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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25
CLARK'S MEMO
URGES REVIEW
OF CAL. LAW

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. rs
Copies of the Attorney Generals
memorandum urging the u S. Su-
preme Court to review the Taxa
hashi alien fishing case have been
received by the Washington office
of the JACL discrimination
Committee.
The Takahashi case, the brief
signed by Attorney General Tom C.
CLARK and Solicitor General Philip
B. Perlmman notes, presents SUBJ
stantial constitutional issues of ma
tional importance, affecting the
fundamental civil rights of a large
number of persons"
The Justice Departments me-
morandum, filed early this month
with the high court, cites instances
in which the Supreme Court had
upheld the economic rights of the
alien under the Constitution. The
specific questions involved in the
TakahaShi case, 1t adds, relates to
the constitutionality of Section 900
OF the Fish and Game Code of
California, as amended in 1945 to
provide that commercial fishing
licenses may be issued only to per-
sons other than those ineligible
to citizenship"
If the petition for certiorari
which the national JACL filed in
January should be granted, the At
torney General states, "the Gov
eminent will contend, as amicus
curiae, that the challenged provi-
Sion CT the Fish and Game Code
of California cannot be reconciled
with the principles applied by the
Supreme Court in the Truax v.
Hopkins, supra, and other cases."
The other cases include the famous
Yick Wo v. Hopkins litigations of
1885 and the more recent Oyama
alien land law case.
In the Truax versus Raich case,
the court held that the Constitution
forbids a State ito deny to lawful
inhabitants, because of their race
or nationality, the ordinary means
of earning a livelihood" The
Court emphasized that "the right
tc work for living in the common
occupations of the community Is of
the very essence of the personal
freedom and opportunity that 1t
was the purpose of the Fourteenth)
Amendment to secure"
This case came up for review in
the U. S. Supreme Court in 1915
when the court had before it an
Arizona statute which provided
that when anyone employed five or
more persons, not less than 80 per-
cent of them had to be citizens. In
declaring the act unconstitutional.
the court held that the Arizona sta
TUE besides violating the equal pro-
lection clause of the 14th Amend
ment had in denying aliens the right
to earn a living virtually denied them
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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25
BuSSei OratOrical
|PreliminarieS Set
March 10 Here

Seattle's preliminaries for the
English oratical contest to be held
March 81 in conjunction with the
second annual Northwest Young
Buddhist L a II e S convention
will be at 7:30 pm. Friday, March
10, in the Buddhist Temple here,
II was announced today.
Anyone wishing to compete in the
local preliminary speechfest is ask
ed to notify Jack Sameshima, ora
torical chairman. Immediately.
There will be no age limit, and con-
testants may speak on any phase
of Buddhism. Speech time will be
not more than ten minutes, and
the theme of all speeches must be
"Bussei, Garry Onl"
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Spokane's YPCC Opens Saturday
In Grant St. Methodist Church

SPOKANE, Wash. Feb 81 (Spe-
cial to The Northwest Tines -
Complete program for the second
annual Young Peoples Christian
Conference. an inter- racial, city
wide affair set for Saturday, Feb.
%, and Sunday, Feb 20. was an
nounced today
The parley will be in the Grant
ST. Methodist church, and its
theme will be AWAKE! Am l
my brothers keeper" Gen. 40
The program follows:
SATURDAY, FEB 20
$50 pn.-2egistratio-
ESQ p.m.-FelloWship banquet
Ma AkiyaEaa, toastraaster. Music
by Calvary Baptist group
pm--Vespar service conducted
By Knox Presbyterian group
SUNDAY, Feb. 20
II am.-Mornins worship service,
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California Urges Top U. S. Court
To Forget TakahaShi Fish Case

