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A Japanese American letter writer to the P-I disagreed with a previous Japanese American's interpretation of the Constitution regarding what a state can enforce, the right to arms, and rulings from the army.

The agent for the Farm Security Administration urged all potential farmers who could take over the farms operated by the Japanese to registerr with his office, so arrangements could be made to have them take over the vacated farms.

An editorial in a local newspaper mentioned how efficiently the evacuation process was going and that the evacuation could lead to fewer people returning to Seattle and that some may opt to go to Japan. In light of the evacuation, the question of…

Leaders for the evacuation process were named and will be in the vanguard of those who will enter the Puyallup Assembly Center. Directions and bulletins have been disseminated, so people were all informed as to where to assemble and when to leave.

A photograph shows Japanese Americans planning for the evacuation in Seattle at an office with leaders of the Japanese American Citizens League in charge.

Charles A. Agers of the Farm Security Administration urged anyone interested in taking over the farms being vacated by Japanese evacuees to do so immediately because of the need for food production during the war.

Fred Niendorff, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's financial editor, said that the army was doing a good job in the evacuation of Japanese and that there should be no interference with their stated objective.

Stafff of the Puyallup Assembly Center which will administer the camp was chosen from among the Japanese American population of Seattle; James Y. Sakamoto, former publisher of the Japanese American Courier was named chief supervisor..

Plans were being drawn up to prepare for the movement of all the Japanese from Seattle to the Puyallup Assembly Center with a staff composed of Japanese Americans from the Emergency Defense Council of the Japanese American Citizens League.

Alaska Japanese were to be sent to the Puyallup Assembly, but their date of arrival and departure was not to be revealed because of militray necessity.