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The Longacres race track was chosen the second evacuation reception center for evacuated Japanese, it was announced by Gen. John L. DeWitt of the Western Defense Command. (It never was used after all.)

Two photographs showed where an assembly center was being built at the Western Washington Fairgrounds at Puyallup where persons of Japanese descent were to be housed in a temporary evacuation center.

Life magazine featured the movement to and arrival at the Manzanar internment camp in the Owens Valley of California. The first internees arrived by car and showed them settling down at the camp.

Kenji Ito, Seattle attorney, was acquitted of failing to register with the State Department as an agent of Japan in a trial before a federal jury.

Japanese American college students will be eligible to receive funds from the World Student Service Fund, which was originally set up to help European and Chinese student relief but was changed to include Japanese American students who were faced…

Nearly a third of the farms operated by Japanese on the West Coast have been turned over to new owners, according to the Farm Security Administration.

Syndicated columnist Henry McLemore suggested, tongue in cheek, that Santa Anita Racetrack, where Japanese and Japanese Americans were temporarily housed, be reopened so that the residents could play the horses and thus raise funds for the war…

Kenji Ito, a Japanese American attorney in Seattle, was acquitted by an all-white jury in a case in which he was charged with being an agent of the Japanese government without registering as such.

Some Japanese American students at the University of Washington were able to transfer to schools in the Midwest before the voluntary evacuation period was halted. Others still on campus registered with the University in hopes of transferring to other…

About 250 alien students at the University of Washington registered at the school in a census to determine a possible transfer to other schools outside the area. Japanese American students were also included in the census.