The New Canadian — April 5, 1947

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An Independent Weekly For Canadians of Japanese Origin

THE NEW CANADIAN
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WINNIPEG. MANITOBA

^nrouver Letter to Ottawa

hvt. Should Hurry Plan to

Compensate Evacuee Losses
—Delay on the part of the federal govs*i y^ycOUVER.
'nt in twnouncing the machinery and procedure by
evacuation losses would be remedied was criticized
flip Vancouver Consultative Council in a letter to Prime
y tne
Minister Mackenzie King, dated
Feb. 7. 1547.
The letter, with the council’s
report on its activities on behalf
of various minority groups iii Can­
ada. was made public this week.

SPOTTING

&

the news

“Very

few

of

these

people

More shirts are on their way.
Eiciils of the Wartime Prices
fed Trade Board said last week,
feodujiion jumped S,500 more in
fenuary this year, compared to
January. 1946. But from the looks
'of local store shelves, 8,000 must
hirts.
Ihave been sport

(evacuees from B.C.) have any
desire or intention to return to
their former places of residence; but they are sorely in

il* Retirement of Negro bassEbantone Paul Robeson from the
E:£oncert stage was suddenly a.nBnounced last month , by the singer
Igat a concert in Salt Lake City,
Ifcjtah. Said Robeson: “You’ve
my final formal concert for
||it least two years, and perhaps
pfdr many more. I’m retiring here
Ifand noir from concert work—I
Khali sing, from now on, for my
Krade union and college friends;
gin other words, only at gatherings
Inhere I can sing what I please.”
^forthcoming motion picture verHsion of Howard Fast’s book, “FreeE’dom Road,” is to feature Robeson.

ent homes and means of liveli­
hood.
Accordingly, with deep

Last week saw the ending of
Kneat rationing in Canada for the
^second time since it was introEduced during the past -war. Hustbands were rejoicing that they
ixwould not have to bother about
jUiose pesky meat tokens any more,
kt remained to be seen whether
gthe supply of spare ri os would be
Etetter. Sweet and sour fanciers
fere viewing the situation with
Sc*g&en. interest.
A Negro. Gaston Monner@116, has been sworn in as presi,dent ot the upper legislative house
to France.
position corre^ponds to that of the speaker or
fcthe Senate in Canada,
II • Father Edward Flanagan,
gpied mentor of Nebraska’s
gBoy s Town." is scheduled to visit
Bfcpan soon. Details and the rea­
sons tor his visit have not been
fcnounced, but the Japanese press
peculates that the priest may
Ife'e been approached to advise
Bsneral MacArthur or the Japagovernment on the problem
g growing juvenile delinquency in
gbe country.

Iphnon Arm Post Against
legion Proposal For

j|ass Expulsion
| SALM ON ARM. B.C.—Salmon
oranch of the Canadian
fion is opposed to the expulLj °L ^aPanese from Canada, reg*wd the Vancouver Province,
|arch 25.

Meeting of the mempassed a resolution that
V- ^aSs expulsion of Japanese
, u u be intolerant and contrarv
g
Nmciples of democracy.
i.

r,e

Japanese

|d £duled to come

question

is

up for dis-

_ sston a^ the next provincial
nver.tion of the Legion. It is
Ife^°r^ea' '■^le Dominion command
in favor of expelling all Japa-

rked

for

local branch was
an expression
of

P>ini«n on the

proposal.

need of funds satisfactorily to
establish themselves in those

parts of Canada where they are
now seeking to secure perman­

respect

but

great

earnestness,

we urge upon you an early and

official clarification of a situa­
tion which we feel reflects upon
the honor of Canada/' the letter

The Consultative Council report
said that this letter was acknowl­
edged under date of March 5. to
the effect that it w: is being
brought to the attention of Secretary of State Colonel Gibson.
Therefore, attitudes and opinions
of members of the House of Commons and the Senate, during the
next few days, on policies and
legislation reflecting racial dis­
crimination and animosities will
be of crucial importance. suggested the report.
ABOUT OTHER RESTRICTIONS

While at the moment, the Coun­
cil was pressing especially for the
remedy of “notorious economic
injustices" arising from the evac­
uation to persons not guilty of any
misconduct; it should be remem­
bered that the Consultative Coun­
cil and many other organizations
(Please See “Vancouver” P. 11)

Evacuation Claims Bill
Introduced in Congress
WASHINGTON.—A bill to
ereLte a
Evacuation
Claims Commission to investi­
gate and adjudicate certain
losses suffered by American
Japanese in rhe West Coast
evacuation of 1942
introduced in the House of Repre­
sentatives on March 27 by Rep.
Earl C. Michener (RepublicanMich.). Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
The bill, which is supported
by a recent letter■ sent by Interior Secretary Julius A. Krug
to Speaker Joseph Martin and
Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
Senate president, is identical
to the one introduced in the
last Congress.
A companion bill is expected
to be introduced in the Senate
shortly.

Pearson Introduced

B.C Voting Bill

Last Week
VICTORIA, B.C.—British Colum­
bia’s new elections bill was finally
introdneed in the Legislature by
Provincial Secretary George
Pearson, Thursday, March 27.
Majority of the changes recom­
mended have to do with votes for
minority groups. These points are:
@ Chinese and East Indian resi­
dents of B.C. who are Canadian
citizens get the vote for the first
time;
9 But Japanese are barred, ex­
cept for those who have served in
the armed forces;
© Native Indians who have
served in the armed services, are
enfranchised by the Dominion or
who do not live on reserves, will
be given the vote.

By STAFF WRITER

Here in Winnipeg, the kids have shed their parkas and
are out playing ball on the streets. True, thex still need
their mittens and their rubber boots as they ciead gingelly
between slushy puddles and roadside streams with tne thaw
steadily dwindling the snow piles
down to a mere wet grey memory.
But spring, it seems, has finallyarrived in town, after some falter­
ing during the week of the official
equinox.

1947

Parliament To Debate Future of
Japanese Controls After Easter

said.

NEXT FEW DAYS IMPORTANT

A or

schcolkids enjoyed a premature
Easter holiday.

Still at the week’s end, al
kings pointed toward a brigh
for the annual
Easter
ial parade all over the Dominion,
even if B.C. had the largest part
of the year's early crop ot “daffs.
Vancouver fashion experts were
not too sure that the longer skirt,
that Hollywood and Vogue insist
are “musts." would cover coastal
limbs; “Our girls are independent
and will not be dictated to I"

ing its daffodils last weexenc.- —
250,003 of them by exact count re­
ported one Vancouver news-sheet
—in answer to an Eastern editor s
alleged “slur" on B.C. climate. The
Easterner had tread on tender
toes with a snide suggestion that
the West Coast province was still
snugly covered with a blanket ot
suow.
STORM HITS EAST HARD
But it is easy to understand this
Eastern attitude, since the first
week of spring brought them, instead of daffodils and robins and
crocusses. a heavy late moment
blast from Old Man Winter. S’nortly after spring was officially announced. Eastern and southern.
Ontario helplessly looked out of
their windows and watched a
blizzard rage in unseasonai fury,

It was a winter to remember.
The Prairies took the brunt of the
winter's temper, with little Sasburied
katchewan having
and highways choked up by snow
for weeks on end. Alberta and
Manitoba got their share of the
prairie cold and snow with sub­
zero temperatures very much in
fashion. For the past few weeks,
the spring thaw has been wreak­
ing havoc in Alberta with the odd

People in’ rural areas were
marooned for a day or two and

(Please See “Spring" P. 11)

SOME WINTER

Si's

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By STAFF WRITER

OTTAWA.—The controversial Omnibus Bill—designed
to continue 57 wartime regulations—moved into its second
reading- this week, thus clearing the path for an all-out
debate on the Japanese question when the MP's come back
from their Easter holidavs.
Several important questions re­
main unanswered. How long is
the restriction on Japanese Cana­
dian movement to be continued?
What is to be done about the in­
demnification of e v a c ua t i o n
losses? What about Japanese pro­
perty still held by the custodian?
A few facts emerged when the
resolution to introduce the Omni­
bus Bill was being pushed through
on March 27:
The government intended defi­
nitely to continue the restric­
tions over fishing and movement
until March 31, next year: there
was a possibility that some men
in the government wanted to
have it continued longer.

If

more

Japanese

got

dis­

couraged with Canada or home-'
sick for Japan, the government
was prepared for some time yet
to help them out by providing
them with a one-way ticket and
a $200 bonus.
The custodian
intended
to
wind up the disposition of Jap­
anese property during the year.
Assets still held by the custodian
would be “distributed or return­
ed to the Japanese before the
year has expired.”

These things were looked after
wartime
under
of the
orders-in-conncil included in the

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SOUTH ALTA. YOUTH
jj

TO HOLD MEET
APRIL 12
12 will be the date of the
Third Annual Conference of
the Southern Alberta Youth
Council, at Lethbridge YM
CA. Man.y problems contTont-

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e Canadians, especially those in Southern Alberta,
will be studied
Registration will begin at 10

t'

a.m. and the conference is slated
to end at 4:30 p.m. A new execu­
tive will be elected at that time.

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Following the supper intermis
sion. an exhibition basketball
will be presented, with a
dance later to round out the evening.

