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•jefiancc County’s Only DailyINDEPENDENTOwned and Made In DefianceLLI’he Cresccnt-News Willi4,400 CirculationReaches a Wide Market in N. W. OhioNUMBER 135«#1.iVOLUME XLIVDEFIANCE, OHIO, MONDAY, DECEMBERTHEATERJAPANESE WARPACIFIC OCEANU. S. BASESALASKASOVIETRUSSIAJAPANESE BASESCANADABRITISH BASESUNALASKAKODIAK SITKAKISKA4MANCHUKU0UNITEDSTATfSATT Ar SANFRANCISCOCHINA— , --MIDWAYWAKEHAWAIIPHILIPPINEISLANDSGUAMINGAPOREPALMYRACAROLINEli S. (MSMARSHALLI SI (Jop,):OCEANCARTOGRAPHER'S LIMITTHAILAND FALLSJAP THRUSTSBY LAND AND AIRBritain, Canada, AustraliaBeatS. DeclaringWar on TokioMikado's Forces in SavageAssault on Hawaii,Manila, GuamThe battleships and war-#lanes of Japan flying the blazing red insignia of the Land of the Rising Sun today .swept over the eastern half of the broad Pacific like a scourge fringing death and destruction in their wake.The advantage of surprise rested with the minions of the Mikado who shortly after dawn Sunday plunged the United States into total all-out war with savage, deadly air attacks on Pearl Harbor, Manila andAmerican outposts in themajor Japanese victory came thiv morning with the speedy capitulation of little Thailand, attacked at two points by Japanese troops and battered from the air by Nipponese xiombers.British Prime Munster WinstonChurchill more than made good his promise to support the United States in the Pacific by beating America to a declaration of war against Japan. Canada, Australia. New Zealand. The i Netherlands, East Indies. Cuba I and the little Central AmericaThis is the vast theater of war in the Pacific where Japan has declared her naval and land forces at war with the United States. Bombing attacks on Hawaii, evidently carried out b y planes based on aircraft carriers, and on Guam punctuatedthis declaration, while the U. S. Pacific fleet steamed out of a Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii.NewManBattleship Oklahoma Reported HitRepublic of Costa Rica already were at war with the Land of theKilled in Car CrashRising Sun.ADD STRUCTURETO ALLOYED CO.One man was killed and three suffered minor injuries in four traffic accidents in this area over the week-end, while four facedcharges of traffic law violations filed oy state highway patrolmenof Defiance sub-station.South Ridge road, 3.6 miles south of Holgate, when struck by an automobile driven by John Bar-tosek, 53, route 4. Leipsic, according to patrolmen. Bartosekwas not held.Funeral Wednesday^aker-Shindler Will Erect72x60 Foot BuildingPlant HereDead was John M. Meyer, 68, one and one half miles .southeast of New Bavaria.He informed patrolmen thatInjured were:Meyer apparently jumped out of the way of another automobile into the path of the Bartoseki Roland Hardesty, route 8, cut machine.Construction of a 72x60 foot cement block and steel additionover eye. j Mr. Meyer’s bodv has been re-Mary Breckler, route 8, bruised, moved to the Hagen funeral Magdelene Breckler, route 8, home, Napoleon, and will remain bruised. (there until Wednesday morning.Mr. Meyer, a bachelor, died Services will be held Wednesday Sunday at 3 p. m. in Heller Mem- | at 9:30 a. m. in the Sacred Heart the old Defiance Pressed Steel 0rial hospital, Napoleon, of in-I Catholic church. New Bavaria.to the Defiance Alloyed Products Co. plant in Greenler street onlompany site was announced today by company officials.The Baker-Shindler Contracting Co. began moving equipment on the scene this morning andfche building was expected to bejuries suffered at 7:20 p. m. Sat- and burial will be in the church urday. He was walking on the cemetery.Meyer leaves a brother, Louis,! with whom he lived; and two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Schelley, Napoleon, and Mrs. Mary Keif-LEAVE SHELBYThe U. S. S. Oklahoma, battleship of the Pacific fieet, was reported hit by bombs and damaged during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Tokio claimed the U. S. S. West Virginiawas sunk.