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Show 2 raiPAT. DBCEMBFb To Help Smash Foe Defenders of Malaya Harass Japs Children's ORDER YOUR Bedtime Story CHRISTMAS , By THORNTON W. BURGESS HAPPY ) CHANGED CITT ha Washington changed overwas a boom Washington night town one week; next week it was a war town. The change is partly a matter of visible things, partly things that are felt without being seen . . Khaki-cla- d soldiers, with tin hats and bayonets, patroling two abreast between the White House and the state department . . . Darkness over the Capitol dome, where searchlights are blacked out, for the A jam of volunteers duration for Civilian Defense . . . New flags k Everybody happy I Everybody gladl Is worried I Nobody i sad) th whole world it ISNT abepity thatthat way all the just time? Of course it is. And if each one of us would just try never to make anybody else unhappy it would be that way. It was that way on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest and around the Smiling Pool Everybody was happy. You see, not once since Farmer Browns Boy bad put up bis signs on the big chestnut tree in the Green Forest, on the big hickory tree beside the Smiling Pool, and on the old fence post beside the dear Old Brier Patch, had a hunter with a terrible gun been seen. And not a single trap had been found. Those signs had given warning that whoever hunted or trapped would get into trouble. of Farmer And so, because Browns Boy and what he had done, these were happy days for the little meadow and forest people. To be sure, Danny Meadow Mouse had to keep his wits about him every minute so as not to furnfsh a dinner for one of those always looking for him, but he was used to that, and, as he often says, Half the fun in life is saving it To be sure, Peter Rabbit always had to have at least one eye open and one ear cocked for Reddy or i j . . delivered at Civilian Defense bead- quarters, two for LaGuardia's car, two for Mrs. Roosevelts car, six for the motorcycles . . . The residence of German correspondent Kurt Sell is raided at night and Sell is taken into custody by FBI. Though the department of commerce deals with such innocuous subjects as census figures, its great steel doors sr locked, and guards demand credentials at the main entrance . . . Women fliers of Ameri- ca call a hurried meeting to apecV An extra up plans for training detail of police strolls on the south grounds of the White House, last trampled by egg - rolling Easter . YY'V. , j tj tJt f" W P - v ... crowds. & j -- i Here Is vlsnal evidence of another definite step towards a navy, as the U.8.S. Columbia, 10,000 ton erniser, slides down the ways and into the water. The ship was launched at the New York shipbuilding company yards at Camden, two-oce- an j In his press conference, the Presi- N. J. dent's voice is so grave and low that a newsman calls out, Louder, please . . . Four plainclothesmen, in two cars, sit parked all day on Waterside drive, where the bank rises sharpty on the back garden of the Japanese embassy . . . Even Falla, the Presidents Scottie, feels the change, for the White House I; guards have less time to play with him, and he curls up disconsolate m his green just back of th Malay aoldlers attached to the British Imperial forces have set up a trench mortar unit In a tapioca plantation in Malaya. These soldier are experts In fighting through the tropical growths of their native land and have seen some tough fighting around Penang and Singapore agalnst-thJap Invaders. e Orders taken also for oar deEcioas pumpkin pie. Hare you tried our home-mad- ed e bread? b Also tho Perfect Holiday Dessert Ice Cream! Cakes and Cookies White Lily Bakery LETS GET ASSOCIATED. COMPLETE LINE OF AUTO ACCESSORIES. bki GAS, OIL, GOODRICH TIRES AND TUBES. fckh inly as M Friendly and Quick Service. par r FOR BEST REPLACE WORN La :her PERFORMANCE ltn( PLUGS WITH NEW AC$ tier, staff Th Magna Auto Supply Co. Pearl Harbor Probe Board Fingerprinted .I DAYS Nobody . I , FRUIT CAKES NOW pitch geidr llelde Let us lubricate and winterize your car. t Ca Tin I office. JAPANESE SPIES Last summer Congressman Martin Dies had investigators make a thorough survey of Japanese activities along the West coast. The results eventually were suppressed by the state department and the President himself, but a brief summary of them indicates that some parts of the United States face a dangerous problem when it comes to fifth column activity. Hitler had many agents planted through Norway, France and the Low Countries when he attacked, but the Japanese, according to the Dies report, start out with 150,000 of their countrymen in the United States. These are all Japanese citizens, and do not include 50,000 second generation Japanese born in the United States. The Dies report shows that 200 key Japanese have been decorated by the emperor the past two years and' that many Japanese are in close with the homeland through the Central Japanese association which has been directed by consulates in California. Dies agents have collected photographs of various Japanese truck gardens operated alongside oil tanks and strategic railroads. Also they report 5,000 Japanese residing on terminal islands in Los Angeles har-bowhere are located strategic oil tanks. Reeves field and a shipbuilding company. Oil storage tanks blown up in the harbors would endanger all of the Los Angeles area. The most revealing document seized by Dies agents are maps, showing all the U. S. strategic points and fortifications, and a naval man- I, Norge Washers ". jk iS Navy Birds Roost Granny Fox or Old Man Coyote, but, as Peter says, It is good for my wits and keeps them sharp. To be sure. Mrs. Grouse never This goandphoto shows the special board of Inquiry named by Presia move without first looking made dent Roosevelt to investigate the surprise attack on Hawaii by the Japs this way and looking that way and on December 7. They are, from left to right, Brig. Gen. Joseph P. listening with all her might, lest