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The Japanese American Citizens League, Seattle chapter, pledged cooperation with the government's evacuation orders in a meeting of the members in Seattle.

The Wartime Civil Control Administration has expedited the transfer of numerous Japanese farms along the West Coast and Arizona to others with more than two-thirds of them having changed hands.

A Filipino leader Vincente Villamin visiting Seattle told how Filipinos can aid the war effort by continuing their work on farms and in the canneries and that he was hopeful of organizing a Filipino unit of the army.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer pointed out that Japanese were to be sent to concentration camps, had to obey a curfew and were restricted to how far they could travel; but she wrote that the U.S. Constitution states that citizens…

The evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast would put a crimp in the oyster business because so many Japanese are involved in the business and thus they would leave a big void when they are gone.

Two pictures showed the areas of the Puyallup Fairgrounds which have been converted to barracks and will be used by Japanese evacuees who will be moved there shortly.

Japanese books and .38 caliber cartridges were found by a Seattle woman in a vacant lot and turned over to the police.

A U.S. senator from Iowa said he had heard reports that Japanese internees were being paid more than American soldiers, plus questionable activities by internees. He offered a four point program on what should be done to the internees.

Finishing touches were added to the Puyallup Assembly Center, and it was now ready to received Japanese evacuees. The Army Corps of Engineers finished the work in just 17 days and at half of the budgeted amount.

In a letter to the edtior of the Post-Intelligencer, a writer warned of a previous letter writer's connections and also of the danger of being lulled into a false sense of security.