Yuma Weekly Sun, The (Newspaper) - January 30, 1942, Yuma, Arizona EVERYTHING IN YUMA AROUND THE SUN THE YUMA And THE YUMA EXAMINER THE THAT GOES HOMI VOLUME ARIZONA FRIDAY JANUARY 30 1942 S ARMY HURLS JAPS BACK CHURCHILL WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE 464 TO 1 HAILS i Defense Savings AS BLOCKING Mapped HITLER HOPE At Yonks and Irish Joining Hands Across the Sea Again Indicates Assault On Is Expected Plans for extending the teer payroll allotment plan in local stores and offices were discussed meeting of the county defense savings committee held at the chamber of commerce office here j this morning Mrs Evelyn Smith LONDON Jan 23 Prime j chairman announced Minister Winston won I Fred Edwards deputy ah vote of i trator oi the state savings dence in the house of commons j attended the meeting He day after- the A E F's declared the Yuma committee has readiness for early and con- a good showing tact with the enemy further Members of the committee dimmed Adolf rer C B Andrews John Nankervis R maining hopes of total victory E Jr W H The vote was 461 to one 1 tis Ham of Somerton and An appeal by Admiral Sir dis and Sam Haydis S V Shaw er J Keyes for a unanimous vote Is the state from challenged by who of confidence was the Independent demanded a division Tellers Shout No James Maxton Independent Yuma county To Contact Merchants Nankervis is to contact the schools and teachers regarding the voluntary payroll allotment borite from Glasgow was ths plan under which a proportion of senter but two other Independent j each paycheck is withheld for Laborites acted as tellers of defense savings stamps thus did not vote and both of I on Pace i McGovern and i bell No vote was cheered by members who stood oa their seats and waved as Churchill smilingly left the chamber The prime minister making the final government speech in a three day said Action Sought 1 The wish of the American people and leaders was the MOVE CLOSER TO SINGAPORE Bombers Driven Off By British Fighter Planes By HAROLD GUARD United Staff Correspondent SINGAPORE Jan 29 Australian in two slashing away from the Hope Abandoned For 250 From Torpedoed Ship JUAN P R Jan 29 The 71 survivors of the torpedoed liner Lady Hawkins grateful for what they regarded as their miraculous preservation gave up their 250 shipmates as definitely lost today Dispatches from Canada and the I United States confirmed their forebodings that lifeboats known NEA An American doughboy right extends a welcome hand and cigaret to a welcoming Irishman as a load of A E P troops docked at a northern Ireland port More on laughingly in the background The picture made by a staff photographer was passed by censor and cabled to New York Man Nabbed In Florida on 1939 Phoenix Charge PHOENIX Ariz Jan 28 Sheriff Lon Jordan today started WAR MATERIALS TO BRAZIL as Palm Beach Fla to face charges of defrauding Louis Van San Francisco retired sea captain of in a horse iace betting swindle Green was apprehended in ida by Sheriff L R Baker of West Palm Beach UNIFIED COMMAND INSTITUTED Placed In Battle of Macassar Strait Still In Progress With 65 Out of Original 100 Jap Ships Heading Toward Java bayonet attacks have killed 450 Japanese on the Malaya front a Malaya Command communique isaid today but it was admitted that the battle zone steadily j nearing that a anese central column was now only 30 miles from the Tehran strait In the first attack on the East coast Tuesday the Japanese were caught between the advanced Australian forces and a strong Australian artillery barrage which was laid down behind them The Japanese lost 250 men against 30 Australians killed or wounded 200 Japs Killed Yesterday the Australians at- tacked with the bayonet on the central area ripping into the nn Page 6 I LONDON Jan 29 mill tary commentator said today that and Netherlands ships and airplanes had WASHINGTON Jan 29 Unified command of forces nas been instituted at waii the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean area as well BE in the Far East Secretary of War L asid today He disclosed that Admira vowed he would not rest until he Chester W Nimitz new com- RIO DE Jan 29 tracked tne swindlers mander in chief of the Pacific Arrangements wae sent to We suc fleet had been placed in complete today lor a jn two of of Hawaiian defenses Lieut Van Rillaer lost his life savi in the swindle Niv 26 1939 and the two other to have gotten Lady Hawkins probably had not survived If no more survivors are found the is the worst edy of the current German J rine war along the Atlantic coast I This brought the total of ships U.S PLANES SINK NIPPON TRANSPORT Jap Losses In Macassar Strait Battle Mounting WASHINGTON Jan 29 The war department reported day Gen Douglas MacArthur's men have hurled back headlong Japanese attacks and u have raised their score to 16 anese ships sunk or damaged in the Battle of Macassar Straits American Army Flying resses out their third at- tack on the Japanese invasion fleet in Macassar waters sank one anese transport and set another the war and one of