Japanese May Take Jobs, Says W.R.A. Director

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 21. -- (AP) -- Japanese residents of relocation centers in the United States are asked to take jobs "where they can do the most effective work."

"Everyone," said Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, "should be doing that as a contribution to the war effort."

Myer explained to a conference of regional and relocation center directors the procedure necessary for Japanese -- both aliens and American citizens -- to obtain permission to leave the relocation centers in order to find work.

Approximately 110,000 persons now are living in the centers, Myer said. About 15,000 or 20,000 of them may find jobs on farms, while others are fitted for skilled trades or professions.

To obtain a work permit, Myer said, the applicant must arrange in advance for a job and a place of residence, must have assurance he will be welcome in the community, must stay out of areas from which aliens have been excluded, must have a record satisfactory to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and relocation center officials and must keep the W.R.A. informed of his whereabouts.