Yuma Daily Sun, The (Newspaper) - November 20, 1945, Yuma, Arizona THE AT VOMA As reported by V S last 21 Lowest last 21 Average high this Average lo Relative humidity at 11 AND TINEL WIATHER FORECAST TO WEDNESDAY NIGHT Mostly fair with temperatures about the same VOLUME 272 YUMA ARIZONA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20 ARIZONA VOLUME 272 20 FALLEN NAZI CHIEFS GO ON TRIAL Listen Uneasily To Reading of Indictment Yuma Man's Unit Is Bringing Home Allied Prisoners lack C seaman first rlass is in homo recovered prisoners while serving with air run 12 of the naval air transport service The unit's planes are flown daily over miles of the air routes from Oakland Calif to Tokyo Nearly miles a month are traveled by the fleet of four entitled planes of the squadron are in the states as well such Pacific bases as Honolulu Guam Saipan tlie Philippines Johnston Majuro and others Co Board Urged To Ask Priority To Acquire Airfield A delegation made up of in- citizens city officials met the board of supervisors al regular meeting Monday and urged the county obtain a priority to acquire the Yuma Army air field when and if it is declared surplus property It was urged that the board various government Uv C Press Staff Nov 20 Twenty fallen loaders of the Nazi regime on trial before a United Nations tribunal today and listened uneasily to a shocking indictment holding them directly responsible for death and ery of World War II The trial thai for the time in history sought to prove aggressive warfare a crime against all mankind opened in an atmosphere of grim cold legality in ancient Palace of 22 On Trial men were on trial all top figures in Uie Nazi archy lhal overawed Europe for a decade but two were being judged in ailing lenbnmner and the missing Martin Bormann Sidney S Alderman Ion D C of the American staff began the reading j cies aml such priority of the word indictment Enlarge Nuremberg Courtroom for War Trials shortly after the hearings opened it a m He spoke slowly and deliberately he read off the first of the four principal accounts in the in- charging the men of plunging the world into war He was followed to the dais by members of the British French JUKI Russian prosecution staffs who intoned the disposing of other routine matters the supervisors and bers of the delegation loured the air field through the courtesy of the commanding officer and ed first hand knowledge of the facilities At an evening meeting the board decided to cooperate with of the delegation in making matter a further Meantime Because thu tiny courtroom in Nuremberg Gen tried would scat only persons it was remodeled and enlarged Mill K war criminals being sun in photo above masonry are being torn out and installed to reinforce remaining Willis mid roof of ancient building which adjoins the larger Palace of Justice S S troopers and German civilians are doing the work guarded by CH's like the one with gun lit right The war crime trials started today JAVA PORT IS BOMBED BY BRITISH Seek to Clear Path For Advancing Indian Troops Nov Brit- ish Thunderbolt study of the j today bombed Indonesian the clerk of i holds the board was instructed to write I sages of the indictment for the benefit of the four presiding and malic known ticcs and the defendants j the citizens Under an agreement dated Dec- several recesses ol hy the court the reading more rapidly than had been expected and there was n strong possibility that the accused might enter their pleas before the end of session The defendants themselves to be the most interested men in the courtroom They lowed the reading of the witli rapt attention over their earphones attached lo their hench Hermann the one defendant twisted uneasily in his front row seat From time to time lie leaned over to whisper something to his dolph Hess occasionally an inane grin twitched across his fat face He nodded several times as derman traced thn illegal ment of the German air force under his direction in tiie pre- Munich days when Nazi Germany was secretly arming for war a- tho world to the proper government agencies the desires of ember the supervisors granted the federal government permission to use acres which then comprised a Yuma county field as an Army air field The present air field covers the area involved in the agreement and other adjacent land Most of the runways of the field arc on the CIO acres Phoenix Plans Memorial to War Dead the Javanese port of Semarang lo clear a path for Indian troops seeking lo capture the city Leaflets warning civilians lo take shelter were showered on the city by an RAF plane A few utes later six Thunderbolts each carrying a bomb cd down on the Adm Richardson Testifies F D R Insisted on Fleet Being Kept At Harbor in 1940 WASHINGTON Although President Roosevelt in- on keeping the U S fleet jit Pearl Harbor in liHO as deterrent to Japanese aggression he did not then want to increase the Navy's personnel Adm J O Richardson said today Richardson commander of the fleet from January 1910 to ruary 1311 told the Pearl Harbor investigating committee in his ond day on the stand that he made a special trip to Washington to find out what this