Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 3

              November 6, 1943____________PIONEER_________________Page  3
TULE  LAKE  RIOTERS  “ASK”
TO  BE  DEPORTED  FIRST
   SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4 -
Dillon S. Myer, national
director of the war reloca-
tion authority, says a dem-
onstration by a crowd of
Japanese at the Tule Lake 
segregation center Monday
was a bid by disloyal leaders
to be the first sent back
to Japan.   In the first of-
ficial account of what hap-
pened at the center, Myer
told interviewers at Seattle
that the Japanese at the
Tule Lake center in north-
ern California all are sub-
ject to return to their
homeland.
   By obvious subversive
activity, Myer said, cer-
tain leaders hoped they
would be the first return-
ed.
   At first one WRA official
said the incident was in-
consequential, but Wednesday
night interviewers were
given a different picture.
   Myer said an angry crowd
of Japanese seized the ad-
ministration  building and
carried on a three-hour
mass meeting in their native
tongue while keeping seventy-
five government employes
inside  virtual prisoners.
   Orville Crays, WRA pub-
lic welfare consultant from
Washington, said that at
1:30 p.m. he saw a crowd
of Japanese-"I guess there
were 4,000 to 6,000"--sur -
round  the  building.
   Myer and Ray Best, pro-
ject director, spoke-over
a   public    address   system,
Crays said, "but didn't
make any commitments." He
added that "I wouldn't say
the crowd ever was threat-
ening," but that "I would
have hesitated to have
tried to leave the building
without a  good  reason."
   Robert Cozzens, western
field director for WRA,
said a Japanese committee
demanded "better food" and
more of it, called for a
change in administration
personnel and asked what
was to be done about the
crops which the Japanese
refused to harvest last
week.
   Dr. Reece    N.  Pedicord,
chief surgeon at the center,
was  beaten by fifteen young
Japanese, Myer reported,   in
what he  termed  a  side   in-
cident to     the  main demon-
stration.   He   said  Dr.Pedi-
cord  "hit the first  blow."
Internees   demanded the sur-
geon's     resignation,     but
Myer  said he would be sent.
to another WRA center.   
RECREATlON OFFICE
Will  MOVE TO NEW
LOCATION  ON  8F
   In order that the Silk
Screen shop may have more
space for their activities,
the 7E recreation  office
will move to their new lo-
cation at the 8F recreation
hall, stated Taka Aratani,
accountant of the recrea-
tion department. No defi-
nite date for the transfer
has been set, but the car-
penters are busy fixing the
building.
   The transfer of location
will mean the combination
of the Little Theater where
band and skit rehearsals
are held with the recrea-
tion  office.
CO-OP PREXY TO
SPEAK OVER NBC
   Of interest to the local
co-op members will be an
address by President Howard
Cowden of Consumers Coopera-
tive Association tonight
over the NBC network from
5   o'clock.
   Cowden's speech is part
of the series by NBC's In-
ter-American University of
the air studying "the or-
ganization  of peace."
SLATE IMPORTANT
CO-OP MEETING
   Nominating committee of
the Amache Consumers Enter-
prises will convene this
afternoon from 1:30 o'clock
at the Town Hall, accord-
ing to Akira Inaba, Co-op
Secretary.
   Committee consisting of
block representatives will
name candidates for the of-
fices, of board of directors,
membership committee and
auditing  committee.
   Election has been slated
for  Nov.   15.
MOVIES
   TODAY
7:00-p.m.--9H Mess Hall
7:45 p.m.-9L Mess Hall
                         (I'm Still Alive)
   TOMORROW
7:00 p.m.-6H Mess Hall
7:45 p.m.-7K Mess Hall
   MONDAY
7:00 p.m.--6E Mess  Hall
7:45 p.m.-8E Mess Hall
   TUESDAY
7:00 p.m.-7F  Mess  Hall
7:45 p.m.--6G Mess  Hall
                       (Fly By Night)
Showing now is RKO's
"I'm Still Alive” starring
Kent Taylor and Linda Hayes.
The story centers on Kent
Taylor an experienced stunt
man and Linda Hayes, a tem-
peramental screen star, and
a  romance   that ensues.
   Starting Tuesday, is a
Mystery drama, "Fly By Night,"
featuring Nancy Kelly and
Rlchard Carlson.  It is
Paramount’s  version of a
spy ring's search for a
vital military secret.-J.0.
KIRBY  PAGE
FAVORS POST-WAR RACIAL  EQUALITY
   FRESNO,  Nov. 1-The a-
bridgment of national sover-
eignty in favor of a uni-
versal league of nations,
conversion of empires into
commonwealths,  racial    e-
quality and complete for-
giveness of Axis peoples
after the war are the re-
cipes for permanent peace,
of Kirby Page, author and
lecturer, who spoke here
today.
   Page     also    recommended
that all  Japanese   confined
in relocation camps be re-
leased to do remunerative
work in unsegregated areas
unless definite acts or
sentiment of disloyalty
are   proven against  them.
MORE ON NAVY ORDER
- Continued from Page 1 -
   Navy order, calling for
over 50,000 training aid
posters, compelled this
additional extension and
was obtained through the
cooperative spirit of W.
Ray Johnson,chief communi-
ty management and Harvey
Turk, supervisor of communi-
ty activities. Over four-
and-half tons of paper from
the Navy is already in the
mail, stated Miss Campbell.