The Pacific Citizen
Vol. 16 No. 13
April 1, 1943
U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Legality Of Evacuation of Nisei From West Coast. Yasui, Hirabayashi Test Cases Certified to High Tribunal By Circuit Court of Appeals
Largest Crowd in Honolulu City Bids 'Aloha' to 2,600 Members of Nisei Army Combat Unit. Prominent Territorial Personalities Take Part in Send-Off Demonstration for Soldiers; Vitousek Says Liberal Racial Policies Vindicated
Nisei Volunteers For Army to Be Inducted Soon. Salt Lake City Draft Board Will Induct Volunteers on April 6
Story of the Week: U.S. Coast Guard Has Lone Japanese American Sailor
President Roosevelt Sidesteps Question On Exclusion Act
Nisei Elected Student Head at Oberlin College
American Legion in California Circulates Petition Calling for Relocation Control by Military. Half Million Signatures Sought by Southern California Group; Would Prevent Return of Evacuees to Former Homes on West Coast
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Senator Chandler Offers Plan For Solving Evacuee Problem In Report to Senate Group. Claims $50,000,000 Can Be Saved by Adoption Of Three Way Program, Including Release of Loyal Individuals for Military, Civilian Duty
Report Kansas May Decline Evacuee Labor. Unable to Meet Housing Standards Sought by Workers
Defense Training Program Started at Heart Mountain
Negro Attorney Upholds Rights Of Nisei at West L.A. Forum. Hugh MacBeth Speaks at Discussion of Treatment Of Japanese Americans, Opposing Views Expressed by Representatives of Legion, Native Sons
Many Northwest Sport Figures Volunteer for Army at Hunt. Former College, Prep Stars Sign Up for New Combat Unit
Gila Net Workers Establish Record
Dual Citizen Bill Tabled by State Assembly. County Clerks' Group Head Opposes Bill Requiring Declaration. County Clerks' Group Head Opposes Bill Requiring Declaration
Honolulu Bids 'Aloha' To Nisei Soldiers (Cont.)
Two Poston Youths Indicted by Arizona Jury for Interference
Wife of Explorer Contributes Books
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Federal Justice Raps Denial of Nisei Rights. Judge Denman Files Dissenting Opinion, Says Citizens Treated Like Alien Enemies by Military. Opposes Certification Of Test Cases to High Court of United States
California Bills Ban Commercial Fishing Nisei. Held for Study by Assembly Committee On Fish, Game Laws
Legionnaire Wants Post-War Action Deporting Nisei
Twin Falls Nisei Will Form New JACL Group
Washington Post Urges Return Of Evacuated Farmers to West Coast Areas to Aid Production. Leading Daily in Nation's Capital Declares Justice, Fair Play Demand Evacuee Citizens Be Reabsorbed Into Economic Life of Country
American Legion Urges Seizure of Evacuee-Owned Farm Tools. Wants Emergency Legislation Empowering Confiscation by State
Most of Evacuee Farm Equipment in Use, Says WRA
500 Canadian Evacuees May Work in East
Heart Mountain May Have Labor Group
Farm Community in Wisconsin Holds Meet on Evacuee Help. Plans Made to Use Japanese Americans Despite Opposition
Poston Center Passes Top in Red Cross Drive
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Pacific Citizen Staff
Editorials: Going Home Again
Reasons for Volunteering
Army Action Heartening
Nisei USA by Larry Tajiri
The Copy Desk
New Quarterly
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Vagaries
You're in the Army Now! Nisei Relates Experiences of Induction Into Uncle Sam's Army. It Takes Only a Few Days to Change a Civilian Into a Citizen Soldier, GI Style -- Only a Few Days Before Induction and KP Duty
On the A-J's
From the Frying Pan by Bill Hosokawa: Vicious Cartoon Hurts War Relocation Program
An Editorial: Investigation Proves Worth of WRA Program
Free Press
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Calling All Chapters! By Teiko Ishida
The Church and Evacuation: 'All This Feeling Against Our Americans of Japanese Descent Is Naziism,' Writes Rev. Waser
Washington Letter: Do Women Make Good War Workers?
Davis Chapter Gives $275 to Red Cross
Evacuee Launches Business Enterprise Near WRA Center
Poston Symphony in Debut Performance
Ann Nisei Says: A Visit With the Serisawas in Their Modern Apartment
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Fort Lupton JACL Closes Successful Membership Drive
IDC to Hold Board Meeting. Delegates from Eight Chapters Expected to Attend Ogden Parley
Nakama Wins Two National College Swimming Titles
Vital Statistics
Nisei Soldier's Letter Published By Newspaper in Arkansas
On Books: Davis and Lindley Tell How War Came to the U.S.
Topaz Volunteer Committee Visits Salt Lake City
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Topaz Entry Wins Salt Lake JACL Baseball Tournament. Former San Francisco Bay Cagemen Defeat Trojans in Finals
WRA Program Wins Backing. Releasing of Evacuees From Centers Sought By Eastern Group
Evacuee Workers Will Not Commute
Airplane Enthusiasts Pursue Hobby at Poston Center
The World at Press-Time
Rohwer High School Forms Chapter of National Society
Two Delta Residents Join Topaz Faculty
Post-War Fears Haunt Evacuees, WRA Declares
Seek 400 Workers For Farms in Utah's Davis County Region
California State Senate Passes Anti-Alien Bill. Would Tighten Present Laws Denying Ownership Of Land to Aliens
Nisei Fighter Wins Intermountain AAU Bantamweight Title