Instructions for the process of evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the restricted zones, and plans for managing property

Letter from Tom C. Clark, Chief of Civilian Staff, Western Defense Command, asking Anne Margrave, Librarian of the Inyo County Free Library of Independence, Calfornia, to serve on an advisory committee about the development of the Manzanar camp.

Referencing Clark's May 4, 1945 letter to Harry Truman regarding violence against Japanese Americans on the West Coast, Clark informs Smith that unless a federal law is violated, the FBI can not be involved. See related Letter from Frank Herron Smith to President Harry S. Truman, May 4, 1945. See this object in the California State …

The Seattle Daily Times, March 3, 1942, p. 1

Smith urges Truman to ask "Edgar J. Hoover and his organization" to help control "the arsonists and night-riders who are terrorizing the few Japanese Americans who have returned to the West Coast." Smith states that approximately 60,000 of the "110,000" people who were "evacuated" seek to return to their homes, under pressure from the War Relocation …

Articles on the 11th Nisei Veterans Reunion held in Maui, with a list of participants. Walter Matsuoka is listed on page 24 with the Veterans of Foreign Wars.