Yuma Weekly Sun, The (Newspaper) - April 27, 1945, Yuma, Arizona EVERYTHING IN rUMA REVOLVES AROUND THE SUM The Yum a Weekly Sun AND EXAMINER THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES HOME VOLUME YUMA ARIZONA FRIDAY APRIL NUMBER 17 BATTLE RAGES IN THE HEART OF BERLIN BREMEN IS CAPTURED BY BRITISH SECOND ARMY THIRD ARMY CLOSING IN ON PASSAU Americans Near Closer to Fort In Bavaria Unit I'll War PARIS April 26 The British Second army cleared tually all of the wrecked North Sea port of Bremen today and in the south American Third army troops closed swiftly on the Ba- varian fortress of Passau miles from German resistance in Bremen collapsed suddenly this afternoon after more than a week of savage lighting and three days of concentrated aerial bombardment that reduced the Reich's second port to rubble Front dispatches said a few hard including the Bremen commander Gen Becker still were holding out in the ruined port area along the river late today Scots Knee In Hut tough Scottish riflemen nnd armored troop carriers were ing through the streets to finish them off and complete of Ihc oily seemed imminent broadcast recorded by FCC monitors in New York said Bremen had been Delayed front dispatches ging 12 hours behind racing tanks said the Americans were only JI miles from Passim lost night Ing unchecked through German opposition Sunn There was every possibility that the Third army would cross the Danube into Austrian soil near Passim within a matter of hours if it had not already done so close the northern arm of the pincers on the in- ner defenses of arian redoubt Two Third Army infantry sions forced the ill three points Danube barrier an front east find west of burg miles northwest of early today They broke into a n d stabbed ahead within about 50 miles of Munich Other Third troops drove lip to farther west in the area only 42 miles north-northwest of Munich and a third column WHS the river in Ihc Straubing area almost midway between burg and Pa-ssau Munich Munich the capital of Bavaria cradle of Nazism also was menaced by American Seventh Army troops farther west Un- confirmed reports said the Yanks there were only 30 miles west of the city The Danube crossing the last natural defense line be- fore the Nazi Bavarian redoubt itself and spilled a torrent of American troops tanks and guns into the streets of main outer fortresses covering Munich and the roads lo Field said Gon George S Third Army veterans were battling into on Hie south bank of the Danube from the east and west against half-hearted enemy Continued on Pwe 41 K C to Hold Smoker Friday For Returnees members of Co L who recently returned from long service over- seas will be honored at a Knights of Columbus smoker lo be held nl Ihc 1C of C hull Friday nt p m it announced The eight listed as Staff Albert C and Tony Technical Sergeants Alfred and C a rl o s and geants Albert Ramon tinez Albert Bustamente and George Gonzales Pension Funds to Share April pension funds in zona communities will share collected by the state cor- commission in the form of a 2 per cent premium tax from fire companies The commission instructed the stale auditor to draw warrants in accordance with the law im- posing the tax in favor of cipalities including the Phoenix Tucson 274.11 Clifton Thatcher Globe Bisbee Douglas U.S TROOPS PUSH CLOSE TO DAVAO Northwestern Luzon Is Cleared By Guerrillas By United Press Correspondent MANILA April 20 of the 24th division pushed into the hills of central day in a lightly opposed drive that carried less than from Davao Disorganized Japanese forces put up only as thrust to the village of midway the invasion beaches on Ihc east coast of Moro gulf Since landing the 24th di- vision has moved rapidly over the comparatively Hat coastal rain but was now the central hill country most of which still is unexplored First Russians in I NBA A Russian tank carrying infantrymen is shown surging suburban streets of Berlin in this first picture of the invasion of YANKS CRASH JAP LINE ON OKINAWA Japs Killed Total ALL MEAT MUTTON TO BE UNDER RATIONING STARTING SUNDAY Gen Is Cleared Douglas lhal Filipino guerrillas had cleared the province of Sur in northwestern Luzon of enemy forces and now ere mopping up scattered anese remnants The