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.April 2 8, 1943,
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The Denver Post has carried on a continuous campaign
of distorting the truth in its effort to foster hatred
of evacuees*
Its most recent effort is.a cartoon picture' of a
toothy Japanese family sitting around a dinner table
laden with plenty, reading the newspaper story of the
execution of American flyers who bombed. Tokyo.
Outside the window is shown a "television' scene in
Japan*' picturing the Nipponese soldiers bayoneting the
prisoners "Of war.
On
lie wall
si°:n that this is a scene of an
alien internment came but-the manner in which it is
presented leaves no doubt that it is the relocation centers "they are depicting.
With- ' the 'WRA and other government aaencies urging
the evacuees to resettle in normal community life In
order to fill the manpower shortage, Post's cartoon is
calculated to hinder this movement.
Arousing public sentiment by sensational .propaganda
so that resettlement endangers the evacuees is an effort against the government policy of na tional ■' unity--
hut if heirs-to sell-the 'caper.
It * Is a- shame that the freedom of the press should
be so abused by a paper with a 'total lack of responsi-
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.STATU SI IICS,
HOST & IfOlLDI
= FOUND: A black puppy"
FIFTHS: with white tip on tail,
To Mr. and Mrs, Eiichi wears leather collar. Own-
Arita, 6G--12D, a boy, April er may claim the dog at
22. .' 12E-8A.
To Mr. and Mrs. Leland >—
Tanaka, 120-6F, a boy, April 25.
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Second Lieut. Donald Mae-
Naughton, from Camp Clark,
Mo., will replace 2nd Lieut.
Johnson with the 335th. Escort guard.
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All persons who possessed
aircraft pilots' licenses
or aircraft engineers and
mechanics ' licenses prior
to evacuation are asked to
notify Walter J. Knodel,
outside placement officer,
John Spencer, new chief
of agriculture replacing
Warren R. Bennison, arrived
Saturday, Bennison is now
employed in the Denver "FPA
office.
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A telegram from E. M.
Rowalt, acting WRA director, informs that evacuee
employees entering the US
armed forces may now be
paid for compensatory time
a Iter they leave the center.
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Seventy-seven acres of
potatoes have been planted
at the project farm. New
plantings under way include
broccoli and green onions.
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Bradford Smith, OWI representative from Washington,
was here last week to obtain first-hand information
of the center to be used
in compiling various foreign language releases for
newspapers.
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The, farm section announced the purchase recently of 50 head of- beef cattle. Other farming activities now und e r* way a re the
plowing of grain fields,
irrigation of the alfalfa
ranch, and construction of
fences around the project
fa rm.
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The hospital requests
that patients wh o h a "fre
been discharged with various articles, such as hospital birders and the like,
return them as soon as possible to the chief nurse Fs
office, hospital administration building.
I wish to express my
gratitude to all the friends
.who assisted in every way
during my visit here with
my sick mother-in-law.
Takeshi Keto
