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vf-: WEATHER Illinois: Fair, west, and south; cloudy becoming fair northeast; colder tonight; Tuesday fair continued rather cold. DAILY JOURNAL-GAZETTI MATTOON TRADE NEWS Full Advertising Coverage Sixty-Serenth Year. No. 26S Entered as second class ina.matter at Mattoon, ininoli MATTOON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1041 AH Phones 250 Price 5 Cents i uu uu vjy i'-'' Jti rw 'fin UuvJ LnJ WarBulletins mm KILLED FIGHTING Ul HIGHWAY HAW MOVES JAP INVADERS DESERTED DY OWN SHIPS Land on Malay Peninsula, Meet Anzacs, But Escort Flees Father to Follow in Son's Footsteps Chad' R. Miller, a former Mati resident and a nephew of Joseph Daley, 1212 Charleston avenue, has decided 'to follow in his son's footsteps, it was learned here today.

Mr. Miller, now a resident of Boston, served in the S. Navy during the first World War. He is just 42 years old. His son, Charles is 17 and TO ATTACK PRESIDENT GOES BEFORE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS FOR FORMAL DECLARATION America Promptly Answers Blitzkreig Attacks by Nippon on Her Outposts in Pacific BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

Washington The U. S. today entered the second World War as Congress formally declared a state of war has existed with Japan since early Sunday, when Nippon launched a blitzkrieg attack on America's ACCIDENT Mrs. J. F.

Smith Mattoon, Fatally Injured Near Berry BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Manila Japanese flyers attack U. S. Army outposts. (N. B.

C. from Manila relayed unconfirmed report S. destroyer Preston sunk, aircraft carrier Langley damaged in Japanese attack near Davao.) New York N. B. C.

correspondent at Manila reports Toklo radio broadcast that Berlin soon will declare war on United 6tates. Capitol Building Under Guard Washington (INS) The capi-tol building was placed a military guard today for the first time since World War days as preparations were made for President Roosevelt's address to a joint session of Congress. Marine sentries in full war dress paced back and forth in front of ail doors to the capi-toL They examined all seeking, entrance. Full credentials were required. Capitol police banned the usual automobile parking on the grounds.

Persons without credentials could come only to within two-blocks-of toL Sound of Gunfire Indicates Battle May Be Under Way Berlin (INS) The German, wireless reported tonight that Japanese troops have occupied BY O. D. GALLAGHER (I. N. S.

Staff Correspondent) Singapore A force" of Japanese expeditionary troops fought their Mrs. James Frank Smith 21, of 1601 Shelby avenue, was fatally injured and her husband was hurt, when their automobile, driven by Mr. Smith, turned over on a high- New York Rome radio, as picked iim T- Wake Island, disrupting air wnv from t.h tri it atx- Paeific outposts. the Malay peninsula 350 miles off lf atlon, of war Evolves existence of way near-Berry, 15 miles northwest Britain's vital Singapore naval base stMe of war between United -States of Taylorville. today, came to grips with tough the two Pwers- Ralph Thayer and Lloyd White of The House and Senate passed the war resolution is now serving in the Navy.

Mr. Miller has decided to enlist again. He said his son's description of Navy life "sojd me again." IveIIty' sweeps over congress ir. It I Anzacs and soon afterward found connections between the United States and the Far East, despite denials from elsewhere. The denials said that the U.

8. gunboat Wake had merely been taken ver at Shanghai. Bangkok (INS The Thailand government today announced cessation of all resistance to aim jvirs. vvanaa ueais or Honolulu Heavy gunfire at sea Windsor, who also were riding in off Pearl Harbor. Unconfirmed re- the coure.

suffered onlv bnil themselves deserted by their naval escort. "Retire at High Speed." minor cuts. ports say six Japanese Buomannes and an aircraft carrier have been uA ffjhTa SP01--111 sent to the bottom, the midst of a Japanese air raid Mrs. Smith died in St. Vincent's Hospital in Taylorville two hours after the accident which occurred Japanese invasion.

