Yuma Weekly Sun, The (Newspaper) - December 11, 1942, Yuma, Arizona EVERYTHING IN YUMA REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN THE YUMA WEEKLY SUN And THE YUMA EXAMINER THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES HOMI VOLUME 39 ARIZONA FRIDAY DECEMBER 11 1942 ALLIES POUND TRAPPED AXIS LIBYAN ARMY NUMBER 50 REDS GAIN ON CENTRAL WAR FRONT British In Hot Pursuit of Remains Of Afrika Korps Tlie British Eighth army's ad- vance toward the big axis base of Tripoli reached a point 90 miles wrst of El today and what is lefl of German Afrika Korps speeded up its retreat A good portion of the Italian army still was trapped in the Wadi region about CO miles west of El The Eighth army assisted by British and planes was cutting the trapped forces lo pieces There appeared to be little chance for the Germans and Italians to escape annihilation or capture Tempo Stepped Up The Allied army in Tunisia also stepped up lempo of its ations The U S Army Air Force went on a in its allack on axis bases dromes communications troops and ships Walter Logan United Press Cor- respondent at North African quarters reported thai Allied dromes in Tunisia were drying out rapidly and that the British and Americans were to in Russia comparable Soviets Reach Point 85 Miles From Smolensk BY M S Staff Correspondent MOSCOW Dec The Soviet army revealed today that it had driven on the Central front to within 85 miles of Smolensk pivot point of the whole German campaign in Russia A special communique said Red army was fighting in the of Bely 85 miles north and slightly east of Smolensk and 60 miles west of the railway line The Russians were making id progress The noon que reported Soviet forces fighting in the area of the railroad had captured a village he ninth they had laken in this area in the last three days Is Kail Center A main railway runs from lensk back through Warsaw in- to Germany From Smolensk German supply lines stretch north and The capture of Smolensk would remove the heart of the chain The Officer Testifies Capt Carr Got Worst of It in Fight With Wife Before She Shot and Killed Him crease their air pressure on the enemy Boeing Flying Fortresses raiding Tunis and Bizerte shot down three enemy planes and Lightnings downed wo more in offensive sweeps along the East Tunisian coast HITLER SHIFTS COMMANDERS ON RUSSIAN YORK Dee 18 A radio broadcast heard United Press today re- NKW London here by ported that Adolf Hitler again had shifted commanders on the Russian front naming Field shal Fritz von Manstein of German armies at- tempting to halt advancing sian troops on the central sector The British broadcast said von Mauslein who commanded man forces in the long and bitter Crimean campaign in 194 1 and the first part of this year Marshal Wilhelm List German on the sector originally were un- to it in importance to the mans is Kiev far down the per and if they losl Smolensk the Germans would have the greatest difficulty supplying their forces in the north The special communique ing that the Russians were at or near Rely was issued in scorn of an announcement from Adolf ler's headquarters lhat sians had been surrounded and wiped out near 210 miles of Moscow There has been no in tiie area since last ter when the Russians hurled the Germans back more than -12 miles the wesl and 60 miles lo the Soviel communique said In a factory area of Stalingrad the noon communique said Soviel storm troops surrounded and blew up seven German firing positions along with their garrisons Soviet infantry shot down five German transport planes on southern outskirts making a total of 12 in the last hours Counterattacks were reported and of ingrad but they were futile and cost he Germans heavily The Russians were still dealing the Germans heavy blows around Am Dec IS An army colonel testified today that Capt David Carr apparently got the worst of it in his ling with pretty red-haired garet Herlihy his secret wife and an expectant mother before she shot and killed him Miss Herlihy is accused of tally wounding Capt Carr in the f ller home in Douglas last Allgl in following a visit to the gay Mexican border resort of Agua Prieta 14 Col Walter C Kathbone provost marshal at Fort ca where Carr was stationed told of examining both the army cap- tain and Miss Herlihy at the las hospital after the shooting He said Miss Herlihy had a cul lip throat swollen right an- kle bruised shins a sore right arin and back a swollen face