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The World Student Service Fund was planning to set up scholarships to aid alien students evacuated from the West Coast who had been University of Washington students. Although the group's funds had been earmarked for Europe and China, it was felt…

The way was cleared for the evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast with the appointment of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco as custodian of the evacuees' property. A reception center has been established in the Owens Valley in Southern…

Buckets of sand left on every floor of an apartment building in San Francisco to fight fires were suddenly filled with water instead, and the culprit was a Japanese houseboy who said he thought that water was better than sand in fighting fires.

A car containing two Japanese and two German aliens was eluding local authorities after it escaped the border patrol at the town of Republic, WA.

The Seattle Reserve Bank, a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, will be the agent to help those who are to be evacuated settle their business affairs.

A produce shortage was seen as likely with the impending evacuation of all Japanese from the West Coast. However, the process was to be done on a piece meal basis, so it was unclear if there would be total evacuation as was announced early.

Registration of all Seattle Japanese was being conducted by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) to provide their own listing for the purpose of keeping family ties together. Two photographs show people registering.

"Quick Collect" orders for property taxes were issued by the County Treasurer's office on orders from the assessor's office to Japanese property owners before they could sell their property due to evacuation orders.

Announcements were to be forthcoming regarding the property and inventory left behind by Japanese evacuees. The government was to safeguard everything, and the evacuees were expected to entrust it all to the government. Those who could voluntarily…

In Nothern California the national council of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) pledged their cooperation with the government's evacuation program. Also, arrests of members of Japanese societies aiding Japan were now winding down.…