country's tary intentions were The admiral said it had been an- the fleet was being kept at Pearl Harbor at his request As I had made no such re- Entrenched Indonesian troops he testified I naturally have-been preventing a linkup of Indian troops deployed south of At further east alon the north i of Java British troops were reported ad- PHOENIX Ariz Nov 20 A cultural center as a living to Arizona's war dead will be built in Phoenix soon it wast at n meeting here last I night of -100 Salt River Valley civic leaders A campaign will op- en Dec 10 to raise for construction of a library art The Russian prosecutors sal i building community theater and almost within arms reach of j outdoor hall large enough to commodate persons Featured in the plans l Continued on Page To the People of this Community The Victory Loan objective of two billion dollars in Serins K Bond sales is no bigger than yourself because it you multi- Insure attainment of First War Loan pieces i o separate E Bonds Second War Loan pieces Third War Loan pieces Fourth War pieces Fifth War Loan pieces Sixth War 000 pieces Seventh War Loan pieces You can readily sec that every E Bond coal breaks down into millions of Individual bite The Victory success or rests on your awareness of the necessity of buying extra bonds to care for the wounded pay for Uie policing of enemy countries mustering out of millions of men and the cleaning up of bills for munitions THE EDITOR are inscribed with names of those who lost their lives in the war and a hall of heroes bearing names of all Arizonans who ed in the armed forces Goldwater Phoenix chant and World War II an was chosen as chairman uf Iho fund-raising drive He called for of JOO men and 00 women for the Europeans trapped by Hie in the city They were said to be moving outward from the ruined city's center loward the residential quarter of Darmo Hasty preparations were being made to protect Batavia against an anticipated extremist attack which some officials feared might subject the city lo same fate as A defensive will lie around Batavia by members of the Indonesian Peace Preservation Corps cording k an announcement by Amir information ister in the Indonesian can quoted hy the Anela News Agency Dutch airmen just returned from reported that ian troops inspired hy Moslem religious fervor have been ing themselves heedless zy against British tanks The l Continued on Page fj S West Coast and increases in Navy personnel But the president held to his convictions about holding the fleet al the advanced base and did not approve Richardson's request for more men The president was rather loath to increase the number ot men be- cause he felt that the mechanics could be quickly inducted if their services were son testified That was in July Selective Service did not go into effect until October Mission Richardson testified thai mission on July S primarily was to determine why Mr Roosevelt wanted the fleet retained at waii and to stress the need for increasing the number of men in the Navy We were building a large he said We had on board only about per cent of the complement I wanted the keep it at Pearl ships manned fully and the men trained so that we would be pre- pared cither lor peace or for war Richardson said Mr Roosevelt felt in connection with naval power that men with technical abilities in civil life could be CHIANG ASKS MANCHURIA Army Paper Hints Move Has Changed The Situation Hy Stuff Correspondent Nov Chiang hns appealed again to Russia for cooperation in Manchuria to the Chinese Central Government it was dis- closed today The official Central Army paper Ta Kung Pao said Chiang's new representations were made by the Chinese ambassador in cow and that similar conferences had been held with the Soviet en- voy ia Chungking The newspaper intimated ly that the negotiations had ed out satisfactorily for the tral Government which had been sharply critical of Moscow's passive intervention on the side of the Chinese ists in Manchuria Ta Pao said the son Ching and the other Chungking tives who were forced to flee the capital of Changchun several days ago to escape capture by the Communists were ing to return very soon There was no further tion of the reported Sino-Russian conferences but the army organ said they had resulted in a com- plete turnabout of the ian situation But that account of improved relations differed sharply with a dispatch published by the Central Kuomintang's of- newspaper Chung Yang Jih Pao The Kuomintang paper in an Cpl C H Gets Discharge Cpl Clifford H McGowan 28 of Yuma who received his Army discharge at Camp Calif Nov 12 has since requested service in the European Theater of Operations his mother Mrs W L Chadwick of 062 ange avenue announced this week McGowan who was inducted Aug 10 served as 1 machine gunner in 341 infantry unit in the Ardennes battle and the Central European campaign He was wounded in both legs by shrapnel in the Ardennes battle and was captured by the army on 16 He was rescued by U S forces from a German prison camp April 2 He lias been awarded the Silver Star Purple Heart and Good Con- duct medals the American ter ribbon and the European