YAMAMOTO FIRST JAPANESE LAWYER TO RESUME PRACTICE IN L.A.
Eimer S. Yamamoto became the first American Lawyer of
Japanese ancestry to resume his practice of law when he returned to that
city to become associated with attorneys A.L. Wirin and J.B. Tietz in
their Los Angeles Offices according to an editorial in the Open
Forum.
A graduate of Loyola University, Yamamoto will be
remembered as one of several persons of Japanese descent who served as
"test cases" in an effort by the ACLU and the JACL to secure a court
ruling as to whether the military exclusion orders against Americans of
Japanese lineage were legal in 1944.
As a result of the case Federal Judge Pierson M. Hall
issued an injunction against Generals Pratt and Emmons, restraining them
from excluding Yamamoto and two other persons of Japanese descent from
California, by the forcible evacuation. An appeal from Judge Hall's
ruling is now pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
IDENTIFICATION BOOK NEEDED FOR ALL LEAVES BY RELOCATION OFFICE
The Relocation Office requests all aliens to be sure
to bring their Alien Identification Books (Pink Book) to the office
whether they are signing up for Terminal Departure or Short Term
Leave.
Since the interviewers must see these books in order
to obtain certain information to put on departure notices, it will be
necessary for you to return to your apartment to get your book if you do
not have it with you.
SAVE YOURSELF AN EXTRA WALK - TAKE YOUR PINK BOOK
WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO TO THE RELOCATION OFFICE.
NORTHERN HOUSING UNITS ACCEPT VETERAN FAMILIES
Indicating the cooperation existing between WRA and
the Federal Housing Authorities, ten Japanese American families, all
with men in the service, were moved into housing units of the Richmond
Housing Authority located at Wall St. and South 18th Street.
In addition the San Francisco Housing Authority has
announced plans to arrange living quarters in an Army cantonment near
Fort Funston for approximately 500 loyal Japanese Americans returning
from relocation centers.
Mr. John W. Board, executive director of the
Authority said the project is one of the first of its kind in Northern
California and it will be supplemented by moving Nisei veterans and
their families into temporary war housing quarters at Hunters Point.
GIRL SOUGHT TO MODEL IN HOLLYWOOD SHOP
Returnees who have acepted employment in Billy
Gordon's dress making establishment in Hollywood where many prominent
star buy their clothes, have done such an outstanding job that Mr.
Gordon has asked the L.A. WRA office to find a medle size 14, 5'6" tall
to wear the new fall styles designed in the movieland manner.
