Yuma Weekly Sun, The (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Yuma, Arizona EVERYTHING IN YUMA REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN The Yuma Weekly Sun AND YUMA EXAMINER THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES HOME VOLUME -12 YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY MARCH NUMBER 10 U.S TROOPS CROSS RHINE AT COLOGNE NAZIS SAY REDS GAINING AT Russians Reported Attacking On Both Sides of Frankfurt ROBERT Correspondent LONDON March The Germans said today that the Red Army broke across tlie Oder river south of carved out a bridgehead 10 miles deep and stormed westward within 27 miles of Berlin Nazi broadcasts said Marshal Gregory K Zhukov's First White massed along the Oder smashed westward from the area of Goeritz six miles south of and plunged due west ward Edges Against The vanguard of the bulging viet bridgehead edged against low 12 miles southwest ot trin 10 west of the barrier before Berlin and 27 miles from the capital itself enemy io dispatches reported The Nazi acknowledgment of a yawning breach in the Oder river day after the Germans reported that Zhukov's mighty army was opening the tle for Berlin whole Berlin in the Oder valley was reported ablaze from Oder elbow 29 miles northeast of the sector around Frankfurt a distance of some -10 miles Other were ming defenses of Stettin and Eastern to a Victorious ion The Germans said Marshal an S was massing Silesia in for a renewal of his drive into the south flank of the Berlin defenses Report is Related Belatedly the y reported that Zhukov had seized a big bridgehead Oder which stretched from the area df to of furt and a number of miles ward toward Berlin Nazis claimed that counter- attacks had Yesterday the Germans beat back into Rathstock six half miles southwest of and three west of cast said To the north the the Russians reached the area of cast bank burb of reached the tin lagoon captured the rail town of on the Baltic coast cast of and reached the outer defense ring of Danzig Ernst von Hammer Nazi radio commentator who usually reflects the view of the high command said the Russians were storming tin from the and east Crossing is Uncertain Whether Zhukov's vanguard was across the Oder anywhere still was uncertain The enemy report of fighting on both sides of furt suggested the Russians were across the river there where they forced a crossing a month ago The reported last night Continued on Page 5 Police Arrests In February 139 The persons arrested by Yuma police during February paid fines totalling ing to the monthly report sub- toi the city council dy by of Police Harold B Breech Traffic citations totalled 0 nnd brought in fines totalling friBO bringing the total revenue from these sources to Arrests were listed ns on drunk charge 90 drunk ami disturbing the peace 19 drunk and begging drunk and ing JO vagrancy 3 disturbing the peace 2 and battery 2 reckless driving 1 picked up for County department 5 Traffic citations were issued us exceeding two hour ing KM parking in red zone fire plug Improper parking 12 stops 10 reckless ing 2 turning in center of Main street 1 blocking alley 1 ing 2 Indian Troops Of Mandalay KANDY March 8 patrols of the 19th Indian have readied the ern outskirts of Mandalay ma's historic and second largest city it was announced today A front dispatch reported that Japanese resistance was ing before Uie onslaught of the armored spearheads ed for a thrust into the big in- iand port A Southeast Asia communique also disclosed that Chinese troops moving down the Burma road ward Mandalay from the east completely cleared the town of New Lashio yesterday after capturing Old Lashio and its field The town is two miles south of Old Lashio and capture of both places gave Chinese com- plete control of the rail and road henda leading Lo the east and south In clearing the two towns the Chinese moved within III miles of a junction point on the only all-weather road still re- maining open to the Japanese Forces in the Mandalay sector FLIERS BLAST IN CHINA SEA Nips Are Cleared From Batangas Peninsula A Yank Would Do That Argentina Given Chance to Join United Nations By R II United Press Stuff Correspondent CITY March S Thc 20 American nations at the gave Argentina a chance today to re- turn to tlie American t They devised n fillment of which would require a declaration of war by Argentina oh the ails }t specifically calls for Argentina to change her icy so as to become eligible for membership in Uie United tions A plenary session of this con- from which Argentina was the the formula this morning The steering com- approved and signed it at a surprise meeting last night in the Castle of The heads of all the delegations were present conference ends later final plenary session Signs Secretary of State R Jr signed for the United States after Mexican For- eign Minister Padilla formally introduced the tion Delegates here were unanimous in their praise of the formula and show the way to Argentina for returning to good graces They admitted however that the next move is Argentina's and that whether she self depends entirely upon her moves hereafter The formula docs not commit any of the to of relations with tina That will be decided consultation of all the