Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - October 17, 1942, Yuma, Arizona TUB AT An by V 8 24 Lowest last Average high Average low tills TH AND TH to Sunday noon mostly fair the same VOLUME 245 YUMA ARIZONA SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 1942 THE YUMA ARIZONA VOLUME 245 U.S AIRMEN HIT 2 JAP DESTROYERS Cargo Ship Also Bombed In Kiska Area of Aleutians WASHINGTON Oct 17 Army medium bombers probably sank one Japanese destroyer and damaged another destroyer and a cargo ship in tile Kiska area of Aleutians the navy announced today The communique issued ly after 1 p.m told nothing about the progress of the Battle of the Solomons Martin ers known as the Marauder were used in the attacks mi Kiska This was the first time that medium bombers have been used in the Aleutians One Probably Sunk two intercepted northeast of ka Mile base in the tians One destroyer was hit by three bombs and was probably sunk the navy said The other was hit too but was listed damaged Tli cargo ship was caught by unr bombers in Gertrude cove on I lie sou Ih coast of Kiska One direct hit set fire to the ship which was observed burning ny hours later One Lost Our losses only one plane which was downed by antiaircraft lire Again there was no report of any aircraft opposition from the in The new Japanese ship raised to -12 the total of enemy ships hit since they began their Aleutians venture in early June These included 13 sunk five ably sunk anil damaged Errol Flynn Is Accused of Attacking Girl HOLLYWOOD Oct 18 returned to the ics of the sound stages today bail charged with criminal assault upon Betty sen waitress who quit her job for the chance to meet him She accused him of taking her upstairs after a dinner Bel Air mansion of wealthy spoilsman Fred and there indulging in what District ney John F Dockweiler called statutory rape Three other dio workers held with Flynn for arraignment on the same charges next Friday admitted illicit tions with her Klynn Denies Slory curly-headed Flynn forming on the Warner sound stages a heroic Norwegian fighting the Nazis said Miss Continued on Page 3 First Session Of Scout Leaders School Held Here Scooters and friends of ing met last evening at high school cafeteria in the first sion of a leadership training course The first session covered of the Boy Sc movement and was presented by Hirer district lowing a bean feed put on by Mrs Blackwood and Mrs Kiddle The three were Scoutmaster James Dudley of Troop 00 Bard Rev Otto H vice chairman of the district and Norman illn chairman of the dis- committee Others in attendance II Lindsey Harry Robinson Val Colby H A M C Mitchell Luther Lee Howard Polls Juan Moreno Elden Wede D Hinks George Lawry Er- sel Byrd Perkins A C Loya and Kenny field of the Imperial Yuma Area Council A Willkie Arrives Home for Rest And Haircut Ind Oct Wendell L Willkie home from tour of war aters turned his thoughts today to farming a good rest and a haircut 1 haven't had a haircut since Cairo Willkie said brushing his forelock off forehead Asked for further comment on his as President Roosevelt's representative the Republican presidential answered in Sorry I I came out here to rest He said he would inspect his five farms in this vicinity He joined wife and their son Philip a naval ensign on leave here Report Hitler Plans to Ease Out Mussolini ISTANBUL Del If Delayed diplomatic ters received reports today cating that Adolf Hitler intended to seize effective control or actual command of the entire ranean North African and Balkan areas from Benito Mussolini ing the winter They said Hitler apparently was exasperated by Italian bungling on all fronts and the steady decline of Italy's morale and that he had determined to put an end to con- stant wrangling with Mussolini over the deflated jealousy NAZIS PAY HIGH PRICE FOR GAINS Reds Make Fourth Retreat In 48 Mrs In Stalingrad MOSCOW Oct 17 Red army made its fourth retreat within -18 hours in Northwest Stalingrad today but the mans were at the rate of almost two lives a minute Dispatches from the front City Gets 8 New Hydrants to Be Installed Soon Mayor Walter H Ingalls an- this morning that eight new fire have been re- by the city on priority der because of recent expansions of the city limits and that they will be installed immediately to give better lire protection for recently into the city Tentatively it is planned to place the hydrants about as that Russian withdrawals were orderly and comparatively short and that at no point had the Germans attained their break-through to the ga river Six thousand Germans were killed on one narrow area in GO rate of almost two a minute At least 151 tanks have been officially reported knocked out including 27 listed in the noon communique Tanks Bunting tanks are binning in the streets in the fields and be- fore our the government organ said Here and then are mountains of enemy dead In the Stalingrad area Soviet troops repulsed repeated enemy the noon communique said German infantry supported by tanks attacked a Soviet unit defending one street