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Internees at the Puyallup Assembly Center were to be moved to the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho near Eden. A volunteer party of about 200 were to leave earlier to help set up the camp.

A riot at the Santa Anita Assembly Center was put down after there was an assault on an evacuee suspected of being an informer.

The Manzanar Free Press evolved into a four page printed paper after starting out as a mimeographed newspaper.

A cache of dynamite, poisons and other chemicals, and photographs of military installations and oil fields was found on vacated farmhouses that Japanese farmers had previously occupied.

Japanese Americans who have never lived or attended school in Japan will be allowed to leave the relocation centers for jobs if they have a definite offer outside the Western Defense Command.

Japanese American graduating students at Puyallup High School--four girls and a boy--received their diplomas at the school's regular commencement after they were allowed to leave the Puyallup Assembly Center to participlate in the ceremonies. No such…

A suggestion was made by the Wash. State Democratic chairman that Japanese and well-behaved convicts be allowed to work in the lumber industry but was rejected by the Congress of Industrial Organization and the International Woodworkers' Association…

A man who had comitted suicide in Los Angeles and left a note expressing regret was not Japanese but Chinese, it was learned from the police who had fingerprints identifying the man.

The remaining Japanese in the Kittitas, Yakima, Klickitat, Benton and part of Chelan and Okanogan Counties were to prepare for evacuation by registering at Civil Control stations.

The Wartime Civil Control Administration announced that its work to transfer the evacuated Japanese's farmlands to other farmers was now complete, and that there would be no interruption of farm production in King and Pierce Counties.