and tw broken fingernails Carr Rathbone said had separate teeth marks in his right arm a blackened right eye scratches on his face neck and ears and bruised knuckles Col Thomas L Taylor infantry 16 ARRESTED ON SEDITION CHARGES Mankind United Leaders Held On Conspiracy Count LOS ANGELES Dec 18 Richard B Hood special agent of the Federal Bureau of tion today announced arrest of 16 leaders of Mankind United on an indictment charging them with commander at Fort Huachuca led conspiracy to violate the sedition a series of army officers who that Carr had a bad tation among officers and ed men at Fort Huachuca Safety Campaign to Be Maintained Constantly at Yuma Flying School Field Marshal Fedor von where they had won Bock who failed to take Moscow last year and who failed at ingrad this year Religious Film To Be Shown Sun At Methodist Ch The sound film Beyond Our Horizon telling the story of the work of Pastor Brent in the lake and mountain district upper Norway will third and last of the series of religious films which have been shown at the Yuma Methodist church ing the month of December the pastor Rev George H Norton jr announced This picture will be shown at the evening vesper service this Sunday evening at Following the presentation of the picture the third and last of the panel discussions on the sub- ject The Bases of a Just and able Peace will be held Those who will compose this Sunday's panel will be Mrs Lucile telin Mrs George H Norton Jr lack and Chaplain ard B Scholten The discussion this Sunday evening will center about the social bases of a Just and Durable Peace and close with a condensed summary of the pre- ceding discussions Special music for the service will be furnished by a ladies trio com- posed of Ora Mae Robbins Vera Clymer and Mildred The trio will sing Under the SHOP THE SUN AND big victory several days ago is 71 miles due west of Stalingrad in the Don bend TO SELL The Camp girls will sell English holly in 15 and 25 cent sizes as soon as it is shipped in Orders may be given to the guardian Mrs O J Crorey or to any of the girls Postpones Deadline For Obtaining War Ration Book No 1 WASHINGTON Dec 1.8 The Office of Price tion has postponed until Jan 15 1043 lie final date for obtaining War Ration Book No 1 Weather conditions tation problems and heavy work loads of many board offices all lo of finishing by Dec 15 deadline originally set and an extension of time was Paul M O'Leary deputy in charge of rationing said O'Leary said that late cants for Ration Book No 1 were mostly those who take their meals out and who had no use for the first book while it was good only for buying sugar and coffee tion Book No 1 will be necessary lo obtain Ration Book No 2 Airplanes must fly but the U A Army Air Forces will have very few accidents that might be avoided Every effort is being made throughout the training centers to eliminate loss of planes and mem The Yuma Army Flying School under the command of Col Robertson will maintain a con- stant safety campaign in line with the air forces policy which has resulted in the lowest accident rate of any air force in the world Training must be carried on out delay officers at the Yuma air base say but safety is stressed from every angle The safety campaign at the air base here will reach all personnel including instructors students and ground crews Planes must be in perfect anical condition For that reason mechanics will be instructed to do their work thoroughly and inspections will be comprehensive to see that each plane is in perfect working tion before it leaves the ground Flying instructors and cadets will be constantly reminded of the words of Lt Gen H H Arnold commanding general of the army air forces Accidents caused by foolish careless disobedient cocky or grandstand pilots can and must be lie said Save the cockiness for The safely campaign will be one of education as well as ment of rules officers explain Posters have already been buted to stimulate a greater spirit of responsibility A school for air mechanics is now in progress and other special classes will be con- ducted as needed Appointed to West Point Fined on Charge Driving Too Fast in School HOMK KOK HOLIDAYS Miss Ruthe Surber who at- tends the University of Arizona at Tucson is home for the Christmas vacation visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Kenneth Surber Mr and Mrs Adair of this city have received word that their son Don W a graduate uf Yuma Union high