Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - June 12, 1943, Yuma, Arizona THE WEATHER AT YUMA Reported by V S Weather Bureau Highest last 24 hours 95 Lowest last 24 hours 61 Average high this Average low this date 67 AND TH FORECAST to Sunday Continued tool VOLUME 138 YUMA ARIZONA SATURDAY JUNE 12 1943 THE ARIZONA VOLUME 138 ALLIED BOMBERS BLASTING RECORD RAID BLASTS NAZI WAR CENTERS Dusseldorf And Munster Rocked By RAF Bombs By Press Staff Correspondent LONDON June 12 The greatest force of British heavy bombers ever hurled against Ad- olf Hitler's European fortress smashed vital war targets in Dusseldorf and Munster last night and blazed a path of fiery de- struction through Germany's Ruhr and Rhineland Forty-three bombers wore lost in the terrific assault which lowed by less than 12 hours a double-barreled American d a y- light raid yesterday on the man U-boat centers of and Refreshed by a lull in the Bomber Command's vasion offensive huge formations of RAF bombers loosed their main attack on the arms center and inland port of while a smaller force attacked Munster Attack Concentrated A was crowded into one hour ove Dusseldorf and preliminary re ports told of great damage to the city site of the high Rhein metal iron and steel works and key war factories an air minis try communique announced Continued on Page 2 Peace Restored At Overtures By WILLIAM C United Press Skiff Correspondent LOS ANGELES June 12 rioting ended today in unanimous expressions of regret and good will The sharpies and slick chicks made the overtures Six cars packed with D3 of Eastside gangs hoisted American flags and white banners of truce above the nnd paraded through the downtown area to central police headquarters We're good they I Continued on Page 2 REDS BLAST 140 GERMAN 700 Russ Planes Take Part In Record Attacks Troops Aid In Combatting Flood On Missouri River KANSAS CITY Mo June tributaries of the Missouri river continued today to pour waters into the ready Big Muddy as army troops river engineers and civilian volunteers battled to reinforce weakened levees ing rich farm lands Capt Alfred H of the army engineers office here re- ported however the rate of rise i n the Missouri had decreased markedly during the past few hours and he believed the 26.5 foot crest previously predicted at sas City might not bo reached The river stood at 24 feet here this morning three feet above flood stage Upstream some from Fort Leavenworth were aiding vilian workers in erecting bag barricades and reinforcing ees in the Courtney Mo area where thousands of acres of tato and truck garden lands were threatened by weakening dikes Several thousand acres of tato land were inundated near Orrick Mo as a dike gave way there K of C Council To Elect Officers Tuesday Night Because the regular meeting night Monday falls on Flag Day the Knights of Columbus council has postponed its meeting until Tuesday night at Grand Knight William Godfrey ed today There will be election of officers and a feed CALL 38 FOR INDUCTION JUNE Thirty-eight men have called to report for induction Thursday of next week June 17 according to a call list made the office of Hugh Palmer secretary of the county selective service board The following are to report at on that Howard John Humphries Felix Delgado Goldie HernandeE Angel Munoz Caballero Edward Allison Boyer Burnell Hall Bedoya William Coley Victor Combs Anderson Victor Ma rks Basoco Raul Gloria Jessie Herschel Warren Charles Olivas George Washington Scale Lawrence Clinton Kubecka Walter Thomas Lucio Floras Arias Benjamin Davis Herman L Ayala Out of Hugh Marion Robert Carl Richardson Lowell T Weatherford Robert Lewis Barour Ernest Cachora Gerald Grancis Williams John Robert Leong Leonard Earl Prouse Robert Gill Robertson Arthur William Linse Continued on Page 21 By SHAPIRO MOSCOW June 12 than 700 Russian planes mered axis airfields Thursday night in the greatest single egic operation ever undertaken by the Red Air Force a special com- announced today At least 150 enemy planes were destroyed or damaged on Allied Moves in Mediterranean Lt Wm Lindsey Starts Training As Air Observer BROOKS FIELD Texas June from the enlisted ranks of the Air Corps and trained in the officer candidate schools of the ground forces a new class of alert young officers has reported here for training as aerial S One member of the class was LI William L Lindsoy son of Mr and Mrs John B Lindsey of avenue Lt Lindsey had four years of to his shot down in aerial to boost the loll of enemy in three nights of shattering raids on German airfields to more than Our crew members huge fires among planes dispersed on the ground and among the communique said Fires and explosions also were observed among fuel and ammunition dumps in the vicinity of airfields Nineteen of our failed to