.'WAS
b A A** ■»

F W t b;

Since the conference is being
held expressly for the advancement’ of the Nisei, says Youth
Council reporter Mas Sunada,
all our friends cannot be too
strongly urged to attend.

lion on Japanese movement.
There was no longer any real
need for it—except for reasons of
political expediency. The relocation program had been completed;
to the
no large movements

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Control Movement
Trickiest of the five orders was
the one which places a restric-

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tions were lifted. Even if some
(Please See “Omnibus Bill” P. 2)

Order-in-Coundi Passed in 1934 Would Bar

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Japanese Nationals From Naturalization
An order-in-council passed in 1934 and still standing is
obstructing Japanese nationals in Canada from acquiring
Canadian naturalization, The New Canadian was informed
recently.
Order-in-council PC 1760, 1934, provides that a Japanese
applving for naturalization must
from
produce a certificat
“Japanese minister
it barred
that the applicant flacquiring
foreign nationality.
The required certificate from
the Japanese government repre­
sentative must state that the
applicant for Canadian naturali­

zation (1) has already served
his term in the Japanese army
or navy or is under no obligation
to serve (through age or medi­
cal reasons), and (2) he does not
hold any official position under
the Japanese government.

two
applicant me
condition? he is under no restricition from requiring Canadian nationality. and hi? Japanese nationality will be Jost automatically
when he receives htis naturalization paper
order-in-council is
The IS
actually a liberalization of a previous order und er which it was more
difficult for Japanese to become
naturalized, But with the intervention of the war and the di
nice of the Japanese
at Ottawa, acquiring natba
uralization has again become difficult for Japanese aliens in Can­
ada.
On the other hand, the defeat

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of .Japan and the abolition of her
made the reguarmed f owes
?se to ge
lation
practicall
“permission
barrier to acquiring naturalization.
The possibility of having P.C.
1760 rescinded is now receiving
the attention of some Japanese
Canadian groups.
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(The existence of this order-incouncil was verified at the end of
last year. The New Canadian
awaiting word from Ottawa as to
whether the order is still being
applied to persons who have ap­
plied for naturalization after the
Canadian Citizenship Act came
into effect at the beginning of this
year.)

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February Relocation
Mostly From Alberta
seven persons moved east from
B.C.. and 6S persons from Alberta
during February, according to
figures released by the Depart­
ment of Labor, Japanese Division.
Relocation figures for the previous
month were 34 and 28 respectively.
Most of February relocatees
chose Toronto or southern On­
tario as future homes.

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SCM Interest
Editor, The New Canadian:

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. . . We appreciate the v
which your paper keep: us up to
date on the whole Japanese Cana­
dian situation, and we assure you
that we, as a group, and, as in­
dividuals. are doing our best to
see that injustices against a«y of
our fellow Canadians are elimin­
ated and. made impossible- in the
future.
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Problem in Post-War Japan

Gotta Marry to Eat=«
Gotta Marry to |jVe
TOKYO.—The economic necessity of —-rnever more clearly apparent than it is in
correspondent Howard Flandelman of th^
News Service.
~~ ~
Wonien who work must have husband

both the legal yen income and
the amount of rationed food com­
ing into the house.
Men who work must have.wives
to save them the money they
would spend for hot breakfasts
and dinners if they were living as
bachelors, and also in many in­
stances to increase the yen income
and rationed food.
In addition there are thousands
of repatriated soldiers aiffi civilians in the big cities who have to
get married to get a place to live.
An example of this type is a
young repatriate from the southl­
ern regions.
He came back to a Tokyo in
which he had neither home nor
family left.
For the first few months of his
repatriation he tried to find a
place of his own in which to live
but was unsuccessful.
During
that time he bunked in with one
friend after another.

MORE ON THE OMNIBUS BILL

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:o ^ppienjsrf

"I’ve got to
plained,
-y thirs;
now I'm livin
T-h friend
pay them rent
Len. Miller, Treasurer,
We believe that Saskatchewan’s bill of rights is a sign
Eonev .
dinner at
Student Christian Movement,
of reawakening in the moral and tradition consciousness of
University of British Columbia.
“But I go to work eark
Canadians in general. To minority groups like the’Japanese
.can’t very well expect mv K
Canadians who have been the butt of intolerance, the sign What’s In A Name?
wife to g
no raake
is a welcome one indeed.
breakfast for me. So I eithe
Editor, The New Canadian:
The report from London (March
to buy breakfast a -'-d lunch
At this writing, the bill has passed its second reading
do
without.
in the Saskatchewan legislature, and its enactment is said 22 issue) explains that the WIANA
"Buying food ir restaurant
club means "What’s In A Name
to be practically assured. But even before the bill has been Anyway,
But just the same,
awfully expensive TWO Eg.;
formally entered into the statute books of that province, its wouldn't our condition here
ago a hot meal in i common
influence is felt in Manitoba where a movement is under way Alberta be better if we took Eng­
taurant cost about
costs about 60 to t>a yen.
to have an identical bill adopted by the legislature. Indeed lish names for our organizations?
Right
across
the
page
I
read
about
"That's almost 1.500 ysn
ii is probable that the bill’s influence will not end with
the Coaldale people forming a new
month, just for o:
meal a g
Manitoba.
six days a week.
association of former residents and
rights and the evacuees workers, xvhich is a good
The purpose o
for salary withdrawals is 5<jy rk
method of its enforcement have been covered in articles idea. But why not
little fura month but nobody can live ©
that so everybody gets more, de
ther
and
choose
an
English
name
appealing in this paper. It may briefly be summarized that
way
or another. 1 have three jo's
for the English people here to use
the bill fills two purposes.
and make about 3.( W yen a Eonih.instead of Coaldale Bukkyo-Doshi
First it lays down certain fundamental rights of individ"But when I p; ty half of th:
The Wife-Hunt
uals, such as freedom of expression, of ref gion, of assembly,
Beet Farmer,
Finally he began to look for a tor lunches and the other half for
and so on.
Raymond. Alta.
room and dinners that leaves e?
wife who had a home.
without anything else to steni I
Canadians who have taken these right for granted have
package of cheap Japanese cigar­ ig
lately been disturbed by arbitrary actions of the federal and
ettes cost 30 yen for ten ciaar- 3
certain provincial governments. The conviction is growing
(Continued from Page One)
ettes on the black market aid
that to have the guarantee of our fundamental rights evacuees did plan to go back there continue the restrictions indefi-\ American cigarettes, which I Ife
strengthened by written laws may be a.. desirable thing was no justifiable reason for stop- nitely if Mr. Mackenzie and com­ much better and have always
ping- them.
pany stuck to their guns and were smoked, cost 7n yen on the black
after all.
8
matter.
Asked
toclarify
the
hacked in their stand by a suffi­ market.
Secondly, the bill makes discrimination on. racial and
“The
labor minister Humphrey Mitchell
solution for me is io
religious grounds a punishable offence, and provides us with replied that no Japanese would be cient number of British Columbia marry aonly
girl with a room or a
voters.
a list of such offences. Even if it is difficult to enforce the permitted to return to the coast
house, So I have asked all et
Question
law in every instance of its violation, the pr □vision provides during the period that the bili
friends to look
a wife for e- I
.On the question of Japanese
a measure of protection of the minority groups.
It is would be in effect (one year).
The Japanese Way
property, state secretary Colin
He added a rather feeble de■probable that the value of this protection cannot be fully
“
That's
the Japanese way
Gibson made a short statement on
fence: “1 think the policy ... is
getting
married,
and it’s not
avalized except by those who have actually been victims of
March 27, and promised to discuss
in their own best interests."
the matter more fully when, it strange as you Americans think.
discrimination.
Howard Green wanted to know
comes up bn the secone reading You see, in America a man meets
It should be realized that the Saskatchev an bill of rights if
policy would end
tne
to many
the
he
the Omnibus Bill.
cannot be dismissed lightly as “just another CCF measure.” termination of the year or whether of So
through his family or her family.
far, the government has not
Jis importance extends beyond party lines, Its support is it was part of a long range policy. shown much enthusiasm in taking Or maybe they n: t in school of
Veterans’ Affairs Minister lan
not confined to the CCF party alone.
up the matter of losses suffered in an office.
Mackenzie stepped into the breach by the evacuees. The few' cases
rent. Wb
“In Japan it's <
The form and contents of the Saskatchev fan bill is recog- with a ready reply. "That." he
I
go
to
a
friend's
house
not
mzed as fundamentally sound. The argument that the bill said, “would be a matter for of actual losses which have been meet his sister unless I Itelldo his
given publicity have made little
is meaningless because it springs from
CCF party is further consideration."
I want to get married and he de­
impression on the government,
On the question of continuing and it does not
cides if I would make a good hus­
appear at the mo• Whatever the criticisms levied at the CCF party, it must fishing restrictions. Mr. Mackenzie meat that any elaborate plan to band for his sister.
“If de decides I'm all right he
be admitted that they possess a greater degree of healthy was more forthright, if less logical. indemnify evacuee losses is under
He declared that, in his opinion consideration. But some
tells his sister about me. He tells
kind of
idealism than can be found in other political groups. And and that of certain other British
her all about me. where I ws
in sponsoring a. provincial bill of rights, the Saskatchewan Columbia MP's the problem ex- statement is expected at an early born, how old I am, how much
date.
government has translated certain of their idealistic—and tended beyond the term of the
The impression gathered from money I make, where I work, Bj
democratic—prii ciples into action based on realism and legislation; the problem was the Mr. Gibson's statement of Feb. IS family background, my hopes and
“establishment. of
eertain
practical politics
is that he believes the evacuees’ my possibilities.
amount of security for our people
“If the brother convinces tie
case has been over-exaggerated.
ood prospective
over a period of five or ten years."
If this i.s so, the fault, may not girl that I am a
Reviewing Canuck Nisei Publications
Behind all the talking, one fact be entirely with the government. husband then < meeting is
was apparent:
the policy of They have only the custodian's
1 tak' her to dinner
ranged.
The latest numbers of three
ing industry, at
explains the continuing restrictions was not
maybe, or if the family is arid
Canadian Nisei publications have
underlying caus<
and motives based on the question of right or report to go on. Nor is it the short­ in observance of old customs,»
coming on the part of deputations
reached the New Canadian offices
behind this actio
presence of
wrong, or national security, or any
which have approached the gov- meet her in the
within the past two weeks. They
Sam Yamada, versatile Toronto
of the reasons expressed.
family.
ernment since they can only build
are March issues of J CCD's Nisei
isei, is the subject of a "profile"
What
was
more
potent
than
any
"By the time T meet her tbs
their case on facts which have
Affairs. Montreal Nisei Fellowship
by Sue Sada. Other features mpit mine. She. has
of these reasons was the fact that been made available up till now.
decision
Group's Montreal Bulletin, and
.ide a Book Review section, and
veterans affairs minister Ian MacF
made up her mi; that she
Hamilton Sophy-Ed Club's ophy.1C C13 n ew
kenzie was stubbornly committed
There
no doubt, in this to marry me.
.Ed Bulletin.
five girls 3
to a policy of keeping the Japs out
"I have seen about
:
writer s opinion, that evacuee
NISEI AFFAIRS
SOPHY-ED BULLETIN
.-s
but
I
of B.C.—or forfeiting his seat—
the last few w
losse have been heavy. But the
The March Nisei Affair:
Hamilton's regular Nisei publi­ and he had a number of supporters
know whether I h marry any
evacuees might so far have failed
second number under the guid­
i*'
cation has a brighter sheen this among the B.C. members.
of them.
to prepare their case adequately,
ance of Mrs. T. M. Kitagawa am:
month. Perhaps it is becattse the
But if these restrictions are con"I have to fine
or to make a convincing presen­
shows many signs of the vigorous
we can
Sophy-Eds have collaboration from
during the coming year
room in Tokyo wh
tation. of facts.
new editorship. As usual the cover
the B.C. Girls' Club for the curdoubling
#
what would prevent the same
otherwise I'd only
In any ca.se, the office of tjie
rent issue.
policy from being repeated the
problem."
custodian may have to face some
unmatched by any otner Nisei
Pertinent pc<i
on etiquette
?ar.
and
the
year
after
that?
close scrutiny and questioning
publication for its professional
for both sexes
included, as
isou would be required to
these properties s ill being o"67"
when
it is considered during the
touch.
well s a bit on Jazz by "Toots.”
for sale? If not when Glu
debates on the second reading.
Feature article of the number is
A Fashion column show? the
mimeographed
paper
to
contain
AVhy had properties belonging custodian stop se
by Buck Suzuki who has traced
Girts' Club influence as does the advertising regularly. It is the
Whit is to be done vnth Gt
to
Canadians of Japanese origin
the history of the Japanese fisher­ brightne
quantity of Town usual grab-bag of gossip (Monthly
sold
properties? h tney a^e i■S-W_
been sold without the consent of
men in B.C. up to Pearl Harbour.
1 alk. And of course another epi­ Merry-go-Round by Lulu), and
returned to their owners
owners? Were these sales legal?
in. “SPIES! They Called the
sode in the life and loves of Mas sports news (Sports on Parade by
arrangements are t0 be
It. as it seems to be the case,
Fishermen."
Mizuki. himself, a
Ikeno's comic character "Slants." Toyo), and local Japanese Cana­
be legally P-0
the owners are to
all or most Japanese properties
former West
is included.
dian activities.
hibited from returning
had been offered for sale, the most
speaks authoritatively as he. ex­
That popular and oft-seen con­ valuable ones would have been
poses the manner in which anticoast?
.a-netf
__ nuesuc
—
MONTREAL BULLETIN
tributor "Anonymous" contributes the first to find buyers, leaving
These
are
Jap&uese feeling was artificialiy
The Quebec publication has the his thoughts on "This Marriage
to which the evacuees
the less valuable properties unsold
fostered in-the Pacific Coast fishdistinction of being the only Nisei Problem.'”
waiting for the answer.
ifi the hands of (he custodian. Are

