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A photo shows two women screening soil at a White River Valley farm to prepare it for planting, although the specter of evacuation has halted farming operations for most of the farmers.

An article told of an orchestra leader who was having his dentures refurbished when the Japanese owner of the lab it was sent to was arrested as a result of Pearl Harbor, and the dentist who sent out the dentures was unable to retrieve it. The…

A Japanese American man fleeing his girlfriend's husband, a Chinese, in a car was found guilty of reckless driving.

James Y. Sakamoto, Japanese American publisher of the Japanese American Courier newspaper, suggested the Midwest as a possible haven for those who will be evacuated as a result of a military order.

Puyallup Valley Japanese farmers were letting their fields go fallow because they were to be evacuated soon, and they didn't believe white people would do this kind of work.

County prosecutors meeting in Olympia urged the citizenry not to engage in vigilante activity as they awaited the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry.

Fred Niendorff, the Seattle P-I's financial editor, wrote in his column of the adverse effects of the evacuation of Japanese farmers from this area and stated that shortages and higher prices may be the result.

The Puget Sond Chapter of the American Association of Social Workers urged careful planning of the evacuation of Japanese persons and offered their help to the proper authorities. They also went on record as opposing evacuation of people solely on…

Japanese American students at the University of Washington were preparing to leave the university and wind up their affairs in light of the military order to evacuate from this area.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked why the Japanese were being removed from this area. She wondered if ulterior motives weren't the reason and that Japanese farmers were needed for the war effort.