ALLIES ROSH TO u. SIDE IN WORLD VAR II Japanese troops presumably admitted temporary successes of a Japanese landing along the Jungle-cloaked Malay coast. Official ad Singapore Japanese landing par- about o'clock Sunday morning, ty on Malay peninsula helpless un- according to Christian county -of- will be permitted to travel un der close-range machine gun fire, ficials. Her death was due to shock. vices from the area said that all molested through Thailand, cutting the land bridge between Singapore and southern China.

within 43 minutes after President Roosevelt asked a joint session of Congress to smash Japanese "treachery" in the Pacific. The House approred the war resolution, 388 to the Senate 82 to 0. The only nay vote in either house was cast by Rep. Jeannette. Rankin, (R) of Montana.

BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington President Roosevelt today; asked Congress to take the United States into the second World War by declaring a state of war with Japan.

To an historic, sober joint session of the House and Senate, hsaid: "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Jap- Leaders of Both Par Japanese surface craft involved in Supporting naval units fleeing to concussion and a skull fracture, it the oYration "are now rettrin at ncayy Australian aeiense was saia. ties Pledge Support hlffh sixer fire. Mr. Smith suffered head injuries- jWsshingtonINS)-The Whitel in Resisting Attack "few troops" left I ,,11.. 1 A 1 1 beach hein heavily aj Jic nlu Australia Declare are machine- oeacn are Demg- neavuy macmne Japanese troop-landing attempt In brought to Memorial Hospital here BY WILLIAM S.

NEAL gunned, it was said, north Borneo reported by B. B. C. late Sunday afternoon. Mr.

Thayer, Mr. White and Mrs. Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, dispatch picked up by N. B. C.

governor general of Singapore and War on Japan BY CHARLES A. SMITH (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) London Prime Minister Winston Beals were given emergency treatment in Taylorville and then were taken to their homes.

Bangkok Thailand announces It has ceased resisting Japanese (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington A wave of unity swept over Congress today as past quarrels over foreign policy were forgotten and both Democrat and Republicans pledged undying support In resisting Japan's war on America. The body of Mrs.

Smith was tak- Churchill, fulfilling Great Britain's the straits settlements, announced that the expeditionary force consisted of one cruiser, four destroyers, one armed merchantman and one transport. "The main landing," he said. "Is en to Jacksonville where her par- pledges to the united states, today anese on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has ex- House today announced that the 'casualty list at the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, "in all probabilities will amount to about nearly half -ot which are fatalities. Simultaneously it was announced that one old U.

S. battleship bad capsized, several ether ships were seriously damaged and one destroyer was blown np. Army and navy flying fields in the Pearl Harbor area were bombed with the resulting destruction of several hangars and a "large number of planes, it was announced. Meanwhile, American bomb- The labels of "interventionist" and at isted between the United States and the Jap- tween the British empire and Ja- anese Empire. P811- mi i i "non-Interventionist." which have U)kin Place at Sinra- Berlin Admission made that Japan and Germany "in close contact" during last few days.

Spokesman says American Involvement In war "constitutes a challenge" for Germany. Therefore both Thailand and ents reside; The group was on the way to that city when the accident occurred. Christian county authorities said Mr. Thayer told them that the accident occurred on a curve. "The back wheels slid off the pavement and I shouted to Mr.

Smith," Mr. been freely applied in bitter debate for two years, were brushed aside. Wheeler in Line. Predictions were freely made that Malaya are being attacked without provocation." Royal Air Porce- report to Slcga- The cabinet met at ndbn today, Churchill said, and authorized a declaration of war upon Japan. Notification to this effect has been now In war lxuauiiLifs cAibt.

inereis no panKingac the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. "With confidence in our armed forces with the unbounding determination of our London Britain against Japan. Japan's declaration of war on the pore saia mat tne Japanese tana-United States will be answered with ins on the Thailand coast had been Thayer was quoted as saying. "Mr Smith tried to pull the machine dellvred t0 the Nipponese govern- made at the town of Pattanl from I ers rushing to the scene of back on the road and it began to transports and destroyers. Tokio First Japanese claims full scale offensive an unanimous vote of both Senate and House for a declaration of war.

