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Show Weekly Church Weekly Church Edition Edition SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER Japanese Aid D. S. Members L. 28, 1942 U. S. Soldiers On Hawaii Have Drive- $1 1 ,000 Subscribed To Fund For Army BY JAY C. JENSEN of the Japanese Mis, sion) THREE of our Japanese Sunday Schools in Honolulu convene at eight o'clock. At the hour of attack on that fateful December 7th I was attending the Kalihi Sunday School, the one nearest Pearl Harbor. From the chapel grounds we watched the Japanese aircraft in formations of nine fly back and forth. Shells were bursting among them all the time but no planes fell. Wedecided, with the majority who were watching that it was M Day maneuvers and went on into Sunday School. On ohr way home a bomb burst a little way behind us as we rounded Punch Bowl near Fort and School Streets, but we thought Jt was one of the many guns on Punch (President . Bowl. After crossing a large part, of the city we arrived home and for the first time heard the radio warning everyone "The Japanese are attacking Pearl Harbor "Jake cover" and then came the warnings Keep off "Be Take Cover the streets Calm. - HEAR CHOIR The radio was then turned to the regular program of the hour and the very first words were the last stanza of "Come, Come Ye Saints." It was-rea- lly a peculiar feeling to hear the Tabernacle Choir come in with the words, And should we die before our journeys through, all is well. Not heeding the announcer we rushed to our chapel at King and Artesian Streets where it was time to commence our Beretania Sunday School. There we found Brother Kay Ikegami The committee and Part of the 6,000 books purchased and presented to U. S. Soldiers in Hawaii by the L. D. S. members of the Japanese Mission in the Hawaiian Islands and their friends who participated in the victory drive. Seen in the photo, left to right, are K. Ikeaami, Sunday School Superintendent; K. Korki, assistant; Chaplains Milton Widdison and Theodore E. Curtis; Pres. Jay C. Jensen of the Japanese Mission; Dr. T. Kat -- sunuma, first baptised L. D. S. Japanese; Eva B. Jensen; Mrs. K. Takeuchi, Mrs. K. Ikegama and William Haraguchi. and family and a few others, all as- martiaLlaw, food rationing, black-outStates is referred to here), carried the sembled and waiting for us. When Brother Ikegami was told to hurry home and take cover, that Jap- report of a speech in Tokyo wherein the speaker stated that when the Japanese took, over Hawaii they would immediately be joined by all the Japanese here. Of course we recognize that as propaganda and disregard such stories but it made first page news at gasoline rationing, vaccination, training in use of gas masks and hundreds of other things incident to war. It has not always been easy to refrain from argument and controversy when fanatics have accused and blamed everyone of Japanese ancestry for the war, condemning innoc-ulation- an was attacking Pearl Harbor, his face turned an ashen color and he half gasped "Oh no it cant be true." A few minutes later a bomb hit at the corner of King and McCully Streets, only a hundred yards from our chapel, and a block of buildings were burned and some lives were lost. Another bomb struck in the yard of the Lunalilo School where up to August our Sunday School had been meeting. The school was set afire and the top story burned off. MANY EXPERIENCES Well during the past ten months we have seen many things have gone through the varied experiences of home. them along with the Japanese government and their Shinto belief, which teaches them that they are the superior race, destined to rule and reign. Even here in the islands, where there are many more Japanese than any other race, many people doubt that there are any of Japanese extraction who would be loyal in case of Japanese invasion of these islands. Some few weeks ago the mainland papers, (as the continental United SEEK TO AID On June 4 Brothers Kay Ikegami, Kazuto Koroki and Koichi Takeuchi, the Superintendency of our Beretania Sunday School came to see me. They said they would like to do something for the soldiers who are protecting and defending us, our homes and property and the freedom of our land. They had in mind some kind of a kit (Continued e Six) of the Were United For Victory drive of the L. D. S. Japanese Mission, are seen at the Victory social held in the L. D. S. Tabernacle, last month. (Photo by Signal Corps, U. S. Army). . . - on-Pag- . J r V |