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FTTZ 1 rt EXTR A THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER WFATHFR-ln0: Cloudy To-ir uia day And Wornier- Temperaturen Yesterday: High, 39; Low, 22; Mean Humidity, 82. WEATHER REPORTS, FAOES 1 AND 18. VOL. CI. NO.

243 DAILY rLTTr- MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1941 26 PAGES THREE CENTS nvr. CENTS ELSEWHXRB l- mm mm fit Tim rail iirapira pk I ItmW mum I mm I II ill ii JAP ATTACK if oosevelt To Address Congress Today LEADS EMPIRE TO WAR I VAR DECLARED I LAT BU LLETI NS PRESIDENT To Ask For War, Plane Carrier Is Lost By Nippon In Fight With Yank Fleet Singapore, December 8 (AP) An official report from the Northern Malaya front said today that all Japanese surface craft fled at bigh speed under British fire after leaving a few troops on the beaches. The troops were heavily machine- By Dutch Indies, gunned, the report said. Canada, And Australia Is Belief, After Parley At White House. Washington, December 7 (AP) President Roosevelt has authorized the arrest of Japanese nationals regarded as "dangerous to the peace and security of the United States," Attorney General Francis i After Jap Attacks.

Riddle announced tonight Special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are making the arrests. WARDECLAREDBYT0KY0. Chief Executive To Speak At Britain Expected To Take 12:30 O'clock Support Of Both Parties Assured. Similar Action Today When Parliament Meets. Los Angeles, December 7 (UP) N.

B. C's listening post heard the Tokyo radio announce tonight that Japanese planes bombed the Island of Palawan in the Philippines and that the attack was continuing. ttffl-rW Los Angeles, December 7 (AP) Japanese troops have invaded New York, December 8 Thailand, the Tokyo radio said tonight in a broadcast heard by the NBC (Monday) (UP) Colum bia Broadcasting; System an Heavy Losses Suffered By Army And Navy, Roosevelt Reveals listening post. Radio Tokyo said that "in order to maintain the independence of Thailand, Japan has entered the southern portion of the tiny country nounced that its correspondent in Sydney reported early this to combat British troops which have entered from the Malayan Washington, December 7 (AP) -Senator Tom Connally, Democrat, Texas, announced from the White House steps tonight that President Roosevelt would address a joint session of Congress at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Emerging from the front door Of the White House as a meeting of the President's Cabinet ended, the Chairman of tha Senate Foreign Relations Committee said: "The President will address a Continued On Page 8, Column 7.

morning that Australia has de dared war on Japan. YANK BOMBERS, New York, December 7 (AP) The Netherlands East Washington, December 7 (AP) President Roosevelt informed cabinet officers and congressional leaders of both parties tonight of "doubtless heavy losses sustained by the navy and also large losses sustained by the army" in Hawaii. The careful White House phraseology hinted at blacker tidings to come. WARMONGER Has Reached Aim, Indies declared war on Japan tonight (6:30 a. Monday, Pursuits Hop Off Batavia Time), the NBC re ported tonight.

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) ton quarters said antiaircraft fire and naval action had bagged six Japan attacked every main Ottawa, December 7 (UP) Nazis, Say Of President United States and British posses Japanese planes and four sub -Canada tonight declared war And Streak Northward From Manila JJase. sion in the Central and Joint session of Congress at 12:30 p. tt morrow. That is all I can say." As he made the statement to newspapermen, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, left" the White House and Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican, California, do-parted a moment later.

MUM ON Cabinet members and congressional leaders had met with Mr. Roosevelt to discuss the ominous against Japan. In Merlin Communique. Pacific and invaded Thailand to day in a hasty but evidently shrewdly-planned prosecution of a marines in the Hawaiian action, Honolulu, December 7 -(AP) War struck suddenly and without warning from the sky and sea today at the Hawaiian Islands. Japanese bombs took a heavy toll in American lives.

Cannonading offshore indicated a Entire Far East Command Japanese-American Clash Is war she began Sunday without warning. The Japanese formal declaration London, December 8 (Monday) (AP) The British Parliament was called into special session for 3 p. m. today (9 a. Kastern Standard Time) to hear a government statement which everyone agreed would be a declaration of war against Attributed To Roosevelt's "Blind Hatred" Of Hitler.

