Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INIERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 23 LA: But that's how they used to do in order to attract the public they do that, and then the real members they go in that place and have their meetings, and whatever missions they supposed to do. But it's pretty hard to 'tell whether they have those meetings like I say, I know about that one because it happens right there and like one day that was in the Second World War I used to like to go out and I take my drinks and I feel pretty good and when I think I got one too many the only way to cure me was to go and have some chop suey or rice or anything noodles so I went on this First South and there was this Japanese boys, wel! I went in the front and I order my stuff I was feeling pretty good, then I was gonna go in the other place and there was a Japanese with uniform and all, ah, you can't go in here, you can't go in here and I said, what you got in .there. Well, believe it or not these Japs was no dummies they have a meetings all over the world in the United States and they have that, _____ trained to go anytime, just like a bo~b anytime they pulled the pin, they was ready to go and from then on I knew something funny happening. That was about oh, I say, about a month before they hit Pearl Harbor and a lot of people don't believe me, the same thing as I argue about in Garfield, when I work in the smelter because Japanese was A-1 in there. There was more Japanese than any-