LAW OFFICES
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
LUMBERTON, N. C.

September 5th, 1918.

Hon. T. W. Bicket,
Raleigh, N.C.

Dear Governor:

I am inclosing herewith a copy of letter addressed by me this morning to Capt. T. B. McCargo, Jr., which is self explanatory. If your office can speed up the matter of straightening out the Commander at Camp Wadsworth¹, it will be greatly appreciated. These indians are well known to you, and they are coming to my office in lareg numbers, bitterly complaining of this treatment, and they naturally feel that I am in some manner responsible. As a matter of fact it is in no wise my fault. Their induction papers explained their race, in the same manner as heretofore, and I cannot understand why the commander declines to class them as white, as the regulations provide. He insists that they get up documentary evidence showing that they are not negroes, as some of the boys write home, but as you know the law does not require this. The certificate of this board as to race ought to at least be prima facie acceptable.

Very respectfully yours,

T. L. Johnson
Chairman.

TLJ/d

Enclosure: 1918, Sept. 8. Johnson to McCargo.

1. Camp Wadsworth was a World War I era encampment in South Carolina.