Industry & Manufacturing Mtg Minutes 9/12/1942

Industry Minutes of the Industry & Manufacturing Meeting

September 12, 1942 

     Meeting of the Industry and manufacture group held at Block 310 Dining Hall on Saturday, September 12, 1942. The meeting was called to order by Gerald S. Wumino at 8:30 P.M.  Mr. Wumino introduced Mr. Susumu Togasaki who acted as chairman for the evening.   

     "Mr. Burge and Mr. Wumino asked me to explain the industry and manufacture program to you. The main idea of the industry and manufacture is the production of subsistence products, such as tofu, miso, shoyu, moyashi (bean sprouts) noodles within the camp. Other manufactures, production for use, to be considered as possible, are pottery and earthenware, furniture, woodcraft, artistic handicrafts charcoal, home factory products, toys, textile weaving and of course the camouflage net factory. I wish to open this meeting for discussion, ideas, and experiences from all of you and would appreciate your cooperation. This department should be considered a community project not only to produce food and goods, but also as one outlet guiding and encouraging the inhabitants to constructively contribute to the improvement and progress of Poston 3."

     Permission had already been given through Mr. Stults to manufacture tofu in Poston 3 and expectations are that such work will begin about the end of September or possibly at early part of October.

     The point brought to the attention of the meeting is that industry and manufacture cannot expect to make products which would compete with commercial firms outside of this camp. Due to scarcity of materials for certain types of manufacture, we must use what is on hand.    

     Although the prevailing salary scale of $12.00, $16.00 and $19.00 per month would enable us to compete with outside commercial firms, political expediency dooms this type of enterprise. Instead it is more important to bear in mind that industry and manufacture in Poston 3 for the benefit of the community would be more practical and fruitful

     Mr. T. Teruoka, head of the Art Department, stated that Mr. J. Ocllier make the suggestion that Japanese at Poston be given the opportunity to make various handicraft manufactures, such as potteries, weaving, wood-carving, and others. The Smithsonian Institute has a special fund which might be available for the manufacture of such articles. He wished to announce that Mr. Shirazawa of the Adult Education wishes to hold a Fair about the middle of September in which entries will be of various products made by the residents of Poston.

     Mr. K. Harada raised the question: "I would like to know what is to happen to the manufactured pottery and handicraft. Can they be sold in any way?" The W.R.A. will sell such manufactured goods and would like to have the community we the funds for various beneficial activities, such as for recreation and other projects.

     Mr. Yutani: "I find that working with mesquite in making small curios and handicrafts, there is not much need for tools and equipment of which there is a great shortage at the present time. There is also a possibility of using some of the waste wood for making charcoal."

     Mr. Z. Ota: "I feel that more wages would be the best incentive toward better production of goods. Also better wages would help a great deal toward the purchasing of tools and equipment necessary for production." 

QUESTION: Is it permissible to cut mesquite trees?

     According to Mr. Wumino, permission is not granted as yet to cut mesquite trees until a survey has been completed. It has been decided that 150 ft. of mesquite border will be left around the camp site to act as windbreak and also as park when the trees have been trimmed and the dead and unnecessary underbrush cleared away. 

QUESTION: How would the camp benefit by manufacturing such food products as shoyu, tofu, miso and others, when the army can purchase such goods for us?

     The army is paying at prevailing market price for such goods, and even if purchased in large quantities, the manufactured goods by ourselves in camp would be of less cost. Therefore, if we can manufacture such foodstuffs at less cost, we would benefit greatly in that only a certain allocated sum is allowed for food per person. For example if tofu cost the army 5¢ per person, and we can manufacture for 4¢ per person, then we would benefit 1¢ and thus be able to obtain that much additional allowance for other foodstuffs upon the suggestion of the administration.

It was decided at this meeting that industry and manufacturing group is to have one chairman, one vice-chairman, and 6 assistant chairman to supervise, carry on and to administer various projects relative to subsistence and production for use. It is understood that this committee is on a temporary basis.  Mr. Susumu Togasaki has been elected by the various members to act as temporary chairman for the Industry and Manufacturing projects in Poston 3.  Mr. Togasaki is to select a committee of 6 members and to submit such names to the group for approval at the next meeting.

