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Strike At PhilippkeB 1 1 4ll II II .IHiM KNOX REVEALS U.S. LOSSES AT HONOLULU Battleship Arizona, Four Destroyers - Declared Lost WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 U.R Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, declaring the Navy was not on the alert against the surprise attack on Hawaii, revealed today that the Pacific fleet lost the battleship Arizona, three destroyers des-troyers and two lesser craft there Dec. 7. Knox disclosed for the first time that the Navy had suffered 3,385 casualties in the Hawaiian attacks 2,729 of leers and men killed and 656 wounded fatalities In the sudden attack ranging 4 to 1 over the Injured. -. At the same time, he told a press conference that a formal investigation in-vestigation will be initiated immediately im-mediately by the president to determine de-termine why the U. S. military services in Hawaii were not on guard against the sudden Japanese Japan-ese onslaught. He summarized the results of the Hawaiian engagement as follows: fol-lows: 1. The Navy lost the battleship Arizona by a direct bomb hit; the old target ship Utah which was being used as a training ship for antiaircraft gunnery and experimental experi-mental purposes; the destroyers Cassin. Dowries and Shaw; and the mine layer Ogalala. 2. Japanese losses Included three submarines and 41 aircraft. 3. Navy personnel tilJpsses , ; on 66th ships and 'shore included 2,729 officers and men killed and 656 wounded. 4. Army losses were severe in aircraft and some hangars, but (Continued on Page Two) DESK CHAT . BY THE EDITOR Loose talk and rumors have been for many months , a disservice to the nation. Now they are downright dangerous. In the first place, the simnlest common sense dictates that it is unwise to speak in public of troop or ship movements or defense plant activities. You never know who may be listening; you never know in what odd ways information may get to the wrong ears. If you hear a rumor not publicly substantiated in the newspapers, question it. You may be sure that all authentic authen-tic news will be in the papers. When you've questioned the verbal rumor yourself, don't repeat it to others, for the deliberately de-liberately launched whisper? ing campaign is a weapon in the hands of our country's enemies. It is time to button up the lip and buckle down to work! 0O0 You can't blame kids for wondering why they have to go,, to bed when they're, not sleepy and have to get up when they are. ? " 0O0 If the law can collect boot-legws' boot-legws' income taxes, why can't it collect bootleggers? 0O0 A rushing business usually is hr ided by a- man who does the same. 0O0 Whv doesn't some smart clothing manufacturer make kids' suits the same color as the gutter? It's hard for a woman to live to be 100 when she remains re-mains 30 so long. I The Merry-Go-Round j I will be found today on I 1 the editorial page it- : , Small Garrison of U.S. Marines Holding Wake Island In Face of Japanese Attack Four Attacks By Japs Fail To Dislodge U.S. BY SANDOR S. KLEIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 U.R) -A small garrison of U. S. Marines today passed the 150th hour of heroic resistance resist-ance to Japanese attacks on Wake Island. And the "devil dog" defenders defend-ers of the tiny, horseshoe-shaped horseshoe-shaped pinpoint of land in the middle of the Pacific are continuing contin-uing to bag Japanese raiders. " Navy communiques indicated the first attack on Wake Island began last Tuesday. They have revealed four separate attacks since then. In its communique No. 7, issued is-sued late yesterday, the navy said: t "There have been two additional bombings attacks on Wake Island. The first was light, the second was undertaken in great force. Two enemy bombers were shot down. Damage was inconsequential." inconsequen-tial." "The Marines on Wake Island continue to resist." Sink Two Ships Last week the Navy revealed that the Marines at Wake had sunk by air action a light Japanese Japan-ese cruiser and a destroyer. The terse communiques reveal little of the historic battle which the Marines at Wake have been staging for almost a week. They are situated in the most isolated section of the Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest inhabited inhabit-ed island. There was little doubt here that whenTthe" complete 'story can be" told if there are any survivors to tell the story it win take its place in future history books alongside other valiant last stands. Officials here were cheered by even the brief reports from Wake, but! declined to speculate on the chances of contiued successful