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Article with photograph of Japanese cherry trees that were cut down in Washington, D.C. due to the war with Japan.

Japanese cherry trees in Denny Park had been cut down, probably in protest against the fact that Japan attacked the U.S. Still, the park's caretaker and a police office were puzzled over the vandalism.

A citizen called the police in Los Angeles to report that he/she saw a group of Japanese huddled together and said it looked suspicious. The police responded to find the group playing a dice game.

A court proceeding was to begin for Gordon K. Hirabayashi who refused to comply with the order to evacuate along with other persons of Japanese descent. His claim was based on his denial of due process which was his right as a citizen.

Strawberries were expected to be higher in price after the Japanese are evacuated since replacements won't be readily available.

A Japanese American University of Washington student, Gordon K. Hirabayashi, was arrested and held in the King County jail for refusing to evacuate along with other Japanese and Japanese Ameicans who are prohibited from being in Seattle.

Fred Niendorff, financial editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, mentioned the property that would be left behind if there was an evacuation of Japanese and that ethics demanded that people should not try to profit from someone else's hardship.

The secretary of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation requested that Japanese evacuees be used to relieve a shortage of farm labor by having them work on farms under army supervision.

Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, California was being prepared for use as a temporary evacuation center for Japanese evacuees as housing was being constructed for the new arrivals.

The trial of C.T. Takahashi, a Japanese Ameican exporter/importer, revealed that his telephone bill to Japan amounted to $1,000 a month and that he had made a contract to send to send three 80,000 gals. tanks to Japan; but with the ban on sending war…