Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - May 29, 1940, Yuma, Arizona TOT by Weather 1 Wet Temp Humidity 17 72 tonight 0 p m iiO C a m 02 Noon Mostly fair and Thursday temperatures the same TH VOLUME 128 YUMA ARIZONA WEDNESDAY MAY 29 1940 Temp at a m today 90 Highest last 24 hours 95 last 21 hours 6t verage high this date 96 low Ihls date 63 ifall last 24 hours 0 all for month 0 ill since Jan of poss 100 VOLUME ALLIES WITHDRAWING FROM FLANDERS Parade Dedication OF Monument To Feature Memorial Observance observance of Memorial Day tomorrow all civic and ex-service groups and auxiliaries uniting in solemn to America's hero lead of all wars will be marked with the formal dedication and un- veiling of the monument forever commemorating the 15 patriots of Yuma who died In service during the World War I WAR IN BRIEF By PRESS FRANCE putting big fleets of American airplanes into action resist in Flanders and along the Fighting intensified in Somme sector in preparation for major French claim still holding Dunkirk only road of retreat for Flanders army although German high command says German troops may have occupied port Trapped Allied army fighting for life in ers retreats yard bv yard but French say it is holding its own and inflicting tremendous on Germans Situation of some 100000 men is extremely but hope has not been abandoned French declare say expeditionary force in Flanders is still intact and is withdrawing in good order Brit- ish announce victory Tn claiming capture of ore port of as well as and Norway High command claims capture of great French industrial city of Lille In addition to channel port of city of Bruges and channel port of muiden Command says fate of Allied army in north has been sealed Northern Italy ed swarming with troops in aration for imminent war Brit- ish and French diplomats make for quick departure anese commercial to Italy reported in Tendon to have told Tokyo Italy's early entry into war is certain The bronze bearing tlie names of the hero denU nf ami n con- records of their war service and the names nml records of all who served In I ed on the court house lawn Is the American Legion ary's contribution to posterity Climaxing the Memorial bay parade at Its termination the monument and plaque will be un- while the massed colors of the service and patriotic groups arc dipped In tribute to the dead while armed uniformed groups stand at present arms and while the national anthem is played by the Yuma High school band Mrs Sara chairman of the memorial committee of the American Legion Auxiliary which obtained the plaque 22 years after the Armistice of ended WorkI War I hostilities is to preside at the dedicatory rites J H pioneer will deliver the Memorial Day address at the matis rally attendant upon the dedication The days program said to be the most complete ever planned for general participation in Yuma was arranged by special tees of the American Legion erans of Foreign Wars and ed War Veterans Memorial Day tion will be al a m all men all their auxiliaries nml families arc to meet at Hill From that time on throughout the various special ies are to be held At 8 a m memorial services to the Indian dead in the wars America will be held at the nn Grounds north of Indian Hill on the Fort Yuma tion At 9 a m a wreath will be dropped into the Colorado river in tribute to the sailor dead of America At 10 n m all groups to j in the Memorial Day arle will form at Main nnd Fourth i streets for march to the court nn Memorial Wreath Trie WAR H S Students To Present Water Carnival Tonite Yum a high school's combined physical education departments will hold a gala free water vnl f ring compete live races ii and formation at the pool at 8 o'clock tonight Highlight of the evening's en- t will be a group of hoys girls in formation hy small electric j lights while the pool lights are dimmed The nnd ming exhibitions will feature out- standing local and girls who have placed in regional events Bleachers will he just outside pool for the benefit of the public which is invited to attend Nazis Claim Allied Northern Army Split Must Soon Surrender Participants Those who will take part in the events aro Sat Sheridan Eddie Norton Jimmy Marcus Harold Cutler Ann Marcus George ler Authur John Pan- Weiss Dorothy horne LJa rbara McCrorey eryn Burner Dorothy Greenleaf Gertrude Freeman K erts Claudine PI ess Pauline f Kaye Olmstead Golden Mary Louise Hei ley nnd Louis Hedgpeth In the girls diving division are Weiss and Katheryn Young while in the boys division are John Harold Cutler Abe cus Jt and George Culler I May ami naval have mussed he in effort to retreat ami of Hie Allied army of In- mirth a military source said tonight May Viscount Sort commander of th British foree in assured King George tonight I hat the army was doing all in its power to live tip to its proud For Ousting They Sleep the Sleep Unbroken Of Bridges Gets House Com 0 K BY WILLIS THORNTON Filed Income Tax Returns For 39 LONDON May 29 tish and French troops in and northern France claimed hy the Germans to be trapped and facing annihilation are fighting stiff rear guard actions to cover orderly British sources said day Tile Press Association a tish news agency said that in the face of terrific odds the morale of the BEF remained unshaken despite the capitulation of troops or orders from King Leopold Ill was considered certain that equipment and material which may have to be in withdrawal from Flanders will be destroyed prevent Its falling intn the hands of the enemy It was understood that the DBF I and the French have succeeded establishing a definite BERLIN May 29 man military quarters tonight that the Allied army of the north was a gallant hut lost battle and predicted that the remaining forces would he de- or forced to capitulate a few hours They asserted the Allied forces had been jammed into two row isolated pockets along the sea where they are under con- stant bombardment from the German air forces and artillery fire The military spokesman saw little chance that tional Allied evacuations could be carried