of Justice announced regulations requiring enemy aliens in the Western Defense Command to surrender radio transmitters, short-wave radio receivers, and certain types of cameras by January 5, 1942. [3 pp.85]
             On December 30th Gen. DeWitt was informed that the Attorney General had also authorized the issuance of warrants for search and arrest in any house where an enemy alien lived upon representation by an FBI agent. This was if they thought that they had reasonable cause to believe that there was contraband on the premises. The Department of Justice arranged to send representatives to San Francisco to confer with gen. DeWitt in order to work out more specific arrangements for controlling enemy aliens. [4 pp.157]
             The S.F. conference took place January 4-5, 1942. Before these meetings took place, the War Department¹s representative Maj. Karl R. Bendetsen, chief of the Aliens Division, recommended that gen. DeWitt insist on several measures beyond those already ordered by the Attorney General.
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