ter ribbon with three bronze stars a Presidential Citation Defense Motion Trial Is Denied MANILA Nov 20 United Slates military wanted to find out what was back of it The committee hoped to learn whether Mr Roosevelt relieved Richardson from mand because h com- would not en- Continued on Page 5 AUTO WORKERS AWAIT REPLY of dorse the chief executive's mai minalion to nor of Command Kichardson was relieved of UK command Feb 1 He told committee yesterday he ly opposed the late president's der to concentrate the fleet in waters where the admiral fell it could not be properly de- fended or prepared for belligerent action Richardson told the former Undersecretary of State he called on Mr Roosevelt at the ken and quickly trained The admiral said he stayed in Washington until July H During Ills visit he Secretary of talked with former State Cordell Hull White House on July S HMO and again on Oct S He said he urged return of the fleet to tiie U Simmer Welles Son James F nes now secretary of state and Gen George C Marshall Army I Continued on Page 5 DOG WHICH DIED HERE FOUND TO HAVE BEEN RABID An examination of the of a dog sent to tho state tories at Phoenix last Friday dis- closed that thu dog rabid Dr R R county health unit physician disclosed today The dog was taken last in tho vicinity of 1st street nnd 18th avenue after it had bitten eral persons The animal also snapped at Dr K C while he was examining it A quarantine has been placed on the entire aren west of the east main canal between lird street and the Colorado Dr has ordered all in that area lo bo tied up and observed for two weeks as a measure Probe Death of Joe Conway Killed n Crash Hear Junction Motors corporation day rejected u demand front CfO United Auto for an an- to the unions proposal thai its 30 per cent wage de- mands he submitted to tion Though the strike imperiled corporation had previously ised un answer before the 4 p m deadline set by the H W Anderson J-M vice president said the corporation's answer would he delivered on or before Friday November ion trying Gen Tomoyuki for war crimes in the Philippines denied a defense tion for acquittal today and re- fused a subsequent request for more time to prepare his case The tribunal ever granted a recess un- til tomorrow Motion Presented The motion for acquittal was presented hy chief of the defense counsel Harry E Clarke of Altoona Pa after the tion rested its case against this morning The defense asks the sion for a verdict of not guilty on the grounds that the accused is innocent of the charges placed against him in this Clarke said In no instance has the presented any direct dence to establish allegations contained in the charge that he unlawfully disregarded and failed to discharge his duties as com- ALLEN IS CHARGED WITH MURDER Following Inquest Into Death of His Stepson A jury Monday after- noon round that Joe Gordon banks came to his death ber 15 as a result of a gunshot wound inflicted by his stepfather Edward L Allen Young Wilbanks 15 died in the General pital last Thursday nearly hours after Allen allegedly shot him at the ranch home on street Allen was not present at Uie inquest but was represented by his attorney Peter C Byrne The jury deliberated less than ten minutes after hearing idence of members of the Allen family who were present at the time the shooting took place in the Allen home on street on the morning of November 15 First witness to testify was Allen's wife mother of the boy by a former marriage She told of accompanying Allen Yuma early on the morning oi he tragedy for having her car Nuv 20 i cd badly and the steering wheel inquest was being held here j was broken Couway apparently died of internal injuries Brought here following the accident Phillip A Nelson Is Promoted to Sergeant way's body will bo taken to I AIR SERVICE COMMAND SOUTHWEST Phillip A Nelson band of Mrs Maxene Nelson Yuma has recently been promoted to Staff Sergeant at a troop rier base ill the Philippines After enlisting in October he served as an aircraft mechanic at Yuma air field until May of this year when he fame overseas is now a member of Troop Carrier group carrier unit in the holder of three presidential unit has in every major campaign from New Guinea to Okinawa men and supplies to the front lines in unarmed transports Nelson is entitled to wear the Asiatic Pacific ribbon with one bailie star and Uie liberation 1 i today in death of former At- I torney General Joe Conway who was injured fatally late yesterday when his car plunged into a dry wash seven miles east of Apache Junction Conway who last January ed the longest career in history as Arizona's chief law officer ing bid for the and seat held by Carl Haydn conscious at Uie of wrecked automobile hv two i I he studied law at the Uni- 15V UNITED CIO anto workers awaited an answer from Motors before calling a system-wide strike which an industry spokesman said might paralyze operations in every major automobile company except j one largest and strongest of the anlo Big Three was given until -1 p m today to reply lo a mobile Workers CIO proposal This offered submission of wage demands to a three-man i lion board