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Headquarters At Washington
The focal center of authority over conduct of the
Pacific war has been moving toward Washington stead
ily. The leadership of armies and fleets in the Pacific
theater has passed largely to Americans. Australian
American relations have become close as never before.
Large Chinese armies are serving under an American
General. Now the process is well-nigh complete, for a
Pacific War Council at Washington has been set up to
direct the broad strategy of the war in the Far East.
The work of this council will not be military in the
narrow' sense. There already is a joint Anglo-American
military command at Washington, and another in Lon
don. There are joint ground, air and naval commands
in the Southwest Pacific. But there is another task —
that of planning the military, economic, and political
campaigns entailed in the gigantic struggle under wav
in the Pacific.
The United States, Great Britain. Australia, New
Zealand. China, Canada, and The Netherlands are rep
resented on the new council. They are the active mem
bers of the United Nations in respect to the Pacific
struggle. It is to be hoped that the new body will do
more than merely coordinate the military and econ
omic hostilities of the seven powers. It ought by all
means to grasp the delicate but important problem of
charting the political future of the several Oriental
countries involved.
It ought to extend the principles of the Atlantic Char
ter to the whole of Asia, holding out to the native peo
ples of India, Malaya, French Indo-China, Burma, and
the Dutch East Indies, as well as the Philippines, the
assurance of full freedom when this grim war is fought
and won. That is an essential part of the complex task,
of waging war in an area hitherto dominated by the
colonial powers of the West. —Cincinatti Enquirer.
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World Leaders
This war’ hast produced three mi^tary leaders of the
first rank—General MacArthur of the United States,
Marshal Timoshenko pf the Soviet Union and General
issimo Chiank Kai-Shek of China. The last has a par
ticular distinction, in that he’s head of his /govern
ment. as well as its active commander in military af
fairs. It is significant that all of these commandere be
lieve in the offensive, and pursue the offensive. Mac
Arthur. of course, is carrying on what is essentially a
defensive action—but he continually takes the battle
to the enemy. Timoshenko has won immense victories,
which have cost the Germans millions of men. bv use
of the most daring offensive tactics. And Chiang Kai
Shek, for five years, has flung his superbly brave, ill
equipped armies against the Jap and kept him out of
the heart of China. It is for that reason that recent
changes in the commands of the United States Army
and Navy should encourage the country. Some “super
conservatives” have been ease dout. And younger, ag
gressive men are coming in to top positions.—Bremer
ton News-Searchlight.
( hristian Japs Pray For Peace
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Propaganda Broadcast Intimates Beginning
Of Peace Offensive
TOKYO — In a radio broadcast, a Domei dispatch
was read guoting Toyohigo Kagawa, the most famous
of Japanese Christian leaders, in which he asserted
that among Japanese Christians, "Prayers are being
said for an early conclusion of war and restoration of
peace throughout the world.”
The Purpose of this broadcast by the Government
controlled radio is obscure, but it might be the begin
ning of a Japanese “peace offensive.”
Japanese leaders may be counting on Kagawa’s re
putation in the United States, where he has lectured >
widely and his books in translations have had consid
erable circulation, to gain attention for the suggestion'
that the Japanese Christians, at least, want peace.
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P Traps 71 In Dawn Raid
On Suspected Nazi Spy Rinn
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Just as dawn was breaking over the waterfront re
cently, Federal Bureau of Invstigation agents swoop
ed down on the German Seaman’s Home in Hoboken
and took into custody seventy-one persons suspected
of being members of a spy ring. Equipment, confiscat
ed could easily have been used to notify prowling sub
marines of impending ship movements, it was said.
At the same time the FBI disclosed that 9 enemy
aliens had been arrested in the vicinity of Croton Dam
at Croton-on-the-Hudson, and that the contraband!
seized included 275 rounds of ammunition, seven rifles,'
a pistol, twelve shotguns, twelve cameras, six radios, a
German Army officer’s coat and a quantity of Axis lit- j
erature.
Edward E. Conroy of the Newark FBI office, who di
rected the raid in Hoboken and remained on the scene!
seven hours, said it was “one of the most important, j
if not the most important, since the declaration of war."
The Seamen’s House was the scene of a similar raid in;
1917 when 200 suspects were taken into custody.
Messages to Enemy Indicated
A search of the building’s sixty rooms, all filled to.
capacity, yielded sufficient evidence to indicate, agents,
said, that military information was being sent to the
enemy. There were an undeciphered code, a short-wave
receiving set and a short-wave diathermy machine read
ily convertible for the transmission of telegraphic sig-'
nals. The diathermy machine, similar to those found
in recent raids on Japanese spy nests, was equipped
with a booster device capable of sending messages as
far as Germany. Even without the booster, agents said
the machine could get in touch with enemy submarines
thirty miles at sea. In the room with this apparatus,
was an indoor aerial that had been rigged by an expert. 1
It was indicated by the agents that many of the sus
pects had functioned as an efficiently coordinated spy
ring in conjunction with American citizens with Nazi
leanings who were employed along the near-by water-'
front. It would have been possible, it was said, to have j
observed all ship movements and to have communi-i
cated the information to outlying submarines.
