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DG: So you went to Santa Anita, and did you go with your husband the same time?

MH: Yes. He is the only one. Government assign him as dentist. So, but no chair, no instrument, no medicine.

DG: Right.

MH: So, "Will you please buy it? Would you please get it?" So my husband and other people made a chair. And then medicine, my husband bought it, and took them. And instrument. See, dental instrument big so portable dental instrument he bought. That's why now some are using [Inaudible]. Some, "We don't know how to use it. What is it?" And then some, they say that, "So good so I want this one," and then supply come and, "I never seen this one."

BF: So he had to make all these arrangements to get the equipment and to get the medicine all on his own with his own money, and the government was saying, "You're the official dentist for Santa Anita," for everyone at the racetrack?

MH: Sure.

DG: Your bank account was frozen you said. So how did he get the money to...

MH: See, money is only $16 paid from government to, and then outside the camp was my husband, still have American people patient until close. See, that FBI man, those people, some came from Beverly Hill. We had a nice patient.

DG: To his office on Sawtelle, you're still talking about.

MH: Yes. Those we had.

DG: But when you went to Santa Anita and he was ordered to set up the dental office there and bring the equipment, how did he buy the equipment to bring?

MH: Own money.

DG: So the bank let... because the bank froze your account, you said.

MH: Right.

DG: But somehow they released it for that.

MH: I don't know. That part, I don't know. But he bought quite a bit.

BF: I'm sorry. Why was the bank account frozen? I didn't...

DG: All the Japanese accounts were frozen.

BF: For the Issei?

DG: Uh-huh.

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