ddr-densho-156 — Bigelow Collection — Objects

doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 18 (ddr-densho-156-307)

Article titles: "Minority Blamed in Manzanar Riot"; "Western Vegetable Industry"; "Newell News Items"; "Report of the Managing Secretary"; "Lumber Firm Seeks to Employ 250 Japs"; "Japanese Lost on Idaho Desert"; "Pro-axis Japanese Attack Those of American Birth"; "Items from Topaz"; "Non-Japs Removed, Manzanar is Quiet"; "West Jordan Farmers Oppose Infiltration of Japanese."

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 19 (ddr-densho-156-308)

Article titles: "Boy Scouts Protect Flag at Manzanar"; "Larger Guard for Japs at Manzanar"; "Water Supply for Jap Farms"; "Church Seeks Homes for Jap Evacuees"; "4 Japs Jailed at Denver in Fight With Army Police"; "Internee Admits Attempted Bribery"; "Evacuee Labor Requests Grow"; "Grand Jury Votes to Exclude Japs from Citizenship"; "Interned Jap Aliens Now Number …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 20 (ddr-densho-156-309)

Article titles: "Interned Japs Must be Better Guarded, Disciplined, Congress Told"; "...Japanese Camp Groups Split, Some Jailed"; "Brief Filed Against Jap Exclusion"; "Mavericks by Frank M. King"; "Director Named for Jap Project;"; "Jerome Rotarians Tour Hunt Center"; "Hawaii Japanese Held Loyal to U.S."; "Japanese-Americans Blame 'Military Fascists' for War"; "Hawaii Proposes to Use Japanese to Push …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 21 (ddr-densho-156-310)

Article titles: "Probe Urged on Manzanar"; "Japanese Camps are Getting Only Rationed Quotas"; "Legion Cancels Charters of Two Japanese Posts"; "Japs Demand 5 to 1 Prisoner Exchange"; "Japanese Enlist for Special Duty"; "Stabbing Attempt Laid to Japanese"; "Relocation Area Has Meat Ration"; "Japanese Put More Americans in China Camps"; "On the Manzanar Riot"; "Letters from the …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 22 (ddr-densho-156-311)

Article titles: "Ministers Collect Articles Needed by Hunt Japanese"; "Farm Development at Hunt Curtailed"; "Hunt Man Lost on Desert Dies from Exposure"; "More on the Riot at Manzanar"; "Letters from the People."

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 23 (ddr-densho-156-312)

Article titles: "Inquiry Finds Japs Started Fight in Depot"; "No Permanent WRA Project Wanted Here"; "Evacuation Plans Reported in East"; "The Rumor Market"; "Granada Camp Head Says Japs Get Less Than Ration Average"; "Activities of Heart Mountain Wyoming"; "Alien Japanese vs. Citizens"; "Letters from the People"; "City to Give Old Books to Evacuees."

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 24 (ddr-densho-156-313)

Article titles: "Club Hours Japanese Question From Social and Army Sides"; "Evacuation Center Disturbances"; "Japs Won't Get Much Yellowstone Elk Meat."

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (ddr-densho-156-314)

Article titles: "Simplest Fare for Our Jap Internees"; "Relocation Center Work Dinner Topic"; "Letters from the People."

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 1 (ddr-densho-156-315)

Original summary: Several developments accounted for a rise in newspaper items about WRA this week. The Senate investigation was, of course, top news event, with the opening of the Chicago employment office and Congressman Leroy Johnson's resolution also of interest. Other important news sources were school construction at Granada, Governor Maw's visit to Central Utah, and …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 2 (ddr-densho-156-316)

Original summary: Investigation of WRA by Senate Military subcommittee continued as item of chief press interest. Editorial opinion received so far is divided on question of military or civilian control of camps. A movement is under way in California to utilize idle evacuee-owned agricultural equipment. Cancellation of two elementary school contracts at Granada has not stopped …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 3, 4 and 5 (ddr-densho-156-317)

Original summary: Announcement that a combat unit of Nisei youth was to be formed aroused a great deal of press attention, in the form of news articles and editorials throughout the country. Editorial opinion was almost univerally favorable to the plan. Also of considerable interest was WRA's announced plan to resettle evacuees in private industry in …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 6 (ddr-densho-156-318)

