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doc Letter from Ray D. Johnston to Chimata Sumida (ddr-densho-379-238)

In this letter Ray D. Johnston invites Chimata Sumida to join the Relocation Advisory Council at Rohwer.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-238/

doc Letter regarding lifting of residency restriction (ddr-densho-167-52)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-167-52/

doc General information, [Rohwer] (ddr-csujad-4-14)

Documents mailed by the Terada family from the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas, to Mr. A. W. Thomas on July 13, 1943. The documents include general information and regulations written by Ray D. Johnston, Project Director at the Rohwer incarceration camp. Also included is a schematic of the Rohwer camp, with marginalia. See this object …

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doc Letter from Ray D. Johnston to D. S. Myer (ddr-densho-379-739)

Ray D. Johnston requests that Chimata Sumida not be transferred from the Rohwer incarceration Camp to the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Both camp officials and other incarcerees highlight Chimata Sumida's positive effect on the community of Rohwer and request his transfer to Tule Lake be cancelled.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-739/

doc Letter from Ray D. Johnston to Chimata Sumida (ddr-densho-379-237)

This letter releases Chimata Sumida from Rohwer Concentration Camp and allows him to move and live anywhere outside the Western Defense Command.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-237/

doc Letter from Ray D. Johnston to D.S. Myer (ddr-densho-379-742)

Ray D. Johnston, project director, writes to D.S. Myer to communicate that the whole adult population of Rohwer does not want Chimata Sumida to be transferred to Tule Lake. Sumida cancelled his repatriation request too late, but he is too valuable at Rohwer to allow him to be transferred.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-742/

doc Recommendation letter for Chimata Sumida from Ray D. Johnston (ddr-densho-379-41)

Ray Johnston , Project Director of Rohwer, recommended employment for Chimata Sumida in cities that he wished to relocate. Mr. Johnston wrote that Chimata Sumida was a "leader" in the Center and was very "instrumental in maintaining cooperation and understanding between the resident evacuees and the Relocation Authority management staff."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-41/

doc Teletype message from Elmer M. Rowalt to Ray D. Johnston (ddr-densho-379-744)

Elmer Rowalt sends a teletype message replying to Ray D. Johnston's letter. He states that Chimata Sumida will not be transferred to Tule Lake.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-744/

doc Letter from N.R. Griswold and J.B. Hunter to Ray D. Johnston (ddr-densho-379-741)

A letter in support of Chimata Sumida staying at Rohwer and not being sent to Tule Lake. Mr. Griswold and Mr. Hunter detail the work Chimata Sumida has done with the night school and his positive impact on camp morale. Mr. Sumida also was a strong voice in favor of relocating and helped many people to …

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doc Letter from Chimata Sumida to Mr. Johnston (ddr-densho-379-239)

Chimata Sumida comments to Ray D. Johnston that the overly restrictive parole requirements for short-term leave cases is having a delay to his finding employment. He mentions that Mr. Titus, the relocation officer, is anxious to take him to Dayton for general purposes and also a number of farm possibilities in the area.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-239/

doc Contact List (ddr-densho-356-953)

Contact list for each of the 10 War Relocation Authority Camps and War Relocation Authority government offices.

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doc War Relocation Authority contact list (ddr-densho-381-43)

A contact list of War Relocation Authority directors.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-43/

doc Cooperative Colonization (ddr-sbbt-2-27)

A proposal to incentivize incarcerees to leave the concentration camps by investing in land, farming equipment, and other materials for Japanese Americans to establish "colonies in fertile land suitable for agriculture."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-27/

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