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A fa Id' .11 W.Ki' lbi I fc fei fca in BUY DEFENSE. BONDS, STAMPS! ta ft Wrl toi -S WEATHER "GAZE I Iff I- i Illinois: rair io paruy tiuuuy inis aucr- noon and tonight, colder extreme north and extreme south portions tonight. 1 Si'sty-Seventh Year. No. 278 Enured as second claw mafl matter at Mattoon.

Illinois MATTOON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER Id, 1941 All Pbones 250 Price 5 Cents JiinieFea niiMppa Japs Take British Island of ARM REPORTS I 1 JL JL JLLi 1 'V i -i 1 i TrTI I i fin MLA AND Take Over New Jobs Jail Laura Ingalls as Nazi Aid SITUATION AT SCORES KILLED IN DUTCH CITY SENATE SENDS DRAFT BILL TO )t i IIS GRAVE IL0IL0 RAIDED Renewed Ground Operations Accompany Heavy Bombing Washington (INS) The War De-partment communique today reported "marked increase" of Japanese air and ground in the Philippines during the past 24 hours, including heavy bombings over Manila and the city of Hollo on the island of Panay. Fierce Fighting Reported There, But Fortress May Fall i juimi miin.ijL i in ii 11H14, 11 11 n. aiuMiii 111 1 1 V. A. At I Chungking (INS) The van tuard of Chinese forces attack CONFERENCE To Determine Minimum Draft Age of 19, 20 or 21 Years BY WILLIAM S.

NEAL (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington With the greatest registration of manpower in the nation's history a certajnty, the Senate today sent the new draft bill to conference with the House to determine whether the minimum age for military service shall be 19, 20 or 21. The genate passed a House-approved" measure Thursday night by a vote of 79 to 2, after revising it to subject males from 19 through 44 to military service.

Only Senators Downey (D) and Johnson (R), both of California, voted against the bill. To Seek Compromise. Both branches of Congress agreed to provisions for a registration of manpower from 18 through the age of 64. The House bill would sub-1 ing the Japanese to the rear of he Cantoh-Kowloon area are ''now only 10, miles from the Kowloon border, a Chinese military spokesman announced today. BY JAMES E.

BROWN (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) London fierce fighting on the Batavdai (INS) Scares of persons, Including a number of school children, were killed and many more injured in a Japanese air raid on the city of Pontianak, Dutch West Borneo, a communique announced today. The raid lasted from 12:05 p.

m. to 1:10 p. m. and a large number of high explosive bombs were dropped as well as between 20 and 30 incendiaries. A few European houses and establishments were while a large fire was started in the Ohi-nese quarter.

The school children were killed when a bomb scored a direct hit on a Dutch-Chinese school. It was estimated that about 100 persons were seriously Injured. Dutch army and navy, forces have raided a Japanese settlement In north Borneo and Interned a large number of Japanese, an official communique announced. Army bombers attacked enemy troops which have landed in British North Borneo, but the communique said the results of the raid could not be Immediately ascertained because of bad weather. The army communique, the 18th of the war, follows: "Philippine theater: "There was a marked Increase In enemy air and ground activities during the past 24 hours.

There was heavy bombing over Manila and over the city of Iloilo on the Island of Panay, south of Luzon. "There is nothing to report from other areas." Manila (INS) Japanese air raiders attacked the Cavite naval base again today but were driven off by heavy anti-aircraft fire and a swarm of" American Interceptor planes. Waves Forced to Flee. of the damage was not 3 Inland fortress of Hong Ifong was 1 reported officially today, with the small British garrison still holding I out against a large scale wssault by-Japanese troops who were landed at various points. Meanwhile, it was confirmed that I the British garrison on strategic I Penang Island has been evacuated safely and the island surrendered to the Japanese; announced but was believed to be Authoritative quarters indicated ice, while the Senate favored the slncf two waves NEA Tctephoto (Today's Nw Picture Today) era were broken up and forced to I that the garrison had been removed flee after the briefest of visits.

19-year minimum. House leaders indicated that their Rear Amiral Chester V. Nimitz (right), new commander of the Pacific I to southern Malaya. It was under- ioe iirsi iiieni bwcol over, un Ia 11 mi 'i infill' 1 iv 11 in T. I Stood that the civilian population of ileet, and Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, his successor as chief of bureau II H.

THOMPSON HEADS AC. nea TiePhoto (Today. News picture. Today) -navy yard in bright sunshine about IPenang stayed behind. of navigation, discuss their new tasks as they confer in Washington.

