Immigration Bill Ok'd by House Committee

...tonal-Buslness Offlce: 258 B. 1st St., Los Published weekly. EDte~d &5 2nd class matter In post office- al ... ADceJea. c:.& Vol. 45 No.8 Los Angeles, Calif. Published Every Week :.- 1De Ftiday, Aug. 23, 19$7 BY THE BOARD: DETROIT Cl~ERS DISCOVER EDC-MOC convention SEE ADDITIONAL HOSPITALITY OF JACLERS 'FAMILY·HARDSHIP' IMMIGRATION tim-e this weekend MILLION DOlLARS AT NO. WYOMING PICNI( BILL OK'D BY HOUSE COMMITTEE NEW YORK - This com cmCAGD.-Speaking of fellowship WASHINGTON.-Chances {or en cribed it as a humanitarian d0cu ing weekend is the Labor FOR CLAIMANTS and the feeling of kinship, the Rev. actment, prior to adjournment p0s ment that will greatly ease tbe Min Mochizuki and his family'" of sibly this weekend, of some immi Day weekend. J A C L immigration problem in Japan in WASillNGTON .-As congressional Dearborn, Mich., encountered a gration bill were greatly improved sofar as the United States is ..'OIl members and friends leaders try to speed up legislative thrilling experience while motor when the House Judiciary Com· cerned. from the twelve chap processes last week in order to ing west recently. mittee ordered reported the so NoD-Quota Boos' idjourn by this weekend, the Wash Driving leisurely through the called Walter "family hardship" Of special significance is the pro.. ters east of the Mississip· ington Office of the Japanese lonely hills of Wyoming, the Mo bill, the Washington Office of t!te vision, long advocated by JACL, pi River will conve~ge on American Citizens League and the chizukis spotted a sign which read Japanese American Cit i zen 5 to provide nonquota immigration Chicago. The second joint Committee on Japanese American "JACL Picnic", which they intui· League declared. status to those in the Second aDd Evacuation Claims reported that tively followed. The result was The Judiciary committee ap Third Preference Categories of the EDC-MDC convention is the Treasury Department submit too good to be true. proved a bill sponsored by Con immigration code, relating to the scheduled over the three· ted a supplemental appropriations It was a J ACL group outing. As gressman Francis E. Walter, parents of United States citizens Pensylvania Democrat, chairman day holiday. request to Congress for $1,163,425. Mrs. Mochizuki later dechred to and the' spouses ana minor child of the Judiciary Subcommittee 011 The gavel will be wield l3 to pay evacuation claims award Abe Hagiwara, Midwest District ren of resident aliens. ~d during the months of May-June Council chairman: Immigration and Naturalization As drafted by Congressman Wal ed jointly by the district ~nd up to July 18. and co-author of the Walter-Me· ter, nonquota status will be exten If this supplemental appropria "It was the most wonderful feel Carran Immigration and Nationa· ded to all those in the Second and couricil chairmen, Bill Sa ing to run into a friendly group tions biU is cleared by both Houses lity Act of 1952. Third Preference Categories whose sagawa (EDC) and Abe :>f Congress prior to adjournment, of fellow JACLers". After intro· While the Committee-approved petitions were approved by the ducing themselves as J ACLers Hagiwara (MDC). Much l37 more claimants will receiv~ measure does not include two pro Attorney General prior to March from Detroit. they were literall.v will be accomplished un their government checks this year. visions advocated by JACL, Mik'i' I, 1951. fACL and COJAEC are working taken in by the hospitable Wy Masaoka. Washington JACL repre According to Masaoka, lb',l der the leadership of with this objective in mind. oming J ACLers. sentative, hailed the bill as a con means that the Japanese parents these two capable men. These supplemental appropria Harry Ujifus'tr Jr., past presi structive advanc!! in immigration of United States citizens and the tions are in addition to the $2,424, 'dent of the Northern Wyoming "that is in keeping with the world Japanese husbands and wives and U9.77 already approved by Con· chapter, invited the Mochizultis to situation as it exists today and in minor children of resident aliens Chicago is the second gress for 1,648 claimants who were stay over as guests and spen, a the American tradition of reunit who under the present law who largest city in the United luthorized awards by the Depart day visiting their large farm. ing separated families." He des: ,,",ould not be eligible tor immi States. Among aU the ment of Justice Japanese Claims gration visas for ten to fifteen Section from August 1956 through years because of the smallness of cities east of the Rockies, April 1957 under the JACL-COJAE Japan's annual quota (185) would it has the largest commu C sponsored amendment last yeCir Use of 'Jap' in another children's