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At a hearing in Portland, Oregon of the Tolan Committee, a leader of the JACL pleaded to let people of Japanese ancestry remain in their locales and not be moved. An Astoria, OR official cited possible fifth column activity, and an American Legion…

The remaining areas of King County still having Japanese residents were soon to be evacuated and sent to Pindedale, CA. Also, the farms that were being left behind were being transferred to other farmers.

FBI agents and local police made raids in certain Northern California cities in search of members of Japanese secret societies and a Japanese Association.

Inoculation against typhoid fever was given to Japanese men, women and children who were soon to be evacuated at the Japanese Cannery Workers office on Main Street

Four Japanese, including three who were membersof a front organizatin for the Black Dragon Society and one who was charged with gambling, were arested by the FBI in raids in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A proposal to use Japanese Canadian men to work in highway construction received the interest of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce who heard the British Columbia premier tell of his plans..

Ceremonial Japanese swords as well as shortwave radios, cameras and firearms were being turned in by Japanese aliens after a ruling was made that the swords had be to surrendered. A photo showed Jack Ogami turning in his family's ceremonial swords.

The Army announced that there would be a total evacuation of the Japanese on Bainbridge Island, and they will be sent to a reception center in the Owens Valley in California. If anyone wanted to voluntarily evacuate to a place of their own choosing,…

Photo of a caravan of cars led by an army jeep heading for the reception center at the Manzanar camp in the Owens Valley.