A Provincial Bill of Rights

t

LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

A

.turday,"April 5, 1947

-Page-Three

Bound n about
The Park and
The Mountain

lated describes it a:
a

bad

least most of the people who
seem to think it isn t.
you’ll run into those who
Jure,
-herwise but it’s a rare case
Is
sunns to the defence
ft - h’s honi6 city when some
Erranzer begins to call it names
B!^"*-n^kes disparaging remarks.
For n rance, there are two
Ungs o: which the Hamiltonian
; inordinately proud, But these
re also the sore spot.

4t one time or anothet, the
Rv’sjtor or newcomer gets to King
James streets for the simple
fc^ason that it is the centre of this
St'nr’vinz community. And then,
ijhomeone will point out to the
^visitor—there’s Gore _ Park—and
Kwaving his hand in ' a general
^southerly direction, add—and up
Usually
H there's The Mountain.
the visitor looks around, sees
& nothing md blankly inquires—
gtt where? The guide hides his
chazrin behind a wide giin and
»with a look in his eyes which say
|j|—what a blind dodo—goes through
Jtthe motions again.
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ful spot in the heart of Hamilton's

such

By K.D

Reviewing The News

A searching
look
and—oh
. that! is that Gore Park?
I

thought it was a boulevard!
■Ill and; is that the Mountain? I

business district where the tired
business man can snatch a mo­
ments relaxation under the trees
and enjoy the riot of color pre­
sented by the lovely flower beds,
while around him the life of a
busy city goes on.”

Perhaps rhe park benches provide a stopover place more for the
tired uptown shopper than for the
tired business man. For on rhe
Gore Park benches many weary
feet have gained fleeting in o-mems
of relief.

The Hamilton Mountain, which
is actually a part of the Niagara
escarpment, rises 640 feet above
sea level at its highest point—the
pamphlet, proudly declares in bold
print. Naturally relocees expect
mountains to be rhe size of the
B.C. variety and are inevitably
disappointed, But to the sightseer,
the Mountain is within easy dis­
tance and from its top can be
viewed the
of Hamilton
sprawling below.
This is not an attempt to in­
fluence the opinion of future
visitors to our city, but it is an
effort to convey the thought that
while Hamilton may not be the
biggest or the best. city, it isn’t
such a bad place to live.
We like it.

thought it was just a hill! That
Ifef naturally, is the crowning insult
IHl to the Hamiltonian. But as it is

Mother Goes
To the Movies

|||II a common occurrence, the, Hamfc| iltonian takes it in his stride.

My mother goes to the movies
often. I also hear that a great
many of my friends’ mothers go
regularly too. And from what I
can gather, this movie-going stems
from the reason that they have
nothing better to do with their
spare time. This is practically the
only means of relaxation and
diversion they can enjoy.

All this is not just caustic com■Hi inent directed against unappreciaH|tive visitors. Gore Park and The
HI Mountain have their redeeming
features.
Rfe Gore Park is an oversized bouleBg vard. Which explains why visitors
(U can’t see a park when they look
‘... the first time. It extends two
blocks down King Street, Hamil­
ton’s main thoroughfare. A pam­
phlet which was recently circu-

|| A slinking form, a flashing dagger, a sharp shriek—and it was
over.
The soldier stumbled from the
darkened lane into the daylight.
Those beggars are getting bolder,
he thought. For some time it had
been unsafe to walk the night
alone, but now even in broad day­
light ... he carefully dusted off
; his neat uniform and then looked
I about.

He was in a narrow street lined
on one side with palm trees. There
vrere people walking about in
* white robes but nobody gave him
a second glance.
Everything was uncomfortably
hot. So this is Palestine! As the
soldier continued his patrol, his
Hind drifted back to the events
ci the past year. The war .with
‘he Huns—they had been a tough
bunch—the manoeuvres in Crete,
Hcily and Italy. Then the order
his battalion to transfer to
Palestine, where trouble was brew•ng. The Jews were restless again
and headquarters wanted
no
c-monstrations.
i he soluier thought about home
—and Julia. Next month he would
-v on iurlough, but next month
—emed so far away, and if the
‘’-•vs started to make trouble . . ,
Tne Jews were a queer lot. He’d
across tnem often during his
a
consequently learned
about their religion
custom s. His mind dwelled
ihi
nny what a man would
tO to
31d his beliefs. Take
instance. He’d had
to live for: a wife, a
mrtable home, a promising
and yet when somebody
Quo.ec “How s-.veet and gloriO’
to die for one’s country
umped to the call.

