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Showers In northwest Ore
west Oregon, fair elsewhert
In state; fresh to itronf
southerly winds on roast:
max. temp. Sunday 45, min.
35; rain 0.
NINETY -FIRST YEAR
Salem. Oregon, Monday Morning, December 8. 1941
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No. 219
J)apsiira9s
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OrdersForming
Of State Guard
BULLETINS
NEW YORK, Monday, Dec. 8. (AP) NBC said
the US aircraft carrier Langley was reported unofficial
ly in Manila to have been damaged in action with Japan
ese forces.
Civilians on Alert
Bridges Patrolled
(Jov. Charles A. Sprague of Oregon declared a state of
unlimited emergency Sunday night as civilian defenders
mobilized in this Pacific coast state.
The governor ordered Japanese and other aliens to re
main in their homes, pending further instructions, author
ized, organization of a state guard to replace the mobilized
national guard and expanded the state police system to deal
with possible sabotage attempts.
Civilian defense organizations were placed on the alert.
Thousands of volunteers were to report Monday for duty in
air raid warning, fire fighting and police protection systems.
Joseph K. Carson jr., coast inspector general of civilian
defense, asked mayors of Oregon and Washington to in
crease their staffs in order to enroll additional hundreds of
volunteers.
Key industries went under guard at once when the
Japanese attack in the Pacific became known. The govern
ment's giant Bonneville and (irand Coulee dams, furnishing
power to shipyards, aluminum and chemical plants, was pro
tected by a doubled sentry force.
Rifle-armed police patrolled all
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7. (AP) Premier Hideki
Tojo told the Japanese people in a broadcast from Tokyo
Sunday night "I hereby promise you that Japan will win
final victory."
He said Japan is declaring war on the United States
for "self protection and self existence. We have nothing
to fear in this war."
FR Plans
Congress
Message
Expected to Ask
War Declaration
Cabinet Meets
9
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.
TtaoDanud Omwadledl
M Hawaii dsnd FoeUd
Says
a 4 E)B
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.
( AP) The White House an-
and British
and invaded
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.
Portland bridges and soldiers
from Vancouver. Wash , barracks
guarded Portland docks.
The FBI rounded up some
Japanese aliens. J. Douglas
Swenson. FBI agent, said nine
had been arrested already, and
more arrests were due. More
than 3000 Japanese are in Ore
gon, but no wholesale roundup
was expected.
Poitland also closed to the pub
lic two municipal paiks contain
ing reservoirs.
Mayor Karl Kiley, at a meeting
Sunday night, said air raid warn
ing sirens would be purchased
for Portland as soon as possible.
The governor announced that
the state guard wotild be com
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Ex-Servicenien
Tighten Group
For Defense
Three hundred fittv ex-service
men, hastily called together, Sun- ,
day night filled the auditoriuiVi of j
Legii.n hall in Salem to further
their organization for defense of
the country.
As a countywide police reserves
organization they are to join other
reserves from, over the county,
outside of S.ilem. in a mass meet
ing at 8 o'clock tonight at the
same meeting place.
Assignments of definite 're
sponsibility and instruction in
fighting incendiary bombs and
in meeting other forms of pos
sible sabotage are on the sched
ule for tonight's class, L. L. Pit
tenger, county police training
chairman, said.
Because of ds central location
and better parking accommoda
tions the Legion's recently-acquired
building probably will
serve as a headquarters for not j
only the service men guards but j
for some other branches ot ci
vilian defense, members of the
Legion said Sunday night, de
claring its accommodations will
be offered freely in such a cause.
Second War
Extra
County Heads
Stay at Posts
Defense Council Set
to Open Day Office;
I se of lMione Urged
Marion county civilian
defense authorities, work
ing in shifts, remained at
their posts in the defense
council's courthouse offices
throughout Sunday night
and prepared to open day
time headquarters probably
Tuesday morning at some
still unselected central lo
cation. Telephone number from
the council's regular of
fices, open after 6 p. m., is
4120, Br y a n H. Conley',
county coordinator, said.
Urging that the telephone
be used for emergencies
only so that workers may
be able to contact person
nel out over the county
should it become necessary
tonight and so that orders
to the council may be rap
idly transmitted, he called
attention to the fact that
the telephone during day
time hours belongs to the
Marion county court and
that it is not then a defense
council instrument.
Mobilized within 20 minutes
from the time of their first call,
heads of Marion county's civilian
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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
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- - .
Willamette Gridders
In Bombed Honolulu
Grave Concent Felt Here for Safety
of 51 in Football Party; Attempts
to Get News From Island Futile
Japan assaulted every main United State
possession in the eenlral and western Pacific
r m i a a m m a -m -m -
nounced Sunday night that 1 liailanu jlonuav in a liaslv I)nt evident Iv shrewdly-plainied
uuiini; i KMiiuit iuniM'ni s
conference with legislative
leaders and members rf fthe
cabinet he received word from
General Douglas MacArthur
that "enemy planes were over
central Luzon in the Philip
pines about 8 n. m., eastern
standard time; that a bomb- ( 1 :().) 1). 111.. FST SlllldaV.
