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1, VA., lML'itSUyAl. JVJAn^tl Zb, Z“C rack-down!” is the west coast's onJer of the day on enemy aliens. Above. Los Angeles policemen confront a Japanese alien »i(h airplane models found in his home during round-up of axis nationals.By SilKRM AN MONTROSE.11* iYnturc Scr^ ii’c 11 rilerSAX FRANCISCO, Calif. —While tlie hue and cry against aliens on the west coast is directed primarily against the Japanese, actually they are vastly outnumbered by Germans and Italians in California, Oregon and Washington.The office of enemy control estimated it must deal with betweenfllbb.Odd and 300,000 enemy aliensand their children in Californiaalone. Of this number, there are thousands nunc Germans and Italians than Japanese in restricted zones as well as elsewhere.“Our best estimates.” said a spokesman of the enemy control office, “is that there are 71,727 alien Germans and about 100,000 alien Italians in the restricted sections. VI*“In the same area, v.c have only 33,500 a linn Japanese.”looked the £refonderance of German and Italian nationals, nevertheless, and have been rounding them up with the Japanese.Ihe problem of what to do withthe masses of enemy aliens being i evacuated from restricted areashas become a grade A headache. Whole blocks of families have already been uprooted, harsher action is rumored.Even before the federal bureau of investigation began staging its raids and President Roosevelt empowered the army to move aliens and citizen^ alike out of any area .deemed necessary, public sentiment had precipitated local action.Los Angeles dropped all Japanese from public payrolls and San Francisco barred all enemy ailens from civilian defense activities.In addition to closed zones, a curfew area extends along the upper two-thirds of the California coastline, covers one-fifth of the * state and spreads from 15 to 150 miles inland.The purpose: to keep aliens in| their homes from lt;) p. m. to ('»i a. m. to prevent possible night [signaling to the enemy, or other agents. In addition, aliens are not allowed more than five miles from their homes without permission. The west coast doesn’t want to see another Rear! Harbor on its own .shores.Declaration of full martial law or modified military rule in California to supplant constitutional law and constitutional rights of Japanese-American citizens is advocated openly.What’s going to happen to the evacuees and others hit by wartime restrictions is a problem, being left up to Washington to solve.A lot of aliens removed fromCoti^tessiohalMedal Of HonorWASHINGTON, (.f? — A con-gressional medal of honor,'the nation’s highest decoration for valor under fire, is going to GeneralMac Art Inn- today by order of President Roosevelt.The medal, a spread eagle andfive-pointed slap swung from ablue silk ribbon, will be presentedto the commander-in-chief of the«Southwest Pacific by Nelson T.Johnson, United States minister to Australia.their homes have no funds and aroused property owners elsewhere refuse to rent houses except at exorbitant rents.California farm groups in inland areas have signed petitions and ultimatums that they won’t absorb refugees from the coast. States bordering those on the coast are not ready to accept the aliens, either. The governor of Idaho declared that if his state did receive any aliens, they could come only as internees and not as farm1 laborers.----- v —-------ENROLLMENT EXTENDEDLONDON. (.1*) — Compulsory enrollment of men in the home guard was extended today to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales. The extension came two days after Sir John Anderson, lord president of council and membelr of the war cabinet, had warned citizens that the invasion menace still existed and had outlined their duties in such an event.ForCLEANING PRESSINGAs It Should Re Done, Send It ToSILCOX CLEANERSi* *336 Washington Avenue Dial 2-7211Fire and Theft Insurance
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Pulaski Southwest Times
Pulaski, Virginia, US
Thu, Mar 26, 1942
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