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Columbus, O. (UP) - The release of 150,000 Japanese now held at relocation centers may lead to widespread sabotage and a "second Pearl Harbor in California," Gov. Earl Warren of California said Monday.Speaking before the 35th annual governors…

Date: 1943-06-21
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - The Supreme Court Monday upheld the convictions of Gordon K. Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui, American citizens of Japanese descent, for violating evacuation and curfew orders of the U. S. Army.The decision was delivered by Chief…

Date: 1943-06-21
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Los Angeles (UP) - A. L. Wirin, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, told a Dies subcommittee investigating the Japanese relocation program, that racial prejudice and not military necessity has caused removal of Japanese from the West…

Date: 1943-06-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Los Angeles (UP) - Outbreaks of violence at the Poston, Ariz. relocation center late last year were caused by the return of 365 Japanese from "dangerous alien" camps in New Mexico and North Dakota, Norris James, War Relocation Authority intelligence…

Date: 1943-06-12
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Los Angeles (UP) - Japanese evacuees at the Poston, Ariz., relocation center have armed themselves with every available weapon and may have been responsible for a Santa Fe train wreck near the camp, a witness testified at a Dies subcommittee…

Date: 1943-06-14
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

Sacramento (UP) - The return of Japanese to California during the war would be a "body blow" to our security, Gov. Earl Warren declared Saturday."I believe the evacuation of Japanese at the time it occurred was one of the things which saved our state…

Date: 1943-06-12
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Los Angeles (UP) - Japanese at the Poston, Ariz. relocation center held Caucasian camp employees under siege and threat of death for a week during riots there last November, H. H. Townsend, former camp supply officer, told a Dies subcommittee.The…

Date: 1943-06-11
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
Type: NEWS

Los Angeles (UP) - Japanese evacuees in the Poston, Ariz., relocation center used government automobiles to go on picnics and fishing trips, an official of the center told a Dies subcommittee investigating the camps.Augustus W. Empie, chief…

Date: 1943-06-10
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 3
Type: NEWS

Sacramento (UP) - Gov. Earl Warren Tuesday signed the Engle bill (SB140) putting more "teeth" into the Alien Land Law of 1920 designed to prevent Japanese from farming in the manner they used before the war.The new act outlaws the practice of many…

Date: 1943-06-08
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - Robert E. Stripling, chief investigator for the House Committee On Un-American Activities, charged Monday that the "willy-nilly" methods of the War Relocation Authority in releasing 1000 Japanese internees a month "without proper…

Date: 1943-05-31
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

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