TH3 DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 66
Into
"The game's atoot,
Follow your spirit and
this charge cry
God for America, Engl: and
* Democrat
—A paraphrase f: Edward V. at Harfleur.
Like a panther t steals upon the sleeping
lamb in the darkrof the night, Japan attack
ed the United S* in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
and at Manila, P. i., and other outlying American
possessions, just before dawn Sunday morning.
Attacked even as Japanese ambassadors wero
discussing peace ris with Secretary Hull at
.Washington.
f The Jap bombinr lanes appeared at a great
height over the citi without warning, dropping
death and destruction.
The damage in American ships was very seri
ous. One American battleship, the West Virginia,
was sunk. Anothei the Oklahoma, was set on
fire. A destroyer blew up. Many other Y
were more or less damaged.
Probably 2,500 soldiers, sailors and civilians
The attack was stealthy, treacherous, fiendish,
a stab in the back.
» The news coming ir. by radio stunned and in
furiated the nation.
President Roosevelt Immediately called an em
ergency session of the congress, which met at
noon. He addressed the body in a short message,
calling for a declaration of war against Japan,
* Within a little more than an hour, suspending
all rules that might impede, both the house and
senate had passed the resolution empowering the
president to use all the resources of the nation to
prosecute the war against Japan, and to exact re
venge for the dastardly and cowardly act of the
Asiatic Kingdom.
Never before in the history of the government
was witnessed such unity and patriotism, the
yote being 470 for war and one against.
The one dissenting voice was raised by Miss
MICA COMPANY
BUYS OUT PEPPET
INJUNCTION SUIT ENDS WITH
COMPROMISE —MRS. MATTIE
JOYCE SUES ELLINGTON
£ND PEPPER AND THE
MICA COMPANY.
The injunction suit at Rocking
ham court this week before Judge
Armstrong ended in a compromise.
The Stokes County Mica Com
pany which had been restrained
from operation of the mines by an
*«?tion entitled F. P. Pepper va
Stokes County Mica Co., ended the
* litigation by buying out Pepfper.
• Now Mrs. Mattie Joyce, widow
of Alex Joyce, has filed a com
plaint against A. J. Ellington, F
SV Pepper and the Stokes Coun'
Mica Company.
J . "*0 HOSPITAL !
'' ft
BolyTuttle, -business man
0 .%
i ifjilniit Cove, was carried to
tf^nston-Salem hospital this week
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The Breach! Into The Breach!
Secretary Of Navy
Commends Press
Nov. 27, 1941.
To the Publisher :
With the insertion of the Navy'a
ninth advertisement for recruits
the schedule is completed for the
present, and I wish to take this
opportunity to say "thank you"
for your splendid cooperation. The
home town press has fully lived up
to my expectations.
We could hardly have chosen a
more difficult time for the test in
your state because it came at the
height of the harvest season when
tousands of our prospective re
cruits were so vitally needed at
home. However, hundreds of these
fine boys will have read the
story in your advertising and
news columns and will be in a re
ceptive mood now that the harvest
is over.. I know you will help our
recruiters to turn this widespread
| interest into additonal applica
tions ..... ~..
The hooie town paper Has a lpt^g
Christmas Edition
Danbury. N. C.. Thursday. Dec. 11, 1041 * *
Rankin, the lady member from Montana.
Republicans vied with Democrats in pledging
support to the President and the administration
in upholding the honor and safety of the country
in this hour of its greatest humiliation and
peril.
Among the strongest speeches delivered were
those of Republican leaders Joseph Martin and
Ham Fish.
From all over the nation poured messages of
wholehearted support. Ex-President Hoover
pledged his unqualified approval of the determi
nation to fight for America. Even John L. Lewis
and Chas. H. Lindbergh swung into line and en
dorsed the program of victory.
In the meantime at all recruiting points of the
country volunteers swarmed for enlistment to
defend and battle for America and democracy.
ASHES OF ROSES
Shakespeare said the evil that men do lives
after them.
The American First Committee is dead, but the
effect of the damage it did to American defense
and to American morale is apparent. It will take
time to overcome it.
The isolationist Senators and Congressmen
-have awakened from their dumbness and are
now swinging into the procession of all-out war
against Japan and the Axis.
But the ill preparedness of the United States
at this solemn and perilous hour is due to their
propaganda which proclaimed no danger to
America from the bandits overseas.
It has been more than two years since a reluc
tant isolationist Senator, in his opposition to ap
propriations for defense, said in a speech in the
Senate that America ought to build 2500 war
planes by 1942.
At that time this newspaper—this country
newspaper—published an editorial in which it
was demanded:
"Build 100,000 of the finest bombing planes
NOW. Commandeer all automobile plants that
life and pulling power. We are
still receiving coupons from the
first advertisement. I believe we
shall feel the roa. l >: of this cam
paign for months to come, and
that when the Government's fiscal
year closes on July 1, 1942, your
state will be in the forefront of
the states that have gone over the
top.
