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Ull!ED STAtES D UT OF THE DtERIOR

WAR RELOOA'llOJr AUTHORity 1l HIIGTO

Colonel Harriaon a. Gerhardt War Depa nt Pent"'on uild aahington 26, D. c.

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~other oaae ot apparent disoriminat10b in the lo,..nt ot a person of Japa.ne e anoeatey has b en c lled to attention and I

reterrin it to you tor inv atigation and action aa you y dee appropriate.

It cone me B rb rt JU.noru Yoahida who wa1 reterr d by the Civil S rvioe 0 aaion to th rmJ arehoua Depot 1n attle, aehington, for a job a a warehouae and waa a cepted to work in the cold at rage plant, subject to being olea " d by the P • e office 1n Seattle.

H appli tor uoh cle ranee verbally and ... adviaed that he ahould call ba k the n x day tor an ann r. He talk d with a Mr. Franoher, a ei Tilian ploye of the P GO office. On calling b~ k th n rt day,

• ranoher'e a oret ry advised loahida that h could not work at the Army Depot.

Mr. BaJ"'ld. s. Fiatere, Relocation Supervitor, at Seattle, in• veatigated the oaae, telephoning Major J. P. Cogan, Intelligence Oftioer at he Sea tle Ar.mf Service or Depo , on y 3rd. jor o an stat d that it was not bia decision but th decision ot G2 / ot the Army, llr. F1atere waa referred th n to a Mr. s. • Trav r who advised hia on the 'tel phone that if the Depot wiahed to h1r Yoshida they ould do eo and that hie otfioe wat not concerned with security and that jor Cog oould make the deo1a1on. llr. it re then called Major Cogan baok, and h stat d that h would giv an answer · by 9t00 a.m. on May 4th, the following day. At this time, incidentally, llajor Cogan n• adTiaed , that Yoshida waa 1n poase11ion of a otioo ot Aotion on pplioation for L ve Clear nee signed bJ H. L. Stattord, Project Director at the llinidoka. Reloc tion Center, NJ.d. da d Sept · ber 16, l9.W, which r ad 1n pe.rtt "The ProTo at Jlar hall General • t Oft1oo ot th• ar Depa ent haa deter.mined that you are eligible tor ployment in planta and facilities vital to the •ar prog~.•

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Wbe J(r. Pia re e.lled jor Cogan o '1 ,'bh, he waa told. that Yoah1da oould not work at the Al'flt1 Depot, lla.jor Cogan givinl aa hia re •o.n the tact that aoldiera from all part• ot the world paaaed through tba.t Depot. Such a reaao ta, in ptni • a rather poor • ouae tor diacriaiaation &lainat a p raon of Japanese anoeatr.r•ho haa been ol are 1 the Provost rahall GenerAl' a Oi'tice, and I would appreciate your looking into th tter.

Siaoerely,

(aigned) D. • lifer

Director

Mr. Dill n S. J11el" Dir tol", War Relocation Authority D pe. ent of the Interior Wallhington as. D. o.

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Dear ur. IIJert 1 haVe your lett r of 12 J,fa.y 1 46 oonoernin& the apparent

discr1JI1na ion Son the o •• of Herb rt Jli,noru 'Yoshida. who a not accepted for plo t tn the ArmJ arehouae Depot, Sa ttle,

Washington. The J'eOorda of the Ja.panese rican Branch, Prcrvoat lfarahl.l

Genera.l ' a Office in San rra.noia o, California, ahow that llr• Yoshida waa approved for emplorment aa a. ohani a.t Boeing Air­ore..f't CoiiiPa.ny, S a-ttle, a.ahi ton, n 23 rch 194:5. 'fhere 11 no branch of the Prov at rabAl General's Ott1oe in attl••

rahal G eral baa no re ord nt a'ii the Sea.t 1 Ar1ttl Depo • 1 am infor.!118cl that !he Provoa

of Mr· Yoshida'• reque t tor plo

Stnoe it appears that the untavora.ble deo1aio co oerning )lr. Yoshida • a ployment waa de without reterr&l to the Provo at

rah&l Genttral • a Of'f1ce, either i.n .u l're.noisoo or a abington , D. c., an inveatigation of the JD,&tter haS be n requ eted. p re eipt of the report, a. f'urther r . ply will e de to you oon ern•

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Sino rely yours ,.

HARRIS A. E1UIARl>'f Colonel, GSO ExeoutiTe to

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