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Evening star., 1942-12-06
Justice Department
Reports on Activities
In First Year Of War
Attorney General BiddIe
Cites Absence of
Sabotage in U. S.
BY OLIVER MCKEE.

Though the first year of the war
has yielded its complement of spies,
no major act of foreign INSPIRED
sabotage has been committed during
the IL months since Pearl Harbor,
according to special report on the
war activities of the Justice De-
partment made public by Attorney
General Biddle last night.
AS the principal agency for main
tanning internal security during war
time, the department has moved
against hundreds of foreign and
native-born enemies seeking by
violence or otherwise to cripple the
Nations war program" the report
stated.
Eight Traitors Convicted.
The department, it said, has Sc
cured court conviction of eight per-
sons for treason, sent to prison 49
spies in the pay of Germany and
Japan-exclusive of the eight Nazi
agents tried by military tribunal
here this summer-and placed 1000
foreign agents, many of them openly
propagandizing public opinion, un-
der rigid control, and practically put
an end "to organized sedition" in
the United States.
1.-THE absence of sabotage as a
serious menace thus far in the war
may, in large measure, properly be
credited to the preventive work of
the Justice Department" the Biddle
report declared.
Though there have been 30 con-
victions under the sabotage statutes
during the year, the majority OF the
charges, according to the report, in
volve nothing more serious than
malicious mischief or act growing
either out of personal spite or the
desire for publicity"
In taking steps against organized
sedition and psychological sabo-
tage," the Justice Department has
been obliged to move carefully. the
report stated. THE line dividing
the rightful exercise of free speech
and the utterance of sedition is
seldom clear" it explained. "A too
jealous approach might easily be
more damaging to the ultimate
cause of democracy than the sedi-
ton it was attempting to curb"
Vital Statistics.
According to estimates of justice
officials, there are now in the United
States about 10000 members of
active or reserve foreign military
forces, 10000 diplomatic Off
cials and employees of foreign gov
ernments, from 10000 to $4,000 rep
resentatives of foreign business
concerns, and approximately $50
publications under foreign control
or influence.
obviously, the great majority of
these people are not concerned with
propaganda or political matters nor
have they any subversive intent"
the Biddle report stated. But out
of the mass of data which the de-
partnent has received, some signifi-
cant facts have come to light. There
are. for example, about Is hitherto
unknown organizations representing
Spanish, Finnish, French, Rouman-
ian or other foreign political groups.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Is Britoin's Indian Policy
Jeopordizing Victory?
As Debated BY

1T. COL. w. STEWART T-RODDIE,
British Authority and Lecturer on Indian
Affairs.
Col. Stewart Roddie opens: Brit
tain's Indian policy is based on the
inescapable truth that the Congress
party (not to be mistaken with
Congress in the American sense, it
being a political party predomi-
nantly Hindu could not remain in
power without the aid of British
bayonets. Freedom now for India
would bring about an attempt to
force Hindu rule on "a million
Moslens who are determined to
resist, and we'll capable of doing so
Neither would the depressed classes,
Sikhs, princes and others submit to
Congress party domination. Free
dom now would unleash age-old
hatreds that would create disorder
and seriously hamper India's war
effort, which at present is not nearly
as inconsequential as many propa-
gandists would have one believe
Production and army enlistments
have increased enormously. Pro-
duction is very good considering
the limited facilities and resources.
Obviously, the war effort would
be better could an Indian govern
ment Fundamentally for war be
formed. But Gandhis position as
the worlds most determined paci-
fist, whose "inner voice" has been
quite inconsistant, is not conducive
to confidence.
The internal problems of India
are admittedly hazard to the war
effort; but the risks involved in
giving immediate freedom are in
finiteiy greater than those now
prevailing.
MIR. Thomas challenges: Anti
democratic censorship, British and
American, operates to keep from the
people of our two countries facts
about British repression in India
and an exchange of opinions about
India and related issues. Evidently
it does not operate against visiting
propagandists. Cripps' negotiations
broke on the issue of the Viceroy's
powers. not on the Hindu -Moslem
problem which the British exploit.
Gandhi and Nehru both expressly
accepted Britain and American
military cooperation with a free
India. Both would welcome medi-
alton on detailed arrangements. 1t
is the British government which
refuses for ChurchiIl's imperialist
reasons, disingenuously rationalized
for American consumption.
Col. Stewart Roddie replies: Amer
lean journalists have frequently
stated that British censorship Is
only exercised when information
might be useful to the enemy. What
is the difference between visiting
propagandists" and indigenous or
resident ones? There has never
been British exploit of Hindu and
Moslem differences. Gandhi said:
Attainment of independence is i'm
possible so long as we," l. e., Hindus
and Moslems, do not solve our
own communal tangle." Gandhi
will cooperate only with non-vio-
lence. He will urge the disbanding
of the Indian Army and negotiate
with Japan. There is no room for
negotiations with Britain. Either
they recognize independence or they
don't"
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Their declared purposes, Of course,
are amicable.

