Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - June 3, 1942, Yuma, Arizona THK WEATHER AT At by V it Bureau Highest last 24 hours 98 Lowest last 24 hours 03 Average high this Average low this date 61 AND VOLUME 130 For 24 hours to Thursday noun fair temperatures about the same YUMA ARIZONA WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 1942 THE YUMA ARIZONA TANK BATTLE RAGING ON LIBYA FRONT Nazi Tanks And Vehicles Destroyed CAIRO June land and air forces captured or destroyed at least tanks and vehicles in smashing Col Gen Krwin Rommel's offensive but hard-pressed units still tle fiercely against increasing Im- forces on the bridge front 28 of Tobruk dispatches and com- reported today A bitter and perhaps decisive tank battle raged in heat on a front east of the two gaps the enemy punched in the main British line between coastal El Gazala and Bir eim 48 miles southwest of bruk Counter Blows While Rommel stepped up his pressure from the west Lieut Gen Neil M Ritchie's British Eighth Army countered with new blows from the cast in an effort to wipe out all resistance er east other British units were mopping up small forces that were left along the original axis line of advance last week front dispatches said a large enemy force was involved at and both sides were hurling all available equipment into action Despite recurring sand storms British infantry units were on duty Rommel was making no further effort to withdraw additional forces through the gaps in the mine rr June 3 Eighth Army seizing the tive in the Libyan desert has captured the German stronghold of by sending a raiding column 30 miles west of the Im- main positions a Middle East Headquarters revealed today communique The British Council Asked For Additional Night Policeman A letter from the Merchants sociation of the chamber of com- merce urging employment of an additional policeman for night ty was read at the city council last night I Recorder Ersel C was in- to write the association stating that funds for this pose were not available but that if the group could show how the necessary additional funds could be raised the council will consider the matter City Attorney William H Continued on Page 4 CITY TO SELL ROCK CRUSHER A resolution authorizing tising for sale the city's rock crasher was adopted by the city council last night Mayor W S Ingalls explained j and Rumania third DECLARATION OF WAR GETS HOUSE OKAY Bulgaria And In 3 Resolutions WASHINGTON June 3 The house unanimously adopted today and sent to the senate three separate resolutions declaring that the United States is in a state of war with Bulgaria Hungary and Rumania All three had declared war against this country last De- cember The senate is expected to pass the war resolutions against the is satellites tomorrow and send them to the White House for signature No Discussion There was no house discussion of the war declarations as cratic Leader John W Mass called them by one first Hungary second RAF Chalks Up Greatest Air Raid in History on Cologne f that for the duration of the war no more WPA labor would be hence the city's paving program was at an end fore it was suggested the crusher he sold Engineer W L Ellison good cost crusher was in and originally said the condition Negroes Riot In Bahamas Quelled NASSAU Bahamas June 3 British soldiers police and volunteers patrolled Nassau and its suburbs today to prevent new outbreaks native Negro who Chart d here fie creat RAF raid on Cologne which 1500 bombers ound hov this raid in ether air attacks on European ounds oi coin Thus for the third time in six months the house had acted to recognize the existence of war be- tween this nation and axis tries The first vote came on Dec 8 when war was declared on an On the second occasion Dec j 11 war was against many and Italy The vote for the declaration against Bulgaria was announced as 357 to 0 that against Hungary as 359 to 0 and Rumania 360 Rep Jeannette Rankin R Mont who was the lone dissenter when war was declared against the Axis was not present when the rolls were called today s small wages they were being paid for work on a large United States project Nassau was quiet last night and officials believed the trouble was over But while the riot was at its height to Negroes smashed windows along able Bay street and damaged or i by seven members featured the looted liquors rare perfumes and I Program at the weekly Rotary Sketches Feature Rotary Program Brief autobiographical sketches JAPS RENEW ATTACKS IN CHEKIANG Chinese Resist Strongly On All Fronts