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An Independent Weekly For Canadians of Japanese Origin

THE NEW CANADIAN
10c per copy

WINNIPEG. MANITOBA.

hesolution Sent to Ottawa

Denial of Rights
Scored by JCCD
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TORONTO, Ont.—In a resolution addressed to members
I ? parliament, the Japanese Canadian Committee for Def^ocracy has protested the continued denial of free movement
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licenses to Canadians of Japanese origin.
and tishmg
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Reviewing
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Custodian Trouble

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The government., finds itself in
a little bit of embarrassment over
way the custodian dealt with.
Japanese property.
A.i -I recent debate in the House
of Commons, CCF leader M. J.
i Coldwell addressed a point blank
f question at the secretary of state.
p bad the custodian dealt with
| poverty belonging to Canadian
e. nuzens of Japanese origin? Mr.
I Coldwell cited the case of a World
a’ II veteran whose property
S bad been sold at a loss.

B The answer should have been a
It straight yes. since no distinction
had been made in the handling
or properties belonging to Jap­
anese aliens. naturalized Canadians
Moi Canadian-born; and the bulk
of them had been handled by the
custodian.
But the minister's reply was
evasive. Japanese property
^handled by several organizations.
?|he ^aid. and mentioned the navy
(which took about 20 of the 1,000
Japanese-owned fishing boats). He
said the particular case mentioned
; bi the CCF leader had been
F handled bv the custodian. But so
Swete hundreds of other properties
^belonging to Canadian citizens of
Japanese race.
Bs-

Legal Angle

B Apart from the losses involved,

it is questionable if the custodian
was legally and morally justified
giii selling Japanese
property
® against the owners’ wishes.
When the custodian took over
g the property, the understanding
g was‘’for protective purposes only.”
g Later an order-in-council was
I passed authorizing the custodian
| to sell all Ja]>anese-owned property. Was that order-in-council
intra.

The War Measures Act gave the
?overnmeni wide powers to en>ure .security, order, good govern­
ment. et<-. Taking charge of the
Ptoperty of the evacuated Jap­
anese is one thing. But selling
ihrin against the wishes of its
owners is another, and the con­
fection between the forced sale
anti --se< nrity" measure is rather
vague.

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brought on
before the■ exchequer
votirt in
ay, IftJj.
The argumeat bog si! down on a
technical
Quest ion. Judgment is
still reamt has shown no signs
this poin

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Mora iy ’here can be
no justi8<h> ion or ir;.: forced sale except
tt’ith th ■ • properties which would

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-iiorated. The sale served
' purpose: it only made
'■’■ticiilt for the evacuees
bom^ to the coast.
uly speaking, it looks as
uie evacuees are quite
n serger about the arbitReviewing" Page 7)

The resolution, passed at a
general meeting on Feb. 21. stated
as follows:
“Whereas the continuance of
restrictions on
the Japanese
Canadians is contrary to the
precepts of Canadian citizen­
ship;

“And whereas Canadians of
Japanese ancestry represented
by the undersigned organiza­
tion have shown by their actions
during wartime a willingness to
co-operate with the government
of Canada, and have now suc­
cessfully
re-established -them­
selves in their local community:

“Be it resolved that this meeting go on record to stress pro­
test against loss of full rights
and privileges of citizenship.”

In a statement to The Nev
Canadian, the JCCD said tha t
grave concern was felt at the
probability that the government
intended to continue the restrictions on free movement and fish­
ing after March 3.1.
"The precepts of Canadian citi­
zenship do not sanction any situa­
tion whereby Japanese Canadians
be forced to share unequally with
their fellow citizens of other races,
the full rights and privileges of
citizenship. Restrictions on fishing
can only be looked upon
denial of the fundamental
of Canadian citizens to do useful
work,' the JCCD statement said.
The statement pointed out that
with widespread re-settlement of
evacuees now achieved, there was
no justification for prohibiting
part of
free movement in
Canada., and that there should be
no restricted areas in Canada.

Harmonicas From
Japan On Their Way
WASHINGTON.—Good news for
•as reported
harmonica addiets
recently. The ft rs t shipment of
man u facto red goods to North
America from Japan will consist
of an assortment of articles in­
chiding harmonicas. slide rules
and tubes of confetti. Japanesemade harmonicas, which many
amateur Nisei Larry Adlers swear
by. have been unseen since the
outbreak of war.
This shipment will be the first
goods stamped "Made in Japan”
r on American store
to
public
opinion
since
barred the label since Pearl Har­
bour.

$4 for 1 year

On Japanese Property

New Denver Board

----------------------------- $----------------- ---------

Now Responsible for

May Set Up Claims
Board Says Gibson

Japanese Schooling
lion of the Japanese children in

by the local school board begin­
ning March 1.
Arrangements
were made recently with the De­
partment of Labour. Japanese
division, and the federal agency is
moving required buildings to the
local school grounds and Trans­
ferring all their supplies, such as
domestic
and manual
training equipment and text books.
Some 100 children are effected
by this move.

TORONTO BANS
DISCRIMINATION
TORONTO.—The license will
be cancelled of any Toronto
hall, rink, theatre or any place
of amusement which
refuses
admission to anyohe because of
race, creed, or colour. A special
section to this effect has been
added recently by the board ol
to
the
police
commissioners
bylaw, governing the licensing
of public places in the city.

This act was the result of the
outcry of protest from many
quarters after an incident at
the Icelandia skating rink when
a Jewish girl was allegedly re­

fused: admission. .

Frisco Movie House

Hires Negress As

By STAFF WRITER

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A claims commission may be set up to deal with Japanese
property sold by the Custodian during the war.
The Secretary of State. Hon. Colin Gibson, under heavy
questioning from opposition members, told the House ot
Connuons on Feb. 18. that a commission may be setup to
Japanese property sales
been done in the ease of certain
properties owned by a Ukrainian
organizat ion.
The minister said he could not
give tietails since no decision had
been made, bin that the question
s being studied by the cabinet.
"It is difficult to know just
the extent and number of
the claims and what would be
the best way of handling them,
but that matter is receiving con-

sideration,’’ the minister said
The Custodian problem--as fa r
eonas Japanese Canadians
to 193!) when
cerned.. goes
with the enemy regulalions
Measures Act.
The regulations
gave/j-he government wide powers
enemy propo v e i‘' spc h m ai t e r
eriy. trading with the enemy. e(c..
and much of this authority was in
the hands of the Custodian.
Bin wartime powers are due to
expire on the 31 si of this month
and the government still feels the
need of continuing many of these'
powers iu order to complete a
considerable amount of unfinished
business left after the war. Bill
22 is intended to continue the rewith
quired
enemy property, etc.
Thin the Secretary of State on
Feb. 1 : asked Parliament's per-

mission, in the form ol a
tion. to introduce Bill 22 to prothe “continuance oi the

nt
with the enemy ‘- -and
touched off the attack against the
Custodia n.
Why had the Custodian's office
made no reports? Why was it so

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money to continue operations
without, grants from the Parliament ?
proposed for the compensation on
Japanese property? Did the Cus­
todian handle properties belong­
ing to Canadian citizens?

