Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-04-12 | Page 11 | M P Kills Jap Trying to Flee Center

I M MP P Kills Jap Trying Frying to tolee Flee lee Center TOPAZ James TOPAZ James Hatsuki Wakasa Wakasa Wakasa Wak- Wak asa 62 resident of the central Utah Japanese relocation center was shot and killed by a military police sentry at p p. m. m Sunday it t was reported Monday to Lorne Lome Bell acting project director by bythe bythe bythe the commandant of the military police I Val Wakasa asa according to the report was attempting to crawl through the fence surrounding the residential residential residential resi resi- area and failed to heed four our warnings from sentries in two towers Millard county authorities were notified and a military board of inquiry is investigating Born in Japan Wakasa came to the he United States in 1903 after being graduated from a college in Japan He had taken two years of postgraduate work at the University University University sity of Wisconsin A resident of San Francisco prior to evacuation he was a chef by Dy trade He had served as civilian instructor in cooking at Camp Dodge Iowa during World war I I. I