Manzanar Free Press, Volume 6 #41-45

Volume 6 #41, Nov. 15, 1944

Page 1: Civil service exams slated for Saturday; Nisei combat unit helps rescue 'lost battalion'; release statistics on center population; registration to open for beard contest; actors visit valley; seek occupants for home in Cleveland; seventy-five return from seasonal work; report number signed for Seabrook Farms.

Page 2: Co-op notes; editorial; Independence couple hurt in auto accident; statistics.

Page 3: Group leaves for jobs at Seabrook Farms; co-ordinating council plans Christmas party; unofficial returns of war chest drive given; father visits center; company honors workers at dinner party; WRA ruling on baggage; capacity crowd attends CA musical program; lost battalion cont.

Page 4: Disclose drive quota for interior employees; sports; New Orleans offers civil service jobs; Briesmeister arrives for meeting; messages from Japan await residents; Dillman heads Indiana relocation office.

Pages 5-8: Translation of some Japanese section not included.

Volume 6 #42, Nov. 18, 1944

Page 1: Furlough workers return here from five inland states; board tells ruling on tuition fee; USO movie tickets to be distributed by block leaders; seek claimant of Red Cross letters; to auction pastries at Oklahoma dance; inter YWCA council to hold installation; resident called for active duty to Fort Douglas; mail distribution office transfers; Pasadena college praised for stand on return of Takei; offer high wages for produce man; domestic pay rate hits new high in New York area; letter written by Nisei soldier asks 'what must we do to prove loyalty?.

Page 2; Editorial; facts about evacuee property; Our Great America cartoon; Japanese Americans now fighting in France.

Page 3: Fifth Column; aspirin pills; Nisei woman tells city's hospitality; inductee rushes to bedside of wife; town hall topics; double feature.

Page 4: Army awards Silver Star to heroic Nisei on Italian front; evacuee property cont; issue shoe stamps; boys return cont; old Navy men held reunion at Poston.

Pages 5-9: Japanese and translation section.

Volume 6 #43, Nov. 22, 1944

Page 1: CACA to sponsor Japanese drama; Nisei overseas veteran visits Manzanar; editorial; Joe Hansen visits from Milwaukee; movie tomorrow; brother of resident wounded in action.

Page 2: Editorial; a year ago this week; give statistics on west coast return.

Page 3: As They Leave; social news; San Franciscan defends Nisei; Protestants to hold Thanksgiving service; former Pasadenan killed in action; Ohio Nisei publish newspaper.

Barber refuses service.

Page 4: Ballots to decide use of Oklahoma proceeds; sports; high wages, good housing offered workers at Tooele; stencil exhibit opens.

Pages 5-8: Japanese and translation section.

Volume 6 #44, Nov. 25, 1944

Page 1: Telegram reveals Manzanar volunteer wounded in France; first inductee from Manzanar hurt in France; return of evacuees alarms congressman; Pasadena honors its Nisei soldiers; fifth group leaves for Seabrook farms; Washington sets quota at $14,186 as sixth war load drive starts; community wide Oklahoma social here next Friday; chief of WRA mess operations arrives; leadership council holds first meeting; observe Armistice; sports.

Page 2: Editorial; facts about evacuee property; Our Great America cartoon; as I was saying; letters from the public; large group return from Iowa, Idaho; pastries cont.

Page 3: Vital statistics; as they leave; town hall topics; activities discussed; tells resettler to limit amount of cash on trip; Catholic group plan Christmas program.

Page 4: Bodine to visit center in December; job for couple at Reno ranch; anti alien land bill defeated in Colorado; Jerome to house prisoners of war; Lee Poole weds.

Pages 5-9: Japanese and translation section.

Volume 6 #45, Nov. 29, 1944

Page 1: Many nations represented at Toyon; alien volunteers may be accepted for armed service; disclaim evacuees near warehouse fire at Tooele; canteen to close; first Nisei farmer returns to coast; fights with wounded hand.

Page 2: Editorial; a year ago this week.

Page 3: High school news; pamphlet illustrates Nisei in uniform; movie slated at auditorium; Nisei returns cont; injury to father in France awakens child; woman in search of her wristwatch; ask residents to have picture taken at police station; hospital discloses change in visiting hours.

Paranormal event, basically.

Page 4: Accept Issei in Army cont; southern Californian writes to Free Press; Cpl. Bano wounded in France; Hansen tells of relocation opportunities in Milwaukee; 39 youths undergo physical check-up.

Pages 5-14: Japanese and translation section.




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