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CCF leader M. J. Coldwell
and
D. M.
Fleming
(PC-To-

ronto) spearheaded the attack.
Progressive Conservative leader
John Bracken joined the.attack
the
but
without
mentioning

Japanese Canadians.

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The Secretary of Slate could
not supply satisfactory a
to a.ll the questions, but promised
that he would try to give all pos­
sible information on the wartime
operations of the Custodian be­
fore Bill 22 comes up tor second

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Then the Bill was given its first
reading. The real debate on the
measure—and the question of
Ja panese property—won Id
[dace on the second reading.

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Usherette
S AN F R A N CIS C O. —- R e c e n t hiring of a younj Negress. Betty
Anne Amos, as an us he re. tie at
San Francisco's U ptown Thea ter
has been hailed as a solid victory
for fair employment practises.

A three-months' long struggle,
backed by a picket line, was
waged by the Committee for Fair
Employment Practises against the
Uptown Theater management.

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GREENWOOD, B.C.—Representative delegates and C)1 )servers gathered in this city last weekend, Saturday and
Sunday, Feb. 22 and 2,3, for the First General Meeting of
the .British Columbia Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Associa-

tion.
Mayor McArthur of Greenwood
welcomed the delegates in .the
opening session Saturday.
The AFI. Theatrical Employees
Issei and Nisei delegates from
Local B-18. which participated in
the following centres attended the
the settlement of the dispute, sent
Kamloops. Vernon.
eon ferenc
Betty Amos to the theater in ac­ Okanagan Centre. Kelowna. Westcordance with the management's bank, Lillooet. Brookmere. Carmi.
Forks and
Den ver.
the first- vacancy occurred.
AI id way. Two Greenwood groups.
The Fair Employment Practises Greenwood JCCA and Greenwood
committee, following up its inten- Japanese Committee, were also
tion of getting decent jobs for represented.
Interviews with various officials
Negroes inthe Fillmore district.
decided to picket two other and individuals in Vancouver were
theaters if present discriminatory reported by rhe delegation that
went to the coast early in Febrnpractises were maintained.
aiy. The conference decided that
e a c h organization represented
would be allowed one vote in the
of the meeting.
Dr.
busint
Ishiwara, president of
JCCA. ami Edward T.
their American cit izensli i p th e
Ouchi. Vernon delegate, were the
throughout the war.
chairmen
during sessions. A con­
A large percentage of them
were minor children at the out­ stitution was drafted and adopted.
Removal of travel restrictions
break of the war and had reached
on
Japanese residents in B.C. was
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any
their majority
urged
and further work on this
are working for the L .S. Army
occupation authorities while await­ move was planned. A committee
was formed to study the fishing
ing ships to take them home.
license ban situation.
thousand
More than
American Nis
return to the U.S., and they are
now. being interviewed by con­
sular officials lor clearance.

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B.C Groups Meet For First Time.
Pledge Support on Current Issues

900 American Niseis in Japan
Await Ship for Return to U.S.
TOKYO. Japan. — About 9f>0
American citizens of Japanese
race who spent the war years in
Japan have been granted permis­
sion to return to the United
States. But except for a few who
have already returned, their pas<;j]
home is being delayed due
to lack of shipping.
The American consul in Tokyo,
exis Johnson, stated Feb.
that the 900 Niseis have been
screened and the authorities are
that they had retained

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One hundred percent support
was promised for the Economic
Loss survey instituted by the
Toronto JCCD which the B.C.

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JCCA is handling in the prov­
ince. Recovery of the citizenship
of Nisei •‘repatriated’” to Japan

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was to be studied.

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Disposal of the habeas corpus
fund, made up in the time of the
deporta tion crisis, was reconimended In Brook mere delegate
Vasushi Nishihara. All money for­
warded by evacuees to Vancouver
is to be returned by the. B.C. JCCA
and all applicants tire to be asked
to forward their new addresses to
the organization lor this purpose.
A sum of $450 sent from Tashme
to Vancouver for the fund was-to
be donated to the B.C. JCCA.
conference extended thanks to I’

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the donation.
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mated at $2,351. The conference
decided that this money would
be raised by fees from Japanese

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(Please see “Greenwood" Page 7)

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ATTENTION!
All organizations and indi­
viduals are asked to send in
news and reports of Nisei ac­
tivities wherever they may be.
The New Canadian has as its
goal full coverage of the Jap­
anese Canadian scene and your
co-operation is requested- Ail
contributions will be handled
with care.

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The Future of Alberta Evacuees

