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NVITE JAP ALIENSSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28 lt;A)—Opposition of inland states to receiving enemy aliens, particularly Japanese, who may be evacuated from the Pacific coast appeared, in some instances, to be decreasing today.Representatives of two counties in Utah invited the government to send up to 3,000 Japanese aliens to them to work farms on a lease or share crop basis. Gov. Herbert B. Maw, however, has expressed opposition to importation of enemy aliens unless absolutely necessary.Gov. Ralph L. Carr of Colorado announced his state was not inviting enemy aliens but that if the war department considered It essential Colorado would provide temporary quarters lor them as '‘the only patriotic choice open to the state.”State officials in Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico all have opposed suggestions that enemy aliens be moved there from the .Pacific states.**:aYvr$la; forbids any alien to hold an interest in real estate.Meanwhile, Rep. John M. Tolan, D., Calif., whose house committee is holding a series of west coast hearings on the alien situation, said in Seattle that he had- been informed stringent alien evacuation orders were imminent. He telegraphed President Roosevelt urging appointment of an alien property custodian and a coordinator for enemy alien problems before the evacuation order is issued or simultaneously with it.Lieut. Gen. John L. DcWitt, commander of the fourth army, has been authorized by President Roosevelt to designate military areas in the western defense command area and remove from those areas all persons, aliens or citizens, whose presence he considers dangerous.It became increasingly clear, meanwhile, that removal of the enemy alien population to decrease danger of sabotage and fifth column activity would create other problems.# * * #
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Twin Falls Times News
Twin Falls, Idaho, US
Sun, Mar 01, 1942
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