PUBLISHED BY THE STRIKING A. X.

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VOL. 1, NO. 13.

EMPLOYES OF THE CHESTER TIMES

CHESTER, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941

Curfew
County Wide Radio To9 O'CIock
Be Enforced
System
Is
Planned
i

District Attorney McClenachan
Calls Meeting Of All Local Heads
To Build Up Defense Network

Bv EDWARD JOHNSTON
1i
The first steps to coordinate Delaware County's forty- |
three police districts will be taken at Media tomorrow at
2 o'clock when officials from every municipality will meet}
with District Attorney William B. McClenadian, Jr.
The county prosecutor, spurred by the national crisis, !
has invited Mayor Clifford E. Peoples," Sheriff William W. l
McKim, the three County Commissioners, every burgess in i
the county, the chairman of even- police committee, and !
the head of ever;' police department.
j
The main subject of discussion will be the establish- j
ment of a county-wide radio system with headquarters in j
Media for facilitating police work in the county.
By meeting tomorrow, the
County Commissioners will have
an opportunity to make provisions in. the 1942 budget for the expenditures necessary for the installation of the system and each
local municipality will also have
ample time to arrange financing.
It is tenatively planned to have i
every police car in the count3'
including those in this citycornBusiness Men Take
pletely equipped with & two-way
Action
At Meeting
radio so that every police departOn Defense Plans
ment will be in constant communication with the headquarters in
Chester thus far has had no
Media.
blackouts but members of the
Until the system is underway,
Chester Business Men's AssociaDistrict Attorney McClenachan
tion, in anticipation of such action,
plans to keep his office open seven
have decided to voluntarily darken
days a week, on a twenty-four hour
their f stores completely at the
a day basis with trained operators
closing
hour each night.
on duty, prepared
for any
At
a
special
meeting of the Board
emergency.
.
:Of Directors of the association yesWith men on duty in
iu. the
-.n= dismo-1 ,. ,
- a resolution was adopted
trict attorney's office at all hours,
to ! all' local
an emergency, police ala:

"The curfew shall not ring

tonight" it's going to blow,
and with a vengeance, for Chester boys and girls under 26
years of age.
The curfew, which has been
very loosely enforced for many
years, is sounded at 0 o'clock
each night on the city fire alarm
system. Starting right, now, according to orders issued by
Chief George J. Feeney. the police are going to rigidly enforce
the going home deadline for the
kiddies.
He has ordered every policeman on night duty to check on
all children under 16 who are
on the streets after the curfew
sounds. Unless they are with
their parents, they will be ordered to go home. And if any of
them don't like the idea, the
officer is to take their names
and addresses for future references.

Stores To Black
Out Each Night Plants Planning
At Closing Time Protection For
Their Employes
Precaution Against
Air Raids Heard From
Chief Air Warden

Governor Authorizes
Arming Plant Guards
Governor Arthur H. James yesterday authorized the arming of
all guards in defense industry
plants in Delaware county.
In an executive order, the Governor recognized the possibilities

, yesterday that plans for safeguard: ing the county's school children
i are being formulated and will be
1 complete by tomorrow night.
i Dr. Car! G. Leech, superimendi em, of the county school system.

THREE CENTS

Invasion
Balked By

The battle flamed in the Pacific from Hon^c Konjc, the Philippines to Singapore as
of sabotage in the vital industrial j win meet tomorrow morning with j the Japanese invaders launched furious attacks in all three areas,
plants along the riverfront, and j the superintendent of every school
Japanese parachutists were reported landing at Vijjan. port in northwestern Luzon
ordered them to be fully armed ! in the county,
20 miles northwest of Ma ila
Plans will be completed for eva

and deputized.
children in
in case
case of
of j transports, which was beaten off.
Every guard will be certified by uating schooll children

