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1 THE WHOLE FAMILY TRIBUNE ers, scattered thunderstorms NEWSPAPER FOR SEYMOUR DAILY Weather: Occasional show little change in temperature. VOLUME LIX. NO. 305. SEYMOUR, INDIANA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1941.

PRICE THREE CENTS. PHILIPPINES MEET NEW ATTACK BY JAPANESE LOCAL YOUTH IS ON MISSING LIST Kenneth Earl Cockrum Officially Reported Missing, Family Is Told. NEWS OF OTHERS GIVEN Word Received From Two Sailors and One Soldier That They Are "Well and Safe." Definite word has been ceived here of four local young men in service in the Pacific conflict. (Complying with military regulations designed to prevent the enemy from obtaining information of use or value. The Daily Tribune will hereafter refrain from stating the post or station of men in military service).

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cockrum, East Second street. have received a telegram from navy officials stating that their son, Kenneth Earl Cockrum, is officially listed as missing. He enlisted in the navy about seven years ago.

Mr. and Mrs Clarence Carr. Sonth' Broadway, have received letter from their sons. Marion a and Marvin, who are in the navy. stating that the young inen are safe and well.

Word has been received from Private W. H. Alexander, United Army, in which he enlistStates ed as a regular last February, that he is safe. "The next time they come we won't be asleep," Private Alexander writes his mother in a brief note passed by the censor and mailed by plane on December 11. The local youth says "we are up night and day" and predicts that the next time "it will be too bad for in referring to the Japanese.

The youth's mother is Mrs. Fred Robertson, 702 Euclid avenue, and he has four sisters living in Seymour. They are Mrs. Arthur Gerth, Mrs. Wayne Wright, Mrs.

Woodrow Bush and Mrs. James Jaynes, MRS. MARY BROWN. 72. DIES AT HOME OF SON Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Tuesday From Kurtz Nazarene Church.

Mrs. Mary Matlock Brown, age seventy -two, well known resident of western Jackson county, died suddenly Sunday at the home of her son, two miles west of Kurtz on Norman R1. Death was due to a heart attack. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning from the Knrtz Nazarene Church with the Rev. Raymond Keithley, of Clearspring, in charge.

Burial in Riverview Cemetery, north of Seymour. Mrs. Brown was born near Knoxville, on August 2, 1869, the daughter of William and Tiligitba Lewis Matlock. She was married on March 4, 1893, at Brownstown to Buell Brown, who survives. She became united with the Baptist Church at an early age and was a faithful member.

She was widely known throughout western Jackson county and a host of friends were shocked to learn of her sudden passing. Besides the husband, she is (Continued on page 6, column 6) RememberPearl Harbor FOR DEFENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS ON 'SALE AT YOUR POST OFFICE OR BANK ENTRY DEADLINE FOR LIGHTING IS EXTENDED While local residents today were discussing the beautiful Seymour lighting displays they witnessed as they drove about city streets Sunday night, it was announced by Junior Chamber of Commerce officials that the deadline for entering the home-lighting contest, originally set for today, has been extended, through Tuesday, giving local citizens one day additional to register CREDIT LICENSES ARE DUE JAN. 1 Banks. Loan Companies, Business Houses Must Comply With Regulation. NO CHARGE ON LICENSES Banks, Joan companies, merchants and other persons engaged in the extension of installment credit are busy securing licenses from the Federal Reserve Banks in order to conform with Regulation which requires that all persons secure a license on or before January 1, 1942.

The licenses are being issued, without charge, upon receipt of a Registration Statement from the applicants. Blanks may be obtained from the Seymour Credit Bureau after about Friday of this week or they may be obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, Mo. Merchants in this territory are in the eighth federal reserve distriet. They should request Form FR-563.

The blanket license under which installment credit business has been operating since September 1, expires December 31. After that date, no person or firm is authorized to engage in the extension of, installman credit without an individual license. All merchants handling the following articles of consumers' goods are required to procure a license automobiles, aircraft, power driven boats and motors, outboard boat motors, motoreyeles, mechanical refrigerators of less than twelve cubic feet rated capacity: washing machines, ironers, suction cleaners, cooking stoves and ranges, heating stoves and space heaters, electric dishwashers for household use, room- I unit air conditioners, sewing machines. radio receiving sets, phonographs or combinations. musical instruments composed principally of metals, household furnaces and heating units "for furnaces, water heaters, water pumps, plumbing and sanitary fixtures, home air conditioning systems, attic ventilating fans, new household furniture, pianos and household electric organs, materials and services in connection with repairs, alterations, or improvements upon urban, suburban or rurat real property in nection with existing structures, provided the deferred balance does not exceed $1.000.

