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Time Out. In Honolulu, when Burglar Lawrence Carreira heard the judge announce, "I sentence you to Oahu Prison for 20 years," he passed out cold, was revived in time to catch the final words: "However, execution of sentence is suspended and I place you on probation for a period of five years...
Against the Fuchida-W.C.T.U. analysis there still stood the conclusion of the Government's Pearl Harbor investigation commission: liquor did not play a noteworthy part in the debacle of Pearl Harbor. The sad truth was that the forces on Oahu had been no better prepared Saturday morning than Sunday morning...
When Nemecio Tutop, 37, went to bed in his quarters at a sugar-plantation camp on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, he seemed to be in perfect health. Next morning he was found dead, and there was not a mark of violence upon him. Last week the Honolulu coroner's physician, Dr. Alvin V. Majoska, listed Tutop as the 43rd in a baffling succession of healthy young adults, all Filipinos, who have died in their sleep in the last six years for no discoverable reason...
Shortstop Maosaka is expected to be the squad's leading long ball hitter. Maosaka, who's from Oahu and went to Ponahau High School in Hawaii has sprayed his drives all over the cage recently...
...commanded Kaneohe Bay Air Station on Oahu. He was eating Sunday-morning breakfast in his quarters when he heard planes approaching. Snapped Martin from the window when he saw them violating the flight pattern: "When I get hold of those so-and-sos, they're going to lose some numbers." His sharp-eyed, twelve-year-old son, who had seen their markings, broke the bad news: "They're not going to lose any numbers, Pop. They're Japs...