Japanese-American Girl Joins Wacs

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.--(AP)--Iris Watanabe, 20 years old, a Japanese-American, yesterday completed arrangements to join the Women's Army Corps and is believed by Chicago W.A.C. officials to be the first Japanese-American recruit.

Miss Watanabe is en route to Denver, Colo., to visit her parents and is scheduled to be inducted into the Wacs on December 7, the second anniversary of the sneak attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor.

"I hope to help make the land of my ancestors pay for its unwarranted attack on my country," said Miss Watanabe, a second-generation American citizen. She was born in California.