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I SPORTS! CLASSIFIED ADS MARKETS Section Two The Washington 1 Merry-Go-Round By Pearson and Allen 7 X. ilM'G 4 I i i v. if-r- 'vO' aVv. A ''X: I-'1' Vxv GLORIA AND HER FIANCE Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 17-year-old heiress to more than $4,000,000, celebrated her engagement to Pat Di Cicco, son of thejat broccoli king of Long Island, at a New York night club. Glorias mother, Mrs.

Reginald C. Vanderbilt, announced that the couple will.be wed on Christmas day in California. Di Cicco is a Hollywood actors agent. PREPARE FEAST FOR SOLDIERS-r-Tweqty-five soldiers from the Rock Island arsenal will be dinner guests tomorrow noon of the Cable Community church, and there is going to be plenty to eat. Judging from this picture taken yesterday afternoon as members of the ladies aid society started peeling potatoes and picking pin feathers out of chickens.

Left to right, are: Mesdames Parker Gale. A. T. Cooper, George Holdsworth, Fred Brown, John Miline, Chris F. Eddred and Stewart Quain-tance.

(Argus photo). i WM i 5 Washington, Dec. 13. Overnight this town has changed. Washington was a boom town last week; this' -week its a war town.

The change is partly a matter of visible things, partly things that are felt-without be-' ing een Khaki-clad soldiers, with tin hats and bayonets, patroling two abreast between the White house and the state department Darkness over the Capitol dome, where searchlights are blacked out, for the duration A jam of volunteers for civilian defense New flags delivered at civilian defense headquarters, two for LaGuardias car, two for Mrs. Roosevelt's car. Six for the. Praron. motorcycles The.

residence of German cor-. respondent Kurt Sell is raided at night and Sell is taken into custody by FBI. Though the department of commerce deals with such innocuous subjects as census figures, its great steel doors are locked, and guards demand credentials at the main entrance Women flyers of America call: a hurried meeting to speed up plans for training An extra detail of police strolls on the south grounds of the White house, last trampled by egg-rolling Easter crowds. In his press conference, the presidents voice Is grave and low that a newsman calls out, Louder, please" Four plain-clothesrnen, in two cars, sit parked all day on Waterside drive, whpre the bank rises sharply on the back garden of the Japanese embassy. INVENTORS COUNCIL! This is what happen to the hundreds of defense inventions received daily by the national Inventors council: I a After a preliminary scrutiny to eliminate "crackpots" the inventions are sent one of the nine regularly employed engineer of the councils Washington staff.

The specialist' makes an examination and if he considers an invention good, enoygh he sends it to the council member- who is an expert in this particular field. Every six weeks the council meets in Wash-1 ington to consider the findings of the individual! members. If a majority deem an invention Worthy of further exploration, it is sent to the army or navy, whosfe experts then take charge from there on. If an invention is approved, the army or navy then enters into negotiations for its purchase. JAPANESE SPIES.

Last summer Congressman Martin Dies had investigators make a thorough survey of Japanese activities along the west -coast. The results( eventually were suppressed by the state and the president himself, but a brief summary of them indicates that some parts of the United States on Washington, Dec. 13. ---Property, money, material, possessions dont mean much now. Freedom, the right to live our own lives, to live as a first-rank nation that is all that counts now.

This is a war to Save for ourselves and for all, other people those principles of the Bill of Rights written into our constitution just 150 years ago Dec. 15, The Bill of Rights can exist for individuals or for nations only in a free world safe from conquest. Regimes of forces cant tolerate Even in our own country we may have to suspend some of those rights during the war. In wartime these freedoms can exist only if people voluntarily refrain from exercising them to the fulL You cant fight-a war with a country full of people acting like Senator Tobey. These 10 precious amendments to our constitution distill into a few simple principles the whole conception of the free way of life.

They only set down in substances the practice of most free nations. You know the bill of rights. Freedom of speech aid religion. Protection from search and seizure of persons, their homes and papers. No taking of! private property without due compensation.

Fait trial by jury. No cruel or unusual punishment, Those are the essential ones. These rules do not exist under the Nazis or any other totalitarian regime. The reason is that they would be fatal. Always they are the first rule to go when dictatorship replaces parliamentary self-government.

