Yuma Weekly Sun, The (Newspaper) - April 2, 1943, Yuma, Arizona EVERYTHING IN YUMA REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN The Yuma Weekly Sun AND THE YUMA EXAMINER THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES HOME VOLUME 40 YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY APRIL 2 1943 NUMBER 14 REDS SMASH 2 GERMAN ATTACKS Russians Drive Deeper Into Smolensk Belt 15V United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW April 1 UW I smashed two mini on Kharkov front inld Iho Smolensk defense bull uu den Central The shrinking GUI in the Northwest was in grave i cut in two as result of the Sovit.-t cap- lure yesterday ot oS miles of and only 12 miles northeast of uu the lust highway link between German forces north and south of the Kuban river Is Important Wednesday midnight com- referred to sUnya as a base of the utmost im- portance to the The town fell to the Russians a advance marshland from Some German officers and men were lulled in the two futile attacks today along the middle j course of the Northern Donets on Kharkov front tho mid-day communique said Soviet artillery and rifle fire beat off the attacks and a Soviet hurled thu enemy back to his initial with a of one Lank and two armored cars Only yesterday the Germans threw an entire infantry battalion supported by tanks and artillery against the Soviet lines on the same sector They lost 150 dead Navy Announces 3 Raids on Japs In Aleutians WASHINGTON April 1 Three more air attacks on bases in the Aleutians and another on Munda in the Solomons were announced by navy Two of the Aleutian attacks were made on Kiska and the third on HoKz bay Attu island These attacks all mi Tuesday increased lo i2 the number of raids made on during March The Aleutian operations cost us one heavy bomber shot antiaircraft over Kiska I Fires were started in the da assault and all our re- turned J Oscar Mabery Former Yuma Resident Dies Vm justice oi peace pre- cinct notified last night of 1 Oscar about a former dent oi Yuma Mr Mabery died Wednesday evening at Calif where lie has lived Cor the past score of years He was engaged in ranching in the Yuma valley be- fore here and had ated tn auto court at lor Mime years One daughter Mrs Jewell Hare lives in Yuma is just ing from an operation at the Yu- ma hospital A Travis died at Hemot last August An- other son Clarence lives at Col- ton Calif and three married daughters Ruby Null and Joy live at Funeral services will be held at Saturday U S Fliers In Heavy Attack On Kiska Air Field NEW COOLERS ARE FOR ARMY NAVY USE HEADQUARTERS Alaska De- fense Command April 1 Jap antiaircraft gunners sent up a furious barrage of flak Monday when medium and heavy bombers of the Air Force made a smashing attack on the runway the Japs are laboriously ing in Salmon Lagoon the army defense command disclosed today Pilots who brought flights of bombers in at feet to loose miore than SO tons of bombs on the nearly finished project ed the Japs gave them the works filling the sky with machine-gun fire and ack-ack Seven of our planes suffered buttle damage as they roared through heavy flak but there were no casualties and the bomb loads were seen lo land fairly on the earth fill which the Japs pushed out slowly and doggedly with shovels and carls The raid was the for March and the increased volume of anti-aircraft fire was thought lo he a fair indication that the Japs were trying desperately to prevent the strip from being like other Kislin projects Pupils to Collect Clean Cotton Rags For Air Base Pupils of the grade schools of the city have taken on a project in collecting clean cotton rags use of the mechanical at the air base school Demand is thc army is unable to supply thrill A war production board order I effective March restricted struction of coolers for the army and navy it was announced today by G Browne Phoenix manager for the Browne who is and tomorrow at the Yuma of commerce tor the of answering questions residents of the Yuma might have priorities said essential re- the regular com- if is understood and i has been issued for help from local housewives Due In purchasing nn provision is made at present for pay for this to tile nation The children are asked to the rags to their schools TWO CADETS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH L- land of Ml Clemens Mich and Karl H Cunningham Jr of Hil killed Wednesday afternoon when their plane crashed on a routine ing flight about miles east of the local field Yuma Army Air Field officers announced day A round party in jeeps aided hy airplanes readily located the scene of the crash Sgt Legg to Arrive In Yuma After South Pacific Duty Mrs lames W formerly Florence Lozar has received word from her husband who is a staff sergeant in the U S army eers that has arrival back in thin country after seeing over nino months of service in the Pacific of war He is expected to arrive in Yuma within a few days on a 20 day leave of absence and he and Mrs Legg will visit with his people at Cody Wyoming during most of that time Mrs Legg to join her husband at camp after he is somewhere She has been employed as a stenographer clerk in the county