Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - October 19, 1939, Yuma, Arizona THE by 1 today Wet Bulb Temp lot Bom 01 0 p m 21 M 0 n in iU 03 Noon liC Kuir tonile and day Not change in ature THE YUMA DAILY SUN And THE YUMA A R I 2 O N A S E N T i N E L Temp at n in today Highest last 24 hours 95 Lowest last horn a 60 Average high this date 87 Average low this date 07 Rainfall last hours U Rainfall for month truce Rainfall since Jan Sunshine of poss 100 VOLUME -245 YUMA OCTOBER 19 1939 YUMA 215 Gle BY THE PUBLISHER m m OSBORN SHAW EM One gathers from reading an editorial in a recent issue of Phoenix Gazette that Yunia area is quite some pumpkins or at least soon will be The editorial was written by Ed Shaw one of Yuma county's in the state ture as the guest that day It was Watch Yuma Sunshine Cap- and was as follows with credit to the Although out baby slate has hut a small percentage of native sous and daughters it is ing to note their growing pride and loyalty which after all is basic reason for the splendid efforts to make our state a Icr place in which to live tle would accomplished that civic pride which begets chambers of commerce service clubs and dozens of similar all solidly behind programs for community betterment We of Yunia located on Broadway of seven miles Horn Old Mexico less than 100 miles up tho gieat Colorado ur from the GuJt of California be- TWO NAVY PLANES IN AIR NEUTRALITY FIGHT IS NARROWED TO SINGLE ISSUE OF ARMS EMBARGO REPEAL Operating Room Equipment Gas Masks WASHINGTON Chairman Key Nov announced agreement of Democratic members of he ate foreign relations committee today on an amendment to the Oct IB neutrality to Pittman D I Pacific and South WAR IN BRIEF BY UNITED rain slows ern front operations and impedes movements of German troops and supplies into Siegfried Line French repulse enemy patrols LONDON Royal Air Force that our cily is destined to j planes make successful become a great center of a ance flights over Northwestern empire of opportunity Germany employers and trade Fully realizing that no amount of unionists consider lo could depict a more ideal climate thai which tually exists in Yuma and that if wealth were based on tile shino standard Yuma would be the wealthiest city in the United Stales we are proud lo be Lhc Sunshine Capital of the With 00.000 acres in an annual crop value of approximately With indications that the Yu- irrigation project which will add another acres of fertile land will be completes within next few years the unit of it having already 20 of canal the Fortuna syphon and the diversion works and has the siphon lish of industry Allied military men French General Weygand and British General Wavell ar- rive to sign alliance with key STOCKHOLM kings and foreign ministers com- plete conferences with Finnish officials Finnish President Kallio broadcasts Finnish determination lo defend independence says the Finns have received constant proof of the solidarity of Nordic tions Authoritative Italian circles believe events of past few days Including intensified German open up the Atlantic to American shipping That action the con- over neutrality to the but vital issue of repeal of the arms embargo The same group has agreed lo eliminate the j provision granting credit j to belligerents I Democratic of the committee who participated in drafting the neutrality grom agreed lo permit face vessels to carry any terials except arms tion and Implements of war lo any ports in western hemisphere of HO de- grees latitude which New Orleans and Jacksonville and to the Pacific and Indian oceans China Arabian seas arid the Bay of Bengal would be permitted to transport all goods except tions to any poll in the western hemisphere Thus aircraft would be allowed to carry on business with Bermuda and Newfoundland a right which would be denied surface craft also announced j ment on an amendment to the section of the hill prohibiting extension of credit to private belligerent purchases of goods The already bans credit to belligerent governments CRASH OCCURS OVER BLACK MOUNTAIN SAN DIEGO 4 BODIES FOUND AT SCENE I SAN Cnl Oct 10 j Officers nf the United States Navy today announced that two Navy planes had crashed in mid-air Black Mountain northeast of here anil exploded and burned they plunged into H S Students Plan Walking Rally On Main St Friday In wartime medical men protect their own lives while saving those of others Above an appendectomy is performed b French hospital with the surgeon his assistant the anesthetist and nurse all wearing gas masks The patient a young girl is protected by the mask through which anesthetic is administered U-boat German air on Scotland preparations for western front offensive and and two bridges now Wilh the prospect that Yuma may in the future be