Evening star., 1943-09-14
Jap 1roubIemakers
In West Segregated,
President Reports

AAAC 1OfCIIiiHCIlt llAS StdT GeQ
segregating the disloyal-and
trouble makers--in the West
Coast Japanese population
which was evacuated to reloca-
ton .centers last year, but only
a small minority" of the ap-
proximately l13 900 persons who
were banned from the impor-
tant Pacific defense area will be
subject to the new restrictions,
President Roosevelt informed
the Senate today.
He added that renewed efforts are
being made to resettle the. loyal
japanese in new homes away from
the centers, where they can return
to q normal way of life.
The Presidents communication
was In response to a Senate reso-
lution of July s, calling on the War
Relocation Authority to separate the
disloyal or those whose loyalty is
questionable, from the evacuees
whose loyalty to this Nation is un-
questioned, and asking also for
report on the operation of the 10
relocation centers. With the Presi-
dents letter went report from War
Mobilization Director Byrnes out
lining the policies followed in deal
ing with the residents OF Japanese
ancestry who were removed from
strategic centers in California, Ore
gon and Washington, to avert the
possibility of sabotage
Small Minority.
This report, which amplified an
earlier report prepared by the Re-
location Authority and the War De-
partment, explained that it was not
yet possible to say how many per-
sons will be segregated, in center
established at Tule Lake, Calf.
They will however, include about
$500 individuals who have requested
repatriation or eXpatriation to
Japan; evacuees-if citizens-who
have refused to pledge allegiance to
this country, and aliens who have
refused to promise obedience to
American laws and to refrain from
interference with the war effort,
and finally, others ON whom infor-
nation has been obtained indicating
their loyalty to Japan.
sit is established that the disloyal
persons among the evacuees consti-
tute but a small minority, and that
the great majority of evacuees are
loyal to the democratic institutions
of the United States" Mr.. Roosevelt
told the Senate.
In addition to the disloyal, ap-
provimately 10 other persons have
been confined at Leupp. Ariz., be-
cause OF their trouble making pro-
clivities.
The Government has approx
nlately $4,000 eyacuees in the CEN
ters, about two-thirds OF whom are
American citizens. Some 10000
others have been permitted to
establish themselves outside Of
these locations, and 5000 more are
engaged in seasonable occupations
away from the centers, the report
showing that there is q heavy
demand for this labor
Relocation Plans Pushed.
THE War Relocation Authority
proposes now to redouble its efforts
to accomplish the relocation into
normal homes and jobs in communi-
ties throughout the United States,
but outside the evacuated areas, Of
those Americans OF Japanese an
cestry whose loyalty to this country
has remained unshaken throughout
the hardships Of evacuation which
military necessity made unavoid-
able" the President said I'VE shall
restore to the loyal evacuees the
right to return to the evacuated
areas as soon as the military situa-
tion will make such restoration pos
sible." The others. however, are to
be kept under restraits 80 long as
the military situation requires"
In this connection, the report said
that any effort to keep citizens
under restrictions beyond the actual
period necessary to determine their
loyalty would be very hard to re-
concile" with their constitutional
rights.
The report showed that agricul-
tural production in the centers is
contributing materially to their
maintenance. estimating that 81
10000 worth of vegetables will be
grown this year, and that for the
fiscal year 1914, livestock and poul-
try products will be valued at
n O(,0 cOn