in grad Twenty-three tanks were destroyed and 300 of the enemy killed On another sector a viet unit retreated to new sive positions Guards I Continued on Page 21 First avenue I Second avenue and Sih 8th street street The reports said also that reason a scheduled conference be- tween Hitler and Mussolini was not held last month was I hat solini had heard to extend his domination and Mussolini's son in law and foreign minister also canceled a visit to Berlin According to diplomatic Hitler intends to take as his first step one most painful to Italy seizure of control of Trieste and Fiume on the Adriatic and the corridor leading to them from Austria through Italy Tom Gore Named Dist Governor LOS ANGELES Oct 17 Tom Gore Riverside citrus er today prepared to take over the office of Kiwanis district ernor following nomination in closing sessions of the annual convention Nomination is tantamount to election Attorney General Earl Warren candidate for governor warned Kiwanians of possible sabotage on Pacific coast Speaking al final gathering last night he said he believes the day is coming when civilians must mcel the ace of an organized plan of tage It might coincide with enemy attacks on the coast he said Listing readjustments Warren said the American people might some of the rights they have enjoyed as citizens but ed thai these rights would be surrendered only so far the war Officers Oilier officers named for I In- coming term to assist the new ernor are Fred S of Oakland who begins his Continued on Page 2 U S Bombers Attack Shipping At Benghazi CAIRO Oct A com- of the United Stales Ar- my Air Force said today that heavy army bombers had severe storms yesterday to attack shipping in the harbor of Benghazi most important enemy base in Libya and army planes had been in the Egyptian battle area GROUP TO LEAVE NEXT WEEK FOR INDUCTION Another group of men are to leave here next week for Phoenix to take their final examinations before induction into the army according to Hugh Palmer of the county tive service board The men arc to report to the office of the board in the city hall at 4 p.m and will leave via Southern Pacific train at that same afternoon Included in this call Enrique Ramirez Jesus Romo Frank Molina Juna Valenzuela Victoriano Banila Martinez Charles Haley Lowell To report to other boards un- less they elect to return to Vinna and report to their home board I Continued on Page 3 Tons of Scrap Collected In Arizona Ariz Oct 17 Reports fiom all counties of flic state revealed Arizona's ity scrap piles lo date have of tons Second avenue and 9th street 7th avenue and 9th 5th avenue and 8th street 6th avenue in the lOlb and 12th street neighborhood and Fourth streets and one other wherever it is needed most lor fire protection Arizona Football Scores Phoenix 21 SI Mary's Tucson North Phoenix 12 Mesa 11 Glendale 7 Chandler Peoria Id Clifton II Coolidge 13 Superior tie Yuma 7 Williams 19 7 Globe 20 Ajo 6 Douglas Nogales 0 Phoenix Indian School 7 nix Grays 7 tiei Child Identifies Her Kidnapers BLUFF Cal Oct 17 UB Vivian Miller -I clung to her father identified liam and Charlotte Thompson in today in a dramatic meeting in the lobby of the ma county jail _ The Thompsons were taken their jail cell to be confronted by the litlle San Francisco girl whom they confessed kidnaping Cuba Establishes Relations With Soviet Russia WASHINGTON IV Diplomatic and consular relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union have been established for the development of friendly and commercial tics between the two the Cuban embassy an- today 5 Germans Nabbed In Chile Accused Of Espionage SANTIAGO Chile Oct 17 Five Germans charged with espionage were arrested last night newspaper La Hora re- ported today Two of the men were said to have been escaped members of the interned crews of the German scuttled pocket battleship Graf Spec and the German naval supply ship Tacoma They were interned in Argentina Critical Battle Of Solomons Rages On WASHINGTON Jet 17 The critical bailie for the strategic area around Guadalcanal island in Ihc southern Solomons raged on today with the Japanese ug great land sea and into their determined campaign to out American marines The navy department had been silent since yesterday ami there was no word on how the fighting was going in what was evidently the greatest lo date in the southern Pacific To date navy department communiques have re- several landings of ese troops on Guadalcanal the latest reported yesterday along1 with artillery and the of a huge enemy fleet including battleships Little of Ships Hid the have had little to say about of American ships The only American naval vessels knowledged by department to the lillle PT torpedo boals which took such a conspicuous parl in the defense of Ihc Philippines Nothing at all has been said of the marines recently reinforced with army units Very has been reported of the activity of American war planes from the air base on Guadalcanal which the Japanese built before they were ousted in August But it was pointed out that