The Pacific Citizen
Vol. 16 No. 11
March 18, 1943
Role of Japanese Americans In Meeting War Manpower Problems Discussed in Denver. JACL Representative Meet With Officials Of War Manpower Commission; Housing Need Seen as Deterrent to Urban Employment
Civil Service Will Reemploy Evacuee Group. Several Thousand May Qualify For Government Jobs, Officials Believe
Visits to Evacuated Areas For Volunteers Defined by Official
Wartime Civil Control Agency Dissolved by Lt. Gen. DeWitt. WCCA Supervised Mass Evacuation of Persons Of Japanese Ancestry
Senate Group to Recommend Segregation in WRA Centers. Subcommittee Urges Speeding Depopulation of Centers to Avoid New 'Indian Problem'
Washington Editorial Lauds JACL's Fight for Nisei
Army Boosts Hawaii's Quota For New Unit. 2600 To Be Inducted For Service in New U.S. Combat Team
Granada Center Raises War Fund In Red Cross Drive
Senator Murray Reveals Tenor Of Investigation. Specific Charges Now Considered by Senate Committee Disclosed
Story of the Week: Collier's Editorial Lauds War Department's AJ Unit
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Rep. Marcantonio Introduces Bill to Grant Naturalization Right to 'Ineligible Alien' Group. Would Amend Nationality Act of 1940, Establish Equality of Asiatics
Canadian Paper Opposes Move to Deport Japanese
Pottery Project Plans Dropped at Heart Mountain
Statement to Senate Group Warns Danger of Abandoning Evacuees to Axis Propaganda. Ex-Hawaiians at Poston Say Government Must Distinguish Between Japanese of Militaristic Japan and Loyal Group in Relocation Centers
Poston Will Have Printed Newspaper
JACL's Fight for Nisei Told By Masaoka. National Secretary Speaks at Mass Meet In Denver, Colorado
Fort Lupton JACL Group Hears Talk By Mike Masaoka
Evacuee Group Will Investigation Farming
Timely Topics by Saburo Kido
Leave Clearances Slow to Arrive
Visit to Topaz Like Going Home
Jerome Hunts Attackers of Two Leaders. Project Officials Seek Identify of 'Hoodlums'; Injuries Reported Slight
Investigations Into Beatings of Evacuees Being Continued, Report
Poston III Plans Opening of Net Factory Soon
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Utah Passes Modified Bill Against Aliens. Governor Maw Signs Substitute Measure Aimed at Japanese
Evacuee Hit During Argument Reported In Serious Condition
Seven Men Arrested For Disturbing Peace
Volunteers For Army To Get Indefinite Leaves, Says Officer
Many Nisei Soldiers Now on Active Duty in Combat Zones, According to Overseas Reports. Japanese Americans Sent Into Pacific Theater Of War Realize Momentous Role They Are Playing, Declares Soldier at MIS Language School
State Department Cautions California Personnel Board Against Nisei Discrimination. Had Discharged 224 Japanese Americans on Basis of Race Ancestry
American Friends Plan Gifts for Center Babies
Two Hundred To Aid Relocation Of Evacuee Group
Use of Evacuee Labor in Sugar Beet Fields Contemplated
West Coast Committee Sends 'Open Letter' to Legislators On Discriminatory Race Laws. Employers, Professionals, Educators, Trade Unionists Represented on New Coastwide Group Dedicated to Fair Play For Loyal Americans
Induction Date Set Back for Combat Team. Nisei Reserve Officers Being Called Up For Service With Unit
Suyetomi Given Year in Prison For Violation. Evacuee From Topaz Returned to Home In San Francisco
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Pacific Citizen Staff
Editorials: One Year of the WRA
Fair Play for the Nisei
The WCCA Passes
The Propaganda Front
Nisei USA by Larry Tajiri: The Negro and Evacuation
Vagaries
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From the Minneapolis Star-Journal: An Editorial on the U.S. Nisei
Washington Letter: A Proposal For a Free World
The Copy Desk: The Spirit of Minidoka
From the Frying Pan by Bill Hosokawa: Resettlement: From Both Sides of the Fence
On Race Laws: Racial Legislation in U.S. Smacks of Nuremberg Laws
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Calling All Chapters! By Teiko Ishida
Ann Nisei Says: Slipcovers Can Do Wonders for That Barrack Apartment
Canadian Nisei Paper Believes Dispersal May Prove Solution. Sees Little Hope For Canadian-Born Japanese In British Columbia Until 'Four Decades of Prejudice and Hostility Are Swept Away'
JACL Trojans Lose In Second Round of Junior AAU Tourney
Pocket Books. Ideal for Evacuees In Relocation Camps
The World at Press-Time
Amache's Arts, Crafts Festival Draws Big Crowd
Claude Settles Speaks On Nisei Question To San Jose Groups
Pocatello Soldier Visits Home Town
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Evacuees Well Received in South Dakota, Says Observer
Rundquist Will Visit Relocation Communities. Resettlement Official Leaves on Tour of Ten WRA Centers
First Call for Cotton Pickers Made at Gila. 150 Volunteer For Harvesting Work on Arizona Farm Lands
Knights of Pythias Ask Deportation of All Alien Japanese
Vital Statistics
Loyalty Should Be Expressed In Action, Says Sen. Chandler. Comment Made During Recent Visit to WRA Center at Manzanar
Would Release Loyal Evacuees. Opposes Any Plan For Permanent Reservations For Japanese Americans
Mrs. Ken Harada Passes Away at Topaz Center
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Two Thousand Canadians May Work in Mills. Logging Industry May Absorb Large Number Of Evacuee Workers
'Army Smoker' Given at Gila For Volunteers
Col. Scobey Speaks At Rohwer Center
Seek to Tighten Anti-Alien Law In California. Legislative Campaign Reported Under Way to Put Teeth Into Law
Scrip Books Will Be Sold by Granada's Consumer Enterprises
Recruit Workers For Sugar Beet Fields
Nisei Soldier Captured First Japanese Prisoner of War. Col. Wilson Would Rather Command Nisei Unit Than Any Other
Tule Lake Acts To Segregate 101 Evacuees. Detained at CCC Camp South of Main Relocation Settlement
Special Hearings Held at Gila River
Manzanar Couple Reports Engagement