Times, The (Newspaper) - December 11, 1941, San Mateo, California News Behind The News WASHINGTON lly Tucker i correspondents to lion the States gainst the exudation ot n quick air or military victory Japan The lias no doubt that we can lick Tokyo in run Out navy crs ivh taper that our first great triumph over the Japs may not conic for months For one thing hud the ad- vantage of being tho aggressor as lier dawn bombing of Pearl demonstrated Her ships including submarines destroyers antl torpedo carriers had sent into the weeks in advance of the Actual attack The army and military crowd nl Tokyo set otit deliberately to sabotage Hid it Washington President ami Secretary HuH must have known Hint Messrs Nomura ami were mid for time Apparently Washington failed to communicate this fact to our Hawaiian and hence to warn hem of the danger of at- tack which partly explains the ex- tent of fatalities and material age In view of censorship it not permitted to record what dent anri the secretary of state said when they learned of tha Jap's early dawn attack Dul their remarks leave no doubt that if possible we will wine Japan off the map ft wai wc st will be naval than military Here is the battle plan which our tinny ami navy strategists have The have built a hit-and-run navy fust but armored vessels Tokyo real ires that without possession ol a class fleet Japan becomes only a third-rate power Therefore as the weaker power the Japs cannot ford to stage a battle on the high sens which result in the de- struction of their warships The Japanese in short have built a fleet which will operate most in narrow coastal waters They hope to suck the navy into the area off Japan Hongkong and Singapore and blow sels one Tokyo's strategy has become loo obvious The A II C IV powers will not fall for this game is to clamp a remote blockade upon Tokyo preventing the Nipponese from obtaining raw materials from the Dutch East Indies lay imi peninsula and tries Probably this will force the main fleet to make a sortie into southern lien the A B C TX forces will smash theml The over the need of for national defense tion will end in a complete out for tho senator from Tennessee Turn to Page 11 Column 2 May Register 7 WASHINGTON Dec Brig Con Lewis B Hershey tor of selective service said today it might be desirable eventually to register all men Between the ages of 18 64 inclusive for service civilian defense and other purposes Hershey said he did not expect any abrupt changes in system or any later changes which would wreck our national life The present age limits for tration arc 21 to 35 inclusive and for service 21 lo 27 inclusive Tho he said is for a flexible national registration to serve the ends of total war Generally fair seasonal temperature tonight and Friday TO THE COUNTY WIRE AND FEATURES Early Darkness and rainy evenings make your carrier boy's dally delivery moro II you miss your paper please phone 1900 BEFORE P M YOU 36 No 10 YBAR TWENTY SAN THURSDAY DECEMBER 11 60 PER PER MONTH The American Legion requests all Ex-Service Men REGISTER IMMEDIATELY for CIVILIAN DEFENSE SERVICE Your If again this Congress Retaliates With Quick Declaration Against Hitler Duce COUNTY RUSHES RAID ORGANIZATION AGAIN CHANGES ALARM SIGNAL Organization of wartime emergency preparations moved ahead with accelerated tempo in county today as defense officials expressed themselves satisfied with the progress of the program Spurred by the warning of Mayor Fiorello H of New York director of civilian defense that speedy training of air raid wardens and fins watchers is imperative because of the imminent danger of enemy groups duties from the thousands of volunteers who already have signed up for tervice Wardens -In San Burlingame anri some sir raid dens already while Daly City became the first city in the county to complete its fire warning lion Precinct were at a Daly City last melit and the organization was ex- lo designation of watchers for each block a uniform air mid filarm signal system for San Maleo county and elsewhere in the Bay area resulted from yesterday's San Francisco meeting between Mayor nd police nnd fire Two Signals General sounding of an alert was eliminated and henceforth there will lie only two signals one for a complete blackout and the for all clear sounded either by or fire department horns In San and Burlingame ire horns will signal the blackout by blasts at ond intervals for two utea One long blast of two u duration will sound the clear sed the In Hillsborough and othe unities where sirens arc u blackout will be signalled by a 23 Burlingame Boys Called Up war will be brought closer to 23 youthful registrants of he Burlingame draft board when the board fills the quota it received day for the twentieth call on ary 6 Burlingame the first board of San county to receive a call since the declaration of Turn to Page 2 Column 8 U S Warship Sinks Brand New Freighter NEW BEDFORD Mass Dec 11 The freighter Oregon was rammed and sunk by an fied Q S Warship off Nantucket while on her maiden voyage with a considerable loss of life it was revealed Mari- time sources estimated that 11 ot the Oregon's crew members ed while 25 others were rescued NEW AIR RAID SIGNAL HERE Hero are lie uniform air raid in use in San Malen and elsewhere buy sion of of the fire horn of about five duration separated by silent periods of three seconds each lasting for two utes a fluctuating or liny siren of pitch for tivo Ali c 1 e a couf Mast of tlie fire horn or siren at a steady pitch lasting for two minutes There will lie no alert warning sounded minute blast fluctuating in pitch Tho will be sounded by a two-minute continuous blast at a steady pitch to Air warnings will he son cd by sirens in San los Snn and by the Swift Turn In Page 2 Column 2 Man Held in Grudge Fire CITY Dec II -An incendiary fire that tlic home of Joseph Sodoni Redwood City rare owner last night led to the arrest on an arcon White -13 a who admitted to