Tin ■ce Americans To Stand
Trial As Jap Propagandists
Washington—It's a Justice Department secret, but
the tip-ofT that led to the apprehension of the three
Americans who will soon stand trial as Jap propagan
dists originally came from such widely separated
points as Manchuria and Costa Rica.
Last fall U. S. officials in these two countries in
formed the Justice Department that Nazi agents wore
distributing pro-Japanese pamphlets, printed in Eng
lish as well as the native language. It was believed
they had been written by an American.
A quiet check-up disclosed, it is charged, that the
writer was Ralph Townsend, an editor of Scribner’s
Commentator.
Further inquiry also revealed that the pamphlets
were being widely distributed in the United States
At this point Albert E. Arent and Arthur B. Caldwell,
able young attorneys of the Criminal Division of the
Justice Department who had dug up the facts in the
Auhagen and Transocean Nazi propaganda cases, were
called in. Arent and Caldwell made two trips—one to
San Francisco and one to Lake Geneva, Wis., where
Scribner’s Commentator was published. Aided by a
stall’ of crack G-men, Arent and Caldwell uncovered
some startling information from the books of Jap
firms and individual business men.
One of the most significant discoveries was that the
Japs were following the Nazi technique of using news
paper men and writers as propaganda agents. Accord
ing to testimony which wil be presented Frederick V
Williams, a Pacific coast newspaper man, not only
was the correspondent of the Japanese Times an
Mail of Tokyo, but also was making pro-Jap speeeht.
before many organizations.
As correspondent of the Jap papers, Williams was
registered with the State Department and apparently
felt this was sufficient.
What the G-men did not overlook was that the
Transocean and Auhagen cases had taught them that
the favorite Axis device was to give their propaganda
agents nominal employment as newspaper men to
cover up their real operations.
Investigation of Williams’ activities led to evidence
involving David W. Ryder and Townsend, who with
Williams are about to stand trial as Jap agents. The
indictments charge the three men with conspiracy to
violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and “with
willful failure to state material facts in registration
statements.” — The Washington Merrv-Go-Round by
Drewr Pearson and Robert S. Allen.
Jan Masaryk, Polish leader: “Hitler has lost the war,
but the democracies have not yet won it.”
\\\ J. Cameron, Ford Company representative: “20
years ago the world was broken into scores of hostile
fragments; today, it has been united into two.”
Hank Greenberg, star baseball player, re-enlisting
in the Army: “I am definitely through with baseball —
for the duration.”
Lewis VV. Waters, Executive Food Company: “That
“V” in victory has a connection with vitamins.”
American Red
Cross War
Fund Campaign
National Goa! 850,000.000
Chapter Goal 81,500
Why? To provide relief for civ
dian populations bombed by the.
Japs, and to carry on the hugely
increased work with the armed
forces as outlined in “M-Day Reg
ulatons of the Army and Navy.”
The Nome Chapter has recently
started its drive for funds to
meet the goal set for this war
fund campaign. There has now
been collected $523. There re
mains to be collected nearly
$1,000.
This drive is not a membership
subscription for money. It is a
request for your donations in as
large an amount as you feel free
to give to administer the needs
of our American civilians who
have undergone suffering due to
war. The Red Cross has organ
ized home defense nursing servic
es, first aid services, and emer
gency supply warehouses to take
care of any civilian hospital and
relief needs occasioned not only
by air raids but also sabotage,
epidemics, invasion and other re
sults of war. These facilities have
been organized in the Pacific
States and Alaska war zone. The
American Red Cross has assumed
the burden of caring for all evac
;
RED CROSS
WAR RELIEF DRIVE
Nome Goal Donated
$1,500
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$532
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And — We Haven’t Started Yet!
uees from Pacific war zones. The
Red Cross also stands ready to
back all local relief facilities
that may be over-burdened due
to our national emergency. These
1 things, occasioned by new meth
ods of warfare, are in addition to
the now famous Red Cross func
tions during wartime in adminis
tering to the relief of our armed [
forces and hospitalization of the
injured from war zones and main|
tains all communication between!
the families of men in armed i
forces and the armed forces.
To illustrate the greatly in
creased expense of Red Cross ser
vices, one need only refer to the
hundreds of evacues from Alaska
being provided with food and ■
lodging while in transit to their!
homes in the States and general-'
ly cared for by the Red Cross.
The government has only under
taken bare transportation of evacj
uees, all else is cared for by the!
i Red Cross.
Ill' SOi'XDED WARNING
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Private foseoh |. tockhval
f ill'-vp', 20, of Williamsport. Pa.,
v'- r 'commended for citation
for soon’mrt ri wi'mimr of tbe
prv..r- icb Japitie ~ olnoes at
Pcarl Harbor. December 7. IMs
report " —« disregarded t>v a su
perior olf'cer.
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Citation h
l Hied For
Alert Private
WASHINGTON Feb. The 20
year-old private who "wasn't
gs’eep" . t Pearl Harbor Decern-1
her 7 may soon find a medal pin
ned on his chest,
He is Private Joseh L. Loekard
of Williamsport. Pennsylvania,
recommended for citation by the
War Department in Washington, i
D. C.
It was Private Loekard who1
sounded a warning the mornine j
ol' December 7 at the approach.
of the Japanese attacking force j
which plunged the Pacific into
warfare.
Superior officers ignored hi
warning as a mistake or a prank,
according to reports of the Con 1
gressinnal investigating commit
tee which placed the blame f
the disaster on the highest ir
command in Army and Nav\
forces at Pearl Harbor.
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