JAPANESE SURRENDER EQUIPMENT

[Photo caption]: About 1,200 Axis aliens -- mostly Japanese -- today had surrendered cameras and short-wave radio sets to Seattle police. Deadlines set by the Department of Justice is 11 o'clock tonight. Upper -- a line-up this forenoon of Japanese at Police Headquarters. Only one German appeared, and no Italians. Lower -- Detective Lieut. Frank Borneman Inspects some of the expensive radio equipment surrendered. Many also turned over firearms, which was not required.

Hundreds of Aliens in Line To Give Up Radios, Cameras

Long lines of Japanese, Germans and Italians, carrying cameras and radios, crowded police headquarters today as Seattle nationals of the three nations with which America is at war hurried to comply with orders that they surrender all cameras and radios.

Early this afternoon, police said more than 1,200 men and women of the three nationalities had appeared at headquarters.

The radios and cameras they left behind filled two large rooms. A truck load had been taken away last night.

The entire detective division, including Chief Ernest W. Yoris, was busy registering the equipment this afternoon. The women's division and juvenile detail and many uniformed policemen were ordered to aid the national defense detail in handling the business.

Many Misunderstand

"Many didn't understand what we wanted," C.A. Neuser, head of the national-defense detail, said, "We have to see that the short-wave parts of the Japanese-owned radios are disconnected and destroyed. They may keep these radios if this is done. In cases where they didn't want this done, or didn't understand, we kept the radio."

The deadline is 11 o'clock tonight and alien Japanese, Germans or Italians who fail to comply will be interned and their cameras and radio sets confiscated.

Many Japanese insisted, also, on turning over firearms and other weapons, although these articles were not included in the federal order issued Saturday. One turned in a Japanese ceremonial sword with a razor-sharp blade 17 1/2 inches long. Several others gave up rifles.

Radio sets which receive broadcasts only between 540 and 1750 kilocycles do not have to be surrendered.

Cameras surrendered ranged from a 25-cent box camera to an expensive motion-picture outfit, which a Japanese woman gave up.

German Gives Up 17 Cameras

Tacoma, Puyallup and other communities near Seattle reported that only a trickle of the banned articles were received yesterday, but a rush was expected late today. At Spokane, only three cameras and two radios were surrendered yesterday, according to the Associated Press.

Portland, Or., reported a rushing business as did San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Francisco police at first refused to accept the articles but did so later on advice from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In San Francisco a German gave up a German-made short-wave radio set.

Meanwhile, Attorney-General Francis Biddle today extended the order to Arizona aliens, giving them until 11 o'clock tomorrow night to surrender their radios and cameras.

Similar regulations affecting enemy aliens throughout the rest of the nation, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, were expected to be promulgated within a week.