out under the rain of bombs anil asserted that the troops were now beyond the reach of out- side aid In this desperate plight the military quarters paid tn the gallant fight being waged by the British and French forces but said they were a lost army with destruction or capitulation the only alternatives With German of Bruges Ypres and Lille said the German sources tne i ish expeditionary force hps been j backed up against Dunkirk where j it is under terrific fire The on- I tire port area of the city was said to have been destroyed I Up to yesterday the Germans j said the British had been able to carry on evacuation of some of their forces protected by the Two Sun Readers Spurred By Recent Desert Tragedy Write Identical Suggestions For Prevention a in south of liml he hut know H was only i from water This which might have hail proper tions hren taken has stirred two Daily Sun readers to write almost identical suggestions to the Sun publisher The first received of these from Jefferson Worth Yuma Arizona May 26 R K publisher Yuma Daily Sun Yuma Arizona Dear Press dispatches of last week carried far wide a tragic story of the death by thirst of a desert prospector who ventured into the area south nf WeSHon without proper guards The value of a life the agony of slow death from thirst the sorrow of relatives and friends cannot be measured in terms of adverse advertising of the tory surrounding our and up to date community ever the fact that practically no effort has been made by those of us who know the inexorable laws of the desert to prevent or to minimize the chance of a ic is a neglect that can be measured in terms of re- morse and sorrow Many Take nature cannot be ed The amateur desert rat or the and careless stranger he forced to take nn Elks Plan Biggest Event Of Its Kind For Annual Flag Day Service 14th Meeting in a plan session at I membership to participate in the club rooms last Sunday officers of the Elks lodge and members of the lodge's and Flag Day tees set to work to make the Yu- ma Elks Plag Day service this year the biggest event of its kind held in Yuma county has been set aside as Flag Day and as for some years past the ceremonies will be held at Doan Field with the huge 40 by 60 foot U S flag made some by Mrs Carrie Linder displayed to best advantage Every organization In the com- munity and Exalted Ruler Eb Trawler and lodge officials and workers were amazed to find that are approximately 90 of them is to receive the ing announcement of the and Invitation tor organizations Current world Yuma Ariz May 27 1949 events have brought home to all loyal tic Americans the true worth of American ideals and the liberties granted to us by the United States constitution We doubt if there is a red ed man or woman In these United States today who would not seek to destroy all of the isms which attack AMERICANISM We as Elks have linked the full and complete success of our der with the destiny of our FLAG which has always stood for right raUier than might i On June 14 of each year we pay tribute to this our FLAG I This year our ceremonies will he labor issued Nothing not the rumble of steel monsters not the ter of not the tearing explosions of bombs can break the sleep of the dead we honor this Memorial Day In Flanders fields the crash and roar of a new and t fiercer war surges over the very graves of the American boys followed a bright dream to France in 1917 and 1918 But for those who stayed behind to enrich with their dust some corner of a foreign there is the same eternal and sleep as has been given their comrades who rest in Arlington Battle and quick agony or the I exaltation of the taken town have no meaning any longer for these dead They had their day and it was bright and glorious Leonard Alien D j Another generation has cornn and we almost hesitate to oi the immigration i repeat to them what was in the minds and hearts of the boys hith first approved away in changed is the world so i sd the dream But there was a day April 2 1917 when the ascetic and haggard face of a President focussed the eyes of Con- gress and his words were measured as they rolled on But thr right is morn flian peace and we shall for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts for cracy for the right nf those who submit In ity to have a voice in their governments for the rights and liberties of small nations for a uni- versal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free So they sailed away and it was not the fault of any of those who went to their long sleep in Flanders that these things were not to be Those who survived were the ones who had to see the tarnish the dishonor the failure Those who survived lived Ion to become hard indifferent without faith They lived I Continued oil Five WASHINGTON May 2D UK I along winch they up A total of Arizonans filed strong opposition to German tax returns for the iod ending Dec 31 1939 it was announced by Guy T vering commissioner of internal revenue god and bitter action ot both the British the French The Press Association said that the Allies were fighting in it was said is no longer possible is un- der the fire of ouj artillery and blasted by our bombers Its whole port area is destroyed May 29 The house rules today voted unanimously to send to the house floor a directing secretary of labor to arrest and deport Bridges west const CIO leader o is a subject of Australia Members f the rule lee said no votes The was introduced by P cp A La member committee w the biil Once committee action followed fight in which Bridges exonerated of charges of communism by Dean lames of Harvard law who sat a examiner in j a hearing when tile department of j The largest number filed by residents of Phoenix with that city Tucson wilh third with fourth wih 618 led with Firm was ond with wilh fifth wilh and sixth with MS i unote pore area is destroyed plete order with no chaos or con- Tn t t J The withdrawal was de- r with scribed as being conducted skill and courage in i L French Lille BY JOK ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News German