The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-09

NIlO OCC(INCO d lldllO OLlC less because her tough assignment has been to drive from the air the enemy lady known as Tokyo Rose, the English-speaking siren who for over three years has been playing records for the Jap propaganda ma- chine in vain effort to make Amer ican soldiers home-sick and make them stop fighting.
 FAN MAIL FROM
 ENTIRE PACIFIC
 Carmen Liguya, as mistress of ceremonies on one of the Philip pine Hour programs from KGEI, gets fan mail from G. Is all over the Pacific. from the Aleutians to New Guinea, and she is credited with having done a fine job for herself in backing out Tokyo Rose. Her main effort, however, has been in her words and music directed at her Philippine homeland. Tn that she puts her heart. She was for two years under Japanese misrule on the islands before she was evac- uated and found her way to San Francisco to begin daily broadcasts of American music and Filipino folk songs to the Pacific.
 Programs of this sort are only one part of the radio bill of fare that has been beamed westward to contribute whatever it could to keeping alive in the Filipino people a spark of hope that the American armed forces would return to the islands and drive out the Jap in- vaders. Filipino leaders give the effort credit for having helped lot as morale builder and in keep ing the Filipino people informed on MacArthurs progress up through New Guinea while the Navy was driving towards the Marianas. Five times the Japanese issued orders that all radio sets on the islands must be turned in for doctoring so that they would receive only Japa- nese broadcaSts. Each time the deadline was extended and though Jap penalties for possession of radio sets were severe, the Filipinos hid what sets they could and SO kept in touch with the outside world
 Early in 1945 programs beamed to the Philippines will be stepped Up from the present Is shows cover ing six hours to 28 shows covering nine hours daily. The Army having taken over KGEI for broadcasts to American troops, the information services to non military personnel will go out over a companion sta- tion, KGEX. to be operated by the Office of War Information. All this propaganda and related activities in the Pacific are run by the Army's Psychological Warfare Division. RHINE HEADS OWI BRANCH
 The OWI end of the Filipino radio activities has been in charge of a young Hollywood screen and radio writer, Larry Rhine, who began op- erations Dec. 15, 1941, with two programs covering half hour daily. and has been at it ever since. En- listing the aid of Filipinos in the San Francisco community, he found announcers for each of the nine principal dialects spoken on the island, trained them in radio tech- nique. and went on from there to develop news, church, entertainment and feature programs. Tn the early days of Bataan and Corregidor, messages from wives and families of soldiers trapped on the islands made up large part of the pro- gram. Messages from Filipino lead CTS went out to their people and after President Quezon escaped on a submarine and set up his gov- ernment in Washington. this radio was link between his headquarters and the Philippines.
 Today it is still being used to keep the Filipinos informed of prog ress on Leyte and Mindoro. and to prepare for the liberation of all the other islands. and Manila itself.