Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - December 7, 1941, Waterloo, Iowa All the News for All the Family FIRST The Weather Fair warmer cloudy Monday Complete for M WITH NEWS ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO IOWA SUNDAY DECEMBER 7 1941 THIRTY-SIX PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS SENDS MESSAGE HIROHITO Germans After French Fleet Admiral Francois Barlan Marshal Henri Petain the Vichy government and Marshal mann Goering of Germany at St Florentin France to confer on demands by for the French fleet to convoy axis vessels NBA Telephoto Moscow in Direst Peril as Nazis Push Attack the by the against today in soviet dis- patches which said troops had shattered an enemy wedge driven along the highway from flinging the nazis into disorderly retreat MM: Associated appeared Saturday to be in her direst peril altho informants here could provide no confirmation for an axis declaration that the Russian capital had become the target for advancing troops 8.000 tanks and guns The Italian radio which relayed the axis claim said that this great mass of men and arms altho opposed by congealing cold of 31 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and a blood-hot defense were executing the most terrific offensive of all The soviet midnight nique said of specific fighting at its tomary Fighting on all fronts continued the day Evidence that the German air force was pounding Moscow was the communique statement that three German aircraft were brought down on the to the city during the day Without specifying the the Russians announced that Friday their air force destroyed 70 man planes more than 530 motor vehicles carrying troops and plies seven field guns nine fuel Toronto Norwegians w h o arrived here for training in the free Norwegian armed forces said that as many as 35 carloads of German wounded nave arrived in Norway daily from the Russian front tenders more than 200 carts with ammunition and dispersed and an- two of enemy infantry and enemy men Attempt Enfolding Drive The mounting danger confronting that citadel of all Russias was illustrated by an extraordinary ries of sweeping claims both for the offensive and the defensive with both Russians and Germans ing successes in flanking actions The Germans were attempting to enfold Moscow the Russians were striking at northern and southern the enveloping movement Winter-hardened Russian ski troops were said to have gone into Action on deep snows all along the Moscow front The Moscow situation by flanks was outlined as follows in sian On the Red army units drove across the Volga at several points gaining two portant bridgeheads at various points in the Kalinin sector 90 miles northwest of the city A Red army also was said to be countering man pressure in the vicinity of Klin 50 miles northwest of Moscow On the The Germans were attacking fiercely north of Tula 100 miles from the capital having cut across the highway in some places Recapture Villages The Russian in that general region had brought re- a number of villages with the Germans thrown back to the wost of the Nara river but 50 from Moscow In Berlin the Germans reported a stroke midway between Moscow Continued on page 2 column 6 King of Italy in Near Bombing By the Associated narrow escape from British bombs by King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy was d Saturday when the little monarch returned from a nine-day tour of Sicilian towns The King arrived at Villa San Giovanni Thursday afternoon just after five British planes bombed and the town cists said They said anti-aircraft fire and Italian fighter planes shot down two of them and chased away the other three just before the ruler arrived ADJOURN BRUNNER TRIAL Mason City murder of Jennie Decker Brunner was adjourned Saturday and the jury excused until Monday morning when closing arguments begin News Feature Index Page Afterthoughts 8 Believe It fr Not 8 Boys and Girls Page 34 Brady's Health i Bugs Baer Comment 35 Cedar Falls News 22 City in Brief I Classified Ads Comics 36 j Editorial Farm News 24 Merry-Go-Round in Northeast Iowa Events 19 Parsons Movie Talk 20 i Picture News 18 i Private Lives I Radio Programs 28 Santa's Wonderland 8 Serial Society Sports Stamp Stories 8 Theatre Entertainment Uncle Ray's Corner 8 Uncle 8 War Map Waterloo on Broadway 33 Seizes Finnish Ships Secretary of Navy's Report to President Details ress in 41 SAYS NATION WORLD'S GREATEST NAVAL POWER Washington D Secretary of Navy Frank Knox reported to President Roosevelt Saturday night that the United States must arm as rapidly as possible for major operations Atlantic and the Pacific oceans against any ble combination of powers Knox said the navy's aim is to achieve maximum fighting strength and ability to control the seas in defense nation and its interests This nation is already the world's