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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
A \Sise Precaution
The action of Justice Depart
ment and immigration agents in
rounding up aliens known to be
in this country llcgally is an em
inently wise precaution.
The Alien Registration Act
adopted by the last session of
Congress gave the nation its first
means of checkup on aliens resid
ing in the nation, numbering sev
eral millions. This was intended
rot as a means of harrying or per
scouting tlie foreign-born ele
ment of the population,, but ra
ther to provide the United Stat
es with some much needed in
formation—world affairs consider
ed—regarding the strangers with
in our gates.
The new roundup of aliens is
something quite apart from the
alien registration last year. It is
aimed primarily at the aliens
who dodged the Registration Act:
not the foreigners who have busi
ness here or have come here to
establish themselves as useful
citizens of the United States, but
rather the ones who have no
business or right to be here. Most
of the Axis seamen who have
overstayed their legal leave in
this country are in this category.
The Justice and immigration
agents acted in the light of the
fact that aliens here illegally,
while including many innocent of
any intent to abuse the nation’s
hospitality, comprise in the main
a group which is already danger
ous and may become more so as
the war progresses. What is tak
ing place shows that Federal au
thorites are awake to the dan
gers, and are determined to see
to it that no foreign “fifth col
umn” will have a free hand in
America. — Cincinnati Enquirer.
DEFENSE HOUSING
— ANCHORAGE
.From tiie Office of Emergency
Management, Divison of Defense
Housing Coordination, the follow
ing statement was released on
May 27.
“Expanding military activity in
the Anchorage, Alaska area, in
particular the large increase in
personnel at Fort Richard
has caused a shortage of housing
which private enterprise cannot
be expected to alleviate because
of the urgency of the need and
the fact that such housing must
be built on tlie military reserva
tion.
“President Roosevelt, therefore,
on the m m inundation of C. F.
Pulrm r. Def nse Housing Coor
ciinat .r, approved a new program
of 220 up : to be built with pub
1 ■ field.-, i d.- av.;(able un li t
: ! . Ac-:, which has p:
v d d $300,000,000 for defense
housing needs. This project will
supplement the 32a unit project al
ready approved, making a total
of 545 .government-built dwell
ings.
“It was recommended that the
Feder: I Works Agency as- ign
xonstruc'un f the new group to1
the Army, inasmuch a. the Army j
is tht constructing agency for the i
previ uisly approved program. ;
“Rentals for the 200 dwellings,'
t<. be . upied 1 y families of en
listed men, will be determined by
the Array com.manta'ion allow
ance, which w .1 amount to ap
proximately $35 per month shel
ter rent. For the premises to be
occupied by civilans, the suggest
ed rental range is $21 to $45 per
month.”
—
COPPER RIVER R. R.
BIEL PASSES SENATE
WASHINGTON, June — The
Senate has passed and sent to the
House the measure authorizing
the Copper River and Northwest
ern Railway to convey to the
United States its right-of-way for
-a highway.
as a.
Thousands of Police and
Sheriffs Work with FBI
In International Defense Plan
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON. June — Work
ing for two years so quietly that
only a few hints leaked out. Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation Dir
ector J. Edgar H 'over has com
pleted his “FBI Law Enforce
ment Officers Mobilization Plan
for National Defense.”
Hoover emphasizes it is not “a
national police force." It actual
ly is a f:.r mere widely-flung
law erf reement agency than the
national government could hope
to maintain alone. It ties nearly
4.300 cooperating police agencies
in towns, counties and states into
a network coordinated by the
FBI.
This means that countless thou
sands of police officers, sheriffs
and their deputies, detectiv. s and
government agents now are
working, with FBI methods and
under FBI guidance, to clear the
entire defense setup of saboteurs
spies and fifth columnists.
It means that the FBI's 17,000,
0 0 fingerprint cards its technical
laboratory with more than 100
crime scientists its knowledge of
modern sabotage methods learn
ed on the ground in countries
now at war and its vast reservoir
of criminal information will bo
available to all these agencies in
their concerted efforts against en
emies of our defense plans and
plants.
ON PRESIDENT’S ORDER
Back in September, 1939. Presi
dent Roosevelt asked the FBI to
take charge of all investigations
" i\ latir.g to espionage, sabotage
and violation of the neutrality
regulations.”
“This task,” said the President,
"must be conducted in a compre
hensive and effective manner on
a national basis, and all informa
tion must be sifted out and cor
related. . .”