Visits between Issei friends
are. not very common. One fac­
tor is the distances between
residences. There is no recrea­

A Story for Easter

Sometimes he wondered; was
all this sacrifice worth it? What
purpose was accomplished because he had given up his comforts? Some people praised him
for his action, but others laughed
at him. Could he decide which
was right?
To be sure, he had been en­
couraged by his friends and had
believed in them simply because
he had wanted to believe in them,
but did that necessarily mean they
were right? He wondered how
many people in the world had the
courage to make a decision en­
tirely on his own and, once having
done so, to persevere for its sake
regardless of any hardship. The
history of the country was filled
with deeds of great heroes, but
they belonged to long ago. Nowait
days—he shook his head.
a
to
meet
would be a pleasure
person that was great. for such a
man could teach him many thin
he sought the answer for.
The soldier started out of his
reverie. There was a commotion
further down the street and a
crowd was rapidly surging tov ard
it. He recalled the ora er from
headquarters. This is it'
thoughts raced with him as
sped to the troubled scene .
those Jews, my furlough. Julia.
At the edge of the turbulent
mass of humanity, he paused.
There was something unusual
about this crowd, something . . ■
then almost immediately he saw

MacLEAN'S SIZES UP
The Leaders of the Opposition Party
Many factors—such as the possi­
bility of exercising our franchise
m the next federal election, and
debates over legislations dealing
tion club or gathering place for
Issei mothers which is some­
thing that we could well think
and do something about.

The mothers seem to venture
out alone to matinees. In the
evenings at the dinner table, they
discuss the movie with their chil­
dren, asking about parts they did
not comprehend or commenting on
rhe cast's acting ability.
Although they do not under­
stand the dialogue wholly, they
seem to be able to piece the. plot
together quite accurately. Technicolor movies are generally preferred.
This form of relaxation does
definite good whether our mothers
realize it or not. Not only does
the movie provide an escape from
their daily drudgery but it edu­
cates them. Consciously or un­
consciously, they pick up words
and the constant attendance at
movies naturally enlarges their
vocabularies.
Literature they can read^ i
limited, and the cinema throws
open another world to them.
Newsreels give a wider scope of
international happenings. It is a
process of visual education,
indicates that Issei
are
keeping in step
mothers
with the times in their own
way. Perhaps it is not the best
way and could hardly be called
adequate, but it is „in the right
direction.
It fosters a better
understanding of Nisei activiIt

also

ties.

It’s a good
think so?

sign.

Don’t you

it. Some of them were taunting,
some wore
hissing, mocking;
strained hunted looks; ' others
were openly grief-stricken. He
noticed several of his comradesin-arms jostling among the crowd
but none of them made any at­
tempt to interfere.

Without another pause, he
plunged into the heart of the mob.
Pushing, wrenching, twisting,
shoving, he made his way forward until with a sudden lunge,
he broke through to the front.

The soldier hardly expected to
see what met his eyes. A Man
stood swaying in the center alone.
He was a pathetic picture of utter
exhaustion but what amazed the
soldier was the heavy object pressing down on his shoulders, It
was a crudely-fashioned cross of
s-.ood.
The Man stumbled and fell on
one knee. The crowd roared.
Slowly he rose, stubbornly grip­
ping the cross, looking neither to
the left or the right. A few more
determined steps, a falter, then
another roar from the crowd as
he stumbled.
The soldier fared transfixed at
the Man’s face. No hate, no trace
of bitterness on it, but instead, he
saw infinite patience and underwritten there. In one
met and
brief moment their e
during that intense period the
soldier felt love, pity, hope. stab
through him. Then he was roughly
elbowed aside by the crowd.
One thought burned in the sol­
diers mind as he dazedly v atched
the mob follow the Man w ith the
Cross towards Calvary—“tor such
a Man could teach him many
things.”

with Japanese Canadians

interest in Canadian politics.
The more serious among us will
want to seek background informa­
tion iu such excellent books as
Bruce Hutchinson's “Unknown
Country” or the recently published
and highly acclaimed “Colony to

But whatever our degree of in­
terest in political matters, we can­
not afford to miss reading two
recent articles in the Maclean’s
magazine.
The first article appeared iu the
Feb. 1 issue. It is written by Hon.
C. G. Power former air minister.
and entitled “What’s Wrong with
This article, which
the Liberals
frank criticism of present
i
Liberal policies, started consider­
able discussion and some embar­
rassment among the Liberal party
members.

Interesting Close-ups
The second article, appears in
t.he current (April 1) issue, It is
written by Blair Fraser, the magazine’s Ottawa editor, and titled
“What's the Opposition?" The
publication of this article coincided with the fifth annual meetins; of the National Progr
Conservative Association, and no
doubt provided many party mem­
bers with excellent extra-curric­
ular reading matter.
The Maclean’s Magazine article
is interesting because it. gives us
close-up studies of men whom we
read about in the daily papers, and
whose names have also appeared
from time to time in The New
Canadian.
It deals with men like John
Bracken, who agreed that the Jap­
anese. should be kept out of B.C.:
Howard Green, also not. a very
good friend to the Japanese; Don
Fleming, who wants to know what
the custodian did with Japanese
property; John Diefenbaker, who
is championing a Canadian Bill of
Rights and at the same time doing
his best to avoid stepping on the
toes of Howard Green and com­
pany.

1945 Election Results
The article begins by appraising
the result of the 1945 election from
the Tory' stand point. According
to Mr. Fraser, this election could
have resulted at worst in the sur­
vival of a handful of mediocre and
Toronto-dominated rump, at best
in the emergence of a national
party “in which prairie farmers
and Maritimers and a fair sprink­
ling of French Canadians would
leaven the solid loaf of Ontario
Toryism.”
What actually came, out of the
1945 election, says Mr. Fraser, was
a group about half way between
these extremes. He add-s: “Some
of its good men had been defeated; .
practically all of its most lament­
able dolts had been re-elected."
To the last comment some of us
who can’t forget the rough hand­
ling we received in the speeches
of certain Tory members will be
tempted to say “you can’ say that
again," just on general principles.

Top -Mten

But the Progressive Conserva­
tives do not lack for able men.
The top men in the Progressive
Conservative party, according to
the Maclean writer, are John
Bracken, party leader: Gordon
Graydon, ex-party
field;
pert in the ext er:
and James M. MacdonneH, recent­
ly re-elected president of the Na­
tional Progressive Conservative
Association, and the party’s finan­
cial expert.
John Bracken is described as an

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excellent organizer who managed
well the “ticklish" re-organization
work in the party, and W'ho “de­
serves more credit than he usually
get:
Messrs. Graydon and Macdounell. although both are men of ex­
ceptional abilities, lack the fire
needed for the work of front lino
opposition. Thus this duty fell
largely on the shoulders of Howard
Green and John Diefenbaker.

‘ 5 t

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Howard. Green

law

Howard Green is in charge <?£
the Progressive Conservative's Re­
construction Committee. He is a
potential contender for party lead­
ership and valuable to the Tories
as B.C. organizer. Incidentally, he
is in solid’ with his constituency
(Vancouver South) and is regard­
ed as unbeatable.
John Diefenbaker and Howard
Green are both described as indi­
vidualists who cannot always bo
depended on to toe the party line.
Diefenbaker has assumed import­
ance recently as chief sponsor of
a Canadian Bill of Rights. His
specialty is in the justice depart­
ment.
Two other influential men in
the party are given special men­
tion by Mr. Fraser. They are Art
Smith of Calgary, who is “goodnatured, often facetious, doesn’t
take either himself or his party
too seriously," and whose specialty
is labor.
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Don Fleming
And finally young (41-year-old)
Donald Fleming, the party’s specialist iu housing and social security. whose record speaks eloquently for the man.
“He's an elder in the Bloor
Street United Church and was
Sunday school superintendent,
there for six years ... In sum­
mer he’s chairman of the men’s
committee in the Anglican Church
on Centre-, Island, where he used
to have a cottage; he was also
treasurer and is still choir leader.
He is president of the North To­
ronto YMCA, a member of the “Y"
metropolitan board of governors
and of its national council. He’s
president of the Upper Canada
Bible Society, a director of the
Inter Varfeity Christian Fellow­
ship, and a member of the Toronto
Bible College.”

I

K

-.•"-alts.

Plan for Victory
The key to the Conservative bid
for power is support from Quebec.
The Maclean’s writer suggests two
ways in which this might be
secured. On the one hand by ail
open bid for support, on the other
hand by leaving it to the Social
Crediters who seem to have a.
better chance there and forming a
post-election coalition with them.
Concludes Mr. Blair: “No doubt
about it. coalition looks like the
easy way for Conservatives to get
into office. But as a way of execu­
ting the kind of program to which
.John Bracken and his men have
been committed ... it doesn’t look
so good. Sometime between now
and the next general election, the
die will have to be cast lor one
or other of these paths. Then we
shall know what, in the long run,
is to become of the Progressive
Conservative Party.”

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WB
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The New Canadian acknowl­
edges with thanks generous donafollowing persons
tio
Mr. Tokuji Hirose. 68 Kate St,,
Winnipeg, on the occasion of bis
son’s engagement.
Anonymous, North Kildonan,
Man.
Mr. Masuo Mukai, c/o Simcn
Ronacher. Athalmcr, B.C.
- Mr. E. Ariza, Winnipeg.

