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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. rTorember 22, 19S4 Forced Constraint of Japanese During War Hit in Book Berkeley, Calif. (U.PJ Three University of California professors charged in a book published today that the forced confinement of west coast Japanese-Americans in World War II was "a flagrant breach of the nation's constitution and moral ideals." The book, "Prejudice, War, and the Constitution," said that there was no military justifica tion for the mass- evacuation, which it called a "great and evil blotch upon our national , his tory." Written by Floyd W. Matson, Jacobus Tenroek and Edward N. Barnhart, the book was publish ed by the University of Calif ornia press under a $100,000 grant for the study of the Japanese-American evacuation. Some 112,000- Japanese-Americans were' uprooted from their homes on the ' Pacific Coast shortly after the declaration of war, Dec. 8, 1941. They were interned in relocation camps un der military control. The book charged the action was due to the longbitter his tory of oriental prejudice which .prompted a general demand for drastic "action against west coast Japanese, regardless of citizen ship. President Franklin D. Roose velt, "deliberately and knowing ly authorized the program," the book charged. It also charged Roosevelt with "personally di recting that its termination be delayed until after the president ial election of 1944." The authors accused Gen. John L. DeWitt of flagrant ra cial prejudice. They said De Witt, commander of the Western Defense command at the time, issued a "flimsy tissue of mis statements, preposterous absurd ities with patently fallacious reasoning" regarding the evacu ation. The stiffest condemnation, however, was reserved for the U.S. Supreme Court which held the mass evacuation constitution al. . ; - ' "In this way did the United States Supreme Court strike a blow at the liberties of all of us." the book said. f 3 SOUTHERN RED After be ing arrested by the FBI, Julius Irving Scales waits for arraignment in U: S. commis sioners office in Memphis. He was described by Justice Department announcement as "leader of the Communist Party" in North Carolina and Tennessee. Eisenhower News Conference Tuesday Washington . (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower will hold his news conference at 7:30 a.m PST tomorrow. It was moved up from 'Wed nesday : the usual day. He will meet with the National Security council Wednesday morning' and take off in the afternoon for a Thanksgiving week end at Aug usta, Ga. v WEATHER REPORT Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) It can rain when the tempera ture is below freezing, and it can snow when the temperature is above, according to General Electric scientists. The rain would fall from a warm mass of air high above, the ground; the snow from a cold mass. Major fruit and vegetable im ports into California in 1953 were bananas, potatoes, apples, tomatoes, citrus fruits, , lettuce and melons. .- Wounded Woman Talks Ex-Husband Out of Suicide Portland (U.R) A 43-year-old railroad porter was talked out of shooting himself early today by his estranged wife as she lay seriously wounded with a rifle shot in her back. While the woman, Mrs. Helen Blanchard, 41, was dissuading her former husband, Samuel H. Blanchard, from firing a shot into his head, her three children jumped from a second -. story window and ran to a neighbor's house to summon police. In Serious Condition Mrs. Blanchard was reported in serious condition at . Good Samaritan hospital. - A bullet from a .30-caliber rifle entered her body between the hip and spine, grazing the spine and em erging through the stomach. Police said the bullet, after passing through the woman, ric ocheted off a stairway step and hit her 13-year-old son How ard, in the left big toe. He was treated at the hospital. Window. Jimmied Detective Norman E. Leith eiser said investigation showed Blanchard and. his wife have been divorced since January, 1953. He said Blanchard enter ed his ex-wife's home by jim mying a window. Mrs.' Blanchard, awakened by the noise, started to telephone police when she saw a shadowy form. She threw the telephone at the object and started to run upstairs. Blanchard flipped on a light switch and fired a shot from the rifle. The son, disturb ed by the noise, appeared at the head of the stairs just in time to get hit in the foot by the bul let. He ran to awaken his bro ther, Steven, 12, and his sister, Charmaine, 17, and the three of them jumped some 15 feet to the ground. Shooting Said Accidental The wounded woman told eiser that Blanchard then drew a .25-caliber pistol and said he was going to shoot himself. She talked him out of it. ".--. Blanchard, who told police the shooting was accidental, was in jail on a charge of armed assault with bail set at $10,000. f" $fciS.- .v We have lots of top quality candy for holiday eating and gift giving . . . And look at the money saving prices! 1 Lb. Box Of Delicious Chocolates 89' 1 lb. box of delicious Mary Esther Chocolates 20 different centers in cluding creams, caramels, nougats. 23 milk, 13 dark chocolate. v : (f RED II HOT J LOOK T Hjf ! 1 LB. TIN OF Fancy Mixed Nuts Cashews Filberts Braxils Almonds Pecans ONLY (f No V H Peanuts y U HURRY! 1 lb. tin of mixed nuts! Cas hetos, filberts pecans, brazils,'. almonds. Polyethelene bag in sures freshness. Colorful tin may be reused. 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Justin Erisman, a Navy vet eran, told officers,: "I'm mad at everybody not anyone in par ticular. I'm just disgusted." The youth fired three shots from a Russian-made .30-caliber rifle at his father but all the shots missed. Police, called by neighbors, surrounded the house and set up floodlights, prepared to use tear gas. Then, two offic ers entered and found Erisman asleep on a bed, the rifle lying across his lap. He . offered no resistance. " Railroads Sharply Protest Inauguration Of West Coast Three Cent ail 'Airlift' 'Washington (U.R) A Paci fic Coast "airlift" for regular three cent letters and other first class mail started today bring ing sharp protests - from five western railroads. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield said the first class mail will be carried by plane, when air lines have space avail able between 17 points in Cali fornia, Oregon and Washington. Northwest, United and West ern airlines, will participate in the air lift to these cities: San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakerfield, Visalia, Fresno, Merced, Mo desto, Stockton, Sacramento, San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.; Klamath Falls, Medford, Eugene, Salem and Portland, Ore.; and Seattle, Wash. Hopes for Action A spokesman for the five rail roads said last night he hopes for court action sometime this week on their suit to stop the "airlift." The railroads filed an injunction suit in federal court here Saturday seeking to halt the service.. The spokesman added that ad ditional petitions for a temporary injunction are expected to ' be filed later.' Most of the major railroads joined forces in September in trying to get the civil aeronau tics board to halt the practice of flying first class mail for reg ular three-cent rates. , The post office department be gan the "experiment" about a year ago between New York, Washington and Chicago. - The railroads claim it is illegal and is depriving them of "an import ant part" of their revenue. The suit against the Pacific Coast airlift was filed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Co., Great Northern Railway Co.,. Northern Pacific Railway Co., Southern Pacific Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Co. ' .. " Threat To Trains ; They claimed that "Congress explicitly provided" that all air mail except post cards should carry a six-cent stamp. t They said that today's expan sion - of the experiment may "pose the threat of discontinu ance of many passenger trains." At ' ceremonies inaugurating the new service in San Fran cisco, Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Albert J. Robertson said the "airlift" was "still another proof of the., department's resolve to carry out its policy of improving the postal service while reduc ing costs and deficits." Robertson reminded that the post office is not guaranteeing to fly three-cents mail on a regu- Sports Bulletin Los Angeles 'UR) Twice beaten Southern California, the Pacific Coast Conference's second , best team, was named today to oppose undefeated Ohio State in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Official J announcement oy commission er Victor O. Schmidt that the 'Trojans, only West Coast team to win a Rose Bowl game since start of the PCC-fiig Ten pact in 1947, would play in the Pasadena classic ; was a mere formality. lar basis. It will be flown only when space is available. Faster Service He said 300 communities in Washington,' Oregon and Cali fornia can expect faster mail de liveries as a result of the serv ice. 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