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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
Staley Company Denies Charges
Of Poisoning in Shoyu Cases

LOS ANGELES, Calf, March
(Rafu Shimpo Dispatch) - A. E
Staley Manufacturing Co. in De-
cairr, Illinois, was reported to have
.latly denied local charges that
tine shoyu sauce they sold last year
10 Lii Toxic merchants contained
poisonous arsenic, according to
Kenji Ito, attorney, who is handl-
ing scores of cases.
The defendant answered a recent
Superior Court complaint filed by
he plaintiffs OF the Mitsuba-su-
hi who claimed they were taken
i'll after using the condiment which
they did not know was contaminat-
ed
Hundreds of other persons In
Southern California and outly-
ing areas were affected by the
sauce which health officials had
condemned as lethal and not fit
for human consumption.
Some 600 drums of 55-gallon size
IN which the Staley Manufacturing
poured shoyu base for firms and
distributors throughout the coun-
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
JACL TO PLACE
PLAQUE SHIP
HONORING NISEI

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 8
"A bronze plaque to perpetuate
the memory OF Pvt Sadao Mune-
mort will be placed aboard the Will
SON Victory by the national JACL
when the Army cargo vessel is re-
named for the lone Nisei Congress-
ional Medal of Honor winner, the
Washington office of the JACL Anti
Discrimination Committee revealed
today. A floral wreath, donated by
the Arlington Memorial Committee
will also be presented at the rede-
signation ceremonies to be held
aboard the vessel at the Brooklyn
Army Base on Friday, March 5.
Robert Munemori, brother of the
distinguished Nisei hero, mean
While informed the Washington
JACL ADO office that he will ar
rive in New York to attend the cere-
monies on behalf of his widowed
mother Mrs. N " a Munemori.
While declining the JACL offer to
defray his transportation expenses,
Mr.. Munemori expressed apprecia-
ton of the JACLs efforts to make
the occasion of great significance
to all japanese Americans and
their alien parents He said he
was anticipating with very great
pleasure" meeting the JACL repre-
sentatlves who have been making
the arrangements.
While in New York, ne is expect
ed to be the guest of the national
JACL. An invitation has also been
extended to him to stop briefly in
Washington en- routs back to his
hCne in Long Beach. An invita-
ton has also been sent to Colonel
Virgel r. Miller, former command
ing officer of the famed 442nd ia
panesc American Reginental Com
bat Team, OF which the late Sadao
Munemori was member, to attend
the ceremonies.
The Army is furnishing a por-
trait plaque bearing the picture of
Pvt. Munemori which is 70 be hung
in prominent part of the ship.
The citation of the Nisei hero will
be turned over to the ships cap
tain.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
Move to Form
Nisei Bowling
Group Seen

SALT LAKE CITY Utah, March
3-The likelihood that some steps
will be taken to organize a Nisei
Bowling Congress when the End
National Nisei Bowling Tournament
is held here on March 6 and 7 was
indicated by tournament officials
Such a move would aim to coordi-
nate the various Nisei leagues and
to regulate different tournaments.
Also to be decided is the impor-
tant matter of the locale for next
years National Nisei Bowling Tour
nament The meet has been spon-
sored by the Salt Lake League for
two successive years, and it is ex-
pected that other bowling locales
will make bids for the 1949 tour
nament.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03

try were seized after the discovery
Of the deadly powder.
After denying any knowledge of
the arsenic, the Illinois company
further stated that the latter mi
tsuta-sushD had failed to mention
for what the particular sauce was
to be used for, or that the said base
was to be used for human consump-
ton.
The company further answered
that it at no time told the users
of the cOndiment that such was
fit for human consumption.
For the period of nearly a
month early last June, Japanese
complained about dizziness, sto-
mach troubles, and vomiting with
out knowing the cause of the all
nent."
On July IL, city health authori-
ties investigated the drums to find
races of arsenic. r. Leslie Hart,
chemist for the Federal Bureau,
i.aclosed six to 10 grains to a pound
+ SAMPLES taken from IL drums
were noted.
Damage suits amounting as
high as $1,000 are filed which
include medical bill, loss on wa
ges, and personal suffering sus-
tanned by the victims.
II WIS reported IN view of G a.
ley's attitude several of the claim
ers requested the Nisei attorney to
hold a mass meeting to talk things
over"
Meantime, Ito stated that further
complaints against the company
will be filed individually by those
Who were stricken by arsenic.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03

