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| Identification Certificates to Be Worn by AliensWashington, Jan. 15,—(/P)—At* torney General Biddle today ordered all German, Italian and Japanese aliens in eight western states to apply for special Identification certificates between February 2 and February 7.*• • * i ' •Nationals of those three enemy countries residing elsewhere in the United States must apply for theidentification, certificates between* * t| • • * . •February 9 and February 28.. The attorney General said that dates would be fixed later for identifying enemy aliens in the Virgin• ■ •••• * ••Islands and Puerto Rico.Acting under a presidential proclamation issued yesterday, Biddle announced at his press conference that the alien enemies over the age of 14 would'be required to carry ar all times an identification card bearing a photograph and one fingerprint.At the time of applying for the card, aliens will be required to answer certain questions, particularly relating to relatives both in / this country and abroad and whether therelatives are in the armed forces of,, • • ' • • • ' , • . • *an eqerny nation.The group which must register first comprises the 135,843 enemy aliens In the western command— Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, anil Washington. The group includes 26,25? Germans, 60,905 Italians and 48,697 Japanese.Biddle stressed that the identification, program applied only to nationals of the three enemy nations who have not yet taken the oalli of allegiance to the United States. *Registration will be carried out at the.nationV76,000 first and second, class and county sent postoffires as was done In registering aliens In J»40. V
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Kalispell Daily Inter Lake
Kalispell, Montana, US
Thu, Jan 15, 1942
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