Title: "Tule Lake Japs Trouble-Bent, Best Testifies," Seattle Times, 12/21/1943, (ddr-densho-56-1003)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-1003

Tule Lake Japs Trouble-Bent, Best Testifies

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.--(AP)--Director Ray Best of the Tule Lake, Calif., Japanese internment camp said yesterday that he called the Army to take over the settlement November 4, because some 200 Japs "were armed with clubs and were intent on using them."

Best, an official of the War Relocation Authority, told a House Dies subcommittee that until the night of November 4, it was his opinion that the internees were orderly and controllable, but that on November 4, a large group of them became "very menacing."