Granada Pioneer, Vol. I, No. 91

              August  14,   1943...
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LEAVES
INDEFINITE
ISSUED-
Thomas W.'Tlollahd, chief
of the ZJRA employment division, stated that to date
from the-ten centers there
has .been 11,000 indefinite
and 6,000 seasonal leaves
issued. Applications for
leaves average about 500 a
wee k a t p r ese nt.
UC PAPER  URGES FIGHT
AGAINST   PROPAGANDA
Declaring that the movement to arouse hatred a-
gainst persons in the United
States of Japanese ancestry
is rapidly getting cut of
control and that "it is the
MONITOR PHOTO
The Christian Science
Monitor recently carried
a picture of two Hawaiian-
nisei volunteers, Ronald
Sakamoto and Joseph Itaga-
ki
and commented  in the
caption:
"When the Japanese bombed
Pearl Harbor, Ronald was a
student at the University
at Hawaii and Immediately
joined the Varsity Victory
Volunteers to aid in the
defense of Hawaii and continued to bo a member -.of
the WV up to the time when
Washington announced a
combat regiment of Americans of Japanese descent
would be formed,
"Ho was one of the first
to be inducted into the
regiment,. . (with him) .. ..is
Jos eph Itaga ki, f ormqr
restaurant manager, and
the first Oahu volunteer
to be sworn in."
PEACH
PICTURED
EVACUEE
WORKER
A recent issue,of' the
Chicago Tribune showed a
picture of Tab ,Kakita,an
evacuee from an .-Arkansas
relocation center, with
the  following  caption;
"lak Kakita...displays
a handful - ofA-peach.es -he
picked near Freeburg, 111.,
as one of 20 internees
helping with the peach
harvest there."
BULLET
CARRY
N    BOARDS
FEATURE
The full.-page feature-
story about the Japanqse-
Amorican volunteers- at
Camp Shelby, Bliss,,' carried
recently in the Rocky Mt.
Hews will be posted,on the
various bulletin boards
Within the center.
The story is titled
" Japane se Volunteer s - -USA,"
and is written by Major
Gland D. 'Russell/ 442nd
Infantry, US Army.
SECOND   WARNING
Residents are again urgently warned by Fire Chief
Verh Campbell against burning weeds in the center
without help from the fire
department.
hall
hall
hall
TODAY
8:15■p.m.--12G 'mess
HOBDAY
7:30'p.m.-- 9-HAmess
8:15 p.m..--llF mess
TUESDAY
8:15 p.m.—High school auditor i urn.
Unexpected arrival of
"Thunder in the .City,"
necessitated that """House
of Seven Gables " be .shown
for only the past two days.
Since the bori odori will
conflict with the movies,
there will be no show tomorrow. Instead, the picture will be shown in two
mess halls on Monday.
Also, the 12- chapter
serial, "Mystery Squadron,"
starring  Bob Steele, "Big
Bov" William*
md  Lucile
Browne, began Thursday and
will be shewn weekly in the
mess halls,
On Tuesday evening, at
the high schoo1 aud it oriurn
"The General Died at Dawn,"
starring Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, and Akim
Tamiroff, Is scheduled.
It's a vivid•story of Chinese war lord's fatal conflict with an .American
soldier. An inquiry has
been sent to the film company as to the failure of
the Flash Gordon serial to
arrive  for
two day's
showing at the auditorium.
Beginning on Sept. 2,
movies will revert back to
the original schedule—7~
day showings in the mess
halls , which" means; discontinuation of movies at the
auditorium. It seems many
movie fans failed to under-
problem that faces citizens
of rational mentality and
of the more restrained! type
of patriotism," an editorial appeared in a recent
issue of the Daily Califor-
nian, University of California newspaper*; '. :
Said the Californian:
"it is our tb.esis here
that the problem As particularly thjO concern of
college st udBsnt s . . , (a nd \
it is further \our thesis
that...(we) have a decided
responsibility in combat-
ting'a situation which is
becoming an actual menace
to the nation."
The  editdrial urged that
students on the  campus  help
1 combat"the situation by of-
'Vf^ing    their     help to the
."Pacific Coast Committee  on
American     Principles     and
Fair     Play"     of.,  which; the
President of the  University,
Robert Gordon Sproul, is
honorary chairman.
" ,. .the situation need-s
people to combat as individuals the virulent propaganda against the Japanese
in the United States with
solid facts and. intelligent reasoning," the paper
stated «■
Another editorial stated
that the "violent propaganda currently being circulated against persons of
the Japanese race on the
basis of their race alone
is resulting in one serious
consequence.
"It is gumming up the
works of the WRA's Japanese -
American resettlement program in the Bliddie West.
"In order that it may be
stopped," said the editorial, "and in order that this
country may treat the Japanese Americans within its
border in a fashion worthy
of a democratic nation, It
is essential that responsible citizens put up a
courageous fight against
propaganda attacking the
Japanese on a purely racial
basis .. ."
stand the reasons for the
present  schedule-.
One of the greatest factors' was. to'iconserve the*
p r o j e-c t d r , a s r e p a i r p art s
are almost "t Impossible to
obtain, without a- high pri^
oritv rating.  --Sueo Sako