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has the role of a night club entertainer.Evacuation Of 100,000Japanese Is CompletedSyR(By Associated Press)SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.—A mass movement without precedent | trai in American history, the evacuation j rln£ of the west coast’s entire Japanese I of population of almost 100,000, is com- j jsjev plete.It proceeded without any great hardship, and almost without incident. And it was finished on schedule, said an official report yesterdayfirstratheAsheby the Wartime Civil Control ad-laneEd^leftfensheflatcatministration, an agency set up by the Army to handle the operation.The administration said that by actual count, 99,770 Japanese were removed from a 150-mile wide strip ;f California, Washington and Ore- Ut' gon, and southern Arizona, Most of 1 these persons are now in 17 assem-' bly centers scattered through the region.Others already have been settled in relocation centers in the interior, where tHey will remain for the duration of the war. Additional relocation centers are being prepared.The Army removed these persons because it believed their presence in strategic military zones along the coast migfit be dangerous.ancini:in : anhaimastrthfitacne’
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Benton Harbor News Palladium
Benton Harbor, Michigan, US
Mon, Jun 08, 1942
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