This followed an attempted landing by Japanese

the company employing him, and i an air raid alarm, and for protect-1
At Honjjr Koiitf two attempts were made to breach the defenses of this British citadel,
win be immediately sworn in by ing school property as far as it is j It was reported that the attacks were repulsed with great Japanese losses.
an attache of the Governor's office.
It was also learned that every
industrial organization engaged in
defense work is increasing the
number of guards now on the payroll, and is throwing a veritable
cordon of armed men around the
plants.
Rumors of attempted sabotage in
a local plant two weeks ago, resulted in an increase in the number of guards, and the increasing
of vigilance.
William J. Enders. executive secretary of the Delaware County National Defense Council, announced

possible.
IMalaya was another target for
Enders also announced that a
the Japanese, with die strategyschool for training deputy air raid
apparent ly being a drive southwardens will be started on Monday.
ward down the narrow peninsula
It is planned to hire the largest
to England's other Far Eastern
auditorium In the county to house
A blackout was ordered in California from Bakersfield! stronghold. Singapore,
the 1500 men who will take the
south to the Mexican border. This included the cities of Lost Wave on wave of four-motored
training course.
0
r arcd Ver Ma
hitting

naval'
nll
The course will consist of IS Angeles
rp, and
. , San
, Diego.
.
, Radios in
, both
, cities went
off thei^T"^
a a"d T*
Cavite,
at
hours of training in emergency air. The blackout order was made at 11 p. m., E.S.T.
objectives and much-bombed Nichfire fighting, first aid, and extinols Field.
guishing Incendiary bombs. On the
Singapore."Several hundred" survivors of the Prince| Fifty-four Japanese planes took
completion of the course each depof Wales and Repulse, which were sunk yesterday, landed part in the raid, zooming in
uty warden will be given a certhrough a hail of anti-aircraft fire
tificate and will be prepared to here last night.
and American interceptor planes
start his duties.
which broke up the attacking

FLASHES

Honolulu.The Navy reported last night that there formations.

have been no attacks on Hawaii since Sunday.
West of Luzon, Army and Navy

The first of Delaware county's sons has

given his life in the service of his country.
When the Japanese dive bombers came roaring down on Hickam Field, Hawaii, on Sunday,
one of their missiles snuffed out the life of Private
Ralph S. Smith, of 611 Saude avenue, Essington.
A terse telegram received by his parents,
Harry A. and Naomi Smith, at their home in
Essington today announced that their son had
"died in action." His body will not be returned
home until the end of the war, the telegram sd^d.
Private^Smith,.,enlisted in the Army last
.'/. August;;: ;:H&_\te^
' where he ^Vag "attached^^;t6'"Goinpaiiy 22, (Materials
Squadron, at Hickam Field:1' '
' '
He was a graduate of Eddystone High School
in the class of 1939. In high school he was a member of the football, basketball and track teams.
Besides his father, who is a foreman at the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Lester, and his mother, he is survived by
a sister, Mrs. William Moore, of Varoma, Pa.,
and four brothers, Robert, of Turtle Creek, Pa.,
William H., of Holmes, and Joseph and John, of
Essington. The latter three also are employes of
Westinghouse.

Washington.The War Department reported that Japanese attacks on the island of Luzon have been thrown back.
Landings have been made, the announcement said, but
American bombers wrought havoc among the Japanese
troops.

forces defeated a sea-borne Japanese attack, it was announced by

the War Department.
Six Japanese transports, escorted by Nipponese naval craft, tried
to make a landing off Vigan. Three
were hit, one capsized and bombs
hit close to three others. The Japanese admitted that two transports

