Title: "Military Police and Japanese Clash in Denver," Seattle Times, 12/9/1942, (ddr-densho-56-867)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-867

Military Police and Japanese Clash in Denver

DENVER, Dec. 9.--(UP)--Military officials today investigated a fight in Denver Union Station yesterday between military police and four Japanese sugar-beet field workers in which one of the Japanese suffered a severe head injury.

Three of the Japanese, en route back to a relocation camp at Poston, Ariz., were held in city jail and a fourth was in Denver General Hospital.

Capt. Paul Roach, in charge of local M.P. forces, said his men told him the fight started when one of the police accidentally brushed the legs of one of the Japanese with his night stick.

The Japanese asserted the fight resulted when one of the M.P.'s made an insulting remark.

The Japanese were identified as Edgie Okahara, George Tanaka, George Y. Takahashi and his brother Tom.

Okahara suffered a head wound.