Japs Will Go to Pomona Fair Grounds Camp, More Aliens Told to Move.
Japs Will Go to
Pomona Fair Grounds Camp,
More Aliens Told to Move.

Japs Will Go to Pomona
Fair Grounds Camp

More Aliens
Told to Move

New Evacuation Orders
Will Take Half of
Nipponese From Coast

    Evacuation orders for an estimated 2370 Japanese living in two additional Los Angeles areas were issued yesterday by Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, chief of the Western Defense Command in San Francisco.
    They will go to the newly completed assembly center on the Los Angeles County Fair grounds at Pomona.
    Heads of all families living in the areas mentioned in the orders must register today and tomorrow, and evacuation will begin Friday and be completed by Monday noon.

HALF OF THEM MOVE.

    With three other evacuation orders affecting San Francisco, Seattle and King County, Washington, the total number of Japanese evacuated from their homes on the Pacific Coast will reach 50,000, Army officials estimate. This is approximately half of those on the Coast at the outbreak of war.
    Exclusion order No. 42 will affect an estimated 1170 Japanese in Los Angeles in the area described as that part of the city within the boundary beginning at the intersection of Sunset Blvd. and Vermont Ave.; thence southeasterly on Sunset Blvd. to Silver Lake Blvd.; thence southwesterly on Silver Lake Blvd. to Beverly Blvd.; thence westerly on Beverly Blvd. to Vermont Ave., and northerly on that street to the starting point.

CHURCH CONTROL POINT

    The Civil Control Station for this area is in the Hollywood Independent Church, 4525 Lexington Ave., and will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow.
    Order No. 43 affects about 1200 Japanese within the boundary beginning at the intersection of Vermont Ave. and Los Feliz Blvd.; thence easterly on Los Feliz Blvd. to the middle of the Los Angeles River; southeasterly and southerly on a line following the middle of the Los Angeles River to Figueroa St.; southwesterly on Figueroa St. to First St., easterly on First St., to Main St., southwesterly on Main St. to Washington Blvd.; northwesterly and westerly on Washington Blvd. to Vermont Ave.; northerly on Vermont Ave. to Beverly Blvd.; easterly on Beverly Blvd. to Silver Lake Blvd.; northeasterly on Silver Lake Blvd. to Sunset Blvd.; northwesterly on Sunset Blvd. to Vermont Ave. and northerly on Vermont Ave. to the point of beginning.

POMONA STATION READY

    The Civil Control Station for this area is located at 360 S. Westlake Ave, and those who register there must report from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow.
    The 2370 persons from these two areas will fill the new Pomona Assembly Center to nearly half its estimated capacity of 5000. Constructed within the last 30 days on the big west parking lot of the fairgrounds, the center consists of 420 prefabricated buildings, including eight mess halls, each of which can feed

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NEW SOUTHLAND CENTER
CAN HOUSE 5000 EVACUEES

Temporary Homes...

TEMPORARY HOMES--Picture shows section of prefabricated houses for aliens on County Fairgrounds at Pomona, where Japanese will be assembled since Santa Anita center has near capacity population. Grandstand is in background. Parking space provides for 5000, with complete facilities.

New Alien Group
Goes to Pomona

Evacuation Orders for
2370 More Japanese in
This Section Announced

Continued from First Page

1000 persons at a sitting, cafeteria style; a completely equipped hospital, postoffice, church buildings, showers, toilets, storage warehouses, an administration building, a library, eight recreation halls and other features.

OFFICIALS IN CHARGE

    Raymond D. Spencer, State director of operations for the W.P.A, in Los Angeles, is the civilian manager of the camp, with Ernest Wynkoop, district manager of the San Bernardino-Riverside W.P.A., his assistant. They will have a staff of 10 American helpers.
    Meanwhile, registration of 2100 Japanese in two downtown Los Angeles areas outlined in Evacuation Orders No. 32 and 33 was completed yesterday. This group will be moved to the Santa Anita Assembly Center Friday and Saturday, bringing the total number now housed there up to more than 14,000, the present maximum capacity.


Source:

Unknown, "Japs Will Go to Pomona Fair Grounds Camp, More Aliens Told to Move," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Wednesday, 6 May, 1942, pp. A1, A2.

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