WUUIU noon, flymg at a height of more mise making the minimum military 25000 feet. Penang, off the west coast of Ma- Hays about 300 miles north of Singa- Laura Ingalls (left), noted woman flyer, being fingerprinted in Washington after arraignment on charge of failure to register as foreign agent in connection with alleged activities on behalf of German Ipore, had been under Japanese attack since outbreak of war in the age 20 years. Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff with the backing of President Roosevelt, however, fought a nfVilh nriviXA malra 1 Anti-aircraft guns swung Into action at once and Interceptor planes roared into the air to give battle.

The Jap planes vanished- War Measures Taking Shape at Record Speed R. H. Thompson was elected president of the Mattoon Association of Commerce Thursday evening at If niv 7n fit I Pacific. It was one of Britain's most Important Malayan bases. sown TROOPS RECAPTURE 1311 VILLAGES in within 10 minutes, after they first year-old youths liable to military the naval base.

nnmhardeii for Week. of the Board of Dlrec- rf. if HO DEMOS CHECK a meeting appeared over The situAtion at Hong Kong ad tors. BY GEORGE OURNO service. The Senate measure struck out E.

U. S. Faces Long Twenty-four bombers were In the Mr. Thomnson. who was vice (I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent) Wtehington Vested by Congress nresldent during the past year, sue- ft Jiff not 111 WffV mittedly was Loss" of the warships Prince of Wales and Repulse last week in the Gulf of Slam led informed British quarters GOVERNOR'S with the most sweeping powers any ceeds George W. Bock. Leonard S.

wartime commander-in-chief has" Miller was. chosen vice-president, Annapolis, Md. (INSK- Secretary, todeclare at that time that the rirtMinllft TJ.i-cJf Urn' Vnlonv TitdBe-unablB-to --M4IUIiCUMUW ever possessed over uie very uie ana ta re-cietiea new oi Navy Knox warned the rut nnnnnnii provisions in existing draft wve- secona, wnica 'setting up rules for exemptions for, A in ut 1:30 p. only dependency, and giving the Selec- Jap bombers were seen. The seethe Service Administration wide bnd wave caused no damage, drop-discretion in this field.

ping most of their bombs into Ah -amenonenTofleTed brSenator Manila, bay beforaJlejirjg fronvpur Clark, (D) Missouri, under which ulng American planes even faster legatees of all men who have died than had the preceding attacker, in the service since Oct. 8, 1940 Consolidate Defense. including thevtctims-of- the sm The last previous raid struck economy 01 tne -Ameiawt TiwPWfr-ufgft (ion today that hoid out for "i6nger-thatt three of Crumbling Ger- The board voted to sponsor a cl President Roosevelt moved swiftly iivwiuini "what promises to be a long and wteks. Japanese heavy artillery in the mo" costly against "formidable" 1 enemies equipped with powerful OpDOSe Adding State land and sea forces and the largest naval force, at present, in the west- COpSJ I ern Pacific, "where most of the IWilitin I hills above Kowloon has been bombarding the island fortress with- Moscow (INS) Recapture by furiously charging Soviet troops of 138 villages on the battle fronts on many fronts today to insure an ultimate knockout blow to Japan-, Germany, Italy and their satellites. A succession of rew emergency measures was being prepared at unbelievable speed measures that will bring home to every citizen a full realization he has a per- lout cessation for almost a week.

British authorities admitted last northwest and south of Moscow was fighting wiU be 1H t. I week that the loss of Penang would announced by the Communist party necessitate new arangements for newspaper Pravda today. vlllan pilot training program at the Mattoon Airport if necessary details can be worked out. A decision will be made in a short time. Members of the board are Mr.

Bock. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Miller, Mr. Ross, H.

P. Clark. C. C. Covalt.

Fred Kuchne Martin Behrerid, Robert M. Payne, E. A. Purcell, Frank J. Ritter and Craig Van Meter.

FAST DRIVING YOUTH CAUSES TRAIN WRECK prise attack in Hawaii w6uld re- Thursday at Hollo on Panay Island, celve $5,000 insurance was adopted, south of Manila, where "more than 30 Tfie amendment, extended time for Nipponese planes, took part In tha service men to take out insurance. attack, Inflicting a "small nifmber Top World War I Record. of civilian casualties, a cadre of Draft board officials estimated soldiers near Camp Del Gado also that 41.000,000 persons will be reg- was bombedi but it was not known istered to provide a vast reservoir whether ther were any casualties, for an army which is expected to Todav's "attacks came as U. S. and Shipping of supplies to and from Northwest of Moscow.

