Granada Pioneer, Vol III, No. 60

              Melvin HeGovern, secondary school instructor,
has been appointed acting
reports officer effective
June 1, announced James G.
Lindley, project director,
Monday.
McGovern, nrho has been
a memo er o f the H i gh sc ho o 1
faculty for the last two
years, teaches English and
social science.
He has had experience
in public relations work
and preparation of news,
so the administration is
fortunate in acquiring his
services, added Lindley,
Russell A. Bankson, who
was on "loan" from the
Wa sh ingt on WRA reports
staff, left Monday for
Washington to take charge
of the publication section
of the reports division.
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WASHINGTON—Three California congressmen last
week presented statements
to a house appropriations
subcommittee opposing use
of funds by the WRA to
circulate "propaganda favoring the Japanese people."
"Tax funds should not be
used to propagandize for
any racial group," said
Rep. Clair Engle (DJ), one
of the complaining trio.
"WRA was never set up for
the purpose of convincing
the American people that
the Japanese are a superior
or better race, but that
seems to be their concept
of their mission,"
C'ormmenting on the mount*
FIR.SY SHOOY1NG
WASHINGTON—H a r o Id X.
Ickes, Secretary of the Interior disclosed last Saturday the first arrest for
att emp t ed sho o t ing of nisei
on the West Coast. Twenty
attempted shootings have
been reported since last-
June 2.
The WRA has informed Him-,
stated Ickes, that Ernest
Hultanon of Parlier, Calif.,
was arrested last Friday.
Tflultanon had admitted firing
a shotgun at the homo of
Charles K. Ayasakiat Reed-
ley, Calif,, May 20, said
Ickes.
Vol. Ill Ho. GO Wednesday, May 30, 1945  Amache, Colo.
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STOCFfTOH-.Local    unit    o
shoremen    and.    Warehousemen
placed    under     indefinite
body    by    Richard    Lyndon,
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Local selectees departing -for tnoir preinduction
phys ic al e xa m i na tion at
Denver this Friday morning
will dine at DE moss hall,
5 o'clock, amiounc ed II a r~
low II. IJJpmlinson, chief of
intornai sec ur i ty, yos t or-
day.
IJI
m
ing occurrence o:
vi oIone e
.n California against the
•eturning evacuees, Engle
said    the     incidents could
not be prevented
WRA'
tactics of praising heroic
Japanese combat units in
the US armed forces.
Ho declared that tho
part of th
resentment
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Plans for tho liquidation of tho Yokohama Specie
Bank of Sun. Francisco and
Los Angeles have been
changed, diso 1 osed Mrs. Mima
R. Pollitt, acting project
attorney, yesterday.
William Murphy, liquidator of the California State
Banking department,has in*
formed Mrs. Pollitt that
all depositors and claimants
on tho bank's books will
bo mailed, personally a claim
form to fill out. Tho
forms will be sent out sometime after June 1, 1945,
which should be filled out
and returned as directed on
tho foriru
Claim forms may bo requested at tho project attorney's office by any person who does not receive
one 'from tho bank's liquidator, stated Mrs. Pollitt.
f the International Long-
's Un i on (C10) Local 6 wa s
suspension from the parent
president, of the local,
last wool: at a closed member shin mooting here.
Approximately 475 waro-
h o u s omen attending t h o
mooting were advised that
thoy would bo suspended
from the union if thoy do
not sign a pledge stating
they will work: with returning Jap ano s e Amor ic ans.
liar ry B ridges, un i on' s
i nt o r n a t i ona 1 p r e s i d on t,
spoke to tho members present, after which Lyndon
road the local's edict.
Officers of tho Stockton
unit wore o us tod and administration of its affairs
was taken over by the San
Francisco officers of tho
union. .
The union's action was
based on alleged'defianco
of tho international union's
policy against racial discrimination. Tho dispute
arose from an assorted vote
taken by a majority of mom-
bora at ,a mooting on May
14, not to work alongside
Japanese in local plants.
This action, led to tho release of three nisei assigned to one of the local
warehouses*
The bolting members took
th. i s p o s it i on.: " Jap ano s o
never worked in Stockton
warehouses before tho war
nor had any Japanese over
belonged to a. CIO union
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■ FRESNO—The return of
750 evacuated Japanese to
Kern,Tulare, Kings, Fresno
and Madera counties was
disclosed by the San Joaquin
valley WRA officials last
week.
The figures are those of
C. F. Lane, manager of the
Fresno ffRA off ice, and Paul
J. Fischer of the Visalia
WRA office
Fischer said about 90
per cant of the returnees
arc property ovmors.