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. rs
The State of California this week
urged the United States Supreme
Court not to review the Takahashi
alien fishing case, the Washington
office of the JACL Anti-Discrimin
alton Committee learned today. A
brief in opposition to the JACL
petition for writ of certiorari was
filed by California and was signed
by Attorney General Fred N. How
ser and Deputy Attorney General
Ralph w. Scott.
In requesting the high court not
20 consider the Takahashi litiga-
ton, the California attorneys hold
hat Section 900 of the California
Fish and Game Code, which prohi-
bits aliens ineligible to citizenship
from engaging in commercial fish
ing does not deny equal protection
of the laws guaranteed under the
18th Amendment nor does it divest
them of property without due pro-
cess of law.
The States brief argues that
no property rights are involved in
the case for Fishing for pleasure
or profit is a privilege-not a
right" and adds that the State
may confer exclusive rights of
fishing and hunting on its own
citizens n expressly exclude
aliens and nonresident citizens
without violating constitutional
restraints. 1t asserts: ct has long
been recognized not only in Cal
ifOrnia, but throughout the Uni
ted States that free swimming
fish, like game, are closed as ami
mails ferae naturae. ***and, until
reduced to actual possession, are
the property of the State in its
sovereign capacity as trustee for
all its people"
The brief cites other matters of
public concern in which aliens have
been constitutionally barred from
participe ton, such as the case in
Ohio where an alien was prevented
from conducting a pool or billiard
parlor and the case in Washington
where Japanese alien was pro-
hibited from practicing law. The
brief attacked reliance on the
Truax versus Raich case, assert
ing: 1T requires no lengthy argu-
ment to show that the facts per-
tanning to Mr. Truax Ca cook are
entirely different from those per-
tanning to Mr.. Takahashi."
In defense of its policy of dis
eliminating between aliens, the brief
emphasizes that basis for CLASH
fication between eligible and ineli-
gible aliens seem to have greater
force and logic in its application" to
the Takahashi case than it did to
The Oyama alien land law case for
the following four reasons:
Firstly. Private property rights
of the individual are not involv-
ed here as they were in the alien
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law CdSCSs
Secondly. Public property
rights are at issue here and were
not involved i'm the other eases;
Thirdly. Individual privilege
alone is at issue here, the taking
of fish being a privilege and not
a right; and,
"Fourthly. If State may pro-
perly concern itself with the type
oil people who may possess its
lands, il may also exercise SINH
lar concern as to those who take
lis property, namely, fish and
game"
The brief in upholding Section
300 OF the Fish and Game Code as
a conservation measure it asserted
that if some reduction in the num-
Der OF persons eligible to hunt and
fish is found necessary 1T is logi-
cal and fair that the first group
to be denied the privilege should
be aliens ineligible to citizenship.
It aoued: 1T is evident that by the
1945 amendment the legislature took
he greater step in the conservation
Of the States resources than Ii did
in 1913 because California is popu-
lated by more ineligible aliens than
persons of Japanese ancestry.
This reduction of the number
Of persons eligible to hunt and fish
bears a reasonable relation to the
object of conservation of fish and
game and is within the purview Of
the States police powers. Hence
the l945 amendment cannot be de-
clared invalid because a court may
regard it Intellectual, harsh or even
as an aid to an Objectionable poll
cy."
Denying that the statute In
question is anti-Japanese and ra-
cial in purpose, the brief said:
"Racism has no part in this case
or at least should have none." II
charged that Takahashi had tried
to inject the issue of racism, add
ing that since Section $50 ap-
plies to all aliens ineligible to CT
tizenship the nationality of the
petitioner is "only a coincidence"
The brief further claimed that
the law does not conflict with any
federal authority or policy with
respect to fishing on the high seas
or coastal waters. asserting that
the States have supreme power and
control over the fish and fisheries
bordering their coasts.
The JACL petition for a writ of
certiorari was filed with the Su-
preme Court on January 16. Attor-
neys for the petitioner, Torao Ia
kahsshi, Los Angeles Issei fish
erman. are appealing from a 4 to
3 decision of the California SUI
preme Court upholding the Cal
ifornia Fish and Game Commission
in its denial of commercial fishing
licenses to aliens ineligible to CT
tizenship."
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registration lists. He said this
action had been taken in cOmfor-
nifty with the stand by their or
ganization that the voting by Nj
sci diminished the full force and
effect of other electors in exer-
cising their franchise.
Furthermore. his organization is
on record to urge that the first
sentence of Section Article XIV
of the United States Constitution
should be amended to read as fol-
lows: All persons born of citizens
of the United States or natrraliz-
en- in the United States and sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and
Ct the State where they reside
AS such, he informed Masaoka
their organization is unalterably
opposed to the naturalization OF
persons of japanese ancestry.
Furthermore. their organization
recommends that promise be
made by Japan in the peace treaty
whereby Japan pledges itself to
prevent, for all time. the immigra-
ton of Japanese to the United
States and to any of its possessions
The organization believes legis-
lation should be enacted to prevent
the immigration of japanese to any
possessions of the United States.
To support the Native Sons Of
the Golden West stand on the
race undesirability Of Japanese,
Regain declared that thousands
of disloyal japanese kept in Sc
gregation at Tule Lake have not
been deported and are at large
IN the country.
E1e pointed out that flsgrant Ho-
lations of Alien Land Law Of Cal
ifornia are common by the Japa-
nese and they have brought pres
sure upon white farmers TO aca-iya
blocks Of desirable farm lands.
He reiterated the belief Of his
organisat.oa that General JOHN {
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25