the navy would hardly report on these mailers during progress of a continuing battle lest it provide the enemy with information it couldn't gel otherwise There was reason lo Ihal the control of the air from Australian and New rides bases if not from canal and aircraft without control of air the en- sources of information as lo the dispositions of American forces would be faulty RESTRICTION IN TEEN-AGE OPPOSED Year of Training Mandate Objected To By Marshall WASHINGTON Orl 17 house by i vole at 212 In 12 today began debate on the new draft hill under a rule that prevented consideration of amendments imposing on Iho army's use of 18 and old WASHINGTON Oct 17 I Rep James R I today read lo the house a letter from lien George C shall of staff saying that it would he almost impossible I for the army I operate under a mandate that IS and j youths in ill rases must have 12 months lief on- being signed to combat duty a sponsor of the legislation the house today to lower the minimum draft age from 20 to IS said lie had re- the letter from Marshall this morning said that all men who go into the army arc given IS weeks basic training and that in most eases they receive much more training than that His letter was in reply to con- tentions of a number of members that the should he amended to require at least one year of training for the iers U.S OFFICE TO Castle Dome School Kept From Opening By Series of Events Teacher Leaves a grand total according to stale salvage quarters here First reports the school salvage drive indicated a total of tons have been collected by school children since their drive began Oct 5 Alma V Tale stale salvage executive of the war production board an- Cousins Meet For First Time In Fox Hole H A U A RTK RS United Stales Marines Guadalcanal aud Oct -t Lieut Dan L Gaede Columbus O navigator of any army flying fortress heard an air raid siren tonight and dived into a fox hole Bumping into a navy officer he offered his hand and ry my Dan Gaede My name is Dan C re- plied the navy man a lieutenant commander of Coronado Calif They were cousins but never had seen each other About everything thai could happen has happened to keep the Castle Dome mine school from opening And now another epi- sode in the apparent conspiracy of the fates against the school's opening has developed To There had been no school at mine for many years in fact the mine had not for a long time With increased demand for strategic war metals however the Holmes interest have been oping the properly and have eral men with families employed at the mine Before school opened il was 11 thought that a suitable building was available for a school Supplies Sent Desks and furniture and plies were lo scene Then in the area made it impossible lo get the building In the meantime schools had opened elsewhere in the county but not at Castle Dome mine They had neither a teacher nor a ing Next a teacher was secured but there was still no building This teacher left California Then a building was secured and the equipment moved into it Another Hired teacher an i Continued on Page 4 Says 90 Pet of French Opposed To Vichy Regime WASHINGTON Oct 17 Philip i Fighting French official who from Franco two months ngo snul today that DO pur of people cif are 1 to Vichy In occupied zone he said tho opposition is 100 per cent Philip estimated that persons wore organized in ance throughout France Ho helped organize some of them himself ho said before coming here us interior and labor com- missioner for the Fighting French government Dispatch Shows U S Preparation For Island Battle T h e following dispatch was filed the battle of Iho southern now raging began it throws important light upon can preparations for itable with the Japanese AIR HELP Al a conference here yesterday plans were worked out tlin II S employment office here u n d e r the direction of Herbert Connor will assist army officials in securing civilian workers at the ami other departments at the Yuma air Connor's oil ice is in Dixie hotel on First street Attending the conference here were Mr Connor James A Korli field supervisor for the U.S em- ployment service having tion over eight southern counties in the state Maj II Sloan in command of the at the air base and John H Baker sub- depot engineering superintendent May Apply Civilians seeking employment at the or elsewhere at the air base may apply at Connor's office here for interview and and be sent to the sub- depot headquarters at the air base Continued en Page 3 Potomac River Receding After Water Reaches Record Level at Washington WASHINGTON Oct 17 The rampaging Potomac river be- gan receding slowly here unlay after its swirling waters had hit new record high levels and dated several low-lying sections of the capital Early reports indicated thai flood damage here would be com- negligible due largely to hurried erection of dikes in two vulnerable spots around the sewage disposal and between the Ion Monument and Lincoln grounds Families Several families living along the river banks were evacuated from their homes before