Court Orders Return Of Land to Japanese

OREGON CITY, Or., March 6. -- In the first decision involving Japanese-American ownership of land, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bergh, Boring, Or., farmers, today were under Circuit Court orders to return the farm they had leased from Masayucki Fujimoto, who has just come back from a relocation center.

Circuit Judge Earl C. Latourette yesterday directed the jury to find the Berghs guilty of forcible entry on the farm, near Boring, about 20 miles southeast of Portland. No other penalty was imposed, other than immediate return of the land to its owner.