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Article about Seattle's board of public works firing all aliens who are working on city construction work be they Japanese, German or Italian.

An alien enemy board was prepared to hold hearings at the United State Immigration Station on the disposition of alien Japanese, Germans and Italians who were currently being detained.

The Puget Sond Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers urged careful planning of the evacuation of Japanese persons and offered their help to the proper authorities. They also went on record as opposing evacuation of people solely on…

Hearings for enemy aliens being detained at the Immigration Station were to begin before Christmas although it was planned to start them after the holidays.

A Japanese alien woman committed suicide in Los Angeles by strangling herself in jail with silk stockings after being arrested on suspicion of espionage.

Plans were being formalized to hold hearings in Seattle to decide what should be done with the Japanese population on the West Coast and to consider mass evacuation as a solution.

The YM-YWCA Forum were to have a speaker on "How Shall the Japanese Aliens be Evacuated?" at Eagleson Hall. The speaker was to be Tom Bodine of the American Friends Service Committee.

Rumors regarding the assembly centers should be put to rest, said Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, spokesman for the army, who said that both Japanese and non-Japanese were giving out misinformation.

Japanese aliens were being allowed to buy commuter tickets on the ferries as long they produced a letter of identification signed by the Assistant U. S. Attorney General Gerald Shuklin.

An executive order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Relocation Authority which will help the Japanese evacuees in their relocation problems and try to find employment for them in assisting the war effort. The director will…