Their declared purposes, Of course,
are an1icable.
Prosecutions under the Foreign
Agents Registration Act so far have
resulted in A convictions, with the
imposition of prison terms totaling
los years.
Enforcement of the sedition and
foreign agents statutes rests in large
part with the Special War Policies
Unit. AS part of its functions this
unit studies pro-Axis organizations
and literature, including about 1000
foreign language papers weekly. The
files of the unit contain confidential
reports on approximately 3,70O or
ganizations. 1,40O publications and
21,000 individuals.
Alien Enemies Caught.
During the first year of the war.
the FBI has apprehended 12,17l
alien enemies. OF this number, 3,646
have been ordered interned for the
duration of the war. OF those in
termed, 1874 were japanese, 1,448
were Germans, 210 were Italians and
IA were of other nationalities.
Since the start of the Justice De-
partment's decentralization pro-
gram in March, AZ persons have
been divested of their citizenship,
300 more suits are before the courts,
and upward of $500 cases are un-
der active investigation. The pro-
gram calls for the decentralization
of Bundists and others who gained
their American citizenship by fraud.
The Biddle report revealed that
1852 persons have so far been con-
victed of violating the Selective
Service Act. THE great majority
of complaints of this nature are
adjusted without resort to court
action it said.
The Justice Department also
passes on all appeals for conscien-
tious objectors. A total of $3.50 of
these cases have been reviewed dur
ing the year, with 1862 requests for
reclassif1cation being granted and
1,018 being denied.
During the past year, q war con-
tractors have been indicted for de-
frauding the Government and 900
complaints have been forwarded to
the War Frauds Unit for study and
action.
WAR profiteers are as much a
threat to internal security on the
economic front as spies and sabo-
teurs are on the military" the re-
port stated.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Maritime Service Training
Station 10 Be Dedicated
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Maritime Service Training
Station at Sheepshead Bay, Brook
lyn. described as the worlds largest
merchant marine training station
with a complement of 10000 appren-
tice seamen trainees, will be dedi-
Gated and placed in service next
Saturday, the War Shipping Admin
istration announced yesterday.
Built on the site of a former
amusement park at Manhattan
Beach, the station is virtually self
contained city with 80 buildings, in
Guiding power plant, hospital. fire
department. indoor swimming pools
and training piers designed for pre-
pairing men for the merchant ma
rine
VISA estimated the station, one
of seven operated by the Maritime
Training Service, would turn out
10000 seamen year. Comdr.
George w. Wauchope, USNR, is sta
ton superintendent.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
NORMAN THOMAS,
Chairman, Executive Committee, Post
War World Council