The declaration of Senator Wheel- hostilities arrived safely from 'fmm the Atlantic phone Sunday night, people we will gain the inevitable triumph, so with a view to arranging the time Tokio (INS) (By Official Japa- against Hong Kong, successful land San Francisco during the height Smith were car." er, TDt of Montana, leader-of the nMe wireless) The imperial high ings on Malay peninsula, raids on non-imervenuomsus, mat. we snoiua command today announced a full- Singapore, and atr attacks on Phil of our respective declarations." "cij; ua Churchill said. Thp riiiwt 1-c 1 loithe engagement It was dismissed. More reinforcements are on the way. Guam, Wake, Midway Islands and Hong Kong have been attacked, the White House an- now "lick the hell" out of Japan 0ffenslve against Hong Kong, was echoed by both vigorous sup- successf ul landing operations on the porters of the President's foreign Malay peninsula, an air raid on itd at 1 t.

m. todav (8 a. m. C. 1 sented ippines, Hawaii, Wake Island and Guam.

Los Angeles Blackouts ordered An Inquest into the death of Mrs. Smith will be held at 8 o'clock this evening at the office of Christian County Coroner Sydney Stilts in Taylorville. Mrs. Smith, as Gertrude Vanlter, rmoores in S. UU'I 11 7 policy and former foes Singapore and aerial attacks on the days or even weeks ago," its Hawaii, Wake Islands for Los Angeles harbor area.

Sim- hounoement said. Two hundred ew norm unsj vicnv radio re- .1 President Roosevelt called Repub- Philippines, lican, as well as Democratic, leaders and Guam. blitz- ilar orders Issued to military costs uas horn Anril 14. 1920. at Chaoln.

th.t'rh. ocVl utasmuu), ZONE marines all that Remained in Chinahave been interned by in Alaska. near Jacksonville, a daughter of war on Japan, according to C. S. Kneff attacks; on America Mr.

and Mrs. William Vanlter. She I'aciflC outposts. to the White House Sunday night. Congressional leaders banned all thought of partisanship.

the Japanese near Tientsin. Air Raids Precede Attack. The Hong Kong attack was pre ceded by two air attacks, the first resided in Chapin and Jacksonville Ottawa iNS-canada beat the Roosevelt also nleded DOG'S BODY REMOVED FROM MISSOURI CEMETERY Mors than a score of men from 1 BY RICHARD HALLER until about a year "The Republicans will go along of which started at 8 a. m. local abso- Mattoon and vicinity are known to (L N.

S. Staff Correspondent) Macon, Mo. Snowball, no longer came to Mattoon and indicated locafce(I nwest theater of shn fafyirw of war SBalnst JaDan and enforced lute victory. lie inu shoe factory vfii naau so uuuc, io my jyiiikjut naiu tunc. Jl lie LaJlcoc lACCU icmniwj HOTOluiu-warsnips ana Dlane' Republican Senate Leader McNary.

its military base without loss, it sitlon at the Brown by I Of America, Britain and Australia rests in the Oakwood cemetery. When the 13-year-old "dog of Mr and Mrs. L. O. Miller per On July 4, 1941 was married strict defensive measures in it might a Long war but MnZ7 ith Jr.

of this city, western part of theDominton that in the end, it would be least five of them were In 1 war wnicn was opened Sunday to Jame F. Smith were locked in far-flung naval war today with Japanese, forces as dawn' "We can think only of our coun- Was said, and turned back for the try now," said Representative Mar- second raid shortly after. tin, Republican House leader and In the first official communique mission was granted the owners to Tne xunerai prooaoiy wm ne neia BC "aa arf Ameripan virtnrv. thtrv broke over the Pacific. bury the animal in the Miller fam- Wednesday or Thursday afternoon Sunday night after a three-hour There were nnnv somber wall.