DeWitt's Final Report of Evacua-
ton Of japanese People From The
West Coast in 1912" is the final
authority on the sabotage and es-
pionage activities by the Japanese.
As a matter Of history. Regain
claimed congressional pressure by
their organization resulted In the
passage Of the Oriental Exclu-
sion Act of 1924. To maintain
a united front and continue these
policies he recOunted that the
California Joint Immigration
Committee, composed of the Cal
ifOrnia Department American Le-
gion, California Grange, State
Federation of Labor, and the Ma
tive Sons of the Golden West,
Continues to function.
The Executive Secretary of the
N. s. G. w. said they had 10000
members in l4o chapters. Their
chief strength lies In San Francisco
where they have a membership of
1900. Regsn claimed that more
than half Of CALIFORNIA; delegation
II Congress. as well e. the State
Legislature, ere g-:e.,bers Of their
5rganization.
When Masaoka because of his
California birth asked TO apply for
membership, he was refused on the
ground that he vss not q white
man.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25

-HnOIOS Nv utn LUZ Ntuuio.
"Details Of tourney on Page ~
\ LOOSE BALL Upper pho
tOl-and Tokuda Drug and Ca
hay Post lS6 watch il soar in
10 the air. Left to right, they are
ShubO Fuiii of TOkuda, Phil Mar
Hing Of Cathay. Manabu FujinO
of TOkuda. isaO NiShimura az
Of TOkUda, Glen Ycc Of Cathay,
and George Nakagawa of Toxin
ia Behind Nishimura is Art
Louie Of Cathay.
Ill SHOOTS nower photo) -
that is, Gaylord Iwasaki OF vic
toriou> Mercury in the cOns0la
don finals against the Portland
Stars. Chccl,ing Iwasaki is Eli
iiirata of The Stars. In the fore
ground is shig SakamotO, also of
the stars. and at the left tll,
coming In Tor f0ll0w-up shot,
is Ray Olani of Mercury. Watch
ing the ball nj the right is RlOtz
Sugama. also of Mercury.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25
Rev. Fukuyanla
Cited at Fete

DENVER. Colo Feb. IS = The
Rev Isutomu Fukugama, former
ly OF Winelow Wash viii be one
# ten persons who will be cited
Tor contributions To inler-racial.
inter-falth understanding n the
annual fellowship dinner OF he
Denver Cosmopolitan club tomor-
row. FEB 26. in the Temple EN-
manuel
The meeting will be one Of the
hiphl2hts Of Dcnvers observance
Of Brotherhood Week
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25
Note to BuSSei
In Seattle:

