60 Pct. of Jap Evacuees Loyal To Homeland
--Says Sen. Chandler

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 8.--(AP)--About 60 per cent of the Japanese at an undisclosed relocation center have given their allegiance to the government of Japan, Senator A. B. Chandler, Democrat, Kentucky, said here on an inspection tour of evacuee camps.

The disloyal Japs stand ready to commit "almost any act for their Emperor," Chandler said at a hearing in the federal courthouse here. He is chairman of a military-affairs subcommittee investigating the relocation program.

"There is no question in my mind but that thousands of these evacuees were armed and prepared to help Japanese troops invade the West Coast right after Pearl Harbor, but thanks to the fine work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, they were rounded up immediately," the senator said.

Chandler told the hearing that his 60 per cent figure had been determined by a vote taken at a camp which he declined to name.