|
See USE NOTICE on Home Page. |
|
All Manzanar Free Press articles, photos, and advertisements from issues located in the U. S. Library of Congress archives. |
Manzanar Free Press Complete Issues from the Manzanar National Historic Site 
|
There is so much content in the Manzanar Free Press issues from 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945 that I had to limit the material being posted. I hope you like the items I have posted. I picked items from one day of each month of each of the four years the Manzanar Free Press was in operation. I tried to represent all aspects of life at the Manzanar WRA as presented in the newspaper. |
|
Word #2 From The Website Author — After reading articles, by the scads, posted in the Free Press I have come to the conclusion that life in Manzanar, although not like that from whence the internees came, was not a concentration camp. U.S. WRA relocation centers were light years different from either German or Japanese concentration camps. Life might have been difficult but apparently movement in and out and among the centers was easy. Job offers from outside of the centers were apparently bountiful and always being offered to internees. The centers certainly were not heaven-on-earth . . . but they were not the death camps you would find in either Germany or the occupied territories of Japan during WWII. |
January 1944 |
 |
||||
 Around the Blocks — Block 6, 11, 17, 30 |
 Joseph Grew Makes Stand for Nisei |
|||
 Governor Earl Warren Rebukes Three Members of the State Board of Agriculture for Favoring Nisei's Return |
 Bill Horimoto Strikes Out 16 of the Sears |
|||
|
 |
|||
 In Appreciation: Mrs. Tatsuno Ishida Motoyoshi & Tsui Murakami Mr. & Mrs Tamotsu Hirashima |
 In Appreciation: Yasu Sato Mr. & Mrs Okami Goro Watanabe, Hayako Watanabe Ichiji Tanaka |
|||
 Notice: Rev. Kubose allows evacuees to remove household goods and personal property from temple. |
 Now Showing: Stage Door Canteen |
|||
  A Victorious New Year to You — America |
||||
 January 1 Would Not be a Holiday but a Work Day |
 New Year's Day Menu |
|||
 Mattress Factor to Begin Operation |
 No Japanese Should Return to California |
|||
 Happy New Year — Manzanar Cooperative Enterprises, Inc. |
||||
|
||||
Inyo County to Enforce Ordinance on Gambling, Happy New Year Greetings from Ralph Merritt |
||||
 199 Cattle Arrived From Los Angeles |
  Relocation of Residents Halted Until January 10th |
|||
 New Rulings on Mess Hall Use |
||||
 Girls Basketball Season Delayed — Register Now |
||||
February 1944 |
 File Income Tax Teturns by March 15th |
|||
 Residents Disturbed Over Japanese Camps Atrocity News |
 Render Cautions to Male Citizens Here |
||
|
 Local Hospital Faces Severe Labor Shortage |
||
 |
|||
 Begin Basic English Classes for Adults |
 Farewell Judo Tournament on Sunday |
||
 Explanation for Removal of Ben Kuroki From Radio |
 Local Police Department Offers New Course in Fingerprinting |
||
 Frances Fumiko Iritani |
 Expect Shipment of Hogs From Nevada |
||
 Snow on Sunday . . . AGAIN |
|||
 Sold at Your Local Canteen — Carnation Brand, Homare Brand, Ocean Fresh Brand, Oboro EBI |
|||
 Arrest Japanese in Forbidden Area |
 Tell Peace Officers of Nisei Volunteers |
||
  Student Clearance Methods Facilitated |
 Job Offers — Lathe Worker, Dental Technician |
||
   Questions and Answers About the Draft |
|||
 New Physical Exam Procedure Gives 60 Days Before Induction, Rev. H. G. Bovenkerk to Tell Experiences Abroad |
|||
  Never Say Quit |
|||
  Yogies Bees Edge Solons — 35 to 34 |
 In Appreciation: Mr. & Mrs Yuichi Hirata Mareo and Satoru Masunaka Keiko Hori Mototaro Uyeda Isomatsu Miake Seizo Abe Yoshi Kimura Kozi Yoshida Kiyoka Yoshida Manzanar Christian Church |
||
  Wee Funsters, Stardusters nab Casaba Openers |
|||
Letters From the Public — Captain Ralph T. Lui |
|||
March 1944 |
Seven Boys Held on Unauthorized Leave |
|||
 Seven Boys Held on Unauthorized Leave |
|||
 WRA Pamphlet Gives Facts on the Relocation Center |
 House Passes Bill Aimed at Disloyals |
||
|
|||
 Tennis Club Pictures |
 Young Mother, Betsy Nakano, Dies |
||
   Responsibility to U.S. Told to Delegates |
 A Year Ago This Week |
||
 Nisei Soldier Downs Fellow CYO Pugilist |