Chairman, Executive Committee, Post
War World Council.
Mr.. Thomas opens: Britain's In
dian policy contradicts the demo-
cratic objectives of the war and is
based on Churchill's statement: I'VE
mean to hold our own" Morally
India is not and never was England's
own. In terms of power it is not her
own because she cannot hold it ex-
cept with American aid.
In the face of what happened in
Malaga and Burma, Churchill holds
India through the despotic powers of
the Viceroy and governs largely by
the machine gun and the lash.
The consequence is an enormous
mass of sullen resistance, an in
describable handicap to the United
Nations in the event of japanese
invasion, and short of that an i'm
mediate handicap to their war effort
because of the bitterness it creates
IN all Asia, and the cynical doubts
1t raises in the minds of our own
soldiers.
Worst Of all this treatment of
India has become in itself, and as
a symbol, fatal barrier to lasting
peace is the only victory worth the
cost, but Churchills treatment of
India. if unchanged, makes it GER
tain that no matter how complete is
our military victory this war will
be prelude to third world war
in which, even more than today, the
issue will be white supremacy.
Col. Stewart -ROddies Challenges: :
Grips proposals clearly offered
India freedom NOW, with exception
of power to make a separate
peace: complete freedom at end of
war, including rights to secede from
the Commonwealth. Mr.. Churchill
officially declared: From that offer
nothing can be taken away"
Machine cunning was regrettable.
but necessary on two occasions. Hin
du law authorized lashing of looters.
In other countries they would have
been shot.
Mr.. Thomas grossly exaggerates.
ne conditions and the consequences.
1ndia's war effort has increased
enormously since Gandhi's civil dis
obedience order.
Gandhi has declared that there
san be no peace until the Indians
/ can solve their communal problem
Mr.. Thomas replies: Col. Stewart
Roddie by selective and partial quo
tation misrepresents Gandhi's posi-
ton as badly as he does the Cripps
proposals which did not offer India
freedom NOW except for power to
make a separate peace" The Viceroy
kept his dictatorial powers. The
British Government conditions
promises of Indian freedom on In
dia's achieving a degree of unity
which will satisfy rulers who sys-
tematically cultivate and exploit dis
unity. Winston Churchill's I'VE
mean to hold our own" is his Gov
ernment's true position. Hence his
Viceroy refused to see Gandhi or
more recently to permit the mod
crate &c. R." to see him for further
negotiation.
This way lies disaster.
Evening star., 1942-12-06

Waste kitchen fats make ex-
plosives. Don't throw away . drop.
Take them to your meat dealer.
Evening star., 1942-12-06

Contribute your junk to the great
est junk pile of the future-the
ambitions of the Jap militarists.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
Lesson FOR Tomorrow

OTTO BE prepared for is of the most efectual
means of preserving peace"-First annual address
of President Washington to Congress in 1890.
Recalling how were buncoeda into "junkng' many
of batteshps and cruisers after World War at the
Washington disarmament conference by cunning Euro
pean and Asatic pacfsts Undersecretary of the Navy
Forrestal recently said
I'VE made a mistake at the end of the last war. We
bindly assumed that history would change overnight and
that greed would end
We have found out to our great loss and hurt that
history does NOT change overnight and that foreign
greed for land and goods did not end and not
likely to while the world goes round.
WYE ARE also discovering that it is cheaper to
w invest in peacetme defense large scale land
and in the than is to invest in these necessities
after is suddenly thrust upon
For nine years two powers at least-one in Europe
and one in Asia-have been arming the the land
and in the air.
But little was done HERE for sefdefense.
We too busy listening to the siren songs of
social innovations
But it is from the mistakes of the past that must
learn the duty of tomorrow
And that duty is clear to
A postwar America that shall be all-powerful in the
air and the and that shall have mobile, mechan-
lied standing army-and universal military training pre-
feraby the Swiss-civilian plan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
Let's Quit Making BergdolI
A Martyr; Let Him Enlist
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

