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1301 FROM COUNTYA total of 1301 persons of Japanese ancestry were excluded from Santa Cruz county in the spring of 1942, according to U.S. census bureau records. Of this number 931 were citizens and 370 were aliens.The total excluded from Monterey…

Date: 1944-12-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

BULLETINWASHINGTON (UP) - The supreme court ruled Monday that the army's removal of Japanese-Americans from the west coast early in 1942 was constitutional at the time it was carried out, but that citizens must be permitted to return to their homes…

Date: 1944-12-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

With Gov. Earl Warren calling upon all chiefs of police and sheriffs in California to "join in uniform compliance to prevent intemperate action," west coast residents Monday prepared for the return of Japanese aliens and citizens of Japanese descent…

Date: 1944-12-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

POSTON, Ariz. (Special) PFC Henry S. Izumizaki, 23, former resident of Watsonville and a graduate of Watsonville High school in 1940, was killed in action in France on Nov. 2 while fighting with the 442nd combat regiment. He was the son of Mr. and…

Date: 1944-11-24
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

WASHINGTON (UP) Shortly after Rep. John Z. Anderson, R., Calif., had declared 800 Japanese evacuees had been permitted to return to the west coast, President Roosevelt Wednesday had expressed the belief that Japanese-Americans, who are American…

Date: 1944-11-22
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

LOS ANGELES (UP) Roger Baldwin, American Civil Liberties union national director, predicted Monday army orders evacuating Japanese-Americans from the west coast soon would be lifted either by the U.S. supreme court or by the army itself.Less than…

Date: 1944-11-20
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 5
Type: NEWS

SACRAMENTO (UP)--Gov. Earl Warren, commenting on complaints against the return of several Japanese to California, Saturday disclosed he had discussed with officers of the army's Western Defense command the possible danger of large scale release of…

Date: 1944-11-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Army announcement that in a few "special merit" cases, American citizens of Japanese ancestry were being permitted to return to restricted areas of the Pacific coast, brought a rising storm of protest from state and local officials and from veterans'…

Date: 1944-11-17
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

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

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