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Uttor H tk» t*H»r* IWants Japs PutIn Prison CampsDear Sir:Fi■hendoFCdimeredofthe*•di-elyihenot)tS.COelrra-60nfofallthin;en• IcliWlinlt;ltheon57,-1 sect a letter to every congressman and aenator, the president and several cabinet members. It arrived the day after the Roberts report. I sent a follow-up a week later. Congress Is slow to act and I-now hope to Interest the newspapers In publicising this terribly urgent need to save us from another and more deadly holocaust than on December 7. This time it would probably be horrible mass murder and may cost us Hawaii and Alaska. oyr Pacific fleet’s superiority for a long, time and perhaps the west coast lost to Japan.My thesis is: -Every Japanese— American bom or not—must be put Into concentration camps st once.” Of course it will disrupt ! the life of the islands—but better that than to lose them. California does depend on Jape for truck gardening — but let the Os Wes and Arklet with large famines do this work and get off relief, but keep California American.As the sister of a commander and wife of a lieutenant commander In the navy, both Annapolis graduates. I am more than concerned and am unable to comprehend the lack of panic of our people. especially in Honolulu and California. In realizing this peril and coping with it.I taught at Punahou academy In Honolulu 1923-25 and did playground work, st the1 Fresh Air camp during one summer there.We had over twenty combinations of nationalities, but no hyphenated Japanese. They rarely inter- SO marry. Their plan is to keep their nationals pure and to penetrate.' invade and control the Pacific islands and California, Pressure is brought on every Japanese woman to have, six children for the emperor and we must use this war to rid America of them. They are unassimable and in a generation or two will be a much larger menace. -But, for the present, separate the sexes in camps and , thwart their'fifth column plans and success through help from those here.A Hawaiian-born Jap — now a general—started trouble In Shanghai two years ago by limiting marines to a given area. / Jap high school boys from Hawaii aided the enemy and helped pilot plane* at Pearl Harbor. The Roberts report cited 200 aliens In the pay of the consul at Honolulu as a large factor In their perfect timing and deadly assault. Every day brings to light activities near our.defense areas. Guns, ammunition, radios and enough evidence of spying to convict numbers are found. Canada has recently sent her Japanese to work camps.It is nut enough to move the aliens away from the coast and defense areas. The American-born Japanese attended their language I schools for year*. California has ]250 of these propaganda mediums. The first loyalty of the majority of all Japanese is to the emperor. Their fishing fleet has long been a thorn in-the side of our Pacific fleet. This menace must be kept impotent. Several thousand Jap aliens have been living on Termin-• ai island-In Lob Angeles harbor—! so vital to our navy as a fuel base and air field. Two Japs rented the Conray ranch—too dry for farming, hut traversed by the Los Angeles aqueduct nnd adjacent to the patrol road and inspection gate. Japanese farmers are-living nearby every west coast flying field.Can you imagine Japan' allowing Americans to live so unhampered in their country? Five years ago one could not go near their naval bases. The wife of the Pan American head in Manila could not even leave the President boat to ‘ visit Japan on her way to the Philippines. We returned after nearly three years fn the Orient In 1937.I traveled in Japan and lived in Tokyo for ten weeks and three weeks and visited in Korea and spent two months twice In Peking.I lived in Shanghai and In Hong Kong for aeveral months and in Manila, Baguio-and Cavite. We saw Manila’s Fifth avenue turned from native-owned to mostly Jap stores. I had a southern Philippine island: cruise and visited Cor-regidor and Olongopo. On the'way home I waa In 'Indo-China at Saigon and Bangkok and In Jahore and *pent over a week in Singapore where business peonle foretold today’* happenings. Now thoseouormidadrfo:te\V!filt;Prai:bospWlsominalit!6,1mVIh!T1reSFstnlclbj81tctrhistftUti6:eie‘aPh[1Iwho read the signs sec * similar rfate for Hawaii. -The Japanese papers and army heads boast that it Is easy to invade Hawaii and our west coast and that they will do It soon. '•'Those who have studied it I agree, but only with the help of their nationals, 'and sympathizers I here. They have the most perfect i mammoth fifth column. Our onetdefense i« to put-Uierh all behindkf*!barbed wire and keep the sexes ! separate — not let them produce more Japanese.-Americans during this time. This is war. They employ every means fair and foul. I am urging * humane treatment, hut the only. *afeguard to our veryexistence.Over half the population of Hawaii is Japanese. There are several hundred thousand on the west coast. But Germany Interned the whole French army—over two million men. We can do this and save our fleet, our men. our outposts and our country'intact.They claim that a surprise attack all along the coast on our shipping lanes and cities will paralyze us. No doubt they plan simultaneous sabotage of power and water, lines with help from Japs here and If they gain a foothold and control the few high mountain ! passes they claim we can pour our I men Into these traps for years |without recapturing them and that jthev will dictate peace from the! 1 White House!Do use your pen and newspaper (to make our people realize their peril and urge congreaa and the president to clamp down at once. Why doesn’t the American Legion push thU? Their »or» are fighting this war. L. H. C .119 City Park, Simonadale, Portsmouth, V*..February 12, 1942.An alracape” J* a coined word uaed to describe a picture taken ! from an airplane. The word may jreplare the aid term of WnTs-ryeiHaii1
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Zanesville Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Thu, Mar 05, 1942
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