|||
 In Appreciation — Kaname Nakamura Selichi Nakamura Towa Nakamura |
|||
 In Appreciation — Nob Myose |
|||
 Wasting Time |
|||
Girls Casaba Scoring Released |
|||
  Draft Laws |
|||
April 1944 |
 Supreme Court Set for Korematsu Case |
 Miss Chiye Horiuchi of Minidoka Speaks on Racial Groups |
  Nisei WAC Departs for Basic Training |
 Redbirds Trim Titans, 22-20 |
 In Appreciation — Shigeo Taguchi |
|
|
 Repair Tickets to be Issued at Shop |
 Extend Invitations for Outside Groups |
 Native Sons Deny Rights to Citizens |
 A Useful Witness |
|
 Lay Blame of War Prejudice |
|
|
|
  Discrimination Said Not the Reason for Segregated Teams |
 Alabama Kibei Await Court Martial Trial |
 Hawaiians Presented with Purple Hearts |
|
 Buddhist Church to be Move to Mess Hall 18 |
|
|
|
 Block 16 to Vacate for Use by Community Center and Schools |
|
 Letter From the Public by N. Fuller Robinson, D.O. Five Million Men to go Abroad by July |
|
 Resident Here Discovers Monster at Local Creek |
|
May 1944 |
 Manzanar Free Press — May 3, 1944 |
|
 Girls Take Note — Softball Sign-up |
 Expect More Evacuees |
|
 33 Nisei Girls Sought by WACs |
  G. I. Nisei "Firsts" |
  Vitals |
 Three Nisei Win Honors in Missouri |
 Uncle Sam Calls 2446 |
 So Far, So Good by Ernest J. Goppert |
|
June 1944 |
New Regulations Permit Vacation Leaves With Pay |
||||
   In Appreciation — Hatsuyuki Hirabayashi Hajimi Hirabayashi Masaharu Okabe Sakee S. Kusayanagi Mr. & Mrs Bob Fukuhara |
||||
 Pictures by Ansel Adams Prove Popular Here |
 Reminder to Girls — Remit Softball Fees |
|||
 Sketches of Former Resident, Henry Fukuhara, to be Exhibited |
 Manzanar Relocation Program Statistics |
|||
 Dr. Genevieve Carter Reveals School Statistics |
 Sportfolio by Jim |
|||
 The Twenty Thousand by K. Matoba |
  Seek Nisei Couple for Farm Offer |
|||
  Japanese American Destination by Esther Cook |
||||
 Girl's Softball Predictions Dangerous Combine Sports Menu — Men's Baseball, Girl's Softball |
||||
 Jobs Open for Issei Evacuees |
||||
|
||||
July 1944 |
 Manzanar Free Press — Official Publication of the Manzanar Relocation Center Administration Robert L. Brown, Kishio Matoba Published every Wednesday and Saturday and Distributed Without Cost to Every Apartment |
|
 Raw Milk Now Sold at the Canteen |
 Los Angeles Fish & Oyster Co. |
|
|
 Coney Island Hot Dogs — July 1st and 2nd at the Manzanar Carnival |
|
 Manzanar Carnival to Feature Boots and Entertainment Tonight |
|
  Co-op to be Closed on Fourth of July |
 Emerick Ishikawa Breaks National Record |
  Sideline with Dan |
  The Twenty Thousand by K. Matoba |
 Riley Allen in Washington D.C. |
 Jobs Open to Issei — International Harvester |
   In Appreciation — Yasuko Ogimachi Jun Ogimachi Misato Sakurai Tadayuki Sakurai Mitsuru Nakamura Toshio Kasa |
|
 Annapolis, MD. Board of Public Works Bans Nisei Workers |
 Kaslo, B.C. — McLarty Bill to Disinfranchise Japanese Canadians |
 Coming Attraction — Tarzan's Desert Victory |
|
 Looking at the Facts — Mistreating Fellow Americans |
|
August 1944 |
  Manzanar Free Press |
|||
 The American Way? |
|||
 Parcel Post Being Held for Hama Muraki |
  Canteen Defeats Hospital — 11 to 9 |
||
 Block Managers Meet in Hundredth Assembly Since Reorganization |
|||
  25 Sworn Into Enlisted Reserve Corps in Initial Induction |
|||
Continued Investigation of Warehouse Fires |
|||
Heroic Contribution of Japanese Americans in European and Pacific Battlefields Editorial by Saburo Tour |
|||
September 1944 |
 Manzanar Free Press — Editorial Staff, Japanese Section, Advertising Department |
|||
 Colliers Praise the 100th Battalion |
 Clearance Problem Passed at Manzanar |
||
    Dollars and Sense by Chester Ito |
  Co-op Nominees |
||
  Hoover Denounces Rumors of Hawaii |
|||
  India Experiences Told by Sergeant Shori Hiraide |
|||
 Mokusa Niina of Block 17 Leaves for Cozad Nebraska |
   G. I. Joe |
||
 Nisei's Exploit in Italy Told |
|||
 Now Showing — Remarkable Andrew |
|||
 Not a Race Question — Loyal Japanese Americans |
|||
 Labor Day Rodeo to be Held in Bishop, CA |
  Miss Helen Nixon Pleased With Work |
||
 Jesuit Father John Healy Visits |
 Leave Score |
||
  Optomologist Slated Here on September 4-7 |