Pravda sonal stake in the deadliest war of Knox, speaking at graduation ex- Springfield, 111. (INSI Gov. ercises for the U. S. Naval Academy's Dwight Green's wartime defense class of 1942, added, however, that program cracked into two snags to- formidable though our enemies day as debate on the $16,000,000 plan may be you can be sure that vie- opened in both the House and Sen- tory eventually and inevitably ate.

Malaya. Most of this traffic moved said, Russian forces are continuing all history, through Penang, in addition to their pursuit of shattered, fleeing per cent of the rubber and tin re- German units. wm De ours." jt was the Democratic bloc in expand to several millions before. piiipmo forces were consolidating Fragmentary information that has -cleared through censorships in many sections of the world urther indicated that a meeting is imminentprobably in Washington between the chief military and eco- ported from Malaya to the British Empire and the United States. and the United States.

The navy chief cautioned that "we both nouses uiai inreaicnea to th mar nrtrt i i in In this area, south of the re occupied city of Kalinin, the paper said, the Russians recaptured 18 villages Thursday. knOCk h0peS fOT Sh0rt SpCClal Sea" thus moved ter and lnff new drive, against toe Jap Penang also gives the Japanese an Montmorenci, Ind. important springboard for, a pos- rnKtVM-, 2 hihi, TtZiZt mo C0CKea an' further tne drart than Jt ma footholds at Vlgan, Aparrl and -nlrt voilt.h armv trhlfh until vrv iwont. 1JCSTO youth army which, until very recently, On the southern sector below spokesmen for the United driving of a 20-year-old aible attack on the N. I.

island of MoscoWi 120 vmages were taken by Sumatra. Red army units In a smashing of- States, Great Britain, Russia, China and the Netherlands. If broad hints from London in particular are to be believed. Presi caused a train wreck that injured carried all Uiore it one the conti-f he persons here early today. nent of Europe," and, "a large, "well-None was hurt seriously.

trained air force." It was felt that Hong Kong would fensive, the Pravda front-line ac- House minority members agreed to two months before tne war enaea oppose measures (o Increase the did Congress extend the draft to state highway police force from 350" include those from 18 to 44 years, to 1,000 men and to provide a It began with a manpower contingency fund for de- voir of 21 to 31, tealst to the last, but the sucoess count stated. On the basis of official communiques, observers believe It certain that Japanese landings at these coastal points were opposed vigorously by American bombers which smashed repeatedly at the Jap transports. A Big Four mail train, bound "Their men are brave with the dent Roosevelt soon wul be pre- as I of the Japanese was regarded A high command communiouo siding over a meeting from which from Indianapolis to was bravery of fanaticism," he told the certain. fense emergency use by Governor Green. derailed when it struck an 547 graduating "middies." "Their quarters in London said said fighting raged throughout the night on all sectors, of the front.

Nazis Stiffen at Mozhaisk. But Pravda said that on the Tula sector south of Moscow, where the the Japs havje carried out "considerable landings' on" the island ap mobile which had crashed at a leaders are skilled in the art of crossing after its driver, Clifford war. And these leaders will be corn-Miller of Lafavette. had failed to nletelv hnnnr nr scrnnle In To Support 3 Bills. The caucuses, however, agreed to may evolve a supreme war council of the (nations 'joined in common battle front against the Axis powers.

In Washington, there was a "black-out" silence on these reports. The United States, meanwhile, has reached a naval accord with the parently under terrific covering by NO, I MOORE DRY TO 1.900--FOOT DEPTH All reports on Carter Oil. Company's No. 1 Moore Heirs, east offset to the Cooks Mills field discovery'' well, were disappointing today. artillery and aerial bombardments.

.120 villages "were recaptured, the niake'a turn of Road 53 onto the fighting the war-since only In this support of $5,000,000 tracks. State police said they prob- wav can they hope to win:" lo Uie statjgllltia and $750.000 to ably will charge the young man with Knox reviewed events in nego- the state defense council, holding M.S. ROY, RETIRED FARMER, DIES Special to The Journal-Qazette. To Fight Until Last. While admitting the position Is battered enejny is retreating toward tlations between the United States lW neeaea Ior we Vichy government of Martinique, reckless driving.

