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DG: So when you were getting ready to leave, you had some correspondence with Floyd Schmoe?

NS: Yes. Floyd was to bring our car, which we had kept with some friends, and he brought the car to camp to us so we could drive to Spokane.

DG: So how did you know Floyd?

NS: Floyd was very active with the evacuees, and also with the Friends Service and in helping with, helping evacuees and also with Gordon Hirabayashi. So, I got to know him through all this evacuation experience. When it came time for us to move, why, he was very willing to bring our car to the camp so that we could move to Spokane. So, when he came to Spokane, he made -- we bought a big house, and he was able to come and stay with us when he did come to Spokane. When he was going back and forth to camp helping people, why, he was always a visitor, as well as Gordon.

DG: So Gordon didn't ever go to camp?

NS: No, he never -- he was incarcerated in different areas before he was released.

DG: So he was going around, too, helping relocate these students, you say?

NS: Who?

DG: Gordon.

NS: Not Gordon, he was in prison. He was...

DG: But he got out of prison...

NS: Yes. He got out of prison and then he helped people.

DG: ...because there's a letter from him to you about living in some house. Had you left a house?

NS: There was a house in Spokane that was maintained by the Friends for evacuees.

DG: But this is after?

NS: We bought a house in Spokane.

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