Army Orders Alien Curfew

Army Orders Alien Curfew

Curfew Military Area No. 1 Aliens, enemy DeWitt, Lt. Gen. John L. Western Defense Command Boekel, Lt. Co. W.A. Columbia Basin Moses Lake Sakamoto, James Y. Clark, Tom Hosokawa, Bill Grand Coulee Dam

A curfew was established by the Army for all enemy aliens and persons of Japanese ancestry in Military Area No. 1 that reqired these people to be at their residences between 8 pm and 6am, and travel was limited to within 5 miles of their residences. Meanwhile, some people in the Japanese community were trying to establish a colony near Moses Lake in the Columbia Basin.

3/24/1942

INT 5 _ A76

1900.58