All those who intend to attend
the second postwar Northwest
Young Buddhist convention to be
held March 81 and % in Portland.
Greg. are asked to contact either
Sachi Yasui of the Senior Girls.
EA. 1884, Jack Sameshima of the
Senior Boys and Junior Boys, PR.
1923. Lucille Nakamura of the
Anandas, GIL. 1912 jill, or Jane HI
no of the Starlets. PR. 9412, by
Sunday Feb. 20.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25

Men ore Won. not so much BY be
Ing blamed 1z ~ being ercon}Pa S.
ad WITH loz.c --Charnirg
cents FOR thC bon0uet for those who
do not register.
Grant st Methodist church, scene
Of the second annual YPCc, Is at
Fifth and Grant In Spokane, &C
cording 70 p1blIcity chairman rum
Usstna.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-02-25
FOtO Club Plans
Friday Assembly

RPC Rainier Photography Club
viii hold its meeting at 7:30 pm.
this Friday. Feb n. IN the Seattle
buddhist temple
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Germ0nd
CONTINUED From Page D-1.)

and Mrs. Robert Hale, wife Of Rep
resentative Hale of Maine, were
hostesses at the tea table. Those
alternating at pouring included Mrs.
Guy Gordon, wife of Senator Cor
don of Roseburg, the home town of
Representative and Mrs. Ellsworth;
Mrs. Wayne Morse, wife of Oregon's
Junior Senator; Mrs. Homer Angel,
wife Of Representative Angel; Mrs.
Lowell Stockman, wife of Repre-
sentative Stockman, and Mrs. Walter
Norbald, wife Of Representative
Norbald, all Of Oregon; Mrs. Frank
Barrett, wife of Representative Bar
rett of Wyoming; Mrs. Ellsworth
Buck, wife Of Representative Buck
of New York; Mrs. Leroy johnson,
wife Of Representative johnson of
California; Mrs. Joseph R. Earring
ton, wife of the Delegate from
Hawaii, and Mrs. Elon Forbes
Tandy, formerly of Oregon.
Punch was served in the small
room, Mrs. Harry McGregor, wife
Of Representative McGregor of Ohio,
presiding over this refreshment.
Those assisting her in serving were
Mrs. Marshall Tendra of Oak Ridge,
Tenn; Mrs. Hubert Ellis, wife of
Representative Ellis of West Vir-
ginia; Mrs. Errett Scrivner, wife of
Representative Scrivner of Kansas,
and Mrs. Sid Simpson, wife of Rep
resentative Simpson of Illinois.
Official Escorts Bride
Lighted candles and vases filled
with white flowers were on the altar
Of the church for the wedding cere-
mony, which took place at noon
with the Rev. Russell A. Phelan
officiating.
Representative Ellsworth escorted
his daughter. whose bridal ensem-
BILE included bouquet of white
orchids-a surprise gift from Mrs.
Harrington, who had two large boxes
Of the flowers flown from Hawaii
for the occasion. A circular yoke of
lace trimmed with narrow bands of
satin and crystal beads featured the
brides gown Of white satin and her
veil of French illusion was draped
from a crown of tiny handmade
flowers that came from Czecho-
slovakia.
Miss Jane Ellsworth was her
sisters maid of honor and the other
attendants were Miss Marialyce
Barrett, Miss Susan Slater, who
came from Portland, Greg, for the
wedding, and Mrs. o. j. Buck of
Staten Island ALI of them wore
ice blue satin, Miss Ellsworths gown
being worn over a hoop and her
bouquet of gardenias being centered
with white orchids. Their head
dresses of blue satin were fashioned
like that of the bride, the maid of
honor only wearing a matching
shoulder veil and the bouquets of
the others were of gardenias.
Mr.. Richard G.. Smith of Ann
Arbor, Mich, was best man for Mr..
Dittman and the ushers were the
latter's cousin, Mr.. Eugene Miller
of Chicago; Mr.. Truman Cummings
of Cleveland and Marine Corps 1t.
Carl Henry Smith, stationed at
Quantico.
After their wedding trip, Mr.. and
Evening star., 1948-04-11

