Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 19

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Pvt. Mitsuye 0 shit a, 19,
•son of Mrs.' Hasumi 0 shit a,
70-IE, was reported as wounded in action  in France'on
Dec..13 by the War Department this week.
Private Oshita, Amache
high,school graduate, entered the Array via draft
from, here and trained 'at
p Shelby, hiss,,' before
going overseas with the
442nd Infantry.
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SAN FRANCISCO, . Jan., 3--Just     a    handful   of  Jap
Americano  have  left     the    relocation centers for
former West  Coast  homes    "Wednesday,   first  day    of
ioi
his  roacfion to  the lifting of the
exclusion orders was  one  of  "deep
the Interior IoIv-t: lauded
t.n.0  restoration of .complete civil; liberties"^
the people of Japanese ancestry in his statement released recently to the residents of- the relocation
centers.
■\ry  of
an e s e
their
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so
lifting of the Army mass exclusion orders,'accordir
thenar Relocation Authority	
Reports showed  two had  it was announced. Hiss Tel-
left Manzanar, Calif., one ho  Ishida, director, said  ' —
had left Poston, Ariz., and. her work would be to assist •   Ickes  expressed" 'h
none had left either heart
Mountain, Wyo., or Minidoka,
Idaho, centers. ho report
had been received from Topaz,
Utah, where most of the former Bay region residents are
interned.
Branch office of the Japanese American Citl z en
league was reopened at the
International Institute here,
in relocating evacuees.
The JACL office will also
carry on an education campaign to bring about better
understanding of the evacuation and the position of
persons ofJapanese ancestry
in this coir try.
.Henry F. Ilalliday, assistant project director, and
Jack G. Bohon, finance officer, are leaving;.tomonr-ow
for Denver to attend an' important' T|SA conference to
control and finance.  All
the relocation centers will
represented-
thi
RJEIPCMtT IW©
.Two fires were reported'
over "the holidays, according
to William. Fuller, operations chief, this week.
.An over-heated, stove ignited the roof of the 6G
mess hall early Christmas
morning. Only slight dam-
a g es wer e s uff e rod.
On Dec. 28, the 8G .men's
lavatory was the scene of
the second fire. Damages SAB FRAk'CISdO,'Dec. 3 0«-
to walls, roof and plumbing Communities scattered along
were estimated at about $108.  the Pacific coast retained
.chips on their- shoulders
as the time drew near when
all "loyal or harmless"
persons of Japanese ances-
try would be free to go
and c om e  in California,
Text of Ickes' statement
on page 6
1 s
"heartfelt appreciation of
the patience and understanding1'' displayed by the evacuees as "cooperative and
law- abiding residents of
relocation centers." Outside of men in. uniform., he
said, few groups have made
a "greater personal sacrifice" during the last three
■years.
Closing of the centers
within' one'year should" not
"be a Farming', Ickes continued,
as the facilities of--the
WRA and  the Interior ."Pe-
discuss'revis ion'of property partmeht will' be .directed
tbwa rd"' mak Ing
'satisfac-
tory "'resettlement" ' In the
community of evacuee's
choice.
SJUK.IES
Lo c a 1IIRA ap p o int ed p e r-
sonnel staff invested
'$44,332.50 in War Bonds and
fight the return of the
Japanese Americans " with
"all peaceable, but vigorous moans."
Nevertheless, the expected shouts of protest
up and down the Coast have
not been hoard. This minimum"' of protests Is attr'l-
Stamps during the 6th "Tar Oregon and" Washington, aC- ''bated partly to the announ-
Loan Drive, revealed Project ' cording to Lawrence E. Da-
Director Jam.es G. Lindleky vies in the keW York TIMES,
this week. This amount Is In Orange county, South-
292.3 per cent of the quota, ern Calif orr.ua, Davios con-
Of the total, $33,737.2 5 •tinned,a Japanese American
was in cash purchases and who returned underan indi-
110,595.31 in regular pay- vidual permit was advised
roll deductions for bonds
for November and December,
1944. Project quota was set
at 35 percent of one month's
salary for each "individual.
Der
by a small group of
sons that it would, not be
"healthy" for him- to- stay,
while Grange'leaders are
on record as vowing 'to
cod 'intention of 'Federal
agoneIes to discour age' the
return of evacuees for the
present,'because of criti cal
hous ing cond it ions and' oom-
mun ity att it ud e s.
Twenty WRA relocation
offices" to be established
along the Coast, D avies
wrote, are committed to
aid only those who have
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