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The remaining Japanese in the Kittitas, Yakima, Klickitat, Benton and part of Chelan and Okanogan Counties were to prepare for evacuation by registering at Civil Control stations.

The Wartime Civil Control Administration announced that its work to transfer the evacuated Japanese's farmlands to other farmers was now complete, and that there would be no interruption of farm production in King and Pierce Counties.

A copy of a newspaper photograph shows the mess hall at the Puyallup Assembly Center in the midst of preparing a meal.

A copy of a photograph shows Clarence Arai kneeling to plant some vegetables near his living quarters at the Puyallup Assembly Center.

A copy of a photograph shows five women inspecting an issue of the Camp Harmony News Letter.

A representative from the Fellowship of Reconciliation told of the group's sending recordings to the Puyallup Assembly Center and of the positive response they received. They urged others to do the same to help make life a bit more pleasant in the…

Three Seattle area girls were reported missing, and one of them from Algona was thought to have left her home to see her Japanese American friends who had been evacuated since she was reported missing the same day of the evacuation.

Internees at the Puyallup Assembly Center, called Camp Harmony, were settling down to try to make their living quarters as livable as possible by adding touches of what they used to have at home. Dental service, a newspaper, church choirs, etc. were…

A sheriff in Deschutes County in Oregon was posting orders for all Japanese to evacuate the county by June 3 although there are no Japanese residents in the county.

Fourteen counties in Washington and 24 counties in Oregon were to be emptied of all Japanese residents by June 3, the deadline for the total evacuation. Control stations were set up in centers of Japanese population to register the reamining Japanese…