the worst of the war Most of the 250 missing were including a large number and them were American construction workers mostly from the vicinity of St Joseph Mo so badly was unlikely to achieve whatever objective the Japanese high com- mand had The commentator said there had been no important changes in the general far eastern situation He added that the Japanese had tavia said that the Battle of the Strait was ing as the greatest sea action since the Battle of Jutland in the Grand Fleet made its last vain attempt to break into the At- The battle is still raging in its sixth day and no matter how many ships the Japanese lose it will not be won until the entire enemy invasion armada has been Cavalryman Hit By Car on Yuma f Forde Says Tide Turning Allies Gaining Initiative sunk by American air and forces in the battle to id Six more are listed as or Placed At 31 The total of Japanese ships sunk damaged or probably lost in the Macassar action placed i by Gen Sir Archibald Wa- i veil at 31 If the two ships ed today are in addition to his ures the total now stands as 33 The Japanese hurled headlong infantry assaults at both the j right and left flanks of thur's lines However American artillery again broke up the Japanese at- tacks with heavy enemy losses Japanese aircraft continued to restrict their activity to sance 5 Bombers Take Fart The latest Macassar sinkings re- SAN FRANCISCO Jan 29 Prime Minister Francis M Forde told the Australian ple in newspaper statements tolny he confident the initiative n Pacific is passing to by U- S- -on suffered 250 casualties in a fight j wiped out or the survivors have U S war materials to to strengthen that possible axis attack as to the American conference home Joint United air and being at tist coast points had them sent to prison The two men captured and con- earlier wore Max Kaplan apprehended in miami Fla and Phalen in Portland Ore Navy Bagging Submarines Off Eastern Coast Entire Crew Of Torpedoed Ship Is Rescued j BOSTON Jan 29 The J rescue of the entire crew WASHINGTON Jan 29 Iof an Norwegian tanker Members of a senate naval j torpedoed by an enemy submarine subcommittee said Scotia eight days ago day they had been advised by reported today when tne of Navy Frank Knox that Boston trawler Grand Marshal ar- American warships are getting a rived here number of enemy submarines by traw U S coastal waters The committee members did not ler crew members and by the navy described how they divulge details of Knox's i n the crew adrift in tion which followed spread of the j lifeboats Friday off Seal submarine menace to the land N S and landed at a Gulf of Mexico where the navy is Nova Scotian port extending its intensive hunt for j The crew ili tho underseas marauders jians except une described as a The reported presence of the New York resident were reported German subs in Gulf waters Jin grood and intent to attempt to j dressed only mau injured sink tankers plying from the oil it was way the American ports of south Texas a broken Gen Delos C Emmons army com- mander in Hawaii is his sub- ordinate To Soften Disclosure of creation of a uni- fied command at that vital tion was expected to soften to some extent congressional cism of the tration in Hawaii The Pearl Harbor inquiry board report ed there had been little ation between the two services there before the Japanese attack on Dec 1 Stimson aid in addition to the unified command at Hawaii ilar steps had been taken at Canal All sea and aviation forces in that area are under the supreme command of an army air officer Lieut Gen Frank Andrews In the Western Caribbean the U S fighting for- ces are under the command of a Continued on C He's First of Many on the Malayan East Coast day A Daily Mail special pondent telephoning from Ba- been forced to turn he said The correspondent asserted that the fleet estimated to number 100 Continued on Page i Agua Caliente Track May Be Closed By Clamping Shut Gates At Border To Prevent Highway Congestion It has been reported here that a soldier stationed wilh the 2nd Cavalry unit here but whose name was not revealed was struck by a car on street near First avenue last night shortly after 8 o'clock He was first taken to the Ft Yuma Indian hospital is one of the army ambulances and then moved to a hospital for further treatment Broadcasting System Forde said that the smashin blows of Dutch and port concentrations at Bali Papan the Dutch oil port Borneo American cunst which has been seized by th planes and ships in the Macassar enemy Straits was evidence that the i One transport was sunk and lied powers in the Southwest other was set afire Two Japanese planes were shot down and a third was damaged All the U S planes safely to their base 33 BODES ARE FROM COLORADO MINE SACRAMENTO Gal Jan arJ well as the New Agua Caliente race track Years Day football games were in Old Mexico last racing cancelled at the army's request be- B cause fell within the ban on still in in public gatherings West may he closed by the United Operates on Sundays States Army as a means of Agua