Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 32

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War Department this week
announced the wounding in
action in France,February,
1945, of Pvt. Shigehiko
Ishigaki, 23, son of Mrs*
Shin.' I shigaki, 9E-11C .
Private Ishigaki, graduate of Colusa (Calif.)
high school, volunteered
from this center on May 14,
1944, and received his
training at Camp Shelby,
Miss., prior to going overseas with the 442nd Infantry.
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Vol.111  Ho.32 Wednesday,   Feb.21,1945       Amache,Colo.
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Captain Antonio Martin,
Amache residents who
the West Coast, but who
are especially urged by
tion program officer, to
portunities and housing
Sioux Ordnance Depot, Sidney, Nebr.
"Evacuees who are unable
to return to the
present due to
Coast at
lack of
Spanish vice-consul at San housing may find the Sioux
Francisco representing the
Japanese, Government, arrived here early this morning to confer' with interested Japanese nationals,
according to James G,Lindley, project director.
Captain Martin was accompanied by Charles C,
Eberhardt, special- representative of the US State
Department,
offer expecially appealing."
Knodel stated.
A recruiting team consisting of Captain. George
Figner or his designated
representative, Cecil Morgan, relocation officer at
Amarillo,Texas, representing the Denver YfRA office,
and possible others will
be in the center all next
week to answer
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plan eventual return to
cannot do so immediately,
Walter J* Knodel, reloca-
consider the employment op-
facilities offered at the
questions regarding employment at Sioux, as well as
offer the residents opportunity to sign applications
for employment.
Morgan disclosed here
yesterday that the employment of evacuees at the
depot has been, so satisfactory that the ordnance
department has waived all
restrictions formerly required of evacuee applicants. However, all ordnance department employees,
regardless of ancestry,are
required to fill out a personal security questionnaire.
Pre-clearance for eva
cuees is no longer required,
SAN FRANCISCO—The board  of grand officers of the Morgan stated, but  if the
Native Sons of the Golden West adopted a resolution applicant wishes to obtain
regulating Japanese
legislation were
here proposing a legislation
in California.
Following measures on Japanese
recommended by the HSG7H committee;
1--An act to ban coastal waters  to fishing by per
sons of Japanese ancestry.   i	
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2--An amendment to the
Alien Land Act to prohibit
a Japanese-born parent from
using his money to buy
land for an American-born
child.
3—A law giving prosecutors power to enforce rigidly the escheat provisions
of the Alien Land 'Act so
that land owned by subterfuge by Japanese-American
citizens maybe confiscated
by the state.
4—A strict ban on Japanese language schools.
The board also adopted
a resolution asking congress to pass legislation
permitting the deportation
of "any persons of Japanese
ancestry who have by work
or deed shown any disloyalty to the United
States, as well as those
persons who have refused
to renounce their allegiance to Japan."
James G. Lindley, project director, and 'Halter
J. Knodel, relocation program officer, were in Denver last week attending
the two-day meeting of the
Denver area relocation
officers. They also conferred with Charles Miller,
deputy WRA director from
San Francisco,
Di11on S. Mye r, nat i on-
Mrs. Hango Uratsu, for- .al WRA director,who visit-
merly of  6G-3C, was noti- .ed Amache last week on his
Raymond D, '.Till i amson,
head of the board of grand
officers, said the NSGW
is still opposed to the
return of Japanese to the
Pacific coast.
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fied last week by letter
f r om Kanf o r d M a c N i d e r,
Brigadier General,US Army,
that he had given approval
for the awarding of the
Bronze Star for "Gallantry
in Action" to her' son,
M/Sgt * Ma saj i Urat su.
Mrs, Uratsu, ' with her
husband and another son,
tour of relocation centers,
accompanied the local officials to Denver, from
where he boarded a plane
for Heart Mountain (Wyo»)
relocation center.
While in the Kile High
city, Lindley and Knodel
contacted the FSA, RFC,
American Red Cross,  state
Tom returned last Monday welfare and social security
to their home In Loomis, boards,and discussed with
Placer county, Calif, them the possibility of
General MacNider's letter aiding the WRA relocation
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