     The meeting was then adjourned. 

ANNOUNCEMENT:

There will be a meeting of the Agricultural group, Tuesday, September 15 at Block 310 Dining Hall at 8:30 P.M. subject to change or postponement.

INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURE SUGGESTIONS

1. "Hardwood" furniture from mesquites
2. Pottery and earthenware
3. Subsistence products--tofu, miso, shoyu, udon, moyashi, char shu, tsukemono, etc.
4. Woodcraft and artistic carvings
5. Toys
6. Weaving and handiwork
7. Charcoal
8. Novelty ornaments

• I. SUBSISTENCE GOODS
• Tofu
• Miso
• Shoyu
• Bean Sprouts
• Noodles Soba
• Tsukemono
• II. DURABLE GOODS
• Coolers
• Household Furniture
• Office Furniture
• III. MANUFACTURING FOR RECREATIONAL USE
• Playground Equipment
• Slides
• Swing
• Sand box
• Trapeze
• IV. MANUFACTURING OF WAR PRODUCTION GOODS
• Charcoal
• V. MANUFACTURING FOR RELOCATION CENTER EXCHANGE
• Pottery
• Earthenware
• Wood carvings
• Toys
• Chopsticks
• Novelty Ornaments
• Weaving
• Hardwood ware
• VI. ACCOUNTING & DISTRIBUTION
• Cost Accounting
• Distribution of Foodstuff
• Distribution of Recreational Equipment

PERSONS AT INDUSTRY & MANUFACTURING MEETING

• E. Matsumura 307-9-A Toy Industry
• T. Yutani 326-13-A Industry & Manufacturing
• M. Harada 316-14-A Industry & Manufacturing
• R. T. Hara 309-4-B Tofu Manufacture
• H. Iwata 307-3-A Industry & Manufacturing
• S. Togasaki 307-5-A Industry & Manufacturing
• T. Tsuruoka, Advisor 308-9-B Handicraft
• Ben Yamaguchi 326-8-D Industry--Noodles, etc.
• Sam Uyeno 309-9-B Block printing---Farming
• Mr. Arikawa 307-4-D Industry& Manufacturing
• Leslie Abe 330-13-A Industry
• Sam Rokutani 308-6-D Accounting
• Moto Asakawa 330-14-B Industry Management & Manufacturing
• Otokichi Kushino 330-9-D Agriculture
• Reo Abe 309-1-B Farming
• Y. Kobayashi 309-2-C Farming
• K. Shiba 309-12-A Farming
• K. Togioka 309-2-D Farming
• G. Morikawa 309-13-H Farming
• N. Kawaguchi 309-5-D Farming
• D. Uyeno 309-9-B Farming
• S. Fuchiwaki 316-14-F Observer---Farming
• H. Kiritani 309-1-A Farming
• E. T. Takahashi 309-3-B Farming
• Z. Ota 309-14-D Farming
• S. Shiba 309-9-D Farming
• M. Kadsmam (?) 306-6-_ Farming
• G. Rokutani 308-6-D Observer
• K. Suyemoto 309-8-D Farming
• K. Yamane 309-8-A Nurseries
• H. Fujimoto 309-2-A Farming
• T. Sekishiro 309-2-B Farming
• E. Endo 309-3-A Farming
• K. Watanabe 309-3-A Farming
• G. Shiozaki 309-9-A Farming
• T. Umeda 309-12-D Farming
• J. Fujimoto 309-2-A Farming
• B. Sekishiro 309-2-B Farming

* Persons misunderstood announcement. Farm group were present at this meeting.

"Porter Please" Show

  Written and Produced

by 

MASQUERADERS--

  Hospital Auditorium

December 10-11, 1943

8 o'clock

PROGRAM 

SCENE I
  Parker, Arizona

"Moonlight On The River Colorado"

Quintet-  Pauline Takahashi, Tomiko Fukuda, Rita Otsuki, 

Mary Nagata, and  Chizuko Akiyama

Quartet-  Kaye Kokubun, Haruto Shimizu, 
Yasuo Yoshida, and Edwin Hiroto

SCENE II  

Nogales, Arizona

 Spanish Dance...Mitsey Ohye

 Spanish Songs and Dance...Chiyeko Sato, Misao Nimura,  Rinko Fujimi, Kazue Abe, Kazuko Sato, Terry Masuda, Haruko Kobashi, Peggy Tanaka, Yayeko Baba, Yayeko Hosokawa, Rose Yamada, and Ruby Yoshida. 