greatest naval power fee The report stated that had been made available to the navy during the fiscal year of wss spent A total of was ob- ligated thru contracts The estimated amount available for expenditure in the fiscal year 1942 was Greatest Program in History The secretary's annual report covered the fiscal 1 1940 to June 30 1941 when the navy was expanded from peacetime to wartime which he called the greatest program of expansion attempted by any navy in world history Knox commissioning of 325 ships acquisition of new airplanes extension of naval bases in both oceans and a personnel increase of officers and 962 men including marines Our aim must always Knox said to have sufficient forces to give us complete dom of action in either ocean while retaining forces in the other ocean effective for the defense of our vital security New joint programs with the army were the re- port said referring to the com- exercises in the bean and Pacific There was no large fleet lem this year because warships were stationed strategically to meet any Knox said The U S fleet was reorganized into the Atlantic Pacific and atic fleets to defend Knox said Oversea Air Bases Naval air stations were being operated on 11 continental and 13 island and overseas bases by June 30 Construction work on tional overseas bases was being rushed The report stressed the tance of the Atlantic bases stretching from Iceland to British Guiana The strategic value of bases in Alaska the Aleutian the Hawaiian also was emphasized Other points in the The navy bought planes during the year bringing the total to Congress authorized tons of combatant shipping during the fiscal year In July 1940 12 private yards were building ships for the navy A year later 108 shipyards were doing navy work The of using carrying gliders was improved and experiments led to substitution of welding for riveting in tion of warships the report stated BOY KILLED IN CRASH Primghar denburg 6 was fatally injured and his parents one brother and one sister suffered serious injuries day night in an automobile crash four miles northwest of here New Tommy Manville No former Bonita Edwards where she said she planned to seek a divorce from her husband of 18 days the playboy asbestos heir Manville 47 saw his year-old B o n n i e off but there no parting kiss Mrs Manville declined Tin still said Manville I don't know how it happened or why it GRAFT IN Moves as Result of British Proclamation of War Against Finns HELSINKI HOPEFUL FOR PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT RAF Flying Boat Forced Gown in i Kankakee River Chicago After its crew had thrown overboard everything moveable in a vain effort to gain height a Canadian bomber flying boat en route to the Pacific coast made a forced landing Saturday night in the Kankakee river 30 miles southwest of Chicago The crew of five RAF fliers caped injury largely thru the skill of the pilot Flight Lieut L G Virr 24 of Ottawa who landed the huge ship in a narrow strip of winding river The boat suffered a crushed hull damaged when the plane struck a submerged rock Washington D The navy announced Saturday night it had instructed the coast guard to take into custody six Finnish vessels in U S ports The havy disclosed the move in a brief announcement ly after Britain had proclaimed a state of war to exist between her and Finland The navy said six Finnish ships four of them steamships and two of them motor vessels were known definitely to have been in U S ports within the last two days The order the navy said would apply to these six and possibly more Merry Christmas with Edward San Felice Harvester Emerson cigars advertisement SAVE A LIFE IN Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Last Since Jan I Date of accidents 314 injured 110 Number killed 6 0 Singapore Gets Ready tor Fight Associated Press Singapore Singapore's mighty and constantly swelling defenses were in a state of mobilized ness Saturday as urgent orders re- called sailors of Britain's Far ern fleet to their ships and all army and airforce personnel to their barracks The order hurried thousands of men from football fields theatres and clubs So swiftly were navy men called back to their ships that trucks and other vehicles were sent to down- town Singapore to pick up Rockefeller Speaks at Madison Wis Madison Wis Nelson A Rockefeller co-ordinator of inter- American affairs declared day your only security and my only security from disturbance to our life is in a word to win the battle of the Atlantic and keep the Americas free That security he said in an ad- dress prepared for delivery before the Madison Civic club is to a great extent determined by the de- gree of co-operation among the i tions of this hemisphere Life With the Family will be much happier if you do not wear yourself out Christmas shopping This may be avoided if you use the Classified