Surprise Birthday Party for Pvt. Masaru Otagura

From a thoughtful Japanese-American girl in Hawaii came a sincere birthday greeting and a cake to Pvt. Masaru Otagura of Co. M, of the 442nd Combat Team on his 22nd birthday, June 21. Chaplain Lt. Thomas E. West, junior regimental chaplain, and Pvt. Toshiaki Mimura arranged a surprise party with 20 well-wishers present. Highlight of the affair was the cutting of the cake, appropriately inscribed “From Helen in Honolulu,” with Helen's picture looking on from the honor place on the table. After refreshments Pvt.. Plato Christophylus, 403rd F. A., played numbers followed by group singing. The party concluded with friends writing a note of appreciation to Helen. Two brothers, Pvt. Sunao, Co. B, and Pvt. Harry M. Kawahara, Co. I, were also recipients of a birthday cake over the week-end. The senders signed themselves Dorothy, Helen and Edna.