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always were. I decided I might as well not go anywhere and just keep out of all these things. I hadn't come out there for a political purpose and I hadn't got the rules of the game before I started. That was Jim Farley's sphere of duty, not mine. I had to be polite to everybody. Of course, the Governor of the state was the Governor of the state and I had to how to him.

Something happened on this visit that I was to tell because it's so strange. You don't think that this kind of thing happens in the U.S.A. I had engaged rooms ahead by telegraph at the St. Francis. I came into the room and then went out almost immediately. I came in, unpacked my clothes, hung them up, and then went out to a meeting, or to the office, or something of that sort. I probably went to the immigration office. We had a big immigration port in an Francisco and that was an office and operation that I had to visit in considerable detail. I even went over to Angel Island on that occasion where we had an immigration detention station. They brought out the Secretary's flag over the little boat that we went out on. It was quite something.

Anyway when I came back from the immigration office a couple of hours after I had left the hotel, I found