SCENE III  

Albuqerque, New Mexico

"Indian Love Call" 
Duet....Kaye Kokubun, and Kay Awaya.

Indian Dance...Haruko Fujii, Kaz Kawanuma, Yas Yoshida, and  Willie Manada

Indian Squaws...Mary Tanaka, and Yayeko Sawabe

   

SCENE IV 
Fort Worth, Texas

"Pistol Packin' Mama"

"Home On The Range" 

  

Quartet....Kaye Kokubun, Edwin Hiroto, Haruto Shimizu, and Yas Yoshida.

Cowboy Dance.

    

SCENE V  
Arkansas

Arkansas Traveler...Haruto Shimizu

SCENE VI  
Chicago, Illinois

 Ballroom Dancing...Yas Yoshida, and Yuriko Morikawa

 

SCENE VII  

Mobile, Alabama

"Old Back Joe"....Lily Endo, Terry Masuda

Skit......Haruto Shimizu, Edwin Hiroto

 SCENE VIII 

Miami, Florida

Hula.......Sally Maeda

Duet.......Terry Masuda, Lily Endo

SCENE IX 
Richmond, Virginia

"Carry Me Back To Ole Virginia" 

Quintet...Pauline Takahashi, Tomiko Fukuda, 
Rita Otsuki, Mary Nagata, 
Chizuko Akiyama.

"Paper Doll"....Terry Masuda, Lily Endo

 

SCENE X
Boston, Massachusetts

"Billy Boy-"Virginia Reel"

 Quintet-Pasuline Takahashi, Tomiko Fukuda, 
Chizuko Akiyama, Mary Nagata, Rita Otsuki

 Quartet-Kaye Kokubun, Edwin Hiroto, 
Haruto Shimizu, Yas Yoshida

SCENE XI  
New York

Jitterbug.....Haruko Fujii, Willie Manaka, 
Kaz Kawanuma, Yas Yoshida

"Put Your Arms Around Me".....
Terry Masuda, Lily Endo

Tap Dance..... Terry Masuda, Lily Endo

SCENE X 
Washington, D.C.

 Finale.....Entire Cast

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Tom....Gene Takahashi

Betty...Ruth Anne Yamaguchi

Porters...Roy Otsuka

George Yamaguchi

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Make-Up....Toshi Sato, Linda Sakai, Judy Nosaka

Stage Crew....Takeo Ushiyama, Joe Sugiura, 
Joe Murakami, Jimmy Sakai, Richard Shindo, 
Yoshiaki Tsugimoto, Kiyoshi Shoda, Peter Hayashi,

Ushers...Mie Nagareda, Aiko Oku, Yoshiko Yokota, 
Toshiko Kawai, Etsuko Kikumoto, Toshiko Nakamura,
Helen Ito, Nobuko Suzuki, Kimiko Okanishi, 
Reiko Tamura, Nancy Sakamoto, Ruby Tamura.

Miss Geilser's Art Class for the stage sets; 

Mr. Anderson and Mr. Sugita, and 
Construction Workers for the stage;

Mr. Anderson, Mr. Schultz for the lights;

Miss Geisler, Mr. Tomi and Taffee Tanimoto, 
and Mr. Robert Montgomery for the music;

Hospital for the Auditorium;

Christian Church for the Chairs and Curtains;

Mr. Tad Ochiai and Mr. Ben Sanematsu.

Publicity Chairman....Bernice Setsuda

Ticket Chairman.....Miyoko Sunago

Program Chairman....Frances Nishioka

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Bureau of Sociological Research (BSR)

     After the War Relocation Authority (WRA) was established, Director Dillon Myer hired John Provinse, an anthropologist, as Chief of Community Management in Washington D.C.  He was the first (of 21) anthropologists employed by the WRA to research the internment camp life and help advise the camp administrators.  