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,The movement of a number of Japanese evacuees from
southern Alberta to eastern Canada may be regarded as
another forward step in the resettlement process.
Up to the end of last year about thirty persons had left
Alberta to go east. The figure for January this year was>28,
and February is expected to show a considerable increase
over previous figures.
The chief reason behind this new movement is the fact
-that many of the 3,500 evacuees who arrived for sugar work
in southern Alberta were not farmers and had little inclina­
tion to become farmers. Among them are businessmen,
craftsmen and skilled workmen. But during the war they
chose the sugar beet farms because it meant that members
of the family may remain united during* the evacuation
rather than being scattered like many other evacuee families.
During-the war these'people made a notable contribu­
tion to the Alberta sugar beet industry. But now they are
looking forward to the future. Some of them want to go
back into former occupations while others wish to provide
their children with opportunities not available in the sugar
beet country. The Japanese Division has been wise in pro­
viding these people with free transportation to eastern
Canada since if the polic\’ of dispersal and resettlement is
to succeed, it must take into consideration the capabilities
and the inclinations of the individual families.
■■However, there are'other evacuees—and probably these
form the majority—who are relatively satisfied with, their
life in Alberta. About 500 Japanese farmers hvere in
southern Alberta before the war. They own land, and are
apparently doing well. There is little reason why the newcomers cannot reach a similar state of independence and
security in a relatively short time. - ? 7
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“'The big uncertainty1 in the future of the evacuees
appears to be the attitude of the Alberta government .which
has an agreement with the federal government providing
for the removal of the evacuees after the Avar. Actually,
however, the possibility of their being moved out is so remote
that it can be left out of consideration.
Premier Manning’s statements reminding the ^federal
government of the existence of that agreement serves a
political purpose and little else. Any real attempt to move
out the evacuees now will meet with strong opposition,
especially from the beet indu^vy, which is short of labor.
And in the meantime, the government’s power to control
evacuee movement, which at the longest can continue for
another year, will expire. Another indication, if needed,
that the federal government does not intend to arrange a
mass removal of the evacuees is seen in the lifting of the
land purchase restriction before the expiration of the Emer­
gency Powers Act.
In choosing between settling in Alberta and moving east,
evacuees are making a decision which will have a farreaching effect on their future and the future of their chil­
dren. But it would seem that either choice would lead to
a happier and more satisfactory livelihood than by planning
to return to the Pacific coast where it is very dubious that
their return would cause much enthusiasm.

Retreat Under Pressure
Toronto Globe and Mail Editorial

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gingly, as usual, and chiefly
effort to avoid having to
face direct criticism from the floor
of Parliament, the government has
finally withdrawn most of the
orders-in-council affecting the JapBorn of emerthe
were carried
into the peacetime period far be­
yond any conceivable danger these
people might have presented.
They represented a gross in­
fringement of the natural liber­
ties of both native and naturalized
citizens and will remain a blot
on the record of the Canadian
people.
The government's gesture is
again good as far a
but
it. is not complete
M r. King's bad conscience regarding Japanese property is revealed in his promise to remedy
injustice, if it can be proved. He
asserts rather limply that the gov­
ernment is of the opinion that “the
sales were made at a fair price."
This is not an opinion widely held
among those who know the facts.
Most of the Japanese, led to be-

lieve that their property would be
held in trust for them until the
crisis was over and they were re­
settled elsewhere in Canada, lost
everything they possessed; not
only real estate and fishing boats,
but personal belongings hallowed
by use and family affection. No
cash hand-out will adequately re­
pay many of these losses. Mr.
King should go further and identify and punish the officials responsible for this betrayal of the
nation's good faith.
Two important restrictions re­
main.
Japanese Canadians will
still have to go to the police to
obtain permission to make a trip
away from home beyond the
limited radius allowed at present.
Th I is ostensibly to ‘‘ensure the
ss of the resettlement” in
part of Canada other than British
Columbia.

The success of the government's
resettlement policy is of far less
significance than that native Cana­
dians and others granted citizen­
ship by this country, should have
to go to the police to be able to

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Yukon Winter
Editor, The New Canadian:

Up here in Dawson City, in
freezing Yukon, this winter has
been a severe one. For three
weeks in January, the temperature
was around 50 to 65 degrees belowzero, and planes that come to
Dawson daily could not make their
way here from Vancouver. These
planes are our only contact with
the outside world during the win­
ter. Because of this, provisions
and fuel started to give out, and
for a while conditions were miser­
able. Since there was no incom­
ing supply of woodfuel, people
living in cabins near Dawson
could not keep their places warm
and eventually moved into the city
hotels.
Mail service was stopped, too,
and when a plane arrived on
Feb. 7, breaking almost a month
of isolation, there was a batch of
New Canadians for us, from the
Christmas issue to the Jan. IS
issue.
There are quite a few Japanese
in Dawson. In the summertime
we work in the' messhouse of a
mining camp 60 miles out of the
city. We return to the city in
the fall and live on unemploy­
ment insurance until it is time to
go to work again in the spring.
The cold stops all operations dur­
ing the winter months.
Saburo Harada,
Dawson City, Y.T.

Guelph Farm Job
Editor, The New Canadian

we live and work oh a dairy
farm some ix miles' from the city
of Guelph. The owner of the
farm, Mr. Gilchrest, is a Guelph
city councillor, and one of the
biggest farmers in the district.
There are 70 -cows and calves on
this 75-acre farm; and Mr. Gilchrest’s son and my’ son and my­
self work it. Our family lives in
a 7-room brick house, and we be­
lieve our wages are better than
average for this kind of work.
School is iy2 miles away.
Other farms in this district have
been enquiring about getting one
or two -Japanese for farm help,
and if anyone is interested, he may'
get further information from me.
address
c/o Gilchrest's
Dairy Farm, R.R. No. 5, Guelph
Ont.
Sadajiro Kamibayashi,
Guelph, Ont.

travel,
government which is
capable of extending such a ban
capable of extending such a ban,
may do so to other unpopular elements of the community, if it.
thought, as it does in this .case,
that it would win votes thereby.
The other restriction is that one
element of the population id' for­
bidden its natural right to work
at. any occupation it chooses.' Nazi
Germany treated the Jews this
way. No government should con­
sider it within its power to forbid
any man to earn his living in any
lawful manner. That, if anything,
should be his own choice. This
country needs people who will
work hard at jobs they like and
know how to do so. For many of
the 20,500 Japanese Canadians this
will not be possible.
Least satisfactory of all in this
deplorable matter, is the
ance the government has hown
in rectifying its error, and
ing the lost rights. It has been
driven to it. by an outcry of ex­
ceptional strength, and even now
has not had the grace to go all
the way. and put these people on
an equal footing with their fellow­
citizens of every race. Its vauntings about Canadian citizenship
will mean much more when it
treats that privilege as sacred .be-

How Profitable is Sugar Beet Work;
By D.S.O.

THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY
A in southern Alberta (and in
other parts of Canada) is feeling
a serious labor' shortage. This has •
come at a time when the world’s
stock of sugar is low and Canada
is trying to increase her beet
sugar production—by as much as
50 percent if possible.
The

sugar

industry

beet

in

southern Alberta, which started
22

years

labor

in

supplied

ago,
the

much

requires

fields.

