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Nearly a third of the farms operated by Japanese on the West Coast have been turned over to new owners, according to the Farm Security Administration.

Syndicated columnist Henry McLemore suggested, tongue in cheek, that Santa Anita Racetrack, where Japanese and Japanese Americans were temporarily housed, be reopened so that the residents could play the horses and thus raise funds for the war…

Kenji Ito, a Japanese American attorney in Seattle, was acquitted by an all-white jury in a case in which he was charged with being an agent of the Japanese government without registering as such.

Some Japanese American students at the University of Washington were able to transfer to schools in the Midwest before the voluntary evacuation period was halted. Others still on campus registered with the University in hopes of transferring to other…

About 250 alien students at the University of Washington registered at the school in a census to determine a possible transfer to other schools outside the area. Japanese American students were also included in the census.

Saburo Takahashi, a former mechanical engineering student at the University of British Columbia, was not carrying detailed maps of vital defense industries when he was arrested in Trail, B.C. on his way to Edmonton, Alberta to attend a university…

Students of Japanese ancestry at the University of Washington were registering before evacuation with the idea that they would be able to continue their educations elsewhere in the Midwest or East.

The U.S. government, through its spokesman C.J.Opperman, encouraged all Japanese to continue the production of produce until they are evacuated. They were told not to sell farm equipment, fertlizier or property because of the importance of food…

The federal case of Kenji Ito, Seattle attorney accused of acting as an agent of Japan without so registering, went to the jury for a decision after attorneys on both sides made their closing arguments.

New workers were being added to the work force constructing the assembly center for Japanese evacuees on the Puyallup Fairgrounds where there were expected to be 8,000 residents.