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Farewell to Welcome Annex

The tearing down of the Welcome Annex Building. Includes first hand accounts of the history of the building and the tunnel that used to be under it.

Farm Colonies to be Set Up for Japanese

Thomas Clark, alien coordinator for the Western Defense Command, announced that farm colonies would be established for enemy aliens who were evacuated from vital defense areas in California.

Farm Security to Employ 5,000 Japs in Idaho, Oregon

The Farm Security Administration was making plans to recruit Japanese American farm laborers to do seasonal work in Eastern Oregon and in Southern/Southwestern Idaho because of shortage of workers due to the war.

Farmers Sought for Jap Acreage

Charles A. Agers of the Farm Security Administration urged anyone interested in taking over the farms being vacated by Japanese evacuees to do so immediately because of the need for food production during the war.

Farmlands: The Story of Thomas, a Small Agricultural Community in King County, Washington

History of local community with chapter and oral history on the Japanese American community there.

Farms Sign For Evacuation

Japanese farmers in King County were registering in preparation for evacuation as the Farm Security Administration continued its program of transferring the farms to white and Filipino farmers. Kent, WA was outside the registration area, but Mrs.…

Fates Of 2 Japs Now In Hands Of Jurymen

The jury was deliberating a verdict in the trial of Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Osawa as the attorneys made their closing arguments. The men were on trial for trying to send storage tanks to Japan by first sending them to Shanghai in order to get…