Telegram to Attorney General Francis Biddle, Dept of Justice, Wash. D.C. (in part) reads: We are deeply conscious of our responsibilities of citizenship and are loyal to our innermost fiber; we understand today our very right to serve, our most precious citizenship and the rights and obligations arising from this citizenship are threatened by political expediencies of our local politicians: We understand that they are making representations to you advocating our treatment as aliens and advocating our evacuation? We pray that as our guardian as fountainhead of federal authority you safeguard our citizenship rights that you preserve for us our chance to take part in the war effort here as loyal American citizens. Signed: L.A. Citizens League Japanese YMCA, Fruit and vegetable workers union local 1510, AFL YMBA & YWBA flower market association, Junior produce club, Japanese YWCA, Southern Dist. Citizens League. Japanese American Citizens League – Proceedings/Special Emergency Meetings – San Francisco Mar.8-10, 1942. Mike Masaoka reported on conditions in Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado and Montana. Etc. Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Montana will take Japanese, but the government must guarantee adequate protection. He recommends one of the three following methods. 1) Be put into Labor Concentration Camps to be farmed out to large sugar beet combines as cheap laborers. 2) The Japanese Internees be brought in for road making. 3) The Japanese be branded and stamped and put under the supervision of the Federal Government. Montana: The farming season is growing short. Colorado: The best agricultural state is already occupied except for small patches here and there which is available. Wyoming: Worse than Nevada, since it is a long and extensive prairie. Nebraska: Japanese are welcome as they wish to build two highways. The best homestead lands are unavailable for those people who are interested in other things besides farming, prospects are very negligible. House conditions everywhere are very poor. Newspaper clippings: “Hearings Held on Redress Bills” “U.S. Seeking Forgiveness from Nisei it confined” “Rifles Cow Manzanar Japs After Fatal Riots – One Nipponese Killed and Nine Wounded When Soldiers Fire Into Angry Mob of 4,000” (12/9/42).