Republican national chairman IuiiaH xinrfi Htrnhito an- Honolulu emerged from a total Senators Taft. (R) of Ohio, and nn nio.n lly burial lot. After the burial, how- at the Williams funeral home. Jn meeting oi uie caoines council. Simultaneously the western com- notes in the President's John "Jack" Romans, 420 South blackout this morning, with the OiHpttp.

of Towa. who have on- u. tti-j ever, there were protests from other Jacksonville. UlC UllltCU OWlMTft iULU VTlCUv OWWiUi a Army and Navy planes llllng posed New Deal foreign policies; de- the high command gave few deUils cemetery lot owners. Surviving besides her husband are mand of the Canadian air force speecn DUC tne most.

'tragic hZ TZ Tl 7. lne mo" timaiia gave lew ucwiu a i inre.Uvit nil lv anH mlloH in it l. :u.l tne 8. S. Oklahoma, Which Was the skies from which "suicide" ornn rnar mnr.

rutartvn full personnel for duty. lnQn iU "portea auringa bombing sent to Kansas City for. cremation, parent. squadrons of Jap warplanes rained 1,1 01 me operations oeyona death and destrucUon Sunday. that was acWeved ln each morning in history's first aerial as sault on American soil.

1 problem, was virtually forgotten as communiques Were ls- Ti LJTZS' the Japanese government ion is expected to be postponed, at broadcafit Rn 8ocllunatlon least temporarily. by the emperor declaring war on Rnmors Unconfirmed. Details ofactlon were lacking in the naval battle which was pre "INSIDE GERMANY TODAY" Hitler Busy With War, But He Keeps One Eye on Tomorrow Prime Minister W. I Mackenzie xl? 1 xt 1 "ld Sunday' Jack enU5ted King declared: anese attacks. He calmly told Navy three years ago.

There lsa complete understand- Congress jthat "very many Among those stationed in Hawaii ing between Canada, the United American llT'CS have been are Joseph Andrew Goetz, Pearl States and Great Britain. lost" and announced that Harbor, Honolulu; J.x A. Harris, -Canadian soldiers will serve "American ships have been ayson' pearl whereever they can be of the great- 4 Harbor? Edwin Pere Brown; Pearl est service reported torpedoed on the Sttiar; w. GalneSt The Japanese minister to Ottawa "gh seas between ban Iran- Field, Honolulu; John Prazier, Is being handed his Cisco and Honolulu." S. Chicago, Honolulu; W.

D. Mar- Thc PresiOent reality asked tin, Honolulu; Eugene C. Mills. i orris roresees Attara. sumed to stretch across 5,000 miles the grounds that Britain and America failed to comprehend Japan's "true Intentions." of ocean, from the Philippines to the eastern Pacific off the Cali The Senate appropriations committee planned to rush through the $8,200,000,000 arms and lend-lease fornia coast.

Rumors flew thick and fast. There appropriation bill, while legislation making it possible to send draftees congress to "recognize- that a Schofteld Barracks, Oahu: Wayne cabinet today decided to aeciare state of, war exlsts-r-already exist- Austin, Hickam Field: Capt. Paul (EDITORS NOTE International News Service herewith presents the first article of 12 in a series on "Inside Germany "-Today:" Written by Pierre J. Huss, for eight years its chief BerUn correspondent and cen- tral European manager. Huss has just returned to New York was no Immediate confirmation of reports thar vengeahce-bent U.

