HALF OF CITY'S JAPS HAVE GONE

Seattle's central business district gave the appearance of a city without Japanese today as the last of them from Zones No. 1 and 2, or population, departed for the assembly center in Puyallup.

And the Pike Place markets, for the first time in their years of operation, did business without their myriad of Japanese-operated stalls.

It is estimated that only about half the Japanese of the city have been removed but those who have gone were from areas in which many were engaged in business and where they most often met the public.

Those Japanese remaining in the city are restricted to movement within the area in which they live. Beginning at noon, they and all others of the Japanese race were banned from going to the central business district, the waterfront or any place in the area to the north of the city that lies west of Eastlake Avenue and Roosevelt Way, any place south of Jackson Street in the southern area, except for one small locality between Jackson and Dearborn Streets.

This ban prevents any Japanese in the farming community surrounding the city from delivering produce to Seattle firms personally, as Produce Row and the markets cannot be reached without passing through a restricted area.

The market master of the municipal market said that not a single Japanese merchant appeared this morning, although the ban did not go into effect until noon.

Operators of private markets said several Japanese renters of stalls came early this morning with produce but brought Filipinos with them to tend the stalls and left before noon.

The contingent of Japanese which left Seattle for Puyallup today swelled the population of Camp Harmony, the assembly on the Western Washington Fair grounds, to more than 2,000. About 200 Japanese are there from Alaska.

No date has been set for the removal of the Japanese from the University, Capitol Hill and First Hill Districts, or the rural areas of the county. Such an order is expected soon, as the Army has announced that the removal program will be rushed as fast as possible.