Harry Yamashita Enlists In Army Language School
By SADA OMOTO
Review Staff Correspondent
MANZANAR, Calif., Wednesday, December 3--Harry Yamashita, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. Yamashita, Winslow Bainbridge High School graduate, enlisted in the Army language school and will leave for Savage, Minn., today.
After six months study, Mr. Yamashita will be graduated a non-commissioned officer trained as an interrogator and translator. Other Islanders took the Japanese language application test but failed to pass it.
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MORE WORKERS RETURN
More Islanders to return from Montana and Idaho farm work last week were: Toshio Chihara Mitsuo Katayama, Tsukasa Sakuma, Toshio Sakai, Robert and Harry Koba, Masa Chihara, Keto Okazaki, and Isao Yamashita, all of Winslow; Morio Terayama, Battle Point; Ray Kitayama, Pleasant Beach; Sumio Yukawa, Island Center; Arthur and Noboru Koura, Manzanita; Toshio Terashita, Port Madison: Tairoki Nishimori, U. Matsushita and Masakatsu Omoto, all of Winslow.
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NO KIMONOS
Many of the Montana farmers expected their Japanese-American laborers from Manzanar would be typical Orientals wearing long kimonos and speaking only Japanese, Robert Koba, Winslow, said in a speech [speech] before the Young People's Club here last week. The farmers soon found out, he said, that their Island helpers were thoroughly American and that American clothes jokes and slang were nothing new.