school has re- cently received his appointment to West Point and expects to en- ter the U S military academy July 1 Don has yet to pass his final physical examination on March 3 but having passed three similar examinations during recent months is fairly certain that he will have no difficulty with this one In the meantime Don has been directed by the war department to enter the University of Arizona for special instructions pending his entrance to the military emy next summer Appointments lo the U S naval and military academies arc now made on strictly civil service ex- amination and of tiie group ing these examinations from zona Don stood second in the grading His appointment was nade by Congressman John E Murdock After graduating from the local school in the spring of 1940 Don has been a student at the preparatory school at Annapolis 7 Join Navy At Yuma Four Yuma men two from erton and one from enlisted in the U S Navy this week at the Yuma recruiting sub- station Recruiter Willard Waddell announced They From Yuma Bobbie Grant Louis A Wilson Los Angeles paid a fine in police court here Thursday morning on a charge of driving in excess of the speed it through a school zone Fred Gittner state highway trolman happened to be driving in area at the posted speed of 15 miles per hour Wilson passed Hie patrolman in the school zone going at a speed which Gittner at miles per hour or more When brought into court Wilson insisted that he was driving but 25 miles an hour when he passed the patrolman He said he that he was passing a stale patrol car and looked at his and it registered 25 miles Well that was 10 miles an hour above the speed plainly marked for that Judge Er- sel Byrd said We'll make it SI a mile in excess of the 15 miles per hour That will be just SECOND MEAT QUOTA BEGINS SUNDAY DEC 20 PHOENIX Ariz Dec 18 If they so desire Arizona erers may begin use of their ond quota of meal Sunday Dec 20 under an amendment lo meal restriction order No 1 Period begins Jan I and no slaughterer may deliver more than 10 per cent of his quota be- fore thai lime it was pointed out Meat killed and sold now will be charged against the uary quota This action docs not mean any additional meat for civilian con- sumption the OPA pointed out Rather it calls for spreading out the next quota over a longer iod of time but will alleviate ing pressure during the holiday season Thomas Joe Robert calanti and Tirso Gonzales Perez From Adron Collom and Floyd Bee Cheek From Raymond Sullivan Sullivan enlisted as a carpenter's male second class ih the tion Battalion The others enlisted as apprentice seamen in the naval reserve Report Churchill On Way to U.S For Parley With F R STOCKHOLM Dec is Lisbon dispatch of the newspaper said that Prime Minister Winston Churchill had left for Washington to confer with President Roosevelt on French colonies laws The statewide arrests followed months of investigation by the FBI and frequent meetings of a federal grand jury in Los Angeles The jury returned the indictment yesterday Head Man Nabbed Hood said that Arthur L Bell head of Mankind United known as The was apprehended at his apartment in San Francisco Other arrests were made in Los Angeles San Francisco San Jose and San Diego Others arrested George Ashwell 50 3827 menl St San Francisco described as second in J Fred 50 5538 Foothill Blvd Oakland ambulance repair man Harold von Norris 41 Martinez Max Theodore Miller 33 Latham St Mountain View cob Gloeckler 56 Denair Cal chiropractor Ray Burns Sharpe 3376 Sierra Avc San Jose or Rte 10 Box Fresno Eugene Wadsworth Brown Los Angeles A Ray Elsea Los Angeles and Shanna Jakeman Los Angeles bell California Director For the past several Hood said in a prepared Bell has been directing the of the bureaus or units of the various California cities its activities he lias used such mysterious aliases is The Voice of a Right The Divisional Department The Voice and Department B Hood said Mankind United ers had advised followers not lo buy U S War Bonds saying were worthless Leaders have advised their many followers at meetings throughout slate thai Pearl Harbor catastrophe was caused by collusion between the United Slales and Hood ued Organized in 1875 Hood said posedly was organized in 1875 by unidentified and powerful sors who pledged their fortunes and their lives to spreading the Golden Rule through Mankind Hood said first ledge of its came in when Bell conducted several small meetings