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As might be fully expected on
a question of keen public interest,
much of both the spoken and writ­
ten comment on Japanese evacua­
tion and subsequent resettlement
has been loose and inaccurate.
No doubt this has been most
true of the hostile and unfriendly
attacks which often reached the
level of the most fantastic distor­
tion of fact. But to a degree not
a little of the sympathetic writing,
often purposely designed to draw’
attention to and seek redress of
the injuries indicted upon the
Japanese Canadian minority, has
suffered from similar error.

by E. P B.

and pressure
circumstance;
groups would have had to re­
nounce a promising opportunity of
removing the Japanese from Brit­
ish Columbia.
“Appraised politically these difAcuities were overwhelming, particularly at a time when the military potential of Japanese was
overrated.
“The alternative policy prevailed. It was based on distrust
and a search for the line of least
political resistance . . .”

Raises Moral Question

Looking Up

This Thing Called JAZZ—I
1 hv

vs

I am a . wbrow.
Talking about Music, that is. I
am being tolerant today and going
along with that business about
jazz being lowbrow stuff and only
symphonic music being High­
brow. Okay, okay, Dick Tracy will
be after youse when he’s finished
with Hypo, you Brows.’
Then
there’s the Middlebrows which
according to a recent article in
Pic magazine means .those who
swoon over Kostelanetz and like
to take their concertos Freddie
Martin style. But they can wait
for another day, they’ve got lots
of time, travelling at that speed.
Jazz is hot stuff. Not only in
the picturesque language of the
addict, but also in- the prejudices,
in the tastes and opinions of all
interested bystanders. That is
why you have to tiptoe around
cautiously so that you won’t end
up in the middle of a yowling cat­
fight. Not that it does any good
usually, because seems .like The
New Canadian readers just Love
musical catfights.

Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey
and Glenn Miller during the Swing
Age from the late thirties to the
war years.
Some people won’t like that
definition but then miles of copy
paper has been jammed through
typewriter rollers on this question
so let us just use that meaning for
the purpose of this article.

Jazz

enters in. to give
example, Sammy Kaye'
Swayers often piay .
ment of “Tiger Ra?” It
rangement written more o-t 1 s
a jazz manner and r'Qe
nouncer or Kaye
nouncing it usually iead j
with a "listen to
't
hounds” approach, but t^V
aggregation just
’
can' ’t p
jazz feeling int0 n. Of i
■would be just like
a rabbit to have a sni£l,:
Can’t be did. Thus i?i=-9-

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“Jazz” stands for music that is
It is not so useful here to follow
based on improvisations on a
the factual recital of events con­
syncopated
off-beat rhythm which
tained
in
the
article.
But
readers
Prof. Angus’ Study
originated
in American Negro
But when Benny Goofe’
Under such circumstances it is of these columns, who may not
it
origins
in
the
main.
Jazz
can
be
have
easy
access
to
"Pacific
Af
­
“
Tiger
Ra:
he has don;
refreshing to read an objective
slow moody blues, or fast frantic a small group on records ii^j
examination of the events of the fairs,” will assuredly find Pro­
|
riffs or medium tempo jump. Jazz mightily, in ja2Zi it
past five years, particularly when fessor Angus’ conclusions as in­
is
blues-moaning,
scat-singing,
and
teresting
as
they
are
worthy
of
you
do,
it
’
s
the
way
that
you
J
that examination is able, in aston­
swing-singing. Jazz comes from
When Stan Kenton phy d
ishingly few wrords, to define the serious thought:
“
An
interesting
moral
question
New
Orleans,
Chicago,
New
York,
June Christy (Kenton’s kJ
active underlying government
Kansas City, and California,
singer) sings "Shoo Fl?
policy, trace its highlights, and is open to people who live in such
Some say “Swing” and “Jazz” personally think there is J J
assess their significance to Cana- well-conducted communities that
they
can
afford
to
cast
stones,
and
mean
the same thing, but I dis­ it, but there will be some J
dian democracy.
agree here. Swing is a kind of v.dll dissent. But the fej
This appraisal is made in a con- to future historians and biograph­
jazz, swing is jazz, but ali jazz will mostly agree that tfeJ ft
cise article, “Asiatics in Canada,” ers.
“Have the measures applied to
is not swing.
some 1000 per cent more jaJ iC
published in the December issue
*
the Kenton rendition than J
of “Pacific Affairs,” a quarterly "The Japanese been worthy of a
modern
democracy?
British
jus
­
would be in a Sammy Kayt t
Pops
publication of the Institute of
Guy Lombardo one.
Pacific Relations. The article, com­ tice, Christian ethics and the
get
away
from
words
I got started on this subject be­
menting in a paragraph or two rights of man have all been dis- cause a letter from an Ontario-ite and their meaning we switch to
* * *
■’
that fortunes and prospects of the regarded in some degree by those sometime ago wanted ’to know tunes and their playing. For that’s
But it is not always easy to J®
East Indian and Chinese group, who profess to believe in such how to tell the difference be­ the basic difference bettveen the arbitrarily that one version
improved throughout the war things. But can these exalted
“pop” tune and a “Jazz” tune. tune is just dance or “pop” J|||
tween Jazz and stuff that. aint.
period, is devoted chiefly to a con­ standards be applied to political
There is a difference, true, but the other is jazz. The bordtraBj£
. there are so
He states
sideration of the changes in status leaders in a country at war?
there
are borderline cases too, cases bother all of us. Out t
many people that misunderstand
“If any one of these standards
of the Japanese group.
"since
the
line is not clearly de­ out jazz purists would sniff, t
good jazz music from the com­
The fact that it is contributed commanded universal respect, no
fined but rests on the individual I think Glenn Miller’s Chattanw
mon breed of pops and com­
by H. F. Angus of the University race problem would exist. Yet it
taste and prejudice.
wing and therek gig
Choo Choo i
mercial type of ballads and
of British Columbia is sufficient would be a mistake to suppose
To
start
off
in
an.
easy
way,
jazz.
swing . .
that it’s time some­
to attest to the quality of both its . that they are without effect.Freddie Martin playing “Why
I will now retire from t
body
showed them
how to
“Slowly and in the long run
factual analysis and realistic con­
Don’t We Do This More Often,” phase of the subject and may:
straighten up and fly right.
traditions assert themselves. Even
clusion.
is a “pop” tune pure and simple. fighting and squalling comme:B||
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today it would not be altogether
So would be Tommy Tucker play­ After I have furrowed my Biot
Two Alternatives
easy to get the Canadian parlia­
ing “The Coffee Song.”
Professor
notes that
little, to make it even lower, &
ment to deprive of their citizenOne
small
point
before
we
start
Pop tunes are the popular hit will be another instalment on It
shortly after Pearl Harbour, the
ship persons against whom no trekking into the mire and quick­
tunes that come from Tin Pan Thing Called Jazz.
federal government was faced
specific charge had been made.
sand, “Swung” to me is a kind of Alley or the Hollywood songmills
with a critical decision as to what.
"Japanese have found friends
jazz,
the kind made popular by and include
■
should be done with the Japanese
everything
from
G
Nisei Jazz
in the churches, for there are
group concentrated on Canada’s
“Zippetty-Doodah” to Cole Porter’s
I
don
’
t
know
what
the
lai
ggo
many Christians in Canada who
Pacific Coast.
“Begin the Beguine.” But “Begin situation is, since band persocannot refuse the hand of friend"The choice lay between two
the Beguine” touches the semi- seems to change like the weak g|
ycii
ship to men and women who seek
main lines of policy, for each of
classical fringe when sung by but Rafu Shimpo, Los Ange &
to join with them in the worship
A suicide pact in the typical Swarthout and it is swing
which a good deal could be said,”
as was quoted some time ago a;
of God.
Japanese
manner was discovered
notes Professor Angus.
played by ’Eddie Heywood, or ing that Leland Young. E g®
"There is no Bill of Rights in near Tokyo recently. The bodies
“One possible course would have
Artie Shaw. Some will disagree vocalist with Lionel Hamptc gj
Canada, but Canadians like *to
of an American soldier and a with the last. .
been to make it
easy and atgreat band, is a Nisei, Lek
think that fundamental rights are Japanese woman who had taken
tractive as possible for CanadianTakao
of San Francisco.
g
Logically
speaking,
even
“
Zipas much respected there. in nor­ their lives with poison tvere found
born Japanese and those natural­
Takao,
a
former
University
petty
Doodah
”
could
be;
swung
or
mal times as in countries in which near a tiny Shinto temple., The
ized Japanese who had spent their
they, are guaranteed by a consti­ soldier was a Negro GI dressed in played in a jazz idiom, but it California student, visited i
early
in Canada to serve
Hamp backstage with a fri
tution. Complete and express dis­ his uniform that bore five over­ would not be an easy thing, in
their country either in the armed
regard of the traditional standards seas stripes and the European and actual practise to find someone He auditioned for the leader
services or in those occupations
is impossible even in war time. Pacific theatre, ribbons. Notes willing to try unless it was Slim ■was given a contract on the:?(other than fishing) for which
Now that the war is over, they are found in the woman’s pocket sug­ , Gaillard of Cement Mixing fame, although he had not orofe:
R
they were best adapted. To the
and
his
doubletalk
music
may
not
experience.
a. fairly effective check on pressure gested that the suicides had been
others, that is to Japanese na­
* *
quite fall into the jazz category,
contemplated
for
several
months.
tionals and those naturalized Japa­
Another Nisei who has pkt®
No? I thought not.
No Clear-cut Policy
Authorities suggested that the
nese whose youth had been spent
in big-time jazz is Paul Hi
“The foregoing considerations reason behind the ending of their
in Japan, the same sort of super­
who
toured the United State:
explain why there has been no ■ lives was apparently because they
vision would have been applied as
Jimmy
Lunceford’s agg»e=auj
clear-cut definition of policy in were about to be separated. The
to German and Italian nationals
Higaki who uses “Lee as j
Jazz does not rest on the tune
terms in which Canadians could GI was awaiting shipment home
resident in Canada. Most of them
professional name, fronts a GUI
itself, but on the manner in which
take pride, and no flagrant oppres­ to the L’.S.
would no d'oubt have been at least
combo in Frisco. He is a tred
the tune is played. That is where
passively loyal to Canada and sion which would excite a sense
bone player.
the keynote of -improvisation
of guilt.
have taken pride in what their
"To extremists a middle-of-the- in the War against Japan; the
sons were doing. Resistance or
road policy has been distasteful. second, when persons accused of
sabotage was very unlikely.
It has not even the merit of an no wrongdoing were prevented
"Had this course been followed
honest and open compromise: it from returning to their homes and
successfully, it would have had
seems to connote a blunted moral their means of livelihood, and
ome definite advantages, includ(From the Sophy-Ed Bulletin
sensibility—and perhaps it does. when no attempt was made to
being a Qi
ng maximum use of manpower
Hi fella! Are you in the knoiv-how business
and a minimum of economic dis­ But it would be rash to conclude bring about the re-establishment Nothing like giving it a try, mmm? Thats' the si
ok yw f
location. It would have been more that franker and freer discussion of those who had been deported
It’s a date . . . ATo last minute calls, please,
of the posi
as
an
act
of
just
reparations
to
Japanese
in
tor yoiu '•*
difficult to Japan to give a racial
well in advance. Make it a must to call at the
Canada would have led to a soln- citizens who had been required to
turn to the struggle. A firm basis
tion involving less injustice and make exceptional sacrifices in the dust. Help her with her coat, or wrap.
yur aid -?rZ Bl
would have been established for
Introductions please. . . . how about introduc
hardship. What has happened common interest.
ur
postwar reconstruction, and the
to your pals? Mention her name first. Coulu
and what is likely to happen are
“For the first of these decisions
>h and flprestige of democracy would have
likewise at a dance. Then by all means follou
t he normal results of the inter- military apprehension was some
been enhanced.
a
for a twirl on the floor.
play ot forces under the condi- excuse. The second struck at the
Rise to the occasion . . . stand up when
Political Consideration
tions; of Canadian democracy.
very foundations of Canadian de­
t litfi-A
f?
girl,
and also when on the street, car or bus.
“But these reasons, if intellectmocracy by accepting the sup­
Chose Expediency
lly valid, had little emotional
"Unquestionably respect
for posed will of a local majority as Age of Chivalry isn't dead by any means.
Ladies First . . . Sho 'nuff, chum, but not c.
appeal. Of course some risks and
human
nd the cause of a reason for unjust treatment of
streetcar
or bus or automobile? Then let your
difficulties were involved. To af­
have received a a racial minority. Both decisions
but
you
lead
the way when getting off to enable ;
ford the plan a reasonable chance
setback in Canada. Tv
the were made under strong political
to safety. In a theatre or restaurant when then
of succe
the government would
government has decided
pressure: both represent expedi­
you
show her to your places. If there is someea
have ha
o mal e a straight- the bold and generous course ency rather than conviction. Some
jallow
the leader.
forward
eal to the men and which Liberalism in its prime day this may
acknowledged.
Going for a walk . . . You don’t want
women concerned: Canadians of would have followed.
But the decisions have been made,
by
a.
carelessly driven car. do you? That coal
other races would have had to
“The first instance occurred and any future policy must start
so walk on the outside to protect your damsel.
exercise a high degree of tolerance
when no attempt was made to from the situation which ha
Here’s ivis.hing you luck and when you make
and forbeara
enlist Canadians of Japanese’ race suited."
give yourself a hearty pat on the back.—

