WOMEN'S CLUBS ASK BAN ON JAPS

ST. LOUIS, April 28.--(AP)--The General Federation of Women's Clubs was guided through the closing sessions of its 53rd annual convention today by the first woman from a small town to be chosen president of the organization since its establishment in 1891.

Mrs. Lucy Jennings Dickinson of Keene, N.H., wife of LaFell Dickinson, box manufacturer, was elected to a three-year term yesterday to head the federation of 16,500 women's clubs which have a total membership of 2,500,000.

Other officers elected included Mrs. Volney W. Taylor, Brownsville, Tex., treasurer.

Anti-Jap Stand

The federation adopted a resolution "favoring the prevention of the return of any Japanese or Japanese-Americans to the coastal areas for the duration and for the transfer of all control of all Japanese in America from civilian authority to the United States Army."

Proposed by the Los Angeles division of the California Federation, the resolution further stated that "the federation urge on Congress the expatriation of all convicted, disloyal Japanese-Americans" and asked an exhaustive study of the Japanese problem before the end of the war.

The proposal was adopted over opposition from delegates who urged the federation not to commit itself to a "dangerously prejudicial attitude inspired by war hatred."

Statehood for Alaska

Another resolution advocated permanent commissioned ranks for Army nurses. Another called on Congress to speed legislation to make Alaska the 49th state. The resolution was introduced by Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann of Juneau.

Resolutions yesterday expressed the conviction that international machinery must be set up if a just and lasting peace is to be achieved, and urged the maintenance and strengthening of ties of friendship between the United States and the other American republics.

Reaffirmed was a resolution supporting the principle of regulation of marriage and divorce through uniform state laws, and another urging continuation of a policy of restricted immigration "as will safeguard the interests of the citizens of the United States."