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Show Washington, D. C. NAZIS IN SOUTH AMERICA jPASHINGTON. How vigorously ';' zi Germany is trying to under-;iSine under-;iSine the United States in Latin 'r; jerica is illustrated by a secret ijis offer Hitler has just made to $60,000,000 worth of the latest Military weapons to Brazil. bis would include tanks, rtil-si'iy, rtil-si'iy, flame - throwers, bombing in'es and other modern devices -i'lh which Germany prostrated lie ance all transported to a hemi-jjv,iere hemi-jjv,iere where Pan-American nations S'c;;ve been relatively at peace for U a century. ' ,,, furthermore, Germany guaran-triB guaran-triB to deliver the goods almost mediately via Italian ships. s';-:t now looks very much as if Bra-c:;.v Bra-c:;.v would accept the offer. Jtate department officials, togeth-with togeth-with Gen. George Marshall, dy-'et!'.mic dy-'et!'.mic U- s- chief of staff, are pull-Ve': pull-Ve': every possible wire to prevent purchase, but they are having -5 -.hard time. They are offering to II American military equipment ic-.-itead. However, the Brazilians ." int out that because of cheap Nazi st""iges it would take $200,000,000 to iy the same material here where -S5 sts are much higher. Further-ore, Further-ore, Hitler is willing to accept cof- p'e and other Brazilian surplus prod-P.:ts prod-P.:ts in a barter deal. No real cash e t! involved. a Finally, the Brazilians say they sesiught some artillery from the reunited States recently, but it was i, orld war stuff, and they had to ve .iend $8,000 for repairs on each gun. j-.je German munitions, on the other ,.' ind, are virtually new. aT -General Marshall made a special jT ,.ght to Brazil last year to get ac-r'tCiainted ac-r'tCiainted with the Brazilian army, Hid later piloted General Goes Mon-jro, Mon-jro, Brazilian chief of staff, all ver the United States. However, all """lis goodwilling doesn't seem to i3unt today. At least 40 per cent of Jliie Brazilian army is reported to t"e pro-Nazi. liiiNote Meanwhile the state department depart-ment moves with tragic slowness to ounteract Nazi activity in South ,rjnerica. Three years ago it set up N.: Cultural Relations bureau to cul-vate cul-vate Latin America, but its activity ac-tivity to date is minus zero, ijec, Mi- Mining Panama Waters. J'J The navy may not admit it, but he secret reason for suddenly min-,rng min-,rng the waters around the Panama "I'-anal was the sighting of two submarines sub-marines off the Pacific side of the wi:":anal. i-pj They were sighted by an army iviator, who was not able to dis- inguish their nationality. Since no 0j; J. S. submarines were in that vicin- ty, the army and navy both were lonvinced they must be Japanese. Obviously it would be difficult for '' jerman submarines to get into Pa-'lific Pa-'lific waters. 1P; Another factor which has our navy t Command worried was that last aE:veek, while part of the Japanese leet left for French Indo-China, an-jither an-jither part left for an unnamed destination des-tination off into the Pacific. M It is suspected that the Japanese Tnay be paying a visit to Chile, per-ipps per-ipps stopping en route at the Gala-gagos Gala-gagos islands, which the United ,11(;(.5tates Is now trying to lease for a .-iaval base to protect the Panama (anal. t Another reason is the fear that Hitler, having secured part of the French fleet, might pool forces with t""ie Italians (after the end of the M"British camPaign) and make a foray 61 mto American Atlantic waters. With Part of the Japanese fleet simultane- ously in Chilean waters, the problem aft defense would be difficult. Mechanical Sleuths, sg Uniformed guards make nightfy (inspection rounds in the big govern-ment govern-ment buildings, but the real senti-ttiels senti-ttiels of the multi-million dollar structures struc-tures are electrical machines. Elaborate Elab-orate automatic signal systems, quipped with buzzers, bells and lights instantly detect trouble and flash the alarm. If Most modern of the automatic watchdogs is the system in the lin-stately Greco-Roman Federal Reserve Re-serve building on Constitution avenue. ave-nue. Its electrical controls make a ', fWl'ltten record of everything that " on with a special feature nown as the "operator's delinquent Jjsystem." tSJ1 the operator falls asleep or meets with an accident, red lights bit I - asn all over the building. The de-f',lc de-f',lc e also tattles on guards who fail o punch patrol boxes on time. U' '"''er-AU the guards and elevator "t0IS in the Fedes.il Reserve " ar .uS 3re colIcge students. They ! , . , the handsomest crew in Wasb- jf- . . t Political Chaff. vr sl aspirant to enter the con- S- c"10nal arena is squat Louis B. ard edUor of Father Coughlin's I Justice. This is Ward's sec- "fi n y- In 1936 he ran for a -w.r"3"0 natorial nomination )tr, without success. s ' vp ? Pretty Janelle Johnson, five-son five-son , daughter of Rep. Jed John-A John-A bp ' Oklahoma, was told that little I! idem" Jed Jr- had sat on toe Pres" V sh if knee- she shrugged her V tw ders and rePied airily. "Hmm, 1 s nthing. I kissed him." |