SENATOR CONNALLY GETS
JUST RECOGNITION; TAKES
CHARGE OF SENATE FIGHTS
WASHINGTON — If I had to
name the Senator who looks most
like a Senator, I’d probably pick
Tom Connaily, of Texas — the
man who occupies the “hot seat” ,
in all impending foreign policy
legislation, including that pack
age of legislative dynamite re
ferred to as revision of the Neu
trality Act.
More than six feet tall and of,
generous bulk, Senator Connaily
wears the stamp of 25 years in
Congress. He has long wavy hair,
now almost w'hite. He wears
black hats and dark suits. It is
only in recent years that he has
discarded his black Windsor tie
for a black bow. He mokes cigars.
And he talks with a tongue that
lashes out phrases and whips up
humor that not only makes good
listening but good reading too.
By the steady pressure of sen
iority, he has come at last to
chairmanship of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee and
in his new job ,he will have the
task of steering administration
foregn policy legislation thru
the upper house.
It’s a big order, but one over
which the White House has no
qualms. For Senator Connaily,
on bth ides of the fence, has prov
ed his mettle. He is solidly be
hind hte President’s foreign pol
icy, including even total repeal
of the Neutrality Act, but he is
no yes-man.
He gave Capitol Hill some
thing to remember when he led
the filibuster in 1937 against the
anti-lynching bill. He gave oil
men something to remember
when he put over the “Connaily
hot oil act” which prohibits inter
state transportation of oil pro
duced in violation of state laws.
He was one of four Democratic
Senators to vote against NRA
and he didn’t leave any doubt
Unified Congress Backs
Declaration of War
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 </P) —
President Roosevelt signed the
declaration of war against Japan
at 1:10 p.m. PST, formally set
ting the nation at its task of
achieving what he called “inevi
table triumph.”
While Republican and Demo- i
cratic leaders of a unified Con
» gross looked on, the President
took the last step of a series of
fast breaking developments
which started with yesterday’s
deadly raid by the Japanese on
the American territory of Haw
aii.
about his vigorous opposition to
President Roosevelt’s Supreme
Court reorganization bill.
Senator Connally’s handle is
Thomas Terry, but 1 doubt if
there are ten persons in Wash
ington and not more than three
times that in Texas who know' it,
for he has ben just plain Tom
ever since he was a sergeant ma
jor in the Spanish-American
War. He comes from Marlin,
exas, where he practiced law for
a while. For 12 years, he was a
member of the House of Repre
sentatives, taking time out to
fight overseas as a World War
captain. In 1918, he was elected
to the Senate and has been
around ever since.
He probably is the only major
Senate committee chairman, who
also sits on tw’o other major com
mittee—finance and judiciary
but when you ask him what he is
most proud of in his life, he an
swers: “Of being a good country
lawyer and the fact that my on
son Ben (now' practicing in Hous
ton) is a better lawyer than I
am.”
There are few members of
either house who can match Sen
ator Connally in debate. He rare
ly loses his sense of humor and
he’s not averse to turning it on
the whole Senate. One of his fre
quently repeated ramrks: “Draco
wrote his law's in blood: the Sen
ate writes its laws in w'ind.”
Capital gossip now lias it that
it was Connolly who was respon
sible for the strategy of splitting
up the issues in revision of the
Neutralty Act and insisted that
the first effort merely involve
the armament of merchant ves
sels—that repeal of the provision
against those vessels going into
ar zone harbors come later.
Capitol Hill tacticians are nod
ding their heads wisely and call
ing it a briliant move. It confines
debate to this one phase, softens
the bow against anti-administra
tion forces; and gives the pro
foreign policy group on the Hill
FDR Addressed Nation
Yesterday 7 P. M. PST
WASHINGTON, Doc. 8 (Ah —
President Roosevelt will deliver
a radio address to the nation
Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Pacific
time and will make a more com
plete documentation of the Jap
anese attack.
an opportunity to get the fence
straddlers into camp before more
drastic measures are battled out.
POSSIBLE JAPANESE MOVES SEEN
'
Observers in Shanghai believed the Japanese, reported concentrat
ing at Hainan, were planning a move into French Indo-China. Far
Eastern experts in Washington believed Japan’s reported new de
mands on Indo-China were based on determination to place Jap
aese forces within striking distance of Singapore and the Dutch
East Indies and that a move into Indo-China would also put them
in position for a blow at China’s Burma noad supply-line. Arrows
indicate these possible objectives; shading, Japanese penetration
of China.
Two American
Batl'eships Sunk
Pearl Ilarkor
UNDATED. Dec. R (JP> Im
p >r:al Tokyo headquarters de
clared that two American battle
ships were sunk, four damaged,
and fou" heavy cruisers damaged
in Pearl Harbor.
.Tap parachute troops were report
ed to have landed in the Philip
in' ~ a-- the two-dav-old battle of
the Pacific flamed over a vast
area.
An Ita An broadcast quoted
Domei as listing the 33.100-ton
battleship Pennslyvania and the
Oklahoma as ‘he American ships
sunk. Two U. S. destroyers and
two oil tankers were also report
ed lost. The Japanese claim a
U. S. aircraft carrier was sunk
by a sub off Hono’ulu and the
capture of many merchant sli p:
in the Pacific was claimed. No
Japanese losses. in the blows
against the U. S. fleet at Hono
lulu, were reported.
Fifty U. S. planes were shot
down in combat over Clark Field,
Phi ip-pines, and 40 over Lba,
north of Manila.
A Jap-Thailand agreement for
the transit of troops through
Thailand was reported, f r the
presumable attack on British Ma
lava, site of the fortress at Singa
pore, and on British Burma.
The British announced that
Jop warcraft had landed troops
at two places in Br ti<h Malaya
near the Thailand border but
wore drive!] away.
Dome: i ported that British
and Jap t: ops were fighting.
Ad .. a! Tii mps Hart, com
mand r f the United States
Asiatic fl ot, announces the sur
renn r o' a .-mill contingent of
American Marines at PAping,
China, : overwhelming Jap fore
es.
The U. S. air craft. a CBS
brosdes r ypr’s. at lec h 230
casua ties inflicted by the Jap at
tacks . P .lippines. Man
ila has «- • . ped attack so far. A
U. S. i.rmy bulletin says 30 Jap
bombers M*arked Mindanao is
land rnd b imb d Sagui», sum
mer capital of the Philipine--.
O.i Jap plane was r< piirti d so >t
down.
American Commissioner to tin
Phi ippines. Francis Sayre, said
the situation is well in hand.
Radi i reports from the Pan
Amcric n base said Guam was at
tacked by raiders and fires set to
gas stores.
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celled and the basketball league
will be discontinued until fur
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