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A Bainbridge Island Japanese American woman wrote a letter to her friend in Seattle in which she described the journey to Manzanar and what her living conditions are like in the internment camp.

A Japanese American woman married to a Filipino challenged the curfew imposed on Japanese residents on the West Coast. She petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, saying that the curfew was unconstituional.

Japanese American high school seniors met at the University YMCA to hear speakers tell them of opportunities for higher education at other schools after they are evacuated. They were encouraged to continue their educations to become leaders of…

A Saturday Evening Post editorial denounced John Rankin, Mississippi congressman, for his racist rant on Japanese Americans as reminiscent of Hilter's policies.

Any alien, including enemy aliens, will be eligible for naturalization if they are servinng in the U.S. armed forces, according to a new rule from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Hideo Saiki of Bellevue became the first Japanese to be held in violation of the curfew that was imposed on all Japanese on the West Coast. He pleaded guilty on the charge before a U.S. Commissioner.

Idaho was expected to receive 10,000 Japanese evacuated from the West Coast to be placed in an internment camp. Idaho Gov. Chase A. Clark had opposed the idea, as well as the Idaho Grange and the American Legion, but he was mollified when notified…

Two Japanese Americans were arrested for violating the curfew that all persons of Japanese descent were to observe. They were supposed to be in their homes by 8 p.m.

Paul Ohtaki, a former resident from Bainbridge Island who was evacuated to Manzanar, California, told about the journey to the internment camp and his impression of the camp in a letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

.The removal of all Japanese from Seattle was imminent, according to Gerald Shucklin, chief assistant United States attorney, who had returned from a meeting with other U.S. attorneys who met in San Francisco.