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Show JUN KURUMADA PRI 2 01 Army that it would be more than enough to sustain him during th acuati n p ri d. he applied and there's another George Takahashi that applied and the pr cur m nt ffic r was Dr. Robinson, he just held them out and he just wouldn t approve of them nt ring the armed services as dental officers until, I think Dr. Hirota wrote to the War Department in Washington and requested an answer as to why he wasn't being called in when he applied for and requested his commission in the service. And so when they found out about that they, I think they contacted this Dr. Robinson and told him to let these fellows in the service. So thereafter, they both, Dr. Takahashi and Hirota were called into the service. Now, when Dr. Hirota was called in then he was assigned to, I think, Camp Shelby in Mississippi and so he came here and made arrangements for his wife and daughter to accompany him to the new camp in Mississippi. Which, at that time, I think, $250 or $280 a month was a lot better than sixteen dollars. So he could sustain himself until he was able to go back to San Francisco. BEC: Were you or any of your family relocated to any of these internment camps? JUN: No. This was a so-called "free zone." They had the "A" zone, which was the coastal areas of Washington, Oregon and California. In fact, I ran across several people from San Pedro, Terminal Island, Monterey, and they were given less than fortyeight hours to move, to get out. And if they didn't get out, why then, they'd have to go to these relocation centers like Tanfaran for the northern area, and Bay Meadows and all these racetracks where they were interned initially before they were moved out into the interior into these camps. Now the northern Washington and Oregon they were either at Minidoka or TuleLake for the California group. Now, like the Bay area, the San 13 |
