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STATE SUSPENDS ALL JAPANESE EMPLOYES
By United Press

LOS ANGELES, April 3.—The State Personnel Board today cleared the state payroll of between 350 and 400 Japanese-American employes.

The board in session here suspended all Japanese-American employes of the state, effective immediately, pending charges to be filed by heads of their departments or the Personnel Board itself.

Executive Officer Ivan Sperbeck said the Japanese generally would be accused of holding dual citizenship in both Japan and the United States. Some will be charged with falsifying civil service applications and others will be accused of attending Japanese language schools where Nipponese ideology was cultivated.


The San Francisco News
April 3, 1942

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