30 June 1942

SUBJECT: "PACEMAKER"
SOURCE: CONFIDENTIAL

SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION:

The subject publication is published twice weekly, Tuesdays and Fridays, at Santa Anita for the Japanese interned there. The editor of the publication is indicated as Eddie SHIMANO. SHIMANO was formerly active in San Francisco in connection with the WPA Writers Project. He is allegedly a Communist Party member and it is reported that he was endeavoring to organize a Japanese Communist unit within the San Francisco WPA Writers Project. Other members of the editorial staff are: Managing editor, Kaz OSHIKI; News editor, Paul YOKOTA; City editor, Joe OYAMA; Art editor, Roy KAWAMOTO; Copy editor, Bob HIRANO, Womens editor, Asami KAWACHI, Research editor, Jim ENO.

Names of the foregoing were checked and the following information revealed: Eddie Takato, SHIMANO, active in 1938 in AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE, believed to be a Communist front org., and was believed to be the only Japanese in the U.S. openly working for the couse [cause] of the Chinese in 1938.

Roy KAWAMOTO, chicken-sexer, employee of AMERICAN CHICK SEXING INSTITUTE, is reported to have been in York, Pa., 2-18-42, working at his trade. Chicken-sexers are under suspicion as a possible Japanese courier system due to their extensive traveling.

Robert HIRANO, 715 Orm Ave., L.A., whose father, Keizaburo HIRANO, age 56, reported as having been sentenced to 5 yrs. hard labor and fined $5,000 on 12-9-41 for failure to surrender cameras, binoculars, and maps of areas in Calif., and who admitted having been commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army. Keizaburo left his wife and son in 1932 to go to Honolulu.

RICHARD E. RUDISILL
Major, QMC
Officer in Charge

DISTRIBUTION:
G-2 WDC SF
G-2 SCS Pasa.