Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - April 14, 1942, Yuma, Arizona HIE AT HIM A by II 8 Highest last 24 hours 87 Lowest last 24 hours 05 Average high this dale 85 Average low this date FORECAST Cloudiness late veiling Wednesday fall res about the same VOLUME 88 YUMA ARIZONA TUESDAY APRIL 14 1942 THE YUMA ARIZONA s V VOLUME II W w ww LAVAL RETURNS TO POWER IN FRANCE YUMA NURSE CHOOSES FIERY DEATH Mrs J Waidler Despondent Sets Fire to Clothing Mrs Aletha B Waidler about 50 years old long-time Yuma aent and early this morning in the Yuma General pital ns a result of burns suffered last evening when she saturated her clothing with gasoline and then applied a match to it Mrs Waidler had been making her home with Mrs Joe Ward at 272 Fourth Avenue and at about o'clock in the absence of Mrs Ward went to the hack and made the suicide attempt Mi's Ward's son reported to Joe deputy sheriff who in- that Mrs went into the kitchen apparently to cure some matches then to the back porch where she found the gasoline and splashed her clothing with it She then went down the steps to the back yard and set fire to herself Immediately shr was enveloped in flames Two passing soldiers attracted by the commotion rushed to Mrs stripped off their shirts and smothered the flames Had this action not been taken it is said the woman would have been even more severely burned Physician Summoned A physician was hurriedly J H Smallwood 41 in Yuma 20 Years Dies Definite funeral have not yet been made for James Hattington Smallwood 41 colored a resident of Yuma for the past score of years w ho died at his home at 129 N 10th avenue early this morning Services will ever be held from Johnson's tuary Smallwood was born in Chicago and altho but a youth at the time of United States en try into the World War he served with the army for some months before the armistice For some time he been em- ployed by the E F Sangninetti firm as a janitor He had been ill since late last year Close surviving relatives are the widow one daughter Sarah aged and a brother KNOX URGES WEEK BE RETAINED Says Abolition Would Delay War WASHINGTON April 14 Secretary of Navy Frank Knox declared today that abolition of the basic work week would result in confusion and delay in before Knox naval affairs committee that the labor situation was taken to the hospital She was conscious and said repeatedly to the I'm still living but I'll soon Continued on Page 2 Employers Urged To Open Doors To Older Workers could be improved but said the problem was one of psychology He cited the amazing increase i production after Dec 7 to substan that statement Prefers Tax Method Knox also told the committee he PLAN BOND PLEDGE CAMPAIGN Each Resident to Be Asked to Buy Stamps Regularly Initial plans were laid out for the War Bonds and Stamps pledge campaign which will open next week at a meeting in the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce offices Governor Sidney P in a recent proclamation designated the week of April as Arizona Pledge Week that week Arizonans will take part in a nationwide program for voluntary purchase of defense stamps and bonds Will Contact All The Yuma County Defense Savings Staff through its work crs will contact every prospective bond and stamp purchaser during the week The Yuma area will be divided into several districts with workers assigned to each district They will contact all persons in that district and urge them to fill out pledge forms a fascimile of which appears in this issue of The Daily Sun The purpose of this drive is to impress on son in the nation the necessity of stamps and bonds for the successful prosecution of the war effort Records will be kept of those who fail to sign the pledge cards Those Attending Attending the meeting in which the plans were formulated were Mrs Evelyn of the Tuma County Defense ings Staff A N Kelly E C Byrd John Nankervis C B Andrews George Wilson and R E Jee Jr Others on the committee who were unable to attend the meeting were W H Westover and James B Rolle of Yuma Waltice Ham of Don Ingham Is Elected Commander of VFW Post Has Membership of 111 Don E Ingham was loney C Wright Curtis 0 T commander of the Sunshine Cap- ital of the Veterans of For- eign Wars last evening at the an- election of officers meeting Other officers elected Curtis II senior vice A O Williamson junior vice A J dy judge advocate Dr R R Knotts surgeon S E Foote lain John L Flood ter Delegates named to the state department encampment to be held in Yuma May were sell S New Byron R S E Foote Ernest Wagner Roy H John L Flood Clifford 13 Edwards R Miller C B Andrews C M ey Al A J Eddy Cliff Newman K K Surber H H Baker L K Murphy J J Hoyt Hilmer Haupt George J Duke Quartermaster Byron Nash re- ported the post now has 111 paid up members the largest ship for some time Ralph Garcia was initiated as a new member Plans for the state encampment were discussed Following the regular post sion members enjoyed a feed with ier A O Williamson E U j members of the Auxiliary House