CHUNGKING China June 3 reinforced Japanese columns operating behind an in- tense artillery and aerial barrage renewed heavy attacks today on the i Rector in Chekiang vincey a The Japanese attacks worn strongly resisted by the Chinese west and northwest of Kinhwa which the enemy recently captured is about 43 miles from Gen Sir Claude J E fabrics worth thousands of pounds leek disclosed that British forces The mob moved into Grants yesterday stopped another axis attack on their southern flank near Bir 48 miles west of Tobruk NEW YORK June 3 British Broadcasting coin pany said today that Italian Premier Mussolini was reported to be Libya Town Nassau's large Negro tion Monday night and burned a police station a fire station and an ambulance Rites For Mrs Florence Shook Thursday at 10 Funeral services for Mrs ence II Shook who died Monday night at the home of her ter Mrs Jack Winn 820 Second will be held at the O C Johnson ing beginning at it an- today at the Johnson mortuary Interment will take place in Desert Lawn Memorial Park HOPPER MENACE ELIMINATED SAYS LAUDERDALE PHOENIX Ariz June 3 A grasshopper menace in eastern Arizona has been ated although several weeks of mopping up will be necessary J L E Lauderdale state ologist reported today The infestation of hoppers was especially serious in the Sulphur Springs Valley area and airplanes were used in spreading the poison bait The legislature appropriated for the control work this year Lauderdale and federal officials advised Gov Sidney P that an appropriation of would be needed from the next sion of the legislature to combat the grasshoppers next spring Mayor Submits Proposed Budget For Fiscal Year Beginning Next July 1 Mayor W S Ingalls presented to the city council last night his posed budget for operating the city government for the fiscal year beginning July 1 The budget which would provide for raising by direct taxation is tle changed from that adopted for the current fiscal year The budget comes up for tion in July The proposed budget General Fluid Revenue necessary to meet ex- budgeted Estimated revenues from sources Direct Tax Fund Refunding bond Interest Library funil Bund fund Pension fund Special improvement bonds and interest fund Total Total to be raised by direct ation Details of General Salaries Board of equalization Elections publications etc Advertising ordinances Total Salary assessor Salary assistant Office supplies and expenses Total Salary Office supplies ami expenses Total on club luncheon meeting at Clymer's yesterday President Clarence H pre- sided Pat Murphy was program chairman Those who spoke ly outlining principal points in life stories Murphy Joe Lewis Norb Scares Leonard Cue C G Chuck Ekstrom Richard Loo and Sam Park President Trigg read excerpts from the district governor's ly letter Tlie Yuma club last month had an average attendance of per cent Three Tempo Superior and had 100 per cent a tendance 513 U S Soldiers Listed As Killed In Philippines June 3 A total of 513 American soldiers and 479 Philippine scouts were listed as killed in the Philippines up to within a few days of the fall of Bataan and Corregidor when disrupted communications prevented transmission of a more complete list The department revealed those figures today in making public of 75 additional U S soldiers who were killed in action or who died of wounds in the Philippines Others Wounded In addition 930 American diers and 754 Philippine scouts were reported wounded in action The war department said there also were numerous soldiers of tht Philippine Commonwealth Army who lost their lives in defending their homeland Previously the War department soldiers bluejackets marines and casuals including civilians re- ported on Corregidor and the er Manila bay forts and all were presumed to be prisoners of war It was also estimated that proximately American and Filipino combat troops several thousand and ply troops and about were on and pre- In the enemy's hands Kinhwa Fighting Heavy Heavy fighting also was ed soutli of Nanchang in Kiangsi province and on the Kwangtung front near Canton At Kunming American teer Group headquarters disclosed that the Flying Tigers during May destroyed or damaged 62 planes and prevented the Japanese from consolidating for a major drive into Yunnan province Brig Gen Claire L Chennault's airmen inflicted heavy casualties Continued on 4 HEART IS FATAL TO DE CORSE George G deCorse 62 year old native Yuman and an employee nf the local utility company since 1806 died shortly after last night following a heart attack members