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The general public was asked to curtail their service for movers and storage because these services were needed for Japanese who were soon to be evacuated from the West Coast.

The Golden Hop Yard near Toppenish, WA was among four sites chosen to be an assembly center for Japanese evacuees by the Wartime Civil Control Administration. Three others were located in California

Japanese evacuees from the San Francisco area were preparing to leave for Manzanar camp as they made last minute arrangements to dispose of their goods or have them stored.

150 Japanese from the West Coast consisting of 25 families arrived at Keetley, Utah to begin farming at the 4,000 acre Fisher ranch.

Approximately 2,500 Japanese from the Long Beach and San Pedro areas were settled at the Santa Anita racetracks, which were set up as a temporary reception center before they are sent to permanent camps in the interior.

A student at the University of Nevada, Roland Bowers, is shown in a picture of a headstone of supposedly the first Japanese immigrant to the United States. William Takahashi arrived in the U.S.in 1867.

A new "city" was being constructed at Puyallup on the grounds of the Western Washington Fairgrounds to house some 8,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were to be evacuated shortly. Spectators were amazed at the speed of the construction.

Only about a third of the farms to be left by the Japanese in the King County region have been taken over by others as the Farm Security Administration kept up its efforts to register those who were interested in taking over the farms.

A house where three Japanese families lived caught fire but all the resident were safe. The fire resulted from a overheated stove in the flat of Mr. and Mrs. Takeshi Okawa

A Japanese native, Kekichi Nakamura, who served in the U.S. Navy for 32 years, received a military funeral service at Portsmouth, VA.