McNarney, Adm. William H. Standley, Justice .Owen J. Roberts, Adm. Reddy Fox spring from behind a Joseph M. Reeves, Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy. tree or fierce Mr. Goshawk swoop from the tree-topbut as she has frequently remarked, she enjoys the spice of excitement. It was just the same with everybody. Watching out for each other was part of life, and each felt quite smart enoughla take, care of himself, which is just as Old Mother Nature intended. It is only the hunter with his terrible gun and dreadful traps who brings constant fear, and nothing makes greater unhappiness than constant fear. So, now that the hunter no longer came, and now that Farmer Browns Boy no longer set traps, everybody was happy, for everybody could go about his own business in his own way. So Peter Rabbit merrily kicked up his heels and laughed at Reddy Fox when he scratched his nose on a sly old bramble at the edge of the dear Old Brier Patch. Chatterer the Red Squirrel made faces and scolded at Black Pussy. Farmer Browns cat, who should have known better than to try to catch him. Jimmy Skunk ambled about, paying no attention to anybody. Jerry Muskrat put the finishing touches on his house for the winter. Bobby Coon curled himself up to sleep most of the time, in his hollow tree and didnt once dream that it was being cut down. Mrs. Grouse enjoyed her meals in comfort. Reddy Fox acI tually teased Bowser the Hound to chase him just for the fun of fool' ing him when he had had enegh Nut 1 1 I? exercise. Little Joe Otter splashed and played in the Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool right in broad A striking photograph of the city of London, looking toward St. daylight, and didn't care who saw Pauls cathedral, which was damaged by Nazi bombs earlier in the war. him. Happy Jack Squirrel hunted The city has not been bombed for many months, and much of the for nuts almost under the nose of debris has been cleared away, but there is still plenty of room for Farmer Browns Boy. Oh, those were happy days! very happy days! And all because Farmer Browns Boy had learned to love Bomb-Barricad- e I Sail the JlltJepcox)lecf the Green For est and the Green Meadows amlTiirT helped them in the very best way he could by stopping hunting and trap-ping them himself and by stopping j others from doing so. Dont you think he would have felt very happy himself if he could have known how happy he had made others? But there was no one to tell him except Tommy Tit the Chickadee, who did his best, and he wasnt at all sure that Farmer Browns Boy under- A striking - view of the U.S.S. Ranger, aircraft carrier of our navy, with a part of her brood of KNEW FORMATIONS on her flight deck, Another Japanese map seized by planes clustered This photo apfor action. ready exthe in is Dies agents revealing in U. S. the naval aviation pears It shows the layout of the treme of Flying and Popular AviaAmerican fleet in a typical battle issue tion magazine. formation near Hawaii U. S. naval the officers confirm the fact that map c rrectlv shows past naval nia- J ntuvers Tl.e documents show the details cT Pearl Harbor, the Panama canal, San Francisco. Manila, Guam and Explains New .Draft They also give the normal crusing radius of the U S fleet out of Honolulu, together with the normal location of airplane carriers, cruising battleships, scouts and auxiliary Transports. . Maps also show the whereabouts of submarine cables. mines, channels, wireless stations, Japanese consulates and air bases all along the West coast. Vladivostok in Francisco stood (Associated Newspapers WNU Service Red i impr I Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, wh aaya the draft Is t take only men 2135 new, and the, II t 64 registration is for prepared nets. Following almost nightly air raid alarms and blackouts of San Francisco since the start of the war, the Pacific Telephene end Telegraph company baa installed a sandbag barricade acres the free! of their building. 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We' your e; one of Hiawatha bicycles. duffer elf in ign of ran ac ting th keepini cant ii The WASATCH GAS AND OIL i vice is yositioi swing DEER CREEK COAL ) lheri Doggone Nice When Laddie, a half-brecollie dog owned by Dr Alby E. Hodg-don- . of "Needham; MassTbares his teeth he isn't angry hes of his bridgework. Nine just proud years ago the dog snapped a tooth gnawing a bone. So his master, a dentist, took impressions of the upper right Incisor and in spare time made a solid gold replacement Dr. Hodg-do- n says the false tooth la prac-ticbecause it helps Laddie in eating and also is positive identity ir case the dog becomes lost Jour m en n te rem tee am Barnea d ... Bill ders CHAFF gilt was significant that Japanese struck first not at the Phil ppines. which is armed to Jhe teeth with heavy bombers, but at Hawaii. Hawaii bad sent its best war planes If the on to the Philippines navy had read the newspapers it might have been better prepared. C. Constantine Brown, foreign affairs expert of the Washington Star, predicted war with Japan 10 dayj in advance and named Sunday, December 7, as the starting date. t But Dishes - Glassware 3 ual showing the size of all American naval vessels The naval manual, published in 1941, is so up to date that it even shows latest models of U. S. mosquito boats together with the Presidential yacht Potomac and the plan of U. S airplane carriers. The location of guns, engine room, etc . is indicated alongside the photograph of each vessel. It must have taken Japanese agents months or years to collect this data. I than Sleds Pyrex Ware v r, I the shat London Town of Today -- was be. e Skis Waffle Irons To be sure, Mrs. Grouse never made a move without first looking this way and looking that way. Laura Ingalls, noted woman flier, Is shown being fingerprinted at Washington police headquarters, after having been charged with being an unregistered Nazi agent. 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