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Announcements were to be forthcoming regarding the property and inventory left behind by Japanese evacuees. The government was to safeguard everything, and the evacuees were expected to entrust it all to the government. Those who could voluntarily…

In Nothern California the national council of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) pledged their cooperation with the government's evacuation program. Also, arrests of members of Japanese societies aiding Japan were now winding down.…

The King County assessor's office was working overtime to prepare tax statements to show what soon -to- be- evacuated Japanese owed on their personal property. An accompanying photo showed county employees working on the statements

A professor from the University of Washington proposed the idea of parents adopting Japanese American children for the duration of the war after careful screening rather than sending them away somewhere as the evacuation plan prescribes.

Japanese laborers working for the Port Townsend-Southern Railroad were arrested following an explosion that destroyed a speeder, a tool shed and two old coaches and sent to Seattle to be processed by immigration officials.

Twenty-three enemy aliens were rounded up by the FBI and local authorities in Seattle and Port Angeles. There were twenty Japanese arrested and they were accused of having contraband and being members of pro-Axis organizations.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted as saying that the Japanese on the West Coast were understanding and accepting the eventual evacuation when she was asked about American citizens having to leave.

Japanese men evacuated from British Columbia in Canada would be used on a highway project from Edmonton that would lead to a connection that heads to Vancouver.

The army chose a spot in the Owens Valley owned by the city of Los Angeles and said it would use the place as a reception area for people of Japanese descent who were to be evacuated.