Japs in Plea for Leniency

Japs in Plea for Leniency

Okada, Hito Tolan, John H. Tolan Committee Portland, Oregon Astoria, Oregon Underwood, Walter Wakasugi, Mamoru Carson, Joseph K. American Legion

At a hearing in Portland, Oregon of the Tolan Committee, a leader of the JACL pleaded to let people of Japanese ancestry remain in their locales and not be moved. An Astoria, OR official cited possible fifth column activity, and an American Legion official urged the removal of all Japanese to east of the mountains. A Japanese American farmer said he had stopped preparing for spring planting because of the possiblity of evacuation.

2/27/1942

INT 5 _ J17

1900.5622