Approves Joint Memorial Urging Military Road To Gulf PHOENIX Ariz April to congress asking curbing of joint memorial stressing the and strikes advantages of locating war Approved tries in Arizona was introduced The house approved with no dis- today in the house of j votes a appropriating lives at the special session of the for improvements to the WASHINGTON April M Roosevelt called on j employers today to open their doors to older a means of speeding the gigantic war production program in which we are engaged i In a proclamation setting aside the week beginning May as tional Employment Week Mr i Roosevelt urged that particular at- tention be given to the employment of the older workers especially j veterans of the last World War j Mr Roosevelt also invited the j attention of private industry to j the necessity of training and ploying women as well as older men preferred to recapture excessive in- profits by a heavy excess profits tax rather than hy ing projects on war contracts to n specific percentage As far as the navy is concerned 1 there is no need for labor j lation at this time Knox said He added that increasing th sic work w from 40 to hours approved in a by man Carl Vinson O Ga merely a means of reducing wage WASHINGTON April Laval's to the Vichy cabinet brought renewed demands in congress for American ure of nil French territory con- necessary for the war effort 15th legislature tional guard armory at Prescott The memorial was addressed to i A joint memorial introduced by Nelson War Albert W Dudley of Yuma U S and Mexican officials make arrangements for con- Board chairman Legislative action in the to emergency program in the house struction of a highway from San and senate yesterday was confined Luis near the Arizona border to to committee hearings the passage the Gulf of California was also of two minor bills by the The and appointment in the senate of intended primarily for military ust a committee to draft a resolution in event of invasion U.S FORCES RESISTING ON CEBU Greatly Outnumbered Defenders Continue Battling Invaders WASHINGTON April 14 Greatly outnumbered Filipino forces on Cebu island in the Philippines living up to the example set in Bataan are bornly resisting Japanese sion troops in heavy fighting the war department announced day It was the first from op- on Cobu since radio communications from that island went dead last week end day's army communique said briefly that communication with Cebu has been ran Breaks Off Relations With Gov't TEHRAN Iran April M- ran severed diplomatic relations Japan today The Iranian cabinet In closed on the diplomatic break after disclosure that the legation in Tehran has acting as a center for axis propaganda and subversive aimed at the Iranian and the Allies The On Mindanao communique also told of operations in Mindanao south of Cebu This gave further evidence that resistance in scattered areas of the pines is by no means ended de- spite the fall of Bataan and the close siege of the Manila bay forts Corregidor gunners already mous for their deadly aim ed their bigt guns yesterday two Japanese Japs Claim Prisoners Taken With Capitulation of Bataan Forces TOKYO April those captured the communique Broadcast By In said The balance were Filipinos San Francis An imperial headquarters communique tonight declared 40.000 American and were taken of war prisoners with the capitulation of forces Maj Gen Jonathan M wright on Bataan peninsula A war department communique originally fixed the number of and Filipino troops on the peninsula at but marines and sailors were known to have escaped to Corregidor Americans There were 6700 Americans including 12 high officers among Somerton Mrs E V of Salome and K O Mason of er CLARKDALE MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER COUNT PRESCOTT Ariz April 14 Clyde Austin smelter worker waived preliminary hearings late day and pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree murder in the death of Gordon Carpenter 28 a smelter worker confessing that he killed Carpenter with n pipe Austin waived his preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Gordon Clark and appeared before Judge Richard Lamson of the county superior court to j ils a home defense measure President Working on Program To Stop Inflation To Freeze Wages Prices Compulsory Saving Urged counted upon since it would embrace virtually all phases of national economy One of the major problems yet to be solved is how to control approximately of excess for which no consumer goods weeks is similar to that in effect j would be available under the in Canada since last summer and time program Income Up 38 Billions Economists have reported WASHINGTON April 14 President Roosevelt is working day on a program inflation by the most complete control of American economic life ever proposed High government officials said the plan to be announced in two Consider Getting Identification Discs for Pupils Advisability of securing discs for school children The communique listed among those Maj Gen