 Two Maryknoll Sisters Visit Manzanar Center |
||
  In Appreciation — Soji Tanahashi Kin Tanahashi Edward G. Chester |
|||
  The Kami - Kaze by Anon |
 Town Hall Topics by Frank Yasuda |
||
 |
|||
USO to Honor Families of Servicemen at Program The Movie "Go For Broke" Showing Nisei Servicemen of the 442nd Infantry Battalion in Training Will be Shown. |
|||
 |
|||
 Evening Under the Stars Concert Featuring "Etenraku" and "Japanese Nocturen" by Leopold Stowkowski to be Played |
 Motor Pool downed by Canteen — 7 to 1 |
||
  Cougar Babes Fight Desperately H. Yamashita Stars for the Canteens |
|||
 Loss of a True Friend — Tom Treanor, killed in action near Paris |
|||
October 1944 |
  |
|
   As They Leave |
 Casualty List Compiled — 45 Killed |
 Release Statistics on WRA Center Population |
|
 To Distribute Oil Soon |
|
 New York WRA Head Here to Counsel Resettlers |
 Future Violators Face Jail in Bishop, CA |
  Thomas Flays Opposers of West Coast Return |
 Native Sons Hit Hawaii |
 Chicago Housing Unit Available for Girls |
 Relocation Offers Here for Domestic Workers |
 Faith in America |
|
  Motor Pool Squeezes Past Yogores in 4-3 Win |
|
 Second Reservist Group Called — Ten to Leave Friday Morning for Fort Douglas |
|
November 1944 |
 Fight for Rights as Americans |
 100th Commander Receives Citation — Gordon Singles |
 Dr. Obo Toshikazu Sakaguchi |
 Father Geis Tells Feeling on Japanese |
 President Roosevelt Lifts Martial Law |
|
 Tell of Nisei Women in War Effort |
 School Girl Tells Weird Scream Story |
 Pfc. Thomas Higa Slated for Manzanar Visit |
 Rally Day Coming Reports Rev. H. G. Bovenkerk |
 Town Hall Topics by Frank Yasuda |
 USO Reports Change — Miyo Kunsunoki |
 West Coast Travelogue Films |
|
 Yogores Will Meet the Co-op |
|
 Sergeant Togo S. Sugiyama Raises "Havoc" Against German Machine Gunners |
|
 Nisei Artilleryman Decorated With Silver Star for Gallantry |
|
 Nisei Gunner Faces Heavy Fire to Save Buddies' Lives in Italy |
|
  Japanese American Captures Germans — Sergeant Kay Ihara |
 442nd Combat Team Wins Infantry Badge |
 Now Showing — The Navy Way |
|
  Letters From the Public — Lillian Y. Matsumoto |
|
 Hawaii Nisei Apply for Enlistment into Women's Army Corp |
 In Appreciation — George Takeshita Setsuko Takeshita Gary Takeshita |
December 1944 |
 Charge WRA Uses "Brazen Propaganda" |
 Classified Ads — Electric Stove, Electric Washing Machine |
  As I Was Saying by Bill Kitayama |
|
 Do Your Part — Manpower Shortages |
 WRA Reports Wider Evacuee Distribution |
 Comming Attraction — Corvette K-225 Starring: Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines |
 New Members Initiated into Manzaknights |
 Nisei Found Guilty of Draft Violation |
 Frank Hon Warns Residents on Overheating Stoves |
 Manzanar Free Press Wants Soldier's Address |
 Children 15 Years Old and Under to See Corvette K-225 |
 Frank Yasuda is a Papa Again |
 Town Hall Topics by Frank Yasuda |
 Former Commander of American Legion Pays Tribute to Nisei |
|
 Sporting Goods Department — Flower Shop |
|
 WRA Releases Total Nisei Casualties on Western Front — 20 Killed, 68 Wounded |
|
  Purely Personal by Sue Kunitomi |
|
  Facts About Evacuee Property |
|
 List of Future Movies — Yellow Canary, King of the Wild 4 - 12; Ghost Catchers; Lady Takes a Chance; Night of Adventure; His Butler's Sister; Government Girl; Adventures of a Rookie; Fighting Frontier; Overland Mail 1 - 10; Follow the Boys; Powers Girl; You're a Lucky Fellow Mr. Smith; Show Business; This is the Life; In Society; Merry Monohans; Around the World |
|
  Is It Patriotic? |
|
 Letter Gives Clear Picture of Chicago |
|
 Nine Selectees Inducted into Enlisted Reserves at Ceremony |
|
 |
Manzanar - American Memory Project | |
|
Manzanar High School Portraits & History | |
|
Manzanar Journal - Ben Baker (Another Side of Manzanar) |
|
|
1943 — More Manzanar Free Press — 1945 |
 |
|
Manzanar Town |
|
|
|
Owens Valley Aqueduct History |
|
|
|
Mt. Whitney Pack Trains Historic Brochure |
|
  Sign Guestbook View Old Guest Book Entries Oct 1999 - Feb 2015 (MS Word) |
 CONTACT the Pigmy Packer |
 View Guestbook View Old Guest Book Entries Oct 1999 - Feb 2015 (PDF) |
This page was last updated on
17 January 2024