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Mcallen Daily Monitor
Mcallen, Brownsville, Harlingen, Hidalgo County, Cameron County, Texas
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Federal government takes steps to prevent violence against nearly 1,000 Japanese farmers ordered out of Arizona's Salt River Valley by white farmers, amid enforcement of alien land law barring non-native Orientals from owning or leasing agricultural land. Gov. B. B. Moeur asked to avoid straining U.S.-Japan relations.
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PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 22.—(AP) The federal government took steps today to prevent possible violence against nearly 1,000 Japanese ordered by white farmers "To get out and stay out" of the fertile Salt River valley.
Gov. B. B. Moeur was asked by the state department to prevent happenings "which would create difficulties in the relations between the United States and Japan."
Simultaneously county officials went ahead to enforce the alien land law which forbids Orientals who are not native Americans owning or leasing agricultural land in Arizona.
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Salt River Valley, Arizona
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Aug. 22.
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Federal government took steps to prevent possible violence against nearly 1,000 Japanese ordered by white farmers to get out and stay out of the fertile Salt River valley. Gov. B. B. Moeur was asked by the state department to prevent happenings that would create difficulties in U.S.-Japan relations. County officials enforced the alien land law forbidding Orientals who are not native Americans from owning or leasing agricultural land in Arizona.