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Show 9 ': - , ( Early in March, in compliance with military decree, many ; Japanese Americans started their "voluntary'i exodus , from the ,W est Coast, locating in unrestricted war zones, for the most part in the interior of the United States such as Utah, where they hoped ' to find some passive acceptance by the local popul a c e ~ Uta h's Welfare Depa rtment was already assisting some Utah Japanese in Ca rbon County ~"ho had lost their jobs <iue to the nature of their work--,(coal mining, along wi th , cert~in other occupations ; . had beende6lared closed to aliens becauset~ey were conSidered vital to the, war effort, and the employment of aliens in these . fields mi g ht · provide opportuni ties for sabotage.) · 'ot t~ers had lost·· their jobs because of the untimely and ,questionable arrests previously mentioned. Nevertheless, the Utah Helfare Depart- ment :,Jl8.s also preparing to handle the infiu..x of aliens leaving the C~ast.2J The farmers ' and Welfare ' officials . we-re " ready, to acee ptthe ~ ,~ .Japanese; but ' in a meeting ofcoun.tY. re:presentati ves with the Gove~nor a g ood deal of opposition- to~he settlement of the . . 4 " : , ,. aliens in Utah was vo Lced. 2 : The icounty representatives claimed • 4 , . "' • ~ ;, - ' c '} "._ there 'was already a shortage·· ;of.gciod :f~rm ~.land,although Duchesne • • .. ; . ', .1 - '" ':': r~" ' ,,', '" . . .. "0'\ - ~'laswii:ling f~r , aliens '·'t~ ,le~~se~' land":~~rin~ the duration ' of the h'ar. 25 " Cache CountY .,'said ..,i .t .T'would d'o 1.t 'S:·,share1 if the government . , ' ,, - , found it necessary to locate··.·gome. Japanese ~ there, . " '.?~: ~ ~:. -.". -: . '. : "' . :. ~~~..,., ~.: . ~_ ' '': . ' : • . . ,' .: '::; . .,~ ...~. . ,-~ -:. .i . ' !: -. 26 and two days . . :: |
