25 Dec 1937
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1937
Page
1
Washington dispatch says two Navy reports hold Japan responsible for an unprecedented air assault on the Panay and three American tankers. The findings describe machine gunning by planes as they flew over clearly marked U S ships, with Lieut Commander James J. Hughes detailing the Panay action.
An Iowa woman, Mrs Seth Evens Hodge of Council Bluffs, flew with Mrs Roosevelt from Omaha to Cheyenne aboard a United Airliner en route to Victoria. Hodge recalls the storm delaying the plane, a police escort to the station, and sharing conversation with the First Lady, while noting she remains a Republican.
In Bethlehem Palestine a new wave of terror fuels a tense Christmas vigil as 4,000 troops patrol Moab and Judean hills. Police guard the Road from Jerusalem to the Church of the Nativity for the midnight mass led by the Latin patriarch with hundreds of Christians and 65 foreign pilgrims, including 20 Americans.
President Roosevelt delivers a Christmas sermon at Lafayette Park using a columnist story about peace and goodwill to all, including Judas Iscariot. The address, read from a newspaper piece, ties the nativity message to global harmony amid war and enmity.
In Centerville Indiana on December 24 a three year old son of a local banker and his nurse Miss Norma Schrey were abducted by three men who demanded 3800 dollars. They were released near Wilbur Thomas’s farm ten miles northwest of Centerville after about three hours in captivity. The nurse and child were unharmed and returned to their home.
In Butte Montana on Christmas Eve 1937 the town gathered in warmth and charity with gifts, cards, and the enduring spirit of Santa Claus. Groups like the Salvation Army Rotary and Kiwanis joined in spreading kindness amid woe and trouble, as the tradition of Christmas shone in homes and hearts.
From a 200 foot Anselmo mine gallows frame a thousand lights spell out Merry Christmas. The Yuletide feature is part of Butte’s million twinkling lights showing the Star of Bethlehem message to the mining city.
A patient at St James Hospital has spent over eighteen Christmases there since September 1919. Each year she greets friends on Christmas Eve and opens gift boxes on Christmas Day despite immobility. Nick Murphy shares a related story, having endured fifteen years of paralysis in the same hospital.
Pan American Airways reported the Samoan Clipper landed at Pago Pago during a Honolulu to Auckland survey flight. The purpose is to establish regular San Francisco to New Zealand air service. Captain Edwin Musick commanded the voyage. takeoff for Auckland was planned for tomorrow morning.
In San Francisco on December 24 Warren Brauer, 37, entered the Eagle cafe and ordered Chinese noodles. He was served by a cafe run by Japanese and was struck with punches, suffering cuts and bruises before he could escape and learn of the cafe’s ownership.
President Roosevelt weighed Japan’s latest assurances against naval reports that Japanese planes bombed the Panay within a few hundred feet of its American markings. Hull ordered no comment for 24 hours while the Navy published findings of a plane machine gunning survivors and a clear-day attack.
Unsettled conditions expected in Montana Saturday and Sunday with likely snow flurries and little temperature change.
San Francisco December 24. The Navy, Customs Service and Post Office Department conducted coordinated anti espionage actions on the Pacific coast. Customs boarded the Japanese liner Tatsuta Maru and seized three letters at the Navy Intelligence Bureau request. Armed launches stopped and inspected fishing boats in Southern California waters to check registries, targeting foreign owned vessels often operated by Japanese.
A five year old girl saved after two days in the Elliston mountains sent a Christmas card to statehouse employees in Helena thanking them for gifts she received after her rescue. The card reflects her warm memory of the capitol staff and the holiday season.
A snowstorm blanketed Butte overnight with light flurries and slippery streets. Temperatures ranged from 17 below to 21 above with no serious accidents reported. Helena forecast unsettled but warmer Christmas Day and possible Western Montana flurries.
In San Diego 84 officers and men await orders to fly 2,553 miles to Hawaii in a non stop test with 12 newly delivered PBY-2 patrol planes. They come from Pearl Harbor to pilot the maiden flight aiming for under 19 hours, faster than earlier 21 hour 25 minute Pearl Harbor run.
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