any such dangerous sions Single Ray of Hope The single ray of hope in the prime minister's somber was his statement that in its sage to Hitler Britain stated the belief that the quarrel could be settled by without resort to war Chamberlain with corrugated brows and his face slightly grey said he preferred not to comment on Hitler's reply to the cabinet's to consider the complete a wag tation of Japan's foreign policy I TO EVACUATE BRITISH SHANGHAI Aug 24 j message i steamer has been ordered to The prime minister's statement about the pact was by reversal of position Considerable anti-German ing already was evident A tial boycott was imposed on man restaurants and ornamental Nazi disappeared from the streets Newspapers outspokenly ged that Germany had betrayed a trust received in significant silence CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO I Witness Testifies Woman Sought to Get Control of Klan Canal Hears Completion Page Reports All But One Structure Finished To Line Section Of Floor Work on the All-American one of the two 5.400 kilowatt un I al system is nearing completion its at Drop No 3 The other un- WASHINGTON Aug 24 D Allen Pasadena Cal liaison man for so-called fascist organizations told the Dies com- today that Mrs Leslie Fry of Glendale Cal thought last year she might buy the Kn Klux Klan for Allen as agent of Mrs Fry testified that he visited Imperial The government maintained its firm attitude that any attack on Poland will be met with force and expected to be able to have as many as men under arms or in the auxiliary services in event of war Several additional classes which were ceded up after a cabinet meeting last night joined their today Authorities re- fused to estimate the number but was a vague mention that she admitted it would complete thought the thing could be ar- frontier defenses John C Page commissioner eau of Reclamation reported re- cently to Secretary of the Inter- ior Harold L Ickes in its will be added from time to time as the irrigation and power dernand increases Also included in the recently ing the progress of construction completed work are 37 turnouts The month of saw the com- of four major structure contracts involving a total ment to the contractors ed of The work frora the main ican canal to Imperial valley These are located between the sandhills west nf and in the Imperial valley Some ered contracts has ex- of these turnouts will divert tended over a period of two years i er for the irrigation of present and includes such structures as E unimproved desert lands on the the Coachella turnout at which East The others will serve Wizard Hiram Evans in river water will begin its r to supply the existing system of last year but did not go beyond discussing a revival of the on the west suggestion Evans turned down Mrs Fry desired in some way to get control of the Allen said She seemed to have the idea that Mr Evans would sell the membership list for a price There ranged for journey to the rich I canals and laterals in the Coachella valley in Southern and four power drops which will eventually be utilized to generate a total of kilo- watts of electrical energy Plant Contract A recent contract has been let for the initial installation of one of the two kilowatt units at Drop No 4 and bids were ly opened for the of ial valley when deliveries ire made through the All-American canal instead of through the mo via Mexico The only uncompleted structure on the main canal is the Alamo river crossing and the tor will complete this during the coming the tato oa
