Calif. Legion Favors Army Control of Japs
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18.--(AP)--Army control of Japanese in or out of relocation centers and a ban on the enlistment of Japanese-Americans in the Army were advocated in a resolution today by the state convention of the American Legion.
Vice Adm. John W. Greenslade, commandant of the 12th Naval District, addressed the convention, warning against complacency in the war effort, and urging a peacetime "world community" dedicated to the end of wars.
"We shall be embezzlers and murderers if we do less than our utmost to sustain and strengthen our armed forces until our last remaining enemy has surrendered or been slain," the admiral declared.
Representative Warren G. Magnuson, Democrat, Washington, and a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, told the delegates "if some draft-exempt officials holding office in Washington were replaced with service men fighting overseas, we might win this war six months earlier.
"If the enemy were to bomb the United States," Magnuson said, "they might do us a favor. If they have to drop some bombs, I hope they drop them and destroy the bureaucracies in Washington."