This was

chiefly by immigrants

from central European coun­
tries. Now these original labor­
ers have their own lands, and
are looking for other laborers.

an immigrant family =
a position to acquire h
alter four or five yea

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. To the columnist’s
that the use of machir
the best solution to
beet labor- problem, Mr
plies that mechanization ^7'
practical and m-Oven*'C - °2 5
still sev eral years awav
From the opinions exPm-.above, certain general con-L

sions may be drawn aboutsuA
beet work. They m3y
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as follows:

1. Sugar beet work i; vasrr-i
A beet worker ne*d«s a.u;-work in order to have y
income.

Beet sugar has to meet competition from imported cane sugar
2. Beet work
WleasanCtEwhich can be produced and
skilled work, and oil-:
e«ou %
brought to Canada at a much
ployment, fo the mo; f ySfi Ju.
lower cost. The
'
government has
longs to the unskilled
assisted the beet sugar industry
tion.
in two ways:: (1) by putting up a
3. For certain families with 5
tariff against cane sugar, and (2)
high proportion of persons capabk
by' granting subsidy, or financial •
of work in the fields, beet wofi
assistance, to the beet sugar pro­
. does offer reasonable or good
ducers. The amount of this grant
turns which may be increased h
was 60% cents per 100 lbs. of
other employment. Ih addition;
sugar in 1946, and increased to
the low cost of living on a far,
$1.25 per 100 lbs. in 1947. Bart
is a favorable factor.
of this assistance is offset by the <.
4. The position of a beet works
control of sugar price under a
at present
ia\ orabie due to
ceiling. .
sugar shortage and governmeu
During
the
war,
Japanese - subsidy to the industry, but ma­
evacuees performed a great serchinery is expected eventually w
vice byr supplying much-needed
take over much of the work hot
labor for the sugar beet industry.
done by hand.
Recently, Senator AV. A. Buch5. A beet-working family should
anan, publisher of the Lethbridge
for greater security, plan to save
Herald, said at Ottawa:
enough money for a purchase d
“I think I can say that, had it
not been for these Japanese, the
sugar beet industry in my pre­
vince would have collapsed at
that time.”

But. now some of the Japanese
evacuees have gone to Japan and
others are planning to move into
eastern Canada. German prison­
ers-of-war too have left Canada.
This loss of labor plus the need
for greater production has brought
about the present difficulty. And
beet growers insist that the best
solution will be for the government to import about 5,000 agri­
cultural workers from Europe to
southern Alberta.
The
immigration
plan
has
been criticized by a columnist
in the Lethbridge Herald. In a

recent column, J. Harper Prowse
says that this solution is merely

one of letting the immigrants
do the “dirty work.”

Mr. Prowse says that an average
beet worker earns $316 for three
months of beet work, figured at
the rate of working eight acres
at $39 per acre. With luck, says
Mr. Prowse, the same worker can
earn another $300 harvesting grain
crops, and put in about five
months in lumber camps clearing
about $70 per month.
To this criticism, Rulen H.
Dahl. a director of the Alberta
Beet Growers’ Association,
has given his answer. Mr. Dahl
"The growers’ executive . . .

are convinced and have figures
to substantiate their claim that
the family unit where children
can

give

considerable

assist­

ance, can make a better than
average yearly income in this

area under a beet labor con­
tract, with the other seasonal
employment that is available on
the farms and in the market
gardening
dustry.”

and

canning

in-

He adds that other work is
available in sawmills or housework during the winter, and that

- °nd anything political conniving
might demand. Then its claim to
the name “Liberal” will be found­
ed on right, rather than usurpa­
tion.

their own farm.

SOLVING
A PROBLEM
Alberta did not like it whet
several thousand Japanese movk
into the province from British
Columbia and went to work in its
sugar beet fields. The people
were afraid the newcomers migii
stay and the government mat:
an agreement with Ottawa that
the Japanese should $e remord
when the emergency was over.
Well, the war emergency is ove
but the sugar emergency is n-x
and the Japanese having no senof security' in Alberta, are nioviy
out. A Lethbridge dispatch says
they are going east • in droves.
And Alberta is disturbed, li
would like them to stay, for there
is nobody else to do the stoo?
labour in the beet-fields.
Thus, it would appear, Canada:
Japanese problem is solving itself.
The whole reason for the tension
s that the J;
of other day
anese were concentrated in one
little corner of British Columba
Had they scattered, as they are
scattering now. there would ne>t-r
have been any problem. A
Japanese in a community nil?-1
be regarded as an a et and <#■
tainly as constituting a point &
interest. A concc ntration, on 14
other hand, can come to be re
garded as a menace.. if the Jh?
anese themselves w-ill only is**
that lesson to heart, neither British Columbia nor Canada 2-have any trouble
Vancouver Daily
torial.

Prowc.cs tu­

Clarke H. Kawakami,
mer lieutenant in die -_ - .
Army who served with tas_‘.
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where She had put the
^muches to an early dmsmells, whiffs of
•jsJ :,e;. Curi up the stairway,
sot butterflies in the
food is less than m<3

People in Miniature

What's a Speech, Mom?

by his last remark, it didn’t sound
complimentary. Mom let it pass,
and hollered the-stair-wen for the
j-g.
,
iro« «r •»«
1 om
family to start eating, she wasn't
w decide between plain ready* yet, and anyway she wasn't
'7-L' brisht ones, and no ear- hungry. What can you do with
,7 all The Twinses trail butterflies?
f ’track her down (it’s really
Grumbling loudly, the Twinses
' 7 confront her with a most went down to eat, their comments
running like:
picious:
“Mommy always hasta go to
HVhere gom • Mom
meetin's
and meetin's . . .”
fleeting . •
corn’s hair-do is giving trouble
“Yeah . . . and. Butchie, she wen’
a show last time . . . and 1 never
always does.)
B-Church-mcetin :
went . . . just with Big Sister, and
Butchie”
(Darn
that there was a pussy and Up Goes
Maisie, and lots a' cowboy horses
one, Mom? Do you and I don’ like it anyway . . ."
“I do. I LIKE pitcher shows
j*ays hav’ta go’.
(If that bomb ... Mom’s goin’ ta take me the
i-Yes, Kitten.
right next time.”
ilk out again . . -!)
l-Wha’cha goin’ to do at the
“Me TOO, Butchie! I’m goin'
Inroh-meetin’, Mom?”
too, and so there! A-Ha-ha!”
•‘•Make a speech, son . .
“Okay then, but you gotta keep
■•Yeah? What’s a speech. Mom?”
quiet or man's comes to kick you
kere we go again!)
• out. Tha’s what Fudge said ... he
-A speech is lots of talking in
really* did . . .”
nut of people.”
"I don’ care . . . and 1 can laugh,
if
I wants, cuz Mom said so!”
■-Do you fiav’ta talk there, too?”
"But . . . Kitten . . . you c'n only
[well, whatever Butchie meant

laugh when it's ever, ever funny
-• not when the man’s goin' ta
shoot ..."
"1 know but . , . well, ne'er mind.
Butchie! Mind your own busi­
ness'”
That’s that.

