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A photograph in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed a group of Japanese with their children, plus a soldier carrying one child, as the people prepared for evacuation

Some 500 more Japanese were scheduled to leave Seattle for the Puyallup Assembly Center. They will leave in a caravan from Beacon Ave. and Alaska St. and be under the supervision of the army.

All of Portland's Japanese residents were to be evacuated in one fell swoop and sent to an assembly center at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition grounds. Portland was to be the first major Pacific Coast city to be completely evacuated of…

A call was made to have people take over the farms being vacated by Japanese who are to be evacuated.

The first of thousands of evacuees to be sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center arrived there with the army in charge of the removal. These were people with special skills that can help set up the camp. They were met by people from Alaska who had…

Seattle's protestant church leaders were making plans to see that the Japanese evacuated from the city will have services available to them in the camps.

A photograph in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed two police officers posting notices regarding evacuation of Japanese living in the area and the instructions that go with it.

Six Japanese Americans were arrested for violating the curfew that was imposed on them; they were supposed to be at their residences between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

A symbol of friendship between the U.S. and Japan is a stone lantern and cherry trees at Seward Park sent to Seattle from Japan for the city's help during the earthquake in Yokohama in 1923. Now these symbols stand as a mockery between the two…

A photograph in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showed a family gettting their temperatures taken by a nurse prior to their evacuation to an assembly center.