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NW WWWWWWWWWVWWWWWRWWWNWIlfWW WBH UX KV WWWWWMNMMW 6 PAGES 48 Columns SEVENTY SIXTH YEAR COVERAGE Associated Press I VII the Home News Jcntral Press Photos Pwwilk Jitacak ilksscncicr Kentucky Advocate Established June 20 1865 Danville Daily Messenger Established May 6 1910 Consolidated ebruary 1 1910 DANVILLE BOYLE COUNTY KENTUCKY MONDAY DEMEMBER 8 1941 3 CENTS VOL LXXVI No 119 United States Issues ormal Declaration Of War Against Japan L500 4 AMERICAN TARGETS JAPANESE BOMBS IN PACIIC ENEMY AIRCRAT CARRIER WPW 'i WMr 4 4 RSPSKSTIK i gS 1 7 $Vf i I IMeszl a UIHJWI I IHHHHHHHHHHmHnBHHBIilHBHI Shown above ure the targets of Japanese bombers that winged in to sudden attacks on United States Pacific outposts At upper left is the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga which possibly may be among those from which the Japanese were believed a have launched their attack on Hawaii Pearl Harbor the powerful American Naval Base near Honolulu which the Japanese bombed is pictured upper right Approximately 350 soldiers were reported killed by a direct bomb hit on a barracks at Hickman ield Hawaii lower right principal Army Air Base from which planes took of to fight the attackers Part of the Asiatic fleet is shown lower left at anchor in Harbor in the Philippines also reported bombed BREVITIES NEWS Local State National COMMENTS 'a By JAY CEE AP Writer Tells Of irst Attack Censorship Imposed On Honolulu And Islands A A TE MESSENGER Newspaper carrier boys will join 500000 other newspaper boys in the United States in selling Defense Stamps Our fourteen carrier boys have volunteered for this patriotic service and they will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the Gilcher Hotel and have the program explained to them Lieut Martin of the Danville Hos pital will be the principal speaker WAR HAS COME1 TO THE United States at last Japan has foolishly attacked this country and the fight is on While the United States has really been in the WorldWar No 2 for some time without a declaration of war we are now definitely in the war and there will be no more arguments offered by the isolationists Congress and the people are 100 per cent behind the President go! WE ARE PROUD THE EX tra edition of the Advocate Mes senger issued late Sunday after HONOLULU Dec 7 War struck suddenly and without warn ing from the sky and sea today at the Hawaiian islands Japanese bombs took a heavy toll in Amer ican lives 1 Cannonading offshore indicated a naval engagement was in pro gress Wave after wave of planes streaked over Oahu in an attack which the army said started at 8:10 a Honolulu time and' which ended a around 9:25 an hour and 15 minutes later Witnesses said they counted at least 50 planes in the initial at tack The attack seemed to center on Hickman field huge army airport three miles northwest of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor where the islands heavies fortifications are located The planes streamed through the sky from the southwest their bombs shattering the morning calm Most of the attackers flew high but a few came low down to under a hundred feet elevation noon when it was announced that the Japanese had attacked the United States and declared war against our country Starting at 5 pm the news staff and two of i our mechanical force got the news paper on the street at 7 i ten minutes ahead of the Courier Journal which issued an extra edi 1 tlon The local paper contained news two hours after the news published by the giving the latest news off the Associated Press wires and the radio Our newspaper carrier boys did a swell job in selling the extras on the several hundred copies being sold within fifteen minutes after the press started to run Get ting the organization together on Sunday when everyone was enjoy ing the day off was creditable undertaking' showing we have loyal workers to attack Pearl Harbor i An oil tank there was seen blaz ing and smoking An unconfirmed report said one ship in the harbor was on its side and four others burning Two Planes Shot Down Army officials said two Jap anese planes had been shit down in the Honolulu area Planes which did not bomb Pearl Continued on Page 2 No More Applications At Gov't Hospital No more applications for jobs will be received at the War De partment's Hospital near here un til further notice Lieut Aloyous Martin adjutant lit the hospital said today LATE BULLETINS Describes Proposals or Peaceful End the 2fi JAPS IN MALAYA SINGAPORE Monday The Japanese have landed in North Ma laya it was announced officially today The invaders are being engag ed the announcement said OTTAWA Canada came