WHERE 10,000 JAPANESE WILL LIVE

[Photo caption]: IN MANZANAR, CALIF., YESTERDAY. The snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada tower in the West as workmen rush construction of the huge reception center in the Owen Valley to receive the first of the 10,000 evacuated Japanese from Southern California. Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt of the Western Defense Command commandeered 6,020 acres for the boom town. The project will be completed in 60 days. -- A.P. wirephoto.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. -- (AP) -- When 1,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans leave Los Angeles voluntarily early next week for an alien-reception center, they "will start the largest orderly mass movement of civilians in history," the Western Defense Command Wartime Civilian Control Board said today.

The Japanese evacuees from Los Angeles, headed for Manzanar, reception center in Owens Valley, are the vanguard of 179,985 enemy aliens and Japanese-Americans on the Pacific Coast subject to evacuation orders.

The great bulk of those who will be evacuated from military areas are Japanese and their descendants, said Dr. C.L. Dedrick, statistician for the civilian control branch of the Western Defense Command. The Japanese group totals 112,985. Next come Germans. Italians form the smallest group.

MANZANAR, Calif., March 20. -- (AP) -- The West's newest boom town, designed to house 10,000 Japanese evacuees from Southern California, is being constructed in the midst of 6,020 acres in Owens River Valley.

Four hundred carpenters went to work yesterday. In a few hours they erected one barracks and started the framework for an administration building and a 150-bed hospital. Speed is essential. The project is scheduled to be completed in 60 days. The first 1,000 Japanese are due Monday.

Japanese will raise farm and garden products. Long unused irrigation ditches, which two decades ago furnished water for fruit growing, are being reopened.