Title: "30,000 Japs Leave Centers," Seattle Times, 9/8/1944, (ddr-densho-56-1062)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-1062

30,000 JAPS LEAVE CENTERS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.--(AP)--More than 30,000 Japanese-Americans have left War Relocation centers on indefinite leave and they are going out at the rate of 400 a week, the War Production Authority reported today.

Director Dillon S. Myer said about 60,000 remain in the eight regular centers and 18,500 are in a segregation center for persons of questionable loyalty at Tulelake, Calif., in addition, 5,000 are now outside the centers on seasonal leave, working in such activities as canning, beet thinning and harvesting.

Most of the 30,000 on indefinite leave have settled permanently in communities scattered across the country. Some are in the Army.