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Kane' Republican GATEWAY TO THE ALLEGHENY NATIONAL The Daily Temperature Reading 6 A. 13 Noon 32 KANE The year around resort THREE CENTS A COPY KANE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1941 VOL. XLVIII, NO. 72 AMERICAN TARGETS AND ENEMY AIRCRAFT CARRIER 7 1 Vcrd WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.

(AP) Con III fllDI flllllllTC gress voted a formal declaration of war II Mr If I Tot of War Message WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. CIV The SEE HULL AFTER START OF IDS velt requested immediate action as an answer Japan's unprovoked and dastardly tit tack" on Hawaii. A united congress acted swiftly after the President had disclosed that American forces text cf President Roosevelt's war message to congress follow: To the Congress of States: Yesterday, December date which will live In lrifamy 4he United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of th empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace gi. 1 1 111 lost two warships and 3,000 dead and wounded in the surprise dawn attack yesterday. Ihe Senate vote was 82 to 0. Both Pennsylvania Senators, James J. Davis and Joseph F.

Guffey voted for the resolution. Appear With Note After Blood Has Been Spilled with that nation and, at the sol i A Si y. yrh The thirteen senators who did not vote, MESSAGE BLAMES UNITED STATES tion of Japan, was still In conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States anl Ms colleague delivered to the Secretory of State a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic ne Shown above are the targets of Japanese bombers that winged in the sudden attacks on United States Pacific outposts.

At upper left is the Japanese aircraft carrier Kagai which possibly may be among those from which the Japanese were believed to have launched their attack on Hawaii. Pearl Harbor, the powerful American naval base near Honolulu, which the Japanese is pictured upper right Approximately 100 soldiers were reported killed by a direct bomb hit on a barracks at Hickan Field, Hawaii, lower right, principal U. S. Army air. base from which planes took off to fight the attackers.

Part otthe U. S. Asiatic fleet is shown, lower left, at anchor in Manila Harbor in the Philippines, also reported bombed. By LLOYD LEHBBAS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 UP) Cordell Hull, a patient man, came to the end of his patience yesterday at 2:35 p.

m. And when he said so in a spontaneous burst of cold and biting words, Japan's envoys knew precisely what the United Slates government thought of the Japanese government. The secretary of state reached the limit of his endurance when he saw the few all revealing words of that incredible dispatch rushed to him from the White House. Japanese planes had bombed Hawaii American blood had been spilled on the good earth of those islands in a swift panorama he could see the thousands more that would die see the pain and terror and destruction that must sweep the wide expanse of the blue Pacific before the world came back War Bulletins liKfi AIM YUM 1 FRniUI THIS i were announced as oemg aosenu mere is one vacancy in the Senate. The absentees were Senators Bilbo, Caraway, McCarran, Schwartz, Thomas of Oklahoma, Wallgren, Wheeler, Spencer and Hay den, Democrats, and Brewater, Holman and Capper, Republicans.

The House vote was 388 to 1. Miss Jean nette Rankin (R Mont.) who voted against a TEXT OF WAR DECLARATION WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (P) The text of the joint resolution adopted by Congress today declaring war on Japan follows: Declaring that a state of war exists between the Imperial government of Japan and the government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same. Whereas, the Imperial government of Japan has com mited repeated acts of war against the government and the people of the United States of America; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled that the state cf war between the United States and the Imperial government of Japan which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the president be and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the government to carry on war against the Imperial government of Japan and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the Unitd States. gotiations, it contained no tnreai or hint of war or armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the Intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands had caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night Japanese forces attacked Ouam. Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

This morning the Japanese at i Continued on page eight 11 AITMD1D IV IWIII Will I 1 1 1 DISTRICT IN BATTLE ZONE to its senses. This and he had an official engagement to keep. i rnrnnnn rvnMin HSHHisn mam In apparent ignorance of the explosion about to rock the Pacific and the world, Ambassador Kichisa buro Nomura and Saburo Kurusu, JAPS CLAIM NAVAL SUPREMACY IN PACIFIC TOKYO, Tuesday, Dec. 9. (Official Radio Picked Up by AP) The Japanese asserted today they had won naval supremacy ovep the United States in the Pacific, claiming by official or unofficial reports the destruction of two American battleships and an aircraft carrier and the damaging of four battleships and six cruisers.

The claim to supremacy appeared In a commentary resume broadcast by Domel, which said that any force the United States now could muster "would be regarded as utterly inadequate to accomplish any successful outcome in an encounter with the thus far intact Japanese fleet." the special envoy, had requested an JAPAN CLAIMS VICTORIES IN FIRST ATTACKS appointment at Lfta clock on that quiet, sunshiny Secielar Hull knew they were bringing Japan's reply to an American note setting forth his peace formula for the Pacific, and he waited with Joseph W. Ballantine, assistant chief of the Far Eastern division, who lias spent more than 20 years in Japan. The Japanese envoys were tardy, arriving at 2:05 p. m. In those intervening minutes the message rushed from the White House had given Hull the first news of the Japanese attack.

Hull read and reread the message. It was almost too much to believe. He kept the Japanese envoys wait PHILIPPINES BOMBED AGAIN MANILA, Dec. 8. CD Japanese bombers struck at military bases and ports the length of the Philippines today, smashing at the big Fort Sotensburg, Clark field, the summer mountain capital at Ba (Continued on page eight) Soldiers and Sailors In Hawaii and Philippines NO REPORTS OF CASUALTIES HERE At least ten soldiers and sailors from this section were in Hawaii and the Philippines yesterday when the islands were attacked by the Japanese Navy pnd air force, American Red Cross records here showed Up to one o'clock this afternoon no Kane relatives of service men had been notified of casualties.

Those from this section in the battle zone yesterday were: Private Martin Maher, of 122 Maple street, Kane, with Co. 21st Infantry, Schofield Barracks, Honolulu. Sergeant Clinton Brown, 309 Mof fit avenue, Kane, Ordnance Depot, 1st U. S. Base, Hawaii.

Sergeant William Eugene Gillotti, (Contlnueo un page eight declaration of war with Germany in 1917, was the lone member casting a negative vote. Rep. Harold Knutson (R Minn.) who also voted 2 U. S. Battleships Sunk, Tokyo Hears ARNOLD SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION ARNOLD, Pec.

8. UP Mr. and Mrs. George S. Leslie reported the war department today notified them their son, Private George G.

Leslie, had been killed during the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands yesterday. Young Leslie, who was 20 and a member of the air corps for seven months, was the first Pennsylvanian reported killed in the action. The war department's notification to the Leslies said: "Your son, Private George G. Leslie died approximately at 10 a. m.

Dec. 7, a battle casualty from LONDON, Dec. 8 CD Great Britain declared war on Japan today, allying herself with the United States. Prime Minister, Churchill, beginning a statement as soon as he entered Commons, summoned in a special session to hear his declaration, said: "As soon as I heard last night that Japan had attacked the United States I felt it necessary that Parliament should be immediately summoned." The House of Lords also had been called to sit simultaneously to hear the British prime minister's historic pronouncement. Churchill told Commons that the war declaration against Japan was authorized at a noon session of his "I spoke to President Roosevelt on the Atlantic telephone last night with a view (Continued 90 page eihu against the 1917 declaration, voted for war of ing for 15 minutes.

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