Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-03-19 | Page 6 | G. I. S Wed Japanese Girls in Mass Rites

Barely Get Gee Under the Wire G. G Is ls Wed Japanese Girls in Mass Rites TOKYO March larch 19 Hun i Hundreds Hun Hun- of American servicemen married Japanese girls Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day just dust just in time to beat the deadline for COl taking their petite j brides home to the United Stales States James lames B. B Pilcher U. U S. S consul general estimated the last last day day rush of civil ceremonies at six consular offices increased the number manger of servicemen l legally aily married to Japanese to about An accurate count will not be available for days Servicemen had to be married by 2 pm p.m. Wednesday midnight Tuesday EST to benefit from a law which enables them to take I their thir Oriental brides to the U. U S S. S I A few didn't make it Chizuko Fukimoto a nicely dressed plain plain looking looking woman wailed waited at the front door of the I Tul Tokyo yo cun consulate until 2 15 pm p.m. for her sweetheart to arrive from Korea lie never cr gut got there Ninety Ninety five five soldiers sailors and ancl Marines were married Wed Wednes Wednes- 11 s 's I day at the Tokyo consulate Simi Sinni Similar Similar lar numbers stood beside their I fiancees at consular offices in Yokohama Nagoya Kobe Robe Fukuoka Fukuoka Fuku- Fuku oka and Sapporo and nd said I 1 do doto doto doto to this question I Do liDo you solemnly swear that according to the laws of oc your state stale you are of oC legal marriageable marriage marriage- able age and there is no hinI hindrance hindrance hin hin- I drance legal or otherwise to lo your uniting milling in marriage with this girl That's Thais all there was