Topaz Times, Volume 6, Issues 11-15

Volume 6 #11: Jan. 29, 1944

Page 1: Japanese Red Cross sends shoyu, miso; 166 Topazans to receive draft calls soon; relocation team to visit here; center gets 23 cars by exchange; crowd attends birthday ball; many evacuees aided inter-mountain state farmers in 1943.

Page 2: Editorial; Keeping Posted.

Page 3: Men at Camp Savage donate $100 to center; tentative program for YP conference given; new acting director for Poston named; Ramblings staff to hold carnival; church services.

Page 4: Sports.

Pages 5-7: In Japanese.

Topaz Extra: Jan. 31, 1944

First 121 Topaz youths named in initial draft.

Volume 6 #12: Feb. 1, 1944

Page 1: City council's committees are revealed; persons in first draft list to fill form 304A; first draft list made by war dept; important points on selective service regulations indicated; youth cautioned; no more names added to list.

Page 2: Plans for hot houses near hospital made; Desert Echoes; YP conference committee to meet; soldiers on leave; Cornwall to be transferred East; committees cont.

Page 3: Sports.

Page 4: Nisei draft answers given.

Pages 5-8: In Japanese.

Volume 6 #13: Feb. 3, 1944

Page 1: Hughes to be inducted into Navy soon; Ernst issues statement on selective service; collections of donations set; valentine dance bids now on sale; commercial classes.

Page 2: Sports.

Pages 3-4: In Japanese.

Volume 6 #14: Feb. 5, 1944

Page 1: New relocation program chief comes to Topaz; registration is postponed; WRA official raps Ogden city leaders; Life magazine devotes full page to blind soldier; Japanese classes to begin; family discussions to be stepped up; WRA reports officer to arrive tomorrow; 2-day carnival to open doors today; Purple Heart awards; 10 workers wanted.

Page 2: Leaves; college entrance exams scheduled; commercial courses for advanced students set; needlecraft show, tea will be held; 2 new job training classes will begin; church services.

Page 3: Suggestions revealed by post office; relocators must arrive at hostels on schedule; 35 Denver Nisei donate blood; nurses' aides receive caps; PTA convention to be held here; soldiers on leave.

Page 4: Sports.

Page 5: Women's Mirror; Around the Circuit.

Page 6: February calendar.

Page 7: March calendar.

Page 8: In Japanese.

Volume 6 #15: Feb. 8, 1944

Page 1: More draft details given; schedule for relocation team visit planned; 4 internees return from Santa Fe camp; final arrangements for young peoples' meet nearly complete; transferred cars.

Page 2: Records to supply music for valentine dance; blood plasma needed at hosp; Barnhart to be transferred to Washington, D.C.; 2 letters from Japan being held; YWCA clubhouse to be in Rec 4; Topaz girl joins nurses' cadet corp; PTA meeting; Gen. Emmons issues warning on entering evacuated areas.

Pages 3, 4: In Japanese.



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