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Show through the Universit and fought in Italy "ft h Regmiental Wb member of the Ja.LV"' can Citizens' League 5At..; ed "Japanese aL Year" in 1940. mei'lcan 0,':, Mike Masaoka sav i, Irish in him. A Bostn ehai-blood ehai-blood was transfusprt -veins after he was 'nto ti-seas. ti-seas. s vvuncc-d V Utahn Is Subject Of Article In Reader's Digest Without a peer anions: Washington's Wash-ington's thousands of lobbyists is Salt Lake City's Mike Masaoka who, two years ago, "didn't know beans about lobbying." His "monumental" "mon-umental" record in the 80th Congress Con-gress says Alfred Steinberg in the May Reader's Digest, includes the passage of five public and 12 private bills for his Japanese-American constituents. Steinberg's article is condensed from The Sign. Masaoka practices a new kind of lobbying, "free from promises of votes or money." He sums up his success modestly: "Anyone can sell fair play and justice." Bills passed by Congress, at his prod- ding include compensation to 110, 000 Japanese Americans for losses suffered in their evacuation from our West Coast in 1942; payment for fire damage in evacuation camps; permission for GIs to bring Japanese brides to the U. S.; cancellation can-cellation of deportation orders for Japanese aleins; American citizenship citi-zenship for Japenese aleins who served honorably with our armed fcroes. Born in Fresno, Calif., Masaoka came to Salt Lake City as a boy. His father, a fish peddler was killed by a hit-and-run driver; thereafter his mother supported the family with a fruit and fish stand near the State capitol Her customers included many of Utah s Uoliticians, who "fostered m the boy a deep interest in civic af- 1 fairs" Masaoka worked his was |