Baptist church here.
Present at the Kilsuchi affair
were the Mestlames Eachiro Shinbo,
Joe Wakazuril, Mas Iratsu, and the
Misses Marian Tamura, Sally Oni-
shi, Betty Jean and Arleen An
draws, Miye Kikuchi, Marie Osawa,
Masako Tada, Sachi TSuboi, Grace
Ozawa. Kiyoko Tashiro, Hatsuye
Imanishi, Naoko Hasegawa, Mary
Hide Shimono. MARY and Sachi Ia
keuchi and Margaret Nomura.
Those unable to attend but who
sent gifts were the Mesda-,es
Ralph Shinbo, Sherlock Shimbo,
Robert Lindstron, Frank Nishimrra,
and the Misses Mas and Tax XII
kuchi, Connie Handa, Mits Shigi-
hara and Hamako Ozawa.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
Swap Pulpits
To Mark Week
Of Brotherhood

CHICAGO, Ill, March 3-As an
observance of Brotherhood week,
the Rev. Jitsuo MorikaWa, minister
of the First Baptist church, 935 E.
50th st, exchanged pulpits with
Rabbi Jacob j. Weinstein, spiritual
leader OF K. A. M. temple, 900 E.
50th St, last Friday.
The Rev. Morikawa preached in
the synagog on "A Spiritual Basis
for Civilization. Dr. Weinstein
preached on Sunday in the First
Baptist church.
The Rev. Morikawa wa; born of
Buddhist parents in Vancouver B.
9. He was converted TO Christianity
1T the age of Is and was graduated
subsequently by the Bible Institute
n Los Angeles and the Southern
Baptist theological seminary in
Louisville He was appointed minis
ter of the First Baptist church last
year.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03

Miss KIM Miyamoto, youngest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Miyamo-
to, recently announced her en-
gagement to Mr.. Aki Higashi, ell
dest son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. Higa-
shi, in her home.
Miss Miyamoto is with the King
County Library, and MIR. Higashi,
a veteran who was attached to the
Third Army in Germany, is with
Mobile Gas Station.
The couple plan to wed sometime
in May.
A miscellaneous surprise shower
was given recently for Miss Lois
Shinbo in the Kikuchi residence.
Miss Shinbo will become the bride
of Mr.. Ben. E Hirano of San Fran
cisco this Sunday in the japanese
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
CITY SALMON
DERBY STARTS
ON MARCH 70

The Seattle Times fifth annual
City Salmon Derby will start Sat
urday, March 20, one hour after
sunrise, it was learned this week.
The first period will run from
March 20 to May 81, with is per
cent of the finalists qualified. This
period viii be devoted to blackmouth
fishing.
The second period, which Will
take in the first half of the king
run, will extend from June to
Aug. Is with IS per cent of the fl
nal contestants qualified for the
Dig day.
The t h d qualifying period,
which will extend through the best
part Of the king run in Ballard
and Elliott Bay, will be from Aug.
16 10 Sept. %, with so per cent of
the finalists qualified.
The finals vii be Sunday, Sept.
26.
Prizes offered include five Dodge
sedans, a fishing boat with out
board motor fully equipped with
fishing tackle, and Is cupboard mo-
tors.
Kaz Kimura, a Nisei, last year
won top place with a 37-pound, IA
ounce king, which was the second
largest salmon ever entered in a
Times Derby finals.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
LATE BASKETBALL RESULTS
Monday, March 1
At Buddhist

S. f. Merchant Savoys %, Comets
16 OBJ
High School 33, Chicks Is Girls
Chinese AZ, S. f. Merchant Reds
33 (A)
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
WINNIPEG MEET
WILL CONSIDER
JCCA PROGRAM

