NEW ORDER CLEARS ALL JAPANESE FROM CITY

Latest Evacuation Order Affects 1,098; Saturday Deadline For Removals; Pierce Area Included

Seattle will be cleared of all Japanese by next Saturday noon as the result of an evacuation order issued yesterday in San Francisco by Lieut. Gen. John L. De Witt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command.

The order excludes Japanese from an area north of Yesler Way to the northern city limits between Lake Washington and Fifth Avenue, Eastlake Avenue and Roosevelt Way. Previous orders excluded Japanese from all other areas in the city. Approximately 4,000 Japanese -- both aliens and citizens -- already have been evacuated. Yesterday's order will affect an estimated 1,098 persons.

Japanese covered in the new order will be moved between next Thursday and Saturday noon. Each individual or a responsible member of each family must report for registry at the civil control station, 2203 E. Madison St., between the hours of 8 o'clock in the morning and 5 o'clock in the evening tomorrow or Tuesday.

Puyallup Area Affected

In addition, General De Witt ordered the removal of about 1,100 Japanese from the Puyallup Valley in eastern Pierce County and thousands from California points.

The new orders brought the total of Japanese covered for the week to 25,416, the largest weekly total thus far. It raised to about 65,000 the number moved or ordered moved, or more than half of the estimated 112,000 Japanese aliens and citizens living in the restricted portions of Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona when war was declared. General De Witt has that all Japanese will be moved from the area or in custody of the Army by May 20.

Deadline is Saturday

Japanese to be evacuated from Pierce County must report tomorrow or Tuesday at a civil control station in the City Hall at Puyallup. The deadline for their removal also is Saturday noon.

Order No. 57, covering Seattle, includes:

"All that portion of the County of King (City of Seattle) within the boundary beginning at the intersection of Roosevelt Way and Eats 85th Street, thence easterly along East 85th Street extended to Lake Washington; thence southerly along the shoreline of Lake Washington to the point at which Yesler Way meets the lake; thence westerly along Yesler Way to 15th Avenue; thence northerly on 15th to East Madison Street; thence southwesterly on East Madison to Fifth Avenue: thence northwesterly along Fifth to Westlake Avenue; thence northerly along Westlake to Virginia Street: northeasterly along Virginia Street to Eastlake Avenue; northerly along Eastlake to Roosevelt Way; thence northerly along Roosevelt Way to the point of beginning."

Order No. 58 covers:

"All that portion of the County of Pierce east of a line running generally north and south, beginning at the point at which the King-Pierce County line intersects the easterly limits of the City of Tacoma: thence southerly and following the easterly limits of the city to State Highway 5; thence southerly along Highway 5 to the intersection of State Highways 5 and 5-11; thence southwesterly along State Highway 5-11 to the Pierce-Thurston County line."

Meanwhile, Japanese married to non-Japanese, who previously had been permitted to remain in military areas, were notified yesterday that they, too, must be evacuated.

The order, believed to affect only about 20 families, applied to Japanese husbands and wives and the children resulting from the mixed marriages.

It did not apply to the non-Japanese husbands or wives, but permits them to accompany their Japanese spouses if they sign waivers.