Poston Community Analysts

The Community Analysts were instructed to study the "causes of resistance" to the camp administration.  The Community Analysts who were at Poston:

1. Lieutenant Commander Alexander H. Leighton, Medical Corps, USNR.   In August 1942, Lt Cmdr Alexander H. Leighton, consultant with the Indian Personality and Research Project, headed a laboratory, which was established at the Bureau of Sociological Research. 

He recruited 2 anthropologists, Spicer and Colson, and 15 Japanese Americans, and conducted research on the life within the Poston internment camp. Up until 1945, he was employed as a Special Research Physician for the U.S. Indian Service.  In 1945, he worked as a Social Science Analyst for the U.S. Office of War Information. His book, "The Governing of Men", 1945 is based on his research at the Poston, Arizona internment camp.

2. Edward Holland Spicer. In 1942, he began work as a Community Analyst at the Poston, Arizona internment camp.  He taught introduction to anthropology to the  interested internees.  In 1943,  became Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority, and moved to Washington, D.C.

3. Elizabeth Colson. From November 1942- September, 1943, she was an Assistant Social Science Analyst, for the War Relocation Authority on the relocation and the internee response at Poston, Arizona.

4. David Heath French and his wife, Katherine (Story) French, served as Relocation Advisers and Community Analysts with the War Relocation Authority, monitoring the conditions at the Japanese internment camps as part of a program to relieve abuses.

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS)

      The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) was established at the University of California, Berkeley in early 1942 and was directed by Dorothy Swaine Thomas.  JERS monitored the sociological, political, economic, and legal issues of the forced mass relocation. The internees who were hired  documented their own and others' experiences, and reported on certain events and everyday life during the stay in the assembly and relocation centers. The extensive reports about camp life was recorded in journals, diaries, and field reports. In addition, the internees compiled case histories, conducted interviews with other internees and the WRA staff, studied group behavior, and performed statistical surveys.

The JERS staff workers at Poston were:

 1. Tamie Tsuchiyama, UC Berkeley doctorate student, who agreed to join the mainlanders  evacuated to Poston block 31.  The authorities had prior notice that she was a JERS researcher, officially employed by the University of California, Berkeley. 

NOTE:  For more information on TamieTsuchiyama, visit:

<http://postoninterneeobituaries.blogspot.com/2011/06/tamie-tsuchiyama-581915-5141984.html>
 

2. Richard S. Nishimoto, a bi-lingual Issei educated at Stanford University, who was interned with his family at Poston block 45-2-C. Initially, he worked with JERS as an assistant to Tamie Tsuchiyama, and about 6 months later, his assignment was enlarged by JERS director, Dorothy S. Thomas.

NOTE:  For more detailed information about Richard S. Nishimoto, visit:

<http://postoninterneeobituaries.blogspot.com/2011/06/richard-shigeaki-nishimoto-1904-1956.html>

 Other (internee) employees: Tom Sasaki, Chica Sugino, Hisako Fujii, Misao Furuta, Iwao Ishino, Mary Kinoshita, June Kushino, Yoshiharu Matsumoto, Florence Mohri, Akiko Nishimoto, Jyuichi Sato, James Sera, Gene Sogioka, George Yamaguchi, Toshio Yatsushiro, and Kazue Uyeno.

Consultants:

1. Conrad M. Arensberg.  He spent one month in the Poston internment camp community conducting field work, with most of the time spent with various council members. 

2. Laura Thompson, financial consultant to the community analysts.

3. Henry W. Smith, fiscal officer. 

Sources:

1. Starn, Orin. Engineering Internment: Anthropologists and the War Relocation Authority. American Ethnologist, Vol. 13, No. 4. (Nov., 1986), pp. 700-720. Available at: http://www.little-yeti.com/violence/readings/Engineering%20Internment%20-%20Anthropologists%20and%20the%20War%20Relocation%20Authority.pdf

2. http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/kh/tf5j49n8kh/files/tf5j49n8kh.pdf

3. Niiya, Brian.  Japanese American history: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present. 

4.  Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, editor. Inside an American Concentration Camp: Japanese American Resistance at. Poston, Arizona.  Richard S. Nishimoto. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 1995.  

