F.B.I. Ready to Seize Spies if Jap War Breaks

BUFFALO, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 6.--(UP)--United States Commissioner Martin C. Epstein of Brooklyn said tonight that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was ready, in the event of war with Japan, to arrest scores of "enemy agents" now under surveillance."

Epstein addressed a meeting of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is chief deputy grand chancellor.

"Quietly, without fanfare of publicity and unknown to the spies themselves," he said, "picked F.B.I. men have kept close tabs on the men and women in the pay of enemy nations who would injured our nation's security."