NEW CURBS ON JAP-AMERICANS

Further restrictions on Japanese-Americans living in Pacific Coast states were announced by the Army today as all enemy aliens and Japanese-Americans on the Western Seaboard prepared to observe the drastic curfew which will go into effect tonight.

The Army said that after next Tuesday, no person of Japanese ancestry in the Western Defense Command could have in his possession firearms, ammunition, explosives, cameras, short-wave radio sets, radio transmitting sets, signal devices, codes or ciphers. States involved are Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Montana.

Facilities for collecting these contraband articles will be announced later. Such articles were taken from enemy aliens some weeks ago.

Curfew Starts Tonight

The curfew which starts tonight will continue as long as the Army sees fit, according to the Western Defense Command. Enemy aliens and Japanese-Americans must be in their homes by 8 o'clock each night and remain there until 6 o'clock in the morning. In daylight hours all such persons must be either at home or at work or traveling between those places. In no case, however, can they be more than five miles from home.

No exception to the curfew ruling will be made, not even in the cases of those persons who have been employed on night jobs, such as watchmen, cooks, bakers, porters and the like. All Japanese places of business must be closed by 8 o'clock.

F.B.I. in Charge

The curfew will be enforced along the coastal areas in Washington, Oregon and California, in Southern Arizona and in other smaller specified military zones, such as near dams, bridges and power plants. The enforcement of the order will be in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Army also has ordered that, effective Sunday, no enemy alien or citizen Japanese can leave the West Coast area until the government orders them to do so in an evacuation move. Several assembly centers are being prepared in event of complete evacuation from the Coast.

Farmers Are Sought

Meanwhile, Charles Agers, Farm Security field agent, said the Army urges all farmers wishing to operate land to be vacated in this area report to the Army's Wartime Civilian Control Administration service center at 808 Second Ave.

Agers said qualified farmers are needed urgently to take over land to insure quick arrangements. The office, he said, is prepared to supervise transfers which will be equitable and satisfactory to evacuating Japanese.

It will also be the function of the office to arrange credit for such transportation and help new operators put lands into spring-crop production.