Original summary: Military service and Middle West employment program continued as chief news sources. Hawaiian Japanese have responded enthusiastically to Army enlistment program; no newspapers have published reports on resopnse in the continental United States. Considerable local resentment to resettlement in Middle West has apparently developed. Act to prohibit land ownership by Japanese in Arkansas was …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 7 (ddr-densho-156-319)

Original summary: Press interest in the Nisei military service has tapered off. While such editorial pinion as was evidenced continued favorable to the plan, news stories reported hostility in some places. Legislation to prohibit induction of Japanese-Americans has been introduced in the Oregon legislature; the California American Legion, the Native Sons of the Golden West and …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 8 (ddr-densho-156-320)

Original summary excerpt: Press interest in the WRA was definitely less last week than in the immediate past. Chief source of news was the series of arrests at Tule Lake. Press items on this were in the form of short wire service dispatches on the actual events. Although these were printed here and there in newspapers …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 9 (ddr-densho-156-321)

Original summary excerpt: The Phoenix hearing held on March 6 by Senator Chandler, chairman of the Senate subcommittee investigating the WRA, received little press attention outside of Arizona. Senator Chandler's public declaration, "There is no question in my mind but that thousands of these fellows were armed and prepared to help Japanese troops invade the West …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 10 (ddr-densho-156-322)

Original summary excerpt: Most important news developments of the week concerned the Senate sub-committee investigation of the WRA. After the Phoenix hearing, Senator Chandler told the press that he had reached certain tentative conclusions. His three-point recommendation at that time was: (1) Military service for male citizens of military age; (2) segregation of evacuees whose disloyalty …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 11 (ddr-densho-156-323)

Original summary excerpt: No new events were sources of major press attention this week. In terms of number of papers showing interest, the evacuee property situation on the West Coast was most important issue. On March 16, WRA issued an official denial of prevalent reports that large stores of evacuee-owned farm machinery were still undisposed of. …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 12 (ddr-densho-156-324)

Original summary excerpt: From WRA's point of view, most important news event of the period was Secretary Stimson's announcement of March 25 that more than 1,000 men of Japanese ancestry had volunteered. Although both major wire services picked this up, only nine papers printed their dispatches.

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 13 (ddr-densho-156-325)

Original summary excerpt: A number of papers had staff written articles and all three major wire services sent out dispatches on Senator Chandler's remarks upon his committee's return from visits to five relocation centers. From newspaper items, it appears that the Senator plans to make "an almost shocking report" of conditions at relocation centers, the report …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 14 (ddr-densho-156-326)

Original summary excerpt: Given major attention were the arrival in Washington, D.C. of six evacuees from Poston to work for Secretary Ickes and Sam Dice, former outfielder of the Washington Senators; and Lieut. Gen. DeWitt's testimony about Japanese-Americans before a House naval affairs subcommittee.

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 15 (ddr-densho-156-327)

Original summary excerpt: WRA and Japanese-American matters received more press attention this week than in any previous week since the inauguration of the "Press Review". Primarily responsible for the increase in volune was the heavy use throughout the nation of wire service dispatches on General DeWitt's testimony before a House Naval Affairs Subcommittee and the employment …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 16 (ddr-densho-156-328)

Original summary excerpt: From a public relations standpoint, the food situation at Heart Mountain was a major press issue of the week. Seven articles by Jack Carberry in the Denver Post attacked WRA's administration of the project. Appealing to the emotions of readers recently aroused by the Tokyo executions, these articles were notable for half truths, …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 17 (ddr-densho-156-329)

Original summary excerpt: The volume of newspaper publicity about WRA continued heavy, with interest centering in the Senate Military Affairs subcommittee recommendations, the Heart Mountain strike and food situation, and in the Marengo, Illinois, employment incident. WRA was also the butt of considerable vociferous congressional criticism centered about the Denver Post disclosures and rumors that evacuees …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 18 (ddr-densho-156-330)

Original summary excerpt: The tendency of editors generally to select those wire service dispatches which would be likely to generate hostile public attitudes was particularly evident this week, which can be considered one of the worst for WRA from a press relations standpoint since the Press Review was started. Forty-three papers printed an AP wire in …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 19 (ddr-densho-156-331)

Original summary excerpt: The most significant press development of the week is the growing opinion in some quarters that at least part of the fire directed against Japanese-Americans is not genuinely inspred but is part of a political maneuver to divert attention away from the European theater of war. In other words, WRA and Japaense-Americans are …

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