resistance. The Navy has not revealed in any of its communiques whether help Is being sent to the garrison. Navy communique No. 7 also revealed that enemy submarines are known to be operating in the Hawaiian area. " "Vigorous attacks are being made against them," was the only detail the Navy revealed. It was the first instance of Japanese Jap-anese activity reported in that area by the Army and Navy here since the "sneak" attack on Pearl Harbor a week ago last Sunday. The war department issued communique com-munique No. 9 yesterday revealing reveal-ing that "extensive air reconnaissance" reconnais-sance" is continuing along the Pacific Pa-cific coast of the United States and that enemy air activity continues con-tinues in the Philippine theater. THREE PERISH IN FARM FIRE CORVALIS, Ore., Dec. 15 UJ? Three persons were burned to death yesterday when a two-story farmhouse at Sulphur Springs, 12 miles northwest of Corvallis, was destroyed by flames. The dead were: Mrs. H. H. Hillebrandt, 50; a son, Homer, 15, and her brother-in-law, Arthur H. Hillebrandt, 50. Another son, William, 18, was severely burned as he was being carried from the second floor by the father, H. H. Hillebrandt. They were all asleep, when the fire occurred. Mrs. Hillebrandt was burned to death trying to save her son. Homer. Bodies of mother and son were found at the top of the stairs. Judges Appointed For Home Lighting Contest Lynn Taylor. Mrs- LaVleve Earl and Dr. Frank T. Reynolds have been named judges of the Provo junior chamber of commerce-sponsored commerce-sponsored Christmas residential lighting contest, announces John Moore, publicity chairman. Deadline for entering the contest con-test is Tuesday, December 16, and committeemen in charge urge all residents to participate. Entries may be mailed to the junior chamber cham-ber of commerce, 32 West Center, or handed to any of the committeemen. - Marines Have Landed but Japs Haven't at Wake E . . , - ..' .:-,-W'rMwi.,.;. ,,... au, Epic story of the Pacific War is the gallant defense of Wake, tiny island, where a small marine garrison has repeated!? repulsed Jap attacks and sunk one warship. This important spot in trans-Pacific airmail operations opera-tions Is about four miles long, its higfiest point 20 feet above the sea.. 2000 miles from Hawaii. LEVIN NAMED HOUSING CHIEF With anticipation of a large population - increase " due - to the Provo steel expansion program approved by the federal government, govern-ment, a homes registration office to assist in solving the housing problem is being established in Provo. S. I. Levin has been appointed by the Provo housing committee as housing director for the Provo area. The homes registration office is being established temporarily at the chamber of commerce. A permanent location for the office wiU be announced within a short time, according to Mr. Levin. The home registration office will act not only as a clearing house for referring applicants for housing, but will - keep " the division di-vision of defense housing of the federal government regularly informed in-formed regarding conditions and additional housing that may be needed. A complete survey of the district dis-trict will be made and all owners and agents of vacant homes, apartments, and rooms will be requested to cooperate by notifying notify-ing the homes registration office of any and all vacancies. Volunteer workers will be asked ask-ed to assist in this defense housing hous-ing program. Frank J. Earl is chairman of the Provo housing committee and a member of the state committee. Superintendents flamed At Plant SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec 15 UJ? The Remington Arms company ' designated five men today to-day as division superintendents at the small arms plant under construction con-struction here, effective when production pro-duction starts early next year. The men are N. H. Winde, production pro-duction superintendent George Jacobs, production and control engineer en-gineer L. E. Therien, service superintendent sup-erintendent S. M. Alvis, works engineer, en-gineer, and J. R. Ward, methods and planning superintendent. The Jaycee barrel aid program is well under way. According to the committee, barrels .in which donations of food or clothing or other commodities may be placed are located in the following stores. Duke's market, Hansen's market, mar-ket, Hart's market, Hayward's market, Henriod's market, Maser Cash, Meservery's market, Moul-ton's, Moul-ton's, Peay's Motel market, Pen-neys, Pen-neys, Safeway's markets. Sears Roebuck, Second ward market, Thomas grocery. Thriftway, University Uni-versity market, and Webster's. -, - ?;- ? v- ' 