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Nogales international., 1943-07-30
FIRST EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
BY NOGALIAN OF ATTACK BY
JAPANESE ON PEARL HARBOR
Surprise Biggest Factor Of ALL Says E. Thompson
Of Army Air Corps Army Lost 800 Men,
Navy Thousands He Said

First eyewitness account by a
Nogales man of the Japanese
sneak attack on Pearl HarbOr
December Z, 1941, was given Sat-
urday by Edward Thompson, 22,
who mOtOred here from Tucson
where he was called by the death
of his mother, Mrs. Prudence
WOodard.
Thompson, who graduated from
Nogales High School in 1899, and
went to the Hawaiian Islands three
and one half years ago as a member
of the army air corps, arriving
there December %, 1899, left here
Monday for Visalia, Calf, where
he is training as a cadet in the air
corps.
He was a flight engineer most of
the time while overseas and was
stationed at Hickam Field, Pearl
Haubor, which was heavily bombed
by the Japs.
IT was visiting some friends just
outside Hickam Field at the time
of the early Sunday morning Jap
attack" said Thompson.
Surprise to all of us, army navy
and civilians, was the biggest fac
tor of all. I hastened to Hickam
Field and was instructed to use an
acetylene torch to cut up the planes
which had been hit by the Japs so
room could be made for the landing
of planes from the American main
land which began arriving about
the time of the attack.
First that I knew of the attack
was when I heard terrific eXplo-
SIGN. 1t was the first bomb dropped
by the Japs and struck the Battle
ship Arizona. I thought at first it
was heavy artillery practice.
az Shot Down
1.-TWO waves of Jap planes took
part in the bombing and there
were two attacks, each lasting
about between 20 and 80 minutes.
In the second attack they flew at
high altitude. One hundred
planes were estimated to have
taken part in the two attacks and
the Americans shot down AZ.
1.-The army lost about 300 men
and many of these we're at Hickam
Field. The navy lost thousands
navy men who we're asleep on their
ships at the time of the attack"
Following the outbreak Of war
Thompson took part in the bombing
of Wake Island.
He was a personal friend of the
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
u Cards Tell Of
Local Boy Being
German Prisoner

Up to yesterday Mr.. and Mrs.
Enrique C. Ramirez, 1011 Morley
avenue, had received 27 cards since
a week ago today from persons who
said they heard the short wave radio
broadcast from Berlin announcing
that their son, Walter Fanc@sco
Ramirez, who was shot dowr during
a bomber raid from England, is
prisoner in Germany.
The cards came from seven states
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New
York, Ohio, Florida, New Jersey
and Michigan.
They have also received letters
from the War Department and the
Red Cross announcing the broad
cast said the boys who were shot
down with Ramirez are well, most
of them escaped injury, and all are
receiving plenty to eat in the Ger
man prison.
The Red Cross letter also SAID
the boys sent their love and asked
their parents not to worry and that
they are being well treated.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Glendale Paper Looking For Flag
Harry Conner OF
Nogales Carried Overseas In 1917

of Glendale youths. Harry Con-
ner not only took the flag across
with him, but brought it back,
returning it to Mrs. Shively.
That was more than Is years ago,
and today Roy Mcdonald is serving
with the Seabees For sentimental
reasons Roy would like to again
have this American talisman in his
possession until the end Of the pres
ent war. And although both Mrs.
Shively and Harry Conner moved
from Glendale many years ago, a
Glendale paper is making every
effort 10 locate the historic flag and
if found, to send it to Roy McDon-
aid.
It had been hoped that the flag
which Roy wants, could have been
presented him during his anticipat-
ed furlough, but since this was can
celled and he is already overseas,
the flag will be sent him, providing
those interested can locate it.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Ramirez May
Hear From
Prisoner Son Soon

Mr.. and Mrs. Enrique G. Ramirez,
1011 Morley avenue, whose youngest
son, Tech. Sgt Walter Francisco
Ramirez, 10. is reported to be q
prisoner in Germany after having
been shot down during a bomber
aid from England. will very likely
receive a letter from their son soon
This statement is based on the
knowledge that First Lieutenant
Edward Tovrea, nephew of j. C.
Tovrea of Nogales, has written his
father, Phil E. Tovrea of Phoenix
since he was shot down while flyinc
a spitfire from England owe:
Dieppe, France, Aug. 19.
Lieut.. Tovrea advised his dad tina
he is allowed unlimited letters ano
tobacco and that the Red Cross
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Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Peaceful In Africa
Since Tunisia Fell
SAYS {. Genardini

