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PAGE TWO Sunday. December 7. 1941 Jap Planes Attack Honolulu; War Set (Continued from page one.) time basis. All leaves were cancelled, all furloughs revoked. Every man was ordered to report to his post. In Washington, President Roosevelt called an extraordinary meeting of what now becomes the war cabinet the first since the close of the 191418 World war-f or 8:30 p.m., EST, Sunday night. A blackout of the Panama Canal Zone, vital link between the Atlantic and Pacific, was ordered, starting at 6:30 p.m. tonight. Gov. Poindexler of Hawaii report ed to President Roosevelt late today that heavy damage had been inflicted on life and-propertv in Honolulu. He said a second wave of Japanese planes was just coining over. In the Panama Canal zone, Panama police swiftly acted to protect the vital canal by rounding up all Japanese and taking them to Colon under heavy guard. Domei, the Japanese news agency, reported that "naval operations are progressing off Hawaii with at least one Japanese aircraft carrier inac tion against Pearl Harbor." Domei said Japanese bombers raided Honolulu at 7:35 a.m., Hawaii Time (!:(). p.m., Sunday, EST). A White House bulletin said heavy damage had been inflicted in the at tack on Hawaii and that there had probably been heavy loss of life. The war department told the White House that a preliminary estimate was 101 dead and more than 300 wounded on Oahu. In War Area t 1 ,4r iVf IV 'A Hi -t - , it-,, . London Waits Declaration By Churchill Parliament Is Called; Glad Japan Wars on Britain, too (Continued from page 1) completed arrangements to quit Britain immediately, including: the burning of its secret docu ments. Japanese Ambassador Karrfi- mura was expected to be called to the foreign office Monday ,to receive his passports. The Tokyo government previously had order ed the ambassador home for con sultation. The ambassador said he expect ed all the 500-odd Japanese in Britain JM be interned immediate ly "at least in principle." Japanese Third Secretary Mat- sui said the news of war "comes as a surprise, but not as a shock." The only documents from Prime Minister Churchill's of ficial residence, said both the house of commons and the house of lords would meet at 3 p. m. and "a statement will be made in both houses." This, it was expected on every hand, would be Britain's declara tion of war as a partner of the United States. man, commandant of the 13th naval district, was at his desk in the Bremerton navy yard in constant direct communication with his chief-of-staff. Capt. Guy Davis at the staff head quarters in the Exchange build ing in Seattle. Alien Roundup Not Plan Here At first the White House an nounced that Manila ahn had been bombed Hut the Associated Press "! i espor.dent there report ed at I :'fi p m. F. S T. thnt all was quiet The White House laUr said It had heeti unable to Ret sub stantiating reports of this attack on the Philippine capital anil that President Roosevelt hoped the re- I port of the bombing "'at least is ; erroneous." -President Roosevelt hardly waited for the Japanese declara- j t!on As soon as he heard of the ! bombing he ordered the army and j navy to carry out previous' y pre paid! and highly secret plans for the defense of the country. Army airmen engaged Japanese fighting planes over Honolulu. In the citv below them, thp White H iii ,e s.iid. a heavy loss of life had be-n inflicted, together with extensive damage to property. At the same time, the Chief I'xeciit i ve called his cabinet into C ! i ;i'M 1 1 n a r v session for R:."