Title: The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 18 No. 21, 6/17/1944, (ddr-pc-16-25)
Densho ID: ddr-pc-16-25

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