Very truly yours,
FRANK KNOX,
Sec. of the Navy
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TREE SBT TUESDAY
ON THE SQUARE
TBtf evergreen tree which the
Fine Arts Club of Danbury is ded
icating Friday, Dec. 19, in mem
ory of Mrs. Kathleen Taylor, was
i set out Tuesday on the south
sastera corner of the courthouse
square, •
The public is invited to attend
the program which will be held in
the courthouse auditorium at 7:30
p. M. ' ; • ill- '»»- nt •• > v •
Ptoe"A*te'CW»,
I Stokes To Participate
I In Red Cross Fund
j For Emergency Relief
(Reported)
Norman Davis, national presi
dent of the Red Cross, has advised
L. H. van Noppen, Stokes county
Red Cross Chairman, that the dla
triit composed of Stokes, Forsyth,
Davie and Yadkin counties is ask
ed to raise $75,000 as an emergen
cy war relief fund to care for the
victims of this terrible conflagera
tion. *•' i
Everyone will be asked again to
do their part.
85,000 NAZIS KILLED
IN RETREAT FROM
SOVIET RUSSIA
Moscow radio reports are that
85,000 German troops have been
killed during their retreat from
Soviet soil. The report also adds
that the. Russians have recaptured
4QO towns and villages. • i
James B. Joyce was here this
week from Winston ftrtnafc
* Published Thursdays
will not undertake this program. Let no moiv?
automobiles be manufactured until we have this
security.
Copies of this editorial were sent by some or
jour friends to Senators and Congressmen.
But our editorial was not regarded seriously.
The advice went off at the right oblique and was
| lost in space.
1 There was no danger. If Germany could not
|cross 60 miles of water to reach England, how
could she ever cross oceans to reach America,
j We were the strongest and most isolated country
|jn the work!. Those who agitated super-prepared
j ness were war mongers.
That was the supercilious reasoning of the ap
jpeaser and the isolationist.
Congress went off to sleep again, snugly and
smugly, with Pollyanna dreams.
But now when the tide around Hawaii turns
crimson with the blood of American mothers'
boys, the roses in the hearts of the Pollyannas
turn to ashes.
INTO THE BREACH! INTO THE BREACH! j
Remember Pearl Haibor.
For every American boy who die.,! in the coward
ly and nnwprrantecl attack, let a heatVen
brutes answer with their lives.
Countless thousands of volunteers rui>h to the
colors in every recruiting station ir> America.
Those who fell in defense of liberty and our
right to live in our own way, will be avenged.
The answer to the Jap blitz wi'il be planes,
planes, planes, and more planes. H ige flying fort
resses with power and speed, to react, their goals.
Let the steel factories of America go on 2 i-hour
and 7-day labors, until the colossal industr:nl pow
er of this nation reaches the zenith of production.
Then blast down the bamboo cities of those yel
low devils, and hunt their warships to their doom.
Wipe out the pagan seat of government and
burn its nest with incendiary bonny;.
In no other way can they and Hitlei—their spon
sor—understand.
COMPARATIVE STRENGTH
OK U. S-, JAP NWIES
the comparative streni;:'i it the
United States Navy ami that of
Japan, according to the latest fig
ures, is as follows:
UNITED STATES
Battleships 15
Aircraft carriers 4
Cruisers (heavy) 17
Cruisers (light) 14
Destroyers 217
Submarines 87
JAPAN
Battleships 11
Aircraft carriers 7
Cruisers (heavy) 18
Torpedo boats 12
Cruisers (light) 23
Destroyers 105
Gunboats 1
Submarine chasers 2
Submarines 57
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
, BEGIN DEC. 19
FOB STOKES SCHOOLS
• The 'Stakes codhtyvtelkkfls will
d)oae for. Christmas Deoeanbfe* IS;
Gjfeowfl will he resumed Jim. Ist
Number -•».>! 1
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Hero's a convenient table you
can keep near your clock. To find
the time in:
Honolulu—Subtract . r ) 1-2 hour?
from Danbury time. (For exam
ple, at noon here it's 6:30 a. m. in
Honolulu.)
San Francisco—Subtract threo
hours from local time.
Rio de Janerio—Add two hours.
Lima, Peru—Same as here.
Yokahomo —Add 11 hours.
Hong Kong—Add 13 hours.
' Manilla—Add 13 hours.
' London —Add five hours.
' Moscow—Add seven hours.
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R. A. ELLINGTON,
MADISON DRUGGEST
IN HOSPITAL
R. A. Ellington, father of A. J,
, Ellington, local attorney, is ill in
{ a Wjaaton-SaWm hoapitai. Mr. Et«
». lingrtix* 44 the proprietor of the
Put-Rate Drug Store of