■

*

*

• Suicide in Japan

T).

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fordsy, April 5, 194 <

Page Eleven

ersonal Notes Across Canada I
=re invited to send in
= ‘.7r37 notes. No charge for
' ,.n,ents of marriages,
"births or obit-

SATTA-MORi
£AL.—A quiet wedding
e March S. at the home
i Joliat. when Chizuko,
.tighter of Mr. and Mrs.
ori of Winnipeg, became
of Mr. Thomas Tamotsu
of Mrs. Raku Saita of

MONTREAL.-M~ and Mrs. T.
Shimotakaham wi3—: to aimo-m ee
the engagement of their daughter.
Lillian, io Mr. unartes Hirosh*
Kadota, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kantaro Kadota, formerly of New
Westminster, B.C.

TORONTO,
is announced

e

tjmzuo
nd Mrs.
treh 15.

Matsuba.

Baishakunin
Tadaichi Okad

Birth
MIM1CO, Or.-

iRATH. Alta. — Toshiko,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs
tari. became the bride
[310 :
•hi Ikari, first son of
R. Ikari of Magrath,
.ur
end Buddhist Church,
Rev. S. Ikuta offici­
ghAkirv
sL
Etec.
and 31
, *-

Kay Hirano, at S
pi tai, Toronto, on

m os-

Obituary
MONTREAL.nabe died in Tol1946, according
recently by Mr.
Montreal. The
pa trialed- to Jar

Takeo WataJapan, Aug. I.
cord received
eo was re1946.

Engagement

K1CTURE BUTTE. Alta.—The
istement is announced of Miss
uko Kurio. second daughter of
ami Mrs. Kuijiro Kurio of
ture Butte. Alta.., to Mr. Kohei
ctor) Tokitsu. eldest son of
: and Mrs. Koichi Tokitsu Oi
Ihurst, Alta., on March 15.

Change of Address
al r. Richard T
.vanno and
family, formerly of
irnham Hostel. and Dunham, F
, wish to inform their friends
moved to: c o Spru r rails Power
and Paper Co.. Ca p 32, Opasatika. Ont.

£

List of Repatriated Internees
any persons have written to
IfBSr correspondent, James T. Hori,
:^KMoose Jaw. for information of
Mte whereabouts of the internees
rOhc were transferred to Moose
,
,
,
,
$£jaw nostel at the closure oi
Bungler Internment Camn last July.
|jFcr the benefit of our readers.
Correspondent Hori has spent
c- time collecting names of
se nternees who had since deed to go to Japan. The names
ted below are of those internees
o left for Japan after being
nsferred to Moose Jaw from
gler:
M. Ebata, I. Fukuzawa, K.
bjii H. Fukuda, S. Fujii, G.
Goto, Y. Haraguchi, M. Ikoma. J.

SPRING”

VANCOUVER

g (Continued From Page One)

Streich of
track being
^shed away by the floods.
always, the
stst seems to have enjoyed a com­
paratively mild .winter. Thus it is
Mt surprising that Saskatchewan
p(i Manitoba have done no more
eyebrow at
lithe East’s howling and flO’inderunder their recent blOW Of
snow.
&C. GOT IT BAD

t can readily be seen why
cr Eastern spokesman would want
rtaliate against British Colums "California’’ complex; and in
* of the exceptional winter
the West Coast experienced,
nowialls and 75-mile-an-hour
it is also easy to see why
fiCiorians are valiantly parading
daffodils in an
s winter
spring even B.C. teeds an
Til t*'ll.

1 cpiing. such as it is, is with
Gv'r more. And we expect to
Tv:y shortly, that the per?es on Parliament Hill in the
■on's capital have
away
eck’erskin caps in mothballs

? this is written, the
scheduled to go up to
a egret
Bardon us. while we
to join the little girls
ocn in a game of skip-

vinega

Inamata, K. Ikuis
Ikeda, S. Kimura,
Kimura, R.
Kondo, K. Koyan
Y. Kozono,
G. Kubo, A*. Kakimoto. K. Kawagoye, 1. Kono, M. Koyanagi, K.
Kobayashi, T. Korekiyo. K. Mori.
K. Ushijima, H. Uy eno, M. Yama­
shita, G. Maede, H. Miyagawa, M.
Matsushita, 1. Mitsushio, M. Miyasaki, S. Nakamura, E. Nakano, K.
Nakatsu, H. Nakagawa. I. Okata.
E. Ogata, J. Otsuka, T. Okubo. M.
Onotera, H. Shigeyama. Y. Shige­
yama, T. Sokugawa, M. Tanizawa.
S. Tsuchida, E. Takenaka. B.
Tanaka, G. Tsuji, H. Takashima,
S. Tateyama, M. Tonomura. I.
L’yeyama, S, Yokomizo.
Tsuji
Kev. Eon. Miisubayasm

mustard

e One)

(Continued From

ring its views
and individuals
ned with the
are equally co
regulations “restricting movement
and means of livelihood of lawabiding citizens and residents of
Canada, whatever their racial
stock." and also the withholding
of the vote for racial reasons, the
report added.
ALL B.C. NOT AGAINST US
Indignation
that an impression

expressed

had

port named the various organi­
zations that took an identical
stand as the Council against
racial discrimination in British
Columbia and Canada.

