Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 38

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TO THE EDITOR
To  The ^QDE&TO  BEE
Editor;- In answer- to
the gentleman who calls
himself a Democrat' but apparently disavows the fun-
d a me nt a 1 p r i nc ip 1 e s th. ere of,
I would like to point- out
the-,' story of one Frank T.
Hachiiva of nood River,Ore.
Incidentally,the Hood stiver peop 1 e feel about him
a s   Mr.   D em o c r a t d oe s .
Hachiya,of Japanese descent, fou.Hit against the
Japanese at Kwajalein and
at En iwe t ok an d ■ f i n all y
landed on Leyte with the
7th Division on December
30th. HHen a nan was needed
to cross a valley under
fire and scout enemy pos-
i t i o n s , H a c h i ya v o 1 un t e er e d.
He worked ahead of his pa-'
trol and was s ta ggsr e d , -.
suddenly, by a sniper's
b u 11 e t. H e e mp tied his
rifle at the J a p anese,
crawled back, gave his report and died. I wonder
if  he  was   loyal.
The f und ame nta1 question is, I believe, is
Democracy a "white man's"
government? Is it o Q-ly
for white m e n or do we
really believe.in Democracy at all? if we do not
believe   in Democracy,   then
why  all   the  fighting?
As   far     as  citizenship
is     concerned,   how   many
Japanese-Americans  disobey
our     laws   or    are   in jail?
How many cases  of sabotag:e*:
b y ^apane s e -Am j r i c ans- ■ ha ye .
been reported? ' *Lf'hfave*"'not'-'
heard of  any.
There are some disloyal
Japanese, yes, but I still
believe we have men qual-
ified to determine who
they are and 1 do not believe they are being turned
loose.
Patterson, A Header   •
 PIOHEER	
LP'AMtlHL mM§*&V
Oj»''ri*flf ajuciit**
SACHA'^n'C0--T he .state
highway '' pat r o 1 has been
put on the alert" on the
Or os i-Cut1er highway n e ar
Fresno after several snots
had been fired into the
.home oi S an; Uyeno last
Week.
o bate
Robert
Attorney General
Lenny Has asked
E. Raymond Cato, ^hief of
the state highway pa trol,
to put on a 2<±-hour extra
guard near Uyeno's property  to protect  him.
Special investigators
oi' the a bt or ne; / ge ier a 1' s
o f f i c e ha ve recov ere d
shells and the guns from
which they were fired, but
no arrests have been'made,
it was   reported.
Two Orosi high school
boys were questioned regarding reports that, tney
had talked about the shooting and burning of an emp-
ty evacuen  ranch house.
dom.I take   for  granted.
The dead trigger finger,
of Frank Hachiya p oints
t owa rd uo o d R i ve r -, Or a ., as
though pleading to have his
remains taken back there-'-
home--for burial, and not
to be left to dec ay on
foreign soil,where he died
a hero's death as an American  soldier.
My hat is off to any A-
mer i can c iti zen,regandless
of his race, nationality,
color or religion, if he
..but loves- and serves--our
country.
1414  Jersey.       H.-.E. Smith,'■
TO THE ROC Hi nOUHT-AlH JBSfSs
Editor--Hhen nor whence
came my ancestors to these
snores is no full, true
measure of my devotion to
■American ideals. Man-; a
foreign-born immigrant can
give-me les&ons in the true
spirit of patriotism, even-
though my ancestors landed
here nearly.300 .ears ago--
as they did. He, 1 ate iy
released from the tyranny
of his nati ve land,i s more
likely to  cherish the free-
TO THE  PM
Dear Editor ;   '.
I believe that the people of Hood River valley
and the other two spots
(Auburn and Newcastle i n
Placer County, Cal., and
White uiver Valley, Hash.)
are  a disgrace to the ■ U.S.A.
Many of those Japanese-
Americans fought in the war
and- some of them even
wounded Ha <e to come back
and be threatened by the
people, they fought for.
Those J'apa ;ese -Aneric; ns
are better citizens than
those people, if y o.u ask
my opinion. The people in.
i-iood River Valley ought
to be as ham H of thBms elves,
Bronx Richard     Mistr.on
Editor s,note« Above
letter was written by a 14-
year-old  boy.
  March  14,   1945
MOST EVACUEES
HEAD   EASTWARD^;
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iand- and Cincinnati being
most popular. Illinois has
accepted 7,900 relocatees,
more than twice as many, as
a n-y other state, while
south C rolina is the only
state 'without resettlers.
Rural families ,parti c-ularly
thoae own ing Ian d,c praprise
the bulk of those planning
to  return to  the  Coast.
w/RA says not all evacuees   are     eligible  to  re-
■ turn to  the  Pacific  states.'
The Army    has   excluded     an
; undisclosed number from
coastal areas, and others
are   not free   . to   leave   WRA
■ supervision. Those who are
not permitted to relocate
will be transferred to Tule
Lake s e .gr egat i on. c e nt er
when1 the relocation centers
are  closed  on  Jan. 2,   19-id,
The present J apanese
population of the United
States,"including those in
the  armed  for ces,   approxi *■
■ mates 133,000, a-c c or d i ng
to the WRA cinsus. The
ei ,ht relocation centers
and  tiie  Tule  Lake   Camp have
. about 79,000 inhabitants,
'and  al mo s t   ■ 5 7 $ 000 ha ve  r e -
'..-located. The re ma in in g
17,000 are Japanes e who
were living outside the
Pacific coast military zone
and were not affected by
the 1IRA program.
OVER  2000 IN ARMY
Of the 33,000 who have
resettled, 28,541 reported
voluntarily* The Army has
more than 2,000, and a nother _
2,000 are on in de finite
leaves from the centers.
Whereabouts of nearly 4,500
of .the evacuees who have
left tho centers are not
d ef i ni te1y kn&mi.
births at the eight centers, at Tule Lake, and at
Jerome relocation center
(now closed) totaled 4,837
th r ough J an ua r y • T h. e r e
were   1,375   deaths*
Col rado River relo cation
cerrter (Hoston ) leads in
number- of relocatees with
5,77.3, while Minidoka aid
0 i la &1 ve r ce /it e -- s foil ow
in order - with 4-,853 and
4,753 respectively. Departures from other centers
are as follows:Heart ^fountain, 4,188; Central Utah,
3,5.47; Rohwer 3,459,Granada
3,2/9; iianzanar 2,5 55;
Tule Hake 2,418,and Jerome
(closed)   2,056#
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