ads Here are four of the many listing new gift ideas every Cutler's Waterloo Typewriter Exchange Wilson's Drug Stores Strickler Blue Cross Drug Sec pages 26 27 and 28 COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS Thonn 7711 steamships Olivia and Advance and the motor vessels and Aurora The Olivia the navy said was known to have been at Boston Dec 4 The and were at New York and the Aagot at Baltimore the Advance at adelphia and the Aurora at port News Authoritative sources said that Britain's proclamation of a state of war with Finland ended the ar- rangement under which the Brit- ish granted safe conduct for nish These sources said the decision to take over the vessels stemmed from that fact May Requisition Vessels Coast guardsmen now operating under the navy will board the Finnish ships as in the case of Italian German and Danish sels which were the first alien vessels placed in protective tody Later informed official said the maritime commission very likely will take steps toward re- those ships for this country's use The Finnish merchant fleet in western hemisphere waters consists of 24 vessels all but two of which were built before the world war Eleven of the ships have been under the Panama flag since June 22 12 are under the Finnish en- sign and one is of Cuban registry The ships range from 1.098 to tons The two newest vessels were built in 1938 The entire fleet has been plying western hemisphere trade routes for some time and those not in United States ports were believed to be elsewhere in this hemisphere Fails to Mention War Helsinki Finland dent Risto Ryti and Field Marshal Baron Gustav Mannerheim told the Finnish people in Independence day declarations Saturday that they must fight on to final victory against the Soviet Union but failed to mention war with Great Brit- ain Rysti however warned America and Britain that friendship with Russia was like clasping hands with a leper Some slight hope that war be- tween Finland and Britain might yet be avoided appeared to be held in government and diplomatic cles despite London dispatches saying that rejection of Britain's ultimatum demanding cessation of hostilities against Russia had re- in a state of war with land and Rumania Not until Saturday night was any publication made in Finland of the fact that Britain will consider itself in a state of war with land as of a m Sunday The text of the British tion issued at London was first published only after deletions which left the impression Britain i was at war with Hungary and mania but not Finland Not Far From This evening however the nish reply was published and it i was revealed a on page 2 column 2 New Sun Shines in Chicago Marshall Field ID left and Evans publisher look at first issue of their Chicago Sun new morning newspaper opposing the Deal Chicago Tribune NBA Roosevelt Asks 70 Million More lor Defense Washington D C dent Roosevelt asked the senate Saturday to add to the supplemental defense appropriation approved by the house The request was received by a senate appropriation subcommittee as it held a Saturday session speed on the of the hew items asked president was for the navy department's bureau o yards and docks for construction o public works that were not de- tailed Other new requests included for the coast guard ing an ice cutter for use on the reat Lakes and magnetic mine protection on 29 coast guard j sels Says Axis Crews Planned to Fire Port of Tampico Mexico charge that the captains and crews of 10 axis vessels seized by the Mexican at Tampico last April had plotted to destroy not only their ships but the port of Tampico as well was made by Vice Admiral Luis Hurtado De Mendoza day In a published statement Hurtado said the seizure was an act of legitimate defense He asserted the ships were loaded with highly combustible material and a plot had been discovered to set them on fire with the object of spreading the flames to the whole port where much gasoline was stored Thailand Capital May Be Moved Bangkok The ministry of interior revealed Saturday that complete preparations have been made to remove the Thailand tal from Bangkok in event of war The location of a wartime capital was not revealed for defense sons The Bangkok radio warned the public to provide itself with sene lamps and stores of water in event public utilities are cut off by hostilities Provincial authorities were ad- vised to instruct citizens in ods of combatting invasion ing the technique of sabotage and guerrilla war SEEK THEATRE BANDIT Council Bluffs were searching Saturday for a dit who late Friday night pointed a revolver at Miss Arlene Hough cashier at the Broadway theatre here and got away with in re- King Leopold Weds Pretty Commoner pold III Belgian monarch who surrendered to the blitzkrieg of Hitler's legions been married to a moner since Sept 11 the German radio announced Saturday night