Eddie Muraoka’s Scrapbook Page

In this artifact, the creator, Eddie Muraoka, who was placed in a Japanese Internment camp in the 1940s, uses newspaper clippings to track the politics of having Internment camps in the first place.

Eddie Muraoka

California State University, Northridge. University Library

California State University, Northridge. University Library

Creator: Eddie Muraoka
Owner: California State University, Northridge

English

1925-1949

historical scrapbook

unlined paper, newspaper, pen ink

Posted

XAMINAR
XAMINER 5-29-43

INTERNED *** WELL FED, DIES GROUP FINDS
Investigators' Reports Show Rationed Food Plentiful At 10 Relocation Centers
WASHINGTON, MAY 31 —(AP)— Dies committee investigators reported today that the 85,000 odd Japanese being held in 10 relocation centers in this country probably are among the best fed civilians in the world.
Reports filed by the investigators preparatory to the start of the public committee hearings into the operation of the relocation centers showed a plentiful supply of beef, pork, mutton, canned pork and beans, potatoes, coffee, canned fish and chocolate bars in the camps, committee spokesmen said. They added that the suppled are furnished by the Army Quartermaster Corps.
MANZANAR SUPPLIES
The investigators reported a week’s shipment to the Manzanar relocation camp in California from the quartermaster depot at the Mira Loma, Calif., included 22,-500 pounds of white potatoes, 1330 pounds of coffee, 12,000 pounds of hard wheat flour, 12,000 pounds of pancake flour, more than 5700 jars of marmalade and jams, 14,440 cans of evaporated milk, 180,000 pounds of rice, 7200 pounds of spaghetti 21,500 pounds of sugar, 2500 pounds of bananas 120 boxes of grapefruit contains 300 grapefruit per box, 240 boxes of oranges containing 200 oranges per box, 240 boxes of apples, and 26,000 pounds of fresh vegetables.
Meat shipments to the approximately 9000 internees in the camp were said to include 10,000 pounds of beef, 5000 pounds of pork, 2800 pounds of mutton, 1200 pounds of salt pork, 2200 pounds of frankfurters 2000 pounds of pork livers, 4000 pounds of corned beef, 2800 pounds of fresh pork sausage and 2200 pounds of bologna.
The committee hearings will open in Los Angeles June 7.

WRA to Sift Loyal ***
WASHINGTON, May 14.—(AP)— Director Dillon S. Myer disclosed today the War Relocation Authority is “ready to move very soon” to segregate the pro-Japanese from the loyal-to-America evacuees of Japanese ancestry in its 10 relocation centers. The segregation, Myer told a press conference, will “have to be done largely on an individual basis.” But he added that he thought the WRA could make “most of the moves during the spring and summer.”

*** Internee Control Urged
Recommendation that city officials demand that Federal and military officials continue to intern Japanese regardless of place of birth was sent to committee by the City Council yesterday.
The recommendation was made by Councilman Roy Hampton who declared that the internment of Japanese was necessary not only for the protection of our country and its citizens but also for the safety of the internees themselves.

Return of Japanese to West Coast
Los Angeles, May 27—At the meeting go the Pacific Coast Japanese Problem Conference yesterday, Rep. John M. Costello protested the so-called movement to return the evacuees to California, thus attacking the act of the Civil Liberties organization to defend the rights of nisei and officials of the WRA.

BIDDLE OPPOSES
Ex-congressman Leland Ford, another speaker at this session, mentioned that efforts to exclude Japanese from this area were resisted by Attorney General Francis Biddle.

RESOLUTION PASSED
Meanwhile, the L.A Bar Association yesterday passed a resolution to ban the Japanese from their West Coast homes “until Japan unconditionally surrenders in total defeat.”

15.5" x 13"

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Lindsay Destine 04/10/21