agent's office Sgt Legg was stationed in Yu- ma with the engineers when they were married here RAF Congratulated On Anniversary LONDON April 1 British and American planes rocked Hitler's European fortress with a record tons of bombs last month it was estimated today hut bad weather last night prevented the Royal Air Force from ing- in its anniversary with an- other raid on many Anniversary messages were pouring in on the RAF from around the world King George VI congratulated his airmen on achieving clear ascendancy over our enemies and said the KAF was now powerful and armed with its squadrons where deployed for the attack Soviet Air Marshal ander came an sion of hope that the creasing blows of British and iet air power will hasten the tory of the coalition of loving nations over Hitler and many Donald Douglas Says Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contracts Proving Effective Guarantee Against War Profiteering SANTA MONICA Calif April con- with army ami navy uv guarantee against war profiteering Donald tin nation's largest manufacturer said today Douglas in an exclusive inter- view explaining the annual ALLiED AIRMEN CONTINUE RAIDS JAP BASES CKN MacARTHUR'S QUARTERS Australia April Liberator bombers on a long range raid bombed Babo in Dutch New Guinea a communique said today while other planes smashed a foot gap in a new enemy bridge above the east coast port of dang Big fin's that the fliers could sec GO miles away were sot at Ba- ho which is on gulf at the western cud of New Guillen 750 miles above Australia and 1100 miles from the Allied New Guinea base at Port Moresby The bombers smacked the town and airdrome and shot down an intercepting plane All planes re- turned safely Medium units bombed and strafed the airdrome and supply base at also in Dutch New Guinea and the village of nearby Besides knocking the big gap in the bridge across the Timper river 30 miles northwest of dang a heavy unit plastered the enemy coastal road between dung and on the north coast cial report of Douglas Aircraft company said fee contracts with their rigid self- limiting margins of profit in ad dition to marked increases in es reduced Douglas profits ly -10 percent during 2.2 Anyone who thinks war tries are profiteering from this war should our financial re- port Douglas commented Oui margin of net profit was only 2.2 percent of our total sales last year The government when it be- gan allowing us contracts to build airplanes on a is instead of the plan feared all kinds of abnormal costs would be crowded Continued on Page 4 WASHINGTON April I Office of Price Ad- rat inn inlay alties paid hy jc mine operators for cupper load and ores mined from leased properties EE PROSPECT OF ALL-OUT NAVAL ATTLE AS PRELUDE TO INVASION pairs for evaporative coolers anil Staff Correspondent other types of cooling equipment April The are permitted under the order at- lie in the Mediterranean as a Brownc accompanied to u- 1 hide to an Allied invasion ot South ma by George V analyst lo and A C district mining view of accelerated axis tn fend off an assault Herbert Hoover Suggests International Air Police Force After the War to Maintain Order Prevent Aggression Hy I- l Stuff strip the axis of their I airplane factories and expanding NKW YORK April 1 his subject to post-war aviation Creation of an general urged adoption of an police force after the war to freedom of the air keep the world free of sion is proposed by ident Herbert Hoover in an ex- elusive Interview with the United Press Mr Hoover also suggested that Hie victorious Untied Nations nir Maintain Ortler tho former dent could do the job of maintaining world order thus ul- Continued on Page -t at any cost its effort MO in the war Italians have a formidable naval force which i is regarded by Hitler as highly expendable to prevent an I Allied landing in the Greek Italy Somh Prance i eily Sardinia or Crete The fleet includes six to battleships at least nine cruisers and about iO destroyers nnd pedo boats Had Six Italy entered the war with six battleships the crack which was put out of action at Taranto but since is be- to been repaired The old was a Taranto casually but likewise has been fixed The Italians claim thai the Roma and Impero sister ships of the have been completed since the outbreak of war but it is unlikely thai more than one if one- actually is in service The cruisers uru believed to in- clude two of with on Pago 4 Plan Rites For Simon Avilez Wednesday at 4 Simon Avilez 60 died last night at the home of his son Simon Jr at it was announced today at the O C Johnson mortuary A wake will be held tonight at tile Johnson chapel from to with Rosary at Services will he held at the Catholic church tomorrow afternoon at Surviving are the widow Teresa of four sons Simon Jr Edward and David all of and Manuel of Yuma and two grandchildren Still Active Around Town Three people reported to cers during the night that a er and peeper was active for a couple of hours last night from shortly before midnight up until o'clock this morning It was reported that a man about -10 or 45 a civilian walked into a home on Seventh street be- tween Fourth and Fifth avenue this