The bride is pretty Mary Leli Baels daughter of the former gov ernor of East Flanders She renounced any claim to the title of queen and re- is well any claim to the throne for any children of this second marriage of Announcement of the marriage was contained in a pastoral letter issued by Archbishop Van Roey primate of Belgium According to the pastoral letter which will be read in all Belgian churches Sunday the wedding took place at Laeken castle The prematurely gray pold has been held virtually a prisoner there since the col- lapse of his armies and his render The first wife ish Princess Astrid was killed in an auto accident Aug 29 1935 She left three children Princess Josephine Charlotte Prince douin duke of Brabant and Prince Albert duke of Liege U.S Planes Help MF fighter planes were sible for the RAF's biggest victory over the German airforce in the Libyan desert Friday when two squadrons shot down 17 nazi bombers RAF officials said last night The flaming wrecks fell near British troops in the battle area which the Germans had been at- empting to bomb One Messerschmitt fighter and wo Italian planes also were destroyed in fee battle while at east 20 other enemy aircraft were damaged officials said lowan Held on Liquor Charges Rock Island and S Berry of the Rock Island jolice department said Saturday hat Clarence Sprulin of Fort Dodge la is being held for after police officers re- ported they found 60 cases of liquor n his automobile Friday night The liquor did not bear an Iowa late stamp according to Capt Berry Spurlin was formally charged with having fictitious licence plates his car NOTE SEEN US Said the owl with a As he munched on a cheroot All I want on my tree Is a And a mate with a lyrical hoot 15 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS Roosevelt Goes Directly to Japanese Emperor as Peace Hopes Fade JAP AND TROOPS ARE GATHERING Washington D President Roosevelt has patched a personal message to Emperor Hirohito of Japan iu the midst of darkening clouds in the Far East it waa disclosed by the state ment Saturday night The president's direct message to the emperor who as divine by the Japanese was mediately interpreted in wen informed quarters as a reflection ol his dissatisfaction with the ex- planation made by Premier Togo of Japan thru the Japanese envoys here as to the reason for Japanese troop concentrations in French The message also was viewed as possibly a step of last resort to avert an open break with WM that Roosevelt would directly with the em- unless A virtually all had been abandoned of adjustment ot Jipi American difficulties the usual diplomatic nels The state department's terse an- tnat a message was being sent by the president to the mikado gave no intimation of its contents out was pointedly coupled with an assertion that anese troops were reported ing m the area and that two Japanese convoys had been only morning steaming toward the Gulf of Siam Sent in 1937 At the time of the sinking of the American gunboat Panay oy the Japanese in waters in wot Prince then premier made a report at the incident to the mikado ing strong United States protests and there also was a direcc mes- sage from the president to the em- Shortly before the outbreak of the European war Roosevelt sent a personal appeal to Adolf Hitler ui an effort to avert that con- The importance st the ent can be measured by the awe and veneration in which toe is held by his subjects He is considered descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu in the line unbroken for ages eternal and aloof on a plane far above the ordinary business of ment Not for years probably not since the death of the great Em- Meiji in a anese emperor attempted t0 swerve policy from the lines marked out by his ministers or the still more powerful chiefs of the army and navy Troop Concentrations The situation with respect to troop concentrations was as Reports the state de- that the Japanese troops being assembled in the In- area are estimated at in south Indo-China n the north and on ships and bors in Indo-China which is a total of These troops are ported to be on 21 transports in Camranh bay Other reports have reached the department indicating that two large and heavily escorted anese convoys were seen this morning to the southeast of Point de Cameau the southern point of Indo-China steering westward ward the gulf of Siam It become apparent earlier that officials here were completely unimpressed by Tokyo's tion of the troop concentrations Discussions Shelved Discussions with Japanese diplo- matic representatives here were In abeyance and when or whether they would be renewed was a ter of speculation The Japanese have expressed a desire that they be resumed but officials here have not indicated their attitude Altho there could be no doubt that President Roosevelt and Hull found Tokyo's nation of Japanese
