| Show SR W I 1 CHANGED CITY washington has changed overnight washington was a boom town one week next week it was a war town the change is partly a matter of visible things partly things that are felt without being seen khaki clad soldiers with tin hats and bayonets patrolling pat roling two abreast between the white house end and the state department i darkness over the capitol dome where searchlights are lacked blacked b out for the dura duration tion A jam of volunteers volunteers for civilian defense new flags delivered at civilian defense headquarters two for Guardias La car two for mrs Roosevel ts car six for the motorcycles the residence of german correspondent kurt sell is raided at night and sell is taken into custody by FBI though the department of commerce deals with such innocuous subjects as census figures its great steel doors are locked and guards demand credentials at the main entrance women fliers filers of america call a hurried meeting to spee speed d up plans for training an extra detail of police strolls on the south grounds of the white house last trampled by egg rolling easter crowds in his press conference the presidents voice is so grave and low that a newsman calls out louder please four plainclothesmen plain in two cars sit parked all day on waterside drive where the bank rises sharply on the back garden of the japanese embassy even falla the presidents scottie feels feela the change for the white house guards have less time to play with him and he curls up disconsolate in his green doghouse dog house just back of the presidents office 4 0 0 JAPANESE SPIES last summer congressman martin dies die had investigators make a thorough survey of japanese activities along the west coast the results eventually were suppressed by the state department and the president himself but a brief summary a ry of them indicates that some parts of the united states face a dangerous problem when it comes to fifth column activity hitler had many agents planted through norway prance france and the low countries when he attacked but the japanese according to the dies report start out with of their countrymen lathe aft the united states these are all Ji japanese citizens an and d do not include second generation japanese born in the united states the dies report shows bows that key japanese have been decorated by the emperor during the past two years and that many japanese are in close coop co op er aeration aaion with the homeland through the central japanese association which has been directed by consulates in california dies agents have collected photographs graphs s of various japanese truck gardens operated alongside oil tanks and strategic railroads also they report japanese residing on terminal islain islands ds in los angeles harbor where are located strategic oil tanks reeves field and a shipbuilding company oil storage tanks blown up in the harbors would endanger all of the los angeles area the most revealing documents seized by dies agents are maps showing all the U S strategic points and fortifications and a naval manual showing the size of all american naval vessels the naval manual published in 1941 is so up to date that it even shows latest models of U S mosquito boats together with the presidential yacht potomac and the plan of U S airplane carriers the location of guns engine room etc is indicated alongside the photograph of each vessel it must have taken japanese agents months or years to collect this data KNEW formations another japanese map seized by dies agents is revealing in the extreme it shows the layout of the american fleet in a typical battle formation near hawaii U S naval officers confirm the fact that the map correctly shows past naval maneuvers reu neu vers the documents show the details of pearl harbor the panama canal san francisco manila guam and vladivostok they also give the normal crusing radius of the U S fleet out of honolulu together with the normal location of airplane carriers cruising battleships scouts and auxiliary transports maps also show the whereabouts of submarine cables mines mined channels wireless stations japanese consulates and air bases all along the west chast coast 0 0 WAR CHAFF cit L it was significant that japanese struck first not at the philippines which is armed to the teeth with heavy bombers but at hawaii hawaii had sent its best war planes an to the philippines if the navy had read the newspapers it might have been better prepared C L constantine brown foreign affairs expert of the washington star predicted war with japan 10 days in advance and named sunday december 7 as the starting date |