?0 pm, and invited congressional lender to join the group a half hour later Prior to this meeting. Mi l!oo .eel! began the draft of n si, i m! m-niy to congress and if the general M'n' ni;'iit in official . Islington oua' - . s was anv n- il:i';i''"ii. .tan in s declaration U.u v. ontd be met m like terms hv the Commander-in-Chief. Ft -m a high oTrosoonnl source, :t was learned that the Pie- : iert bad mentioned the pos sibib'v ' a jo nt se-!en of con gre s M tid.iv Thi- nntunillv It d ti spe- ulaMon that the Chief Y.x eeu!" e ,.'i'd a.l lres-. it and ;i .k in -t ii as did V( odrow Wil s -n ie 1 11 1 7. th.'1' it de, lai e war. Reg . o -1 ' -ss of tlii s . there was r.c d 'lib' i' the cmin'ry was at vvar The capital went onto a full waitiiee li.i -s within an hour af ter the ,i" ,( were leported. In nddtioii !o.,the President's ord-'is to the army and ti.'ivv, Secretary St ini-. tii oidercd the mobilization of nil military personnel. All offi cers were ordered to report in uniform Pro o.t marshal guards, wear ing steel hulmets and carrying rifles weie put upon duty about the war department and other important centers Presidential Secretary Stephen Fatly said at the White House thnt Secretary of Stale Hull had no infoi malion of the attack on Il.iv, an at the time he was talk ing Sunday morning with Japan's Ambassador Nomura and Special F.missary Kurusu. The blunt language Hull used in addressing the Japanese envoys was reflected in their faces and their uncommunicative reaction to newspapermen. Hull had kept them waiting for 15 minutes. Reporters, not knowing that announcement had been made elsewhere of the bombings, at tempted to question the two Jap anese. The bombing announce men came from the White House while the two envoys were at the state department. The two Japanese went to see Secretary of State Hull at 1:35, p m. (EST) and remained about 25 minutes. They handed to the secretary Tokyo's reply to the statement of principles which he gave to them on November 26. After their departure, the state department announced that Hull had informed the Japanese that a j document presented by them was "crowded with infamous false- hoods and distortions." The department's statement said that Hull had read the Jap anese reply and "immediately turned to the Japanese ambassa dor and with the greatest indig nation said: "4I must say that in all my conversations with you (the Jap anese ambassador) during the last nf j nine months I have never uttered one word of untruth. This is borne out absolutely by the record. " 'In all my 50 years of public sH-vice I have never seen a docu ment that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions--in famous falsehoods and distortions on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them'." Beyond the terse White House announcement and the swift or ders disclosed at the war and nevy departments, there was no specific information on the mili tary measures the United States I was taking. Li- 9 i. .ran j - i If j i if e Alert9 Given Defense Units At All Points "All county defense councils in the state have been ordered to the alert and are standing by to guard against any possible sabo tage of public utilities and defense industries reported Jerrold Owen, state civilian defense co ordinator, late Sunday. Owen, awaiting a conference with Gov. Charles A. Sprague, said that all county civ ilian de fense units west of the Cascades, and most of those east, had been contacted. "The main thing right now," he said, "is to give all, protec tion possible to sabotage areas and to take every precaution possible to circumvent any at tempt to disrupt public utili ties." '"It is also the duty of civilian defense councils to do all in their power to guard against hysteria or panic, which might also prove detrimental in times such as these." Owen said civilian observation posts have not been manned, prin cipally because the man power' is not available. this is no time to talk was Capt. Davis' only comment to re porters. Maj. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce, commanding the IX army corps, was in his office at Fort Lewis, too," in telephonic conversations with both the headquarters of Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, fourth army commander in San Fran cisco, and the war department in Washington. Soldiers and sailors on leave in Seattle started back to their posts without waiting for orders. Taxi cab companies found their facili ties taxed to the utmost to supply j them with transportation. I The Seattle police radio at intervals broadcast a call to all soldiers, sailors and marines to report to their stations at once. Police departments In Seattle and other cities of the Pacific northwest were placed on a 24 hour basis to guard