Hayakawa Replies to Open Letter-Adv. Gov. Brown Snubs Asian Heritage
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UtIle Tokyo may have been ire of plot to kill Pres. Carter National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League Gas shortage postpones Whole #2,043 (Vol. 88) Friday, May 18, 1979 25C U S PostpaId 15 Cents Pilgrimage to Pomona 1m Alllelies "A Day of Remembrance" pi.lgrimage born Little 'r: kyo to Pomona VIa Santa Anita has been postponed from Jun 23 to late November because of the current gasolin hortage here, It Hayakawa replies to open letter-adv. was decided by the steering oommittee which held its first session last week (May 12) at the JACL Regional Office. w........... Heve" that the JAU redress a whole. By their tenaclty, coo.r shoulder of giants. In this case, is Santa Anita and Pomona The pilgrimag will be simi- Sen S.I. Hayakawa issued a committee wouJd be that mor tesy, industry and good sense, Ja sei and Nisei pioneers who created were both served as Army as- Jar to earlier Day of Remem reply of about the same num ally insensitive to "wildly ex panese Americans have created the favorable environment in sembly points for most of the brance programs in Seattle, the favorable atmosphere in which we are now privileged to ber of words to an open letter aggerate the hardship of the which one of the1r members oould live. Japanese Americans being Portland and San Francisa> advertising appearing May 9 Japanese". be elected a senator for California evacuated in 1942 from South- where caravans motored to in the Washington PosL It was Noting that the $25,000 is DO only three dec-Ades after the Pacif "Since the redress committee is em California. sites of the WW2 assembly placed by 8 Seattl~based Days longer being asked, "what the ic \\ar. I ha\'e received such no longer asking for money, it's This was probably the first centers. heights; it IS only because I have hard to figure out what they are of Remembrance for Japanese committee wants in place of Nikkei event being affected monetary redress remains stood, as Sir Isaac Newton said of asking for. So let's drop the whole American evacuees seeking his predecessors in science. on the matter." # by the gasoline crunch. Court rule aids redress. vague for very good reasons". At the same time, Hayaka Japanese Americans, he foreign shippers W8 wrongly afTiliated the Days continued. Washi.qton of Remembrance group with ... ..endured the injustice of the Nakao murder trial transcript studied the JAn. Redress Committee, reJocation with patience and dig The U.S. Supreme Court although both are involved in nity ... The Japanese Americans. death of an ll-year-{)ld boy, burg Nakao) was notified by April 30 overturned a Cali SaD Francisco fornia property tax on for similar redress campigns. by their own record, by their in The murder trial trans Gary Ellenburg. telegram after an angio dusny and good citizenship, by eign-{)wned cargo contain (The Seattle-based group is cript of the Charles B. Nakao The coroner's testimony gram was performed though their subsequent S1JCQ!SS In agri ers in an 8-1 decision. Case expected to propose a differ aJIture, business and the profes case has turned up a new from the transcript ex prior parental consent was ent kind of bill to the one Na plained a person who had required. The boy's body was brought by the Japan sio1s, earned by their own efforts twist in what now appears to Line Ltd., which objected to tional JACL Redress Commit more redress for the injustice be a bizarre situation, ac died of starvation would was cremated without legal tee suggested, which might done to them. They have earned the taxation since the con cording to the Committee have suffered from stomach parentll consent even tainers were part of the ship bener distinguish the two the affection. admiration and res for C.B. Nakao. ulceration, shrinkage of the though records showed she groups.-Ed) peet of their fellow Americans. itself. They have all but destroyed the An irregularity, which the stomach, and decay of teeth was three floors above in the The California junior cen last traces of anti{)riental racism Committee found bizarre, and gums. But the coroner's same building. The court previously held alor criticized use of such that has been such a blot on Calif noted Nakao was found finding indicated no ulcera The committee needs help ships in foreign commerce words as Days of Remem ornia history . guilty of second-degree tion, a normal size stomach, in ascertaining whether Na could be taxed by the coun brance and concentration "The fact that I was elected to murder by starvation in the gums and teeth intact in the kao had received a complete tries where they are regis camps as an attempt "to the U.S. Senate from the State of ll-year-{)ld boy. and fair trial. Information tered. This past week, the equate the Nazi death camps California, the smte that was the Nakao, 31, is scheduled to may be relayed through court said the state tax was which few Jews survived home of anti.