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F.B.I. agents made raids in Southern California arresting a number of aliens and seized the Japanese settlement of Terminal Island and quetioned the Japanese aliens living there. Raids were made as far south as San Diego and east to Phoenix.

Raids were made on homesof Japanese aliens, and the men were arrested because they belonged to pro-Japan organizations. Also, Gov. Arthur B. Langlie issued a proclamation in which the possession of firearms and explosives by any person of Japanese…

Internment into concentration camps was urged by representatives of California's county supervisors. In the meantime California attorney general Earl Warren denounced violence against aliens in light of an attack on Japanese aliens in Rio Vista and…

Enemy aliens in possession of contraband were to be arrested and detained after law enforcement officials made raids on homes of some of the Seattle area aliens.

"Singapore Joe" Fisher warned that West Coast people have been lulled into a false sense of security after recalling his experiences with Japan's forces in the Straits Settlement. He said Los Angeles had a large Japanese pop[ulation, and if he saw…

Throughout the Pacific Northwest, people were urging the internment of Japanese aliens and their denial of employment on the railroads as Tacoma arrested six Japanese near the waterfront, although five were released. Even in Canada people in the…

The F.B.I. and local authorities made a sweep of homes of enemy aliens and arrested over 300 of them in the Seattle area. One hundred and one of them were Japanese, Similar raids were made at the homes of other enemy aliens all along the West Coast…

Copy of photos in a Seattle daily newspaper of Japanese aliens being taken into custody by federal agents as they walk toward the Immigration Stat5ion at 815 Airport Way in Seattle.

The text of President Roosevelt' s authorizing the removal of persons from military areas was published in one of the Seattle daily newspapers. The Secretary of War and the military were to handle the logistics of this removal.

An editorial in one of the Seattle daily newspapers supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order giving the government the right to remove any or all persons of Japanese descent from military areas as a way to ensure safety of the West…