a great ocean port Wilh an enthusiastic movement already under way to establish a under con- down in Russo-Turkish have postponed peace prospects BRITAIN FRANCE AND TURKEY French Freighter SIGN 15 YEAR MUTUAL AID Sunk ln TREATY TODAY AT ANKARA LONDON Oct ID I Prime Minister Neville There's been no announced in the House of whatever in the mandatory ban on Commons tonight the signature in i Ankara Turkey conflicted treaty The treaty said had the three agreed upon ny commerce man said Trie became necessary in the I Turkey Under the treaty the j nf Turks to assist the Allied of a 15 year aid L three weeks ago hut perhaps for four or five months MOSCOW Neutral diplomats seeking explanation for breakdown j of negotiations be- lieve basic cause was arrival great park of j ing negotialions of German For- acrea with two lakes to eign Minister Ribbentrop our city for recreation With the of our old territorial prison assured and with many other splendid may 1 say Watch Yuma o And that Kd is geltin told about Yuma Final Rites Today Contract Let for Excavation Parker Dam Power Plant Funeral services for Mrs J O Fletcher 65 of Fourth avenue who died Tuesday night following a stroke will be held this after- noon beginning at four o'clock at the church it was an- j at the O C Johnson interests of commerce Subs Banned U S Studies Question Of Merchant Ships WASHINGTON Oct Secretary of State Cordell Hull j said today the U S government i is studying the question of armed merchant vessels after having proclaimed a strict ban against! belligerent submarines in can territorial waters and ports I Informed sources expected a number of American re- publics would follow the lead Turks agree to assist the Allied powers if they go to war in de- i fense of Rumania or Greece to the Turks to con- sult with the Soviet Union Chamberlain recalled that Brit- Crew is Rescued a bean field near Lake Murray The sheriff's office said bodies of four men were found near the wreckage and that possibly other bodies were in one of the planes Practice bombs cameras and a quantity of 30 caliber service munition were found near the scene Navy officials would not reveal the types of planes involved in the mid-air crash nor the names of the personnel The sheriff's of- fice first reported that a servi bomber had crashed The craft was described as a plane The practice bombs were not be- to have been loaded i The scene of the crash is about j 10 miles back of the San Diego I State College and is a hilly area PARIS Oct 19 An News Agency dis- patch from Le Havre reported day the French b Vermont had been sunk in Atlantic on the Gulf of Mexico mute but that the The Radio gave the tonnage of the Vermont as Lloyd's register lists A walking rally in which all pupils of the Yuma Union High school will parade through town Yuma tomorrow afternoon to stimulate interest in the tiled gridiron contest at Doan field tomorrow night between the Criminals and the Tucson High team was announced day by student body leaders At flic same time it was announced by city officials that parking on Main street would he prohibited 2 and 1 p.m Friday provide room for the niding students The game is one of the toughest of this year's schedule and the entire school is expected to participate in the rally The Yuma Union High school and rind the Drum and corps in uniform will tak in the maneuvering School yells and team cheers Radio reports from the f Slates liner The navy Immediately ed crash and salvage equipment lo the isolated area Fear Liners Badly Battered By Storm In North Atlantic NKW YORK Oct Shipping officials feared today that several liners inbound from Bugle I Europe had been badly battered part hy the hurricane raging across the North Atlantic Chamberlain also threw light agreed pending conclusion of on the breakdown of formal treaty lo lend each other ish negotiations during tho last j all possible aid three weeks j Subsequently it was decided said that the I as a result of conversations by negotiations had been His Majesty's government with ed because Soviet demands or I CONTINUED ON PAGE TWOJ ain and Turkey already had i a steamship Vermont of Le re of tons Disastrous Fire In El Centro Mrs Roosevelt Sees Sympathy With Nazi Ideals In Lindy Talk WAR CLAIMS ISY j It will be the first and largest which rode out the slorm I demonstration of kind this day after 73 of the passengers fo j seriously said that several other I The Yuma grid team still is shiPs weve in tho crippled by the lose of first siring I including the United j players through injuries while the j invading although I NEW YORK Oct Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt said today in her syndicated column My WASHINGTON Oct 10 The Interior department announced today pin will officiate Burial will take place