Evening star., 1941-12-28
BY Ruth Cowan,
Wide World News.

Wide World News.
The President Of the United States
proclaimed a state of national emergency.
.. German troops massed on Russian
borders. -. The British lion was nursing
wounds received in Greece.
The time was last June.
But silent was the man who might
have warned Hitler from personal ex-
perience that Uncle Sam can get fight
ing mad, that the Russian bear can bite,
and that the British have way Of COM
ing back after bad drubbing.
Wilhelm Hohen1ollern, the German
Imperial Kaiser who led his nation into
World War I, was dead. An old man OF
80 he died in June in Doom, Holland
died still in exile even though the Ger
man soldiers had overrun that small
country.
He lived to see a one-time Austrian
corporal do what he had failed to do
conquer France. But he died five
months too soon to hear Uncle Sam say:
so you want to fight, eh? okay!" to
learn of German backtracks from Mos
COW and of British successes in Northern
Africa.
Thus Mars marched on in 194l. And
many of the worlds main characters
moved off the stage.
The grand old lady Of Hyde Park
wasn't on hand to see her boy begin the
greatest fight in his life and in that Of
the United States Mrs. Sara Delano
Roosevelt, the mother of President
Roosevelt, died in September just few
days before she would have been 81
years old.
Five Senators Died
Five Senators and IL Representatives
could not answer to the roll call when
Congress In split-second fashion replied
to The japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
by declaring war-and three days later
took up the challenges of Germany and
Italy. These congressman died earlier
this year
Senator Morris Sheppard Of Tex, his
successor, Senator Andrew Jackson
Houston, 81, son of Sam houston, Texas
hero, Senator Pat Harrison Of Missis-
sippi, Senator Alva M. Lumpkin of South
Carolina, and Senator Alva B. Adams Of
Colorado:
Also these Representatives: Sam G.
Massingale of Oklahoma, Kenneth Simp-
Maryland, P. L. Schwert Of New York,
A. D. Folger of North Carolina, M. M.
Edelstein of New York, Stephen Bolles
OF Wisconsin, A. G. Rutherford of Penn
sylvania, E. T. Taylor of Colorado, Lee
E. Geyer of California, and l.. ]. Connery
Of Massachusetts,.
War Casualties.
America now has Its wartime casualty
list.
Capt. Colin P. Kelly, jr, rs, became
one of this country's first heroes ir
World War II when he lost his life
in bombing and destroying the jar
battleship Haruna.
This war has its aviation heroines
Amy johnson Mollison. 81, Britains No
/ woman flyer, drowned when she bailet
out over the Thames ferrying q plane
from factory to airdome.
The pilot sons Of two prominen
Episcopal clergymen were killed-Rich
ard Inge, Is, Of the r. A. F., son Of DR.
w. r. Inge, one time gloomy dean" o
London's bombed st. Paul's Cathedral
and Sgt. James NJ Maxon, jr., 80, sol
of Tennessee's Episcopal bishop, "some
where in England" with the Roya
Canadian Air Force.
Germany and Italy had their importan
air losses. Bruno Mussolini, the italian
dictators son, was killed in test f1igh
and likewise was the quartermaster gen
eral of the German Air Force; Erns
Udet, As, World War Ace. This war
German ace, Col. Werner Molders, "a
crashed to death.
Death in the battle Of the Atlanti
came to Germany's No. naval hero
small stocky Comdr. Gunther Priei
80, whose submarine torpedoed H. M.
Royal Oak inside the heavily mtne'