Caliente because it is in Highway congestion Mexico has not fallen under the Culbert L Olson today j army ban it has been operatin The be shut only on Sundays during the he said by the expedient of ter but during the off months in ing the border through California frequently five had reached the stage at which they could seek out and it- tack Japanese He said Macassar Straits attacks were the first real checks to Japanese sea power The statement was considered notable here because it was the first by an Australian cabinet minister announcing that the tide shows signs of turning in the Southwest Pacific where the aneses have or more island outposts of the Australian continent ose Group HAYDEN Colo Jan 29 Rescue squads returned to the wrecked Wadge coal mine today to search for the body of the j man killed when an explosion rocked the shaft with such force that it decapitated some of the Thirty-three bodies already re- covered lay in Liberty Hall an old opera house at nearby Mount i Condition of Mrs Harris awaiting a coroners Murray Goldstein al agreement All race meets states including Hollywood Park in the Western Santa Anita Bay Meadows days a week Caliente saw the handwriting on the wall some weeks ago It Continued on Vage 4 Red Army Smashes At Germans On Southern Front Inflicts Huge Losses MOSCOW Jan 29 Red of the division which German positions arrived from Prance to stiffen i Nazi resistance In addition the army on a Southern front sector suffered extremely four regiments and i casualties The an elite guard and a ment sent forward to retake Hungarian cavalry regiment was annihilated during a patches disclosed today While the Russians advanced on the Southern front the Germans threw In heavy reserves in the in an effort to halt the Russian drive there A German effort to recapture the town of in complete tion the three-day battle in which its com- mander Col was killed Offensive Begun The forces of Marshal Semyon i MP LAND ON BORNEO COAST 320 MILES WEST OF Overturns On Valley Road WASHINGTON Jan 29 The house naval affairs today rejected by a vote of 114 to 6 the demands of several members for a committee of the Pearl Harbor at- 19 Jap Fighter quest The victim of day night's explosion was believed buried under a slide i Death of a Hero Ii i there -Ism I Thr landin Jiin dc forces in a objective I ill as the Japanese toward the j attached the said effected at Pemangkat on the It WMS believed that the anese had come from Sarawak by Southwest Borneo coast and ship to attack their new objective anese have started a drive I 40 miles down the coast from the toward that area from British Sarawak to the north a ands Indies Command iue said today The communique said that the overwhelmingly Sarawak border Miles From Singapore In effecting their landing the Japanese had established a hold at the nearest Borneo point to Singapore which is 320 miles than the Dutch forces in the j to the west with the rea had obtained local Islands as stepping stones The strength of the Japanese began a driving of- on the northern sector of the southern front resulting from the the A class Private Milburn Henke 22 ta was First i es despite their fierce resistance Dutch Planes Active As the Netherlands forces drew blowing up everything military value Dutch naval planes raced to the new invasion to bomb Japanese ships Belief was expressed Unit and forces was not known is known chiefly fo fierce battle there in 1850 between Netherlands forces an hostile tribesmen Japanese might attempt down he coast 90 to the ul The Netherlands com- distributed through the the Netherlands Indies News Agency Halil attacked 1111 Hie ui Cumuli a was re- ported satisfactory today i their accident on avenue Tuesday night in their coupe overturned They were RANGOON Jan 3D being treated at the Yuma and British pilots eral lt and probably 16 I Podolsky Japanese planes in the them said that Mrs Goldstein Rangoon urea today only suffered a fractured ankle and I Tomahawk fighter One bruises while her husband had pilot was injured slightly scalp laceration and bruises about j American volunteers supported the a smail number of British The accident occurred at about j Air I IH p.m I In- ling smith at the time in n e air in the Catlle Alaska Planes En Route To Far East Expected To Soon Permit Allies To Launch Three Pronged Air Drive IAEA Two days after Lieutenant Marshall J Anderson above awarded Distinguished Service Cross by for distinguished in he was by l lycra ns lie dunked In his lifter ttus Ui By FRANK United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1942 by United Press HONOLULU Jan 29 planes enroute to the Far Bast will ultimately enable the United Nations to smash against the Japanese in a pronged air well informed sources said today Such a drive would he ed tn the iiil mid Tor Hi lap and tan Ut It out Allied ran operate from Australia and the south and from Burma while most sources here expect stok to be available us oil air in not too dis- tant future In a three-way air A-e positions huM IMI V Ill tl ill Ille nil U
