Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 21

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■ L -go AM v -- ij L .1 o — 1 n e a :.. t-1 -
tude. toward the current';
Japanej.se-.Amer.ican reset tie-
men t. controversy was clarified recently' by Ben '-CV--
Eoep-ke,- newly appointed-
district director" of tire
OPA rent control office',-
who declared that "the OPA
can do nothing more than
accord the same rights to
all  citizens-."   .   v.
"In the event a returning Japanese home owner
serves an .eviction, 'notice
on. a tenant, ...the procedure
is well ■ estab.li shed, " Eoepke
continued.. ."The notice is
served and a copy must be
filed within. 24 hours with
the OEA rent   office.
-"After that the. tenant'
is under jurisdiction of
State courts, not the OPA,'
because the rent office,
in effect, steps aside and
allows the ' State law to
take  its  course."
Amache,Colo.
miOVAE
TT> flJVT' V'-r
:or-~r
live Leroy
Johns
if or'nia' s'"'
third
ional    lis"
-r'ict '
introduc ed
a bil
oresetidi'i""'
n' of Cal-*
congress*
last "Week
in the
House providing for .the denaturalization, of all persons who.by their writings
or sworn statements in time
of war have shown themselves
to be disloyal to the government of the United States,
The measur-. is aimed at
some 6,888 persons of .Japanese descent who answered
negatively or in a Qualified manner a questionnaire
sent out by the VERA asking.
ClYIZEHS-lLIEAfclME  OPENS
ft .SAE FRANCISCO—Th e Japanese American- Citizens
league's ' branch, office .-was officially reopened here
last week at the International ■ -Institute,  I860 Wash"
■Japanese held In relocation-
centers to swear allegiance
to the United States. 'Johnson said his bill will- be
followed "by a resolution
providing at the coming
peace settlement these persons who .have been disloyal
to the government during
the war shall be" transferred'
to the country where"their
loyalty was given; namely,
Japan, Germany 'or' Italy,
as the case may be. ' •
Under the terms of the
present measure denaturalization would not be made
complete until' a court of
natur a 1 "I z ation' had heard
■ *
the  evidence  and made a
decree to that effect.
ington  street,
Ishida in charge.
.Miss Ishida, who 'came
here; from Hew York'where
she headed the JACL' triere,
announced _ that her task
'will be to assist in relocating evacuees ' not under
d i re'c t ■ j ur i ad i ct i on , o f .the
WRA, and .further to do 'a
job of public relations.
She said, the league and its
activities are financed"by
vith San Francisco-bo:
iss
:o
th e m emb e r s . t h em s e 1 v e s  an d
that  offices  are now functioning well   in Denver and
CEioago,- as    well as   in Hew
York, and   Salt Lake  City.
■■■   This   1,7-year-old   organization    .had -   EG     chapters
scattered-    throughout  .the
•western  states before  Pearl
■ Harbor.
LIQUOR III 1CIEHSK t or E°^f:ro;
CJI.ilC:iEILILIIk¥10MI   'r-
mmt BK IHLILIEGJML
Calif . — Dillon
;me  here fron
In reply to' a question'
of validity of licenses
held by . alien or citizen
eyacue.es. of Japanese an-'"
centry* Assistant EERA Director ..R.B. .Cozzens of San
Francisco stated as follows:
"All alcoholic beverage
licenses held by Japanese
and- by,, American citizens
of Japanese.. des-Cent were
c ancelled by C a 11 f o r n ia
State Board of Equalization*
on .Feb.2.7,1942, .'The Board
resolution cancelling the
licenses h a s rt o ve r E e sit
tJested in the courts, but
-—continued on page o —
'''Burdened. with add I-
tional work of getting
out full information fto
the evacuees in connection with ".ERA's new .post-
exclusion program, the
understaffed. - PIOHEER'
staff is greatly in need
of. more workers. ...
Al 1 ' those Int ere sted
in journalism and wishing
to take a "fling" at this
interesting,. ' informational type of won: are'
urged to apply .at the
I'UOEElEc office during
work-ins hours.. .  ...
' 'La,rg;est single Nawy order
ever received by.:the- local
SHE-Screen Shop totaling
150,000 individua!posters,
consisting of 58 different
d e s i gns w Ith f i ve co 1 o r r un s
.each, was announced' this
wool:by Miss Ma'i'da G. Campbell, silk screen director.
The work on the new order
Er ill. get underway first of
.February, she added. •.
Yjnm
l.ilyer, national RRA di.rec-
the Pacific Eorthwesty was
guest speaker at the joint
luncheon meeting of'the Rotary .club and the Lions last
Tue sday. H o'war d • Snyd er,
secretary ■ of -the local
YECA,wa's tho 'program chairman .
layer spoke On -the government viewpoint on 'the release of Japanese e'vacuoes
and the permission granted
them to return to the'Pacific coast. '  '-'.:■
Guests from the Davis,
Dixon and Vacavillo Rotary
clubs', the Lions club of
Knight* Land ing, the ..Enters
service club and the Fostern
Yobo Chamber of Commerce,
as well as local city offi-
'cials, wore in attendance.