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Memorial Service pamphlet for Benjamin Chuyo Tsutsumoto (1929-2004), and two cards to thank people for attending.

Report covers Wong Tsu, a Chinese engineer who assisted Bill Boeing in designing one of the first Boeing airplanes. Report 1- Wong Tsu Biography (in English) Report 2- Wong Tsu Biography (in Chinese) Email is an invitation to Wong Tsu Exhibit…

Five hundred enemy aliens were registered by the U. S. Post Office after orders from Washington DC asked that this be done. There were an estimated 6,200 enemy aliens in the area.

The Japanese American Citizens League announced the closing of Japanese language schools in Tacoma and Fife and Firwood in the Puyallup Valley. Masato Yamasaki, a principal, was interned after the beginning of hostilities.

Two Japanese American businessmen Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Y. Osawa pleaded not guilty in court after being charged with attempting to send gasoline storage tanks to Japan.

Sixty-nine areas of California were to be "off limits" to enemy aliens, and an additional 17 more were to be added, according to the U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle. Aliens would not be allowed to live in those areas.

Enemy aliens of Japanese, German and Italian nationality of 14 years and older were to be reregistered on orders from the Justice Dept. They were to go to the post office to register.

Two local Japanese American attorneys, Kenji Ito and Thomas Masuda, pleaded not guilty in District Court of being unregistered agents of an enemy government. Earlier two Japanese American businessmen, Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Y. Osawa, also…

A Japanese hotel clerk was threatened when two Filipinos, angry at the clerk for his tone of voice when he said they had been drinking, tried to hit him and knife him, but were apprehended by the police when another employee called the officers.

Photo of a Japanese American woman pointing to a picture of her brother now serving in the United States Army indicating that he is an American and that the furniture store he operated is still being operated by an American.