Being in a hurry to get the right
bus. Mom naturally rushes around
forgetting a lot of things, and the
last thing she hears from the
Twinses is:
"Will ya get me somethin’ nice
when you come home, uh?"

The next morning, bright and
late. Butchie is still sound asleep.
Kitten wakes him up. Downstairs
Mom is having the fourth cup of
strong coffee, trying to catch up
with the front page news of yes­
terday’s paper. She read the fun­
nies before going to the meeting.
"Mom?"
“Uh?"
"Are ya home? Didja go the
meetin’?”
No answer from Mom. Mom’s
groaning over Palestine. and rhe

There's a
prices on the
scuffle upstairs, and two pairs of
small feet go clattering to the . , .
well, why not ? . . . bathroom. Kit­
ten’s pounding on its door:
Lemme in . . hurry up
"Wait ... 1 got here first . .
"Ask Mommy. Butchie ... y ou
know ...”
"Aw no, you ask. You always
say 1 HAFTA ask. You ask.”
Down they come, for breakfast,
trailing their bathrobes and sleep
not gone from their baby faces,
Mom looks up sharply. Twinses
retreat:
"Oops . ... we forgot ta wash our
tooth . . . come on ...”
Before long they are presentable
and ready to eat, but they* fidget,
and look at one another, and
giggle. In pantomime, Butchie
points at Kitten, but she shakes
her head and points back at him.
so he takes up the job:
"Mom?"
"Yes. Butchie?" (Whew!
50
for a hankie?)
"Mom, ja get anythin’ .
(Giggles.)

At first they knew nothing of
ghe added another group of names,’
the circumstances of the Pacific
fhat will be long remembered,
Coast evacuation, but bit by bit,
frames of those people who, while
they
gathered information from
Ehaving no official connection withtheir “boys” and other sources
|lhe process of dispersal of the
so that it was not long before
apanese Canadians, did so much
they
had a fairly complete picio make the future of the often
ture of the whole happening.
inwanted relocatees a workable
Jand brighter one. The Y.M.C.A.’s,
The Allans became keenly inthe Y.W.C.Afs, the churches and ' terested and decided to help in
Various societies have contributed
correcting the injustice done to
£ great deal to the Niseis in their Japanese Canadians. Meanwhile
Lrying hours. But lastly and of
students rapidly
the two
pajor importance is the help exained the friendship and respect
ynded by many individual Canaof the neighbourhood.
ians who came forward with a
Other Niseis arrived in Hamil|£incere desire to aid the bewil- tom Many' went to the Allans for
ctred new eastern arrivals. These
advice and assistance, and to all
we the people who should be
then as it is now, their door was
edited with a large share of the
open wide.
tticcess of resettlement.
As a counsellor, Mr. Allan, a
How many of these unselfish
science teachei' at \\ entworth
people there are, or how much
Technical School, is among the
‘hey have done, may never be
best. His is the ability* to under­
^own. But this article tells
stand problems confronting those
•ne story of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
who come to him. No doubt this
‘•Han of Westdale district in
is the result of his years . of
'“milton, an example of the
patient probing into the unpre-ype o> people who extended a
dietable minds of the students in
'•Iping hand to the relocated
his high school classes. Together

with Mr. G. T. A. Reany and Mr.
G. S. Brown, he is on the Ad­
visory Committee of Hamilton
that works closely with the To­
ronto Co-operative Committee on
Japanese Canadians.
Mrs. Allan, with her natural
charm and gentleness, makes any
hesitant visitor feel at ease. She
has recently turned attention to
the newly-arrived teen-age Niseiettes and has accomplished a great
deal for them in their search of
opportunities for further schooling
and training.
fact that many Niseis
are unable to obtain jobs for
which they have been trained
is>of great concern to the Allans.
They stress that Niseis should
not resign themselves to condi­
tions but should try to make
their employers
realize their
The

capabilities.

organizations
Hamilton’s
have been actively supported by
Mr. and Mrs. Allan and they have
lately been appointed counsellors
to rhe Sophy-Ed Club, along with
Air. Stanley Sneyd and Mi* G. S.
Brown.

Mr. and Mrs. Allan have pro­
tested against the writing of this
article, suggesting that there are
many others who have done much
for the success of the resettlement
—but to many of us Niseis in
Hamilton, these few words are
quite inadequate in expressing the
gratitude and respect that we owe
for the sincere friendship and un­
derstanding that the Roy Allans
have shown to many a bewildered
and unhappy relocatee.

"O-oh . . ."well, now let s see.
Have you finished your breakfast?
How about eating first and asking
afterwards?”
“Awrigbt, Mom.
Kitten . . «
drink your milk!”
"How* 'bout yourselt?”
"Do you think so Mom got some
chiclets?”
"Kitten, do ya wish for to get
(wo a* them?”
Giggle . . . and more giggling
Mom’s finished with the state of
the nation for yesterday, and ns
she drains off the cold dregs of
coffee. in the mug, she grins at the
Twinses, causing more giggling.
A-ah. nice, lovely, morning-atterihe-speech-the-night-before.
Yep,
had that audience, just so . . .
bright bunch of kids, yessir . , .
had half an hour and spoke for 60
minutes. Not. bad at all . . . butter­
flies hardly in evidence this morn­
ing . . . until next time . . . ugh.
what a rotten speech it was . , .
had to junk- one all written and
readv „ . . audience never the same
yes-aw-yawnI
. . interesting
I'm . . . a , . . ob yes. gum for
Butchie and Kitten!

