Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - December 17, 1943, Yuma, Arizona TUB AT YUMA As by S Bureau Highest last 24 hours Lowest last 21 hours 51 Average high this date Average low this date TH AND THE WEATHER FORECAST TO SATURDAY Considerable cloudiness with sible light showers Saturday mild temperatures VOLUME 298 YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY DECEMBER 17 1943 THE ARIZONA VOLUME 298 BIG BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST NAZI CAPITAL More Than 1500 Tons Dropped On Berlin By Mill AULT Stuff LONDON Doc 17 dreds of the RAF's biggest ers resumed the knockout sive against Berlin with a ton blockbuster assault that spread fire and ruin through the Nazi capital last night and the German radio revealed today that American Flying Fortresses aged Bremen heavily in a raid on that port yesterday The German radio ment was the first disclosure that Bremen was the target of day's Fortress raid The Nazis admitted heavy destruction in the big port city which had been pounded six timus by the American heavies and more than 100 times by the Royal Air Force Blanketed Clouds The great armada that struck at Berlin last night fought through thick cloud formations that blanketed northwestern many hut Pathfinder planes that preceded the raiders laid their target indicators squarely on the capital Thirty miles from their tive the raiders swung into a path of flares ped by enemy night fighters and followed those flaming beacons right to the heart of Berlin Tens of thousands of high sive and fire bombs hurtled down on the battered city putting a thunderous end of the re- spite Berlin had enjoyed since its last visitation from the RAF The German Transocean News Agency denounced the raid as a terror attack on a considerable scale Destruction Is Widespread Stockholm reports broadcast by the BBC said foreign ists in Berlin had been forbidden to transmit any the raid but private information reaching the Swedish capital the raid had created spread destruction in the center of the city and the industrial out- skirts Despite the huge flare path laid by the Nazi fighters many er crews reported they failed to see a single enemy plane over of the most heavily defended areas in all Europe Weather prevented immediate observation of the air Continued on Page 41 JUGOSLAVS TURN BACK GERMAN OFFENSIVE By C Staff LONDON Dec 17 shal Josip Partisan Army of liberation reported day that it had broken a full scale German offensive in Jugoslavia and a widespread had administered heavy defeaU to the Nazis in a number of sectors The Jugoslavs issued a regular nnd a special communique claiming that tlie tide of battle had turned in their homeland great offensive against has failed to develop according tn the cial said From nil sectors reports are coming in of enemy failures ami of cesses achieved by Jugoslav anils The special bulletin closely Continued on U S TROOPS ADVANCING IN ITALY Cut Way Through Pill Boxes And Barbed Wire Jap Defense System in Southwest Pacific Appears to Be Crumbling And Allies Advance on New Britain liy S lines and Dutch East Indies an United Stall Correspondent j area where American submarines WASHINGTON Dec 17 are highly active The entire Japanese defense Although the forces under Gen ition in the Southwest Pacific Douglas MacArthur were credited SCHOOLS CLOSE TODAY FOR All schools in the county except the Yuma Union high school and Gadsden school close today for a two weeks Christmas vacation riod and wiil resume classes on January 3 Mrs Gwyneth Ham county superintendent announced today The Yuma Union high school and Gadsden school will dismiss on Wednesday Dee 22 and take up classes again on Jan ials of those schools announced Community Sing Is Planned For Sunday 4 P M LIIV ji singing the songs There will be no charge Nan WRITER IS DENIED GAS RATIONS DUE TO ARTICLE CHICAGO Dec 17 Mark Miller author of a magazine ar- ticle describing bis automobile trip from Brownsville Tex to Brainerd Minn on bootleg line was denied today the right to gasoline ration coupons for the first half of for violation of Office of Price Administration regulations The ruling was made by W M McFarland regional OPA com- missioner who ordered that no coupon be issued to Miller because of the trip revealed in the appearing in Colliers azine McFarland placed Miller on probation nnd left the wny open for his local rationing board to rt coupon hook next June if the writer compiles with certain conditions laid down In the order U S SUBS SINK EIGHT JAP SHIPS Brings Total to 524 Nip Vessels Hit By Submarines WASHINGTON Dec 17 American submarines ping Allied offensive operations in the Pacific by striking at the enemy's supply lines have sunk eight more Japanese ships The navy announced today that the latest bag by U S submarines included two large transports two large tankers three medium freighters a small freighter These sinkings raised to 524 the number of Japanese ship hit by our submarines so far in the war included sunk SB ably sunk and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said recently there was de- finite evidence that the Japanese are growing short of merchant tonnage and are being forced more and more to rely on barges for transport and