3" f, . .. Japanese Submarines1 Assist In Attack On Pearl Harbor, Report BY ! WASHINGTON, Dec. TS ed today that Japanese si ticipated in the sudden or Dec. 7. SEATTLE SWEP BY BAD BLAZE SEATTLE, Dec. 15 (U.E) Fire department officials today were seeking to determine the cause of a three-alarm fire which raged uncintrolled for two hours last night through the threeotory Sanitary San-itary Public Market building near Seattle's waterfront. " The damage had not yet been officially estimated, but it was indicated it would be high. The interior of the block-quare building, ranging from two to five stories in height, was destroyed. The building houses several manufacturing manu-facturing concerns in addition to food stores and fruit and vegetable vege-table stalls, many operated by Japanese. . At the height of the fire, patrons pat-rons of the Liberty theater across the street were herded through the rear exits. Army Hospital Slated for Utah SALT LAKE CITY, 'Utah, Dec. 15 (UR A search was underway in Utah today for a suitable site for a 100- bed army hospital. Sen. Elbert Thomas of Utah notified Gov. Herbert B. Maw that an immediate im-mediate investigation of sites should be made. Army officials told Thomas the hospital should be constructed at some spot remote from ipossible targets for hostile aircraft. Thomas Thom-as said he had suggested Nephi, Mantaand St. George as possibilities. possibili-ties. Supply Depot For Red Cross to Be Set Up In Ogden OGDEN, Utah. Dec. 15 UR W. B. Love joy, assistant general supply sup-ply officer Jtor the, American Red Cross, announced today a huge depot would be established immediately immed-iately in Ogden to house Red Cross supplies for the entire west coast and Pacific area.. The warehouse will be managed by an experienced Red Cross worker work-er from some other already-established depot, Love joy said, but will be staffed by local workers. 11 IT w m 1 I v 1 1 V:.-....', hi- .... . a WILSON arines as well as airplanes par- ught of the Hawaiian Islands on S He made the disclosure in a report to congress on the background back-ground of the war with Japan, in which he also revealed that Japan was making protestations of her desire for peace three hours and 40 minutes after the attack began. be-gan. "The actual air and submarine attack on-the Hawaiian Islands," the president said, began at 1:20 p. m. -Washington time on Dec. 7. Mr. Roosevelt said that at 5 p. m., Washington time that day-three day-three hours and 40 minutes after the Japanese attack had started, the Japanese minister for foreign affairs called in U. S. Ambassador Joseph Grew. Desire Peaosn- Grew Was 'told, Mr. Roosevelt said, that Emperor Hirohito, to whom the president had sent a last-minute peace appeal on the previous day, so greatly desired establishment of peace in the Pacific Pa-cific and the entire world that he had instructed the Japanese government gov-ernment "to continue its t earnest endeavors." Then Mr. Roosevelt pointed out: "Japan's real reply, however, made by Japan's war lords and evidently formulated many days before, took the form of the attack at-tack which had already been made without warning upon our territories terri-tories at various points in the Pacific." Pa-cific." The report said Grew was not informed of the Japanese reply until after it had been delivered by Japanese Ambassador Klchlsa-buro Klchlsa-buro Nomura to Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington. It was given-to Hull one hour after hostilities had started. Mr. Roosevelt told congress that the "barbaric aggression" of Japan in Manchuria in 1931 "set the example-and the pattern for the course soon to be pursued by Italy and Germany in Africa and in Europe." "Through the years which followed, fol-lowed, Germany, Italy, and Japan (Continued on Page Two) Shriners Hospital Releasing Children SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 UE The Shriner's hospital for crippled crip-pled children, acting on the policy the present emergency is real. Is gradally discharging children to their homes and is making arrangements ar-rangements to. transfer others to Salt Lake City, Mrs. Gertrude R. Folendorf, superintendent, announced an-nounced today. O Action was taken after the hospital hos-pital adopted a policy of offering the facilities of its staff and equipment equip-ment "for any service it can render ren-der the community in time of emergency." v REDS PURSUE NAZIS ALONG WIDE FRONT Counterof fensive Now Spreading Along 1000 Mile Front BY HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (U.R) The Red army's counter offensive of-fensive spread today along a 1,000-mile front