- Ipushed as rapidly as possible, with possible completion hoped for by the middle of January, i A great number of orders, in- . ,r,, lluding some government work, l40lnand a large amount of addition • al government work prompted decision to erect the addition, company officials declared.FOR NEW DUTYfer, Defiance.Three Hurt at ArthurReg. Off With FullWar Packs: DestinationNot KnownCamp Shelby, Miss., Dec. With live ammunition issued toI Rental of the frcnt half of theold county building on the site ... .. .....for temporary use by woodwork- every sol?let ,.145t,h r5lme,nting equipment nounced today.also was an-composed of National Guards men from Cleveland and AkronHardestv and Ma”v and Mag-delene Breckler were hurt at 7:15 a. m. Sunday when cars driven by Charles Breckler, 42, route 8, and G. O. Pease 24. Clinton street, collided at intersection in Arthur. Pease was alone and thefour were in the Breckler machine.Pease’s 1928 Ford coupe suffered damage estimated at $20m II 1 • 1 I • ^ V/ I l * * V/A*4 V/ *V/ f V/ » ** VA V* * Vi AAJIll VH I. . . .™ls kuild'n^ today leftCamp shelby with fu„ and the Breckler 1938 Chevrolete use un i le new sp^ee war,jme packs lor an undisclosed sefian- damage p’aced at $50.rnimhln 4available.The original structure is 80x60 feet with 54x60 feet usted in duction and the remainder as office. The new 72x60 foot ad-destination.WE A THERElsie Shong, 47, Sherwood, and Glen Crawford. 22. route 2, Defi-! ance, escaped injuries when theircars struck at the Pearl and Har-the production space.The original building was con- Irison street intersection in Sherwood. The right front fender of ithe Shong 1940 Ford coach and , the left front fender of theCrawford 1931 Ford coupe were damaged.OHIO: Occasional light snow Qition will all be devoted to shop and colder tonight and Tuesday.work and so more than doubles Strong northwest winds tonight.DEFIANCE WEATHER (Municipal Water Works)structed With a temporary par-jToday at sTe™%nime ......34ution in the lear so that the j Today at 2 p. hi............ 34structure which will be attached Yesterday maximum ....... 37to the east end lends itself read-. 39 Saturday at 3:25 p. m„ 3.7 milesily to the addition. The new Saturday minimum !!! !!!! 19 west of hero on U. S. route 24.part will conform with the par- Inches Rainfall ; The 1935 Ford coach of Robertpnt structure, it was said. For 24 hours ending 8 a. 0 C. Miller, 25, route 1. Defiance,Total this' month...........32 received damage estimated atU. S. S. Worden, above, is the American destroyer on which Paul E. Fritsch of Defiance was serving when last heard frcm.The vessel was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.SET CASUALTIES Indicates War May Be Long, PledgesIN OAHUASSAULT'Absolute VictoryDeclares'Very Many' Lives LostABOUTf006Washington,States declared war onNearly Half Are FatalitiesJapan today when the house passed a senate-approved resolution asserting that a state ol war existsween lhis counSays White HouseDEFIANCE BO YSmovedAnnouncementIN BATTLE ZONEDecWash'ngton,White House today announcedthat the casualt y list at the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, “in allwill amount towith unprecedented speed asand senate both pa sed the war resoladdressed a jsession.half ofprobabilityabout 3,000,” nearly which are fatalities.Simultaneously, it was announced that one old U. S. bat-had capsized, severaltleship had capsized, other ships were seriously damaged and one destroyer was blownArmy and navy flying fields Inthe Pearl Harbor area werebombed with the resulting destruction of several hangars and a large number of planes, it wasannounced.Meanwhile, American bombers rushing to the scene of hostilities arrived safely from San Fran-sisco during the height of the engagement, it was disclosed. More reinforcements are on theThe senate's vote was unanimous. The vote in the house was 388 to t. the lone dissenter being Mi s Jeanette Rankin who also voted against the resolution which sent the United States into war with Germany in 1917.The senate today voted less than half an hour after President Roosevelt’s address.To a historic, sober Joint session of i he house and sena president said:“T ask that the congress deviate that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire”.way.Guam, Wake, Midway Isl and Hong Kong have been tacked, the White House announcement said.mdsm|,_RICHARD BENNETTDEFIANCE MANBN OKLAHOMAAnother on Destroyer in“Hostilities exist,” he told thejoint session. There is noblinking at pie, our territory and our interest . (ho in grave danger.