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Last week the hotel's management begged Wright (via Domei) to come back and rebuild the gutted wing. Said Wright: let the Japs do it themselves...
...Japs' Domei News Agency, trying to be helpful, offered news service free to U.S. correspondents. Samples: More robberies committed by Americans; mentally deranged man shot for failing to obey U.S. orders; new assaults on Japanese women by invading troops...
...what the punishment will be, if any, the U.S. had not yet announced. (Her defense attorneys would undoubtedly bring up the U.S. Navy's silly-season award to her for raising the morale of U.S. troops-TIME, Aug. 20.) In April she married a Portuguese employe of the Domei News Agency, and hoped that might make her a Portuguese citizen (the latest U.S. laws on the point have not been court tested, but presumably she could not renounce U.S. citizenship without the approval of the U.S.). Her brother Fred, who now helps run the family fruit stand in Chicago...
...Domei continued to pour out propaganda stories, one of them accusing U.S. soldiers of raping Jap girls. At week's end, U.S. reporters discovered that Domei, far from being put out of business, had signed an agreement with the Chinese Central News Agency to transmit its news to China on the regular Domei propaganda broadcast...
...arrival of the first U.S. troops at Atsugi Airdrome was world-wide news last week, and plenty of newsmen were on hand. But they were all Japanese. (U.S. reporters who wanted to go along were entangled in Army red tape on Okinawa.) Result: Japan's Domei news agency scooped the world...