“The mere fact that hundreds of
citizens of British Columbia with­
out regard to their various re­
ligious and political affiliations.
have together made financially
possible the wor
tative Council i s itself evidence
that the section cf British Coluinbians sharing th e views reflected
in this letter is
ible.”
Disapproval of discrimination
against the Chine:5e in Canada
was also expressed in the letter
to Mr. King which commented on
the 1923 Chinese Immigration Act
'

Exams Nix Alberta s

Small Nisei Star of Utah Caqers
Show Tall Kentucky Players How

Easter Challenge to

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah.—Wat Misaka, rig-ht forward
star m University of Utah's basketball team, was credited
1 or a major part in Utah's upset win over Kentucky in the
national invitational basketball tourney last week in New
York City.
Utah’s victory was entirely un­
expected and the tears, was un­
seeded at the start of the tourna­
ment.
Kentucky.
judged
the
country’s best by many, was top
favourite with West Virginia,
second-seeded.
Misaka, a regular on the Utah
squad, was a major factor in each
of Utah’s games. In the opening
round his foul shot in the dying
minutes of the contest gave lite
westerners a 45-44 squeeze win
over Duquesne.
Two days later Utah beat out
the strong West Virginians 64-62
to enter the finals. Misaka played
the full 60 minutes in this semi­
final game as he did against the
Dukes, and piled up 9 points while
feeding his teammates for many
more.
FAMED COACH SOLD
ON NISEI PLAYER

Misaka’s integral role in Utah’s
49 to 45 victory over Kentucky
was noted in New York last week
by Clair Bee of Long Island Uni­
versity. one of the country’s lead­
ing hoop coaches.
"I sort of wish the little guy,
Wat Misaka, had been picked
as the tournament ’s mast valu­
able player,” Bee said. “Misaka
stopped Ralph Beard, star of
the Kentucky team, and held
him to one point, the first foul
shot of the game. He stopped
the mainspring, and that stopped
the watch. It was the greatest
job of guarding I’ve ever seen.”

Coach Vadal Peterson of Utah,
said following the game that
Misaka’s wonderful control of AllAmerican Beard, who had pre­
viously been awarded the Gold

Star as '-visiting player of the
year" by New York sports writers. was the key of Utah’s
strategy.
Misaka was the sentimental
favorite for the "most valuable
player" award and there were
some boos when it was announced
that he was ranked fourth in the
voting by New York coaches.
MISAKA ACCLAIMED

IN

NEW

YORK

PRESS

The New York press hailed
Misaka’s pari in Utah's triumph.
The New York Sun headlined:
"Misaka Stops Beard Cold to
Check Kentucky Attack. Tiny
Japanese
American
Firebrand.
Turns in Finest Guarding Job of
Season Here as Underdogs Win
Invitation Ton rney."
The New York World Telegram
had a headline: "Misaka Hero of
Stall’s Victory."
Time after time, Misaka, 5
feet S. took the ball away from
the Kentucky players average
6 feet 4.

Misaka and Arnold Ferrin. Utah
left guard named second in the
"valuable player" voting, are the
two remaining members of Utah’s
first "Cinderella" team, which
took national honours in New
York in 1944.
.Misaka also was the subject of
editorial accolades in the Salt
Lake City Tribune and Telegram
and the Desert News. The papers
noted that all members of the Utah
team were veterans. Misaka, who
served two years in military in­
telligence in the Pacific, was on
duty with the Fifth Air Force in
Japan.
w

London Hoopers Visit Chatham
To Come Away With Close Win
CHATHAM. Ont.— Return inva­
sion by the London Nisei Organi­
zation basketballers to Chatham
took place Saturday. March 22.
with the visiting LNOers again
walking off with game honours.
In a low-scoring game, London,
boosted by young Bob Nunoda's
10 points, nosed out the Kent
Nisei Fellowship team, 20-17. Art
Watanabe was the standout of the
home team.
LONDON: Obokata 4. Yanagisawa. E.
Nunoda 10. Tak Ozaki. J. Kagawa.
Asano. Tam Ozaki, A. Nunoda. E. Ide 6
—20.
KENT NISEI: M. Uchiyama 4, Wata­
nabe 5. R. Nishizaki. Nagao. Takano.
Fujii. Hayashi 2. F. Uchiyama 2, G.
Nishizaki 2, Morita 2—17.

been

spread that B.C. citizens were
unanimously in favor of the con­
tinuance of restrictions against
the Japanese. The Council re­

' repeal.

Utah Wins NY Hoop Tourney

After the game, the players and
supporters enjoyed a dance at
Kelmsley Ha.ll. Prizes tor lucky
tickets were won by Nicky Nozu ye
of London, and Tony Baba of
Chatham. Bibo Nagao and Hiroko
Sato were ’ spot dance winners.
Popular pianist Eddie Ide pre­
sented a couple of well-applauded
selections: on the ivories.

MANITOBA JCCA
EXECUTIVE MEET
SATURDAY
WINNIPEG. — Meeting of the
Manitoba Japanese Canadian Citi­
zens’ Association executive will
take place at the home of Mr.
Shinji Sato. 531 Sargent Avenue.
Saturday, .April 12. at S p.m. Up
for discussion, will be the economic
loss survey which the JCCA. is con­
ducting in Manitoba, and plans for
the coming year.

Montreal Japanese Join

In Farewell Fete for
Canon Powles
MONTREAL.—-Over 150 persons
gathered at the YMCA. Monday
evening, March 3. to thank Canon
P. S. C. Fowles for his efforts on
behalf of rhe Japanese Canadians
in this city during the past five,
years, and to bid him farewell.
Canon Powles is soon to be taking
up a new post in Japan.
Chairman William Iwasaki in­
troduced the following speakers of
the evening who represented vari­
ous groups in the community:
Miss Tiny Eguchi. Messrs. Hori,
Kubo. Ohashi and Okuda. Other
speakers were Lady Marler on
behalf of the Nisei Sponsoring
Committee, and Mr. Beaudet of
ihe Department of I.abotn. Mr.
Nishio presented a farewell gift
to Canon Powles on behalf of the
community.

Added attractions of the even­
ing were vocal solos by Miss
Mariko and Miss Sumiko Okuda
and piano selections by Miss Molly
Hirayama and Miss Tatsuko Taka­
hashi.

Nisei Heroes Picture
Dick Mizuno and Tommy Yama­
moto of -Taber. Alm., who were
recently given awards for their
heroism last summer in a rescue
and an attempted rescue from
drowning, are shown in a cut in
the Japanese section on Page 6.

Winnipeg Cagers
An offer from 3WINNIPEG
represemative Alberta Nisei team
to come to Winnipeg in the Easter
holidays for exhibition games with.
the local Nisei hoopers has been
regretfully turned down by the
Winnipeg Nisei Basketball League
executive this week.
Said local hoop league presi­
dent Mush Saito: "We have re­
ceived a letter from Roy O'Shiro
of Coaldale asking our opinion .
on the chances of staging an
inter-provincial exhibition game
here during the Easter vacation.
Alberta seems to be anxious to
come, if Winnipeg can assist

them with expenses.

"But. unfortunately, since fllarge part of the players in our
league ate students and find them­
selves quite busy now with their
exams, we were forced to reply
that we could not hold the match.
at this time.
“In our answering letter, how­
ever. we have suggested that
the game may be possible next,
season and that the Winnipeg
Nisei League will work with
that in mind next winter, if the

Alberta group agrees.”

Japan Won t Get New
Major Ball League
TOKYO.
Japanese baseball
fans are a cry unhappy.
Thein
dreams of two major leagues in
Japan was dashed to the ground
early last month.
The powers-that-be in Japan's
baseball announced that a sixteam minor league will be formed
with the Hiroshima Greenbergs
and the Japan Red Sox as a
nucleus. The Red Sox had re­
cently withdrawn from the only
major league and had said they
would form a rival league and
t aid the existing big loop for
talent.
The
reason given for not
having another big league was
that transportation and housing
would be too difficult.
Fans,
who want all the baseball they
can see, but naturally prefer
that it be big-time, said the
reason sounded fishy to them,,
because minor leaguers had to
be transported and housed toe*

JCCD Issei Study
Meeting on April 11
TORONTO. -Owing to Rev. K.
Shimizu’s absence from Toronto
on a lour through Southern On­
tario. the seventh meeting of th'
JCCD Issei study group was ad­
dressed only by Mr. 1. Uchida or.
an outline of Canadian history..
At the next meeting on Friday,
April 11. at All Nations Church.
Uov. Shimizu will continue his
series of talks on the Canadian
Citizenship Act. J Kawajiri and K.
.Mori were recently appointed to
the Study Coininitiee.
;

Flower Festival and
Roller Party Planned
In Picture Butte
PICTI'RE BUTTE. Alta.—Comnietiiorating the birth of the Bud­
dha. the annual Flower Festival
will be held at Picture Butt*
Buddhist Church. Saturday, April
J2. at 2 p.m.
After th- ceremony, films will
be shown and an invitation is b*
ing extended to everyone to at­
tend.
A. roller skating party will b<"
held that evening tinder the joii.r
sponsorship of the Coaldale Younj.
Buddhists, and
Picture ButtYWBA. '

