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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-156-328 (Legacy UID: denshopd-p156-00328)

PARENT COLLECTION

Bigelow Collection

DESCRIPTION

Original summary excerpt: From a public relations standpoint, the food situation at Heart Mountain was a major press issue of the week. Seven articles by Jack Carberry in the Denver Post attacked WRA's administration of the project. Appealing to the emotions of readers recently aroused by the Tokyo executions, these articles were notable for half truths, omissions, and misinterpretation of the facts. Most serious charges concerned mess operations. WRA was accused of hoarding canned goods prior to rationing, of being wasteful and extravagant in ordering and using food supplies, and it was implied by omission that center residents are not under food rationing restrictions. Further allegations concerned consumption of bootleg liquor by evacuees and their refusal to accept lucrative outside job offers because life within the center is "soft." The Denver Post series was picked up by AP and INS, whose dispatches were printed by relatively few papers. One AP dispatch included a refutation by WRA officials of some of the accusations.

CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the Bigelow Family Collection

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