quickly to the support of the United States with an announcement that a state of war 'exists between the Dominion and Japan The action taken at an emergency session of the cabinet was thefirst such move by a member of the British commonwealth of nations Prime Minister McKenzie King called the cabinet into ses sion after receiving reports of the Japanese attack today on Hawaii At the same time a general order was issued Jp the armed forces of the Dominion engage the enemy wherever they may be The order in council declaring war on Japan was transmitted by cable to hjs Majesty the King for his personal signature on behalf of the people of Canada The state of war was effective however from the moment of an nouncement here Break Off Parleys The Japanese broke off the dis cussions with the charge that the of the American gov had made it to reach an agreement I further The American note handed to Japanese envoys by Hull Nov called for Tokyo to abandon Continued on Page 2 Hull Says Attack fT I ireacnerous AMATEUR RADIOS SILENCED WASHINGTON' The ederal Communications Commission prohibited all amateur radio operations in the United States and its possessions except for stations specifically authorized by federal state and municipal authorities in connection with emergency matters Chairman James Lawrence ly said he had been in touch with all major communications comnnnios pre existing plans of the government and the companies for co opera tion the emergency WASHINGTON The following announcement was made aJ1' here: I Tuesday and Wednesday War and Navy Departments tonight announced they are re 1 for and Continued Page 2 1 Pays WASHINGTON Secretary Morgenthau invoked a portion of the Trading with the Enemy Act which bars transportation of com munications with Japan or her allies no matter how indirectly Officials declined to say immediately whether the order contemplat ed Germany and Italy as allies of Japan but such an interpretation seemed possible BATAVIA Netherlands East The Netherlands East Indies declared war on Japan today and immediately proclaimed a state of of air 1 Ton nt Theatre Guide Ends Tonite Bing Crosby and Mary Martin of the i eatures at' 7:10 All important radio war news on Presidential speeches will be broadcast over our sound system as the bulletins come in Tuesday and Wednesdav i itenry ronrta anil Barbara jstan 'with relation to the execution of wyck in Belong To Ends Tonight i Stork Pays JAP CARRIER DESTROYED I NEW YORK Round about unconfirmed reports from Pana 1 ma and London said that a Japanese aircraft carrier from which planes operated to attack Pearl Harbor hd been sunk by United States Navy ships These circulated in Panama and were broadcast from London by a CBS commentator as having been heard there He also said unoffi 1 cial news bulletins' in London announced the sinking of two British cruisers at Singapore WASHINGTON Dec 8 Sec retary of State Cordell Hull last night denounced the Japanese at tack upon the United States as and utterly unpro and made public for the information the propos als made to Japan for a peace ful settlement of all Pacific prob lems and reply The usually soft spoken Ten nessean issued a statement in con nection with the publication of the document declaring that it now was apparent that the Jap anese professions of a desire for peace in the conversations held of air 1 i with him by the Japanese en The declaration called upon people of these islands for an all out voys had been false war dfcainst the Japanese (jjnpire The Aneta agency said all Japa iand nese living in ine Netherlands rast Indies had been interned a WASHINGTON The State Department said all other Amer ican republics had been informed of the "treacherous by Japan on the United States that the United States had received heartening messages of from other American republics Reported Killed Two Warships Lost In Pearl Harbor Raid 1 Radio Reports Japs Claim Between 50 And 60 Planes i Say Nazis Have Shot Down Al Hawaii While Losing 2 Given Up Moscow NOT CONIRMED He officially Ordered Grounded i and claimed to have It 8 T1 Continued cn Page 2 iiiniiiiiiixiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiHin here who Sherman errell In Hawaiian Islands nt STORES POST Ol a nd been or al! It of Will Abandon Efforts Until Russian Winter Is Over Berlin Says Japan Attacks In Over Dozen Places At Once Thialand Surrenders Others Declare War on Japs President finished vote was 82 to 0 this German any further attempt to take the Russian capital city of Moscow (By Associated Press) radio dispatch from Beilin morning quoted authorized sources as saving that 14 SHOPPING DAYS to Christmas Also GIVE Defense Sa vii igs BONDS