80 years of the normal uses OF
the legs.
USOMEWHERE in China"
~ there has just been held
a solemn sacrifcial ceremony"
commemorative the 7l5th an
niversary of the death of the
Monaghan Genghis Khan. who
boosted that he rode through
cities paved with skulls" Dis
patches say that representa-
tives Of the Chinese government
attended"
1t is curious how time lends a
magic to even the greatest saw
ages and butchers!
1T COSTS billions and lives,
Il lives, lives Ito go places"
Hitler is finding that out.
England is also finding it out.
Even we are finding it out
India, Africa, the Malay PENN
sula. Australia, the Philippines.
Let me throw in my postwar
suggestion: No more empire
building for anybody. Let's all
stay at home and tend 10 our
own business.
If some other people want to
be ruled by the big boys. let
them indicate ii by an over
whelming vote.
Wars may end when we stop
going places without asking
leave.
HOW will all these "eXiled'
II writer's now in the country
affect American thinking? And
also the style of our writer's?
Seems 10 me. most Of them
smell of European collectivist
doctrines of varying odors-and
their style of writing, generally
speaking, reminds me of frozen
Camembert cheese.
IF YOU want TO put some piece
of gradioSe socialistic ga-ga
over on the public put the word
people" or democracy" into it
and watch the professors and
other sleazY-minded ''ideaiists
swallow it without a gulp.
Vice President Wallace's THE
Peoples Century" for instance.
Note the bait Peoples Who
does Mr. Wallace suppose
people are?
Well people means every
human being on the planet, rich,
poor, ruler and peasant. What
Mr.. Wallace really means is a
proletarians' century-in which
vast gangs of labor bureaucrats
will pluck the rest of the
people" from helltobreakfast.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03

STRAY shots:
~ l don't like slackers of any
kind, but l think that the pun
ishment of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll for Stacking in World
War l is being overdone.
In this matter, agree with
Orville Wright, who asks that
the nation stop making Bergdoll
a national scapegoat.'
We Americans are a queer lot.
We either grow sentimentally
sloppy over some one or harden
up beyond all reason.
Let Bergdoll out of Jail and
put him 10 work in the army.
He's learned his lesson.
THE four mightiest travellers
Il of all time: Ulysses, Marco
Polo, Baron Munchausen and
Archibald MacLeish.
THE World Jewish Congress in
Il London says that reliable
sources indicate that the Nazis
have killed one million Jews so
far in Europe.
And yet Mr.. Sumner Welles
talks about a 'cooling-off time
after the war!
A BOOK review; Raymond
"A Clapper, Mai. George Field
ing Eliot, Raymond Gram Swing
and Dorothy Thompson have
gone all out in bubbles of de-
light over Henry A. Wallace's
little book, The Price of Free
World Victory
I've read it carefully and
turned each phrase over in the
pan of reason
In looking into the pan two
days afterward and, reading the
% pages of the book again, l
found IT contained just 5 per
cent Of clearly observed facts
and 95 per cent rhetoric. hope
cake and demagogic sucker-bait.
A Gallup Poll reveals that
two-thirds of Americans polled
say they would be quite willing
to walk TO their jobs for two
miles. or even more. 10 help
conserve rubber and gas.
| really believe that most
modern ailments of bowels,
limbs, joints and blood-can be
traced TO a decline in the last
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
| e++ers TO
+h Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
/ BELIEVE your editorial Of
= last week was the first to
appear in any of the Detroit
papers in defense of the National
High School Orchestra.
AS an admirer of long stand
ing of that fine Interlochen or
ganization l want TO express my
appreciation for your courage in
defense of the school children of
America.
Over a period of seven years
that l have had the pleasure
Of listening TO their programs
and mingling with them on Sun
day afternoons, / have learned
10 have a deep respect for the
things they are accomplishing as
young American musicians.
l think if Mr.. Petrillo could
spend a Sunday afternoon at
their camp and listen TO one of
their concerts he would most
surely blush with shame for the
great injustice he is trying to
impose on the greatest musical
organization of its kind in the
world today.
v. c. LEVERE,
sos Church Street,
Ann Arbor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
TO THE EDITOR:
v. c. LEEERE,
sos Church Street,
Ann Arbor.

TO THE EDITOR:
WHY all this fuss about over
w time for men who are will
ing to work?
The country needs the ma
terial and the men can certainly
use the money.
Don't our politicians realize
that many thousands have not
worked or have had just enough
income TO live on since last
January, and now that the
shops are about ready to do the
work allotted to them the num-
Der Of hours man may work
is to be cut?
During this long period the
oldsters contented themselves
on their mere pittance of $50 a
week because Of the promise of
overtime pay when they were
called back.
The longer a man has worked
for company the less chance
he has of securing work else
where because of his seniority.
AT least continue overtime
long enough to give those a
break who expect TO be working
by September, and there are
more of these men than people
seem 10 realize.
MADELEINE LARGENT,
4102 Springle Avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
What War Bonds Buy