supply Fire Destroys Coupe Parked On Street Probably originating from a short circuit fire last evening about o'clock almost com- destroyed a 1939 tible coupe belonging to Rudolph Jr 618 Eighth avenue cording to a report on file at the city fire department this morning The cnr had a California license No The owner is a high school boy Although no general alarm was sounded firemen were called to the scene and extinguished the blaze before the The Pihl family was not at home at the time of the fire By C R CUNNINGHAM United Press Stalf Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Dec 17 American troops have launched a smashing attack to reach the main road to Rome meeting the Germans in a hand-to-hand struggle at the lage of San Pietro a mile from the vital highway it was an- today Large scale renewal of the Fifth Army offensive to break through I orations 1 to the road coincided with the Supply j ond major blow in two days by Flying Fortresses against rail supply lines into Italy In their first powerful blow against Padua 25 miles west of Venice in northern Italy the For- tresses dropped 200 tons of bombs in less than six minutes partially wrecking a rail bridge and the Padua yards Five enemy planes were shot down and not a bomber was lost Go Thru Barbed Wire Springing down the slopes against San Pietro after lines of guns in the heights had battered the enemy lines Lt Gen Mark W Clark's American troops hacked their way forward through concrete defenses and miles of barbed wire The attack was launched eight miles southeast of Cassino which lies acres the Liri Valley plains from the heights sino was the hub of German iu the Farther north other Fifth army forces beat back German counter- attacks west of Venafro and took new hills west of find southwest of Castel San gaining one mile at one point Across Italy the British Eighth army hurled back strong German counterattacks made with throwing tanks in an effort to stem troops edging through the broken Orton de- fense line Cairo radio heard in London said Eighth army troops were only miles from Ortona on the Ad- riatic coast and that the town was in flames had occurred a t several points the broadcast said Viaduct Is Bombed Accompanying the Fortresses to north Italy was a Liberator for- mation thai a railroad at near the Austrian frontier The line attacked is the i Continued on Page i built around the key island of New Britain appeared to be bling today as Allied forces con- their beach ADVANCED QUARTERS New Guinea Dec 17 One determined soldier rubber boat shredded by withering Japanese fire grinned as landing barges followed up the initial and he waggled Halter Vienna Nazi Say Reds On Offensive Near Leningrad and it is understood that a bor or passer-by discovered and reported that tlie ear was afire By ROBERT MUSEL tires were United Press Staff Correspondent Dec 17 The Berlin radio reported today that JUDGE ESCAPES FROM LABOR GANG Tlic ludge who has spent two mornings on the wrong side of the bar of justice suddenly ad- journed his term without notice massed Russian forces had launched an offensive on the ingrad front breaking into the German lines at several places in what appeared here to be the first blow of the Red army's delayed winter campaign A Nazi broadcast said the mans had been engaged in hard defensive fighting near grad since yesterday and the bitter battle still was raging A number of Soviet breakins were the radio said Signs have been increasing that the Red army was awaiting only an improvement in weather con- ditions and a frozen foothold to strike in full force at the unstable German front yesterday afternoon The judge is Charles Judge j who on Tuesday morning was a suspended sentence of 190 days in police court on condition that he leave town when he ed guilty to being drunk and dis- the peace was back again before was able to comply with the original sentence To straighten him out the ond lime Judge James T Hodges gave Judge 113 days at hard labor for thp eily which he But yesterday afternoon the work in the city became too strenuous and he suddenly WASHINGTON Dec 1 his mind to accept the President Roosevelt has signed first sentence and float legislation which lifts the ban That's the best said against Chinese becoming F R Signs To Lift Ban Against Chinese Hodges He won't be expense to the city now Soviet Postpones Elections Third Time During War MOSCOW Pec 17 dent Mikhail Kalinin has signed a decree postponing elections to the Supreme Soviet until Dec the third postponement of elections since the war started it was announced today Daily Temperatures By High New York 28 20 P St Louis 20 fi Minneapolis Seattle 32 Denver 20 Phoenix VI 111 citizens of the United States and permits Chinese to en- ter this country as immigrants on a quota basis it was announced today Mr Roosevelt in urging ment of the recently said it would correct a historic mistake exclusion of Chinese from en- tering the United Slides He said it would operate as another meaningful display of friendship between two great powers ing a common foe The law repeals the Chinese Ex- Acts passed between 1882 and 1013 nnd the quota provision will permit 105 persons of Chinese descent to enter this country an- Eighty-five per cent of the