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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
5
A United Press correspondent reflects on Bethlehem at Christmas Eve amid wartime blackouts. He argues the light of the "Prince of Peace" endures beyond centuries of conflict, guiding humanity and offering hope for peace despite present global upheavals.
SAN FRANCISCO UP The strike by the United Brotherhood of Welders lost momentum as the San Francisco local abandoned action while Richmond Alameda and Oakland locals kept skeletal picket lines in East Bay yards. Emergency office said only 16 welders missed in San Francisco on Wednesday with Seattle welders voicing support but continuing work.
Imperial Tokyo announced the British garrison at Hongkong surrendered at 5:50 p.m. after 11 days of siege. Japanese reports say the island faced furious assaults as Kowloon rail link and Repulse Bay evacuation featured in the capstone of a broader Far East campaign.
Washington reports the Wake Island defense ended after 14 days of fierce resistance by under 400 Marines and supporting personnel. They repelled air and sea attacks, destroyed ships, and fought with limited weapons until surrender on December 23 Wake time. The garrison began with 385 men and a modest arsenal, including twelve fighters and multiple anti aircraft guns, many lost in the first 48 hours of combat.
Berlin official AP broadcast reports German high command claims a British destroyer was sunk off the Libyan coast. The announcement adds to wartime losses as both sides exchange blows in the North African theater.
Rome dispatches via Official Radio Rome recorded by UP in London said Tokio reports Thursday that 9,100 Americans had been killed in fighting with Japan since the Pacific hostilities began. The figure reflects early war casualties as the conflict in the Pacific broadens.
Batavia report says a 2100 ton Amagiri class Japanese destroyer was torpedoed and sunk Wednesday night by a Dutch submarine that evaded depth charges from another destroyer. NEI news agency cited that the attack happened in NEI waters with no exact position given. Amagiri class ships carry about 200 crew.
In Kalamazoo Michigan two shotgun blasts killed Mrs Mildred Whipple 29 as she arranged presents for her children Delores 5 and Billie 8 under a Christmas tree. Sheriff Struble said Joseph Salpatrick former professional boxer confessed to the shooting claiming jealousy over Whipple’s relationships with other men.
Across Bethlehem Moscow Washington and Cairo reports mark a hard Christmas in war zones. Soldiers fill churches while guards protect sacred sites as Axis remnants retreat in Libya and cheer comes from scarce rations and captured loot.
A parishioner bus returning from midnight mass collided with a car, exploded, killing nine and wounding twenty one. Edward James and Albert Paul Hammer helped rescue many as flames engulfed the vehicle, with one passenger escaping via the rear door. The bus crashed into an apartment wall at Ninth and Allen streets. two witnesses aided panic-stricken riders.
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King will leave at 5 p.m. for Washington to join war talks with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. He will be accompanied by his three defense ministers and a group of external affairs and defense officials also traveling.
Free French naval forces under Vice-Admiral Emile Musilier have occupied the French fishing islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland. The action deprives the Axis of a potential base for shipping and submarine operations. Local officials were arrested. inhabitants reportedly welcomed the move. A plebiscite was to be held, and De Gaulle praised Musilier for securing the islands and vowed continued liberation.
British declared capture of Bengasi the main Axis supply port on the Libyan coast after a 340 mile desert sweep begun November 18. Bengasi, provincial capital of Cirenaica, lies on the Gulf of Sirte and is a major city in the Axis-held territory. reports say Italian forces were bottled up and escape unlikely as British troops occupied the city. Meanwhile Soviet and German fronts showed heavy fighting with retreats and losses near Moscow and Kalinin as the Red Army pressed forward amid counter claims from Rome and Berlin.
Dr Arthur Yager 87 a former governor of Porto Rico and college classmate of the late President Woodrow Wilson died Wednesday in Louisville.
Ventura California UPI report says an airplane believed to be a U S Navy bomber plunged into the ocean four miles north of Ventura witnesses saw the pilot jump with a parachute and small craft plus naval patrol planes searched the area for him
Istanbul dispatch reports on Wednesday said reliable sources indicated the Bulgarian Romanian frontier was closed to civilian traffic.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will speak at an informal joint session of Congress at 11 30 a m Friday Washington time. Senate leader Barkley announced the rare gathering and noted possible broadcast. Churchill may thank Congress for lend lease aid and respond to criticism before the war observance years.
Washington says American and Philippine troops launch counter-attacks with local successes near Antimonan southeast of Manila while a De Witt command bomber sinks an enemy submarine off California. High Japanese reinforcements press Manila as US subs report multiple hits on Japanese naval craft.
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