return Strength Dwindling The pounding of German airfields was cutting deep into Germany's dwindling air strength at a time when the axis was preparing for large-scale summer operations in the nature of a final offensive before the Allies open a f Continued on Pagre TUNISIA 0 captured by Allied troops yesterday an all-out air attack Ls under way today on indicating that that bland with defenses considerably less strong than those of Pantelleria will soon fall into Allied hands There were on when it surrendered yesterday Italian soldiers and civilians who had hadi no water for three davs The island was given a blasting by Allied of Pantelleria Described Italian Soldiers and Civilians There No Water For 3 ALEXANDER CLIFFORD Representing the British Press PANTELLERIA June 11 Delayed This Italian island fortress fell to the Allies without a single shot being fired in opposition There were Italian here under command of an admiral who still is in the hills Reports from Allied yesterday said there was slight resistance on Pantelleria but that main objectives were taken in 20 minutes In addition there are 6000 civilians who had water for three days British troops were ordered their water bottles wilh them The island is still being mopped up Dazed Italian soldiers and civilians tottered about the ruins of the town among the biggest concentration of bomb holes in history The whole place was rubble More than 100 U S Flying Fortresses participated in the final blitz which knocked the place flat I went in with assault troops in the early afternoon The assault craf t harbor at midday to find enemy troops awaiting them with white flags NAZIS WIPE OUT ALL MALES IN GREEK BY UNITED PRESS Gorman occupation authorities killed all male inhabitants and an undetermined number of women and children from a Greek village who came down from their mountain hideout in response to an offer of amnesty the Office of War Information said today A Greek official source reported to the that the inhabitants of the village fled to the mountains after the president of the Greek community rejected demand that he Three days later a German detachment occupied the village and sent word that no reprisals would be taken if the villagers would return to their homes within hours Upon their return all male member of the community between 16 and CO were asked to assemble in the village square for OWT said The expected speech was the actual shooting down by machine guns of the entire male population Women and children were ordered to evacuate the village which was set on fire Maryland Official Be Deprived of Gas Ration Because He Took 1600 Mile Trip to Attend Md June 12 Cornelius P Mundy regional OPA enforcement attorney today recommended to a special OPA investigating panel that State Comptroller J Millard Tawes be deprived of his private gasoline ration for a substantial period and that part of his official gasoline ration be suspended for the duration of the war Tawes has admitted that he violated the ban on pleasure by making a to Georgia recently in a state-owned automobile to attend the vedding of his son A public hearing of the case was scheduled for next Monday but a special panel today was to consider Tawes request that it accept of and decide the case without a hearing Tawes in that the public hearing not be held said that the chief clerk of the Crisfield Md rationing board had approved his trip and that he had made it on the basis of that approval Meanwhile Rives Matthews editor or the Somerset News who is charged with libel because he accused Tawes in his weekly newspaper of violating the pleasure driving ban denounced Tawes request for a closed hearing and the Civi Liberties Union asked Mundy for a transcript of the hearing in event it was closed to the public The Union has offered Matthews legal in his libel case Ian Anant FLIERS STEP UP ATTACKS ON JAP BASES Biggest Raid Is Staged On Timor Rabaul Bombed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in Australia 12 Fifteen Liberators turned Koepang Timor into a mass of flames and other Allied bombers hammered Babo Dutch New Guinea and Rabaul New Britain yesterday in the heaviest series of attacks on major Japanese bases in weeks a com- said today Lifting weather in the Island arc north of Australia enabled the raiders to turn out in force a spokesman said Powerhouse Wrecked Forty-two tons of bombs were dropped on wrecking the powerhouse destroying gas and oil dumps and tearing up the front Returning aircraft reported the town a mass of the com- said Harold Guard United Press staff correspondent who flew in one of the Liberators said the red glow of the Koepang fires to center in the powerhouse area He reported the planes at- tacked through Intense craft fire shooting down three of six to eight would-be interceptors