ALIENS RUSH TO TURN IN RADIOS, CAMERAS HERE

Police and Sheriff Accept Property Given Up By Japanese, Germans and Italians at U.S. Order

Police headquarters and the sheriff's office last night were deluged by telephone calls from Japanese, German and Italian aliens seeking to comply with orders of the federal government that all radio transmitters, short-wave receiving sets and cameras be deposited by the aliens with police and sheriff's officers of seven far western states before 11 o'clock tomorrow night.

The United States attorney's office here received the orders late yesterday from Francis Biddle, attorney-general, who followed up President Roosevelt's proclamation of December 7 banning such instruments to aliens. Biddle set the Monday deadline for Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Nevada. The orders were transmitted immediately to Police Chief Herbert D. Kimsey and Sheriff William B. Severyns.

The Police Department last night was depositing the property in its regular property room, where prisoners' belongings were kept. The sheriff was ready to receive them, too, and notified police of smaller cities and towns throughout the country to accept the articles there.

Penalties are confiscation of the apparatus and arrest of the alien failing to turn it in. The police and sheriff will hold the cameras and radios only until the federal government sets up a receiving agency of its own, and federal authorities, not local officers, will enforce the rules.