from Taganrog Tagan-rog on the sea of Azov to Tikhvin, 110 miles east of Leningrad, and dispatches said the Soviet attacks had become a battle of extermination against numerous encircled Axis sectors. A. telephonic dispatch from the northwestern front said troops of General K. AiMeretskov the liberator of Tikhvin "pursued" the battered 39th German . corps westward, that German defenses on the Volkhov river had been smashed, and that 100 villages had been recaptured. The German 39th army lost 20,000 men in retreat re-treat from Tikhvin, the newspaper news-paper Pravda said. Cities Liberated On the southwestern front. General Gen-eral Lostenko regained 400 villages vil-lages in six days, liberated the cities of Yerfremov and Livni, south of Moscow, and continued to press toward Orel, more than 200 miles south of Moscow, front dispatches dis-patches said. A dispatch to the newspaper Pravda -said th- railway -between Tikhvin and Volkhov had been re- cm me central xront, iravaa said, the 14th German panzer division, di-vision, the 23rd Infantry, and the 6th panzer division are in full flight, harried by Russian cavalry and airforce. General Kuznetsov's forces recaptured 42 villages, while south and southwest of Tula, 32 more villages were recaptured, recap-tured, Pravda said. In the -south, Marshal Timosh-enko's Timosh-enko's armies are attacking near Stalino, midway between Kharkov and Dostov, while the beleaguered garrison at Savastopol in the Crimea Cri-mea is hammering at the .Germans without respite, Pravda said. Dispatches from the front said Soviet forces had stormed Taganrog Tagan-rog while Germans were reported occasionally counterattacking. Soviet So-viet units also were reported to have penetrated the German rear beyond he river Mius, "Assaulting the panic-stricken Germans." The dispatches said the Red army troops were surrounding German army units entrenched in buildings and were raking them with fire from all sides. Murray Sullivan Called by Death SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 15 OLE) Murray Sullivan, 60, former general gen-eral manager of the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad company and prominent Utah civil engineer, died at his home here yesterday following a heart attack. ' -Sullivan came to Utah in 1906 after railroading in Mexico and New Mexico. He worked as an engineer here for the' Oregon Short Line road until 1916, when he went to China as a railroad construction engineer for private and later government interests, building more than 3100 miles of Chinese railroads. . After returning to Salt Lake City, Sullivan joined the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad, retiring as general manager two years ago to aid the army engineers in railroad construction work at projects in this vicinity. 8 SHOPPING DAYS i . )A, . . Said Horatio the halcyon horse ' ,-' ( yJL As ha nibbled a fresh bale of gorse, ? I it Q "TLiJ? - -'!! so late mv selections a5vv Ara full of defections And I suffer the Pangs of Remorse." British Battling In Defense Of Singapore B U. S. Bombers Blast Japanese Invaders In Three Isolated Coastal Sectors; Japs Fear American Submarines BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor American armed forces struck offensively against Japan in the Philippines and possibly in Japanese waters today as British armies battled in defense of Hong Kong and Singapore. Singa-pore. . On the Island of Luzon, United States aerial bombs blasted Japanese invaders penned in three isolated coastal sectors in an effort-to cut them to pieces and other planes attacked at-tacked enemy reinforcements moving by sea toward the islands. s Failure of the enemy to better n i J his positions on Luzon was indi- f II If GOUflOIlS cated bv. a war rnmmiintniiR n t Washington saying land opera. tions against the Japanese were continuing in the northern sec tors of Aparri ad Vigan and in the southeast near Legaspi. Warn Of Submarines The Tokyo radio, meanwhile. warned its ships to be alert for American submarines in Japanese territorial waters, indicating .that results might soon be expeced in connecion with the recent statement state-ment by U.S. Admiral Thomas C. Hart at Manila that the underwater under-water fleet was striking. The Japanese also reported enemy planes had flown near the f lauuidwjeFwmoBa't- not definitely identified. At Washington, President Roosevelt disclosed that Japanese submarines as well as airplanes took part in , the surprise onslaught, on-slaught, against the American fleet at Hawaii almost four hours before Japanese envoys asserted o the st te department that their country wanted peace. British