Biography
Alfred B. M. Smith, formerly Schmidt, was a naturalized US citizen and owner of the Hawaiian Roofing and Paint Company in Honolulu. In a March 10, 1942 letter he reported that the FBI arrested him and his wife on December 8, 1941. He described his December 23 hearing, transfer to Sand Island on December 28, February 20 removal to Angel Island and arrival at Camp McCoy on March 9. From detention he appealed to Delegate Samuel W. King and protested treatment as an enemy alien despite his citizenship. His lawyers’ March 26 correspondence said they could find no record of the reason for his Army custody. The letters establish months of actual confinement; his wife is not separately named and no exact release is established.
Alfred B. M. Smith, formerly Schmidt, was a naturalized US citizen and owner of the Hawaiian Roofing and Paint Company in Honolulu. In a March 10, 1942 letter he reported that the FBI arrested him and his wife on December 8, 1941. He described his December 23 hearing, transfer to Sand Island on December 28, February 20 removal to Angel Island and arrival at Camp McCoy on March 9. From detention he appealed to Delegate Samuel W. King and protested treatment as an enemy alien despite his citizenship. His lawyers’ March 26 correspondence said they could find no record of the reason for his Army custody. The letters establish months of actual confinement; his wife is not separately named and no exact release is established. Administrative wartime confinement, not a judicial sentence. Alfred B. M. Smith, formerly Schmidt, was a naturalized US citizen and owner of the Hawaiian Roofing and Paint Company in Honolulu. In a March 10, 1942 letter he reported that the FBI arrested him and his wife on December 8, 1941. He described his December 23 hearing, transfer to Sand Island on December 28, February 20 removal to Angel Island and arrival at Camp McCoy on March 9. From detention he appealed to Delegate Samuel W. King and protested treatment as an enemy alien despite his citizenship. His lawyers’ March 26 correspondence said they could find no record of the reason for his Army custody. The letters establish months of actual confinement; his wife is not separately named and no exact release is established.
Original wartime civilian internment records, PDF pages 2, 3, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17.
