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Students with German, Italian, and Japanese citizenship have lost all financial assets in addition to being classified as enemy aliens. Fifty-eight students in this category are now stranded without means of continuing their education, and with no possibility of returning to their homes. Another complication arises over the predicament of enemy alien scholarship students, whose stipends are now in danger of being discontinued...
Last week Attorney General Francis Biddle marked off 88 coastal areas from which all enemy aliens will be evacuated by Feb. 24. Forbidden territory so far includes San Francisco's waterfront, where 1,500 alien fishermen keep their boats; all lighthouses, radio and power stations, dams, airports, defense plants; 17 truck-farming districts where Japs for years have grown winter fruits and vegetables for U.S.tables...
...this week descended on San Pedro's Terminal Island, rounded up some 400 alien Japanese fishermen and cannery workers who live right in the middle of one of the Navy's big West Coast stations. (Their alien wives were not bothered.) But in San Francisco's Japanese quarter and Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, Japanese still go about their business unmolested. Another Japanese village at San Pedro looks out on the busy docks and shipyards of the harbor...
Giuseppe Di Maggio, 67, father of Ball players Joe, Dominic, Vince, was officially barred from Son Joe's waterfront restaurant, only a few hundred yards from the Di Maggio home. Reason: the restaurant stands in a defense zone, and unnaturalized Papa Giuseppe is classed as an "enemy alien...
...commercial method of producing toluene was from by-product coke ovens, which were then a bright new technological improvement over beehive ovens. Germany's Heinrich Koppers, at the instigation of U.S. Steel, had begun revolutionizing U.S. coke production with his ovens in the early 1900s. War and the Alien Property Custodian dumped his properties into U.S. hands (chiefly the Mellons') and also accounted for the growth of Koppers Co., which by war's end was putting a new U.S. coke oven into operation every 60 days, a new U.S. toluene plant every six weeks...