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Memorial services for Japanese-American soldiers of the U.S. Army who lost their lives in World War II are to be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the Watsonville Pioneer cemetery under the auspices of the Young Buddhist association.Rev. Y.…

Date: 1946-05-26
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
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

LOS ANGELES (UP) - A test case to determine constitutionality of withholding American citizenship from Japanese aliens was filed in federal court late Wednesday.The suit was brought by the American Civil Liberties union in behalf of Gensuki Mafuda,…

Date: 1946-04-25
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

San Francisco (Special) - . . . [Quoting Charles F. Miller, Supervisor, Northern California area of the War Relocation Authority]:"All major problems incidental to resettling evacuated people of Japanese ancestry in this area have been solved or are…

Date: 1946-02-06
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 5
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

Seattle - The Rev. U. G. Murphy, chairman of the Evacuees Service council, 305 17th Ave., south Seattle, has written the following letter to the Hon. James F. Byrnes, secretary of state, Washington, D.C., regarding return of Japanese evacuees:"We…

Date: 1945-10-04
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

Acts of violence against returning Japanese evacuees will not be tolerated.Watsonville police and Santa Cruz county authorities, investigating the first public hostility here against the returned evacuees, lost no time in declaring that persons found…

Date: 1945-09-25
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

Watsonville had its first case of public hostility against returning Japanese Monday, 2:10 a.m., when unidentified persons threw or shot a flare toward the Buddhist temple, corner of Bridge and Union St., which is being used as a hostel by the…

Date: 1945-09-24
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Second large group of returning Japanese to the Pajaro valley arrived Friday morning with 97 men, women and children leaving the train at Watsonville Junction, Fred Rhodes, local WRA official, announced.With the exception of 10 or 15 Japanese going…

Date: 1945-09-21
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

President Don O. Colegrove of the Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture of the Pajaro Valley, Tuesday issued the following report on the recent survey regarding the public attitude of members on the return of Japanese evacuees:"At the request of many…

Date: 1945-09-18
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

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