"Since Tunisia fell everything
over in Africa seems like good, old
peaceful times"
Thus wrote Carlos F. Genardini,
Sr., in letter dated May 18th,
received Monday by the local draft
board
He said
This little letter comes from me
to you from Africa and it might
serve the purpose of a souvenir.
Perhaps it won't be long now until
I'll be a souvenir myself, back to
the border of dear old Arizona and
Sonora.
Nothing much here in Africa
and since Tunisia fell everything
seems like good. old peaceful times.
"Lots of Moros and Arabs around
and most of the boys would well
come the opportunity of being back
in the states and forget all about
Arabs and Allah.
There has been prisoners all
around (Italian and GERMANY and
they seem to be quite contented
that all wars have ended for them.
Hope that this letter finds all of
you in good spirits and in the best
of health, also inform me of the
whereabouts of my son, Carlos
Genardini, Jr. He was drafted
about two or three months ago.
Seems like all of the old boys
from 38 years up will be released.
I am As and I count myself among
them"
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Letter From
Fred Noon

A letter to the Nogales Interna-
tional Sunday from Attorney Fred
Noon Of San Diego. formerly of
Nogales, read. in part, as follows:
Am enclosing herewith check for
another years subscription to the
Nogales International which the
family always enjoys reading.
After we read it here we pass
it on to my daughter. Sarah, at
Orange. Both Sarah and Denes,
Bcnsalls wife, taught many of the
young men who are now in the
armed forces and it sort of takes
them back TO their school days to
read the various letters written by
the boys
IT have often wondered how little
Santa Cruz County could furnish
so many young men-I imagine it
has just about taken them all"
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Charles Smith
Passes Pilot Tests

A letter Friday from Charles S.
Smith. Jr. son of DR.. and Mrs.
Charles S. Smith of Crawford
street. advised that he has passed
all his tests at Santa Ana, Calf,
airbase for pilot training in the
army air corps.
He enlisted in the air corps in
December while he was still II and
after becoming 18 was called for
training about the first of March
After being in Nebraska about four
months he was transferred to Santa
Ana four weeks ago and expects to
remain there about seven more
weeks before being sent to another
post.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Ed Mansfield
Leaving
For Cadet School

Edward Meese Mansfield, 17-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Mansfield is leaving tomorrow to
report on August End at the ner-
chant marine cadet school at San
Mateo, Calf.
After being there 10 weeks he will
be sent to sea and then sent to-
school again and expects to gradu-
ate in about year.
He graduated from Nogales High
School in May of this year and en-
listed in the merchant marine sew
eral weeks ago.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Contract Let For Erection OF Plaque
Containing Names OF Santa
Cruz County Folks In Armed Forces

be an eagle and shield 5hX7 feet
and under this the following read
ing:
Lest we forget those from
Santa Cruz County who are serv-
ing that the principles of demo-
cracy may be preserved"
In large, Old English letters,
across the top of the board, will be
the following: Santa Cruz County
Honor Roll," and across the bottom,
in script: This display erected by
the citizens of Santa Cruz County
and sponsored by the Nogales TO
tary Club Also across the bottom
CTurn to Page Two)
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Open Bids For
$65O,OOO
Airport Project

j. III. Barbee, Charles Boice and
John w. Phillips, representing the
Barbee, BOice e. Phillips Con-
tracing Company, left Wednes-
day for Santa Monica, Calf, to
be present at the opening at 2 p.
m. yesterday of bids for the con-
struction of the NOgaIes Airport.
The government appropriated
$3.50, 900 some months ago for the
big project. Work is expected to
get under way in August.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30

It is probable that there is real
human interest story concealed in
the life of every man who is serving
in the armed forces but because of
strict censorship, many OF these
stories will remain hidden at least
until cur soldiers return.
However, there is story woven
around a Glendale, Arizona. man,
which not only includes the present,
but will carry the reader back to
days before World War I.
Roy Mcdonald, son Of Mrs. Ethel
Mcdonald of Glendale, provides the
basis for this story.
Roy started school in the first
grade in Glendale and later gradu-
ated from high school there. While
attending grammar school, he be-
came Boy Scout, and to the
Scouts, Mrs. Shively, a pioneer
Glendale woman, gave the flag
which had covered her husbands S
bier. He had been a veteran OF the
Spanish American war.
For several years, it was Roy
McDonald's privileg. to place this
flag in front of the Red Cross room
in the morning and lower it in the
evening.
Then came the World War, and
this flag was given to Harry Con-
ner, now resident of Nogales,
to take overseas with contingent
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
NOGALES AIR CORPS OFFICER
DEAD IN PACIFIC AREA, SAYS
MESSAGE FROM WASHINGTON
Telegram From Secretary Of War To Mrs. Pete Malas
Announces Death July 20 Of Her Eldest Son,
Sergeant Robert HI. Mcclure