in San Francisco Hood said all defendants would be arraigned in Los Angeles in the immediate future He said 150 er persons known to have been connected with the organization were being questioned Rickenbacker Says He Felt Like He Was Reborn After Rescue From Sea SAN FRANCISCO Dec 18 Capl Rickenbacker tanned and cheerful said today he fell like he was reborn when he was rescued in mid-Pacific after drifting days on a life raft In his downtown hotel room day indestruc- tible World War flying ace gave only a brief hint of his suffering and rials during the epic rafl journey I was dead so many times it's like being he said Beyond that was silent on his latest and most malic brush with death I have nothing to say and that's the truth Rickenbacker said He added thai he had given that answer also to an army press relations officer My whole Rickenbacker said is no Rickenbacker who arrived here secretly by plane yesterday ex- that he must first talk to Secretary of War Henry Stimson before he can give the full story of his great venture in the Pacific Believe Japs Preparing for New Blow Elsewhere in South Pacific U of A Math Prof Receives Commission In Naval Reserve WASHINGTON Dec 18 Tlie presence of only light enemy naval forces in he Solomons area today supported belief that the Japanese are preparing for a probable new blow elsewhere ir the Pacific If Ilia I is true it appeal that he Japanese for the ent have had enough of the type of resistance dished out to them by American forces in Hie around Guadalcanal Time time since Aug 7 the Japanese have tried to retake the island and time after time they have been repulsed with serious losses Small Forces There Recent observations disclose that the Japanese have merely small naval task groups scattered through the Northwest Solomons These are largely destroyers though there are some cruisers HALT SALES OF GASOLINE IK THE EAST Stations Ordered To Honor Only T Coupons WASHINGTON Dec Price administration today all retail filling stations n 17 Eastern states and the Dis- of Columbia not to honor gas coupons except T ons for commercial vehicles The is effective from noon today intil further notice An exception was made in the ase of emergency use when fil- ing stations may honor one Oii of any class The order was issued by ng Administrator Leon son The stales affected are Maine Hampshire Vermont Con- lecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Deleware Maryland West Virginia Virginia North Carolina South Georgia ind Florida Survey Sought n official said that Administrator Harold L had been asked by OPA to a last new survey of the petroleum situation President Roosevelt previously said the ban was only a iry measure which would halt driving for just a duy or two He said the order was among them But they aru not in sufficient number to undertake a new drive against Guadalcanal on the same grand scale of ill-fated attempts Nips Up to Something Naval experts who for several days have suspected that the anese are for another major thrust are more firmly convinced now than ever that the enemy is up to something They regard the recent inactivity in the Solomons as ominous and as indicating that the enemy is about to undertake something spectacular Some suggested that it might be an attack on South Pacific donia or the New Hebrides One observer suggested that the light enemy naval elements now in the Solomons might make a feinting thrust at Guadalcanal while a tent force makes an end run around the left against our ply lines SOLDIER KILLED WHILE FLYING TO FATHER'S FUNERAL Cal Dec 18 Staff Sgt W C- Hart who wan killed with seven other iers in the crash of a ing army transport plane near Cal Wednesday night was flying to attend the funeral of his father who hail been ed Tuesday in crash it was disclosed The elder Hart ot the Orange Cal Daily News died in crash of a Western lines plane at Cedar Valley Utah Al Orange relatives said -a double funeral would he hele Monday that efforts were be- ing made lo obtain permission foi another son Lieut Thomas L Hart with the army air corps in Alaska to fly here for the monies The army flying school here said transport plane and er crashed and burned on the airbase field DISCUSS PLANS FOR FISH CULTURE IN JAP CENTERS PHOENIX Ariz Dec Dr A Boyd Mewborn an ant professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona and one of the outstanding mathematicians of the Southwest received his com- mission here