The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-06

Department Of Justice for detention until such time as they can be ship ped back to Japan where, for some strange reason, they have expressed desire to go. By and large these 'deporteeS" are the older Japs and their wives plus their oldest children and families who own or will inherit property in Japan.
 Of the American citizens of Jap anese ancestry who are elect!ng to remain in the United States, nearly 45,000 have already been cleared from the eight western camps or assembly centers. They have been leaving the camps at the rate of over 100 week, but with the clos ing of the camp schools this month there will be an augmented evacua- ton. permitting WRA to cease op- erations by the end of the year.
 FEW WILL LIVE ON COAST
 If the pattern set thus far holds good, less than 50 per cent of the Japanese Americans will return to the West Coast areas where they lived before the war. Half of those cleared from the WRA centers up to June have sought to make new homes in other parts of the country. They have settled in every state in the Union, South Carolina being the last one to receive a WRA evacuee. While they have scattered widely, biggest concentrations are in Dem yer, St. Louis, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Chicago, Cleveland and New York Many of those going to the Manhat- tan area are California farmers who expect to hoe out new existences on the many truck farms supplying the metropolis.
 Before clearing any of it's charges, WRA has tried to do a job of giving information as to what conditions will be found in every part of the country, says Cozzens. Then it is up to the individual to decide where he wants to go to make his new home
 WRA provides railroad transpor- tation to destination, plus a three dollara-day allowance for meals en route and stake of s25 for each individual up to maximum of $10O for each family on which to begin the new life.
 Some 5000 Japanese families owned property farms, stores, homes, barber shops, machinery or house furnishings which were kept in storage by WRA. This property was largely held in California and the owners have had a natural de- sire to come back and claim it after their clearance from the camps, if only to dispose of it's before moving on to new locations. But to many who were born in California and lived here all their lives, the urge to come back and pick up where they left off is strong.
 PREJUDICE ONE OF
 CHIEF PROBLEMS
 The problems of wartime living have been too much for some. Get ting gas rations, food ration books, overcoming the opposition of other Americans who view all people of Jap extraction as enemies even though they are native born citi- Zens, is more than they can cope with. They try to get back into the camps to be taken care Of for dura- ton, but WRA is having none of them. It impresses on every depart ing detainee the fact that once he leaves camp, he's on his own.
 WRA officials have ot course taken a terrible beating On the whole program, but it was admitted ly one of the toughest jobs of the nome front war effort. The three-to four-year detention of these Japan ese- e-Anericans for their own pro- lection, will have cost the United States between 175 to 200 million dollars by the time WRA winds up its operati