and STAMPS No word has been received today from Sherman errell has been stationed in the' Hawaiian Islands with the Army Anti Aircraft units since September 1940 his parents Mr and Mrs Sam errell said here today Roy Spears Danville attached to the USS Saratoga one of the aircraft harriers wired rel atives here today that he is safe in Los Angeles but has been dered to report to his ship at undisclosed port immediately had been feared by members his family in Danville that might be in the Pacific war zone IMIIIIflllllMIIIIIHIi THE WEATHER Navy Appeals or Men To Enlist announced loss of two warships and 3000 men dead and wounded in raid yes terday on Hawaii was fresh in the minds of the legislators lariier the White House had announced that the Japanese at tack on Hawaii had resulted in the capsizing of an old battleship the destruction of damage to other vessels and the destruction of a relatively large number of airplanes The announcement added that approximately six Japanese planes and four submarines had been ac counted for The White House said that cas ualties were expected to amount to about 3000 with nearly half of this number fatalities The name of the Battleship capsized not revealed was gathered from ar East Pacific dispatches that Wake Midway Islands Guam on allying herself with the United States Churchill said that Japs began landing in British ter ritory in Northern Malaya early yesterday and were engaged im Cloudy with mild temperature tonight somewhat colder and 'cloudy Tuesday and Hongkong China had also bombed Thialand Surrenders BANGKOK Thialan'd Dee Thialand after brief resistance to Japan ceased firing and open ed negotiations with the invaders today The Japanese poured into Thialand from the sea and across the rench Indo China border LONDON England Dec 8 Great Britain declared Japan All private planes in connection with the Civil Pilot 'Training pro gram at the local airport have been ordered grounded II A Richardson chairman of the Danville Airport Committee this morning advised Claud Akin who has a lease on the field to ground all planes until further no tice Later the Civil Aeronautic Au thority wired Mr Akin advising him to ground all planes until fur ther notice Mi' Richardson said that he had written the headquarters for the OPT in Chicago expressing hope' that the pilot training course could be reopened soon In view of developments that! have taken place during the last 24 hours which have placed the Unit 1 cd States on a full war basis the local Navy recruiting station is calling for Danville and Boyle county men to enlist before more time is lost and help protect their country 1 Chief Petty Officer Joe rede i ricks in charge of the Danville sta tion said that many young men who have been approached by Navy recruiters have replied until war is He said that now that war has ac tually come he will open the sta tion in the Danville Post Office at 8 o'clock each morning and remain open as long as necessary each af ternoon or night The first man to respond to the call to arms this morning was Jas William Stigall No 1 son of Mi' and Mrs Thos Prewitt Stigall The young man applied foiy enlistment in the Navy Reserves (By Associated Press) I he United States through its Congress declared war today on Japan Overwhelmingly and with the greatest unity shown in many years on Capital Hill the Senate and House backed up President Roosevelt's request for a war declaration against Japan ith unprecedented speed Th Sciat? voted only 21 minutes after the I his ief Io the point eight minute speech Thi while the Hi'jse vote was 388 to 1 Russian capital city of Moscow HiXf i would be abandoned until after the I LClIIVJiiV I LUIlCj I nf thn Pnecinn vi I li i rl i abated German and Bltish tanks 'fought a massive show down bat tle on the sands of North Africawhile qndhe Soviet front the Rus sians reported a coun ter offensive north of Moscow The German high command re ported advances by Nazi and Italian troops in the Donets River basin pulsed a Russian attempt to land troops on the western shores of the Crimean peninsula Soviet sources reported a violent I battle nthe banks of the Muis River where Germans were mak ing a stand after Rostovrout Rus sians said that the latest German offensive against Moscow had about run out and estimated that the Germans bad only enough oil supplies for eight months more In North Africa the British said that they had gained 6 BATTLESHIP REPORTED BOMBED SUNK AT HAWAII Unconfirmed reports from Honolulu state that the West Virginia a battleship above was believed to have been sunk in Parl Harbor during the first Japanese 1 attack on the naval base Central Press Phonephoto is.