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The House Committee on Un-American Activities was to recommend that all Japanese on the West Coast be removed 500 miles inland and interned because investigation showed that they had misused American hospitality, and Justice Dept. moves to prohibit…

The Pacific Coast congressional committee on enemy aliens and sabotage recommended that all areas on the coast be prohibited to anyone whose loyalty was questionable and that restricted zones be established and only those who have a special license…

An FBI sweep of Japanese colonies in the Salinas, California area led to the arrest of a former Tokyo police chief and a friend of the Emperor's brother. Contraband from the towns of Salinas, Monterey, Watsonville, Pacific Grove, Carmel and a…

Vital defense areas on the West Coast were to have signs prohibiting enemy aliens from living there, and federal officials were coming to Seattle to have the signs put up.

5,048 aliens in Seattle registered at the Seattle post office during the eight days set aside for that purpose. Some 200 of these registrations were being held up because the aliens could not produce evidence that they had registered previously when…

Employers were asked not to fire enemy alien employees but to file a report of their background to the FBI and local police department and to always pay them by check for record purposes.

A letter writer signed "Old Rustic" said that it was foolish to revive old farms as a previous writer had suggested because the best farm lands were in the hands of enemy aliens.

An undisclosed number of Japanese aliens living in the vicinity of Fort MacArthur and the Los Angeles Harbor were arrested after a raid by FBI agents suspecting the men of engaging in sabotage activity.

Arizona was making plans for evicting axis nationals in 18 areas of the state.

Four Japanese aliens in the Bonneville Dam area were arrested after they were found to have explosives at their homes. They had dynamite equipment, which is listed as contraband by the FBI, and thus were taken into custody In Hood River, Oregon.