assure YOU of his deepest sym
pathv in the loss of your son,
Technical Sergeant Robert w.
Mcclure, Jr. Report just received
states that he died July 20 in the
Pacific area. Letter follows.
ULIO.
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL.
sat. Mcclure had been flight
engineer in the army air corps in
the Hawaiian Islands. He entered
the armed forces about two years
ago and was home few months
ago visiting his wife (Babe Carrillo,
daughter of Ed Carrillo, SIP traffic
manager) and their baby girl who
will be one year old next month.
He was the eldest of the three
Mcclure brothers in the armed
forces. The ether two are John S.
Mcclure, 20, and Ray H. Mcclure.
IS. both of whom are in the navy.
He was also brother of Carl
Richard Mcclure. IT, Of this city,
and nephew of Robert Pesqueira
who is with the infantry in New
Guinea.
Sgt. McClure's father, Robert H.
Mcclure, ST., now believed to be
residing in Topeka, Kansas, was a
captain in World War 1 and was
married while stationed at Camp
Little in this city.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30

Contract for the erection of
$3.50 plaque containing the names
of all Santa Cruz County men
and women in the armed forces
was signed Friday by the Nogales
Rotary Club. sponsors of the pro-
ject.
It will pe erected just west of the
fish pond in the city park by Isa-
dore Posner of Tucson and will be
completed in about five weeks.
The plaque in size will be 1872
feet in depth and 40 feet in width
and the space for names 8 feet in
depth and 80 feet wide.
At the left side, in masonite, will
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Fort Huachuca
Officers To
Dedicate Plaque

Plans are under way to have army
officers from Fort Huachuca dedi-
cate the new $3.50 plaque containing
the names of all men and women
from Santa Cruz County in the
armed forces.
The dedication will occur in about
five weeks upon completion of the
plaque which is to be erected in the
city park opposite the Montezuma
Hotel.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30

A telegram announcing the death
of Sgt. Robert III. Mcclure. %, of
NogaIes, in the Pacific area, was
received Friday by the young mans
mother, Mrs. Pete Malas pauline
T Fesqueira).
The telegram read:
Washington. T.. c.
July %, 1913
MRS. PAULINE MALAS,
NOGALES. ARIZONA.
The Secretary of War asks that
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
McNulty Getting
Along Nicely

The many friends of G. H. NC
Nulty, manager of the Citizens Ut1l-
tiles Company, who was seriously
ill at st. Joseph's Hospital as a
result of a hemorrhage which fol-
lowed the removal of his tonsils,
will be pleased to learn he is a lot
better and was reported yesterday
as getting along nicely"
He was able to be removed to his
home from the hospital the first
OF the week.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30

DON WILLIS, 26, only son of
Mrs. p. w. CaricO of Patagonia,
has been in the navy for the past
eight months and is now stationed
at San Diego. Born in Twin
Falls, Idaho, Oct. 10, 1916, he.
came to Patagonia Is years ago
and graduated from the Pata-.
gOnia grammar and high schools.
At the time of his induction into
the armed forces he was fire chief
at Fort Huachuca where his wife
(LaNOra Willis) is now pOstmis-
tress. He is a brother of Mrs.
Kathleen Beebee Of Salt Lake
City and Mrs. Edith McKelly of
Patagonia, whose husband, Ed
McKelly, is now in the seabeeS
at Oxnard, Calf.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Mac J. Hall
Injured At Attu

Mac j. Hall, 17-year-old nephew
of Mac j. Hall of Crawford street,
was wounded in the fighting at Attu
in the Aleutians and is now On a
hospital ship, according to word
received here.
He is son of Eugene Hall of the
army engineering corps at Camp
Cleburne, Louisiana.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30

late Major General G. L. Tinker,
brother of Customs Officer George
E. Tinker, III, of Nogales, who was
commander of the American air
forces in the Hawaii sector at the
time he was lost at sea on bomber
during the Battle of Midway in
June 1912 Thompson said he flew
six or seven times with General
Tinker.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30