WINNIPEG. March 3 New Ca.
madam Dispatch)-What type o.
an organization the National ia.
panese Canadian Citizens Associa.
ton Is gong to be will be decided
when delegates from the various
provinces meet in Winnipeg at the
second national convention on
March 26.
The National JCCA, which was
formed at the first national con-
ference in Toronto last fall is with
out constitution. But now, the
provincial representatives will be
asked to consider for revision and
approval a draft constitution which
has been prepared by the national
eXeruti' committee.
Tie question of national bud
get is expected to receive spe-
cial attention due to the fact
that di.icl.ty was experienced by
oOA4t| IAOfthCCo III tnC
quot set at the Toronto confer
ence.
Invitations have been sent to
eight organizations: B. c. JCCA g
delepates) Alberta JCCA g dele
gates, Southern Alberta j n
Committee q delegates) Regina
Nisei Club zone delecate), Moose
Jaw JCC-l Zone delegate), Ontario
JCCA g delegates), Quebec JCCA
g delegates). Manitoba is expect
ed to have three delegates too.
The national president, the ma
tional treasurer and the executive
secretary vii also attend the con-
ference.
Draft Constitution
The draft constitution covers
nine mineographed pages and sets
forth the aims. the orgs nization,
the activities, etc, of the JCCA in
detail.
The primer aim of the JCCA
Is given in the preamble which
reads: This national organiza-
ton is formed with the primary
aim to enable japanese Canadian
organizations throughout Canada to
work together as a unified whole
and undertake collective action for
the betterment OF the political, So
cial molll and economic welfare
of Canadians of Japanese ancestry
who are DESTROYS of living in Ca
NADIA as full-fl6 dyed Canadian CT
items. and who shall conscientious
ly discharge the duties and respon-
sibllities inherent In Canadian CT
tizenShip and shall thereby be In
a better position to merit the pri-
vileges hereof"
An annual national conference
Is stipulated in the draft consti-
tuition unless otherwise decided
by the National COuncil."
The National JCCA will publish
an oft al organ at regular inter-
walls.
Conference Agenda
III conference agenda is crowded
with reports from various officers
and provinces. The work on the
property losses claims Is to be re-
viewed as well as the questions of
federal and provincial restrictions.
Projects to be discussed for the
future are national resettle-
ment survey, and community well
fare projects such as group in
surance. credit unions, labor
unions. and cO-operatives.
The conference is TO take place
at the Marlborough Hotel in Win
nipeg I'd will last four days, March
1920.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03

Few people have had their per.
sonal problems settled by the Pre-
sident of the United States, but 6
quiet little woman living in Phila.
delphia has claim to that distinc.
ton.
She is Mrs. Fuku Kurokawa
Thurn, japanese widow Of an
American engineer, who last year
faced deportation as an enemy
alien, but now, thanks to special
legislation passed by Congress
for her sole benefit and signed
by President Truman, she may
remain in America.
America Her Land Now
Mrs. Thurn is likely to become
emotional if you discuss with her
this land of America, for it is her
land, too, now.
My husbands people are my peo-
pie" she says with sincerely, land
my home will always be in America.
Mrs. Thurn was married in
1905 to American-bOrn Leopold
Thurn when the latter was living
in Yokohama and employed by
the General Electric Co.
In 1922, while OH a round-the-
world tour, Mr. Thurn passed a.
way in Switzerland. Fifteen years
later, Mrs. Thurn and her son,
john Alexander, now a mechanical
engineer with the Sperry Gyroscope
Co. in Brooklyn, came to America.
Two daughters wed abroad.
Enemy Alien Offered Aid
Early in World War II, laws
were passed that classified Mrs.
Thurn as an enemy alien. How
ever, she gave generously of her
time and money to aid this coun-
try. She became an ardent volun-
teer worker of the Community War
Chest, and gave her automobile to
that organization.
Through the International In
stitute, Mrs. Thurn aided in the
readjustment of Japanese Nisei
who came to the Philadelphia
area from the West Coast. Many
of the older Japanese, straight
from farms or from purely Japa-
nese business houses, could speak
no English.
To them, Mrs. Thurn patiently
interpreted the restrictions under
which they were obliged to live, and
stood as buffer between them and
a new and strange world.
The Fight Against Fear
Her hardest fight with them was
against fear. Most of the Nisei
came to the East sickened with
fright. They were terribly afraid
and shrank from every white per-
son they met. In some cases, Mrs.
Thurn said, that fear was nurtured
and heightened by the barbed wire
and guards of the relocation camps
from which they came.
One day in the city, while Mrs.
Thurn was visiting a school attend
ed by Nisei children, a teacher sud-
denly asked:
Why is it Japanese boys and
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
PSGA Tourney
Set March n