Preparations for the raid were elaborate. No possible
angle was overlooked as the agents, armed with Presi
dential warrants and supported on their flanks by a
squad of uniformed policemen and detectives under
Police Inspector Bernard J. McFeeley of Hoboken, ar
rived on the scene.
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There was but a faint glow in the Eastern sky when
the men formed a cordon around the building to pre
vent an escape. Led by Mr. Conroy, the first squad en
tered the building. Others followed at a signal, and
within a few minutes they were swarming through
the four floors, covering all rooms and all dormitories.
The lights throughout the building went on as though
by a master switch.
The sleeping tenants were aroused and lined up for
inspection and then were marched in military fashion
to the main floor. There were few protests. Some com
plained of “such treatment for American citizens,” but
most of them remained stoical.
Fingerprinting and photographic apparatus was set
up in the main floor lobby, and those who were to be
taken into custody were immediately examined. While
this procedure was under way the Rev. Herman Brueck
ner, directer of the home, arrived and was taken into
custody at once. Mr. Brueckner, who was interned dur
ing the World War, is rector of St. Matthew’s Luther
an Church of Hoboken. He is now a United States
citizen.
Of the seventy-one men taken in the raid, twenty
eight were aliens. Many of them were stranded Ger-1
man seamen. In their rooms and in the library of the
institution were found a considerable quantity of Nazi
literature and several framed photographs of Adolf
Hitler. Some of the suspects, who are citizens, had
been watched for some time by the FBI and were con- i
sidered "dangerous,” Mr. Conroy disclosed.
The raid aroused the entire neighborhood. As the i
prisoners were taken out into patrol wagons, hundreds
of sleepy but curious onlookers lined the curbs. Seized
articles and luggage were .moved out in trucks later.
While this was going on the fingerprints and pictures
of all concerned were enroute to Washington for a com
plete check against government records. A full report
on them was expected back by plane before midnight.
Mr. Conroy said he expected that the raid will “prove
of imense value to the war effort.” He declared the
home "was financed by Nazi Germany,” and added:
“It is one of the worst.’’
Some of the men taken in the raid were sent to Ellis
Island for internment, while others were taken before
a United States Commissioner in Newark for arraign
ment.
Those taken to Ellis Island will join the others who
were arrested in the Croton Dam raid. The nine aliens
from Westchester were eight Italians and one German.
Federal agents working in close cooperation with the
Westchester County police had been watching the
group for some time. Their place of operation was with
in a short distance of the city’s vital water supply
system.
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Selective Service
On acceptance of his resigna
tion and separation from mili
tary service, a former reserve
officer must register with Select
ive Service, John L. McCormick.
Territorial Director of Selective
Service, pointed out.
He said: "We have been inform
ed by National Headquarters that
the War Department has been do
ferring from active military ser
vice certain reserve officers con
sidered by the department to be
of greater value to the war ef
fort in their civilian activity than
as Army officers on active duty.
As members of the armed forces,
such reserve officers .although on
inactive duty, are not required to
register under the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1940,
and amendments.
"The War Department is now
permitting such reserve officers
to resign their reserve officer
commission as necessary men in
a civilian capacity although all
resignations are subject to ap
proval and acceptance by the de
partment."
Continuing, Director McCor
mick said: “In,, cast; of accept
ance of the resignation of a re
serve officer and his separation
from military service, he must
register with Selective Service.
He will become liable for train j
ing and service in the land and
naval forces although his claim
for deferment, as a necessary
man, will receive the same ser-1
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other registrants engaged in a j
similar activity and occupation.” j
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To GEORGE H. THOMAS,
HENRY MEEGAN, JAMES H
KENNEDY. PETER MclNTOSH,
WILLIAM H. PACK WOOD. W
J. SOMERVILLE. J. G. GALVIN.
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ORANGE. and ALASKA HOME
STAKE GOLD MINING COM
PANY, A Corporation, and to
i your and each of your heirs, re
presentatives and assigns:
You and each of you are here
by notified that the undersigned
CHARLES V. OLSON is a Co
owner of each of thp following
gold mining claims located in the
vicinity of Bluff. Alaska, to-wit:
Esquimo Chief. Eskimo Chief
No. 1, Eskimo Chief No. 2, Es
quimeaux No. 3, Idaho, Idaho No.
1, Idaho No. 2. Idaho No. 3. Sea
Gull, Sen Gull No. 1. Sea Gull
No. 2. Sea Gull No. 3.
That for and during each of the
annual mining assessment years
ending respectively July 1st.
years 1935, 1936. 1941, the said
Charles V. Olson expended in
I work, labor, improvements and
money at least $100.00 on and for
the benefit of each of said min
1 ing claims. That said expendi
tures were made for the purpose
! °f complying with the mining ass
; essment laws relative to said
claims and for the years herein
stated.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days of the completion of
the publication of this notice
(said publication being for a
period of ninety days) you fail
or refuse to contribute to the
undersigned Charles V. Olson
your proportionate share of said
expenditures, as a co-owner, your
interest in said claims and each
of said claims will become the
property of Charles V. Olson co
owner, who has made said ex
penditures.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this
14ih day of March, 1942.
CHARLES V. OLSON,
Co-owner.
Bluff, Alaska.
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June 1, 8, 1942.