more than 8,000 words, it was the longest telegraphed message sent to that time. The author, George F. Kennan, the chargé d'affaires at the American embassy, was responding to a specific inquiry from the State Department, and his answer was the containment strategy, to keep the Soviet Union from spreading Communism further without going to war. Kennan sent the telegram at Moscow time ( EST), and it was received in Washington at 3:52 EST. The first attacks in the Texarkana Moonlight Murders took place when a couple on a date, 25-year-old Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend, Mary Larey, were attacked and seriously injured. Both survived, but six other people would be attacked over the next three months, five of them fatally, by a serial killer who has never been identified. February 23, 1946 (Saturday) Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, who led the Japanese conquest of Singapore and the Philippines, was executed by hanging in Manila for war crimes, followed by Lt. Col. Seichi Ohta, who had headed security for Japan's "thought police" (kempei tai), and interpreter Takuma Higashigi. February 24, 1946 (Sunday) Juan Perón won the vote for President of Argentina in what was considered the first truly open election since 1928. Perón defeated José Tamborini, and the Peronist Labour Party won 101 of the 158 seats in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. Died: U.S. Representative J. Buell Snyder, 68, of a heart attack in his hotel room in Pittsburgh "Powder River Jack" Lee, 73, African-American rodeo singer, in an auto accident February 25, 1946 (Monday) African American residents of Columbia, Tennessee, took up arms after white residents sought to lynch James Stephenson, a 19-year-old U.S. Navy veteran. Four white police officers were shot and wounded after trying to enter the black section of town, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol moved in the next morning, arresting more than 100 residents, two of whom died in jail. The Civil Rights Congress, a Communist Party USA defense fund, was formed to aid in the defense of the arrest subjects. Born: Jean Todt, French motorsport boss, in Pierrefort February 26, 1946 (Tuesday) The Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) was started in the Soviet Zone of Germany, when the Social Democratic Party was pressured to unite with the Communist Party. The SED, Communist in all but name, would rule East Germany for all but the last six months of that nation's existence. The Scandinavian phenomenon of