police that he'd had with Sodini and Fire Questioned today at the district attorney's office Jen ted he set fire to the Sodini residence at 146 avenue because of a but admitted he had taken a taxi shortly before the blaze broke The fire which started in a closet in the front bedroom did damage and undoubtedly was of incendiary the fire de- snid had been to Paffe 2 Column 5 Invasion of Philippines Halted Three Japanese Warships Sunk WAKE ISLAND MARINES DESTROY CRUISER AND ATTACKING DESTROYER Big of Mikado Sent to Bottom by Air Attack Of WASHINGTON Dec headquarters today announced that the at Wake island had sunk one Japanese light cruiser and one destroyer by action The garrison has defended the island in the South Pacific against four separate attacks in tlic last 43 hours by enemy craft and one by light naval units The Japanese were expected to resume the attack and at- tempt a landing MANILA Dec army communique announced today Him a States ing plane pet fire to a Stales position snid a Japanese landed rear gayen on the west coast of Luzon was being disposed of in up operations find Hint interceptor planes had driven off a Japanese bombing formation which brought Turn In 2 Column 4 ton Japanese and ed that the situation ly in hand in tho fight against n Japanese attempt to invade the Philippines Later communiques indicating an increasingly favorable United S F PEOPLE MOVE TO PENINSULA FOR CRISIS Itie ut air over stores of and Ran iin into the comity Local have off aic DON'T MISS THESE INSIDE Tor a dramatic eyewitness account of the sinking of British Prince of Wales and Repulse turn to PAGE 7 For Winston address to commons today on the Nazi declaration of war on the United States turn to 9 rally stamped by calls Francisco enquiring about home sites here Since Monday from San Francisco R total of ten ami Caldwoll and Banker at least to the war Kim I Black material which can be used out i anri c-f their for several and bulbs kits and are at a premium right r tho survey Sugar There is also Black material cnn be There is also a lo cover windows light rush on for sugar and and flashlights lo be used in apple anil the storm arc home in when Turn lo Page 11 Column J RED CROSS ASKS FOR 50 MILLION WAR FUND The American Red Cross war fund tomorrow delivers a nationwide radio plea Walter S Martin county man announced today county's quota has seat at Martin was notified in a telegram from man H chairman Af the Red Crosp The local chapter look action ward conducting the campaign last night at a meeting will a campaign for n when President for support of the organization at which Harry was chosen chairman of a war relief drive committee Named to assist him were Mayor C A Ruck of Harry Davis Henry C Hall Jr Martin Hev Miller II H Smith and H M Blacher Both Houses Unanimous in Declaring War Solemn Action Taken er by President Dec United States today went to war against Germany and making it an all-out battle against the axis ing Japan President Roosevelt sent to congress his second war sage within 70 hours and the legislators snapped through of hostilities with Germany Italy Notification of German nnd ian of war against the United States reached the state de- respectively at and R m EST today Congress received Mr Roosevelt's message at p m m3 appropriate by p m The and the long expected hns thus taken the president told in B to 3 7 Paio Alto Man Head of S P FRANCISCO Dec LPJ board of of the Southern Pacific today elected Ar- inand T Mercior as the lain formerly first was H lier of Ihc hoard of and A of the Turn lo Paffe 2 Column 5 Drastic Reductions In Auto Output WASHINGTON Dec Supply Leon today announced new tic reductions in passenger auto- mobile production quotas for this month and January The December quota is to be about CO per cent low the corresponding production last year and trip January quota 75 per cent in January FUEHRER ANNOUNCES WAR TO REICHSTAG MUSSOLINI FOLLOWS BERLIN Recorded by United Press at and her Italy today declared States Foreign Minister Joachim made the formal declaration on behalf of Germany at a m EST in a note handed to the American charge d'affaires in Berlin Adolf Hitler in a speech before the Nazi announced that I today gave the order that the passports shall be given to the American ambassador in Berlin Germany and Hitler told tho reichstag arc honoring their he tri- Louderback Dies Suddenly SACRAMENTO Dec Harold Louder back Snn Francisco jurist died after He was Gl entered Sutler Attending cians be from asthma liy nn di- ation of henrl His condition The jurist wna one of he best in the western He appointed to the federal in by of his time was spent in Kan he came to Sacramento to pre- side m federal court Me was con- 1 court here stricken rior fn was a fur Iwo i a torins He law in tlic liav his He in World war anri was nt ils He is hy liii and hoil of San Rankin Present At House War Vote WASHINGTON Dor Representative Kankin R who was the only ber of to vote war with voted present for nor the of war with Germany nnd Italy In 1017 Miss was one of 50 house members who voled against war with Germany British P 0 Gives to Services in every three post office workers joined the navy army air force civil or home tal of To help tlic t cxii women been he tower military nnd com- to the ojf forced her Too The of Inly nnd fuehrer will last at least as long is tlic war Simultaneously Premier Benito Mussolini appeared balcony of Venire Pol nee in Rome and an- In Hie throngs in be below tbat the Axis have gone lo war against United States ninny Hitler assured his lins he power and fore- sight t take nil ures for the conflict We wilt always strike lie said Wc will first Formal Alliance nnd he have Turn In Z Column 6 INTEREST PAYMENTS AMOUNT TO hr year under our 10 Loan vrar ill 15 for each ases and by year s de loan is raid off Tola I 2.1 IS 11.72 107.77 121.13 571.36 250.70 0.0 D the a of interest Itn years Compare his any long-term plan Peninsula Federal and
