Evening star., 1942-03-23
Army Gusts 300 laps
From Vital Area in
First Mandatory Order
Aliens Told to Get OF
IsIond in Puget Sound
By March 80
By the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.-Al
japanese must leave strategic Balm.
bridge Island In Puget Sound, oppo.
site the Bremerton (Wash) Navy
Yard, the Army has decreed in the
first compulsory evacuation order or
the West Coast under its new presi-
Dental authority.
The order, setting March 80 as the
deadline, came from Gen. j. L. De
Witt, chief of the Western Defense
Command.
Three hundred Japanese, Ameri-
can-born as well as aliens, will be
affected. They work as fishermen
dairymen and berry pickers on the
island, which is about 10 miles long
half that wide, and situated directly
east of the peninsula on which
Bremerton Is built.
Other Evacuations Voluntary.
All other excavations, such as the
current trek Of Los Angeles Jap
anese to the Manzanar Reception
Center in the Owens River Valley OF
Southeastern California, 270 miles
from Los Angeles, have been on q
voluntary basis.
From March "a to %, the Balm
bridge Island Japanese will be al
lowed to leave voluntarily, provided
their destination is approved by the
Army.
All remaining on March 80 will be
6poernrinted. ferried to the main
land, placed on a train at Seattle
and taken to the Manzanar center
in California.
Gen. De Witt Inspects Camp.
The Manzanar camp. inspected
over the week end by Gen. De Witt
who made an airplane flight there
from his San Francisco headquar-
tiers, will handle 10000 japanese
when its buildings are finished.
The first large contingent-1,00(
Japanese-started from Los Angeles
for Manzanar this morning, mos'
Of them in their own automobiles
and trucks. Others arranged to &C
by train and bus.
Eventually the evacuation Of
Japanese and German and italian
aliens from West Coast military
areas is expected to be one OF the
largest orderly mass movements OF
civilians in history, affecting 112,0O(
japanese. 10000 Germans and 46,00t
Italians.
At Manzanar, plans were disclosed
to bring 10000 Japanese to the
evacuee camp within the next three
weeks.
MacArthur's Photo Adorns Wall.
Eighty-six Japanese who arrived
yesterday included cooks, walters
nurses and stenographers. After
policing their quarters two Amer
ican-born japanese girls, Gene
Hashimoto and Rosemary Anal
tackled . picture of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur on the wall.
The Government plans to pay a
security wage to each OF the
colonists. Skilled workers will receive
$94 q month, with pay ranging down
to $50 for unskilled persons. From
this SIS a month will be deducted for
subsistence and the rest will be kept
for the colonists and paid to them
when the war ends. Those unem-
ployable will be cared for as wards
of the Government.
Property interests of the evacuated
japanese will be taken over on their
departure by the Federal Reserve
Bank and in case of farm holdings,
by the Agriculture Department.
Vital Area Widened.
Authority to order the japanese
out of the island was granted to Gen.
De Witt recently in q presidential
proclamation, under which vital
coastal military areas can be cleared
Of residents the Army considers
DANGEROUS to the national defense.
Gen. De Wits first move after
receiving the authorization was to
set up two military areas embracing
the States of California, Oregon,
Washington and Arizona. Later, he
extended the areas to include Utah,
Idaho, Montana and Nevada, and
designed hundreds of prohibited
zones from which aliens were specif-
ically barred.
Gen. De Witt, stressing that all
moves were dictated entirely by mil
itary necessity, indicated he con-
sidered American-Japanese poten-
tally more dangerous to the Nations
welfare than German or italian
aliens.