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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup appears in the story of Tarawa, the battle in which he won the Medal of Honor. Also on the program: Kiyoshi Ohta, one of 17 Japanese who survived (from a total force...
During the week, Mr. Saburo Ohta, third secretary of the Japanese embassy in Moscow, arrived in Tokyo, having crossed Siberia by railroad and taken ship at Vladivostok, not far from the battle line. Said he: "The central authorities of the Soviet Union are following a non-aggravation policy. After having been repulsed with heavy losses the Soviet troops will not attempt more counterattacks. During my trip through Siberia all was quiet and I saw no signs of disturbance in Vladivostok...
...rear White House veranda Mrs. Hoover gave a tea last week. To it went as honor guests Yoshiro Ohta and Tamio Abe, Japanese team in the Davis Cup preliminaries. The same day, headlines screamed?DREADED JAPAN INVADER AT LAST ATTACKS CAPITAL! The "invader" was not the Japanese tennis players but Japanese beetles which had just been discovered in White House foliage. Department of Agriculture experts advanced upon the pests with chemicals...
...players were Yoshiro Ohta, Tamio Abe, John Hennessey, John Van Ryn. Their match was Japan v. the U. S. in the semi-finals of American Zone preliminaries for the Davis Cup. The U. S. won four of the five matches, but not without Japan's Ohta defeating John...
...best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults and Abe broke through his service but after the first set Tilden's long arms flailed faster and he ran the match out, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0. Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Tilden and Lott ended the Davis Cup series in the west by beating Abe and Toba...