The Evening Star (October 22, 1946)
Tokyo Rose case dropped; girl may be freed
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The federal government is dropping its case against Tokyo Rose.
Tokyo Rose, U.S. Attorney James M. Carter said, was a composite person with at least a dozen voices, so Los Angeles-born Iva Ikuko Toguri, accused of dispensing subversive propaganda in the South Pacific during the war, may be released by the Army.
Miss Toguri was arrested in Tokyo when Gen. MacArthur’s forces took over, but a year’s investigation by the FBI failed to establish that she was the woman who tried vainly to spread discontent and unrest among American troops.
Mr. Carter said the young woman, once a science major at the University of California at Los Angeles, was one of many employed in a Tokyo broadcasting studio who announced programs. She was visiting relatives in Tokyo at the time of Pearl Harbor.