immigrants must come from itself Bicycle Is Stolon Theft of his daughter's bicycle was reported to the of- fice by Jones Smith yesterday heads on that island iu least well equipped well lion for a drive on the important enemy at Rabaul The invasion of New Britain came after relentless Allied air at- tacks on Rabaul had rendered it useless as a sea base and had left the Japanese their major naval base at SOO miles to the north as the nearest available harbor for concentrating heavy shipping for southwest Pacific op- s Koule Is Cut At tiie same time Allied control of the Vitiaz straits between New Britain and New Guinea cut the shortest supply route to the re- maining enemy garrisons on New Guinea where Australian troops are making slow but steady ad- vances Thus the only supply route left to enemy forces there was to the west from the with initial successes on New tain the big and tougher battles still ahead because the en- emy was estimated to have at RUSSIANS Reds Regaining Lost Ground On The Kiev Front supplied troops there From Arawe on New Britain's coast where the main landings were made the Attics must fight along the coast for ahout 270 miles before getting within range of Rabaul Some ob- servers here believed it may tually be necessary to make a frontal assault on Rabaul before it can finally be occupied Has Good Defenses Rabaul has perhaps the best natural defenses of any base in the southwest Pacific The harbor is rimmed by mountains and canoes so that approach from land would be difficult and easily if not impossible The harbor it- self is difficult to approach be- cause of a narrow channel which separates the Rabaul end of New on Page 4 Wounded Soldier His Rubber Boat Destroyed by Jap Bullets Off Arawe Hitchhikes Ride Back to Warship sault at Arawe his thumb for a Capt Harold ALLIED AIRMEN S IN ITALY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Dec 17 Allied planes carrying out a 24-hour of- fensive over Jugoslavia and ing German supply routes in thern Italy shot down 11 enemy planes yesterday to roll their al up to 101 destroyed so far this month it was announced today In the same period 30 Allied planes have been lost as result of enemy action Six of yesterday's score were shot down out of a group of 15 Messerschmitt encountered over Jugoslavia and the other five fell over Padua in North Italy U S Mitchells attacked ships tlie harbor at Zara and Sibenik i the Jugoslav coast yesterday after Bostons had raided inland areas the night before Several vessels were hit including a footer Japs Again Wipe Out U S Fleet Via Tokyo Radio Ariz Dec 17 b D Brewer of Phoenix who identifies himself as a monitor for the British broadcasting tion reported today a Tokyo dio broadcast saying the United States Navy lost 67 warships sunk by the Japanese in the Gilbert and Island battle day Brewer quoted the Tokyo cnst as In the Gilbert ami Marshall land battle the TT S Navy lost 67 warships 5 ships 15 aircraft carriers in de- and a large number nf cruisers The U a Navy has thus lest its great majority of trained of- and men the Tokyo radio continued and can never ate from this luss R M Sanders 55 Dies Following Long Illness Robert M Sanders 5.1 a dent of North tOth avenue passed away at bin homo last night after an illness of about two years He came to Yuma from homa two years He has made his home with his sister Mrs Viola Drury since coming to Yuma No arrangements have been funeral CAR IS REPORTED STOLEN HERE also made the beach after his boat was shot from under him He described the incident and the chaos that ensued when the anese surprised the first landing party at the village of with a point-blank barrage of non and machine-gun fire Halter and 10 soldiers almost helpless in the face of murderous enemy managed to drag an undamaged boat from the beach Struggling against the tide and using entrenching tools as paddles they steered the boat of range of enemy bullets I saw one corporal holding his hand from which ends of two fingers had been Halter a press officer said Fifteen feet away a naked dier swam begging not to be left We let him hang on until we found a raincoat to hide his white body A warship off island picked us up almost exhausted ter a three hour pull Halter said the ship fished more than 70 soldiers from the sea He was permitted to select at random the names of 10 who are safe in- C R Mead Santa Maria Cal tty SHAPIRO Press Stuff MOSCOW Dec 17 Red army beat oft repeated man counterattacks today and ad- into new positions within striking distance of key road junction miles west Kiev The Russians yielded to the Germans several days ago but with the arrival of ments regained lust ground northwest of the junction and were developing a flanking threat London sources said the center of the battle line appeared to be along an front ing between six miles northwest of ami seven miles southwest of Malin Tomis Arn Captured The latest Soviet advance swept up several additional towns and villages above The mans lost SOO men in futile and at une point were thrown hack when they attempted to force a river barrier The Soviets also broke enemy resistance south and southeast of nearly 100 miles down the Dnieper from Kiev and cap- tured several additional localities Four