Manzanar Free Press, Volume 6 #36-40

Volume 6 #36, Oct. 28, 1944

Page 1: Nineteen reservists receive call for active duty; Canadian Japanese signs for service; twelve Nisei return to San Diego; appointed personnel to hold social; slate 'Oklahoma' dance; receives promotion; remember; Lucy Adams leaves center for post with United Nations Relief; Mary Hayes leaves; 'Pleasure to work with Nisei'-Cohen; five residents fined in traffic violation; Nisei aerial gunner completes fifty combat missions; furlough workers return; wants names of war prisoners; Japanese soldier aids Marines; Nisei commissioned in nurse corps.

Navy hero.

Page 2: Success Story Told; Our Great America cartoon; purely personal; as they come and go; praise evacuees of aiding victory; Catholic priest supports church; soldier, hurt, gets furlough to hunt; police Born's wife hurt in explosion (canning jar exploded).

Page 3: Fifth Column; as I was saying; dollars and sense; hi school news; town hall topics; Murakami explains to Catholic priests.

Page 4: Sports.

Pages 5-8: In Japanese.

Volume 6 #37, Nov. 1, 1944

Page 1: Markley leaves center; change in postal rates; auditing team audits co-op books; Simpson states son doing 'just fine'; girls like outside; 3103 internees freed from detention centers.

Page 2: Editorial; five furlough workers return from Clearfield; Hirschfield Press seeks artist and linotypist; evacuees safe; a year ago.

Page 3: Opportunities in Ohio increase monthly; 7 Topaz evacuees hurt (traffic accident); Sergel quits police, to appear in pictures; Rivers hospital passes second birthday; nursery for sale; former resident writes 'outside life swell'.

Page 4: Sports.

Pages 5-11: Japanese and translation section.

Volume 6 #38, Nov. 4, 1944

Page 1: Farewell party held in honor of Adams; Pfc. Higa slated for Manzanar visit; 100th commander receives citation; job offers swamp relocation office; Canada loan drive exceeds last quota; Yogies meet co-op; rally day coming; USO to show movie at new auditorium; teletype reveals limited housing at Seabrook; lift martial law; voting rights ruled out in Wyoming; budget limitations hit Minidoka gym; Nisei gunner faces heavy fire to save buddies lives in Italy; Nisei advances in legal career; tells of Nisei women in war effort; seventy seven of Aberdeen furlough group return; Hawaii Nisei apply for enlistment in Women's Army Corps.

Page 2: Letters from the public; our great america cartoon; purely personal; distinguished lady greets relocatees; town hall topics; Japanese American captures Germans; Korematsu-Endo cases argued.

Page 3: Fifth Column; as I was saying; fight for rights as Americans; church gives money for childrens' use; Father Geis tells feeling on Japanese; former resident active in Madison; Pfc Higa speaks at Michigan University; USO reports change.

Page 4: Dollars and Sense; Sgt. Sugiyama raises 'havoc' against German machine gunners; argue cases cont; school girl tells weird scream story; Y elects members; Nisei artilleryman decorated with Silver Star for gallantry; 442nd combat team wins infantry badge.

Pages 5-12: Japanese and translation section.

Volume 6 #39, Nov. 8, 1944

Page 1: Army calls twenty-one to active duty; will disconnect exposed water pipes to prevent freezing; third group departs for Seabrook farms; tell voting results; CACA to sponsor musical program; believed first Nisei air observer in Italy; plan use of church for recreation program.

Page 2: From Other Centers; a year ago this week; CA music program tickets available; co-op tells shift in movie schedule; sees Seabrook, meets first contingent; church for recreation cont.

Putting Japanerse Americans into another camp.

Page 3: Red Cross chapters accept messages for prisoners of war; former visual ed head favors east; local dentist wed; CA fills vacancies with furlough return; Seabrook cont.

Draft evasion.

Page 4: Story of Nisei soldiers told in WRA pamphlet; Nisei workers honored at dinner for attendance record; JACL head confers with Bonesteel; Jim Crow setup unwanted in Canada.

Hawaii rumors denied.

Two articles.

Pages 5-12: Japanese and translation section.

Volume 6 #40, Nov. 11, 1944

Page 1: Former southern Californian hurt; library to fete annual book week; present farm offer; evacuees to pay freight charges to residence; reports first Nisei casualty in France; disposal of funds; local MP post reduction ordered; Red Cross host to representative; evacuation unfair; slat civil service examinations here; holds exhibits; two evacuees told return to coast ok; exhibit art work; indoor movie tonight; give voting results; Nisei GI's risk lives to establish communication on Italian front.

Page 2: Facts about evacuee property; cartoon; thanks, co-op; need chemists; Adams' photo on Manzanar exhibited.

Page 3: That's a woman, ah, yes; town hall topics; as I was saying; twice wounded GI given training post; Torrance sgt. leads allied attack in fight for hill 140; wins promotion.

On a subway.

Page 4: Private awarded Bronze Star for heroic achievement in Italy; Oklahoma dance cont; Nisei crawls through mine field to set up communication post; lone Nisei destroys Nazi machine guns; as they leave; 175th infantry band entertains veterans; accepted for WAC; Chicago girls club to entertain Nisei soldiers on furlough.

Pages 5-11: Japanese and translation section.




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