()riental agitation appear May 21 before a JACL Headquarters, which unconstitutional because it with the Japanese American since the Gold Rush days; the smte u.s. probe of was a multiple taxation of that provided the impetus for the parole board hearing in San has taken interest in the relocation camps of World foreign commerce. I; Olioese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Quentin. matter. # \\ar II". the Japanese Exclusion Act of Chol Soo Lee The committee also clari He found it "inexcusable 1924 says less about me than it fied an earlier report (PC and almost impossible to ~ says about Japanese Americans as case asked April 27) concerning the Be que~ce of events for the rec Gov. Brown snubs -~---u. New York ord Mother (Shirley Ellen- MUTUAL STATEMENT A rally demanding free dom for Chol Soo Lee instead ILWU endorses of the death penalty to which Asian Heritage Wk. Re: Amy Doi v. JACL he was sentenced in Stock $25,000 redress ton, Ca., in April was con San Diego, Ca. Sacramento, Ca. On January 26,1979, the case of Amy Dol v . .lACL was ducted here at the Federal The'International Long The first Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week end settled. 1be settlement consisted of a payment of $30,000 Plaza April 30 under spon by the JACL insurance carrier, and the publication of this shoremen's and Ware ed without Gov. Brown's blessing as he vetoed a staff rec sorship of the Chol Soo Lee mutually agreed upon statement concerning the incident in housemen's Union reaf ommendation to sign a symbolic resolution proclaiming question. defense committee. the commemoration 1amations. A later check, Supporters charge myriad firmed its stand against Mrs. Doi was hired as Project Coordinator in March of any fonn of racism, con A press conference was however, showed guberna 1976 to direct a project funded by the Campaign for Human irregularities and "unethical actions" by the court at the centration camps ar_,j called May 4 by some of torial proclamations this Development (OlD) of the United States Catholic Confer the state's most influential year with Brown's signa eoc:e. In late April, Mrs. Doi raised questims about the second trial and are demand pledged to help JACL pass administration of the project aDd the submission of finan ing a federal investigation of a redress bill in a resolution Asians and friends of As- ture covered: cial reports. the entire case. passed during its recent ian Americans to indicate Einstein Day, Martln Luther On July 7, 1976, Mrs. Doi was dismissed as Project Coor Lee, 26, had spent five convention here. their dissatisfaction Parti- King Day, Arbor Day, Year of the cipating were: Child, and White Cane Safety Day. dinator by Mr. David Usbio, former Natiooal Executive years in prison following The resolution was intro Director. 1be grant was subsequently terminated by CHD. conviction of a Chinatown duced by Karl Yoneda, Ur Secretary of State March Fong Brown also implied that slaying of Yip Yee Tak. But Eu, Assembl~ Paul Bannai Unable to resolve the differences between her and the cal 10 pensioner of San Mori was an unknown leg JACL to her satisfaction, Mrs. Doi filed a lawsuit iD ()ero. the conviction was over andS. F1oydMon,AssemblySpea- islator seeking pUblicity ber, 19n. Tbe lawsuit charged defamatioo aDd slander, as turned on appeal when a Sac Francisco. ker Leo McCarthy; and Secretary d dded h h uld be . Resolution mentioned MarioObledo of Health & Welfare an a e s 0 cn- well as cSa.mqes for the JAa. iDa derivative action against ramento judge found impor Agency. ticizing President Carter the offic:en and directors for the loss of the grant The JAU's campaign to seek tant evidence had been with Brown reacted by telling for removing Asians from complaint named former Natiooal Executi've Director, Mr. held from the defendant's $2S,OOO for each person David Usbio; the former Assistant Natiooal Dinlc:tDr. Mr. reporters he supports the protected categories of so lawyer. In April, Lee was "unjustly incarcerated". .Doo Hayashi; Mr. Masato IDabe, ooosultant to the project; observance of a special cially and economically found guilty of slaying of a Many delegates later told and forty-ooe (41) past members of the Natiooal Board. week for the state's 1.5 mil- disadvantaged citizens. fellow inmate at Deuel Voca Yoneda "we should have The JACL regrets any misuodersbmding that may have tional Institution and given a lion Asians, but said he nor- Brown had appeared on arisen from the incidents in question.