The totalitarian regime must suppress free speech; It must spy on and arrest people and hold them without trial and subject them to brutal punishment because all these regimes rest upon absolute, unquestioned force imposed from the top. In practice the most convenient weapon for mass enforcement is fear. The horrible example, the blood purge, the concentration camp, the midnight secret arrest and the household spy are the means by which the dictator cows and rules his country, and prevents the rise of an opposition Fair New Dec. 13. Ibis nation has little to thank Adolf Hitler for, but, to give the devil his due, he has relieved us of all such confusion as troubled some Americans for a long time after the first German war on the world and divided the people down to last Sunday in the present one.

This time there can be no suggestion that the international bankers or our soulless muni-t ioneers, or merchants of death, kicked up a great war for profit. The international banker is nowhere in this situation, for the financing has been carried on directly between this government, thrice elected by the peo- whroofc pi. pie, and our allies with the permission of the peoples representatives in congress. The war was prepared ahd started by a nation which had stolen all the money that the sucker nations, in their generosity, would give or lend to set the German people on their feet and then not only repudiated all dept but accused the suckers of trying to enslave them-by lavish gifts, loans and investments. It was preceded by a long, yowling campaign of self-pity which wrung the hearts of Germanys late enemies and moved some sentimental historians to conclude that the allies had been guilty of a great wrong in resisting the kaisers war machine from 3914 on.

And while he was sobbing, and bawling over the humiliation's of his noble countrymen ih the, years after 1918, Hitler was creating war machine embracing all the industry of the entire nation and all its manpower. OLD MUNITIONS MAKERS But neither our. American merchants of death nor Britains were bn the job during this peririd. Thanks to Senator Gerald Nye, who conducted of those circus inquiries into the munitions trade, the American merchants of death had sickened of the ingratitude of their countrymen and had applied themselves to the manufacture of household gadgets, silk stockings and'other harmless devices dear to the hearts of a comfort-loving people. The merchant of deafh proved to be human after all and was so ashamed of his calling that he turned face a.

dangerous problem it comes to fifth column activity. Hitler had many agents planted through Norway, France and the low countries when he attacked, but the Japanese, according to the Dies report, start out with 150,000 of their countrymen in the United States. These are all Japanese citizens, and do not include 50,000 second generation Japanese born in the United States. The Dies report shows that 200 key Japanese have been decorated by the emperor during the past two years and that many Japanese are in close cooperation with the homeland through the central Japanese association, which has 'been directed by consulates in California. Dies agents have collected photographs of various Japanese truck gardens operated alongside oil tanks and strategic railroads, i Also they report 5,000 Japanese residing on terminal island in Los Angeles harbor, where are located strategic oil tanks.

Reeves field and a shipbuilding company. Oil storage tanks blown up in the harbors would endanger all of the Los Angeles area. The most revealing document seized by Dies agents are maps, showing all the United States strategic points and fortifications, and a Naval Manual showing the size of air American naval vessels. The Naval Manual, published in -1641, is so up to date that it even shows latest models of United States mosquito boats together with the presidential yacht Potomac and the plan of United States airplane carriers. KNEW BATTLE FORMATIONS.

Another Japanese map seized by Dies -agents Is revealing in the extreme. It shows the layout of the American fleet in a typical battle formation near Hawaii. United States naval officers confirm the fact that the map correctly shows past naval maneuvers. ir' The documents show the detains of Pearl Harbor the Panama canal, San Francisco, Manila, Gaum and Vladivostok. They also give the normal cruising radius of the United States fleet out of Honolulu, together with the normal location of airplane carriers, cruising, battleships, scout and auxiliary, transports.

Maps also show the whereabouts of submarine cables, mines, channels, wireless sta tions, Japanese consulates and air bases all along-the west coast. Congressman Dies had summoned 52 witnesses apd was prepared to conduct hearings regarding Japanese activities when he received a letter from Matthew Maguire, then acting attorney general and now United States federal judge, stating categorically that the state and justice departments, together with the White house, were opposed the inquiry, 1 1 By Raymond Clapper that might overthrow him. The dictator must take this course as a matter of self-preservation. WAR MUST GO KNOCKOUT. This War must go to a knockout' on one side.

We know now 'after Pearl Harbor that we are not safe until Japan, Germany and Italy are smashed. Only then will be safe from another treacherous attack. Only then will any nation be free from such danger. So this is the good war. It is' the war against treachery and brutality against ugly, boot-heel conquest, against slavery of individuals and of na-e tions, against those whose answer to every! argument is to pull out a gun.

