Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - April 18, 1942, Yuma, Arizona SATU OM THE U B Highest 24 hours 77 Lowest 24 hours 50 Average high this date 85 Average low this dutc Meet he lion il ilans it Kul The THE YUMA ARIZONA ca obe I fif FLEDGE LL Tanker nd Cargo Vessels Included In Order War Shipping Administration To Direct Operation of Merchant Marine In Close Cooperation With Navy WASHINGTON April 18 i taken title to or is using 75 per War Shipping cent of U S freighter tonnage tion has requisitioned all j The War Shipping tial ocean-going tankers and dry tion recently created by cargo vessels owned by American dent Roosevelt has taken over citizens Admiral Emory S Land j functions of the Maritime Com- announced today j mission in directing the operation The announcement said the i of the American merchant marine tion affected several hundred j Under the requisitioning order the owners of vessels affected will become agents of the War ping Administration which will conduct all future merchant rine operations presumably in close cooperation with the navy There has been criticism that certain private ships wore edly disregarding naval in wa- ters However it was stated that this was not connected with Taylor 62 a retired Baptist that the iHler died at o'clock js noj day afternoon at the Yuma valley hy lhc home of his son Earl Taylor basis with the owners be paid at a reasonable rate The government already has Rev J R Taylor Retired Dies At Son's Home 111 for over a year Rev J n the Treasury of the United States that the citizen be enlisted in of systematic thrift and s it 12 suggested that every in the State sign regularly out of current through the of Savings Stamps and Bonds and nit h aare not in conflict already signed by so of our workers ape doing their without complaint F I Sidney P Osborn do hereby c citizen to pledge to set aside regular savings Savings Bonds or Stamps Taylor had been in ministry the church j Some 14 months ago his health j failing he Taylor canic j here to the'son j Rev Taylor was tie Kansas in 1879 Close living relatives are the son cr son William in Lane i the widow with her husband thru his lingering Illness three I and one sister all in Kansas Funeral services will be held at Valley Baptist church Monday afternoon at with the tors of the three local Baptist J G Anderson Rev Ray Corsage and Rev C S take place in the Yuma cemetery Gets Record Rain Big Crop Damage E If R 7.1 0 STATE purchase o uc I hire hereunto hind and caused tlis Great Seal of State of- Arizona be affixed this Eighth day of April in the year of our lord One Nino and R o H Home Destroyed By Fire Near Noon Today MIAMI Fla April IS A two-day rainfall which left many streets partly under water and crop damage estimated at close to in south ida broke all existing April ords in Miami the weather reau revealed today Meteorologist Cars on said the fall totaled 13.10 inches in the downtown Miami area and 19.38 inches at the bureau's municipal airport station Highest fall re- corded for April previously had been 10.75 in 1809 Woman Jailed As Member Subversive IIS PLANES i Plans Completed I For War Bonds RAID BASE AT RANGOON Flying Fortresses Make 2nd Attack On Invasion Port NEW DELHI April Kt resses in their Fire of an undetermined origin broke nut shortly after noon today in a house near Sixth street on i Orange avenue causing complete destruction of the roof and the interior The house was owned by Mrs Oriola Noriega Furniture from the living and dining rooms was re- moved after being slightly aged by water The single roof collapsed soon after the fire broke out leaving two brick chimneys standing unsupported These were toppled by heavy streams of water from the fire hoses Some damage was also nearby houses in which the ing heat cracked windows and ruined paint The fire was brought under control and teer firemen who worked from sides of the house playing twin streams of water on the roof No one was injured third major raid in the War theater heavily attacked the great invasion base at Rangoon Thursday night United States in India announced SACRAMENTO April 38 The arrival of pretty Leona ier today brought to four the ber of defendants in jail here on charges they were members of the isolationist Friends of gress group in Los Angeles and failed to register as members of a subversive organization A Churchill Aids Churchill Funds Raised For First U.S Flier To Bomb Tokyo AUBURN TT Y April 18 Joseph Doran veteran at World War I said today he had ed more for the pifot of American plane to bomb Tokyo and that hc would reach Maj John Strange Spencer Churchill having served with distinction in South African and European fighting today assists his brother Minister lion on home Final for the Bund and Stamps pledge campaign wore completed Jus week and the j will