Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 41

              March 25,  1944_____________________PIONEER__________________Page 5
   NISEI
POTPOURRI
     by Roy  Yoshida
HAVE  YOU  HEARD?
   FLASH! This is Radio
Berlin.   Latest war news
from the Italian front.   A
communique from General
von DeFeat contain the fol-
lowing good news of the
war's progress. Quote: Ve
got da dummox 100th Bat-
talion Jankees on da run.
Due to da LIE uv da land
da Nisei Americans are re-
treating forward, while da
Nazi army is advancing back-
wards.
HABIT  IS FUNNY
   BACK home when this guy
went to dinners he was plen-
ty perplexed when he sat
down to an enjoyable feast
and found a variety of sil-
verware staring at him.
Which knife?    Which  spoon?
   He looked around shyly
to see what the others
would do. Then he'd pro-
ceed cautiously so that
" Emily Post" would not
frown at him.
   Well,this guy went thru
a similar experience just
the other day--only in re-
verse. He was invited to
a surprise luncheon party
in Granada to partake in
some very deliciously pala-
table delicacies. Ah, the
food prepared a la Japanese
style. It brought back
tender memories of the tem-
pura houses back in Cal-
ifornia.
   When this guy sat down,
did he find a variety of
siiverware?  No, eh gads,
a lonely pair of "hashi"--
chopsticks-was staring at
him. He was  plenty perplex-
ed.
   Nearly two years in a
relocation center with a
fork as the chief means of
transportation from t h e
plate to the mouth makes
a guy pick up "hashi" with
some sort of misgiving. A
guy kinda loses the finer
art of manipulating the
all-around  oriental     "food
carrier,"    And on top of
all that    this guy had a
couple  of    damsels sitting 
in      front     of him,     which
didn't help the     situation
at all.
   Did this  guy    feel cha-
grinned? You know it! And
how do  I know?    Well, guys'
and  gals, the    darned fool
was me.
NO  PEP
  SPRING  fever     or     some
such disease    has    kit  our
staff like  a  ton of bricks
and we’re all in the "dumps.”
Somehow  we manage  to get
out    two  issues  a week
per schedule -- but aside
from that nothing much can
be said. There isn't a
single face that's vibrant
with vim and vigor.  No
doubt this happens in the
best of organizations, so
we  hope   it  won’t last long.
28  NISEI  REBEL  AT  LIFE  IN
ARMY, AWAIT  COURT-MARTIAL
   ANNISTON, Ala.--Twenty-
eight members of a Japanese-
American battalion in the
United States army, sent
for training to Fort Mc-
Clellan here recently,
Have refused to take mili-
tary training and have been
confined in a stockage to
await trial by court martial.
   Brig.   Gen.    Wallace C.
Philoon, commanding officer
of the   infantry replacement
training  center at the fort,
made the disclosure.
   He said the men "have
lived for many years in
Japan and have become in-
doctrinated with the philo-
sophy of the Japanese people.”
   They stubbornly refused
to obey training orders
and would not salute the
American flag, it was   said.
   Other members of the
group,   officers said, had
subjected themselves readi-
ly to military discipline.
CONSIDER  EVACUEE
DEPENDENT  STATUS
    HUNT,   Ida.   March  18--
Eligibility of Class B de-
pendents of Nisei soldiers
for allotments will depend
on facts in each individual
case and whether in the
opinion of the War Depart-
ment all elements of depen-
dency are present, accord-
ing  to a teletype received 
here from John Provinse,
chief of community manage-
ment in the Washington office.
   The War Department also
gives consideration to the
basis upon which relocation
centers are operated. No
deduction for subsistence
shall be made from allow-
ances received by residents
of centers under the Sor-
vicemen's Dependents Allow-
ance Act   of  1942.
“A”  ALL-START  TILT
- continued from page 7---
Okamura, Jack ?oshizu, Hank
Shimada, Frank Goi, John
Mizoue,  Harrt Kajioka,
Romey Kitagawa, Ken Kashi-
wabara, Russell Yamaga,
Jun Furuno, Goro Shizuru
and   Cal  Kitazumi.
   Coach    Roy    Yoshida     of
the     Single-A aggregation
will rely on John Nishimu-
ra, Tom Kashiwabara, Joe
Norikane, Jack Hamahashi,
George Aoki, Yo Ono, Flu
Inaba, Frank Komatsubara,
Goro Sasaki, George Matsui
and Mits Omoto.
MOMENTARY  LAPSE  OF  MEMORY?
  One of the most amusing incidents went on record
at the high school recently when Mrs. Okely Stillin-
ger, general education instructor, had a momentary
lapse of memory or something, according to a very
reliable   source.
   Since a number of students are subject to induc-
tion in Uncle Sam's army, a future Joe Nisei must
receive a  periodical check-up on his grades.  During
one student's routine report on his grades, he ar-
rived at Mrs, Stillinger's class for his all-impor-
tant mark.   Absent-mindedly, she signed her  name
"Mrs. Bigelow."  The rather startled fellow continued
his tour, and subsequently ended up in Mr.  Stillin-
ger's  mechanical drawing  class.
   Here the big "kick" was recorded. Mr. Stillinger
noticed the signature "Mrs. Bigelow" on the report
sheet and nonchalantly asked the anxious student,
"Who's this person, another new addition to the facul-
ty?"
   The     red-faced,    student   replied,   "No,   she's     your
wife-Mrs. Stillinger."
   Incidentally,  the  Stillingers are not newlyweds.
 -Sueo  Sako