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In The Nation magazine a writer wrote that the West Coast was pretty jittery in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack and that jingoists and reactionary people are fanning the flames and scapegoating Japanese and Japanese Americans to show hatred…

Civilian agencies of the government were cooperating with the army in preparing for the evacuation of persons of Japanese descent on the West Coast according to the orders from the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army.

Seattle Japanese were winding up their business affairs as they prepared for evacuation of the city and a move to some other place but didn't know where.

Enemy aliens in the Albuquerque, NM area were rounded up by local police and federal agents and contraband seized.

FBI agents and local police made raids in certain Northern California cities in search of members of Japanese secret societies and a Japanese Association.

Lr. General John L. DeWitt announced plans for two reception centers to accept Japanese evacuees from the West Coast. One will be in the Owens Valley in California, and the other will be along the Colorado River near the Blythe-Parker Dam area.

A news report indicated that Japanese authorities in Shanghai had arrested American and British newsmen and businessmen in retaliation for the way Japanese citizens had been treated by American and British authorities.

With evacuation facing them, Japanese businesses in Seattle were preparing to close their businesses but were trying their best not to suffer huge losses and conduct business as usual until they have to leave.

The national commander of the American Legion, Lynn U. Stambaugh, urged the removal of all Japanese on the West Coast because their presence was a menace to the country.

A photocopy of two pictures from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shows one picture of a girl (Mary Okazaki) outside of a furniture store having a removal and evacuation sale, while the other picture shows three brothers (Lincoln, Taft and Grant Beppu)…