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People were getting settled at the Puyalllup Assembly Center with Area A already filled and other evacuees to be expected shortly. Volunteers handled camp duties, and cooks were assigned to mess halls. There were no schools.

Pictures from a local Seattle metropolitan newspaper showed Japanese from Seattle getting settled in at the Puyallup Assembly Center. People were shown getting firewood; the "mayor" of the center had two stenographers working with him; and a cook…

The Rev. Father L.H. Tibesar was shown pictured in the Seattle P-I greeting an evacuee arriving among the crowd at the Puayllup Assembly Center.

An Episcopal missionary to the Japanese community in the Seattle area, Mrs. Margaret Peppers, stated that she would follow the Japanese to the internment camps when the evacuation takes place.

Chicalo (?) Shioshi, a grocery owner in Portland, Or, bought $13,500 worth of war bonds prior to leaving for an assembly center. This money was from profits he made operating the grocery store with his brother Sam.

A commentary by a columnist decried racial discrimination and said it would be detrimental to democracy.

The first group to arrive at the Puyallup Assembly Center had dinner at one of the mess halls. They appeared to be hungry since it was their first meal after being on the move since morning.

A photograph in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed a group of Japanese with their children, plus a soldier carrying one child, as the people prepared for evacuation

Some 500 more Japanese were scheduled to leave Seattle for the Puyallup Assembly Center. They will leave in a caravan from Beacon Ave. and Alaska St. and be under the supervision of the army.

All of Portland's Japanese residents were to be evacuated in one fell swoop and sent to an assembly center at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition grounds. Portland was to be the first major Pacific Coast city to be completely evacuated of…