A Bainbridge Island Japanese American woman wrote a letter to her friend in Seattle in which she described the journey to Manzanar and what her living conditions are like in the internment camp.
Japanese Americans sent communication to the Seattle City Council reaffirming their loyalty to the U.S. and thanked the people of the city for all that they had done for them during this trying period.
Western Washingtn was to be divided into seven areas, and evacuation was to take place according to how close the people were to defense installations and thereafter how necessary their crops were to the country's defense program.
Congressional representatives from the West Coast and the delegate from Alaska recommended to the government that all Japanese be removed from strategic areas on the West Coast.
Japanese in the Los Angeles area left either by train or in a motor caravan to go to to the Manzanar internment camp in the Owens Valley which was to be a reception center for them.
Evacuation of the Puyallup Assembly Center began with an advance party of 200 leaving to help set up the Minidoka Relocation Center where the Puyallup Center evacuees will be moved to. Once the camp is readied, trainloads of 500 per day will leave…
Volunteer evacuees from Los Angeles were preparing to head for Manzanar in the Owens Valley to help set up the camp, and Lt. Gen. John DeWitt urged others in Military Area No. 1 to also volunteer to go there since total evacuation was inevitable, and…
