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SAN FRANCISCO, (UP) - Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes Thursday denounced "professional race mongers" who oppose release of loyal Japanese-Americans from relocation camps and said that people who deny them decent treatment "don't believe in the…

Date: 1944-04-13
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

(From Salinas, California, written by Berniece Batterton)The problem of re-classifying interned Japanese -- who are under 38 years of age, investigated by military intelligence, and certified to the draft boards as eligible for induction is one which…

Date: 1944-04-08
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
Type: NEWS

Fresno (UP) - District Attorney James M. Thuesen said he will appeal to Attorney General Robert W. Kenny for legal means of seizing stored farm equipment owned by interned Japanese in the state.Thuesen's announcement followed the refusal of a…

Date: 1944-02-07
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

Sacramento (UP) - The committee on American principles and fair play which included in its objectives maintenance of the "liberties granted in the bill of rights particularly for persons of oriental ancestry" has filed articles of incorporation with…

Date: 1944-01-20
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - Security of the Pacific coast requires exclusion of the Japanese from that area, Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, former commanding general of the western defense command, advised Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, it was revealed…

Date: 1944-01-20
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - Attorney General Francis Biddle Thursday urged that congress consider legislation revoking the citizenship of American-born citizens of Japanese descent who have professed loyalty to Japan.Biddle appeared before a house Dies…

Date: 1943-12-09
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , 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

Tulelake, Cal. (UP) - Two thousand Japanese, who seemingly have entered into a pact of silence under the leadership of skilled strike organizers, refused to work in the vegetable fields at the War Relocation Authority's segregation center for…

Date: 1943-10-29
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP)- Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson has a reply for Americans who believe that all persons of Japanese descent are evil--a report on an infantry battalion of Japanese-Americans that led a veteran division of the Fifth Army into action…

Date: 1943-10-23
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - War Relocation Authority officials disclosed Friday that 8200 Japanese were moved early this month to a new segregation center at Tule Lake, Calif., and that by Jan. 1 there will be 10,000 more segregated at that camp.The Japanese…

Date: 1943-10-22
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

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