province is south of previously had been cleared by tjie Filipinos and it gave MacArthur's control of the corner of American ran into strong as drove within a little more than a mile northwest of Bagnio former Philippines summer capital casl of Sur province Temporarily Halted Front disclosed that of the division were hailed five miles sl of by Japanese troops holding out in a on Uic road raided Formosa's Kit AN K VI United War GUAM April 26 re- ports said today that U S Army troops the first or Japanese defense line on ern Okinawa AH key terrain on which the line anchored was captured by Americans as pushed more than half a mile through the strong Japanese defenses lo less lhan three nml a half miles from capital of the Japs Killed While the Japanese staggered under the weight of the American land naval and aerial blows Ad- miral W Nimitz an- lhal troops were killed on Okinawa and the surrounding islands up to day Most of Ihc Japanese were ed on Okinawa and it was mated enemy had lost third of original garrison in bloody fighting on the island miles from Japan Only taken prisoner American casualties in the us of April 22 SSO dead wounded and dead wounded seven missing also lhat the town of in of by WASHINGTON April 26 Price Chesler per cent of under rationing in order lo more evenly civilian ex- lo drop pounds in May Beginning nnu the ration period June 2 ail points including cull and grades of lamb and ali of less popular and lamb such as shanks and Other changes in the meat mill fat rationing May will be increases of one to bvo points per pound for most cuts of veal and one point for most beef decreases of one to two on beef judge Removes Tempe from Of Gretna Greens other cuts of creases of four for garine and two for grade Unchanged Butler and hamburger remain unchanged at 24 and 6 points per pound Uo ration values of salad expanded program for May rationing back where it was year ago before most meals were made point free Since Page 4 UNITED PRESS -A dis- patch by the said thai according to reports from reliable sources PHOENIX Ariz April 20 L by the larger number on the of child marriages many ending shore of Lake Maggiore slini by Italian west bombers again the army sank more cargo ships in Ihc China Sea blockade The shipping bag was il Hainan island where ii ton three small freighters nml barges wnre sunk a probably sunk while lo slip out of Yulin bor British Capture Toungoo Burma CALCUTTA April tish and Indian troops of the 14th have captured Toungoo Burma's 10th largest city 140 miles of Rangoon a com- announced today of the city which hail a peacetime population of followed a advance south from in 21 days during which more than were killed After occupying the city Ihc seized a group of ing airfields and continued the drive south v Other 14th Army troops cast of were ing opposition along the Japanese route of withdrawal into the Shim ps in renewed drive through the Japanese de- fense bell across awa above United Press Correspondent Continued Page Soldier Sailor Fight Oyer Girl Run Over By Car WILLIAMS FIELD Ariz Apr 20 A soldier and sailor con- fined to hospital beds here today plenty of time today to der the question Was worth The sailor lack G at Ihn Naval two compound leg fractures and the soldier Flight Officer Clarence A Lunn 20 Williams Field sustained chest injuries when struck by n auto- mobile while fighting over ii girl The young woman whose charms nearly proved fatal with minor bruises A 11 were on Iho ground nn highway in front of The Palms a bar between and Tempo when a oar driven by Leon Hunt Tucson struck them Hunt not held Following emergency ment at a Phoenix hospital the servicemen were removed to the Williams Field station hospital in annulments Superior Judge Harold R has removed from trie list of Arizona's Gretna Greens Walter S Wilson clerk of the superior court acting on orders has revolted the appointment of Mrs Bertha McCaw of Tempo Justice of Pence Paul V as a deputy clerk authorized to issue marriage licenses The were operating 24-hour service in the issuance of licenses and Ihc performance of weddings a practice said to be common state acted after receiving reports by probation officers Ihal Mrs Monday issued ses to a girl and a year-old boy mill a prl ami