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Japanese aliens from the Los Angeles area passed through Alamosa, Colorado on their way to work on farms in Colorado. It was reported that they would be interned and working at CCC camps in the state.

A letter write to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer suggested that Japanese aliens be used as farm workers to alleviate the shortage of workers rather than have them interned in camps.

The Japanese Students' Club on the Uniersity of British Columbia campus raised $50 for the War Aid Fund after holding a Valentine's Dance.

A county in Oregon now has only four enemy aliens when there used to be a colony of Japanese working on the Sumpter Valley railway on Dixie mountain but were now mostly gone.

Federal officials meeting with the local Emegency Defense Council said there were no definite plans to evacuate Japanese from the Puget Sound area and that everyone was to sit tight until further notice.

Mothers of Gatewood School students protested the presence of a Japanese woman as the office clerk at the school and began a drive to have all Japanese American women employed as office workers be dismissed. Two photos of the women protesters…

Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington declared the state a "protective area" and asked that all Japanese turn in items of explosives, ammunition, firearms and any other items of destruction. In the meantime, Japanese aliens held in detention were to…

Roger Baldwin, head of the American Civil Liberties Union, protested President Roosevelt's executive order allowing for the removal of persons from military areas and urged affiliates in Los Angeles and San Francisco to assist Japanese American who…

Kibei (American born but educated in Japan) were given an extension in the survey they were to complete under the auspices of the JACL. This survey was to counter unjust accusations based on the Kibei's training in Japan and was completely voluntary.

J.H. Dayley, president of the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, declared that Japanese evacuees should be considered prisoners of war and that the people of Idaho had no use for them.