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  • Tags: Minority Groups

With Allied Fifth Army, Italy (UP) - Japanese-American soldiers played an important role in the recent battle at Benevento where the Germans suffered heavy losses, it can be revealed.They were under fire four days. Once, during the operation, Sgt.…

Date: 1943-10-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - President Roosevelt reported to the Senate Tuesday that the War Relocation Authority has started a program to segregate disloyal persons of Japanese ancestry from pro-Americans among the 110,000 persons who were evacuated from their…

Date: 1943-09-14
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - The army wants no part of supervising the Japanese-Americans in relocation camps while agencies exist which "could and should" handle them efficiently.Thus, the Dies subcommittee headed by Rep. John Costello, D., Calif., shied away…

Date: 1943-08-24
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

That the Japs should be definitely barred from the west coast and that legislation should be adopted to prevent their return was the majority consensus of county citizens who gathered in Watsonville Wednesday and Thursday nights of last week for a…

Date: 1943-07-16
Source: Riptide , page 1
Type: NEWS

Wednesday and Thursday at the Watsonville city hall many Santa Cruz county leaders and citizens testified concerning the problem of whether or not to let Japanese come back to the coast after the war.According to reports from the Apple City,…

Date: 1943-07-09
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Evening Edition , page 1
Type: NEWS

Many Testify at State Senate Committee Probe; Facts GivenOut of the mass of testimony presented at the State Senate Interim Committee hearing in Watsonville Wednesday afternoon appeared one definite fact - the majority of Santa Cruz county residents…

Date: 1943-07-08
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

BulletinWashington (UP) - Director Dillon S. Myer of the War Relocation Authority said Wednesday his agency is without authority to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry for more than brief periods unless they are charged with being disloyal…

Date: 1943-07-07
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

Senate Group Accepts Local CC InvitationThe California State Senate Interim Committee on the Japanese problem has accepted an invitation from the Chamber of Commerce of the Pajaro Valley and will hold a hearing here on Wednesday afternoon, July 7, at…

Date: 1943-06-29
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

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

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