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Futile Naval Action Off Cypress Point Early Saturday Afternoon; Eight Shots - No HitsEnemy Craft Operating Off the Coast Of California Believed Suicide Effort To Hit ShippingThe Japanese war came close to Santa Cruz yesterday when a submarine rose to…

Date: 1941-12-21
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News , page 1
Type: NEWS

Watsonville, at one time, was "central headquarters" of the Japanese Butoku-kai or "North American Imperial Way society," which was organized in 1929, according to an article in Sunday's San Francisco Examiner written by Ray Richards at Washington,…

Date: 1943-11-22
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - A U. S. Army private of Japanese ancestry begged a Dies subcommittee to give him "a Chinaman's chance" to prove his loyalty to the United States and desire for the defeat of Japan.The man is Mike Masaoka, former executive secretary…

Date: 1943-07-06
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

Los Angeles (UP) - Japanese at the Poston, Ariz. relocation center held Caucasian camp employees under siege and threat of death for a week during riots there last November, H. H. Townsend, former camp supply officer, told a Dies subcommittee.The…

Date: 1943-06-11
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
Type: NEWS

Funds in local banks of Japanese nationals are entirely frozen under orders issued by the U.S. Treasury department.Access to their accounts is allowed for Japanese citizens, those born in this country or in American possessions, as Hawaii, and now…

Date: 1941-12-13
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News , page 2
Type: NEWS

To The Editor:In these critical days when the policies of many organizations representing various nationality groups may be viewed with suspicion and even with alarm by certain individuals who are not intimately acquainted with the aims, ideals, and…

Date: 1942-01-16
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
Type: NEWS

Citing sound reasons why it opposes the contemplated program, the Watsonville and Pajaro Valley Defense council has gone vigorously on record opposing the War Relocation authority's plan to release between 25,000 and 40,000 evacuated Japanese from…

Date: 1943-02-24
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 4
Type: NEWS

40 PCT. OF LOCAL EVACUEES EXPECTED BACKWith the war department and the Western Defense command issuing proclamations terminating the exclusive [sic] [exclusion?] program Tuesday night under which persons of Japanese ancestry were banned from the…

Date: 1945-09-05
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

San Francisco, Jan. 15 (AP) In an effort to solve some agricultural production problems, Attorney General Robert W. Kenny has taken steps intended to place in use as soon as possible hundreds of pieces of idle farm machinery owned by Japanese who now…

Date: 1943-01-16
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News , page 1
Type: NEWS

New regulations to assure fair disposal and continued productivity of approximately 15 farms still operated by Japanese-Americans in the Watsonville and Santa Cruz area were announced today by Mr. Oscar W. Dennis, special farm security representative…

Date: 1942-04-17
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Evening Edition , page 1
Type: NEWS

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