The communique said a fourth en- emy Zero was destroyed All the Continued on Page 3 sessed and barefoot women and children were directed to an un- known destination On the way erman soldiers shot down those whom they thought were older Ickes Leaves Door Open for Possible Rescinding of Coal Strike Fines BY RAYMOND Untied Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON June 112 Coal Administrator Harold L left the door open today for rescinding the strike fines which drew stormy protests from the United Mine Workers While the War Labor board headed for n new collision with UMW President L is made a conciliatory ture in his dispute with the union over assessments ranging from to per last week's five-day work stoppage In an apparent move to head off protest strikes Ickes reminded the miners that their contract provided machinery for adjusting grievances He announced that in- were being issued that nny dispute about assessment col- on Page 3 credit when he enlisted in the Air I than 16 and younger than 60 Corps nine months ago Early this I IIP was chosen to attend the Infantry Officer Candidate school Ga where he re- his commission Lt Lindsey is a former student of Arizona State Teachers college he was a of Pi pa Delta and Delta Phi Alpha Thru Oil Plant Damage Set At OLEUM Cal June 12 A fire of undetermined origin swept through the Union Oil plant hero early today causing damage I Dics subcommittee today Poston Camp Promised Rewards to inmates Remaining Loyal to Japan 200 SOLDIERS CONFIRMED AT YUMA MISSION Approximately 200 soldiers from camps in the Yuma area were confirmed in the Catholic religion at a conducted by Bishop Buddy of San Diego at St Thomas Mission Fort Yuma last night Eight army chaplains and six priests from churches in this area assisted the bishop Following the rites which be- fan at p.m refreshments were served the men in Garces hall Elks Flag Dag Exercises To Be Held Monday Night Program for the Elks Flag Day exercises to be presented at Doan Field night beginning at has been announced as March officers and color guard Music patriotic number by band Introductory exercises by ex- ruler and officers Prayer by Chaplain Ed Schmitt The Vengeance of the by Lois Domes Song God Bless by entire assembly Naturalized citizens of the Continued on Page 2 10 AXIS SHIPS NIGHT RAIDS Axis Says Demand For Surrender Was Rejected Given Suspended Sentence on Hit Run Charge Lee Hartley Indian came up for sentencing in superior court yesterday after having entered a plea of guilty to a charge of ure to stop and render aid after an accident hit and and was given a three year suspended sentence Hartley who lives on the vation across the river here had struck and injured two soldiers on Hy 80 just south of town one light some weeks ago Officers finally located and arrested him He was held to answer to super- ior court pleaded not guilty when arraigned then afterwards ed the plea to one of guilty The two injured soldiers have fully recovered and have ed to active duty the court was informed Treasury Reminds 2nd Installment On Taxes Due 15th LOS ANGELES June 12 An avowed agent of the ese government hired by U S authorities to teach wrestling at the Ariz relocation ter promised rewards to inmates who remained loyal to Japan cording to testimony before a estimated at The fire started at ly and raged out of con- trol for almost six hours equipment from the towns of Rodeo and Crockett was called out Const Guard units nnd from the Standard Oil and Associated Oil companies also battled the flames which shot as high as 300 feet into the sky Oleum is 10 miles northeast of San the bay on U S Highway -10 Wilbur Smith production ager at the who estimated said no one was injured in the fire Norris James former officer at the center said authorities allowed the Japanese inmates themselves to conduct a trial and punish the wrestling in- As punishment James snid the Japanese appointed the instructor leader of the ity planning board Says Reward Promised The instructor who taught do a form of wrestling twice broadcast over the camp public address system James said ising each inmate yen for loyalty to the emperor In the broadcasts the instructor fied himself as an agent of the Japanese Imperial Government In the camp James said and ed applause from the assembled inmates He told them Japan was sure to win the war ann that one who fell in line would be paid yen when the war was James testified I Uchida whose arrest on a charge of assaulting another canip resident with a deadly weapon provoked a week of rioting in which Caucasian administrative officers were held in siege never was tried James said Intervenes Rioting stopped when Uchida was released at the personal di- rection of Interior Secretary old L after the camp ad- ministrator and John Collier