against sabotage. Governor A. B. Langlie of Washington state ordered the state patrol on a 24-hour basis and called a meeting of his depart ment heads to discuss steps to be taken in event of an emergency. And the smooth working plan mapped out by the 2nd interceptor command for the aerial defense of the Pacific northwest went into action under command of Brig. Gen. Carlyle Wash. Civilian ob servers were on duty to spot any hostile planes that might appear along the Washington and Oregon coast. Interceptor planes at Paine field, near Everett, and in Port land, were on the alert. Joseph K. Carson, jr., of Port land, Pacific coast inspector gen eral of civilian defense, ordered the Pacific nor'hwest to mobilize its civilian defense volunteers. Be fore his order came to the various cities the volunteers were repott ing for duty. Mayor Earl Riley of Portland called that city's civilian defense agencies to meet at 7 p. m. Japanese in Custody In Pacific Ports, Naval Centers (Continued from page 1) j of our Japanese in this area hav e I been here many years and at e ' either citizens or wish they could be,"' he declared. BULLETINS (Continued from page one.) SHANGHAI, Monday, Dec. 8 (AP) The Japanese have sunk the British gunboat Petrel as it lay off the international settlement waterfront. The I'nited States gunboat Wake, nearby, was not damaged.' Japanese bluejackets, or marines, have occupied the waterfront of the international settlement. TACOMA. Wash.. Dec. 7-i Pi-High-ranking army officers have Issued orders calling for immediate rounding up of all Japanese nationals in the Paci fic northwest, it was learned Sunday. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7-(.4) A round-up of Japanese aliens on the lists of the federal bureau of investigation began here today. FBI special agent Nat Pieper said he had received instructions to start the work. His men had been mobilized at the FBI office awaiting the expected orders. Those taken into custody will be turned over to the department of immigration immediately. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 APWlt's unimagin able!" That was the way Joshio Muto, Japanese consul gen eral here, reacted to word the Japanese were bombing Honolulu and Manila. T had no intimation of it," he cried. I don't know what I shall do, or whether there Is anything I can do." SHANGHAI. Monday, Dec. 8 (AP) The Japanese took over the American Shanghai Power and Light com pany this morning. From top. Senator Douglas McKay, Mrs. Waldo Zeller, Barbara Miller and Shirley McKay, all Salem residents who are with the Willam ette university football party in Honolulu, scene of one of the surprise bomb ings Sunday by Japanese planes. Relatives and friends here could obtain no news of the Willamette party from Honolulu at a late hour Sunday because of strict army and navy cen sorship on all ingoing and outgoing cables. Coast Set On Alert FORT LEWIS. Wash.. Dec. 7 f-Pi-Maj. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce. ' commander of the 9th army corps, issued the following statement this afternoon: "Today the complete defense plans for the Pacific northwest and Puget Sound area were put into effect. ''Defense areas have been oc cupied by the troops designated and all elements of the 9th army corps and attached units have been placed on an alert s'atus. "The army is in full elabor ation with Governors Langlie, Washington, and Sprague, Ore gon, and with city executives and with other governmental agencies j in making arrangements for any i situation thnt may arise in the emergency." LOS ANGELES, Dec. Federal agents and army troops today abolished a blockade around Terminal island, in Los Angeles harbor, where several thousand Japanese, chiefly engaged In the fishing industry, are quartered. The FBI agents ordered that no aliens would be permitted to en ter or leave Terminal island. The agents. aided by troops from nearby Fort McArthur. took in custody .some two score Japanese as a ferry from the isalnd docked at San Pedro. They were herded into n wire enclosure for questioning NORFOLK. Va . Dec 7 -7p,-Col. Charles B. Borland, Norfolk director of public safety, imme diately ordered the attest of nil Japanese nationals in this strate gic naval center Sunday as soon as he learned of the Japanese at tacks on the lyiited States Pa cific bases. Borland said his orders were issued to chief of police John F. Woods and every available offi cer was pressed into roundup NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (AP) A pro-axis Shanghai radio station reported Sunday night that Japanese nav al forces had boarded a TS gunboat lying off Shanghai and hoisted the flag of the rising sun. Presumably, the ship was the Wake, although the broadcast, received here by CPS, did not give the name intelligently. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 ( AP) Secretary Mnrgen thau Sunday night closed the nation's borders to Japa nese nationals and imposed a strict ban on any financial transactions by Japanese aliens. BREMERTON, Wash., Dec. 7 (AP)-The 1.1th naval district issued a earning Sunday that "all planes flying over naval stations, except air stations, will be re garded as hostile and fired upon without warning." Officers said the warning applies especially to the Puget sound navv ard. Ni;W YORK, IW. 7 (AP) V lro:ulr:i by the pro-axis station in Shan iicl Sunday niht that great damage had b n uum1 in the Philippine hv a Japanese air attack. The Broadcast was heard hv CHS. Hawaiian fHam9 Tells Salem work. The number here is not large. of Japanese SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7-iVPi- ; Mayor Angclo J. Rossi declared San Francisco in a state of emer- gency Sunday night and demand ed the immediate cessation of all strikes "in order to present a day and night. Troop detachments ' unitecl front." with full war packs began moving I (Continued from page 1) out of,jjprt Lewis this afternoon to take-up positions at strategic points in the northwest. At Fort Lewis as wellas at smaller army stations headquar ters offices, which had been 'closed over the weekend, were reopened and became beehives of industry. The same was true at naval shore stations and aboard ships of war in Bremerton. Rear Admiral Charles S. Free- Find Stolen Purse BRUSH CREEK Children in the Brush Creek district near the school here found the purse stol en a few weeks ago from Mrs. M. J. Van Valkenberg. The purse was lying at the side of the road j and while the $90 was missing, j the remainder of the contents I were there. CRISTOBAL. C.Z . Dec. 8-CP,- ' Police in the Panama republic to- night were rounding up all Jap- j anese and taking them to Colon. '' under heavy guard. Twenty Japanese were placed under custody immediately and : a remaining 60 or 80 adults were being rounded up. US army trucks, manned by i military police, stood in readiness ; for emergencies before the police j station but Panama police were handling all activ ities. Colon, is in , Panama. -v NY Crowds Cheer News NEW YORK, Dec. 7-i-TVNews of the Japanese attack on outly ing US possessions caused crowds to gather in Times Square Sunday and at 4 p.m. The crowd was rapidly increasing. v A newspaper rushed into the district said in screaming head lines: '"Japs Attack US: Hawaii. Philippines Bombed by Airmen." Hundreds cheeied and com ments heard were: "We're into it, boys." "We didn't start it." r. w : Radioman of Things Ami ' This looks bad! I can't stay in this pla.L ' An excited, doubtless frightened voice spoke those wo the 20-meter amateur radio band Sunday fotct.oor.. tip Stephen C. Mergler. chief of The Statesm i man of the Oregon Amateur , Radio Defer.se system, a branch of the state defense council that 1 something was amiss in the Ha wai ian islands. Mergler said he chanced to tune this amateur band, (or the first time in several weeks, pav ing little attention to signals heard until the strained voice of the Hawaiian operator. Identified by his KG call letters. Issuing from the loudspeaker of his shortwave rfccelver. v --r .: off vd chair- tlon early Sunday afternoon, with Kdward Heenan. W7ECH. and ('. (). Douglas, West Salem. VV7JAA. going on the air to avk Portland members to stand by and to attempt to locate ('. . Olson. W7ICA. radiotelephone network coordinator, who wu In Portland. "Can't talk any more." the voice said. "Signing off, you take over.'' Then the Hawaiian operator shut off his station, and a Salt Lake City amateur responded: "Okeh, but you didn't say what was the matter. 