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Show WAR PROBLEMS FACE COMMUNITY America's declaration of war against the axis powers brought deep concern to every family and home in Bingham district, as in other communities of the state and nation. Many relatives and friends of young men in service were a-waiting a-waiting information on their safety. A number are known to be in active duty in the Philippines, Philip-pines, Hawaiian islands and on high seas in that vicinity. Others in training for months past notified no-tified their families that they expected ex-pected momentarily orders sending send-ing them into the trouble zone. Second largest draft call since selective service began was issued is-sued for January by Major H. Arnold Rich, acting director of Utah selective service. It calls for induction of 553 Utah men next month. Many young men, not desiring to await call, planned plan-ned earlier enlistment, a number enlisting this week. Bingham Canyon's Japanese) community of 70 members in Copperfield stayed in their homes in compliance to orders of federal, feder-al, county and municipal authorities. author-ities. Japanese children returned to school Tuesday. One arrest was made Monday when Toma-yuki Toma-yuki Yamane, 30, Utah Copper company employee and Ameri- can citizen, tried to leave town to go to Ogden. He was given a 20-day sentence for vagrancy and taken to Salt Lake county jail. The U. S. government's order freezing all funds of Japanese subjects prohibited any Japanese national from withdrawing money mon-ey from deposits or receiving money for goods or services. This order may be modified by the treasury department later on, it was announced. Arrest or detention of any persons per-sons as a suspected enemy alien is handled only by federal agencies. agen-cies. Governor Herbert B. Maw advised. Japanese that have been kept at work by employers are required re-quired to carry a letter signed by the employer and stating the (1) name of the employee (2)where he works (3) what he does (4) where he lives (5) where he can be reached at all times. It is learned from a reliable source that Japanese workers on the Utah Copper will return to work next week under some arrangement. ar-rangement. Deputy sheriffs were requested request-ed by Japanese in Copperfield to call' at the camp and remove all firearms from the premises. o |