Fred Niendorff, financial editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, mentioned the property that would be left behind if there was an evacuation of Japanese and that ethics demanded that people should not try to profit from someone else's hardship.
Japanese residents in Seattle soon to be evacuated went to the Federal Reserve Bank to make arrangements to be protected from price gouging and being taken advantage of. A photo of Mrs. S. May Nakashima showed her filling out a form.
A column in he Seattle Post-Intelligencer told of the problems with the vacating of Japanese farms and the difficulties in getting others to take them over. Food production is an essential part of the war effort, and methods were being sought to keep…
Farmers of Japanese ancestry must coninue to raise their crops and not sabotage the war effort by refusing to plant crops, harvest them and contribute to the food supply..Charles M. Ross of the Wartime Farm Adjustment Program was on a tour of the…
Western Washingtn was to be divided into seven areas, and evacuation was to take place according to how close the people were to defense installations and thereafter how necessary their crops were to the country's defense program.
Fred Niendorff, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's financial editor, said that the army was doing a good job in the evacuation of Japanese and that there should be no interference with their stated objective.