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The evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast would put a crimp in the oyster business because so many Japanese are involved in the business and thus they would leave a big void when they are gone.

Two pictures showed the areas of the Puyallup Fairgrounds which have been converted to barracks and will be used by Japanese evacuees who will be moved there shortly.

Japanese books and .38 caliber cartridges were found by a Seattle woman in a vacant lot and turned over to the police.

A U.S. senator from Iowa said he had heard reports that Japanese internees were being paid more than American soldiers, plus questionable activities by internees. He offered a four point program on what should be done to the internees.

Plans were being made to evacuate all of Alaska's Japanese residents, and they were told to report to military posts for final removal.

Mary Asaba Ventura, a Japanese American woman married to a Filipino, was denied exception to the curfew law imposed on all persons of Japanese descent in a federal court case.

An editorial in one of the local Seattle newspapers castigated the Utah colleges for their refusal to allow Japanese American students to transfer there, although the president of the University of Utah seemed to alter his objection a bit by stating…

The army announced that the Gila River Indian Reservation will be the site of internment camp for Japanese evacuated from the West Coast. Construction was to start immediately, according to the War Relocation Authority, which will administer the…

A Japanese janitor Matsutaro Ota at the Seattle Hotel was killed when his body became wedged between the elevator and elevator shaft wall when he went to work there.

Floyd Schmoe, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee who had made tours of the alien intenment camp and also the assembly centers, said that the alien camp was better than the assembly centers and that rehabilitation of the…