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Await Orders teiAffecting 200,000 £rOn Pacific Coastvai tieSAN FRAN CIS CO— (V.H).—A new Ja evacuation order which may affect qult; 200,000 pacific coast enemy aliens au-and their American-born children 1.89Aeowas awaited today as governors of stir:states lying between the Rocky ovlt; Mountains and the Mississippi— bal with one exception — announced in they would permit Japanese aliens hii to live only in concentration camps if they were moved inland. (Lieut. Gen. John L. WeWitt, the commanding general of the Fourth clu Army and the Western Defense anlt; Command, said a proclamation 75 would be issued “shortly designating military areas from which theexclusion of certain groups will be required.Army Given Authority President Roosevelt has given d|the army authority to proscribe certain vital defense areas and exclude from them any persons, citi- |zens and aliens alike. gAlready thousands of Japanese, Italian and German citizens ^have been forced to move away from waterfronts, aircraft factories, power plants, industrial areas and oil fields, and other thousands are compelled to remain in their homes between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.Rep, John H. Tolan, D., Calif., heading a house committee investigating (national defense migra-djtion, said he had polled the gover-tslv?.vyrcdy.nors of 15 states lying west of the Mississippi river on proposals to send evacuees away from the Pacific coast states.Nine of them replied and each said, in effect “no Japanese wanted—except in conce n t r a t i o n camps.Colorado Takes Evacuees However, Gov. Ralph L. Carr of Colorado told Gen. DeWitt his(Continueo on Page Stxjtv• •»•
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Corona Daily Independent
Corona, California, US
Mon, Mar 02, 1942
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