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Murphysboro Daily Independent (Newspaper) - December 8, 1941, Murphysboro, Illinois Illinois mostly Cloudy and Windy with Snow flurries extreme North today. Partly Cloudy to fair tonight and tuesday. Somewhat colder West and South. Temperature today at 7 a. J 41 degrees. Maximum temperature sunday 45 degrees. The Jackson county daily Dally fa4pifea� Carrier a a paper a a Murp Hushor Trrry a Violag. That ate Ana Anil Rea Ilera in tar City Amae. Tfir Clr Al a la a a mar phys by a is Lrus than half or total Wusaty Rorr Alatia. That a by it to a Quot Jack county Dally Price 15c per week Murphysboro Illinois monday december 8, 1941 established june 19, 1891 weekly 187. Deaths Terrill Frank Everet Terrill Decatur. Births Rains or. And mrs. Adrian Rains of 527 South 17th Street Are the parents of a son born Satur j Day at 8 a. The baby has been named John Thomas. Mrs. Rains i was the former miss Norma House. Roberts or. And mrs. Wil Liam f. Roberts of South eighth Street Are the parents of a Daugh a ter born saturday dec. 6. The baby is the second child in the Home and has been named Betty Jane. Full Ertons or. And mrs. Willard Fullerton of Steeleville Are the parents of a daughter born sunday afternoon at 4 30 o clock at St. Anorew s Hospital. The baby weighed 5 pounds and 7v2 ounces. Declares War on Japan u. S. And British smash Back at Japan great naval Battle my in mid Pacific As War fumes from Hawaii 10 Jungle shores hawaiian coast defense Coxs Heady invader bulletin aaa London. Dec. 8�? up a rus Sian troops have stormed and Tak men the important Serpuk Hov Tula j arterial Highway on the South mos a cow front and the germans Are retreating to the Southeast aban i doing their tanks trucks and arms the Moscow newspaper Prav Joa asserted in a special dispatch today. Boit from sky attack on Pearl Harbor hits u. S. Navy and air forces hard Fleet now challenging Nippon a striking Power off Pacific Gibraltar Philippines under intense fire by Joe Alex Morris United press foreign editor the United states and Britain smashed Back at Japan today on of he Road connects Tula with i 6.000-mile Pacific War front that flamed from Hawaii s Coral beaches Moscow 100 Miles to the North. Front dispatches said russians had repulsed new German attacks by fierce counter attacks on the Moscow front and had forced the 478th German infantry regiment to Retreat with heavy casualties. While Winter tightened its grip on the front the russians reported new Success in checking temporary nazi breakthroughs on the Moscow front and at the Railroad town of to Kevin. 125 Miles East of Leningrad. The infantry regiment supported by tanks was put to flight across the Nara River and along the Moth ask Highway As soviet guard and tank units started a pincers movement with Well calculated blows Quot. To the Jungle shores of malay and Thailand. The american Battle Fleet was reported challenging the japanese striking Force which raided Hawaii with heavy loss of life and naval damage. A great naval engagement was rumoured in the Waters West of America s Pacific Gibraltar. Here is the picture London prime minister Winston Churchill carries Britain into War against Japan with a formal declaration before parliament. Tokyo japanese naval command claims sinking of u. S. Bat to ships Oklahoma and West Virginia damage to four other Battle ships damage to four heavy cruisers heavy destruction of u. S. I planes probable sinking of u. S. Aircraft Carrier rumoured to be the Langley capture of Quot Many Quot enemy ships sinking of u. S. Minesweeper Penguin at Guam. Hawaii White House reports 3,000 casualties including 1500 fatalities in japanese air attack loss of Quot old Quot american battleship and destroyer. Washington american Battle Fleet carrying out sweeping operations and has destroyed Quot a number of Quot japanese submarines and Quot Swift i planes. I Thailand just on the off Chance that enemy warships might by it a Throux Greet any japanese invader. This Battery of 155imn. Guns gives american defending Fleet these an All idea of the bristling Anna hawaiian coat Lent read for tenses Are Rose on tvs ready apparently caving in to the japanese with Little or the official news Agency said i no fight Tokyo claims japanese troops moving into the country in the nazis evaded encirclement by 1 Der Quot agreement Quot reached with Bangkok government japanese abandoning guns and equipment. I ported swarming into Southern Thailand in preparation for drive on wounded soldiers it said. Quot shot in the Back Quot to facilitate 3,000 casualties 1500 dead in Hawaii a a old u. S. Battleship destroyer lost the Retreat. 