Proud mother l20 Burk no"
for she has live line
SONS in the armed Countys only 5sa
Emblem of Honor at the anua EMS s
Nav the
Mrs Vianueva left picture On aer rlght
David vilanueva five in the service NO"
corporal medical at Little Rock Arkansas ne mas ~ "
the service October.
The other sons starting second and reading from
left to right
Raul 20; Antonio Aonzo, %; and Manuel 2o
Raul nduced the air corps at SaC Lake OS'
taking a tipping.
Antonio first of brothers to join the colors Is former
National Guard man staff sergeant in the engineering
corps Lake City. -
,ozo I first class private Australia follow
49,. ,enbv sav in Panama national guards
,...
Manuel Youngest inducted at Fhoen III a
~ o ord as sent to the Fort Macarthur
Calf He was football eeman and track manager "
oAo Noga High he graduated in January " 'ls
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
MANY HAPPY
RETURNS

Buddy Chatham, 16 on August 5.
Miss Helen Karns of South Gate,
Calf, formerly of Nogales, q on
July %.
Nogales international., 1943-07-30
Rainfall
At Noglales

SUMMER OF 1943
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-10

ing on the part Of all men. For
as you remember, he has created
two characters against whom the
credo of the girl is portrayed. One
| Is the doctor. The other is the
agnostic, Latte. These two mirror
| the worlds reactions to Bernadette S
visions. They declare that either
she was insane or that she was a
liar, seeker of publicity.
Both give in finally to the force
OF faith which is the girl. Science,
In the person of the physician, can
not answer her. And agnosticism
admits at last that there is such
thing as faith, that perhaps there
Is something more than the cold
comfort Of facts.
The book is the embodiment of Mr..
Werfel's beliefs, the beliefs of a man
who has been through the brutality
OF the modern world. and who has
turned to the spiritual world for
strength.
Mr.. Werfel was one of the first
Nazi-haters. He was at the top of
the German blacklist. Even now, he
has a price on his head, not only be-
cause he is a Jew but because, as a
Czechoslovakian, he loathes and dis
pises all that NaZiism stands for
Vowed to Write Her Story.
Until the start of the war, he lived
in the comparative security of
France. But when Hitler's legions
broke though at Sedan there was
no shelter People were sleeping in
the streets. starving.
At length, after several days, they
heard that they might possibly be
safe in the town of Lourdes. 1t was
there that they hid for six anxious
weeks, weeks in which every day was
terror-ridden for fear that the &C.
stapo would discover their where
abouts. 1t was at this time that the
radio announced that they had been
executed by the Nazis, statement
which was probably a trick on the
part of the Germans In order to see
if they were still alive.
In the horror which hung over
Lourdes, Mr.. Werfel picked up a
small brochure which told the story
of Bernadette. He vowed then that,
if he were allowed to escape, he
would write her life. In that horror,
too, he came to an even greater
realization Of the worlds need Of the
spiritual simplicity which guided her
footsteps.
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positions near Buna December S, 1t
Knode. q, now is recovering In an
Australian base hospital.
His citation reads: -..,v .-...
During an attack on Buna village
1t. Knode led his platoon with con-
spicuous bravery. When wounded
in the leg, he disregarded the wound
and continued to lead his platoon
in the attack. When he was again
wounded, in the foot, and was un-
able to go on, he refused to be
evacuated until he had given final
instructions to his platoon"
Born in California, 1t. Knode
lived most of his life in Washing
ton. His father, who was an Ameri-
can pilot in World War I, was killed
flying his own plane when young
Knode was only 6 years old. After
attending public schools here, he
was graduated from Augusta Mill
tary Academy, Stanton, Va. studied
law here one year, then accepted
employment with the United Press
in this city. He joined the news
staff of the National Broadcasting
Co. here in December, 1887. He de-
clined desk job as well as a place
on the public relations staff Of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur in order to get
front line experience.
In 1898 1t. Knode married Cath
crime O'Neil who was also an en-
ploye Of NBC.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-10

