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Six Japanese American students arrived at the University of Idaho in Moscow, but had not been invited by the president of the university. Gov. Chase Clark of Idaho was to meet with President H.C. Dale to see what should be done with the univited.

The minister of the Japanese Methodist Church, Rev. Thomas Machida, thanked the people of Seattle for the friendships and opportunities that were offered here and looked forward to the day of peace when the Japanese could return and resume their…

The agent for the Farm Security Administration urged all potential farmers who could take over the farms operated by the Japanese to registerr with his office, so arrangements could be made to have them take over the vacated farms.

An editorial in a local newspaper mentioned how efficiently the evacuation process was going and that the evacuation could lead to fewer people returning to Seattle and that some may opt to go to Japan. In light of the evacuation, the question of…

Leaders for the evacuation process were named and will be in the vanguard of those who will enter the Puyallup Assembly Center. Directions and bulletins have been disseminated, so people were all informed as to where to assemble and when to leave.

A photograph shows Japanese Americans planning for the evacuation in Seattle at an office with leaders of the Japanese American Citizens League in charge.

Charles A. Agers of the Farm Security Administration urged anyone interested in taking over the farms being vacated by Japanese evacuees to do so immediately because of the need for food production during the war.

Alaska Japanese were to be sent to the Puyallup Assembly, but their date of arrival and departure was not to be revealed because of militray necessity.

Plans were under way to evacuate all the Japanese from Seattle as new exclusion orders were issued. An assembly center at the Puyallup Fairgrounds will be where they will be housed.

A California congressm introduced a joint resolution in Congress to bar citizenship of children born to a person ineligible for American citizenship. That would have excluded all children of Japanese and Chinese immigrants because they were denied…