OFFICERS ATTACKED
CANDID BAND LEADER Sharon Rogers, Chicago brunette leader of an all-girl band entertaining U.S. troops in Japan, objects to being asked to play while officers dance with their Japanese girlfriends. The 12 members of her band support her protest against fraternisation.
When informed of numerous letters to the service newspaper Stars and Stripes, criticising her stand, shewas indignanl but unshaken. At an officers' hotel, she saw a clipping i*rf an interview with her tacked on the bulletin board, arid beneath \t, in pencil, several uncomplimentary remarks. "Then those officers had the presumption to ask us to play for them while they danced with Japanese -jirl-friends," she declared. "They had a reqord player, and could have danced with us, : There is some regulation against playing for officerg only, but if there had not been I would have refused."
"I do not see anything wrong with Gls—and I mean officers too—dancing with Japanese girls, but I think it ought to end there. However, it doesn't. It certainly doesn't."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 60, 8 April 1946, Page 3
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