Is Placed On Alert By American General. implications of Japan's declaration of war against both the United States and Britain came two hours and 55 minutes after Japanese planes spread death and terrific naval engagement in progress. Japan which was expected to co New York, December 7 (AP) incide with similar action by the FIFTY PLANES IN ATTACK. Wave after wave of planes destruction in Honolulu and Pearl Associated Press Wirephoto. Emperor Hirohito's Imperial Headquarters, responsible only to himself, announced Japan was at war with the United States at 6 o'clock Monday morning, Tokyo time (4 p.

Sunday, Eastern Standard Time), two and a half hours after the White House heard reports of the Sunday morning raid on Hawaiian defenses. (When it was 8 a. m. Sunday at Honolulu it was 1 :30 p. m.

Sunday at Washington and 3:30 a. m. Monday at Tokyo. The day changes its name just west of Midway Island, a Clipper hop west of Honolulu.) United States. Berlin, December 8 (Monday) (AP) Obligated under the three-power pact to go to Japan's assistance if Japan is "attacked," Germany referred early today to The NBC correspondent in Manila reported tonight the Tan American Airways base on the Island of streaked over Oahu in an attack, Harbor at 7:35 a.

Hawaiian Japan already had declared war time (1:05 p. Eastern Stand ard Time) Sunday. Guam had been bombed by the Japanese. hostilities in the Pacific as on Great Britain and the United States last night as Prime Minister Churchill conferred with United States Ambassador John G. "clashes." They claimed successes for this fell swoop included sinking of the Washington, December 7 (AP) United States battleship West Vir A special communique failed to clarify Germany's intentions, but The White House announced to.

ginia and setting afire of the night that President Roosevelt re termed President Roosevelt a "war CLOSED SHOP LATIN AMERICA battleship Oklahoma. ceived word from General Douglas incendiary." which the army said started at 8:10 a. Honolulu time, and which ended at around 9:25, an hour and 15 minutes later. Witnesses said they counted at least 50 planes in the initial attack. The attack seemed to center on Hickam Field, huge army airport three miles northwest of Honolulu, and Honolulu, where the islands' heaviest fortifications are located.

The planes streamed through the sky from the southwest, their bombs shattering the morning From that moment, each tense cf war upon the United States and Great Britain. Speaker Sam Rayburn said that the President did not tell the conference what he was going to say in tomorrow's message. And when he was asked whether the Chief Executive would propose a declaration of war he replied solemnly: "I don't know." Rayburn said that the Chief Executive, Cabinet and congressional leaders went over the entire situation and that the President had remarked that some rumors were going about which were unconfirmed What these rumors were the Speaker did not say. A declaration of war, Rayburn asserted, vould be one thing on which there would be congressional unity. Asked whether there had been discussion of discarding politics during the present crisis, House MacArthur that "enemy planes were Winant and as London awaited fulfillment of Churchill's now un-needed pledge to declare war on Japan "within the hour" if Japan attacked the United States.

The Japanese Embassy, which had been inaccessible by telephone Article Three of the Tripartite tick of the clock brought new and over Central Luzon in the Philip flaming accounts of Japanese ag pines about 8 o'clock (Kastern Granted To Union Hastens To Aid gression in her secretly launched war of conquest or death for the Pact, signed by Italy, Germany, and Japan on September 27, 1940, provided that those three countries "undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means" if one of the three contracting parties was attacked by a power not then involved in the European or Asiatic wars. Standard Time) that a bombing attack has been made on Davao at the southern end of the Southern Island of Mindanoa, and, that another attack has been made on Camp John Hayes at Bagnio in the northern mountains of Luzon. "So far," the White House announcement said, "no essential Land of the Rising Sun. BOMBED TWO TIMKS. As compiled from official and unofficial accounts from all affected countries, the record ran like this: In Captive Coal Mines By Two-One Vote.

Of Its "Good Neighbor" Following Jap Attack. calm. Most of the attackers flew high, but a few came low, five down to under a hundred feet elevation to attack Pearl Harbor. "The Warmonger Roosevelt has An oil tank there was seen blaz reached his said the Berlin Honolulu bombed a second time; Lumber-laden United States damage had been reported." ing and smoking. An unconfirmed Steelman Joins Lewis To Costa Rica, Nicaragua Make statement.

