War Clipping from Oxnard Press Courier, Mon, Aug 6, 1945.

Clipped from US, California, Oxnard, Oxnard Press Courier, August 6, 1945

Officer Asks Aid For NiseiROMK lt;U.R - - Col. V. K. Miller of Winneconne. Was., commander of the crick Nisei regiment, sought tin* aid of the war and interior departments today in combatting discrimination in the Cnited States against Japanese* American war veterans.Miller was roust'd to action by the rejection of an application of Pfc. Richard H. Naito of Spokane. Wash., a former member of his 112nd infantry regiment, formembership in post bl of theveteran of Foreign Wars in Spokane. Naito was woundedwhile fighting in Italy with the Fifth aiiny.Miller sent bluntly-worded letters to I . S. Interior Secretary Harold lekes and Assistant Secretary of War John MeCloy pro* testing against discriminationagainst Nisei servicemen.Miller also sent a letter to I lean Jlelbig, commander of post bl. asking him to “correct this grave injiMice to an individual and to a great American tradition.