Edward P King Jr Maj Gen Albert M Jones commander of the First Army Corps Maj Gen George M Parker Jr and a Maj Gen cisco The name does not appear on the Army ter The communique identified Francisco as commander of the Filipino troops Jones as com- of the First Army Corps and Parker as commander of the Second Army Corps Captured Japanese troops also captured guns of various sizes MO machine guns 300 automatic les 10.000 rifles tanks and armored cars and vehicles the communique said Dispatches from Bataan quoted Lieut Gen Homma commanding the Japanese forces that the Philippine campaign was j more a victory over difficult or and truck columns operating near the ern tip of The enemy columns were hit and large fire were started a war department communique revealed Objectives Not Indicated There was no indication wha were the objectives of the col was assumed tha the Japanese are moving force to the southern coast of the pen insula in preparation for a water borne assault upon the fortress Thus the final stage of the bat would give the government power j to control prices rents wages and savings It would freeze wages Mr Roosevelt that income from general prices and rents in de- i wages farm products interests areas as of a date yet to be i and dividends has increased since the depression era Increased prices and taxes enter his pica Austin said he ed Carpenter because he was ing illicit relations with Mrs tin icon set tile time for sentencing at 10 a in Friday Gather For Annual Arizona Pioneers Reunion PHOENIX Ariz April people who more than half a century ago had faith in the ture of an untamed arid country pioneers gathered here today in their 21st annual reunion to relive and retell the of the past More than the oldtimers residents of the state who arrived before Dec 31 1890 came from all parts of the state to attend the ceremonies discussed last evening at a ing of the Education Human Re- sources and Skill committee of the Yuma county defense cil It was brought out in the dis- cussion that such discs would ex- rescue work in case of a disaster in any of the schools After discussion it was voted to determined Problem Unsolved be The major problem yet to solved is the control of excess have taken of that If prices and wages are frozen chasing power Present plans are at present levels and consumer to divert it into luxuries are restricted there compulsory or voluntary chase bonds there influential government would be no place to spend the except through Black Markets that would jnr tola favoring each method The ate a form of inflation decision Is up to Mr Roosevelt Approval of manufacturers as as consumers and labor Is That's where the voluntary or compulsory savings program comes in SAN FRANCISCO April It Admiral Luke president of and Telegraph Co dny announced the of a Hew direct service the nullo station mid the wireless station near Sydney Australia rain than over forces American military tie for control of Manila the finest harbor in the Far Eas continues So long as holds out the bay is of no use t the Japanese Its guns contro the entrance and while lion lasts they can make it long on any enemy vessel to pass through the narrow nel To Years On Robbery Charge fr Henry C Kelly yesterday Harry Howard Maser to serve a term of not less i eight nor more than in the state penitentiary AXIS FRIEND NAMED VICE PREMIER Also Given Post Of Interior Minister Allies Alert As Laval Returns To Power in France LONDON April 14 British official spokesman said day that Pierre Laval's return to power at Vichy was very grave news and Allied governments were tensely on the alert in the belief that France was passing through a crisis of world moment Disposition of the French fleet the possibility that French North African colonies might aid the Germans in Libya threat of a Vichy attack on Free French rican territories a possible anese bid for Madagascar the French island off Southeast Africa which dominates a vital Allied Indian ocean supply route the danger that Vichy might concede Germany submarine bases in its colonies and the future of United States relations became urgent matters Increased had put Marshal ri Philippe Petain under ingly irresistible pressure to make up his mind at once whether to cooperate the axis As part of the pressure the German forces in Occupied France had restarted executing and had threatened to shoot innocent hostages unless I men responsible for sabotage and attacks on German soldiers wore caught The border between Occupied nnd Unoccupied France had been closed and London dispatcher from the Swiss frontier reported that the entire French border had been hermetically closed VICHY France April relations with the allies reached a critical stage tonight when Pierre Laval arch advocate of axis collaboration returned to power in the cabinet and the but later withdrew A charge that the United States had insulted France The statement said France re- Sumner Wells reply to a French protest over establishment of an American consular office in the