of the family announced A wake will tonight beginning at at the O C Johnson chapel Funeral ments will be announced later He was horn in Yuma May 5 Surviving are the widow Mrs deCorse five sons George Jr Clarence Joe all of Yuma a daughter Mrs Lucille Burnett of Burbank Calif 14 grandchildren three brothers Charles of Los Angeles Sam and Ben of Yuma and a sister Josie deCorse Funeral services will be held at the Johnson chapel tomorrow at with the Rev A M Krahl of the Yuma Indian Methodist Mission officiating In- terment will be in the Yuma tery Mr de Corse was a member of Lodge No 10 of the Alianza pano Americano All members of the lodge were asked by to meet at the Johnson chapel morrow and attend the services Big Naval Construction Program Is Planned To Complete Two Ocean Navy Within Next 24 Months WASHINGTON June 3 the number of ships of the Chairman Carl Vinson q Ga Vinson predicted the originally projected navy the house naval affairs com- 1 announced today he will be within introduce legislation for a vastly tnc 24 months and that as increased navy construction gram estimated to cost 000.000 It will provide tor fast as the ways become vacant the new program will get under- He said the new program would 500.000 tons of aircraft carriers tons of cruisers of both light and heavy types tons of destroyers and destroyer escort vessels which he described as smaller but similar small vessels for patrol and to the real destroyer duty It was believed the 800 small vessels suitable for posed plan would virtually double use as patrol and mine vessels tens of- new combatant vessels including tons of al aircraft carriers To Produce 300 Ships said the program would produce more than 500 new ing ships in addition to some 800 Will Discuss the 1943 Cotton Crop Insurance Program at Phoenix Meeting Public to Attend Gco A Pickering secretary J Carl Wright assistant to the the agricultural conservation of the crop insurance sociation has received a letter will be present at the viting all in Yuma county who are meeting as well us representatives interested to attend a meeting in of the Washington office of the on June 10 for the agricultural adjustment agency pose of discussing the procedure I Any persons or organizations In- FUND NOW Additional subscriptions ed today by the Yuma county com- of the U.S.O War Fund drive bring the total to It is hoped to finish the local drive within the next ten days unless the quota of is reached before that time Send in your nation now and help give the boys a home away from the committee urges additional contributions Jol- RAF HITS RUHR AREA The Wing Yick Lung Co Bros Construction Co 25.00 H C Kelly 20.00 Wednesday Afternoon Club 10.00 George Holmes 10.00 Dr A I Podolsky 10.00 Nurses 5.00 Elmer L Price 5.00 R E Crowder 0.00 j Garden Club 5.001 W R Trumbo 5.001 Mr Mrs Leong W H Wallace 5.00 Mr Mrs R D Gray 5.00 P K Coffeen 5.00 Ralph L Brown 5.00 Yuma Fire Dept 5.00 John F Hum 5.00 S Ingalls 5.00 Postal Auxiliary 5.00 Lloyd Brown 5.00 Mr and Mis B Burkitt -1.00 Continued on Page 5 Envisage Nightly Attacks On Target By Bombers LONDON June 3 Royal Air Force renewed mering attacks on battered man war industries and the Eur- coast today while official air circles envisaged a program that would concentrate bombers over a single axis target area in three hours Earlier attacks by more than planes on Cologne and sen revealed that the Bomber Command had been successful in organizing monster raids it was stated in official sources Thus the previously disclosed proposals for raids by an average of planes nightly or more than a month may be re- as feasible at some future date Hope to Double Record Air experts said that in the Cologne raid the planes were timed to reach their targets at six second intervals for 90 utes But In future raids they said it is hoped to double the number of planes in a period of two hours thus putting a bomber on the target every three or four seconds This plan it was emphasized will depend on ability to provide the necessary number of ers in the future and is not to be expected on anything approaching a sustained scale in the near ture Nor is an average of bombers in the air nightly likely to be achieved for a long time Meantime RAF torces of hundred such as bit the Ruhr and other areas again last l- night will be employed on a VOLUME 130 laps Raid Alaska WASHINGTON June 3 Four Japanese bombers and about IS fighters today raided Dutch Harbor Alaska where a U S naval station is A naval communique said the attack lasted proximately 15 minutes at noon