FARM BUREAU ORGANIZED FOR DEFENSE FUND DRIVE Committee to be Appointed to be Announced at Board Meeting Saturday. The Jackson County Farm Bureau discussed plans for an in. tensive defense fund drive at a meeting at Brownstown Satur4 day. E. H.

Vehslage is chairman of the agricultural group. S. J. Brewer, who presided at the meeting Saturday, said that meeting of the county board would be held next Saturday and that a special committee to direct the Defense Fund campaign would be announced at that time. Defense stamps will be.

placed on sale at various places throughout the county for the convenience of farmers -who desire to start investment -in Defense Bonds in that manner. The Farm Bureau is actively behind. the campaign and will lend every assistance in promotion sales of both Stamps and Bonds. AWARD CONTRACT ON SEWER HERE Construction Company Representatives Are. Coming Here to Sign up.

$26,455.50 IS LOW BID Figure Accepted Is $5,586 Lower -Then Other Bidder' on Local Project. City officials today awaited- the arrival of officials of the Northern Indiana Construetion Company, of Crown Point, to sign a contract and post bond for the construction of the Southside Interceptor sewer for the city of Seymour, which was awarded to them as low bidder on the project following receipt of bids. Meeting i in special session Saturday afternoon, the Seymour board of public works and safetv, in the office of the city clerk. treasurer, unanimously awarded the contract to the Northern Indiana Construetion Company of its bid of $26,455.50 for the construction of the sewer and a lift station on Maple street. Vitrified tile pipe is to be used on the project.

The board read a written report submitted by E. H. Brown, Seymour city engineer, who had checked the bids, finding them to be regular. He recommended the bid of the Crown Point firm, which was $5,586.00 less than that of the other bidder, which was the Thompson Construction Company, of Indianapolis. Mayof Stanley A.

Switzer reported to the board the Northern Indiana firm had been recommended by two banks and the Mayor of LaPorte, where it has done sewer work recently. Motion to accept the $26.455.50 bid of the Crown Point Company, was made by Mayor Switzer, seconded by T. Harlan Montgomery, city attorney. The third member of the board, Councilman C. Hartwell, presided as chairman.

The board also accepted the low bid of Kaffensperger, Hughes (Continued on page 8, column 5) MRS. MARTHA YOUNG. 78. DIES AT CROTHERSVILLE Funeral Services Are Conducted This' Afternoon From Crothersville Baptist Church. Mrs.

Martha Alice Young. age seventy -eight. of Crothersville, died at 12:15 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home on the Sevmour road at Crothersville. Death followed an illness of eight week-' duration with acute congestive heart failure. Funeral services were conduct.

ted this afternoon from the C'rothersville Baptist Church with the Rev. Walter Moseley. of Uniontown. in charge. Burial was In the Crothersville Cemetery.

Mrs. Young was born on March 29, 1863. near 'Chestnut Ridge, the daughter of Isaac and Eliza Densford Keller. She lived 111 Jackson county all her life and WAS married on November 21. 1888, to Crawford Young, former (Continued on page 8, column 6) This is a picture of.

the spirit in America today. A soldier in uniform and his sons and his father stand before the statue of Lincoln in Washington. Soon the soldier will go off to fight, leaving behind the young and the aged. But for one moment they stand and think about Ameriea. And every American knows the thoughts they are thinking.

AXIS SUBS ARE HUNTED OFF THE PACIFIC COAST By Associated Press. San Francisco, Dec. 22-Farranging axis submarines, that drew American blood in smashing attacks at shipping in the crowded steamship lanes off Califorma during the week end. were bunted along the length of the Pacific coast today. One submarine, attacking without warning.

torpedoed and shelled the large American oil tanker Emidio Saturday after. noon twenty miles ofT Blunt'Reef. 200 miles north of San Francisco, Three of the Emidio's lite. heats were destroved by guntire, the navy said The navy's latest information. -till incomplete today.

was that two of her crew mien were killed. tive were missing. and live others were ininred The live injured and twenty- six others were 1P9 oned. Several hours before the Emidio wa- tired upon. another American tanker, the Agwiworld.

-caped from -pbmanne oft Cypress Point. 100 miles south of San Francisco. Although eight shells were hurled at the Aowiworld from. the attacker's deck frun. the tanker, maneuvered by a submarine- wise skipper.

zigzagged its way to safety 111 A thirty minnte chase. This attack also was only twenty miles offshore. Upon reaching San Francisco the next morning, Hire Aywiworld crew men's single reaction was PLAY TO BE GIVEN AT TUESDAY Stage and Script, Shields Hizh School dramatics, organization, in charge of 8 Christmas convocation at the high school Tuesday afternoon at 2:25 o'elock, schoot offcials have announced. Featured on the convocation will be a play, "The Blue-Overalls which is the story of sinall girl who wanders into church- in search' of an angel. The kindly Scotch janitor, Scotty, takes a liking to the motherless little girl and helps her find her angel.

