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Nearly 200 Japanese that included language school teachers and Buddhist priests were rounded up in Southern California after raids were made in that area.

A man posing as an FBI agent entered a Japanese American home after the girls refused to let him in. He pulled an outside electric switch, then entered by breaking the glass on a rear door. He locked one of the girls in a closed before fleeing.

Two Filipinos attacked William Yamaguchi at 4th and Madison with one of them threatening him with a hunting knife.

A student at the University of Washington, Sophus Keith Winther, wrote an open letter to the Japanese students at the University offering to give them information on their work or helping them contact a professor; he said to write to him if they had…

The World Student Service Fund was planning to set up scholarships to aid alien students evacuated from the West Coast who had been University of Washington students. Although the group's funds had been earmarked for Europe and China, it was felt…

The way was cleared for the evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast with the appointment of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as custodian of the evacuees' property. A reception center has been established in the Owens Valley in Southern…

Buckets of sand left on every floor of an apartment building in San Francisco to fight fires were suddenly filled with water instead, and the culprit was a Japanese houseboy who said he thought that water was better than sand in fighting fires.

A car containing two Japanese and two German aliens was eluding local authorities after it escaped the border patrol at the town of Republic, WA.

A produce shortage was seen as likely with the impending evacuation of all Japanese from the West Coast. However, the process was to be done on a piece meal basis, so it was unclear if there would be total evacuation as was announced early.

"Quick Collect" orders for property taxes were issued by the County Treasurer's office on orders from the assessor's office to Japanese property owners before they could sell their property due to evacuation orders.