Using this order as his spring
board, Director Hoover and aides
went to work. The plan they
evolved is simple.
Through its fingerprint assem
bling sys cm, its Uniform Crime
Reports (a quarterly survey of
crime throughout the nation); its
National Police School (a concen
trated “college” of criminology
here in Washington which has
graduated 553 members of police
agencies and sent them back to
lii ir cities or s'ates to teach
FBI methods); and its criminol
og.cal labors: >ry fwhich h .miles
t) >ut 5,000 cases a year for po
le.a> agencies —free of charge),
tlie FBI already was in contact
with thousands of police agen
The FBI has 54 bureaus in the
United States. Using these as
.'uclei for the greater network,
ate or sectional conferences
re set up. attended by officials
m the police agencies who .-eg
nified willingness to cooperate.
TAKE AN OATH
The first thng these police of
ficials must do is take an oath,
which without call ng for any al
legiance which would interfere
with their obligations locally,
1 ;id on t’ii- note; "I will constant
ly strive to cooperate in the safe
guarding of our internal security
and in the defense of the nation.”
This is "the tie that binds" and
in the first quarter of 1941 it
bound 8.357 police officials (and
consequently the forces working
under them) into the FBI’s mo
bilization plan.
As an example of how these
conferences blanket a state, Cali
fornia may be cited. Quarterly
conferences have been held in
San Francisco, Palo Alto, Stock
ton, Martinez, Sacramento, Napa.
Oakland, Redding, San Rafael,
Watsonville, Eureka, Bakersfield,
Los Angeles, Riverside, San Ber
nardino and Santa Barbara. That I
is covereage. j
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Is Passed
Ivy House
WASHINGTON. June — The
H jy bo-' passed and sent to the
Si ■ ■ t? the Army Anproration
b;: i.
T ie bill corita'n-' a provision re
oniring both employers and em
pleyees in defense production in
dustries to comply with the re
c :rmenda:tions of the National
Di f "s.’ Mediation B:a-d.
lime Plane Sum
Is Not Sufficient
WA STTTNGTON. June — The
ton billion dollar army supply
bill. 1 ■’p largest sing!-'1 appropria
tion since the Word War and car
rying funds to give the Air Corps
40.000 pieties end sent to Con
gress by tilt Hoit*'e Appropria
tions Committee, drew a blunt no
tice t.h i '.he huge sum is not
sufficient.
This notice was given during
secret testimony on the measure
by Under Secretary of War Ro
bert Patterson, who told the Com
mi:tee. while discussing the vast
ly expanded plane program that
“w< hav’e in ihe War Department
2 f' ding ;1 ere is military need
for all the planes covered in this
program."
Tiie Ur.d :r Secretary of War
I'd no: amplify the statement for
if Lord bu said it is estimated j
aonserva ivdy that Germany's
. ...tii . Irplane productive cap
__ _ _i
achy i; 3.000 monthly and the
X / it a vc already embarked on
a • ■ gram of utilizing facilities
rq lered countries to in
line production capacity
*. y.vcen 4.00 and 6.000 nionth
Fairbanks Funds
Put Into Array
Supply Bill
WASHINGTON. June—A $196.
000.000 program for construction;
of military posts throughout the I
United S-ates and its territories1
and possessions was recommend- j
ed to Congress by the House Ap
propriations Committee in report
ing the ten-billion dollar War
Department appropriation bill.
Among the projects on which
Army officials said money will be
p nt are Elmendorf Field and
wharfage facilities at Anchorage'
it the amount of $159,000, for ad
dhional troop-housing in Alaska, j
$6,962,000.
The committee also approved
Army requests for funds to fin-j
ance land acquisitions to Ladd
Field at Fairbanks and other plac
es and to acquire certain patents
now existing on 8,000 acres of1
land costing $65,000.
—
SEWARD BILL GOES TO FDR
WASHINGTON. June 10— The
Senate has passed and sent to the
White House the House bill en
abling the town of Seward, Al
iska to purchase its privately
■ wned electric and telephone sy
dem. j
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BOOM S ON, AND WE DON’T MEAN CANNON—California, like other states where defense activity is rushing,*
has a building boom on its hands, especially in those sections where quarters for the soldiers are being constructed. Here are scenes *
from San Diego; additional naval facilities and a coast artillery corps replacement center to house 8,500 men are being built there. In
^ upper view Is the barracks bc'mg built at Camp Callan near San Diego. Below is a trailer colony for workmen unable to find homes.