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Paul Ohtaki, a former resident from Bainbridge Island who was evacuated to Manzanar, California, told about the journey to the internment camp and his impression of the camp in a letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

.The removal of all Japanese from Seattle was imminent, according to Gerald Shucklin, chief assistant United States attorney, who had returned from a meeting with other U.S. attorneys who met in San Francisco.

A Japanese American man Hideo Saiki was charged with violating the curfew imposed on persons of Japanese descent when Seattle police arrested him for driving erratically.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that he was disgusted and surprised that some of the soldiers who helped evacuate the Japanese residents from Bainbridge Island wept when doing their job, and he wondered if they wept when Japan…

Evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast was expected to be completed by May 20, according to Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, commanding general of the Western Defense Command.

The last person of Japanese ancestry removed from San Diego was a naval veteran, Isakichi Kanasawa, who served 30 years in the U.S. navy.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, serving in the army, said that all Japanese cannot be considered fifth columnists and that though the older adults were born in a foreign country, their sons fight for this country in the military…

An article in a local newspaper reported that Negro (sic), as blacks were called then, candidates for nursing were being discriminated against by local hospitals and that none were being accepted for training.

Four Western governors asked that the federal government take responsibility for the care, feeding and guardng of the Japanese evacuees should there be an internment camp in their state as well as their removal after the war is over. Federal…

Addittional Japanese residents of Los Angeles County were being removed from their homes as federal officials met with Western governors to prepare for the movement of the evacuees into those states.