7>ie German High command a said bitter cold on the Moscow front made operations difficult but claimed the nazi assault was gaining ground. Quot local successes Quot were claimed in the donets Basin area to Kevin s encirclement has been virtually completed after two Days of severe fighting the Kui Bashev radio reported. Soviet troops were said to have smashed through nazi defences and occupied the strategic Village of Lazarevich. The radio said fierce fighting was continuing at the City a approaches. In the Stalin Gorsk sector Southeast of the capital More than 1.000 germans were killed As soviet troops reoccupied 20 villages. Tass were Singapore. Singapore British battling japanese Landing forces which have established series of beachhead along Eastern coast Royal air Force heavily engaged. Manila Waves of japanese bombers attack key Points in Philippines. Including u. S. Army base at fort Stotsenburg Davao and the Vicinity of Baguio. Japanese landings rumoured but not confirmed. Chunking China moves to declare War on Germany and Italy As Well As to formalize the Long existing state of War with Japan. China japanese attack Hon Kong twice by air take Over Shanghai International settlement occupy tientsin British Concession and Stern 200 american marines. Pacific Isles japanese attack american islands of Guam and probably Wake attack British Island of Nauru japanese naval Squadron reported off Cocos islands in Indian Ocean. Australia and dutch East indies All armed forces on the Alert no japanese attacks yet reported. Berlin and Rome indicate Germany and Italy will join their Axis partner in War against the United states but no tangible action yet. The japanese Imperial forces said to have suffered severe losses of air planes and several warships were in action on these fronts a major naval Battle was reported West of Hawaii with the Ameri Many local Britain declares War other u. S. Men serving on the sea London dec. 8.�? Ltd a great Britain formal declaration of War against Japan. The announcement was made to an emergent today made session of a merry Christmas card is contrasting note to Roar of guns reported. On the Southern front Jean Fleet attempting to destroy enemy warships and air planes that the russians were s3id to have blasted Pearl Harbor naval base and Honolulu. Advanced 75 Miles West of Rostov along the sea of Azov. New York dec. 8 up a the National broadcasting company correspondent at Manila reported a fierce land Battle was in Progress on the Northeast coast of the Malaya states where British defense forces attacked japanese troops landed on the beaches despite severe air bombing and machine gun fire. About 30,000 japanese troops in 60 vessels escorted by warships were believed to have landed on the Malaya coast. Japanese invasion forces bombed and shelled Bangkok crashed a British Broad today that japanese planes car ried out a heavy attack on it. Me into Thailand by land and sea and were reported in Kinley and Nichols Airfield at a. Cast to have forced that government to capitulate. The occupation of l Aann till la to who Tell cd plus to Nila at 3 09 a. Tuesday 4.09___u_ p. Cost monday and started j Large fires. J the broadcaster described the at-1 tack which was in Progress As he i broadcast As carried out with Quot fiendish the japanese bombers despite a terrific curtain of american antiaircraft fire touched off a huge fire apparently in a gasoline dump j chunking dec. 8 up a chinese foreign minister quo Tai Chi the Manila Tribune a filipino today said China has decided to declare War against Germany and Italy newspaper said 200 troops were As Well As Japan against which the chunking regime has never made killed or injured at Iba and it said g formal declaration of War. That 60 of the casualties were j americans. The american owned j Manila daily bulletin placed the i casualties in the Iba raid at 100 killed or injured. War bulletins new York. Dec. 8 up the United press listening Post today heard radio Vichy broadcast Tokyo reports that a great air sea Battle was in Progress off the Philippines coast. New York. Dec. 8 up a a japanese broadcast heard by the i United press listening Post said today that it was unofficially report j de two american battleships were sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The japanese broadcast identified the two american dreadnoughts As the 29,000 ton Oklahoma and the 32.600 ton West Virginia. Berlin dec. 8 up a a nazi military spokesman said tonight that Germany Nad abandoned attempts to capture Moscow for this Winter. The military spokesman said that Large scale operations by Germany on the Eastern front have sir n ended for this Winter. Moscow he said flatly Quot will not be captured before he said the Early Start of the severe russian Winter caused the germans to make this decision. The spokesman said he was not Havana. Dec. 8 up a the cuban Cabinet at a special session implying that Germany would i today voted to ask Congress to declare War on