California Govenor Earl Warren's Memoirs

From The Journal of Historical Review, Spring 1980 (Vol. 16, No. 1)

(Slightly revised, August 2010)¹

     A liberal Republican, Earl Warren was elected California Attorney General in 1938^{. 3} As Attorney General of California, he cultivated the popular racist feeling in an apparent effort to further his political career. He was an outstanding member of the xenophobia "Native Sons of the Golden West," an organization dedicated to keeping California "as it has always been and God Himself intended it shall always be -- the White Man's Paradise." The "Native Sons" worked "to save California from the yellow-Jap peaceful invaders and their White-Jap co-conspirators."¹

     In February 1942, Earl Warren testified before a special Congressional committee on the Japanese  question. He would be running for Governor of California that year, and would be elected. Warren testified, falsely, that the Japanese had "infiltrated themselves into every strategic spot in our coastal and valley counties." In one of the most amazing feats of logic ever performed by a lawyer, Warren next claimed that the very fact that no Japanese had so far committed any disloyal act was proof that they intended to do so in the future.¹  Earl Warren played to popular racism to further his political career^{. 2}

California Governor Earl Warren

     Though he helped to modernize the office during his term as Governor of California, Warren's record was tarnished by the fact that he was a key player in the demand that people of Japanese ancestry be removed from the West Coast during World War II. Warren and others justified their actions by insisting that it was a matter of national security, and that California was vulnerable to Japanese spies^{. 1}  Later, when the government began to release Japanese whose loyalty was above suspicion, Governor Warren protested that every citizen so released had to be kept out of California as a potential saboteur.¹

     Thousands of Japanese Americans lost their property and businesses, and were moved to concentration camps for the remainder of the war. Warren defended his actions throughout his public career, but in retirement, he admitted the relocation was a terrible mistake based on unsubstantiated fears^.2,3

The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy ⁴

The Virginia Quarterly Review,  Autumn 1979.

Essay by G. Edward White

   ...  In 1971 Earl Warren , having retired as chief justice of the Supreme Court two years earlier, began writing his memoirs. I was a law clerk to Warren at the time, and he asked for my reactions to drafts of the memoirs as they were prepared. Warren's memoirs, anonymously edited, eventually were published in 1977, three years after his death. For the most part, they were the conventional reminiscences of a public figure. Warren revealed almost no information that was not already available, and in some instances, such as his account of the Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the famous 1954 case invalidating racial segregation in the public schools, he gave a less than full description of events....

     ...One episode of Warren's career, however, received significant, although sparse, attention in his memoirs—the Japanese relocation decision. Warren said that he had "since deeply regretted the removal order and my own testimony advocating it, because it was not in keeping with our American concept of freedom and the rights of citizens." He then articulated his guilt feelings in terms that, for a father of six and a devoted family man, were vividly personal: "Whenever I thought of the innocent little children who were torn from home, school friends, and congenial surroundings, I was conscience stricken." On reflection, Warren believed that "[i]t was wrong to react so impulsively, without positive evidence of disloyalty. . . ." ⁴

Sources:

1. http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p-45_Weber.html

2. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3834.html

3.http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=980a224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD

4. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1979/autumn/white-unacknowledged-lesson/

Albert Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt 1939

       

 

                           

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This letter dated August 2, 1939, was personally delivered to the President on October 11, 1939 by Alexander Sachs, a longtime economic adviser to FDR.  

Albert Einstein was acquainted with the Roosevelts and was internationally recognized for his expertise when wrote this letter telling the President about the dangers of a nuclear chain reaction bomb.

After reading the letter, President Roosevelt told his military adviser General Edwin M. Watson, “This requires action.” This later evolved into the "Manhattan Project".

Source: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/docsworldwar.pdf

Press Release: Executive Order 9066

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February 20, 1942. This press release contains the text of Executive Order 9066  which was issued on the day after Roosevelt signed the order. 