air and land forces at remnants of the Allied armies of the north today in a triumphant bid for domination of fe Cat all channel ports and all fighting fronts north of the river Somme hands or about to be Texas Delegates Vote For John Garner W Texas votes in lerman by troops 1 The German high command earlier today claimed the capture The military source asserted l hut the had attacked Lille from Uvo the face f the attack he said the French from the city He reported Dial the Allied The great Battle of tiers rapidly ending in a German victory the high command declared with the and troops squeezed Into a triangle on the Yser river or to ribbons and captured en masse The destruction of the Allies armies estimated s were still solidly entrenched ally at probably 500.000 hut now a warrant No Paper Thursday Memorial Day being one nf seven holidays which local merchants agreed to ob- serve hy closing places of business the Daily Sun office will be Hosed tomorrow and there will be no issue of his newspaper in the of Vice P but Hi K fur in run iv ere to cast b Ininer a lent s t i to m or ra 1 1 by fist fights Is between to tho bit to thoy nrl to vntr ff opposed of tho not to Roosevelt bloc John term around Dunkirk ami its environs and claimed that the Germans yet had not succeeded in completing their occupation of Calais French units the in I said are lais partly evacuated was speeded the Germans said by capture of the Belgian port of Ostend the towns of Bruges and and the French city of Lille the Germans reported Continued on Five TODAY'S WAR MOVES Jiy Records Of 15 Men Who Died In Country's Service In World War Continued on Five ISY SAKA K Tomorrow a monument will be dedicated on the court house grounds It will ho dedicated to the memory of those Yuma ty boys who died in the service of their country Dedicated in the name of those who offered their lives that Justice Freedom and Democracy might survive Their deeds are an inspiration to all true Americans and it is fitting at this time that we pause a moment and turn our thoughts backward 24 years It was on May JOth 1916 that the Yuma National Guard under charge of Captain Frank M Hall with Lt Col H H commanding were ordered out to protect the international border 70 men responded to the call and others joined the company later All were mustered into the federal service at Arizona on I May 21st 1916 Company I men did not j return to Yuma until alter the World War excepting If thru on heir way fn Kearney on 17 then a part of Hie moils Arizona's I For all the world knows the United States entered the World War on April 6th 1917 and on p June 5th County Recorder R I registered 1207 males 314 were aliens and 357 claimed exemption On July 1017 Secretary nf War Newton Baker in ington was blindfolded and drew from a large glass names of the first U S draft The first to ue drawn was Yuma man No Daley Yuma's quota was men But on the second draft June Secretary of Un- i ker drew only 66 men on Yuma's pot waiting to n quota and on the third draft on cam ft that A October 1st 1918 President signed son drew 21 additional Yuma 1 ftom the glass strange to say on tins third draft the name of Floyd Stratlon a col- ored hoy of Yuma was the name to be drawn from the big bowl A number of Yuma's sons enlisted I call fame for the first continent left on tember 7 for Fort Klley Kansas to in draining en men tn answer this call And from that day on until No- llth Yuma left regularly for training camps eral under the draft age and many over enlisted in Yuma and where And on November 11 BV -J T MASON has failed to surround the armies a tions o re- across Die k England for several days It is now becoming ent the desperate of the Allies this week has been rear are by on a very Time scale the transportation British troops turn ing to It may woll be tbat a part of the army loo was thus King the capture i I nf only today Dunkirk to as i dries the strongly I port of between i r j k and Calais Allied rt through these exiLs still I Approximately men or m-j Or thai severat I weie on nnd five died overseas Fifteen names of Yuma county will scribed the onze at- j to tne silver and For- j I tuna Wash rock that has beer j 1 placed on the court liouse grounds j as a monument to the memory 01 j j those of our boys who gave their lives m the service of their try Names of the remaining Yu- ma county World Wur men wilt iy tin continuing gie plan From the nf Flanders battle is now to have envisaged an eventual retirement from the Flanders pocket Ho not a major counter sive not only be IKI time to bis ar- mies after the German break through at Sedan but also he Inevitable tirs not have boon by territorial Since the Belgian Ger man pressure against be placed in a receptacle under a the greatly inferior Allied forces small plaque A copy of j ims not developed such strength those names will be recorded in i might have been expected The the county office A have been on tlie brief sketch of the fifteen men's sivc throughout tno Flanders on Vug I cumpaign und are mally at least three to OKU against attacking troops The high command has to consider the partial which -t long major offensive This is why no blitzkrieg stroke has born against the ing Allies depleted though ihur the Belgian has been given to a large proportion of the Allied forces to get away The exaggerated tions of Kerlin that up to a millinn Allied troops in ders forced to render or die are not being justified by the turn present events are taking Germany will get the channel lint their future value is yet to bi- determined and any major ad- vantage to the Germans uill have to await future Capture of Narvik by the lies indicates that the i have their bait i front They have been to relinquish their ja Norway because of the demands for men and along the western tattle line problem of supply is a grave lor the Germans that has developed In must enter into all concerning the future the to develop of long duration is the for tatlon by Swedish MK vital to tho Mercians If is long drawn The capture the Allies of 11 supply oo ruse II
