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Over three hundred Japanese Americans registered with the Japanese American Citizens League, took an oath of allegiance to the U.S., had their picture taken and were fingerprinted and will be issued registration cards as an indication of their…

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer criticized the soft approach expressed by some letter writers and instead urged that support be given to the military authorities who were best equipped to handle the Japanese problem.

The Army announced that there would be a total evacuation of the Japanese on Bainbridge Island, and they will be sent to a reception center in the Owens Valley in California. If anyone wanted to voluntarily evacuate to a place of their own choosing,…

Two Japanese families on Vancouver Island were found to have hoarded sugar with one having 192 lbs. over the limit and another 94 lbs. over the limit. Since they were to be evacuated anyway, they were not going to be prosecuted..

A representative from the Friends (Quaker) organization told of the problems that evacuation has brought and will continue to bring by citing the example of the removal of the Japanese people from Terminal Island with no provisions made for housing…

An American Friends Service Committee (Quaker) bulletin refers to the pending evacuation of the Japanese and what the organization is doing to assist them.

Japanese who were to pay their county taxes before they evacuate were surprised to learn that the treasurer's revenue deputy was being sent out to serve warrants for the collection and that the taxpayers were to pay the warrant fee despite having…

Evacuation of Japanese from the Los Angeles area began with the vanguard of a group of people who were leaving to help set up the Manzanar camp. Buses and a streamlined truck were taking the people to that place.

A photocopy of a photo that appeared in a local newspaper showed Japanese in the Los Angeles area preparing to board buses for Owens Valley where the first of the Japanes alien reception centers was being built.

People in Britih Columbia were warned not to buy cars or trucks from Japanese who are preparing for evacuation because the Japanese are forbidden to sell them but are to turn them in to the British Columbia Security Commission.