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Show I IGrand Grand Jury Indieimeni Indictment of 18 Foeigners Foreogners ForeognersSpurs ForeignersSpurs : Spurs Federal investigation of ofEspionage ofEspionage Espionage Activity ActivityBy By JOSEPH W LaBINE LanINE LaBINEIt LanINEIt It has taken official Washington Washmgton 10 years to discover discoverwhat discoverwhat discoverwhat what the rankand rank and file American has known all alongThe alongThe along alongThe The natIon-the natIon the nation - the North American continent contment in m general- general general generalis general15 - is 15 infested mfested with the spies of three powerful Fascist natIonsOn nationsOn nations nationsOn On the Pacific coast innocent mnocent Japanese fishing fishmg craft snare snarea a few tuna and whatever American navalsecrets naval secrets happen to tobe tobe tobe be lying lymg around In the Panama canalzone canal zone a guttural gutturalGerman gutturalGerman gutturalGerman German is apparently minding mmdmg his own business busmess mean meanwhile meanwhile I Ivh vh while . : ! e his p photographic oto raph.l raphl . : mm mind records ecords the geographic layoutI layout I 01 thIs iis most vmneraDie vUlnerable spot polin ' m in America's Americas ' defense pro program program programMen gram gramMen Men and women have been beenfree beenfree beenfree free to come , look and leave leaveat leaveat leaveat at our greatest mIlItary mIlItarystrongholds militarystrongholds militarystrongholds strongholds They have haveclosed haveclosed haveclosed closed their eyes not to see seeour seeour seeour our armv army and navy test testsecret testsecret testsecret secret equipment desIgned designedto to out fox the enemy But some somehaven somehaven somehaven haven t closed their eJes eyes e es because becausea a foreign government wanted those thosesecrets thosesecrets thosesecrets thosesecretsYet secrets secretsYet Yet 10 years passed before a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York federal grand jury found occa occaslOn occasion occasion slOn sion to indict mdlct 18 . .suspected suspected uspected .uspected . NazI NazIagents Naziagents Naziagents agents most of " whom "hom hom are now safe safeback safeback safeback back home It was not until these thesespies thesespies thesespies spies became so bold as to ask the thestate thestate thestate state department for blank pass passports passports passports ports that \ we \ e suspected their real realIntentions realintentions realintentions Intentions Now in m retrospect , , those thosepuzzlmg thosepuzzling thosepuzzling puzzlmg puzzling incidents of the past few fewJears fewyears fewI Jears years ears loom crystal clear the army armyplot armyp armyplot plot p lot \ who ho disappeared \ while hlle testIng testinga a sensal sensat onal new sh p the Japa Japanese Japanese I nese tuna cl pper which went wentaground wentaground wentaground aground agroundh \ wh \\h h Ie le fish ng at mght night mght"here nightwhere nightwhere "here here where " only American na\ na na\al na al naal naval \ al secrets secretsm m ght be caughtBehInd caughtBehind caught caughtBehind Behind this invasion of o1 fore gn gnagents gnagents gnagents agents is an un mportant soundng sound ng ngdocument ngdocument ngdocument document s gned by Japan Germa Germany Germany Germany ny and Italy last year the pro proFascist proFascist proFascist Fascist pact for mutual 1.sslstance 1sslstance lssistance 1.sslstanceThat lssistanceThat . sslstanceThat That at least " was "as as the surface rea reason reason reason son for this treaty in m truth it b \ as asprobably asprobably asprobably probably aork a \\ork ork work \ workng ng agieement agleement agreement be beteen between between t\\een t een tween \ three nations with common commonaim commonaim commonaim aim to combat democraclCs democracies democraclCsthrough democraciesthrough democraciesthrough through an msid mSld insid ous program of es esp esp esp p onage and propagandaThe propagandaThe propaganda propagandaThe The latest assert on on this mat matter matter matter ter ( not substant ated ) is that Gcr Ger Germany Gcrmany I Imany many is handling the propaganda propagandaand propagandaand propagandaand and Italy is furnish furmsh ng ammunItion ammunItionstores ammunitionstores ammunitionstores stores wh ch oh are constantly be ng ngdumped ngdumped ngdumped dumped in Nicaragua and Mex co coBut CoBut coBut But substant al proof is already at athand athand athand hand test testifying Y1l1g to Japan s Jeader leader Jeaderslup leadership leadership slup ship in m the esp onage program QUI QUIet Quiet Quiet et unobtrusive apparently mterest interest mterested interested interested ed only in the " work ork at hand these thesevIsitors thesevisitors thesevisitors I theseI vIsitors from the Orient go about abouttheir abouttheir abouttheir their jobwith job with a pers stcnce that IS ISamaz isamaz isamaz amaz ng with a r ghteous a r that thatIS thatis thatis IS maddening maddenmg maddeningSan maddenmgSan San I 1 c cdro edro ro s Clippers ClippersIn In Los Angeles San Pcdro Pedro har harbor harbor harbor bor wh ch shelters ba battlesh ttlesh ps of oftI ofU ofU tI U e Un led ted States fleet po verful verfultuna verfultuna verfultuna tuna cl ppers wea weave e their path pathamong pathamong pathamong among the super dreadnaughts cogmzant cognizant cog cognizant nizant mzant of every move tl tI e a n1.vy n1vy nlvy n1.vymakes nlvymakes mvymakes . makes _ _ _ _ I The story is told of one foggy day daya a battlesh fe 1 / , years ycars back wl wI vvl en neither bat battlesh batticsh tlesh ps p : nor tuna boats left the snug snugness snugness snugness ness of San Pedro harbor none nonethat nonethat nonethat that is e except .cept cept > . a Japanese captam captain captamwho captainwho captainwho who ghthe put out with his sk pper throi throl throb gh the m 1k lk gray tog fog and returned a afew afel afetr fe\l fe l fetr \ hours la later ter with full ere cre v vasit \ \\asit asit \ \ ' as asIt asit JapaneseI It pure co ncidence ncldence that a Japanese Japanesenaval Japanesenaval Japanesenaval naval training tramlng st 51 si p dropped anchor anchora a te fe 1 / , miles out that same day ? Tuna cl ppers are not fra Ira 1 J craft craftespec craftespec craftespec espec Japaneseboat apancseboat ally tl tI e a new type J Japanese apancse boat boath wh \\h h \ ch oh has recently apreared aprearcd aprearedalong aprearcdalong aproarcdalong along the Pacific coast TI Tlesela\ea Tlesela ea ese t } a\ a ae ate aa atea \ e a cru s ng rad us up to 10 000 m les lesal lesai lesai al ai layers d might be turned into mto m ne lay ers cairy ealrY carry ng 30 anchors in rn thclr their theirholds thclrholds holds aftMov and t v n torpedo tubes aft Mov ng north arde andwe ard and \ we \\e e find the ; Japanese theJapanese invas ! Inva nva & on of Alaskan fhh Ash fhhmg Ashrng fli > hing mg rng waters a double menace not notonly notonly notonly only to ratio al sccur secur ty but to the theconservat theconservat theconservat conservat vely 01 of 0 [ el1.tcd el1tcd ei ci . itcd fled salmon In dustry industry fostered and andontrolled andpontrolled -ontrolled ontrolled pontrolled "ontrolled " ' - b by } bthe bythe the Un Uni ! ed States fcovcrnment bovcrnment 6ovcrnment I IDr IBr Dr Br stol bay ba ) v\ v w1 vere \ , \ I ere erc the red salmon run yearly on their persistent path pathI pathfrom pathfrom pathfrom I from mounta n stream to the sea seaJapanese seaJapanese seaJapanese Japanese fishing fishmg craftappear craft appear annu annually annually I Ially ally in m increasing reasmg numbers placmg placing placmgtheir placingtheir placingtheir their nets ahead of American Amencan boats boatsand boatsand boatsand and sh shift t ng their huge catch to tof101.hng toflo tofloiting f101.hng f101hng flo . iting canneriesI canneriesSalmon canneries canneriesSalmon I Salmon \ Minus I\hnus I hnus NationalityYou Nationality NationalityYou You can t paint pamt the Stars and andStnpes andStripes andStripes Stnpes Stripes on e\ e ev eery \ ery cry salmon that spawns spawnsin spawnsin spawnsin in Alaskan mount mountain am streams but butthe butthe butthe the American state department has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been slow sJow in taking takmg protective meas measures measures measures ures Although the Japanese gov government government goveminent ernment apologizes and offers as assurances assurances assurances surances the Oriental Onental craft appear appearagam appearagain appearagain agam again and aga n They fish out outs s de the three m Ie le limit hmlt but with n nthe nthe nthe the 12 mile 1 mit mlt What many an anAmencan anAmerican anAmerican Amencan American fisherman would like hke to toknow toknow toknow know is " why "hy hy his government can t tenforce tenforce tenforce enforce the 12 mile 1 mit mlt mrt agamst against agamstthese againstthese againstthese these InvadersJumpmg invadersJumping invaders invadersJumping Jumping Jumpmg south the seeker after aftersp aftersp aftersp sp es lands invariably Invanably in the Pan Panama Panama Panama ama canal zone lust Just fably called A ABO\ ABO ABO\E ABO E ABOE O ' \ ' \ E An aerial aenal view of the thePanama thePanama thePanama Panama canal s Gatun locks taken takenIn takenin In an area where foreign spies are are1orkmg areworking areworking 1\orkmg 1 orkmg working \ " feverishly to uncover uncoverUnIt uncoverUnited uncoverUnited UnIt United cd States military mlhtary secrets This Thisb Thisis Thisis b is . the Achilles Heel lIeel of Amencan American Amencandefensc Americandefense Americandefense Americandefenseyears defensc defense defenseyears years A short distance north of the thecanaJ thecanal thecanal canaJ canal a group of Japanese sclen scien scient sclent t sts have leased pancake flat fiat land landfor landfor landfor for cxper exper ments in growing growmg cotton cottonTh cottonTh cottonTh Th s land would make a remark remarkabJy remarkably remarkably abJy ably fine line aviation fieldGovernment fieldGovernment field fieldGovernment Government at WorkThe WorkThe Work WorkThe The federal government has not notbeen notbeen notbeen been completely idle in 1O the face of ofthiS ofthis ofthis thiS menace Lengthy InvestIgations investigationswere were \ \ ere made after that storybook m in mcldent incrdent mcident cldent crdent on July 30 1935 when "hen hen " Lleut Lreut LleutArthur LreutArthur LieutArthur Arthur H Skaer took off from Los LosAngeles LosAngeles LosAngeles Angeles municipal airport to test an anamazIngly anamazingly anamazingly amazIngly fast new plane His In Instruct instruct instruct struct ons were to stay within sight sightof sightof sightof of the field but Lieutenant Skaer Skaerstreaked Skaerstreaked Skaerstreaked streaked off to the south dls dis dlsappeared disappeared disappeared appeared from sight and was nev never nevor never er or seen again agam The plane pJane " was "as as so sovaluable sovaluable sovaluable valuable that army officials had hadplanned hadplanned hadplanned planned to destroy it Immediately Immediatelyafter immediatelyafter immediatelyafter after the test saving savmg the des gns gnsfor gnsfor gnsfor for production only in a nahonal national nahonalemergency nationalemergency nationalemergency nationalemergencyIn emergency emergencyIn In a dragnet a few days later lateragents lateragents lateragents agents of the federal bureau of 1D in 1DvestIgatlOn investigation investigation vestIgatlOn vestigation closed m 1Jl on Harry HarryThomas HarryThomas HarryThomas Thomas