get under way in the business district Monday it today man of the Yuma county defense savings staff j Mrs Smith suggested that bers of the families should discuss the manner in which they will fill the pledge so that a minimum time will be used by the and pledges will not be duplicated by different members of the j ly Businessmen are uko that the stickers they when they sign the pledges should be placed in their home windows j so that canvassers will know family has already pledged Business districts will be covered during the first two days and vassing in the residential areas will take place later in the week i headquarters today Docks and harbor installations at the great Burmese port near which -10 Japanese transports with tens of thousands of fresh anese troops were reported three days ago were showered with heavy bombs Planes Undamaged The giant American p lanes flew through heavy enemy antiaircraft gun fire without damage to planes or personnel It was the second big can Fortress raid on the dangerous invasion base in this area of the war On the night of April 3 the resses under Maj Gen Lewis H commanding had at- tacked the Rangoon started three great fires and re- turned with all planes and all men safc jat NEW CABINET COMPLETED BY LAVAL Retains 3 Posts In Government Which He Heads VICHY April 18 Henri Philippe Petain today in- a changed form of for France with Pierre Laval as chief responsible to tain and with Admiral Francois Darlan as heir apparent in supreme command of all ed forces The German radio said that the new Vichy regime was a government Dis- paTches from not com- clarify whether Laval would be the chief power in the new government as had Continued on Page 3 STATE K.C CONVENTION OPENS HERE Banquet Sunday Night Business Session Monday Initial sessions of the an- Knights of Columbus con- vention will be held today with registration starting at the San Carlos hotel at 1 o'clock Dancing and a floor show are scheduled for tonight at the In- Club in San Luis Com- Mass for candidates and members will be held Sunday at the Immaculate Conception church the candidates being served i breakfast at the Valley cafe lowing the mass Second degree will he held at 1 p.m followed hy a luncheon and entertainment at Clymers A scenic drive is planned ladies at with the third degree held at At the convention banquet will be held at the Elks club Business Meeting Monday On Monday there will be a mass for deceased members The state council will meet at the Elks club at 10 with a luncheon and cards for the ladies scheduled at the Del Sol at The program for the banquet Sunday night Toastmaster Isaac Polhamus Invocation Rev Arthur Valle Welcome L B Moran Charro Alvarado Welcome to Screwballs Gene and Our L J Felix When Irish Are j ing Loonard i Continued on Japan Admits Fires Started At Two Of Its Washington Says It Has Had No Confirmation of Attack Official Word Believed Withheld Until Ships Return WASHINGTON April The army and navy had no con- today of official Tokyo radio reports that the Japanese capital had been bombed by lied planes for the first time in the war But unofficial sources believed the United Nations notably the United States are well-equipped to carry out such a raid either by sea or land based planes They pointed out 1 An American task force early in March raided island enemy base only 930 miles from Japan's biggest port and that a similar force of aircratt carriers cruisers anil protecting destroyers have slipped within ing distance of the island kingdom 2 Tokyo would be within range of giant bombers based on secret airfields the China coast A raid of this kiml would require les daring than vras by army airmen in last week's hop skip anil attack on Japanese BY UNITED Japan announced today that lied planes taking the war to Japan for the first time had bombed Tokyo the world's third city and the industrial and naval base cities of Yokohama Kobe and Nagoya Tokyo Radio in a guage broadcast recorded by CBS in Kan Francisco identified the planes as American airplanes raided Tokyo for the first the radio said Admit Fires Caused After hours in which it ed first that no damage had been done and then that damage was slight Tokyo admitted that in- bombs had caused fires at Nagoya and Kobe two of Japan's greatest cities It was said that the Allied planes machine gunned villages in the attack area The attacks extended over a 275 mile area of the south coast of the main Japanese along which all Japan's greatest cities are strung SAN April IS army today ordered three Los Angeles areas cleared oj Japanese by April 28 in Hie latest exclusion ders by the time Civil tration The orders affected Japanese both aliens and American The proclamations by Lieut Gen John L De- Witt head of the Western De- fense Command set April and as dates for those to report