a boy The declared thai ents liad granted permission for the marriages and had sworn the girls were over 16 and Ihc boys over 18 has asked county attorney to consider undertaking prosecution of persons issuing or aiding and abetting in the ance of marriage licenses to dren Wilson has sent Idlers to nil deputies authorized lo issue ses in Maricopa counly lhat applicants of questionable age be required to show draft cards or birth GLENN TAYLOR TO ARRIVE HOME ON NAVY LEAVE SOON First Class Glenn lor has to United States after service In the Smith Pacific and will be home in n few days according lo word re- ay his parents Mr and Mrs Earl of B and Fourth street Mussolini was d c r i b c d as reaching Pallanza after flight from Milan where an Italian uprising was said ly to have liberated cily The dispatch without ion in any other source lhal Mussolini hail been followed by a few hours Swiss agency report thai lini had fled in disguise from Mi- lan lo the border town of Como LONDON A r i I 20 Marshal Stalin announced thai captured Brno capital of UNITED PRESS The British radio said late day Rome reported the Allies landing at la Hie Gulf of LONDON Apr M Khai Stalin announced Unit the army had eil Germany's greatest port an c Ii r i n g the northern wing of t Ii o defenses of Berlin April city of mi Ilic western of lake Constance surrendered 11 Army mops April can troops raptured Verona day jin Italian patriot uprising was reported unofficially to liberated Milan and Turin and all signs indicated Gorman i n North was MILAN AND GENOA ARE LIBERATED German Resistance In North Italy Collapses By KING United Press War Correspondent general uprising of Italian patriots was reported unofficially today to have broken the German grip on north Italy and liberated Milan Turin Verona and scores of other towns Allied military whose armies were sweeping deep into northern Italy on the heels of routed German forces held immediate confirmation of from the of the re- bellion against the Nazis and cists But accounts of the uprisings were supported by every evidence that the had seized and were operating the radios in Mi- lan and Genoa Supplementary reports circulated freely In the Swiss Swiss Reports Swiss advices quoted an Italian press dispatch a s hinting thai Mussolini was frying make with the an effort save his lite reported to set Up as a Nazi Italy after he rescued by the Germans when his regime cracked up the dispatch was quoted Mussolini sent a man bearing a flag of truce to head of the Milan Socialist and offered lo permit partisans to take over power on condition that the Germans and new cisls be allowed without Continued oil 41 Leave For Induction Station Phoenix The following inductees left No 1 Wednesday for the induction station in Phoenix ter laking oath they will be assigned to various branches of Ihc service and on lo camp Raymond Hill Houghton David George Loll Raymond Howard McKenney Robert E Lee Edward C Lugo Ignacio Cruz Rocha William Raymond Oswaldo Gradillas Alfred Morris Higuera Hernandez Henry Clarence Arnaldo Guy Edward Gillam Russell W Phillips Fernando Martinez Ruiz Sanchez Andrew Torres Homy Halhcock Pedro P Gregorio Burgoz Henry Benlon Rinker Lawrence Edward Hunter Nunez Henry David John Siqueiros Jr Luis Gonzaga Calderon Clyde Marshall Thompson Transfers In: Jose Parades Sanitate El Centro Calif Jeff Harmon El Calif R Martinez Tulare Calif V Jr An- geles Calif Mike M Jr 101 Centro Y Torres El Calif Mid El Centro Ted Douglas Phoenix Ariz Our registrants from Marry Amador Harry Welsh Jr Daniel M Holmes Willis Goodman The following registrants liave ailed to report for induction if my one knows Ihc whereabouts of the following registrants kindly local J Velarde Gonzales Julian Navarro Lopez Thomas Goze Pimentel Yuman Lays Wire In 3 Countries in One Afternoon With the Infantry Division on the Western Front Just a few days ago in brief space of one afternoon a wire crew of the Artillery division laid wire in three different Ides Stringing the tion lines between Ihc sion and advance ments of DOth Infantry Corporal Calvin Marlin of Lamar Cold and his three Corp Marvin Endersbe of Fonda la Pfc L D Johnson of Minol No Dak and Pfc Oda Holt of Yuma Ariz crossed the frontiers of Luxembourg Belgium