Japs Ordered to Leave Large Area Near L.A.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.--(UP)--The Army Western Defense Command today ordered approximately 3,000 Japanese to evacuate three large areas of the Los Angeles Metropolitan District by noon of April 28.

The order affected the Santa Monica Bay area from the bay to the mountains and including most of the communities of Malibu Beach, Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice; the area between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and all of the San Fernando Valley, including the communities of San Fernando, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, [Burbank] and Glendae.

Speeding up the Army's program of evacuating alien and citizen Japanese from military zones, Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt directed that the evacuees affected by today's orders be removed to Manzanar reception center in Owens Valley in groups of 1,000 daily, starting Sunday, April 26.