Japanese Lose Citizenship Case

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13. -- (AP) -- Federal Judge A.F. St. Sure has dismissed an action through which approximately 1,500 Japanese-Americans sought restoration of the U.S. citizenship they renounced after Pearl Harbor.

The court, however, gave the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the Japanese, 20 days to file an amended complaint.

Judge St. Sure dismissed two suits -- regarded as test cases -- which sought restoration of renounced citizenship, and two petitions for writs of habeas corpus to prevent deportation of the plaintiffs to Japan.