WHERE NIPPONESE WILL AWAIT TRAVELING ORDERS

[Photo caption]: Mushrooming within a few days is this giant building project on the 10-acre parking lot across from the Western Washington Fair Grounds at Puyallup, where 8,000 Japanese will be housed pending transfer to permanent evacuation centers. This photograph gives an idea of the general scene. The buildings in the foreground are nearly completed, while others beyond them are in various stages of construction under a lightning construction program.

[Photo caption]: Here is how the workmen are able to build the barracks so rapidly. Within an hour after bulldozers have cleared the ground, floors have been laid. Then men build the uprights flat on the floor and raise them into place, as shown here. Six hundred men worked yesterday.

Puyallup Assembly Center For Japanese Rises Rapidly

Puyallup residents watched with amazement today the growth of a "mushroom city" within the town's limits as the Army rushed construction of an assembly center, which will be used to house 8,000 Japanese who are to be evacuated from this area.

On the parking lot of the Western Washington Fair Grounds, hundreds of men were wielding saws and hammers to erect a group of barracks or dormitories in which the Japanese will live until transported to other concentration centers.

The buildings arose as if by magic. The contractors were given the "go" signal last Saturday, and already five of the long shed-like buildings have taken concrete form.

First of the original construction is being completed on the 19 acres across the street from the fair grounds. About 3,000 Japanese will be housed on this parking lot. Another lot of six acres and a third of nine acres also have been taken over and buildings will be erected there for 2,000 more Japanese.

Buildings in the fair grounds proper, in which soldiers have been quartered since last fall, are being remodeled to care for 3,000 more.

The speed of the new construction work is a marvel to the many spectators. Bulldozers clear a space for the building. Crews then rush in and lay a temporary foundation. Within an hour the floors have been laid and an hour later the walls are being raised into position.

At the assembly center, Japanese will be classified by work they can do, and sent to a permanent center.

Six hundred men were on the job yesterday. Men are hired only at Pier 11-B in Seattle. Men who apply at the job directly are sent back to Seattle for certification. The applicant must have a birth certificate. The pier office will be open Sunday.

A.E. Bartell, head of the Western Washington Fair Association, said the association had turned over the fair grounds and the parking lots to the government for $1.

Bartell said the Army has agreed to remove the temporary buildings when they no longer are needed. That is expected to be within three months and not late enough to interfere with fair plans for 1942.