The Federal War Relocation Authority today announced selection of a 7000-acre tract on the Gila Indian Reservation in Arizona as the third resettlement area established in the wartime program of evacuating 120,000 Japanese from the Pacific Coast defense zone.

Similar areas were established previously in the Owens Valley and on the Parker Indian Reservation in Southern California. Additional sites are being studied.

The resettlement areas are designed for the permanent residence of the Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens being removed from the coast under Army orders.

E.R. Fryer, regional WRA director, said the Gila Reservation tract would accomodate at least 10,000 Japanese. Construction will start immediately ner Sacaton, about 50 miles from Phoenix, with Army engineers in charge.