Public proclamation No. 5, March 30, 1942

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WAR DEPARTMENT PENAUTY FOR PRIVAT, ETO AVOID

WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND Sst AYMENT OF Bale. $300

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American Civil Liberties Union

216 Pine St.,

San Francisco

TO: The people within the States of Washington, Oregon, California,

Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, and the Public

Generally:

WHEREAS, by Public Proclamation No. 1, dated March 2, 1942, this

headquarters, there were designated and established Military Areas Nos.

1 and 2 and Zones thereof, and

WHEREAS, by Public Proclamation No. 2, dated March 16, 1942, this

headquarters, there were designated and established Military Areas Nos.

3, 4, 5 and 6 and Zones thereof, and

WHEREAS, the present situation within these Military Areas and Zones

requires as a matter of military necessity the establishment of certain

regulations, as set forth hereinafter:

Now, THEREFORE, I, J. L. DEWrrT, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army,

by virtue of the authority vested in me by the President of the United

States and by the Secretary of War and my powers and prerogatives as

Commanding General, Western Defense Command, do hereby declare

and establish the following regulations covering the conduct to be

observed by all alien Japanese, all alien Germans, all alien Italians, and

all persons of Japanese ancestry residing or being within the Military

Areas above described:

Prior to and during the period of exclusion and evacuation of certain

persons or classes of persons from prescribed Military Areas and Zones,

persons otherwise subject thereto but who come within one or more of

the classes specified in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), following, may make

written application for exemption from such exclusion and evacuation.

Application Form WDC-PM 5 has been prepared for that purpose and

copies thereof may be procured from any United States Post Office or

United States Employment Service office in the Western Defense Com-

mand by persons who deem themselves entitled to exemption.

The following classes of persons are hereby authorized to be exempted

from exclusion and evacuation upon the furnishing of satisfactory proof

as specified in Form WDC-PM 5:

(a) German and Italian aliens seventy or more years of age.

(b) In the case of German and Italian aliens, the parent, wife,

husband, child of (or other person who resides in the house-

hold and whose support is wholly dependent upon) an officer,

enlisted man or commissioned nurse on active duty in the

Army of the United States (or any component thereof),

U. S. Navy, U. S. Marine Corps, or U. S. Coast Guard.

(c) In the case of German and Italian aliens, the parent, wife,

husband, child of (or other person who resides in the house-

hold and whose support is wholly dependent upon) an officer,

enlisted man or commissioned nurse who on or since December

7, 1941, died in line of duty with the armed services of the

United States indicated in the preceding subparagraph.

(d) German and Italian aliens awaiting naturalization who had

filed a petition for naturalizatioy and who had paid the filing

fee therefor in a court of competent jurisdiction on or before

December 7, 1941.

(e) Patients in hospital, or confined elsewhere, and too ill or in-

capacitated to be removed therefrom without danger to life.

(f) Inmates of orphanages and the totally deaf, dumb or blind.

The applicant for exemption will be required to furnish the kinds of

proof specified in Form WDC-PM 5 in support of the application. The

certificate of exemption from evacuation will also include exemption from

compliance with curfew regulations, subject, however, to such future

proclamations or orders in the premises as may from time to time be

_ issued by this headquarters. The person to whom such exemption from

evacuation and curfew has been granted shall thereafter be entitled to

reside in any portion of any prohibited area, including those areas here-

-tofore declared prohibited by the Attorney General of the United States.

J. L. DEWrrtt

Lieutenant General, U. S. Army

Commanding

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