The heroes of' Wake island, and Captain Kelly who was killed while sinking a Japanese battleship, have fought to save civilizations greatest possession, the spirit of the Bill of Rights. We know that if the Nazi axis wins, the Nazi system will be imposed internally upon all countries as it was imposed on Vichy France, through submissive, cooperative stooges. Hitler does not permit conquered countries to maintain parliamentary self-government. His victims are held either by military occupation or by quisling politicians who play the game with him and take orders. i HITLER WOULD ABOLISH ALL.

If we would not make peace with a Hitler Germany, do you think Hitler would make peace with a Roosevelt America, with a democratic America? He would insist upon a new regime willing to do business with him in hrs way of doing business. He hates parliamentary bodies as he hates Jews. You can read it in hisbook. Congress would be his first victim. He would insist upon an Ameri- can regime which allowed no such nonsense as the bill of rights.

This is not fantastic. Did we. not insist upon Germany setting up a republic before we would make peace at the end of the last war? Remember, Hitler believes in his system as we believe in ours. He wont make peace with our kind of government any more than we will make, peace with his kind. i Literally our way of life depends upon victory.

Our constitution and our system cannot survive unless we win. That is wjiy this is a good war. By Westbrook Peglier. square, leaving us with no plant ready to turn out the tools that are used in war. The skills of the workers in the war industries had died or grown dull or been dispersed when Hitler' started this war.

For years the long and almost continuous stretch of war-industry courltry between Providence and Baltimore was dark most of the The trains rushed past sagging factories with faded for sale signs pleading weakly on their walls. Windows were stoned out by town kids who one day, sooner than they could realize, would be needing weapons and machines from those plants. 1 i Britain, at the same time, had dropped its guard so deplorably that when old Chamberlain went to Munich to bpw in humiliation and beg for peace, and time, the British simply couldnt take on a fight with Hitler. France had no aviation at all, the United was not much better off and Britain, too, though brave, was running a bluff which presently was carried through by the magnificent few to whom Winston Churchill acknowledged the debt of the grateful many. GOVERNMENT.

DOES IT THIS TIME! To President Roosevelts dogged, powerful campaign against the indifference of a people unaware, the United States owes the fact that within the last 18 months this country has largely revived the skills of the munitions and armaments trades and prepared the nation to fight in the air the 'fight is over. But it was the national government this not the merchants of i death, that built up the war industries to their present promising state so startling against the memory of the bleakness of those plants up to 1935 and after. The president had read Hitlers book, his speeches and hie actions and anticipated, in a general way, at least, the course he would take, which was unimaginable to most other statesmen and common people. 1 So, when Japan, with 10 years of almost continuous experience in war, struck the United States at Hitlers i bidding, all doubt was gone. This wasnt a bankers1 war or a business promotion job of the evil murtitioneers.

It Was a war of national defense, personal to every American, and within the week 4he government itself had been compelled to order the 24-hour day and the 7-day week and take over the abandoned trade of the merchants of death. BABY ISNT HELLER AFTER ALL-Film actress Mary Martin in first picture with her 5-week-old daughter, Mary H. Halliday. When. the child was born the nother created a furor by announcing that-, she would name the baby Heller.

(NEA Telephoto). WEST COAST DEFENDERS WARM UP Propellers of the 20th pursuit group -go on the alert for possible sZ1k st I spin at Hamilton field, as ground crews Japanese air raids on west coast cities. X' i 'XT 31 s. "'iX, 'V x0 the Illinois state reserve militia on duty airport, one of the busiest in the United HITLER TELLS MUFTI TO GET TOUGH Official German picture radioed from Berlin shows Adolf Hitler receiving Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Moslem leader, grand mufti of Jerusalem and British-hater: Mufti received conversations important to Arabian nations. EAGLES OVER OLD GLORY IN BRITAIN Planes of the Second Eagle -Squadron of United States air fighters Britain wing in formation over the Stars and Stripes.

Reports indicate these fliers may be. released to enter American forces. 11 FT" b.n. Ik "3- ft 1 rm MILITIA TAKES UP1 GUARD AT AIRPORT Members of as a 24-hour armed guard was thrown around the Chicago States. (NEA Telephoto).

FOOLED YOU! To save munitions at the Fort Knox, KyA indoor target range, the sort of .22 caliber bullet that squirrel hunters use shoves into a hole in a dummy 37 mm. shell, and the junior bullet is fired, Heres how the dummy shell is loaded. i.