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PRISONERS-Continued from Page D-lstenographers taking notes the whole time,” Schreiber said. We were very careful about their rights.”Several prisoners were injured in the fracas..The 17 ringleaders were removed to Fort Stanton and deported. Others were sentenced to up to 30 days in the camp stockade. There was no more trouble.Because of the climate of the times. Schreiber said, he heard rumblings against the camp when he socialized in Santa Fe,“You have to have lived through those days to realize how intense the anti-Japanese feelings here,” he noted. “There were stories of the torture of American prisoners in Japanese camps. It was bad business.”Although the camp followed theGeneva Convention, prisoners were treated slightly better than the law required.“That way, we could take' something away if we needed to discipline someone,” he said.When the camp was about to close, March 21, 1946. Schreiber and Chief Officer Ivan Williams held a press conference and offered reporters a tour of the camp. Most internees had been returned to their homes or deported to Japan; only 492 men were left.Will Harrison was there, and wrote about what he heard and saw.“Their chief revelation was thet the Japanese - interned here were not pampered.” Harrison wrote. It’s hard to imagine these hard-eyed gents of the border patrol pamperinganybody, including themselves.”“The food costs 38 cents a day each and consists of chiefly of rice, fish and green vegetables, the later grown largely by the internees; they wear old army clothing; they sleep in long bunk houses, the millionaire truck gardener from California occupying the same kind of hard cot as that of the fisherman from Peru.”“The PX is the cen'_-.- of the internees city. There the fastest selling item in stock is Three Flowers pomade for the hair, and the second best is Ponds facial cream.”The last internees were removed from the camp in April 22. Six saddle horses^ three work horses. 100 hens and 200 “broiling chickens” were purchased by local bidders, and the property ..was advertised as surplus ana'shld.'^’-I Nil ANI A
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sun, Mar 25, 1979
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