Withdraw-On Withdraw-On other far eastern fronts, the British defenders of Hong Kong had withdrawn from the mainland area of Kowloon and were reported- withstanding terrific Japanese aerial, and artillery bombardment as . the enemy sought to bridge a half-mile water gap in an assault as-sault on the Beleaguered Island. Latest dispatches indicated that all attacks were being turned back. On the Malaya Peninsula, the defense of Singapore continued unbroken in heavy fighting near the southeast Thailand border where British dispatches said a strong line of resistance was being etablished against Japan ee "blitz" attacks. Some British withdrawls from extended salients were reported re-ported in Singapore dispatches, which said that the main enemy assault had been turned back. American defenders, of Wake Island still were holding out. Claims broadcast by the official offi-cial radio at Tokyo were vague but asserted progress had been made toward the three prime objectives ob-jectives Hong Kong, Singapore and Manila. American defenders of the Philippines Phil-ippines said that two more enemy transports were damaged heavily in the Legaspi sector, on the southwestern tip of Luzon Island where the Japanese previously had landed. The only other (Japanese landings, land-ings, according' to y. S. communiques, communi-ques, were at Aparri in Northern Luzon and Vlgarf, on , the west coast, and these sectors were reported re-ported "in hand." Attack Tarlae A Tokyo broadcast, quoting imperial im-perial headquarters, said that Japanese units have "attacked" the U. S. Army headquarters , at Tarlac, 70 miles northwest of Manila. The attack apparently was by air. There was no other information to support vthe Japanese Jap-anese claim. TILL CHRISTMAS - Against Hysteria; To Speak tonight WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (HE) President Roosevelt is expected to caution civilians tonight against "inflamed or hysterical actJhn" during the war. - He wiU speak to the nation by radio at 10 p. m., EST., over all major networks in a program celebrating the 150th anniversary of the bill of rights the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. V Other speakers began the celebration cele-bration yesterdav bv ad vial no- : Dnng narashlp to Innocent persons. per-sons. . Assistant Attorney ' General Wendell Berge, head of the Justice Jus-tice department's civil liberties ' division, set the tempo last night when he declared in a radio-ad dress: . "We are' anxious to spread the word that we want no vigilante action by private citizens or organizations or-ganizations during the war. Federal Fed-eral law enforcement agencies are fully adequate to cope with actual cases of dangerous, subversive sub-versive activity." ; In another "bill of rights day s radio program, Sen. Joseph iT. Guffey, D., Pa., said he was "completely satisfied" that, under the president's direction, "not even the most meticulous defender . of the bill of rights will have just cause for complaint or crtti-, asm. 'NO TEST' IN S. F. BLACKOUT SAN FRANCISCO, Dec."l5 UE) San Francisco underwent five blackouts during the first week of the war, and in no case was it a test,-the 'army western defense command announced today. It verified reports of "unidentified" "unidenti-fied" aircraft flying over the bay v area and added that flares "apparently "appar-ently dropped by enemy aircraft" were seen Friday night during the region's longest blackout, two hours and 38 minutes. Lieut Gen. John L. Dewltt, head . of the army's western defense J command, issued his first "com- T munique" last night and in it emphasized em-phasized that every blackout in San Francisco has been genuine . . "based on official military Infor-; ? mation Indicating a definite danger ' of air attack by planes in the im- -' mediate vicinity." .' "The planes were first located offshore and . later in the San -Francisco Bay region," the statement state-ment .continued. . , . . "The navy and other agencies i reported their presence. This in-: . formation was further supported -by the fact that no army or navy , planes were over the area at that v time. - - .r : "Flares- were seen in the aky apparently dropped by enemy air- - . craiurae 'aii, clear signal -was given when the 'planes disappear-.. ed." . ... .. , . . ,, - There was a three-minute black- - ut In San Diego last night, first on the Pacific, coast since Friday ' night. , . ' U POSTCARD ORIGINATOR DpES IN, FRANCE MARSEILLES, Dec. 15 UB Dominique Piazza, who originated illustrated postcards, died ' today. France recently observed the 50th anniversary of his first publlca- " tlon of picture cards. ' , : . ,7 -4- |