hundred Germans were killed and four tanks wrecked -I Miles From Smela At one point the Soviets were only four miles from Smela 15 miles below and last railroad junction in the northern half of the Dnieper DEATH TOLL OF TRAIN WRECK Ky HANCOCK N C Dec 17 The known dead in yesterday's collision of Uie south Tamiami Champions rose to SO today the Red Cross re- ported as a railroad official said lie could not explain why the wreck could not have been ed in the 40 minutes between the derailment of one train and the arrival of the other The Red Cross said its latest breakdown from the scene of the accident was that 47 of the dend were service personnel 23 were and that 10 bodies were known to be still in two cars The known toll had bean in- creased to 70 only a short time before when the body of an un- identified civilian was removed from a twisted railroad car and searchers later reported that two cars each contained five bodies C G Sibely manager Continued on Page 4 bend Red Air Force bombers U S Fliers Raid Jap Bases On Marshalls PEARL HARBOR 17 U S bomber raids through fierce resistance on and atolls in the Marshalls were disclosed day as a front dispatch reported partial destruction of the enemy air base at in a recent at- tack Admiral Chester W Fleet commander announced that 40 tons of bombs were dropped Wednesday on Taroa a main islet of and Stung by Uie continuous raids on the Marshalls the Japanese put 30 defending planes in the air above Taroa but two of thorn were destroyed eight probably and eight damaged One Is Lost One of the attacking bombers of the 7th U S Airforce was lost and several others damaged One man suffered fatal injuries None of those attacking were damaged Installations on both islands were hit heavily with fires ing up behind the explosive loads on Buildings and storage areas at Taroa were hit BELGIUM SEEKS TO JOIN BRITISH COMMONWEALTH LONDON Dec 17 The London Daily Sketch said today that Belgium given certain guarantees was ready to put her future in charge of the British to become in n member of the British wealth of Nations This assumption the newspaper said was cautiously approved hy a spokesman of the of Information when ahout a speech made er in the day by his chief An- toine Delfosse was quoted as saying at Belfast that Belgians are ready to sacrifice part ot our on the altar of world and it was necessary that a big power take slops to ensure stolen from near the Bagby I peace In Europe and no one wrecking yards yesterday after- could do It better than the Commonwealth A nir belonging to D A Weems was have been ing out in advance of ground forces blew up a German military train at Smela The Russians overran a number of towns near the industrial city of Kirovograd 62 miles southwest of chug and a full-scale Soviet sault on the stronghold was be- near In one sector the Germans counterattacked wih 25 tanks and infantrymen but were thrown back to their initial tions a loss of nine tanks WASHINGTON Dec 17 Congressional concern over rent military losses was under- scored today with disclosure that the senate's Truman committee is investigating the costly Nazi bombing of Bari and the high cost of capturing Tarawa in the berts The Truman committee edly was investigating solely from tlie point of supply and of materiel and is avoiding scrupulously anything that could be construed as guessing in military strategy What the to know it was emphasized is ther mure or better materiel could have forestalled such events as Bari and Tarawa Tiie Bari attack which cost 17 Allied ships and casualties and was described as tiie most vere blow to Allied shipping Pearl Harbor was expected to prompt further conferences with Gen H H Arnold chief nf Uie army air forces ves Of Subsidy Plan PRESIDENT RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE Will Report On Parleys Early In January WASHINGTON Dec 17 President Roosevelt returned to the White House today from his Cairo and Tehran conferences and given a loud welcome by tually every important figure in the government The first thing Mr Roosevelt did after shaking hands with his countless old friends was to hold a quick conference with his con- gressional leaders and them that he will not be able to report directly to Congress on his trip until he delivers his annual State of the Union message in early January The President did indicate ever to the Congressional leaders that he would devote some of his Christmas Eve address to a dis- cussion of his conferences Is As Roosevelt stepped from his automobile under the south portico of the White House he was given a welcome by leaders of both parties in Con- gress cabinet members and cy heads Mr Roosevelt looked extremely fit after his long journey He wore a rumpled gray suit and a loud plaid shirt Watching the photographers as he got out of his car he I would have dressed for the occasion if I had known about this Mrs Roosevelt her daughter Mrs John Boettiger and three grandchildren Buzzie and Little Johnny met the President at the point of his arrival in the city and rode with him to the White House Greets Him The first person to greet the President at the White House was his secretary Grace Tully Mr was hit by a barrage of hello and how are you from members