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State and fedeal officials were meeting in Salt Lake City to discuss the ramifications of the evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast. Meanwhile, in Washington state the U.S. Employment Service was sending "flying squadrons" to communities to help…

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt sent a reassuring letter to James Sakamoto of the Japanese American Citizens League telling him of the government's plan to make evacuation decent and comfortable and to safeguard the evacuees from violence.

The state bar association of Nevada protested any plans to allow Japanese American students from California to attend the University of Nevada at Reno saying if the students were dangerous in California, they would be dangerous in Nevada.

The State Personnel Board of California dismissed some 350 to 400 Japanese American employees, and some of them will be charge with falsifying their job applications by holding dual citizenship or having attended Japanese language schools.

A Japanese American from Bainbridge Island wrote back to tell everyone that their group arrived safely at the Manzanar camp and were settling down in their new living quarters.

A second group of Japanese Canadians was scheduled to leave Vancouver, B.C. for Schreiber, Ontario to work on road camps. A wire received from the group at Schreiber indicated things were satisfactory and the townspeople were friendly.

Although 50,000 acres of 200,000 acres being left behind by Japanese farmers have been transferred to new operators, there was still need for more farmers to take over the vacant farm acreage, according to the Farm Security Administration.

Two Japanese residents of Boring, Oregon were arrested for violating the curfew in effect for persons of Japanese ancestry.

Bond for Kenji Iki, a Japanese businessman, was lowered from $50,000 to $25,000. Iki was being held for not declaring $515,000 in Japanese bonds and $15,000 in U.S. currency as required by law.

The British Columbia Security Commission assured Japanese Canadians that their welfare would be protected and the government will provide for them when their husband and father are sent to work camps.