book be able to come to the United nity of Japanese Ameri which not only expedited the ad· States immediately after the pas ministrative procedures but pro· protested; public library decides to retain sage of tfris legislation, if the At. cans. It is estimated that vided a Court of Claims alternCi torney General had approved their SEATILE. - Use of the word "After rereading the entire story, tive, recognized as compensahle petition for a pl'eference classifi. the Issei, Nisei and Sansei "Jap" in another children's book it is our opinion the author ha_ items certain internees and profit cation prior to the first of March number well in excess of was disclosed this past week in a written in an informal style whil!h and nonprofjt corporations and or this year. The estimate of the protest by Ross N. Kusian. 1616 is acceptable and appropriate In 15,000. ganizations, and ruled as timely Washington JACL office is that N. 49th St.. to the Seattle Public conversational context to create a filed claims postmarked before but this should include most of those Among the 88 JACL Library, the Pacific Citizen was familiar atmosphere," Kusian was received after the statutory dead stranded in Japan because it is chapters across the coun· informed this past week. told by Jane Darrah, children's line. presumed that most of the alien Of the belief that children's department director. "We have try, the Chicago Chapter The largest award is for $26,190 parents of United States citizens books should not use racial terms discus$ed the s,tory with Japanese and the spouses and children of with its almost 900 mem- ,and the smallest for $18. The aver such as "nigger, jap, wop. kike, staff members- and they do not be~s ranks third in mem- age a~proved payment is for $3.- resident alien Japanese have filed etc.", Kusian bad protested the find it offensive," Miss Darrah for immigration visas and bave be h' . - B t 450, WIth 30 awards over $10,000. use of the word "Jap" in thP added .• , t{) tp SIlle. u., more ' May Awardt:es bad their petitions for preference book: "All about Oscar the Train· The Oscar stories appear in re visas approved. significantly, it is first Names of those whose awards ed Seal" by Mabel Neikirk, charg· cognized story collections that are t'w.Year Period in the 1000 Club membel'· were approved in May by the De ing that its use on page 115 wa~ used in the schools. Other provisions in the Walter partment of Justice and whose used in a derogatory manner. It was also the library's con ship. Bill which would help to reunite names were submitted to the-Con "It is difficult enough to teach tention that use of the word "Jap" separated families, all of which gress in this latest supplemental democracy to children and if in "All about Oscar the Trained were endorsed by JACL, au Labor we will, for if appropriations are: books use terms such as these, i1 Seal" is used colloquially and cited are thority for the admission for a two Tetsuzo Hirasaki: Tsutaye Sato, is that much more difficult," hE Webster's New International Dic past performances are year without limitation Wakaye Iwasaki, Chomatsu Kishi tll"otested to the public libra.ry. tionary. Other racial terms point period as to number of orphan children adopted any guide, delegates to yama, Toichi Hatashita, Hide Ishi His daughter had checked out ths ed out in the Kusian letter, how by United States citizens. for step our conventions are a kawa, Mantaro Kobayak a w· a, book, but returned it with his pro ever, the library said are defined children and "legitimated" child Frank Masao Nakashima, Alfred test. as "contemptuous, derogatory or group of serious-minded, ren of United States citizens, and Y. Obayashi, .Tomohei Shono, Ke Library's Reply slang". for tubercular aliens who are the hard-working Nisei. From nichi Nishino, Bunzo Fuj1:moto, Ku The library, at its meeting oj (The' book was published in 1943 spouses or minor children of Unit morning to night, current suye 'Fomio, Harry T. Tomio, children librarians, however da by the John C. Winston Co., Phila· ed States citizens but under pru Continued on Page 3 cided the boqk should be retained. delphia). problems facing the JA per safeguards. CL nationally, regionally, Another provisiOIf of interest to and locally will be consid the Japanese relates to aliens in Women from foreign nations married to Hawaii men in poll: the so-called First Preference, or ered, debated at length, skilled worker, Clas~. U they and and resolved in the demo their family membels are in this cratic tradition. lind large group 01 unhappy Ja'panese girls married to Nisei country on May 1. 1957, they may HONOLULU.-Of the women from riage, the parents of the groom origin.

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