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Farm Security Office Denies Fort Lupton Project Used As Japanese Concentration CampMefcrvi-'Tower Merely Used To Elevate Camera For PhotogrophyThe War In Brief5. VAIsf.So far 33 tbo Farm Security Ad-fii ini strut Ion knows at --present there are no plana for making the Fort Luc Ion f^'in laborers project, now tinder construction, Into n concentration camp .for evacuated Japanese, It wag said ■ Friday by Glia vie 9 y. Brannan, regional director of tlic FSA-, In Denver. Humors hnd been current herefor several days that the original plans for the camp had been changed, nnd that It will be a con*centra tie a camp. 'A Lower erected on the roof of a barn looka liko a guard tower. A Jilgir woven who fence Is being started nr Dun it the outer confines or-the 130 acre project.Bvannan said that the tower is a temporary structure, to bo used for '’taking topographical photographs of the camp/' nml that It will he torn down when the project is completed. ,Tho.high fence Is the usual thing nod Is placed around all such farm ^ labor cam us, Hrannan added.*’Ar far as I know/1 said Braiumn, irLhcre avo 110 pluns nfoot for using thfe camp for a concentration camp. There has been no word from Washington that it would be used for anything other tlian that for which it was originally planned end tlicio have been no changes or-} deved bn the construction plans.• lt;’Ot course, the army can order a change at any time but there has Jjenn no Indication that tho army will do so. Should tho camp be mode Into concentration camp, It would be'under army control and out of the hands of the Farm Security Administration.”• Asked l£ Japanese now coming to Weld counly from California In large numbers cun rent houses at tbo labor esihp, Braun «n paid there is * nothing id prevent'their doing bo as long Hs they are citizens and can he clawed as migratory farmlabor, -i‘ Oy6r^4{i0 1 out-of-state' Japanese lmd~ registeredr- at the' sheriff's of--flee herd up-tb noon Friday/it was adid hy Deputy .'Sheriff Frank Deffke said: The largest number is locating In' the Fort Lupton area.' Biaunan -‘said' that construction work at the Fori Lupton camp till cad of schedule and that the project will be completed In early Buiumev. The Edmonds Const ruction company has the contract for 1312,404, It will consist of 2-1 workers homes, 22 duplex shelter units, 100 single shelter houses, a clinic and community and r utility buildings.Repeated reports or loose talk and threats against Japanese have come :o the sheriffs office in the last few days and Sheriff G113 G. Anderson Is taking precautions to 'prevent racial outbreaks resulting from war hysteria.Asked abollt ‘the elatua of the proposed labor camp northwest of Greeley, Brannan said that it la at a standstill at present because Ihe house of representatives has currently cut off appropriations for - new projects. The senate has yet to take action. This will not affect the Lupton Project, but plans for Gree-1oy cannot go ahead until money is available, Tho FSA haa an option on the Jame3 Summers 80 acres north of thn Greeley Spanish cob^ epy. •RussiaA heavy battle or tanks and men, with the coiu bn I tempo 'T Is tag with every hour that 1103303/' was reported raging oil tho Leningrad front today, and the Russ Inn* declared 25,000 German troops'bud been killed and huge war supplies captured In 13 days Df fighting around tlie old czarlBt capital'and at neighboring Htaraya Rusa.11 was not limned lately clear whether the ILisUius were making a major attempt to break out of tho long-besieged northern metropolis, or wbnthuv tha Germans were 011 Ibc offensive, hoping to knock out that long and ntnUbornly defended barrier.The Leningrad radio, however, reported that lied army troops had captured a . fortified • BoUlonient which served hs the ceiitar for several .€501man-held villages.Soviet dispatches -said 15,000 Nazis had been slain in the Leningrad Lighting and 10,000 at Staraya Russel, where the Gorman 10Lb army has been trapped for weeks,Adalf miler'B 'Held h eml quarters reported a of tho great and for the“jiotlocubta lessening Russian winter drive third successive day stressed German offensive ope rattans. asserting tliat Nazi Loops Si ad captured “a fairly large number of vHinges.1'herwhMrwalerfolPhilippinesOn long-besieged Bataan peninsula, Llent.Gnn. Jonathan INI. Waiu-wrlght's American ami Flllpluo fighters wore -officially reported mo nuing up pocketed Japanese units which yesterday burst thru tha main lips In'two heavy assaults.The Tvur, department said 'a con-shlnrahle number of Japanese got -thru.'only to bo trapped'S U. S. 'troops •*’countor^ttrickcd - fiercely and scaled the' gap.MMM(Associated Fr«s»)Pueblo, Colo., April 8.— Three-bund reel Japanese families will be established on the -30,000-acre taper soil ranch In southeastern Pu-cifoln county, it was announced to-Sperry S. Packard, referee in bankruptcy, Bald that under a tentative agreement-just approved, ROhouses will he constructed lo provide quarters for ,thB Japanese none of whom will he allena.They will bo-under- supervision of tho army nnd will produce crops on a share basis. The land has been owned by the Ingersoll interests of Galesburg, Ell., but has been in the hands, of E. G. Mlddlekamp, bankruptcy trustee. ■ r■Water from the Huerfano river irrigates the acreage. ; ' India ’ Leaders'*ftf JiftlaV million's 3^1Vrhngted 'bitterly ‘over the British proposal to grant . India. • self-rule after, the war hi return.for fighting support.Grave new. reverses marked the Allied defense, of Burma today as British' headquarters acknowledged that the Japanese had cracked the right wing- anchor at Fromc, key lo Burma's .vital oil fields, but Lib news from the Philippines was more heartening.In Burma, the situation was critical ol both ends of the Brit-I sh-Chinese defense I hi a guarding the Burmese nil fields, a major source a£ China's gasoline and oil supplies, and the road lo Mandalay. 'However, British head quart era denied reports Of a landing by Jap-nnese sea-borne troops at Lie west! Burma port Of Akyab. mily • 100 miles . from Ihe Indian frontier, which would have been at1 dycii greater setback., AustraliaTbo Vichy radio, quoting Tokyo dlaiuitclien. asserted the Japanese bad made further landtags on biuslII islands adjacent to the half-Dutch, hfllf-rortugucse Timor/ IncludingRot lb Let! and BflrtmT, to completelb* Island front In Japanese hands facing A lie trail a/'Prime Minister John'Curtin announced. that Japanese fliers dropped / 85 botntss yesterday hi their 11th raid on tlio north . Australian port uf Daiwiii, but caused only aRgbi damagn and one minor casualCT,. SuTwo long of *t1 dead: M= was He hoar ill shot to IIMoffitwonandhert:proigua:poll*out.thethethe' ityioldertelehisPWeri-Mediterranean ’]n the iMedlterranean war zone, large squadrons . of German and Italian plane* agn.irt attacked Malta yesterday, raining bombs oil factories and supply depots and damaging a. British Bubirmrlno and a destroyer in the harbor, Lie Italian high command declared.Nazi fighters escorting the bombers were said to have shot down four British planes, and two oLhcrs were reported destroyed on tbo ground.tooff.F.45witIlQiDeiChimeIBtttBtrlt;MrBlitpoileascrcoiIwano3firwaJneheNorth AfricaOle
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