No further details were made available by the vy in its first ment Text of Navy Department communique No 83 as of 4 p.m North Pacific Area I Information has been received that Dutch bor Alaska was attacked by four Japanese bombers and about 15 fighters at approximately 6 local time today 12 noon EWT The attack lasted 15 minutes 2 No further details are available at this time 3 There is nothing to report from other areas Dutch Harbor is located on one of the islands and lies about miles northwest of San cisco It is miles northeast of Tokyo WPB Order Bars Construction of Wildlife Building Because of the War Production re- order Xo House Unit Votes To Abolish CCC basis it was added Fourteen planes failed to turn against SS lost the night be- j jng construction other than de- fere But the smoke and ground construction start of work haze so thick that observation the U S Fish and Wildlife was difficult hindered German Service building has been anti-aircraft fire and it was be- it was announced today by the loss ratio was probably j A manager of lower than in any of the throe the wildlife refuges in raids so far in the new offensive area which is aimed at smashing H naci been planned to start man industrial centers one by one construction soon on a service building at First street and Fourth avenue and much of the needed material had been I ed Amundson said PLAN RITES FOR CRUZ PAYAN Funeral for Cruz an 63 of Gadsden who died early today will be held at the Yuma Catholic church tomorrow at an hour to bo set later it an- at the O C Johnson mortuary Burial will take place in the Yuma cemetery WASHINGTON June 3 The house appropriations tee today voted to abolish the Civilian Conservation Corps The committee reporting a for the Federal curity Agency and the Labor de- struck out an item In continue the CCC in operation on a curtailed basis durin the fiscal venr ing July 1 The had home in Bike Licensing Ordinance Urged Born in Mexico 20 years O two sons Ramon and Isaac City Recorder Ersel C Byrd suggested at last night's council meeting that an ordinance be providing for licensing of He stated the police department is having difficulty establishing he came to i of stolen bicycles at it Surviving times two or more persons thr same machine neither both of Gadsden and a daughter having the serial number Mrs of El Paso City Attorney William H Texas A wake will bo hold tonight at an ordinance and report back at the next meeting over directed to prepare such proposed to operate CCC j camps The Security propagations subcommittee had vided three to on a motion to strike the CCC funds from the tie vote permitting its re- j in the measure by th subcommittee The CCC has been cue 01 th major targets of the congressional economy bloc ever 01 the war California State Militia Company Being Organized in Bard Section DAUGHTER BORN TO FORMER YUMAN A daughter was horn in Italy about the middle nf last month to Thelma Molina former and policies to be followed for the cotton crop insurance gram The meeting is to be held at the county agricultural Went in stabilizing the income of cotton producers are asked to be present or representatives Anyone having tions would to be In the program is naked to street Phoenix It will at send In these suggestions Ininv Slops toward formation of a j munition Regular drill periods California State Militia company are to bo held and the company in t h e members are to elect their own Yuma district were taken at a officers held Monday night at Thinned Bard with men of the district Meetings planning tor next week signing enlistment cards j were announced as Imperial night MWT at farm adviser addressed the Yuma Subagency Thursday meeting explaining the purpose of MWT the militia based upon the Home house Guard units which have been I The men are to be trained in in to combat en- scouting tactics camouflage at- paratroops and assist the lacking from ambush and com- oral troops in defending their batting paratroops homo communities To Serve At Home who enlisted official according to word The Militia troops arc to serve eil by her mother Mrs Gus T in their own counties while Virgil H Prater Harrison If Molina now a I Mecca I the State Guard troops may be Calif Mrs Molina writes that she moved to other counties the cabled announcement j selling said via Zurich and I hut the new gi named Joan Enlistment is for the duration has been I of the war and each man must furnish his own firearm and Hunt Henry A Morley William L Wallace C Wilbur P Owen Leonard T son Karl J L W ter Samuel C Caddis K I I
