Title: "Japs Planning Sabotage In U.S. Soon, Says Solon," Seattle Times, 3/7/1942, (ddr-densho-56-674)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-674

Midwest Beet Growers Want Japanese Workers

MINNEAPOLIS, March 7.--(AP)--B.J. Klinkhammer of Stewart, Minn., president of the Minnesota Beet Growers' Association, suggested at a meeting last night that efforts might be made to bring Japanese evacuated from the West Coast area to this section to work in sugar-beet fields.

Japs Planning Sabotage in U.S. Soon, Says Solon

WASHINGTON, March 7.--(AP)--Asserting that the Japanese "time-table" calls for the commencement of sabotage action on the West Coast about April 15, Representative Hinshaw, Republican, California, called on the administration today to "stop fiddling around" with the West Coast problem.

Unless quick action is taken to evacuate all Japanese and other enemy aliens from the West Coast, Hinshaw said in a statement, "so great a sin" may have been committed that "even history may never forgive" the administration.

The Californian said he had word that Japanese plans call for a major attack on Hawaii and West Coast sabotage next month. His information, he added, came "from a source which has been heretofore reliable, though unheeded by our government."