S. warcraft had sunk six Japanese submarines as well as one of the air FORMER MATTOONER DIES IN NEWMAN Mrs. Flora Ella Rodgers, a former resident of Mattoon and vicinity, war on Japan. outside the western hemisphere, Hawaii, and the Philippines is expected to be sought, Many members 'of Congress, con fessed surprise at the Japanese, at- FORMER MATTOON BARBER DIES ant, because American military and H. Lanphier, Schofleld Barracks, naval forces far across the Pacific Oahu; James Prlchard, Hickam have been battling against Japanese Field.

assaults since Sunday's dawn. In Philippine Islands are Thus war came to the American Lieut. Col. Lloyd W. Biggs, Fort people in the mists of a Sabbath Mms correyidor; Grant B.

Capps. morning, as bombing squadrons Nicholas Field; Lieut. Ed F. Bitter from the "Rising Sun" empire raid- Jr- canacao.Cavlte, near Manila; Dutchman ln Holland after he had a hard day trying to make ends meet and keep from an open run-in with the Nazis. Or for that matter, to any of the close-lipped citizens of countries now occupied and run by Germany.

The new order covers so much at once that It sometimes gives the wrong impression. That was particularly the case when Hitler walked Into Russia. Millions of expropriated natives of Baltic lands and about a million white Russians left over in parts of Europe such as Paris and Berlin heaved a great sigh of relief and oiled their guns for return home. 1 They figured on getting back what the Soviets had turned Into Willlam Jiles of Chicago, a Mattoon resident, died Saturday afternoon in Jarman Hos- craft carriers from which the Honolulu attack was launched or of Japanese claims that to date they have sunk two American two destroyers and two tankers, -There was no panic In bomb-torn Honolulu. Rather, the savage Japanese attack served to fire the civilian population with a fierce determination to Justify Hawaii's, key nosltion as the spearhead of America's Pacific defense.

eu uio r-niuppuies, a- Charles Scott. Cavite. tack. One who nearly forecast It was died Saturday evening at the home the veteran Senator Norris, (I) of of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Pickel, Nebraska.

He said oh Saturday that in Newman after an illness of 'two if Japan were convinced that Ger- years. Mrs. Rodgers was 78. many, would defeat Russia she would pld. attack the United States without The funeral will be held at 2 warning.

o'clock Tuesday, afternoon at the 5 Presbyterian church in Trilla, ARRESTED AS VAGRANT Burial wiU be in Upper Muddy cem- John Brown of Paxton was ar- etery near Lerna. rested by Mattoon police Saturday Rodgers, piora Ella Brady, ftjrnnnn nn a. fhnrtr nt vn mmft. i Wall on1 laA. nr niinm T3l 1 re 1 r.

after an uninterrupted two and one-half years in Germany and. Nazi-controlled 'Europe). HITLER'S NEW ORDER IN EUROPE BY PIERRE J. HUSS (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent) New York This man Hitler Is pretty busy fighting his war and keeps his finger on the strategic piui in Tuscoia wnere ne naa neen Jl 1 i ZT, Others ln the area Include Lieut, a patient about two months. Death 7 Anderson, Samoa; William was-due to a heart ailment. Mr. ZZtJJ HaskeU.

Robert Ferree, William Jiles was 66 years old. twM Dudley DeGroat aU Graveside services wm be held at "American 11 o'clock Tuesday at no warning-only planes Bent on vengeance and retalia maps at German headquarters on the eastern front. But In reality state property. Dodge Grove ana me snrieK oi xauing, oomDs. Mr.

Jiles was born' in Areola May, 10 striking contrast to Toklo's 24, -1885. He resided there a num-' biitzkrle gtactlcs; -the President re-ber of years and then moved- to sorted 'to the slower processes of Mattoon where he worked as a democracy, to meet Japan's unde-hurhr. married MLa srfvn clared war. He summoned his cab- his mind is clicking at furious pace The white Russians, "fleeing from in the future years ahead, shaping pillar to post since the bloody days and moulding that blueprint of to- of 1917 in Russia, never had aban 4, o- wu uuin ueajr iviaiMjou, a uuuku- mighty United States fleet, con- sM Brown was arwa)l and eentrated in HawaUan waters for the business district. Se luil Zims TneyT" JL alT WoreJud' John R' Keftney 8un4 and later in this city.

