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The jury was deliberating a verdict in the trial of Charles T. Takahashi and Edward Osawa as the attorneys made their closing arguments. The men were on trial for trying to send storage tanks to Japan by first sending them to Shanghai in order to get…

Japanese Americans sent communication to the Seattle City Council reaffirming their loyalty to the U.S. and thanked the people of the city for all that they had done for them during this trying period.

Testimony was made at the trial of Charles Takahashi and Edward Osawa that a Chinese importer/exporter was used to send storage tanks to Shanghai and that these tanks' eventual destination was Japan. The men were accused of using a subterfuge to get…

477 acres of farmland were entrusted to Western Farm and Produce, Inc. when it received a loan from the Wartime Civil Control Administration to continue farm operations in Bellevue. The area had been one of the major producers of vegetables for the…

A Japanese man in Los Angeles hanged himself leaving a note indicating he was ashamed at what Japan did, and this was a way of atoning.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer made a recommendation for a canal from Puget Sound to the Columbia River to be built by interned Japanese.

Bainbridge Island Japanese have formed baseball teams at the Manzanar camp in the Owens Valley. The girls team had a recent ballgame and lost by a huge margin to a team from Los Angeles.

A person who resides in Hawaii gave his views on what happened during and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (Unfortunately the article was cut off and the rest of it was not included.)

A column by syndicated columnist Westbrook Pegler criticizes the Negro press for questioning the evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast as an example of racism. Pegler asks what they would have the U.S. government do.

Bill Hosokawa, Seattle Japanese American journalist, expressed the thoughts and feelings of an internee incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center for one of Seattle's metropolitan dailies.