“With confidence in our armedforce —with the unbounding determination of our people—wewill gain the inevitable so help us God.”The president directly accusedJaprepared “many days or even weeks ago its series of devastat-attacks on Amer-Hawaii, Two on Islandof Oahui /if, least, four Defiance men in the U. S. armed forces are believed to be in the zone of Pacific hostilities—one on the bat-jtleshio Oklahoma, which is reported to have been set afire by the attack on Pearl Harbor, on'-on an American dost rover which has been stationed at Pearl Harbor and two In Armv barracks ontbp TTa’-'riiion is’and of Oahu.mMaurice Scantier 20, son of Jav Spang’er of Fort Wayne,form°r Dpfianc° r°sident. is the sailor on the Oklahoma, according to n ]rMfr rpeeivod today byhis aunt. Mrs. c. W. Gereti of Pro peet avenuf* He is a private first class and has been in the Na vving blica’s Pacific outposts. Mr. Roosevelt also pledged the United States to “absolute victory.” He indicated it might be a Jong warbut that in the end it would be an American victory.There were many somber notes1 in the president’s speech, but the most tragic was when he described American losses In theinitial Japanese attack. HeitBERNARD K. SCIIUDELJapanesej calmly told congress that very many American lives have beenlost” and announced that “American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Franci *co andHono’ulu.”iThe supreme court of the United States, the cabinet, scores of diplomats, ranking armv and naw officials and many distinguished guests of congress heard the president’s speech. Thousands of ordinary citizens1 milled around the capltol grounds, held at a distance by armed soldiers—JERRY BORDNERwife, Belle Smith, died in 1919.In 1920, he married Minnie Robinson who also preceded him inyears.S^Mrv’ie” was inst transferred*o *he OklahomaS. Chicago. He had been trving sine pn’ist!nr to get an assignment to fh Oklahoma, on which bis b1 other. Estel C. Spangler, 23, has served mo t of his seven jyear; in the Navy. The letter frcm Maurice today, however, revealed that Fstel was transferred to shore duty at San Diegotfnntinned op Pagp SixREPORT LANGLEY DAMAGEManila, Dec. 8—The U. S. aircraft carrier Langley, a converted navai auxiliary ship, was re-; ported damaged by bombs while 'operating in Philippine waters, i There was no official confirma-PAUL E. FRITSCHDamage Placed at $125DIES AT AGE 70The other accident occurred,lideath.He leavee a son, Arnold, in Toledo, and several brothers and sisters.with the 59th Coast Artilleryabout the time Maurice went to the Oklahoma. Estel also is aihas been with the Pacific fleet in Coips in the Philippine Islands.private first class.Both boys, after the death ofHawaii since Oct. 14, 1940.Hobart Wagstaff. son of Mr.Richard Bennett, 20, son of ■ and Mrs. H. E. Wagstaff, Hol-MANILA BEING BOMBEDNew York, Dec. 8—NBC reportRiver Stage—FeetToday at 8 a. m.............65$25, and the 1940 Oidsmobile se-Todav at 2 p. m. .. } , , . dan of Ruth B. Roberts, 39, In- ^Jerry Bordner, 75. of route 6, ! Defiance, died at 11:30 a. m. today at his home on the Ridge Road near the Henry county line. The remains have been broughtto the Mansfield funeral homeWOMAN SOLE OPPONENTWashington, Dec. 8—Jeannette Rankin, member of congress from Montana and the only woman in the house when the United States entered the firstwere raised bv Mrs. Geren, andtheir mother, about 17 years ago • Mrs. Rosetta Baum, 612 Seneca gate, recently returned to the U.street, and Bernard K. Schudel, S. S. Dixie at Pearl Harbor fol-their grandmother, the late Mrs. j 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert lowing a furlough with his par-Catherine Gier of Noble town- ! Schudel, 625 Nicholas street, are ents. ship. They have a brother, Rob- both attached to the 19th Infan-ert Spangler, in Sherwood. try and are at the Schofield yearsPaul E. Fritsch. 22, son of Mr. Army barracks in the interior of American Tobacco Co. in Shang-qah Xjfro c’ r» oqo Oahu target of Japanese bombs hai, China, returned to the Unit-Cari Wolsiffer. who for manywith the Britishwas
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