Delivery Of approximately 10000
copies of the new Washington tele-
phone directory is under way and is
expected to be completed within the
next week. D. E. Mccoy, general
commercial manager of the tele-
phone company, announced yester-
day.
Although the new directory con-
tains 5000 more listin.s than the
book it succeeds, it has $50 fewer
pages and weighs three-quarters of
pound less.
In recent years the directory has
grown considerably in size and
weight, apace with the rapid in
crease in Washington's telephones.
Any larger book, the company be-
lieved, would be awkward to handle,
and it already had reached a size
that was difficult to bind securely
in single volume of this type.
Mr.. Mccoy pointed out that the
company had the alternatives of
publishing the directory in two VOL
umes or printing the alphabetical
listings four columns to the page
instead of three.
The telephone company believed
subscribers would prefer one direc-
tory, Mr.. Mccoy said, so it was de-
cided to use the four-column list
ings.
An added consideration was the
saving of about three-quarters of a
million pounds of paper annually
that will be made, he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-10
Ordnance Worker Fired
For Hell Hitler Salute
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Jan. ct. H. Wood
ard, personnel manager at the Ne
braska ordnance plant at Mead,
said today that the plant had dis
missed from its employ John A.
Nelson of Omaha, who paid a fine
of 500 and costs for contempt of
court after he gave the salute Hell
Hitler" in Municipal Court here
yesterday.
Nelson had testified 1t made him
agry to be called into court on a
minor traffic charge, and that he
did not want to take time off from
work to answer the summons.
Plant officials said they were GER
tain Nelson had no pro-Nazi lean
ings, and that he had offered the
explanation, Il guess I must have
blown my top"
A delegation of disabled war vet
Grams from Omaha drove to the
plant this morning to ask the man.
agement what it intended to do
about Nelson. Mr.. Woodland noti-
fled the delegation Nelson had al
ready been dismissed.
Fellow workers said they believed
Nelson felt he should not have been
arrested for passing stop sign on
icy pavement. He was fined 81 and
costs also on the traffic charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-10
Murray Asks Roosevelt
To Save WPA Projects

Philip Murray, president of the
CLIO, made public yesterday a let
ter to President Roosevelt saying
that labor is concerned over the
fate of the WPA nursery schools as
result Of your order liquidating
the WPA."
Mr.. Murray proposed that this
WPA activity be transferred to the
Federal Works Administration "as
an operating program, together with
the unexpended balance of the
$6,000,000 of this years WPA ap-
preparation which would be ear
marked for care of children of work.
ing mothers"
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Spiritual Awakening of World
Seen by Franz WerfeI
Bernudette' Author
Discusses Reaction to
Century Of Science
BY KATE HOLIDAY,

|
LOS ANGELES, Jan. ct do
not think that the worlds newly
aroused interest in spiritual matters
is caused merely by the war. Rather,
it is a normal reaction to the CEN
fury of factual, scientific thought
which led up to the present day."
Franz Werfel, author OF THE
Song Of Bernadette," was speaking.
I had asked him If he did not believe
there was another, deeper reason
behind the public's interest in his
book besides the obvious mastery of
his writing. I had suggested that
for a tale about the miracles of
Lourdes to be a best seller was a
little unusual and wondered If he
had an explanation.
1--WE are in a period of spiritual
awakening" Mr.. Werfel went on in
his heavily accented voice, "and this
awakening has little to do along
materialistic lines. And this think
ing has been intensified in the last
hundred years. We rediscovered
science. We took up where the
Greeks left off. We swung COM
pletely into the factual mold. We
reacted from the religious feeling of
TIE Middle Asses to the practically
of modern times.
Last Questions" Neglected.
1--WE live now in the superstition
that technical research is philos-
ophy.
What is more important" he
continued, lis that we as individuals
and as nations have neglected to be
concerned with what I call the last
questions These are the questions
which even science cannot answer.
Il believe that we are now at
the beginning Of a spiritual renais-
sance, for in the decade Just past
we began to realize that new
car or new icebox was no longer
important We could lose them.
But we could not lose our sons and
our husbands Not without think
ing. And, thus, we commenced to
ask ourselves why such sorrow was
visited upon us and, ultimately, why
such sorrow was visited upon man
kind as a whole Why was the
world so prosecuted?
There must be answers to these
questions"
Mr.. Werfel paused. His round,
bespectacled face was serious He
shifted his small, heavy figure in
his chair, brushed his hand across
his bald head.
1--WE must win the war, of course"
he went on, land we must take our
new spirituality to the peace table.
We must not be merely factual then,
in spite of the hate we have for our
enemies. Our peace to come must
be more than a seal-decked scrap
of parchment.
Science Not Enough.
eve must remember then that the
light of the scientific candle is not
all light. 1t is help. But it does
not illuminate the cosmic dark"
The Song of Bernadette" is Mr..
Werfels contribution to the renais-
sance of spiritual thought.
In his book he has shown the
way towards the ultimate question: