Show R 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 m atter of visible things partly things that are felt without being seen khaki clad soldiers with tin haats hafts hats and bayonets pat patrolling roling ng two a breast abreast between the white house and the state department darkness k over the capitol dome where searchlights are blacked out tor for the duration A jam of volunteers for or civilian defense new flags delivered at civilian defense head quarters two for car two for mrs Roosevel ts car six tor for the motorcycles the residence ot 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 speck 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 Vs scottie Sc ottle feels the change tor for the white house guards have less time to play with him and he curls up disconsolate in his bis green doghouse dog house just back of presidents office JAPANESE SPIES last summer congressman martin dies had investigators make a thorough survey ot of japanese activities along the west coast the results eventually were suppressed by the state department and the president himself but a briet brief summary of them indicates some parts of the united states face a dangerous problem when it comes to filth fifth column activity hitler had many agents planted through norway france and the low countries when he attacked but the japanese according to th the dies report start out with 0 00 of their countrymen in the united states these are all japanese ct citizens and do not include s second ec generation ener atlon japanese born in the united states the dies report shows that key japanese have been decorated by the emperor during the past two years and that many japanese are in close taco coop co 0 op p aeration with the homeland through u gh the central japanese association W which hibb has been directed by consulates lates a in california dies agents have collected photographs ol of various japanese truck gardens operated alongside oil tanks and strategic railroads also they report japanese residing on terminal islands in los angeles harbor where are located strategic oil tanks reeves beeves field and a shipbuilding company oil storage tanks blown up in the harbors would endanger all of the los angeles area the roost most revealing documents seized by dies agents are maps showing howing all the U S strategic points an and d fortifications and a naval manual ua I 1 showing the size ot of all american n naval vessels cathe the naval manual published in 1941 Is so up to date that it even shows show a latest models of U S mosquito boats together with the pres presidential yacht potomac and the plan ot of U S airplane carriers the I 1 location 0 of guns engine room etc is indicated alongside the photograph ot of each ves vessel sel it must have taken japanese agents months or years to collect this data KNEW EW formations OR another japanese map seized by dies agents is revealing in the extreme it shows the layout ot of the american fleet in a typical battle formation near hawaii U S naval officers confirm the tact fact that the map correctly shows past naval maneuvers neu vers the documents show the details ol of pearl harbor the panama canal san francisco manila guam and vladivostok they also give the normal crusing radius ot of the U S fleet out ol 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 channels wireless stations japanese consulates and air bases all along the west coast WAR WAL CHAFF flit was significant that japanese struck first not ai the philippines which is armed to the teeth with heavy bombers but at hawaii ha bad had hassent sent its best war planet planer on to the philippines if U the navy had read the newspapers it II might have been better prepared 41 Con consandine santine brown foreign affairs expert ot of the washington star predicted war with japan 10 days ir in advance and named sunday de cember 7 as the starting date |