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.' ·CIPI·C· Zc1ltodal-Buslness OffIce: 258 £. 1St St.. Los Angeles 12, Calif.• Vol. 48 No. 16 Los Angeles, Calif. Published Every Week - lOc Friday, April 7. 195ft. YE EDITOR'S DESK: e CAL. FEPC BILL Y d b I e k Keeping an eye on Japanese politics SIGNATURE BY en· etc almants see Ing Americans may think Japan is smothered with !~~~~~?~~~'~'WhJ rate chelTY blossoms now and pre-war exchange have been pushing with other in· (J ACL News Service) as Knight Gitelson and Ashton I De cem~ that the Japanese are still teres ted groups for a fair employ· WASHINGTON. - The Office of filed their' complain't last 442ND RCT LlNKm celebrating the marriage !llent prac!ice act since .it was Ali~n Property, Dept. of Justice, ber in the Sumitomo proceedings, mtroduced m the State LegIslature actmg on behalf of the Attorney which were tlIe first to be in· WITH FAMOUS U.S. ARMY of Crown P r inc e Aki- from 1946, are happy this week General of the United States, is I stituted by the OAP. hito and Princess Michi· as Governor. "Pat" Brown was ex· active~y en~aged in .the processing Yokohama Bank Claimant! REGIMENTS OF HISTORY . B t th t t pected to sign the measure sent of clauns filed agamst the Yoko- " A~atam .. HONOLULU. - Hawaii's 442nd In k,0 . u e swee scen -to his desk last Friday. hama Specie Bank, Ltd., at the . While thIS swt IS pend· fantry Regiment with its lOOt.b {)f spring will be giving i "In guaranteeing equal job op- current, post·war exchange rate, mg to determme the legal ex· Battalion .was selected recently as t th f . h . I portunities for all our citizens, r eo even though a number of yen debt change rate, the OAP began to ~ ~e kn~wn one of the Army's famous rciP away . e evens alI gardless of race, creed or color, claimants have appealed to the send out letters to last ments under the current naCo[\ of politIcs as Japan pre· the State Legislature has taken United States District Court for addresses of the cla~ants agaInSt SpeCI~ wide reorganization of the Army f t· I . a historic step forward in the the District of Columbia for the the yokohama Bank dE" Reserve, the Army reported•. p~~es or a .na 10na m~ ages-long battle against prejudice pre-war exchange rate in the reo m~n~g .that the claimants. ~ub p.1clpal election later this. and discrimination," Gov. Brown pay.ment of claims against the Suo ~It Wlth~ 45 days the ~>rIgmal The selection links the combat m-onth and a ballotin declared. mitomo Bank, Ltd., the Washing' ) e~ certificates upon which the unit with an array of famous Army g The Rumford Bill CAB 91) is ton Office of the Japanese Ameri. claims are based. regiments dating back to the Revo I lutionary War. for the House of Coun· regarded as one of the strongest can Citizens League was advised The claimants are informed that The inclusion is the result (). cillors (upper Diet cham.. I ~EPC bills in the country, accord· by a~rney Thomas H. Carolan, if. they fail to. ~orward their ori· . mg to the Berkeley Negro assem- who IS representing several thou- gmal yen certificates of deposit a major effort by General I.D. ber) m June. blyman, author. san former depositors in the pre· within the stated period, the Gov· White and his Pacific Army beaU-' It bans job discrimination be- war Japanese banks. ernment will dismiss their claims. quarters, thc Army l;aid. There is general agree· cause of race, religion or ancestry Carolan explained that the Office This same letter advises the claim· Under the ncw setup, the lOOth t h t k and sets up the commission with of Alien Property has filed an ants that their claims may be Bat t a I ion is redesignated trl' men t at he ey issuE' authority to enforce the law. P en· answer to the complaint of Dec. allowed at the current rate of ex "lOOth Battle Group." iri the political campaign alties up to $500 fine and six 15, 1958, by Phil Amram, another change but does not acquaint them is that of Japanese rela. mont.hs in jail are set down for Washington attorney. and himself that litigation is in the process employers or labor union officials on behalf of yen debt claimant to recover the prewar exchange Nisei greeted as lions, particularly trade, who discriminate against a worker. George T. Aratani and severa] rate, according to information sup· with Red . China. In this Quick Assembly OK other claimants