Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 5

              Page 8_____________________PIONEER___________November   13,   1943
MILK  SUPPLY CUT
BY 700  QUARTS
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be  provided only to infants,
nursing mothers, pregnant
women, and other persons
who, by medical direction,
require a special diet.”
   3.  In the case of cen-
ters producing their own 
milk, the quota as set forth
in item one shall not be 
exceeded; that is, one
half (½) pint per day.
   4.  Milk shall be served
in the administrative mess
on the same basis as it is 
served to the center popu-
lation, without exceptions.
   5. If the center arranges
to purchase milk for the
Military Police, procure-
ment shall be on the same
basis as outlined above.
   In order to assure qua-
lified persons an adequate
supply of milk, the utmost
cooperation is requested
of the center residents,
Williams Wells, chief pro-
ject steward, stated.
PERSONNEL  HONORS  300  TULEANS
   Serving as hosts to some
300 guests, the appointed
personnel in conjunction
with    the     leading     center
organizations successfully
culminated their previous-
ly scheduled Welcome Tuleans
party last Thursday evening
at the high school auditor-
ium under Dr.Dumas' chair-
manship.
   Project Director James
Lindley delivered the of-
ficial welcome to all Tu-
leans in behalf of the ad-
ministration staff members
and expressed his hope that
the newcomers will be happy
in their project but not
too happy that they would
make it a permanent home.
WRA  RELEASES  FACTS  ON  TULE  LAKE  INCIDENT
--continued  from page 1-
stration area about 9:45
p.m. the night of November
4 were seized, Mr. Best
said, in fights with WRA
staff members just before 
the army moved in.  None
received gunshot wounds.
Best indicated that the
Army and WRA are taking
steps to round up others 
in the gang of troublemakers
which has been causing dis-
cord in the segregee cent-
er since early October.
A WRA internal security 
officer, Edward F. Borbeck,
was injured in the distur-
bance the night of November
4.
   “The administrative area
is now completely cut off
by a high fence from the
Japanese colony,  Since the
Army moved in no evacuee
workers have returned to 
the administrative offices,
although small crews since
Tuesday have been unload-
ing coal and food and mov-
ing garbage.  No one is 
permitted to go into the
Japanese colony without
Army escort.
   “In our opinion the major-
ity of the Japanese res-
idents would not question
the authority of the WRA
or the army,” Best said.
“However, since segregation
we have been aware that we
have in this center Japan-
ese who would go to any
lengths to cause trouble
to the United States gov-
ernment in the belief that
in so doing they would be
aiding Japan.  Knowing 
this we have been ready to
ask the army to act on
short notice.  The group
of troublemakers has seized 
every opportunity to make 
major issues out of minor
grievances of the residents 
in the effort  to gain pol-
tical control of the whole
Japanese population for
their own personal prestige
and to serve the Japanese
emperor.  Labor trouble was
stirred up by agitators
among the coal crews
and farm workers.
   "The boldest move by
the group occurred November
1, when Dillon S. Myer,
WRA Director, visited the
Tule Lake Center. He was
not scheduled to meet with
Japanese representatives
until the next day. Yet
it was announced in all
dining halls at noon that
all  the  evacuees were to
go to the administration
area to hear a talk by Myer.
As a result of this hoax
between, thirty-five hundred
and four thousand men,
women and children stream-
ed up from the colony to
the administration building.
A well organized group of
perhaps two hundred agres-
sive young men directed
the movements of the crowd
and also told WRA staff
members to remain in the
administration or o the r
buildings.   Their language
and actions were rough but
there was not fighting.
   "The WRA staff realized
that a single incident
would endanger many innocent
people, and such an occur-
rence could have been used
by Japan to retaliate against
Americans held by them.
The advisability of calling
in the army which was lined
up at the edge of the pro-
ject ready to act was ser-
iously considered. In view
of the fact that the crowd
was orderly, that it con-
tained many women and child-
ren brought there by a hoax,
and that the crowd was be-
tween the army post and the
administration building,
it was decided to avoid 
possible bloodshed which
in all probability would
have been inevitable un-
der the circumstances if
the army had been called in.
   "While the crowd stayed
outside, Myer, Cozzens and
myself met in my office
with a group  of seventeen
Japanese who said they re-
presented the colony.  While
this meeting was in pro-
gress we received word
that ten to twelve thugs
had beaten Dr. Reece Ped-
icord, chief medical of
ficer of the project, in
his office at the hospital.
The meeting was held on un-
til we were assured by the
visit of a staff member to
Dr. Pedicord that he was
safe.
   "Myer told the committee
and the crowd that he did
not act upon demands, and
assured them that the WRA
and the evacuees could get
together to discuss and
settle any problems.
   "Two hundred thirty-seven
evacuees from Relocation
centers and outside are
working fourteen to sixteen
hours a day to harvest the
crop of the Tule Lake pro-
ject  farm which the Tule
Lake segregees refused to
touch.   Among the group of
farm workers are thirty-
two from Idaho. A special
train Wednesday left the
Tule Lake center with evac-
uees who had been scheduled
to be transferred during
the segregation movement
among them were ninety go-
ing to Minidoka and fifty-
two going to Granada."