When an air raid comes. the
lives of your loved ones may de-
pend on the range and altitude
finder. This device is an essen
tial element in anti-aircraft fire
control. 1t is an optical instru-
ment, designed TO mathemati-
cally and automatically compute
firing data required.
One of these devices costs
about $4,000 and we need hun
dreds of them. You can help pay
for them by investing at least
10 per cent of your income in
War Bonds every payday, A pay
roll allotment pledge at your
place of employment is the
easiest method of War Bond in
vestment-and at maturity will
pay you 81 for every SIS you in
vest.
u. q. Treasury Department
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
SNbOfQNX.S RNf Face
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

There's nothing like sandpaper for wping grin off
saboeurs face
When smile those rat faces it makes my blood
boil much could give TRANSMISSION to the boilers of
old Mississippi steamboat. And mean going upstream
Say, Dlinger didn't laugh when he heard Mr.
Whiskers after him like paperhanger going for step
ladder
He had that pan of his changed he would look like
somebody They got him just the but showed
Dillnger knew time to smile And he
right fins fish.
Distributed Nss Services
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03


China, and in the enemy coun-
tries that the women. properly
organized as a definite branch
Of the armed forces, can be of
great value.
But in the United States there
has always been a feeling that
the ladies had no place in war
service beyond nursing and sup
plying the soldiers with hot
coffee and doughnuts at can
teens and then only more or
less in a civilian capacity.
This attitude is rather sur
prising in nation that has long
taken pride in the superiority
of Its lady athletes--its swim
meTs, golf and tennis players
and horsewomen. and that has
thrown open to the ladies every
field of athletic competition in
which they may think they
have a chance.
The WAACS represent the
greatest recognition in the
United States of the Importance
of women since they were given
the vote.
OF course il is a non-combat-
ant organization, meaning that
the girls will not be expected TO
do any actual fighting, but their
service will be just as valuable
as that OF the thousands of men
enlisted in the army and navy
but assigned to quite necessary
non combatant roles. The
WAACS will probably eventually
be used TO relieve many OF these
men TO the combat division.
THINK there is also great
Il value in the lady soldiers as
a symbol of patriotism. They
must expect A little Kidding at
first from the gentlemen, but
those who indulge in the kid
ding should be sure of their
own military status. A lady in
the uniform Of her country will
scarcely be an object of testing
on the part of gentleman not
In the same garb.
l note that Mrs. Hobby. on
being sworn in as the director
of the new force, was asked
some rather idle questions as
10 whether her girls are To be
permitted girdles and nail polish
and lip rouge. and also whether
they may have dates with gen
tlemen soldiers. and l thought
she disposed of the questions
quite tactfully.
CHE indicated that the attri-
u butes of femininity are not
10 be tempered with beyond rea-
son. / think that is a sound
decision. Just because a lady
becomes a soldier there is no
sense in also making her
komoppo.
would like 10 suggest 10
Director Hobby that she exer-
else special care in the style Of
cap 10 be worn by her command
and not select that rather diff
cult type of headgear worn by
the English WAACS.
Those caps really take bit
of wearing. OF course if all of
Director Hobby's girls could
look like Joan Fontaine i'm the
caps everything would be all
right.
As for the American WAACS
having dates with gentlemen
private soldiers, suppose we just
relax on that point and let ma
ture take its course.
Copyright. 1919, by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03

THROUGH the efforts of the CAA, aviation research
courses have been already established at Columbia
University and the University of Nebraska
The educational publishers of the country competed
to supply the textbooks aeronaucs to go into the
schools. and Macmillan & Co.'S proposal accepted
There will be II different textbooks for the schools
and colleges of America to be known the Air-Age
Education Series
We have learned in the bitter school of experience
that the future of America depends universal military
training the Swiss plan and air training which should
mode of national defense be- like military training
COMPULSORY
The science of aeronautics will in future be the very
ABC of courses in physics in schools, for if
to survive a people must be armed with WINGS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-03

30 years of the normal uses Of
the legs.