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For several seasons, the San Francisco successes of Isaac Stern have been earned in solo appearances with the symphony. But, in the midst of a tour that is winning him new national honors, the acclaimed young violinist will return to his home city next Sunday afternoon for a recital all his own in the Curran Theater. — Jan. 18
President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066: The order directed the War Department to set up "military areas," wherever in the entire Nation it deems fit, and to bar or remove from those areas any persons, whether citizens or alien, whose presence therein might be regarded as inimical to national defense. Although the order mentioned neither specific areas nor specific persons, official Washington tacitly admitted that it was directed almost solely at Japanese on the Pacific coast. — Feb. 21
Mayor Rossi pushes for additional Muni buses to "speed up San Francisco's wartime transportation flow." Market Street Railway shifts buses from Folsom and San Bruno lines to the Third Street war industry routes during peak hours. — March 25
Internment of Japanese Americans begins: "The 650 who rolled away from the city in a sixteen car special train were headed first for the assembly center at Santa Anita race track... then are expected to go to the reception center at Manzanar. — April 7
The Navy Department yesterday released its first casualty list of the second World War, disclosing the names of 482 California officers and men who have died in service. ......... Three sets of brothers were listed as killed. They were from San Francisco, Salinas and Monterey. — May 5
In response to a request for the training of women for ammunition production, Joseph Clishan, supervisor of defense training for the public schools, announced that a class for women gas welders will open at Polytechnic High School. — June 21
Marshalled by the Y.M.C.A., 450 Bay area schoolboys yesterday prepared to invade Northern California war harvest fields. ......... "The first contingent of 150 boys will leave here Thursday in buses bound for Yuba City, where they will spend the summer picking peaches and pears," Y.M.C.A. officials announced. — July 7
A new $75,000,000 contract for the construction of twenty-two large tankers went to Marinship of Sausalito yesterday. ......... The contract was awarded on the eve of the launching of the yard's first Liberty type cargo ship, the S.S. William Richardson, which will hit the waters of Richardson Bay at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. — Sept. 2
"Rush That Scrap! Today's Day for Start of S.F. Drive: See if you haven't got a rusty old flatiron that you'll never need again. That flatiron will make thirty hand grenades. And that battered old wash pail down in the cellar will make three bayonets which any American Marine will be very glad to contribute to the interior mechanism of any Nip's anatomy." — Sept. 28
The United States Navy yesterday put out an urgent call for patriotic Filipinos and Negroes to serve in the messmen branch of the service, with the opportunity to become officers' cooks, stewards and mess attendants. — Oct. 19
Liberty ship Robert E. Peary assembled from keel-laying to launch in record time: Henry J. Kaiser's shipbuilding giants did it again yesterday, overrunning even their own goal as they shoved down a 10,500 ton freighter in four days, fifteen and one-half hours at Richmond. — Nov. 13