The Omaha guide., 1942-03-14
OF FIFTH COLUMNIST
AMONG SAINT
LOUIS MISSOURI NEGROES
TRACED to JAPS
HUNT TWO JAP SPONSORS OF
TEN YEAR OLD FRArERNAL
ORDER

ST. LOUIS, March s CAMP
Federal agents seeking the source
Of prorJapanese propaganda
spread among Negroes since the
attack On Pearl Harbor have IN
covered the fact that the Pacific
Movement Of the Eastern World.
a 10-year old organization, is
sponsored by Japanese agents as
a fifth column" organization to
spread confusion and dissension
and disrupt Americas war effort.
Sponsors of the movement here
were DR.. Asthma Talks and his
Superior from Chicago, NJ. Liang.
who are being sought by federal
agents, but are nowhere to be
found Those Negroes who lead
the movement here view it now as
a perfectly proper fratrnal organ
ization with no ~subversive tend
encies, but the doctrine preached
by its Japanese sponsors has been
revived with new intensity lately
and responsible Negro leaders are
alarmed at its spread among the
race
The doctrine breaches that Ne
g-Oes have no stake in America.
where they are segregated ana
Disseminated against, where they
are lynched and barred from labor
Unions and institutions of higher
education" and that they would
be better off if Japan won the
war; because the Japanese too
are a dark people. oppressed by
the white race.
Several thousand St. Louisians
joined the movement and tens OF
thousands elsewhere. Many were
attractd to it as just another frat
ernal organization, others wers
won to it by glittering promises Of
a world in which Negroes would
be truly emancipated-"
Recent evidence indicates that
the Japanese sponsors found 9TH
ers In the movement who could be
useful in fifth column activity. st.
Louis members. who are still act
i've, have gone underground in
the accepted fashion Of subversive
elements Former LADDERS. disclaim
any present connection with the
supposedly ~fraternal order. but re-
ports of secret meetings here and
elsewhere have seepd out. One
report says that a group meets in
East st. Louis, and other states
that secret meetings r held in
st. Louis.
In Cairo. ILL.,, Charleston. Mo,
and in other communities in South
east Missouri's "bootheel" country
there have been reports Of large
secret meetings.
Burt r. Cornish, elevator oper-
ator for q shoe company, at whose
home Talks resided during his stay
in St Louis, told of the origin Of
the movement and activities Of its
Japanese sponsors. Cornish is ac-
tive in many fraternal organlzar-
ions and became an officer Of the
Peace Movement
According to Cornish, Talks,
then about 80 years old, came to
his home in 1882. accompanied by
LANG who represented himself as
an importer in Chicago. and gave
the impression he was ASSOCIATED
with the japanese consulate. La
ing was said to be tall and thin,
Immediately CARRIED and was at
tended by a huge Negro valet. TAX
is was short, rather solidly built
and well dressed with, as Cornish
said, "a suit for every day in the
week"
Lang returned to Chicago, leav
ing Talks in charge.
A scrap book Of clippings for
the Pacific movement, chiefly by
Talks and later by Cornish, shows
pictures Of ~airplanes, submarines,
torpedoes, bombs, United States
naval vessels on war maneuvars.
stories about injustices toward Ne
groes, one about the wedding Of a
Japanese woman and an Abyssir-
ian prince, and a picture Of the
japanese Supreme War council CT
1884. Cornish said that Talks
claimed n Of the council mem
bers pictured was his father.
DR.. Talks, alias NJ. Yamanoto.
aIias Satohata Takahasi, and var
ious other aliases. i now under
Indictment here On charges of forg
ing a money order, and a circular
distributed by the post office in
spector requesting his arrest stat
es That he is known also as DR.
400 ,Mimo De Guzman, or Mimo
Guzman.
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