(Continued from Page 1)

rary act. provided they ;.§et fair
compensation for their losses.
One problem is that it would be
difficult to prove that certain
goods, were ..stolen or damaged,
especially when they had not been
reported to the custodian.
It is not known what considera­
tion will be given losses suffered
through forced liquidation of busi­
nesses. This would seem a fair
matter for compensation; it is
considered in the proposed claims
bill in the U.S.
With so much unmeasurable or
improvable losses beifig suffered
by the. evacuees, a liberal consid­
eration for all measurable type of
losses would seem in order.

prices, With such items as Japphonograph.
anese books and
records. works of art. Japanese
albums
chinaware. ph o t o g ra p h
and other personal possessions,
the loss was close to 100%, while
the value, intrinsic, and senti­
mental, would run- high.
The minister was not concerned
with these matters. Instead he
scolded the evacuees for not giv­
ing a complete list of their assets.
Said he: “Now these people are
coming along with claims, of ex­
aggerated values and this con­
stitutes one of the problems being
faced by the custodian at the
present."

Government Attitude

There was a comic aftermath
to the disposition of Japanese
personal property*
addressed to The New Canadian
from Occidentals who had purchased Japanese, books, phonograph records, cr ickery, etc., at.
the auction grab-bags or else­
where, and who wanted to know
how they could market the goods.
In one case a portrait of a Jap­
anese family was mailejl with a
request that the photograph be
returned to its owner, and not to
misconstrue the sender’s inten­
tions.
In the interior housing centres
where the evacuees were living.
complaints were loud and long
when they found that their personal property "Mett on the coast.
were being violated.

Government attitude to the ques­
tion has so far been expressed in
a "belief that the Japanese were
The prime
given a fair deal.
minister said that the total proceeds from sales exceeded the
total appraised value. Some doubt
is cast on the competence of the
appraisers if losses being claimed
by the evacuees are anything near
actual.
Hon.
The
many
aid
that
Gibson,
Colin
Japanese owner s, fearing confiscation. had been reluctant to re­
port such properties as furniture,
farm implements and other chat­
tels at the time of evacuation. But
the fear in this case was justified
since most such personal property'
were auctioned off later at low

^^'NIPEG.—A St. Valentine’s

Obituary
IKUTARO SATO

-ngagement is announced of
VERNON, B.C.— Mr. Ikutaro
Kinuye (Scotty) Omoto,
Sato died in the Vernon Hospital,
‘rtn daughter of the late Mr.
Feb. IS. Funeral services took
- rs. jyataro Omoto, to Mr.
place at the Vernon Funeral Par--O‘ge Hirose, second son of Mr. • lours, Feb. 22.
Tokuji Hirose, on FriFeb, 1
at the Hirose home.
Letter From Japan
A letter addressed to Mr. Bobby
Birth
Sueyo Harada, is in The Nev
Canadian offices. The addressee
iX.
Ont’ ~ Born, a may obtain it by forwarding hi:
i,«_s
*XiarF Ann, to Mr. and address.
viT, 7
®lka'va (nee Lucille
at. the Mount Hamilton
New Canadian Agent
SundaT- Feb. 16.
Change of Address
:0, 77-^0^$’ A‘ta*—Born, a first
Mr. T. Kameoka, wishes to inform his friends that his new- adTakashi, to Mr. and Mrs.
^^i^-Jcshi. at the Raymond dress is 113 McCaul St., Toronto
2-B. His former address was 64
“-‘al Hospital, on Jan. 2.<
Sullivan St.

Mr. Kameoka is New Cana­
dian agent in the Toronto area,
and is also sales agent for the
Far East Photo Review.

Rice ration cards for New To­
ronto residents may be obtained
from 113 McCaul St., instead of
64 Sullivan St., as formerly.

An English-Japanese dictionary,
written entirely in English letters.
soon. The dicis to be
tionary, first of its kind to be pub­
lished, is the result of a life-long
campaign for the adoption of Ro­
man letters (Romaji) in the writ­
ing of Japanese by blind educator
and author Tokinobu Mihara of
Salt Lake City. The work was begun while the author, a former
San Francisco bilingual newspaper editor, was in the Heart
Mountain relocation center
oming.

i

Comic Aftermath

"Greenwood Convention
(Continued from Page 1)

PERSONAL NOTES FROM FAR AND NEAR

Hi

Reviewing the News

THE ALLANS OF WESTDALE
This article is not necessary* as
|ar as Hamilton Niseis are contrned. For who, among the
Japanese Canadians.
doeatees in that city, needs to
ge told of the Allans of Westdale?
It was in the fall of 1942, when
To the Niseis,- the names of a professor at McMaster Univer­
lustin Taylor, George Collins, sity approached the Allans ask­
|f. B. Pickersgill, J- F. McKinnon, ing them to take in two evacuated
firs. C. V. Booth.and Ernest True- Nisei students who were unable to
ifcai- will conjure up indelible . find accommodations at the overmemories of,the years that immecrowded University' living quar­
tely followed the dark day' at ters. The Allans, who had never
’earl Harbour in the last month met anyone of Japanese ancestry'
’ isu:
®
before, agreed to do so and thus
But to this slate of names can began a new experience for them.

"Eh? What's that? Get what?”
"You know, something nice like

By Sue Sada

in B.C. On the return of the dele­
gates to their respective communities. a population survey of the
Japanese was to be made by the
respective organizations, to be
completed by Mar. 15. The fee
was to be based on these figures.
A

permanent
paid
general
secretary will be employed by
the B.C. JCCA, the conference
decided, His salary will be $75

a month.

relief to
On the question
Japan, it was decided to contact
the Friends' group in Vancouver
for details, and to ask religious
organizations to start a campaign
for the purpose. The JCCA itself
would back the project solfdly.
Al the convention supper, Sat­
urday night, Feb. 22, Mrs. Dorothy

McNair, B.C. correspondent for
Toronto Star, was present accompanied by- M a y o r McArthur,
Odoris, popular songs and othe.r
entertainment followed.
In conclusion, the conference
decided on the following policy
that:
-The B.C. JCCA, as a provin­
cial organization of representa­
tive Japanese Canadian groups
in B.C., would endeavor to fur­
ther goodwill and friendship be­
tween Occidental Canadians and
Japanese Canadians, and to fur­
ther co-operation between the
Niseis and the older generation,
for the purpose of protecting all

citizenship rights and to doing
its utmost for the welfare of the
Japanese in Canada, and becom­
ing better Canadian citizens.’’

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TORONTO.—Saint Christophers, this year’s league
toppers, and Bombers, defending champions, drew first blood
in Toronto Nisei Basketball League’s four-team semi-finals
that started Friday, Feb. 21, at the All Nations gym. The
semi-finals will be the best out of three.

