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A Japanese American man Hideo Saiki was charged with violating the curfew imposed on persons of Japanese descent when Seattle police arrested him for driving erratically.

Evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast was expected to be completed by May 20, according to Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command.

The last person of Japanese ancestry removed from San Diego was a naval veteran, Isakichi Kanasawa, who served 30 years in the U.S. navy.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, serving in the army, said that all Japanese cannot be considered fifth columnists and that though the older adults were born in a foreign country, their sons fight for this country in the military…

An article in a local newspaper reported that Negro (sic), as blacks were called then, candidates for nursing were being discriminated against by local hospitals and that none were being accepted for training.

Four Western governors asked that the federal government take responsibility for the care, feeding and guardng of the Japanese evacuees should there be an internment camp in their state as well as their removal after the war is over. Federal…

Addittional Japanese residents of Los Angeles County were being removed from their homes as federal officials met with Western governors to prepare for the movement of the evacuees into those states.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt replied to a letter from James Y. Sakamoto, chairman of the Emergency Defense Council of the Japanese American Citizens League, in which she stated that she was sure the government would do its best to provide for persons of…

Would-be farmers who wished to take over the farms being left by the Japanese were told to negotiate on their own because there was the mistaken impression that the Farm Security Administration was taking over the farms and then would sell or lease…

New Mexico Gov. John E. Miles advised New Mexico landowners not to sell property to Japanese Americans from the West Coast who might want to establish farm colonies in the state.