in the Yuma cemetery an- thc award of a contract for I lion of excavation work for the j STREAMLINER HITS Parker Dam power plant of the j Parker Dam project on the river to Clyde W Wood of Los Angeles on u hid of claiming his ban against i I Mortuary The Rev W B ines but Huli said he had no U S S Arizona In For Regular Overhaul SAN DIEGO Oct Los Diego Santa Fe streamliner last night crashed into an auto driven by Moises i Gardea about 24 San Di- ego killing him instantly in what j police described as a successful j craft u was expected that cogni vices from neighboring republics on that subject He was asked why the I tion was made between ines and merchant vessels and said that the department giving attention to the merchant vessel problem now Since the declaration al the western hemisphere neutrality conference al Panama City noted a distinction between defensively armed merchant ships and Fire starting at about 5 today in the demons drug store in downtown El Centro resulted in damage exceeding according to motorists sensed in Col Lindbergh's speech lOt arriving here this noon from the Imperial valley county seat command an- French troops have been driven back to French soil on western front and that the first phase of operations resulting French initiative is regarded as j finished Communique says 60 enemy airplanes including 12 tish were shot down in western front activities while Germans I had their share of gridiron tend to make teams more evenly matched SCHOOL TO OPEN HERE NOV 20TH lhc I The flames spread rapidly to I there the adjoining Johnson's clothing I store Mam street near Sixth nue and Jenkins store We were all interested in Mr lost only 11 The figures did not Walter Lipmann's column of a induce enemy planes shot down few days ago and in Dorothy elsewhere High command says A school for peace Thompson's column today She I German casualties of war were of the Yuma district lead wounded and III tnS Imperial county is to be held a sympathy with Nazi ideals which j missing adding that 23 French I thought existed but could not officers and 664 other were bring myself to believe was tured Communique says I at the Yuma city hall startin 20 il announced today b-v observed in tho KAN Oct 10 UP The battleship Arizona re- j attempt at suicide I ported sabotaged a week ago was Tne cal 150 feet alongside a repair ship today the tracks when the while other dreadnaughts were out a curve and at sea in target practice cci broadsides throwing Naval officials said the ship I Gardea clear of the wreckage came in for her regularly overhaul zance will be taken in any I ture action of such a distinction J and piling shreds of ripped i holstering near his body F R Orders 6 Fortresses to Hop To Rio November 11 Russ Military Mission Reaches China Japs Fear Alliance To Be Negotiated CAPACITY CROWD EXPECTED STYLE SHOW TONIGHT Roosevelt Col Lindbergh's most talk on neutrality in which he opposed repeal of arms embargo referri jewelry L CANTOR TICKLED THERE'S A BOY IN FAMILY tish was i I ALLIES Britain claims Ltd I navy has captured total of tons of contraband destined for I Germany in six weeks of war Transport of British force to France ed complete Cold rain German States liners Manhattan and Washington the Italian liner Con- te Di Savoia and others whose identities were concealed because of war Supplies The Coast Guard cutter lon reached the President ing far out to sea delivered medical supplies for which she had appealed by dio Dr James H Kimball in charge of the weather bureau said the hurrican was half way between Newfoundland and Greenland last night He blamed the war for the President Harding having been caught in the storm Ships have silenced their radios and curtailed weather reports or fear of raiders and the bureau has been unable to chart the storm's course and provide he said A capacity crowd for the style show to be ed in the Yuma Union High school so excited and incredulous h SHANGHAI Oct 19 Reports reached neutral mats today that a strong Russian military delegation had arrived at Chungking the Chinese ary capital nnd reports were at once that a military alliance would be negotiated According to the reports which the Japanese News Agency j handling Russian affairs in which also broadcast from Tokyo on the contact with Japanese consuls strength of a Shanghai press re- necessary most Japanese feared that Russia was going to Its new international to the East to put sure on Japan Japanese had been particularly anxious because last week Russia withdrew all its consuls from areas in China Norwegian consuls are now two generals numerous technical experts were in the WASHINGTON Oct 10 UR I Roosevelt today six Army flying fortresses i to fly to Rio de Janeiro to Nov 15 in the I of the founding of the I Brazilian republic