Puget Sound Golf Association
will have its March monthly tour
nament on Sunday, March ID, II
was announced today by Teruji
Umino, publicity aide of that group.
The "B" Fighters will tee off at
West Seattle, and the "A" and &C.
Fighters at Jefferson.
Details on the fouTSomes and
starting times will be released
through THE NOR T HIVE S T
TIMES III the March 10 edition
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
MARCH

l1-Nisei Country club to spon-
sor skating party from 1890 pm.
to 1890 am. to raise funds for
Seattles Veterans Memorial Fund.
14-Lotus Seinenkai to sponsor
talent show and a full-length
English movie.
27--U. Of w. Coed basketball
team will sponsor dance In Bud
dhist Auditorium.
27-Bazaar in japanese Congre-
gational church.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
'YurikO Featured
In N. Y. Show

NEW YORK, March 3-YuriEo,
featured dancer of Martha Ora
hams company, lest week present.
ed a solo of her own creation en-
titled Tale of Seizure" on Miss
Graham's program.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
APRIL

APRIL
3-Young peoples fellowship
group of St. Peters church to spon-
sor couples dance.
17-Stag-stagette dance to be
sponsored by Rissho club IN the
Buddhist Auditorium.
MAY
1-JSC to give Spring Informal
dance.
JUNE
Annual jos picnic.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03

You cannot be buried in OBSCURE
ty: you are exposed upon a grand
theater to the view of the world. If
your actions are upright and ben
evolent, be assured they will aug
ment your power and happiness.
Cyrus.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-03-03
Methodist Tidinss

College and business group of the
japanese Methodist church will at
tend the First Methodist church
on an invitation from the Wesley
an Service Guild at 6:15 pm. Fri
day, March IL.
Dinner cost will be seventy cents
per plate.
Reservations should be made with
Grace Uchimura by Tuesday, March
9. Miss Uchimuras phone num-
ber is Prospect 2842.
A young matronS' meeting is be-
ing planned for the afternoon of
March ID in the Catherine Blaine
Home, 318 18th Ave. This session
will serve as a beginning to the
eventual formation of a Womens
Society of Christian Science in the
Japanese Methodist church.
Inc KEY. Lester Suzuki OF the
japanese Methodist church will
speak at the Renton. and Sand
Point and Puyallup WSSC, and al
so at the Seaview Lenten service on
Sunday, March IA.
High school group OF the Japa-
nese Methodist h u h In Sc
attic will meet with the Bothell
Youth Fellowship at pm. Sun
day, March IA. in Bothell
Reservations for the Easter break
fast in the japanese Methodist
church should be made as soon as
possible with Eddie Shimomura.
Snimomuras p h II number is
East 295l.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Arch Of Triumph

c A RICH of Triumph is throb-
N bling, unfettered love story
which begins and ends its poig-
nant, passionate interlude against
the fateful backdrop of Paris of
1889, seething with the fateful
cross-currents of the months just
preceding the outbreak of the
war.
It is the story of two ill-fated
emigre people-one young anti
Fascist doctor Sc king haven
from Hitler in Paris without Gre
dentials: the other a beautiful.
moral-less woman. drifting from
one attachment to another until
at last. when she finds real love
with the refugee doctor. fate
writes a tragic "Finis" to their
affair as the war clouds burst
over France. climaxing an era in
human history.
The story of the hunted Ravic
and the lovely, lonely Joan
Madou was the principal war
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

time novel of Erich Maria Re-
whose All Quiet on the Western
Front and The Road Back, both
also made into films, have cpl
tomized for millions the twi-
light years of the era extend
ing from the first World War to
the advent of Hitler. The pres
ence of Ingrid Bergman and
Charles Boyer in the two lead
ing roles adds immeasurably to
the dramatic impact of the film.
Woven into the story of their
tortured love are threads of the
then-fresh S p n i S h civil war
and the brazen espionage Of the
Nazis inside France in the months
before the outbreak Of world
war.
Charles Laughton appears in
the role of a Gestapo agent who
tortured Ravic in Germany and
killed his fiance there, but fails
to recognize his one-time victim
when they meet face to face in
Paris.
The sequence involving Spain
is brief but very much 10 the
point in these times of waning
dislike for Franco and his Fa-
langists in some quarters. When
Franco roisterers in an adjacent
hotel room seek 10 force Havic
to drink toast with them. Louis
Calhern. in the role Of giant
White Russian Paris doorman
who is Ravic's chess partner.
angrily dashes glass of water
in the faces of the intruders and
expels them.
1t is an urgent film as well
as haunting love story, serving
to remind us of the forces which
brought war on the world less
than a decade ago, lest we tend
to forget them sometimes in the
immediacy of present interna-
tional cross currents threatening
to enguf a new generation.
JOHN T. McMANUS
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
MOVIES
Father S House,