Japan cease fighting in the East or seek an armistice but said that Ger London. Dec. 8 up a Queen Wilhelmina said today the King Many. Benefiting by her world Dom of the Netherlands considers itself at War with Japan and puts War experience Quot will abandon the All of its military and Power resources at disposal of the common War of War Effort. London. Dec. 8 up a prime minister Winston Churchill today announced that Britain had declared War on Japan. Churchill made his declaration to an emergency session of parliament. Thus he car 1 ried out his pledge that if Japan went to War against the United states. Britain would instantly rally to the Aid of America. Tegucigalpa. Honduras dec. 8 up a the Congress of Honduras by a unanimous vote declared War on Japan today and ordered martial Law for the duration of the War. Costa Rica and Nicaragua supported the United states today with declarations of War against Japan and a cuban declaration was expected hourly. The War came Home to Murphysboro Well As the nation Over night with Many local boys in the service land and sea and county draft quotas to be tripled in january. In Shaip contrast to blasting bomb and roaring coastal and deck guns was a a merry Christmas Quot card from Alfred k. Daniel 5th division. I. S. Battleship Arizona. Pearl Harbor. T. A. To sol Ross local merchant. The Arizona Basing with the it. S. Sleet at Pearl Harbor May have been under Are during Japan a Surprise attack. As news bulletins kept Murphys Boro people awake far into the night with daily Independent War j extras on the streets of Murphys Ohio and Ca Bondah. P de wills. Ison of Roy wills entrained for in a turn to service with the marines j on the West coast his Home leave near exin ration. Bernard Habermehl. Murphys j Boro Man in submarine duty. Pearl Harbor t. 11., presumably is in the thic of the opening Hatile of the War Between the two Pacific Powers. Joe Barth jr., with the Asiatic t Squadron on Maneu vers deep in the Nind in Aei fic is another of the local service men in hot Waters with a Pacific Battle reported in i it ogres s. I Joe Tauer. Jr., who within a j year after his enlistment won Sec i Ond Fleet honors As a backstroke j swimmer graduate of Riverside Park Pool is reported somewhere j in Pacific Waters presumably in belligerent areas. 1 Alvin Ziegler son of Otto Zieg i Ler. Private in u. S. Army form j Erly stationed at Tacoma. Wash., i was in route presumably to the philippine islands. His father a Cei de a letter last week from Hawaii where they were stopping. Charles Wolff son of Anton Wolff local jeweler is reported in route for service in the Panama zone. Charles Ford naval recruit Wasi last reported one month ago in t Honolulu. The following Murphys mro men from the Independent s service poll As listed to Date arc in the Tui to Page live please 1 parliament by prime minister Winston Churchill. The session convened at 3 p. M., and Churchill immediately announced Britain a action fulfilling his pledge of just a month ago that Britain would stand beside the United states if War came to the Pacific. Churchill addressed the House of commons in a solemn and serious vein and warned against any tendency to underestimate Japan a military and naval strength. Churchill a speech lacked the famous invective which he hurled against Italy when Premier Benito Mussolini brought his nation into the War at the darkest hour of the Allied in Csc a Dell Stolkin Buck cause. Formally aligning Britain beside the i United states the prime minister emphasized that the War which has now spread Over two hemispheres is an indivisible and interdependent conflict. The session of commons lasted Only a half hour. It was a business like Undra Matic meeting typifying the extent to which the War in Britain has become one Long hard Job. Britain a note to Japan announcing her declaration of War was couched in language stronger than that employed by Churchill in commons. It charged that a this Wanton act of unprovoked aggression was committed in flagrant violation of International mrs. Churchill sat in the distinguished strangers gallery of the House As her husband spoke. She wore a Bandeau on which was printed the slogan a go. Go. Go. A a it said Churchill a for the two great democracies to face the task with whatever strength god May give each time he mentioned China or Gen. Chiang Kai Shek the House cheered. Batavia. N. E. I. Dec. 8 up it a the Netherlands East indies declared War against Japan today. Interned All japanese in its territory and proclaimed a state of danger of air attack. The governor general Stachower Van Starke Borgh called for a full mobilization. Japanese nationals were rounded up by the truckload and the governor general called on the people for an All out Effort against Japan. Batavia was Calm but grim and troops were on duty in All