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Japanese swords were among the items turned in by enemy aliens to the police department after an order was issued that all shortwave radios, cameras, firearms, weapons and implements of war had to be surrendered. A photo shows a law enforcement…

Shots were fired at the home of a Japanese family in Salt Lake County in Utah while the father was away but the mother and five children were at home. The Noji Tsutsui family were not injured.

Enemy aliens were ordered to turn in all firearms to the police following a previous order to give up their shortwave radios and cameras. Also travel restrictions were imposed limiting the distance enemy aliens could travel.

Pictures of Japanese warships were among items turned in when it was ordered for Axis aliens to turn in cameras and short wave radios. The Japanese man who turned in the pictures thought they might be of use in national defense.

Fourteen Japanese turned in their short wave radios to the police as was required by federal law in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing.

Three men and one woman all of Japanese descent, were reported to be photographing an army unit at Spadra in California; but when the law enforcement officers arrived, they were gone.

An article in one of the Seattle papers told of a wealthry woman who tried to have her Japanese chauffeur drive through Fort Lawton, although he was stopped by soldiers with bayonets. She had urged him to drive right through because "everybody knows…

An alien enemy board was prepared to hold hearings at the United State Immigration Station on the disposition of alien Japanese, Germans and Italians who were currently being detained.

Los Angeles' Little Tokyo is the largest Japanese colony in the United States and has become like a ghost town because things have shut down here due to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Smith Troy, Attorney General , announced that Japanese aliens could be paid social security benefits provided they have resided in the continental United States on and ever since June 17, 1940.