73s." The Hawaiian operator returned ; to the air long enough only to : explain: "I'm in the army and c.m't te'.l i you. K6 signing off." O:om hiai.r g rf the J..,r.t attack on Un.ted States isln-vis liaii.el back to Salem. airai-.g-J w.tn M r Owec '. take a:.y emerg ency mc -.-.C's. then wer.t to vok cal.n.g h.s y t a : . v.:.; h cot weitern Oregon, si r . ire. to ,y f -r Manila Ready For Warfare Salem members of the Oregon Radio Defense system, .which handles messages between the offices of Jerrold Owen, state defense coordinator, and county defense leaders, went Into ac- WU Griddcrs In War Area (Continued from page 1) S. "Spec" Keene, Manager Dick Kernes, Publicist Gil Lieser. Salem residents Mrs. R. S. Keene, Mr. and Mrs. Harry U. Miller, Barbara Miller, Jack" Hedgcock, Wayne Hadley, Sena tor Douglas McKay, Shirley Mc ' Kay, Lorcna Jack, Mrs. Wafdo Zeller. Mrs. Charles O. Wilson, Mrs. Bud Reynolds, Betty Byrd, Mrs. George E. Lewis, Mrs. Ray M. Waltz, Mrs. Gordon Moore, Miss Maxine Adsheim and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Anderson. From Dallas C. W. Henkle. From Kent, Wash. N. B. Shaffer. . . i Bearcat Gridders- Weren't Looking for Bombs Here, But-- 1 IF " I f ' ' n. '$ I W mI WW &s C?v .1 It lf""lr Vtl ' ""J" MAI Hw4 . rVl : 1 ilk V pf iX I ft' '..( AJ II' I (Cor.tir.ue.i from page 1) I here at 5 2a a m (4 25 p m . EST, Sunday ) . I'pon being advised of the it i tack on Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, I.t. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the I S forces In the far east, placed his entire command on the alert. Admiral Thomas C. Hait, commander-in-chief of the US Asiat ic fleet, di .laied that all steps had been taken to meet the situat. :i For the part in da s Aum.tal H.ut ha kt pi the f. ... out of "au.la bav, i atro'.n-.c the Ph:l:;- n r. the a to .se S.i, at te ar.d . Bat a .a a'.-o have stat.or.s in ar.t.c:- k. s li -m the .:u'.-e Lsand n.a on the so, Biit.iin's elite: Hongkong anu I)ut li f, ices 6! been at battle patioii of Jauane.-e a'.t: Gen. MacArthur appvj'.eJ to Hit? populace to mam'.a.n seif imi troj. H.s statement v. as a. .ma j at pi i e:it.:. pan e a;, i B g ncr.il liish to the coui.tiy-aie o.ir tne iiaii o.', lo.Kij, 1. 1 .-u .' : uefer.se : e.- "Nothing." he said, "(an h4P our military effort more than a continuation of the calmness and self-restraint which have been observed during the past weeks of uncertainty and an xiety. "Each individual should con t.nue with 1'ititude his usual routine and prepare to carry out with promptitude the authorities" I directions. "These orders will be for the security and well-being cf the people. "The military is on the alert and every precaution is being under taken. My message is one of serenity and confidence" Aboard the Lurline as it sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu Novem ber 29, members of this Willamette university football party never dreamed they might be looking up into the skies for Japanese bomb ers nine days later. Grave concern was felt in Salem for these boys, and In the picture, back row, standing: F. E. Taylor, traveling passenger agent for Southern Pacific; Martin Barstad. Cordon Moore, Ted Ogdahl, Dave Kelly, Wally Olson, Neil Morley, Ken Jacobson, Andy Rogers, Bill Reder, George Constable. Bob Bennett, Chuck Furno, Paul Cookingham. the 21 other members of the fnnfhall nnrtv. when it wn IparnpH Hnnn-1 Marvin Goodman. Kneeling, middle row Pat White, Al Barrett, Al Wal lulu was bombed within a few hours after Willamette plaved the Uni- den. Irv Miller, Marshall Barbour, Cecil Conner. Kneeling, front row Jim versity of Hawaii a football game there Saturday. Fitzgerald, Earl Hampton, Gene Stewart, Glen Nordqutst, Jim Burgess, Coach Spec Keene, Bud Reynolds. Welders Will Stav at Work SA KRAN'CISCO, Dec. 7-v?V There will be no strike of weld ers. The navy here received that as surance Sunday, as the head of that organization of workers vital to defense cancelled plans for a nation-wide strik Tuesday.