Mexican Was 'Jap' To Be With Friends

MANZANAR, Calif., Aug. 5.--The strange case of a Los Angeles youth of Mexican parentage who passed himself off as a Japanese-American for two years was revealed today with the announcemen [announcement] he would be released from the Manzanar Japanese relocation center for induction into the Army. They youth is Ralph Lazo, 19 years old, the son of a Navy veteran of the First World War. He gave as his reason for registering as of Japanese parentage:

"My Japanese-American friends at high school were ordered to evacuate the West Coast, so I decided to go along with them. Who can say I haven't got Japanese blood in me?"