A pageant is being rehearsed in the church when Jeanie, the little girl, enters, and The Spirit of America "It we'd only had a gun." A naval vessel went to the rescue of the men on the Emidio, which was reported still a Hoat In a rough set off Cape Mendocino. The resene Vessel that took aboard the Emidio's survivors found it impossible to roach An -borage Sunday, and efforts tr identities of the two men reported killed and of those saved were unsuccessful. The Emidio, with Captain Clark A. Farrow of Long Beach. Calif.

as her master. was bound without cargo. She is a 1,912 ton craft owned by the Vacuum Oil Captain Goncalves of the Ag wiworld. interviewed 131 San Francisco, modestly attributed to luck his vessel's escape, but oth or officers of the ship and crew members spoke admiringly of the skipper's coolness and 5P8 win- under fire. Goncalves described the -uh .111 unli-nally large which broke the surface Continued on page column 1) CASES IN CITY COURT Several Cases Before Mayor Switzer During Week End.

Several cases were 10 cit court before. Mayor Stanley A. Switzer during the week end. James David Perry, of this fined $1 and costa Saturday on charge of public intoxication and Lawrence Mitchell was fined and costs en a orderly conduct charge, Judgment WAx withheld in the cases of K. Major and R.

D. Colbin, of Indianapolis, picked up by state police at Mapleton Inn cast of the city for disorderly conduct. Toss Eglen, of this city, entered a plea of not guilty to charge of publie. intoxication and Preston S. McKinney, of Free.

town, was arrested on a charge of operating motor vehicle! while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was taken into custody after his automobile allegedly struck a parked ear, on the east side of Chestnut street just south of Second street about 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. VAST SEA- BORNE INVASION TRIED their own home or some other home they believe is eligible for a prize. Entry blanks may be obtained, filled but and left at either, of the two city banks. Other communities throughout the county also have gaily lighted homes for the Christmas season and a home lighting contest is being sponsored at Brownstown.

An unusual- Christmas display at the home of Mrs. Frank White, in Crothersville, is attracting considerable attention. A revolving Christmas tree is lighted in red, white and blue, first red, then white and then blue and then red, white and blue. One large angel, two Wisemen, one shepherd, a star, four large sheep, three small sheep are cutout figures forming a lawn display and the entire house is outlined in red, blue and green. All trees around the house have been decorated.

Yule Edition Greetings to be Included in Christmas Eve Edition of The Tribune. The greatest outpouring of Christmas spirit in years will be evidenced in the Christmas eve edition of The Tribune. Literally hundreds of business houses and individuals have asked The Tribune to convey to its more than thirty-seven hundred readers their good wishes and seasonal greetings. As usual The Tribune is giving these greetings 'the very best attention of its staff, and the Christmas Eve Tribune will be a paper of real artistic merit. Orders for additional copies of this paper have come in from advertisers who wished to send the paper to their friends in distant points and from residents who expressed a desire to preserve the paper as a memento of this particular Christmas season.

Printed in three sections. the paper will be of keen interest throughout. SOCIAL SECURITY MAN TO BE HERE JANUARY 2 Representative at City Hall Friday After New Year's Day, Announcement Reveals. Due to the New Year Holidav. from the New Albany field office of the Social Security Beard will be stationed 111 the City Hall In Seymour from 10:00 in the morning until.

noon on Friday, January 2. of on January 1. Visits to Seymour will be made thereafter on the first and third Thursdays each month at the same ours, according to Jerome P. Reed. manager of the New Alhany office.

Persons desiring, information regarding the Social Security progren. ard individuals who wish to claim old age or survivors insurance benefits are advised to call 011 the fleid representative during one of his Seymour visits: As the old age and survivors incurance program is administered by the Federal Government, qualified may file claims with the New Albany reprexentative regardless of the communty in which the employment occurred. RED, CROSS DRIVE Announcement was made today that the special Red Cross drive for a war relief fund WAR to be this afternoon if at all pussible, hut that anyone missedin the drive could inake dona tions at either of the two Jocal hanks even after today. Workers were busy today covering the city in a systematic campaign, 5nt it was to' be expected that some people wenld be missed in the canvass, and those who are not. contacted are being invited to make their contributions anyway, American and.