other tions after Argentina J Adhered to the principles declarations of this Continued on Page 5 Posses To Draft Unmarried Nurses 20 to 44 WASHINGTON March S Unmarried nurses who want to heat the draft may have only a week to latch on to husbands and retain their civilian status The deadline is not definite be- cause the senate of the United States has not spoken Under the passed by the house yesterday virtually every graduate woman nurse aged 20 through 44 and single of March 15 could be conscripted for service with the armed forces The senate military affairs committee will begin tion of the measure next day Chairman D as D said the committee will hold a of hearings be- fore It makes any ations to the senate It seemed likely that senators on the affairs tee would demand proof that a nurse draft is II Press War U S troops virtually cleared peninsula in southwestern Luzon today as American warplanes sharply increased the offensive a- Formosa and Japanese ping in the China sea Seventeen enemy vessels ing two warships were sunk 01 damaged in the mounting aerial campaign from the Philippines A communique said the offensive was aimed at of For- mosa and the interdiction of pan's shipping lanes through the China sea The heavy aerial blows to the west came as elements of the nth Airborne division and Uie Infantry regiment pushed through Batangas peninsula to the Little Opposition Advancing with apparently tle opposition Uie troops captured Balavan on the northwestern shore of Balayan bay and nine and a half miles to tlie west in the China Sea Coast The drive carried the American forces within four miles of Cape Santiago at the tip of the sula across Verde passage from the north shore of Mindoro the main forces of Lt Gen Walter Krueger's Sixth army against thi Japanese oh zon heavy artillery continued to pound the principal enemy lines cast of Manila The guns were concentrated ong the entire Kobayshi line From Wawa 10 11 miles northeast df Manila and the communique said Uie American noticeably reduced enemy artillery and rocket fire Rome Mob Storms Clinic to Get Fascist General Uy REYNOLDS United Tress ROME March S mob stormed a military clinic last night in an attempt to reach Gen cesco Jacomini Fascist war inal but was dispersed after a gun battle Police were investigating today to determine whether the crowd was trying to lynch Jacomini or him escape Is was from the same clinic that Gen Mario ta another major Italian war inal escaped Sunday night The riot began as a tion in front of the clinic but intervened when the crowd surged building Shots were exchanged Jacomini was about to be trans- ferred from the clinic to Regina jail He was a former nor of Albania and one of the ters of the Italian attack on Greece Albania has asked that he he turned over to her for trial as a war criminal The new outbreak of violence came as the Bonomi government appeared to be weathering the crisis touched off by escape and fatal riots outside Crown Prince Umberto's palace The cabinet met II hours yesterday in palace and decided on more stringent ures against suspected war and other A special committee was pointed to prosecute Fascists All Fascist leaders who menace the Italian social order will be put in concentration camps it was an- The cabinet also decided after a Continued on Page 5 C TO MEET FRIDAY meeting of the board of directors of the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce will bo held at noon on Friday March 9th in the luncheon room of the Valley cafe it was announced to day by U L Baker president This is an Important meeting nnd all board members are urged to attend Although he knows that Japs are murderously brutal toward Americans they capture the S Marine at right above offers the solace of a cigaret to one the very few Jap lured ou Iwo Jima Censor deleted captive's lace Gov Osborn Signs Designating Mountain Standard Time as Official Time for Arizona tile Year Around PHOENIX Ariz March won't have to turn their clocks back an hour at the end of this month Gov Sidney P Osborn sighed into law lature approved measure ting Mountain Standard Time as official for Arizona on a basis x In addition to eliminating the change ih clocks the new law places county in the category as the j was considered to be in the ic time zone Bills Signed Tlie governor also placed his en- acting signature measure clcr signed to all excuses for selling liquor to minors The sets a procedure whereby youthful drink can prove their majority by special age certificate The new statute vides stiff penalties for violations Other of outside of ated suance of bonds and collection of assessments for street and other improvements Permit sale of on school district election days Recamp the state code for eral a 5 per cent income tax on building associations Require legislative tions for old age assistance funds rather than a direct levy by the state tax commission Authorize court conservators for estates missing in or held as prisoners of war Crest of Ohio River flood Rolls Downstream Inundating Towns in Kentucky Indiana and Illinois Uy The muddy crest of the Ohio er rolled downstream today ing the threat of new to farmlands and cities in Kentucky Indiana and Illinois Weather bureau officials said the flood were