Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 59

              April 24, 1943_________PIONEER_________Page 3
NISEI SOLDIERS
MAY TRAVEL IN
COASTAL AREA     
   SAN FRANCISCO, April 18
--American soldiers of Jap-
anese descent on furlough
were granted freedom of
movement,  in the states of
the Western Defense command
--the first relaxation of
barriers erected against
the Japanese following
Pearl Harbor.
   Lieut. Gen. John L. De-
Witt signed the proclama-
tion granting the privilege,
although it was only last
week that he publicly took
a stand against the return
of Japanese to the West
coast.
AMERICAN   FLAGS
MADE  BY  NISEI
   "I hope  I'll make the
Flag that marches through
Tokyo," declared Mrs. Hoshi-
ye Abe, a worker in a flag
manufacturing firm in Den-
ver.
   "With a new US policy
toward Americans of Japa-
nese ancestry, many nisei
are given a chance to show
their loyalty….Volunteers
are lining up to serve in
Army combat teams….other
volunteers are manning ma-
chines to build the weapons
for victory,” the SF Chron-
icle stated recently.
OSHIRO   CASE
JUDGMENT REVERSED
   LOS ANGELES, April 18--
The rights of the Japanese
evacuated by military or-
der were upheld  by Divi -
sion Two of the District
Court of Appeal which re-
versed a Superior Court
judgment ordering that a
Japanese lessee be held to
his contract despite the
fact that he had been re-
moved from the district.
   The action was origin-
nally brought to the Su-
perior court by the trus-
tees for the estate of An-
na D. Brown against Y. 0-
shiro, who held a lease
on a hotel building on the
corner of First and Los
Angeles Sts., the lease to
expire in 1944.
   In the Superior court,
Judge Ben R. Ragan held
that the contract was still
valid.
   The higher court reversed
the judgment of the Supe-
rior court, granting a new
trial holding that the mili-
tary order removing Oshiro
from his place of business
was beyond his control; hence ,
terminated the contract.
   Attorney Ray L. Smith,
representing Oshiro, pointed
out that this test case
will affect many leases
and contracts between Jap-
anese and property owners.
‘GO FOR BROKE'
IS  THEIR MOTTO
   CAMP SHELBY, Miss., A-
pril 16--A military unit
of 2,500 Japanese-Americans
from Hawaii, who traveled
4000 miles to learn to
fight for  the country of
land of their ancestors,
are now encamped in southern
Mississippi.
   With memories of Pearl
Harbor behind them, they
told the world, of their
determination to go all-out
for victory with their
motto, "Go For Broke."
   These men, with 2,500
other nisei from the con-
tinental United States,
will form a combat unit of
infantry, field artillery,
engineers, and its own med-
ical personnel.
   Said their c ommander,
Col. Charles W. Pence, "Each
of you is a symbol of loy-
alty--the loyalty of the
Japanese-American."
FREEZE  WORKERS  IN
ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES
   WASHINGTON, April 17--
The government froze more
than 27 million workers in
essential activities in
their current employment,
effective midnight April
17.   Instigated by Paul
V.  McNutt, war manpower
chief, the order controls
earnings by making it im-
possible for a worker--
man or woman--to leave his
present job in any of the
35 essential activities
groups in order to take a
higher-paying job with an-
other employer.
   The war manpower commis-
sion's  list of essential
activities include produc-
tion of combat materials,
including maintenance and
repair of such items;  pro-
duction of certain Indus-
trial and pharmaceutical
chemicals;  all communica-
tion services and production
of communication equipment;
and agricultural activities
designated as essential
to the war program.
   The list also includes
the processing or manufac-
turing of basic foods, in-
cluding fresh, canned, and
otherwise preserved;  pro-
duction of apparel for the
armed forces and work cloth-
ing;  and the production,
maintenance, and repair of
all equipment and facilities
necessary in the production
of essential war materials.
In addition, the commission,
in separate rulings, has
held that certain peculiar
local needs may require
classification of an active-
ity as essential, such as
laundries, certain forms
of transportation, hotels,
and restaurants.
2,571 Evacuees
Leave  Centers
   DENVER, April 17--More
than 2,571 Japanese have
left the relocation centers
on indefinite leaves to
take jobs in cities and
towns throughout the East
and Middle West, reports
John R. Ward, AP writer.
Another 2,942 have been
granted leaves and plan to
check out as soon as em-
ployment arrangements are
completed.
   George Noda, from the
Granada relocation center
is now working in the ad-
ministrative offices of
the War Labor board in
Denver.    He said:
   "This rehabilitation
program means a lot to us
...it goes farther than
fancy phrases to show that
you get a square deal in
this country.   I am de-
termined to make good.”
   At a Denver company,
which formerly turned out
incubators for chicks, 28
Japanese are engaged in
making ammunition crates.
Several nisei women are
nurses at Colorado General
hospital.