Source: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/internment.pdf

Senator Kilgore's Letter to President Roosevelt 2/19/1942

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February 19, 1942.  Letter from Sen. Harley Kilgore, Democrat, member of the powerful Senate Committee on Military Affairs.  Tells of the political pressure with the issue of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast.

The letter was received by the White House the day after Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

Source: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/internment.pdf

Attorney General's Memo to the President (Roosevelt) 2/17/1942

February 17, 1942.  Memorandum from Attorney General Biddle to President Roosevelt was Biddle’s last, best attempt to steer the President away from the massive, immediate evacuation and internment of Japanese-Americans being proposed by the military.
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In this memo, Biddle clearly tries to limit the Justice Department’s involvement in relocating American citizens, while at the same time warning Roosevelt not to bend to pressure from Congress and from the public outcry being created by outspoken columnists Walter Lippmann and Westbrook Pegler. Lipmmann had recently written that “Nobody’s constitutional rights include the right to reside and do business on a battlefield”, and in a widely read column, Pegler had declared “The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman right now, and to hell with habeus corpus until the danger is over.”

Source: 

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/internment.pdf

Grace Tully, FDR's private secretary

 February 2, 1942 Memorandum to the President’s private secretary Grace Tully from Assistant to the Attorney General James H. Rowe, Jr.  This memo warns the President of the growing public pressure and the constitutional issues involved.

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Source:http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/internment.pdf

FBI REPORTS

FBI SEATTLE   2-15-1942  4-45 PM  KB

DIRECTOR

PEPE. RE ENEMY ALIEN CONTROL.  THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY IS ECLUSIVE OF THE ORIGINAL APPREHENSIONS AND SEARCHES MADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ORIGINAL CUSTODIAL DETENTION LIST.  IT INCLUDES THOSE SEARCHES AND APPREHENSIONS CONDUCTED AND MADE AS AN OUTGROWTH OF INDIVIDUAL COMPLAINTS CONCERNING INDIVIDUAL ENEMY ALIENS AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS CONSIDERED AS SUBVERSIVE AND ORGANIZED FOR THE BENEFIT OF A FOREIGN POWER AND TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE U.S.  THESE FIGURES INCLUDE ALL ACTIVITIES IN THE OFFICES WITHIN THE WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND AND ARE CURRENT TO AND INCLUDING TWELVE O CLOCK NOON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15.

TOTAL JAPANESE RESIDENCES SEARCHED 1190

TOTAL ALIEN JAPANESE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY  813

TOTAL GERMAN RESIDENCES SEARCHED 99

TOTAL ALIEN GERMANS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY 79

TOTAL ITALIAN RESIDENCES SEARCHED 42

TOTAL ALIEN ITALIANS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY 18

GRAND TOTAL SEARCHES MADE 1331

ALL ALIENS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY DELIVERED TO THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE FOR FUTURE HEARINGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH EXISTING INSTRUCTIONS.

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FBI SAN FRANCISCO     FEB. 17,1942         5-30 PM             GWS

DIRECTOR

INSPECTOR GURNEA, SEATTLE

PIPE

ALIEN ENEMY CONTROL, INTERNAL SECURITY J. THE FOLLOWING JAPANESE ALIENS WERE APPREHENDED FEB. SIXTEEN, ON AUTHORITY OF US ATTORNEY.