-serious," they were confident the -uwu Whll Miller was spflrrhin fnr nnri that, mow snino ah vpn ueiense eiiori, Etna, III. Martin S. Roy, a re French outpost In the Caribbean. Admiral Frederick J. Home, a navy small garrison of gallant defenders in uie Mozhaisk region due west would biterly contest every inch of of Moscow, Pravda said, enemy a wrecker, the train crashed info as Nipponese bombersere dropping The police Increase measure, Deni The Aux Vases sand, from which Wd farmer, died Thursday discovery is producing 50 barrels "noon at the home "of daughter.

the overturned car. All the eight bombs on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, and ocratic State Central Committee ground the Japanese gain. forces have been reinforced by two "trouble-shooter," is believed to have train cars and the locomotive declared that more damning ac- Chairman Arthur Sullivan said in 4AnHnt ii-nvn orollivl ortrf fnn, pars nrne npt.lntr as ertnfraiimun frtr 0 Pflll. In London, observers expressed nwp axvisions sno a large nuraoer negotiated uie accora wun vicny a day, was dry, a spokesman said, Mrs.

Orval Ellis, two miles west of belief that Hong Kong is virtually of tanks and aircraft. Admiral Georges Robert, high coin- fell on their sides. The engine was never recorded in the history of the cuses, is not considered by members en puslei a.hca,d Etna after a long Jllness Death in Jananese hands. The Germans in this narticular missloner of the French Antilles. of his wt.v a fW-r, mP through the McClosky and St.

Louis was due to a heart attack. Mr. not derailed. world." It 1 1 Off A14 The colonial office announced pocket are offering stiff resistance, Rather than see the state police "nje ciB no 00 m. dry.

The St. Louis was topped at The funeral will be held at 1:30 that not the slightest credence the paper added. Should be attached to a report that But on most sections of the front force" increased, Sullivan said, Dem 'INSIDE GERMANY TODAY' 1,873 feet. o'clock Saturday afternoon at the The drill was moving ahead this Ellis residence. Burial will be in ocrats would prefer expansion of the state militia above the present morning, at 1,900 feet.

Whether the concord cemetery norinwest or e- limitation with the $5,000,000 ap- Sir Mark Young, governor-general scores of war-ba ttered villages were and military commander-in-chief of belng recaptured and the important Hong Kong, had left the colony. cltles of Kharkov in the Ukraine hav been In telegraphic and Volokolamsk, northwest of eommunication with him this Moscow, were beine encircled as If 8 Easier to Get Arrested in Germany than to Get Robbed propriation to be boosted according-i Devonian lime will be examined was oga. ly. not; disclosed. Mr- Rov was Dorn' March 31.

1855, Militiamen, he sirt. ean perform 1 nearNeoga, and had resided In that said- Russia hurled its seemingly inex- "He is not only governor but haustible armed mieht anainst the commander-in-chief, and thus Is crurtlbllng Nazi armies. the avenue about the time the the duties of additional state po- HELD AS DRAFT VIOLATOR vicinity all his life. He farmed un- swastlka drums come beating down liccmen at less expense. Danville, Scott til a few years ago when he re- the street.

suiiivan alBO dwlared Democrats Jr- lro was tlred bcause ul 011 sumvan also declared Democrats held federai marshals here to- March 27, 1881, he married Lucy The German after eight years of will pppose any hurry-up advance- ch wlth vlolatl the M. 0f Jfeoga. She dledT In Gestapo rough-housing on aU his ment of bl Is -introduced, w.h,. it unlikely to quit," Details of the accord remain secret until after Admiral Horne reports to his chiefs, but it may include an agreement for joint Franco-American defense of the French Islands. 1 URGES EMPLOYMENT OFFICES BE MERGED Washington (INS) President Roosevelt today made public an identical telegram to the governors of the 48 states requesting that they immediately arrange to merge all of their state employment agencies into one nationally-operated service so we can "utilize to the fullest extent all the man power and woman power of this country tojlncrease our production of war materials." The chief executive praised the co-operation he already had re Tokio (By Official Japanese personal comforts and Ideas of voting, they want'" time i to study the Wireless) (ins) Supported by a IJ-hour artillery1 barrage, Japanese failed to report to his draft board Surviving besides Mrs.

Ellis are when called up. He was arrested another daughter, Mrs. Bertha (EDITORS NOTE nereis the ninth article In a series of 11 on "Inside GermanyToday." written by Pierre J. Muss, Berlin correspondent of International News Service who recently arrived in this country after two and a half years in Axis Europe.) BY PIERRE IIUSS (I. N.

S. Staff Correspondent) It's easier to get arrested in Nazi Germany than it is to get robbed. MRS. FANNIE NEWELL OF BUTTON TWP. DIES Special to fh Journill-Qaiette.

