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The North American Times, a bilingual Japanese paper published in Seattle since 1902,. was closed by U.S. Treasury Department.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stated that the evacuation of the Japanese should not be controversial and that to let the authorities take care of it just as it would be done if the whole area had to be evacuated, and the people…

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked if a previous writer was being ironical or brutally frank in suggesting that the Japanese here be treated the same as the Indians. She mentioned that "Negroes" were still being discriminated…

Japanese residents in Seattle soon to be evacuated went to the Federal Reserve Bank to make arrangements to be protected from price gouging and being taken advantage of. A photo of Mrs. S. May Nakashima showed her filling out a form.

Nearly 200 Japanese that included language school teachers and Buddhist priests were rounded up in Southern California after raids were made in that area.

A man posing as an FBI agent entered a Japanese American home after the girls refused to let him in. He pulled an outside electric switch, then entered by breaking the glass on a rear door. He locked one of the girls in a closed before fleeing.

Two Filipinos attacked William Yamaguchi at 4th and Madison with one of them threatening him with a hunting knife.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a sergeant in the Marines, mentioned how, while many are doing their patriotic duties, some are taking advantage of the war such as price gouging, and even harming helpless people such as the…

A student at the University of Washington, Sophus Keith Winther, wrote an open letter to the Japanese students at the University offering to give them information on their work or helping them contact a professor; he said to write to him if they had…