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Under the Constitution, American-born Japanese cannot legally be prevented from returning to California once the military prohibition against their residence here is lifted. But the problem is not simply one of law codes, and any attempt to solve it…

Date: 1944-11-15
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 4
Type: NEWS

WASHINGTON(UP) --Attorneys-generals of California, Oregon and Washington Monday joined in a brief filed with the supreme court asking that restrictions against Japanese-American citizens in Pacific coastal areas be removed "as soon as national…

Date: 1944-10-10
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

LOS ANGELES (UP) -Director Dillon S. Myer of the War Relocation authority Tuesday credited battle heroism of Japanese-Americans serving in the U.S. army with softening the opposition to their return to the Pacific coast.Myer, speaking at an…

Date: 1944-10-03
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

To the Editor:Since the Japanese have been evacuated from Watsonville in April 1942, they have been trying to do their part as good American citizens. Most of them were born and raised in Watsonville and knew no other home. They were at first a bit…

Date: 1944-09-23
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

POSTON, Ariz.(Special to Register-Pajaronian) --Four former residents of Watsonville were among 74 Japanese-Americans leaving here Friday for Fort Douglas, Utah, for entry into the United States army.All former residents of Watsonville Union High…

Date: 1944-08-08
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

To the Editor: Recently the following letter from a former Japanese resident of Watsonville (now in the service) came to my attention. It struck me so forcibly that I asked permission to send it to you, thinking it might be of interest to your…

Date: 1944-05-29
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

(From San Francisco Chronicle)Dillon Myer, director of the War Relocation authority, says Japanese-American evacuees from the west coast should be permitted to return to their homes as soon as the military situation warrants. We believe Director Myer…

Date: 1944-05-27
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

Criminal complaints charging conspiracy to violate the alien property act of 1920 were filed against three Japanese in superior court at Salinas Friday by Monterey County District Attorney Anthony Brazil.The complaints charge that Toshi Hanazono, a…

Date: 1944-05-20
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

SAN FRANCISCO, (Special) --Although Japanese-Americans are employed as interpreters in the Pacific theaters of war, the war department will not use nisei as combat soldiers against Japanese armies, declares Lt. Col. Harrison A. Gerhardt, general…

Date: 1944-04-28
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

LOS ANGELES, (UP) - California authorities Thursday took the first step in a campaign to wrest thousands of acres of valuable agricultural land from ownership of all Japanese now held through "dummies."District Attorney Fred N. Howser filed an action…

Date: 1944-04-13
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

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