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Buy TVar BondsNOSecond Arkansas Sitefor Japs AnnouncedDermott, Ark., June 18-(/P)-The war relocation authority goon will convert 10,054 acres of farm and timber lands 10 miles south of Dermott into an evacuation camp for approximately 10,000 Japanese removed from Pacific coast military areas.The site, in Drew and Chicot counties, was acquired from the Farm Security administration which named it the Jerome Resettlement project. It is the second to be selected in Arkansas forIfttneunn*W * Mi U *S». y MWing at Rohwer, in adjoining Desha county.Iing the western defense command.E. B. Whitaker, on leave from the FSA to direct the centers, said the Jerome camp would duplicate the Rohwer center on which armyengineers already have invited housing bids. He said about 19 P'S A families would have to be relocated but that 2,000 acres of the FSA resettlement at Jerome would not be disturbed. Of the relocation tract, 1,500 acres already are in cultivation.Bo]BelRotGeneral DeWitt said the Jerome center, like the Rohwer camp, would be protected by military police. Arkansas’ Gov. Homer M. Adkins said the War departmentIwillperilNolaschotheInnBoy? the 'Lehowboysstatewould be kept under guard, vouldnot be allowed compete with localuEstablishment of the Jerome Iab°r nd would be removed from site as an evacuation center was *be *tate after the war. announced in Ssn Francisco by! *Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, command* r, ■____________Snare-tne-RideMovement OpensandHorlboystrairby si selecwereschoipresi
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Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1942
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