morning at o'clock At a report was made that a man had been seen into a window of a home in the 100 block on Second avenue The man was reported as being tall probably a Negro barefoot and wearing no shirt Another resident phoned cers at last night that a man was seen standing beside his home trying to look through a window Officers hoods from which the reports came hut failed to discover any characters loitering about or acting suspiciously CHICAGO April 1 A federal grand jury returned indictments charging three men one of whom represented himself as foreign agent with a plot to counterfeit double eagle Sold pieces for exports to many as rare agents who made the arrest claimed the men had planned to send the gold hy submarines landed secretly off the United Slates coast Jeffers Says Synthetic Rubber Program Will Be on Schedule By End of Year Predicts Ample Supply WASHINGTON April 1 Director William M said today the synthetic ber program will be on schedule by the the year and will produce enough tires to keep the nation's in service He testified before a senate subcommittee studying tho cultivation of plants ir natural rubber production said apparently with food production u nia The has heen stopped he said because the fond crisis is such that the rubber situation cannot justify taking of rood crop land uut of production for use as ule farms all right to go on with if we get enough food tint the rubber situation is in good shape and docs not justify taking away food laud to plant he said Jeffers exhibited the first synthetic heavy duty tire made entirely of derived from grain alcohol It was a six-ply heavy duty tire of a type which he said will go on U S Army jeeps April I W district supervisor of the emergency rubber project for zona said today work on the Deer Valley nursery project hns been halted Tie said Washington officials have decided that no more land is to be taken from food production for experimentation with guayule Other test pilots in the Salt Ri- ver valley will be completed said 2 Britons Capture 99 Italians in North Tunisia WITH BRITISH FORCES in Northern Tunisia March British medical orderlies captured an entire ian company of 99 men today and found it unbelievably easy because the Italians appeared eager to render It's a pity it couldn't have boon an even orderly Joe King ot Peterborough Lincolnshire said as he and Robert Spencer of mingham marched back from the front behind their prisoners H W Returns From Army Service H Wayne for ny years employed by the Arizona company at Yuma ar- rived here this morning following his discharge from the army at Camp Howze Texas He was in- ducted into Ihc army last year and was discharged recently after a heart ailment developed For the past four months he has been a sergeant at Camp Howze working under Major W G Kneeland for- mer Yuma Daily Sun editorial de- employee said he planned to return to work with the Edison company but in the eastern part of Arizona Hernandez Child Aged 4 Months Dies Here Concepcion dez four months old child of Mr and Mrs Frank Hernandez of 8th street and 12th avenue died at the family home last evening at six o'clock it was reported at the Johnson mortuary today A wake will be held at the home tonight with services in the church at Friday ial will be in the Yuma cemetery Rabbit Has Been Drafted WASHINGTON April I The Kaster rabbit lias heen drafted and anybody who rolls an egg this year ho regarded by government as contrary tho war effort the White House to the agriculture department tho word has gone Dis- courage anil Iho traditional practice ot giving junior a little chick or ling cuddle on Easter Air Offensive Rocks Axis Tunisia Lines And Sardinia BY United Stuff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in North Africa April 1 An all-out Allied aerial an unprecedented raid by about 100 Flying rocked the axis front and rear lines a headquarters communique said today as ground fighting in nisia slowed down momentarily due to mine fields and stiffer re- sistance The Flying Fortress raid ried out by nearly 100 great motored planes swept over Chinese Force Attacks Points In Burma CHUNGKING April 1 Chinese troops have taken the in- in Southern Yunnan and Northern Hunan provinces while a puppet force has deserted the Japanese at an important rail point north of Suchow war communique announced Chinese units have driven across the Yunnan into Burma attacking at Mongwa and killing or wounding more than 300 enemies The Japanese lost another 100 men near wang Aided by reinforcements the Japanese tried to cross the Talo river and attacked near but were thrown back in both attempts Files Divorce Suit Suit for divorce has been filed in superior court here by Frank lp against Nellie Gulp The couple was married at San Diego August 6 1032 and has two dren aged 12 and 10 Plaintiff asks custody of the children Madrid Report Says Axis Plans Africa Dunkirk BY United Tress Staff Correspondent MADRID April 1 many lias commandeered the ian fleet and all available French merchant ships preparatory to an attempt to evacuate armies from Tunisia in an axis it was reported here today No confirmation was possible Axis sources