Western Washingtn was to be divided into seven areas, and evacuation was to take place according to how close the people were to defense installations and thereafter how necessary their crops were to the country's defense program.
Mothers with little children or pregnant mothers who will be sent on trains were to be given special attention with doctor and nurses on the train and special Pullman cars for their use.
Rumors regarding the assembly centers should be put to rest, said Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, spokesman for the army, who said that both Japanese and non-Japanese were giving out misinformation.
Filipinos members of the Seattle Cannery Workers Union agreed to take over the farmlands to be vacated by Japanese farmers in an agreement with the Farm Security Administration as they filed papers in Olympia.
Members of the Japanese community lined up at the Associatin of Japanese Cannery Workers office to get anti-typhoid vaccination shots after the association offered the free service from their treasury after their own members had already been…
Five Japanese men, one of whom had caused a disturbance in a hotel, were arrested without charge after police went to investigate the cause of the disturbance.