their home in Cambridge, Mass, for
an Easter vacation visit. They we're
accompanied by their son. Philip
Bradley, who returned with them
when they left Friday evening to go
back to Cambridge. where Mr..
Bradley Is an assistant professor
at Harvard University.
Also here for an Easter visit with
his parents was Mr.. Marshall Wiley
OF Chippewa Falls, who returned
to Wisconsin early last week. To-
morrow Mrs. Wiley's sister-in-law,
Mrs. r. d. Jenkins. will arrive
from Bronxville, N. Y, to spend
q few days and to attend the
breakfast to be given Wednesday
by the Congressional Club In honor
of Mrs. Truman.
Mrs. Thor G. Tollefson. wife Of
Representative Tollefson Of Wash
ington, also will have out-of-town
guests at the breakfast Wednesday,
which will be given at the Statler.
They are Mrs. Bertha Tollefson Of
Tacoma, Wash, and Mrs. Mollie
Distad Of Perley, Mimi, who ar
rived . week ago yesterday for an
extended visit.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Princess T0NssOatn,
Cornelius Bretscb
Haze Grill Weddine

At q civil ceremony yesterday
afternoon inlher Georgetown home,
Princess Emina Toussoun became
the bride Of Mr.. Cornelius
B. Bretsch Of washington and
Raleigh, N. G.
The daughter OF the late Prince
Omar Toussoun and the former
Princess Behidja Hassan, who was
related to the King Of Egypt, met
her future husband when he was
a lieutenant commander In the
Navy and stationed in Egypt. He is
now an economic analyst with the
Federal Housing Administration.
For the simple wedding in the
presence OF a few friends, the bride
wore q Balmain gown Of brown
satin with pink flowers in her hair.
The dress was floor length, with a
full skirt, and embroidered with
gray pearls and gold thread. Mime.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c. D
II,

Gertrudes Wissa of Cairo and
Washington, was her only at
tendant, wearing a Navy blue crepe
gown trimmed In lace.
Mr.. David Close, the brides
lawyer and an old friend, gave her
in marriage, and the best man was
Mr.. John Timberlake Gibson, who
served in the Navy with Mr..
Bretsch.
A small reception followed the
ceremony which took place at 2:30
o'clock and Mr.. and Mrs. Bretsch
left later for New York. They
will return in a weeks time to
make their home here.
Evening star., 1948-04-11

Engagement old

Mrs. Anne. Bluestone announces
the engagement of her daughter.
Miss Irene Bluestone, to Mr.. e.
David Metz, son Of Rabbi and Mrs.
Solomon II. Metz. The bride-elect
is the daughter Of the late Mr..
Samuel Bluestone. The wedding
will take place May ~.
Mr.. Metz viii be graduated from
the University Of Maryland where
he is q member of Tau Beta Pi.
Evening star., 1948-04-11
Mrs. Dittmann will make their
home In Chicago.
Other NewS of Interest

Senator and Mrs. Alexander Wiley
Of Wisconsin have been enjoying a
family reunion, and tomorrow an
other relative will arrive for visit
Of several days. Senator and Mrs.
Wiley's son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip B. Bradley,
came q couple of weeks ago from
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Rice Po11ed Herefords
Bring $1,O64 Average

