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In Kansas City customers were afraid to use the elevators in a department store because they thought the elevator operators were Japanese when they weren't. The manager solved the problem by having the employees reveal their race by wearing badges…

The Red Cross Committee of the Japanese American Citizens League donated kits to soldiers hospitalized at Fort Lewis as part of their war effort drive.

A drunken self-styled "Paul Revere" rode his horse throgh a Seattle neighborhood warning of a Japanese aerial attack, but he had disappeared by the time sheriff's deputies arrived. In another case, a drunken man destroyed several windows of a Chinese…

1,300 Japanese from the Seattle area met at the Seattle Buddhist Church to pledge their loyalty to the United States and to hear from officials about the importance of being good Americans. Photo shows the crowd gathered around the U.S. flag.

Hideo Katamoto, 17, was arrested on orders of the Coast Guard and U.S. Customs for loitering around the Union Oil dock and Pier 14.

Walter Williams, chairman of the Washington State Defense Council, said Japanese on the West Coast won't be evacuated after meeting with officials in Washington, DC.

The Japanese American Citizens League raised $4,525 toward the goal of purchasing a bomber. A Japanese Buddhist group in the White River Valley raised an additional $500 in this drive.

The number of Japanese aliens arrested as of January 23, 1942 was 160. Those arrested have been held at the Immigration Station in Seattle, and more than 100 have been sent to a detention center in Missoula, Montana.

Employers were urged to hire aliens in non-restricted work in order to keep up war production, according to the Office of Production Management. Many employers were under the mistaken impression that aliens could not be hired or that prejudice kept…

Rt. Rev. S. Arthur Huston praised the Japanese women of St. Paul's Mission in the White River Valley for organizining a unit of the American Red Cross.