leveling off a- Cincinnati Portsmouth O appeared to be winning a battle to keep the river from pouring er flood walls into main ness and residential sections The river's crest subsided 1.2 feet in 24 hours at Cincinnati Kentucky was next in the path of the rising water Hundred of volunteers state mi- litia auxiliary police boy scouts prison inmates and even German prisoners of war were working a- gainst lime and the river They c- families moved hold goods and livestock and built sandbag barricades all along the Kentucky stretch of the Ohio river The evacuation was under way in the low sections of all towns from Catlettsburg to Owensboro n Under Waler All hut about half a block f Catlettsburg was under water Tlie town has a population of Everywhere along the miles course of the river there was some destruction War plants were forced to close in some sections Thousands of persons abandoned their homes to the surging waters Train and bus service was cut off to some communities It was the worst Ohio river flood in eight years Nine persons were dead nnd on- ly quick work by army engineers prevented further loss of life in the flood waters of another area Between 20 nnd 30 soldiers were spilled into the flooded White river in Arkansas when their boat cap- sized The men wore life jackets which enabled them to keep afloat until help came They had been sent to the area to work on floud control From the Ihn flooded a grotesque picture of life s standstill Entire com- were under water dreds of freight cars stood idle Cemeteries watery wastes Continued on Page Uf f S Soldier is Hanged in London For Killing Cabbie PRISON don March S Karl tav a Boston Mass paratrooper wys hanged today for the murder of a taxicab driver He was the first ican to die on a British gallows The youthful slayer who bled the proceeds of the murder on the dog races with his tease partner in showed neither fear nor emotion IK he was led to platform and placed on tho trap door that plunged him to eternity Only dozen prison of- witnessed the hanging in a small enclosed courtyard of an- cient prison Crowd At A crowd of 250 men and en milled about the gates despite repeated shooing by police Mrs Violet van dcr Elst crusader against capital punishment was arrested she attempted to enter the prison gates in a truck shortly after a m He came here to be a para- trooper not to she ed as police hustled her and the truck driver away through the sympathetic crowd Mrs Elizabeth Jones the Continued on Page S MARINES 450 IWO BEACH Drive Threatens To Split Remnants Of Jap Garrison By FRANK United Press War Correspondent GUAM Mar 8 S ines are firmly established on high ground only 450 from the northeastern beaches of Two Jima after savage fighting front dispatches reported today United Correspondent Mac R Johnson said in patch from the amphibious force flagship off Iwo that the new drive threaten to split enemy forces into two kets of resistance This deepest penetration of the bloody campaign was achieved by the 3rd Marine division Their forward lunge in the center of the line further compressed the enemy Johnson said correspondent described enemy holdings on as resembling a thin in the center and bilging at the end and extending along the northern and eastern sides of the island Is Ground The held by the of the Japanese garrison force of however is rocky Steep ses and bristling with defenses which have been termed the strongest of the Pacific war The hard-won 3rd sition's are 240 above sea drops in a series Wok races to the Leatherneck machine guns rifles com- mand the area below On the left of their deepest penetrations are high cliffs which drop off sheerly On 10 Yard Line Johnson reported that the three Marine divisions are in the a football team that has severely battered an op- ponent during a drive downfield to the 10 yard line Tlie touchdown may on one play or it may take four but it The all-out attack of March 6 which was of a few hundred yards Koisi Tells Japs Their Fate Hangs In The Balance UNITED PRESS Premier Kuniaki Koisi warned the Japanese people Thursday that events of the immediate ture will decide it the nation of Nippon is to survive or be from this He ed upon the nation to sacrifice everything for war The premier in a speech to the sponsors of Japan's Sure tory political party pleaded ently for the Japanese to throw away all personal interests and ambitious of all kinds and rise one to save our very homes our homeland and the Imperial throne from the present crisis With U S Marines only a fe hundred yards from completing the conquest of Iwo Jima 75 miles south of Tokyo Koiso con- ceded that the final issues of the war in the Pacific may be de- soon Speech Is speech was broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by United Press San Francisco The enemy is anxious to en the war He may launch out delay a reckless direct and violent attack against the main land in the near future The en- tire nation must be fully pre- pared for such an Koiso said He said that one hundred lion people of Japan must renew their determination to crush the enemy and shoulder ity for prosecution of the one for all young and old man and woman with all their ual and material resources Only by making such nn out effort mid complete