With the evacuation of Japanese from the Puget Sound area, a suggestion was made that (native) Indian labor from British Columbia be used to make up for the labor shortage.
A letter writer of Japanese descent wrote to the Seattle P-I asking for understanding of Japanese Americans since they were limited in what they could do but that they were doing their bit for the war effort.
A copy of a photograph shows Harry Yanagimachi and Dick Setsuda going over the list of names of the people who will be in the advance party that will go to the Minidoka Relocation Center to help set up the camp.
A copy of a photograph shows a couple who are being parted temporarily while the husband leaves the Puyallup Assembly Center as part of the advance party while his wife remains to join him later.
Evacuation of the Puyallup Assembly Center began with an advance party of 200 leaving to help set up the Minidoka Relocation Center where the Puyallup Center evacuees will be moved to. Once the camp is readied, trainloads of 500 per day will leave…
Internees at the Puyallup Assembly Center were preparing to leave the place for a permanent camp in Idaho called the Minidoka Relocation Center. James Y. Sakamoto, former publisher of the Japanese American Courier and head of the self-government at…