Every industrial plant, in DelaWashington.It was announced that the Trans-Pacific wcre sunlc and two damaged> but
ware county is taking "every poscable
between Manila and San Francisco has been cut, pre-"there was no loss of life."
sible measure" to protect its perJapan jubilantly received the
sonnel and property against damsumably by the Japanese.
news of the sinking of two British
age if enemy bombers roar over
,
, - i
j j j . -.
4. i
i j ft.
<- i ra P ital ships, the battleship Prince
this area.
Argentina has added to its coastal patrol after reports | of WaleSf a 35,ooo-tonner, and the
This statement was made today
that the German pocket battleship" Leutzow was seen off battle cruiser Repulse, of 32,000
by William F. Delehanty, chief air
the coast. >
raid warden -'of Delaware county,
,. ^ i, <
though there' was" no" clear "picafter a 'lijestirig "with-"more than7
of the sinking of these two
outside ! 225 representatives of industry on-!
inside"
and"
Berlin.A
meeting
of
the
Reichstag
will
hear
a
mesremain in operation until the radio
(great
crafts; it was said to have
their stores, be extinguished upon Tuesday night at the Chester Club. [
sage, probably from Adolf Hitler, on German-Japanese soli- been clone by bombing. However,
system is installed.
closing said stores, or sooner if
Delehanty outlined to the indus- j
A survey for the installation of a emergency requires."
it is believed that "suicide squaddarity at 3 p. m. (Berlin time) today.
trialists the dangers facing this
two-way radio system for the,(
rons" of Japanese pilots must have
This means that when a mer- j teeming production area, No. 1 tarcounty was made by Assistant |
dived their planes into the British
et n
chant closes up at night, he will S the Eastern Seaboard.
j
Berne, Switzerland.It has been reported that Admiral ships to sink
District Attorney Guy G- de Furia'
them, as no other
see to it that the establishment is i He told them of the methods of j
Darlan,'
French Vice-Premier, has agreed to turn part of capital ships
four years ago, when the State com lfete
been lost directLeeislature in 1937 passed an act! P ly dark, from "the display j minimizing the destructive power j
the
French
navy
over
to
the
Germans
in
return
for
concesly
through
bombing
by Great Brit. i windows to even the small "night" j of bombs, methods which have been j
ain since the war began.
sions to the Vichy-controlled area.
i
lights
usually
left
burning.
j
tried
and
proven
in
bomb-torn
authority with the consent
The action In which the British
approval of the county commis- The business men have been as- England.
o,
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lost
their ships occurred off MalaHe also told them of the need of
Sealtle, Wash. Washington State Police were searching ya> whcra jBpancSe troops wer^
sioners, to set up the system which sured of increased police protecr
training
of
first
aid
men,
auxiliary
is under the district attornej 's tion to safeguard their stores durfor suspected Fifth Columnists who were reported to have reported to have made a landing
ing the night and it has been as- police and firemen, watchers; the |
antl were
control.
lighted
flares near this Pacific Coast city. It is said that
fighting a bloody battle
importance of proper blackouts and j
The radio system, which would certained through Solicitor Aaron
with lhe nritish some 20 miles
the
flares
formed
an
arrow
pointing
to
the
city
to
guide