against the Suroi· plied the Washington JACL Office . ' The Assembly, which has passed to!ll0 Bank. The OAP also filed I~ the Aratani case is w~, by 5-millionth visitor respect, a Socialist party FEPC measures in previous ses. ~Ylth f.!1e Federal Court. the record, claimants, not only the Sumltomo goodwill mission to Pei. sions, held no debate and accepted mcl~ding th~ transcript, of ~he but also the Yokohama clains . a the series of Senate amendments testlm~my gIVen before H~armg would be repayable at the prewar of United Nations pmo l~st month hoped to in their action last week, follow. Exammer George ~. Carr m Los ~ate of $234 per thousand yen, lay the groundwork for Iing the resounding 30.5 Senate ~ngeles.' San FrancISCo, and Wash· mstead of the OAP ordered $2.76 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-A WOI"!' , t. f d . approval on April 8 mgton m 1956. per thousand yen, or some pro- an who did not let the rain up.~t 1 resump lon 0 tra e bes. Amendments put' in by the Pre-War Rate rata amount depending upon the her plans to see tlIe United Ni:l" Hea~ed Senate last week exempt farm On the basis of the testimony f~nds held by OAP for the par· tions on April 10 suddenly fOl.lDd . by party secre· herself one of the building's m~ tary general Asanuma a wor~ers who. li,:,e on the !arm, , of witnesses and the examination bcular bank. ~ commisslOn~rs t~e attractions. ' prOVIde be paId S50 10f th/! documents, the hearing ex-I In .case of the Yokohama Mrs. Keiko Glenn. a Nisei froo S e r • e s -of conferences for each work dilY mstead of S13,· aminer on Jan. 31 1957 reCOin' Bank, It IS u\lderstood that there ~alaries! ~nd pre.w~rld Hawaii, became the 5,OOO,ouO-tdil were held in which Asa. 500 that comp!aints . mended that these War are sufficient funds to probably person to take a guided tour ,1 be filed Within a year WIth. a 1II yen depoSit clalms be repaid Continued on Page 8 the headquarters since the servki, nnma rendered the par· three-month extension if needed. at the pre·Dec. 8, 1941, exchange was begun in October, 1952. 500 ty's foreign policy ana Brown, who regarded FEPC as rate ot 23.4 cents for each yen. hi~ lives on Governors L land. wher.! 't d No.1 target in his program, On Nov. 13, 1957, the OAP dircc· STATEHOOD PLEBISCITE, ber husband, Lieut. Col. Ned W. fa f erre d t 0 the Uru e Isaid he plans to name three Demo- tor reversed the findings of thc Glenn, is stationed with the Army. States as the "common crats, an?- two Republica?s . to the Hearing Examiner and ordered ELECTION DATES SET " f J d state s flrst FEP commission. At repayment at the current exchange HONOLULU. - Gov. Quinn set Mrs. Glenn bought a ticket short· enemy 0 a pan an Ithat time he said he had no in· rate of 361.55 yen to one dollar. June 27 for the required Hawaii ly after 11 a.m. and had ju!;1 Communist Chi n a be. dividual in mind but wanted it To secure the original recom· statehood plebiscite and for pri· snapped a blue·and·white tour but I to be bipartisan. Three probably mended prewar exchange rate, in· mary election of candidates for ton on her raincoat when sbf! cause the U.S. had ex· 1 would come from heavily popu· stead of the postwar rate, attar· Congress and new state officers. learned that she was not just an tended its influence to lated southern California, he add· neys Carolan and Amram on b~· The general election will be held otlIer tourist. Glenn E. Bennett.. F ". h . ed. half of their clients and Los An· on July 28. chief of the Visitors Service, gree t; ormosa, whic IS a part The legislation will go into ef· geles attorney Robert R. Ashton. Quinn believed 90 to 95 per cent ed her and told her s:he was B fect Sept. 19. formerly of the law firm knowD of the voters would approve state· guest of the United Nations fCir of China and occupied her tour and for luncheon in the the islands of Okinawa." , hood. delegates' dining room. The Socialists have also PSWDC convention lines up attractions for u.rese~=~~~~~ !Oestsre~~s!~ta;i~~ insisted on U.N. recogni. to Congress, a governor and lieu· Mimbu's law partner tion of Red China, elimi· boosters and delegates, package deal set tenant._gov_ern_or.__ named iudge pro-tem nat i n g the Nationalist FAIR HOUSING BILL SEATTLE. - William J. Wong wht) LOJG BEACH. - Booster attrac· I day. Ratification of the new PSW· is associated with William Y.