Granada Pioneer, Vol. II, No. 41

              41  MORE  CALLED  FOR  TUESDAY’S “PHYSICAL”
   Fifth March pre-induc-
tion physical examination
call for local selective
service registrants has
been announced and those
listed are scheduled to
leave Tuesday morning for
Denver,disclosed Walter J.
Knodel, center selective
service officer,yesterday.
This call lists 41 Amache-
ans registered with various
California draft boards.
   Considerable difficulty
has been encountered thus
far in informing the Lamar
draft officials of the
number of men who are to
respond on indicated dates,
states Knodel. Therefore,
these holding notices to
report on Mar. 28 are re-
quested to  sign  up with
Harlow Tomlinson, chief of
internal security, by 9 o’-
clock Monday morning.
   Names and addresses of
those   on  call:
   John Masaki Arishita,
8F-11F; Art Arata Furuno,
9E-8 D: George Tsuneichi
Hamamoto,  9E-9F; Minoru
Harada, 6H-4C, 6H-5D; shigeo
Ikegami, 7E-7A; Mamoru Kan-
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     Granda  PIONEER
Vol.  II, No. 41                  Saturday, March 25, 1944                   Amache, Colorado
ALL-CENTER  CO-OP
CONFAB  SLATED
FOR  AMACHE
   The second all center
Co-op enterprises' conclave
will be held in Amache,
April 3 to 5 inclusive,
with Heart Mountain, Poston,
Gila River, Manzanar, Mini-
doka and Tule Lake delegates
scheduled to attend,accord-
ingTokuyoshi Kawasaki,
executive secretary, yester-
day.
   Jerome is not expected
to be represented since
that center is to be closed
in June.
   The Federation of Center
Business Enterprise was
formed last November for a
trial period of six months
which expires April 30.   
PROJECT  ATTORNEY
HORN  “LOANED” 
TO  HEART  MT.
   Donald T. Horn, project
attorney, left here Thurs-
day for the Heart Mountain
relocation center to handle
pressing  legal evacuee and
administrative problems,
according to James G.Lind-
ley, project director. Horn
will temporarily take over
the duties of the former
project attorney who passed
away two weeks ago.
49  DRAFT  REGISTRANTS  LEFT
THURSDAY  FOR  ARMY  “EXAM”
   This month's fourth contingent of 49 center draft
Registrants  departed early Thursday morning  from Lamar
to take their pre-induction physical examination in
Denver. The original call
listed 64 selectees but
various deletions brought
about the reduction, stated
Walter J. Knodel, local
selective service officer,
Thursday.
   Complete breakdown of
the list  shows: (1) report-
Eed to call-49; (2) relo-
cated-7, (3) transferred--
1 (Crystal City), (4) hos-
pitalized-1,(5)rejected-
1,(6)failed to  report-5.
   The following are the
names and addresses of se-
lectees   listed:
   (1) Reported for call-
Shimao Adachi, 7E-12B; Yu-
tata Adachi, 7E-12B; Masao
Kamikawa,6E-8D; Robin Shi-
giro Kaneko, 11K-10E; Omi
Kawano,9K-2B; Toshi George
Kochi, 7G-1B; Dick Noburo
Kurihara, 8 K-3 C; Tatsuo
Harry  Kuwahara, 7K-3F;Jun-
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NISEI  ARMED  SERVICE  POLICY
CLARIFIED BY WAR  DEPARTMENT
   WASHINGTON--Replying  to
Secretary of War Henry L.Stimson by a group of mothers
at the Minidoka relocation center, Lt. Col. Harrison
A.Gerhardt, executive to the assistant secretary of
war, explained the policy of the War Department in
segregation of Japanese  Americans in a single unit.
   "The present assignment of Japanese-American induc-
tees is very often interpreted as a segregation
policy on the part of the
War Department," he said.
"This is because the rea-
son for the use of Japanese
Americans in a single unit
is not clearly understood.
There is an urgent present 
and future need for replace- 
ments for the 100th batta- 
lion and 442nd combat team.
In order to fill this need, 
it is necessary to assign ,
inductees for training for
these units. 
   "Secondly, inasmuch as
the 'War Department fears 
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BLOCK  PERSONNEL
DIRECTOR  JOBS
TO  BE  ELIMINATED
   By the end of this month,
the positions of the 29
block  personnel directors
will be completely elimi-
nated as the Washington WRA
headquarters would not ap-
prove of them, stated Henry
F. Halliday, assistant pro-
Jet director, this week.
The functions delegated to 
the block personnel direc-
tors are to be assumed by
the block managers and their
clerks.
KOEN  RANCH  MESS
HALL  TO  RE-OPEN
EARLY  NEXT MONTH
   The Koen ranch mess
hall will re-open early in
April, announce the mess
division today, with the
same set-up and regulations
applied in the workers’
mess hall. Kazuchi Soda,
a former XY ranch hand,
was appointed chief stew-
ard.
   With spring planting
and plowing time “knockin',”
the operation of this farm
mess will simplify and aid
all farm activities tre-
mendously.