Continued On Page 12, Column 4. Army transport torpedoed 1,300 for hours, late last night completed arrangements to quit Britain immediately, including the burning of its secret documents. Japanese Ambassador Kamimura was expected to be called to the Foreign Office today to receive his passports. The Tokyo Government previously had ordered the Ambassador home for consultation. Japanese Third Secretary Matsui said the news of war "comes as a surprise, but not as a shock." The only documents from Prime Minister Churchill's official 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 Continued On Page 12, Column 2. The statement referred to what miles west of San Francisco and Open Declarations Of War Mexico Considers Move. Obtain Defeat Of Steel Firm Representative. Manila, December 8 (Monday) United States Army bombers and another transport in distress; pursuit planes roared into the air Shanghai's International Settlement seized; United States gunboat and headed northward at dawn to.

was described ss President Roosevelt's "blind hatred against the Reich of Adolf Hitler." The special announcement was divided into two sections. The first said: WrEATHER FORECAST day soon after word reached Manila Wake captured there and British New York, December 7 The Congress of Industrial Organiza of the outbreak of hostilities be gunboat Pctercl destroyed; report said one ship in the harbor was on its side and four others burning. STREETS ARE SP RAITED. Army officials said two Japanese planes had been shot down in the Honolulu area. Flanes which did not bomb Pearl Harbor apparently headed for Hickam Field.

But there the attackers apparently did not confine themselves to the heavily fortified areas. From Wahiawa, a town of tions United Mine. Workers of tween Japan and the United States Capture of the United States "As a result of constantly in Washington, December 7 (AP) America tonight won a two-to-one This was the only sign of war Island of Wake; Mexico City, December 8 (UP) The Mexican Government has ordered the army and the navy t- maintain a state of "extraordinary vigilance." along Mexico's Pacific Coast against any possible landing attempt or "suspicious activity of any kind" by the Japanese, It was reported today. Ohio: Cloudy and warmer, occasional light rains Monday; Tues Bombiiig of the United States arbitration board decision awarding a union shop in captive mines Continued On Page 8, Column 8. creasing warmongering of the American President Roosevelt in recent weeks, the first clashes be- Continued On Page 12, Column 2.

owned by the country's major steel producers. Island of Guam; Bombing of many points throughout the Philippine Islands; Invasion of Northern Malaya and bombing of Singapore; Invasion of Thailand (Siam) The decision was announced by 3,000 population about twenty miles northwest of Honolulu, came re ANTIWAR RALLY West Coast Alert For Raids; Antiaircraft Steps Taken; Calmness Of Public Noted and bombing of Bangkok. ports that 10 or more persons were injured when enemy planes sprayed bullets on the streets. Unconfirmed reports said the at- Continued On Page 8, Column Dr. John R.

Steelman, Chairman on the board who was granted a leave of absence as director of the United States Conciliation Service to head the arbitrators. John L. Lewis, President of the union, agreed with Steelman in the majority opinion. Benjamin F. Fair-less, President of the United States REPORT 104 DEAD.

The first United Slates official day mostly cloudy and colder with Snow flurries in north portion. Kentucky Cloudy with mild temperature Monday, somewhat colder at night; Tuesday partly cloudy end colder. Indiana Considerable- cloudiness, light showers in extreme north, changing to snow flurries before noon, clearing in south and central during afternoon Monday. Lowest temperature in morning ranging from 35 over north portion to 45 over extreme south with little change during day, wind west to northwest 25-35 miles an hour Monday. Tuesday fair to partly cloudy with seasonable temperature.

Is Canceled By America First Committee Leader Pledges Support In Fight. casualty report listed 104 dead and more than 300 injured in the army at Hickam Field, alone, near This Morning Steel Corporation, dissented and re Director of National Civilian Defense, Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York, warned against any feelings of security on the Eastern Honolulu. An N.

B. C. observer in! Honolulu reported the death toll at Hickam was 300. There was heavy damage in Announcing that an antiwar rally scheduled for tomorrow night has Washington, December 7 iAP) The State Department said tonight all other American republics had been informed of the "treacherous attacks" by Japan on the United States and that the United States had received "very heartening messages of support" from other American republics. Costa Rica already has declared war against Japan.