N T. Eli Levin ana Herpeft
lN Kline have pooled their
resources and intelligence, which
are considerable, in movie
about Palestine.
The film, MY Fathers House"
is worth seeing, but I'm afraid
that the boys haven't extracted
all the juice from their subject.
They had the raw material for
a real epic film, but don't sue
coed in really squaring away and
building up a mounting sense of
dramatic tension and conflict that
can sweep the audience along.
Meyer Levin, reversing the
usual process. wrote a novel
based on the film and as I re-
call it, the novel had more unity
and CO h esion - and therefore
punch-than does the film.
my Fathers House" is an al
legorical job. It's the story of
youth brought Illegally into Pal
estine and sole survivor of a
! Polish family of Jews that fell
into Nazi hands.
The lad comes to the promised
land looking for his parents be-
cause they told him they'd meet
him in Palestine. His travels take
him through most of Palestine
and give an exciting-but frus-
tratingly incomplete - idea of
what agricultural life there is
like.
Finally, the lad learns that his
parents had been put to death by
the Germans The shock is so
great that he reverts mentally to
infancy. Nursed by Miriam, a
woman whose family was killed
and who was forced to serve the
Wehrmacht as camp follower,
the boy makes a partial recovery
which is completed with the help
of Avram, one of the Palestini-
ans.
Obviously. the story is not only
that of lost boy. but rather the
tale of how people who wandered
the face of the earth looking for
home. And Levin and Kline say.
they found it the comradeship
and understanding and oppor-
funitY in Palestine.
There is, as I said, vital raw
material here. Il doesn't begin to
come off, however, because the
direction and acting are anna
flourish and because no one scene
is developed completely and
thoroughly enough to milk the
full dramatic intensity from it.
In short, the audience tends to
be more bored than concerned.
And that's bad.
"Dear Murderer" is British
film dedicated to the proposition
that there is no such thing as a
perfect crime. ernie Bevin, are
you Thereof It's a mite better
than the average-or American
job-and is enhanced by good
pacing, few neat story twists
and some competent acting. Right
up the alley for whodunit fans.
BOB BENNETT
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
BOOKS
Labor story
THE MANY & THE FEW. BY Henry
Kraus. P1anfin Press. $3.50.


ENRY Kraus is a labor
III journalist who started in
Cleveland paper for the auto
mobile workers back in the NRA
days. He did his job so well that
the United Automobile Workers
called him to Detroit IN 1886 to
officiate as the first editor of
their official organ. 1t was in the
hectic and heroic period of the
CLIO, and Kraus viewed from
special vantage point many stir
ring events which made labor
history.
One of the most important de-
velopments of the times was the
sitdown strike in the automobile
industry. Now that young Hank
Ford is in the habit of stro1ling
into Waller Reuther's office Tor
at least Walter said recently that
the motor tycoon does) TO discuss
mutual concerns in an affable
manner. one might feel that the
sitdown days are very renlote-in
spirit. at least.
And it might be that some of
the logged determination OF the
sitdowners might be of benefit
today, now that the rights of
labor are threatened even more
than they were in the roaring
ThirtieS.
Kraus has chosen the Flint
sitdown, as a microcosm in which
the whole campaign may be
viewed, and his choice i'll con-
filming the scene to one plant is
wise one. Both the general and
the particular are graphically il
Illuminated.
In his preface the author re-
veals that several of the CONNER
cial publishers. were convinced
that his book had merit, but all
of them declined it. One Of the
purveyors of literature put the
case for all when he said: ut is
a hard fact that the labo- move
ment will not support books that
should be of interest to it, and
that the rest of the popalace is
even more uninterested."
JACK coNRoy
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