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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1941)
17 A Full News FOUNDS I?, 16S1 The Statesman krtps up its record, with this extra Issue, of bringinr readers more than the first flashes of major news; watch for Monday morning paper. NINETY-FIRST YEAR Sunday. December 7. 1941 Price 3c: wsVapdj 5c No. 119 WU Grid Party In Bombed A rea Grave Concern Here For Group's Safety Grave- concern for the safety of the Willamette univer sity football party of 51, now in Honolulu, was freely ex pressed by relatives and friends in Salem Sunday afternoon when the radio and telegraph began bringing in reports here of the bombing of Honolulu by Japanese aircraft. Husbands, wives and friends, including Mrs. Douglas McKay, wife of Senator Douglas McKay, who, with Daugh ter Shirley is in the Willamette party, made several futile attempts to get through to Honolulu by cable. "I'm worried to death," said Mrs. McKay in a telephone . t I communication to The Statesman. Alien Roundup Not Plan Here Coast Is Put on Alert Leaves Cancelled; Ammunition Is Given out PORTLAND, Dec. 7. (AP) Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon called a meeting of state military and police officials in Sa lem Sunday night. He told Oregon residents, "We must not rest until the menace of Japanese ag gression in the Pacific is definitely ended." Pear FT Tl xrrs. r-ur 11 n n 11 n n ltU IA1 (Q) U IUJ U IUJ Xiao-tow (HlDfts Make TTakemi Iky E)dlar Wair A Japanese in Custody In Pacific Ports, Naval Centers No immodiate'roundup of alien Japanese in the mid-Willamette j valley has been ordered, federal j and state officers declared in Sa- I lem Sunday night, while they Tilled that any such action be ! left to eon.-tituted authorities. I "No order has come to us. but wc arc sure that the FBI has covered and w ill cover this ter ritory thoroughly and that when any Japanese are to be taken into custody federal in- vestiffators will .know as much about it as an group of our citizenry," said Col. Elmer V. Wooton of the Oregon National guard, state adjutant. "State police, if they should be called into this suKKcsted alien Toutulup, would be acting on or ders we have tint yet received." said ('apt. Waltci Lansing of that organization. "The vast majority (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) "I know that Mr. McKay will get word through to me if at all pos sible but I don't suppose it is pos sible." f Dr. Ray M. Walz, whose wife is with the party, said he received a letter from her Sunday morning, mailed last Wednesday, but at that time everything was, of course, quiet in the islands. Howard Maple, assistant foot ball coach at Willamette, said late Sunday he had been be sieged with telephone calls from relatives and friends of the football party. Twenty-seven football players, Coach R. S. "Spec" Keene, Mana ger Dick Kernes and Publicist Gil Lieser make up the Willamette university party, proper. In addi tion, 19 Salem residents, one Dal las resident and one Kent, Wash., resident ate with the football team, which was scheduled to play San Jose State college De cember 16 and to board the Lur litie December 19 for the return trip home. The team played the University of Hawaii Saturday afternoon, just a few hours before bombs were to rain down within a few i miles of the football field. i The party was scheduled to ar rive in saiem i nnstmas day. Camplete party: Willamette football tcam Bill Heder, Marshall Barbour. Marvin Goodman, Bill Kelly, Martin Bar stad, George Constable, Andy Ro gers, Neil Motley. Jim Fitzgerald, Tony Fraiola. Wally Olsen, Gor don Moore. Bob Bennett, Pat Jack Bellinger of Lebanon.MVhite, Al Barrett, Teddy Ogdahl, formerly a member of The States-1 Chuck Furno, Irv Miller, Buddy man news staff but more recent-! Reynolds, Gene Stewart, Cecil ly n teacher in an institution of! Conner, Al Welden, Earl Hamp higher education at Yokohama, I ton. Glen Nordquist, Jim Burgess, was reported late last week to Ken Jacobsen and Poul Cooking have been a passenger aboard the ( ham. Tatuta Maru, sailing from Japan! With football team Coach R. to America. ' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) ; By The Associated Press The Pacific northwest was on a war footing Sunday. Only a few hours after the quiet of a peaceful Sabbath j was broken by the surprise Japanese attack on Honolulu, army and navy forces and ci vilian defense organizations were able to announce: "We are ready ,-vf or any emer gency." Every military and naval post in the area went on a war basis at once. All leaves and fur loughs were cancelled. Every man was subject to call at any mo ment throughout the 24 hours -TP f (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Manila Ready For Warfare Bellinger on Way to US Gen. MacArthur Places Command on Alert; Asks Self Control Bv The Associated Press MANILA, Dec. 8-(Monday)-Unite dStates army bombers and pursuit planes roared into the air and headed northward at dawn today soon after word reached Manila of the outbreak of hostili ties between Japan and the United States. This was the only sign of war (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8)- in i U U Vj London Waits Declaration By Churchill Parliament Is Called; Glad Japan Wars on Britain, too LONDON, Dec. 8. (Mon day) (AP) The British parliament was called into special session for 3 p. m. Monday (6 a. m., PST) to hear a government statement which everyone agreed would be a declaration of war against Japan which was ex pected to coincide with sim ilar action by the United States. Japan already had declared war on Great Britain and the United States last night as Prime Minister Churchill conferred with US Am bassador John G. Winafit and as London awaited fulfillment of Churchill's now unneeded pledge to declare war on Japan "within the hour" if Japan attacked the United States. Belief was expressed in British quarters here that the ' Japanese already had attacked "some Brit ish possessions'' as well as the Pa cific bases of the United States. The Japanese embassy, which had been Inaccessible by tele phone for hours, late last night (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) BULLETINS SHANGHAI, Monday, Dec. 8 (AP) The Japan ese army and navy surrounded the international settle ment at 4:10 a. m. today and served notice on the com mander of the US gunboat Wake that war had been declared. