- Headline
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AXIS PRISONERS FILL U. S. CAMPS
- Sub-Headline
- Crews of Seized Ships Crowd Facilities
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, November 18, 1941
- Historical Event
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FDR Authorizes Incarceration of Japanese Americans
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- 1
- Author/Byline
- James J. Strebig
- Article Text
- WASHINGTON, (AP)—The justice department, which already has more than 2,000 Axis nationals on Its hands, is contemplating a three-fold expansion of its alien detention camp system, it was learned today, to make the facilities equal to any sudden war emergency.
The immigration and naturalization service, a unit in the department, now operates camps at Fort Lincoln, N D, where more than 300 German sailors are held, and Fort Missoula, Mont, which has about 1,000, mostly seamen.
The capacities of these camps recently have been doubled, so that they can accommodate more than 2,500.
The service also operates Fort Stanton, N M, as quarters for 400 German sailors from the scuttled liner Columbus who have the status of distressed seamen.
Still to be provided for are 200 members of the crew and a woman who were aboard the Norwegian vessel Busko when it was seized near Greenland in September, and those aboard the Oderwald. Nazi merchantman which the navy announced yesterday was picked up while masquerading as an American flag ship in Atlantic waters 10 days ago.
In addition there are several hundred more aliens in custody on sabotage charges. A number of these already have been convicted and sent to prison for damaging Axis vessels which had tied up in U S ports for the duration of the war.
The immigration service Is considering the purchase of a camp near Sacramento, Calif with a capacity of 900, a well-informed official disclosed. In addition, it has chosen tentative sites for five new camps.
The sites are secret, but three
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