the coordinating of efforts between j

cover the county from Upper Darby Tollin that insurance rates will
,
,
north of Singapore.
not
be
affected
in
any
way
through
j
plants.
bombers.
.
.
f'
'
,
t
to the Delaware State line and from
Here
in the Tjmted States, the
j A dual communicating system is
the river front to Radnor township, the absence of light.
war effort continued at redoubled
Many of the stores are operated needed in all plants, Delehanty
would be on the same wave length
Batavia, Java.The second air raid alarm of the war! speed. William s. Knudsen reportas the police radios in Philadelphia ion an almatic lighting system, warned the industrial leaders. This;
was
sounded here yesterday.
j eci tlial mir borrmer production
through which the lights go on precaution already has been taken !
and ^Montgomery Counties.
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i would" be doubled. Following the
uul ln
a v and in many plants, but must be done by ;
a .certain "
hour
in ule
the "dav
When the district attorney sug- ! at """"
- a
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1
r~
m
L
j
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it.
-iI President's speech of Tuesday
r
others as soon as possible.
Los Angeles.-!. B.I. agents and Mexican authorities | n l g h t > thc mtion ra,,lcd to ^
sted to
to the
coun commissioners
c m i s i
iStay " U n t i l the automa <ic device
gcsted
the county
The importance of the secondary
were reported to be searching for "armed bands" of Jap- jcaii to action. Thousands swarmed
in 1937 that the system be installed, \
hour a night. Under the plan communications network, by po-1
it was vetoed because the cost at I
anese,
said to be roaming through the arid Lower California I to recruiting stations throughout
First Group to Leave
that time seemed to be too high. j adopted by the Board of Directors lice radio, was also emphasized, j
; the country to enlist in the Army,
peninsula in Mexico.
I this system will no longer be fol- Chester, Marcus Hook, Eddystone
Members of the Chester Business
Navy and Marine Corps. In Philaof the
the present emerg-j ,owed, the
Because of
,
Since
Declaration
ictors
f
and Trainer, vital defense centers,
e?ncy however, it is almost certain j lhe lights as thev leaye_
Men's Association have voted to
delphia alone. .1.200 applied for en*
however, do not have police radio |
Of War on Japan
ri?l* nrnVKifmc
r>:>r> be
rir made
m n r < n in
i ' .
! furnish the American Legion airlistment to the Navy in the first
that
provisions can
uiere should be an air raid alarm sj'sterns. However, a signal which {
next year's budget to provide for
Ihre3 days of the war.
'-,
i plane spotters stationed at Mount
after closing, the stores will be will work at all times and under j Most individuals consider 13 to
the cost.
; Hope Cemetery with a set of preciThe
harbor
approaches
of
New
already blacked out ond there will all conditions will be established. be an unlucky number, but the
' fiion binoculars and a compass.
York were mlnod. It was announcThe cost of. installing the equip- j be no possibility Of a repetition of
Air raid signals will be a one old superstition did not daunt the
Ralph
F.
Swarts-and
Albert
Canter
ed by the Navy Department. Inment in the Courthouse, including j the Seattle -window-smashing in- minute blast, followed by a half- 13 young men, who, with heads
form the committee in charge.
j
coming
vessels will secure directhe erection of a radio tower, is cidents.
Corps Organized
To Name Wardens
minute blast, then another one high, marched behind the Chester
' tions from a patrol vessel stationestimated at approximately. 58,000.
The
Instruments,
which
will
be
The resolution provided for the minute blast and another half-min- High School band to the PennsylFor Defense Service
For Protection Against
icd in Ambrose Channel.
The estimated cost of equipping
extinguishing of the Christmas ute, as long as needed. A long. vania Railroad station yesterday purchased immediately, are expectIn Emergencies
each police car with two-way servThere was still a war raging in
cd to
rove of
reat aid to tne ob
Raids,
Sabotage
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lights on the city streets immedi- sustained bfast will be the all clear I morning to take a train for camp.'
ice is S750. The estimate for radio
Libya and Russia. The Russians
servers
whose
duly
It
is
to
report
They
were
the
first
group
to
leave
the SOundi
"S of an air signal.
4
maintenance and operation of the
Pennsylvania Miliru-y College i reported that they have routed thc
Plans for the defense of Chester's
Only about seven minutes notice Chester for induction into the movements of all aircrafts In thc
ngCmentS
station, exclusive of personnel
vicinity.
i
important
war
industries
against!
has
organized a defense organiza-j enemy at Oleis. cast of Orel, takmade with the electric com- will be able to be given if a raid Army since Japan's invasion of
e f;m
air
salaries, is 31,500 annually.
The'men
are
maintaining
a
24-'
"
>'
raids
and
sabotage
were
j
'ion
within
the ranks of the Cadet'ing 12,000 prisoners. Two German
our
possessions,
and
since
Congress
pany to have the decorative lights occurs, Delehanty said. This makes
Several municipalities at the
hour a day vigil at their obsctwa- I lnkcn U P lasl ni S ht at '" meeting i Corps. This unit Is composed of! infantry divisions were captured,
turned out the instant an alert is necessary immediate action on the declared war on that country.
c
present time have radio-equipped
The .Mayor's Emergency Hospl t f c n post, reporting their findings I of representatives of the plants and j all 'n of 21 years of age and j *ey
part of air defense workers.
