JAPS IN SECRET SOCIETIES SOUGHT

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6.--(AP)--Scores of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and regular police launched a series of simultaneous dawn raids today over California in quest of members of two Japanese secret societies and of a Japanese association.

It was the most widespread action since the coast-wide raids of February 21. It was undertaken after conferences of special government agents and members of the Army and Navy Intelligence Services.

One of the secret societies against which the raids were conducted was said to commit its members to military service for Japan. The other has been collecting money for the Japanese army and Navy. The association under surveillance was said by the F.B.I. to have been formed by Japanese aliens to foster and maintain interest in Japan.

Thirty officers engaged in raids in the Sacramento area, in the vicinity of the Army Air Corps Depot and the municipal airport. It was the third sortie there in a month. Operations extended to many other Northern California communities.

On the east shores of San Francisco Bay, raids were conducted in Oakland, Berkeley and Alvarado. San Mateo and Mountain View were raided on the San Francisco Peninsula. Other arrests were ordered in Red Bluff, San Francisco and at San Juan Bautista.