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Second Arkansas Site for Japs AnnouncedDermott, Ark., June 18-(/P)-The war relocation authority soon 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 forAir ft r* t n ♦ h « ., * hjIS iing at Rohwer, in adjoining Desha county.Establishment of the Jerome i site as an evacuation center was announced in San Francisco by! Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, commanding 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 theFSA resettlement at Jerome would not be disturbed. Of the re-BotBeRoBlt;willperiNolsschothelocation tract, 1,500 acres already jnViare in cultivation.General DeWitt said the JeromeBoy;thecenter, like the Rohwer camp,lAhowboysstatewould be protected by military police. Arkansas’ Gov, Homer M. Adkins said the War department♦U*. ♦Ha TnianiAe4k* * A W *» va w *- * • W Wwould be kept under guard, vould not be allowed compete with local labor and would be removed from the state after the war. I trailby sselecShare-the-Ride»«andHorlboysMovement Openschopresition,
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Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1942
Page 15
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