here calculated that tons of shipping would be needed to evacuate the troops alone and the removal of tanks guns and other heavy equipment would boost the tonnage needed to more than New Air Fields Built Reports from Rome said thr also has built numerous additional air fields and heavily reinforced fighter and bomber squadrons in Sicily and Southern Italy to vide the most powerful air cover possible for the evacuation Axis informants acknowledged that Rommel cannot hope to hold Continued on Page 4 ELIMINATION OF DEPENDENCY DRAFT CLASSIFICATIONS PLANNED SOON Hint Labor Farm Bloc May Join In Effort To Boost Wages Farm Prices By Stuff Correspondent WASHINGTON April 1 well-informed farm mid snid they had heard discussions of the ity lohn Ij Lewis and farm organization heads ate in an effort to boost wages and faun prices They emphasized that there have as yot been no formal looking toward such a coalition But they said that there have been al discussions in both groups Neither labor nor farm tion leaders would comment on the reports To Demand Lewis is n wage in- crease of for his bituminous coal miners The war Continued on Pago i Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON April 1 Selective service officials toda are working cm plans to wipe out the dependency and draft National selective service quarters is expected to order cal draft boards within three in all and registrants with the sible exception of those with children born prior to Pearl Fathers excepting those with children horn after Pearl Harbor and those in jobs cannot be drafted until a ban against inducting them is lifted a step that Mnj Gen Lewis B is expected to take in tlie near future When such action is taken they loo would be The new schedule would call for reclassification o f dependency classes as Married men not entitled lo i Married who or essential in their jnh tnow or Man men who aic necessary or essential to the war production em Sardinia and blasted the im- portant axis port of Cagliari as well as axis airdromes from which the enemy has tried to dominate the Mediterranean narrows Tlie bombers shot down 14 enemy planes In addition the Fortresses out loss of a single plane de- 13 enemy planes on tho ground and damaged 44 others They struck Cagliari just after noon Wednesday with thousands of bombs of all sizes hitting five merchant ships two of which burst into flames One coastal ship and a smaller vessel were also hit and 19 small craft including schooners and motorboats were damaged 31 Planes Shot Down Everywhere along the front lied planes swept the skies and gave the the worst of this campaign shooting down 31 axis aircraft while losing only 12 A broadcast from Radio Algiers said that at least 40 or DO axis planes were damaged in air combat during the Fortress raid and other operations and that all of the Fortresses returned safely The attack by the Fortresses was the heaviest such raid ever unleashed by these big ships in any theatre oE war In the theater the biggest raid yet an- included 115 Fortresses and Liberators Another raid was said to have been larger but no figure was specified Liberators also took part hi the larger raid Armies in Contact On the ground in Tunisia the British Eighth army was in con- tact with Marshal Erwin Rommel's buttered Afrika korps a dozen miles north of Gabes where ing withdrawn through the Gabes bottleneck lie apparently was ting up a stiffer rear guard action in an effort to save enough time to carry out his retirement British patrols had reached tlie enemy's prepared positions a few miles north of which is nine miles northwest of Gabes and continued to malic some progress out it was necessary to move up heavy to soften up the guard defenses for attack by Lish tanks and infantry Americans Gain In the Central sector American columns forged steadily but ly ahead about 15 miles east of El on the road to Gabes with perhaps yet a junction with the British Eighth army American tanks engaged in operation were delayed by iieavy mine fields which were re- as a sure sign that tho Germans and Italians were drawing from that zone as a re- sult of Rommel's failure to hold the Clabes bottleneck i On the sectors immediately of El there was no Allied report regarding op- in the and areas although axis radio reports have told of ing thrusts by the Allies Apparently intended to cut off Rommel's line of retreat in a of places Climax i Algiers reported today the moment is now near axis troops will be thrown into the sea Radio Morocco said that ships in the axis held harbor Continued on Page 4 Tunisian Situation Favorable Says Stimson Bulk of Rommel Army Now Heading For Union with Arnim's WASHINGTON April 1 The bulk of Marshal Envin mel's army apparently is heading for a union with axis forces in Northern Tunisia under Col Gen Jurgen von Arnim Secretary of War Henry U Stimson today Union ot Rommel's and Von Arnim's troops would give the axis a strorg in good defensive Stlumon said Before tin final of tho campaign is over there will In all probability be a great of vy I Several on this fiord will in tile of the Mont of the fighting on the Northern front HO far by the Finit unity on Puga 1
