Title: "Elks Demand Deportation Of Disloyal Japs," Seattle Times, 2/21/1944, (ddr-densho-56-1027)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-1027

Elks Demand Deportation Of Disloyal Japs

ELLENSBURG, Feb. 21.--(AP)--A resolution recommending immediate postwar deportation of all alien Japanese and all American citizens of Japanese descent who have been disloyal to the United States was adopted yesterday by the Washington State Elks Association at its annual midwinter convention.

The resolution, proposed by the Chehalis Lodge, recommended the task of determining which Japanese be deported should be turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The association also set Centralia as the site of the midsummer convention, the date to be sent by the host lodge, and named a committee, headed by George B. Simpson, State Supreme Court chief justice, to revise its by-laws.