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Photo shows Japanese turning in their cameras and short wave radios in accordance with government orders.

A Boeing worker was arrested for appearing suspicious around the Boeing plant when it was learned he had a gun in his briefcase. He claimed the Japanese proprietor of a cafe reported him when he went to eat there and opened his briefcase, which…

A writer for United Press' London bureau, on his way home from a world trip, stopped in Honolulu, Hawaii and reported that Japanese residents there provided assistance to the Pearl Harbor attackers through espionage activity.

Japanese aliens of Hood River County in Oregon were told that they would have to turn in any firearms in a new order issued by the Justice Department, according to words received by Senator McNary, Republican of Oregon.

Rear Adm. H.E. Yarnell, U.S.N. (ret.) , in a speech delivered to the American Poitical Science Association and the American Soceity for Public Administration, spoke in favor of allowing Asians to immigrate to the U.S. after WWII with the same…

Cameras and radios belonging to enemy aliens of Japanese, Italian and German descent were being turned in by the three groups to the Seattle police station or the owners would face severe penalties under federal law. A photo shows Japanese turning in…

About 80 of the 119 Japanese aliens who had been arrested left for Fort Missoula, Montana, and it is believed that practically all of them have now been moved from the immigration station in Seattle.

A resident of a town near Portland became frightened and fled his home when he saw a soldier who had been guarding a bridge knocking on his door and yelling to turn out his lights during a blackout. The soldier was a Japanese American, and that made…

Enemy aliens were informed to turn in all cameras and radios with short wave bands, including home receiving sets with short wave bands, to the nearest police or sheriff's office or face arrest and forfeiture of these items. The U.S. Department of…

Edwin A. Henderson, a letter writer from Olympia, urged Japanese Americans to report any subversive activity to the F.B.I. as any good citizen should do.