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Evacuation of the remaining Japanese in the city began,and the city was soon to be empty of all Japanese who used to live in Seattle. Two days of convoys were to send the people to the Puyallup Assembly Center.

A photograph shows Japanese Americans planning for the evacuation in Seattle at an office with leaders of the Japanese American Citizens League in charge.

Japanese residents of Bainbridge Island left the island on a ferry to Seattle, then boarded a train for Owens Valley in California to an evacuation there. The army assisted in the evacuation, and pictures showed the movement of the people.

Article on a family whose mother is Japanese American and married to a Chinese American and their two daughters. She and the children will be evacuated to an internment camp while her husband will have to remain.

Article in connection with the publication of Richard Berner's Seattle Transformed, a history of Seattle, WA in the 1940s.

Floyd Schmoe, a former forestry instructor at the Univesity of Washington, told a meeting of the Mortar Board alumnae that the internment camps for Japanese were filthy and dirty and that the alien enemy camp in Missoula was better than the ones for…

An article in a Seattle newspaper urged the Japanese to be evacuated to dispose of their property as soon as possible, and for others to take over the farms that were being left behind so there won't be a vegetable shortage.

Bainbridge Island Japanese have formed baseball teams at the Manzanar camp in the Owens Valley. The girls team had a recent ballgame and lost by a huge margin to a team from Los Angeles.

A photograph in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed a family gettting their temperatures taken by a nurse prior to their evacuation to an assembly center.

A census of Japanese students at the University of Washington was to take place with the eventual goal of having them transferred to colleges in the East. A conference held earlier in California at the University of California had various university…