free French town of ville West Africa Then 30 utes later the statement was drawn and the government cabled dispatches regarding the ment killed Laval succeeding Admiral Jean Francois Darlan as vice premier assumed control of the national police which he had long Darlan was stripped of terial rank but remained chief of the defense forces and official heir to Marshal Henri Petain the chief of state He thus remains in con- of the French fleet Loses Post Pierre Pucheu lost his post as interior minister The change came after terrific German pressure on Vichy for full co-operation in a dramatic Continued on Page 2 Rise of Laval Seen As Marking Serious Crisis THREE HURT IN ACCIDENTS on charges of robbery Maser was i 16 by officers near after la i tinning gun battle He I and another youth were returned i to Yuma where Maser admitted of H of New whom they had picked up in Houston Texas earlier in the WASHINGTON April I K re- signed War textile sion charged today before senate ing the wir program that members if bis staff bud deliberately to sion of some of the largest consumer goods industries war work WASHINGTON April 14 Diplomats dared not speculate day on the effect the ment of Pierre Laval as vice pre- mier in charge of foreign and in- affairs in the French have on relations They were in ever that the Vichy reports of collaborationist Laval succeeding Admiral Charles Francois marked a crisis in French policy and cue that could not but have important rep.-rrussit.irj among the United Nations The first question asked by those informed of Is there any tien that the may get I French But the Vichy ri- I pin Is did ot indicate any I iate change in that situation only that Darlan would retain his post I as national defense minister which occurred I Two accidents yesterday afternoon caused injuries to three persons one of whom is still in an emergency hospital the sheriff's -e isk the principals of the various schools of the county to consider the proposal and to assist in ing a decision on it later Members of the committee also voted to secure official U S war films for showing in the schools of the county Chairman L T Rouse welding truck he was driving over- presided over last evening's turned on U S Highway SO about ing pin Sheriff T H Newman left for j Florence this morning with Maser where the youth will be placed in State Supreme Court Rules Drunk Driving Evidence Sufficient To Sustain Manslaughter Charge it was reported at office this morning I Ralph M Greer was knocked unconscious and suffered i cuts and bruises when with members Charles 1 10 miles east of Yuma at about L C Mrs Gwyneth Ham Mrs Nellie Hammond and Mrs O J Lovett also attending Present also were A O son general county defense man and C L Gleason a ber of the relations com- Commendable work has been done this committee in con- ducting waste paper activities p.m Greer was taken to Dr C A Eaton's emergency hospital where he was still under a doctor's care this morning No other car was involved The truck is owned by the Tanner Construction com- The Arizona Supreme Court yesterday ruled that proof that the driver of a car which fatal injuries to a person was intoxicated is sufficient evidence to sustain a charge of slaughter in a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice C J Lockwood i The case wax put t Hie court Allied Bombers Score Hit On Ship at Rabaul CBN MacARTHUR'S QUARTERS Australia April 14 Sebastian Ponce Ponce is pany Three c second accident w ars were involved in the hich occurred on Avenue B near the Central canal in the Yuma valley According to making stamp sales going on the the report at the sheriff's office radio with education for defense I Castro a light up truck was pushing a sedan driven by Murillo when the roar of Castro's truck was struck Continued on Page 2 skits and assisting In the agement of trade schools which have been well attended In this community by the county in the ir court of Yuma ef the state vs bomber squadron attacked Japanese bases again fugio Perez clay after a series of raids In which I night ed with the killing of Re- last Christmas ating a motor upon the public highway while under the of intoxicating liquor collides with a thereon causing ies to said person from which very shortly dies ipso facto lish the commission of slaughter there being no further or proof of the of the operation of the motor vehicle on the manner of the which was cited by The decided that the tion had already been answered in a handed down in previous cas United States Flying Fortresses bombed the ship at in what Glenn Copple jr Joe U Green John U ly jr and Mary aiv case cases cited hy the were in no way similar to the that would do much to attorneys for the defendant sate for the most recent Involved naval loss In the Indian ocean A direct hit nnd two near missus were scored The question us stated by the trial court was as follows Does pi oof that dii accused while opt Thf unlawful act which tlir state contends com- mitted was the of motor vehicle while th in- ot
