Title: The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 16, 4/22/1943, (ddr-pc-15-16)
Densho ID: ddr-pc-15-16

The Pacific Citizen
Vol. 16 No. 16
April 22, 1943

Nisei Soldiers May Visit Evacuated Areas. First Relaxation of Japanese Evacuation Orders Proclaimed This Week By Lt. Gen. DeWitt. Japanese American Soldiers on Furlough and Active Duty Given Freedom of Movement Inside Western Defense Command on Proclamation

Army Commander's Attitude Balked Plan to Return Some Evacuees to Coast, Is Report. United Press Says Program to Release Loyal Group for Useful Work in Area Upset by 'Jap's a Jap' Statement of General DeWitt

Lt. Gen. DeWitt 'Misquoted' on Statement Opposing Evacuees, Washington Sources Declare. Los Angeles Times Quotes 'High Authority' Army Considering Relaxing of Restrictions; Opposition in Congress Cited by Newspaper

Story of the Week: Washington Post Raps DeWitt Statement on Nisei

Resettled Evacuees Eligible to Get Emergency Help

ACLU to Enter Cases Affecting Evacuee Rights

California Legion Group Commends DeWitt on Stand

Mike Masaoka Notified of Induction Date

Dillon S. Myer To Visit Poston

Army Guards Withdrawn From Inner Relocation Camp Areas. Order Follows Fatal Shooting of Resident At Topaz Center

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WRA Reveals Curtailment of Present Relocation Program Considered, Says L.A. Times

L.A. Times Editorial Opposes Program to Return Evacuees

California Senate Committee Approves Seizure of Equipment

Native Sons Back DeWitt Stand on Nisei. Supports Opposition To Return of Evacuee Group to West Coast

Sonoma Grange Lauds Gen. DeWitt's Recent Statement

California Legion Commander Wants Military Control

Loyalty of Nisei Evacuees Told By WRA Official in Seattle

Japanese Americans Were Not Dangerous to National Safety, Social Work Conclave Told. Camp Confinement Damages Initiative, Says WRA Official

California Senate Committee Passes Alien Fishing Bill

Dr. Yatabe to Aid JACL in Chicago Area. George Inagaki Will Enter Military Service In Minnesota Shortly

General DeWitt Gets Backing From Patriotic Group in California

211 Minidoka Volunteers Pass Army's Tests. Twenty-Eight Others Classified at Hunt For Limited Service

Five at Poston Get Jail Terms. Kobayashi Brothers Sentenced For Resisting Federal Officers

Senator Wallgren Opposes Return of Evacuees to Coast

Art Competition For Evacuees Set By Eastern Group

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Secretary Ickes Hires Nisei Evacuees for Maryland Farm. 'I Believe We Should Do All We Can to East Burden Has Placed Upon This Particular Group,' Declares Member of President's Cabinet

Kobayashi of Poston Arrive To Take Jobs on Ickes Farm. Others Will Work on Farm of Sam Rice, Former Baseball Star

Senator Chandler Endorses Ickes' Move To Employ Nisei

Wirin: Contractual Obligations Exonerated By Evacuation. California Appellate Tribunal Orders Retrial of Oshiro Test Of Evacuee Property Rights

Rep. Rankin Hits Combat Service For U.S. Nisei

Maryland Farms Seek Evacuees. WRA Says 100 Nisei Released For Work in Eastern Area

California CIO Will Back Bills Repealing Chinese Exclusion

Wapato Chamber Opposes Return of Evacuated Group

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Pacific Citizen Staff

Editorials: The Tokyo Executions

Freedom for Nisei Soldiers

The Nisei Future

The Relocation Press

Nisei USA by Larry Tajiri: Firing Squads in Tokyo

The Copy Desk

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Vagaries

'Brothers Under the Skin.' Carey McWilliams' New Book Discusses Related Problems Of Non-Caucasian Minorities

From the Frying Pan by Bill Hosokawa: The Nisei Press Is Coming of Age

A Trade Union View: Move to Deport U.S. Nisei Endangers Other Minorities

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Calling All Chapters! By Teiko Ishida

Heart Mountain Art Students Establish League

Ann Nisei Says: Easy-to-Make Accessories Add That Spring Look

Nisei Evacuees Program at Midwest Legion Post Meeting. Eugene Kono Speaks To Des Plaines Post Of Veterans' Group

Union Leader Comments on Deportation Move (Cont.)

Asiatic Americans Back Bill For U.S. Naturalization Rights. Mercantonio Proposal Will Amend Present Citizenship Statutes

JACL News: Colorado Calling!

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California 'Little Dies' Group Charges Evacuees Pampered

Evacuee Held In Border Area. Entered Prohibited Area on Way to See Mother in Chicago

Vital Statistics

Rohwer Outpost Staff Is Cut By Relocation

Takahashi, Osawa Receive Jail Terms for Embargo Violation. Five Year Sentences Imposed by Judge Black in Seattle Court

Many Evacuees Will Work in Spokane Area. Will Be Employed on Eastern Washington Farms This Year

Utah Official Opposes Use of CCC Housing for Evacuees

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Evacuees Get Exemption on Property Tax. Attorney General Kenny Rules on Question Posed by Evacuation

Rivers Co-op Incorporated. Licensed For Business In State of Arizona; Policies Unchanged

Wyoming Clubmen Ask For Passes For Volunteers

CIO Union Opens Great Lakes Shipping to Nisei Seamen

50 Percent of Evacuees May Be Resettled Soon, Is View. We Are Not Fighting Racial War, Gila River Director Says in Talk

Watercolor by Nisei Artist Receives Honorable Mention

Poston Issues Printed Paper. Chronicle Is First To Be Printed Inside War Relocation Center

May Yoshino Weds Shigeru Horio in Salt Lake Ceremony

Great Falls Group Opposes Land Sale To Evacuee Farmers

JACL Purchases $2,000 in Bonds

Youth Escapes From Hospital. Kiyoshi Okubo Found By Authorities at Palo Alto Hotel

Arizona Firm Files Under New Law of State. Requires Registration of Groups Dealing With 'Restricted' Persons

American Legion Posts in Arkansas Fete Volunteers