IT WAS A PERFECT day Oct. Il
in Sheridan, Wyo., when John e.
Rice wrote another chapter of Polled
Hereford history with his annual
sale.
The 43 catalogued animals. bred
and raised by Rice, sold to a medium
sized crowd representing nearly
every state in the Union for a total
of $45, 760-an average of $1,064. The
bidding was slow and spotty, but
Auctioneers Art Thompson and H. B.
Sager managed to ring up a total of
$25,725, or an average of $1,345 for
10 bulls, and a total of $40, 035, or an
average of 1894 for "a females in
the offering.
And after the catalogued cattle
had been sold, Sd cows, mostly dry
and just off pasture, we're brought
in and sold at an average of Sab
a total of an additional $22,585. A.
M. Peters of Wibaux, Mont. bought
43 head of these, thus possibly hang
ing up some sort of record for pur-
chasing practically 80 percent of
this additional offering.
There were two top prices-a bun
and a heifer-and both of them went
to Banner, Wyo. At $500. D. o.
Geyer of that community topped
the bull offerings, purchasing Nu-
mode Both. And at the same price,
his neighbor William Moore topped
the female division of the sale, Sc
lecting Trumaid Domino 111th.
Another bull, Trumode Domino
10th, sold for $4,000 to Carney Red
man of Wyola, Mont. Then there
were two more bulls that brought
$4,000 each. These were Numode
25th, purchased by Reuben Ander-
son of Great Falls, Mont, and Nu-
mode 18th, bought by H. & I. Dun
can of Sheridan, Wyo.
William Spidel, owner of Roberts
Loan & Cattle Co., Roundup, Mont,
was largest buyer of the Rice-bred
females, topping his purchases with
Trumaid Domino 109th at an even
ST, 200.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
Malta Sale Realizes
$628 Average

WHEN THE HAMMER fell for the
final time at Malta, Oct. 18th, the
sixth annual sale of the association
had rung up an average of $628.70
On the As bulls selling.
F. A. Ralston, Bozeman, picked
a Higgins Bros bull, Advance Lin
coin Seth, for the championship spot
in the judging of the sale entries the
preceding day. This son of Advance
Hartland was one of the most mel
low bulls of the offering, and it was
this point, plus his fleshing ability,
which swung the judges decision in
his favor. Kohut Bros, Stockett,
purchased the bull in the sale at
$1,375.
Second in line in the judging line
up, and top selling was a Holman
bred bull, Mischief Domino 10th. A
Content rancher and treasurer of the
association, Bill Arlington, pur-
chased the bull at $1,000. North
bench Farms purchased a potential
herdsire, F. P. Anxiety 10th, a J. I.
Burch, Choteau, consignment at
$1,000.
ALI Watkins, Malta, purchased
two bulls at $500 each, one from the
H. L. Holiday estate, Fairfield con-
signment, another from the A. r.
Woodland, Roy, consignment. Obert
Nyland, Wolf Point took the other
Woodland bull at the same figure. A
10 of SV F1ashy Mixer from the
Sim & Schock, Highwood, consign-
ment went to Alfred Blunt, Regina,
at 1885. From Becker Herefords, a
son of Young Mixture at $500 sold
to w. D. Kuhr, Chinook.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-11-01
X The Kohut Bros, Stockett

On their purchase Of our grand cham
pion bull, ADVANCE LINCOLN 5oth,
at the Northeastern Montana Here
ford association show ond sole of
Malta.
The Nome nugget., 1948-03-22
Will Override Tax Slash Veto

WASHINGTON, (P)-The Sen ate today passed the Republican bill to cut income taxes nearly five Billion. The vote was 78 to II, for thore than the two-thirds needed for passing 1t over a veto. The bill how goes to the House which pre- viously had voted a six and half billion cut.
 Some opponents insisted a two thirds margin could not be main- tained against the veto the Repub- Ecans say they expect. It would have to be-in both the Senate and House-to override President Tru- inan's disapproval.
 However, Republican hopes that a veto could be killed remained high. It was put into words by the party's newest convert to tax re- duction, Senator Morse of Oregon. He told reporter: Overriding a veto is in the bag"