police cars, but they are in the
over, and is available for immediate; There was litMe change in the
Protection of workers and their! talit-v Cominiue e met with the boys directly to the interceptor corn- i! the Chester Council of Defense.
minorit3', and the system is not
duty in this nat'f-nnl emergency. : war in the Western Desert. Britat C}ly H a U wherc the
were
j
Robert
I..
Granger,
of
the
J'nila
mand at Mitchell Field. L. I.
The resolution, which was slgnea families is the most important step!
'
>'
effective because other communiColonel Stephen Wilson Winfrce,' i s h a -''orities said that they were
jomcd by dt
offi
Electric Company, chair>'
al-v Horace
ties which do not have the service by President Samuel Feinberg, that must be taken. Only then, h<>!: \V. Daft, chairman
rc arin
to m
rernatnof thc cornP
man of the industrial Defense Com- U. S. A., is in charge of this spc-;P P &
SOUMKKS PASS THKOUCH
pledged the association's -fullest said, will workers and families both
cannot be communicated with.
(k'r of General Rommel's Panzer
cial
portion
of
the
Cadet
Corps
at
mUtcc aarcncc Smedlc
ub1iclt
mittee,
is
in
charge
of
th--highly
Three-hundred and fifty units
1
'
>'- P
y
The installation of the radio cooperation and support to the feel secure, and then too their se.!
: cnairman, and other members. of an anti-aircraft regiment nu/vcd important task of coordinating the P. M. C. <'ir.fl is being assisted by fore. ?.
system has been recommended by. United States and to the officer.?, curity will be assured.
' Following
the ,Chester High School out of Fort Belvior, Va., at l'A'> defense systems 'if the many Ches- Captain Sianton von Grahill and
plants
"T
i ' i * t-.-j have
iici ' ^ started
okcii L.T.;LI work
> \Ji iv ' i
i
>
, .
MARKI.AGK .MCKXSE
numerous Grand Juries in the pas't \ enSacci in the defense of this i Many
by
| on air raid protection and others!^' *?
The following application for
"* COk>r *U3rd and o'clock la:,T night, on thftir way to ter plants. Representatives of ftj Captain .Jesse Roberts, officers of
eight years, but no action was ever jcountI7-'
t h e five drum majorettes, the group Trenton, ?>". J. The molori?/!d firms, both large and small, were the college faculty.
marriage license was made in
taken.
i are making plans to do so in the
| marched to the Sixth Street Station cavalcade passed through Delaware invited to the session while those
1
Mtanwhilo Colonel Frank K. the office of Winfield W. Crawford,
i
near
future
.
Windows
will
be
i West End Boot Club i painted black on the outside to pro- j
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count}- over Baltimore pike.
located outside thc city may take Hyatt, president and commandant register of wills, at Media.
A sheet of parchment nearly 3
i
Elects
Officers
part if they ko de.sire.
of P. M. C,, announced th;u the coi- George F. Taylor, 28, 2o01 Parkj vent leakage of ligh- or reflection;
feet square was required for the i
Granger emphasized the fact that
': is now on a complete war time! way, Philadelphia, and Elinor 31.
i the windows will be pasted with
rwal wedding certificate of the
j .Robert B. Keel was reelected
his
committee
is
issuing
no
orders
is nnd is working at top speed ' De Armit, 24, -135 East Ninth street,
)ia*ka.i Kent.
! cloth and wire screens placed ini president of the West End Boat
regarding dcfcn.se.
\ to prepare the Cadet.-; for imme-'
; side to stop glass splinters. "Baffles"
Club at their meeting on Tuesday
"Rail. . c, we are giving assistance j diato call into the active ranks of
i will be built to break the force of
CHRISTMAS
his second term in the office.
in formulating plans for the mutual the United States Army and Marine
the bombs. Personnel will be disSEALS
Other officer- elected were Norprotection of the industries against | Corps.
The CHESTER REPORTER will cease free distripersed over wide areas to prevent
DO
man D. Rieck, vice-president; Wilair raids or sabotage," he pointed
The special defense unit will be
heavy casualties.
bution
after
December
12,
tomorrow,
in
Chester,
Upliam F. Hickey, treasurer; L. C.
out.
. used in a cooperative manner with
YOUR
The industrial program is In full
land, Marcus Hook, Linwood, Boothwyn, Trainer, ParkHaynes, secretary, and William L.
Each of thc local industries has , the Chester Defense Council and
swing, under Delehanty's direction,
side, Garden City, Springhaven, Eddystone, Crum
Conly, William M. Duffy and EdPART
been asked to appoint wardens to i Colonel Winfree placed his men at
prepared for any eventuality. Delaward B. Mousley, trustees. It will
Lynne,
Leiperville
and
Milmont.
take cherg? of d..-fens "-<* at the j the disposal of Paul J. Carey, Co-.
ware county will be ready.
v/ith
be Haynes twelfth year as secretary
Ail persons desiring the CHESTER REPORTER
plants. It is planned to have them rrdiratT of the Council. The P.
of the organization.
meet for instruction with Granger, M. C. men are specialists in all j
'TIL:
after this date may obtain it from their newsdealer or
Xmas
Others elected were Newton A.
the first class being scheduled for types of
r,: y defense and I
SUPPORTTHEGU1LD
write
directly
to
the
CHESTER
REPORTER,
612
EdgMyers, commodore: John H. Reilly,
0 o'clock Saturday morning at will be us
a complete unit j
frofecf
Sea is
vice-commodore, and Leo J. Ketmont avenue, Chester. Phone: Chester 2-4420 and 7501. Chester High School. Granger is throughout.
Your Home iron
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rear commodore.
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Merchants Supply
Legion Spatters
With Instruments

Plan Defense Of P. M. C. Cadets

City's Industries Ready For Duty

NOTICE

SHOPPING
DAYS

CHRISTMAS