McMAHAN-BALDWIN
NUPTIALS AT BASE CHAPEL
* Sgt. Robert McMahan and Miss
Gloria E. Baldwin were joined in
the first peacetime wedding at the
Nome airbase at 2:00 o’clock Sun
day afternoon in the base chapel
by Chaplain Arthur G. Courtenay.
The wedding, a double-ring cer
emony, was preceded by an organ
prelude, by Sgt. Lowell A. Elliott,
organist, and two vocal selections.
“O Promise Me” and “I Love You
Truly,” were sung by Mrs. Leona
English.
The groom and best man
* marched down the aisle to the
strains of the “Bridal Chorus”
from Lohengrin, and the bridal
party entered with the “Wedding
March” by Mendelsohn.
The bride wore a white gown
with train, and carried a white
bible. She was given in marriage
by Major Raymond M. O’Connor,
Base Personnel Officer.
The best man was Sgt. James
Matousek, friend of the groom.
Mrs. Mary Huff Smith, brides
maid, wore a gown of baby blue,
and Miss Allie Emmons, maid of
honor, wore a gown of pink. Both
the bride and groom are from San
* Francisco, and are stationed at the
Nome Base.
The chapel was beautifully dec
orated in blue and pink for the
occasion. Following the ceremony
the bridal party drove into town
to the Nevada Cocktail Lounge
for the wedding dinner given by
their many friends.
Hirohito To Make j
Unprecedented
I Call On Hirohito
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■ other advisers told him it was use- j
I less to resist the rising war tide in
j Japan.
A close adviser of Marquis Kido
j lord keeper of the privy seal, also
j told Brines that he believed the
j Emperor had no advance knowl
[ edge of the Pearl Harbor attack,
i and furthermore said that the
Kido reports of abdication moves
were “false”
The Chungking radio, FCC in
Washington said, reported in a
Chinese language broadcast that ■
the Emperor had abdicated. The
Chungking radio denied it had
done so. Premier Higashi Kune is
sued an official denial.
Kido said he, himself, advised i
war in the belief that the nation
! could fight long enough for a
“fifty-fifty” break through of a
favorable compromise peace.
Other well-informed Japs said)
that General MacArthur cracked!
I the ship the first time, when he
vetoed the Jap government ap
pointments from among members J
of the formerly privileged classes, i
He vetoed the appointment of
Seihin Ikeda, former finance min
ister as president of the central
liason board, these sources said.
General MacArthur reported
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SALT LAKE CITY^P)—Pvt.
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pot, feels he can tell his grand
children he was wounded in ac
tion. A chandelier fell on him
during a USO dance, but he came
out with nothing worse than cuts.
the trials of suspected war crim
inals would begin soon by special
military tribunals.
The Jap Home Ministry report
ed the toll of last week’s typhoon
in Hiroshima prefecture as one
thousand sixty-eight killed, twelve
hundred seventy-six injured, nine
hundred eighty-one missing.
American armed forces began
broadcasting news and music for
occupation troops over Jap Broad
casting Corp's. number two net
work and will expand the broad
casts to nineteen stations covering
twenty-five cities in Japan and
Korea.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 24—UP)—
President Truman directed Gen
eral MacArthur not to let the Japs
question the scope of his authority
as supreme commander in a direc
tive sent to General MacArthur
September sixth and made public
at the White House shortly after
Senator Wherry contended a
“smear campaign” is being waged
against General MacArthur in the
aim of forcing his removal as Su
preme Commander.
The directive was described as
intending to clarify MacArthur’s;
authority and his position as head
of the occupation forces in Japan J
and Korea.
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