Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 37

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Amache Red Cross cnap'cw
will not have a roll call
or solicit funds within the
center this year, it was
reported at the semi-annual
meeting of the members held
at its office at 6F recreation hall last Saturday
afternoon. However, vol-
unt ary c o nt r i b ut i o n s wi 11
be ac c ept ed, it was st at ed •
Support of the'Community Council and the block
managers' assembly wmll be
requested to aid in accept-
i ng vo 1 unt a r y g i ft s, *■ J".
Ray Johnson, chief of community management,mil conduct a campaign among the
appointed personnel.
After a week  of study and discussion on various
the delegates to the seven center
Salt Lake City two weeks a~o  decided
evacuee prob1 ems,
conference
t o s end a
I n
etter
to
j'.- a
A budget of 31,
A?i
for
the coming year was agreed
upon, with B720 listed as
administrative ex'pen s e,
B400 for Homo service, and
-300 for other' activities.
Fo 11 owing o ff i c ers were'
unanimously elected for the
new term.:
Dr. 'lakashi Tor am. i,
chairman; Heisaburo Ho da,
vice-chairman'; Henry II.
Tsuno, treasurer; Masao I-
tano, executive secretary,
and Miss Mary Furuta, secretary.
ti on-
al WRA Director Dillon S.
Myer, urging that the relocation center's "be kept
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IF lit lH ME C: IIII HE IF .
Clifford H.Parker, fire
p r o t ec t i on ' officer fro m
Tule Lake center Has been
assigned to a like position
here for a period' of one'
month detail work, stated
F. IT, Hewland, local as-
s i s t ant ■• f ir p p r o t ec t i on'
officer, last Thursday.
Harbor,who 'arrived Here*
last -week, replaces Glenn
B. Rural ey,- f o r m e r fir e
protection officer, w h o
Has boon promoted as a 7RRA
fire protection advisor in
HasRington, DC.
Fid in
FRESNO--In a reo'.
to
an inquiry from the FRESNO
BEE as to the truth of
statements that the FBI
"clears" evacuees who return from relocation centers, J, Edgar Hoover, FBI
director, denied His department ' certifies  as'.to
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their loyalty.
Following is the inquiry
sent Hoover:
the FBI
Hi
loyalty on
Japanese
put the
these-
■..as
stamp o
returning
can the FBI tell whether a
Japanese-American is loyal
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HE77ELE, Calif.—A group
of 12 5 Japanese aliens and
admittedly disloyal citizens
left Tule Lake segregation
center last Monday for an
undisclosed Justice Department c amp •
Shigeyo shi. Hawabata and
Minoru Hinoki, presidents
of two pro-Japanese societies at the camp, were
also included in the group,
a 7IRA spokesman reported.
This transfer .makes1,01 6
segregants to be sent from
Tule Lake since last December 27 to Department of
Justice camps, the VERA revealed. There were three
previous t r an sf ers.
if said Japanese is -smart
enough to keep his feelings
hidden by word and action?1'
Hoover replied:
"The Federal Bureau of
I n ve s t i g at i on mak e s no • r ec -
ommend at i 0n what s0 ever as
tu whether any person of
Japan e s e anc o s t ry sh 0 u1d
return to the Host Coast,
This is a matter .'exclusively within the jurisdiction of Army authorities,
and in this connection It
is' my und er standing that
the Army contemplates carefully screening those in
dividuals within the war re-
10 c a t i 0n c amps p r i or to
their • release, in order
that those believed to be
dangerous may be 'made the
s ub jec t 0 f i n d i v i d az a 1
 continued on cage 3——
open for the duration of
the war and for some time
thereafter as may be needed," according to Sakae
EawasRiri, chairman, of the
Community Council, who was
one of the delegates.
Roy Dragami and SHinicHi
Furuya wore the other local delegates.
Present economic status
and f oar.- of violence -and
discrimination were cited
as. two reasons for the request to 'keep the centers
op on.
Along with the letter,
an itemized statement of
facts and 21 recommendations covering various
problems and difficulties
confronting them were submitted to the national
director.
T h e r e c 0 m m e nd a t i 0 n s
briefly summarized  included:
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CAMP SHELBY,Miss.--After six months of activity
the 171st Infantry Battalion, Separate,- a training
unit of Japanese ivm.eim.cans,
■was officially inactivated
as of last Feb. 1C.
• The 171st trained men
have entered the ranks of
.the veteran 100th Battalion
and the ■442nd Infantry,
both, having won fame on
the battlefield,
In His'final message to
his.men,Major Senior, commanding officer, declared:
"This is the.- day I had
-hoped would never come until  the dawn of peace.
However, now the  171st is
just another page in His-
ory,
" Y0 u ha ve ■ 'mad e a r ec 0 r d
of which you may well be
proud, and I am confident
that had you .stayed together, you would have been
second to. none no matter
what the. assignment,"
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