First Game:

BOMBERS, 59;

EIGHT ACES, 47

Eight Aces started nicely with
Yon Shimizu. Paul Hirano and
Chuck Oda leading the way to a
17-8 lead at the first quarter. But
Bombers revived- in the second
stanza and led by Sockeye Tsuka­
moto’s one-handers, they over­
hauled the Aces and held the lead
the rest of the way.
Besides Tsukamoto. B a r o n
Wakabayashi and Idy - Idenouye
pushed the Bomber cause, while
Yon Shimizu and Chuck Oda were
the aces of the Aces. Paul Hirano

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and Seiji Takata did not show
their usual punch.
BOMBERS: Takeda 4. loi 3. Ashi­
kawa 3. Tsukamoto *22. Akiyama 4, Ide­
nouye 9, Inamoto 8, Wakabayashi Q-—59.
ACES: P. Hirano 6 ,Y. Shimizu 19,
S. Takata 1, G. Takata 3. Onishi 5.
Matsui. C. Oda 9, D. Naruse 4—47.

Second Game:
SAINTS, 60; EAST ENDERS, 42

East Enders "started off on the
right foot with an early six-point
lead, but the Saints settled down
and. paced by Mike Makimoto,
who was fed liberally by Ken
Miyasaki. led at the quarter, 16-8.
Enders tried hard during the
next two__quarters, but couldn’t
catch the high-flying Saints, and
when Ken' Miyasaki came in the
game in the third quarter, the
game became a runaway. Miya­
saki was easily, the best player on
the floor: besides garnering 18
points himself, he fed brother
Herby Miyasaki and Mike Maki­
moto'to 16 and 19 points respec­
tively. Koch Mitsui topped the
losers with 18 points, while brother
Miits Mitsui got 10. Sparkplug
of the team, however. w0 Harry
Nikaido.
George Hirano sustained a pain­
ful sprained wrist in the second
quarter, which may keep him out
of action for some weeks. This
may prove a costly blow to the
East Enders’ championship hopes.
SAINTS: H. Miyasaki 16. K, Miya­
saki 18, Makimoto 19, Koyanagi 2; Mo.n,
Sumi 4, R. Miyasaki 1—60.
EAST ENDERS: Oye 6. M. Mitsui 10.
K. Mitsui 18. Nikaido 4. G. Hirano 2.
Kameoka 2, Isezaki—42.

From the
Gossip Columns
Social

Deserve sleeping accommodations.
J^ntrance fee: 75c per head.

TTtilize your Easter in com­
panionship.
^"orth of Queen St. W.

Jmmediate ticket
requested.

purchase

n Thursday, April 3rd.

'M’otify Kaz Oiye. 139 Hunter
St. E., Tom Fujino. 24 Greig
St.. Hamilton, or
Jim Shino, 506 Jarvis St..
Toronto, for your tickets.

Notes

'The Nelson Daily News carries
a regular social notes column from
New Denver, mostly about who is
in the local hospital or who is out,
and who visited town. etc. Keported a recent item: “Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Murakami (formerly
Aiko Kondo) with their small son
Michael, left Tuesday for Hamil­
ton. Ont., to make their home. En
route they will visit Mrs. Mura­
kami’s parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Kondo, in Kamloops. They will
also stop over in Regina. Winni­
peg and Toronto.’’
General Insurance

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Phone: GL. 8077

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CANADIA

Hy-Noters Take in
Hakujin Teeners;
Snack Bar Gift

Toronto Melon Semis Start With
Saints and Bombers Winning,Qut

Kenny Miyasaki. Sainis captain,
more than lived up to his record
as the local loop’s top sniper in
pacing the tall boys io a 60-42*win
over East Enders. Bombers beat
out the young Eight Aces. 59-47,
with Sockeye Tsukamoto hitting
the hoop for a 22-point total.

NEW

HAMILTON. Ont.—Through rhe
personal kindness and efforts of
the club advisor. Rev. Pike. th©
Hy-Noters’ group now boasts 'a
permanent snack bar in its club­
room. To be sure, it is the first
'•coketail" lounge to appear in
Hamilton, nothing stronger than
“coke,” natch:
On Feb. 1, an official invita­
tion was extended to the Occi­
dental teen-agers of AH Peoples’
Church to share in Hy-Noter
doings.
Since then, the Occi­
dental
group
has
expressed;
willingness to merge with the
Hy-Noters.
With this, one of
the club
objectives, that „ of
acquiring
Occidental
contacts
and facilitating assimilation, is
now well on its way towards
realization.

$ * *
Kaz Oiye was chosen to lead
the Hy-Noters in the semi-annual
elections, held Feb. 21. Assisting
President Oiye will be the execu­
tive of Kaz Kadonaga. vice-presi­
dent: Ruth Kuwabara, secretary,
and Mark Koyanagi, treasurer.

Toronto Buddhists

Announce Crest

Contest
TORONTO. — Artistic Niseis
across Canada are welcomed to
enter a nation-wide contest spon­
sored by the Toronto Young
Buddhists’ Society for a. society
crest. Prizes, are to be awarded
to the three best eptries. as judged
by TYBS executive members.
Rules of the contest follow. -All
those, requiring further informa­
tion are being asked to contact or
write Harry S. Kondo, contest,
committee chairman, 201j,2 Bev­
erly St., Toronto.
RULES. OF THE TYBS CREST
CONTEST:
1. The crest may be drawn in bla.ck
ink or . in two or more colors , and must
be about 11/2 inches overall measure,
since it is to be used on the Society's
letterheads, envelopes, membership cards,
etc., in a reduced size. The words: ‘ ‘To­
ronto. Young Buddhists’ Society,” ‘‘To­
ronto Y.B.S.,” or ‘‘T.Y.B.S..’' shotild
be included in the design, aud it is also
preferable that the pattern of the. “Fujino-hana” or Wisteria, either in the tra­
ditional Buddhist wreath or any other
form be used in this design.
2. The contest is open to all Niseis
residing in Canada.
3. Frizes will be awarded to the thr.ee
best entries in the opinion of the judges,
composed of the executive members of
the Society. The decisions of the judges
will be final. All entries will become the
property of the Toronto Young Budd­
hists’ Society. The Society also reserves
the right to make changes to the original,
if necessary, and to use any or. part of
all entries submitted in effecting* the final
design.
4. The contestants may submit any
number of entries. No contestant, how­
ever. will be awarded more than ojie
prize.
5. All entries must be submitted not
later than April 30. 1947, to the Toronto
Young Buddhists' Society, 13 Division
St., Toronto.

