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  • Tags: Minority Groups

The Supreme Court decision Monday upholding the conviction of two West Coast Japanese on charges of violating the military curfew imposed by Lt.-Gen. John L. DeWitt, chief of the Western Defense Command should curb much of the argument about the…

Date: 1943-06-22
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - The Supreme Court Tuesday was asked by a lower tribunal to rule on constitutionality of restrictions imposed by army officials on United States citizens of Japanese ancestry on the west coast.The high court received papers from the…

Date: 1943-03-30
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

By unanimous vote, supervisors of Santa Cruz county Friday afternoon approved a resolution protesting removal of evacuated Japanese from War Relocation centers unless under specific orders and direction of the United States army and also protesting…

Date: 1943-04-24
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

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

Approximately 72 acres of farm land Wednesday is under state ownership following an alien land law decision against Yeizo Ikeda, a Japanese alien at Salinas.Superior Judge H.G. Jorgensen awarded the land to the state Tuesday.The suit was brought by…

Date: 1945-08-29
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

[The] state's power to seize alien property holdings under the alien land act was strengthened by two bills signed by Gov. Earl Warren.The two measures were drawn following recommendations made by a senate interim committee on Japanese problems…

Date: 1945-07-11
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

To the Editor:For the last two years, some of us, privately and publicly, have asserted that the Japanese, as a race, are absolutely bad, that they are inherently, biologically and traditionally vicious, inherently inhuman, totally unfit for…

Date: 1944-02-01
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
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

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

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