Title: The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 11, 3/18/1943, (ddr-pc-15-11)
Densho ID: ddr-pc-15-11

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