Jesus Maria Troncoso, Minister of the Dominican Republic, said his country's congress would go into session at noon tomorrow and "give its support to whatever declaration is made by the United States Congress." Before the declaration of war tonight the government ordered the arrest of Japanese engaged in cotton and rice growing along the coast near Punta Arcuas. THE ENQUIRER Honolulu residential districts, and the death list among civilians was large but uncounted. The German radio reported a sea battle between the Japanese Navy (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Like a momentarily stunned giant, the nation awakened last night to the grim fact of war in the Pacific and Americans of all classes and ranks responded immediately to the necessity of repelling attacks on the far-flung ocean ramparts of their homeland. On the whole the reaction was calm. Amid the hurried recall of all the nation's military elements, citizens gathered in small and usually silent groups to watch news bulletins, buy newspaper extras, or listen to their radios.

The Western Coast of the country, where the warfare was closest, sprang immediately to the alert. on one side and the Eritish and Pag Walter Winchell 2 Dorothy Thompson 4 Editorials 4 Edwin W. Gableman 4 Ollia M. lames 4 William H. Hessler 4 Society News Radio Programs United States on the other was in progress in the Western Pacific, Cincinnati Weather Bureau record for December 7, 1941, ending at 7:30 p.

seventy-fifth meridian time, and a comparison with the corresponding day of the last two years and normal: Temp.Hum.W.-Vel.Rn.Weath. 7:30 a. m. 24 98 0 Fair 1:30 p.m. 36 65 0 Pt.Cldy 1941.

'40. '39. M. Highest temperature 39 50 65 42 lowest temperature 22 39 40 28 Precipitation 0 .12 0 Sunrise 7:45 a. m.

Sunset 5:16 p. m. turned a minority opinion. The eight steel companies, having previously agreed to abide by the decision of the board appointed by President Roosevelt after the recent captive mine strike, will be compelled as a result of the board's award to sign the Appalachian wage agreement which Is in effect between the union and all but a negligible portion of the country's coal producers. The steel companies had separate stipulations with the union which had placed into effect wage scales and conditions of the Appalachian agreement in the captive mines owned by the companies Coal produced in the captive mines is used exclusively by the steel companies owning them.

Only the issue of the union shop Continued On Pace 18, Column 2. been canceled, J. Austin White, Chairman of the Metropolitan Chapter, America First Committee, declared last night that it was now up to the United States to "prosecute the war with all its energy." White said this country should win the war as soon as possible, and that hs felt confident the America First Committee would lend its entire support to the cause. Senator D. Worth Clark, Idaho, who was to address the meeting, wired White informing him that he would he unable to leave Washington at present.

A debate sponsored by the Independent Faculty Members of the University of Cincinnati, in which Senator Clark was to take part, also was called off. Coast and notified his Regional Directors to take all necessary measures for civil precautions. In the 'nation's capital, from which much intelligence of the Pacific developments emanated, President Roosevelt as Commander in Chief of the armed forces conferred long hours with his military and naval chiefs and with the heads of other governmental branches including the Cabinet. From hamlets and villages, cities and state capitals; from Governors, Senators, and Representatives and persons prominent in public life cames messages to the President assuring him of a united country. In all the huhtib the status of Continued On Page 12, Colunui with a third United States warship hit in addtion to the West Virginia and Oklahoma.

The British command at Singapore announced the Japanese invasion and said Empire forces were engaging the foe. Unconfirmed reports from Panama and London said a Japanese aircraft carrier from which planes operated to attack on Pearl Harbor had been sunk. Reliable Washing-; Talk oi Fashion News Woman's Page Sports Bridge Nows Amusements Serial Story Markets Finance Journey's, End Comics Balboa. Canal Zone, December 7 (AP) The Panama Canal Zone, all-important link for United States naval operations in the Atlantic and the Pacific, was placed on a wartime footing tonight for all-out protection. The army and navy were placed on full alert, the rone was blacked Continued On Page 12, Column 3.

TWENTY YEARS AGO. Ohio, cloudy. Temperature, 41-34. Air raid listening devices went into action and huge aircraft factories took precautionary steps to guard against the possibility of sabotage. From the Atlantic Seaboard, the FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Ohio, clear. Temperature, 3S-26..