Thompson former navy navyyeoman navyyeoman navyyeoman yeoman who is now serving a sen sentence sentence sentence tence at McNellIsand McNeilisland McNeil McNell island Isand ] pen tentIary tentrary tentIaryfor tentraryfor tentiaryfor for selling navaloecrets navalsecrets naval fecrets oecrets secrets to Japan JapanInd JapanInd JapanInd Ind cted with him \ w vv \ as Lieut Lleut Comdr ComdrToshlO ComdrToshio ComdrToshio ToshlO Toshio J\l1J J l1J Miy \ Miiazaki azakl azaki of the Japanese Japanesenavy Japanesenavy Japanesenavy navy who had been a language languagestudent languagestudent languagestudent student at Leiand Leland Stanford umver univer umverslty universrty university slty srty Unfortunately he had re returned returned returned turned to Japan before he could couldbe couldbe couldbe be questioned questionedTh Th s is the background to a story " " ' \ - { \ > : # ; t ; , /4 4 / V4 ' . . 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' x 1 ; ( t { J wR wRoar oar oary y 1 designedlo designedto Itugc Huge railway guns , with ylh ! a I 1 to ' " inch bore and short barrel burel birrel are designed to protect the United Umted States Statcs coast from front foreign invasion This firingat flnngat gun is flnng firing at a target 15 nllies miles milcsjit at sca sea ca detense defense the ' Ach lies Heel of our nat onal de fense Should the canal ranal 'anal anal ' be closed closedby by an enemy an attack on the Pa Pac Pac Pac c successfullyrepulsed flc fic coast could not be successfully successfullyrepulsed successfullyrepulsed battlewagons battlewagens repulsed unt 1 I the navy s battlewag ons ens had journeyed 13 13135 135 miles milesaround milesaround milesaround around the t p of South America Americafrom from New York to San FranciscoThe Francisco FranciscoThe The Japs hale have long been act ve ye veIn yein vein In Panama In 1917 a ragged Orl Oni Orlental Oniental Onental ental fisherman was piped pJped o\er o er over \ the oierthe oerthe overthe s de of a v sit ng Japanese man of manof war To tl tI is day mai mal y a seem seemIngly seemingly seemmgly Ingly un mpOi mpoitant mportant tant fsl erman or bar barher barber barben ber ben is tre tre-itcd tre itcd tre1.ted tre1ted . - ited w thstrange th strange defer deference deference deterence ence by prom nent Panama Japs JapsThere There is only one cxplanat eplanat eeplanat ' { on TV onTV o 0 hours by air from the canal canalat canalat canalat at Corr t I to Colombia Jdp colon sts stshive stsh1.ve h1.ve h1ve hive . been flrmlv firmly entrenched entrencled , tor for pub1 pubI of esp onage which may be told pub I 1 cly ely with n the next neJ\.t neJ.t neJ .t t \ . few weeks as asU asti ti U e go\ go got goernment \ ernment ernrnent proceeds with ItS'py itsspy its itsspy spy 'py py ' invest gat ons But moie mOle more than that thanthat it is the hand vnting vrltlng vrrting on the thewall wall that America Amenca must heed 1m m mmediately unmediately 1mmediately mediately it If the nation is to safe guard saleguard safeguard foreigners itself Itse1t against agamst prying foreign ers ersPerhaps foreignersPerhaps Perhaps tl tI ere is somcth someth I ng un undemocnt undemocrit chmust democnt democr-it democr it - c < : about the secrecyh secrecy \ wh \\h h ch must shioud shlOud shroud American Amencan opera operations era erations tions tlons if of our future is military to be op pro protccted protected vcunauthorized veunauthorized yeunauthorized tected Mabe Maybe Ua ) be it isn t polite pohte tcfg to'g tog to ' ' g ve ye unauthorized foieign tOlclgn foreign vis tors the bum thebums s I lu&h luh rush u & h But it is better than thanw thanViking \Viking Viking w \ klng iking feela up some fine line rooming mOIDmg morning to feel a sharp b1 biionet btyonet . onet prying prymg into mto your ribs yourribs ! 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