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A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stated that Japanese Americans should be grateful that the U.S. government has acted as it has because it has prevented race riots should any untoward actions be done by the Japanese population.

Plans were under way to evacuate all the Japanese from Seattle as new exclusion orders were issued. An assembly center at the Puyallup Fairgrounds will be where they will be housed.

A California congressm introduced a joint resolution in Congress to bar citizenship of children born to a person ineligible for American citizenship. That would have excluded all children of Japanese and Chinese immigrants because they were denied…

Thomas Masuda's trial of being an agent for Japan without registering as such will proceed as scheduled despite claims by his attorneys that his office was searched without permission although he had given permission for FBI agents to search his…

A columnist reported that there were 500,000 Japanese in Brazil but that the 150,000 Japanese in Hawaii were more of a concern for him. He said that if the Japanese were deemed to be dangerous in California, why aren't they considered dangerous in…

New exclusion orders were issued to residents in the Los Angeles area, and a new rule allowed people to drive their cars to the reception center if they wished. It was also announced that a reception center was being built in Northern California on…

The Japanese coordinating committee of Mono County in California, noting the movement of some coastal Japanese to interior areas, issued a warning that it was not a good idea because of lack of finances and facilities to accommodate newcomers.

The Great Northern Daily News, a Japanese daily newspaper, published its last edition with the imminent evacuation as its theme. Meanwhile, the weekly all-English Japanese American Courier did not state its plans. Throughout Seattle Japanese were…

Twelve new exclusion orders were issued by Gen. John L. DeWitt of which two of them were to affect the Seattle area leading to the evacuation of 2,000 Japanese from this area.

Judge Lloyd L. Black declined to dismiss the indictment against Thomas Masuda, accused of being an agent for Japan. Also, the judge refused to return Masuda's papers that his attorneys said were seized illegally.