fices all things they possess can the present national crisis be Pfc Pat Brown Returns to U S From Nazi Camp Pfc Patrick Brown Quechan ndian who was taken prisoner the after he was near Duren Germany Dec IS 1944 has returned to the States according to a telegram received by his mother Mrs Beatrice Brown of the Fort Yuma Indian reservation The telegram sent from an east coast camp said Arrived here safely Getting good care and feeling fine Will write Love He has sent his Purple Heart Medal to his mother It was believed that Brown was among -i the wounded can prisoners recently returned States in exchange German prisoners returned to Germany the Allies Men Freed From Jap Prison Camp S F By ROGER JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent 8 il.R transport carrying d ity of the 513 officers and enlisted liberated from the prison camp ab tuan ori Luzon steamed through today and tied up at pier The huge Ferry Building suen signalled Uie arrival of the cued spent almost three years at until their XT S Rangers dis Gen Arthur The men including losing Bataan and campaigns and the infamous of met by Gen C H Kells command er of Embarkation and other service and 16 Arrive Sixteen Maimes of the famed arrived heie by air yesterday after three years MOst of the hearties of Cor when invading Japanese ashore early in 1042 They earlier year during the daring Ranger raid oh the Cabanatuan camp The Marines awai ting fu at San Treasure land camp as worse than hell When Army Rangers hit the camp last Jan all of us thought our time had ner Sgt Harry Arnold Liberty Mo said We were sitting around ting tiie ho said when shots rang out through the camp We Ilia Japs were going to every prisoner in camp Then I raised my head in time to snc a big guy come ing across the yard fees he was must have stood at least seven feet As he us he shouted We're All you Americans get the hell out of here Needless to say we didn't waste time clearing out Keels All Right Again Returning home Arnold sakl made the world feel all right again It's like being left a lion dollars You know we never gave up hope of why we're here today Pfc Fred S Vinton Jackson Mich said reeked with malaria dysentery and beri beri He said the prisoners had no water for bathing and very little to drink Their food he consisted of rice and a weak soup made of Continued on Page 6 Temperatures PHOENIX Ariz March 8 The bureau today re- ported the following temperatures for the last 24 High 2.1 Denver 41 28 New York 10 27 Minneapolis 27 12 Kansas City 23 St Louis 31 29 San Francisco 54 3D Los Angeles 68 -18 Phoenix 70 38 Tucson 07 37 Yuma 40 MOVE MIGHT NAZI FORCE Germans Say U S 1st 3rd Armies 10 Miles Apart PARIS March 8 of United States First bare across the Rhine ana are advancing into the heart of Germany against light resistance Vanguards of It Gen Court ney Hodges First army made the historic missing at o'clock j afternoon soutli of Cologne a front patch revealed A partial security t limited the progress of the first American columns east of the Rhino the ment from Hodges ters that only Might resistance had been encountered In the stages made it clear the going well t Bj W United Press War Correspondent PARIS March 8 U ing spearheads of the American First and Third armies were re- ported by Berlin leas 10 miles on the west bank of tlie between Coblenz and Bonn today driving hard for aw juncture that might trap tens thousands of Germans in the Half the University of Bonn on the bank of the Rhine al most 25 miles of was taken by the First army and the complete capture ot Under Siege Goblenz itself was siege by Third Army troops tiie Rhine bluffs to by German account moving m Uie hills six miles to the west Get man military spokesmen task U S First army had almost 15 besieged Bonn to the confluence of the Ahi and Rhine rivers At tlie same time the said units of the II S Fourth part of Lt Gen S Patton s Thud army had along Rhine bank ot nine miles Coblenz and -less than from First At my heads on the Ahi both American fighting undei a partial security restriction usually imposed major under no immediate of the German report Front Collapsing But the entire Nazi front west of tlie Rhine was the spectacular dash mountains to the river bluffs just north of Coblenz and there apj no reason to doubt tlie enemy version The Nazis said strong ican armored units apparently part of Lt Gen Courtney Hodges U S- First army had reached the Rhine crossing city or 12 miles south Continued on Page 5 RED CROSS WAR FUND REACHES A of has been received in advance gifts to date in the Red Cross War Fund drive O C Johnson advance gifts committee chairman announced this morning The Yuma county quota in this important Red Cross drive was established at C W McGraw superintendent of the Yuma city schools day turned in to the headquarters office monies subscribed by the teachers of tile Yuma city schools to the 1945 Red Cross War Fund Total subscriptions amount to 5240 and represents cooperation Mayor Walter S Ingalls ed a communication from An- signed with only which had a dollar enclosed The communication raid In I had a free feed and another man In Yuma's soup line IH to pay for same The hns been turned over to the Cross War Fund no that it can lend aid to else