Charleston, HI. Mrs. Fannie Newell, about 72, of Hutton township, died all midnight Thursday at the home of Mrs, Or a Cunningham in this "city where she had resided lories landed in Hong Kong Island in Chicago. Janes of Neoga, and two sons, J. A.

Roy and Thomas Roy of Neoga. today, in an all-out effort to seize the British Far Eastern stronghold personal liberty, is somewhat in- he said, ured to It although there are times As a result, legislative leaders to- when, he, gets Just a' little day were doubtful that their earlier bit sick of it all. But he can do hbpes for a short session will be ful- nothlng about it. All emergency legislation re- Some times, he looks at us from quires a two-thirds vote of both the free, lands and Is envy in houses. i In a lightning attack.

The Japs rushed across the nar- the past few weeks Wake Up, Americans! row strait separating the Kowloon irn A fmm til. 1 c1 0 TH The funeral will be held at 2 his eye. I frequently sensed an for the Gestapo "never-, sleeps while xzsi -u- Lewis funeral home. ARCOL A MAYOR'S SON TO $18,000 CHRISTMAS BONUS Springfield, 111. (INS) A Christ, mas bonus of $12,000 Is being distributed to the 251? employes of the Springfield plMfr-of the Weaver Manufacturing' Company, G.

Weaver, head of the company, announced the holdup man and his ilk lost atmosphere of expectation oil the part of almost everybody that to- WORK ON CENTRALlA PAPER their nerve in face of Hitler's oniil- ceived from the governors and said Mrs. Newell leaves two sons and a daughter. i i10rt enrv. a rnmnint. ktine blitz asrainst the morrow or the next day "they'l-were Areola, 111.

Gene E. DiUiner, son Wake up, Americans! Make America's answer roar out over the world. Every citizen most standing- of war problems he had 'In places like Germany or any of coming to take you away. It sours of Mayor and Mrs, George Dlllinex' abandoned an earlier idea of calling the totalitarian dictatorslil'ps 'there fun1 in life and usually the de- of Areola, has accepted, a position them, to Washington for a White are momenta when that ingrown pressed mood there is on the reportorlal staff the Cen- 4 SHOPPING DAYS HAMPTON'S awareness of an unseen and all- sometmng on your conscience sjna ocuwnei. we wm bsuii! ms House conference.

rmurcrfni Vionrf nnn reason to worrv nbont, th Gestano. new duties MondayTDec. 29. Jardines Hill nd at two other points, according to claims received In Tokio. The first waves of Japanese attackers, according to Nipponese reports, stormed' defense pill boxes in a series of surprise attacks.

After brief hand-tp-hand fighting, it was claimed the Japanese vanguards sent urf flares signalling they had succeededin landing. Reinforcements then rushed across the strait to support' the first assault troops. Jewelry store, 'till. Christmas. Open every night 12-W i.

till Christmas 'Also. GIVE you away at any time of day or LLsten to a foreign radio or crack F5 tlie past one. an 8 hal night Jusigets into your hair, pro- a nasty Joke about Hitler orNazl has-worked. as editor of the bitrwii7 and into a. rnntTpntrotifiTi ducing something akin to the Jit NYLON HOSE Three famous brands to choose from.

Complete selection, of sizes and colors, $1.50 and $1.65. 'YOUNG'S 12-24 ters. CASTLE INN camp you go. A worse crime Is Most of us from tha. lands of slaughtering your pig for home use thls.clty- back the United States Army and Navy to victory back them with work; and money.

Do your part: Buy United States Defense Bonds and Stamps at your post office, bank, or savings and loan association. Get Defense Stamps at your retail store or from the carrier boy of'tfils newspaper. BONDS and Now open every Sunday and closed all day every Monday. 10-24tf STAMPS CHRISTMAS HOURS habeas corpus and all the sacred or hoarding at home a couple hun-things this represents are pretty dred hard-earned dollars. Maybe much fed up with the other and At you have as a German very many.

HENRY'S OPEN NIGHTS at STORES' BANKS JMi '111 POST OFFICES lt-lt BARBEQUEDBEAR Saturday and SundayVan's Cafe. U17 South 18th gt. 12-12 INVEST IN DIAMONDS Real values diamonds at Hampton's Jewelry Store, 12-18 -vl-'. 1: times are apt to have an attack, of close American friends; maybe you Mattoon. stores open 'til 8 p.

m. nerves or take to drink. It's the'only have a way of keeping the larder re- Friday, Saturday, Monday, and safety valve between you and a plenlshed or, you failed to turn1 In Tuesday Christmas' JJve until 6 p. reckless outbufsLTln the middle of i Continued on Page 10 m. 12-23 jour Until.

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