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A copy of a newspaper photograph shows the mess hall at the Puyallup Assembly Center in the midst of preparing a meal.

A copy of a photograph shows Clarence Arai kneeling to plant some vegetables near his living quarters at the Puyallup Assembly Center.

A copy of a photograph shows five women inspecting an issue of the Camp Harmony News Letter.

Three Seattle area girls were reported missing, and one of them from Algona was thought to have left her home to see her Japanese American friends who had been evacuated since she was reported missing the same day of the evacuation.

A sheriff in Deschutes County in Oregon was posting orders for all Japanese to evacuate the county by June 3 although there are no Japanese residents in the county.

Fourteen counties in Washington and 24 counties in Oregon were to be emptied of all Japanese residents by June 3, the deadline for the total evacuation. Control stations were set up in centers of Japanese population to register the reamining Japanese…

The Big Horn region of Wyoming will be the site of an intenment camp of 10,000 Japanese from the West Coast, according to Karl R. Bendetsen of the Western Defense Command.

A jury deliberated on the trial of Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Y. Osawa, who were accused of attempting to send storage tanks to China but whose ultimate destination was said to be Japan. They tried to get an export license for this in violation…

A Japanese American student already evacuated was the winner of a poster contest sponsored by the Seattle Traffic and Safety Council and United Commercial Travelers.

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.