the flood crest hit this region In Maryland Virginia ami Virginia however floods along the Shenandoah and Savage rivers well as the tomac already had caused at least 15 deaths and properly age running into the millions At many points the floods were worse than the 19116 disaster which wrought damage estimated at Crest Arrives Today The crest of the flood hit ington early this morning It 17.5 feet in Georgetown compared with the 17.2 feet high level in 1936 nnd the flood stage of seven feet Continued on Page 2 Chinese Report Nazis Plan Drive Against Moscow CHUNGKING Oct IV Inn ese by United Sau Central News Agency today quoted a confidential report from Geneva that the German high planned a new of- fensive against Moscow before Such a campaign would de- signed lo prevent any general iet there against Gorman positions these The Geneva sources claiming the information came directly from German circles also said Field Marshal Krwin Rommel has been ordered to lake of- fensive in North Africa with proposed drive on Moscow WASHINGTON Orl n heuse conferees on war revenue today agreed In give a p o s I w ar credit amounting to 10 per cent of excess profits tuxes By WILLIAM United Press Staff Correspondent At An Advanced United States Air Base in the South Pacific Oct 7 war in the South Pacific lias developed into a huge bailie of supply and reinforcement Major emphasis is on the rine positions in the Solomon ands but string of occupied islands extending lo the north is involved Though the Japanese on Gnad island have been ed a large force of marine ers recently left a secret base in the Pacific and proceeded direct into the Solomons with full battle kit Continued on Page Sanguinetti Firm Gets in the Scrap Workmen for M stalled removing scrap from two of the large sources of supply in the area within the past few days lot on First avenue at ond street where mining highway other machinery belonging to F has been stored for years and the Sangninetti corral out on First street Some months ago when it was first indicated that the ment desired the collection and movement of scrap to the nation's steel mills A O ager of the interests made a deal with Mr involving several carloads of scrap lie can get I it is having his men remove the large amount of scrap not only from these two places but also from the Sangninetti ranches in valley where bas cumulated for T i r Registered for Calif Election Oct I of Stale Paul Peek day announced a total tion of California voters for the Nov general election a gam of only over the Aug list primary but still largest in the state's history The included a gain of over August and Republicans an increase of The total gam over the registration for the November election was Peel said Democrats led Republicans in all but three small pine comity had Republicans to 82 Democrats Humboldt had to and Lake had to 137 DIE AS CANADIAN SHIP SUNK Some Americans Among Missing 102 Rescued SYDNEY N S Oct 17 The death toll of the Caribou a small passenger steamer Wednesday in Cabot strait by a German submarine was set at 137 Canadians and Americans day vessels have landed 102 survivors here The missing taled 137 members of the dian and American armed forces men women and and it was feared that all had ished Missing United States service men J M Burns E T Bethea E J Schultz J G Ab- V Hand K M and J Waldman Their ranks and addresses were not immediately announced Missing Missing American civilians in- William T Gerth -12 N J James Flynn 32 New Haven Conn Louis Cagne 23 R I John pard 32 Auburn N Y Charles Berry 13 Alt Vernon N Y The oilier missing were civilians four mothers and their children 31 members of the crew 18 members of the Royal Canadian Air Force 20 members of the Royal dian Navy including one woman nurse and 11 Canadian Army of- and men Dispatches from St Johns Nfd said 30 bodies had been recovered Navy Minister Angus announced the sinking the most in Canadian waters since the war started He said a score or more ol women and dren H re killed by the explosion of the torpedo or drowned Attacked After Midnight The often incoherent stories ol survivors revealed that the bou a vessel owned by the Newfoundland government was attacked between midnight ami dawn while she was plying between Sydney and ijui Nld a distance or about 100 miles Almost everybody aboard was asleep ami after the torpedoing survivors heard an escort ship's depth charges exploding Tim navy told of one private soldier who gave lifebelt to his wife and threw her overboard so she might have a chance of being saved Within minutes after the pedo smashed into Caribou she sanK Report 40 Killed Vi Del 17 The ladio quoting the London Times today 40 persons and ninny others Lyons and Pierre Laval's join into in hy mi: said m a manner il II thai cars of train lo workers to liy an Soviet President Says Situation More Del 17 I Kalinin ing of war -.-ai.i to day thai lie considered the nation now II m last despite oils The month f German war Sept The army Kittling firmly and more skilfully as at Stalingrad and he said