The claimed successes for this fell swoop included sink
ing of the US Battleship W estVirginia and setting afire of t
he Battleship Oklah onia.
From that moment, each tense tick of the clock brought
prosecution of a war she began Sundav without warning.
Her formal declaration of war against both the United
Stales and Britain came two hours and 55 minutes after
Japanese planes spread death and terrific destruction in
Honolulu and Pearl Harbor at 7:35 a. in.. Hawaiian time
ing attack has been made on
Davao at hv southern end of
the southern island of Min-
dnnoa. and th;it another attack
has been made on Camp J. hn
Hayes at Bagnio in the iH'ithern
mountains ol' Luzon.
"So far." the White lb. use an-
new and flaming accounts of Japanese aggression in her sc
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP) The war and navy
departments issued the following announcement Sunday
night :
"The war and navy departments tonight announced
they are receiving many inquiries regarding personnel
stationed in the Hawaiian island area.
"No information has been received about casualties.
"Families will be notified promptly as soon as def
inite word regarding casualties becomes available.
"Both departments request individual inquiries be
not sent at this time."
NEW YORK. Dee. 7.-f-All
three major networks Nation
al Broadcasting: company. Co
lumbia Broadcasting system
and Mutual Broadcasting, sys
tem will carry President
Roosevelt's message to conctess
at 9:30 a. m. (I'ST) Monday..
crelly launched war of conquest or death for the land of the
Rising Sun. ' 4
As compiled from official and unofficial accounts from
all affected countries, the record ran like this:
Honolulu homlx ( a m toikI time:
Lumlirr-lailen I S army transport torp-lo l I'MH)
t ol San rraiin-rn and another tran-port in
ni'iinivmi'iit sam.
damage had boon
The text of the
which a ! - 0 1 1 pi iite
"no t'-enlad
repe! toil
.mi' 1 ; i h 1 nunt,
I the" d . : ,i :i
Grave concern for the safety of the Willamette univer
li., e 1.. r pi 11 11 r- 1
suv lumiwn pariv 01 at, now jn tionoiuiu, was ireely ex
pressed by relatives and friends in Salem Sundav afternoon
F
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
communication to The Statesman.
"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." 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
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With the pu sid( 111 ill the
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lat ive leadi i s I n in 1m .' h 1
of thi- conu'ss. and In 'h p. 't is
arrived and participated ai a .
i mot mm witn tile pies. 'an' an
j the cabinet.
"The president reviewed for
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First on the streets Sunday
night with the complete picture
of Japan's attack on I'nlted
States possessions and what the
army, the navy and the office of
civilian defense did about it.
The Statesman this, morning de
parts from custom and provides
a Monday morning: edition.
This second extra expands
Sunday's news and In addition
brings the latest reports from
the Associated Tress on the war
situation. -
Watch subsequent regular is
sues of The Statesman for all
the news; this paper's 2:30 a.
.m. press time keps its readers
POSTED AHEAD.
City Defense
Is Outlined
By LeGarie
"Not for a moment are we tem
porizing with any subversive ele
ment in our midst!" declared L. F.
LeGarie, Salem Chilian defense
chairman, as he explained Sun
day nignt the network of defense
thrown around the capital city.
"Residents of the city should
not talk and worry about ac-
tivities they do not understand
but should report anything sus
picious immediately to police or
civilian defense heads: Thus we
shall do away with hysteria, in
justices and any actual threats
from within," LeGarie said.
Industries of the city, he'saidv
are largely supplying their own
guards bid should feel free to
call upon civilian defense reserves
for assistance. That there is an
abundance of manpower avail
able among the reserves, who
have registered with recommen
dations and investigations as to
their standings as loyal citizens
was emphasized by the city de-fenseH'hairman.
WU, San Jose
Ma y Be in
For Long Stay
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8.-(P)-San
Jose State college's football
team, caught in Honolulu by the
war, may have to stay there a
long time, authorities at the col
lege said Sunday night. x
The same appeared to hold true
for the football team from Will
amette university of Oregon,
which also is in Honolulu.
"We certainly won't risk hav
ing our boys coming back for a
while now even if they could
arrange transportation," said
Glenn S. "Tiny" Hartranft, San
Jose State athletic director.
"There's too much danger in
travel between the mainland and
Hawaii."
The San Jose State squad, 25
players with Coach Ben Winkel-
man and a managerial staff of
five, arrived in the islands sev
eral days ago to play the Univer
sity of Hawaii next Saturday and
Willamette on December 16. The
Willamette team reached there
last Wednesday and played Ha
waii last Saturday.