Page Twelve

Saturday, Anril

Mi

WINNIPEG.—This city’s first Japanese concert in two
years proved a welcome offering, Friday and Saturday,
March 28-29, at St. Stephen’s Hall. Officials of the Manitoba
Nisei Baseball League which staged the affair to raise funds
for the forthcoming season’s oper­
ations, report a financial as well
lem of finding a sponsor is bein:
as popular success.
worked on at present.
Over three and a half hours of
Easily the biggest hit of Sat­
variety including vocals of Eng­
urday’s concert was Grace Teralish and Japanese popular songs,
kita
’s singing of “Shina No
instrumentals, odoris, skits, a
Yoru.” Demands for an encore
Japanese comedy and others, de­
Miss
literally shook the hail.
lighted a good Friday night crowd
of
the
Terakita
has
lost
none
and a tightly-packed house on
finesse and style that has given
Saturday.
her the reputation of being the
Shig Okumura, recently-elected
top
Nisei female singer of Japamanager-coach of the Baseball
nese popular songs.
League, told of the year’s plans
in his opening address. A threeOther favorites with the auditeam Japanese baseball league will
ences were Bill Enta and Tak
definitely be established, he said,
Tanabe's radio - comedian - styled
and it is also hoped to enter a
skit “Open the Door Richard,”
Nisei team in the Winnipeg city clarinet and accordion duets by
senior baseball league. The probArt and. Sue Okimura, trumpet
solos by Arthur Okumura, swooncrooning■ by Elmer Oike and Tak
_Hirose, a hilarious version of
Store For Sale
Tokyo Ondo
i
by the Baseball
WELL ESTABLISHED Dress­
League members led by Barbara
making Shop in Regina for sale.
Sakamoto and starring comedian
Good patronage and location. Apply
Yosh Tashiro, and vocals by Hank
for particulars to T. Hori. 2438
.Victoria Ave., Regina, Sask.
Ozamoto.

Precision Built

HAMILTON

WALTHAM
ELGIN

Issei members of the audience
had for their special tastes, a
katsuben by Sid Konishi assisted
by Grace Terakita's singing, odoris
by the Sakamoto sisters and Sue
Mitsunaga, a manzai by Jack
Okimura and a comedy “Maru
■Maru Geki.”
Master of ceremonies was Frank
Moritsugu.

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S. NAKAMURA

QUEEN CITY

JEWELLERS
78 Queen St. W., Toronto
(Opp, Broadway Theatre)

Letters for the following persons have arrived at the New
Canadian office:

Y.
Kawaguchi (formerly of
Vernon, B.C.), H. Komao Miwa
(formerly of Fort William. Ont.).
Senze Isoshima. Mrs.
hara, Isao Yokoyama, George Kakuzo Matsukubo.
-And the following- letters addressed to Neys. Ont.. turned over­
to us by Pigeon Timber Company;
K. Nakata. Toshio Hamanishi.
Mrs. Jitsuko Doi. H. Machida. Mr.
Okuhara. Hideo Tanaka.

REASON FOR POSTPONING THE EASTER DANCE
-’w JCCD Easter Dance, as recently announced in The New Canadian,
was to be held on Good Friday. April 4. at the Labour Lyceum, Toronto but
has been postponed until the following Friday, April 11.
The JCCD today (April 2) received a letter in which is tendered a
protest against conducting of a dance on Good Friday. This letter was si°nwd
by members of the clergy and church whom the JCCD highly respects and
Whose friendship it holds with great affection.
With humility and in respect and acknowledgment of the wisdom of their
criticism. ,he JCCD takes this action of cancelling the Good Friday date.
We tender our humble apologies for any inconvenience which mav have been
caused by our last minute action.
APANESE CANADIAN COMMITTEE FOR DEMOCRACY
per: George Tanaka. Chairman

All organizations are inviteo to
nd in notices of their meetings.
dances, garnet etc., to be listed in
this calendar which will be a
,ew Canadian feature.
regular
Notices should reach the New
Canadian offices by Wednesday
for insertion in that week’s issue.
APRIL
10—Montreal. Bowling League Banquet,

11—Montreal, Badminton and Basket­
ball Dance. Victoria Hall.
11—Toronto. JCCD Dance, Labour Ly­
ceum, 9 p.m. to .1 a.m.
11—Toronto. JCCD Issei Division Study
Group Meeting, Church of All Na­
tions, Queen and Spadina.
12—Winnipeg, Manitoba JCCA executive
meeting, 531 Sargent Ave., S p.m.
12—London, Toronto Invasion Basket­
ball Game and Dance.
12—Picture Butte, Alta., Flower Fes.tival and Films, Buddhist Church,
2 p.m.
12—Picture Butte, ‘Alta,, Roller Skating
Party, Coaldale YMBA and Picture
Butte YWBA.
12—Lethbridge, Alta., Southern Alberta
Youth Council Third Annual Con­
ference. YMCA, registration 10 a.m.
17—Lethbridge, Alta,, Magrath Young
Trianon
People’s Union Dance,
Ballroom.
24—Montreal, Nisei Fellowship Dance,
N.D.G.Y.
30—Toronto, Closing Date, TYBS Crest
Contest, 13 Division St.

Sam Yamada Heads

First St. Thomas
ST. THOMAS, Ont.—Complete
assimilation into their community
is the target of the new St. Thomas
Nisei Club which was formed re­
cently.
At. a meeting on Bannockburn
Farms,
Samuel
Yamada was
elected president and educational
convener of the new group which
was organized by the Nisei of St.
Thomas and Elgin County. Other
officers are: Tom. Kaz Takayesu,
vice-president: Ken Saegusa, treas­
urer and membership convener;
Harvey Moritsugu, secretary, and
Lois Nakashima, social convener.
Assimilation is to be furthered
by inter-group social and educa­
tional activities.
Said

the

secretary’s

report:

“The St. Thomas Nisei Club
wishes to co-operate with other

Nisei and Occidental groups on
matters of common interest and
welcomes any ideas of mutual
interest and concern.
Please

address all correspondence to
the
secretary,
H.
Moritsugu,
R.R. 5, St. Thomas, Ont.”

Rev.
Shimizu and Rev. R
Savary were recent visitors to Si.
Thomas on their extended tour of
Southern Ontario in connection
■ with the campaign for relief to
Japan. A meeting of local residents was held at Alma College,
Friday. March 28, and films of
past and present Japan were
shown by rhe two minister

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Thursday

194;

NTiooi
min nr
To no n ac* n
one
of 7la Japanese
The Nisei,
who work at the Mission River
camp of Great Lakes Lumber and
Shipping, was identified by the
Fort William Times-Journal as
Otsu, 25
of Toronto. Otsu
suffered a broken ankle after
jumping from the upper floor of
the building to the ground in
escaping from the flames. None
of the eight men were critically
hurt.
Thzi

•

floor and along a Corrjdi
ing heavily c
sleeping men.

“When I re sailed my
grabbed what 1 could ou
closets snd jumped froroof to the ’ce below,"

said.

-II
my leg.'

thought | had b'

In Vancouver,
was
employed by the Main and Hast­
ings branch of the Royal Bank of
Canada, and later gained sales ex­
perience with Scott-Bathgate Co.
Ltd., grocery wholesalers.
He is widely known as one of
the old-time players with the
Asahi ball team. Since the evacu­
ation. Mr. Sato was active with
the Sloean Valley Nisei Organiza­
tion.
Mr. Mickey Sato and family
are now residing at 696 Rich­

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SECOND IN SIX MONTHS

While company officials launch­
ed an investigation into the fire—
second on the property within six
months—it was estimated that at
least five of the eight injured men
jumped or dropped from windows
to escape smoke and flames. More
than 50 men were housed in the
building.
Pending results of the probe it
was believed a careless smoker
was responsible for the outbreak
which sent equipment from the
Fort
William Fire Department
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hustling to the sawmill at 1.23
a.m.
From his hospital bed, Otsu
said he had finished work short­
ly before the alarm was given.
Spurred by shouts and smell of
smoke, Otsu raced to the upper

GRAND FORKS. B.C.-A
organization grew out of

Other members of the execu.
president;

deko Shimotakahara, vice-presi­
dent;
tary;

Mrs. Misao Nose, secre­
Mrs. Shizue Yasunaka,

treasurer;
shita,

Mrs.

visiting

Etsuko

Yama­

convenor;

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Fusaye

Sugimoto,

English secretary; Kozo Morino,
Japanese
secretary;
Fumiko
Arai, chairman; Saburo Nakade,
treasurer.
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MONTREAL. — Mrs. Mitsuko
Ohashi was elected president of
the Montreal Japanese United
Church Women’s Association at
Cue general meeting held on March
22. at the home of Mrs. Shimotakahara.
Mrs.

Yoshio Tonogai, vice-

tive are:

MONTREAL UNITED
CHURCH WOMEN’S
GROUP ELECT OFFICERS

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banding of the old grouped
when the Grand Forks Japaj
Association was disbanded |
March 9, and the Grand Forks
Japanese Canadian Citizens Apj.
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Elections chose an almost alt
Nisei executive to guide the fledg­
ling body on its first term. Yoshio
Arai was named first president

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