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A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligen criticized the pressure to emove Japanese American school clerks in the Seattle Public Schools and said it was unfair, unwise and contrary to American principles.

Gov. Ralph L. Carr said he would be willing to take in Japanese evacuees if called upon and said he would urge two other governors to do the same.

The Tolan Committee investigating the proposed evacuation of Japanese on the Pacific Coast received telegrams from governors of nine states that they opposed the movement of Japanese aliens into their states. The hearings were to continue in Seattle.

Washington state's attorney general, representatives of organizations and citizens testified before the Tolan Committee on the problem of Japanese aliens on the West Coast, and the attorney general urged immediate removal of all Japanees because of…

Five American Legion posts in the Seattle area urged the removal of all aliens from strategic areas on the Pacific Coast while the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) on Bainbridge Island made a counter-proposal on what should be done with the…

A meeting of the Immediate Action Committee in Victoria, British Columbia asked for the immediate removal of all persons of Japanese ancestry and also for the implementation of the curfew law as well as the confiscation of cars, radios, firearms and…

Earl Millikin, mayor of Seattle, said the people of Seattle were all in favor of evacuating all Japanese in the city in a testimony before the Tolan Committee. Others such as Mayor Harry P. Cain of Tacoma, J.W. Slpangler, Floyd Oles and James…

Gen. John L. DeWitt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, said he was the only one to be authorized to speak on the evacuation of enemy aliens from the West Coastj after others had made requests for removal of aliens or…

Samuel Bassett, lawyer for Thomas Masuda, tried to get Masuda's bail lowered, saying the $25,000 was excessive; but the judge upheld the bail in Masuda's case of acting as an agent of Japan without registering with the state department.

Mike Masaoka, national secretary and field executive for the Japanese Americans Citizens League, said he was preparing all Japanese on the West Coast to evacuate their homes and making the sacrifice as a patriotic move.