Saturday. Jiai.ch ,

London Nisei Meet Advisory Groun
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Following the game, the Kentires were guests at the LNO
Valentine Dance at the Y'.M.C.A.
lounge. A return match in planned,
for March 22.

In a. rubber game with Eddie
Ide's Miller’s Hustlers, of Inger­
soll. the. London Nisei lost 26-15.
Feb. 21, at Ingersoll.
MILLER’S HUSTLERS: McKay *2.
Haines 11, North 4, E. Ide 7, Mills 2,
Wadsworth, Vannatter, Smith, Billiijvs,
Mills. Ackert—26.
Obokata 4. A. Nunoda 2, SunL.N.O
ahara 4. Tak Ozaki 4, Yanagisawa 1.
G-. Ide. Kagawa, B. Nunoda—15.

The next London basketball
game will be on March 8, 5vhen a
much-awaited Hamilton invasion
will be welcomed. It is hoped
that a large number of supporters
will be along from the Ambitious
City, for the energetic Sports Club
members are hard* at work on a
"Basket Ball.’’ This dance, the
Sports' Club’s first social under­
taking. is to be held, at the King
.Street United Church gym. foilow-

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Stating that Japan was not get­
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Isao 'Udaka of the Tokyo Red Sox.
announced recently he was form­
ing a new league and would raid
the existing loop for talent. At
present Japan has a single league
of teams from major cities. While
there was hissing from some quar­
ters about "Mexican League busi­
ness all over again:’’ the majority
of Japan’s baseball addicts, who
the Associated Press said, “equal
the frantic fans of Flatbush in
love of the game.” were reported
to be quite happy about the pros­
pect. One team scheduled to enter
the new league is a. Tokyo team
known as the Greenbergs.
Wonder what happened to the
Tokyo Giants?

FRIDAY, MARCH 7th, 1947
LABOR LYCEUM
SPA DINA AND ST. ANDREWS. TORONTO, ONT.

representing


78 Queen Street West
Toronto. Ont.

O

A PROVEN FRIEND . . .

— in sales and serviceplease give us a trial ..

MORRIS BLUMFALD

MH

Res.: KI 0553

Radio Appliance Co.

Toronto, Ont.

1180 Queen St. E.

Other members of the execu­
tive for the new year are:

Metcalfe Block. Lethbridge
Residence: Box 404. Coaldale. Alta.

DANCING: 9-1

ADMISSION 7ov

ROY O’SHIRO

Radios

vener; Tama Deshima, council
representative, and Mary Shi­



Help Wanted

RCA

VJCTROLA

Besutifully

V R-54.

girl

phono\ 5895

RCA VICTROLA VR-56. Luxurious mantel mode: comtenbination, with automatic record changer, Plays 1
,S149.3«
inch records or 10 twelve-inch records—



An- eye-appealing white plastic model.
AC-DC ....................... .................................
The new ASTRA in walnut hardwood cabinet. BeaiNft
RCA 60.

tone. 5-tube .............

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AC-DC 5-TU3E MONARCH with a really new full-vision

slide dial ....... ............... ..............................................

Many, many others-to choose from— including
inquiries invitedradios, new and used.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN

CRESTON

interested

in embroidery work. Good oppor­
tunity to learn trade. Apply Royal
Embroidery
Pleating. 290 Ken­
nedy St.. Winnipeg. Man.

styled

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Male and female help

for factory. Sewing ladies’ and
children’s coats. Apply: 409 Notre
Dame. Winnipeg.

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CLASSIFIED

Proprietors:
B. McTAGGART
'
HAROLD MAEDA

They’re here . . . at CRESTON ELECTRIC

mizu, social convener.

Music Appreciation, discussions.
and demonstrations of flower ar­
rangement have featured some of
the enjoyable meetings held to
dale. Future meetings will have
recitals, bridge, discussions on
career planning. and
cooking
de mon sr rat ions.
All Hamilton Niseiettes are
being invited, to these meetings.

GE 5048

TORONTO. Ont.

representing

Shizue
Hayakawa,
vice-presi­
dent; Ayako Okura, secretary;
Fumi Okura, treasurer;
Miye
Yasunaka,
membership
con­

Young

For your radio and

Experienced. - Dependable

SOVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE
CO.

Wanted:

is®

electrical requirements

HAMILTON. Ont.—Betty Shino­
hara was named president of the
B.C. Girls' Club of Hamilton
Y.W.C.A. at the recent elections.

Wanted:

178 Beverley St.

Toronto. Ont.

NORTH AMERICAN LIFE

J.C.C.D. B.ADMINTON CLUB PRESENTS

— <2njuuiL (Danxst —

2v. Dr.

ter Baldersto
for Lhe AdvCommittee, and Jjm
the Nisei Organization. sav'A
reports on the history andLties of their respective or^sX"
tions.
During a shon
program. Rosie Nishizaki's ij*
renditions of two Japanese w
lar songs drew special enthusiaX
Tea. was served in the YWCi
lounge and members
'
groups had an informal and
lightful visit with one anothei
The committee in charse of X
get-together consisted of Dr.
clerston. Misses Dorothy Siransi
and Lottie Kellerman. JimKasX
and Misses Mary .Murakami’ai
Mariko Tokunaga.

Plans Activities
NOTICE

.5

ing the game

FELLOWSHIP:
Takano, Watanabe S. Uchiyama 4, G. Nishi­
zaki 4, R. Nishizaki 2. Nakao 2, Morita
S—2S.
LONDON NISEI ORGANIZATION:
Ide 10. Sunahara 10, Tam' Ozaki 4, A.
Nunoda, Obokata 6, Yanagisawa 2, B.
Nunoda, Tak Ozaki 4, Kagawa, Asano, 4
—40.

112 King St. West

I

r

quarter. _
KENT

B.C. Girls Club

Life, Accident & Sickness, etc.

L,

I

LONDON. Ont.—Invasion of London Niseis' b-w-—d
domain by visitors from the South was quelled b'-'tUA
reps, Feb. 15. Handicapped: by an unfamiliar iioor
ham district team lost out 40-28, but the game ’va* a dJ

Office: EL 5207

Burglary.

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Prop.: TAK TOYOTA

PROMPT

ery

attention

ELECTRIC
Box 269, CRESTON, B-C