• PllIIllabad weekly. Enured as Znd class matter In post oUlce at Los Angeles, CaW Bdltorial-BusLness Office: 258 E. 1st St., Los Angeles 12, CaUf~ MAdIsoDlI-MR Vol. 44 No. 10 Los Angeles, California Published Every Friday-1Oe Friday, March 8, 1957 BY THE BOARD: OVER $250,000 Challenge well worth Sah Lake bids for 19 S8 (onvention effort offered In all probability. official ac­ AWARDED FOR knowledgment and announcement The Pacific Citizen is 15th Biennial may be co-sponsored by will be made from Headquarters. "supposed" to be JACL's (It was also Pacific Citizen's un­ CLAIMS IN JAN. house organ, serving as Mt Olympus; dales nol yel announced derstanding that convention datr::s WASHINGTON.-Over a quarter­ million dollars were awarded to SALT LAKE CITY.-Very few, if house. Rupert Hachiya, immediate would be earlier than the tradi­ a medium by which the tional Labol Day weekend, if helci 140 claimants under the evacua­ entire membership is anyone, had an inkling where the past president. explained details tion claims program during the 1958 national J ACL convention for staging a convention before in the Intermountain area this kept informed of nation· time.) month of January. the Washing­ would be held after the successful voting on the motion made by ton Office of the Japanese Ameri­ al 1956 Biennial at San Francisco. Henry Kasai, naturalized Issei George Tamura, Mt. Olympus and local JACL acti - chapter president, who Wi\S pres­ can Citizens League and Commit­ Over a thousand delegates wer~ member of the chapter. vities .. However, sad to ent. has agreed to bring the ques­ tee on Japanese American Evacua­ say, it is NOT reaching looking in all directions-Chicago. It was learned informal inquiry tion of c.o-sponsor!;hip at his next tion Claims announced this week. Washington. Seattle, Denver and was made by Hachiya ' at the San - The total amount awarded in the rank & file of the Southern California-for a possi­ Francisco .convention and in sub- board meeting. Lack of a co· sponsor. however, will not deter January by the Japanese Claims membership. Hence, the bility. sequent weeks, correspondence be- Salt Lake JACL. the chapter as­ Section of the Department of Jus­ PC as it stands today falls The national JACL council, com­ tween the chapter and National sured. tice was nearly 5247.000. The larg­ posed of official delegates from Headquarters determined the ex- . This will mark the return 01 est award was for $10,000 and was short of its prime objec· chapters attending the convention, tenthere. of a convention to be held JACL delegates to a national eon- given to a claimant residing ~ tive. was unable to act and determine Sunnyvale, Calif.. while the smaJt. the site of '58 conclave for thO! vention for the second time since (Dr. Roy Nishikawa, national the end of World War II. when est was for 525 awarded to a cJa.i.. lack of a bid. Again. as ill 1954. J ACL president. of Los Angeles Salt Lake-Mt. Olympus hosted the mant residing in Hawi, Hawaii. If JACL is to grow in the delegates referred the ·ques. told the Pacific Citizen, upon being 1948 Biennial. During the WClT Although most of the awards strength and number, its tion of a convention site to the advised of Salt Lake's bid Tues- years. with National Headquarters were made to claimants residing National JACL B0il-rd for a deci­ day that " it was the only chapter located here. Salt Lake was the in California, residents of eight membership must be kept sion within six months (which was which showed interest" in staging, site of the 1942 and 1944 meetings. other states and the Territory of informed of all phases of due last Sundayl. the 1958 convention. " I am happy The last Salt Lake convention Hawaii and Japan also received Last Saturday, on the eve when I our activities and aspira­ to hear it," he added. ) I was held Sept. 4-8, 1948. awards. Other states involved be­ tions. To maintain con· a decision was due from J AC:' sides California were Washington, Headquarters. the members of the Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, tinued high interest in Salt Lake JACL attending their Minnesota, Oregon, Arizona. Nev­ JACL by the rank & file, first generjil meeting of the yea,r ada, and Alabama. The awardee voted to extend a bid for the 15th in Japan resides in KumamotO-ken. the PC is invaluable for Biennial. • its steady flow of news These awards were made under Ichiro Doi, chapter president, the provisions of the J ACL·COJA­ . and information. presided at the brief business EC sponsored amendment to the meeting prior to the Victory Mem­ Such, of course, is the ·1948 Evacuation Claims Act that bership dance at the Police Cluo· authorizes compromise settlement philosophy of the PC and to all awards, whil& also recog­ toward that end a great nizing the claims of internees and deal of time, effort and FLOOD DAMAGE corporations. Since these are awards only, money i$ being expend· Congress must still appropriate ed. LIGHT FOR NISEI the necessary funds with which to pay these claimants . Of EAST OREGON JACL and COJ AEC. will continue .A:n alarming fact is the their efforts to secure the needed circulation percent age ONTARIO, Ore.