ma general of forces alleged to have committed atrocities In no instance chas the presented direct evidence that he permitted perpetration of the atrocities alleged In fact the only evidence pre- sented remotely connecting the accused with knowledge of the alleged atrocities is the testimony of two self-confessed tors who schemed to save their lives during occupation and who now are trying to earn protection by testifying against the Arguing against the motion Chief Prosecutor Maj Robert M Kerr of Portland Ore Yamashita was guilty declared in every instance and there can be no doubt as to his guilt Vice-President Walter P Tijuana Police Chief Ousted TIJUANA Nov 20 Joaquin Rubles chief of the purpose repaired Alien had become irritated because the caused him to be late to work at a welding shop in Yuma where he was employed Kiss The ensuing argument ended when the couple arrived at the ranch home at about S Mrs Allen said that as she got out the car Allen had asked her to kiss him goodbye and she had told him she did not feel like it Well you had bid Joe she said her band had stated With that Allen went into the louse and obtained a 32 pistol from the drawer of a table in his bedroom She tried to wrest the un from him she said but he brushed past her and dashed to bedroom where Joe was ready for school She heard i shot and saw the boy fall to the floor she testified Asked if there had been any words between Allen and the hoy before the shooting Mrs Allen answered that there had not Shortly after Uie curred Mrs Allen said her band went to the kitchen and fired a shot at his own head hut he inflicted only a slight wound In the excitement followed she could not recall clearly the details of happened except that calls had been made for a doctor and for an ambulance When the ambulance arrived the lad was taken to the Yuma eral hospital where he died ly before noon Dr Wayne A Fenderson whom Mrs Allen had called to thu boy as to the cause of death and thu circumstances rounding his visit to the Allen home after the shooting He said thai boy's death was due to uncontrollable from a head wound apparently Continued on Page jij WRITER TO VISIT YUMA SEEKING FEATURE STORIES police here since today was nix for burial Bora in Horn Joseph Ward Conway al warned that the Salt Lake City Utah Dec ISMS WHS set up for an immedial suspended from office by Gov the attorney was known among G-M em- ly as Joe Ho was reared should the company answer in Tempe Stale College After be unsatisfactory Almost simultaneously with tho l morn who serving in the Army during World s ultimatum j of the Automobile soldiers he died a lew minutes after asking for a drink of wa- ter soldiers Conway as saying 1 don't know what when they asked for de- tails of the accident Car Leaves An hy Hi Highway Patrol disclose Conway's car left the 1 State that of Arizona in Conway lived al Phoenix since opening a law practice there in mat He first was elected attorney general in taking office in I January and serving until lasl January Although he forsook that office to run for the U S Senate Con- way had announced his intention hway oi trying again for the attorney Manufacturers association said lhal n strike General tors would be followed within a j week by shutdowns in plants of all bin one other major automobile manufacturer It was assumed thai the j named manufacturer was the Ford Motor Co traditionally an pendent Phone Workers Strike In other labor disputes the Juan Felipe Rico on charges made against him by Manuel Fontes i inspector of police for the ern District it was reported Tiie charges which were not I made public will be according to Mayor I Ro- i mero who transported Rico's Arguello j of police has been appointed about feet north of the wash as i generalship at no he was lo Phoenix from voice with a smile was stilled court Irial at knocked over a guard po down a seven-foot front of the and plunged tar was Conway is survived by his ow Mrs Gertrude and n daughler and son-in-law Capl and by a telephone strike in the com- Windsor Out plant In all strikes kept U S workers away Jobs according to a United Press count Continued on Page 6 who said he will seek an audience with Rico tomorrow was appointed to the office by Rico in August He was one of Rico's first appointees on i becoming governor Car Pilfered Mitchell of the Del Sol hotel reported to the sheriff's office morning that a hag blankets and sonal belongings of himself and his daughter had been taken from car A trench coat also was ing he said Dighton former Phoenix newspaperman and now a staff writer in the Los Angeles bureau of the Associated Press by a Wide World grapher will visit on Dec- ember il was announced today by U I Baker President of the Yuma County Chamber of Com- merce The two men are visiting zona in search of feature story material tor by member pers of the Associated loyner chairman of the chamber publicity is making lo pany men on a tour through the Yuma districts STORES TO BE CLOSE THURSDAY THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving nay In public will will be closed mi that day it wsui announced at tho chamber of commerce
