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Saburo Takahashi, a former mechanical engineering student at the University of British Columbia, was not carrying detailed maps of vital defense industries when he was arrested in Trail, B.C. on his way to Edmonton, Alberta to attend a university…

Students of Japanese ancestry at the University of Washington were registering before evacuation with the idea that they would be able to continue their educations elsewhere in the Midwest or East.

The U.S. government, through its spokesman C.J.Opperman, encouraged all Japanese to continue the production of produce until they are evacuated. They were told not to sell farm equipment, fertlizier or property because of the importance of food…

The federal case of Kenji Ito, Seattle attorney accused of acting as an agent of Japan without so registering, went to the jury for a decision after attorneys on both sides made their closing arguments.

New workers were being added to the work force constructing the assembly center for Japanese evacuees on the Puyallup Fairgrounds where there were expected to be 8,000 residents.

Evacuation of Japanese residents of Southern California were taking place as plans were being made for the total evaucation of persons of Japanese ancestry along the Pacific Coast. Assembly centers were being prepared to accept the evacuees.

The army announced that the Longacres rack track will be an assembly center for evacuated Japanese in Western Washington along with the Puyallup Fair site, which is currently under construction.

The cash box of the Japanese Students Club at the University of Washington was rifled and $220 in currency was taken.

A questionnaire pertaining to possibly transferring to another college was passed out at Eagleson Hall on the University of Washington campus to Japanese American students facing evacuation.

American Friends (Quakers) were busy helping Japanese residents on the West Coast who were faced with imminent evacuation. In Los Angeles, where nearby Terminal Island was evacuated , Friends helped the evacuees find housing; and in Seattle, a news…