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Rose, Joseph

File Number: 16735/05-1
Name: Rose, Joseph
Sex: M
Place of birth: Russia
Date of birth: 1876
Date of arrival:
12/05/1917
Name of ship: Willis
Days in Detention: 6 weeks
Notes: Machinist; Resided in US for some years; Russian Consul in Pittsburgh paid "free fare" to him and other young men to return to Russia but upon arrival in Yokohama were informed they were to join the Russain military, and all refused to enter Russia. Rose returned to Honolulu as a stowaway and was detained but later allowed to enter into the mainland; Literate; Has $75-80;  Interned under Presidential Warrant and held by US Marshalls, 01/02/1918