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Memorial services for Japanese-American soldiers of the U.S. Army who lost their lives in World War II are to be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the Watsonville Pioneer cemetery under the auspices of the Young Buddhist association.Rev. Y.…

Date: 1946-05-26
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
Type: NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO (Special) - The Northern California area of the War Relocation Authority closed its doors here Wednesday as the wartime agency's four-year-old job of handling the relocation of the people of Japanese ancestry came to a successful…

Date: 1946-05-15
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

LOS ANGELES (UP) - A test case to determine constitutionality of withholding American citizenship from Japanese aliens was filed in federal court late Wednesday.The suit was brought by the American Civil Liberties union in behalf of Gensuki Mafuda,…

Date: 1946-04-25
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

San Francisco (Special) - . . . [Quoting Charles F. Miller, Supervisor, Northern California area of the War Relocation Authority]:"All major problems incidental to resettling evacuated people of Japanese ancestry in this area have been solved or are…

Date: 1946-02-06
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 5
Type: NEWS

Cpl. Jack E. Kirby of Freedom, captured by the Japs at the fall of Corregidor in May, 1942, and prisoner in various prison camps in the Philippines until Sept. 3, 1945, writes the following to the Register-Pajaronian:"Since my return from the prison…

Date: 1945-10-11
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

To the Editor:On behalf of many of the enlisted men stationed at Camp McQuaide, I am directing this letter to you to protest the action taken by the Pajaro Valley Chamber of Commerce against the Japanese, former residents of this locality who upon…

Date: 1945-10-06
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 5
Type: NEWS

To the Editor:Attention: Aiko Masada;Referring to your recent letter addressed to the writer you scornfully quoted "dusty Arizona" and "muddy Arkansas" as two of the barbed-wire relocation centers your people were forced to accept. These two terms…

Date: 1945-10-04
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

Seattle - The Rev. U. G. Murphy, chairman of the Evacuees Service council, 305 17th Ave., south Seattle, has written the following letter to the Hon. James F. Byrnes, secretary of state, Washington, D.C., regarding return of Japanese evacuees:"We…

Date: 1945-10-04
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

To the editor:Quoting from G. W. Cornell's letter of Sept. 20 to the editor, "everything possible should be done to encourage all Japanese to return to their native land and..." Perhaps we could have just as easily relocated elsewhere but, my dear…

Date: 1945-09-26
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

Acts of violence against returning Japanese evacuees will not be tolerated.Watsonville police and Santa Cruz county authorities, investigating the first public hostility here against the returned evacuees, lost no time in declaring that persons found…

Date: 1945-09-25
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

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