at civil con- trol centers to make ments for leaving their homes April 27 and 28 by hns and train for the tion center in Owens valley These sources believed that the undoubted effect of such a foray on the Japanese people plus ever material damage to j war industries resulted would justify the risk The war department said it I no of the reported attack The navy said merely jit had no official I If Allied planes did raid Tokyo i it was felt that it several days or weeks any official word is given out from Naval Must felt that if the I Tokyo reports mi the int raid aiv authentic the ing planes most likely were U S naval craft operating from or more carriers from waters close ID the island kingdom j They pointed out that the an se reportedly have a sizeable j naval force in the Indian ocean and that the remainder of its fleet un- j is spread out guarding j the extended supply lines to the Southwest Pacific I World's Largest Submarine Overdue j Considered Lost Big British Bombers Germany Augsburg Raid Far Into Works Attacked LONDON April IS Britain revealed today that it had sacrificed seven of a fleet of 12 giant Lancaster bombing planes to make a daring dusk raid on far inside Germany and only 110 miles from Adolf Hitler's retreat himself piloted his ship Mrs Whitney Dies Of Heart Ailment NEW YORK April 18 Whitney about 63 mistress of two palaces rind a great fortune mother of a famous son and possessor of con- died heart disease Four of the planes were shot down south of Paris three more crashed to earth in the target area Huge riant Attacked But the planes bombed the great Nuremberg works popularly ed the man makes the Diesel motors for German sub- marines It was from Augsburg lhat dolf Hess Hitler's heir took off to fly lo Great Britain where he has since been imprisoned was made while it was still light but planes j intent on destruction attacked I from low level and two dived to 200 feet above the works to drop their bombs and see them burst fairly in the get Bombed at 8 I M was just after 8 p.m when the planes dropped their bombs The five survivors landed at their bases well before midnight While the were ing homeward a great force of British planes went over to bomb I Hamburg Germany's greatest anil j port This was the seventh day of j Britain's greatest and most for- aerial offensive of the war Continued on Page 4 April Culbert Olson today invited California Sheriffs board of supervisor chairmen local council chairmen and county farm ers to meet in next to coordinate plans for establishment of Sharpshooters in the stale militia April IX UR who had their women anil ren dead mangled and ing in streets after anese air raids and wistfully wondered when Japan would In paid back rejoiced in reports that Tokyo had Japanese reports of at- tacks threw Chungking into greatest uproar since tin outbreak of war April Japanese apparently have captured largest In a war department said t inlay LONDON April IS The French submarine the world's largest submarine is overdue and must be considered lost Free French 1 quarters announced today No 1 Mother 42 To Mrs William N Greensboro N C sues the honor of being named Hie American ol by I he mother ol 13 children Mrs i has helped her husband i build ti Tokyo had an air raid alarm extending from shortly be- fore noon to around 4 p.m Thr alarm was sounded out the Japanese island group Hokkaido in the far north to huko and Kyushu in the west Admission that the Allied had used incendiary bombs meant that Japan for the first time had been hi ought face to face with deadliest peril mass fires aiming the built homos of paper which form large parts of her cities Central defense headquarters it Tokyo said fires at Nagoya and Kobe had been brought under con- trol by -I p.m at fl Places H paid incendiary bombs had i dropped at six places in the i vicinity of Nagoya and that throe places at Kobe were hit with fire bombs Japan ami all the world had every city was vulnerable to bomb attacks and i tin first enemy plane had flown over country its people would so long as the war lasted another night ferling Tokyo asserted that nine Allied had been shot down by in- planes in the vicinity of Tokyo with its people City Caught Unaware Broadcasts which spoke of strolling the streets ulun the air raid alarm sounded just before Allied planes began flying over Tokyo from all tions indicated that the city was completely unaware Tokyo said that rush kept on their way as irais and buses thinking thai t was a alarm Japan's constant fear fot the safety of its or Hirohito whom it believes to i a more than human descendant i of goddess of the Sun Tokyo j went out of its way lo announce thai the imperial family was had neon no report cf tin indisposition to any member of it April IK and i-d thr of anil oilier Important Industrial us start a real
