The Pacific Citizen
Vol. 18 No. 21
June 17, 1944
Gannon Gets Interim Funds For Committee. Ickes Says Gannon Sounds Like Man 'With Bad Conscience'
War Department Identifies Soldier Wounded in Italy
Nisei May Apply for Service in Foreign Missions
Story of the Week: Japanese American Girl Honored by U.S. Army
Federal Court Upholds Right Of Japanese Americans to Open Businesses in Utah. Judge Johnson Enjoins City of Layton from Denying License to Japanese American on Grounds of Racial Ancestry of Applicant
Two Soldiers Reported Killed In Italy Battles. Parents in Hawaii Notified of Death Of Nisei Troops
Canada Will Close Evacuation Center At Sandon Shortly
CIO Union Pays Tribute to Nisei Killed in Pacific
Evacuees on Move Again as Jerome Closes. Arkansas Center Will Be Emptied by End Of Month, Is Report
Colorado Nisei Killed in Accident
Military Situation on Coast Will Determine Any Change in Exclusion Order, Says Stimson. Secretary of War Answers Rep. Anderson's Request For Information; Myer Stresses Reopening of Evacuated Area in Matter in Hands of Military Authorities
$5000 Damage Caused at Topaz By Warehouse Fire
Two Hawaii Nisei Soldiers Honored by Los Angeles Club
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Report 51 Draft Delinquents Indicate Willingness to Serve If Citizenship Status Cleared. FBI Agents Testify on Interviews with Evacuees Indicated for Failure to Report for Pre-Induction Physicals, as Wyoming Draft Trial is Opened
Reverend Kikuchi Returns to Poston
Oberlin Convention Backs Right of Evacuees to Return
Draft Trial Group Gets New Council. Judge Symes Had Appointed Outstanding Colorado Attorneys
Protestants Recruit Student Volunteers For Center Work
Right of Evacuees to Return Upheld by Wirin, Bloom on Los Angeles Radio Forum
Presbyterian Assembly Urges Return of Evacuees as Soon As Military Situation Permits
Rundquist Speaks To Milwaukee Groups On Evacuee Relocation
Chinese Professor Becomes U.S. Citizen
Canadians Will Open Hostel For Relocation. To Aid Resettlement Of Evacuee Group In Montreal Area
Secretary Ickes Praises Emperor Of Two Nisei
Group Will Fight Anti-Alien Bill On Colorado Ballot
Students from Hunt To Work on Farms
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Ickes Urges Fair Play for Minorities. Intolerance at Home Defeats Democratic Purposes, Institute Told
Nisei Chaplain Returns to Post at Camp Shelby
Camp Shelby Troops Donate Civilian Shoes to Needy
West Coasters Greet Nisei
U.S. Socialist Party Demands Right of Japanese Americans to Return to Evacuated Area. Restoration of Full Privileges Asked in Party's Platform
Norman Thomas Hits Evacuation of U.S. Citizens
Nisei Minister Participates in Race Conference
100th Infantry Not Asked To Do More Than Other U.S. Units, Declares Ex-Commander. Lieut. Col. Turner Answers Honolulu Rumors In First Talk After Return from Warfront; Praises Fighting Spirit of Nisei Troops
Fujii Freed In Phoenix Sedition Trial. Directed Verdict of Not Guilty Given Poston Resident
Colorado City Drops Charge Made Against Nisei C.O. for Inciting Civil Rights Case. George Yamada Had Been Found Guilty on Barratry Complaint; Had Sought to Fight Segregation of Negroes in Motion Picture Theatre in Colorado
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Pacific Citizen Staff
Editorials: Diminishing Military Necessity
Okuda Test Case
Larry Smith Carries On
FEPC's Future
Nisei USA by Larry Tajiri: The Failure of Race-Baiting
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Vagaries
Nisei USA (Cont.)
Meet the 'Japyanks:' Liberty Torch Emblem Tells Of Nisei Soldier's Fight for Justice, Says Cpl. Masaoka
From the Frying Pan by Bill Hosokawa: The World's Oppressed Look to America
Editorial Digest
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Ann Nisei's Column: U.S. Working Girl Is Best-Dressed
Poston Evacuees Arrive in Idaho
Joe Grant Masaoka's Column: War Must Be Fought at Home Against Intolerant Attitudes Toward Racial Minorities
To the Churches
Ogden YBA Holds Skating Party
Timely Topics by Saburo Kido
Community Attitudes Prove Surprising
League's Structure May be Modified
Tide Turning in Favor of Evacuees
Americans All
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Majority of Alien Japanese Law-Abiding, Industrious, Says Judge Wolfe to JACL Group
California Dentists Will Open Practices In Midwestern City
Vital Statistics
Pocatello Citizens Honor Men Leaving For Army Service
Rev. Yamazaki Given Doctor's Degree By Berkeley Divinity
Travelers Aid Lends Assistance on Emergency Problems
Japanese Americans Wins Honors at Salt Lake School
Girls from Poston Receive Diplomas at Milwaukee College
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Get-together Social Held by Evacuees In Rochester Area
Nisei Evacuees Want Fair Play in Sleepy Lagoon Case. Manzanar Petition Cited as Example Of American Unity
Poston Evacuees Wed in Milwaukee
Nisei Track Star Leads School to League Title
Nisei Pastor Speaks At Milwaukee Churches
Pharmacy Students Win Certificates at Idaho Southern
Minidoka Evacuees To Complete Planting
WRA Expands Facilities in Chicago Area