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Japanese American students at the University of Washington were preparing to leave the university and wind up their affairs in light of the military order to evacuate from this area.

A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked why the Japanese were being removed from this area. She wondered if ulterior motives weren't the reason and that Japanese farmers were needed for the war effort.

A map of Washington state showed where Japanese aliens and Japanese Americans were to be prohibited from living as zones were created by the military to exclude these people from strategic areas.

Article in the Seattle P-I revealed where Japanese and Japanese Americans would have to vacate in the state of Washington as zones were set up to remove them from strategic areas as a result of World War II.

Fred Niendorff, financial editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, mentioned the property that would be left behind if there was an evacuation of Japanese and that ethics demanded that people should not try to profit from someone else's hardship.

Senator Mon C. Wallgren, Washington state's junior senator, urged quick removal of enemy aliens on the W

Dave Beck, president of the Teamsters' Union, urged the removal of all Japanese from the Pacific Coast as their contribution to this country.

A number of people trestified before the Tolan Committee giving their views for and against the evacuation of Japanese from the West Coast. Miller Freeman, a local publisher, clained the Japan Society of Seattle was a fifth column organization and…

Members of the state prosecutors' association were to meet in Olympia with army, navy and FBI representatives to discuss the state's alien problem.

Kenji Ito's attorney entered a demurrer to Ito's indictment of acting as an agent for Japan in his trial in Judge John C. Bowen's court.