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The trial of Japanese Americn attorney Thomas Masuda was nearing an end after Masuda finished his testimony. He had been accused of being an agent of Japan without registering with the state department.

A recopying of an article from the Seatte Times reported on Gordon K. Hirabayashi's stand as a conscientious objector and his refusal to obey the evacuation order.

Thomas Masuda, a local Japanese American attorney on trial for being an unregistered agent of Japan, revealed that he had received a $200 gift from the Japanese consul for services rendered. He said he assisted the consulate on legislative matters.

The state highway department mowed down a field of turnips left by a Japanese family that had evcuated after some people had expressed concern that the yellowing plants' flowers were being used as a guide to the Sand Point Naval Air Station.

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.

Japanese farmers in King County were registering in preparation for evacuation as the Farm Security Administration continued its program of transferring the farms to white and Filipino farmers. Kent, WA was outside the registration area, but Mrs.…

Mrs. Dixie Iseri was shown registering Miss Tomiko Miyaoka in Kent, WA in a photograph prior to evacuation of all Japanese from the area.

A white man and his Japanese wife faced the prospects of separation when the wife and their daughter were expected to be evacuated. Their daughter is a University of Washington senior and is scheduled for graduation when she received an exemption…

Two Japanese Americans were bound over to the federal grand jury for violating the curfew order.

Registration was finishing up in Seattle, and the remaining were to be sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center.