Show I ALIEN ROUNDUP MOVES INLAND SAN FR FRANCISCO O Feb 23 More Up-More pj More than enemy I r aliens made last minute preparations preparations preparations' Monday to move from restricted restricted re re- coastal areas while the government drive against potential potential potential poten poten- fifth columnists mushroomed along the coast and reached as ns asfar asfar nsf inland as Houston Texas f far r The federal bureau of investigation ti tion n will enforce the evacuation order before Tuesdays Tuesday's midnight deadline but it was indicated the roundup and internment of aliens violating the decree will fall to military authorities under terms Of a presidential west proclamation which placed the west under limited limited limited lim lim- martial law Agents of the FBI F B I meanwhile I continued their roundup of potentially potentially potentially poten dangerous enemy aliens They arrested in northern California in week end raids more than in southern California and more than in Washington and Oregon Seventy-one Seventy were arrested at Houston Texas Classify Aliens FBI officers said aliens in custody custody custody cus cus- tody were and highly nationalistic Japanese They reported some were members of an organization formerly di directed directed directed di- di by Japanese consulates For many the evacuation order will trill force aliens only to seek other residences in the same city al although although although al- al though under terms of last weeks week's presidential order even American born Japanese Germans and Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians lens may be removed from coastal states They may be movel to interior states either to work in harvest fields or to live in remodeled remodeled remodeled C C C camps Lieutenant General John L L. L Deitt Dewitt Dewitt De- De witt itt of the western defense command command command com com- mand Monday informed Representative Representative Representative John J. J Tolan D. D Ca Cal heading a special house committee studying migrant problems that Xo Mass Evacuations' Evacuations Instructions under the presidential presidential presidential order have not been given f in full fun yet The public should not become becom disturbed There will be no mass The job will be done gradually gradually gradually grad grad- to take care of individual hardship cases About 90 zones in the vicinity of reservoirs power plants and such such strategic areas already have been evacuated by several hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred enemy aliens Tuesdays Tuesday's deadline affects 35 zones principally 2100 in Mon- Mon Santa tereY Cruz counties 1800 Fin in Los Angeles county 1000 in Oregon Oregon in Santa Monica in in in Solano county near the Mare Island navy yard in Contra Costa county site of shipyards oil oil refineries steel mills several hundred in the coastal district of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Mateo county 40 in San Luis Obispo county a score in the San Francisco waterfront area and about 50 in the California north coast areas Few were affected in Washington and Oregon under the second order Barred From Docks The restricted zone along San Francisco's waterfront included few homes and mass evacuation evacuation evacuation evac evac- of the city's Italian fishermen fishermen fishermen fisher fisher- men will not be necessary But they may not go near the docks and hence will be cut off from their jobs Simultaneously 1500 Japanese of American citizenship will be removed from Terminal island in inthe inthe inthe the heart of Los Angeles harbor under a writ of condemnation is issued issued issued is- is sued by Federal Judge Harry Holzer The island for many years a abase abase abase base for the fishing fleet has become become become be be- come the center of great naval installations More than alien Japanese have been arrested there thereby thereby thereby by the FBI |