Word: ebihara
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...Thailand's Pone Kingpetch, 27: his third world flyweight (112 Ibs.) championship, beating Japan's Hiroyuki Ebihara, who knocked him out in one round last September, by a split decision, in Bangkok's steaming (90°) Rajdamnern Stadium...
...Tokyo-born Henry Ebihara, 24, became the first to jump at a brand-new War Department ruling permitting alien Japanese to enlist in the U.S. Army. Ebihara, whose younger brothers & sisters are all citizens, was brought to the U.S. at the age of two. A Cleveland war-plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another...
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