KANICHI AATAO, SACRAMENTO, PRES. OF TOGO KAI, A MILITARY ORGANIZATION, ELDER IN THE BUDDHIST CHURCH, HAS CONTRIBUTED TO HEIMUSHA KAI, PURCHASED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS JAPANESE GOVT. BONDS, MEMBER OF KENDO CLUB AND DIRECTOR JAPANESE ASSOC.  MAS ITANO, SACRAMENTO, FOUND IN POSSESSION OF CAMERA, SHORT WAVE RADIO, PORTRAIT LENS, SPOT LIGHT AND BOOK OF INSTRUCTION ON WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, MEMBER OF HEIMUSHA KAI.  MASAE KITAGAWA, SACRAMENTO, RESIDED WITH ITANO AND HAD ACCESS TO ABOVE CONTRABAND.  SUBJECT ALSO RESIDING WITH T. ODA AND HAD ACCESS TO TWENTY  GAUGE SHOT GUN AND AMMUNITION, ALSO CAMERA AND SWORD.  SUBJECT IS OFFICIAL OF NYK LINES AND ADMITTED IT TO BE SUBSIDIZED BY JAPANESE GOVT.  IN INTERVIEW STATED THAT HE BEING CITIZEN OF JAPAN OWED ALLEGIANCE AND CERTAIN THINGS TO THAT GOVT.  KIJU SATU, SACRAMENTO, SECTY. OF JAPANESE ASSOC., QUESTIONED AND INTERVIEW REVEAL SUBJECT VERY PRO JAPANESE AND LOYALTY TO US GOVT QUESTIONED.  SHOEI ODA, RESERVE HF JWCER IN JAPANESE NAVY, MEMBER OF KANJA-KAI, NAVAL RESERVE ORGANIZATION AND HAD IN POSSESSION NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF OTHER  MEMBERS OF KANJA KAI.  DOSABURO TAKEMOTO AND HIRONOSUKI MORIMOTO, SACRAMENTO, EQUIPMENT FOUND IN POSSESSION AT RESIDENCE OF BOTH, SIX CAMERAS, FIFTYONE ROLLS OF FILM, ONE FLASHLIGHT AND REFLECTOR, ONE CAMERA TRIPOD, FIFTY ROUNDS  TWENTY TWO CALIBER AMUNITION, ONE TELEGRAPH KEY, THREE PAIRS BINOCULARS, NINETEEN FLASHLIGHTS, ONE HUNTING KNIFE.  TAKAE HAMADA, SACRAMENTO, FOUND IN POSSESSION OF SIX SHOTGUN SHELLS AND ONE DAGGER, COLLECTOR FOR HEIMUSHA KAI AND DIRECTOR OF TOGO KAI.  SUBJECTS LOYALTY TO U.S. QUESTIONED.  ASIKI OKASAIKI, MILLS, CALIF., FOUND IN POSSESSION OF CAMERA, LANTERN, HEADLIGHT USABLE FOR SIGNALLING PURPOSES AND ONE LARGE KNIFE.  TEITSUKE TAKSHOSHI, SACRAMENTO, FOUND IN POSSESSION OF FIVE REVOLVERS, SEVENTYONE ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, TWO AERIAL BOMBS, THIRTEEN KNIVES, TWO SWORDS, A FENCING FOIL AND SIX MILITARY UNIFORMS.  JIRO OKADA, SACRAMENTO, FOUND IN POSSESSION OF ONE HUNDRED TWO ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, ONE PAIR BINOCULARS, LARGE KNIFE, DIRECTOR OF BUTOKU KAI, JAPANESE NAVAL ORGANIZATION, VERY PRO JAPANESE IN ATTITUDE.  SEIGO TAKAI, RFD TWO, SACRAMENTO COUNTY, FOUND IN POSSESSION OF FIVE LARGE KNIVES, INSTRUCTOR FOR BUTOKA KAI, VERY PRO JAPANESE IN ATTITUDE.  MANKI KUSAKABE, MILLS, CALIF., FOUND IN POSSESSION OF TWENTY TWO CALIBER REPEATING RIFLE.  TOYOKICHI SADURADA, SACRAMENTO, STATED THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD HE FIGHT FOR U.S. AND WOULD DO NOTHING TO IMPEDE JAPANESE CONQUEST.  ABOVE SUBJECTS BOOKED AT SACRAMENTO CITY JAIL ENROUTE TO I. AND N. SERVICE.

PIEPER

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The First Christmas

7,000 POSTON CHILDREN IN YULETIDE REMEMBRANCE BY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES, JACL; GIFTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AT BLOCK PARTIES TONITE, TOMORROW

     The children will not be forgotten!  With that as their Yuletide theme, the Christian Churches thruout the Nation have cooperated with the National Japanese American Citizens League in making Christmas, 1942, more merry and more memorable for approximately 7000 Poston children, as well as about 30,000 more in the other nine relocation centers.