arid many SHOWDOWN LOOMS ON Molotov Slated To Speak This Afternoon SAN FRANCISCO April M is schedule for the United Nations a m meets in executive p session ot tin conference to hear report of he steering tee p in After receiving the report of tlie steering committee the plen ary session will hear addresses by Chinese 1 Minister T V Soong Russian Foreign Commissar Molotov and British Foreign An- thony Eden By United ress Staff SAN FRANCISCO April 20 I growing tension gripped delegates to United Nations conference today as the Big Three powers moved a down on the explosive Polish Hotel lobbies buzzed willi that Soviet Foreign Com- V M Molotov chief sian delegate here may have re- new instructions from Pre- mier Stalin on the Polish issue and thai he ready to with Secretary ward R Jr and ish Foreign Secretary Anlhony Eden to Speak was scheduled to ad- dress a plenary session of the conference around 4 p m The delegates awaited his speech eagerly for some hint on the Kremlin's latest word on Poland and perhaps on Russia's demand for three votes in the assembly of the proposed world organization to be set up here But guesses were thai Molotov probably would avoid any discussion of Continued on Pase 4 Urge Cooperation In Clothing Drive Speakers at urged cooperation in the current clothing drive Hi the Monday meeting and the program later was broadcast lo the eral public over ratlin station Ralph Brandt and Wayne Miles were the speakers assigned by President Sam Flake for the pose of putting new life into the drive which is said lo be lagging somewhat in the city Mr Brandt urged that everyone throw off the mamma spirit and look to their closets for old that is badly needed in suffering Europe Mr Miles called attention to the fact that with a of pounds for county only pounds had been collected to date He that people should take to the collection center in new American Legion building at 161 Main at once TEMPELHOF CAPTURED Soviet Forces Reach Potsdamer Platz Region By Press War Correspondent April 26 German my troops had Potsdamer Platz area itV of Beilm only 400 yards from the headquarters where Adolf wis reported directing the defense his ed capital If Hitler was m the Nazis have insisted for four days was running shoit for him Beilm was surrounded by Red Aimy and by land was all but impossible The lm garrison was being pressed in- to a tight pocket m the center of uty Airdrome is Captured Moscow dispaches slid Russian troops had overum the and captured a number of planes with warmed-up apparently preventing a ute escape flight by Nazi leaders The Hamburg radio the fighting 111 the area and in the middle oi Beilm s Tattering Nazi ladio in- that Adolf Hitler himself and lot of his henchmen wete in Beilin and a Moscow dispatch said that if Hitler is the Russians will have bini dead or alne -1 Thi Russian Army Organ Red Sar referred to the Battle of Bulm as a dispatcher said there no longer an continuous front line m the rums of the German capital Russian heads were gouging into the heait of the city and wild fighting swirled deep behind Nazi barricades Airdrome Moscow that the had been Mr overrun blocking the last escape hatch fiom the ci ty Soviet the struggle swiftly approached its climax and Red Army assault forces weie into thp heart of the city fiom east west north and south Some SOO 000 German are trapped in the doomed city Some 70 if Berlin Moscow said other struck west across the er to within sight of American First Army along the Official put the Russians 17 miles from the First army as of lerday In Day The battle of wrecked Berlin roared on into its sixth day in Soviet Front dispatches as a jungle of above ground and in the dark treacherous caverns of the city's subway system below Four more city districts were cleared yesterday and both the Spree river and fellow canal crossed despite ferocious counter- attacks by the fanatic enemy r i s o n Thirty-seven districts nearly two thirds of the Continued on Page 4 Crane Yuma County Classroom Teachers will hold their Hireling nl the Crane school April 28 :it 2 p m announced The chief items tin the program will be ft panel discussion of San Francisco conference and ii on the Dumbarton Your CLOTHES to IUI Main Ml If you invn tin Call and will call