Rodgers carriers from jhtefc eatoaj- day Mattoon Police Court dled 23 yeans Rodgers ing jap pianes were launcnea. and gentenced to 30 days in the moved to Ashmor nirie rear nso and the Dornlnions preceded Uncle Sam into the Pacific war. The gov- emments-in-exlle from the nations overrun by the Axis war machines will enter the war. The government plans for meeting Japan's war are a military se- doned that cherished dream, of get- ting back into their winter' palaces Burrow of this city about 30 years net Sunday night conference morrow labelled by the Herrenvolk as "the ne'w order." r- This blueprint in the Nazi firmament is, broadly speaking, Hitler's was presumed mat at least a sman coun Jaii4 and later to Newman. aeo.

Thev moved to Chlcaeo sd- at White House, ana lormuiat' Iieet 01 otner XMipponese warsnips RitmHirlncr. KacMqo lfvm TTHUa1 era proximately 16 years after their-CI immediate plans lor aeiense cret, but the President told his cab-marriage, against Japan's assaults Then he lnet some things which may be Mr. Jiles leaves his wife and a brought congressional leaders into published and which affect every nephew, Carl Best of Areola. the conference and announced he American citizen, would address a Joint session of- First, the President ann6unced FINED FOR DRUNK DRIVING the Senate and House today. the United States must expand.

Its 14 SHOPPING DAYS LZ EVOP6 he wants it to be. dec- Brady ot Deer Creek. tlZt "Ah-h, the day win come and we will go back," they said. "It will be a new Russia with no more Bolshevists." When Hitler set out- to smash Stalin, you could hear them cheering and weeping with Joy. The and guarded the ahv craft carriers on their suicide mla-Hon.

A large sea engagement appeared In the making. Clouds of planes hovered over the-U. S. warships which began a sweep from Pearl Harbor, and another sduadron mov rivalry across the borders. Vandalia, 111.

William Livesay The full resources of the nation, national defense In every line and A solemn, united Con cress, out. to Christmas Also GIVE U.S.Defense Savings raged by Toklo's unprovoked and All else Is secondary, except that headwalter suddenly became trans- of was fined $100 and costs meanwhile, are being mobilized for particularly It must speed up a undeclared war, stood ready to ac- the-: British commercial and dip- formed before your eyes Into a by Judge Charles R. Myers in the total war in the Pacific. So, too, are heavy increase in the navy. Second, cept the Japanese challenge and lomatic label within the" confines Russian noble.

With tears in his Fayette County Court after he the economic resources of the en- the President emphasized there BONDS and Err pledge the full resources pf the United States to victory ln th or tnat continent, ana certainly tne eyes he stood at attention to weu pieaaea guuty to a cnarge oi ariv- tire western nemispnere, wun must be a great reducuon In pro-union Jack, would be Hitler and sang the Horst Wessel ing an automobile while intoxicated. Costa Rica arid Nicaragua leading duction for civilian purposes. Third, It can be reduced to things as song of Deutschland Ueber Alles. His companion, W. A.

Mathu, of the Latin-American republics in de- the President said, the American STAMPS ing out of Lhaalna roads off the Island of Maul, to protect them from another sudden attack- by Jap planes. The startling swiftness of the vicious raid was taken to mean but one thing that the Japanese had (Continued on page five) 1 simple as. all of that, as long as Then the shock end disillusion Womac," was fined 5 and costs on a daring war on Japan ln order to people must be informed of the charge of being "drunk on a stand shoulder to shoulder with the heavy tasks that lie ahead of them ELKS CLINIC you don't make the mistake ot say- came, ing this as if you believed it to any "What tTORES BANKS JPQST OFFICES 1SMI Is this?" said Wllhelm. Methodist Memorial Hospital, 9 a They were arrested here Wednes- United States. if the United States Is to defeat day Tne British cmplre-England first Japan.

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