Frontier areas. Fakes just 33 minutes to accept Resolution with gods help Well win. Roosevelt declares woman member hissed As she casts single no vote nation betrayed attacked soldiers killed under Flag by Lyle. W Ilson it i i Rry a la 11 4 Washington dec. 8. A up a Congress today proclaimed existence of a state of a i Between the United a. And the Jap anese Empire 33 minutes after the dramatic moment w h e n president Roosevelt stood Indore a joint session to pledge that we will Triumph so help us democracy was proving its right to a place in the Sun with a split second shift Over from peace to All out War. The Senate acted first adopting the Resolution by a unanimous Roll Call vote of 82 to 0. W within 21 minutes after the president had concluded his address to a joint session of both houses. The House voted immediately afterwards and by 1 13 p. A majority of the House had voted i he final lie use vote w As announced As is8 to 1. The Lone negative vote was cast by rep. Jeannette Rankin r., mont., who also voted against entry into world War i. I he Resolution now has to he signed by speaker Sam Rayburn and Nice president Henry a. Wallace before it is sent to the president at the w Hite House. His signature will place the i United states formally at War against the Fields were put out of com Japan Estl 0inpire. A read an Mission the White House disclose ships Man planes hit american loss is reported More serious than believed on big scale and effectively Washington dec. 8.�? up a casualties on the hawaiian Island of Oahu in yesterday s japanese air attacks will amount to about 3,000, including about 1,500 fatalities the White House announced today. The White House confirmed the loss in Pearl Harbor of Quot one old battleship and a destroyer which was blown up. Several other american ships were damaged and a Large number of army and Navy air planes on a casualties i new York. Dec. Premier John curtain a c that Australia is ult Japan according to an radio broadcast heard 8 i up it is a noun War wit Australia by the i 4 Lui Ubia bid Ltd Ting 8y the first United states casualties in the japanese attacks were revealed today in word sent to the parents of the victims by the Navy department. An official list of casualties is expected to be issued at Washington later the dead 1st Lieut. Hans Christiansen. 2lj Woodland. Calif. 2nd Lieut. George a. Whiteman. 21, Sedalia. To. Private George. Leslie. 20. Arn old a. J t private Peter Niedzwiecki Niit tee will meet tomorrow to Irani grand rapids. Mich. I legislation to repeal restrictions o private de w. Cebert., gales the selective service and National Burg. Iii. Guard acts forbidding the use of John Fletcher troop accomplished fact. The resolutions were before both houses within 15 minutes of the time or. Roosevelt ended his seven minute 599-word extraordinary message. I Here w As a half second of uncertainty in the House when rep. Jeannette Rankin r., mont., objected to unanimous consent for immediate consideration of the War Resolution. Speaker Sam Ahurn brushes in Oahu in yesterday s attacked the objection aside it was de. It reported at the same time that american operations against Japan were being carried out on a Large scale resulting already in the destruction of Quot a number of japanese planes and submarines Quot the White House statement said Quot american operations against the japanese attacking Force in the neighbourhood of the hawaiian islands Are still continuing. A Nurr. Ber of japanese planes and submarines have been destroyed. Quot the damage caused to our fore move to repeal restrictions on service outside u. S. Washington dec. 8.�? up a lain Tan Andrew May. D., ky., of e House military affairs com t i 32, Janesville w is. I Donald Plant 22, Wausau wis. . Outside the Western appear More serious than at first believed. Quot in Pearl Harbor itself one old battleship has capsized and several other ships have been seriously damaged. Quot one destroyer was blown up. Several other Small ships were seriously Hurt. Army and Navy Fields were bombed with the resulting destruction of several hangars. A Large number of planes were put out of commission. Quot a number of bombers arrived safely from san Francisco during the engagement while it was underway. Reinforcements of planes Are being rushed and repair work Ian la four she w to in the Small hours of april i. 1917, faltered wept and finally voted a a not against a similar Resolution aimed at Germany. In Hen the clerk came to her name on the Roll Call today she voted no again. A chorus of hisses and Boos greeted her vote the first East against the War declaration. Rep. Harold Knutson. R., minn., w to also noted against american entry into the world War in 1917, said Toda it this nation has no Choice hut to

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