Title: The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 15, 4/15/1943, (ddr-pc-15-15)
Densho ID: ddr-pc-15-15

The Pacific Citizen
Vol. 16 No. 15
April 15, 1943

Three Nisei Soldiers Win Army Decorations

Gen. DeWitt Opposes Return of Evacuees. 'Jap's a Jap,' Declares Army Commander; Repudiates Citizen Rights of Japanese Americans

Japanese Americans Carried Out Social Assignment

Hawaiian Nisei Volunteers Arrive at Camp Shelby to Start Training in U.S. Army. Army Volunteers Receive Ovations from Crowds At Railroad Stops En Route; Described as Best Disciplined Troops by Pullman Train Conductor

Utah Volunteer Leaves to Join Combat Unit. Others May Be Inducted Soon in Salt Lake City Area, is Report

Two Eastern Nisei Called to Service As Army Officers

Topaz Resident Killed by Shot Fired by M.P. James Wakasa, 62, Was Instructor at U.S. Army Camp in First World War

California Legion Seeks Restrictions Against Evacuees

Artist Chris Ishii Wins Promotion to Rank of Corporal

Canadian Evacuees Organize To Protect Property Rights. Oppose Government's Arbitrary Liquidation Of Evacuated Holdings

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FBI Director Says Japanese In Hawaii Not Responsible for Espionage Before December 7. House Sub-Committee Hears Testimony from FBI Chief That Japanese Hawaiians Committed No Acts of Sabotage in Hawaii Before Pearl Harbor

Topaz Artist Wins San Francisco Art Association Show

Release of Loyal Evacuees Advocated by Seattle Paper

State Senate Would Revoke Nisei Rights. State Civil Service Department Plans Steps To Dismiss Employees

Utah Education Board Planning Visit to War Relocation Center

Story of the Week: Rights of Colorado Nisei In Civil Service Defended

Government Requisitioned Cars Of Evacuees, Says L.A. Times. Procedure Advanced By Group Advocating Seizure of Equipment

Young People's Meet Held at Tule Lake

Princess Makes Monthly Visit to Manzanar

Toledo Drops Opposition to Nisei Evacuees. WRA Official Appears Before City Council of City in Ohio

Parent-Soldier Group Being Formed at Hunt

Wyoming Newspaper Is Proud of School Record on Evacuees

The World at Press-Time

Medical Exams For Volunteers Set at Hunt

Kimberly High Band Will Play at Hunt

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Report WRA Will Not Release Evacuees for Geneva Steel Jobs. Opposition Reported at Columbia Steel's New Geneva Works

Steel Plant Tables Plan To Use Nisei

Tule Lake Picklers Make Sauerkraut

Santa Barbara County Supervisors Oppose Return of Evacuees

Sen. Chandler Submits Formal Report on Trip. Loyal Evacuees Should Be in Army or Defense Industry, Say Solon

Warren Says State Not Actively Opposing Return of Evacuees. California Governor Declares Nisei Have Right to Own Land, Predicts Thousands to Return. Discussion on 'Touchy Japanese Problem' Was Opened by Californian at Recent Meeting of Western Governors in Salt Lake City

Chinese Language Classes Held at Rohwer Center

Tenney Group Wants Army to Control Camps. 'Little Dies Committee' Seeks Segregation of Disloyal Japanese

Manzanar Physician Joins Staff of Nevada Hospital

Manzanar Service Flag to Have Three Hundred Stars

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Pacific Citizen Staff

Editorials: Gen. DeWitt and Evacuation

China and Peace

Nisei USA by Larry Tajiri: American Labor Looks Ahead

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Vagaries

Report from the Midwest: 'There Are No Watchtowers, No Fences with Barbed-Wire'

The Copy Desk

From the Frying Pan by Bill Hosokawa

On Books: Many Discuss Post-War Problems of Pacific

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Calling All Chapters! By Teiko Ishida

Rohwer Red Cross Drive Nets Many Members, Report

Ann Nisei Says: Toys for Children Can Be Made Easily at Home

Evacuee Comment: Resettlement Trend Strikes Jerome Center

Evacuee at Poston gives to Home Town Red Cross Drive

Washington Letter: Russia and the Post-War World

Pocatello JACL Plans to Hold Easter Week Social

To the Editor: Comment on the Column 'Some Notes to Nisei'

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Possibility Evacuees May Get U.S. Housing Help Reported

California Asks Legal Opinion On Nisei Ban. Resolution Aimed at U.S.-Born Japanese Passed Unanimously

House to Begin Hearings on Chinese Bills. Exclusion Laws Put To Vicious Use by Japan Propaganda

Vital Statistics

Pardee Lowe's New Book: Chinese American Describes Life in U.S. Community

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Nisei Combat Unit to Fight Two-Front War, Says Official. Must Defeat Enemies Abroad, Overcome Prejudice at Home

California Group Opposes Citizen Rights of Nisei

Ken Tashiro Seeks Enlistment in New Army Combat Team

Nisei USA (Cont.)

Outside Workers Must Live Off Project, Rules WRA. Commuting Opposed As Retarding Program Of Evacuee Relocation

Chinese Americans Defeat Nisei Cagers In New York Contest

Release List Of Volunteers At Utah Center. 112 Enlisted in New Army Combat Team, Publication Discloses

Nisei Nursery Workers Get Jobs in Monroe, Michigan. Evacuees Reported Well Received in Midwestern City

Investigate Illegal Sale of Liquor to Granada Evacuees