yesterday as a tenant in the Naval Reserve Lieutenant Mewborn faculty ber of the University of Arizona since 1931 has not yet received an assignment to duty North Africa HOSPITAL NEWS DISCHARGES Mrs Ethel Yuma ad- milled December 6 discharged day Mrs La Vora Hay ad- mitted December discharged today B M Young ted December 13 discharged day Marco Migratory Camp Somerton admitted December M discharged today POSTON Ariz Dec LS Ulii by an increasing need W Wade Head superintendent of gasoline for military operations in he Japanese Relocation renter here attended u meeting day at which representatives ol the Arizona and California Fish and Game Commissions discussed a program of fish culture to ment the Japanese food supply at Relocation Center Arizona Game Warden K Kartchner pointed out largo quantities of carp bass and blue gill fish could be obtained and Sen Carl Hayden on Arriving in Yuma Wednesday slaying over here that night and Thursday Senator Carl den Arizona's senior senator held a number of conferences here with city county army bureau of officials and leaders of the lo work out for the present and future being of this area He was during his visit here concerning he of gelling a specialized police detachment in this and also on making tion water available to nearby military camps At noon Thursday Sen Hayden spoke at the luncheon meeting of the Yuma club added to the diet of the interned Japanese NEW DRIVE IN MAKING ON NEW GUINEA Patrols Active Near Salamaua Main Jap Base BY TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent GEN MacARTHUR'S QUARTERS Australia Dec Allied patrol ity around Salamaua key ese base and highly effective use of a new parachute fragmentation bomb against the enemy at ba indicated today that a new Allied drive was in the making in New Guinea United Press Staff dent Don Caswell reported from Somewhere in New a Japanese counterattack ed by mortar and artillery been beaten off by American forces south of Buna Mission where the enemy is fighting hard to retain his toehold In 30 Killed At least 20 Japanese were killed and one prisoner was taken before the attack Was smashed said He reported that there was little change elsewhere around na but Australians operating west of Gona routed an enemy ment killing 15 Japanese Gen Douglas MacArthur ed the Purple Heart decoration to Lt Gen George C Kenney com- mander uf Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific in recognition of meritorious service in inventing the new bomb It was revealed that hundreds were dropped from levels as low as 75 on Japanese barges and landing points in the breaking up of the enemy landing attempt at the mouth of the river The fragmentation de- vices also were used it was said in the Buna urea and in some of the strafing raids on Lae and in which many planes were destroyed on the ground Chandler Says Japs Can Be Driven from Aleutians PORTLAND Dec IS expulsion of troops from island in the Aleutians hinges only on he willingness of United Stales lo undertake an invasion by land and sea Sen A B Happy D Ky said here last night Arriving to inspect military in- in the Portland area Chandler said that between and 10.000 Japanese troops are virtually isolated on Kiska and face tremendous difficulties in keeping supply lanes open The Japanese can be ed he said any time we are willing to the price of a sea land invasion The Kentucky senator member of of the Senate military affairs tee said the real danger of last June July and August when we lost Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians has abated 5 Arrested As Feds Smashes Mexican Opium Ring PHOENIX Ariz Dec persons were arrested in and two in as Federal narcotics agents smashed an opium smuggling ring throughout the west Two persons were arrested on the j coast in connection with the same Mother Son Collide Enroute to Each Other's Homes to A L agent in charge of the Phoenix office of Federal Narcotics they had been smuggling Mexican opium grown in Olid IS i crn Sonora fields into Mrs Charles Rounds of Torre Ind and her son P A Rounds of Carbon Ind decided to pay each other unexpected visits and succeeded in the middle of an Indiana highway Traveling in opposite directions in their auto- mobiles they collided head-on Neither was injured seriously try under the guise of mas Presents FOR CHRISTMAS Miss Betty Jane Pool is ed to arrive in Somerton from San Luis Rey academy to spend mas with her parents Mr and Mrs F P Pool