of his White House staff The President spotted John the presidential barber and White House butler commenting John I certainly need a haircut War Director F Byrne rushed up to the side of tlie presidential car and velt called out over the heads of the photographers James how arc To the repented inquiries about how lie felt Mr Roosevelt wered over arid over again fine and all right He thm went through the row corridor leading to the old diplomatic reception room on the ground floor of the White House Hie doors swung op- vii applause greeted the SIXTH ARMY GAINING ON NEW BRITAIN Beachhead On South Coast Is Being Consolidated By C TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent Allied Advanced Headquarters New Guinea Dec 17 S Sixth Army vanguards opening an offensive to smash Japan's Little Pearl Harbor at were reported officially tonight to be consolidating their Arawe beachhead on the south coast of New Britain despite vicious enemy ail attacks Though resistance by enemy ground forces appeared to be col- lapsing on the southwestern end of New Britain the Japanese time and again sent waves of planes against American jungle troops mostly Texans fanning out from their new beachhead some 250 miles southwest of Rabaul an of- report by Gen Douglas Arthur's headquarters revealed All Attacks Arc Repelled Allied fighters and anti-aircraft guns successfully repelled each air attack the report said but the raids were continuing An earlier communique from disclosed that the American invaders Brig Gen Julian W Cunningham of San Antonio Tex had seized the entire Arawe coastal while front reports said the troops had captured the three-mile long Arawe peninsula and the island network offshore in the first five hours alone The later announcement from MacArthur's spokesman indicated all primary objectives had been attained swiftly with the shaped peninsula and the ed Arawe harbor un- der firm control and ing toward the mainland to screen their holdings from a possible counterattack Seizure of the which can be entered by winding hels between Ausak Arawe and islands gave Allied surface forces a base for attack enemy surface communication lines Across Vitaz strait on New Guinea's Huon peninsula tralia troops were engaged in the final assault on the Japanese out- post base at Lakona on the coast Continued on Page 31 CHURCHILL IS REPORTED IMPROVING LONDON Dec 17 The condition of Prime Minister ston Churchill is improving ily and there has been no spread of the pneumonia patch in one of his lungs it was announced of- today A bulletin issued at No 10 Downing street the prime ters official residence has been no spread in the pneumonia and the ment in the prime minister's gen- eral condition has been The British Press association reporting continued improvement in Churchill's condition said the original announcement of his ness appeared to have aroused an unjustifiable amount of Charles Parks Family Made Happy By Good of Service Sons WASHINGTON Dec 17 The senate today approved by vole a tension of j the present subsidy ferring until utter M action on the disputed bills to stop the subsidies The extension resolution MOW goes to the ho panned a to sidy program after Dee H Tiie senate's temporary plan would them until Fob 20 Senate nf tho ing resolution eame after crat ie Alben W of Predicts Death Of In Holiday Accidents U S Or 17 National Safety Council predicted today that 3.700 Americans will he killed accidentally between Dec Til of til out trends was tion with the Council's Christmas prediction based on deaths e past three yen is and pres Developments of past few lays give promise of making this a merry Christinas in fact for Mr and Mrs Charles Parks of They have three sons in the vice Kenneth ij in the army air for- ces in England and a recent from him states that he in i feeling fine and has just lately re- a medal for efficient work He has been overseas for a year George the second son after a year in the area and seeing battle tion with the marines at a ber of places has arrived in this country for hospitalization be- cause of illness He is now in the navy hospital at San Diego and sends word to his parents that he thinks he will be released Kentucky assured congress safety campaign the present subsidy program would not he expanded during the holiday persons will be killed accidentally every day ing the holiday Col John le in j to conic home for Uie holidays but will probably have to return to th hospital for further treatment the youngest son is in the navy school at ami S Stillwell Council president said A is o naye such a S toll in peace time but in wartime it u careless waste of a vital national resource IT Orange He said most 11110 reported to the of- in homos and that last night that some one had will die there during the last entered his and had half of December He warned stolen about worth of jewelry and in cash Entrance was workers many of whom will he their first holiday of through the front door which the year at Christian to be euro to the fill learned that he is to to come home for a viall during the holidays In addition Mr two tors Mrs of to spend in tin Parks home One cerium Mr told In- Hint George In San If can't Ket Ki com for nil to up nnd for a day ur two