Until the Japanese attack
Sunday, the San Jose and Will
amette teams were expected to
return to the mainland Decem
ber 24.
, Step-up Asked
In Production
Of War Needs
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7-iP,
Undersecretary of War Patterson
called Sunday night for produc
tion of all war munitions . on a
24-hour basis.
Patterson issued instructions to
chiefs of the war department pro
curement agency that "all steps
must be taken to increase the
i speed with which contracts are
! let and to speed up maximum pro
duction." j The undersecretary is in charge
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WASH INC
m .i.ate and
n.r, ! .r.'s a i nit
h,..l:!;l;es ha
the Ur.itid S
in military c;
It was behi
J first st 1 1 s v. i :
i listt ii l cm i e.-
weui.i nieai
i fi r th e sea 1 1 1
j who icci ntly
from active dutv
I'ON Dec 7 V Im
. ..- 1 i p. m a n of iki
'1 f. n . m w that
v e b( en thrust up n
es. v;;iv legarded
; ri If s as hi tain.
i id that oi.e of the
a'. -i be to i all ail cii-
ti. ai e duty. This
i n '.am to a i ir.y pe-ts
i 1 1 e St 1 a e t l a .IU e-
ere dischai ged
H'i aiiM' of being
litrr ;
Shanghai' intrrnat IoiihI
Cmilmut like captured then
I'eterel letroel;
Capture of the I S i-Iainl of W ake:
" Ilnmhin of the I S i-lanil of iiam:
Homliiiiir of many point throughout the l'hilit-
i-land-;
Imainn of northern Malaya ami honUiina of
in:apore;
In ainn
Bangkok.
pine
Sii
of Thailand (Siatn) and honihin?
of
pas
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or
oth.
the
r.s.
Army officials at Fort Lewis.
Wash., were reported already to
have issued calls to such men.
Offa.als at the war department
here said. .however, that a pmiral
order tailing in enlisted rercrves
had not been issued. They under
stood such a call would have to
come from the war department.
With a declaration of war by
the United States, men in the age
bracket between 28 and 35 and
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USS Oklahoma Hit by Japanese Bomb Attack
Palawan Isle Bombed
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7.-P)-Radio
Tokyo, as heard by the
NBC listening post, reported Sun
day night that Japanese bombers
had attacked the island of Pala
wan in the Philippines.
is-1 - - -
Tapanese Ship
Enroute to LA
Jaek Bellinger. Former
Statesman Kmplove I
Aboard Tatuta Mam
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 7 .-...p,
-The Japanese luxury liner Ta
tuta Maru. wth several hundred
American aboard. bound for
southern California, was believed
to be midway between Vote, hama
and Los Angeles Sunday.
This v. euld p ln e her al ut
north of the Hawaiian islands, un
less the Japanese have seent'.y
changed her course.
The big liner was en route to
i the United States to exchange
I American citizens, evacuated
i from the orient, for Japanese na
j tionals in this country.
The first I S official cas
ualty report lifted KM dead
and morp than M00 injured in
the arm at Hirkam field,
alone, near Honolulu. A NI5C
nhseror in Honolulu report
ed the death toll at Hickam
was 300.
There was heavy damage
in Honolulu residential dis
tricts, and the death list
amonc civilians was larjre hut
uncounted.
The German radio reported
that a sea hattle between the
Japanese navy on one side
and the British and I S on
the other was in progress, in
the western Pacific, with a
third VS warship hit in addi
tion to the West Virginia and
Oklahoma.
; The British command at
; Singapore announced the Jap-
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mm.
Jack Bellinger of Lebanon,
formerly a member of The States
man news staff but mere recent
ly a teacher in an institution rf
higher education at Yokohama,
was reported late last week to
have been a pasM-nger aboard the
Tatuta Maru, sailing from Japan
to America.
Captive Mine
Workers Win
Union Shop
Warplanes of the Japanese navy were credited with setting fire to the TSS Oklahoma,
here pictured, and to have attacked other ships in Pearl Harbor in what Secretary of
State Cordell Hull later termed "the most outrageous" attack in history Sunday. The
Oklahoma was reported burning.
Army News to i
Come Quickly
j WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 -,p -j
Brigadier General Alexander D
! Surles. d.iectir if put he rt'.i
j tic ns for the war tiep.ai tme i.t . 'a id
reporters Sunday night that "r. w
we are at wai.' and. as far as
publication of m.l.tary ir.f- srr.a
tion is concerned, "all ii:eir..-;-bility
stops."
The army's news oh. if sa.d he
would "do my be;t t get the ni'ws
out as rapidly as 1 lan."
NEW YORK. Dec. 7
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