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Japanese residents of Western Washington were to be sent to an internment camp in Idaho after first going to an assembly center in Puyallup. Meanwhile, steps were being taken to have others take over their farms so that there would be a continuous…

The Gov. of Kansas said Japanese from the West Coast were unwelcome in his state and said for the state patrol and other state employees to prevent them from entering. However, an editorial in a Seattle paper said that the federal government and army…

Inoculation against typhoid fever was given to Japanese men, women and children who were soon to be evacuated at the Japanese Cannery Workers office on Main Street

A letter writer criticized an editorial in the University of Washington Daily that said the mothers at Gatewood School who urged the firing of Japanese American clerks at Seattle's public elementary schools were intolerant.

A letter writer said that the actions of the Gatewood School mothers was an attack on American citizens and create division and disunity during time of war which was condemned by everyone.

A letter writer, a student at the University of Washington, said that those who discriminate as in the case of the Gatewood School mothers, should look to the example of Jesus who forgave his persecutors.

An editor of the University of Washington Daily said that some students were preparing a counter-petition to the one from the Gatewood mothers who wanted the Japanese American clerks in the Seattle Public Schools to be fired. The editor said the…

Bainbridge Island Japanese evacuated to a reception center in California found Japanese from Los Angeles' Little Tokyo were "too Oriental" for their taste. It was suggested that some segregation might be in order so as not to present this kind of a…

New operators of hotels, rooming houses and apartemts taking over the ones left by the soon-to-be-evacuated Japanese were warned not to try to profiteer from their new operation.

Some students organized a petition to counter the one presented by Gatewood School mothers who want the Japanese American clerks at the schools to be fired. The clerks resigned their positions.