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Military police took over control of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition building which had been converted to an assembly center for Japanese evacuees awaiting further movement out of military areas.

The secretary of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation requested that Japanese evacuees be used to relieve a shortage of farm labor by having them work on farms under army supervision.

Filipinos who were planning to take over the farms vacated by the Japanese were to get financial aid from the Farm Security Administration, according to Frank Kershisnik, district officer.

Mothers with little children or pregnant mothers who will be sent on trains were to be given special attention with doctor and nurses on the train and special Pullman cars for their use.

Rumors regarding the assembly centers should be put to rest, said Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, spokesman for the army, who said that both Japanese and non-Japanese were giving out misinformation.

Filipinos members of the Seattle Cannery Workers Union agreed to take over the farmlands to be vacated by Japanese farmers in an agreement with the Farm Security Administration as they filed papers in Olympia.

Hideo Saiki was sentenced to 15 days in jail for violating the curfew law.

Five Japanese men were expected to be charged with curfew violation after they had been arrested for causing a disturbance in a hotel.

Strawberries were expected to be higher in price after the Japanese are evacuated since replacements won't be readily available.

Members of the Japanese community lined up at the Associatin of Japanese Cannery Workers office to get anti-typhoid vaccination shots after the association offered the free service from their treasury after their own members had already been…