head of the U S Indian Service were tumble to decide what should be done conferred with the War department James snul and on Page 3 Airmen Step Up Raids on Kiska WASHINGTON June 12 American airmen in the Aleutians stepped up their aerial assault on Kiska hitting Japanese tions there four times on day the navy announced today Army and two- engined bombers scored hits on the runway and gun ments Fighter planes strafed barges in the harbor patrols on Attu island of the tians killed 66 more Japanese and captured one in a continuation of mopping up operations The anese were encountered in the area between Serana Bay and WASHINGTON June 12 The treasury today reminded payers that everyone who paid a income tax installment in March 15 must pay another in- stallment by June 15 Nothing in the new tax changes the sity of making this payment Many taxpayers will not have to make quarterly payments after one The June 15 installment for every one however will be just as much as the March 15 payment The March 15 and June 15 ments while based on 1942 in- come will be transferred by the treasury to the taxpayers credit against taxes of 1943 income Then with the first pay period beginning after July 1 employers will begin deducting the 20 per cent withholding levy on wages and salaries above exemption els These the March 15 and June 15 will take care of all taxes on 1943 income for some persons By GEORGE United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS North Africa June 12 lied air fleets that conquered the invasion stepping stone island of Pantelleria switched their on- slaught to the little Italian island of Lampedusa Friday in a day and night attack that hit about 10 enemy ships and battered er targets The axis radio said that had rejected an Allied de- mand for surrender and as con- resistance Giving about 100 miles East Tunisian coast its taste qf the air power that re- Pantelleria American and RAF bombers dumped high ex- plosives on docks gun positions and shipping 7 Ships Hit A merchantman and than six smaller ships were hit in one phase of the attack with bombs that ranged up to busters and smoke rose feet from the of one explosion The daylight attack on Friday was by American Continued on Page 3 Senate Changes Agriculture Dept June 1 The i More Rooms Are Needed For Cadets Guests June 22nd Additional accommodations arc needed here for guests of cadets cc graduating June 22nd from the Cape on the eastern Army Air Fields pilots end of the island These casualties raised to 1911 the enemy's counted dead and increased the bag of soners to 21 House Republicans Favor Dewey As 1944 Nominee WASHINGTON June 12 House Republicans favor Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York as the man best qualified for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination and rate Wendell L u poor fourth according to mi informal poll conducted by Rep Leo Allen R Dewey was the choice of 54 of the ISO congressmen polled Gen Douglas was second with 32 Gov John W of Ohio third with 31 and klc fourth with 13 school it was announced at the chamber of commerce today sons having rooms for use of the parents and other guests of the cadets are asked to register them went back to the today with 125 amendments attached by the ate including one to continue the farm security administration The posed to consolidate FSA with the Farm credit administration The senate as approved yesterday contained a total increase in of over the house The house is expected to send the to conference and the final will be written by a conference committee Swim Classes To Start Next Week Swimming classes will be ed at the Yuma Municipal pool next week it was announced day by Manager Abe Marcus who will instruct Free instruction will be given to the children from to on Mondays Tuesdays and Fridays Adult classes will be on the same days from to at the chamber of commerce fee are sought Files Divorce Suit G Hernandez has filed suit for divorce in superior court against Jose C Hernandez The couple was married Nov 3 1835 at Yuma and have four dren aged 4 3 2 and 1 Divorce a month support for the dren court costs and attorney's Sicily Believed Next on List of Allied Air Targets After Lampedusa By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON June 12 of Lampedusa an all-out air attack on Sicily possibly a surprise blow against another of the axis Mediterranean probably will he the next move In the Allied offensive against thern Europe reliable sources here said today Tho Allies are not expected to waste much time on the rocky outcropping of Lampedusa oft the Tunisian cast coast The er of Pantelleria 00 miles to northwest yesterday sealed the of tho ian garrison ot expected have much heart for prolonged resistance Tented British Comminute a re- Continued on Pago 3