I The fleet of powerful Army i bombers will leave Langley Field j Va on Armistice Day Nov 11 j and will return to their home base about Nov 25 They will be under command of a general cer of the air corps A COUNTY GETS GAS TAX SHARE Equalling the monthly for recent years a check in the auditorium tonight beginning at This will be the first such show to be sponsored by the chants committee of the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce Admission will be by tickets which may be secured from any of the merchants participating dian who has five girls and Chamber of Commerce his sorrow no boys front French outposts report inans forced Lo keep pumps going to prevent flooding of West Wall casements French throw back German patrols south of t Royal Air Force re- over Northwestern immy without losses front Every phase of crime I and detection is to be taken up i during the school period and purls from the Bureau of are to in I it Chief announced I Sergeant James K of the FBI at is to be one of in- An exchange of j L Welis U S Sheriff T H City I h HOLLYWOOD Oct 19 1 There's a boy al lasl in the expected tor family And Grandpa Eddie Cantor was i phoned the hospital twice all way from Boston to he sure one wasn't kidding him The boy a husky of S REFUSES PLEA OF pounds 9 ounces was born night to Mrs Natalie Mctzger year-old daughter of the to nice I UlM William H and other authorities are on the ty for the Practical well as work is slated it Foil era 1 state county anti city officers are expected to attend the counties Oct ID UPi by bee ret r and Hart ber cf the While House slait announced torlay by Row lam I district head UL inc: service thy ufi i in keeping with a policy of con- stantly rotating who the ami KUHN Commitments Of Britain To Poland Cover Only German Acts Says Butler Neutral diplomats received re- j sum of representing ports today from what appeared j Yuma county's share in state tn he reliable sources that oline tax collections during on i tember was today by al liquidation of Treasurer R C Rube George Ration It was added that five had heon needed tn the delegation tn Chungking Japanese officials hern de- nied knowledge of he val of Russian ment over the fixing of a tlon But for two past He boundary in the disputed area or Mongolia frontier incidents had become deadlocked by a At the same time George an- a call for payment of all outstanding county road fund warrants I Russia and thus would mean that a demand would be made upon the Soviets to give up their territory The trealy with eign affairs told the House of Poland Butler said excluded Great Britain's to Poland only covered hy by Soviet R A Butler undersecretary for for- Commons today by Russia or any other Butler's statement was in a j power except Germany written reply to a question which The reply indicated th raised again the whether tho Allied question of war alms In- cluded restoration of the Versailles treaty status of Poland which has now been divided by Germany and Britain eply nor that neither WASHINGTON Oct 13 The Dies committee again refused to Kuhn German-American Bund leader from testifying despite that his appearance would jeopardize his trial in New York on embezzlement charges The committee also refused a request hy Kuhn to read a ed statement The Bund leader then denied that he was a and told committee that nc does not occupy a position com- parable to Nazi leaders in other countries Localise I nm an erican citizen He asserted a in the Bund's official daily paper Fire Alarm System Out Of Commission Use Telephone In Reporting Blazes With Yuma's fire signal system partly out of commission since yesterday afternoon and with all call boxes in downtown Yuma completely disabled a warning was issued thus morning urging the use of telephone in event of fire j i Chief George K Koln j I suid that all fire alarm oast of Madison avenue I were nut of commission The defect in the city's ancient t The alarm failed lo the call the nly m was from Ihu siren which tonNi not sound the box number all hist and si ill morning in n to and the signal Tho warning n to prevent firc.s and for the refugee Polish government had any plans at ent for eventual restoration of the saying We may have citizenship I shop was reportedly ignited by a though obsolete and with paru no treaty state regardless papers lying in the closet but we I match carelessly thrown by of the outcome of the war are all was erroneous itinerant alarm system developed telephones ia Ihv event fires day when a signal alarm was our way issued by both Mayor from the plant of the S Infills and Chief ern Ice Cold storage company inson on Gila street where the excelsior The system was Installed in an device at a nf a century ago 1 I an i longer available efforts to replace CONTINUED ON TWO