Filipino Forces "More Than Hold Own." Reports Say, "TROOPS BEHAVING WELL" Armada of Eighty Jap Ships, Shielded by Escorts. Carrying Troops. War Bulletins By Associated Press. Washington---The navy announced today the steamship Sa1009 was attacked by a submarine off the const of California the night of December 20, and that the steanship Lahaina was -belled and sunk by a submarine on December 11 on the way to San Francisco. A torpedo exblooded near the Samoa but there 110 damage.

Ocean Citr. Md. -Loud offshore explosions shook houses this Niemity today. Henry Burbage, a garage owner, said the explosions continued at intervals for more than an hour and a half. Coast Guard offvials here would not comment.

London There was no conment here todas on a German claim to have sunk A British craft 111 the Atlantic. SIx 1. right Japanese divisions to 100.000 men- -strove for real foothold on the Island of Luzoti today 130 miles from Mania and were met by a valient defense 1n which American and Filipino troops "more than held their own. An estimate from the war department at Washington doubled previous estimates of the Japanese invasion strength carried toward the Philippine beaches br 50 troopships under strong naval and air escort. JOSEPH SCOTI DIES Local Man's Funeral At Austin Wednesday Afternoon.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p'elock from the C. L. Hobbard home in Anstin for Joseph Scott. of Sev. wour, who died at the home of A daughter in Scottsburg.

Mr. Scott, widely known here, tax formerly watchman at the Second street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad here. A daughter, Miss Mary Scott, lives bere. Wagner Act Ruling. Washington, Dee.

"supreme court held today a company might express. "its view on laber policies or problems" without necessarily being guilty of coercing its employes i in violation of the Wagner Aet. By Associated Press. Meeting Japan's new. showdown offensive against the Philippines same 100 miles northwest of.

Manila, American troops and their Filipino comrades "more than held their own" today and with heavy guns turned back one spearhead of the vast sea -borne invasion, according to latest official reports. The afternoon communique from the Manila headquarters carried this accolade for the mixed forces now bathed in batwhere the China Sea foams into Lingayen Gulf: "Our troops are behaving well." The Japanese had invaded the Lingayen, Gulf, region- northern gateway to Manila- from armada of 80 warships, supply vessels and transports. The entire force in soldiers amounted to perhaps 50,000 men. The armada was: shielded from aloft by swarms of Japanese planes. General MacArthur'a U.

army headquarters said his forces had long prepared for just such an assault, made the point where a smaller landing force recently was reported hilated by Filipino troops. The mass attack across the Pacific came as Navy Secretary Frank Knox disclosed that the U. S. Navy had sunk 14- submarines in the Atlantic and as Adolf Hitler relieved Field Marshal General Walther Von Brauchitsch of the direct command of German armies and himself assumed the responsibility for what is to follow the axis debacle in Russia. Besides the Lingayen Bay offensive, United State sand Filipino soldiers were fighting off Japanese attempts to invade southward from Vigan, 200 miles north of Manila, and Aparri, 180 miles northeast, and northward from the Gulf of Davao on, the southern Island of Mindanao, where MacArthur reported the sitnation confused.

Japanese bombers again attacked Nichols airfield near Manila and the nearby naval base. of Cavite and the open city of Baler, in Tayabas Province, which MacArthur said was devoid of military objectives. Later three Japanese planes dropped a few bombs on Manila itself from-: height beyond the reach of the (naked eye. A timely renewal of a pledge, of allegiance to the United States came from the Chief of this Moros of Southern Mindanno, famed as the world's fiercest killers. Closer home, submarines struck at American shipping by torpedoing.

the tanker. Emidio. and shelling three of jts lifeboats (Continued on page 4, column at first she believes that she found an angel in the person of Clarissa Moore, A famous singer who has come back to her home town to appear in the pageant. The pageant is. directed by her childhood playmate, John Lane.

The cast of the play Harry Fink, Romona David. son, Anita Jordan, Diek Lange, Patches Aufenberz, Marilyn Wrapp, Robert Hess, Willis Wienborst, Alger Hageman, Maxine Deputy, Betty Carter, Betty Franklin, Shirley Corbin. Bill Shulte is stage manager, (Continned on page column 3) Weather Records Here are official and weather records SHOPPING for for DAYS the day. The maximum MY ature reading from downtown XMAS thermometer, is unofficial. The ALREADY minimum, for past twenty-tour hours, is from the records of Miss Louise Ahlert government weather observer here.

and is offictal, The river Water level is obtained pumping from statior the Seymour at Rockford. Temperatures Minimum reading Reading at 2 p. m. 59 Stage of River -foot above lev mark..