Box MS611.02
Container
Contains 119 Results:
Addendums 6 and 7. American Baptist Foreign Mission Society letter to Smith. , May-June 1942
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.32
Identifier: MS611.02.32
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Resolution from American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Addendum 8 is in Box 2, Folder 18. “The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Woman’s American Baptist Foreign Mission Society are the foreign mission agencies of the Northern Baptist Convention. Our Convention has a communicant membership of about one and one-half million. Our Foreign Societies have been very much interested in, and distressed by, the evacuation of all people of Japanese ancestry, including many American...
Dates:
May-June 1942
Addendums 9, 10 and 11. Letters: #9, From Robert S. Kinoshita, M.D. to Governor of Wyoming. , Feb.3,11, and 25, 1943
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.33
Identifier: MS611.02.33
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#10, To Governor Hunt from M.C. Keith, M.D., Secretary State Board of Medical Examiners. #11, To Dr. Kinoshita from Governor Hunt. Addendum 12 is in Box 10, Folder 1. Dr. Robert S. Kinoshita, writes to Gov. Hunt, the he wishes to volunteer as a Selective Service Examining Physician for this area (Heart Mtn.). State Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Keith, writes the Governor that Dr. Kinoshita is not licensed to practice medicine in the State of Wyoming. And he doubts very much if the WY...
Dates:
Feb.3,11, and 25, 1943
Addendum 13. From Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo, WY, W.H. McAdoo, Secretary, to Governor Leslie Hunt. , February 5, 1942
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.34
Identifier: MS611.02.34
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Resolution of Policy Toward Japanese at Heart Mt. Relocation Center. From the Buffalo Commercial Club, Buffalo WY: “A newspaper article that came to our attention recently indicated that you had arrived at an understanding with the Relocation Officers regarding the ‘Japs’ that are interned a Cody being released for agricultural work. Since the raising of sugar beets is an important industry to this community and they were short of labor last year and the ‘Japs’ being particularly adapted to...
Dates:
February 5, 1942
Addendums 14 and 15. #14, Letter to Gov. Hunt from Milward Simpson. , April 13-18,1944
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.35
Identifier: MS611.02.35
Addendum 16. Letter from “Town of Powell” (O.E. Bever, Mayor), to Harold Ickes, Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C. , June 5, 1944
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.36
Identifier: MS611.02.36
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Paragraph #3. Our county is sparsely settled. The retention of the Japanese in this county under some set-up whereby they become wards of the Government, or their being allowed to remain here after the war on a voluntary basis, would prove damaging to the economic set-up of our little county. We just don’t want them here and would like to have assurance from persons in authority that the promise made by the Chief Executive of the State of Wyoming at the time of their coming, will be honored...
Dates:
June 5, 1944
Addendum 18. Letter to Gov. Hunt, from O.E. Bever. , August 12, 1944
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.38
Identifier: MS611.02.38
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Bever writes: “With further reference to the Japanese problem in Powell and the State. Since you received the copies of letters the city council directed to Secretary Ickes and Guy Robertson requesting that the Heart Mtn. Relocation Center be entirely evacuated of Japanese after the war and that they be not permitted to visit in and out of Powell as they are now doing, we have had replies to these letters and have also met with Guy Robertson to discuss the matter. The city council agreed...
Dates:
August 12, 1944
Addendum 17. Letter from “Town of Powell”, O.E. Bever, to Governor Leslie Hunt. , July 26,1944
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.37
Identifier: MS611.02.37
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Bever writes: “With further reference to the Japanese problem in Powell and the State. Since you received the copies of letters the city council directed to Secretary Ickes and Guy Robertson requesting that the Heart Mtn. Relocation Center be entirely evacuated of Japanese after the war and that they be not permitted to visit in and out of Powell as they are now doing, we have had replies to these letters and have also met with Guy Robertson to discuss the matter. The city council agreed...
Dates:
July 26,1944
Addendum 19. Letter to Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mtn., from A.R. Fryer, Mgr., Fryer’s Pharmacy, Powell, WY. , June 21, 1944
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.39
Identifier: MS611.02.39
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A.R. Fryer writes: “For some time I have been going to write you concerning the recent action taken by our Mayor and City council. I can safely say that 90% of the merchants here in Powell hope you disregard the City Officials action as we think it untimely, unpatriotic and not within their rights to try and issue such an order. We as merchants have no reason why your Japanese citizens shouldn’t be allowed to come to Powell and trade if they so desire. In fact, they are easy to wait on and...
Dates:
June 21, 1944
Addendum 20. Letter to Hon. Lester C. Hunt, Governor of WY., from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mtn. , August 2, 1945
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.40
Identifier: MS611.02.40
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Guy Robertson writes: “The War Relocation Authority has announced the Heart Mountain Center will close November 15th, 1945. A recent Supreme Court decision says we have no authority to detain the evacuees. With the exception of a few individuals whose movements are restricted by the Department of Justice and the Western Defense Command, all the residents at Heart Mt. are free to go any place in the United States they may choose. As far as I know they are peaceful, law-abiding citizens and...
Dates:
August 2, 1945
Addendum 21. Letter to D.S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority, Washington D.C. , August 4,1945
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.41
Identifier: MS611.02.41
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cc-Mr. Kerr, Pres. Powell Chapter American War Dads and Guy Robertson, Director of Heart Mtn. Relocation Center, from Governor Leslie Hunt. To Mr. Myer from the Governor: “I am in receipt of the attached letter from citizens living in the vicinity of the Heart Mtn. Relocation Center. I am also familiar in detail with the limited assistance being given these evacuees in returning to their previous homes. I should like to suggest with all the emphasis at my command that the assistance being...
Dates:
August 4,1945