Stone Shatters Window Of Japanese Home Here

[Photo caption]: LEFT TO RIGHT -- ISAKO TAKAHASHI, MRS. MINORU TAKAHASHI AND PAULINE TAKAHASHI. Examining damaged window in home.

Isako Takahashi, 22-year-old Japanese-American student at the University of Washington, and her sister, Pauline, 24, said today that vandals threw a stone through a window in which a service flag was hanging in their home at 4558 Lucile St.

"I went through the same experience in Spokane, when I was working for a Japanese doctor there, so I knew what had happened as soon as I heard the glass shatter," Miss Takahashi said.

The service flag hangs in the front window of the Takahashi home for Isako's brother, Mitsuru, a wearer of the Purple Heart and veteran of two major battles in the Italian campaign. Mitsuru now is in Italy, awaiting shipment home. He is a member of the 442nd Regiment, a Japanese-American combat team.

Mrs. Minoru Takahashi returned to Seattle last week with Pauline from the Hunt Relocation Camp in Idaho. Her husband now is working for a construction company at Anderson Dam on the Snake River. Another daughter, Yoshi, 26, lives in Chicago. She is engaged to a Japanese-American service man.

The Takahashis reported the rock incident, which occurred Monday night, to the War Relocation Authority and to police.

"University students have treated me wonderfully, and I've made many friends there since the term started," Isako pointed out. "Now if our neighbors felt the same way, we would have no cause to complain."

Her father plans to return to Seattle in February. He worked as a gardner [gardener] for families around Providence Hospital before the war.

Isako and Pauline are graduates of Broadway High School. Their brother entered the Army in April, 1944, and went overseas last October. He was wounded in Northern Italy.