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Show DAILY HERALD Friday, April tt 11 Two Yuma Fliers GoingAf tor Endurance Flying RccordTToo YUMA. Aril.,: April 12 ,U.RP . FUIXERTON, Cal., April ' M t.. vrm 'mw r,iiM 'UorfvlaJ.PJ -riier Bill Barria and Dick Jongeward end Bob Woodnouse,lRiedel decided today to attend circled over Yuma today on the the first American Gold Cup air firat phase of their attempt to races at San Diego, Cal., Satur-break Satur-break -the world's endurance day : without Interrupting their nht ronri nnw heine niled uo own record-shattering endurance kv Sill Ravria nrt Dick Riedel 1 flight. ? 1 over Fullerton, Cal. ..' 1 They took off at 6:51.5 (EST) yesterday in a reconditioned Aeronca monoplane afterratUo trouble In their refueling car had nnstnnned . an earlier departure. Like Barrii and Riedel. who still; are aloft, and are approaching their coal of 1.008 continuous hours in the air. the two fliers i planned to take on gasoline and! Jood from a speeding auto. I . The pair, both local business-1 men. said they would remain. over Yuma during the first pnase reiueiing operations nere yesrer- i of the flight and later would.day, "but otherwise our physical j .1.. t lk AriT.nna!nriHtinn im 0nrui Th tmntation gliajfcv . . vu v w . -- r "HI nl.ki ..; M.anil ! a 1..J im 4mI41 kill nr. ..1 vi. I C1 11 ... JL I1C J11K1JI. W. Jwnaw. ,v AI1U U .WJl UV fcrw. www. " i 'by -the eity's chamber of com-must hang' up a record which rnerce. iwill last for many years." America's Last Cavalry Division Is Reorganized Into Infantry Outfit Previously they had declined to attend because they were "too l tired." i " We got a good rest last night," the pilots said, "and decided to go after all. They want us to give a refueling exhibition- over the. Brown Field runway there." i They are trying to stay aloft in their "Sunkist Lady" for 1000 i hours, a goal they' would reach at 11:44 a.m. Tuesday. "We are very, very tired," they told their , ground crews during TOKYO (U.R) America's last cavalry division has passed into jthe record books marking the end of an era of mounted soldiers who made history in the conquest of the American western plains. The old 1st Cavalry Division, currently on occupation duty in central Honshu, is being reorganized reor-ganized as an infantry division and has been renamed the "1st Cavalry; Division (Infantry)." The only horses remaining are those on the division's big yellow shoulder patch insignia. "Under the new organization, one regiment,' the 12th Cavalry, and two brigade headquarters, the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Brigades were inactivated. Many smaller units were renamed. Orea-t Combat Unit This cavalry division became one of the outstanding combat units in World War II. The 1st Cavalry Division captured the Although relatively young the 1st Cavalry Division was organized organ-ized on Sept. IS, 1921 the divis ion still has left three or the most famous regiments in the United States Army the 5th, 7th and Sth Cavalrys. The 5th Cavalry . was organized in 1855 under the command com-mand of Lieut. Col. Robert E. Lee. Both organized in 1866, the ! 7th and 8th Cavalrys rode over the western plains in grim pursuit pur-suit of warring Indian tribes. Five troops of the 7th Cavalry died with George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876. French Line Enters Atlantic Struggle With Dark Horse NEW YORK (URPThe French! Admiralty Islands in early. 1944 Uhe has unveiled its entry in the and then moved oti to take part in -the Leyte and Luzon Island section in the Philippines campaign. cam-paign. Since Sept. 2, 1945, the first day-division troops landed near Yokohama, the unH has been on occupation duty in Japan. It garrisons 10 Japanese prefectures prefect-ures in the Tokyo-Yokohama, vl-cinityan vl-cinityan area of approximately -23,600 square miles, which is The 12th Cavalry Regiment ' and its combat record of distinguished distin-guished service faded into the past when'the regiment was inactivated in-activated under the new organization. organi-zation. This ' regimen, which was organized on Feb. 2,1901. took -two tours of duty in the Philippines Philip-pines from 1903 to 1905, and from 1909 to 1911, and later returned from its overseas tour to the United States to guard the Mexican Mexi-can border during the -Pancho Villa uprisings in1914 and 1916. 4n February, 1916, the regi-ment's regi-ment's first squadron was ordered ord-ered to the Panama Canal Zone, where it stayed until 1921. The 12th Cavalry Joined the 1st Cavalry Cav-alry Division in 1932, replacing the 1st Cavalry Regiment, which was reorganized into a mechanized mechan-ized unit. Fought on Leyte Fifty days of continuous combat com-bat against the Japanese in the rugged, mud-soaked mountains of Western "Leyte, Philippines, was just one of its combat accomplishments accomp-lishments in World War II. It was the 12th Cavalry that shoved on through to deliver the final blows tohe stubborn Jap forces on Leyte. A unit of the 12th Cavalry fought from room to room in the successful battle- for the Manila Hotel in early 1945. Both brigades in the division. Jhe 1st and 2nd Cavalry Brigades, have been abonsned in the triangular 1st Cavalry Division This brings to a closelhe existence exist-ence of one of the oldest cavalry units in the .flferican Army. HeadquartejrsTroop of the 1st Cavalry Brigade celebrated its 115th anniversary on March 2, 1949Organized in1833,' it was Ten known as Company H. the Regiment of Dragoons, first off ic-ial ic-ial United Stares Arrrjy cavalry unit. race for trans-Atlantic passenger ship supremacy now shaping up with American plans for a $70,- 000,000 superliner. It, is Gaston Magrin. No, Gaston Magrin i not a four-f unneled" craft complete with sundek! and accommoda tion for 2,000. Nor is Gaston Ma,- grin a diesel-powered luxury liner intended to capture from populated with more than 12,000,X!Britain the blue pennant of At- 000 persons. irantic speed. Gaston Masrirrls a chef. , A "Bt what a chef," chortled a French Line official who bears the incongruous name of Charles Hoean. "Let the others concen trate on size and swiftness. M'sieur Magrin with his magic J brews and potions, his , sauces, remoulades, aiguiUetes, veloutes and aupremes win lure the pas sengers lust the same. Hosan said his rtne did not plan to duplicate the great Nor-mandie, Nor-mandie, $80,000,000 queeji of the seas, which burned- at its pier here during the war. ' Instead it will concentrate on its newly i renovated He de France andxon i.rfina 4 Via Kit Rtrman nr.- fti kin. j , " - - - r- -, ml 1 1 mm V war passenger nagsnip, turopa, into a modern liner. "There are bigger ships on the ocean, Hogan said, "and it Jis possible that new . liners will be faster. We of the French line merely say that our passengers will eat the best. "Gaston Magrin will see toi that." Asked for the whereabouts of the fabulous M. Magrin, Hogan said he was now ; resting in pre-; paration for assuming his duties on the luxuriously reuilt He de; France, which arrives in New, York on its Jttaiden voyage in! mid-July. Consumption of" refined copper. during 1948 rose to I,a94,307-tons from 1,338,383 tons in 1847. Radiators Repaired Anto Glaaa Installed Specialized Work AHLANDER'S 499 So. Univ. 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