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 ( AP) The navy depart ment announced Sunday night that a censorship had been placed on all outgoing cablegrams and radio mes sages from the United States and its outlying possessions. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 (AP) The Anac clip per, with 28 persons aboard, landed safely at an un named airport in the Hawaiian islands this afternoon. It left San Francisco Saturday night. NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (AP) Reports received by The Associated Press from Europe Sunday night said the German army was preparing an effort to take both Moscow and Leningrad and recapture Rostov within two weeks in a move linked with the outbreak of war in the Pacific. BLACKOUTS BALBOA, CANAL ZONE, Dec. T-i.-TVA blackout of the Canal Zone and Panama was ordered Sunday effective at 6:30 p.m. SITKA, ALASKA, Oec. 7-;P)-A blackout was ordered for Sun day night at this site of a naval air station while police officials started a roundup of questionable characters. LONDON, Dec. 7 (AP) A German radio broad cast heard here said Sunday night that "President Roosevelt has at last got his war, vhich he has always looked for." "We learn in the last few minutes," the announcer said, "that as a consequence of continued provocation it now, at last, has come to an American-Japanese con flict." BERLIN, Dec. 7 (AP) A German spokesman de clared Sunday night there could be no reaction from Gertnany to the announced Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor until all sides of the case were athand. NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (AP) The Associated Press has been advised by communications agencies that the navy has invoked a censorship on Manila and Honolulu, prohibiting messages "outbound" from both Pacific points. (Continued on page two.) War Conies: We Face the Test The United States is at war. It is not a war of our making. The suddenness and dead liness of the enemy's attack serves outstandingly to emphasize this fact. The United States was attacked and if there was any danger that in a war with Japan the American people would not be united, the manner in which war came wholly elimin ates that danger. r Of the causes, the reasons for Japan's almost incredible action, there will be ample time for consideration later. This is not a time in which these and other questions may be dis cussed calmly. Americans are stunned at the suddenness with which the nation was plunged into war. They can scarcely believe it. As realization dawns, they are shocked. Of a peace-loving people this is natural. There are some, especially here on the Pacific coast, near est continental American soil to the scene of conflict, who are fearful; who ate greatly disturbed by the success of initial surprise attacks. Any such fears are, for the present, unwarranted. What may come, no one knows. But for the present, it is reassuring to realize that our own strong navy stands guard; that our armed forces, thanks to our government's foresight in the last two years, are prepared to meet this attack; that though they alone are a match for the enemy, we have powerful allies whose interest also is -to crush this menace as quicklyas de cisively as possible. We are at war. Well, we have been at war before and have acquitted ourselves honorably. We will do so again. We are all Americans, unite in this war of defense. Where War Broke to Panic rPeacefuV Pacific HONOLULU TO MANILA 4756 MILES "S-v ' SHANGHAI t. 0 TIE'S BMHBBBMSt MaV SjlUPPINE IS. DUTCH EAST XjL. INDIES A , USTIA BRISBANE 1 - Tfr'1 AM SAN FRANCISCO U.S.A. eV ANGELES HAWAIIAN 18. SEATTLf; LOG o lot PALMYRA CANTON IS. rp "V ct, SAMOA OCEAN WASHINGTON. Dec. 7-(AP))-Ja-pan declared' war upon the United States Sunday, and an electrified nation immediately united for a terrific strim gle ahead. President Roosevelt was ex pected to ask congress for a declaration of war Monday. NEW YORK. Dec. 7-(AP)-The Ne therlands East Indies declared war on Japan tonight (6:30 a.m.. Monday. Ba tavia Time), the NBC reported Sunday nignt. The word was telephoned from Ba tavia by the NBC correspondent, who said general mobilization had been ordered. LONDON. DecVK-(Monday)-(AP) -A Reuters dispatch from Shanghai to day (tioted an unconfirmed report cir culated there savin" US-owned Wake island bad been occupied bv the Japa nese. The British news agency said the Shanghai rumors had it that the occupa tion of Wake was accomplished peaceably. JOSE. Costa Rica. Dec. (AP) -Costa Rica declared war on Japan Sunday niiht. c By The Associated 1'res.s W ar between the United States and Japan exploded violently in the Paci fic Sunday as waves of Japanese bombers tw ice attacked Honolulu, in flicting apparently great loss in life and property, and bombed the tiny US base at Guam, midway between Hawaii and the Philippines. In London. Prime Minister Win ston Churchill summons parliament for a joint declaration war w ith the United States against Japan. Imperial headquarters in Tokvo already had declared war formally against both the United States and Great Britain effective at dawn. First reports that the Japanese had also attacked Manila in the Philip pines appeared at least premature. On the Pcific coast, the armv and navy went onto an immediate war- (Continut-d on page two.)