Disloyal Japs Fed Well, Idle While Nearby Crops Rot
By NICK BOURNE
United Press Staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6.--Ducks and geese today feasted on unharvested lettuce and barley crops, $250,000 worth of frost-threatened potatoes, and the Army fed 15,000 admittedly disloyal Japanese at the Tule Lake, Calif., segregation center, where the Japs attempted to kidnap Ray R. Best, project director, Thursday night.

The Japanese refuse to harvest the crops, which would be shipped to the nine evacuation camps holding the 95,000 "loyal" United States persons of Japanese ancestry.

Focal point of the trouble which brought troops, tanks, machine-guns and armored cars to take over the camp was 1,200 kibei, unruly young Japs educated in Japan, brought here from Hawaii.

Until the Army took over, white War Relocation Authority employes feared for their lives, after beatings of whites, intimidation and the inadequacy of protection.

While at the camp I learned how the Japs live. There were many rumors that they dined on T-bone steak, wasted butter and were being "coddled."

Here is a typical menu for a day:

Breakfast--Fruit, such as stewed prunes or apricots; cooked cereal, tea, bread or rice.

Lunch--Sukiyaki (the Jap version of chop suey), or a stew with some meat, rice, a vegetable, tea or coffee with canned milk.

Dinner--Fish, potatoes or another vegetable, or salad; sometimes dessert such as pudding or stewed fruit, coffee or tea.

The evacuees receive oleo-margarine, no butter. They eat all they want; there's no limit on quantity. The food comes from the Army quartermaster and cost the government an average of 38 cents a day for each evacuee for the past three months. Each is rationed about one-half an ounce of sugar a meal.