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The Big Horn region of Wyoming will be the site of an intenment camp of 10,000 Japanese from the West Coast, according to Karl R. Bendetsen of the Western Defense Command.

A jury deliberated on the trial of Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Y. Osawa, who were accused of attempting to send storage tanks to China but whose ultimate destination was said to be Japan. They tried to get an export license for this in violation…

A Japanese American student already evacuated was the winner of a poster contest sponsored by the Seattle Traffic and Safety Council and United Commercial Travelers.

A court proceeding was to begin for Gordon K. Hirabayashi who refused to comply with the order to evacuate along with other persons of Japanese descent. His claim was based on his denial of due process which was his right as a citizen.

The top ten graduating students in June 1942 from Seattle's nine high schools were listed, and 15 were of Japanese descent, although they had already been evacuated and would not participate in the graduation ceremonies but would be listed in the…

An essay by Thomas R. Bodien highlights tht evacuation, its causes, and its attendant problems and questions whether justice prevailed and what will happen to those sent to the camps.

A letter from John J. McCloy, assistant secretary of war, to Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service committee expressed McCloy's approval of getting Japanese American students in the camps to transfer to colleges and universities outside…

Milton Eisenhower, the director of the War Relocation Authority, wrote a letter to Clarence E. Pickett of the Americn Friends Service Committee to formulate a plan for getting Japanese American college age students to transfer from the camps to…

The American Friends Service Committee was asked by the War Relocation Authority to take charge of a program to get Japanese American students who want to go to college to transfer to institutions outside the prohibited zone.

San Francisco at one time tried to segregate Japanese students in the city, but the Japanese government protested that this was a violation of a treaty, so the city relented. Japanese students now attend the same schools as the rest of the children…