-Flood waters of appropriations in order that these among JACLers subscrib. the Malheur River. a tributary awardees may be paid by early . t th PC emptying in the Snake River here, mg 0 e - about struck the vicinity of Vale, 28 miles 25%, many of whom are west of here, on Sunday night Feb. our leaders. They hardly 26. L.A. race relaHons need to be inspired be. The Pacific Citizen wa~ informe? , a dozen Japanese Amencan faml' ~aused they re already 1 lies were evacuated when swollen progress in Look inspired. It is with the streams inundated the community other 75% that PC can and adjac~nt farm lands. However. A report on how better race re- . as Operation Cleanup began two lations were developed in Los An- be of benefit. If thIS pub- days later many returned to find geles county is given in "A Race lication is to justify its damages hot as extensive. ' Justice J. Allan Crockett of the Utah Supreme Court (left) re­ I\ Relations Success Story" by Sara existence, expenses and Oregon Governor Robert Holmes ceives the -400th membership card from Isamu Watanuki (center), I B~ynoff in the Mar. 19 Look mag­ . had requested Malheur county be Salt Lake JACL memberslrip chairman. This commemorates the azme. exertIon, we must frnd declared a disaster area. seeking largest membership total in the 20-year-plus history of the chap- Negro editor Loren Miller. City wayS and means to get $500,000 in federal assistance. ter.. While. th~ active drive has been concluded for 1957, president Councilman Ed Roybal and Saburo PC into hands of as many . (It w.as.recalled Japanese Amer- Ichtro DOl ~rlght) has b~ assured the final count would near Kido, Nisei lawyer, are all quoted 'bl' Ican ViCtimS of the Marysville· the 500 m:'l'k. - Terashima Photo. on how vastly enlightened the pub­ JACL ers as pOSSI e-rn- Yuba City flood of Christmas 1955 ;-------.------------ ---------- lic has become on this once explo­ to hands of the 75% were aided by JACLers. The sive problem. where it can do the most Snake River Chapter, which cov· The situation as it existed dur­ REPATRIATES DENIED RIGHT TO ing the tension filled postwar era good. ~rs Malheur county. has not found It necessary to make such an liO- :!~t ;~s :::~.~u~~::~ :~:r~ peal.-Editor. ) . SUE fOR VESTED PROPERTY RETURN I To date, save for a few Very few persons went to bed in WAS~NGTON. Japa~ese ~tates ~~~i~Oe~t; i~ic~;!dAp:~~::\f~~ Vale and , Jamieson that Sunday t~ - nationals in the United ~n who were instances, no real effort night expecting muddy waters tl) repatnated Japan dunng World War 2 c.annot sue the courts for Ixican descent, is president at Roos­ has been made at the seep into stores in town or maroon ceturnAm0f t.~e1l" vCe~tit~d prorperty, the WI ~SledungtthiO? Office ?f the Ja,?a- evelt High School; and John Aiso nese encan I zens .eague exp am s week 10 reporting is municipal juda Th . chapter level to solicit them on their farms. But by morn­ a decision rendered by the U.S. Court of Appeals. of progress ... e. ese are signs ing, Red Cross officials, national readers among members. guard, sheriff's posse and indi­ In the particular·tiz case .at issue,I ed Mr 0 h ed All IS' not's uccess b u t the Ie ader- a G erman CI en was mvo v. s. e michen return to the ship me h' h No honest- to - goodness viduals were engaged in spontane­ but because the circumstances fit United States, became a natural. c an.lsm as been de vel- drive has ever been at­ ous rescue and salvage work. that of Japanese repatriates the ized citizen. and re-established the ~l~:;\~~ artic~e :n~udes. for fur- The Ontario Argus-Observer aid ~ss tempted. It is high time same decision would apply. the importing business. She then filed (Mis 0 10, e uture. report one moving incident when Washington JACL office said. suit agailist the Office of Alien, inally s ~.n~ s. S~y ~~ orig- a young boy waded knee deep we got behind the pro· In a two-to-one opinion. the Ap- Property for the return of hel I"MinOr~~n ~ ~.