442nd Enlisted Men To Entertain Visiting Girls

One hundred girls from Jerome relocation center at Denson, Ark., will be guests of the enlisted men of the 442nd (Japanese-American) Combat Team Saturday evening at the regimental dance at Service Club 5 at Camp Shelby.

The girls will arrive at Camp Shelby and specially chartered buses, and will go directly to the civilian war housing project, where they will have supper, and prepare for the dance.

Dancing will continue from 8:00 until midnight. During the intermissions Harry Hamada and the Shelby Serenaders, and Charles Kanaka, and the Hawaiian Combateers will play Hawaiian numbers and popular selections.

On Sunday morning the girls and their hosts will attend special open air Chapel services in front of the service club, with Chaplain Lt. Thomas E. West, junior regimental chaplain, in charge.

After church the girls and soldiers will tour the various company areas, where they will have noon mess. The girls will leave camp in the afternoon for the trip back to the center.

Invited to chaperone the dance are 8 Japanese-American officers’ wives, who arrived in Hattiesburg yesterday after traveling 5000 miles by boat and rail to join their husbands, who are members of the Combat Team. For most of the wives, the trip is their first to the mainland.

They are Mrs. Herbert Yamamoto, Mrs. Theodore Sueoka and Mrs. Gregory Ikeda of Honolulu; Mrs. Masayuki Kawasaki, Mrs. Wallace Kawaoka, and Mrs. Bert Nishimura, of Lihue, Kauai; Mrs. Yasutaka Sukushima of Pearl City, Oahu; and Mrs. Yaso Abe of Waialua, Oahu. They are staying at the Forrest Hotel.