      According to Nell Findley, chief of the local Community Services, over 7,000 presents, many of them already beautifully wrapped, have been received from churches situated in the smallest villages to as large as Philadelphia, Pa., where the express charges ranges to as much as $208 for a single package.

     "There won't be a child who will not be made happier," state Miss Findley yesterday as she revealed that the gifts are to be presented to "the tiniest tot to those who are 15 years old!"  Every block is scheduled to sponsor a children's party either tonite or tomorrow evening.

     It was disclosed that the packages "were not only beautifully  wrapped but were also useful and practical," besides being accompanied with written messages of good cheer.  "The gifts were sent with messages denoting of real appreciation of the Christmas spirit," said Miss Findley. 

Source: Poston Chronicles, Vol. 8 No. 10,  Thursday, December 24, 1942

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MCKINLEY HI SENDS $500 GIFT

LARGEST SINGLE  CHRISTMAS GIFT IN POSTON RECEIVED BY THREE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS FROM 4,000 STUDENT OF HONOLULU HIGH SCHOOL.

     Poston's largest single Christmas gift arrived late yesterday afternoon from the Student Body of the McKinley High School, Honolulu, T.H., in the form of a $500.00 check.  The check was made out to the three Poston High Schools.  In this liberal handshake of yuletide Cheer from across the ocean (Nell Findley, head of Community Services and formerly of Hawaii, "That's the meaning of aloha"), the wish was expressed that the $500 be spent for purchase of athletic equipment.

     The gift was accompanied by a letter from Edward "Pop" Kendall to Miles Carey, Superintendent of the Poston schools.  Mr. Carey was formerly principal of McKinley High School which has a student body of approximately 4,000.

Source:  Poston II City News, Friday, December 25, 1942

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 CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

Sunday School Classes of the Poston Christian Church will observe Christmas tonight with a program to be presented by the Intermediate and Young People's Classes.  The Chairman for the night is Haruo Tashiro.

Prelude--Florence Wake

Hymn--O Come All Ye Faithful--Congregation

Invocation--Rev. Okimoto

Greetings--Rev. Asano

Scripture--Luke 2: 8-14--David Arata

Song--Joy To The World--Congregation

Christmas Skit--Intermediate Girls

Holy Night--Young People's Class

Song In Japanese--Adult Class

Guiding Star--Play by Intermediate Girls

Choir Selection-Crusaders

The Lost Carol--Play by Intermediate Sr. Boys and Girls

Benediction--Paul Nagano

Source: Poston Chronicles, Vol. 8 No. 10,  Thursday, December 24, 1942

Q & A Asked By New Poston Residents

OFFICIAL INFORMATION BULLETIN

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO ALL RESIDENTS

Information based on questions asked by Poston residents.

Q-Where can I post letters?

A-A temporary Post Office has been located in the block manager's office in Block 6.

Q-Is it possible to receive mail at the present time?

A-Mail is received via Parker and will be ready for distribution at 9:30 A.M. each day.

Q-Will there be a post office to each block?

A-This is not definite yet.  There will be a central post office and provisions will be made to distribute mail as quickly as possible.

Q-I am from Riverside, Cal.  My brothers and other members of my family will follow me here soon.  Can I arrange for their quarters now?

A-No, we will make every attempt to locate you and all members of your family together when they arrive.

Q-What is the proper mail address for this camp?

A-Poston, Arizona.  The name honors Charles D. Poston, pioneer Indian trader and hero of the old west and Arizona's first delegate to the congress of the United States.

Q-Can I subscribe to outside papers, San Francisco and Los Angeles, or any home town paper?

A-Yes, you may.

Q-I have a monthly income derived from property rentals and stocks and bonds.  May I have that sent to camp?

A-Yes, for the time being, it is advisable to have that sent in cash until money order facilities are available.

Q-May I order mail such supplies as furniture, household goods or materials?

A-Yes, Provided none of the items are on the contraband lists.

Source: OFFICIAL INFORMATION BULLETIN, Relocation Center-Poston, Arizona, Thursday, May 14, 1942 Vol.1, No. 2