Show l 4 h Spies Are Unmasked b if IT SHOULD Occasion no great surprise to this JL country to to learn th that t foreign spies are e at work J l h here re They hey always are and their activities are areno no less daring and colorful than they are pictured pictured pic- pic in story books We Wc ought not to be so n naive ve either as to believe that the United States fails fails to e employ ploy its own spies in various parts of the world It would be a ver very silly thing not io to do so r The indictments returned against a time one-time V. V U. U S. S navy petty officer and one Toshio Miya- Miya zaki aki lieutenant commander in the imperial Japanese navy indicate that the Japanese spy now safe in his homeland did his work well t The haul of documents he is reported to have obtained is highly significant constituting valuable val val- val val- u ble codes plans photographs and other mati matter mat- mat i ter tr r pertaining to maneuvers of American war- war craft in the Pacific Whether he did or did not I Japan will deny it If he be h had d been caught here I. I Jap Japan n would have left him to his fate and would have denied that he was her agent gent That is part of the thc dangerous business o of f being a aspy spy What mak makes s. s loyal Ame Americans heartily sick is iso to o realize that there are are those who pass for Americans whose venality and disloyalty make traitors of them These are the most loathsome creatures in the underworld of crime In this c case se Harry Thomas Thompson had the blessing of f American birth and education He was taken into to the navy as a youth of character a and d woh won promotion to yeoman a post in which he he gained familiarity with the location of all the items his Japanese spy-employer spy wanted Discharged from rom the navy he went to work for fOt a possible enemy nemy power powe on a a monthly steal vital books and documents No decent vocabulary contains con con- words fit to apply to him im nor norto to suggest fit punishment He Hc and his kin kind d ar r the lowest A of untouchables It is disturbing to realize that there are many of t his kind at work wherever the American f flag fg g flies Once in a great while they are taught aught Some Borne of them have b been en in the military and naval services at the same time they were active ac active ac- ac tive in traitorous enterprise some even holding hording high rank The only explanation for their un- un j j treachery is that their love of money money oney is greater than their love of country jt kit 3 It is s a curious thing that when our govern- govern ent runs them to earth and demands a penalty tf for their evildoing vil it fails to publicize ize them and their acts as in In the c case se of kidnapers and gang gang- P st It deter other moral weaklings weaklings- if they hey ey knew just how a caught traitor spends th the rest res of his of 1 days The Harry Thomas Thompson case might be a good one t to st start rt ari an educational education l CaI campaign for the benefit of others of his i ilk k That lt tt it arises arises in a federal l rather than a military court may be the of means revealing h hw w this V- V despicable and loathsome creature is made to pay for his hideous crime against his flag and country |