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A headline from one of the local newspapers states "State D.A.R. Approves Enemy Alien Ouster."

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said the Japanese in this area did things like having their own separate language school, and this and other things caused suspicion and thus they brought the mistrust of their neighbors on…

James Y. Sakamoto, a Japanese Americn community leader, was awaiting word from the government to a request of allowing the Japanese communities in Western Washington to move to Eastern Washington to establish a model community.

A letter to the editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that if he were an American living in Japan, he would have been detained in some place, so he felt it justified doing the same to the Japanese in this country, who he said did not improve…

Farmers of Japanese ancestry must coninue to raise their crops and not sabotage the war effort by refusing to plant crops, harvest them and contribute to the food supply..Charles M. Ross of the Wartime Farm Adjustment Program was on a tour of the…

An executive order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt established the War Relocation Authority which will help the Japanese evacuees in their relocation problems and try to find employment for them in assisting the war effort. The director will…

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that there shouldn't be any sentimentality toward the enemy aliens of Japanese, German and Italian descent and that there was too much hush hush about the evacuation program.

Volunteer evacuees from Los Angeles were preparing to head for Manzanar in the Owens Valley to help set up the camp, and Lt. Gen. John DeWitt urged others in Military Area No. 1 to also volunteer to go there since total evacuation was inevitable, and…

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Inelligencer suggested that Japanese farmers in the Puyallup Valley from Orting to Fife be allowed to remain there and harvest this season's crops with guards, and if after that removal is deemed necessary, then it…

Five Japanese aliens were arrested in the Tacoma area because they were members of a Japanese secret society.