YOUNG JAPANESE BEGIN PARLEYS

Second generation Japanese-American citizens must identify themselves closer with true American ideals of economic and social life, Dr. T.T. Yatabe, young Fresno dentist, said today as he opened the fourth national convention sessions of the Japanese-American Citizens' League.

The League began a four-day conventian [convention] in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce building with about 300 in attendance, representing Pacific Coast units. Dr. Yatabe is national president.

Pioneers to Be Feted

The convention tonight will fete Japanese pioneers at a banquet at 6 o'clock at the New Washington Hotel. Japanese who came to the Pacific Coast before 1900 will be honored.

An oratorical contest at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in Nippon Hall, Maynard Avenue South and Washington Street, will be another convention feature. Setsu Oka of Oakland and George Kiotow of San Francisco will oppose Helen Kojo of Auburn and Florence Tateoka of Yakima in a California-Washington debate on "American Citizenship."

Picnic at Fortuna

The convention delegates will go to Fortuna Park on Mercer Island Sunday for a picnic, after leaving the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company pier on a chartered boat and cruising through the Lake Washington Canal.

A farewell dance will be held at 9 o'clock Monday night in the Spanish ballroom of the Olympic Hotel. New officers will be elected at the final convention sessions Monday afternoon.